I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

In early February, Da Hua Daily published two important news stories.

The first is that the emperor is going to be drafted.

The article first helped the public recall Wu Changqing's achievements and listed Dahua's achievements.

First, he praised his virtues, and then he said that under the insistence of civil and military officials in every possible way, the emperor reluctantly agreed to conduct a draft to spread his kindness.

Others take concubines, it is greed for enjoyment.

When the emperor takes a concubine, it is to spread his grace.

After all, there are too many women who want to be the emperor's concubine, and the draft is to give those people some opportunities, which is naturally a kindness.

This statement, whether you believe it or not, has little impact.

However, the draft rules this time made many people find it interesting.

In addition to competing for looks, you also need to compete for talent.

Either have a unique and amazing talent, or pass the assessment of Wu Changqing.

The content of the assessment actually involves astronomy, geography, physical chemistry, and article arithmetic.

In short, as long as you have real knowledge, you can do it, just like taking the imperial examinations.

However, after all, the draft is only a small group of people's business.

The eligibility requirements for the draft alone have eliminated more than 99% of the women.

It is not easy to meet these three conditions at the same time.

Thanks to the large population of Dahua, it is possible to pick out people who meet these requirements.

If it is a small country, if you come up with such conditions, you have no choice at all.

The draft only involves a small number of people, but allowing women to engage in more industries and the establishment of women's colleges has something to do with almost every family.

"Women can go to school too, and I'm going to school too."

In a businessman's family, a girl about fourteen or fifteen years old said.

In fact, she has been literate all the time, but what she learns is thousands of characters, female morality and female training, etc. It is boring.

She wants to learn interesting knowledge like physical chemistry, but unfortunately her family doesn't have so much money, so it is impossible to have the luxury to hire a teacher who has mastered new knowledge for her.

That kind of talent, the government will not allow it to be lost at will, and needs to go to various schools to teach.

Rely on self-study, not a genius and easy to be confused.

"Let's go, it's a big deal."

His father laughed.

Wu Changqing may not have thought that in fact, there is not so much resistance to letting women go to college.

Because, although men want women to be low-status, they certainly don't want their daughters to be low-status.

As the saying goes, the tiger's poison does not eat its children. People who like to play with other people's daughters often don't want their daughters to be played with wantonly.

Therefore, wealthy families often let their daughters study with them to be reasonable and prevent them from suffering losses after marriage.

Now, it's just sending these people who originally studied in their own homes to the academy.

They may not be at ease when they are sent to an academy with male students, but no one resists sending it to an academy that specializes in teaching women.

Although there are some men who don't want other people's daughters to know so much knowledge, they have no right to interfere in other people's affairs.

Unless they are willing to harm the interests of their daughters and resist this policy.

Unfortunately, they are not united.

When someone else does this, the result is often that other people's daughters are constantly becoming more literate and talented. And those who fight hard and protect the interests of men, their daughters often suffer.

Those who can figure out this logic will eventually send their daughters to the women's college helplessly.

They can't stop others, the only thing they can do is to keep their daughters from suffering.

However, these are women from wealthy families.

Poor families are not so active, they are more inclined to let their daughters work to earn money.

Anyway, they are all money-losing goods to be married in the future, and squeezing them as much as possible is the kingly way.

Except for a small number of people who love their children, most people actually think this way.

There is a long way to go to improve the status of women.

However, it is still much better than before.

These poor girls have more industries to work in, making it easier to find jobs and make money.

As long as they can make money, their social status will definitely be improved.

Moreover, as long as there is an opportunity to engage in work, there is a chance to gain an ascending channel and change destiny.

"Father, I'm looking for a job where I go to the yamen to do laundry and cook. The monthly salary is one yuan."

In the slum, a young girl said to her father.

In the past, this kind of work was often only allowed to be performed by elderly women. Women who have not left the cabinet must not do it. They are prone to gossip, and they are afraid that they will not be able to marry in the future.

But now, the government expressly stipulates that it should be treated equally.

So, the girl has now easily found a job.

Before that, she could only go to the textile factory.

However, the textile factory has long been full of people. Unless there is a new factory, it will be very difficult to squeeze in.

"Alright, luckily Xiaokui."

said his father.

Poor people don't pay much attention, and they are lazy to worry about gossip.

And, more importantly, they are in the city.

If it is in the countryside, there are such rumors

It's troublesome, and the surrounding villages will soon know about it, and then worry about shame and dare not propose marriage.

A person with a damaged reputation will most likely not be able to marry.

But in the city, they have no such worries.

In the future, there is a high probability that the person their daughter will marry will not know her past. Nanjing city is too big.

There are countless single men who come to work in Nanjing City, and they are often not that selective.

The combination is much simpler than in rural areas.

In short, their daughters are now engaged in this kind of work, which can not only support the family, but also don't have to worry about not being able to marry in the future.

In order to reduce the concerns of the people, Dahua Daily is still hyping up the bad habits of the old dynasties.

The government put some bad habits on the label of the Ming Dynasty, which can scare the people more actively to change.

After all, living in Dahua and distancing itself from Daming is the most rational choice.

Foot binding, girls are prohibited from going out for shopping, widowhood...  

These are all labeled as bad habits of the Ming Dynasty, and then promote the bad habits of these bad habits, and these bad habits are terrible.

Mastering the tools of public opinion, it is actually relatively easy to change people's ideas.

After all, the common people have no culture, they can only unconditionally believe in authority.

Unlike later generations, people have enough knowledge to distinguish right from wrong. Those experts who want to fool people often can only provoke ridicule.

This era is different, people have limited ability to judge right and wrong.

His Majesty said that it is not good to bind feet, and they are easy to believe that it is not good to bind feet.

His Majesty said that it was wrong to be widows, and those widows could justly marry.

Whoever dares to scold, they can say, "You dare to question the emperor's order of the Son of Heaven" to keep those who gossip and shut up immediately.

After all, thankless things, not many people like. In the past, widows were scolded for remarrying because there was no cost and no risk, not necessarily because those people hated this phenomenon.