In the blink of an eye, the third year of Jinglong arrived.

This year was quite long for Qin Shaoyou, and his first child was born at this time.

Li Lingyue was pregnant and was about to give birth. When the Qin family's first child was born, Henan Prefecture was suddenly infuriated.

The ancients emphasized that there were many children and many blessings, not to mention that Princess Taiping gave birth to a son, not to mention that since the self-governance of Henan, Qin Shaoyou's prestige has also increased dramatically with Japan.

A large number of projects have caused many young and strong people to come from the countryside to the city. At first, they were just coolies and they did much harder than they worked in farming in the countryside. However, in this era when most of them were half-warm and many people had hunger memories, even if it was very hard to do coolies, they earned more than twice as much money and food as they did during farming. This means that life has improved, and there is no need to worry about being hungry, there is no need to worry about having no new clothes during the New Year, and even children may even enter school. Therefore, no matter how hard it is, these already thrifty and simple people would rather be involved in the tide of Shencefu's industry and trade for this better life.

The land policy of Hongnong County has been promoted to Henan County, and the land price began to plummet, and many people purchased 30 acres of land. The 30 acres of land did not require the idle people to farm from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Men had limited strength to spend on farming. Now for the people in Henan Prefecture, it is simply a waste of money and food for the people. Because with the same strength, they can make a living in other places, seek greater benefits, and earn more money and food for their families. Therefore, the women began to support half of their own sky in the village. They began to try their best to maintain the land income in their families, and the elderly in the family, as well as plowing oxen and horses.

This is a dark era. The leisurely life of small farmers was completely crushed by this new model. Even the lazy man was lazy. At this time, seeing that every family of men left their hometown, they were embarrassed to be pointed at in the village. When they saw that the lives of their neighbors began to improve, they had to bite the bullet and get involved in the tide.

The women and children in the countryside became the main force in the family. The men sent money back from everywhere, they were responsible for savings, the land at home, they were responsible for farming, the cattle, horses, chickens and ducks at home. They were also responsible for taking care of them. Everyone seemed to have no free time, and everyone seemed to have what they should do. There was no more idle person waiting in Henan Province.

However, this change in life structure has also led to a sharp increase in the status of women to some extent.

The status of women in the Tang Dynasty is actually not low, but after all, this is an era of patriarchy. Men... will always be the pillar of the family and the heaven of the family. Therefore, although Wu Zetian became the emperor, although some people became female officials with kindness, and although many noble ladies are shrewd women, ordinary families may not have such a foundation.

The so-called equality between men and women is actually just a verbal word. Equality between men and women is based on economic basis. When women can only rely on men to support them, women will naturally become vassals of men. However, once women have the power of the economy and have their own financial resources, no matter how much virtue is there, the women will persuade them, even if they bring out the words of the king, minister, father, son, son, son, and wife in the Ming and Qing dynasties, no matter how deeply they are, they will not be able to stop such a trend.

Women tried to take care of their home assets. As in the Crusades, a large number of European men poured into the East, and women became the main force in protecting their home property. So a group of female ladies were born quietly. Over time, the status of women began to become undeniable.

The Shen Ce Mansion is obviously happy to see this.

For example, Yang Jiong, the Kanto family who passed down from the classics, has always believed in the theory of yin and yang, deep down, she feels like a nonsense in her position improvement, and even some current affairs analysis.

However, some law discussions on the law that women should receive certain property compensation when they are retired have chosen to support them without hesitation.

There is no way. Nowadays, labor is tight everywhere. The gentry is too involved in industry and commerce. Every household has some business. Gradually, these business has become the pillars of each family. In the past, the best houses in the family entered the career of the officialdom, and now some excellent children will also let them do business and exercise.

Times have changed, at least that's true for Henan Prefecture.

This means that the transaction of workshops has become the biggest investment for the gentry. Nowadays, insufficient labor has always been a problem that Henan Prefecture has never been abandoned. A large number of strong men go to the army, and many young children are studying. Older men cannot withstand high physical labor. There are only so many men. So it is obviously the most practical solution to use women to relieve the current pressure.

A large number of dyeing and silk shops are recruiting female workers. Women farming in the countryside can also allow more men to emerge from the countryside. Therefore, it is urgent to improve the status of women.

Yang Jiong did not stop this tide, but in fact, he was the beneficiary of this tide. Wherever a person's butt sat, it often determines the thinking of his head. When Yang Jiong became the evil zi family, to some extent, no matter what he had learned in the past, whether he supported or opposed it, the interests of the Yang family had already made him unconsciously make a choice.

The canal has been completed. When the water was opened, there were almost a crowd of people at the gate. Countless people with hope watched the rolling river water roll into the dug artificial river. Those coolies who had worked hard on the river bank for nearly a year saw hope at this time.

I thought that after the river construction was completed, they would go back to their hometown, but soon they discovered that there were too many things to do besides the river construction. The docks everywhere were recruiting coolies, and the price was much higher than that of river construction. In addition, workshops everywhere were recruiting apprentices. Although the salary was less, when they became mature workers, they would be enough to support their families.

This is how people are. When they come out and want to go back, it is no longer possible. They re-recognize the world, how could they still have that acre of three parts of land in their minds?

The development of the canal means the complete expansion of commerce.

The same piece of cloth was transported to Yuhang, and its value was consistent, but the transportation price was as high as more than five stakes. Although Mengjin's cloth was better woven, except for some wealthy families with good families, ordinary people could not consume it at all. Therefore, the Mengjin cloth that Yuhang could consume was only a few thousand in a year. It was just something that some dignitaries tasted. Now, with the canal, you only need to load a ship in Mengjin and go south. A ship can hold thousands of thousands of cloth in a backlog, and only two boatmen need to have them.

, it can be reached in half a month. In this way, Mengjin's cloth is always expensive in Luoyang, but in Yuhang it is only two or three hundred in total. Because it is mass production, the price is actually not higher than the local cloth in Yuhang. However, because Mengjin's workshop is large in scale, it has great motivation to improve the process and use more bright color printing. The low price and quality improvement are almost imagined that Yuhang and even the entire Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road will be very popular.

Not only Yuhang, but also the canal passes through countless prefectures and counties, from Zhuo County to Jiangnan thousands of miles away.

In the past, the silk shops were only considering some markets in Guanzhong and Guandong Limited. Now, the market development capacity has increased by more than ten times. Under such circumstances, large-scale addition of workshops and large-scale recruitment of craftsmen has become the biggest thing for all merchants at present.

This is the case with cloth, tea, and even iron farm tools. As long as everything closely related to people can open up the market in Guandong and Luoyang, this means that there is a broad space in all prefectures and counties in the world.

The scale of the Shence Army has also expanded. The Tuanjie Battalion is stationed in various places. Nearly 35,000 troops. In addition to the 15,000 Shence Army training in the camp every day, the Tuanjie Battalion occupied almost all the important places on water and land.

The warehouses in Luokou are endless and are being built everywhere, and countless goods are being fed from here every day.

Henan Prefecture has a population of nearly three million, and its population is nearly one-tenth of that of the world. However... Obviously, in this era, it has been normal for the powerful and gentry to conceal the population. Household slaves and serfs are not considered as population, but even so, although Henan Prefecture is no longer the center of the emperor's feet, its prosperity is far beyond Guanzhong.

It was the end of the third year of Jinglong. At this time, the court, which had always ignored Henan Prefecture, finally had news.

A decree was sent to Henan Prefecture.

The emperor summoned Mr. Qin to enter the capital.

This sudden news made the originally organized Shen Ce Mansion suddenly panic.

Wang Ju and Yang Jiong, and even some important humeral officials, are now a little uneasy.

Did the emperor summon Qin Shaoyou? Or did Wei summon Qin Shaoyou?

The Wei family was in power, which led to the reign of the Kanto clans being dissatisfied. The Wei family's appointment of "Di Renjie" as a magistrate also caused many dissatisfactions in the Shen Ce Army. Although Di Renjie's fairness and severity brought benefits to many people, everyone knew that this was the means by which Wei family used the Shen Ce Mansion to check and balance the Shen Ce Mansion.

Although the relationship between the two parties has not reached the point where the power is the same as water and fire, the Tao is different and they do not plan for each other. Everyone has long been accustomed to the world without Weishi. At this time, the sudden imperial edict seemed to be behind it, with some mystery faintly revealing.

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Chapter completed!