Xichun is a Buddhist practitioner [Red Chamber]

In this world, too many people want to have sons, but few like daughters.Everyone thinks that only after giving birth to a son can the son inherit the family property, and the son can wear sackcloth and filial piety for his parents, and what the son can do.

Xue Baoqin has traveled to so many places and met many unfortunate women.But she can't help, because she will leave sooner or later, temporary help may not be able to help those women, and even put those women in danger.After having the women's department, named after women, Xue Baoqin wondered if the women's department could help those women.

What's wrong with women, it's not that women don't want to do those things, it's that everyone binds women in the backyard.

If women can do business like men, take part in scientific examinations like men, and do the same things as men, women may not be inferior to those men.

Only when women have the power and strength can they do more things.But now, those men are still in charge, and the officials are men, and the women can only stay in the backyard. With the women's department, that is a breakthrough.

Xue Baoqin thought of his cousin Xue Pan and his sister-in-law Lu Shaohua. In this family, Lu Shaohua was an official outside, with rank and salary, and Lu Shaohua's children were officials' children.If Xue Pan had a concubine's room and gave birth to a child with a concubine's room, that child would not be considered a child of the official family. In this way, those concubine's rooms would have no meaning to exist, and they would not be able to compete with Lu Shaohua.

Those women are not stupid, they know who is the most important existence in a family.The reason why so many women serve as concubines for officials is because the children they give birth to are also of high status and can compete for it.Putting it in the female official's home, unless the female official's husband is also an official and is a powerful one, those concubines would not dare to provoke the female official at will.

From another point of view, the status of female officials raised the status of women in the family to a certain extent.In the future, those women who gave birth to daughters can also let their daughters take part in scientific examinations. It is not the only way to marry, so the status of women will also be improved.

Especially for those families who have been unable to have sons and only have daughters, after women can become officials, they may want to let their daughters marry in the future, and the children are also officials' children, which can be regarded as comfort to the ancestors.

Xue Baoqin thought a lot, although she didn't talk to Lin Daiyu that much, but she was orderly and told her what she had seen and heard and some thoughts.

"It's better near the capital city." Lin Daiyu walked around the capital city more often in order to collect the news, but she didn't see such a baby girl being drowned, only heard about it once or twice.She never thought that there was a river outside that was specially used to drown female babies. It was so cruel, "I didn't expect..."

Lin Daiyu was shocked and felt sorry for those baby girls.

Fortunately, I was born in the Lin family. If I was born in those poor villages, I am afraid that my life will be difficult, and I would have married early before I was born.

"There are many such things outside." Xue Baoqin said, "There are also pawn wives, pawn their wives to others for a few years, bear children for others, and go back when the time is up."

Xue Baoqin thinks this is a very cruel thing for a woman. For a woman, she must be faithful to her husband, and to her husband.However, the woman was pawned out by her husband, who asked her to sleep with other men, and had to bear children for other men. After giving birth, she had to go back.

After a woman gives birth to a child, she must care about that child.Because it is a pawn relationship, to a certain extent, the child cannot be regarded as a woman.

Xue Baoqin once went to a pawn wife begging her husband to stop pawning her.But her husband threatened her, saying that there were still children at home who wanted to eat. When the woman thought of the children at home, she didn't beg her husband hard, but went away with another man.

The woman's husband also told the woman that after a few years, the woman would give birth to a son for the man and she would be able to return.That woman was given to others by her husband just because she was able to give birth to sons.

Xue Baoqin couldn't stop it, if she gave the money, after she left, the woman's husband would still look for opportunities to pawn the woman.This is a common phenomenon in some areas. If you want to stop it, there is no way to stop it. People next to you will stand up to stop you, telling you not to meddle in your own business, and you can't control it.

At that time, Xue Baoqin was still younger, and after seeing so many things, her heart became more and more desolate.It turns out that those women from poor families have lived so hard, each of them has no thoughts of their own, can't speak, and can only obey. Is this the so-called three obediences and four virtues?

Xue Baoqin really wanted to tell those women, if these are the three obediences and four virtues of women, then it's fine if you don't follow them.

"Really..." Lin Daiyu was very angry when she heard that, "That woman is still alive."

"Alive." Xue Baoqin nodded, "Many women are alive. They don't want to bear the children at home. They have to take care of the children. How can they be willing to die. Some of them are killed directly, but what can they do after they are killed?"

Because there are many such things in the local area, those women thought that other women were killed and the children in the family had a harder life, so they thought that they must not be killed by the accident and must live well.Some pawn wives try to get along well with another man and let that man buy her out, so she doesn't have to worry about being pawned again in the future. Anyway, both parties have children, and it doesn't matter which side they stay in.

If you stay on the better side, you may be able to take care of your former children in the future.If I go back to my previous home, maybe I will be sad, and the children will also be sad.

Lin Daiyu pursed her lips, she felt that she knew too little.

Lu Shaohua sat next to him, occasionally interjecting a sentence or two, but he didn't say much.Seeing that Xue Baoqin was so engaged in chatting with Lin Daiyu, she was also very happy.

Although the current women's department has scientific examinations, to a certain extent, it has to look at this person, which is not so fair.Because the women's department has not been established for a long time, what is needed more is people who can do things, not people who talk about it on paper.

Lu Shaohua went out for darts in his early years, saw and heard a lot, no less than Xue Baoqin.It's just that her mind is not so delicate, and she doesn't observe so much.In her eyes, those are common phenomena, she occasionally intervenes to save the beauty, that's all.

She thinks that she is just a little bit more skilled, and being an official in the women's department means protecting them with martial arts. When it comes to those political affairs, Lu Shaohua feels that she is not as good as other people.

Lu Shaohua knew his weakness, so he didn't insist on taking care of those twists and turns.The women's department officials also have a division of labor, and she doesn't have to do those things, at most she is teaching those women some boxing skills to make them healthier.

After Lin Daiyu chatted with Xue Baoqin so much, she felt that she still had a lot to write in her own script, and she had to write those love stories without necessity.Those romances and loves are not so easy to write. If there are too many romances and loves written, people may not necessarily like to read them, and there must be some big patterns in them.

It's just that women now read story books, and they still read more love story books. If they write other things, it may not be able to attract those women to read them.But you have to give it a try. If few people read it, just print a few fewer copies.

"Come over to my house some other time." Lin Daiyu left after having lunch at Xue's house, and before leaving, she did not forget to tell Xue Baoqin, "There are no such rules in the house."

Lin Daiyu was afraid that Xue Baoqin would think she was the daughter of a merchant, so she would be embarrassed to come to the door, so she told Xue Baoqin so.

"Be sure to visit." After Xue Baoqin chatted with Lin Daiyu so much, she felt that Lin Daiyu was someone to be friends with.The other party is well-spoken and knowledgeable. Although he has not seen so many things outside, the other party does not blindly think that the weather outside is good and nothing bad happens. The other party is a person who can accept external events.

If she can enter the women's department, Xue Baoqin believes that she can do a lot.When chatting with Lin Daiyu, the other party also talked about some things about the women's department. The officials of the women's department hope to make some achievements and protect the women.

Like Lin Daiyu, when she was not a female officer, she didn't know how unfortunate the women outside were.After becoming a female official, I realized that there are so many women who are living so badly, but no one helps them. The world thinks that those women should bear those things, and they should do all kinds of things for their husband's family and their mother's family.

A woman has no ego, she has to listen to her father and brother at home, and after she gets married, she has to listen to her husband, even her son.Women can't rest too much. If they rest too much, they will be called lazy, especially those rural women.

After Lin Daiyu left, Lu Shaohua, who was standing beside Xue Baoqin, said, "How is it? Master Lin is indeed a good-tempered and talented woman."

"Yes." Xue Baoqin nodded, "She is indeed very good."

Xue Baoqin is very happy to chat more with people like Lin Daiyu. She felt that those conversations today were not enough.

"The other female officials in the women's department are also good." Lu Shaohua said, "The women's department needs us girls to unite and not fight among themselves."

Internal strife is the worst thing, and those male officials are waiting for these women to pinch them themselves.

Lu Shaohua has always known what those male officials have in mind. When she was pregnant, those male officials used this to attack her and the women's department, wanting to disband the women's department.

"When the women's department develops, it doesn't matter whether it's fighting for power or having factions in the future." Lu Shaohua thought of what the Crown Princess told them. Mother, not afraid of those concubines in the East Palace competing for favor, just want to work hard to develop the women's department.

In fact, everyone knows what the Crown Princess is thinking. If the women's department develops well, the Crown Princess will lose face in front of the Crown Prince, Queen, and Emperor.

If the development of the women's department is not good, the princess may be the first to bear the brunt.The queen can push the matter to the crown princess. Even if the queen does not push, the crown princess has to take the lead herself. The crown prince is the queen's own son, and he is the legitimate son. He has to keep the queen and the prince, so the prince has to sacrifice.

It can be said that the princess does not have so many ways to retreat, so she can only do more things.

"Yes." Xue Baoqin followed Lu Shaohua in, "Everything is difficult at the beginning, the important thing is to persevere and not give up halfway."

Xue Baoqin knew how difficult it was for the women's department to develop, because once the women's department developed, it would definitely touch the interests of those male officials.

Another day later, when Lin Daiyu went to the palace to meet the empress, she talked about Xue Baoqin in front of the empress, the crown prince and the noble concubine, and what she had seen and heard about Xue Baoqin.

"It's a pity that even if Lu Shaohua himself was recommended to come in, this Xue Baoqin still has to wait for the women's department's scientific examination." The queen sighed, "Fortunately, the women's department is newly established, and there is Enke in spring, let her go for the examination."

Lu Shaohua is the daughter-in-law of the Xue family, and Xue Baoqin is the daughter of the Xue family.Therefore, it is not suitable to come here through recommendation, that can easily become a point for others to attack Xue Baoqin.Lu Shaohua has high martial arts skills, so there is no problem.

A person like Xue Baoqin has a lot of knowledge and knowledge, and she will be able to do a lot of things in the future, so she should pass the serious scientific examination to get in, so that others can't use this to attack her, and she can do things better.

"How about the girls' school?" the queen asked the concubine.

"The original school was for girls, and most of them were for women's precepts." The imperial concubine replied, "Then there are some poems, but there is no political theory. It is still difficult to establish a school similar to the Imperial College. At the beginning, there may be some People don't bother to let their daughter go there."

"If you don't disdain, you can disdain." The queen doesn't care whether those people want to go to such a school, "post the notice, they are willing to let their daughters go, or they don't want to go. This school is not just for them to enter if they want Yes, just like the Guozijian side, the implementation of recommendation and recruitment."

The queen doesn't like those officials and aristocratic families who dawdle with her. If they want to dawdle, they dawdle as long as they want. There will always be women who will go.Not everyone is so stupid. This kind of women's school is similar to the Imperial College. It is relatively easier for the students of the Imperial College to take the scientific examination, and it is easier to be reused.

Those who have a long-term vision will definitely let the women in the family go.

"Where's Tai'an?" The queen suddenly thought of Jia Xichun, "How about letting her go?"

"Sister Tai'an probably doesn't like it." The princess smiled and said, "She just likes to walk around, and would rather go to Zhuangzi to go to the countryside to see more and pick more herbs."

"That's right." The queen said with emotion, "She just has this temperament and doesn't like these things."

When Jia Xichun heard the crown princess said that the queen almost threw her to the women's school, he quickly covered his heart and looked scared.

"Can you pretend that I haven't been to the East Palace today?" Jia Xichun sniffed, "I don't want to go to the school."

"No, no." The princess smiled, it was rare for Tai'an to come to see her, how could she scare Tai'an away, "The queen mother didn't let you in, she just ordered a few people to go over. Let them work harder , Let’s see if we can be better than those students from the Imperial College.”

"The students of the Imperial College have more advantages." Jia Xichun told the truth, "The books they have read since childhood are different, and they are not trapped in the inner house like women. They often go out, listen to and see a lot, and overall As far as women are concerned, they are better than women. Even if there are individual women who are better than them, it is only a few, but a few are enough."

"That's the reason. Women are trapped in the inner house. If there are some women who are stronger than them, then they are already very powerful." The princess did not think that all the women were better than the students of the Imperial College, and Xue Baoqin from the Xue family was also named. Going to a women's school, it can be said that a women's school is a reserve for the women's department.

It is still very difficult to get women from all over the world to participate in the women's department scientific examination. It is impossible to have so many in a short period of time, so even the scientific examination is still in a small range.But this does not mean that there are no women's scientific examinations in various places, it just goes up layer by layer, starting from children, and it will take time for them to pass the exam, and the internal planning and development of the women's department will extend to the outside, which will also take time.

The women's school can become a transitional place for the women's department to find suitable talents. When the women's talents from all over the country come up later, the women's school will not appear so glorious.But the women's school will still maintain its popularity, which is opposite to the Guozijian on the men's side.

Now that women already have a women's department, the queen and others didn't think about letting women go to the Imperial Academy. If women go to the Imperial Academy now and merge with men to study in an academy, it may not be a good thing for women.Even if the women's department has a girls' school directly under it, it will be much more convenient for many things.

"Tai'an, are you really going to face those medicinal herbs all day long?" The princess thought that Princess Tai'an could really fight harder.

"No." Jia Xichun shook his head, pretending to be shy, "I have handed over the only medical books, so I can study less and deal with herbs less. I want to be pampered by my little brother."

"..." The princess did not expect Jia Xichun to say such words.

"Little brother has often been with me recently." Jia Xichun said again.

So you play around together, slacking off at work, no, these two really seem to have nothing to do lately.The concubine thought of the complaint the crown prince had made to her, that is, the cousin Xie Shizi has been doing nothing lately and always asked Xie Changqing to do things, saying that his younger brother should take on the big responsibility of Xuanninghou's mansion.

Do these two not want to make great achievements, or are they just eating and drinking.

The princess suspected that these two people really wanted to have fun by themselves, and then watch others go about their business.

"You have such a good relationship with Shizi Xie." The Crown Princess said with emotion.

"That's right, he said he would help me find a way to keep my face permanent." Jia Xichun touched his face, "I haven't researched a permanent face powder yet."

The corner of the crown princess's mouth twitched slightly, are they just fighting with Zhuyan fans?Xie Shizi is such a big man, he actually dotes on Tai'an so much, what kind of fan is he really looking for?

"The imperial doctors in the imperial hospital didn't do much research." Jia Xichun said, "I can only think of a way by myself."

That's because the emperor didn't want the imperial physicians to waste this time. The beauty powder just slows down the aging of the face, and the life expectancy is still the same.The Crown Princess knew in her heart that the Empress had also told her not to think about beauty fans, as a regular wife, it was more important to do a good job.

The princess also understands that the prince is not a person who pays attention to the appearance of women, and it is impossible for the prince to allow those concubines in the Eastern Palace to spend too much money on researching some beauty powder.If the prince doesn't like it, then she, the princess, shouldn't do it.

"But my little brother is older than me, many years older." Jia Xichun said proudly.

So who is this face powder for?The princess was skeptical.