First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 230

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

He also felt the difficulty of this matter. Putting a woman as an official was met with too much opposition. Behind Li Shanchang, there were almost all civil and military officials. How could such a precedent be set?

If you replace it with a weaker one, it is estimated that it will give up.

But unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang is not such a person.

He desperately needs a female official to be an example to the world.

In Zhujiajun, the people have been restored to ordinary people, whether they are Han people, Mongolians, or Miao people, they are all ordinary people, and they must be treated equally.

This ideal is easy to deduce a step forward, and it is the same for both men and women. As a result, women, who account for half of the population, will also support Zhu Jiajun.

Men farming and women weaving, a family, men think Zhu Jiajun's policy is very good, women think it doesn't matter, it has been like this since ancient times, is this reasonable?

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

After Lao Zhu finished speaking, he let everyone down, Ma Shi was angry, and he flung his sleeves and left before Zhu Yuanzhang. According to the rules you set, people sent food early according to the rules, and they passed the exam smoothly.

What is this?

Ma was really angry, and that night, Lao Zhu was stunned that he could not enter the door.

Here, Li Shanchang also felt that Mount Tai was pressing down on the top. If the top went down, the wife would not be able to explain it, and Zhu Yuanzhang would also take anger at him, and the consequences would be unimaginable. .

After thinking for a long time, Li Shan came to Zhang Ximeng's duty room.

He found that Zhang Ximeng was sorting out the official documents, and Lao Li took the initiative to come over, with a smile on his face, "Zhang Xiang, the superior let us discuss an appropriate method, you see I have an idea, let's take a look at the details?"

Zhang Ximeng hurriedly smiled and said, "Li Xiang is polite, I am all ears."

Li Shanchang pondered for a while, and then said: "I thought about it, Jiang Nan was the brother who gave food, and he was filial at home and loyal to the country. She can be called a strange woman in the world, and Hua Mulan was reborn. It should be rewarded and ordered to build a memorial archway in her hometown. , To establish a biography of the monument, and if there is another, there will be a reward crown, and the place should be treated according to the servant... In this way, it will not be regarded as a high-ranking dishonesty, what about Zhang Xiangyi?"

After listening to Li Shanchang's words, Zhang Ximeng smiled slightly, "Li Xiang is really clever and well thought out. Logically, I can't object. But I also have a situation here, and I would like to ask Li Xiang to give some pointers."

Li Shanchang's brows moved slightly, and he said, "Zhang Xiang, please speak!"

Zhang Ximeng took out two lists at random, "These are all statistics from the Ministry of Households. There are more than 87,000 households in Yingtian Prefecture, and there are more than 330,000 households. The women who have acquired land are over 290,000. On average, there are about seven people, and women with land account for more than 45%."

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

Li Shanchang frowned, took the two official documents in his hand, and looked at it again and again, "Zhang Xiang, is this result true? Men ploughing and women weaving, it has always been men ploughing the fields outside and women taking care of the housework, how can it be a burden for women now? Most of the farm work? Could it be a mistake?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled lightly, "Li Xiang, men farming and women weaving, have been around since ancient times, but there is one more sentence that Li Xiang cannot possibly not know."

"What?"

"Intensive farming!" Zhang Ximeng said with a smile. In fact, he carefully studied farming in the countryside. In addition to driving cattle and horses to plough the fields, whether it was sowing, transplanting, weeding, harvesting, and finally threshing and returning to the warehouse, women were all involved, and even some work. Do better than men.

It is true that there are differences in physical strength between men and women, but it is by no means insurmountable.

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

Men ploughing and women weaving does not mean that women do not need to take care of farm work, but only focus on weaving.

Of course, if the land is tense, people are growing, and men are everywhere, naturally there is no need for women to go to the land. But women can't be idle, but they have to keep spinning and working at home, and take the woven fabrics to the market to exchange money to supplement the family.

Some handy women can earn several times as much as their husbands every year!

Since women are so capable and earn so much, why are men still in charge?

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

People in later generations may not understand this, but as long as you ask Lao Zhu, he will know clearly.

How did Zhu Yuanzhang's family go bankrupt?

Natural disasters, plagues, lack of food, parents starved to death, elder brother starved to death, the family was ruined, unable to maintain, he and his second brother had to part ways, one became a son-in-law, and the other became a monk.

For ordinary farmers like the Zhu family, money can't help them resist risks, or in other words, when a natural disaster strikes, grain is worth more than gold!

Why are the people unwilling to change rice to mulberry? Why is it a dead move from the start!

Regardless of all the calculations, you asked the common people to plant mulberry trees instead, but once the natural disaster came, the raw silk could not fill the stomach, and the mulberry trees would not be able to exchange food.

The court and the common people calculate the money account of how much more money they can make, and the common people have to calculate the account of how to survive.

For thousands of years, the simple and down-to-earth survival experience has shaped the common people into the most conservative, stubborn, and most repulsive group of people... Are they wrong?

It doesn't seem to be there!

After all, for thousands of years, ordinary people have almost never had enough to eat...

Men, land, food.

These three constitute the core of the natural economy.

Allocating land according to the males, relying on the land to produce food, and food to resist all risks... These three have achieved a perfect closed loop. Then a woman is a companion product attached to it. The so-called three obediences and four virtues come from this.

Again, there is really nothing that is evil from the very beginning, it's just a last resort, it's just a matter of survival.

To put it bluntly, if Zhang Ximeng came to any peaceful year, he would not think about tossing these things.

reform?

Don't be ridiculous, you want to fight with thousands of years of tradition, how good are you?

Don't look down on people like Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng. It's not that they are not smart enough, but they are doing something that is doomed to fail.

You have the ability to revise the Young Crop Law and the One Whip Law properly, 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 shape... Unless there is a force that completely smashes the historical inertia, then there is only a little possibility.

"Li Xiang, these years of natural disasters and wars, the people have been displaced, the population has dropped sharply, and the arable land has been desolate... In order to grow our power as soon as possible and gain the support of the people, we gave women land when granting land. This was in the early Tang Dynasty. The same is true. Only then did the status of women in the Tang Dynasty improve and the atmosphere become more enlightened. We have done more thoroughly than the Tang Dynasty, and achieved complete equality in the field of land."

"Following this, schools are set up in various places, and women will also study and enroll to increase their knowledge. They are no longer vassals of the family, but they are also the masters of the family... If this trend continues, women will not only come out to become officials, but they will also Going to work as a female worker in a workshop, going back to do business, and there will even be many female gentlemen who teach and educate people.

Zhang Ximeng explained the truth to Li Shanchang through two official documents.

Old Li's expression is solemn, his heart is depressed, his hands are irritably inserted together, frustrating aimlessly... Maybe this matter has been a mistake from the beginning!

"Zhang Xiang, you, why are you obsessed with this!"

Zhang Ximeng smiled helplessly, "Li Xiang, don't you understand? If the superior wants to compete in the world, he can't refuse any way to improve his strength! Especially if you don't use women who make up half of the population, that's impossible! You are a wife! Why stand up? She is just speaking for women? Not for the master's great cause?"

"Li Xiang, this is a big change that has not been seen in a thousand years. Men are ploughing and women are weaving. Three obedience and four virtues. Frozen death is a small matter, and disobedience is a big problem... These things should have disappeared along with the fall of Zhao and Song. What we need is to re-establish the general rule. , laying down the rules for thousands of years in the future. Li Xiang, are you still hesitating now?"

Li Shanchang frowned and his heart was beating wildly.

He participated in the previous discussions, but to be honest, Li Shanchang didn't listen to much. What he was talking about was just the fantasy of a few literati, and the things he talked about were just to deceive the people and bribe the hearts of the people.

But today, Li Shanchang suddenly found out that these are not empty talk, but real things that will really affect Zhu Jiajun's path choice.

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what to do?

Are you continuing to fight?

Li Shanchang was a little scared. After all, he didn't see through Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, and he was faced with the fate of being eliminated. Zhang Ximeng came up~www.mtlnovel.com~ It may not be as good as him...

The more he thought about it, the more afraid Li Shanchang actually broke out in a cold sweat.

"Zhang, Zhang Xiang... I, I'm not incapable of eating the past, and I don't know how to adapt. I have said everything I should say. There are indeed many inappropriate places for women to be officials. Because of this, I'm afraid it will ruin a big thing!"

Zhang Ximeng couldn't help laughing, "Li Xiang, there are some things I don't feel comfortable talking to the lord... But between the two of us, we might as well clarify the words. Are the six departments really not suitable for women to be officials? Let's take the officials. Said that, although it is in charge of the selection of officials and has the most authority, it seems that women are not suitable. However, the Ministry of Personnel still has to master the files of hundreds of officials, the evaluation of officials, as well as awards and awards, and even the list of meritorious soldiers. After the Ministry of War is determined, the officials will The Ministry still needs to verify before they can issue an accusation... With so many things, is there really nothing a woman can do?"

"I won't say much about the situation of the other ministries. Li Xiang has to find out things that women can't do and come to prevaricate the lord, so he is not afraid that the lord will wake up and anger Li Xiang?"

Li Shanchang's old face was pale, and the hands in his sleeves kept shaking... Zhang Ximeng didn't seem to want to let him go, he smiled and said: "The so-called men and women are in great defense, it's not a problem, as long as the office is separated, I still don't believe it, there is What kind of eye-opener dares to tease a powerful official?"

Zhang Ximeng paused for a while, then said again: "Li Xiang, if you block all the way, you can naturally come up with a hundred excuses, but as long as you sincerely let go, it's just a matter of thought! It seems that it's not so difficult if you only want to do it. What's more, after passing the examination of the bachelor's college, you have to go through various affairs in various departments, and you will be granted an official position if you are really competent. Is there really so much inconvenience?"

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