Chapter 688 The Queen's Concern

It is a bright and sunny February, and another spring has arrived. The warm sunlight shines through the window, reflecting on a delicate and dignified face. The sunlight makes Li Xiaomei's fair skin glow with a hazy golden color.

Thirty years old.

Six years have passed, and in the year 1780 of the Western calendar, Chen Ming and Li Xiaomei are both thirty years old.

In the 21st century, this is still an age when flowers bloom. They are not as lingering as roses, nor as youthful as lotus flowers. They become mature, independent, tolerant, and amorous. They are restrained, charming, implicit, and flamboyant. There will be no more awkwardness at the age of twenty, but no one will be old in middle age. Women at this time were still in their prime in Chen Ming's previous life.

But in this era, thirty years old is already middle-aged, already half-old, and no longer in their prime.

While combing Li Xiaomei's hair, the maid looked at the beauty in the mirror, her lips pursed: Even if the Empress is blessed with great fortune, she is already over 30 years old, and the crow's feet have appeared at the corners of her eyes.

Unlike the newly entered maids in the palace, whether they are from China, Japan, Korea, or India, they are all as fresh as daffodils. Recently, the Empress and the ladies of the palaces are almost all on guard against the little maids around them, and they are trying to cover up the truth, making it seem as if everyone is blind...

The concubines who were taken into the harem by the emperor in the past should have fallen out of favor. How can they keep the emperor's heart when they are no longer young?

However, they have princes and princesses, and at least they have family power, which is much better than those concubines who fell out of favor in the harem of the previous dynasty.

It is said that the concubines who fell out of favor in the previous dynasty dared to bully even eunuchs and maids. Who dares to bully concubines now? The current emperor is very generous to women. Who is not given a transferred imperial physician and a small kitchen as a principal wife? The treatment of concubines is a little worse than that of principal wives, but not much.

The queen's face is already wrinkled, but the emperor has always loved her. In the past two years, the princes and princesses born by the concubines in the harem have grown up, but the status of the queen has not been shaken at all. The position of His Royal Highness the eldest prince is also very solid...

These newly-appointed maids in the palace from all over the world, as long as they have the idea of ​​climbing onto the dragon bed, who is not carefully looking at the queen with their eyes? Li Xiaomei has the eldest prince.

It took more than an hour to comb her hair, and then add accessories, and then the queen's formal clothes. It took more than two hours to do it all. Li Xiaomei rarely dresses so solemnly today! This is because she has an important matter today to meet the court officials with Chen Ming.

Finally, she looked in the mirror and looked at the solemn beauty in the mirror. She was finally dressed up. "Let's go. Let's go to the emperor."

There is no rule of paying respects in Chen Han's palace. You can only follow your heart and do it yourself.

Not to mention the rule that the maids should come every five years. The etiquette that should be in the palace of Chen Han Dynasty is much simpler than that of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Of course, after deducting the inner guards and the imperial guards, the entire palace has much fewer people than the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The total number of concubines, maids, eunuchs, and cooks is only a thousand people. Not even half of the imperial guards who stand guard for Chen Ming.

In addition, there is always a full regiment-level organization stationed in Xuanwu Lake around the palace, which is unprecedented.

Because of this kind of thing that damages the dignity, Chen Cong, Wang Huizu and others have made many suggestions, and even Li Kun, who just returned to Nanjing, has mentioned it to Chen Ming. It is too embarrassing to put a troop around the palace.

If the emperor really felt unsafe, he could expand the internal security forces, the guards and garrisons of the government offices around the palace.

You put a fully armed imperial guard next to the palace, which would only happen if you felt unsafe.

To be honest, Chen Ming really didn't think about this at first. It was natural for him to put a troop to defend the old nest. When he was fighting, the guards never left him, and Chen Ming always had a good combat force in his hands.

But if it was put in the palace, think about it, Chen Ming thought carefully and it was indeed not a rule. Others put soldiers directly in the palace, on the city gates and walls, and the number should not be large, otherwise the Tianli Sect would not have caused a panic in the Forbidden City with the help of a few eunuchs. Unlike Chen Ming, the palace is the internal security department, and there is a formal army outside.

Putting a regular army directly next to the palace was something that had never happened in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

But what did Chen Ming say?

"Rules are set by people." Now it was Chen Ming who sat in the court, and whatever he said was the truth.

So it was time for little Chen Ding to be enlightened, and this unreliable emperor had gotten rid of all three teachers and three young masters.

After the New Year, the princesses were older, and they were about to enter junior high school. Chen Ming attached great importance to education and loved his daughters very much. When his eldest daughter was six years old, he was assigned five teachers, some teaching Chinese studies, some teaching arithmetic, some teaching nature, some teaching vocal music and art, and some teaching etiquette and posture, allowing his daughter to follow her temperament and hobbies. This was exactly what worried Li Xiaomei, because Chen Ming was obviously not taking the previous rules seriously.

The primary school was divided into boys' and girls' schools, but if he set up a mixed school for boys and girls in junior high school, Li Xiaomei herself would not be able to stand it, not to mention others.

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What is Chen Ming's plan for the education of the next generation? Li Xiaomei knows it very well. Chen Ming has told Li Xiaomei more than once that coeducation is the general trend of future educational development. He also said that it is impossible to achieve coeducation in the short term, and the public cannot accept it yet.

But Li Xiaomei dare not believe Chen Ming's words at all.

The two have been together for more than ten years. How can Li Xiaomei not know what kind of person her husband is? If his brain cramps, he can do anything. And the smaller the social implications, the greater the possibility of cramps.

Of course, the social influence of Sungkyunkwan Public School is not small, but if it is limited to the system of Sungkyunkwan Public School itself, it is still difficult to set off a social wave. Her husband may not necessarily issue a decree that will make people collapse, and call it an experiment.

Just like last year, when the maids in the palace were leaving the palace, Chen Ming thought of the collective weddings and blind dates in the 21st century, and even arranged a big blind date for the unmarried officers of the Imperial Guard and the maids. Fortunately, his idea was suppressed by Li Xiaomei and the old ladies in the palace, otherwise it would cause tons of embarrassment.

The times have not come to this point yet, and the Eastern culture is a kind of implicitness from the bones. Some ideas that pop up in Chen Ming's mind from time to time are not suitable for this era.

When Chen Ming was very weak before, he knew that he had to adapt to the times, but now that he has become the master, changing and transforming this era is even more attractive to him.

Chen Ming will certainly not lose his mind, but he will always use some "innocuous" "trifles" to test the reaction of this era.

The most important thing about this matter is what will be taught in this middle school in the future. Li Xiaomei is unwilling to let her daughter learn natural sciences during the most important period of her life. This period of time is the most important time for training girls, and it is to lay the most solid foundation for their future married life...

"Haha, Queen, don't worry, I am not a pedantic scholar, and I don't want to teach Chen Han's future princesses to be talented women who can speak eloquently!"

"No matter how princesses they are, they will be daughters-in-law to others. I will not establish the Princess's Mansion again."

"They have to learn not only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, but also how to be a wife, a daughter-in-law, and a mother."

"They also need to have a certain political mind. The future era will be different from the past thousand years. As princesses, political vision and skills are also indispensable. Regardless of whether they can really be used." The future era is too confusing, and Chen Ming can't understand it, but he is sure that the tragic scene of fighting within the royal family will no longer exist in a few generations. At that time, when the capital tide annihilates everything, the princess can also become part of the royal power.

"Besides, are poetry, songs, calligraphy, and painting the most important things for the wives of wealthy nobles? No. The most important things are managing the household, managing finances, and even business."

"In their lives, calligraphy, painting, and music are all minor things, seasonings in their spare time, and things to pass the leisure time."

"Compared with communication, etiquette, and how to hold a husband's heart, what are calligraphy, painting, and music?"

"I will build a top girls' school like Sungkyunkwan Public School."

"Literature, mathematics, science, history, geography, business, moral education, music, art, design, food, needlework, etc. There are also poetry, painting..." All these things must be learned.

Because in this era, it is difficult for anyone to accept letting their daughters get married in their twenties. There are no girls in colleges and universities, all of them are boys. And they are either already married or engaged, just waiting to get married after graduating from college.

Chen Ming will not casually take his daughter to marry or win over anyone, he doesn't need it. But he couldn't keep his daughter to be the first batch of female college students in China, and he didn't want his harem to be in turmoil.

If the women in the harem knew that Chen Ming planned to keep his daughter until she graduated from college before getting married, they would make Chen Ming restless.

Therefore, this girls' school is the final university that Chen Ming prepared for his daughter - all the difficulties that his daughter may encounter in the future can be answered from this school.

Although he has traveled through time for more than ten years, thinking of the palace fighting dramas he watched in the 21st century, Chen Ming dared not take his daughter lightly.

As a father, he certainly wanted to make his daughter a perfect woman of the new era who can go to the hall, go to the kitchen, write poems, find out abnormalities, kill traitors, fire a gun, ride a good horse, manage the purse, fight the mistress, and beat the mistress.

In a word, Chen Ming hopes that his daughter can live happily and lovingly after marriage. But those who can marry into the royal family are either sons of rich families, descendants of meritorious service, or top-notch Phoenix men, and such men have the capital to seek pleasure. To put it bluntly, men are indeed somewhat like animals with lower bodies, and there are some who are not lustful, but they are very few.

So, in order for his daughters and sons-in-law to be able to get along well with each other in the future, Chen Ming must train all his daughters to be blackened Zhen Huan, and not let them become little Baihua.

The lessons of the Qing Dynasty are a lesson for the future.

Kang Mazi is also very concerned about his daughter, because the princesses of the Qing Dynasty have to be pacified. There are luxurious princess mansions standing on the Mongolian grasslands, and there are maids who dare to separate the princesses and their husbands, plus the psychological fragility factor, since the Qing Dynasty, few pacified princesses have lived past the age of 30.

Chen Ming is a good father.

Li Xiaomei looked at the many types of homework that Chen Ming had planned, and she was completely dumbfounded. Her earlier worries no longer existed. The curriculum of the girls' school is very different from that of the boys' school, but politics, finance, housework, business, culture, music, art, sports, and even elementary medicine are required courses. Can my daughter learn all of them?

Li Xiaomei was originally worried about her daughter's academic performance, but now she is worried that if her daughter really goes to this school, can she graduate when she is sixteen?