The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 180 Fierce Girl

In the original history, Li Guoxian was married to a maritime merchant in Quanzhou as Li Dan's daughter, and her husband's name was not left behind. Her life was only briefly recorded during the destruction of Li Dan's maritime merchant group.

Married women in this era had almost no opportunity to show their faces and work. Originally, Li Guoxian had no way to realize his dream in his life. In the end, he could only live as an accessory to her husband's family.

Wang Wenlong could feel that Li Guoxian wanted to do something and did not want to rely on men. He gave Li Guoxian the outline of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in the hope that she could do something different as he expected.

Li Guoxian also knew the value of this outline. She read and liked the thick outline and then looked lovingly at Wang Wenlong who gave her the opportunity.

"Brother Wang, what are you sorting out?"

"Write a letter. I'm going to Sanwu again in two days."

Li Guo

Wang Wenlong also noticed Li Guoxian's gaze, but did not say a word.

The woman was so beautiful and affectionate that Wang Wenlong blushed slightly and finished writing a letter.

"Second Miss, let's go out." "Brother Wang, drink tea... Oops!"

A cup of hot tea was touched by Wang Wenlong, and the tea spilled on the desk.

The two people panicked and grabbed the rag, and their hands touched each other, and the small hand was tightly held by Wang Wenlong's big hand. Li Guoxian suddenly got the courage from nowhere, and slipped his small hand into Wang Wenlong's hand, and then the whole thing The man leaned forward.

Feeling a fragrant body jump into his arms, Wang Wenlong was stunned and raised his arms to hug Li Guoxian.

At this moment, I heard a young voice outside shouting: "Brother Jianyang, Huang Daozhou is here!"

Both of them woke up. Li Guoxian's body was nestled against Wang Wenlong, and he raised his head to look at Wang Wenlong blankly.

"Brother Wang..."

Wang Wenlong couldn't help but smile when he saw her cute look and nodded: "I will tell your father."

Li Guoxian was relieved, finally hearing his promise, he was both happy and shy.

She reacted and quickly pushed Wang Wenlong onto the chair, then pursed her lips and took out a handkerchief to wipe off the red rouge on Wang Wenlong's face.

Then Li Guoxian tried his best to pretend as if nothing had happened and walked aside. At this moment, his heart was beating very fast.

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Huang Daozhou was specially found by Wang Wenlong. Wang Wenlong found out that Huang Daozhou had been to Ningbo this year and wanted to ask him if he knew Xu Yuanchen.

In this era, if Wang Wenlong wants to set up a women's textile factory, no matter how open-minded he is, he will inevitably be afraid of other people's gossip. The way he thinks of is to find a famous woman to endorse him.

No talented woman can do this kind of job, you must find a woman with a higher reputation in society at this time.

Xu Yuanchen was just a scholar in Ningbo, nothing special, but his wife Hu was very famous at this time because Hu was a "martial girl".

This spring, Ningbo scholar Xu Yuanchen died, leaving behind his wife Hu, who was young, beautiful and childless. After hearing the news, many men wanted to ask her to be their spouse, and her family also wanted her to remarry, even her husband's family. I also think there is nothing wrong with her remarrying. But Hu believed that she should stick to the etiquette at this time. In order to show her determination to remain a widow, she actually brought a knife to her husband's coffin in the middle of the night, shaved off her hair, disfigured her face, and cut off three fingers on her left hand.

Mrs. Hu was not dead, but she was disfigured and disabled. She no longer looked good and could no longer work. Naturally, no one came to ask for her hand in marriage anymore.

Wang Wenlong was in Suzhou when he heard the news. His first reaction was that he thought the story was too cruel.

Hu, a young woman in her early twenties, ruined her life in this way - she was completely brainwashed by feudal ethics.

However, people at that time praised Hu greatly.

At this time, people did not require forced widowhood, but they praised her husband's behavior of keeping integrity. Hu's face-breaking and finger-breaking was entirely voluntary, and she has become a famous "martial girl" in Ningbo. In Wang Wenlong's memory, the Hu family was even included in "History of the Ming Dynasty: Biography of Women".

Wang Wenlong wants to resist this kind of feudal ethics, but now he obviously does not have the ability to launch an attack on the world's public opinion. If women want to improve their status, they can only do so if they can participate more in productive labor.

Wang Wenlong was opposed to this behavior in his heart, but out of practical considerations, he understood that he needed such a person now. Hu was lonely at home. If she could be invited to work in the Women's Textile Factory, Hu's reputation as a fierce woman would definitely resolve the problem. There was a lot of bad talk about women's textile mills - it would be more useful to open women's textile mills than to criticize the social atmosphere at this time.

"Youxuan, come in." Wang Wenlong said to Huang Daozhou with a smile.

After Huang Daozhou entered the room, he saw Li Guoxian was also in the room. He blinked his eyes. The child didn't have this idea in his mind. He didn't know that he almost ruined Brother Wang's good deeds. He stupidly said hello: "The second girl is here too."

Li Guoxian nodded in response, "Here we come." His voice was like a gnat, and he lowered his pink neck to hide the blush on his face.

Wang Wenlong and Huang Daozhou had something to talk about, and Li Guoxian exchanged a few words before taking the manuscript and leaving.

Wang Wenlong then asked Huang Daozhou: "Youxuan is still reading "Yi" recently?"

Wang Wenlong knew that Huang Daozhou had become interested in economics since he came to Fuzhou to exchange his thoughts on reading "The Wealth of Nations" with him. Then he naturally connected economics with the "Book of Changes" he was studying hard, and created some kind of Very mysterious knowledge.

In Wang Wenlong's view, what Huang Daozhou created was actually a realistic interpretation of the "Book of Changes".

The so-called "Six Classics Annotate Me" uses Confucian classics to explain newly emerged knowledge. This kind of effort has been around since ancient times, whether it is the idea of ​​"Xingming Yili to save the world" summarized by Huang Daozhou in the history of the previous life, or the "Jingshu" of the Huxiang School in later generations. The purpose of "Serving the World for Use" is all in this direction.

Even Wang Wenlong's copy of Yan Fu's "Tian Yan Lun" is a product of this kind of thinking. It is obviously a biological monograph, but large sections of it are Confucian content, trying to use Confucian theory to explain biological and social evolution.

However, Huang Daozhou combined economics with the "Book of Changes", which was definitely a pioneering work in this era. The preliminary research results attracted great praise from Xu Xinggong and others.

When talking about his research, Huang Daozhou's eyes lit up: "I've had this feeling recently. I just wrote an article and came to Fuzhou to ask Brother Jianyang to review it."

Wang Wenlong asked curiously: "Coming from the floating sea?"

Huang Daozhou nodded: "I went to Tayu to read "Yi" recently."

Wang Wenlong was speechless for a while. Tayu was Dongshan Island off the coast of Zhangzhou in later generations. It had great scenery, but its area was only one square kilometer. It was just a small island on the sea. There were some fishermen living there, and there were several temples for fishermen and merchants.

What's more important is that the place is just outside Tongshan Water Village and is the absolute frontline of coastal defense. Japanese pirates often come and go, and Wang Wenlong doesn't dare to go without protection.

(End of this chapter)