The days without shame and impatience passed quite quickly.

It's early March.

Liu Xinnan seriously resigned from his official position and came to Hangzhou to engage in education.

Song Che also fulfilled his promise and spent a lot of money to buy a mansion in the north of the city and renovate it on this basis, and at the same time, vigorously publicized the women's college and called on aspiring school-age women from all walks of life in Jiangnan to enroll accordingly.

Regarding the direction of education, Song Che combined the contemporary "six arts of gentlemen" with the modern "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor" and carried out all-round development, and vigorously reformed the criticism of "everything is inferior, only reading is high", so that all women who enter the school realize that studying is not to be superior, but to sublimate their own morality.

Regarding the aspect of teachers, Liu Xinnan is a Dengke Tanhualang, and he is absolutely qualified to carry the banner of education, Nangong Yue and other female dependents, all of whom are talented women, and teaching and educating people are definitely not a problem.

With regard to students, since girls' education is just beginning to take place, girls between the ages of 8 and 14 are usually recruited from society.

Nowadays, there are regulations that students over the age of 14 who want to continue their studies will enter the stage of "Taixue", which is a higher education, not something that can be operated by the private sector, and must be approved by the imperial court.

Liao Heng is a Ming Jun, He Qiu is a virtuous minister, as long as the girls' school can be piloted successfully, it should not be difficult for them to agree to establish a women's Taixue.

Of course, in the feudal era with many restrictions on women, it was not easy to create such a girls' school.

But everything is "from zero to one, from nothing to something", as long as new ideas can be enlightened, I believe that one day, the fragrance of peach and plum will fill the world.

On the third day of April, after more than a month of preparation, the girls' school was finally opened.

Xiaoxiang Academy is its name.

On this day, the female teachers headed by Liu Xinnan, with their hair half-tied in a bun, their heads and jade crowns, dressed in Confucian robes and robes, were elegant and calm, feminine and rigorous, gathered at the gate of the college to receive the female students who signed up for the school.

"Brother Song, hurry up, just wait for you, the 'school director', to unveil the plaque."

Before Song Che stepped out of the carriage, Liu Xinnan couldn't wait to catch him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, there was a breakdown at the traffic light intersection today, which caused some traffic jams, so I came late."

Song Che smiled and got out of the carriage with Shen Wenjun.

Then unveil the plaque and officially open!

"Crackling ......"

Firecrackers rang out in unison, gongs and drums were noisy.

The people came up one after another to see the excitement.

"Boss Song, are you going to open a new store again? What's in it this time? ”

It seems that in the eyes of the people of Hangzhou, Song Che is such a person who "likes to benefit his family".

"Hey, fellow villagers, I've been on the bulletin board outside the city for a month, and today is not the opening of the store, but the opening of the academy!" Song Che pointed to the four big characters "Xiaoxiang Academy" behind him.

"Oh? Yes! It turns out that these four words mean the academy, and I thought it was a store. ”

"That's nothing to do with us, we poor people can't afford to read, so we're scattered......"

Even though Hangzhou is the richest city in the south of the Yangtze River, the illiteracy rate is still as high as 90%, and the vast majority of families have no concept of reading and writing at all.

"Don't be busy with your fellow countrymen, the tuition fee of our academy is very cheap, only three taels of silver a month, and only twenty taels a school year, as long as your child enrolls in school, room and board, tuition, and books, all of which are covered in this fee."

As the dean of the academy, Liu Xinnan hurriedly retained this hard-won flow of passengers, and she clapped her hands while the iron was hot.

Nangong Yue pushed a blackboard, publicized it to the public, and pointed to the outline written on it and introduced:

"Everyone, please see, this is the curriculum of our Xiaoxiang Academy, ideological morality, etiquette and etiquette, vocal music, singing and dancing, horseback riding and archery, calligraphy and danqing, counting and counting...... Originally, these courses could only be learned by ministers and nobles, but now we are facing the common people, as long as you are willing to send your child to our academy, we guarantee that she will be reborn after graduation! ”

"And,"

Song Che stood up and said: "If your family is really difficult and can't afford to pay tuition and fees, Tianxia Qianzhuang has launched a new 'student loan' project, which can sponsor children to complete their studies, and when they graduate, they have the ability to make money, and then slowly repay it." ”

After a few elaborations, the flow of passengers who had just lost recovered again, but I heard someone ask:

"Hey, I read the list on the bulletin board, saying that your academy only recruits female students, right? Even if this woman can read and write, what is the use of riding a horse and archery? ”

"Yes, instead of learning these, it is better to learn embroidery and weaving, and if you are skillful, you can also supplement your family."

"It doesn't matter how old these children know a few more words, but when the girl is older, she still shows her head outside, isn't it immoral?"

It began, it began, and the idea of patriarchy began to ferment.

At this time, Shen Wenjun stood up and said: "I just heard someone say that reading and writing is not as good as embroidery and weaving, I think no one has more say in this matter than me, the proprietress of Yunshuifang, right?"

Then let me tell you, if your daughter can only weave and embroider, I will recruit her into the embroidery and weaving workshop to be a female celebrity, if she is diligent enough, she can earn fifteen to thirty taels of wages a month;

If your daughter can not only weave and embroider, but also know how to write and settle accounts, I will promote her to the steward of the workshop, and she will be paid fifty taels a month;

If your daughter can not only weave and embroider, but also write and settle accounts, and also understand etiquette and human feelings, I will promote her to the store manager, and the minimum salary for a month is 80 taels, plus the store's commission and dividends, it will never be less than 3,000 taels a year;

Ordinary workers who do not study can only get 20 taels of wages in my workshop, and the shopkeeper who reads more can get 3,000 taels in my workshop. ”

"Regarding the previous thing that said that women should not show their heads, Liu really can't agree!"

Liu Xinnan took over the conversation and said loudly to everyone: "Don't hide it from you, although I am a daughter, I am a Dengke Tanhua in the early years of Tianyuan, I have entered the court hall, and I have also served as the prefect of Ningguo, dare to ask if this is considered a show up?"

Moreover, this college is a women's college, and as the name suggests, both students and teachers are women, so where does the immoral word come from? ”

After Shen Wenjun and Liu Xinnan's statements, many people who came to Minzhi felt justified, and as for those who did not eat the ancients, they didn't have to force it anymore, even if their children read books, this kind of people would not change much.

"Dear folks, this time Xiaoxiang Academy only recruits 300 students, and the conditions are women between the ages of eight and fourteen, and the local ones in Hangzhou are preferred...... If you want your daughter to study, please go to my right-hand hand side to register. Liu Xinnan greeted.

More than a dozen people from the crowd signed up, and more of them were undecided, after all, it was unprecedented for women to study.

"Forget it, if I let my son study, I'm still willing, my family's Nizi will be thirteen years old next year, and it's time to find a husband."

"Yes, in this life, it's better to marry well than to do well......"

Gradually, the onlookers dispersed.

Liu Xinnan counted the roster three times, and sighed: "There are only thirty-six people in the huge city of Hangzhou, how can this academy be opened?" Ambition is not rewarded, and it is not good to be a teacher! ”

"This is the first time, maybe...... They went home to ask their daughter's opinion, and after a few days they figured it out, so they came to sign up. Nangong Yue said that in the end, she sighed lightly without confidence.

The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, even the parents do not agree, does the daughter dare to have an opinion?

"The world has never been fair to women now." Shen Wenjun pursed his lips, looked directly at Song Che, and said in an accentuated tone: "It's not fair to us women!" ”

Song Che ...... Said bitterly: "I don't know if other people are unfair to you, but I am definitely fair to you, but I am wet with rain and dew." ”

"You're so smart, you should think of a way." Shen Wenjun said.

Song Che sighed lightly: "People don't want to study, you can't tie them with a rope, right?" ”

"So what should I do, there are only about thirty people, no more than teachers...... This academy spent a full 200,000 taels from the decoration to the plaque, although the purpose is to benefit the people, but no one came to study, and it always felt that the money was wasted...... I feel distressed! ”

In fact, today's result is also expected by Song Che, but the world is declining, even if he is rich, he can't change people's thinking, and this thinking has been ingrained for thousands of years.

"Okay, okay, when I go back, I'll send a letter to Jingshi, asking He Qiu and them to help, starting from the national level to see if we can open up women's schooling."

"Not so good, not so good." Nangong Yue said: "I know the atmosphere of the officialdom in the capital, and those old conservative ministers will definitely not agree to this matter, and maybe they will use this to refer to you, saying that you have corrupted the code of ethics and lost your morality." ”

Her voice just fell.

"Da Da Da ......"

A horse-drawn carriage suddenly stopped at the entrance of the academy.

After he parked the carriage, he hurriedly brought a stool and put it on the side of the carriage, and then saluted respectfully to the carriage and said:

"Sir, please get out of the car."

The door of the car was opened, and I saw an old man who was over the age of sixtieth and got out of the carriage, he was holding a pestle and sandalwood crutches, wearing a danqing cloud robe, and wearing gold silk cotton boots.

After the old man got out of the car, two middle-aged Confucian scholars walked down, and their appearance and demeanor were very neat and solemn.

These two middle-aged Confucian scholars, Song Che is considered to know, in the past when the Pearl Conference was held in Hangzhou, he had a relationship with them, both of them are teachers of Lingyin Academy, well-known bachelors in Hangzhou, one is called Cao Guojin, and the other is called Wang Chun.

As for the old man, he did not know him. But looking at Cao Guojin and Wang Chun standing behind him, with a respectful appearance, he must be a well-known figure.

"Xiaoxiang Academy? Shameless! ”

The old man opened his mouth with naked eight big characters.