How can gender equality be achieved? The first point is that women should be independent, and to put it bluntly, they can live without men! Independence is divided into personality independence and economic independence, of which economic independence is the foundation. Only when economic independence is achieved can women's personalities be independent, and equality between men and women is not an empty word.

And the only way to achieve economic independence is to free women from heavy housework and work like men! This is the only conclusion that Zhu Youzhen came to after half a night of meditation.

In fact, before that, the Jingyang Merchant Gang also recruited some women as workers. However, at that time, it was mainly because of the inability to recruit workers, and women were used as a last resort, and the number was less than one-tenth of that of male workers. They are also engaged in some auxiliary jobs and are paid less than male workers.

Now that Zhu Youzhen has raised women's participation in work to the level of equality between men and women, his approach is naturally very different from that of the past.

First of all, since women bear the burden of childcare, it is impossible to get women out of the house without addressing this real problem. Although there is Qinwangzhuang Primary School, the primary school only receives school-age children, and no matter how young the child is, it can't be managed.

So the first thing Zhu Youzhen did after getting up was to set up a kindergarten!

With the experience of running a primary school, it is easy to run a kindergarten of a similar nature. First of all, the site of the kindergarten, Zhu Youzhen allocated a large area of new houses closest to the Qin Wangfu for the kindergarten. In the event of a war, both the outer and inner cities have unfortunately fallen, and the children can also be transferred to the most central Qin Wang's Mansion for final protection.

Then there is the teaching force, Zhu Youzhen immediately recruited kindergarten teachers on a large scale in Qinwangzhuang, which in itself solved the employment problem of hundreds of women. Moreover, the salaries of these teachers are not low, tentatively set at four taels per month, which is twice that of ordinary workers. Such a high salary is of course tempting, and soon the registration office is crowded, and even some men come to join in the fun.

Of course, there is no kindergarten teacher profession in this era, and in a hurry, Zhu Youzhen does not ask these aunts to teach the children anything, and he only has four recruitment principles: first, be young, don't look too ugly to scare the children; second, be healthy, energetic, and able to withstand the toss of children; Third, like children, be patient, can take care of children's diet and daily life, but also play with children; Fourth, a strong sense of responsibility, the child can be found in time when he is sick; The most important one, don't lose your child!

In terms of funds, Zhu Youzhen also adhered to the concept of "no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education" in her previous life, and gave strong support to kindergartens. We do not charge any nursery fees, and we raise the standard of children's diets.

Due to the limited conditions, pigs, beef and mutton, eggs, milk, these things, Qinwangzhuang can not produce their own. Zhu Youzhen specially allocated a sum of silver to purchase these kinds of highly nutritious food, and it was only supplied to kindergartens, and even the most valued Qin soldiers did not have a share.

The kindergarten is divided into large and small classes, and the slightly older children are assigned to the large class, usually two or three aunts with twenty or thirty children. For the younger children, they are placed in nursery classes, with one aunt taking care of only four or five children, ensuring that each child is well cared for.

For the selection of the principal, Zhu Youzhen is also confident, and he appoints Rui'er's maid Yiyi to serve as the director. She is not very old, and she knows how to take care of people, and she is also well-behaved and cute, and she is also quite pleasing to the children.

Rui'er was still a little reluctant to do this, but Zhu Youzhen persuaded: "You can't always treat Yiyi as your own baby, she is getting older and bigger, and she must have her own life." And not only Yiyi, but also the husband feels that every woman must have her own job, and she can't always revolve around the pot and kang. As a husband and a prince, he must set an example for the people. If the women of the common people's families are forced to come out to work, but the people of the palace enjoy the blessings in the house, then it is impossible to say. ”

Although Rui'er couldn't understand it for a while, it was about Zhu Youzhen's plan, so she no longer objected. Yi Yi is very excited, she has always been very positive about any work given to her by Zhu Youzhen. Besides, she also likes children, and with innocent children, she can also restore her innocent nature, and she doesn't have to be as restrained as in the palace.

Zhu Youzhen's style has always been to do what he says and seize the day. There is no way to do this, the time left for him by history is too short!

Taking the establishment of a kindergarten as an example, he decided in the morning, recruited people in the morning, cleaned up the venue in the afternoon, conducted simple training in the evening, and set off firecrackers at the gate the next day, and the kindergarten was opened. Although the conditions are simple, it has finally been built from scratch.

What makes Zhu Youzhen feel extremely embarrassed is that everything is ready now, but the most important protagonist: the child, there is no one!

It turns out that for the new thing of kindergarten, the people don't know what it is for, and the vast majority of them have a wait-and-see attitude. According to their concept, no matter how poor the family is, whose children are treasures in the eyes of their parents, how can they rest assured that they are in the hands of others?

So Zhu Youzhen had to ask Yiyi to organize the teachers, go door-to-door to recruit students, and repeatedly publicize the benefits of children going to kindergarten. Even so, there are still very few families who agree to send their children to kindergarten, and only a few families have too many children to take care of them.

By the next day, more than a dozen children had been sent by their parents. Of course, the kindergarten attaches great importance to it, and no matter how many people there are, it is finally open. So all the teachers lined up outside the gate to greet them, but these children were usually used to cats at home, and they were afraid to see the living, and when they saw such a big battle, they were all so frightened that they cried!

The children cried, the parents were distressed, originally said to be good to enter the kindergarten, but now they are not entering, and they have led the children to turn around and leave. Seeing that the previous hard work was exchanged for such a result, Yiyi was wronged so much that he burst into tears.

Zhu Youzhen had to caress Yiyi's shoulder and comforted: "Don't worry, everything is difficult at the beginning, take your time." It's normal for children to be timid, I think when I went to kindergarten, I was so scared that I pulled my pants, it's not as good as them! ”

Yi Yi was amused by Zhu Youzhen and laughed, but asked inexplicably: "The prince was born in the palace, and he has eunuchs and palace maids to take care of him, how can he still go to kindergarten?" ”

"What then!" Zhu Youzhen was shocked to realize that he had leaked his mouth again, so he had to say nonsense, "There is also a kindergarten in the palace, you haven't seen it!" ”