Although the marriage committee gave these Fuso women a great deal of freedom to choose, there were not many women like Song Maruko who planned to be independent, really not many.

Among the more than 1,500 women who arrived at the port of Busan, more than 1,000 women went directly to go on a blind date, and they basically found a random Tang man and married themselves, and even some even served as lovers, and even some were used as maids.

How to choose here depends on them, anyway, there is no threshold for the blind date organized by the official, there is only one requirement, that is, the man who needs to sign up for the blind date pays the ticket money for the Fuso woman.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty men who came to participate in the blind date are more complicated, some of them are people who really come to find their wives, but most of them are mainly men from poor families, and it is even difficult for these people to pay for the ferry ticket directly, and these money basically need to be paid in installments.

And there are some who plan to come to the outer room, or even to find the maids, and these people, needless to say, are mostly rich people.

Fusang women are not stupid, if the other party is a poor bastard, they are not willing to be concubines or maids.

The blind date conference, with the official as a guarantee, absolute freedom!

Both sides are free to choose, and it is impossible for the rich to force it!

However, in fact, there will be a kind of thing that will happen, that is, some people are more flexible, and directly find a rich man to be his outer room, and let the rich man pay for his ferry ticket, but he will run away directly within a few days.

And this kind of thing, some rich people can only suffer dumb losses!

The outer room, the maid or something, is not protected by the law, and at the same time, the law of the Tang Dynasty absolutely guarantees personal freedom, these Fusang women are all registered in the household register, proper subjects of the empire, protected by the law.

In short, there are all kinds of situations,

Human nature is inherently so complex, and Fuso women are no exception.

But in general, as long as the man is not too excessive, many Fusang women are still happy to live with their husbands in Datang.

There is no way, they are alone in a strange place, even if the marriage committee will arrange preliminary work for them, but if they want to live, it is not so easy, and the easiest solution is to directly find a Tang man to marry.

Even the more than 400 Fusang women who were also reluctant to go on a blind date at the beginning actually participated in the blind date or through other channels after being dispatched to work in the textile factory, and tried to marry themselves as soon as possible!

Like Song Maruko, there are still very few women who pursue freedom and are unwilling to marry themselves casually, whether it is in Fusang or in the Tang Empire!

It's just that these Fusang women who are looking for people while working are not the same as those Fusang before, no matter who they are, they just get married.

Relatively speaking, they have to be more cautious, choosing a husband while working!

But in the end, they still hope to find a husband!

Because working in this textile factory is really hard and the pay is not high, they have to work day and night for several years to pay off such a ticket debt.

As for wanting to escape debts, it is more difficult!

Because in order to ensure that the ticket debt is not maliciously defaulted, the marriage committee's funds are wasted, and they fall into a vicious circle of funds, the marriage committee signed work contracts with them in advance, and also seized their household registration certificates.

Unless someone guarantees them or helps them pay off their debts, they are required to accept labor dispatch to factories such as textile factories where women can work, and then deduct a certain amount of their wages from their wages every month to pay off their ticket debts.

After all, the funds of the marriage committee are also limited, and the one-time transportation of 2,000 people is not a small amount of money, although they are not for making money, but the transportation costs are always to be recovered.

In addition, the Marriage Committee also accepted the advice of relevant financial experts, who would not stupidly wait a few years to recover the funds, but directly applied for a loan from the Royal Bank as a bond.

This kind of profitable and loss-making business is also a policy matter, and the Royal Bank naturally approves it.

In order to get rid of the hard work in the textile factory as soon as possible, and at the same time, for the sake of the future of the second half of their lives, many Fuso women also began to actively participate in blind dates and wanted to find a husband as soon as possible.

However, it doesn't matter if all of this Song Maruki is gone!

Because although she also worked, she was literate from a family of daimyo, and she followed her father back and forth to the business zone many times, and after being sent to work in a small textile factory in Busan, she was appointed as the leader of the group on the spot because of her literacy, and she took a dozen Fuso women to weave.

Just a week later, she was the shop floor supervisor who managed several groups of female workers, and her salary had risen dramatically.

According to her salary, she only needs to work for half a year to be able to pay off all her debts!

However, there are very few Fuso women who can be like her, let alone Fuso women, even if there are women in the empire who can do this.

Literacy alone is enough to keep 99 percent of women out.

In the empire, even if the empire vigorously develops education, especially primary education, it is vigorously supported, but it has to be admitted that the people who can receive education, especially formal education, are still male-dominated, and at present, there is no official or private school in the country that openly claims to accept female students.

Therefore, if women want to be educated, they can only receive family education, and those who can do this are usually gentry families.

It is unlikely that poor families will be able to do this, let alone private family education, and even if the school allows female students, poor families will not send girls to school.

Why?

No money!

Reading is not cheap these days, and an ordinary peasant family has to grit its teeth if it wants to support a scholar to go to primary school at his own expense.

As for the children of peasant families who cannot even achieve food and clothing, don't expect to be able to receive education, the only way to get education and even the opportunity to get ahead is to join the army.

During their service, soldiers are able to attend literacy classes within the army, read and write, and can be assigned to work in the system or factories after retirement.

This is enough to change the fate of a poor child and even an entire family!

If this is not the case, otherwise why do you think the poor children of the whole country are enthusiastically signing up to join the army!

If you are lucky enough to be admitted to middle school, the tuition fee of middle school is beyond the support of any ordinary peasant family, and you basically need to rely on the support of relatives and friends.

As for the preparatory department, no matter how high it is, ordinary middle-class families will find it very difficult

And the university, not to mention, has a tuition fee of several hundred taels of silver per year, and more than a thousand taels of silver in four years, which is enough to make most ordinary middle-class families in debt!

Some decent gentry in the eyes of ordinary people, for the education of their offspring, often start preparing tuition fees many years in advance to ensure that their children can successfully complete their studies!

Of course, this is only for self-financed students!

If you have a good academic performance and can get a scholarship, you can go from elementary school to university without spending a dime, not only do you not need to spend money, but even the scholarship can help students meet their own tuition and daily expenses, and also support their families.

If you have a good academic performance, you can not only go to school for free, but also subsidize your family!

If you not only have good academic performance, but also a real genius, then you can try to apply for the Royal Institute of Technology, and you will be an official as soon as you enter!

Datang's education is now heavily inclined to all kinds of geniuses, followed by education that satisfies the children of the upper strata of society, and then the middle class, as for ordinary people, it has never been the goal of Datang's education.

In this environment, it is actually more difficult for women to get an education.

Only the daughters of some gentry families were able to get home education, and in Fuso, it was even worse, and many daimyo women had a difficult time getting an education.

Song Maruko, because his family's territory is close to the Osaka Trade Zone, his father is also relatively open-minded, and when he asks a tutor to educate his son, he also allows his daughter to audit and receive education.

By the way, the education that Song Maruki received was the most orthodox Chinese education, and he was quite fluent in Chinese writing, and even spoke a little, but he was not very proficient.

Fusang has been greatly influenced by Chinese culture, and basically the upper strata of society use Chinese characters to write and communicate, and the influence has been even greater in recent years.

Song Maruki relied on the advantage of literacy to work in a small textile factory in Busan, but she was not willing to be confined to this small remote city, she desperately wanted to leave here, and then go to Jiangnan, where there are many rumors, especially Shanghai and Jinling.

Although she is a small woman who looks very weak, her inner pursuit is more than that of many men.

In order to pay off the debt as soon as possible and then leave the textile factory, Song Maruko worked very hard, and in addition to receiving a high salary, he also picked up a bonus.

The management of the factory also discovered a special talent like Song Maruko, whose identity as a Fusang background, coupled with the inadvertent revelation that she was the daughter of a daimyo, made her have great prestige in the group of female Fuso workers.

The reason why this factory opened a factory here was because it reached a cooperation agreement with the marriage committee to try to reduce costs by using a large number of cheap Fuso female workers, so it also attached great importance to Song Maruko, who had great prestige among Fuso female workers.

As for Song Maruki being a woman, this point was directly ignored by them!

As qualified capitalists, in order to make money, they were able to go from being the most serious conservative to being an enlightened person who supported women's rights in an instant.

After only working in this textile factory for two months, with his talent and the proper management of a group of female Fuso workers, Song Maruki was promoted for the third time.

She became the production manager of the textile factory, assisting the management in managing the female Fuso workers in the factory.

She has become a rare working woman in this era!

But at this time, she is no longer satisfied with the little Busan!

She desperately wants to go to the big city to pursue her life!

To be precise, she wants to go to Shanghai!