Chapter 7 The Importance of Involving Women in Social Work

Regarding this, Zelen does not deny it. After all, from the time when the Rimai people established the Crurod Empire, to the 999th year, which is about to enter the 1000th year, there have been many meritorious officials from the Rimai people.

And these are basically all male meritorious ministers. Even if they originally only had one wife, under His Majesty's rule at that time, they would basically have several more wives as rewards.

Therefore, Zelen is also very headache now. This is an act of treating women as livestock, such as pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and ducks, and giving them away in public. But Zelen had no choice. The tradition of the Japanese and Mai people was really difficult to change. In particular, the concept of male superiority and female inferiority is fully reflected when all congressional officials are male. Even though officials in the later Pa'au Republic proposed a bill on women's equity, with the invasion of black-haired kobolds and various monsters, such as poisonous bugs and the like, they were raging in town after town.

This is the case for many things, and unfortunately they are delayed.

Of course, for himself, he doesn't mind too much whether he really has ten wives, but he always has some concerns about such a "reward".

At least his father had one and only one wife, his mother, Heras Lisa Beatrice. So he was lucky that what he was thinking about now was his own uncle and officials like Senagou who were giving him ideas to solve this problem.

The problem is that he knows in his heart that precisely because 999 years have passed since the founding of the Krurod Empire, the legal permission for polygamy has long been embedded in the entire Japanese and Mai society. Although later laws added how to define the main room and the side room and what rights they should have. However, the Krurod Empire, which has many traditions, has always been a country where men are superior to women, even if women can avoid being in a weak position in society by becoming shamans.

At the same time, he also noticed the surrounding slums. Many men were armed and were always on guard against external invasion. But women...

Although it was a bit unpleasant to hear this from Zelen, not all women in the Krorod Empire came out to work since the founding of the country. Moreover, there are quite a few women who are full-time housewives, especially many male husbands who only marry one wife and have such demands on their spouses.

This situation is more obvious even for relatively wealthy families, or even aristocratic families with several wives.

Zelen: "Paula, I have a question for you. You, your full name...is your father a bride-in-law?"

Paula: "That's right. He used to be a skilled gunsmith, but later he was spotted by my mother and got married."

Zelen: "Your father has no objection?"

Paula: "Why do you have any objections? Our family was very rich at that time. People outside said that whoever wants to marry can marry into a wife. Home Inns had to judge the house with both eyes and noses."

Zelen: "That's it..."

Paula: "And I am not really the only one in the Ru family. If it is really needed, the Ru family can find one from the previous branch families, or even find a few more male members to come back. But now due to the invasion of the pig-headed people, there are still With the poisonous plague lice raging, a girl like me has no choice but to look after the house. Of course, I will definitely send one of my sons to Rujia to inherit the Ruger Company.”

Zelen: "Well, Natalie, Nathalie, do you two want your children not to have my last name, and just like the old rules, take a large amount of money from me to establish your own separate family?" "

Natalie: "Okay."

Nathalie: "No problem."

Zelen: "Well, Paula, can you allow women like Natalie and Nathalie to come to Ruger's production workshop to work in arms production?"

Paula: "Ah? How... how can this work? Now I no longer have the original workshop, but if we really want to produce weapons and equipment, male mechanics are the most important."

Zelen: "Because neither Natalie nor Nathalie know how to make guns and cannons? Additional training is required?"

Paula: "They are too young. If they really want to engage in military production...then they can only be trained by assembling accessories, and then...that still won't work."

Zelen: "Paula, now you have seen it. There are not enough men in the empire now, and women need to be involved in this aspect."

Paula: "It's better to find a way to restore the previous assembly line production method. But this is the Shaman chassis of the Green Snake Party, and they have never had much demand for modern weapons and equipment. Even I saw Looking at the buildings around them, there are at most a few scattered gun repair shops and ammunition shops.”

Zelen: "So, Paula, can you unify these repair stations with the ammunition stores and serve as your employees in rebuilding Ruger?"

Paula: "It's okay, that's okay..."

Zelen: "And I have a question, how many are there?"

Natalie: "Well, Zelen, at least I heard from my father and the others that Ariko are those black-haired kobolds who don't know what language they speak, and there are also code names specially used by pig-headed people, which represent a series of magic uses. So, five years ago, I heard about six Yulizi appearing in different towns."

Zelen: "Six rich men all have the same face, wear the same sailor uniform and come out to attack the city?"

Natalie: "Yes. According to Uncle Senago and others, this is some kind of replicator..."

Copy?

Copy people in batches?

Although Zelun had received elite education from the royal family before, his understanding of this thing was similar to that of Natalie, who was full of confusion.

But is this possible?

This is not about the ammunition in the arsenal, but about living soldiers one after another.

Natalie: "Well... if there is a gun that can fire special bullets, it would be great to kill Yuriko with one shot. Our mother would also..."

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

Zelun glanced in the direction of Natalie, and then he began to recall.

Yes.

The Krurod Empire in the past had such rifle or pistol bullets, and they could be fired on ordinary firearms.

For this reason, Zelun quickly found a notebook and began to write some suggestions for his Majesty the Emperor to help the Krurod Empire rebuild quickly.

So, as more than 70,000 people returned to Sugui City three days later, they collected materials for various productions while gradually building the basic defense facilities of the city. Zelen's proposal was strongly supported by his uncle, Prime Minister Heras Envira.

Especially the suggestion of letting women who had not left their families and were housewives wholeheartedly to carry out various production activities, even Sennagu had no objection.

After all, when the republicans such as Sennagu were in power before, they strongly supported civilians, promoted civilians to officials, and even publicly promoted special women's schools to solve women's employment problems. Although until now, Zelen also knows that many men are quite resistant to women coming out to work.

But now the times have changed.

Of course, in order to set an example, Zelen went directly to the Ruger Company reopened by Paula and personally took Natalie and Nassery to participate in the production of guns and ammunition.

Technician A: "Your Majesty, you..."

Zelen: "I know you may not understand why I brought them here to be assemblers, but including you, who among you has not sent your young and strong men to serve in the army? Therefore, when there are not enough male subjects, female employees are inevitable. And more importantly, if our weapons and equipment are simple enough for ordinary female subjects to easily produce and even maintain, it will be of great use to our Krurod Empire. Just like the revolver I asked them to assemble now, although there is a clear gap compared to the automatic pistol loaded with a magazine, we don’t have the conditions to say it now."

Technician A: "Uh..."

Zelen: "So I, the emperor, also came to help and see what I can do for everyone."

Unlike the twin sisters, Zelen is in another position to check the production of bullets.

After all, a gun without bullets is not as good as a machete. And according to the Ruger company information held by Paula, the Ruger company that has resumed work and production in Sugui City will naturally give priority to the production of 9×59mm rifle bullets and 11×24mm pistol bullets.

Especially the former, compared to self-defense weapons such as pistols, rifles are weapons that every soldier must be proficient in using...