Located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, Zheng Guo is culturally and commercially developed, and small family-style handicraft workshops are emerging in an endless stream. It's just that there aren't enough goods, and there's never a reason why you can't sell them.

Of course, doing business is more profitable than farming, so as long as every household has the conditions, they have to do part-time trading, and the lowest threshold and the highest popularity rate are, of course, weaving and embroidery.

After all, ordinary people who want to be slave traders, or buy and sell gold, silver, pearls, jade, grain and livestock, do not have such a large capital.

Therefore, Zheng Guo's women often marry very late, and the dowry is the best in the world.

The mother's family hopes to keep them at home, spinning and weaving, making clothes and embroidery, and always making money for their family. Unless the man can come up with a very high dowry at one time, the woman's family will release her;

In the same way, the husband's family hopes to marry a woman as soon as possible, and there is one more money-making laborer in the family, so they are willing to grit their teeth and pay a huge dowry, thinking that as long as they squeeze the woman more, the money can always be earned.

But for a woman, whether it is her husband's family or her mother's family, it is similar to a fire pit. It's just that they need to work hard, and no one cares about them until they are blind.

Year after year of hard work, why do you marry?

Due to the developed economy of Zhengguo, many Chinese families are quite wealthy, and women are important laborers, so they will not be harsh in food.

In addition, doing needlework at home every day does not need to be exposed to the sun and rain, and the skin is relatively fair.

This leads to the number of beauties in Zheng Guo, which is also the highest in the world.

Many small rich families gave birth to a daughter, and if they got a treasure, they raised them carefully to cling to the powerful.

As a concubine, fate is involuntary, and those who are transferred to others and killed abound. When the head of the family died, many were driven out.

They are accustomed to the life of canaries, and they have no way to support themselves, so they can only go into the leather and meat business.

This revived Zheng Guo's prostitution industry.

Many women look at it, I work hard to weave and embroider, and the money I earn in a month is not as good as who next door picks up a guest? That woman is not as good-looking as me, why does she wear gold and silver, and I have a hairpin cloth skirt?

Of course, some people are happy to live in poverty and continue to make money with their hands, but there are also people who go astray for the sake of gold and jade.

But here's where the irony comes.

People who work hard to make money will live like this all their lives.

Many women who betrayed themselves rose to the throne by virtue of their youth and beauty, such as Zheng Guo, who became a prostitute first, then a concubine of the clan, and finally a concubine of the king, and even a queen.

Or, when they were young, they made a lot of money through the leather and meat business, so they bought fields, land, and workshops, and then whitewashed their conscience and began to do business seriously, declaring themselves to be "widows" to the outside world.

A woman who is nearly thirty years old still has charm, has money and land, has a house and a servant, and a large number of young men are willing to make a living, and it is not impossible to raise a few more faces.

There are also some beautiful women, even if they have gone to the sea, there are small businessmen who are willing to marry.

After all, with their social status, the top beauties they can meet are basically concubines and prostitutes who have been kicked out of powerful families.

If you don't marry a woman from a good family, you have to marry a prostitute, of course, not to covet beauty, but to have a few more beautiful daughters to cling to nobles.

This is the case with the Li family.

Speculators like the Li family abound, and the Li family is just the best.

Although the majority of the women who fall into this line have a tragic fate, people are like this, they only see thieves eating meat, but they can't see thieves being beaten.

Seeing the scenery of other people, there are always women (including their families) who will be tempted to join this industry. Over time, the atmosphere of the country has deteriorated.

Is it the woman's fault? Not exactly, of course.

When Xun Shen traveled to Zheng Guo, he wrote an article criticizing Zheng Guo, saying that in this country, a man can't marry a daughter-in-law, but he doesn't think about struggle, and thinks about being a little white face or a son-in-law all day long, and then boils his wife to death, occupies the other party's property, and then marries a young woman; Women are uneasy and reassuring at home to teach their husbands and children, and they think that embroidery is not as good as leaning on the city gate, where can they see?

He believes that Zheng Guo's atmosphere has been damaged by businessmen, making the whole country laugh at the poor and not at prostitution, mercenary, and do not care about moral character at all.

The princes and nobles of the Zheng Dynasty took money from the merchants and turned a blind eye to such scenes, which led to a worse atmosphere and a vicious circle, which was not conducive to the stability of the country at all.

"Leaning on the door to laugh, how humiliating is it for a woman?" Zheng Gao said calmly, "But only in this way can they have their own money." ”

Yin Ji's heart was heavy, and she didn't know what to say.

Why does Zheng Guo have so many women from poor backgrounds, trying every means to cling to nobles, and even willing to become prostitutes?

Because their lives are terrible.

If you don't gamble on this, they are destined to be tools for weaving, embroidery, childbirth, and housework all their lives.

At that time, they will be squeezed to the point of having nothing to use, and they will become idle eaters. It's okay for their sons to be filial, but if they are not filial, they can only fend for themselves and starve to death.

Since waiting for your future is so miserable, why not take advantage of your youth to either climb up or save money?

Besides, who didn't have a fluke mentality when they were young and dreamed of a step to the sky?

What's more, there are so many successful examples in front of them that inspire them?

Zheng Gao said this, not to criticize these women for being willing to degenerate, but to explain a fact: "In order to own their own property, Zheng Guo's women are even willing to lean on the door and laugh. If a female household is opened in our country, women can earn income by virtue of their labor, and how many people are willing to get married? ”

Is it good that industry and commerce are developed? Of course!

For the state, it allows money to flow; For the people, it can make their own families rich; For women, they finally have a job that suits them, instead of using their own shortcomings and attacking each other's strengths, and competing with men to fight wars and farm, which are basically impossible to win.

But the premise of business development for women is that they must be independent people.

Otherwise, women can earn more money, but they can't dispose of it and can only fall into a more miserable fate.

Then again, if women could have their own mansions, land, and private money, they would not be willing to become vassals of men.

Jeongkook women have already voted with their feet, and they are not even willing to have children in order to ensure that they do not lose their jobs.

No husband is willing to marry a barren woman back, so they will directly choose not to get married, and when they are old and want a family, they will find a son-in-law, raise a face, and have children.

But it is true that Zheng Guo allows his son-in-law to exist, but Zhao Guo is a Legalist society.

In the thinking of the Legalists, the son-in-law and the face are the scum of the scum, but a man with hands and feet and a sense of honesty will not rely on a woman to support him.

To deal with this kind of man who just wants to be supported by a rich woman, Zhaoguo's method of dealing with it has always been the same as that of criminals, directly throwing away the most painful and tiring projects, and repairing the earth every day.

Therefore, the road of women becoming a household and recruiting men is blocked.

What can a woman do if she doesn't want to get married, and she can't recruit a son-in-law, and it's not legal to have an illegitimate child?

You must know that in a country with an agrarian society, what is most lacking is population.

Then women can only be denied autonomy, forcing them to be dependent on men and continue to have children.

It's a perfect logical closed loop.

Seeing that Yin Cheng was silent, Yin Changying knew that she was still not giving up, and said lightly: "Auntie, if you want to help women in the world, you have to come up with a better plan than the current law." ”