Donggong Zhangjiao

Pei Yao actually moved very quickly in his life.

He ascended the throne in his twenties, and within ten years he opened up territory for Da Qi, doubling its territory.

In the history of Daqi, it is definitely an achievement that will last forever.

In particular, although Pei Yao fought, he was not wary. After taking over Shangyang Kingdom in the north, he worked hard to govern and focused on development.

It's not like there are some kings who like to fight and take pleasure in winning. They only care about fighting and don't care about the construction of the rear.

Therefore, after the annexation of Shangyang Kingdom, at first, the people of Shangyang Kingdom and the officials of the old dynasty still harbored hatred between the country and the family. However, as time went by, they saw and experienced with their own eyes that life was getting better and better. No one mentioned the old things anymore.

To put it bluntly, Pei Yao is a wise king and is good at governing the country. This is one thing, and the other is to rely on his peers to set him off.

During the reign of the Lin family, Lin Chen, a foolish king, favored villains and distant virtuous ministers, making the people's lives miserable. Naturally, the people would soon discover the goodness of the new monarch.

In particular, Pei Yao is not a petty person. He also uses the capable and talented people in Shangyang Kingdom. Among the old ministers, he gives opportunities to those who are capable and who really want to do things for the people.

The ordinary people and traders in Shangyang Kingdom are treated the same as the people of Daqi, and there is no difference in corvee and taxation.

In this way, it is naturally very popular.

Not only Pei Yao, but also Fang Yun was silently doing other things in the harem.

After the dust settled, Fang Yun felt that since Pei Yao wanted to usher in a new era, he might as well put some effort into women.

It is naturally impossible to achieve equal rights for women and men. Years of fixed thinking cannot be liberated so easily. Moreover, Fang Yun, as a native woman of this era, would not have thought of this.

But all she could think of was giving women the opportunity to study.

Open a girls' academy to let girls study.

Originally, ladies from wealthy families were all proficient in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but they were not taught the same political, historical and national policies as men.

But as long as you are literate, you can read the books you want to read and understand things clearly.

When people praise a sensible and outstanding woman, don't they often use the word "knowledgeable and sensible"?

In the circle in which Pei Yao grew up, except for maids, almost all the women around him were literate. Especially his three daughters, who were enlightened at the age of three like the princes, and were equally good at reading and writing. Therefore, for Pei Yao, it is not unacceptable for women to study.

So after Fang Yun mentioned this matter to him, Pei Yao expressed his support.

Therefore, Fang Yun asked his sister-in-law Qu Jingruo for help and opened the first women's academy in Daqi.

Needless to say, those who came to study were all ladies from the official families of Kyoto.

Fang Yun is not in a hurry, this is just the beginning.

If this women's academy can be opened and run well, more people will see that there are benefits to women's education.

Even if girls from poor families cannot afford to read, the thinking of these girls who have read has changed. There will always be people who stand up one by one and slowly change the world.

Fang Yun knew very well that even if she became a noble concubine, she would not be able to make earth-shaking changes on her own.

The solidified cognition requires the efforts of generations to melt.

In fact, even she could not imagine that women in future generations could hold up half the sky.

She now wants girls to study, but she doesn't want girls to be confined to a house. No matter how smart and outstanding they are, they will be trapped for life.

Over the years, standing next to Pei Yao, Fang Yun has had more opportunities than other women to get in touch with government affairs, historical policies, and other things that these women have no chance to learn.

Fang Yun felt that if he could understand, learn, and occasionally provide some good advice to Pei Yao, then other women in the world must be able to do the same, or even do better.

But first, these smart girls must have the opportunity to study.

Therefore, even if those officials send their daughters to study just to curry favor with her as a noble concubine and to cheer her up, even if the husband only teaches poetry and songs, as long as the girls are literate, you can no longer restrict them. They are not allowed to read other books or learn other principles on their own. As for those women who did not have the opportunity to study, Fang Yue thought about it and chose to pay to open an embroidery workshop.

As long as the girls are willing to come, learn the craft, and work hard, they will have income.

Today, most ordinary people still make a living by farming. Naturally, women are weaker than men in labor-intensive work, but there are other ways to make a living.

In fact, what Fang Yun did was indeed useful.

Many girls who would have been tied up by marriage at an early age, because they can enter the embroidery workshop, can create value for the family that is not inferior to that of men. They are no longer just like objects, and their lives are arranged at will by their families.

Seeing all this in his eyes, Pei Yao occasionally laughed and said that it would be quite worthy to make Fang Yun a female prime minister.

These words are not sarcastic, Pei Yao does admire him.

He never liked incompetent and stupid women.

However, the female prime minister could not be made, but Pei Yao really wanted to make Fang Yun the imperial concubine.

In fact, after the fourth prince was established as the crown prince and the queen left the palace to go to the national temple to pray for blessings, there were secret voices in the palace, guessing that Concubine Zhao was probably going to be named the imperial concubine.

After seven or eight years, this sound has evolved into something else.

Probably, although Concubine Zhao is the biological mother of the prince, her background is a little different. There is a queen in the main palace who was born in the Lu family. Even if the queen is in the national temple and does not return to the palace, the emperor will not designate Concubine Zhao as the imperial concubine. .

After all, the imperial concubine has taken her place along with the deputy empress.

However, the root cause of all these speculations is that Fang Yun feels that now is not the time.

Originally, in Fang Yun's eyes, the imperial concubine and the imperial concubine were almost the same. Others said it was someone else's business, but Fang Yun felt that it would not be too late to add another title when the prince got married.

Closing it too early is not a good thing.

When the crown prince was first established, the queen went out of the palace to pray for blessings. It was under the banner of serving the country and the people. At that time, some people felt that the queen was forced to leave the palace. If Fang Yun was to be made the imperial concubine, how could it be? Doesn’t it look more similar?
Although it doesn't matter if he has a false reputation, there is no need for the court to talk about the emperor's hypocrisy and callousness because of his position, and there is no need to think that the prince's biological mother is vicious and cunning.

Of course, the most important reason is the former one. Is Fang Yun thinking about Pei Yao?

It was precisely because of this that Pei Yao kept this matter in his heart and never forgot it.

After the news of the fourth prince's wedding came out, Jin Fangyun was decreed to be the imperial concubine.

Fang Yun originally thought that when he got here, his life would be completely free, and he was just waiting to send off his youngest daughter to get married. Unexpectedly, the fourth prince had just got married, and the first one who became restless turned out to be Pei Yao.

"I want to patrol the north!"

"If you don't sleep, how can you have the strength to patrol the north? Your Majesty, please sleep."

Fang Yun turned over and muttered a random sentence.

But I didn't expect that Pei Yao not only refused to sleep, but also reached out to pull her over and said happily.

"No, I want to go south and go to sea!"

"Okay, okay, your Majesty, let's go fish for pearls." Fang Yun turned his back and wrapped the quilt tightly, "Remember to bring the biggest one back to my concubine."

"No need to bring it back, you come with me!"

Pei Yao sat cross-legged on the bed, his eyes as bright as lights.

"Okay, okay, go, go, go."

Fang Yun was so sleepy that he was just perfunctory when he suddenly realized what he was doing and sat up too.

"Huh?!" (End of Chapter)