The Crown Princess and Ming Da immediately sent people to select a location. They even walked around the streets and alleys of the capital in person, making sure to choose an excellent place to open a girls' school.
The Crown Princess crossed out a lot of the courses that the royal princess wanted to study, shook her head and said: "Since women's education includes not only the daughters of clan members and noble families, but also the ladies of small families, then these are not suitable.
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Mingda nodded and agreed, "But there is no need to eliminate riding and archery skills."
After taking a look at it, she said, "These are things that girls of clans and noble families have to learn."
The Crown Princess frowned slightly, "Keep it, I'm afraid students from ordinary backgrounds can't afford such expenses."
Mingda smiled and said: "You can refer to the Imperial College and other schools. I heard Man Bao say that when Bai Shan was studying in the school, the bows and arrows used in the school were all original to the school, and students did not need to buy them. As for the horses,
,Except for very wealthy families, most students rent horses for practice.”
"Yizhou Fu School cooperated with the horse farm of the Prince of Yizhou back then. Our girls' school can also find a horse farm to cooperate with," Mingda said: "We can use horses from our school for class, and we can rent horses from the horse farm during practice.
It shouldn’t be very expensive.”
The Crown Princess raised her eyebrows, "With a family background like Master Bai's, do you still need to rent a horse?"
Mingda smiled and said: "They bought their own horses after they came to the capital. In the past, horses were mainly rented in the school."
The Crown Princess nodded, "Okay, I'll do as you say."
"However," she said after a pause, "I still think students with different identities and ambitions should be taught separately."
"Isn't it true that the Imperial Medical Office recruits a group of students all at once, and after one year of study in school, they are divided into classes? Those who want to learn physical therapy should learn physical therapy, and those who want to learn acupuncture can learn acupuncture?" the princess asked.
: "We will teach them separately when the time comes. What do you think?"
Mingda frowned, "Isn't it that the academy is making them clique? When the time comes, there will definitely be a group of girls from the clan, a group of aristocratic families, a group of nobles, and another group of ordinary people."
This is different from what she thought.
"But it's not the best idea to put them together to study together," the princess said: "Each family's situation is different, their foundation is different, and their studies after returning home from school are also different. Putting together students from ordinary families
They were crushed even more, and I'm afraid it will be even worse for them when the time comes."
Mingda frowned, feeling embarrassed for a moment.
When Bai Er heard about it, he said to her: "Don't worry, if you put them together to study together, it might be a matter of looking at their family background for one year, but after two or three years, the impact will be small."
He said confidently: "What will really affect your performance at that time is your intelligence and hard work. Just look at me and Zhou Man and you will know."
Mingda couldn't turn around for a moment and asked, "What does this have to do with you and Zhou Man?"
"Why doesn't it matter? The relationship is huge," Bai Erlang put down his pen, put aside the mediocre manuscript, and said to Mingda seriously: "No matter how poor those ladies from small families are, can they be as poor as Zhou Man when he first entered school?
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"When Zhou Man first entered school, all the books she used were handwritten by her husband. In addition, she didn't have any books of her own, but I was different," Bai Erlang said, "I had a lot of books at home at that time.
There was a whole room. So I was the one who bullied her when she first entered school."
Mingda: "...but I heard that as soon as she and Bai Shan entered school, you were beaten by your father-in-law because you bullied them."
Bai Erlang choked, waved his hand after a while and said: "That's not important, it's all because adults got involved. As far as the classmates are concerned, it's me who bullies them."
Mingda nodded, "What then?"
"Then as time went by and I learned more and more advanced things, Zhou Man started to bully me, I mean academically," Bai Erlang said, "Could it be that her family background is better than mine?
Does your family have a deeper foundation than mine?"
"Of course not. The reason she was able to bully me was because she had a better brain than me and worked a little harder than me. So family background is not that important after two or three years of school."
"Children from small families are still girls. If they can be admitted to a women's school, their intelligence and perseverance are extraordinary. They are not necessarily worse than the daughters of clan members and noble families."
Bai Erlang felt that there was no need for them to think too much, "No one can think about things in this world perfectly, so it's better to let them go to study on their own. You see, the Imperial Medical Office recruits students directly when they first apply.
Classes have been divided, but now we have to study together for one year and then be divided according to our own qualifications and choices."
"It can be seen that nothing in this world is static. Anyway, you and the Crown Princess are the mountain chiefs, and the academy is yours. When the time comes, the rules will no longer be appropriate, so just change them."
Mingda thought seriously, nodded after a long time, and then looked at Bai Erlang in surprise: "Did you think of these words yourself?"
Bai Erlang shook his head and said: "You are looking down on me, aren't you?"
He shook the manuscript paper and said, "I am the one who has written five books after all. I am a person who can write books. Will I be inferior?"
Mingda couldn't help but laugh out loud, and looked at him with smiles in his eyes, "It's not bad, but you can tell me about writing a book, but you can't talk about it in front of my father."
Bai Erlang muttered: "I'm not stupid, so I won't mention it in front of Your Majesty."
"But it would be better to ask Zhou Man for his opinion on this matter," Mingda pondered. "She participated in the establishment of the Imperial Medical Office. She has experience in running schools."
Bai Erlang handed her the letter paper and pen, "Come here, husband, I will add fragrance to your blue sleeves."
Mingda was amused by his words and couldn't help but smile and narrow his eyes.
"That's what it's all about. It's just a girls' school. I see that you've been smiling less lately and you're always looking sad. This is a good thing. You should smile more. Otherwise, Your Majesty will regret agreeing to you to set up a girls' school."
Mingda wrote a letter to Zhou Man. By the time the letter was delivered to Beihai County, the autumn tax collection had almost been completed. It was the time when the county government was busiest and the medical office was the most idle.
Because she had two students and two apprentices under her, she was very free, so after receiving the letter, she leisurely opened it and read it.
When Zheng Gu sent the letter over, he also asked some questions, "Master, is there any news about the booklet you handed over last time? Shi Shuling has sent another letter asking for news."
Zhou Man opened the letter and said: "The zhezi is still in Menxia Province. Xiao Yuanzheng wrote that even within the Imperial Medical Office, it is difficult to unify, and it is even more difficult for Menxia Province to unify, so the matter has been put on hold for the time being. However, Xiao Yuanzheng wrote