Zhao Peng took the Jinyiwei into the conference room of the imperial village. He greeted Kong Jie to sit down, and then asked the Jinyiwei to bring tea and refreshments. Then he slowly spoke to Kong Jie and said, "Kong Baihu, you have been promoted to a hundred households, and you still have a reward of hundreds of taels of silver. You are not short of money now, so why do you oppose your daughter going to school?"

Kong Jie said: "Anyway, girls will get married in the future. As the saying goes, what's the use of reading so many books when a married daughter splashes water? Isn't it that if she gets married to her in-laws' house in the future? What does it have to do with our family if she can make money?"

Zhao Peng asked back: "Didn't Kong Baihu have ever thought about letting his daughter marry a better family in the future? Look at the civil servants and ladies in the nobles' families. Although they did not go to school, the girls were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. They have been studying since childhood, and it is the minimum thing for girls to learn to read."

Kong Jie sighed: "Oh, uncle, how can my little girl be compared with those ladies of my family? I am a small family. Even if I become a hundred families, I am still an ordinary citizen. How can I compare with those noble masters? I don't expect any big family's young masters to fall in love with my little girl in the future."

"Kongbaihu is different now. It was a farming society before, but now it is about to enter the industrial age. After entering the industrial age, making money is not only a matter for men, but also a labor force for society. Both men and women join in the work, so the economic improvement of our country will accelerate. To put it simply, it is because women can make money, and the country becomes richer. For individuals, the country is richer and the individual is richer. This is the truth that the big river has water and small rivers. Moreover, if the country is rich, it can better develop military power and ensure the safety of the people's lives!" Zhao Peng persuaded.

As the industrial age is about to enter, women have to work and make money like men. With machines, men and women can achieve division of labor and production. For example, heavy physical work such as steel, shipbuilding, and mechanical production must be carried out by men. There are also scientific research work that requires brains, which is more likely to produce scientific research results than women. There are also dangerous industries such as chemical engineering, which are also held by men; and similar work as textiles, handicrafts, food production, doctors, teachers, clerks, etc. can be handed over to women.

If a woman takes part of the social work, she can invest more men in other aspects of production activities. This is extremely beneficial to the development of national productivity and can accelerate the development of society.

Zhao Peng continued: "Kong Baihu, Xiaoya only has eight years of study, and she graduated at the age of fifteen and can start working. If she is good at elementary school, she can graduate from secondary school in just seven years, and she will only be fourteen years old. If she can become a medical officer in the Jinyiwei, she will earn ten taels of silver every month. After deducting her own monthly expenses of two taels of silver, she can save 92 taels of silver every year. Even if she works until she gets married at the age of sixteen, she will be able to earn nearly two hundred taels of silver for your family in two years? Two hundred taels of silver, isn't it enough for your family to support her in the past few years of study?"

Kong Jie did the calculations and felt that this was still a bit cost-effective. Zhao Peng continued: "Even if she gets married in the future, don't forget that she will be an Jinyiwei, not an ordinary woman, and she will not give all the money she earns to her in-laws. After all, her Jinyiwei is here. When you two are old in the future, can't she use the money she earns to honor you two old men?"

"But after getting married, I still gave my parents money, which is unreasonable." Kong Jie defended.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "That's a woman who uses her husband's family's money to subsidize her parents' family, so that's unreasonable. But if a woman earns money herself, she will give her some to her parents' family in addition to raising her own children. Is this wrong?"

Kong Jie said again: "But she is already married. Shouldn't the money she earns be filial to her parents-in-law?"

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Making money to support parents is something that the son should do. If a man cannot support his parents and still asks his wife to make money to his adoptive parents, such a man is not a waste of food? What is the use of him? He is still wasting national resources in vain! Such a person is not worthy of living in the world at all! In the future, the Ming Dynasty will introduce new laws. The best outcome of such lazy waste is that Nordics send forced labor, or to the battlefield as cannon fodder, to reduce the burden on the country. A man is capable, but three wives and four concubines are not a problem, but he is not capable. It is better to send forced labor as soon as possible."

Although Kong Jie's level of thought could not understand the connection between the strength of the country and whether his family had money, after Zhao Peng patiently persuaded him, he still agreed to let his daughter Xiaoya go to school.

The next morning, Xiaoya entered the elementary school and started class in the same class as her brother.

On the first day, Xiaoya, who went to school, changed into a new dress and came to the school. When she arrived at the school, she found that there were many girls of her age in the class who came to school.

Teacher Mr. Wang stood on the podium, with a large white wooden board hanging in front of the podium. Mr. Wang stood on the podium, holding a teaching stick in his hand. First, he introduced himself: "Hello, classmates, my name is Wang Jincai. He was originally a student from the north. It was just because the north was first attacked by bandits, and then Jiannu invaded the Central Plains and stole the Central Plains. We scholars couldn't survive and fled to the south. Fortunately, the Marquis took us in, so he got this job. I have the honor to be your teacher."

After briefly introducing himself, Mr. Wang began to name the roster. The student who clicked the name stood up and shouted "Ar" and then Mr. Wang called the roster.

After clicking the name, Wang Jincai picked up the pen and wrote five words on the white wooden board behind the podium: We are from Han.

Xiaoya and her brother discovered that the words written by the husband were not from top to bottom, but from left to right, and from left to right, which was arranged in a different way from the books and newspapers they had seen in the past.

In fact, Wang Jincai himself was not used to this arrangement of writing, because in ancient China, they wrote from top to bottom, from right to left. However, after entering this school, Zhao Peng asked the teacher to write from left to right. This is because of the large wooden board behind the podium. If he still wrote in the old arrangement, then after writing the words, the cuffs on the teacher's robe will be rubbed to the words written before hanging on the board. After a class, not only will the original words be wiped, but the cuffs will also become very dirty.

Therefore, Zhao Peng demanded that future teaching must be from left to right.

In fact, this is also to prepare for better learning Western physics, chemistry and mathematics in the future. Various mathematical, physics and chemistry formulas are arranged from left to right. Once they are changed to the Chinese style from top to bottom and from right to left, the formulas will become very awkward and are very unfavorable to the development of science and technology. Therefore, Zhao Peng decided to align with the international level and changed the arrangement of the articles.

Wang Jincai and most of the teachers were not used to it at first, but after they arranged their writing according to the old method several times, their cuffs became dirty and they also wiped all the content they had written before, so they gradually changed the original writing order.
Chapter completed!