Huang Jiu sat opposite Huang Boyi, smiling and holding Tianyou in her arms, she hadn't been with her son and father like this for a long time.

Feng Yuchen is not in the imperial capital now, only the three of them depend on each other in the palace.

It's time for her to stop and spend time with her father.

"Father, shall I cook something delicious for you tonight? I haven't cooked for a long time."

Huang Jiu looked at him with a smile, she unraveled the Gu poison for him a year ago, her health improved a lot, but her hair turned gray a lot.

It is better to have gray hair than to have a diseased body.

Thinking about the past few years, it seems that she hasn't cooked for them for a long time.

Huang Boyi took Tianyou from her arms and hugged her. Thinking of the meals his daughter cooked, he salivated greedily.

"I'll take the child with me! Hurry up and cook!" He was not polite to his daughter.

Here he only enjoys family happiness, not an emperor, and this kind of life is what he wants to live.

He has a headache when facing those old and cunning courtiers every day. Now that he has his daughter to share his worries, he has relaxed a lot.

"Okay! You wait!"

Huang Jiu looked at the bright eyes of the old and the young with a smile, they really are two foodies!

Han Yue also followed Huang Jiu to the kitchen, took out a lot of fresh vegetables from the space, and Han Yue helped wash the vegetables.

"Your Highness, you seem to be in a particularly good mood today." Suddenly remembering to cook, it was obvious that His Highness was in a good mood.

Huang Jiu kept moving her hands, like a woman who cooks for the children and the elderly at home, with a faint smile on her face all the time.

"I'm in a good mood today! Of course I'm happy to have found the talent I need!"

Thinking of those students' answers to the questions, Huang Jiu felt very relieved.

Xiling Kingdom has outstanding people and talented people, and they are suppressed just because they are not nobles. If this continues, the country will perish sooner or later.

Since it is her father's country, she naturally does not allow such a thing to happen.

"It's His Highness who thinks long-term, so that those poor families have a place to use their skills!" Han Yue recalled the changes in the past few years, and was also grateful for Xiling Country to have such a Highness.

Huang Jiu's cooking hands paused, and she suddenly remembered something, "Han Yue, what happened to the matter that I ordered you to select female officials?"

She has added another assessment this year, which is the female officer assessment. She hopes that passing such an examination will allow those women to have room to display their abilities.

In Xiling, women's status is even more humble. A strong woman like the White Queen dare not push herself in front of her father.

Women in common people's homes have no human rights. Once they get married, they have to stay at home all the time. They can't go out easily, and they can't show their faces easily.

When they have children, they stay at home with their children all day long, serve their parents-in-law, and wait for their husbands to come home. Even if there is no food at home, they can't go out to find food casually, they can only wait for their husbands to bring food home.

Sometimes their husbands bring other women home, and they can only bear the result, and they have to put on a smile and share their husbands with other women.

In Xiling, women who are not married are more free. They can go out to swim the lake with their friends, and even those gentry women can invite their masters to teach them at home.

After getting married, they can no longer have that kind of freedom. They can only abide by the three obediences and four virtues like ordinary women, and take care of their husbands and children at home. They have lost their complete freedom since then.

Regardless of whether you are happy or not after marriage, women have no right to refute, and can only endure in silence for a lifetime.

There are also women who go out to do business without being bound by their husband's family. They receive more criticism than understanding, which makes many women hesitate to do business.

After Huangjiu learned about the situation of Xiling women, she decided to open a palace school. No matter whether they were noblemen or poor families, men or women, they could enter the school as long as they passed the examination. Now the palace school was almost completed. She wanted Xiling women live like human beings.

On the eve of the big exam, she once issued a decree to select female officials in the palace, as long as they pass the exam, they can get the corresponding position and salary.

It has been several months since her order was issued, but now there is no movement.

Han Yue's face was a bit ugly, "Your Highness, it was the queen who stopped your will. She only selected a dozen women from the gentry women and brought them into her palace. She also said that the rules of the ancestors cannot be broken, and women should obey them." Three obediences and four virtues, doing too much will only make people look down."

Han Yue rolled her eyes countless times in her heart, how dare Empress Bai say that women have three obediences and four virtues?

The daughters she taught by herself were all unrestrained. She still wanted to learn from Queen Yi back then and sit in that position by herself!
This is the three obediences and four virtues she said?

Huang Jiu smiled, "She herself can't protect herself now, why is she still thinking about those old rules? Isn't she training those gentry girls just to give it to my father? She thinks beautifully!"

The White Queen was grounded by her father, but she was still unwilling to fail, and was still planning the future of the gentry.

The rules of the ancestors she was talking about were the rules set by the only empress Yi Huang in the history of Xiling.

Empress Yi didn't sit on the throne until she was over 50 years old. It was because her sons and her husband died, and the entire royal family had no candidate to inherit the throne.

During his 11 years in power, most of the policies he implemented were absurd, and what Huang Jiu despised the most was the suppression of women.

Perhaps it was because she was persecuted by many women in the harem when she was young, so she formulated a series of rules to restrain women after she ascended the throne.

In her eyes, women are just tools for men to bear children. She does not need women to make any contribution to the country. As long as they are obedient and can bear children, it is the greatest contribution to Xiling.

There is also a decree that if a woman has more than ten children, she can get a plaque of commendation, which can also honor her ancestors.

During the reign of Empress Yi, there were indeed many women who had more than ten children, and all of them were rewarded by her.

Men are also encouraged to marry as many wives and concubines as possible to extend their heirs and contribute to the growth of Xiling.

This kind of thing is what men are most willing to see. As long as they are rich men, no matter whether they are nobles or poor families, there is no special case of monogamy. They are all three wives and four concubines.

At that time, the population of Xiling continued to grow, and Queen Yi had been in power for 11 years, and the number of troops had grown a lot.

Queen Yi's policy made the woman dissatisfied, but she couldn't refute it, so she could only endure the humiliation and live in silence.

After Empress Yi passed away, the women of Quan Xiling wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate. For the sake of their own lives, they could only curse her silently in their hearts.

Later, the royal family of Xiling changed hands, and the strange rules of Empress Yi were changed a lot, but the harsh conditions for women remained the same.

This is why Huang Jiufei wants to change the status of women.

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