Printing workshops around the country were printing books in large quantities, and the holy decree on education for all was soon promulgated.

"Drive!"

A large number of knights rode fast horses and sent the imperial list to all parts of the country to be posted.

"Daming Daily! Daming Daily! The emperor decreed that he was ready to implement free compulsory education for all, and men and women were equal and could benefit" Daming Daily also published a front-page headline, and the people of Daming learned the news as quickly as possible.

The people were all excited.

In the past dynasties, although there was a imperial examination, ordinary people could also study, but whether it was private school tuition, or pen, ink, paper and inkstone were not cheap, in fact, only a small number of landlords with a lot of land could afford to provide for their children and grandchildren to study, and the real poor people were not able to study at all.

"Emperor Shengming, free and compulsory education, so that my three grandchildren will be able to study." The moment an old man learned the news, his old eyes were full of tears and he was inexplicably excited.

In the early dynasties, in the court of Jinluan Duan, hundreds of civil and military officials were discussing.

"The emperor has arrived!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Zhong Aiqing is flat!" Zhu Ci sat on the dragon chair and started today's morning dynasty.

After the civil and military officials stood up, an official surnamed Wang stood up first.

"The minister has a book to play!"

After the official bowed his hand to Zhu Ci, he said: "Your Majesty, the emperor decreed to carry out free compulsory education for all, which is of great benefit to the country and the people, and the ministers all support the emperor, but the minister believes that women should not also be included in the free education for all, the so-called women's lack of talent is virtue, and women also go to the school to study not only has no use, but will increase the burden on the court, which is extremely inappropriate, so the minister opposes it!" I beg the emperor to retract the decree that women can also go to school! ”

The officer said his last sentence and bowed down to the ground.

"The ministers are also opposed, and I implore the emperor to withdraw the decree that women can also go to school!" About 30 officials prostrated themselves on the ground and expressed their opposition.

To Zhu Ci's surprise, Huang Daozhou was also one of them.

As a Confucian scholar, Huang Daozhou couldn't even approve of the fact that women entered the school together to enjoy free education.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Ci pretended to be surprised and said: "I have mentioned the matter of free compulsory education for all in front of the secretaries many times, and the secretaries have not objected. ”

Zhu Ci hesitated and said, his tone became more and more stern, his face became solemn, and his eyes were staring at Huang Daozhou and the others.

Under Zhu Ci's stern gaze, Huang Daozhou and the others couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps.

They also instantly understood what the emperor meant, the emperor said that free and compulsory education for all was agreed by them, so the emperor made a holy decree, but they couldn't remember when they agreed.

Oh yes. Free and compulsory education for all, when the emperor mentioned it many times, he directly said that the whole people, and this whole people actually refers to men and women together.

Thinking of what happened, Huang Daozhou and the others turned black and extremely unwilling.

"Your Majesty, the sages said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, it is not unfounded, why does the emperor spend a lot of gold and silver so that women in the world can also enter the school, this, this," an official said unwillingly.

"Humph! Run off at the mouth! Zhu Ci snorted angrily.

Since Zhu Cicheng has dug this pit here, of course it is impossible for Huang Daozhou and others to refute it, and he has to keep suppressing Huang Daozhou and others in terms of momentum, so the momentum of Huang Daozhou and others is getting weaker and weaker, and I believe that they will soon be unable to oppose it anymore.

Zhu Ci continued to say sternly: "What did the sage say? Is there such a statement in Confucius's Analects, which sentence you pointed out to me, and I can't tell you what I want your head! ”

"Half of the men and women in the world, outside the male protagonist, female protagonist, the division of labor is different, reading and learning words can know the reason and etiquette, teach people to understand the book, understand the reason, if the women in the world are illiterate, how to maintain the inside, even the words can't be understood, and they can't understand the books of the sage education, not to mention the knowledge and sensibility, do you want me to let the Ming women only be stupid women in the deep house?"

Zhu Ci looked at the official with an angry face, as if he would cut off his head if he really couldn't say why.

The official's face was pale, cold sweat broke out, he was most familiar with the books of the Confucian sage, but there was really no such sentence that a woman is virtuous if she was not talented in the books of the Confucius sage, in fact, even he couldn't remember for a while that the sentence that a woman without talent was virtuous came from there, but he usually heard it in his ears and felt that it was very reasonable, plus it was a tradition handed down from all dynasties, so he took it out and used it.

This official's face was dead, he couldn't find that sentence in the books of Sage Kong, didn't that mean that the emperor was going to cut off his head, and his head would soon be unable to be saved?

Zhu Ci ignored the official and continued: "Hmph! I am the Shangbang Dynasty, I not only want all the men of the Ming Dynasty to read and reason, but also let the women read and reason, so that it is in line with the prestige of my Shangbang Dynasty, who dares to talk nonsense, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

Zhu Ci stumbled and told the opposing people in the firmest tone that this matter could not be opposed.

Huang Daozhou and the others were speechless for a while, they were all suppressed by Zhu Ci's anger, the emperor said so, how could they still oppose it, obediently When they agreed to the emperor's implementation of free compulsory education for all, they didn't notice it for a while and fell into the emperor's pit, with the emperor's wisdom, they only came out to oppose it now, it was too late.

"My emperor is Shengming, and the women of the world will deeply feel the emperor's grace!" Li Yan stood up in support.

"My Emperor Shengming! The Emperor's grace is immense! More officials stood behind Li Yan and supported Zhu's decision.

Seeing this, Huang Daozhou and others became even more bitter and could not continue to oppose.

"My emperor Shengming, the ministers are ashamed!" Since there is no objection, one can only agree.

Of course, there are also some officials who are not reconciled, firmly believing that it is not beneficial for women to study in the academy together, and believe that as time goes by, all kinds of shortcomings will inevitably be exposed, and when they bring up this matter again, the emperor will definitely listen to their retraction.

Zhu Ci didn't know what some officials thought, and even if he knew, he would scoff at it, it was inevitable for women to enter the academy in history, how could there be any drawbacks, so there was no need to think about that at all.

"Since there is nothing to do with the secretaries, I will announce the implementation of free compulsory education for all, and the treasury will allocate 20 million taels of silver to build schools across the country, and this matter will be jointly supervised and implemented by the county orders and police departments!"