Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Ximeng habitually, but he found that Zhang Ximeng lowered his head and seemed to have no intention of speaking. Old Zhu was also a little depressed. Could it be that we really want to break our promise?

He also felt the difficulty of this matter. He was too much of an opposition to let a woman become an official. Behind Li Shanchang, almost all the civil and military officials stood. How could such a precedent be opened?

If it was a little weaker, I would probably give up.

But unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang is not such a person.

He really needs a female official to set an example for the world.

In the Zhu family army, the people have been restored to ordinary people. Whether they are Han, Mongolian, or Miao people, they are all ordinary people and should be treated equally.

This ideal is easy to deduce one step forward, both men and women, and in this way, women who account for half of the population will also support the Zhu family army.

Men farm and women weave. In a family, men think the Zhu family army’s policies are very good, but women don’t care. This has been the case since ancient times. Is this reasonable?

"You go and discuss again, we have to see the proper way!"

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, he asked everyone to go down. Ma looked angry and actually left before Zhu Yuanzhang. The rules you set, people sent the food early in accordance with the rules and passed the exam smoothly. But the result was that he swallowed up the words he said.

What's this matter?

Ma was really angry. That night, Lao Zhu couldn't enter.

Li Shanchang also felt that Mount Tai was pressing down on the top. If he was forced to do so, it would be difficult for his wife to explain, and Zhu Yuanzhang would also take his anger on him, and the consequences would be unimaginable...

After thinking about it, Li Shanchang still came to Zhang Ximeng's pay room.

He found that Zhang Ximeng was sorting out official documents, so Old Li took the initiative to come over and smiled, "Zhang Xiang, let us discuss a proper way. You see, I have figured out an idea. Let's take a look at it?"

Zhang Ximeng quickly smiled and said, "Li Xiang is polite, I'll listen with politeness."

Li Shanchang pondered for a while, then said, "I thought about it. Jiang Nan was the one who delivered food on behalf of his brother, fulfilled his filial piety at home, and loyalty to the country. He can be called a strange woman in the world, and Mulan was reborn. He should be rewarded with great rewards, and ordered praise, build archways in his hometown, erect monuments and erected biography, and there were rewards and crowns, and the local area should be treated as the minister... In this way, it would not be considered as a distrust of the superior. What if Zhang Xiang agreed?"

After hearing Li Shanchang's words, Zhang Ximeng smiled slightly, "Li Xiang is indeed skillful and thoughtful. Logically, I cannot object. But I have some situation here, so please give Li Xiang a tip."

Li Shanchang's brows moved slightly and said, "Please speak with Xiang Zhang!"

Zhang Ximeng casually took out two lists, "These are all statistics from the Ministry of Revenue. Yingtian Prefecture has more than 87,000 households and more than 330,000 households. The women who obtained land were just over 290,000. On average, each household had about seven people, and more than 45% of the women with land accounted for more than 40%.

After Zhang Ximeng finished speaking, he picked up another official document, "This was submitted to me by Sun Yan. According to his visits with the people below, more than half of the farm work in the countryside is the responsibility of women. In some places in Huaixi, this proportion is even higher!"

Li Shanchang frowned and took the two official documents in his hand. After reading them, he looked at them again and again, "Zhang Xiang, is this result true? Men farming and women weaving, and men are always ploughing fields outside, and women are doing housework. How can women bear most of the farm work now? Could it be that they made a mistake, right?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled faintly, "Li Xiang, men farming and women weaving, have been around since ancient times, but there is another saying that Li Xiang cannot not know."

"What's the matter?"

"Planting carefully!" Zhang Ximeng smiled. In fact, in addition to driving cattle and horses to plow the fields, women are involved in sowing, planting, weeding, harvesting, and finally threshing and returning to the warehouse, and even doing some work better than men.

It is true that there are differences in physical strength between men and women, but it is definitely not insurmountable.

Some healthy women can even control cattle and horses and work in the fields.

Men farm and women weave, which does not mean that women don’t have to care about farm work, they just focus on textiles.

Of course, if the land is tight and the population is growing, and men are everywhere, there will naturally be no need for women to go to the ground. But women cannot be idle, but they must keep weaving and working at home, and take the woven cloth to the market for money to supplement the household expenses.

Some skilled women can earn several times the money they make every year!

Since women are so capable and can earn so much, why is it still the man in charge who has the final say?

This involves the agricultural tradition for thousands of years, because under natural economic conditions, food is greater than money! Safety is more important than profit!

People in future generations may not understand this, but as long as they ask Lao Zhu, he will know it clearly.

How did Zhu Yuanzhang's family go bankrupt?

Natural disasters, plagues, lack of food, parents starved to death, brother starved to death, family destroyed to death, and people could not be maintained. He and his second brother could only part ways, one went to be a son-in-law and the other became a monk.

For ordinary farmers like the Zhu family, money cannot help them resist risks, or when natural disasters come, food is more valuable than gold!

Why are the common people unwilling to change rice into mulberry? Why are they a one-step chess move from the beginning?

Putting aside all the calculations, you ask the people to change to plant mulberry trees, but once natural disasters come, raw silk cannot fill their stomachs and mulberry trees cannot exchange for food.

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The court and the people calculate how much money they can earn more money, and what the people have to calculate is how to survive.

Over the past thousands of years, simple and down-to-earth survival experience has portrayed the people into the most conservative, stubborn and most repulsive group of people who are the ones who are the ones who are most repulsive and repel changes... Are they wrong?

It seems that there is really not!

After all, for thousands of years, the people have almost never eaten enough...

Male, land, food.

These three constitute the core of the natural economy.

The land is distributed according to males, and the food is produced by land, and the food resists all risks... These three achieve a perfect closed loop. Then the woman is the companion attached to it, and this is how the so-called Three Obediences and Four Virtues come from.

As I said, there is really nothing evil from the beginning, it’s just that love is forced to survive.

To be honest, if Zhang Ximeng had reached any peaceful years, he would not have thought about making trouble with these things.

reform

Stop being funny. If you want to fight against thousands of years of tradition, how capable are you?

Don’t look down on people like Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng. It’s not that they don’t have enough IQ, but they are doing something doomed to fail.

If you have the ability to modify the Qingmiao Law and the One-Whip Law, don’t worry, as long as the order is implemented, it will definitely not follow your expectations.

A strong historical inertia will bring everything back to its original form... Unless there is a force that completely smashes historical inertia, there is a little possibility.

"Li Xiang, in recent years, natural disasters and wars, people are displaced, populations are rapidly declining, and arable land is deserted... In order to strengthen our power as soon as possible and gain support from the people, we gave women land when we were granting land. This was the same in the early Tang Dynasty, which led to the improvement of the status of women in the Tang Dynasty and the culturalization of the atmosphere. We did more thoroughly than the Tang Dynasty, and achieved a complete average on the land of acres."

"As a result, schools are established in various places, and women will also study and enroll in schools and increase their experiences. They are no longer vassals of the family, but also masters of the family... Following this trend, women will not only come out to be officials, but also go to workshops to work as female workers and go back to do business. There will even be many female teachers who teach and educate people. This is the general trend, and we can only take advantage of the situation and follow the flow."

Zhang Ximeng used two official documents to explain the truth to Li Shanchang.

Old Li looked solemn and depressed. His hands were irritated together, and he was aimlessly frustrated... This matter may have been a mistake from the beginning!

"Zhang Xiang, why do you have to be obsessed with this!"

Zhang Ximeng smiled helplessly, "Li Xiang, don't you understand? If you want to compete for the world to be strong, he cannot refuse any way to improve his strength! Especially if you don't need to leave women who account for half of the population, that's impossible! Why do you stand up as a wife? She just talks for the woman? Not for the lord's great cause?"

"Li Xiang, this is a major change that has not been seen in a thousand years. Men farm and women weave, three obediences and four virtues, freezing to death is small, and losing integrity is big... These things should disappear with the fall of Zhao and Song. What we need is to re-establish the rules and lay the rules for thousands of years to come.Li Xiang, are you still hesitating until now?"

Li Shanchang frowned and his heart was pounding.

He participated in previous discussions, but to be honest, Li Shanchang didn't listen much. He was directly imaginary of several literati, and what he talked about was just to deceive the people and win over the hearts of people.

But today, Li Shanchang suddenly realized that these are not empty talk, but real things that will really affect the Zhu family army's choice of path.

what to do?

Are you continuing to fight?

Li Shanchang was a little scared. After all, he faced the fate of being eliminated without seeing through Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts. Zhang Ximeng may not be as good as him when he came up...

The more I thought about it, the more I became more and more afraid, Li Shanchang was actually scared and sweated.

"Zhang, Zhang Xiang... I, I am not a person who is not a man of old age and does not know how to adapt. I have said everything I should say. There are indeed many unsuitable places for women to be officials. The Six Ministry Censorate is not suitable anywhere. If I force it, I am afraid that it will ruin a big deal!"

Zhang Ximeng couldn't help laughing, "Li Xiang, I'm not convenient to talk to my lord... But between us, we might as well make it clear. The six ministries are really not suitable for women as officials? Take the Ministry of Personnel for example. Although they are responsible for the selection of officials, they have the most authority, and it seems that women are not suitable. However, the Ministry of Personnel also needs to grasp the files of officials, the evaluation of officials, and there are also awards for honors and rewards, and even lists of meritorious soldiers. After the Ministry of War is confirmed, the Ministry of Personnel will have to verify it before they can issue a report... So many things are really nothing that women can do?"

"I won't say much about the situation in other departments. Li Xiang insists on finding out what a woman can't do and to swear to the lord. Are you not afraid that the lord will wake up and take his anger on Li Xiang?"

Li Shanchang's old face turned pale, and his hands in his sleeves kept trembling... Zhang Ximeng seemed not to want to let him go, and smiled and said, "The so-called defense of men and women is not a big deal. Just separate the office. I don't believe it yet. Who dares to tease an official with great power?"
Chapter completed!