Chapter 148: "Brainwashing" the women of the world
After this massacre, Zhu Zhishu is finally honest!
Those royal clansmen, who couldn't make money from the people, didn't dare to provoke Xichang, turned their eyes to the rich squires!
This is another bloody storm!
However, Wang Li was indifferent to this!
Anyway, the road has been sealed, and all the news can't get out!
No matter how much they make money, the silver will always stay in Sichuan!
Morning and evening are their own dishes!
As long as you don't get into trouble with yourself, everything is easy to say!
When you really want to turn your face with Zhu Youzhen, it only takes three or five days to settle all these guys!
Now, let them toss!
In May of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633 AD), a ragged Ming army marched to Henan!
Seeing it go away, Wang Li smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Seeing this army of soldiers and horses is like seeing a Ming dynasty full of holes!
Alas!
Zhu Youzhen, it's really hard enough!
The 200,000 taels of silver he allocated in exchange for such a ragtag army!
There are only about 5,000 people!
It's just that the weapons and armor are not complete, and there is not even food and grass!
It is estimated that if you can't go to Henan, it will collapse!
This is just a microcosm!
Last year, there was a "disaster" all over the country!
For a whole year, the total amount of tax money handed over to the household department is less than 800,000!
Because he has silver in his hand, Zhu Youzhen is very generous!
Not only was the taxes of the provinces exempted, but more than 2 million taels of silver were also allocated for the "disaster relief" of the whole country!
Needless to say, this silver will be coveted to the point that there will be no scum left!
At this time, Daming, if you want to find an official who doesn't make money, it is estimated that it is more difficult than ascending to the sky!
Even if there were, I was ostracized by my colleagues and depressed!
If Zhu Youzhen knew this, he would be angry to death on the spot!
Such a Ming Dynasty, such an officialdom, it is difficult for the gods to save it!
So, make money as soon as possible and prepare for the future!
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During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it should be the most popular period for women's foot binding!
Due to the constraints of various rituals, this period is also the period when the status of women is at its lowest!
I thought that the "recruitment" of silk weaving workshops would be difficult;
Unexpectedly, under the operation of Liu Ruyan......
Twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, sixteen or seventeen-year-old young women, forty or fifty-year-old aunts, almost flocking in!
In just half a month, all 30,000 "workstations" were filled!
Countless people are still dragging their families and mouths to come!
There are countless people who are begging at the gate and refusing to leave!
If you think about it, this is also forced by life!
After all, the common people sell a daughter, and it is only ten taels of silver!
Working in the weaving mill is a tael of silver a month!
It also includes food and accommodation, net income!
Under such treatment, all the etiquette is not important!
The sixth silk weaving factory in Huayang has been producing at full capacity;
The No. 5 Silk Weaving Factory in Xinjin, the No. 4 Silk Weaving Factory in Chongqing, and the No. 3 Silk Weaving Factory in Pixian are training new weavers;
Stimulated by high salaries, weavers study very hard!
Textile things are very easy for women to learn, almost a little through!
In seven or eight days at most, the three weaving mills will be fully operational!
The two factories in Xinfan and Xindu will be put into operation in another month or two!
Originally, the walls were rammed with mud and the roof was laid with wheat straw and straw, and it was built very quickly!
Everything was in order, but Wang Li secretly shouted that it was not good!
Because......
The small workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou produce fabrics every year, just enough to meet the demand for export!
Occasionally, there are still some left, and they are just sold in China!
Today, there are six more large workshops!
The total output of a year is more than ten times that of previous years!
The imperial court has issued a decree that no longer restricts the clothing fabrics of ordinary people; But looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, how many people can afford to wear silk and satin?
A piece of plain gauze or silk cloth, which two skilled weavers can weave in only five days, costs about thirty taels of silver!
A thick plain brocade or plain forging can be woven in at least half a month, and the price ranges from 300 to 500 taels!
For example, the weavers in the weaving mill can make a thin skirt for a summer day for a month's wages; A whole year's salary can basically make a thick skirt in winter!
On the surface, if they grit their teeth, they can still afford to wear silk and satin!
However, the wages they receive are not at their own disposal!
A large part of it needs to be handed over to parents or husbands and must be used for other expenses of the family!
This is still a weaver girl with a "high-paying job"!
Other ordinary people, only wait until the New Year festival to add a new coarse linen clothes!
There are still many people who can't even eat!
It's a dream to want them to wear silk and satin!
Woowoo......
The steps are too big, and the eggs are pulled!
It's good now, so many silk brocades, all smashed in your hands!
Liu Ruyan understood Wang Li's anxiety, and said tentatively: "Factory father, the profit of silk products is very high, we can sell them at a reduced price!"
For example, plain yarn and silk are reduced to five taels of silver per horse;
plain brocade forging, down to thirty taels and one horses;
In this way, the people can afford it! β
"No! There must be no price reduction! β
Wang Li shook his head firmly, and said with a straight face: "It's easy to reduce the price, but it's difficult to rise again!" β
"That'...... Or...... Let's build a few large warehouses, stock up the goods, and sell them slowly little by little! β
"Still no!
The money that can be earned in a year is divided into more than ten years and slowly earned, I don't have that patience! β
Wang Li's attitude was resolute, so Liu Ruyan stopped persuading each other and left softly.
It didn't take long for Liu Ruyan to come over with a teapot, but she saw Wang Li writing something.
If you look closer, you've already written several of them!
"A man who can't afford clothes is not worth marrying! If you marry in the past, you will suffer! β
Reading out the words on the paper, Liu Ruyan frowned and shook her head.
"The difference between you and the lady is actually only one dress!"
"A woman who doesn't know how to dress up can't tie her husband's heart!"
I'll go!
The words on these two pieces of paper made Liu Ruyan even more dumbfounded, and the three views were ruined!
"Factory, what did you write?"
"Isn't there more than 30,000 weavers in our weaving workshop!" Wang Li smiled and took the tea bowl:
"Every six days, give them one day off;
Before the holiday, stop work for half a day;
In this half a day, I taught them some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and brainwashed them by the way! β
"Wash ...... Brainwash? β
Liu Ruyan looked confused again.
"That's right! It's brainwashing! β
Ha!
Wang Li can think of a way to expand silk sales, and he can only find a "breakthrough" from women!
Women's money, it's better to earn!
Some women in a few hundred years are not wealthy themselves!
However, they can do anything in order to buy a brand-name bag and a brand-name clothes!
This kind of woman has been brainwashed!
There are no right values anymore!
At this moment, in order to expand the sales of silk fabrics, it is necessary to brainwash women and distort their values!
A man in this era only needs a dozen taels of silver to take an ordinary concubine!
As long as there are economic conditions, men want to take a few concubines!
However, even if there are more than a dozen concubines, they will often linger in the Qinglou!
It's completely legal!
Even if she is the wife of the family, she has no right to object!
The reason why men are like this is because the women in the Qinglou have style and taste!
For ordinary women, if they know some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and if they know how to dress up, their value will rise gradually!
Such a woman, as a dowry when the wife marries, or a bride price committed to the concubine, will be multiplied more than ten times!
Speaking of these, Liu Ruyan did not deny it, and nodded as if she understood it.
"Do you want to, whether it's a wife or a concubine, you want to tie your husband's heart!
However, men are "sight" creatures!
In their eyes,
No matter how virtuous a woman is, she can't compare to a woman who is flamboyant!
No matter how hard-working and thrifty a woman is, she is never as good as a woman with style and taste!
After a period of "brainwashing", those women will try their best to improve themselves after understanding this!
At the same time, their gaze will become critical!
I won't just find a man and get married!
Even after the age of marriage, they will wait patiently!
At the very least, marry a man who can afford to buy silk and satin! β
"Factory, what are you talking about...... It seems to make some sense!
But...... Most of the men, at least seventy or eighty percent of the men, can't afford to buy silk and silk even if they spend all their money!
If all the women in the world become stylish and tasteful, it will be difficult for them to get married! β
Liu Ruyan was worried, but Wang Li didn't think so!
"That's right, that's exactly what I wanted!
Don't forget, for men, "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great"!
In order to marry a wife and have children, they will do everything they can to make money!
Even if they can't afford to buy silk for the time being, they will steal it and rob it, or borrow it, and they will slap their swollen faces and become fat!
At least in front of the matchmaker, you have to buy several pieces of silk and satin to fill the faΓ§ade!
When they give three books and six gifts to their wives, or when they take concubines, they will also prepare a few high-quality fabrics for their wives and concubines!
If all the women in the world become like this, we will have to add dozens of large-scale workshops! β
"But...... It's easier said than done! β
Alas!
Truly!
It's really hard to make women all over the world become like this!
However, I really can't think of a better way than this!
That's it, give it a try!
By the way, the salary of those skilled weavers is added to five hundred dollars per month!
Also, the sericulture workshops scattered in various states and provinces are recruiting as many women as possible!
Their wages are also increased by 500 dollars a month!
Hey!
Women earn more than men, and they have a sense of superiority!
When talking about marriage, they will become more and more critical!
By the way, instill in them some "women should be self-reliant" and instill some values of "women should be independent"!
Their dependence on men will be greatly reduced!
At home, they dare to oppose men!
Even, you have to control the economic power of your family!
As long as women don't look at men's faces, as long as they have silver in their hands, are they afraid that they won't buy fabric?
Are you afraid that they won't make clothes?
Well, that's it!
"Factory, what do you think...... Concubine and Sister Zhao, who has more taste and style? β
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"Factory, how much money have you earned? Ledger at home...... Isn't it...... Hee-hee......"
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"Factory, don't be angry!
The concubine is not a wife, and she is already very content to be able to follow the factory father......"
Liu Ruyan left with a smile, and Wang Li also smiled indifferently.
But suddenly, something strange happened:
Hundreds of years later, the women in Sichuan are very different from the women in other places!
In Sichuan, when men and women talk about marriage, most mothers-in-law actually don't want a bride price!
Even if there is, it's just going with the flow, casually "meaning", and it's just a colorful head!
This kind of behavior does not reduce the status of women!
On the contrary, the woman who marries into the man's family holds the financial power of the family!
Men in Sichuan, after paying their salaries every month, most of their income is handed over to their wives!
Leave only a little pocket money for yourself!
Moreover, men in Sichuan rarely have the phenomenon of "beating their wives"!
Sichuan's "rake ears" are famous throughout the country!
These unusual phenomena are unique to Sichuan!
I'll go!
Could it be because, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, due to some special reason, the values of Sichuan women were "distorted"?
And then, this value is passed down from generation to generation?
Has it been passed down for hundreds of years?
Depend on!
I didn't do it!
I don't have that much ability!