The Rise of the European Emperor

There is a reason why cotton can replace linen and woolen cloth. Cotton cloth is not only soft and comfortable, but also easy to clean. It is a good material for underwear. It is said that after the introduction of Indian cotton cloth, the personal hygiene level of Europeans has been greatly improved.

Of course, Marin didn't want to replace silk and woolen cloth with cotton cloth. why? It's not in his interest! If cotton was popular in Europe, silk and woolen cloth would fall out of favor. The silk trade in the Ming Dynasty was precisely an important interest of Marin. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to replace silk and woolen cloth with cotton cloth.

However, cotton cloth can be used to make underwear!

Marin's plan is to make Europeans accustomed to wearing cotton underwear and woolen sweaters in the future. As for the outside, the aristocrats and the rich wear silk coats, and the common people wear woolen and linen coats...

In this way, the three kinds of textiles have their own living space and do not interfere with each other. And Marin also guaranteed the interests of his own silk.

In fact, this distribution model is very much in the style of later generations. In modern times, people are used to wearing cotton underwear and sweaters outside the underwear to keep out the cold. Then, it’s up to you to go outside, depending on your personal preferences and financial resources...

Under the impetus of Marin, some women in Beihai have learned to knit sweaters, and can knit sweaters and wool pants that are very effective in preventing cold. These sweaters are tight-fitting and do not look cumbersome when worn. You can also wear silk robes outside, which is very convenient and fashionable. Before Marin introduced sweaters, Europeans' inner cold-proof clothes were mainly jackets made of sheepskin, the kind with wool. However, the effect of cold protection is not so good. In particular, the arm parts cannot be taken care of. Or, simply made of woolen cloth, worn in multiple layers, but very heavy. Unlike hand-knitted sweaters, if the workmanship and material are good, the knitted sweater is light, warm and breathable.

In addition, the most important point is hand-knitting sweaters, which has no space restrictions and does not require machinery and equipment, which is very suitable for women who are free. Just go to the store and buy some balls of yarn and a few wooden needles, and you'll be fine knitting.

Marin clearly remembered that in his previous life, his mother and the women next door, before winter came, a few women in the neighborhood gathered together to chat and gossip during the slack hours, knitting sweaters there without stopping.

Knitting sweaters can generate benefits. Women with good craftsmanship can not only knit sweaters for their families, but even Marin will arrange stores under the Beihai Club to place orders with skilled women during the slack time and ask them to help knit high-quality sweaters , and then acquire them and concentrate on sales. In this way, those handy women also have an extra income during the slack time, which can subsidize their families. This is definitely a great thing for ordinary people, and it can improve the family's economic conditions a lot.

In addition, because knitting sweaters can consume a lot of wool, it is also a good stimulus for sheep farming. After all, even poor-quality rough wool can be used for knitting sweaters after being spun into wool, and it is cheap.

In this way,

Beihai has formed a complete industrial chain of "raising sheep, shearing wool, purchasing wool, spinning thread and knitting sweaters", which has fed many people and made ordinary family life much better. At the same time, it can also generate a lot of tax revenue.

Even, Marin also ordered to spend money to hire women with the highest knitting skills in a certain place, and organize local young women and girls to learn knitting techniques from them during the slack time. As a result, knitting sweaters has become an important job for ordinary women in Beihai in their spare time. It can not only pass the time, but also bring income to the family. Of course, the premise is that your craftsmanship is not too trendy. Otherwise, the purchase store is rejected...

For now, due to limited funds and traditional social concepts, the government-run artisan school in Beihai currently only enrolls boys. As for girls, regular schooling is not yet possible.

But Marin has decided to take advantage of the opportunity to focus on teaching knitting skills, and also teach those girls to recognize some words. It doesn't require a high level, you can at least read characters, and then learn basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at the elementary school level. In this way, in daily life in the future, people will not be deceived because they do not have the ability to calculate.

Even, Marin did not plan to spend money to establish a dedicated girls' school, but planned to directly borrow churches from various places. Anyway, the church is idle except on Sundays. During the slack season, it is entirely possible to hold a "sweater knitting training class" in the church and call all the women together. While knitting sweaters, they can find nuns to teach the girls literacy and the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The teaching equipment is also very simple. The nuns who teach use blackboards and chalk, while the girls who study use the cheapest sand tables and branches. In this way, girls from the North Sea country can be given the most basic writing and arithmetic skills without using a venue or spending a lot of money. It doesn't need to be high, just the level of the second grade of elementary school is enough. Moreover, the time is set at 10:00 am during the slack season, so it doesn't delay the girl's usual work at home...

As for the name, it will be implemented in the name of "knitting sweater training class". Anyway, the Beihai State Church is under Marin's control, and those church members dare not say anything. There is no cost to borrow the church site. As for teaching little girls to read and write, nuns must be used, lest there be any strange priests. Although nuns are not available everywhere, it is not difficult for a church to arrange a nun. Big deal, the government arranged for a carriage to go to the convent to pick up the nuns to teach in churches around the world.

Of course, for some particularly smart girls, Marin didn't want to bury and waste them. Once the nun finds out that the little girl is very smart, Marin will allocate financial funds to send her to a girls' school specially set up by Marin for free for further training. Then, according to their specialties and hobbies, cultivate suitable talents.

As a traveler of later generations, Marin does not discriminate against women. Even in his previous life, Marin did not dare to discriminate against women. Otherwise, she will be warned by Nvquan...

Therefore, Marin agreed that if women shift their attention from love, entertainment, makeup and luxury goods to serious business, they will not be much worse than men except for physical work.

Of course, in this era, limited by social values, it is impossible for Marin to provide women with too many employment opportunities. However, there are some professions where women are not allowed. For example, gynecologists, especially obstetricians and nurses, must be women. At present, the midwives in Beihai State have little education and low professionalism, which is a safety hazard.

We must know that women's production is related to the plan of population growth. Therefore, most of the smart girls selected from the "sweater knitting training class" will be trained as professional gynecologists and nurses in the future.

Of course, this depends on personal interests and expertise. For those girls who don't like to be doctors, Marin will arrange for them to learn clothing tailoring and design, as well as art and other occupations that are very suitable for girls. There are also some people who will stay and serve as teachers in girls' schools to train more smart women.

And if there are very rare scientific research women, Marin will not refuse. On the contrary, they are specially encouraged and protected. After all, having more scientific researchers is also what Marin is looking forward to.

The basis of all this is the basic education and selection of the "sweater knitting training class". Marin is very familiar with this kind of black-box operation method of "selling dog meat with sheep's tricks". Just like the "craftsman school" that is very popular in Beihai now, it is actually the primary and secondary schools that are very popular in later generations. It's just that it is aimed at the common people and focuses on science. After all, Marin wants to protect the interests of the nobility. However, it does not prevent the children of ordinary people from being able to stand out through the science and engineering industry and change their own destiny.

And this "sweater knitting training course" of "selling dog meat" is to give smart women of this era a chance, a chance to get out of poverty. If they become female doctors, nurses, fashion designers, artists or scientific researchers, their treatment will definitely be higher than that of ordinary people, and they will be protected by Marin. At that time, Marin will not only give these powerful women higher salaries, but also deliberately raise their social status to attract more girls.