In a blink of an eye, it was the third year of Jinglong.

This year has been quite long for Qin Shaoyou, and his first child was born at this time.

Li Lingyue was pregnant, and then when the first child of the Qin family was born, Henan Mansion was boiling.

The ancients paid attention to having more sons and more blessings, not to mention that Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping gave birth to a son, not to mention, since the governance of Henan, Qin Shaoyou's prestige has also increased dramatically.

A large number of projects have made many young people come to the city from the countryside, at first, they were just coolies, and what they did was far more difficult than when they were farming in the township, but in this era when the vast majority of them were half-fed, and many people had hungry memories, even if it was very hard to do coolies, but the money and food they earned were several times more than when they were farming, which means that life can be improved, there is no need to worry about hunger, there is no need to worry about the wife not having new clothes during the New Year, and even the children may go to school, so no matter how hard it is, These industrious, thrifty and simple people would rather be involved in the tide of industry and trade in the Shence Mansion for this better life.

The land policy of Hongnong County has been extended to Henan County, the price of land began to plummet, many people have purchased 30 acres of land, and 30 acres of land do not need idle men from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, men's limited strength, spent in farming, now for the people of Henan Province, it is simply a bad practice, because the same strength, can go to other places to make a living, seek greater benefits, and earn more money and food for the family, so women began to support their own half of the sky in the township, They began to do their best to maintain the income of the family's land, and it was the elderly of the family who assisted them, as well as the cattle and horses.

This is a dark age, and the leisurely life of small farmers has been completely shattered by this new model, even the lazy lazy man. At this time, they saw that the men of every family had left their hometowns, and they were embarrassed to be pointed at in the township, and when they saw that the lives of their neighbors began to improve, they had to go and get involved in the tide.

The women and children in the countryside became the main members of the family, and the men sent money back from everywhere, they were responsible for saving, and they were responsible for farming the land at home, and the cattle, horses, chickens and ducks at home. They are also responsible for taking care of each other, everyone seems to have no leisure, and everyone has become as if they have what they should do.

However, this change in the structure of life has, to some extent, also led to a sharp increase in the status of women.

The status of the woman in the Tang Dynasty. It's actually not low, but after all, this is an era of male power, and men ...... It will always be the pillar of the family and the heaven of the family. Therefore, although Wu Zetian became the Son of Heaven, although some people were graced to become female officials, although there were many noble ladies. But ordinary people may not have such a foundation.

The so-called equality between men and women is actually just a rhetoric. The equality of men and women is based on the economy, when women can only rely on men to support, women naturally become vassals of men, but once women grasp the power of the economy, have their own financial income, so even if there are more women's virtues, women's persuasion, even if the Ming and Qing dynasties of the monarchs and ministers father and son, father for son, husband for wife and other words to move out, no matter how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, can not stop such a trend.

Women tried to take care of the family's assets, just as at the beginning, the Crusades, a large number of European men poured into the East, and women became the main force to protect the family's property, so a group of female noblewomen were quietly born, and over time, the status of women began to become not to be underestimated.

The Shence Mansion is obviously happy to see this happen.

For example, Yang Jiong, the wealthy family of the Kanto region, although he has always believed in the theory of yin and yang, deep in his heart, he feels that the improvement of women's status is like nonsense, and even some current affairs analysis is also deeply true.

However, some discussions in the council about the law that women should receive a certain amount of property compensation when they are divorced did not hesitate to choose to support it.

There is no way, now there is a shortage of labor everywhere, the scholars are too deeply involved in industry and commerce, every household has some business, and gradually these transactions have become the pillars of each family.

Times have changed, at least in Henan.

This means that the buying and selling of the workshop has become the largest entry of the scholars, and now, the lack of labor has always been a lingering problem in Henan Province, a large number of strong men go to the army, many young children are studying, the elderly, it is difficult to bear high physical labor, there are only so many men, so the employment of women to relieve the current pressure is obviously the most practical solution.

A large number of dyeing and silk mills are recruiting female workers, and women farming in the countryside can also allow more men to come out of the countryside, so it is urgent to improve the status of women.

Yang Jiong did not stop this tide, and in fact, he is the beneficiary of this tide, where people's buttocks sit can often determine the thinking of the head. When Yang Jiong became the evil ZI family, to a certain extent, no matter what he had learned in the past, whether he supported or opposed it, the interests of the Yang family had made him make a choice unconsciously.

The canal has been completed, when the water is opened, the gate is almost crowded with people, countless people full of hope, watching the boiling water roll into the dug artificial river, those coolies who have worked on the embankment for more than a year, but at this time they see hope.

Originally, they thought that after the completion of the river repair, they would return to their hometown, but soon, they found that in addition to repairing the river, there were too many things to do, and the wharves everywhere were now recruiting coolies, and the price was much higher than that of repairing the river.

People are like this, when they come out and want to go back, it is no longer possible, they re-realize the world, how can they still be full of that acre and three points of land in their minds.

The opening of the canal meant the complete expansion of commerce.

The same piece of cloth, transported to Yuhang, its own value is consistent, but the price of transportation has been as high as more than five times, although Mengjin's cloth weaving is better, but except for some wealthy families with good family background, ordinary people can not consume at all, so Yuhang can consume Mengjin cloth, a year, only a few thousand, just as some officials and nobles to try the new things, and now, with the canal, only need to load a ship in Mengjin, you can go all the way south, a boat can backlog tens of thousands of cloth, only need two boatmen, Three or two guards, half a month of effort, can arrive, in this way, Mengjin's cloth in Luoyang is consistent money, to Yuhang, but only two or three hundred money, because it is a large-scale production, the price is actually not higher than the price of Yuhang's local cloth, but because Mengjin's workshop is large-scale, so there is a great power to improve the process and use more vivid color printing, low price with quality improvement, it is almost conceivable that Yuhang and even the entire Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road, this kind of cloth will be very popular.

Not only Yuhang, but also the place where the canal passes, from Zhuo County to the south of the Yangtze River thousands of miles away, runs through countless states and counties.

In the past, the silk mills were only considering some limited markets in Guanzhong and Kanto, but now, the capacity of market development has increased more than tenfold, and in this case, the large-scale construction of workshops and the large-scale recruitment of craftsmen have become the biggest things on the minds of all merchants at present.

This is true of cloth, this is true of tea, and the same is true of iron agricultural tools, and everything that is closely related to people, as long as the market can be opened in Kanto and Luoyang, it means that there is a broad space in all states and counties in the world.

The scale of the Shence Army has also been expanded, and the unity battalion is stationed in various places, with nearly 35,000 men and horses, except for the 15,000 Shence army who practice in the camp every day, the unity camp occupies almost all the important places on the water and land routes.

The warehouses in Luokou are endless, and they are being built everywhere, and there are countless goods that are handled from here every day.

Henan Province has a population of nearly 3 million, which is nearly one-tenth of the world's population, but ...... Obviously, in this era, it is the norm for Haoqiang and Shi to conceal the population, and domestic slaves and serfs are not counted as population, but even so, although Henan Mansion is no longer the center at the feet of the Son of Heaven, its prosperity has far exceeded that of Guanzhong.

At this time, it was the end of Jinglong's third year, and at this time, the imperial court, which had always ignored Henan Mansion, finally had news at this time.

A letter of will was sent to Henan Province.

The Son of Heaven summoned Qin Shaoyou into Beijing.

This sudden news made the originally well-organized Shence Mansion suddenly panicked.

Wang Ju and Yang Jiong, as well as some important humeral officials, are now a little uneasy.

Did the Son of Heaven summon Qin Shaoyou? Or Webster summons Qin Shaoyou?

Webster's power, resulting in the Kwantung clan has long been dissatisfied, and Webster's appointment of 'Di Renjie' as the general judge, also made the Shence Army a lot of dissatisfaction, although Di Renjie's fairness and strictness, to many people brought benefits, but everyone knows that this is Webster's means to balance the Shence Mansion.

Although the relationship between the two sides has not reached the point of being the same, but the Tao is not the same, everyone has long been accustomed to the world without Webster, at this time, the sudden holy decree seems to be behind it, faintly revealing some kind of mystery.

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The first chapter is delivered. (To be continued.) )