Sitting on the upper floor of Jinyang Taixue, looking down through the glass window, it is always pleasing to the eye to be able to see some girls in the courtyard of the highest school in the empire.

In the twelfth year of the Republic, Jinyang Taixue began to enroll in Jinyang Taixue for the first time.

The social atmosphere of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties was open, but the establishment of female officials was only practiced in the Wu and Zhou dynasties.

After entering Taixue, you can be awarded middle and high-level official positions after graduation, which is equivalent to becoming a member of the ruling elite of the Huaxia Kingdom. Ignoring the advice of some ministers, Li Qi has always insisted on setting up female officials in the Nine Temples, the Imperial Medical Department, the Relief Department, and other departments, and selected women to fill official positions. Just like the system of the former Tang Wu Zhou Dynasty, this gave birth to the establishment of women's colleges in various places and in the prefecture schools.

With the development of economy and industry, there are more and more female workers in textile and food workshops in Jindi, Hebei and Guanzhong, and the status of women in the family is also increasing due to the increase in income. In Jindi, Hebei and Guanzhong, women's schools gradually flourished, but the women who could enter women's schools were still rich and noble, and few girls from civilian families enrolled in schools.

"Times are different, men and women are the same!"

Although Li Qi is advocating the concept of equality between men and women, the reaction in society is still not strong.

Although there are also special women's colleges in the local schools for female students, they are much smaller, with the number of women enrolled in universities each year being one-tenth of the number of male students. According to the rules of the government school, these female students graduated from the government school in various places, and the imperial court also conferred officials as usual.

Women seem to be new officials, but in fact, in some large families, most of the family property is also taken care of by female dependents, and they are more experienced than most men in managing estates and workshops.

Now it's just a matter of turning from the family to the official.

The so-called change of customs, as long as everyone slowly gets used to it and gradually accepts and recognizes it.

Women are half of the productive forces of society, and women are confined to their homes, lacking social insight and correct understanding of the world, which is extremely detrimental to the cultivation of the next region.

If you think about the conservative, self-enclosed, and visionary scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties, you can understand how terrible the imprisoning of women is for the future development of a nation.

In terms of political system, the imperial court wanted to try its best to suppress the lords and the former gate lords and clan forces, but it was impossible to completely eliminate the wealthy clans, and the imperial court's policy could only be to limit their expansion and development in terms of strict restrictions on land annexation.

In a sense, although the family that has lost control of the land is still wealthy, it does not have the capital of self-reliance in the past. In addition, from the perspective of laws and policies, the protection and attention to the rights of civilians should be strengthened, which will give more opportunities for the rise of scholars from poor families. The imperial examination became the main way for commoners to enter the ruling class.

With the pacification of Fujian, Li Qi prepared to settle the two states of Jiaozhi, and the entire empire focused on internal integration and economic development, and temporarily shelved the plan to expand outward.

Now the two countries of Khotan and Gaochang in the Western Regions are still very strong, and they will wait until they have defeated the Qarakhanid and come to the rescue.

Just after the New Year, Li Qi led a group of officials from the Ministry of Works, the Iron Smelting Supervisor, the General Supervisor, and the Ordnance Supervisor to inspect the industrial zones of Yangqu and Gujiao to see what problems needed to be solved urgently.

Nowadays, Datang has fallen into a new bottleneck in iron smelting, steel making, mining, metal processing, and machinery manufacturing, and needs to solve the problem of insufficient power as soon as possible. Li Qi can give some inspiration and guidance to these subordinates and students, and lead them in the right direction. But more often than not, it is still necessary to organize these skilled and knowledgeable people, and everyone brainstorms together to discuss the future development direction and solve the current difficulties.

That's the right way to solve the problem.

The Taiyuan Iron and Steel Works of the previous life may never be in the same place, but as the Gujiao Iron and Steel Works grows in size and undergoes a large-scale transformation with steam engines in place, the possibility of relocating to the Fenhe Qubu is almost non-existent. However, with the development of steel mills, the discharge of wastewater from the production process has begun to pollute the water source of the Fen River, and the issue of protecting the environment is also on the agenda.

With the construction of more and more water conservancy facilities, domestic agricultural production has increased greatly, and the ability to resist natural disasters has become stronger and stronger.

The Luohui Canal project in Guanzhong will begin to officially open the sluice gates in the spring to release water, which solves the problem of water conservancy and irrigation of hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland in Yaozhou, Tongzhou and Huazhou. At that time, Li Qi will also be present at the scene to participate in the water opening ceremony.

Today's Gujiao Iron and Steel Plant is full of chimneys, and you can feel the grandeur of this plant from a distance. When you really stand in front of the huge red brick chimney with a height of more than 60 meters and the iron-making blast furnace with a height of nearly 20 meters, you can feel the huge momentum of industrial production.

The hydraulic turbine installed in the culvert is slowly rotating, and then through a set of belts and gear transmission system, so that when the power is transmitted to the huge blast air that is nearly more than one person high, the gear has driven the blades to rotate rapidly, and the air is forcibly supplied to the inside of the blast furnace, and from the observation hole on the side of the blast furnace, you can see that the entire blast furnace is emitting a blazing white light.

"Your Majesty, as you can see, it is the power that currently restricts the production of the ironworks. If the turbine is left, the temperature in the blast furnace and steelmaking furnace cannot meet the requirements due to insufficient ventilation, and the entire iron-smelting time needs to be extended several times, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also increases the consumption of fuel exponentially. Li Qi explained to Li Qi, the chief technician of the Gujiao Iron Works, Li Hanchen, who was originally a craftsman, and then followed Li Qi for many years, and learned a lot of fresh knowledge, and became an authority in iron smelting and steelmaking in terms of theory and practice combined.

The entire Gujiao Iron Works was built from scratch, and Li Qi only came up with some ideas, and all the construction here was basically carried out under the auspices of Zhang Shu, Zheng Yutong and the three of them.

"Isn't it required that all steel mills be retrofitted with steam engines?" Li Qi asked with a frown after hearing this.

"It is being renovated, but the supply of this steam engine is limited, and most of the steam engines produced in Taiyuan are used by the military for shipbuilding. We went to He Quan and said that we wanted to make it ourselves, but he said that you should keep the technology secret. ”

When Li Qi heard this, he immediately said angrily: "What the hell is He Quan, holding a chicken feather as an arrow!" I only told him that it was easy not to spread it outside, and this bastard thing actually learned to engage in technical blockade even with his own people! I'll settle this matter for you today...... Well, all the ironworks asked him to send people to direct the construction of the steam engine factory! ”

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