Professional Ethics of a Concubine

"Of course not." Xie Jin also smiled and pinched her face, saying,

"Qingqing, have you forgotten that you are no longer an ordinary woman? You are at the pinnacle of power and you already have the power to change the environment."

As he spoke, Xie Jin held her hand, raised it in front of her eyes, and said to her seriously,

"Because you are not only my concubine, but also my tutor. You can completely convey your laws to the world through my will and make everyone in the world obey your will."

Ye Qingzhi looked into his serious eyes, and her heart began to beat violently because of his words.

She couldn't help swallowing, thinking to herself, is this the legendary story of men conquering the world, women conquering men, and the world finally belonging to women?

Oh my god! Has she come this far and become so awesome?

Who understands the family members? They are suddenly awakened by the big promises painted by their leader. They are so excited that they can’t help but want to run wild.

"Wait a minute... Your Highness, what you just said makes me feel a little dizzy." Ye Qingzhi leaned on him again and asked with bright eyes.

"You mean, you support me in making some reforms like the liberation of thought, removing the mountain of ethics that weighs on women?"

When she has no power to change the environment, she can only choose to lie down and join in, relying on her own abilities to make her life better in the limited space.

But when she really has the ability to change, she also wants to do something to make the surrounding environment more comfortable, to make life better for the lower-class people, and to make life better for women.

Because this was also her wish, hoping that someone would come to change the environment, and hoping that she and her children could live in a better world.

Instead of being exploited, you only work to earn money, become exhausted and resentful, and give everything, only to end up with nothing but heavy debts.

Seeing that she was in high spirits again, Xie Jin's mood also improved.

Although his love brain wanted to pamper her infinitely and give her everything, his career brain still made Xie Jin remind her,

"If you want to make the status of women the same as it is today, it's probably difficult to achieve. It's just changing some concepts within a certain scope and limit to improve the status of women."

"Alas, Your Highness, I am not that naive. I don't want to advocate for gender equality right away. After all, we don't have that kind of economic and institutional environment right now.

Women cannot break away from their clan families to start their own households, cannot be financially independent, cannot receive universal education, and have no channels for promotion, so it is difficult for them to achieve ideological independence, let alone gender equality.

I just want to abolish the constraints that women have on women, such as the Seven Reasons for Divorce, the commandments for women, the Three Obediences and Four Virtues.

Especially some concepts, such as a woman's chastity is above everything else, if a woman's body is accidentally seen by a man, she will become unclean and will die, and she must marry that man.

Shouldn't that man's eyes be gouged out or he be castrated!

Also, if a girl loses her used handkerchief and a man picks it up, it can be said to be a private transaction, and the girl's reputation will be damaged.

Especially the chastity arch has become an official's political achievement, as if his political achievement would be very impressive if there were more widows and chastity arches under his rule!

It's hilarious, what could be the connection between the two!

If we women remain chaste, can we make the crops on the ground grow more abundantly, or make the trees on the hills produce silver?"

Ye Qingzhi became more and more angry and angry as she spoke. She couldn't help but clench her fists, wanting to beat to death those men who put patriarchy above all else and talked about morality and justice.

They defend those ethical codes and rituals, and the idea that women must completely obey men, because they can gain pleasure and a sense of superiority by enslaving and imprisoning women.

"Well, it's really a waste that women would commit suicide at any time because of chastity issues. This concept of chastity being above everything else must be abolished. I support it!"

Xie Jin patted her on the back to calm her down, and nodded in agreement.

"...Too wasteful? I don't quite understand what Your Highness means." Ye Qingzhi asked in a daze.

"A good girl, who was raised with great care, effort and money, died because of a small matter. She didn't contribute much to the country. Isn't it a waste?"

Xie Jin spoke up.

Ye Qingzhi,...

It turns out that the ox-horse theory can be applied here, and my three views have been refreshed by the criticism of this business by my leader.

"The chastity arch you mentioned is indeed a problem. This item must be removed from the performance evaluation of officials."

As soon as Xie Jin opened his mouth, he sounded resolute and decisive.

"Tomorrow I will issue an order to the Ministry of Personnel to re-establish the evaluation items for officials. Starting next year, the chastity arch will be removed from the performance evaluation of officials.

At the same time, they are also responsible for guiding new social trends. For example, the idea that a woman loses her virginity if she falls into the water and is rescued must be eliminated.

If a woman under his rule commits suicide for this reason, it will affect his performance evaluation..."

Apart from giving her leader a thumbs up and a look of worship, Ye Qingzhi felt that she didn't need to say anything more.

As long as the leader starts from the perspective of utilitarianism, pragmatism and other useful theories, he can rectify various resource misallocation and waste phenomena, thereby improving many ethical policies and cultural issues.

If we can change the economic environment to allow women to step out from their homes and gain management and economic rights, then we can further enhance women's status and voice.

"The incidents of Ji Minru hanging herself and Shen Xunxiang jumping into the well can be used to form a strong contrast through the fact that the emperor's uncle dismissed the women in the backyard and the royal family granted another marriage to the concubine who left the mansion."

Xie Jin spoke again,

"The royal family encourages women to remarry and grants marriages for this purpose. Sisters-in-law hang themselves to death over a joke and are praised as chaste and heroic women. I find this ridiculous.

This matter has made Qingqing so angry, I will help you vent your anger.

Ji Xuan, the stubborn old man who taught his daughter to be like this, Shen Shilang, the old coward who dared not stand up for his daughter, and the men and women in the Bo Mansion who forced Shen Xunxiang to death, none of them can escape, so we should start with them to prevent others from imitating this."

Ye Qingzhi looked at her leader and felt that he was glowing all over and was simply fascinating.

Ye Qingzhi simply pounced on him, hugged him and kissed him, just like a happy little puppy.

Xie Jin, ...

Although her puppy-like affection really doesn't make people feel excited at all, and it doesn't make people want to throw her on the bed and beat her up.

However, this still did not prevent him from feeling a strong sense of joy in his heart.

"Are you not sulking anymore?" Xie Jin held her head which was nodding in his arms again and asked her with a smile.

"Oh, I haven't had any children for a long time!" Ye Qingzhi smiled brightly.

"Your Highness is so kind, he pampers me and coaxes me so much. If I am still angry, then there is something wrong with my brain, I am stupid."

Xie Jin was amused by her and continued,

"Let Aunt Zhang and the others pack up your things. I will take you to the hot spring villa to have some fun. I will let you have some peace and quiet for a few days. We will not listen to the noise outside about this matter. We will just wait and see the result."

"Wow! Your Highness, you are so thoughtful! Thank you, Your Highness."

Ye Qingzhi was so excited that she started hugging and kissing him again.

Xie Jin, ...

Being kissed like this gives me a different kind of happiness.

-

In the clubhouse.

The Ninth Princess, the Seventh Prince and other members of the Great Yan delegation still live here.

However, since other diplomatic missions have left, the guild hall has become much quieter and it is quite comfortable to live here.

The Ninth Princess would change into ordinary clothes and go out for fun every day, and of course she would be accompanied by guards.

She would go to the Dazhao bookstore to look for the story books, or visit the street vendors to buy some cheap little things, or find a teahouse, order a pot of tea, sit down and listen to the gossips that everyone was talking about...

She went to the teahouse today. Just as she sat down and took a sip of tea, she heard about Shen Xunxiang jumping into the well. She suddenly felt unwell.

The Ninth Princess drank the tea in her cup depressedly, then got up and left, because she didn't want to listen to the men in the teahouse criticizing Shen Xunxiang for being shameless.

This kind of thing would never happen in Dayan, as the women of Dayan do not have as strong a sense of chastity as the women of Dayan.

Not to mention that women would joke about sex between each other, even many young girls who are about to get married would be told things like, "Your future husband is very strong, just marry him and wait for happiness."

The Ninth Princess found it hard to imagine why Ji Minru would hang herself because of such a sentence, and she felt even more sad for Shen Xunxiang who was divorced and forced to death.

The Ninth Princess could not help but look up at the sky above her head, thinking to herself, in this vast world, is there no pure land where women like them can live with a little dignity?

Would it be better if Gulan was ruled by a female emperor?

But the Gulan Kingdom only has one female emperor, no female prime minister, no female ministers, and no other female officials. Even if it is a little better, it is probably limited.

The Ninth Princess returned to the guild hall and did not go out for the next two days. She stayed in her room reading storybooks, because she knew very well that if she went out, she would probably hear about Shen Xunxiang's affairs, which would make her depressed.

After staying at home for two days, the Seventh Prince felt that something was wrong with his sister and came to check on her.

"Han Yan, you're not feeling well, why don't you go out and play? It's almost New Year's Day, the streets are very lively now, and there are many jugglers, the performances are very exciting."

"It's boring. What's so interesting about juggling? We have plenty of them in Dayan." The Ninth Princess said weakly.

The Seventh Prince looked at her listless appearance, thought for a moment and said, "Let me take you out for dinner. There is a restaurant that makes delicious roast duck."

"I'm not hungry. Roast duck is greasy. I have no appetite just thinking about it." The Ninth Princess continued listlessly.

The Seventh Prince could only try another method to appease her. After thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said,

"I heard something today that I'm sure you'll be interested in."

"What?" The Ninth Princess looked up at him and said quickly, "Don't tell me about Shen Xunxiang jumping into the well. I don't want to hear it."

"That's not it." The Seventh Prince waved his hand, "It's the Su Wang Mansion. In order to favor the princess alone, the Su Wang dismissed all the women in his backyard.

The concubines were given some silver and shops as dowries and allowed to leave the house and get married.

The two concubines in the palace also remarried. The emperor even granted them marriages. The families they remarried into were not bad either, and they were still the mistresses of the household.

There were only three concubines in the mansion who did not leave because they had daughters.

However, I heard that they did not want to remarry. If they were willing, Prince Su would let them leave the house and get married.

For the sake of his princess, Prince Su really disregarded all etiquette and laws.

I heard that from the moment he took the princess into his palace, there were one incident after another, and because each incident was shocking, he was impeached over and over again by the censors.

Now it’s even more outrageous, it has actually reached this point.”

The Ninth Princess was originally half-lying down, reading a book, but now she threw the book aside, sat up, and looked full of energy.

"Wow, Prince Su is truly a man of divine quality. Even the storybooks dare not write about him like this!" Princess Nine said in amazement, her eyes sparkling.

"That's great! The story of Prince Su and Princess Su made me believe that there is still beautiful love in this world.

Both of them have gone through hardships, met each other halfway, and finally stayed together for the rest of their lives. Such a relationship is even more precious."

The Seventh Prince,

Really? It’s so precious, why didn’t he realize it?

He was just very curious about what kind of person the Princess Su was, to the extent that the Prince Su could do this for her.

The Ninth Princess did not expect her brother to understand. She jumped happily on the spot and said excitedly,

"Brother, let's go out and eat roast duck! I'm so hungry now, I feel like I can eat two ducks."

The Seventh Prince,

Haha, I just said that roast duck is greasy and I have no appetite.