In short, the first 400,000 gold coins were officially loaded on the first day of the fourth month, and three days later, led by the Tang King, the welcoming group with the Duke of Qianguo and the Marquis of Huaiyuan as the deputy set off for the north......

"Why didn't the prison country come?"

In a sea of green at the Xiaguan Wharf, Zhang Guowei said suspiciously.

In front of them, the soldiers carried the last wooden box full of gold coins onto the boat, and Tang Wang and the officials in charge of the household department, the staff of the Imperial Bank, made the final check. The Ming army of an infantry brigade on the boats that covered the river was fully armed, and various honor guards prepared for Longxing Tianzi Nanxing stood on these boats. There are even a large number of green worms and the elders of the welcoming party who have hired their own boats in it, ready to follow the welcoming group to Chang'an, and the dock is full of green insects, and their cheers as if they have won resounded on both sides of the Yangtze River......

Not many ordinary people came.

It's the spring sowing season, who has the leisure to watch this.

However, Princess Kunxing and Yang Qing did not come.

At Shimonoseki Pier, there was only Princess Akihito, who represented the two of them, the little princess was eleven years old, wearing an eldest princess dress, standing at the front of the crowd with an impatient face.

"Not in the mood for that, are you?"

Qu Shiyun said with a smile.

"It is said that Xin Gong accompanied the prison to inspect the spring sowing of Huangzhuang!"

He went on to say.

"In the past few months, the prison seems to have been more active outside, originally she never liked to go out of the palace, why is she now inspecting the Huangzhuang, and inspecting the Salesian Hospital, last month I remember personally going to Yangzhou to supervise the construction of the primary school there, right?"

Zhang Guowei said suspiciously.

"Win hearts and minds and plan for the future!"

Qu Shiyun said.

"To say that the princess is indeed virtuous and virtuous, every time I see her broken arm, I think of her and the first emperor in trouble!"

Zhang Guowei sighed and said.

"Yang Qingke is advocating the British in the newspaper, what Queen Elizabeth."

Qu Shiyun said.

As the European country with the best relations with the Ming Dynasty at present, Britain's history and current situation are constantly being introduced in the newspapers controlled by Yang Qing. In particular, their feat of cutting off the king's head, Elizabeth I's achievements, the Tudor court drama, etc., have all become the talk of the people of Nanjing after dinner. In fact, not only Britain, but also Yang Qing's newspapers and other publications, but also other European countries, such as the Dutch Republic, the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, and the Thirty Years' War, which just ended. It can be said that from history to culture to system, from a comprehensive introduction, especially their colonization of the Americas and the extermination of the Indians, the large-scale slave trade in Africa is indispensable. even made a certain comparison with the Ming Dynasty, and finally concluded that the Ming Dynasty is currently superior to Europe in terms of system to economy and culture, not to mention anything else, a France that does not take a bath is enough to prove this.

Elizabeth is also one of the most popular figures, after all, it is easy to associate such a thing as a princess succeeding to the throne.

"Futile!"

Zhang Guowei sneered: "As long as Your Majesty doesn't act recklessly, he won't want to do anything wrong, the princess is a woman after all!" ”

"What's wrong with the woman!"

In an imperial village dozens of miles away, Yang Qing was saying to a group of women.

"Women don't work in the fields? Women don't make money to support their families? Last time Li Zicheng went south, the women of those Huangzhuang in Huaixi all went to the city wall with crossbows to guard, and they were no worse than men when it came to killing enemies, so I wanted me to say that women can hold up half the sky! ”

He continued to take the brain.

The women shouted excitedly.

This is actually a quilt factory under the Equipment Headquarters, where the East India Company buys cotton from India, spins it with a Jenny machine, weaves it with a water-powered loom, dyes the cloth, and then sews it into a military uniform by these female workers. In fact, they all have land in their homes, but these are young girls who are unwilling to do farm work, and would rather work in factories, after all, who likes wind and sun in the young girls? Such a situation has become common in Huangzhuang around Nanjing, where the younger generation is less and less fond of farming, and the equipment headquarters and Yang Qing and the military generals have a large number of factories in this area, and in these factories they earn no less than farming.

So who wants to deal with dirt and manure?

This is especially true of the younger generation, where girls who are raised in factories are significantly more likely to find a good home than those who are tanned and rough in the fields.

Foot wraps?

There are only a few people who bind their feet in the Ming Dynasty, whether it's good or not!

Even the palace strictly prohibits foot binding, and now the Huangzhuang has mandatory regulations, and those who bind their feet are directly expelled from the Huangzhuang, after all, even if they want to wrap their daughters, they don't dare to take this risk. To put it bluntly, foot binding is an investment, in order for her daughter to grow up and marry a gentry family with distorted aesthetics. When the aesthetics of the upper class returned to normal under the drive of Yang Qing, and when the girls in Huangzhuang earned no less than men in the factory, the demand and motivation basically did not exist.

A change in customs is still a benefit.

Even the folk have begun to abandon this custom, after all, it is only those green worms who are really aesthetically distorted, but in the past they were also the best choice to marry, and the common people could only cater to their tastes. But now it's different, the younger generation of the military led by Yang Qing is growing up, and the young officers who idolize Xin Guogong certainly won't like foot-bound women under his mind. Their attraction to those girls to be married is surpassing that of green worms day by day, so catering to their tastes has gradually become a trend, and more and more girls in the family are letting go of their feet, and the aesthetics of the whole society are also gradually returning to the right path.

"Xingong, when will you marry the princess!"

A female worker asked boldly.

Then there was a burst of laughter.

"This, you have to listen to the princess!"

Yang Qing said.

"Xingong, then you will not accept concubines in the future!"

One asked more boldly.

"This, I have to regret to tell you, the princess has said before, it is strictly forbidden to take concubines in the future, so beautiful girls, let's leave it to those young men! I'm not going to mix with the old one. ”

Yang Qing said regretfully.

Immediately there was another burst of laughter.

Princess Kunxing, who was standing outside the door, nodded with satisfaction.

At this moment, the princess is also surrounded by children, and the primary schools in these Huangzhuang around Nanjing have realized compulsory education, not only free but also a meal. All the funds required are the responsibility of the royal family, that is, the tenant rent paid by the royal estate, and the graduates of these rural primary schools will enter the higher secondary schools. But the middle school is not free, but in this era it is enough to receive primary education, and the cost of the middle school is not high, and a Huangzhuang can't produce a few a year. Those who can graduate from middle school basically belong to talents, and it is easy to find a good job, and as for the next level, it is currently the comprehensive university in the imperial city.

Those who can be admitted are all really high-achieving students.

The orphans of those who died in battle are free from elementary school to university, and there is no need for exams to enter middle school.

This is the current education system of Yang Qing.

Of course, this system is within Huangzhuang, and only Jiangning and Shangyuan counties in Nanjing City have achieved the same compulsory education, and the third one is Jiangdu County in Yangzhou City, but it has just begun at this time. As for the other folk schools, there are still various old-style private schools and academy education systems, and the folk academies can be said to be all over the Ming Dynasty, and there are nearly 2,000 at present. It can be said that almost every prefecture has one or more seowon, and as for the enlightenment of private schools, it can be said that there are countless private schools. In fact, it is a two-level education of private schools and academies, with those ordinary academies playing the role of middle schools, and those top academies such as Donglin and Yuelu playing the role of universities. No matter how incompatible the two systems are, it is a fact that Daming has now achieved the coverage of the education system, because life is gradually getting better, even ordinary families have begun to send their children to school, and the law of children's education popularization has exceeded 50%.

Including a large part of the girls.

Similarly, the Salesian system, which is a state-run nursing home and orphanage.

The Huangzhuang system is also popular.

The widows and lonely old people in Huangzhuang are all raised by Huangzhuang, and the children are not orphaned by fallen soldiers, and this system has been well implemented in Huangzhuang, after all, no one dares to guarantee that they will not have such a day.

The private sector has also completed the popularization in the two counties of Nanjing.

As for the two counties of Nanjing, most of the counties of Yingtianfu are popular, and most of the counties of Nanzhili outside of Yingtianfu have also been established, as for how many are adopted, it is difficult to say, but it is indeed already there. The expenses of these Salesian homes are also the responsibility of the royal family, in fact, they have been pasted with the portrait of Princess Kunxing and named after her, it is said that the current Princess Kunxing is playing the role of Wang Mang's humble and unusurped time, and all the welfare undertakings of the Ming Dynasty are named after her. Including hospitals all over the country have posted her portraits, of course, these hospitals can't be free, but the construction costs are indeed her, and she still has to be responsible for the medical expenses, after all, this thing is a black hole that absorbs money.

But if you really don't have any money, you can borrow from the Imperial Bank.

But there's one thing that's free.

It's midwifery.

Midwives paid by Princess Kunxing and trained by hospitals around the country delivered all mothers free of charge and provided some free medicines, even including nutritional products for babies. Of course, milk powder is still unlikely, even if the technology can be realized, Yang Qing has no milk source, but it is still possible to send brown sugar eggs to his mother, and it is no problem to bring a basket of crucian carp with convenient conditions.

These midwives will be given additional bonuses based on the number of deliveries and the success rate, and those with low power will even be punished.

And this system is the fastest.

So far, because of Fu Qingzhu, who is also a well-known figure among the gentry, after all, his teacher is Yuan Jixian, because of his presiding over and the financial support of Princess Kunxing, the control area of the Ming Dynasty has almost all been completed in other provinces except for Yunnan and Guizhou. The birth rate is taking a qualitative leap, and the mortality rate of women, which is also due to childbirth, is also plummeting.

After all, sometimes it's just a matter of disinfection.

Alcohol will do the trick.