Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

The second day of the second month in the seventeenth year of Changtai in the Great Xia Dynasty was a special day.

This day is not only the Dragon Festival, but also the day when Jiang Yi and her team set off. From today on, she will leave Daxia and start her own sailing journey and her magnificent life.

In fact, after she turned sixteen, she went out to sea with her royal brothers and sisters, but they were just strolling around not far from Daxia, like a little follower accumulating experience.

And today, she is going to lead her own team and start her own sailing career.

After a series of formal departure ceremonies, Jiang Yi stood in front of her family and said her final farewell.

"Father, mother, crown prince, brother, sister-in-law, and all my brothers and sisters, I am leaving now."

As these words came out, the people standing in front of her almost shed tears, even Jiang Qi, who was feared by the neighboring countries and secretly described as "inhumane", was no exception.

That little pink ball-like child has now grown into a beautiful young lady and is about to leave her family to start her own life!

Seeing that her family members were silent, Jiang Yi tried to suppress her reluctance and smiled: "Father, Mother, please don't be like this. The fourth sister has been stationed on Yong'an Island since she was sixteen.

I am already eighteen years old, and my military tactics, martial arts, and political strategies are no worse than hers, so you should be more assured."

Rest assured? How could they rest assured? However, Jiang Yi had indeed left the house much later than her brothers and sisters.

If they hadn't used Jiang Tuan's words, "In the modern dimension, people are considered adults at the age of eighteen," as an excuse to keep him for a few more years, he would have had no intention of coming back since he first secretly followed the ship at the age of fourteen.

Seeing that her family was still worried, Jiang Yi pointed at the women not far away and said, "Father, mother, look, I have trained my own army and brought many capable people with me. Nothing will happen."

Jiang Qi and Lan Shu looked in the direction of each other's hands and saw a team of heroic female soldiers standing not far away, holding the new wooden storage machines made by the Shaofu, giving people a full sense of security.

And this is only a small part. Most of the female soldiers have already set out in advance and went to the port to make preparations.

Even Jiang Qi and Lan Shu, who have very high demands, are very satisfied with these female soldiers.

Some of them were selected from girls' schools, some were selected from candidates who took the imperial examinations but failed, and some were recommended because they had special talents in certain areas.

In fact, the source of troops shows several important advances of Daxia.

First, Daxia already has a special school for girls, and more than one.

The girls' school was built since Jiang Tuan proposed it. Now many girls are willing to go to school and many families are willing to support girls' education. There have been many ups and downs along the way.

In the past, many people did not have the concept that girls should study. Even if there was a family, the conditions, and the idea to let girls study, they would mostly arrange for them to learn things that the family considered more practical, such as managing the family, educating children, or things that cultivate sentiment, such as music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

However, those things, in terms of their final purpose, are nothing more than skills needed to support one's husband, raise children, and manage a household. There are very few things that can truly allow women to have their own ideas.

In such an environment, how could anyone be willing to let girls go to school? Not to mention whether their family conditions allow it, many people are worried about their safety.

Fortunately, with the help of Jiang Tuan and the system, Daxia built a textile workshop, providing women with a new way out.

When women received their first wages, when they earned as much money as the men in their families, and when they dared to say no to some unreasonable demands of their families for the first time, everything began to change, and women also had the opportunity to learn.

The predecessor of the girls' school was a technical school for the orphans adopted by Jiang Qi. Later, aristocratic families and workshop workers sent their children to the school. In order to better manage and educate, the school was divided into a boys' school and a girls' school.

Talking about the initial treatment of girls in schools, it is really a tearful story. The environment and teachers are not as good as those in boys' schools.

Fortunately, because of Jiang Tuan's instructions before he left, Jiang Qi, Lan Shu, the concubines in the harem, and even those women who were willing to step out of the family and realize their own value, did not give up.

Thanks to their unremitting efforts, the girls' school finally got back on track after going through the initial decline, boycotts, students being forced to go home to get married, and other things that were understandable and incomprehensible.

Especially in the past two years, after His Majesty announced that women could take the imperial examinations and serve in the army, any family with the means would definitely let girls of appropriate age go to girls' schools for a few years.

This is really a big progress for Daxia.

The second noticeable progress is that women can now take the imperial examinations!

Long before the imperial examinations of Daxia began, Jiang Qi, at the suggestion of Jiang Tuan, had quietly improved the status of women.

For example, establishing girls' schools, allowing girls to work in workshops, manage workshops and shops, and allowing girls to serve as officials.

However, in the eyes of many people, girls' schools are nothing more than teaching girls to learn some words or textiles.

Managing workshops and shops is at most putting some things happening in the backyard out in the open, which is not particularly excessive.

In the eyes of many people, Yuan Yu's official position is just an insignificant position. To put it bluntly, he is just a bird keeper for His Majesty, and the official position is just a nice name.

But many people did not expect that those insignificant things would eventually become important reasons for women to enter various industries in the dynasty.

For example, if women can manage a textile workshop, then it shouldn’t be too much for them to manage other workshops.

If a woman can become an official with her bird-raising skills, then it should not be too much to ask for her to become an official with her superb manufacturing skills and excellent knowledge.

It shouldn't be too much for women to go to school like men and take the imperial examinations like men!

In this way, with the careful planning of Jiang Qi, concubines in the harem and some ministers, the issue of women taking the imperial examinations was brought to the table.

When many people wanted to oppose, they found that many people responded to them, but there were also many people criticizing them.

There are many factors involved in this situation.

However, the mere fact that women can take the imperial examinations and become officials provides an additional way for the family to prosper is enough to make families who send their daughters to school support this decision at all costs.

After several years of strife among all parties over the issue of women taking the imperial examination to become officials, the opposition ultimately failed.

The women of Daxia were extremely angry about being suppressed, and they tried their best in the first imperial examination and did not disappoint their supporters.

Among the top ten, six were women. Many of the women who passed the imperial examination that year later became important figures in Daxia. It must be said that this blinded the eyes of many opponents.