After negotiating the conditions, Gao Ming arched his hand towards the old Taoist.

"Now I have something to do, I have to go to the imperial study first, or you can wait for me here for a while, or you can go to the Furong Garden first, and I will go back in a while!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, the old Taoist priest immediately smiled and arched his hand towards him.

"Then the poor road is waiting for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here!"

"Okay, then you wait for me, I'll be back soon!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, go slowly!"

Since the old Taoist priest said so, Gao Ming had no choice but to nod, and then turned around and went to the imperial study.

As Gao Ming guessed, Li Shimin, who had a cannon, was in a good mood, and Gao Ming just said that he wanted to raise the girl's marriage age to sixteen years old, and he agreed without saying a word.

"Okay, I agreed to this, but I'm afraid the people won't agree, if the public resentment boils in the end, I don't care!"

Hearing that Li Shimin agreed, Gao Ming immediately laughed.

"Haha, don't worry, since I can propose this plan, there is naturally a way to make the people happily cooperate!"

"Oh?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin immediately became interested.

"Then tell me, what method do you plan to use to make the people happily cooperate?"

"There are two ways!"

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately raised a finger towards Li Shimin.

"The first way is to allow women to participate in the imperial examination as well as men, as long as they pass the examination, they can become officials, in order to take the imperial examination, the parents of these girls naturally cannot hurriedly marry their daughters."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin immediately hesitated.

"This ......"

In the feudal era, the idea of patriarchy can be said to have been deeply rooted, so Li Shimin can't accept the fact that women are officials, but the person who proposed this matter is clever, and if someone else comes, he may throw an inkstone over.

Seeing that Li Shimin didn't speak for a long time, Gao Ming could probably guess his thoughts, so he laughed.

"Actually, there is nothing wrong with women being officials, after all, being an official is not doing rough work, mainly relying on brain power, women are more careful than men, which is their advantage. And as the saying goes, no matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. ”

The great man's words naturally made sense, and as soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Li Shimin reacted.

"Huh? Regardless of whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat? ”

Li Shimin's comprehension is very high, he immediately understood the meaning of this sentence, and his face also showed a look of interest.

"This makes sense, as long as I can help me rule the world, what difference does it make between a man and a woman?"

Hearing that Li Shimin understood what he meant, Gao Ming immediately gave him a thumbs up.

"It's worthy of being my old man, the head melon is good, when the time comes, we can use men as cattle and women as men!"

After speaking, Gao Ming also raised his eyebrows at Li Shimin, looking at his funny appearance, Li Shimin suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"Haha, you kid...... Well, I agreed, but I'm afraid the ministers in the court won't agree! ”

Li Shimin's worries had already been thought about a long time ago, so he laughed again.

"Haha, don't worry, have you forgotten that my Jinju is the autonomous prefecture of Datang? At that time, these female officials who passed the imperial examination will all go to Jinju to take office, so that those ministers will naturally have nothing to say! ”

Looking at Gao Ming's bright smile, Li Shimin also laughed.

"Well, this is indeed a good way, but there are not many women in my Tang Dynasty who are literate and literate, and those women who have not read are still going to get married, do you have a way to do this?"

"Yes! This brings me to my second method, which is a beauty pageant! ”

"Beauty pageant?"

Looking at Li Shimin's puzzled look, Gao Ming suddenly nodded vigorously.

"Yes, it's a beauty pageant!"

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately showed a confident smile.

"I plan to hold a beauty contest, as long as it is a Datang woman who is over 16 years old and has not yet married, she can participate, and the first place selected will give her the title of 'Datang No. 1 Beauty', and reward her with 10,000 taels of silver!"

“……”

Li Shimin understands the truth that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, so after hearing Gao Ming's idea, he immediately knew that this method was feasible.

In Datang, the average family's annual expenditure is only about two yuan, and the wealthier ones are about ten yuan.

And 10,000 taels of silver is equivalent to 10,000 yuan, it is no exaggeration to say that even if it is a poor household, as long as you can get this money, you can also become a rich family!

As a planner, Gao Ming had already thought about this matter, so it was natural to talk about it at this time.

"In addition to the first place, there are also rewards for other ranks, the second place will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, the third place will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver, the fourth to tenth places will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver each, the eleventh to the hundredth place will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver each, and the one hundred and one to one thousand people will be rewarded with two taels of silver each!"

Speaking of this, Gao Ming grinned again.

"Hehe, although the number of rewards involves thousands of people, the total cost is not even 20,000 yuan, for me this is just a small amount of money, but for the people, even if it is an encouragement award of two yuan, it is a very considerable bonus for them!"

Li Shimin also agreed with Gao Ming's statement, and he immediately nodded.

"Well, and if someone's daughter can get this money, then there will definitely be an endless stream of people who come to the door to ask for relatives, and there will be more opportunities to marry a good family, even if it is not impossible to marry an official eunuch, this method is very good!"

Speaking of this, Li Shimin suddenly glanced at Gao Ming with some confusion.

"If you have such a good method, why do you want women to participate in the imperial examination? Isn't that redundant? ”

"Not really!"

Looking at Li Shimin's puzzled look, Gao Ming immediately smiled and shook his head.

"The beauty pageant is to let the people postpone the time for their daughters to get married, which is mainly to let Datang have fewer poor women who died of dystocia, and let women participate in the imperial examination, for the future of my Datang."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin immediately showed a thoughtful expression, and it took a long time for him to nod.

"Well, what you said does make some sense, so let's wait until the end of this year for the imperial examination, as for the beauty pageant, you can do it yourself, and the cannons of the ordnance supervisor, don't forget, that's the most important thing!"

"Okay, I understand, then you're busy, I'll go first!"

"Go ahead!"

After hearing Li Shimin's words, Gao Ming bowed to him, and then left the imperial study.