Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 417 - 414: Equal Treatment Regardless of Gender
Actually, according to the general thinking of the people in the Great Tang, many things are passed on to men and not to women. It makes sense for the Lin Clan Leader to act this way within the context of the times.
But Lin Wanwan, after all, comes from the modern era. She can travel back and forth; she didn’t just come to the Great Tang and can’t return to the modern world.
Therefore, in her thinking, Lin Wanwan has never been assimilated by the natives of the Great Tang. She does not accept the preference of men over women among her clan!
Since she could travel through time, Lin Wanwan started looking up time travel novels and TV shows online. She couldn’t understand why some women who traveled back in time would immediately submit to the ways of the past, adhering to outdated concepts even more than ancient women. Isn’t this a huge step backwards in thinking?!
Lin Wanwan rather enjoyed reading those empress novels about conquering the world, as those are exhilarating stories of powerful female protagonists.
Unfortunately, she traveled to the early Tang dynasty! It was the peak of the Great Tang with many exceptional people!
Under the reign of the great emperor Li Shimin, unless Lin Wanwan could bring over a modern army, otherwise, not even mentioning Li Shimin, the Military God Li Jing could eliminate her in no time.
This big figure’s military prowess was astonishingly high; just looking at the battles he fought from the end of last year to the beginning of this year proves this.
Even when studying historical records, Lin Wanwan couldn’t understand why Li Jing could win wars so easily!
Li Zhi, who came after Li Shimin, seemed overshadowed by his wife’s brilliance, but a look at world history reveals that he was a more formidable character than his wife.
Under Li Zhi’s reign, the Great Tang Territory was the largest from south to north, and from east to west, the territory was vast beyond belief.
The three campaigns against Goguryeo signified the start of Yang Guang’s downfall and the land that Li Shimin couldn’t conquer, but Li Zhi did!
He conquered Goguryeo, and the Korean Peninsula became part of the Great Tang. Not only that, but he also took the entire Western Regions!
Ever since Li Zhi conquered the Western Turks, unifying the Western Regions, the remnants of the Western Turks he drove out went to Europe, where they feared the Great Tang and instead wreaked havoc in Europe, directly affecting European history.
After Li Zhi, his famous empress wife took the throne. This empress didn’t make much headway externally, but was formidable internally.
The Five Families and Seven Hopes, and other aristocratic descendants were beheaded under her rule, and the imperial examination system was thriving, with imperial power reaching unprecedented heights.
So for Lin Wanwan, a novice in military and politics, what could she do to defy these great gods?
Hence, she could only fantasize through exhilarating novels, while contently living as a local rich person by the sea in Mao County!
There is no unhappiness in a salted fish life, conquering the world has its own joys, while farming and fishing have theirs!
However, in her own small domain, she must argue based on principles. She first needed to change the Lin Clan Leader’s mindset of favoring men over women. She took the first bite with the establishment of the school, and now she would take the second bite with the production of sweet potato noodles!
After Lin Wanwan’s persuasion, the Lin Clan Leader contemplated for two days and eventually gave in.
There was no other way, as the person of highest status in the clan now was Le’an Village Lady Lin Wanwan. The Lin Clan Leader had to seriously consider her opinion.
Lin Wanwan gently reasoned with the Lin Clan Leader. She passionately spoke about the benefits of women marrying into alliances after becoming strong——oh no, she talked eloquently.
Besides, the secret of sweet potato noodles wouldn’t stay secret for too long, because Xiao Chong would definitely teach the local farmers near his land how to make sweet potato noodles.
Xiao Chong was not doing this with Lin Wanwan for profit, but to help the entire Mao County population lift themselves out of poverty and become prosperous.
For beneficial things like producing sweet potato starch and sweet potato noodles, Xiao Chong would only worry the promotion wasn’t thorough enough, so he definitely wouldn’t keep it secret.
Moreover, any observant nobles could also figure out the method of making noodles as long as they had access to the "Essential Techniques for the People", making the secrecy rather pointless.
The Lin Clan Leader was convinced by Lin Wanwan, and the women of Lin Family Manor could learn to make sweet potato noodles as long as they wished.
Who wouldn’t want to? Even if the young girls didn’t understand, their elders at home would knock some sense into them with sticks if need be.
Such an opportunity to learn a craft is not available to everyone, especially less so for women!
Why are female doctors in the Great Tang inferior to male doctors? It’s because most medical families don’t pass on their skills, ointments, etc., to women!
Without Lin Wanwan, the fate of these girls in Lin Family Manor would have been totally different!
Even just the girls in the school who are learning to read and write alongside the boys have already had their destinies completely changed.
A woman who can read and do arithmetic is definitely a sought-after bride in Great Tang Village, plus the Lin Clan has overall good looks.
Big eyes and high noses are the standard features of Lin Clan members. Only a rare genetic mutation would result in someone slightly unattractive.
There aren’t many marriageable-age girls in Lin Family Manor; those under thirteen have entered the school, still young; only four girls over thirteen are engaged, all to either famous rich farmers in the area or town residents.
If a girl wanted to marry, there was never a problem. Especially in poor and remote areas, there are many bachelors, but very few old maids.
Even now, the four engaged girls in the clan have no education, but just by benefiting from the changes in Lin Family Manor over the past year, they have already secured excellent matches that make rural girls envious.
When the new batch of girls who study, can read, and manage the household reach marriageable age, won’t they be frantically sought after?
The women of Lin Family Manor enthusiastically made sweet potato starch and noodles. Sixteen thousand to seventeen thousand pounds of sweet potatoes, after keeping seeds and for self-consumption, the rest were all made into noodles and a small amount of starch, resulting in nearly three thousand pounds of noodles!
While this quantity sounds large, it’s just a regular factory’s daily output in modern times. But in the Great Tang, it’s enough to sell at the town market for days.
After all, noodles aren’t something ordinary people can afford. Being the first wave in a monopolized industry, the profit can naturally be higher.
By the time Xiao Chong starts selling as well, Lin Family Manor would have likely sold most of it already, so there’s no fear of competition.
Everyone is quite optimistic.
And rightfully so, with Teacher Lin leading the way, they’re not afraid of messing things up. Besides, if it doesn’t sell, they could just eat it themselves.
Teacher Lin said this product, if stored in a dry and dark place, can last two to three years.
Of course, people naturally hope to sell if they can, as the current price of a pound of sweet potato noodles is equivalent to ten pounds of rice!
The pricing of sweet potato noodles was set by Lin Wanwan after sending Sun Chuyao to investigate the prices of other noodles in Mao County. People in Lin Family Manor had no opinion on this; they just followed Teacher Lin’s lead.
They’re all coastal villagers who only know fishing and farming, not business dealings.
This time, the students in the school contributed greatly to the sale of noodles because, after all, children aged seven and above were taught arithmetic! They were perfect for calculating sales while selling products.
