Nongmen's elder sister-in-law is the richest in the world

Chapter 595 The number of registrations for the embroidery competition has increased dramatically
On this day, they started the earliest preliminary competition of this embroidery competition.

And that morning, Shen Jianwan, his family and Uncle Shen's family sent out together to send Shen Wan, Shen Min, Shen Chunyu, and Shen Lancao's four cousins ​​to Qiushui Town to participate in the preliminary competition of their town's embroidery competition.

And along the way, Shen Jianwan and the others met many girls from the village who also went to participate. Of course, there were also many of their family members accompanying them.

Seeing Shen Jianwan and his group, these people couldn't help but their eyes lit up, and then they went up to say hello to Shen Jianwan and the others enthusiastically, especially to Shen Jianwan and the others, they were so enthusiastic that Shen Jianwan almost couldn't resist .

And there is a reason why they are so enthusiastic.

Registration for this embroidery competition started more than half a month ago. Because the competition requires a lot of consumption, even if the government reimburses most of the expenses, each participant still needs to pay [-] Wen for registration on average. fee.

One hundred Wen is not too much for ordinary people, but it is not too little, because based on the price of three Wen per catty of cornmeal, this one hundred Wen is enough to buy more than 30 catties of cornmeal for a pampered family. It's been a month and a half.

So faced with this registration fee, those who have good daughters and love their daughters grit their teeth and sign up for them, but the daughters of those poor families, even if they are good female stars, have to look forward to this registration fee. And timid.

Because in the eyes of many parents, apart from the registration fee for participating in this kind of embroidery competition, there may not be any benefits.

The top ten can advance to the county seat to participate in the next round of the competition. Sorry, they don't think their daughter has the ability to get this ranking in the whole town.

Therefore, ten days before the start of registration for the competition, there were not many unmarried women who signed up in Qiushui Town. Even Shen Jianwan and their Qinghe Village had only more than 20 girls who signed up because of her promotion, but this number But it is already the sum of more than ten villages.

Yes, apart from the more than 60 women in Qiushui Town who signed up for this embroidery competition, and Shen Jianwan and the others in Qinghe Village who had more than 20, the rest of the villages in Qiushui Town only had one or two people participating on average. Some villages didn't even have a single person, so there were only about 120 people in the entire Qiushui town who signed up for this competition in ten days.

However, with this number, Mayor Lu also told Shen Jianwan that the number of participants has doubled compared to the previous one. Last time, only more than 60 women in their Qiushui Town participated in that embroidery competition!

The reason for this effect is that the top three in Ding'an Prefecture will be able to go to Beijing to participate in the national finals next year, and the news that the top ten women may display their embroidery at the Longevity Festival has spread, so This, to a certain extent, has driven the enthusiasm of everyone to participate in the competition.

In addition, what Shen Jianwan said at the thank-you banquet when Yang Lvzhu of the Song family had just been abandoned and returned was also spread by the people of Qinghe Village, which also made the people around Qinghe Village and many people in Qinghe Village have relatives. Everyone has a better understanding of the significance of this competition to girls, so the number of participants this time is several times higher than the previous one.

However, that was the case, after ten days, there were only more than 120 people participating in the embroidery competition in Qiushui Town, which was far beyond Shen Jianwan's expectations.

You must know that when copying the manuscripts, it was only one afternoon, and more than 200 scholars from Qiushui Town rushed to copy the manuscripts.

Although it is said that there is no registration fee for copying the manuscript, comparing these two data, Shen Jianwan still clearly feels the difference in treatment between men and women at this time.

Reading is obviously more expensive than embroidery, but because men are the main ones, as long as the common people have some spare money, they will let the men in the family go to study for the imperial examination. However, when it comes to matters about the future of women, they can't be so generous.

Shen Jianwan knew that it wasn't necessarily that the common people didn't love daughters, but that the inequality between men and women did exist. Men could participate in the imperial examinations to honor their ancestors, but women could not. This meant that the common people's investment in the two would not be equal.

To change this situation, she knows that in addition to raising women's awareness, the most important thing is to let women create the same value as men, and the current embroidery competition, they and the rise of the textile handicraft industry can do this Let's start, so Shen Jianwan very much hopes that the girls can participate in this embroidery competition and get a good start.

Therefore, when Shen Jianwan once heard the king tell her that there were more than a dozen girls in the village who went up the mountain day and night to chop firewood and sell it in the town to sell in order to collect enough registration fees for the embroidery competition, she was moved with compassion. Shangzhen Yamen donated 100 taels of silver to reduce or exempt women's registration fees and increase the prizes won in the competition.

And Shen Jianwan's move also made Mayor Lu's eyes bright, so after some clever operations by him, the rich and gentry in Qiushui Town donated their money one after another, and the money raised in the end completely offset the embroidery competition's expenses, and even paid for it. If you have extra money, you can raise the prizes of the contest to a higher level.

In the end, Mayor Lu set a registration fee threshold of ten cents because he thought that no one could just sign up for free.

Ten cents is just a matter of a few catties of cornmeal, or even the price of two bowls of green vegetable noodles for a wealthy family to go to the market, so as long as they are willing to participate, the registration fee cannot be a reason to hinder women from registering.

At the same time, Mayor Lu followed Shen Jianwan's suggestion and vigorously promoted the help of this embroidery competition for women's future, and mentioned the attractive prizes of the competition again and again, so the enthusiasm for signing up for this embroidery competition finally spread in Qiushui Town It exploded!
Not to mention the unprecedented increase in the number of registrations in the next seven or eight days. By the end of the registration period, there were a total of [-] women in the town who had signed up for this competition, which was a complete double of the number of participants in the previous embroidery competition. More than ten times!
And as the embroidery competition became popular in Qiushui Town, almost any woman who wanted to participate could participate. The news that Shen Jianwan took the lead in donating silver to the town's wealthy gentry to reduce the registration fee and increase the prizes also spread, so the big guys couldn't help but feel sorry for Shen. Jianwan and the wealthy squires of Qiushui Town are very grateful for this move.

So seeing Shen Jianwan, the women and their families who went to the town to participate in the embroidery competition at this time were very enthusiastic about her.

Fortunately, Shen Jianwan and the others were riding in a carriage this time, so they were able to chat with the big guy in time, and after a while, they successfully started the carriage and rushed to the town.

(End of this chapter)