Chu Qiuze didn't care. He just had to wait for the matter to become a big deal.
He knew that after the next notice was sent out, many more people would leave voluntarily.
It is better not to accept such pedantic students.
His guess was absolutely correct. After the three schools that recruited boys were overcrowded, someone quickly discovered that the school in the south of the city was not recruiting students.
There were many different opinions among the people. Some said that the school charged tuition, some said that the school was only for children of noble families, and some said that one had to have excellent grades to attend.
But no one guessed that it was a school for girls only.
When the officers and soldiers of the government office cautiously posted the notice outside the government office, the whole city was in an uproar as soon as the news spread.
The admission of girls to school was simply shocking.
Although women in Dahan were not so restricted as to stay at home all the time, there was no precedent for women to go to school.
Some are happy and some are sad.
The ones who were happy were the women trapped in the inner chambers, who had never thought that they would have the opportunity to go to school.
They thought, even if they couldn't write beautiful articles or compose elegant poems, it would be fine if they could just learn a few more words!
Moreover, this school was co-founded by the male god and the prince.
Countless girls' hearts were filled with ripples.
The ones who are worried are the parents of those girls. On the one hand, they want to send their daughters to learn some knowledge so that they can find a good family in the future.
On the other hand, I am worried that neighbors will gossip about me and my reputation will be ruined. I won’t be able to find a good family, and it will be a problem whether I can get married at all.
It's really a tangle.
Then there are those students who think that it is a blessing for girls to go to school.
For a moment, Mirror City was bustling with activity.
As for Chu Qiu Ze, the person who caused this incident, he has earned a lot of gratitude since the school opened.
Anyway, the gratitude points cannot be returned, so it doesn't matter even if the people are making such a fuss now.
Now we just need to find a way to make them accept girls going to school.
We can't keep going on like this.
He thought that, just like he had dealt with the old tutor before, he would make the works of famous female poets and lyricists public. He wanted to tell these pedantic ancient people that women have always been weaker than men.
But the results were minimal, and some even said that the poems of those female poets were written by men.
It was so absurd that Li Qingzhao's coffin almost couldn't hold it down.
Anyway, the ones who made the most noise were the students studying in traditional academies.
As mentioned before, they do not allow women to touch the sanctity of the school, even if it means disobeying the gods and kings.
"Report!" A guard walked quickly into the inner hall and reported, "Your Highness, my god, those students are now making trouble at the gate of the government office."
Chu Qiuze pulled the corner of his mouth helplessly, "Friend Lan, these students are so pedantic. Even if they pass the imperial examination and become officials, what can they do for the people?"
"Their thoughts are too selfish." Chu Qiuze was indignant. "They look down on women. Does that mean that the mother who gave birth to him and raised him is not a woman?"
Lan An thought of those pedantic officials in the court, and then listened to the noises outside the government office. Perhaps a small number of those noisy students would stand in the court in the future.
Without change, the cycle of pedantic officials will continue unending.
Without progress, the vast world will eventually disappear in the long river of history.
The bright road is right in front of them, but these short-sighted students only care about their own interests.
Blue Gum felt powerless.
"Let's go, friend Lan." Chu Qiuze shouted, "Let's go meet these students."
At the gate of the government office, hundreds of students were arguing excitedly, and some were even holding banners and shouting slogans.
"To refuse to allow women to enter the school is to be regarded as a saint."
The government soldiers held long swords and tried to maintain order, but among these students, there were many successful scholars and even officials who were afraid to step forward.
The situation has been at a stalemate ever since.
There were also some ordinary people with radical ideas who started smashing things with vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, saying that it was against human ethics for girls to go to school.
This scene made Chu Qiuze laugh out of anger.
"Quiet down." He tried to reason with the group, but no one listened.
Chu Qiuze even saw a cholera patient who had been discharged from the hospital not long ago.
My brother saved you, and you came to tear down my platform right after.
This feeling is really fucked up.
Lu Ziye, who had just been transferred back and held the third-rank official rank, was naturally not afraid of those students who had academic titles but no official positions.
He drew out his long sword, swung his hand, and directly cut off the hair bun of the student in the front row.
"This is a government office, not a market. What do you want to do? Rebellion?"
When Lu Ziye gets angry, he is quite intimidating.
The noise gradually died down.
However, these students were not so easily convinced. They sat on the ground and expressed their dissatisfaction by sitting quietly.
No matter what Lu Ziye said, he turned a deaf ear to it.
Closing eyes means: If you hear a word from me, I lose.
Chu Qiuze took a look and thought, wow, it seems like he can’t talk properly anymore.
"The Regent has arrived~~!"
The one who shouted the announcement was the prefect Fu Yanjie, "Bye~!"
Lu Ziye put away his sword, knelt down and saluted, and then the prefect also knelt down.
Chu Qiuze raised his eyebrows. What was going on? Didn't his friend Lan come out with him?
Besides, I don’t usually see him doing such a fuss.
Soon, he understood.
Those who passed the imperial examination and became scholars did not kneel before officials, but Lan An was a prince and even more so the regent.
In today's world, except for the emperor and the empress, it is proper for anyone to kneel down and pay respect to him; even if the current crown prince kneels to him, he can bear it.
Seeing that the general and the prefect had knelt, many students did not dare to sit there any longer; moreover, the regent had the right to execute first and report later, which was granted by His Majesty himself.
They knelt down and saluted in a proper manner, shouting, "Long live the prince."
Lan An stood with his hands behind his back on the steps at the entrance of the government office, looking down on everything with an arrogant attitude.
If he hadn't said no need to politely ask for permission, no one dared to stand up, or even move around, or look around.
Chu Qiuze looked at this scene, and only then did he truly realize the importance of power in ancient times.
This is different from the kneeling of the people of Yugou County at that time.
At that time, ordinary people knelt to show their admiration and gratitude, but these students knelt for power and status.
Lan Euan just looked quietly at the crowd below. These were all the people of Dahan.
He never liked to use his power to bully others, but today, these people had touched his sore spot.
"Why don't you allow girls to study?" After a while, Lan An pointed at a scholar and asked in a sharp voice.
The scholar who was named crawled out of the crowd tremblingly and knelt in front of Lan An.
The scholar's pride supported him to answer the question: "Your Majesty, from ancient times to the present, there has never been a precedent for girls to go to school."
Lan An ignored his answer and asked the other kneeling students, "Are there any students from the business family?"
In this dynasty, people were also divided into three categories: scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. Although merchants had a little money, their status was very low.
As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen students came forward and answered, "My family all runs small businesses."
"In the previous dynasty, were the sons of merchants able to take part in the imperial examinations?" Lan An asked.
The students below were confused and answered honestly, "In the previous dynasty, merchants were considered inferior and were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations."
Lan An nodded, "Throughout the dynasties, there has never been a precedent for children of merchant origin to participate in the imperial examinations. It was the founding emperor of our Great Han who issued a decree that allowed children of merchant origin to participate in the imperial examinations. Am I right?"
This is indeed the case and no one disputes it.
He glanced at the young men from the Shang class and sneered, "Since you think it is not possible without precedent, then I will write a letter to the emperor and revoke the decree that the Shang class can participate in the imperial examinations."
As soon as these words were spoken, several young men from business families could no longer hold back and kowtowed repeatedly begging for mercy.
Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. Although Dahan now encourages people to do business, their status is still too low. If one wants to climb up, the only way is to take the imperial examination.
Even if one only passed the exam and became a scholar, his family could still be called Confucian merchants.
If, if the Shang class are no longer allowed to take part in the imperial examinations in the future, then, then, then...then with what they did today, wouldn't they become sinners for all the Shang class children in the world?
The unstable scholar was so frightened that he fainted.
Lan An glanced at him and didn't let anyone carry him down, nor did he let anyone call a doctor.
He then pointed to another student and asked the same old question: "Why don't you allow women to study?"
This student was an ordinary student, and naturally he was not restricted to businessmen. He replied: "If all the girls go to school, who will take care of the housework? Do we men have to do the laundry and cooking?"
Lan An noticed that although his clothes were neat, the blue fabric had obviously been washed many times and had turned a little white. It seemed that his family's conditions were not good.
"Have you ever married?" Lan An asked.
The student in blue lowered his head and blushed. He came from a poor family and had never passed the imperial examination. Now the women who were willing to marry him were all from the countryside.
How could he, a scholar, be willing to marry such a vulgar woman?
Wouldn't that make his classmates laugh at him?
Therefore, even though he was already over 20 and the children of his friends were old enough to cook soy sauce, he did not want to get married. He thought that after he graduated from high school, there would be many rich and powerful women who would want to marry him.
He shook his head, which was considered as an answer to Lan An's question.
Lan An asked again: "How do your parents make a living?"
The student in blue lowered his head even lower, but since the Regent King was here, he dared not lie, "My father works odd jobs in the West Market, and my mother washes clothes for the nobles, and occasionally makes handkerchiefs and sachets to sell to shops."
The West Market is the human market of Rujing City, where coolies are sold.
Lan An asked again: "Who does the laundry, cooking and housework in your family?"
"Of course it's my mother." The student answered without hesitation.
Isn't housework a woman's job?
"Raise your head and look at me." Lan Euan said in a cold voice, "Am I to understand that your mother has to take care of all the household chores while earning money? And your father only needs to earn money and bring it home?"
The student in blue was almost scared to tears by Lan An's eyes, "Your Highness is right."
Lan An turned around and asked the students in the audience loudly: "Since his mother can manage the household chores and earn money at the same time, why can't women study and manage the household chores at the same time?"
The students were speechless. The current situation of the student in blue at home was also the current situation of most ordinary students.
To support a student to study, or even to take the imperial examination, the money earned by one person in the family is definitely not enough.
Lan An looked at the student in blue clothes again: "I think your father is useless. Your mother has to earn money and take care of the housework, but your father only needs to earn money? Doesn't he need to be considerate of his wife and do some housework within his ability?"
After that, he pointed at the group of students and said, "And you, have you ever helped with housework at home?"
Household chores are shared by the family.
Countless students lowered their heads in shame. It’s not that they don’t have time to do housework, nor that they don’t care about their mothers, but how can it be justified for men to do housework?