Zhu Xueyan was born in Lady Garden, where she received a complete university education, covering not only cultural etiquette but also history and politics.
It's not just them. In fact, except for the Imperial College, all the universities in Datang are mainly science and engineering, but students in all departments are required to take several of these subjects, and they must learn them when they are freshmen, and they have to learn them all the time.
The four-year kind.
The first choice is Chinese, which is the traditional Four Books and Five Classics. You are not asked to write eight-legged essays, but to learn traditional classics.
Next comes the Six Arts of the Gentleman. There is nothing we can do about it. China is a country of etiquette, and etiquette has always been important.
Then the historical economy includes ancient history, modern history (the founding history of the Tang Dynasty), world history, the economy of the Tang Dynasty, the economy of the Tang Dynasty and the world, etc.
Then there is sociology, including moral classes and the like.
In all the above-mentioned compulsory subjects, the teaching contents are carefully selected and reviewed by the Propaganda Department under Hantong, and the entire empire prints books and arranges the teaching hours uniformly.
There are countless contents in the subjects, no matter what they say on the surface, but there are always only four words at the core: Loyal Education!
This is not only true at the university level, but also at preparatory, middle school, and elementary school.
Loyalty education always runs through the education system of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhu Xueyan also received these educations in Lady Garden.
Putting aside Zhongjun's education, even in other aspects she is very good, not much worse than those men who have gone to college, and even some are even better.
This is very rare in the current Tang Dynasty society.
Because of people's traditional concepts, women in the Tang Dynasty generally stayed at home to care for their husbands and raise children, and rarely worked outside. Generally speaking, in a decent upper-class family, the male head earns money to support the family.
Whether you are doing business, being an official, or being a senior executive in a company, the male owner is responsible for making money anyway.
The mistress is the husband and the godson. Of course, this is just a common saying. In fact, these mistresses are also very busy. They have to manage the household affairs, such as managing the servants, managing the family and internal accounts, and then they also need to
Frequently hold or attend various banquets.
Therefore, women in the Tang Dynasty, especially women from the upper class, generally received education casually, but generally family education was the main focus. There were almost no girls' schools in the Tang Dynasty in the early years, and they have gradually increased in the past ten years.
It turns out that most of the educational contents of these girls’ schools are plagiarized from the teaching contents of Lady Garden.
How should I put it? The female officials trained by the Lady's School handle palace affairs, while the ladies trained by the private girls' school handle the affairs of the aristocratic families.
There is actually no difference between the two!
It’s all tedious and complicated!
Don't think that these family affairs are small and simple, but in fact these matters are very complicated and difficult, and they are not much simpler than their husbands directly managing a business or an organization.
You have to know that many large upper-class families have dozens of people, and they often employ hundreds or more of servants and other types of staff.
For example, the top aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, such as the aristocratic families of the princes and uncles, had many butlers. For example, the Bai family of the maternal relatives had a big butler, an inner butler, an outer butler, and more than twenty stewards.
, there are catering stewards, garden stewards, security stewards, etc., and there are even more employees below, there are hundreds of people.
But in fact, there are not many core members of the Bai family. Strictly speaking, they do not need so many servants. In fact, they do not need hundreds of people to take care of their daily life. The reason why they hire so many people is
Of course it's for show.
Besides, it’s also about creating jobs!
Many years ago, Emperor Sheng proclaimed that enterprises should have a sense of social responsibility. Later, some thoughtful people extended this statement to the gentry, saying that the gentry should have a sense of social responsibility.
Public opinion generally advocates that local gentry should be guided to play a positive role in society, such as building roads and bridges in their hometowns, creating jobs for local people, etc.
Finally, it extends to aristocratic families. I don’t know since when, aristocrats no longer invite people just for enjoyment or ostentation, but also have something similar to a sense of social responsibility.
Some aristocratic families are in decline, even if their lives are not as good as before, most of them will not fire the servants who have worked for them for many years.
In the words of Imperial Viscount Wu Shurong, a former Imperial Army Lieutenant General and Imperial Viscount Wu Shurong, who went bankrupt due to failed investments and was forced to sell many properties, but retained the family's large estate and still employed dozens of servants.
They have been elderly for decades, and if we kick them out, what will they do?"
After all, the people of the Tang Dynasty still care about loyalty, but the Tang Dynasty abolished slaves and the like. Today's servants are just salaried employees.
But even so, many aristocratic families will not just hire people from outside. They will often choose people carefully, choosing people from the descendants of existing servants, or from their hometowns, and sign work contracts with them early, and even
Sponsoring their education, etc., is all about loyalty.
Because most of the servants in these aristocratic families started working for them when they were very young. If they were fired in their thirties or forties and then went to apply for jobs in other families, there is a high probability that no one would want them.
This social phenomenon is a complex social phenomenon that emerged from traditional Chinese thinking and the rapid development of the Tang Dynasty in the past thirty years.
It even has something to do with the tax law, because there are provisions in the Datang Tax Law.
Under some special circumstances, tax incentives can be obtained by creating jobs. For example, if an enterprise or private individual provides a job for disadvantaged groups such as those with low education, the disabled, and the elderly, then certain tax incentives can be obtained.
In addition, if a high-income individual hires more people privately and creates jobs, the expenses incurred by hiring these people can also be converted into the tax deduction.
Those nobles are undoubtedly high-income earners, and the annual personal income tax is very high. Although the personal tax in the Tang Dynasty is not strict and not widespread, it is obviously impossible for nobles and other ultra-high-income people to escape
Under the supervision of the Ministry of Taxation, these nobles would not engage in tax evasion even for the sake of their own political reputation.
Therefore, everyone has to pay high personal income tax honestly.
but!
If he creates a certain number of jobs privately, he can get a certain tax deduction.
The tax burden on top families like the Bai family is very heavy. Instead of using the money to pay taxes, it would be better to use the money to hire more people to work for them.
Things that happened in the aristocratic families of the Tang Dynasty also happened in the palace of the Tang Dynasty, and they were more numerous and complicated.
For example, Zhu Xueyan could not give her an answer to Elizabeth's question now.
Although Elizabeth entered the palace, it was still a marriage. During the day, Empress Dong even received her in person.
But when she will be able to see the Holy Emperor is unknown.
Because every day, hundreds of women in the Tang court had the same question as Elizabeth: When will they see the Holy Emperor!
And the answer is cruel, most of them may never see them again in this lifetime!