Qiming 1158

Chapter 943 Take a clear stand
Not to mention other states, just say Tai'an, the folk customs have really changed a lot in recent years.

As the first base that Su Yonglin occupied and operated as a base camp, it was the first to build a peasant association, liberate farmers, and the first to set up centralized workshops, and the first to invest in industrial upgrading.

Over the years, among the peasant families in Tai'an Prefecture, no one who has daughters would rush to marry off their daughters.

Generally, when girls are eleven or twelve years old, they will be sent to the workshop to do some light-handed technical work, such as sewing and weaving clothes. The female red skills used.

And there's money to be made.

While earning the wages of the factory, eating a free meal provided by the factory, and taking the annual festival benefits of the factory, it reduces the burden on the family, increases the family income, and can enjoy free medical care when going to work. Isn’t it delicious?

To put it uglier, to put it more vulgarly - the thing that lost money in the past has become the thing that makes money now, who would not be happy?
Therefore, the marriage age of Tai'an women was gradually pushed back, and it was rare to hear about marriage at the age of eleven or twelve.

This is not important, the important thing is that, I don't know when it started, the concept of "earn one's own dowry, and find one's husband by oneself" also spread among the women in the Tai'an state workshop.

From the first year of Hongwu to the second year of Hongwu, the custom of women earning their own dowry began to prevail.

Women in the workshop began to pay attention to discussing with their families, saving their wages and using them as dowry and expenses when they got married. At that time, they didn’t need the family to pay, and they used their savings as dowry.

Most of the family members have no opinion and agree with this view. Anyway, this money is unavoidable. If you don’t want to leave the family, the family will be happy to reduce the burden.

And because of the emergence of such customs, Tai'an factory women gradually began to have their own independent consciousness in terms of marriage.

They often do not accept the straightforward requirements of their elders for their marriage at will, and they will no longer accept the custom of marrying a chicken with a chicken and a dog with a dog as in the past. Instead, they ask them to ask their own opinions when choosing a husband.

Marry only if you like it, don’t marry if you don’t like it, and when choosing a husband-in-law, they tend to prefer male workers who also work in the factory, because they also know the income level and treatment level of male workers in the factory. .

The marriage of a male worker and a female worker is a choice between one plus one and more than two. Both parties rely on the factory, and the life between the two points and one line between the factory and the family must be colorful and interesting.

Because they have their own dowry money in their hands and a good job that can guarantee their lives, they began to have unprecedented confidence in this matter.

For such confidence, parents obviously did not adapt in time, nor did they change their thinking in time. Although there are some enlightened parents who are willing to obey their daughters' ideas, there are also those old-fashioned who are unwilling to give up patriarchal power.

So there have been some related disputes in the local area.

It needs to be mentioned that Su Yonglin has been promoting people's literacy rate and insisting on literacy activities.

In all kinds of occasions that are conducive to literacy, such as the military, workshops and other places where literacy is concentrated, literacy becomes more efficient, and the workers of the Tai'anzhou workshop have become one of the groups with the highest literacy rate in Daming.

This is true of male workers, and the same is true of female workers. When it comes to teaching people to read and write, Su Yonglin requires men and women to be consistent.

The literacy efficiency of workers is obviously higher than that of farmers, so the literacy rate of factory workers soon surpassed that of local farmers and became one of the most culturally representative groups in the region.

After recognizing the words and listening to the instructors in the workshop preach some of the concepts in Su Yonglin's political theories, I gained some insight, I still have money in my hands, and I have the economic foundation and support to live independently from the family, so the female workers gradually began to have their own sense of independence.

This female worker named Xiao Cui has worked in the factory for four years. Since the second year of work, she has not given the money to the father who likes to drink, but has held it in her own hands.

For this reason, the incompetent father also went to the factory to make trouble many times, asking Xiao Cui to give him his wages to buy wine and drink, but Xiao Cui did not give him the courage to insist.

Her father wanted to beat her, but was stopped by Xiao Cui's co-workers. Everyone shared the enemy and scolded her father away.

Since then, Xiao Cui has rarely returned home. Occasionally, she sneaks home to see her mother and younger brother, put in some money, and then quickly returns to the factory to live in the factory's collective dormitory.

Xu Shi felt the loss of his authority, which made the alcoholic father very unhappy.

And because he was really short of money to buy wine, this guy was angry from his heart and turned to courage, and decided to give Xiao Cuixu to the family who owed money for his drinking, the debt would be written off, and he could get an extra sum of money.

Faced with this kind of thing, of course Xiao Cui firmly disagreed. She felt that she had been greatly insulted. She resisted with all her might, but she didn't marry.

She would never allow herself to be sold as an object by her alcoholic father.

The co-workers supported Xiao Cui’s revolt, and they shared their hatred. Every time they made trouble, they would gather to drive them away, protect Xiao Cui, and perhaps at the same time protect their own autonomy.

After reading this report, Su Yonglin believes that the awakening of the people is not easy, and it is necessary for him to maintain this awakening, and to take root and grow up.

Attacking and banning patriarchy, an important part of the feudal ideological framework, is an important step to complete social transformation and an important war to eradicate old ideas. He will never be lenient.

So while proposing to set up a drama troupe and admit women to the Renaissance, he told the members of the Renaissance about this matter, and stood clearly in Xiao Cui's position, expressing his support for her.

"The behavior of Xiao Cui's father is a typical old way of thinking, full of acts of oppression and exploitation of children, and it is a direct manifestation of the powerful patriarchy in Confucianism! It is a behavior that we must take a clear stand against!
Treating childbearing as an investment in production, treating them as free labor, treating sons with a little warmth because it involves pension and inheritance, and treating daughters as if they were poured out, quite cold, such a thing is definitely not the case. Case! "

Su Yonglin slapped the table and said angrily, "It's only this time that this incident happened in our workshop, so we noticed it. Otherwise, how long will it take to know about such a thing? Don't you think Xiao Cui is brave?"

Let’s be honest, changing customs is a bit harder than political reform.

For a long time, Su Yonglin has focused on political and military reforms, but has not made any efforts to the economic and people's livelihood issues that have a greater impact, let alone talked about women's topics.

Su Yonglin didn't mention it, and other people didn't take it seriously. They inherited the usual practice, whether it was an official, a soldier, or joining the Revival Society, it was all a man's business.

It wasn't until Su Yonglin said that women could join the Revival Society, that they realized that the society of Daming had really changed a lot.

Unconsciously, as the imperial court set up more and more handicraft workshops in various places, more and more women were recruited to work. Over time, there have been cases of so many women rebelling against their fathers.

And these, they don't know.

Su Yonglin was silent for a while, and sighed after seeing that they didn't make any movement.

"That's why I said, we can't cut ourselves off from the people, and we can't feel like we understand everything just because we come from the people. There are many things we don't understand. I set up a consultation room for people's opinions, which is to let the people take the initiative to come and meet we talk.

But what if some people can't take the initiative to come and talk to us?Only then can we take the initiative to walk over to talk to them and ask them about the real situation, so that we can have a deeper understanding of what is happening among the people.

Just like this matter, I am the same as you. If it wasn't for this report, I would not have known at all, nor would I have realized that there is such a problem in the Ming Law, and it would trigger such a bad incident, which is laughable! "

After Su Yonglin finished speaking, Xin Qiji began to speak.

"However, as you said, we have not considered this point before. For thousands of years, the imperial court has never interfered in the matter of private marriages, and the words of the parents' matchmakers are also the rules that have always been followed by the people... How to change it?"

(End of this chapter)