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Having lived through an era when women held up half the sky, Mu Qing watched so many female laborers being confined at home and becoming housewives.

This is a phenomenon that Mu Qing doesn't want to see.

As more and more factories are built in Huang County, its population of around 10,000 is a bit insufficient.

Huang County has recently continued to receive refugees from outside Guangsha and Anping.

If not for a group of female workers coming from Guangsha.

The paper mill opened by Mu Qingxin really couldn't recruit many workers.

Ancient monarchs emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce. The main purpose was to prevent farmers from engaging in business and causing the fields to be abandoned.

In Mu Qing's opinion, this is an overly idealistic assumption made by those in power.

More than 90 percent of the people in Huang County know that they can get paid by working in factories.

But they did not all flock to work in factories.

There will still be someone in the family who stays at home to plant millet seedlings and take care of the fields.

Even if the whole family goes to work in a factory, most of them are not formal employees.

Without external factors to help change people's thinking, it is difficult for them to escape from their original village.

The people of Huang County would feel that if the whole family went to work in factories or stopped farming and went out to work, the fields would be left abandoned and they would not be able to get food.

The factory might just be temporary. The term of office of a county magistrate is three years. After his term, who knows whether the factory run by his son, now the county magistrate's chancellor, will allow them to stay there.

They believe that only if the family has land and produces food can their lives be secure.

Working is only temporary, the land is the most reliable.

Sometimes people's ideas are very simple.

This is beneficial to Mu Qing at the moment. After all, she is not able to produce a large number of tools to improve farming efficiency.

We are still a long way from achieving the goal of mechanized farming.

But what happens after iron and steel are refined?

Mu Qing plans to implement the plan of distributing agricultural tools to every household within two years.

Then after two years or using farm tools to farm efficiently, a field that originally required two people to farm will only require one person.

The people of Huang County are not very adaptable to this concept.

In short, the people in Huang County who should be farming are still farming, and not many people have changed their careers.

If it weren't for a group of people from Guangsha who came to Huangxian to work, the factory would really not be able to recruit enough people.

The people from Guangsha were different from those from Huangxian. Even if they replanted millet seedlings, they did not have the fertile soil of Huangxian and did not have irrigation canals, so their harvest was very poor.

After the autumn harvest, as soon as the tax is paid, the family’s grain jar will be empty.

Huangxian and Guangsha border each other.

Before the famine, Huang County was poor, and few people in Guangsha wanted to marry into Huang County.

There is only a saying that women from Huangxian married into Guangsha.

These women saw that there was no extra food at home. Some of them knew that their mother's family in Huang County was in the same situation as their own family, or perhaps even worse off.

When these women thought of this, they wanted to return to Huang County.

They had met vegetable farmers from Huang County before. They had seen the vegetable farmers praising Huang County to the skies, but they didn't believe it.

The situation in Guangsha is so bad, how can Huangxian be any better?

So these women sneaked back to Huangxian, wanting to see their parents.

Didn't expect this look.

It's not what I thought.

Huang County is really just as those vegetable farmers boasted.

Li Xiaohua is the girl that Old Man Li had in his old age. Li Xiaohua is pretty and was favored by a farmer from a county in Guangsha.

In the past, even if you farmed in Guangsha, you could live better than in Huangxian.

Li Xiaohua married in Zhong County, Guangsha.

Li Xiaohua ran back to Old Man Li's house secretly.

After only a few months of not seeing each other, Li Xiaohua was shocked by the changes in Huang County.

The roads in Huang County were so vast that if Li Xiaohua was not familiar with the terrain of Huang County, she would not have been able to find her way home.

As soon as she found Old Man Li, he started crying when he saw Li Xiaohua, who had lost weight.

Old man Li has been eating and drinking well recently and has gained a lot of weight.

Li Xiaohua couldn't understand why everyone in Huang County, which was so poor before, could have enough food to eat now.

It was not until Old Man Li told Li Xiaohua what Mu Qing had done that Li Xiaohua realized something.

Li Xiaohua and her family worked diligently for a year, and just when the harvest was about to come, their lives suddenly took a turn for the worse and they could no longer make ends meet.

In this case, there are so many factories in Huangxian, and she used to be from Huangxian, so why can't she go to Huangxian to work?

Factories in Huang County have household registration restrictions.

After all, Guangsha is not under Mu Qing's jurisdiction. If the officials above hold people accountable, the people will all flee from Guangsha to Huang County.

A county's population growth has always been an important factor in the assessment of promotions.

If Mu Shan was blamed for this, he would not be able to stay in Huang County any longer. If other petty-minded officials jointly reported the matter, Mu Shan would be squeezed out.

Factories have household registration restrictions when recruiting workers, and Huang County also has corresponding restrictive policies on family settlement.

Mu Qing didn't want to see other people who had survived the most severe famine still starved to death because of lack of surplus food.

There is another line of small print notes about the factory household registration restrictions in Huang County.

Women who married elsewhere but whose original household registration was in Huang County are not subject to this restriction.

of course.

There are policies and measures to counter.

What Mu Qing did not say explicitly was that there were restrictions on the household registration requirements for entering the factory and on family settlement, but she did not prevent women from other counties besides Guangsha or Anping from marrying into Huang County.

Li Xiaohua is one of those people who can get married but work in a factory.

She only had one meal at Old Man Li's house before going home to pack up her things and to call other women who had married from Huang County like her to work in the factory.

Huang County is different now.

It is many times better than Guangsha.

Li Xiaohua is a smart person. After Old Man Li talked about the household registration policy for a while, she knew where she could maneuver it.

There are many people in Zhong County where Hu Xiaohua lives who are in the same situation as her family.

Many families began to sell their daughters.

Li Xiaohua also has a daughter, and this time when she goes back, she has to tell them about what happened in Huang County.

If I could marry into Huang County, it would be better than being sold.

Being a prostitute is a job that only lasts for a short period of time. Once you grow old and lose your looks and are no longer valuable, you will easily be abandoned.

Here in Huangxian everyone can have enough to eat, and they can save some money by working in a factory. It's much more hopeful throughout the year than in Guangsha.

The female team that Li Xiaohua brought together was exactly the new wave of workers that the Huangxian factory received from Guangsha.

Provided a lot of labor for the factories in Huangxian.

It also provided an example for Mu Qing to persuade women to work in factories.

Don't tell her that women are born to be men's vassals.

Women who go to TM should stay at home to take care of their husbands and children and be good wives and mothers.

This is pure bullshit!

Mu Qing believes that as long as the majority of women in Huang County gain rewards through labor and realize the value of their own labor, they will not continue to be content with staying in a corner.

Everyone desires to gain recognition of their self-worth. When women discover that they can obtain this recognition without relying on others, they have taken an important step towards self-awakening.

Mu Qing spent the whole night at various iconic places in Huang County.

Public notice office, factory, village notice office...

Bright banners were hung.