Even though the Ming Dynasty was founded 200 years ago, the stereotyped style of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has long gone astray. Especially since the emergence of the sage Wang 50 years ago, the School of Mind has flourished, and people have begun to pursue self-recklessly, and the country has long been in disarray...

But Li Zhuowu's claim was still too sensational.

"Brother, I'm not saying anything bad about you," Pan Zhongxian couldn't help but advise, "You're courting disaster. Even if you castrate yourself, you'll still be drowned in saliva."

"Let them curse as much as they want. If they are not envied, they are mediocre." Li Zhi picked up a piece of boiled dried shredded vegetables with chopsticks, chewed it carefully and said, "For us who teach, the more famous we are, the more we curse. The more we curse, the more famous we are. We curse every month, and we become famous every month."

"Well, no matter what others say, what's the point of you doing this?" Pan Zhongxian still said pessimistically: "Girls, it's enough to learn to read and write, how can you learn what men learn? There is a saying that 'women are short-sighted and cannot learn Taoism'. I am afraid that you are trying to be different and your efforts will end up in vain."

"Women are short-sighted and unfit to learn the Dao? Is that true?" Li Zhi instantly entered debater mode, stroked his short beard, his eyes gleamed with a clear light, and sneered:

"That's true! Women are short-sighted! But why is it so? It's because women never leave their homes, and they don't know anything about the outside world. Men use this theory to restrain women, which is really a stupid theory of taking the effect as the cause!"

As he said this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "In fact, most men are muddleheaded and even worse than women. With a mulberry bow and a puff arrow, they can shoot in all directions, but only one in ten thousand has long-term vision. To say that men have long-term vision is just generalizing from one generation to the whole."

"If one generation can last for ten thousand, then Yi Jiang, as a woman, assisted King Wu in conquering the Shang Dynasty, and was listed as one of the 'Ten Chaos' along with Duke Zhou, Duke Shao, and Duke Tai; Wen Mu, as a saintly woman, rectified the 'Wind' of the 'South', and was called one of the 'Four Friends' along with San Yisheng, Tai Dian, and others. I would also say that women are far more knowledgeable than ordinary people!"

"You, what you are doing is..." Pan Zhongxian wanted to say, "You are quibbling," but Li Zhi's logic was very rigorous, which made him dumbfounded and speechless.

"So it's OK to say that there are male and female people, but how can we say that there are differences in knowledge between men and women? It's OK to say that knowledge can be deep or shallow, but how can we say that men's knowledge is deep and women's knowledge is shallow?"

Li Zhi drank the wine in the cup and said:

"So I want to say that knowledge is not divided between men and women, only prejudice is. Not giving women the opportunity to broaden their horizons, but instead just mocking them for having long hair and short knowledge, is naked bandit logic and a prejudice with ulterior motives!"

Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound in the cabin. The three looked in the direction of the sound and saw Secretary Ma who couldn't help but applaud.

She quickly apologized in shame. As a secretary, she should not let others feel her presence in such occasions. It was really unprofessional.

"Secretary Ma is a perfect example." Li Zhi smiled and pointed at Ma Xianglan with his chopsticks, saying, "Xiao Zhao relies on her as his confidant, takes her everywhere, and keeps her informed of secrets. Now, the number of people in the entire Ming Dynasty who can surpass her in knowledge can be counted on one hand."

Although Pan Zhongxian thought that this evaluation was too high, he understood the reason. Besides, the boss's secretary should not be offended, especially a female secretary. So he gave up the argument and said, "Look at you, I just said something vulgar, but you scolded me."

"I'm just worried that you might do something bad with good intentions." He sighed and said, "People say 'women without talent are virtuous', although it is biased, it does make sense. Women who are literate and can understand the great principles are virtuous, but they are rare; most are talented but show off, such as Zhuo Wenjun and Yu Xuanji... and they have damaged the virtues of women. If you stir up evil thoughts, or even play tricks and do shameful things, it is better for them to be illiterate and keep to a simple and contented life."

"Hahaha!" Li Zhi laughed loudly upon hearing this. "How pathetic and ridiculous! I only cut off the unnecessary parts, but your thoughts have been castrated countless times by Cheng Zhu. It is actually you who are more unhealthy!"

"Alright, alright." Seeing that Li Zhi was about to start scolding him again, Pan Zhongqian quickly raised his hands in surrender and said, "I can't argue with you, and I have no ill intentions."

As he said this, he said, "Let Mr. Zhao judge the matter. If he thinks you are right, the money in my passbook will be yours too."

"I was just about to ask Xiao Zhao, what do you think?" Li Zhi also stared at Zhao Hao. Although he didn't care about the opinions of the world, he cared very much about what Zhao Hao thought.

As long as I can get this kid's approval, I will definitely succeed...

"Me..." Master Zhao raised his head helplessly. This time he actually envied Fang Wen's skills.

Since he said that everyone should be happy, that naturally included all women. Since he was determined to give all possibilities room to grow, he certainly would not suppress Li Zhi's women's liberation because of his own gender.

However, the Jiangnan Group cannot express its position on such matters, let alone have anything to do with them. Otherwise, this will be another crime in the eyes of the censors, and countless dirty water will be thrown at them.

Prince Zhao knew the bad nature of people, and even treason was not as lethal as sex. For example, people did not pay attention to the fact that Lao Ai was killed for stealing the seal of the King of Qin and wanted to rebel, but only talked about his big and good penis, which could be used as a wheel axle, and Zhao Ji loved it day and night and could not let it go.

They will not pay attention to Zhang Juzheng's tragedy, because the power of the prime minister is above the power of the emperor, and they will only sing about "the black-hearted prime minister sitting on the dragon bed"...

Fortunately, Mr. Zhao is now experienced and will not be stumped by such questions. He smiled cunningly and said, "You know, our science says that knowledge comes from practice, not subjective assumptions. Without investigation, there is no right to speak, so we can't jump to conclusions."

This did not hurt Pan Zhongzhan's reputation, but it also made Li Zhi satisfied.

"Oh, yes. You science emphasizes evidence." Li Zhi immediately understood: "Does that mean you support me in opening a girls' school to conduct experiments?"

"Will it be useful if I say I don't support you?" Young Master Zhao smiled with narrowed eyes.

"It's useless." Li Zhi answered honestly.

"That's it." Zhao Hao said with a smile: "The money is yours anyway, it's up to you how you want to spend it."

"Okay, that's what I want you to say!" Li Zhi slammed the table and said, "I've found a place, right in the Humble Administrator's Garden! If you don't want to hold the school, hold it in the best place and in the best school. Otherwise, who would be willing to send their daughter here?"

"Is that the Xu family's garden?" Zhao Hao asked puzzledly, "Can they run a school for you?"

"You don't know? Lord Xu is selling his property." Li Zhi laughed and said, "The Humble Administrator's Garden is such a big and nice place, but it's only sold for 80,000 taels."

"So cheap?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but be surprised. He seemed to have spent 100,000 or 200,000 taels to buy Wu Garden. Humble Administrator's Garden was only sold for 80,000 taels?

Who negotiated with the Wu family? Did they take kickbacks?

"The main reason is that no one dares to buy it." Pan Zhongxian explained from the side: "The Xu family has been involved in thousands of lawsuits and has had to sell off their property to pay compensation, but no one dares to take advantage of this. Who knows if the court will continue to investigate his family? What if an imperial decree comes down to confiscate the family property? According to the laws of the country, all the property sold after the lawsuit begins will be confiscated, and the buyer will cry to death."

After a pause, he sneered, "Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that Lord Xu is deliberately playing the victim..."

"Is that so?" Zhao Hao touched his nose. He heard that Xu Jie could no longer stay in Songjiang and had moved to Zhejiang to live in seclusion.

The second of his three sons became a labor camp prisoner. Now he has been reformed seriously, turned over a new leaf, and become the director of the Human Excrement Department of Xishan Island.

The eldest and the third brother became wanted criminals and their whereabouts are still unknown... Some said they fled to Yunnan and lived as private citizens, while others said they went out to sea and joined the Japanese pirates, and wanted to come back to seek revenge on Hai Rui. No one knew where they went.

Lord Xu had a miserable old age, all we can say is... he deserved it.

After calming down, Zhao Hao asked Li Zhi, "So you dare to buy it?"

"What am I afraid of?" Li Zhi said with a smile, "Even if it is seized, you can help me get it back, right?"

"So that's what you were thinking..." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly and nodded, "Buy it, it won't be confiscated."

Those wealthy people in Jiangnan don't know that Lu Guang has helped Xu Jie pass the imperial court test, otherwise they would have definitely fought over it.

Of course, the main reason was that Xu Jie didn't know that Lü Guang had helped him get through this hurdle, otherwise he wouldn't have sold it at a bargain price. That was the Humble Administrator's Garden... If it weren't for the legend that it would harm the owner, Young Master Zhao would have wanted to buy it.

Science does not deny anything that cannot be falsified, so Mr. Zhao would rather believe in urban legends than not believe them.

"Eighty thousand taels is not a small amount." Pan Zhongzhan asked Li Zhi, "Are you pregnant?"

"I have many sponsors." Li Zhi said proudly, "President Guang Jiang donated 10,000 taels to me."

"Oh?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but be amazed. This Li Zhi has great power. He can even make Jiang Xueying donate generously.

"It should be Sister Mi Li who made the connection." Secretary Ma hurriedly whispered in his ear, "She is Mr. Zhuo Wu's... die-hard supporter. She has long said that she would donate all her dowry to him."

"Is that so?" Zhao Hao said with a smile, "Since Xueying has donated, we can't be too stingy. Let's donate 20,000 taels in the name of you and Qiaoqiao."

"Yes." Secretary Ma immediately agreed happily.

Pan Zhongxian slapped the passbook in front of Li Zhi and said, "How embarrassing it is for a grown man like you to ask for a woman's money? I'll give it all to you!"

"Thank you very much." Li Zhi accepted it with a smile and said, "When the time comes, I will rename the Humble Administrator's Garden to Pan Garden and build a full-body statue for you."

"No thanks, don't say it was donated by me. I don't want to be scolded." Pan Zhongxian waved his hand.

In fact, he would definitely not accept the bonus. Pan Zhongxian was a traditional scholar-official. Teaching and educating people was a supreme honor. How could he be tainted with the smell of money? Instead of wasting his energy trying to return it, it would be better to just do him a favor.

After all, it is also an education...

ps. I'm back. Thank you for your blessings. My mother's surgery was very successful. Of course, she must have suffered a lot in the past few days after the surgery. I'll update once today and resume normal updates tomorrow.