For the safety of Jin Feng and the Ninth Princess, Da Liu arranged the escort team exactly according to the marching pattern.
Not only were the escorts fully armed, they also used war horses to drag a hot-air balloon as a warning in the middle of the team.
Before Zuo Zhiyuan set off, he specially made two luxury carriages, one for Jin Feng and one for Princess Ninth and Concubine Qing.
At this time, Concubine Qing was lying on the carriage window looking outside, with an excited look on her face.
In the feudal era, there were many restrictions on women, and they did not even have the freedom to go out at will.
Girls from ordinary people's families are slightly better off, since they have to work in the fields after all.
A woman like Concubine Qing, who comes from a wealthy family, has many requirements. Before getting married, she must stay in the boudoir compound and cannot easily see outsiders. After getting married, there are even more rules and regulations.
Although Concubine Qing is an imperial concubine, she has lived for almost forty years and this is her first time traveling far away.
Looking at the merchants coming and going on the road, his face was full of curiosity, and he pulled the ninth princess to ask questions.
It seems that the Ninth Princess is the mother-in-law.
However, Princess Ninth was not impatient and patiently answered all her questions with Concubine Qing.
Jin Feng was sitting on another carriage, lowering his head and sorting various manuscripts.
Teaching people to fish is worse than teaching them to fish. If you want people to completely get rid of poverty, the best way is not to give them money directly, nor to give them a job, but to teach their children the knowledge to change their destiny.
With the Ninth Princess and Concubine Qing in tow, the journey would definitely be difficult, so Jin Feng planned to take advantage of this time to continue compiling teaching materials.
Some time ago, he had sent a message back to Xihewan, asking Guan Xiaorou to buy the vacant land between Guanjia Village and Tianjia Village and start building classrooms and dormitories.
He also sent a letter to Jiangnan, asking the person in charge of the chamber of commerce there to purchase literate domestic slaves from various places.
Jiangnan was relatively wealthy, and the number of literate domestic slaves was higher than in other places.
Although Jin Feng's slave release order is currently only valid around the capital, some well-informed local wealthy families have already received the news, and they know that since the capital city has been used as a pilot to implement the slave release order, it is not far away from being spread throughout the country.
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Many aristocratic wealthy families, with the idea of stopping their losses in time, began to sell domestic slaves in large quantities, and dental markets everywhere were overcrowded.
This made the already low price of domestic slaves even lower. Some parents who had no choice but to sell their children to wealthy families as slaves also took advantage of the Ninth Princess' work-for-relief opportunity and earned some money to buy their children back.
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In the Dakang family slave market, girls and children have never been sold for a high price, but if they are from a poor family like Tang Dongdong and Tang Xiaobei, or a prisoner like Zuo Feifei, the price will be higher.
Most of them are literate, and some are proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. If they are bought back, they can not only be concubines, but also teach their children to read and write.
Many wealthy families were unwilling to sell such domestic slaves before, but after hearing about the slave release order, they also sold these slaves.
Stopping losses in time is only one aspect. Many wealthy families also heard that the person who proposed the slave release order, that is, the newly appointed national master, was particularly disgusted with the behavior of keeping domestic slaves.
During the great purges of the capital, the more domestic slaves a family had, and the more ruthlessly they persecuted their slaves, the more severe the punishment they would receive when their homes were ransacked.
The wealthy families sold their domestic slaves at this time as an act of self-preservation.
Therefore, the slave manumission order has not yet been promoted nationwide, but it has already caused countless families to be reunited.
This was something Jin Feng had never thought of before.
Naturally, Jin Feng would not let go of such a good opportunity. He specifically reminded him in his letter to the person in charge of Jiangnan that all Jinchuan chambers of commerce in Jiangnan should go to Yahang to purchase as many domestic slaves as they wanted.
The money for purchasing a domestic slave is borne by the domestic slave himself, and the interest on the Huimin loan is calculated according to the interest of the domestic slave, and the domestic slave is allowed to participate in the work-for-relief program to repay the debt.
Those children who could no longer find their families and were not very capable of working almost always purchased gifts from other domestic slaves. Jin Feng waived their ransom money and allowed them to temporarily go to various construction sites to do odd jobs and have enough to eat.
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As for those girls who could read and calculate, they were specifically asked by the local chamber of commerce if they were willing to work and live in Jinchuan.
Most of these girls have lost their families and have nowhere to go even if they are free.
In addition, the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce has now become famous in Jiangnan. I don’t know how many girls dream of becoming female shopkeepers and female clerks in the chamber of commerce. Therefore, more than 99% of the girls who were specifically asked by the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce agreed to go to Jinchuan.
When Jin Feng's normal school opens, these girls will be the first batch of students.
After these girls complete their studies, they will become the first batch of professionally trained teachers in Dakang.
They will become little sparks, scattered throughout Dakang, forming a prairie fire.
When he thought of these, Jin Feng became full of energy.
While he was lying on the table writing furiously, Da Liu knocked on the carriage window.
"Sir, the little girl from the tea stall is here!"
"Arrived at the tea stall so soon?"
Jin Feng put down his quill and stretched.
"It's still several miles to the tea stall. The little girl ran here by herself." Da Liu replied.
"You ran here by yourself?"
Hearing this, Jin Feng opened the carriage window.
Not far away, I saw a little girl standing on the roadside with a small bundle on her back, showing two neat rows of white teeth, grinning at herself.
"Let the child come up and have a rest."
Jin Feng saw that the child was sweating profusely from exhaustion and quickly asked Liu to carry her into the carriage.
"Brother God of War, I finally see you again!"
Seeing Jin Feng, the little girl smiled even more happily.
"Why don't you just wait at the tea stall? Why are you traveling so far?"
Jin Feng picked up the towel from the table and wiped the sweat off the child's face.
It was only then that I discovered that there were two obvious mud marks on the child's knees and elbows. He must have fallen while running over.
"Ah Chun wants to see Brother God of War soon!"
The little girl answered with a smile.
Until now, she is still out of breath when speaking.
"Now that I see you, sit down and have a rest."
Jin Feng pushed the little girl onto a chair and prepared to pour her a glass of water.
As a result, before he could reach out, the child had already picked up the teapot, poured a glass of water and handed it to Jin Feng: "Brother God of War, do you want a drink of water? Here!"
The movements are extremely skillful.
"I don't want to drink. I just want to give you a glass of water."
Jin Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head.
The children in Dakang are so sensible, not just the little girls, but also the children in the village. Many of them are so sensible that it makes people feel sad.
Is it because the little girl is so fond of Jin Feng now because she has a good relationship with Jin Feng?
not really.
In fact, she only met Jin Feng once.
She wanted to please Jin Feng because she had endured hardships and knew that there were very few opportunities to live a good life, so she cherished them very much.
The little girl was about to speak when a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from outside the car.
Jin Feng opened the carriage window and glanced at the sky, frowning slightly.
This is the sounding arrow used by bodyguards as an early warning.