The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 971: step into career
Chapter 971 Entering the Official Career
If Yan’s policies could allow the people of Yan to live a richer life than the people of Great Zhou, he believed that Bai Qingyan would really dare to lead Great Zhou to merge with Yan.
But if the policies of the Great Zhou are really stronger than those of the Yan State, Murong Yan really cannot have the courage to lead the Yan State to join the Great Zhou like Bai Qingyan.
Initially, Xiao Rongyan wanted to unify the world because of his mother’s last wish…
Later, he saw that wars were endless among countries, either because of the selfish desires of the monarchs or the struggle for land and people, resulting in nine out of ten houses being empty, many widows and orphans, and many separations and chaos. Only then did he understand why his mother wanted to unify the world, so he determined to complete the unification of the world in his lifetime and bring peace and prosperity to the people.
Now, Bai Qingyan also wants to unify the world for peace and prosperity, but she is willing to compete with the State of Yan on national policy to determine the winner and loser, success or failure, so as to avoid wars, avoid the bloodshed of soldiers, and prevent the people from being displaced and suffering.
Or maybe, Bai Qingyan is just confident that if success or failure is judged based on political achievements… Da Zhou will win!
But no matter what, the Murong family wants to unify the world, and their goal is still to be the supreme leader.
Xiao Rongyan also understood in his heart that if he really went to war with the Great Zhou to seize territory… and who would rule the world would be determined by success or failure, it would definitely lead to the bloodshed of soldiers and the separation of the people.
However, this was Xiao Rongyan’s original intention of ending the war with war.
After all, he didn’t have the mind to ask the Murong family to give up the throne and bow to the people of the world.
Li Zhijie, who was also dressed as a scholar from the Great Zhou Dynasty and hidden in the crowd, held the iron fan tightly in his hand. He looked in the direction of Bai Qingyan and did not show his usual smile for a long time.
Bai Qingyan knew that the envoys from various countries were in the capital, but she openly and frankly expressed her intention to unify the world in the Imperial College of their Great Zhou. She did this to set a clear goal for the students of the Great Zhou and let them work hard for it. This way, they could unite people’s hearts. In this way… Among the new policies she implemented, any measures that affected or harmed the interests of the students and the aristocrats of the Great Zhou could be compromised for the sake of this goal of unifying the world.
Li Zhijie suddenly remembered an idiom: the great way is simple…
In their Xiliang, reforms and changes are needed. Their Xiliang Empress… is still trying hard to deal with the aristocratic families and do everything possible to win the support of the people. However, Bai Qingyan uses the most frank and straightforward way to inform the students of the Imperial Academy and the people of the Great Zhou of the country’s policies and strategies, so that the whole country can rise up and work hard for this goal.
However, the method that Da Zhou can use cannot be used in Xiliang.
Because Xiliang does not have the confidence and strength of the Great Zhou, Xiliang is now struggling to survive… and it is not the time to compete with the Great Zhou and Dayan for the Central Plains.
In this way, Li Zhijie understood even more clearly that a war between Xiliang and Rongdi was absolutely inevitable!
Either Xiliang destroyed Rongdi, and from then on it could barely form a three-kingdom situation with the Great Zhou and the Great Yan.
Otherwise, Rongdi would destroy Xiliang, and from then on Rongdi could barely stand on equal footing with the Great Zhou and the Great Yan.
Li Zhijie didn’t dare to delay and turned around and left…
“Your Highness, shouldn’t we wait until it’s over?” Li Zhijie’s subordinates asked.
“No, go see Lord Liu Rushi… bring a generous gift!” Li Zhijie thought for a moment and turned to his subordinates, “Take the generous gift prepared for the wealthy businessman Xiao Rongyan and send it to Lord Liu!”
“Yes!” Li Zhijie’s subordinates clasped their fists and said yes.
Li Zhijie turned around and looked in the direction of Bai Qingyan again, then hurriedly left with his family members.
At this time, Mr. Guan Yongchong was also in the crowd. He was wearing a hood… and looking at his proud female disciple, his eyes were filled with a faint smile.
Once upon a time, Mr. Guan Yongchong believed, like these students, that… men and women should each perform their respective duties, and that women’s minds and temperament should be limited to the back house. But later… his old friend Bai Weiting brought his granddaughter to him and asked him to teach her knowledge.
But the granddaughter of my old friend did better than anyone else. What she said after returning from the battlefield… showed how broad-minded she was. Even he, her teacher, admitted that he was inferior to her.
Therefore, it is not that women are inherently inferior to men, but that women and men receive different educations, which limits women’s horizons and restricts women’s minds.
If all the girls in the Great Zhou could go to school, how many girls like Bai Qingyan would be cultivated? As Bai Qingyan said… If the young people work hard and we strive for strength, why should we worry that our country will not prosper? Why should we worry that we cannot unify the world!
The world is unified…
Bai Weiting has said this many times, and he has been preparing for this throughout his life, until his death.
Mr. Guan Yongchong’s eyes were a little wet. What his old friend had failed to do, perhaps… would be accomplished in the hands of his granddaughter. He hoped that he could live longer and see the day when the world would be unified.
Mr. Guan Yongchong turned around, and the little boy beside him hurriedly supported him and wanted to leave with him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Mr. Guan Yongchong walked out of the crowd, he saw the great Confucian scholar Mr. Min Qianqiu from the State of Wei standing under a locust tree with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.
Mr. Min Qianqiu bowed to Mr. Guan Yongchong with a smile, and Mr. Guan Yongchong returned the greeting with a smile.
I heard another student in the Naxian Hall say to Bai Qing: “May I ask your Majesty, why do you encourage widows to remarry? It is a virtue for women to remain chaste. Who can accept their own children to follow their mother to remarry and become the children of another family? Whose children are willing to be separated from their mothers? Therefore, I think this new law is against human ethics and should not be implemented…”
When the two old men heard the students’ respectful inquiries coming from the Naxian Hall, they smiled at each other.
Mr. Guan Yongchong was Bai Qingyan’s teacher, and he never doubted his students. He believed that Bai Qingyan would convince this group of students, so he left with Mr. Min Qianqiu to find a quiet place to reminisce about the past.
Bai Qingjue had already seen Mr. Guan Yongchong, but he just sat next to Bai Qingyan and didn’t say anything to remind him.
He knew that the students went to invite Mr. Guan Yongchong to come so that he could reprimand Bai Qingyan in his capacity as a teacher, and he was indeed worried about his elder sister.
Now that I saw Mr. Guan Yongchong leaving, I knew… my eldest sister might have even convinced Mr. Guan Yongchong.
When Bai Qingyan came out of the Imperial College, it was just after 3 p.m.
The Imperial College Priest and the students escorted Bai Qingyan out of the Imperial College. Bai Qingyan said to the Imperial College Priest, “Starting from next month, we will offer another course for the students. I will arrange for important officials from the court to give lectures and discuss state affairs with the students. These students will be the pillars of the country in the future. Letting them get in touch with these things as soon as possible will be beneficial for them to enter the official career and contribute to the country in the future.”
By discussing current affairs with the students of the Imperial College, perhaps we can come up with more and better national policies.
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