Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

The third progress made by Daxia was the recruitment of female soldiers.

If some people can support women going to school and taking the imperial examinations because the jobs they do are safer, many families are unwilling to let women join the army, as they feel it is too hard, too tiring, too dangerous, and too unorthodox.

Under those circumstances, Jiang Yue and Jiang Yi could only choose from maids and orphans in school at first. Later, two things happened that made recruiting female soldiers no longer so difficult.

The first one is about a woman who disguised herself as a man and went out to sea without telling her family.

There are many special conditions involved in this kind of thing. For example, the woman is very strong and with a little dressing up, she can look almost like a man. For example, the woman has outstanding martial arts skills and the selection content is nothing to her. Another example is that the woman has a powerful relative who can pass the identity check.

Among these conditions, the last one plays a key role.

The woman was from Sun Liangren's mother's family, and was actually the cousin of the second prince Jiang Wei.

Sun Liangren's mother's family used to be a family of knights. Later, when Jiang Qi unified the world, Sun Liangren became a concubine in the harem. Although the family no longer engaged in the knight-errant industry, they did not abandon martial arts.

All men in the family must learn martial arts, and women are not stopped from learning if they want to.

It is said that opportunities come to those who are prepared, so when Daxia selected people to go out to sea for the first time, several people from this family who had experience in adventure, good martial arts, and good swimming skills were selected.

This incident caused a great response in Sun Liangren's mother's family. After those people returned home and told what they saw and heard at sea, almost all the young people in the family wanted to go out to sea to see the world, regardless of gender.

Of course it's no problem for men to go, but it's not so possible for women to go. After all, for safety reasons, Daxia does not arrange for women to go out to sea.

They waited like this until the fourth princess Jiang Yue was sixteen years old.

After the ship returned from its first voyage, Jiang Yueben and his brother wanted to go to sea to fight with their brothers, but they were too young and were firmly stopped by their mother.

Later, after being comforted by Jiang Tuan, she worked hard to learn military tactics, archery, and some knowledge of navigation, hoping to make a name for herself when she reached a certain age.

When she was fourteen, she was finally allowed to go to sea, and when she was sixteen, she had a large ship that she could command completely by herself.

Not to mention that Jiang Qi and his men only care about the safety of their legitimate daughter, not their illegitimate daughter. If they let Jiang Yue go out at the age of sixteen, why don't they let Jiang Yi go out at the age of sixteen?

The main thing is that Jiang Yue’s ship will circle around Daxia, and then go south along the coastline, so there will be no problem with supplies.

What about Jiang Yi? Her goal is the other side of the ocean, so the level of worry is different.

Okay, let’s get back to the topic.

Jiang Yue took her maid to go out to sea, which set a precedent for women from Daxia to go out to sea, and also allowed women from Daxia to see the possibility of going out to sea themselves.

As a result, the women in Sun Liangren's mother's family, who were almost crazy about going to sea, felt that they saw hope and tried every possible way to go to sea.

But they don’t have Zhao Ying. Oh, by the way, Sun Liangren’s mother’s surname is Zhao, and she is proactive.

Zhao Ying is the youngest daughter of this generation in the Zhao family. She is spoiled by her elders, her brothers and sisters, and her brothers' children, so she has developed a bold and reckless character.

In addition, she has a great talent for martial arts and is extremely strong. She is currently the person with the highest martial arts skills in their family, which gives her the confidence to act recklessly.

So when she heard that Jiang Yue was going out to sea with female guards, she took some of her belongings and ran away secretly.

In fact, running away secretly is a tradition of the Zhao family.

My family is full of knights, so there are always some restless hearts. It is normal for everyone to want to go out and explore the world when they get older. However, there are some people who just run away because the elders at home do not agree.

But in the past, it was always the men in the family who ran away. This is the first time that a woman has run away!

After knowing that Zhao Ying had run away, the family immediately sent a letter to the palace. The Zhao family did not ask Sun Liangren to bring him back, but just wanted Jiang Yue to take care of him more.

From this we can see that the Zhao family's style of doing things is very different from that of other families.

After knowing that the child has run away and making arrangements, we should not force the child back, but respect their wishes.

Because they know that if the child can run the first time, he can run the second time. Instead of not knowing where the other party will run next time, it is better to meet the other party's requirements within a controllable range.

So with the help of Sun Liangren and Jiang Yue, Zhao Ying got on the boat and went out to sea.

However, what no one expected was that the other party did not want to be a guard who followed the princess all day long, she wanted to be a real soldier.

Seeing that the other party did have the ability, and thinking of how happy she was when someone supported her dream, Jiang Yue agreed out of tenderness.

So, under various special conditions, Zhao Ying became the first soldier in Daxia who disguised herself as a man, and also the first sailor who disguised herself as a man.

Later, when the other party came back from the sea, Jiang Qi and Lan Shu criticized her, but based on her meritorious performance, she was made the leader of the first batch of female soldiers in Daxia!

In order to expand the influence of this incident and take the opportunity to improve the status of women, the newspaper and the performance team hurriedly wrote the script and rehearsed the performance.

As soon as the newspaper was published and the performance came out, Zhao Ying immediately became the Daxia version of Hua Mulan and was sought after by many women.

Many women then realized that besides taking care of their husbands and children, working in workshops, and taking the imperial examinations to become officials, they also had another option: to join the army!

They can also go out to sea like men and see scenery they have never seen before.

If Zhao Ying's story ignited the women's enthusiasm to join the army, then the appearance of Mu Cang made the women have fighting power comparable to that of men.

As early as when Jiang Tuan came up with the method of making gunpowder, he was thinking about how to make wooden warehouses. Later, when the cannon was successfully made, the production of wooden warehouses was put on the agenda.

After the hard work of the Shaofu, Daxia's first wooden warehouse was finally successfully produced in the sixth year of Changtai, and mass production was achieved in the tenth year of Changtai.

With this kind of weapon, even a weak woman can kill a man who is much stronger than herself. This makes many people who think that women lack physical strength and cannot serve as soldiers shut up!

It is precisely because of these female soldiers and powerful weapons that Jiang Qi and Lan Shu are not so worried about Jiang Yi's travel.

Jiang Yi felt extremely proud as she looked at the female soldiers she had trained personally. Those people were her helpers and the basis for her to expand her territory!

In addition to Jiang Yi, there were also some other people saying goodbye, among which two groups attracted the most attention.

Some of them were Ning Song, Ning Bai and others who were sending Ning Ling off, and some of them were the families of Amin and Ali.