People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 694: Establishing a women's weaving workshop, this is the true path of women's awakening

Listening to Chen Han telling her these things, Zhu Youwei felt like she was listening to a story and was very interested.

And she also understood that what Chen Han said was actually very reasonable. As Chen Han said, the reason why the status of women could be gradually improved was not with the passage of time or any reform or change, but entirely because of economic reasons.

The reason why Chen Han told him all this was actually to tell her that the reason why your current plan sounds so absurd is because there are many unrealistic aspects.

For example, no one took into account that at this time in the Ming Dynasty, such a situation would never occur.

Even though handicraft workshops had already appeared in the southeastern coastal areas, the status of women had also improved to a certain extent, because they could earn more money by weaving cloth, and thus had a certain status in the family.

This will further enhance their power of speaking, but it cannot be said that the entire Ming Dynasty has reached this stage. In fact, the current Ming Dynasty is still in a very barbaric period of development.

It was impossible for the people of the Ming Dynasty to understand the stage of the Industrial Revolution, when women could earn money by using their skills in factories.

It is precisely because of the lack of this experience that the current Ming Dynasty has no opportunity or soil to fight for the rights of women like those women did during the Industrial Revolution in the British Empire.

The reason why Chen Han is working so hard now, working so hard to improve the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, and working so hard to make the Ming Dynasty have a better foundation in the future, is to one day be able to improve the living standards of the people, so that those women who want to have economic independence will have more opportunities to improve their status.

After listening to what Chen Han said, Zhu Youwei also understood her own thoughts. The reason why she seemed so reserved in front of Chen Han was because Chen Han had been emphasizing one thing.

That is, the reason why women today have no status is not because of the constraints of so-called etiquette or the so-called system.

This is simply because the entire economic foundation is now determined by men.

Whether it is agriculture or serving in the military, men always contribute more to the work. There is no such thing as fairness and justice in this world. Whoever contributes more has more say.

In the past matriarchal society, women had a high status because they could give birth to children and reproduce.

But later, with the improvement of tools, most men could use tools to have a fixed source of daily necessities, and no longer needed to be trapped in a simple life of picking wild fruits. This made men more and more powerful.

It is because they enable the entire tribe to develop better and faster. This is a very concrete manifestation of the economic base determining the superstructure.

The reason why Chen Han wanted to say this to Zhu Youwei was to tell Zhu Youwei that it was not the so-called system or legislation that was suppressing the entire female population and preventing them from obtaining a true status, but it was determined by the economic foundation.

Men have more advantages than women in agricultural society, making it impossible for women to compete with men for power.

After listening to Chen Han's words, Zhu Youwei was indeed a little disappointed, because she felt a little desperate after knowing the underlying logic.

According to Chen Han, it is impossible for women to fight for power in the Ming Dynasty so far, because there is no simple life that women can bear alone, and they must rely on men.

Even women can only contribute three-tenths of the effort, while men have to contribute seven-tenths. Such a distribution method cannot allow women to have a higher living status.

It was because after knowing the truth that Zhu Youwei suddenly felt that life was boring. Originally, she wanted to build a career of her own and did not want to always rely on her husband or her own identity and background.

When Chen Han told her the truth, it shattered all her ideals. At that moment, she felt as if some energy in her body had been drained.

Chen Han saw the disappointment and dejection on his wife's face and asked immediately, "What's wrong? Have you lost your sense of direction all of a sudden?"

Zhu Youwei nodded: "Of course, I originally thought that this matter would give me a sense of accomplishment, and I could tell my son one day that your mother was also a person who could do great things, and she did it. I didn't expect that you would hit me so hard. How can I feel any sense of accomplishment?

"You always told me that I must find something that I am interested in, and then work hard to achieve this goal. But I found such a thing, but in the end I found that my initial direction was wrong. Do you think I can still be happy?"

After listening to Zhu Youwei's complaints, Chen Han immediately said, "Actually, you don't have to be so discouraged. To be honest, you are much better than many women. Even those women of the same status as you don't know how to think.

"That's because your husband, a man from six hundred years in the future, is by your side, slowly influencing you.

“Once you have this idea, you don’t have to put it into practice, nor do you have to ask everyone to follow you or imitate you, nor do you have to become their leader. You just need to be yourself.”

Zhu Youwei was a little confused after hearing what Chen Han said. She didn't know what she should do, so she looked at Chen Han and asked again: "What do you mean? I don't quite understand."

Chen Han explained to her slowly, carefully and patiently, "What I mean is that there is absolutely no need to promote your so-called women's education all day long, nor is there any need to set up a women's college specifically to let those women read and learn to read.

"Or maybe you hope to change the so-called atmosphere through this, which is difficult in itself, and you will definitely encounter many setbacks.

"Instead of doing this, you might as well practice with your sisters and tell those women that they can do more things, such as earning money to support the family.

"Although they cannot go out to compete with men, for example, if you create a craft yourself, like the textile industry I told you about, in fact, many craftsmen at Daming Engineering College have already begun to upgrade textile tools." "When the engineers at our Daming Engineering College have completed all the textile machines and can be put into large-scale use, you can set up a women's textile craft workshop and then recruit more women into your workshop to create value, that is, you pay them wages."

“When those women earn money through their craft, they will be able to attract more women to join the workshops you created, and then weave more and more exquisite cloth.

"If you can make more money, you will definitely attract more people to join. Then naturally, some people will see that women can also make money and their ability to make money is no worse than men. Only then can the status of women be reflected, instead of just shouting slogans or setting up so-called women's colleges to teach them to read and write.

"That kind of thing will only make them stay at the surface and not know what they should do. What really needs to be changed is not their thinking, but teaching them how to act."

When Chen Han said this, it was like a wise man opening the mind of a fool. Zhu Youwei was fascinated by what she heard. At this moment, she finally understood where her husband's leading knowledge for more than 600 years was embodied.

In fact, it is very simple. It is because of her vision that her husband knows why women in later generations have improved their status. So when she came to the Ming Dynasty, she immediately knew how to use his theoretical knowledge to tell her.

At this moment, Zhu Youwei's eyes lit up because Chen Han provided her with a specific and feasible plan.

Just like Chen Han said, even if a women's college was established, even if enough women were recruited to study, what would it really do? Women who can read and write are not ordinary women. Similarly, learning to read and write will inevitably cause disgust among many people.

But setting up a textile workshop is different. You go there to make money, and a man will not be stupid enough to prevent his woman from making money.

No matter what era it is, it is actually a low position for ordinary people to earn money to support their families. Men work hard outside but can't earn much money. If women can earn money and supplement the family expenses, wouldn't it be much better than staying at home doing nothing?

Chen Han's method is based on practice rather than theory. Chen Han understands very well that it is particularly unrealistic to develop a theoretical foundation in the Ming Dynasty. Few people can understand the so-called "women hold up half the sky".

Besides, even if they can understand this sentence, what can they do? Without a platform to put it into practice, no matter how perfect the woman's slogan is and how everyone can accept it, it is just a castle in the air that cannot be put into practice.

But the solution Chen Han is offering now is different. It involves setting up a workshop, recruiting female workers, and allowing them to earn money. This method is worth promoting.

As Chen Han said, the prerequisite for the start of the Industrial Revolution was that the textile industry was large enough to support enough workers. Enough workers drove enough markets, and with markets, people would think about continuously improving the efficiency of machine production. This was the only way to stimulate the development of various scientific and technological developments.

This is what Chen Han is doing now. The reason why he wants to establish Daming Engineering College is actually to produce the machines first and then improve the production efficiency. After the production efficiency is achieved, the market competition will naturally drive more people to upgrade and transform the machines in order to reduce costs and increase profits.

Now after his reforms in the Ming Dynasty, business has recovered. Although Chen Han has always advocated emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, his idea is not to suppress business, but to suppress the emergence of oligarchs.

Business is a must. Without business, there is no way for the commodity economy to circulate. Without commodity economy, there is no way to promote agricultural production. Without agricultural production, there is no food production. Without food production, the entire foundation is missing. Without a foundation, how can we talk about the so-called industrial foundation?

The method he is teaching his wife now is actually a strategy he will implement in the future. He not only wants to promote the textile industry explosively, but also improve the efficiency of machinery to a higher level so that the industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty can come ahead of schedule.

In fact, there is a very mature and controllable method to suppress the emergence of oligarchs in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the existence of imperial power.

Nowadays, both ordinary people and scholars generally believe that completeness is supreme. Chen Han has no intention of breaking this. Similarly, Chen Han does not think that completeness is necessarily a good thing, but it is absolutely effective in curbing oligarchs.

Once an oligarch appears, he can completely eliminate you in an unreasonable manner.

Similarly, Chen Han would never allow people to act completely unscrupulously. He would ask the old man to formulate a set of laws that would prohibit the emergence of monopoly economy and write it into the legislation so that they would have a legal basis to completely eradicate it.

After listening to her husband's explanation, Zhu Youwei was greatly enlightened. She now knew that this was the truth behind the so-called economic foundation. She now understood even more clearly what the economic foundation could determine. The status of so many women was also determined by the economic foundation.

So when she looked at her husband at this moment, her eyes were full of little stars.

Just now, she was feeling very depressed because her husband completely rejected one of her plans.

But when she was extremely disappointed, her husband immediately gave her a very bright light and pointed her in the right direction.

That is, she could completely rely on the textile machines developed by her husband Daming Engineering College to set up a women's weaving workshop.

It is entirely possible to improve women's identity and status without forcibly implanting new ideas into their minds, as long as they can earn more money.

This method can even be extended to other places.

And just as Chen Han said, no matter how loudly his people shout slogans, the number of people they can influence is actually very limited.

On the contrary, establishing a so-called women's college will bring countless troubles.

Those moralists didn't know where to find faults with their husbands, so now they can find the women's college opened by his wife and criticize it fiercely...

(End of this chapter)