Yi Shuihan replied.
"Then wouldn't you be abolishing other forms of slavery as well?"
"Yes."
Xiao Qingyin appreciated his decision, but she was also a little worried.
"Won't you be taking too big a step? It might affect the interests of many people, and you'll probably encounter a lot of resistance."
In this era, which man with a little money and status wouldn't want to have three wives and four concubines?
“Fortunately,” Yi Shuihan replied, “Nandan is a special case. Only a small number of people take concubines. Each tribe has its own situation. Some are walking marriage tribes, so this system does not exist. Others have always been monogamous.”
"What about slavery?"
"It's pretty much the same situation."
Xiao Qingyin praised him highly.
She then added, "However, we also need to consider employment. Women need to have their own source of income and be able to support themselves so that they can stand tall."
Yi Shuihan nodded: "Yes, we need to make sure they have jobs that earn them money."
Xiao Qingyin provided him with some ideas, such as improving textile machines and developing the textile industry.
Yi Shuihan wrote a letter specifically asking Wei Yan to help improve the spinning machine.
Wei Yan did not disappoint him and quickly designed a textile machine that increased production several times over. The textile industry became the second industry that Nandan developed.
The first is the pharmaceutical industry, which has developed by relying on its unique natural resource advantages.
Emerging industries provide numerous job opportunities for women, and since the enactment of the new law, an increasing number of concubines from wealthy families have left their homes.
Some people are very dissatisfied, but they are helpless.
However, very few women apply for the national civil service exam. The reason for this is that there are too few educated women.
Yi Shuihan plans to implement compulsory education, and schools are already being built in various states, but textbooks have not yet been compiled.
Just as he was getting anxious, Marquis Yong'an and Princess Zhaoyang arrived.
He immediately came up with a solution.
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