Chapter 370: Creating the Ideal World in Her Heart
After realizing that his son and daughter-in-law were going to hold a coronation ceremony that was completely different from the previous ones and to create a completely different country, Su suddenly felt a surge of ambition in his heart.
"Will women be able to take the imperial examinations and serve as officials in the court like men in the future?"
Lu Shiyan nodded, took out a document and handed it to Su, saying, "This is the proposal that Tangtang and I wrote. Mother, take a look and see if there is anything you would like to add."
According to the documents, in addition to women being able to study and take imperial examinations to become officials, there were also systems such as human trafficking, government subsidies to various places, and the construction of more private schools so that every child of school age could go to school.
What shocked Su the most was that the document mentioned the abolition of the system of wives and concubines, and the new country only allowed monogamy.
"Is this what Tangtang thought of?" Su was extremely excited.
This rule really touched her heart.
Although her family didn't have any illegitimate children like other families, she had watched her mother suffer because of her father's concubine since she was a child. In the end, her mother's health was damaged and she died a few years after she got married.
She refused to see her family, wasn't it because she had resentment in her heart, resentment that her father favored his concubine, broke her mother's heart, and caused her mother to die early?
If there were laws in this world that changed the status of women and restrained men, wouldn't there be fewer pitiful women like her mother in the world in the future?
Lu Shiyan said: "That's right."
Su slowly calmed down. "Every one of these is unorthodox and goes against common sense. I'm afraid it won't be easy to implement them, right?"
Lu Shiyan thought about the other world he learned about in space.
These things that seem unorthodox and contrary to common sense to people in this world are just the most common rules there.
And his wife came from such an advanced and civilized world.
"It's not easy, but as long as we persevere and work hard, we will achieve it sooner or later. Moreover, our situation is different from that of the previous dynasty. Although it is difficult now, we have more initiative."
Thinking about the current situation, Su agreed with her son's statement.
In the past, the power of the major families was intertwined in the imperial court. Even if you were the emperor, if you wanted to implement any reforms, you would often be obstructed by the families.
But their current situation is completely different. After Jiang Tangtang took control of Lingnan, she boldly recruited new people and cultivated a large number of officials who unconditionally supported her. However, the aristocratic families were suppressed.
Most importantly, the son holds military power, and the daughter-in-law is capable. They are both in love and working together, so why worry that these new systems cannot be implemented?
The mother and son talked for an entire afternoon. As Su listened to the world her son described to her, she became more and more excited, and her eyes looked at Jiang Tangtang with particular passion.
After entering the space at night, Jiang Tangtang pulled Lu Shiyan aside and asked, "What did you say to Mom? Why does she look at me like that?"
Lu Shiyan smiled and said, "My mother worships you."
Jiang Tangtang asked inexplicably, "Why worship me?"
Lu Shiyan simply relayed to her the conversation he had with Su in the afternoon.
"Mom really doesn't object?" Jiang Tangtang had expected that the Su family supported monogamy.
But she really didn't expect that Su, who came from a noble family and had raised slaves since childhood, could accept the system that prohibited the buying and selling of people.
"Not only did I not oppose it, I also fully support it." Lu Shiyan peeled a grape and fed it to her mouth, "But these systems must be implemented gradually, not all at once."
Jiang Tangtang, with a grape in her mouth, glared at him, "Do I need you to tell me that?"
Because there was a grape in her mouth, her words were a little unclear, and her eyes seemed to be acting coquettishly with him.
Lu Shiyan pulled her into his arms, lifted her chin slightly, and then pried open her lips.
Jiang Tangtang asked vaguely, "What are you doing?"
“Taste the grapes.”
Jiang Tangtang: “…”
There were so many grapes on the plate, but he refused to eat them and insisted on snatching the one she was feeding.
Of course, Lu Shiyan didn't want to eat the grapes, but to eat her.
Recently, due to the busy government affairs, the two of them have less time to meet. Even if they meet, it is not always as he wishes.
He felt that she tasted sweeter than the grapes in her mouth.
Jiang Tangtang was so weak from his kiss that she couldn't help but complain, "Didn't you say you were here to pick cotton tonight? You're picking cotton like this?"
A few days ago, Lu Shiyan brought back some cotton seeds from a noble family in southern Xinjiang. After planting these cotton seeds in the space, they were now ready for harvest.
In order not to delay the planting of cotton, Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan decided to pick the cotton, quickly peel the seeds and continue sowing in the space to get more cotton seeds.
The arrow was on the string and had to be shot. Lu Shiyan had no time to care about cotton. He pinched her twice and said, "It feels better than cotton."
Although the two had had countless intimate contacts, these words still made Jiang Tangtang's cheeks hot.
She pushed him and said, "Don't be so careless. Go to work. Otherwise you won't be able to finish it."
Picking and peeling cotton are both very tedious tasks that take up a lot of time.
Lu Shiyan stopped, looked at her with a smile and said, "Go later and make sure you finish the work."
Jiang Tangtang didn't believe it, "Do you have three heads and six arms?"
Lu Shiyan bit her lightly to express his dissatisfaction, "You'll know later."
Jiang Tangtang couldn't help but feel curious, wondering if he had secretly invented some kind of cotton picking and peeling machine behind her back?
However, with Lu Shiyan's actions, she soon lost the ability to think about these things.
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Afterwards, Jiang Tangtang finally understood why he wasn't panicking. She didn't know when he had agreed with Gugu to let Gugu lead a flock of birds to harvest cotton.
Although the birds help in harvesting cotton, you have to rely on yourself to peel the cotton seeds.
Jiang Tangtang lost her patience after peeling a few cotton seeds. "It would be great if there was a cotton seed threshing machine."
Lu Shiyan looked at her and said, "Do you have this machine?"
Jiang Tangtang nodded, and then regretted it again in her heart. If she had known that she was going to travel through time, she would have bought a few more agricultural machines of various types.
Lu Shiyan asked, "Is there any information about cottonseed threshing machines in the bookstore?"
Jiang Tangtang wasn't sure, "Probably not!"
In fact, there are so many books in the book bar, including books she bought in bulk and her parents' collection of books.
Although she often goes to the bookstore to look for books, she has not yet finished reading all the books there.
Lu Shiyan took a sack and put all the cotton into it. He said, "Move this cotton outside. I'll arrange for someone to peel the cotton seeds."
As for the origin of cotton, just find an appropriate reason.
Jiang Tangtang looked at the large sacks of cotton and knew that it would be impossible for the two of them to finish the job in a short time. Besides, they didn't have the time.
She moved several large sacks outside the space and asked Lu Shiyan to deal with them, then returned to the bookstore to look for information.
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