Ever since Cai Wei reunited with her old friend, she had never asked Qin Fei what the current situation was. This person gave a gag order to Ma Li and Zheng Yihu, even if she asked, it was in vain, and she didn't want to do anything in vain. With this effort, it is better to listen to Ma Li talk more about the current situation in Sealand and all kinds of things at sea.

Qin Fei first accompanied Cai Wei to listen, and later saw that they were just chatting and laughing every day, and Cai Wei taught Ma Li to write Chinese characters or something, and she didn't do anything to worry about it, so she was relieved. After the Lantern Festival, he had too many things to take care of, and he couldn't guard her all day and night, except for eating with Cai Wei in the morning and evening, he was busy in his study the rest of the time.

Cai Wei saw that he didn't even have time to accompany him for lunch, he was so busy every day, but he knew that the current situation was not very optimistic, how to be a rice worm, eat, drink and have fun every day, and spend a leisurely life.

Although she couldn't figure out what Qin Fei promised her to do, but for Ma Li, it only took her less than half an hour to successfully persuade Ma Li to teach her the mathematics, astronomy, and geography that Xilanzhou and the girls in their country had learned, and then work with her to study how to make a continuous □□ with a longer range and more accurate range.

Because Zheng Yihu only got the drawings of the artillery from the Xiyi people, about the □□, although they also thought of getting a □□ of the Sealand Kingdom, but in addition to not being easy to explode, the range and accuracy are not much different from the □□ produced by Daqin, and the ignition is also extremely slow, and each point can only fire three bullets in a row.

At first, Ma Li was not interested in making guns, she just wanted to build a daughter's hall in Quanzhou first, take in and rescue those orphaned girls who were helpless, and homeless women who were abandoned by their husbands, so that they could understand the true meaning of equality between men and women, and then slowly tell them to the sisters in Quanzhou City.

Before Cai Wei arrived in Quanzhou, she had already built such a daughter's hall and took in dozens of orphans and abandoned women. However, it was easy for her to take them in, and her attempt to erase the deep-rooted patriarchy, inferiority, and virtue of men and women in their minds had little effect.

So Cai Wei gave her an idea, "In fact, the reason why such a idea of male superiority and inferiority of women is so deep in our country is that in addition to Confucianism's blind emphasis on the three outlines and five constants, it is also because there is indeed a difference between men and women." ”

"In ancient times, people only knew that there was a mother but not a father, and people at that time lived by gathering and hunting. Men may not always have prey when hunting, while women can always find some wild fruits and vegetables to wrap their stomachs, so at that time they were all matrilineal clans respected by women. ”

"Later, people learned to farm, so that food grew in the fields, and they didn't have to hunt hard. Because farming is hard work, and men have more strength than women, all the heavy work of subsistence such as plowing the land and farming falls on men. Whoever earns something to eat will have a great share of what he says. Gradually, matrilineal clans became patrilineal clans, the men became the heads of the family, and the women became the appendages of the men, the tools of their succession. ”

Therefore, no matter how much you tell them that men and women are equal, what they have seen and heard since they were children is that men farm and work and earn money to support their families, men are literate and slaughter officials, and men serve in the army to fight and defend their families and the country. All the major matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood are all done by men, how can you make them not believe that men are better than them and are born noble, while women are useless except to have children, they are inferior? ”

Ma Li listened to her words, lowered her head and pondered for a long time, before she said sullenly: "Obviously, they can support themselves by doing needlework, and they don't need to rely on men to survive!" ”

"Yes, a woman can also earn money by weaving and spinning, but can she protect her earned money from being snatched by a man? This is different from your Sealand, what kind of chivalry and gentlemanly demeanor will be emphasized, if a woman does not belong to a man, then her interests will be unprotected, but will be bullied. Because a woman's fists are absolutely invincible to men, physical weakness determines that they cannot protect themselves from violence from men, unless she goes to another man to be her backer. ”

Ma Li was stunned, and thought for a long time, "Then why don't I learn from your husband here, go and open a school, and first tell your men what chivalry and gentlemanly manners are?" ”

Cai Wei smiled and shook her head, "If you do this, you are begging for fish!" The men of Daqin have been accustomed to being served by women as uncles for thousands of years, do you think they will give up willingly? ”

"Instead of relying on men to give women respect and no longer rely on their physical superiority to bully women, it is better to make women stronger. Men can do all the work, farming, fighting, reading and writing, and they can do it all better, and when the women finally discover the power hidden in their bodies, they find that they can be as powerful as men. Then you preach your teachings to them, and they will believe what you say, learn to respect themselves, and eventually become truly independent and no longer have to rely on men to live. ”

"But this war and farming are all hard work, how can this make women become as powerful as men?" Ma Li suddenly remembered something she had seen on the street, and hurriedly said, "I remember that there is a thing called Diana Pill here, let's buy it for the women to eat, can we make them grow some strength?" ”

Cai Wei sneered when she heard this, "Most of the strong pills and big pills sold on the street are fake, they can't be real, there is nothing in this world that can make people infinitely powerful." ”

Ma Li patted her head, "Oh, I forgot, there are a lot of fake things in your Great Qin Kingdom, that is, many serious pharmacies sell fake medicines, and I don't know if it's because we are foreigners, in the past, our family could always buy shoddy things, and even the silver found to us was fake." ”

What she said, how Cai Wei didn't know, all kinds of frauds of the Chinese people, especially fake silver, were vivid, difficult to distinguish between true and false, and even the government had a headache. Chen Duo, a contemporary of the time, once made a poem "Zhegui Ling Crude Medicine Shop", which said that fake drugs are popular, and his words said: "The store of the medical assistant is opened, the miscellaneous shops are arranged, and the top products are collected." The high price is empty, the value of the brain, and the bezoar is rare. Waiting for the plate is not according to the catty, and the paper bag is cold. If you are sick and die, you will be repaid twice. Fake as true, there is no prescription. ”

She didn't know that she had discussed with Qin Fei many times before, why the Chinese people were so dishonest and liked to fake so much, how could she change this bad atmosphere. For now, though, let's talk about the more pressing issues first.

She coughed twice, "Mary, let's get down to business, although we can't make a woman's body as strong as a man, but what if we can create something to make up for the innate weakness of a woman who is not as strong as a man?" ”

"For example, in this □□, before the □□ is made, if you ask a woman to fight a big knife with a man, the arm strength will definitely be inferior to that of a man, but if we can make a small and light □□, it will be better than who has accurate marksmanship and fast movements, which we women may not lose to men."

Cai Wei often thinks that if when she was in Qingde County, instead of a dagger, she carried a □□ with her, then maybe the Tartar would have died under her gun, and she would not be so tired that Gan Tang died to save her because she couldn't fight the Tartar with a knife.

She even dreamed once that the dagger in her hand had really become a □□, a small, convenient and convenient □□ to ignite, and a single fire could fire eighteen bullets in a row, so she fired at the tartar and fired it incessantly, until he was smashed into a sieve.

She held Ma Li's hand, "If we can make more advanced and easy-to-use □□, then now it is the Eight Banners cavalry that Han men can't beat, with only one □□ in hand, we women can also destroy them." ”

"Isn't that Tartar powerful with cavalry? As long as our □□ range can penetrate their iron armor, and then train a team of female cavalry with fast marksmanship, accurate and ruthless, when the time comes, rush up and shoot fiercely, run after the fight, and then rush back to continue to fight, anyway, the woman is light, and the speed of the cavalry must be faster than the heavy armored cavalry of the Tartars, you can advance or retreat, and you can be flexible. As long as we have advanced firearms, all of us women can fight on the battlefield like Mulan and defend our families. ”

Ma Li's brain is also turning very fast, "Then if there are more advanced and labor-saving farm tools, women can also plow the land and farm like men, and we can build some tools to do it for others, in that case, the so-called many differences between men and women, only men can do things that women can do when the time comes, then women don't have to count on men for everything like now." ”

"Yes, although our women are not as good as men, I don't believe it, and our brains are not as good as them? Since the strength is insufficient, then think of creating something ingenious to save manpower. It's just that we have to take it step by step, we have to create a □□ first, and then train a female soldier to come out, so that the world can see the power of women. Then when the Tartars are driven away, let's open a women's school, so that the women can read and write, have their own thoughts, and then design other things so that women can be self-sufficient and no longer rely on men to earn a living, and finally change the laws of Daqin, and revise the laws that are unfavorable to women......"

Ma Li's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she couldn't stop nodding, "Wei, what you said is so good!" What are we waiting for, let's get started! ”

However, although Ma Li was moved by her, she still remembered Qin Fei's repeated instructions to her, although she studied the preparation method of □□ with Cai Wei, she did not dare to let her devote herself to this, and only allowed her to study for one hour in the morning and another hour in the afternoon every day, for fear that she would be tired and she would not be able to explain to Qin Fei.