After less than two days, Xiaolian arrived in the academy, Gu Yanwu and the others seemed to be in good spirits, seeing that the homeland of the Ming Dynasty was recovered little by little, they hated to live for a few more decades and then take a look at the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, so they accepted all the doctors and recipes prepared for them by Cheng Xiaolian, and they just thought that they would teach more talents in the academy, which was also worthy of this courtesy.

Several of them are broad-minded people who can afford to take it and put it down, so everyone's complexion is a little better than before.

Cheng Xiaolian naturally did not put the emperor's shelf when he arrived at the academy, but carried out the disciple ceremony, in his words, the world's scholars should respect the academy, worship the way of sages, and rejuvenate the country.

However, he bluffed a few old gentlemen very happily, and gladly accepted his discipleship ceremony.

Cheng Xiaolian is not a whim, in the final analysis, the belonging of this world is still the will of the people, and the expectations of the people. If you want to talk about which court is orthodox, you have to start from this point, the scholars no longer listen to the greetings, and the Manchu court has to make a gesture, that is, there are only ten people in the world to participate in the imperial examination, and this Enke must also be opened, because opening Enke means that they have inherited the orthodox status of the world and have been recognized by the scholars of the world.

Of course, there are not so many scholars in the world, as soon as Enke opens, the number of people is increasing year by year, everyone is not a god, who has to consider the food and drink of the family, otherwise these people who read the books of sages will not farm, do they drink the northwest wind?

Cheng Xiaolian respects the status of the academy, Gu Yanwu and they are also happy to see it, after all, there is hope, now the academy has sent countless officials to the Ming Dynasty, and it can be regarded as quite accomplished, but fortunately, these old gentlemen are upright people, all the scholars are selected by virtue of their talents, but some people secretly gave heavy gifts to the old gentleman, and they were removed from the academy on the second day.

Cheng Xiaolian had heard of this incident, and he also communicated with the old gentleman about this matter: "Old gentleman, Tang Taizong said that people use energy in troubled times, and people use virtue in prosperous times, so we don't need to be too serious." ”

Huang Zongxi was not polite at all in this regard: "But if there is any means, it can be used in the officialdom, the academy is just a place to study, if even such places are contaminated by copper stench, we will have to be ashamed and die." ”

Cheng Xiaolian thought about it and absolutely what he said was true and reasonable, this place is a place to learn skills, if you start from here, you have to divide into three, six, nine and so on, I am afraid that it is worthy of the teachings of Sage Confucius.

"What the old gentleman taught me was that I was reckless."

"The emperor should not be modest, from ancient times to the present, the emperor has done His Majesty's part, unheard of, Han Guangwu is just borrowing the power of the big clan and the incompetence of the imperial court, Your Majesty is really self-made, and now half of the country has been restored, the luck of the Ming Dynasty."

Cheng Xiaolian coughed: "I actually have a private matter to say this time, this matter is currently only in my own consideration stage, and I am not ready to implement it, I want to ask the opinions of several old gentlemen." ”

"Your Majesty has something to say, the academy is the academy of the Ming Dynasty, can you still go against the will of His Highness?"

Cheng Xiaolian slowly opened his mouth: "I want to open a women's school in the academy. ”

As soon as he said this, the three Confucians were all stunned on the spot, believing that if Cheng Xiaolian hadn't said this, they would have to blast people out directly, even if they were like this, they all showed puzzled looks on their faces.

Fortunately, Gu Yanwu knew that Cheng Xiaolian would not be untargeted, since he said so, there must be a reason to say so, and he also asked softly: "I don't know what Your Majesty means by this?" ”

This problem is a very serious problem, the ancients naturally knew that reading can be ambitious, but the husband will have great ambitions and achieve great things after reading books, and women have great ambitions, and the achievement of great things is not to press the husband to raise his head, so he must yearn for love and freedom, no matter which of these two things is taboo in the feudal dynasty.

The ancients paid attention to the fact that men are yang, women are yin, yang is the sky, and yin is the earth. Even yearning for freedom and love, this is even more perverse, this man yearns for freedom and love can marry one party again, and the woman can only divorce her husband and remarry, which is simply unbearable for the ancients.

So from the beginning of the Book of Songs, there were bandits descending from the sky, born from women, to the Song Dynasty when science flourished, even women widowed and remarried would be considered a great sin, this idea naturally affected these Confucians,

Cheng Xiaolian blurted out after thinking about it: "The women's school is indeed something that has not been done before, but we are no longer in the era when we adhere to the law of our ancestors and cannot be abolished, and even many people even have braids, didn't the sage say that the parents of the body hair and skin, if we want to deal with the Manchu Qing, we must let the women under the Ming Dynasty understand things, otherwise the father said that let the son kill the enemy and serve the country, but the mother let the son save his life, isn't it a bad thing?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Fuzhi coughed: "The Manchu barbarians, the knife was on the neck, and many people had to cut their braids is understandable, as for the matter of women studying, after all, the affairs of this family are still in charge of men, if women dare to say such things, the men in charge of the family should be reprimanded, so they stick to their own way." Besides, if you read more female commandments, you can also understand the reasoning, and you don't need to be in the church. As for those women who may enter the palace, the family will definitely find a gentleman to teach carefully, why not get together to get out of the school, so that others will think that we are acting in vain. ”

Cheng Xiaolian felt that there would be a lot of resistance when he first had this idea, but he didn't expect the three old gentlemen to not give an inch, and he couldn't blame them, after all, this era has limitations, and there is no new cultural movement, so it's strange that they can turn this corner.

Thinking of this, Xiaolian thought for a while: "In this way, let's set up a primary school for the time being, and only enroll twenty women, if the effect is not good, how about I never mention this matter again in the future?" ”

Wang Fuzhi wanted to say something, but Gu Yanwu stopped him: "In this way, I will listen to Your Majesty, our academy will prepare, I don't know if Your Majesty wants to recruit a young lady from an official eunuch family, or a woman from the people?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Yesterday, Mrs. said that women in the folk can't change their meals after studying, so let's start with the young lady of the official eunuch's family." "He can't do this, the girls of the peasant family generally have to work in their teens, whether it is cooking or weaving and tailoring, if they come here to study for a few years, they can't give people any living security after they go back, it will hurt people for a lifetime, and the peasant family looking for a daughter-in-law has to find someone who can work in the family, this kind of estimate is difficult to marry, and I can only experiment with the young lady of the official eunuch first.

(End of chapter)