Zhao Deyan was also stunned when he heard Li Xiu's words, he really didn't think about this, but soon he smiled indifferently and said: "Don Ma, you are serious, I believe that no matter what you teach Zhu Niang and them to be, you will not be worse than ordinary women, I absolutely believe in you!" ”

For Zhao Deyan's trust, Li Xiu also smiled helplessly, although the two of them are friends, they can't ignore the ideological generation gap, the other party probably didn't understand the meaning of his words at all, but he didn't explain again, otherwise Zhao Deyan might misunderstand, thus betraying his trust in himself, and Li Xiu is also confident, the students he teaches will definitely not be worse than ordinary people.

"Uncle Li, you haven't answered my question yet!" At this moment, I suddenly saw Zhu Niang, who was the protagonist of today, speak again, but at this time, her attitude towards Li Xiu also changed, and she even used the honorific title of "you", which made Li Xiu and Zhao Deyan also look at each other and laugh.

"Well, since you really want to hear it, then I'll give you my opinion!" Li Xiu pondered for a moment, and then continued, "The book of female commandments does mention the idea of men being respected and women being inferior, but this is also in combination with the environment at the time, the author of this book was written by Ban Zhao of the Han Dynasty, Ban Zhao was born in a famous family, and his brothers Ban Gu and Ban Chao were all outstanding people for a while......

The book of female commandments is an enlightenment reading for ancient women, and there is indeed the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women in the book, which also led to many people later criticizing this book as a cancer in feudal thought, but later some people proposed that if you look at the environment in which this book was written, the author Ban Zhao is actually well-intentioned, and even she may not agree with the views in her book, but she still wrote a book of female commandments.

The reason for the above situation is mainly related to Ban Zhao's experience, she was born in a famous family, married her husband Cao Shishu at the age of fourteen, and because of her family relationship, coupled with her personal achievements in historiography, she was often called to the palace to teach the female dependents in the palace, and was even called "aunt" by the female relatives in the palace.

In the era in which Ban Zhao lived, some problems had begun to appear within the Western Han Dynasty, the most serious of which was the intervention of relatives and female dependents in the palace, Ban Zhao, who was familiar with history books, naturally knew that the intervention of relatives and female dependents in politics was already a sign of the death of the country, in fact, later generations evaluated the fall of the Han Dynasty, and they also agreed that the Han Dynasty died at the hands of relatives, and Ban Zhao, who was in that era, had already felt it in advance.

In this case, although Ban Zhao is a woman, but also has a heart of worrying about the country and the people, so she took the opportunity to enter the palace to teach the female dependents, wrote the book "Female Commandment", deliberately depressed the status of women, hoping that through their own education, the women in the palace can abide by women's morality and no longer interfere in politics, it can be said that it is well-intentioned, although her efforts did not prevent the fall of the Han Dynasty, but a woman can do her part when the country is in danger, and it is also very worthy of respect.

"I see, I didn't expect Ban Zhao to write "The Female Commandment" to have such a secret secret!" As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, Zhu Niang had not yet spoken, but Zhao Deyan next to him first showed a suddenly realized expression and said, he is also a scholar, especially in the past few years in Hongzhou, he has maintained the habit of reading almost every day, and he is also very familiar with the female commandment, but he has never understood the female commandment from the perspective that Li Xiu said.

"Father, don't interject, I haven't said it yet!" Zhu Niang was a little dissatisfied at this time, but after finishing speaking, she turned to Li Xiu and said, "Thank you Uncle Li for solving my doubts, now I finally know the reason why the female commandment is written, but I still can't figure it out, now many people think that it is normal for men to be inferior to women, so is it true that women are not as good as men?" ”

"I can't answer this question, because there is no way to compare this, for example, if you let women and men compare their strength, then women will definitely not have an advantage, but if you let men and women compare women, I'm afraid men will also be defeated, so in my opinion, men and women can only say that they have their own strengths, and I can't say that whoever is necessarily noble, of course, I'm just talking about the general situation, and some will have exceptions, such as Ban Zhao, who writes female commandments, her historiography and literary talent are not comparable to ordinary men!" Regarding Zhu Niang's question, Li Xiu replied with a laugh at the moment.

Hearing Li Xiu's answer, Zhu Niang's eyes couldn't help but light up, and then patted her small chest and said confidently: "I know that women are definitely no worse than men, and in the future, I will be a woman who can compare with Ban Zhao, so that future generations will often mention my name!" ”

"Hahahaha~, have ambition, to be my student you have to have such ambitions, as long as you are willing to work hard in the future, I believe it will definitely not be worse than Ban Zhao!" Seeing Zhu Niang's appearance, Li Xiu couldn't help laughing again, but Zhao Deyan next to him shook his head and smiled bitterly, although he doted on his children very much, he didn't believe that she really had such a ability.

Li Xiu's answer finally convinced the arrogant Zhu Niang, and now she and her younger brother Hong Bao also immediately bowed to Li Xiu, compared to her sister, Hong Bao, the child is very honest, from beginning to end did not interject, his father asked him to do whatever he wanted, of course, it may also be because of his young age.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Xiu also entertained Zhao Deyan's family at home, and by the way, he also introduced the children at home to Zhu Niang and Hong Bao.

A few days later, Zhao Deyan was finally ready, so he left Chang'an on a sunny morning, and when he left, only Li Xiu and Ma Ye went to see each other off, because he was responsible for building a Feinu Si stronghold in the Western Regions this time, and it was not appropriate to publicize it to the outside world, so only a few people such as Li Xiu and Ma Ye knew about this departure.

On the second day after Zhao Deyan left Chang'an, a decision was finally made on the disposal of Hou Junji, before Hou Junji was escorted back to Chang'an by Shangguan Yi in a prisoner car, at that time, many people thought that even if Hou Junji did not die this time, I am afraid it would be difficult to keep the title, but when the results came out, it made countless people stunned.

Li Shimin was indeed reluctant to kill Hou Junji, and even the punishment was light to make people suspicious, and in the end he just took back the property that Hou Junji embezzled, and punished him for thinking about it behind closed doors at home, and there was no other punishment, this kind of punishment was slight, it was the same as no punishment, so after many ministers knew about it, they also wrote to oppose it at the first time, asking for more punishment for Hou Junji, but they were forced down by Li Shimin, which can also be seen Li Shimin's preference for Hou Junji.

However, Li Shimin's preference for Hou Junji also brought some negative effects, such as many people were disappointed with his partial decision, especially this matter also involved the power struggle between the civilian official group and the military general group, which made many people behind the scenes, so after Li Shimin only asked Hou Junji to go home and think about it behind closed doors, this matter was immediately widely spread, not only making Hou Junji's reputation infamous, but even Li Shimin's reputation was also affected.

What's more worth mentioning is that although the opposition in the court was forcibly suppressed by Li Shimin, the opponents did not give up, and from time to time they would unite to put pressure on Li Shimin in the court, and in the end, Li Shimin was also overwhelmed, and in desperation, he could only add another one, that is, within three years, Hou Junji was forbidden to take charge of the army again, which was also a very serious punishment for a military general, especially Hou Junji's age was not young, and he was wasted for three years, which was also an extremely serious blow to him.

With the increase in the punishment of Hou Junji, the opposition in the court finally subsided, and the pressure on Li Shimin was finally much less, but Hou Junji would definitely not feel very comfortable there, and Li Shimin had no choice but to quietly send someone to comfort him, after all, even if he was the emperor, sometimes it was impossible to go his own way.

Li Xiu has also been watching this farce in the court with a cold eye, and when the final result came out, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, because he knew that after this incident, Hou Junji would have great resentment towards Li Shimin, and it was this resentment that promoted the farce of Li Chengqian's rebellion later.