When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 253 251 Gu Hua issued a law to improve women
With the identities of Gu Hua and his friends, they could have taken the person away directly, and the Mao family would have been helpless against them.

But there is one thing that old man Mao said that is very true.

They are the girl's parents and brothers.

No matter what, they took the person away in such an unclear manner, and when the girl saw them later, she still had an inseparable and complicated relationship with them.

So Gu Hua took out a hundred taels of silver and asked the village chief and the elders to write a love letter, and asked the old man Mao and his wife and the two brothers of the Mao family to sign their names and put their fingerprints on it. From then on, they had no relationship with the girl anymore.

The girl saw her parents and brothers taking the silver given by Gu Hua, and they grinned with joy. They discussed how to spend the money. Then the family of four walked into the yard with the silver in their hands, with shining eyes, fearing that someone would break in and steal the money. The sound of the door being locked could be heard from outside.

Everyone looked with sympathy at the girl named Mao Xiaoya who was ruthlessly abandoned by her family.

"My girl, don't be sad." An old lady with a kind face came over and said, "From now on, just follow this noble person who saved you. She is obviously a very blessed person. If you follow her, you may also be blessed and won't suffer so much."

"Thank you, grandma." Mao Xiaoya thanked the old lady, and then was helped by Ergui to get on the carriage that had been following them.

Gu Hua's eyes were cold. He turned around to look at the yard where the Mao family entered and curled the corners of his lips.

Take people away.

"Bitter Cabbage Flower Granny, I thought you were here to comfort the little girl, right?" A villager looked in the direction where Gu Hua and the others left, curling his lips and saying, "Who knows what those people bought her for. A little girl was born with a lowly fate, how could she have any blessings?"

"Hmph!" The old woman called Ku Cai Hua hummed softly, bent over and walked slowly towards her home with a cane, leaving behind an old voice: "You people who look down on girls like this must have sprung out of cracks in the rocks..."

"You old woman..." The man who was scolded in the crevice of the stone was pulled back by the village chief.

The village chief waved his hand and said, "Everyone go away."

As the old woman was walking, a young man in his twenties from a farming family suddenly caught up with her and tried to lend her a hand, but the old woman dodged him and said indifferently, "You old woman can still walk."

"Grandma!" Shame flashed across the young man's face, "What happened back then..."

"Don't mention what happened back then to the old woman."

The young man Erniu looked at the old woman who turned and walked towards another village road, and lowered his head in shame.

Back then, he was engaged to Mao Xiaoya, who was taken away by Gu Hua. However, Mao Xiaoya always ate more than the average person since she was a child.

The Mao family didn't treat their daughter as a human being and disliked her for eating too much.

Every time before dinner at home, she would be sent to work, and when the little girl came back, there would be nothing left in the pot.

Young Mao Xiaoya was so hungry that she had to cook the old and bitter wild vegetables that were used to feed pigs and eat them herself. Even for this, the Mao family members accused her of wasting firewood and would not allow her to do so even if they saw it.

Gradually, there were rumors in the village that Mao Xiaoya grew up eating pig food.

At that time, he was laughed at by his friends in the village for marrying a wife who grew up eating pig food. In a fit of anger, he broke off the engagement that had been arranged since childhood and turned around to marry her cousin Mao Xiaoxiu.

Erniu turned his head and looked far away at the end of the road leaving the village, where the carriage disappeared.

Murmuring: "Mao Ya, I did like you, but I can't afford to marry a wife who has eaten boiled pig food, don't blame me."

After Gu Hua came back, he told Chunlan, who had become the housekeeper, to have someone take good care of Mao Xiaoya, and then he went to the study.

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Ever since Xiao Junlin learned that the four children were his biological children, he not only treated them as his lifeblood, loving, pampering, and indulging them...

He originally had different feelings towards Gu Hua, and now that he knew that the children she gave birth to were all his own, he praised her to the sky, kept her in his heart, and listened to her every word and obeyed her in everything.

His previous mentality of giving up because he had no offspring to inherit the family business was gone forever, and he began to actively help Gu Hua rebel.

With his help, Gu Hua can be said to be even more powerful. No matter whether they are subordinates she recruited before or those who follow her now, they all obey her orders.

Just like now, Gu Hua entered the study room and called people to discuss and draft a set of laws and regulations. The cities under her jurisdiction must have women's colleges, which not only teach women to read, but also offer skills classes, including weaving, embroidery...all kinds of life skills that can enable women to survive independently.

Gu Hua also contributed money and effort to allow Fang Kuan, who was in charge of the business affairs, to build a factory, encouraging women to leave their homes, where they had to take care of the elderly and the young, and were despised and abused by their husbands and in-laws, to start their own businesses.

He also ordered a ban on the immoral practice of arranging ghost marriages for the dead, which was also a cruel persecution of women.

A series of laws were introduced to prevent women from being harmed in this feudal world.

Although the status of women cannot be improved all at once, Gu Hua believes that as women become more self-reliant, fewer and fewer women will choose to commit suicide because they dare not resist their patriarchal parents or abused by their in-laws.

When Gu Hua was doing this, some officials in the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction disagreed.

They believe that women should stay at home to take care of their husbands and children, and serve their parents-in-law, and should not show their faces in public, which is a disgrace to women.

Gu Hua silently took note of them. Some of these people were demoted or dismissed from their posts for doing wrong things, while some worked in their positions for their entire lives but never got promoted to the next level.

People with feudal and rigid minds can be used, but they cannot be valued by Gu Hua.

As the saying goes, people with different opinions cannot work together.

Gu Hua promoted these officials to help him deal with government affairs, not to cause trouble for himself. This also doomed the official career of these officials who looked down on women.

Gu Hua also did not have the idea of ​​women being superior to men. Her ultimate goal was just to achieve equality between men and women and to live together in harmony.

Officials who understood the situation no longer objected.

They themselves have mothers, wives, and daughters.

As long as the officials are not strongly chauvinistic, they are willing to support Gu Hua's idea of ​​promoting equality and harmonious coexistence between men and women and actively cooperate in opening a women's college.

Convey Gu Hua's proposal that various feudal customs that persecute women will be punished by law. The lighter punishment is beating and imprisonment. The more serious punishment is that if a woman loses her life, she will be punished with life for life, and there will be no leniency.

After this order was issued, those who liked to drink and beat their wives, and those who abused their daughters-in-law by relying on their parents-in-law's status as elders, did not take it seriously at first. It was not until someone was arrested by the government for beating his wife to death or killing his daughter-in-law that they became afraid.

When news of Gu Hua's move spread, she was not only loved by the women under her jurisdiction, but also other women who were not under her jurisdiction, after hearing about it, they also longed for her to take over their city and county as soon as possible.

In this way, they don't have to live a servile life every day, but can learn various skills, earn their own money, and hold their heads up high.