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As soon as the queen mother said this, all the ladies of the decree had a feeling that the wind was so strong that I didn't hear it clearly. Until Queen Zhou repeated the words in a straight voice, there were still many ladies who rubbed their ears, wondering if they had heard the wrong words.

Even those who heard it clearly were completely shocked and couldn't say a word. When the queen said that she wanted to ask them for help, they thought that this so-called "help" was to let them go back and persuade their masters, stop pretending to be sick and hurry up to the court or something, but they didn't expect that the queen would directly hit them with the idea. Not only does he do politics in the harem and sit in the court, but he also wants to drag them, the housekeeper women of the back house, in, which is too ......

For a while, they didn't know whether to say that the queen was too whimsical and didn't abide by the rules of their ancestors, or whether to say that she thought too highly of them.

After a moment of silence, a lady finally spoke: "Queen Mother, please forgive the courtiers for being bold, I am afraid that your idea is a little inappropriate!" ”

Cai Wei looked at her, not only was she not annoyed, but smiled: "I don't know what's wrong?" ”

"Since ancient times, the male protagonist is outside, the female protagonist is inside, the men protect the family and defend the country, and the government is in the court, and the women's priority is to teach their husbands and children, take care of the inner house, each has its own duty, if it is chaotic to let the woman do the work done by the man, it is really against the rules of the court and secular etiquette, Niangniang!"

Cai Wei looked at her with a smile and said, "If according to the meaning of Mrs. Wang's words, my majesty ordered me, a woman, to govern the court, and she is the first person who does not abide by the rules and etiquette?" ”

The lady immediately fell silent, she had heard her master complain about how much the current emperor liked to behave mischiefly, and regarded rules and etiquette as nothing. Although His Majesty the Emperor is not ashamed of this, but proud, but how dare she, a woman in the back house, complain in front of the queen, she can only lower her head and slander in her heart, what kind of pot with what cover, the emperor likes to mess around, and the queen who married this is also an unruly.

Cai Wei's two bright eyes swept over their faces one by one, "The so-called rules and etiquette are not all set by people, and extraordinary things should be done in extraordinary times!" Now that the war is raging, the national disaster is at the head, since everyone has done their best for the country, the men have gone into battle to kill the enemy in order to protect the family and defend the country, leaving a large mess of the family and country affairs no one to take care of, at this time we women are not on top, who can we expect to share their worries for them and support our family and country together? If you go to the people, you can see how many of the jobs that were originally done by men are now all done by women, ploughing the fields, building bridges and paving roads, building houses and repairing houses, and even building weapons......"

"Even His Majesty, he knew that the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, but he still entrusted the affairs of the court to me, for what? Is it just that he does not follow the teachings of his ancestors and does not abide by the law of etiquette? He is so that I can share his worries, because he wants to lead the troops to the battle, and only when I guard this half of the country for him in the back, can he fight on the battlefield in front with peace of mind! ”

"And what about ladies? When your husband is sick in bed, worried about state affairs but unable to do anything, how can you share their worries and just stay in front of the bed to serve them medicine and pour water? Solve problems for his husband where he needs it most, and set an example for his children in person, this is the real husband and son! ”

Her words were impassioned, and several ladies subconsciously thought in their hearts: "Is it possible to take over the official duties of her husband like you, this is to share the worries of your husband?" But can this master agree? Not everyone in this world likes to let women share their worries here as much as they do today! ”

It's just that they can't say this, so they have to humble themselves one by one: "Niangniang is reasonable, but we are all post-house women, and what we cook every day is just some trivial housework......

Cai Wei smiled: "Look at what you said, it's too arrogant, right?" The reason why this palace invited you to discuss state affairs is after careful consideration. In fact, there is no difference between this state affair and family affairs, when we manage the personnel appointments and dismissals, the entry and exit of money and food, the rewards and punishments, the arrangement of the mansion repairs, the arrangement of the night's manpower, and the ...... of walking back and forth with relatives and friends, this pile of piles and pieces is almost a single person who has done all the work of the six departments, including officials, households, criminals, workers, soldiers, and rituals! It's more capable than those officials! ”

"As the so-called 'Qi family' can 'govern the country', your ladies can take care of all the things in the back house refreshingly, even if it is a little jerky at the beginning of this state affairs, it is a big deal to ask your master for advice or two, and it will not take long to deal with it handy. Besides, let's not just leave a mess to one person to cook, but form a council, and everyone will discuss everything together, what about these three stinkers and one Zhuge Liang? There are so many of us, working together, and we are still worried that we can't take care of these state affairs. ”

"As the saying goes, 'women don't let their eyebrows', now women are planting, money is earned by women, accounting for seventy percent of the national economy and people's livelihood are earned by women's labor, and there are many women like men who wear armor into battle, lead the army to kill the enemy, bloody battles, and invincible, killing the enemy and fleeing. We are also women, we can't go on horses and kill the enemy, but we may not be inferior to men in this governance? Don't men always say that we have long hair and short knowledge, we might as well let them see it, our knowledge is not worse than theirs! ”

As soon as this radical method came out, the ladies and grandmothers who were strong in the crowd suddenly felt that the queen's words were very much in line with their hearts, "Who said that women are not as good as men"? couldn't help but look approving and nodded slightly, but more people were still a little timid.

Cai Wei smiled and said: "Actually, we are just to share the worries of our husbands, so we took the work that was originally theirs into our own hands, but it is just a temporary expedient measure, and when they are well and can return to the court, we will naturally retire." But if the ladies really feel that they are not competent, or do not want to help the palace, then the palace has to issue a recruitment list, to the folk to invite another master, all say that the master in the people, think I Daqin outstanding people, I don't know how many masters are hidden in the countryside, if I am thirsty for talent, sincerely invited, vacant position, want to always invite some useful people. ”

Cold sweat once again spread on the waistcoats of all the ladies, and the queen mother was simply blatantly threatening them, if they did not serve for their master, the queen would remove the lord from his official position and replace it with someone else.

They were in a dilemma, and when they saw the queen, she smiled and said: "You don't have to give me an answer now, since you are sharing your husband's worries, naturally you have to go back and ask your master what he means, and when you go back to discuss, if you are interested in helping me, you will enter the palace tomorrow morning, and I will wait for you in the Qinzheng Palace." ”

After sending these ladies and ladies away, Zou Qing looked at their backs and suddenly said, "It turns out that you called these ladies to come, because the drunkard didn't mean to drink!" ”

Cai Wei spread her hands, "Since in the eyes of those ministers, they only regard the palace as the leader of the fat powder pile, the leader of the back house, and the palace can't move their men, so they have to take care of the women in their family first." ”

"What about those young ladies, what is the purpose of you ordering them to enter the palace and arranging for them to watch "The Legend of the Chivalrous Girl" performed by the palace people?" Zou Qing muttered: "When did you order the palace people to arrange the "Legend of the Chivalrous Girl" I just wrote into a living script, why don't I know?" ”

Cai Wei smiled: "I ordered someone to secretly arrange it three days ago, so I will give you a surprise!" You don't need to sing it with lyrics babbling and singing, just read it, it is very fast and looks time-saving. I asked them to come and see, in addition to cheering for your new work, I also want to see if I can bring them over to share your worries and help you or something? ”

Most of these official ladies are literate, even if they used to read and write some female ......books, Zou Qing remembered the eyes of those young ladies when they watched "The Legend of the Chivalrous Girl", and suddenly felt that if they showed them more small talk books such as "The Legend of the Chivalrous Girl", they would not be able to pull them over, and when they read too much, they were afraid that they would want to write by themselves!

Thinking about Cai Wei's intentions, Zou Qing couldn't help but say, "Ah Wei, you are really getting worse and worse!" I suddenly feel so sympathetic to those ministers who are 'sick in bed', you are playing with them so much that they have 'lost their wife and added children'! ”

By the next morning, except for a few wives, most of the officials' wives had arrived outside the Qinzheng Hall on time. Cai Wei encouraged them warmly, and ordered the Tai Hospital to send a doctor to each of them to take good care of their husbands for the ladies, so as to avoid their worries.

In the Qinzheng Palace, Cai Wei looked at the more than 30 ladies below, and said with a smile: "Since you have come to help me manage the government, although you are sharing your worries for your husband, but also for my Great Qin, this official position is naturally not to treat you lightly." ”

Everyone couldn't imagine that the queen really planned to give them an official position, if they had no name, they would indeed be a little unjustifiable in doing things, but even if the queen issued an edict, she insisted that the women could wear official robes and black veils on their heads, but the court should not have any extra vacancies for them at the moment, right?

Cai Wei Chengzhu said in his chest: "In the past, in order to alleviate the heavy government affairs that pressed on him, and also to manage government affairs more fairly and democratically, he founded the Cabinet, and dozens of ministers were elected from among the courtiers. ”

"Now we also follow the example of our ancestors, and set up this cabinet again, you are the ministers of the palace, at that time, they were called cabinet ministers or cabinet elders, and when they came to us, it was better to-"

She thought for a while, and smiled, "It is said that 'the male protagonist is outside, the female protagonist is inside', and we women are always called 'insiders', since it is now a group of us insiders who are forming this cabinet, it is better to call it 'cabinet' in the future, you will be called the cabinet lady, and you are generally on par with the cabinet elders of the year, how about it?" ”

In all the historical books about women's rights that emerged in later generations, such as "Embellished Treasures: Women of the Great Qin in the Eighteenth Century and Before and After the Eighteenth Century", "Women's Sky", "The Beginning of Equality", "A Century of Women", etc., all wrote about the third year of Yuanjia, and the then Empress Zhou Caiwei created a "cabinet" for women to participate in politics, calling it a www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion for the rise of women's rights, which laid a good foundation for the vigorous development of the equal rights movement between men and women in the Great Qin Empire.

Even in the history books of the Great Qin officials and the works of folk historians, it was also highly praised, believing that the cabinet system was the beginning of the Great Qin democracy and the www.biquge.info of the pen and the pavilion, which opened a new era in which the Great Qin embarked on a prosperous country and a strong people, and dominated the four seas.

And many foreign historians unanimously agreed: "When the power of women began to awaken in this land, the sprout of democracy led by them gradually took root, and it was the decisive factor that this country would become the world's largest power in the next few hundred years, and be far ahead in terms of comprehensive national strength, political economy, military diplomacy, culture and art, and national quality." ”