such as Yue Linyuan

For a long time, except for the rich and powerful who would specially ask teachers to come to teach the girls, there was no school specially set up for girls in Daheng Kingdom.

In fact, not only the Daheng Kingdom, but also the previous dynasty, there were only a few exceptions. The reason was that women were not allowed to be officials.

Scholars, most of them study to become officials, in order to take part in scientific examinations in the future to obtain an official position, not only to honor their ancestors, but also to appear superior to others.

However, in the past dynasties, how many women were able to become officials?That is, is it possible to pass the scientific examination?It is not easy for ordinary people to confess a scholar, so why would they let their daughter go to study?Most of them are ready to leave the court at the age of twelve or thirteen. If they are not married at the age of seventeen, it is probably because of special circumstances.

For ordinary people, what women need to do is to have children and take care of housework. Having children is to increase the labor force. For an agricultural economy that cultivates land for self-sufficiency, labor is everything.

In this way, it is almost completely meaningless to enroll girls in the school.

But only almost.

In recent years, Daheng country has developed a fairly developed business and trade, and after Si Yuanting promoted the opening of the sea ban and promoted the development of overseas trade, the business economy has brought more prosperity to the economy of Daheng country than in any previous period. leap.

"Your Majesty, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to improve the quality of the royal family's children, Empress Deng Sui specially set up a school in the official residence in the sixth year of Emperor Han'an's Yuan Dynasty. Both men and women need to go to school to study. Moreover, because of the influence of her teacher Ban Zhao, Empress Deng Sui strongly advocated that adult women should also study like men. People, recite from left to right, day and night, thus creating a precedent for court women and men to receive education equally." Si Yuanting moved out the historical precedent, and suppressed the words that the ministers who were impatient to oppose were about to say, and then He continued: "Although after the Han Dynasty, this kind of situation that both men and women can receive education has never appeared again, but the Ming Dynasty also supported the court to make the court ladies literate, hyphenated, and read, and thus further promoted She is a female official in the court. Therefore, I think that it is not impossible to open a school for women."

"Si Shoufu, your proposal, we don't care whether women need to receive education, I want to ask first, where does the money for the school come from? Is it from the national treasury again? It has already put a lot of pressure on the national treasury. What's more, ordinary people can't afford this money, so let's send their daughters to school." A minister said that he was not opposed to allowing girls to receive education, but only to open schools, or to Consider it from a more practical point of view.

"Master Zhu, this is a matter of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The person you should ask is me, Mr. Xia, not the chief assistant." Xia Zhiyi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, immediately stood up, "The Daheng Kingdom is now in a state of prosperity. At that time, although the frontier was often invaded by enemy troops in the past few years, fortunately, it has become more and more peaceful in the past two years, and the consumption of military pay and materials is not large; after the tax reform, corruption and chaos in various places have been effectively controlled and improved. Coupled with the development of commerce and trade, the national treasury is more substantial; moreover, the results of the two scientific examinations after the reform of the government school are obvious to all, and now they are supported by wealthy businessmen from all over the country. I think that even if funds are allocated to set up girls’ schools, it will not be a problem.”

"Even if it's not a problem, how many ordinary people would send their daughters to the school? Even if the women's school is at public expense, don't pens, inks and books need money? Ordinary people, how can they have such awareness and leisure time?" Wang Ren, Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, said that although he is an upright person, he has always been very stubborn when it comes to women. On the matter of women's status, only Wang Ren insisted and refused to back down.

"Did the reform of government schools go smoothly from the very beginning? Mr. Wang, who do you think will ultimately benefit from education for women?" Si Yuanting knew that this was actually something that most people cared more about, so he asked What I did was actually to find a set of rhetoric that can convince these people. As long as the ultimate goal can be achieved, it doesn’t matter even if the original intention is misinterpreted. Being cautious in words and deeds can manage the inner house well, and can better educate the next generation; let the woman truly become a virtuous domestic helper with both ability and integrity, so that the man can be at ease and take care of the outside world, and don't have to spend all day long because of unrest in the inner courtyard, stubborn and unfilial sons and daughters bother."

"Just like the queen mother!" Chu Shendu, who had been quietly hugged by Chu Yuezhi, suddenly interrupted at this moment, and said openly in front of the ministers: "Father, the emperor, just spoke, it is precisely because there is such a queen mother." Only a virtuous wife can help the emperor to concentrate on state affairs!"

As soon as the eldest son of the emperor opened his mouth, the minister who originally wanted to refute swallowed his words back in an instant. If he spoke again at this time, it would not be arguing with Si Yuanting, but refuting what the emperor just said.

Chu Yuezhi raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at Chu Shendu admiringly. Seeing him blinking at him cleverly, he knew that he had interjected on purpose. He had obviously been listening to them carefully, rather than wandering off.

"Your Majesty, I think the words of the chief assistant are very reasonable." Ruan Xing, the minister of Dali Temple, also took a step forward to agree, "My wife is General Huangfu. She has received a good education since she was a child. Fortunate to be taught by the real person, no matter in knowledge or martial arts, she is not inferior to men. Now, as the first female in the imperial court, she will make great contributions to the imperial court, and she will also give birth to her beloved son; the youngest son of my younger brother once said that his wife, General Huangfu As a role model in my heart, in the future, adults must marry such an outstanding woman as my wife, General Huangfu. I believe that if a woman is not well-educated, she will never be able to be as ostentatious as my wife, General Huangfu. "

The corners of his lips twitched faintly. When Chu Yuezhi heard this from Ruan Xing, he felt emotional in his heart. It was not only for Huangfu Liangyu's achievements today, but also for Ruan Xing's change. It was also because Huangfu Liangyu chose a path. Today is an extremely difficult road, and he can give him another help today.

Clearing his throat, Chu Yue insisted: "I also think that the proposal of Chief Assistant Si is very feasible. Since Xia Shangshu thinks that the establishment of a girls' school will not increase the pressure on the national treasury, then I ask Chief Assistant Si and Xia Shangshu to jointly draft a proposal. Regarding the proposal for the establishment of a girls' school, Wu Shangshu and Liang Jijiu were invited to assist in the drafting of the educational content of the girls' school."

Wu Yonglian and Liang Chen originally supported the improvement of women's status, and now they are finally able to start preparing for the establishment of a girls' school. Naturally, they have no objection, and at the same time they responded: "I obey the order!"

"Okay, let's call it a day and leave the court." Chu Yuezhi made a final decision on this, and then held Chu Shendu in one hand and Si Zhuxi in the other, ignoring all the courtiers who still wanted to appeal. Leaving the Hall of Supreme Harmony in one step, officially ended the morning court that lasted for five hours.

Back in the inner palace, Chu Yuezhi first sent Si Zhuxi and Chu Shen back to Kunning Palace alone, so that the two of them who had been tossing around for such a morning had a good rest, and then drove back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation by themselves.

On the way back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Chu Yuezhi sat on the dragon chariot, rubbed the bridge of his nose wearily, first let it go for a while, then suddenly remembered something, so he glanced at Wang Zhong who was following the dragon chariot, and said: "I heard that Zhou Ji adopted a baby girl a few days ago, but is it true?"

Wang Zhong didn't know why Chu Yuezhi would ask about this matter, and he didn't think much about it, and replied: "Return to Your Majesty, it's true, the child was only two years old, and was abandoned outside the mansion of Commander Zhou, Commander Zhou I couldn't bear it, so I simply adopted the child as a righteous daughter."

"Accept as a righteous daughter." Chu Yuezhi thought for a while, and said in a seemingly casual manner: "Zhou Ji is not young, and he has never married a family. It seems to be delayed by me. I thought that I should also give Zhou Ji a gift." If you want to get married, point him to a daughter of the clan as his wife, so as to raise his status for him."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Zhong, who was originally beside the dragon chariot, suddenly staggered and almost fell flat on the road.

Chu Yuezhi didn't expect Wang Zhong's reaction to be so big, he waved his hand to stop Long Nian, and said, "I've been by my side for so many years, why are you still in such a panic."

Wang Zhong's face turned pale, he looked up at Chu Yuezhi quickly, knelt down, and muttered: "Your Majesty, slave, slave..."

"Don't be a servant, I just said that I want to give Zhou Ji a marriage, and you react so much. If Zhou Ji is really allowed to marry a wife, will you die for me?" Chu Yuezhi scolded angrily, looking Seeing Wang Zhong's hopeless appearance, he wanted Zhou Ji to hurry up and take him away.

Wang Zhong was taken aback for a moment, and then he came to his senses, but he was not too sure, shrugging his shoulders and said: "Your Majesty, according to the palace rules, eunuchs and maids are not allowed to kill themselves."

Chu Yuezhi hissed. If he hadn't been sitting on the dragon chariot and couldn't reach him, he would have reached out his hand to Wang Zhong, and said, "Then according to what you mean, you don't have any objection to Zhou Ji's marriage?"

"Slave..." Wang Zhong faltered and didn't dare to answer, carefully raised his head to peek at Chu Yuezhi's expression, and saw Chu Yuezhi's expression of "you think about it before answering", he was agitated, but he didn't know it was courage It’s something that popped up suddenly, but the words of the brain blurted out immediately: "The servant is just the eunuch with the palm print in the palace. Your Majesty wants to marry the commander of Zhou, so there is no need to ask the servant, but, but, the commander of Zhou said that the servant is his. Wife, he will not marry another wife... So, if Your Majesty wants to give a marriage to Commander Zhou, slaves, slaves cannot agree, not only slaves disagree, but Commander Zhou will not accept it either."

Seeing Wang Zhong talking and shaking into sieves, Chu Yuezhi wondered whether he was very fierce to Wang Zhong in normal times, why Wang Zhong didn't trust him at all as his master, originally he wanted to tease him before For the reward, this made me feel a little depressed, and said unhappily: "You two are flirting with each other all day long under my nose, thinking that I don't know if it's right, I don't want to punish you two, You don’t pay attention to me anymore. According to my dictation, the imperial guards will command Zhou Ji to punish the palace for [-] boards. As for you, just kneel here and let Zhou Ji receive the [-] boards. The big board will take you back."

After finishing speaking, Chu Yuezhi waved his hands and drove to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but out of the corner of his eye, he finally saw Wang Zhong kneeling there with a dazed expression on his face, Chu Yuezhi was really angry , raised his hand to pinch his temples, suppressed the urge to lift Wang Zhong up for a twitch to wake him up, and confessed to the little eunuch who followed: "Go, quickly let Zhou Ji go and get the twenty boards, and then come Take people away to me... Tsk, these one or two didn't make me worry, it's all because of me."

His Heron Camp, I'm afraid it's not poisonous, otherwise why would they be so brainless, they would all be jumping around under his nose, but they still want to hide it from him; it's obviously something that can be solved by explaining to him clearly, it has to be It has to be so complicated.As an emperor, he can't even worry about state affairs, and he has to worry about the lifelong affairs of his subordinates. It's enough to be a matchmaker.