I will never be Renzong

Chapter 200

In a bustling courtyard in Kaifeng, Shen Moran had just put his daughter Shen Ruojia to sleep, and was about to walk to a side desk to deal with some paperwork from the Royal Chamber of Commerce, but Zhao Zhen suddenly walked in from outside.

"Wife!"

"Shh!"

When Zhao Zhen saw Shen Moran put his hand to his mouth, he quickly asked softly: "Is Jia'er asleep?"

"Well! She just fell asleep, don't wake her up!"

Shen Moran saw Zhao Zhen walking to the bed and looking at his sleeping daughter, and hurriedly stepped forward and took his hand towards the outside.

As soon as he arrived outside, Zhao Zhen pulled Shen Moran into his arms and said, "Honey! I miss you so much. I'm so busy these days that I don't even have time to leave the palace to see you and Jia'er."

Xu Shi hadn't seen him for two months, so he was panicking, so Zhao Zhen buried his head in Shen Moran's slender neck, his left hand held Shen Moran's graceful waist, while his right hand was flexible to untie Shen Moran's waist belt between.

Shen Moran hurriedly grabbed Zhao Zhen's mischievous hand, and panted coquettishly, "Husband! Don't! My relative is here!"

This sentence immediately made Zhao Zhen feel cold, and then he quickly let go of his hand, collapsed on a wicker chair nearby, and then said with a melancholy face: "Your relatives have not visited us since long ago, why did they visit us today?" Here we are, if I had known this, I should have looked at the almanac when I left the palace today!"

Seeing this, Shen Moran couldn't help laughing, and the flowers trembled wildly, then walked to the wicker chair and sat on Zhao Zhen's lap, and said with a smile: "There are so many women in your palace, they should be so happy, why are they always like this? , as soon as I come here, I will toss me first, last time I shamelessly snatched my daughter's rations!"

Zhao Zhen put his arms around Shen Moran's waist, and then said: "No matter how many women there are in the palace, but only with you can I feel at home, because only here can I take off all the disguises and be the most authentic self !"

Shen Moran suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly: "By the way! Husband, I went to those primary schools a few days ago and found that there were still too few girls going to school. There were 100 students in a school, but there were only a few women. Four or five, this is not going to work."

Zhao Zhen frowned and said: "About the matter of women's enrollment, I have argued with the court ministers countless times, and issued edicts several times, but the common people don't take it seriously. It's a headache!"

Shen Moran is obviously a feminist, and wants to fight for more power for the majority of women compatriots in the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Zhen is a big boss in the patriarchal society, and he is not easy to directly disagree with his officials on some things.

Seeing this, Shen Moran said seriously: "Husband! Don't you believe that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue? You must know that this sentence has caused misery to us women. There was a boss in the chamber of commerce the day before yesterday, and his pregnant child was I gave it to my business partner, and when I found out, I kicked him out of the chamber of commerce."

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen said: "My wife! You are wrong. A woman without talent is a virtue. It is said by scholars in the Ming Dynasty. It has nothing to do with the people of the Song Dynasty. Besides, if you say this sentence, a man with virtue is a man. It is talent", the lower line is a woman's lack of talent is virtue, the meaning of the upper line is to hope that a promising man should take virtue as the main act, and use talent as the supplementary meaning, and warn every man to take virtue as the main act Instead of telling men not to pay attention to talent.The meaning of the second couplet is to persuade women to be virtuous, not to say that women cannot study.This sentence is completely misunderstood by later generations! "

Seeing this, Zhao Zhen said again: "Look, among the concubines in the harem, none of them are full of talent, and the poems they make are hundreds of times better than mine. If I didn't rely on plagiarism, I'm afraid I'd have been rejected by others." They were kicked out!"

Seeing this, Shen Moran couldn't help but sighed, and then said: "Those ladies from rich families will ask their husbands to teach them to read and write, but how can those women from hard-working families afford to hire a husband! The reason why I work so hard to make money for you , I also hope that you can more or less change the fate of some women in this era, but you."

Although Zhao Zhen didn't know much about the lives of low-level women in this era, he knew that due to the prosperous culture of the Song Dynasty, the literati's vision was very high. Choosing a wife is not only based on appearance, but also whether they can play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Proficient, so even the young lady of the brothel is a person who sticks to words.

When Confucianism was not castrated, the status of women in the Song Dynasty was even higher than that in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Zhen thought about it and said: "Actually, I have issued edicts that are beneficial to women before. For example, in the sixth year of Tiansheng, I issued an edict that all women who enter the palace, whether they are palace maids or beautiful ladies, are not allowed to have their feet bound. , and even sent people around to issue edicts about prohibiting footbinding, it’s not that I don’t give women rights, but I have to do it bit by bit, after all, I also have my own difficulties!”

Foot-binding began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and rose in the Northern Song Dynasty. Every man loves the three-inch golden lotus, but what men love is the pure natural three-inch golden lotus. It is by no means a deformed beauty caused by physical disabilities caused by foot-binding. One of the main reasons why the beauty of Li Rong was abandoned by her husband after she was spotted by her husband.

Shen Moran put her arms around Zhao Zhen's neck, and said, "Husband! Can't you think of a way to let poor girls enter school?"

Zhao Zhen thought for a while, and then said: "At present, there are two reasons why women are less enrolled in school. One is influenced by the traditional concept of incompatibility between men and women. The other is that parents think that women's studies are useless. Female red, it is reasonable to make money early to support the family or marry a good man, but this can also be solved, but in the end it is all about money!"

Shen Moran was puzzled and said, "Why does this have something to do with money again?"

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "The reason why the ministers of the DPRK and China opposed women's enrollment was that men and women were not able to get along with each other. This is easy to solve. Just build some women's schools, but it may be more difficult to recruit teachers!"

Shen Moran said again: "Then what if those parents don't give them school?"

Zhao Zhen said nonchalantly: "This is actually quite easy to solve. I will issue an edict that any woman who enrolls in school will be exempted from the poll tax for five years. What do you think?"

At the beginning, Zhao Zhen implemented the primary school system. It was originally planned to be five years, but in the end, it was only three years based on reality. Zhao Zhen also built county schools in various states and counties. County schools also lasted three years, and the source of students is the following primary schools Among the best.

Shen Moran thought about it for a while, and then said: "This is a good idea, but in this way, doesn't the court need to spend less?"

Zhao Zhen shrugged, and then said: "So what do I say? After all, it's about money!"

Shen Moran suddenly remembered something, so he got up and walked inside, then took out a book and handed it to Zhao Zhen, saying, "Husband! Take a look at this and think about whether it's feasible."

Zhao Zhen opened the book and saw that there were various procedures related to the preparation of the bank.

(End of this chapter)