The weather in summer is like a doll's face, and when it says it changes, it changes.

Although there is a lot of investment in this forest, there is no annex built in the forest, and in order to avoid the rain, the group can only avoid the nearby girls' school.

The so-called girls' school is the Daming Girls' Academy. It is also one of the few girls' schools in the Ming Dynasty, although according to the "Da Ming Law", social studies are not divided into men and women, and women must also be educated in social studies, but at the academy level, women are rejected without exception.

Although the academy refused to admit women as students, it was different from the traditional belief that "women are virtuous if they were not talented", in fact, the Ming Dynasty did not reject women's education, and even as early as the Jiajing period, the "phenomenon of talented women" was not uncommon, and it can even be said to be a cultural phenomenon unique to the Ming Dynasty. Although the so-called etiquette is extremely harsh on women, in fact, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the development of social economy, the status of women is also rising, and the views of marriage autonomy and freedom of remarriage are also widely accepted. Originally, the woman who didn't go out of the door was even more common.

Moreover, it is extremely natural for the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty to hire familiar teachers for the female dependents of their families for many years, and their children to receive education together. After all, a woman with both ability and political integrity can not only bring fame to her father's family, but also add fragrance to her husband's red sleeves to read at night after marrying, and can teach her children at home. Because of this, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, many "talented women" who are good at poetry and distinguish between ancient and modern times are not uncommon.

And all this, after the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was interrupted, and the science that had been declining since the middle of the Ming Dynasty once again gained the upper hand, and the idea of "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented" once again occupied public opinion. However, fortunately, with the repulsion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the recovery of the world, and the revival of social studies, women's education also flourished again.

And this is located in the middle of the capital of the Ming Women's Academy, its founder is not someone else, but the queen Zheng Ling, of course, she was founded under the instruction of Zhu Mingzhong, aimed at providing higher education for women, did not expect, in just a few years, the gentry from all over the Ming Dynasty actually founded five women's colleges.

Even as the emperor, or even the owner of this school, when they came here to take shelter from the rain, Zhu Mingzhong and his entourage did not enter the school, but sheltered from the rain in the school building next to the school gate, after all, maybe Da Mingyuan is more open than the outside world imagined. However, in the midst of enlightenment, it is inevitable that there are still some remnants of science, and "the difference between men and women" is one of them, and even Zhu Mingzhong believes that if it were not for the fact that those science scholars were traitors when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Kou, most of them are now exiled overseas, and even if they are not exiled overseas, they are still carrying their tails between their legs, I am afraid that when social studies are established, they will definitely obstruct them and prevent co-educational schools.

In order to avoid irresponsible gossip from the outside world, Zhu Mingzhong still chose to take shelter from the rain in the gatehouse of the school gate, but the news that they came to the girls' school to take shelter from the rain soon spread to the school, and soon the head of the academy and several female teachers hurriedly rushed over with raincoats.

And the leading head of the academy is Deng Taimiao, who was once known as "the first talented woman in Guanzhong". Of course, at this time, she is nearly fifty years old, and she is no longer as popular as she used to be, and the traces left by the years on her body seem to be stronger. Her experience over the past few decades has been a testament to that shame. Like many women from scholarly backgrounds, Deng Taimiao was educated at an early age, and was married to Wen Xiangfeng, a famous scholar in Guanzhong, as an adult. However, her husband soon died. In troubled times, she has no choice in troubled times. First, under the persecution of Li Chuang, she had to serve as the pseudo-obedient female concubine. After Li Chuang escaped from Shaanxi, she chose to become a female Taoist priest.

Later, after the Central Plains recovered, like many people in Shaanxi, she fled to the Central Plains, originally she planned to stay in the Central Plains Taoist temple with green lanterns and incense candles, but this life, but the arrival of a visitor changed. This person is the confidant female official sent by the queen, although the identity of the female official is average, but the things she brought made Deng Taimiao dare not slack off in the slightest. It was a letter from the Empress herself. In the letter, the empress invited her to come to the capital to establish a girls' school in a very sincere tone. Deng Taimiao, who was originally going to hide in the Taoist temple, naturally never thought that he would be so valued by the queen.

"In the past, if the Qing captives entered the Kou and wanted to suppress the Han people, they must take the wisdom of the people as the first priority, and if they want to save the rest of the day, they must take the wisdom of the people as the first righteousness...... And if you want to open up the wisdom of the people, you must first learn from women. ”

Deng Taimiao still remembers the longing and expectation in the queen's expression when she said this sentence with a serious and serious expression when she met her. It is precisely because of this sentence that such an unprecedented women's academy was built, and it is this academy that opens the door to women's higher education.

However, although the women's academy has been open for several years, this is the first time His Majesty has come in person, although he only came here to shelter from the rain, but after learning the news, Deng Taimiao still hurriedly dressed up and walked forward with several female teachers to greet the holy car.

"Xiaomin Deng Taimiao didn't know that the Holy Driver was coming, and he asked His Majesty for forgiveness if he missed the distance. Long live my emperor, long live, long live. ”

"Settle down, everybody."

Zhu Mingzhong did not personally help Deng Taimiao as usual, but after asking him to get up, he looked at the academy in front of him through the window, and then instructed with concern.

"Deng Shanchang, I heard from the queen that now all unmarried women in Beijing are taught here, and the girls' school can have today's results, it has been really hard for you in the past few years."

Now it is extremely popular for the nobles and officials of the Ming Dynasty to send their unmarried daughters to girls' schools for education, and Zhu Mingzhong is naturally happy to see this, after all, only women can be educated to ensure that they can better educate their children. This is also the reason why Zhu Mingzhong requires women to also receive social education.

As for higher education, at least in this era, it is not accessible to civilians.

"Xiaomin doesn't dare to take credit, the girls' school can have today, it is all thanks to His Majesty and the queen's blessings, if there is no queen's care, the girls' school may be extremely difficult to run."

Deng Taimiao replied respectfully.

It is one thing to let underage girls receive social education, and it is another thing to establish a girls' academy, which was not without opposition at first, but in the end the opposition tended to disappear, entirely because of the support of the queen, without the queen's support, I am afraid that the women's academy would have been closed long ago.

Obviously, she didn't know that the emperor in front of her was the real supporter of the girls' school.

Although Zheng Taimiao invited the emperor to visit the school, Zhu Mingzhong finally refused on the grounds of rain, but in the end, at the school gate, Zheng Taimiao pointed to the academy there and introduced him.

"Well, it seems that the development of the school in recent years has been good, in addition to the normal coursework and housekeeping and other coursework, you can consider adding some homework, such as dance and music, and teaching is fun."

For Zhu Mingzhong, who is bent on replacing Western civilization with "Chinese civilization", he naturally hopes that the music, dance and other things in the future of this world will be defined and standardized by the Ming Dynasty, and of course created by the Ming Dynasty.

For this, he believes that as long as a little help, there will be changes, after all, now with the inflow of Western learning into Sinology, a kind of waltz-like dance has been introduced to the Ming Dynasty, although it is now only popular in some festivals, but those musicians and dancers and famous prostitutes of the Qinhuai River will eventually create similar dance music to the Ming Dynasty based on it.

"Besides, dance music is also necessary for self-cultivation, and it ......"

Zhu Mingzhong's expression then became serious.

"It is conducive to letting go of the feet, if the woman does not have a good body, the children will not be able to have a good body in the future, and the foot is necessary, especially the women of the upper class, who must play a leading role."

Although the current Ming Dynasty only had the habit of binding feet and not binding feet, Zhu Mingzhong still advocated the use of socks to replace the footwrapping cloth that played the role of high-root shoes and socks, and for this reason, he even "invented" high-root shoes, using leather and pointed toes to satisfy men's aesthetics.

Of course, there were also stockings, for which machines for the production of real stockings were even introduced from Europe. In recent years, stockings, high heels, and even women's underwear have spread from the palace to the people, but it will still take time to be universally accepted.

"Your Majesty is very true."

Zheng Taimiao did not object to letting go of her feet, she had experienced the war, she knew the benefits of Tianzu for women, of course, she also knew that women like to wrap their feet a little just to restrain it and avoid its length and width, but even His Majesty did not accept this.

Because she understood His Majesty's thoughts, she naturally would not object, and even took the initiative to introduce the dance room and music room that had been built in the girls' school, and even introduced a variety of Western musical instruments, and even in the school, there were girls from the West as teachers.

"Well, it seems that the academy has really made great progress in the past two years, and when I have the opportunity next time, I will come over with the queen, and when the time comes, I will also send some extra gifts to your school."

Zhu Mingzhong's tone seemed a little mysterious, of course, this is also pretending to be mysterious, in fact, those few gifts, as early as a few years ago, had already been ordered to be made, but they just needed a proper opportunity to show them, perhaps, it would be a good choice to give them to the girls' school in the future.

Then Zhu Mingzhong continued to listen to Zheng Taimiao's introduction with great interest, nodded and praised from time to time, looking at the girls' school that had developed, Zhu Mingzhong, who originally thought that the girls' school would encounter some problems in its development, felt that the worry seemed to be superfluous......