"Madam, this, this...how come this little ancestor is wearing it." After wiping his hands, Pan Zhuo took over his beloved Lao Laizi.
"The academy where you teach has announced its requirements for next year's enrollment, and several ladies have come to our house to give us gifts. Xi'er saw this and thought someone would give him gifts if he went to the academy, so he insisted on going no matter what..."
The latest enrollment requirement of Moxiang Academy is one string of coins per person per year. If you cannot pay it at the time, you can borrow from the academy and repay it after graduation, or repay it immediately after the end of the academic year.
Pan Zhuo's wife shook her head, feeling helpless.
Pan Zhuo frowned when he heard this. If Xiger thought he could get something for nothing at such a young age, how could he be a gentleman in the future? He must be taught well!
Also, if parents of children who want to enter the academy often come to their homes to send gifts, will it disgust His Highness?
After all, he had worked under Ji Wan for so long, and he could probably guess what Ji Wan hated.
"Madam, please forgive me. If anyone comes to try to establish a relationship with you again, I will definitely refuse them all. None of your Highness's staff behaves this way, and I'm afraid your Highness himself detests such behavior. As a subordinate, if I continue to behave this way, I'll be putting myself on the spot!"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Pan Zhuo's teasing smile froze. She carefully considered the meaning of Pan Zhuo's words. After figuring it out, she immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "Okay!"
Her husband had finally managed to secure a position working for a noble in the imperial palace, which was much better than his previous position as an ordinary teacher, so Madam Pan Zhuo was naturally proud.
When people are proud, they tend to lose control of their behavior.
So she has been a little more indulgent in her behavior in recent days, and the maids and servants around her all speak to her in a positive way.
Fortunately, her husband is a clear-headed person. If she hadn't been awakened today, it would have been bad if this matter affected her husband in the future.
In the three cities of Qingshi State, everyone knows that His Highness is the most respected. If she continues to accept gifts from the powerful without distinguishing right from wrong and arouses the disgust of the people in the city, her husband might be killed soon!
After all, there are only three teachers in the entire Moxiang Academy. Two of them are talented people under His Highness, and the other one is Pan Zhuo, a mortal who was recruited later.
In terms of closeness, if something like this happened to the two masters, they would probably not be punished, but no one can say for sure about someone like Pan Zhuo!
If they don’t close the door to visitors and refuse to make money, they might not even be able to leave the Pan family’s house!
Winter was approaching, and Ji Wan had spent half a month to preliminarily determine the relevant policies for military reform.
She wanted to place the soldiers who had previously fought against the refugees into the newly built legion. Ji Wan planned to turn this army into a special cavalry battalion.
The army originally managed by Jin Lie was reformed into an all-infantry battalion.
This made the task complicated. It was necessary to count which soldiers in the original military camp should be assigned to the new cavalry battalion, and which ones were suitable for promotion, transfer, and management of the new legion.
We also need to count the people recruited into the new legion, which ones are high-end talents and which ones are technical talents. The work is very complicated and huge.
The difficulty lies in reasonably counting and arranging the destination of each soldier.
The most important thing is that Ji Wan has to reorganize military rules and discipline, and try his best to make the army under his command as brave as in his previous life.
Ever since Ji Wan decided to reorganize the army, the system automatically went online. Just like before, it quietly abandoned the management methods of the previous life's army and disappeared.
So even though things are messy now, at least Ji Wan knows how to change military discipline and how to train the troops.
With the reasonable taxation of the people and Yan Peinan's clever management, Ji Wan became much richer, so he followed the method given by the system.
Ji Wan converted the area surrounding the army into a dormitory area, specifically for the soldiers to accommodate their families. The welfare benefits for the soldiers' families, such as medical care and household registration, were also greatly improved.
At the same time, all soldiers currently enlisted in the military were assigned to separate households, and regardless of whether they were legitimate or illegitimate, all became heads of households. Furthermore, their families living in the same household could also receive a portion of the subsidy.
The most important highlight is that Ji Wan is discussing with the advisors whether to select appropriate women to join the barracks and form a female corps.
In his previous life, Ji Wan had seen the demeanor of female soldiers through various videos, and knew that women could not be confined to the small inner chamber. The important thing was that Ji Wan was really short of people now!
The prince has already ascended the throne. In a few days, when the news that she has dealt with the Ping'an brothers and taken down Quanxiang Tower spreads out of Qingshi Province, the current emperor will casually accuse her of treason, and with his army approaching, Ji Wan will be in a real mess.
After comprehensive consideration, she made this suggestion to her advisers.
Cui Min was the first to express opposition, followed closely by Pan Zhuo and Jiang Jian.
The atmosphere in their home was traditional, with their mother taking care of the inner house while their father was busy in the officialdom.
But they also did not mean to look down on women. After all, they all came from aristocratic families, and they knew a thing or two about what it was like to be the mistress of a house. From small things like food, clothing, housing, transportation, and educating children to big things like building good interpersonal relationships in official circles for their master and maintaining revenue from the family shop, there was nothing that the mistress of a house had to do.
On the contrary, they believe that women can play their strengths in handling domestic affairs and housekeeping.
But if we are marching and fighting, losing any one of them would be a meaningless waste of population and would be greatly detrimental to the plan of population growth.
They also took into account issues such as women's childbirth and physical discomfort during menstruation, which was very detailed.
The idea that men are responsible for the outside world and women for the home is deeply ingrained, and it's been there since childhood. It's difficult for Cui Min, Pan Zhuo, and Jiang Jian to accept that women can fight and get injured on the battlefield while ignoring the issue of childbearing.
To put it bluntly, it's like throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.
Ji Wan expressed his understanding of their thoughts, and then turned his attention to the subordinates who had not spoken.
Tuoba Feng, Jin Lie and Gu Huafeng were raised by their mothers or masters since childhood. They never underestimated the power of women and believed that women could be trained as soldiers.
Because women are careful and attentive, they will definitely be very good at analyzing intelligence. This position was unanimously recommended by the three of them.
As for issues like women's physical weakness, they didn't consider them at all. After all, there were women who knew martial arts and could practice.
Besides, with Ji Wan's spiritual vein, even a dog can draw the energy into its body, let alone such a big person.
No matter how you cultivate, it all depends on your personal efforts.
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