Wu Yue agreed happily, put the candy on the stone table next to her, picked up the small iron shovel, and called out to Zhao Dabao, "Hurry up and work, why are you standing there like an idiot?"
"Oh," Zhao Dabao responded happily. No matter how he looked at it, May looked like his lost younger sister. He didn't complain at all even when he was ordered around.
As the emperor continued walking forward, Li Chengcheng asked carefully, "Your Majesty, when the children of Shaoyingyuan grow up, will they become officials or do something else——"
"Work." Zhu Youxiao added to Li Chengcheng that this simple word was not popular in ancient times. It was more commonly called "livelihood", which means managing life.
Turning his head to glance at Li Chengcheng, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "It's not that only officials can have a bright future. I am working hard to change this concept. It's not that only those who have passed the imperial examination can become officials. This is also what I want to change."
"Oh," Li Chengcheng nodded, seeming to understand. She had a younger brother, and she wanted to send him to the Shaoying Academy, thinking that since the emperor valued him so much, he must have a bright future.
Zhu Youxiao also knew that it was difficult to change ideas, so he attached great importance to the Shaoying Academy.
These children were trained from a young age and studied various majors according to his ideas. They were like a blank piece of paper, on which he could paint the most hopeful and beautiful picture of life.
Of course, the new learning also lay in his hope, but it was not so easy to get those scholars to give up their dreams of becoming officials and to pursue other careers.
What about Sun Yuanhua? He still believed in Western religions, but he was still happy about being appointed to an official position.
Originally, Zhu Youxiao wanted to create a rank for technical officials and have them wear official uniforms that were different from those of traditional civil servants, but he gave up in the end.
He realized that this was tantamount to artificially creating categories among officials. Technical officials wearing different official uniforms were likely to be discriminated against, and they might even feel inferior.
Being born into a legitimate family is a common thought. In the imperial examination system, there are distinctions between Jinshi (a successful candidate), Jinshi-born, and Tongjinshi-born. How much more so are technical officials born into informal families?
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