Quick Travel: Dream Hunt

In fact, the sons of noble families and ministers from major prestigious families disagreed. Giving opportunities to students from poor families would be fine, but in the future there would be women competing with them for the few resources, and by then their share would be much smaller. However, they could not win over Yu Linyuan, who had just ascended the throne and was full of energy. They did not want to be demoted to a farm official or dismissed from office and return home by Yu Linyuan just because of a disagreement, so they had to grit their teeth and endure it, praising His Majesty for his wisdom.

With power and military authority in her hands, Ting He lived a very comfortable life. Putting aside her original tasks, she went out of the palace every day to personally arrange the affairs of the girls' school. She also enthusiastically formed a women's army, because although the Turks had been destroyed, there were still the Western Regions, the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Xiongnu Kingdom who were eyeing her covetously.

There is no guarantee that the same mistake will not be made again and harm their Central Plains, so timely deployment of defense is really necessary.

At that time, the status of women was not high, and women had always been humble. Noble ladies were born into a family and never left the house, waiting to meet a man of equal status and become good wives and mothers after marriage. Ordinary farm girls also worked hard to support the family since childhood, and when they reached age, they would marry and start their own family and live their own lives.

Therefore, few women of this era can live for themselves. Tinghe does not have any big ambitions. She just wants to do what she can when performing tasks so that women can live their own lives and no longer fear the eyes of the outside world.

The girls' school was not well run at first, and it was only with Yu Linyuan's enforcement that some progress was made. However, people did not understand women, and viewed them as accessories and vassals, not themselves. Therefore, although the girls' school was successfully run, only a few students were able to enroll.

Until, Yu Linyuan issued an imperial decree, summoning all the female teachers in Chang'an City to teach in the Girls' School, and also required the daughters of noble families of all ministers to attend classes in the Girls' School for compulsion. They were not taught the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, but were taught music, chess, calligraphy, painting, the Six Arts and Martial Arts, and even added courses on the deployment of troops, so that the girls could experience firsthand what it meant to be in battle.

Ting He's original intention is to let all women learn a set of skills, instead of being so delicate that they can't stand being out of breath after walking a few steps. People will intrigue and scheme when they have nothing to do, and fight for a man. As long as everyone can find the value of their own life and themselves, I believe they will not be confined to one man and the harem.

Sure enough, the ladies from noble families who had just been forced by His Majesty's order to attend the girls' school were unwilling to do so, and they really despised themselves for showing up in public. But after a few days of classes in the girls' school, everyone's legs were shaking with exhaustion, but their bodies miraculously got much better, and they were no longer as weak as before.

Before attending the girls' school, their hearts and eyes were filled with intrigue and power struggles, and even wondering which young man was more popular with them. But after attending the school, they found that the deployment of troops was actually quite interesting, and that riding, archery and martial arts actually had their own flavor. It made them feel very confident and able to do what men could do. It really gave them face and broadened their horizons. They were no longer confined to the harem, but had a change of heart. They wanted to learn from General Yun, the Queen, so that they could have the opportunity to fight on the battlefield and become the people who would be remembered forever.

Tinghe also didn't want to differentiate between rich and poor, but the girls' school was filled with noble ladies from aristocratic families, and they were very exclusive to farm girls or homeless orphans. Moreover, they had different identities and their thoughts were not at the same level, so they wanted to learn different things. The noble ladies focused on the six arts, chess and music, but the farm girls wanted to learn more survival skills.

There was no other way, Ting He had to follow the example of the previous world and turn the girls' school into a royal girls' college, only for the study of noble ladies from aristocratic families.

In addition, a place was rebuilt among the people and converted into a girls' school, mainly for ladies from non-aristocratic families. There were no special courses in the school, such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Instead, there were reading and literacy classes, martial arts classes, and women's embroidery classes, including desserts and meals. These were mainly ways to help women escape poverty and acquire a skill for survival.

In order to avoid raising ungrateful children, Tinghe allowed them to attend school for free, and could ask the female students to help arrange jobs for them based on their grades. However, they had to pay the tuition back to the school after they finished their studies. The money was not expensive, and they could just pay one or two taels of silver to the school after they earned some money.

Although the operation of girls' schools was not smooth, the girls who were able to come in to study were very competitive. Some were abandoned by their families and survived, some were sent by their families in order to get a school subsidy of one or two taels of silver, and some were poor little girls picked up from a pile of beggars. In short, the people in ordinary girls' schools were either farm girls or abandoned people. There were also a few merchant girls in the past, but the merchant girls had money and connections, and they always bullied the farm girls. After being driven out by Tinghe, no one cared about them anymore.

Most likely, she spent money and found someone she knew to get her into the Royal Girls' School. However, this had little to do with Ting He. She was only responsible for opening up a different path for women, and had no intention of protecting them for the rest of their lives.

If she doesn't even have the courage to take the first step, she won't help others blindly. She runs a girls' school to the best of her ability so that girls can have knowledge and insights and be their true selves with aspirations, instead of pampering them and letting them compete with others.

The women's army and the women's school are in full swing and are thriving. Tinghe is busy every day.

Looking at those women who were full of vigor and heroic spirit, Tinghe felt inexplicably soft in her heart. Suddenly, she was inspired and remembered a poem from her own time that described the Song Dynasty of the last century.

The king raised the flag of surrender on the city wall,

How could I know this in the deep palace?

One hundred and four hundred thousand men took off their armor,

Not one of them is a man!

Isn't this a true portrayal of the women's army? If men can protect the women behind them, then it's not a bad idea for women to be good wives and mothers. After all, they are educated differently. In ancient times, it was the custom for men to be responsible for the outside world and women to be responsible for the inside world, so those ideas were deeply rooted in their minds. However, after generations of ideological changes, women's thinking has also changed. They have begun to get rid of the feudal ideas of the old society and live like themselves.

Although Tinghe doesn't want to force her life on others, she always has to prepare for the future. She can't change a man's arrogance and thoughts, but she can change a woman's thinking and destiny.

I only hope that when the day comes when I can no longer rely on men, when I can no longer protect my own city, I can take off the cloak of a good wife and mother, put on a military uniform, and become the last line of defense to protect myself and my country.

Not for others, but just for myself to live without humiliation, just to live out myself, try harder for myself in the midst of war and protect with my own hands everything I want to protect.

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