Chapter 194, Establishing a Women's School?! Difficult!
On the banks of Rose Ridge on the outskirts of Beijing, in just one year, a medical school that could accommodate thousands of students was built. It looked like an ordinary academy, but instead of Confucius and Mencius, it was worshiped by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing, the king of medicine Sun Simiao, and
Hua Tuo and Bian Que were figures like the founder of medicine.
Yue Wangshu also specially invited his teacher Hu Taiyi, who had been retired for many years but was still in good health, to serve as the first director of Jishi Medical College.
With the title of Imperial Physician, the enrollment process went very smoothly. One thousand student places were all taken up a few days ago.
Tomorrow is an auspicious day, and it is also the day when medical school starts.
Yue Wangshu took advantage of the quiet time and invited Yao Manzhi to travel here with him.
Looking at the huge statues of the founders of medicine standing in the distance, Yue Wangshu said with deep emotion, "Money is such a good thing. This huge College of Traditional Chinese Medicine was built so smoothly."
Yao Manzhi couldn't help but chuckle, "It's not just because of money? More importantly, it's because you are the queen."
Yes, in this era, power is more useful than money.
Ah no, in any era, power comes before money.
Yue Wangshu said quietly: "Yes, although my power is only dependent on the imperial power, it is enough to do many things that others cannot do even after racking their brains."
That's why she should do something.
Yao Manzhi was silent for a while, "Then... can you open another girls' school?"
Yue Wangshu was stunned, "Women's college?" - This is too deviant in this era.
Yao Manzhi suddenly sighed with emotion, "Although I was born in a Hou family and had the opportunity to study, I know that the vast majority of women in this era are illiterate. Even many girls from middle-level official families only have a little education.
Let’s talk about how to manage the house and settle accounts. I often think that it would be great if I could set up a girls’ school.”
Yue Wangshu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Even if I can forcefully build such a girls' school, can I still force those boudoir girls to study?"
In this era, women are dependent on men for their existence. They obey their father at home and their husbands when they get married. Both of them have endured death, but they still have to obey their sons after their husbands die!
Do you want women to study?
I’m afraid it’s not about beating rotten vegetables, leaves, and rotten eggs to death!
"I set up a medical school because I want to save people, but I don't want to do bad things with good intentions and end up harming people instead." Yue Wangshu admires Yao Manzhi's idea very much. Even if he travels to this era, the three views belonging to modern people have never been eliminated.
Yao Manzhi bit her lip and lowered her head, "Can't I think of a way? I'm not a radical person, so I can't be tactful..."
After hearing this, Yue Wangshu fell into deep thought, could he please tactfully explain it?
"Hmm... let me think about it." Yue Wangshu held his chin and pondered. In the feudal era, when women were just accessories, could we use a tactful method to set up a girls' school so that qualified families would be willing to send their own girls?
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In this era, women from aristocratic families still have the right to study. Although they are not as valued as boys, aristocratic families often strengthen their families through marriage, so they need girls who are better, smarter, and more knowledgeable about the world.
For example, the Hou Mansion, where Yao Manzhi was born, would hire famous teachers and scholars to teach girls how to read and digit, and would also hire skilled embroiderers to teach female beauties, as well as retired maids from the palace, who were also the ceremonial girls eagerly hired by aristocratic families.
Teacher... In addition, there are various talents such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which also need to be learned.
"If a women's school is opened for the purpose of teaching women's beauty, women's virtues, and etiquette..." Then the resistance will be reduced a lot. "However, most women from aristocratic families are not allowed to go out at will." Even if they visit relatives and friends, they must be led by their elders.
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Yue Wangshu shook his head again: "It's still not appropriate. Powerful people can start a family school in their own homes.".br
Where do you need to send your daughter to some Roush school for girls to learn these things?
Yao Manzhi suddenly said excitedly: "Those aristocratic families really don't need it, but middle-class families do!
It’s those families who are neither good nor bad, who hire great scholars, embroiderers, and retired palace maids, and they also teach music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
But it’s really a big expense! And some teachers can’t be hired just by spending money!”
Yes, it is indeed feasible to recruit young ladies from middle-class families...thinking about it this way.
"But these can be considered small family biyu, how can they just go to any girls' school?" The restrictions on women in this era are still too strict. As smart as Yao Manzhi, even if she wants to go out in the boudoir, she has to go through all kinds of troubles.
Use your brain to find a good reason.
If you don't stay at home all day long, go to any women's school. Even if you only learn etiquette, women's beauty, women's virtues and other things, in the eyes of many people, it is still not dignified and virtuous enough. In the eyes of many people, women should have no doors.
Don’t take a step out of the house! Contact the outside world casually, that’s just not okay!
Yao Manzhi couldn't help but feel worried, and she quickly said: "Maybe, some people are willing... After all, our women's school can arrange for senior maids in the palace to teach the etiquette in the palace, and invite top embroiderers to teach female beauties.
...You may not be able to get this even if you have money!"
"What's the point of spending so much effort and only recruiting three or two female students in the end?" Yue Wangshu spread his hands, feeling helpless.
Yue Wangshu patted Yao Manzhi on the shoulder: "Don't worry, let's think about this matter slowly. The venue is easy to manage, as long as you have money, and the teaching staff is only a matter of my words, but running the school is the most important thing.
It’s the source of life!”
Without students, school is a joke!
Yao Manzhi was almost depressed, "Why is it so difficult to liberate women?"
"How can a decadent system that has been thousands of years old be broken so easily?" Yue Wangshu smiled and shook his head. The oppression of women in the feudal era, accumulated over so many dynasties, has almost reached the point where it is difficult to return.
The Qing Dynasty in her original time and space had banned foot binding many times. This was a rare good thing, but what was the result? Haha!
How can a woman decide whether to bind her feet or not?
Fortunately, this time and space is not so deformed that foot binding is everywhere.
Oh, yes, thanks to those time-traveling seniors.
Although they were all men, although they often had three wives and four concubines, and played more romantically than the ancients, they reached an alliance on the ban on foot binding, which eventually made foot binding an ancestral system in the Great Yan Dynasty.
If a woman in this dynasty had her feet bound, her father and brothers would be severely punished, their taxes would be increased, and their corvée would be doubled! Children of the royal family were not allowed to marry women with bound feet as wives or concubines.
That's it, it's not completely banned yet.
In the end, the time travel seniors teamed up to unleash their ultimate move!
It was ordered that lowly women must have their feet bound! Although this decree was very damaging, it was extremely effective. This life-long equate foot binding with sex! Although it pitied the lowly women of Taizu's dynasty, it also saved the country.
From then on, all women no longer suffer from the pain of disability,
And after foot binding was eliminated, this rule was gradually abolished. After all, how can you dance and entertain people with your feet bound?
