Chapter 330 Can the girls' school still be run?

Gu Huaiyu took a closer look and found that it was Xiaoxiao who had fallen asleep against the railing of the stairs.

The color of her clothes was very similar to the railing, so Gu Huaiyu did not notice it.

Gu Huaiyu did not care about his sprained foot and hurried to check on Su Xiaoxiao. Although she did not step on it, she tripped and did not know if she was hurt.

"Xiaoxiao, are you okay?" Gu Huaiyu asked softly.

Su Xiaoxiao rubbed her eyes and saw that it was Gu Huaiyu. She tried to force a smile: "Brother Prince! No, you are the emperor!"

When she said this, Xiaoxiao was obviously a little disappointed.

Gu Huaiyu was so perceptive, how could he not see Xiaoxiao's loss.

He squatted down, sat on the steps side by side with Su Xiaoxiao, and asked: "Don't you want me to be the emperor?"

Su Xiaoxiao asked back: "If you become the emperor, will you become a person like the emperor uncle?"

"No!" Gu Huaiyu blurted out without thinking.

His father always said that he had no choice and that the overall situation was more important, but in Gu Huaiyu's view, these were all excuses.

"It's not easy to be an emperor, but I have no choice. However, I will try my best to be a good emperor, an emperor who will not let good people get hurt!"

Gu Huaiyu tried to make it easy to understand.

"Why are you here? I thought you went home with General Su."

Su Xiaoxiao blinked mischievously: "Because I'm afraid that the prince brother will be lonely. Father said that today is your most difficult time, Xiaoxiao will naturally accompany you!"

Gu Huaiyu was touched. With Xiaoxiao around, he seemed not so lonely.

[Actually, I also want to go back, but when I think about it, it was me who scared the emperor uncle silly, which made the prince brother ascend the throne early, and I feel a little guilty! ]

Su Xiaoxiao thought so, and looked at Gu Huaiyu guiltily, and then looked away.

But soon Su Xiaoxiao became righteous and said: [The dog emperor is too abominable. He actually attacked his own people. If it weren't for the sake of the prince, he would not be able to save his life no matter what! ]

Gu Huaiyu felt warm in his heart. Xiaoxiao always did her own thing, but she still cared about him.

Gu Huaiyu touched Su Xiaoxiao's head and said sincerely: "Thank you, Xiaoxiao!"

"Thank me for what?" Su Xiaoxiao raised her head and asked.

The calculations in his heart were clacking.

[Crown Prince does have a lot to thank me for. If I hadn't been guarding Fengyi Palace, he, Ninth Brother, and the Queen would have all been killed by King Cheng. Now that Crown Prince has become the Emperor, he should reward me with a lot of things!]

Gu Huaiyu was originally filled with emotion, but after listening to Su Xiaoxiao's little calculations, he felt a lot more relieved.

At this time, the Ninth Prince Gu Huaian also came.

"It took me so long to find you here!"

He was holding a food box in his hand, and walked straight to sit down between Su Xiaoxiao and Gu Huaiyu.

"I brought you some delicious food. Mother said that sweets can make people happy!" When saying this, Gu Huaian kept looking at his brother Gu Huaiyu.

Gu Huaiyu picked up a piece of snack and put it in his mouth.

Su Xiaoxiao and Gu Huaian stared at him and asked, "Is it sweet? Are you in a better mood?"

Gu Huaiyu raised his head and said with a sob, "Sweet!"

Even if he became the emperor, he would not be lonely!

The three of them sat on the steps and shared the food. From time to time, Su Xiaoxiao and the ninth prince would compete with each other. Of course, the winner in the end must be Su Xiaoxiao.

Xiao Anzi and Yang Shun, the personal eunuchs beside the new emperor, were guarding outside.

Xiao Anzi wanted to ask the emperor to go to bed, as he had to get up early tomorrow.

Yang Shun stopped him: "Let them be, days like this, one day more, one day less!"

In the following days, the court was busy preparing for the funeral of the late emperor, and then there was Gu Huaiyu's coronation ceremony. Although he was busy all day and could only sleep for a few hours, Gu Huaiyu still appeared in the court on time every day with high spirits.

He saw the benefits of the girls' school, and learned that Su Xiaoxiao had saved all the girls with a sleight of hand, and he was very excited.

He really felt sorry for those women, and he was not like his father who was a tyrant who killed people without blinking an eye. Fortunately,

there was Su Xiaoxiao, who stopped everything in time.

He had already communicated with Grand Tutor Tang and Prime Minister Pei, and wanted to pass Su Lingxi's proposal to let women and men take the imperial examinations together.

Gu Huaiyu said: "Grand Tutor, Prime Minister, in just five years, those people in the Girls' School have proved to us that they can do a lot. I plan to let Su Lingxi continue to manage the Girls' School, and the girls' participation in the imperial examinations can be put on the agenda!"

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely not allowed!" The two enemies said in unison.

Grand Tutor Tang added with a serious face: "The Girls' School can be rebuilt, but it is absolutely not allowed for girls to participate in the imperial examinations!"

Gu Huaiyu was upset for a moment and asked: "Are you two adults also worried about being outdone by girls!"

"No, no!" Prime Minister Pei said.

He said earnestly: "Your Majesty has just ascended the throne. Don't be fooled by those officials who keep saying long live the emperor. They have a lot of thoughts in their minds. They are just waiting to see you make a mistake and find fault with you! Your Majesty, you have been appointed in a time of crisis. After all, your foundation is still shallow. You cannot give people a chance to talk about you at this time!"

Tai Shi Tang quickly echoed: "Prime Minister Pei is right. You have just ascended the throne. You need the support of the aristocratic families the most. The issue of women's imperial examinations has touched their sore spot. This matter requires long-term planning. Even the matter of re-establishing women's schools needs to be reconsidered in details."

Gu Huaiyu did not expect that the two would be so united in rejecting him, so he said: "Could it be that you two You two also think that girls' schools are not doing their job properly and are harmful to morals. You also think that girls can only stay in the harem?"

Tai Shi Tang patiently explained: "Your Majesty, please be patient. The status of women has been like this for thousands of years. It was also because of the wisdom of the previous emperor that girls' schools were established. Everyone went from not understanding at the beginning to slowly accepting it.

However, once the memorial to allow women to take the imperial examination was submitted, there were so many troubles. In fact, the process of opening girls' schools has never been smooth. Girls' schools have been destroyed many times, which forced them to open a martial arts class themselves, mainly to guard the school, but this is not a long-term solution after all!"

Prime Minister Pei went on to say, "Old Tang is right. This is indeed not a long-term solution. In my opinion, the emperor has too many things to deal with now. This women's school is just for fame and reputation, and it is not worthy of being accepted by the public!"

Before Prime Minister Pei finished speaking, Grand Tutor Tang got angry and said, "We can't let go of the women's imperial examination, but this women's school has already been established, how can it be abandoned halfway? How can it not be accepted by the public? I think you are jealous of other people's granddaughters because you can't give birth to granddaughters!"