jdhmnovel Chapter 489 You, Zhu Chong, haven't you had enough of being tricked?
Chapter 489 You, Zhu Chong, haven't you had enough of being tricked?
Emperor Zhu sat in his chair, sighing deeply, feeling as if tens of thousands of ants were crawling all over his heart.
Empress Ma sat next to Emperor Zhu, wanting to comfort him, but for a moment she didn't know how.
After a long silence, Empress Ma sighed and said, "Let's set off for Beiping in a few days."
Emperor Zhu was slightly taken aback, and looked at Empress Ma, asking, "To Beiping?"
Empress Ma nodded and said, "Yes, to Beiping."
"Dengzhou is changing so fast, it looks different almost every day."
“If you stay in Dengzhou any longer, you won’t have figured out what happened today, and new situations will arise tomorrow.”
"Let's go to Beiping and see how those students from Ningyang County are causing trouble there."
"Let's verify this with the information from Dengzhou."
Listening to Empress Ma's analysis, Emperor Zhu first unconsciously hummed in agreement, and then unconsciously chuckled.
Emperor Zhu reached out and grabbed Empress Ma's hand, laughing, "My dear sister, we've suddenly figured out what that scoundrel is thinking!"
Ok?
Have you figured out what your wonderful son-in-law is thinking?
Ah.
It's hard to say how capable your good son-in-law is, but as for you, Zhu Sansui, do you think I, Ma Xiuying, don't know your own worth?
Empress Ma rolled her eyes and said, "Then tell me, what is he planning to do this time?"
Emperor Zhu chuckled and said, "If we're right, you can make me a pancake, or a bowl of noodles will do."
Seeing Empress Ma's eyebrows furrowed in anger, Emperor Zhu felt a chill run down his spine and quickly said, "That scoundrel did it on purpose!"
"Think about it, what's most important to ordinary people?"
"Of course, it's about having enough to eat and wear."
"All these workshops and so-called workshops must be designed with the goal of ensuring that ordinary people have enough to eat and wear."
"So, can the workshops provide enough food and clothing for ordinary people?"
"We think it's impossible."
"After all, no matter how advanced a workshop is, it cannot directly produce food."
"And that down comforter he made, that's not something ordinary people can afford."
"The role of the workshops is not, as he claims, to exhaust the people."
"This bastard probably never had any thoughts about the people being tired or anything like that."
"The true purpose of the workshops was to enable the court, government officials, and the people to make money, and then use that money to buy grain from foreign vassals."
Empress Ma frowned slightly: "Then our people of the Great Ming will stop growing grain? How can that be? Grain is the lifeblood of the people, and we cannot delay farming under any circumstances."
Emperor Zhu smiled smugly again, shaking his head and saying, "The people of our Great Ming still have to grow grain, it won't be delayed."
"His real idea was probably to entice the gentry to set up workshops, so that they would stop eyeing the small amount of land held by the common people."
But then Emperor Zhu realized something was amiss.
Because setting up a workshop also requires land.
Given the gentry's disregard for the lives of ordinary people, if they were allowed to set up workshops, they would probably seize even more land.
The binding relationship between the land and the farmland, the rules prohibiting the buying and selling of land, and the progressive tax rate were all designed to prevent land consolidation. But could these rules really prevent workshops from encroaching on farmland?
If this continues, won't the conflict between the workshops' land use and the farmland's land use become even greater?
The more Emperor Zhu followed this line of thought, the less certain he became.
It was quite a while before Emperor Zhu stammered, "It seems we guessed wrong."
Empress Ma glanced at Emperor Zhu and said, "Whether you understand it or not doesn't matter. We'll think about it slowly. Anyway, your good son-in-law is just causing trouble in Dengzhou and Ningyang County. He won't cause any major chaos."
Emperor Zhu hummed in agreement, but Empress Ma suddenly chuckled and said, "I also have an idea. Would you like to hear it?"
Empress Ma's words immediately roused Emperor Zhu, who replied, "Sister, you speak, we're all listening."
Empress Ma smiled and nodded, saying, "I'm thinking of opening two girls' schools, one in the capital and one in Dengzhou Prefecture."
Seeing that Emperor Zhu was about to nod in agreement, Empress Ma quickly said, "Don't rush to agree."
"The girls' school I'm going to open is no ordinary school."
"First, it must be the same as boys' schools. Boys' schools have the Six Arts, and girls' schools should also have the Six Arts."
"Secondly, girls' schools should also have imperial examinations, and in the future, the palace should also recruit female officials through girls' school examinations."
Emperor Zhu nodded without hesitation: "As you wish! We'll have that scoundrel write a memorial later."
Ok?
You, Zhu Chongba, haven't you had enough of being tricked?
Empress Ma simply couldn't be bothered to pay any more attention to Emperor Zhu.
Given Zhu's three-year-old mind, he probably still hasn't figured out what kind of impact girls' schools will have on the Ming Dynasty.
Shaking her head slightly, Empress Ma directly instructed Erhu, "Go and invite Jin'er, Yu'er, and the Prince Consort over."
……
When Yang Shaofeng leaned back in the recliner again, he no longer felt the excitement he had when he was digging a hole for Lao Deng. Instead, he had a strange feeling of questioning the meaning of life.
The Ming Dynasty is going to establish girls' schools, and the pilot programs will be launched simultaneously in the capital, Dengzhou Prefecture, and Ningyang County?
This is not right.
According to the historical materials I read before my time travel, many women in the Ming Dynasty were indeed educated, and there was no such absurd saying as "a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent."
But it seems that there were no proper girls' schools in the Ming Dynasty.
Now things have really gotten out of hand. Not only are there girls' schools in the Ming Dynasty, but there are also imperial examinations for girls' schools. The palace will even use these girls' examinations to select female officials.
After thinking for a long time without coming up with a solution, Yang Shaofeng simply turned his gaze to Jin'er and Yu'er and asked, "My wife, what do you think about the girls' school?"
Jin'er picked up the kettle on the small clay stove, brewed the tea, and pushed the tea in front of Yang Shaofeng before smiling and saying, "My godmother has had this idea for a long time, but she couldn't put it into practice before."
Pointing at Yu'er, Jin'er continued, "Our master has been well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, and is also proficient in mathematics. He also has some knowledge of military strategy. He can't compare to the students taught by the master, but he is not necessarily inferior to the students taught by other teachers."
Yang Shaofeng stared wide-eyed at Jin'er and asked, "And you, my wife? Do you know about these things too?"
Jin'er blushed slightly, but still answered softly, "This concubine...this concubine only knows a little."
After a few words of modesty, Jin'er said seriously, "The books that Yu'er and I read were all taught to us by our adoptive mother, word by word. Even writing was taught by our adoptive mother holding our hands."
"That's why I just said that my adoptive mother has long wanted to promote education for girls so that all women in the world can have access to books."
"However, it is not easy to find teachers who are willing to teach women to read, and even if a teacher is found, the national treasury cannot afford to support too much of it."
"Especially before Hu Yuan is completely wiped out, it is even more impossible."
"But with the Dengzhou border market, everything changed."