The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 968: patriarchal
Chapter 968: Men are superior to women
Seeing Bai Qingyan nodded, the student of the Imperial Academy saw his classmate nodded with him, and then he continued boldly: “Your Majesty’s new policy will surely make women have thoughts, but the elders in the family are unwilling to spend money on women, and women will definitely rebel against the family, and may even cause chaos in the Great Zhou!”
“Therefore, in my humble opinion, men and women should each perform their respective duties, and women can be allowed to attend school. This is the best and most stable option for the Great Zhou. The Great Zhou is full of talented people, and there are talented people from generation to generation. Even if we only select from men, there is no need to worry about not selecting great talents. After all, from ancient times to the present… Guan Zhong, Shang Yang and other amazing talents are all men!”
At this point, the student seemed to be worried that Bai Qingyan was unhappy, and hurriedly added: “I don’t mean to think that women can’t be talented in managing the world. I also have a mother, and I respect and love her. I never mean to look down on women!”
The student looked up at Bai Qingyan and said, “I just feel that… the men of the Great Zhou have been in charge of the outside world and the women in charge of the inside world for hundreds of years. Only when men and women perform their duties can the family be harmonious. Women can take care of their husbands and children, and men can fight outside without worries! Your Majesty… Only when the people have a harmonious family can the Great Zhou be peaceful. The Great Zhou has just been established… and is implementing new laws. The stability of the people and the court of the Great Zhou should be the most important. Allowing women to take the imperial examination to enter the government may cause chaos in the Great Zhou. Please think twice!”
“You’re right! Women should abide by the law… Only when men and women perform their respective duties can the Great Zhou be peaceful!” Xue Renyi said again.
Cheng Yuanzhi and Shen Kunyang, who had escorted Bai Qingyan here with the imperial guards, stood outside the small courtyard. Upon hearing this, Cheng Yuanzhi could no longer hold back, rolled up his sleeves and almost rushed in again. Fortunately, he was stopped by Shen Kunyang.
“Don’t stop me, let me beat that pretty boy to death! Damn it…” Cheng Yuanzhi was so angry that his chest heaved, “If it weren’t for our little white general who defeated Yun Poxing in the battlefield of Southern Xinjiang, this pretty boy would still be able to talk here! Maybe he would have been cut into hundreds of pieces by Yun Poxing. At that time, there was no talk of everyone doing their job, and now there is no talk of everyone doing their job! If you have the guts… take a knife and chop Yun Poxing! Why let our little white general go to the battlefield! He is hiding in this big capital city to cherish his life!”
Cheng Yuanzhi had a rough and loud voice, which attracted the students in the Naxian Hall to look at Cheng Yuanzhi. Even the literati who were watching the excitement outside the Naxian Hall glanced at Cheng Yuanzhi.
Yang Wuce glanced at the emotional Cheng Yuanzhi and couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. It was indeed Bai Qingyan’s direct descendant, the Bai family army, who were very loyal and would not tolerate any rebuttal from others. They didn’t even think about… What kind of person was the Queen of the Great Zhou? Could she be easily refuted?
Yang Wuce had witnessed Bai Qingyan’s eloquence… He was able to persuade a general like Zhao Sheng, who had been loyal to Daliang for generations, to rebel. How could his eloquence be so average?
Zhao Sheng only conveyed Bai Qingyan’s words of advice and he was able to convince Yang Wuce. How could his eloquence… be average?
Yang Wuce glanced at Cheng Yuanzhi while holding the sword, and immediately saw Xiao Rongyan standing out in the crowd.
Yang Wuce wanted to build a good relationship with his future husband. Seeing that Shen Kunyang was training Cheng Yuanzhi, he squeezed out of the imperial guards and ran around to greet Xiao Rongyan, “Mr. Xiao is here too!”
Standing under the shade of the tree, Xiao Rongyan nodded slightly, his eyes fixed on Bai Qingyan…
“General Cheng was a little impatient, please forgive me!” Bai Qingyan bowed to all the students, then waved his hand to signal the student who bowed to the ground to sit down, and then slowly said: “I understand what this student said… First, he thinks it is good to continue the tradition of men working outside and women working inside, and he is worried that allowing women to take the imperial examination will cause chaos! Second, he thinks that there are enough talents in the Great Zhou, and there is no need to select talents from women, right?”
The student quickly stood up and bowed to Bai Qingyan, indicating that what Bai Qingyan said was exactly what he meant.
“Then let’s first talk about the man being the breadwinner outside and the woman being the homemaker…” Bai Qingyan sat down on the couch with a smile on his face, a very faint smile on his face.
Xingzhu knocked on the stone again and again, and all the students of the Imperial College looked at Bai Qingyan with bated breath, hoping that Bai Qingyan could be persuaded by this student, or… he could persuade them.
As the wind blew, under the scattered light of the swaying tree shadows, Bai Qing spoke slowly: “Can a family really be harmonious if the man is in charge of the outside and the woman is in charge of the inside? All of you here are men. Do you really think… your mothers or wives really like to be trapped in the backyard, taking care of their husbands and children? Or… do you think that only men have ambitions, and women only think about their small piece of land every day?”
Bai Qingyan adjusted his sitting posture, just like chatting with these students under the shade of a tree on a sunny day: “Have any of you ever asked your mother, wife, or sister if they have any ambitions?”
The students of the Imperial College were stunned, as if… no one had ever thought of asking their mothers, sisters, or wives about their ambitions. It was as if they were born to believe that women were born to get married and raise children.
For example, when the sisters were young, the elders in the family would teach them needlework, and the first things they learned were poetry and books.
“In order to trap them, there is the saying that men should be responsible for the outside world and women should be responsible for the inside world. It is hoped that women will be obedient and take care of the harem, so that men can free up their hands and feet to fight without worries. But are women really inferior to men?” Bai Qingyan looked at the students and asked, “Everyone… Bai Qingyan knows people like my grandmother, Old Lady Dong, General Fu Ruoxi’s mother, Old Lady Fu, and Hancheng General Zhao Sheng’s mother, Old Lady Zhao. Which one of them is not as good as men? After their husbands left, they supported a family on their own! If these women can enter the court and become officials, they will definitely achieve great things! But because women are not allowed to enter the government and become officials, they can only be confined to the harem…”
“They usually have to work ten or a hundred times harder than men to keep a family. It’s because women have a low status.” Seeing that all the students were looking at her quietly, she continued, “I’m not afraid of being laughed at. It’s because men are superior to women… It’s an ancient rule that women can’t inherit the family business. When the Bai family was in trouble, our family property, including orphans and widows, was taken away by our own clan for this reason. We can only rely on the dowries of my mother and aunts to make a living.”
Who doesn’t know about this? The people of the Shuoyang Bai clan came to the capital city… and they even looked down on the Grand Princess, who was so angry that she vomited blood. How noble was the Grand Princess, and how meritorious were the ancestors of the Bai family’s direct line. The clan dared to do this just because there were no men in the Bai family!