Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 522

"The words of the first assistant are wrong." The person who spoke was Lu Zhenfei, Minister of the Ministry of Communications, "Now that the girls in the three prefectures are required to receive three-year compulsory education, it has been done slowly, how can it be delayed?

Although His Majesty is young, he has God's help, just like two armies fighting, one side can easily defeat the enemy with a sharp weapon in hand, but how can he linger and waste food and grass in vain? "

Yuan Jixian looked at Lu Zhenfei in surprise, he didn't expect to meet his opposition.

Immediately.

As Minister of the Ministry of Communications, Lu Zhenfei now puts railway construction as the top priority within his authority.And if you want to build the railway as soon as possible, there is not too much manpower.

In addition, Lu Zhenfei is from Quzhou in Northern Zhili. Nowadays, there are less than one out of ten people in the northern provinces, and the adherents from the south still feel that it is not enough.

If it is true what Liu Shuying said, liberating the power of women and so on will double the manpower of Daming, and the ministers who are determined to restore the people's livelihood in the north as soon as possible will be moved and even agree.

Seeing that Yuan Jixian was stabilized, Xie Xuelong stood up and argued: "It is indeed too radical just to force girls to go to school to receive three-year compulsory education. I think that the compulsory education may be abolished, so that the people can choose whether to let girls go to school."

After hearing this, Liu Shuying immediately said: "The common people are ignorant. If it is not compulsory, how many people will send girls to school? What's the point of such a move?"

Chen Zizhuang just couldn't understand Liu Shuying, and argued: "Why is it meaningless? The only way to let a small number of girls go to school is to see the results, and the common people will know how to choose."

Liu Shuying was angry.

Although Chen Zizhuang did not explain what he said, he obviously meant that most girls will not go to school for good things, and the common people will not choose this way in the future.

Just as Liu Shuying was thinking about how to refute Yuan Jixian, Chen Zizhuang, Xie Xuelong and others, another unexpected cabinet minister stood up.

Huang Daozhou, who has never spoken, said: "The imperial court has the responsibility to educate the people. Since the common people are ignorant and don't know the benefits of women's learning, the imperial court should guide them with decrees and even laws.

Now our dynasty is implementing all kinds of new policies, all of which are to get rid of bad customs, make women learn from others, and liberate women's power, which is also under the guidance of this court.

Shoufu said that the matter should be postponed further, but he didn't know when it would be delayed.It should be noted that girls are only ordered to receive three-year compulsory education in the three prefectures. If the girls in the entire Ming Dynasty are to receive compulsory education, it will probably take more than ten years of effort.

To truly liberate women's power, I am afraid that decades of work cannot be achieved, how can it be delayed?With the power of thunder, move quickly! "

When it comes to the last sentence, Huang Daozhou is facing Zhu Wei, as if asking the emperor for orders, to show his determination to support this matter.

Huang Daozhou's speech really stunned Yuan Jixian, Chen Zizhuang and others.

It felt like I was fighting someone in the front, but was stabbed severely by my teammates in the back.

In their view, Huang Daozhou is a master of Confucianism and a master of Neo-Confucianism. Although he was a bit radical and biased in his actions before, he definitely opposed the liberation of women, at least he would not let Aimee Zhu act so radically.

This can be seen from the fact that both Chen Zizhuang and Huang Wenhuan opposed the matter.

After all, this matter is too much a challenge to tradition. If it is really implemented and effective, it will also challenge the human relations between men and women established by Confucian Neo-Confucianism, which can be said to be the enemy of Neo-Confucianism.

Huang Daozhou, the current master of psychology, supports this matter, how can everyone not be surprised?

In fact, apart from Aimee Zhu in the Hall of Martial Ying, no one else was surprised by this.

But there was a satisfied smile on the corner of Auntie Zhu's mouth—it's not in vain that she called Huang Daozhou to watch the video about liberating women for more than an hour yesterday.

Although Huang Daozhou did not agree at the time, but doing so now obviously realized the importance of liberating women.

Huang Daozhou's speech can be said to be the final word, leaving Yuan Jixian, Xie Xuelong, Chen Zizhuang, and Huang Wenhuan, who opposed it, speechless for a long time.

As for Ma Shiying and Zhang Youyu who acted on the eyes of Aunt Zhu, naturally they would not object.

He Yingduan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was a centrist.

There are only two cabinet ministers who oppose this matter, how can it be done?
Thus, girls were included in the three-year compulsory education, and it was decided that Daming would liberate women's power.

Today's second education conference is to discuss how to implement three-year compulsory education.

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"Your Majesty, the population of Yingtian Mansion is nearly 300 million, and there are many school-age children. It would be fine if only men were recruited as teachers, but if we set up separate classes for girls and use women as teachers, it may be difficult to recruit so many female gentlemen."

At the beginning of the meeting, Yuan Shu, who was then Nanzhili's academic envoy, posed a difficult problem to Zhu Wei.

Although Aimee Zhu had already discussed this matter with Hao Guangming after discussing it, she was still ready to listen to the thoughts of her courtiers.

For one thing, you have to guide the courtiers to think, and you can't count on her to give advice on everything.

The second is to strengthen the participation of courtiers in political affairs, so that they will be active in doing things.

Ma Shiying did not speak much when she was arguing whether girls should be included in compulsory education. Now that the situation has been settled, Aimee Zhu just needs to come up with ideas and solve problems, so she immediately stood up.

"Your Majesty, since it's hard to find female teachers, it's better to mix boys and girls. Anyway, they are all five to ten-year-old children, so it doesn't matter if they go to the same class."

After Ma Shiying finished speaking, Chen Zizhuang immediately objected, "No, the idea of ​​the difference between men and women is instilled in children from childhood, if men and women are mixed in classes, it will not be conducive to teaching children to understand the differences between men and women.

Moreover, the common people may not be willing to accept girls' schooling. If boys and girls are mixed in classes, they will definitely be more opposed. How can this matter be implemented? "

Seeing that it was impossible to prevent girls from being included in compulsory education, Chen Zizhuang didn't react negatively, but wanted to help Aimee Zhu avoid the mistakes that are easy to make in implementing this policy as much as possible.

Separating men and women into classes is his new insistence.

Later, Xie Xuelong, Huang Wenhuan and others, and even Yuan Jixian, also insisted that men and women should be divided into classes.

Seeing this, Ma Shiying's mind was tossed, and said: "Your Majesty, I have two strategies, which may solve this problem.

One is to force the literate wives and daughters of officials to be the teachers of the girls' classes; the other is to use men as the teachers of the girls' classes. "

After hearing this, the ministers started a heated discussion.

"I've never heard that the imperial court forcibly recruits the wives and daughters of officials. Even if they are teachers, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among officials, and even cause chaos."

"This one is really too rigid."

"But is it all right to use men as teachers for girls' classes?"

"It depends on how you think about it. After all, the girls' class is only for children who are less than ten years old. In addition, it is common for some wealthy families to hire men to teach the girls in the family for the teacher."

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It was difficult to make a decision among the audience, and Zhu Yuxi simply made a decision and said: "I think that the strategy of secondary assistants can be changed - continue to recruit female gentlemen, even if there are few applicants, there will always be those who are willing. The teacher added. What do you think?"

Seeing that Auntie Zhu did not prepare mixed classes for boys and girls, Yuan Jixian, Chen Zizhuang and others naturally would not object any more, and immediately agreed with Ma Shiying and others.

Solved the problem of the lack of teachers, the rest is some small problems.

Auntie Zhu discussed with the ministers for more than two hours before finalizing the relevant matters.

In the end, Aunt Zhu ordered that the primary schools in all counties of Yingtianfu must start on the eighth day of February.

That is to say, the counties in Tianfu have only one month to prepare for this matter.

The people who need to be busy with this matter are the chief officials of the counties of Yingtianfu, the officials of the prefectural schools and the county schools. For the highest-level Ministry of Rites, the most important thing in the next period is to prepare for the general examination that will be held in February.

This examination was not only the first examination held after Aimee Zhu ascended the throne, but also the last opportunity for the old scholars to be admitted to Jinshi after the reform of the imperial examination.

Its importance cannot be overstated.

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)