As soon as the women heard Cai Wei say that they were now facing a once-in-a-century opportunity, they hurriedly asked in unison, "What kind of opportunity is it?" ”

"It's the war right now." Cai Wei said in a deep voice: "Although the war is the biggest in the world, not to mention that the Tartars invaded my country's land, destroyed my homeland, killed my people, and robbed my people's wealth, it is by no means a fortunate thing for my people in Daqin, but it is also such a war, which hides opportunities for our women to be self-reliant." ”

"Sisters, imagine that during the war, all men joined the army to defend their families and the country, and in the situation of labor shortage, many of the jobs that were originally done by men could only be done by women. What's more, at present, the main income of the Great Qin treasury comes from the sea market, and the favorite silk of overseas countries is what we women are best at making a living, so we just take advantage of this momentum to vigorously develop the silk weaving industry, so that more women can make a fortune by raising silkworms and weaving. This is called the time of day! ”

"The geography and climate of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liangguang and Fujian are suitable for planting mulberry and silkworms, and it is close to the South China Sea in the East China Sea. Moreover, after the previous two years of exploration and operation, today's sea market is already familiar with both sailing and trade, which is called a geographical advantage! ”

The time and place are favorable, but what about "people"?

The women asked in unison, Cai Wei smiled slyly, "The so-called 'harmony' naturally happens to have a few of our sisters in this world, and we have to make a big wish to let all the sisters and sisters in the world stand up and sit on an equal footing with men, and don't be half a body shorter than them." ”

"Let's go into more detail, for me, fortunately, I have a group of like-minded sisters, a fence with three piles, and a hero with three gangs, if I don't have you to help me, even if I am a queen, I will be alone."

"And the luckiest thing for you is that I, your close friend, wear a phoenix crown on my head, which happens to be the mother of a country. Go back and go to Jian'an Girls' Hall and Girls' Academy under the banner of my queen, and see which one of you who is not long-sighted dares to make things difficult for you again? ”

Her last sentence was full of confidence, and the other four girls immediately smiled when they thought of the queen's power in the future. They all knew in their hearts that in fact, this so-called "harmony", the queen mother said one thing less, that is, behind her, there is an emperor who loves his wife like his life.

What's even more rare is that this majesty not only loves his wife like his life, but also admires his wife's talent and talent, often talks to her about national affairs, and gives her all kinds of support for what she wants to do. Unlike those ordinary men, they can't see their wives more capable and talented than them, and feel that women have no value except for giving birth to children for him and passing on the lineage.

Cai Wei can marry such a husband who understands her and respects her, and regards her as a jewel, their friends are naturally overjoyed for her, although they envy her for having such a good match, and occasionally regret why there can't be more men like Yuan Jiadi in the world, but there is no other love in their hearts, because everyone has their own fate, maybe their destined people are looking for their way.

Even if Yue Lao didn't tie a red thread to them, they wouldn't feel that the sky was falling, isn't it just a lack of men, as long as there is a group of good sisters who are intersecting and like-minded, it is good to be able to marry a good husband, but if not, it doesn't matter.

Envy and regret flashed in their hearts, and they were immediately left behind by them, they are women who have to do big things, so they don't have the leisure to think about men. It is rare that the time and place are right now, and they have to seize this great opportunity and hurry up to think of more ways to help women improve their status.

"Since there is a shortage of labor in wartime, and many jobs have to be done by women, can we not take advantage of the situation to prohibit foot binding?" Geng Yu said.

"Can we bring women together to weave silk, a group of people reeling silk, a group of people weaving, and then a group of people jacquard dyeing, everyone division of labor and cooperation, isn't it much more efficient than a family to carry out all the processes from beginning to end?" Geng Yue suddenly thought of a good idea.

"Well, I think that in addition to farming and weaving in the rear and making money to support the family, we women can also be like those men, get on the horse and carry guns, protect the family and defend the country, there was Hua Mulan in the army for her father, and there were many female generals in all dynasties, like more than half of my Western Qin's rivers and mountains were beaten down by Princess Pingyang, and General Qin Liangyu in our Shu, although she is a woman, but when she fights, she is more powerful than those men. If there are more brave and warlike female generals among our women, and a few more women's armies can be built, then there will be the strength of our women in the army, so as to better protect our women. Zou Qing thought of another possibility.

"Although I agree with you that women need to be rich to straighten their backs, I still think it is important to run more women's schools so that women can learn to read and write. You must know that knowledge is power, and only when a person has enough knowledge can she change her fate! This is the view of Ma Li, a friend of Sealand.

Cai Wei smiled as she listened to her thinkers come up with one good idea after another, the more she listened, the more her eyes lit up, although there were only five of them at the moment, but they had infinite wisdom and courage, although if they wanted to remove thousands of shackles around women's necks, they didn't know how many mountains they had to move in front of them, but the spark of the stars could set the prairie on fire, and the power of the Yugong family could also move mountains!

Gradually, their voices quieted down, and they all looked at Cai Wei in unison.

"I said the queen mother, we are talking dry here, you sit on the side and drink tea leisurely?" Geng Yue said dissatisfied.

"That is, our sisters have said so much, do you want to take a charter and list all the things to be done one by one according to the priority, so that people can be assigned to do it, these are waiting for the mother to show you?" Geng Yu gave her sister a favor.

When Cai Wei listened, she had already thought about it in her heart, and when she saw them asking herself, she didn't want to think about it and said: "This first one is naturally to encourage weaving, leave this matter to me, Sister Zou said that the idea of a woman joining the army is very good, and this job will also be handed over to me to do, I will go back and ask Sister Hongniang to help us recruit female soldiers, and find more female generals." Now that a new type of musket has been developed, as long as a gun is in hand and the marksmanship is accurate, even if it is not as powerful as a man, we can destroy them with one shot. In my opinion, in the future, muskets and weapons will only replace those swords, guns, swords and halberds that have been used for thousands of years, but it will be more conducive to us women to join the army. ”

"The second article is to build An Nu Tang, and I will pay for the money, but for all kinds of affairs, I have to worry about the two sisters of the Geng family. With my big tree to support you, except for those abandoned baby girls and girls, homeless abandoned women, even those women who have run away from marriage or from their husbands' houses, you can only take them in. Those who can do work will set up a few rooms in the Ann Nu Hall, and let them work together in it, spinning and weaving silk and weaving. ”

Cai Wei looked at Ma Li, "Sister Ma Li might as well open the women's school in the Ann Girls' Hall to teach those girls, and teach the rest of the women to read and write while weaving." After teaching a few apprentices, let the apprentices go to other Annu halls to teach Sun again. ”

Although Ma Li set up a girls' school in Quanzhou, except for the abandoned girls she picked up, no other female students came to the door. Even if she went door-to-door to persuade her, even if she didn't charge a penny and took care of a lunch, people didn't want to send her daughter to study, saying that it was useless for a woman to study, and it was better to do more work at home. I also wonder why she wants to set up a school that only accepts female babies, and the expensive male babies don't teach, so she has to teach the female babies, it's really a bad brain.

As a result, Ma Li's girls' school has been open for more than two years, and there are only two or three real female students, and more often than not, she is actually taking in and taking care of those abandoned baby girls, thinking that when they grow up, she will have students.

"Ma Li, I know that in addition to teaching them to read and write, you will also teach them arithmetic, physics and some knowledge of your Zealand, in addition, we can also tell them some more history about the change of women's status, let them know that the inferiority of men and women is just a lie, so that they can learn to be self-confident and self-reliant, and no longer regard men as a heaven that must be relied on."

"The queen said it well!" The Geng sisters cheered in unison. Zou Qing wondered: "The three of them have been assigned, what about me?" ”

Cai Wei smiled, "Sister Qing, don't worry, I have the most difficult job waiting for you?" ”

She took a sip of water and thought about it again before saying, "In addition to the above three items, I think there is another one that is also extremely important, and that is to change the deep-rooted perception that women have been instilled for a long time about the inferiority of men and women. ”

"In the earliest days, men relied on their brute force to make women submit to their domination. Later, in order to make their domination over women more unbreakable, men began to make up all kinds of 'wise sayings', such as 'men are born noble, women are born low', 'women have the righteousness of three subordinates, and there is no special way, so they are not married to their fathers, but they are married to their husbands, and their husbands are subordinate to their sons', 'women, your name is weak', 'women are virtuous if they are not talented', and 'behind every successful man there is a woman of selfless dedication'......"

"All these things are all telling a woman, you are born inferior to men, if a woman like a grass can't climb the rock of a man, then it's useless, if a woman can't marry a man, make a cow and a horse for a man, and give birth to a son to inherit the family, she has no value."

"A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth, and the shackles of the mind are far more difficult to remove than the shackles of the body. When women are completely brainwashed by these patriarchal ideas, they will even maintain this set of female slave codes of male superiority and inferiority, and three obedience and four virtues more than men. Nowadays, how many of the female books written for girls are written by men, almost all of them are written by women themselves to educate women, and they themselves become men's female slaves, and in order to please men, they have to ask the sisters of the whole world to accompany her to be a female slave willingly. ”

Geng Yue nodded violently, "Yes, the class that wrote the "Female Commandment", she has been widowed for most of her life, and as a result, she said that 'the husband has the righteousness to remarry, and the woman has no suitable text, so the husband is also heavenly.'" 'Why can a man marry again, but a woman can no longer marry and be widowed for the rest of her life, it is simply that only the governor is allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps!' ”

"That's not the most terrible thing, after all, how many women can read these women's books? The daughters of many rich and noble families may not be able to read if they can afford to read, for fear that their daughters will be able to read and write, and they will not be able to reach the 'women's morality', not to mention those daughters of poor families who are poor, and they will not be able to read these things at all. However, the myths and folklores they have heard since childhood, and even the stories told by storytellers and played in dramas, as well as various sayings, all imply that men are respected and women are inferior. This kind of brainwashing, which is inadvertently touched by ears and eyes, is the most terrifying. ”

"Not bad!" Geng Yu slapped the table and shouted, "Those stories are not written about a talented man in distress who was rescued by a rich rich lady and then made a private decision for life, or a poor scholar was suddenly visited by a beautiful fox spirit late at night and recommended himself for a pillow." I have always been unable to figure out what is so good about those poor scholars, so that those white and beautiful young ladies and fox fairies immediately like them when they only see one side, and they are not married to all kinds of upside down. ”

"Like that Wang Baochuan, for the sake of Xue Pinggui's parents and relatives, he has been guarding the cold kiln for 18 years, and what did he wait for in the end? In "Jin Yu Slave Stick Beats Bo Qinglang", Mo Ji relied on the help of the Yue family to become an official, but he disliked his wife's background, and pushed her directly into the river to drown her, but after she escaped with her life, she still had to hang on this crooked neck tree, and she didn't marry anyone else, so she had to continue to be a cow and a horse for this thin lover and a murderer, no wonder there was a slave in the name, it was really servile! ”

Geng Yue was also busy saying: "And those fox fairies are even more brain-dead, not only to the poor scholars with their personal promises, but also to help them to make a fortune in the exam, and when the scholar is famous, she will drift away, oh, or before leaving, she will find a good mate for the scholar before she leaves." It's okay to see people vomiting three liters of blood? ”

"Don't talk about those fox immortals, even the heavenly immortals are not the same as the ordinary men in the mortal world, the seven fairies are willing to risk the responsibility of being punished by the heavenly court and go down to the earth to pay off Dong Yong's debts privately, and that white water **, is that still an immortal? That's the kind of cook a man wants. Zou Qing was also angry with these myths and stories for a long time, and followed closely behind the Zou sisters and denounced them.

Even Ma Li interjected, "I've always wondered that the women in your Daqin mythology always give to men without complaint or regret, no matter what the man does, they will forgive him, except for being virtuous and generous, there is no other temper, all of them are virtuous and virtuous virgins." But in our Western mythology, in addition to being kind, beautiful and brave, the goddesses not only dare to love but also dare to hate, like Princess Medea in "The Golden Fleece", once her lover betrays the oath made to her, she will become the goddess of revenge, even if she still loves him, she will resolutely destroy him and send her most complete revenge. ”

Cai Wei sighed: "Who made all these myths and stories in our country written by men? The pen and the right to speak are in their hands, and they naturally enjoy all kinds of patriarchal favoritism, choosing men and abandoning women, loving men and misogynists, praising men and killing women, and all kinds of lust in which they like to see rich girls fall in love with poor children, be loyal to them, be cattle and horses, and let them have a dream of harmony with their wives and concubines for decades. ”

"From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many outstanding women have been the queen mother who governed the country well, or for the famous generals with great military achievements, or in weaving, mathematics, astronomy, geography, calligraphy and painting, piano and chess, and other arts have made various achievements, but it is a pity that it is extremely difficult to find them in both history books and folklore."

"Many ruling queen mothers have obviously surpassed male emperors in their political achievements, but they have been brought by a few strokes in the history books, and they have to be detained a big hat of being a chicken Si Chen, a filthy harem, and not abiding by women's morals. And the princess of Pingyang in the Western Qin Dynasty, who obviously made great contributions to the great Qin country, was the first princess to be buried with a military ceremony, but after her death, all her achievements were transferred to her brother's head. ”

"There are also myths and stories that have been deliberately distorted and distorted by male literati. Tiansun Weaver Girl was originally stolen by Niu Lang and forced to stay in the world to be a mortal wife, just like the daughter of a good family was abducted to the mountains and sold as a wife. As a result, after some retouching and polishing by the men, it became that Lang had a lover who was interested, but unfortunately he was beaten by the queen mother, and even the magpies were deeply moved by their husband and wife to help each other. In fact, when I first read this story, I was also a little moved by it, or later found a fragment of an ancient book, only to know that in the earlier version, the Weaver Girl was not caught by the Queen Mother at all, but she stole back the feather coat and flew back to heaven with her own thoughts. ”

Zou Qing also nodded and said: "Yes, just like that Wang Baochuan, her long-waiting husband married a foreign princess who was younger and more beautiful than her as a concubine, she waited for him for eighteen years, but died on the eighteenth day after reuniting with him." But in "The Story of the Cold Kiln", she didn't say a word about her tragic ending, just praised her for not disliking the poor and loving the rich, from the beginning to the end, and finally kept the clouds and saw the moon after 18 years, and waited for her husband who had achieved fame, and since then her husband and wife have been honored. ”

Cai Wei said: "All these myths, legends, stories and novels are repeating a lie in their bones, that is, no matter how good and outstanding a woman is, she only exists for men. As a woman, only if you give all kinds of things to a man, or help him with gold and silver, or help him rise to the top, or give him a son, only if she helps a man, gets the man's affirmation, recognition and praise, and feels that she is a very useful object for him, then this woman is valuable and worthy of living in this world. ”

"The subtle impact of these stories and novels on people is much more powerful than those "Four Books of Women", women have heard these brainwashing stories every day since they were children, and they naturally feel that as a woman, they should pay for men without complaint, no matter what men do to her, it is a matter of course. If this kind of mental cancer does not go, a woman is no matter how knowledgeable she is, no matter how much she can earn money to support herself, she is still not a person who stands up, because deep down in her heart she still feels that the value of a woman is for men, and she still regards herself as a vassal of men. ”

"So if we want our sisters to become self-reliant and independent, we have to snatch the right to speak and write from men, they can use these stories and novels to brainwash women, and we can also use them to brainwash women. We can make up stories or novels about the various proud deeds of women that have been lost in the dust of history, so that the sisters can know how capable our women are and not lose to men, and we can also rewrite those stories and novels written by them, so that the sisters can see through the hypocrisy and lies that are full of them. ”

"This is what I want to ask Sister Qing to do, this thing is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, to find some girls who are good at writing and can write to make up all kinds of stories that are easy to circulate, and then think of telling these stories one by one, ten to hundreds, changing the perception that women have been more or less brainwashed, but it is not an easy thing, I am afraid that it will cost Sister Qing a lot of effort."

Zou Qing said happily: "Don't you know that I like to write some short stories the most?" This job is my appetite, thank you mother! ”

At one moment, the assignment of everyone's affairs has been decided, and Cai Wei said: "If your sisters have no objection to our division of labor, please go to Jinling with me?" ”

Why go to Jinling? Without waiting for the girls to ask, Cai Wei had already explained their confusion and said: "Recently, there has been some movement on the Tartar side, I am afraid that the thief's heart will not die, and I want to use troops against Jiangnan." His Majesty took this opportunity to return to Jinling and drive the expedition in person. In fact, there is no war, this Dali in Yunnan is a corner of peace, and my majesty and I will never live here for a long time, and it is more convenient to return to Jinling to do some things. ”

Zou Yu nodded and said: "Yes, Jinling was originally our capital and the center of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is much more advantageous to move the imperial court back to Jinling, both militarily and politically." That is, for our great cause of women's rights, in terms of geography alone, silk weaving in the south of the Yangtze River is more developed and more suitable for us to engage in. ”

Cai Wei nodded, "I think the same way, let's practice these methods in the south of the Yangtze River first, build a women's hall, build a silk factory, build a women's academy, and wait until Jinling, Your Majesty will be busy with the war, and most of the rest of the family and state affairs will ask me to share his worries, and I just take advantage of the governance of state affairs to fully support our great cause of women's rights." Even if some laws respecting men and suppressing women can't move it for the time being, I can try to implement some other theories first, such as the Legalists and Mohists in the hundreds of schools, as well as Mr. Yang Ming's Xinxue and Mr. Li Zhen's Li Xue, to confront Confucianism, and not let Confucianism dominate, and Cheng Zhu Lixue is very loud. ”

"Not bad!" Zou Qing said: "What 'male superiority and female inferiority', 'three obedience and four virtues', these dross are all put forward by Confucianism. That Zhu Zi shouted all day long in a sanctimonious manner, 'save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires', but as a result, the dirty things he did by himself were unspeakable, and he couldn't do things himself, and he was embarrassed to ask others, he was a hypocritical and false Taoist. ”

"The three generations of Confucius's family have been waiting for their wives to give birth to sons, so they will abandon their wives and go out, and Zengzi will never remarry after retiring his wife, anyway, he has a son, and he is not afraid that he will be the eldest child." Geng Yu scoffed.

Mencius also wanted to divorce his wife, he went to peek at his wife's daily life without being rude, and said that his wife was rude and wanted to divorce someone, or his mother was reasonable, knowing that the fault was her son, and he was not allowed to divorce his wife. It's a pity that the more time goes on, there are fewer and fewer mothers-in-law who are on the side of their daughters-in-law who are reasonable, but there are more and more evil mothers-in-law who help men bully their daughters-in-law. So the mother-in-law made it difficult for her daughter-in-law, the wives and concubines were jealous, the women fought together, and the men profited! Geng Yue couldn't help but sigh as he spoke.

Cai Wei also said: "So we can't let these dross in Confucianism be so widespread and harmful." We can think of propagating more other theories that advocate equality between men and women and that all people are born free. As for foot binding, I'm afraid that it is far from enough to prohibit it from the law, the key is to change the psychology of women to cater to men's aesthetics, why foot binding is all the rage, and it is not that men like three-inch golden lotus, which makes women ashamed of big feet and proud of small feet. ”

"All these things, pile by pile, all have to be helped by a few sisters, let's work together to make things happen, so I also ask my sisters to go to Jinling with me, let's get together to discuss and discuss with each other, but it's a pity that I can't make you officials, I have to wronged my sisters to be female officials around me first, so I have a name, and it's easier to do things."

"Do you mean so that we can raise the name of the queen mother?" Zou Yue said with a smile, for a while, all the women joked about Cai Wei, anyway, they don't care if they can be officials or not, they just want to do something real for women all over the world.

Unexpectedly, an incident that happened after arriving in Jinling just gave Cai Wei a reason, so that she not only chose a bunch of women as officials in a bright and honest manner, but also led them to directly deal with various state affairs.