I became emperor in the Tang Dynasty by relying on the palace fighting system

Pei Xuan's face was filled with resentment: "We have also made contributions to the cleansing of the Youzhou officialdom. Why can their men be recommended as officials, but we women cannot?"

Li Zhao was also unhappy, but she couldn't show it, so Li Chao just smiled at her without saying anything.

With a chuckle, some of the male students and male officials who were recommended laughed.

When Pei Xuan turned around, he saw a yellow-robed male official grinning and saying, "Madam Pei, have you forgotten?"

"Most of the civil servants in our Tang Dynasty come from the imperial examination system. We have to pass the regular imperial examinations before we are qualified to be recommended as officials."

The male student glanced at Pei Xuan and the other girls, his eyes hinting at contempt: "And you... have you ever taken the regular exams?"

"Did he pass the Jinshi exam, Mingjing exam, or Mingfa exam?"

Imperial examination, origin!

One of the most important conditions for being an official nowadays.

The Jade Maiden and Jade Boy Examination that Yudou Xuanzun opened a few years ago was just a special examination, a temporary examination, used for selecting officials for the Taiwei Changzhu Palace. It was different from regular examinations such as the Jinshi Examination and the Mingjing Examination.

But in the Tang Dynasty today, women were not allowed to take part in the regular imperial examinations.

When Pei Xuan heard this, he was stunned at first, and then his eyes became moist.

Yes, how could I forget that they are women.

Women were not allowed to take the imperial examinations, nor could they become officials casually.

Ku Di Yu Zheng, Yan Zhong Cheng and others are just exceptions.

They are just ordinary girls, how can they compare with these men who have passed the imperial examinations?

Li Zhao and the [Happy Face Puppet] shared a vision, and so did Qingluan. She felt indescribably sad as she watched this scene.

Qingluan sighed: "Women do the same thing, but they can't get the same treatment as men. How sad."

"Zhao Zhao, when are we going to start solving the issue of the women's imperial examination?"

Li Zhao promised: "Qingluan, don't worry, trust me."

"Soon, women will have the same rights as men to take the imperial examinations."

Li Zhao is about to completely open up the way for women to move up!

She asked Qingluan to edit the video and upload it through the [Travel Live Streaming Module]. After earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, she took her people away from Youzhou.

"The next stop is Yunzhou."

Yunzhou, today's Datong, Shanxi.

The Datong Villa here has the world's largest open-pit coal mine in operation.

He Xiangning was in charge of the caravan in the south, while Lu Bicheng was in charge of the caravan in the north, so she was also in charge of Datong Villa.

When accompanying Yu Dou Xuan Zun to Datong Villa, Lu Bicheng took off her luxurious hairpins and brocade clothes, put on a mu Li, and applied light makeup to prevent her clothes and hair from being stained by the flying coal dust.

Li Zhao opened the live broadcast room to show everyone the honeycomb coal industry of Datong Villa in all aspects.

The barrage is still active.

[Destiny Nuwa]: Front row, front row~

[Frost Prisoner]: Is this the Datong Coal Mine? It's so huge!

There is already a big pit on the land of Datong Villa. In the pit, countless strong men with bare upper bodies are digging coal with hoes and shovels under the scorching sun, and then putting them into carts pulled by mules, which are then sent to workshops for processing.

Li Zhao floated in the air and slowly floated into the honeycomb coal workshop. The first processing line was the crushing of the honeycomb coal.

Under the crushing of the donkey-drawn stone mill, countless coal blocks were broken into slag and transported to the second assembly line by the bamboo and wooden conveyor belt driven by animal power.

There were many men and women aged thirteen or fourteen there. The men were responsible for shoveling soil and adding water, mixing it with coal slag to make coal mud.

The girls took a large row of honeycomb tools, smashed them into the coal mud, took them out, and placed the wet coal blocks on bamboo plates under the sun to dry.

With just one move of the honeycomb machine, they can make three honeycomb briquettes at a time. When the honeycomb briquettes in the bamboo plate are slightly shaped, they can transfer the bamboo plate to the rack and push it into the wind room for slow drying.

Lu Bicheng introduced: "Datong Mountain Villa can produce at least 300,000 honeycomb briquettes a month. They start hiring people during the slack season. They can produce at least 6 million honeycomb briquettes a year."

The honeycomb coal must be made by July or August at the latest and shipped to the northern states for sale, otherwise it will be disastrous if bad weather occurs.

Honeycomb coal was not very profitable. In order to allow the people to have a warm winter, Li Zhao even asked the Li Dynasty to order that honeycomb coal would be sold at three coins and six briquettes, totaling three pounds, no matter which state it was sold to.

Of course, other caravans will also come to Datong Villa to purchase goods, and it is hard to say how they will set the prices.

However, the Bicheng caravan sold at a low price, so others did not dare to raise the price too much for fear that they would not be able to sell it.

The villages in Nanyang also started to produce coal. Assuming a family of seven uses ten pieces of coal a day for cooking and boiling water, the coal from the two villages can barely allow the people in half of the counties in the north to have a good winter.

"Hmm." Li Zhao hummed lazily, looking nonchalant.

She walked to another place, where the girls were obviously dressed much more neatly, and they were using molds to make various kinds of charcoal.

What is really valuable in Datong Villa is actually the charcoal with a lot of spices added to it, which is a luxury item specially supplied to wealthy families.

Lu Bicheng said, "Xingjun, we don't have much spices left today."

Li Chao hummed, "I see. Is this enough?"

Qingluan immediately set the opening of the space near Li Chao's sleeves, and saw a large pile of pepper and agarwood suddenly poured out from her sleeves, all of which were top-quality goods.

Lu Bicheng smiled and nodded: "That's enough."

Li Zhao said to the barrage: "These things were all bought by the heroine in the web drama from the [Taobao module]."

The barrage is talking about spice.

[Shi Qian Gai]: The [Taobao module] in the heroine's hand can actually be used like this?

【Green Grapes and Apricots】: Buy cheap pepper and sell it at a high price in the Tang Dynasty? Absolutely amazing!

That’s right, the spices used to make charcoal come from the [Taobao module].

There are all kinds of artificial flavors on it, everything you can think of, you can't buy it!

The most affordable spice among them is pepper, which is more valuable than gold, hehehehe.

After looking at the incense charcoal, Li Zhao turned her head and floated in another direction. She saw something and tilted her head in confusion: "What is that?"

Lu Bicheng smiled and said, "Oh, that's what I made. It's used for traditional coking and production..."

Li Chao's face suddenly turned cold: "This won't work, tear it down."

Lu Bicheng was stunned and was about to ask, but Qingluan immediately gave a warning through the private chat interface.

[Warning - warning - players must not disobey important NPCs, otherwise they will be punished by being silenced! ]

Lu Bicheng could only endure it temporarily. At night, she quietly went to find Li Chao and said, "Xingjun, why can't we build a kiln, make coke using traditional methods, and produce fertilizer?"