I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

"I understand what you understand too." Song Shiqiu asked Heng Mu to get the things.

"I know you understand." That's why she couldn't understand, "I think you are the only one in the world who can accomplish this, Your Majesty, but why haven't you done it yet?"

Song Shiqiu asked Heng Mu to give the file to Lin Jin before he slowly spoke: "The simplest question is, if the family can afford to send all the children to school, then even if there is no so-called girls' kindergarten you mentioned, the family will hire a teacher for her. If they can't afford it, then why don't they let their sons go to school and choose to support their daughters?"

Lin Jin looked at the file in her hand. It was well preserved, like a very important file. She unfolded it and read the contents. She couldn't help but read it out: "In the third spring of the third year of He'an, a total of 763 baby girls were abandoned in Jiaozhou, and 215 survived. Jingzhou abandoned..."

A chill began to spread from her back to her surroundings. She recognized the words above, but at this moment she hated not being able to read them.

"This, this is..." Lin Jin's throat was dry and he couldn't speak.

"This is just the number from last month." Song Shiqiu had been used to looking at these files year after year. "Where do you think the female generals of the Yuanyang Army came from?"

Lin Jin covered her mouth and nose. She had indeed never thought about it. She thought that they were all people like Xi Lilong who joined the army voluntarily to rebel against their families, or they were those who were appreciated and trained for various reasons. Now thinking back, this idea was extremely ridiculous.

"I knew you would cry again after I told you this." Song Shiqiu handed her the handkerchief, "Don't cry. In the beginning, these people drowned the baby girls or abandoned them in the wilderness."

"I feel sorry for them." Lin Jin choked up, "Is it right to abandon them?"

"Please listen to me first." Song Shiqiu sighed. He hoped that Lin Jin would be more indifferent to these things, but he also hoped that Lin Jin would always be kind to others and have a loving heart like he is now.

"Later, before the late emperor ascended the throne, he used the tiger talisman in his hand to exchange for new laws that prohibited the killing of newborn babies. If the baby did not want to be raised, he could send it to the government, and the government would hand it over to the temples and Taoist temples. This changed the situation."

"Once they have to sever their relationship with the child, the government will give them half a pound of silver as compensation, which not only ensures that the baby will not be killed, but also completely buys off the relationship between them."

This is also the reason why there are so many temples and Taoist temples in Daxia. However, even so, many children still die prematurely. The number is simply too large. Some are born with deficiencies. Perhaps only one or two out of ten baby girls can grow up safely.

Every year, suitable children are selected from these baby girls and sent to be trained as the Mandarin Duck Army. If they are not suitable to stay in the Mandarin Duck Army, they will be considered to be sent to the White Crane Army.

"I thought the Mandarin Duck Army was only recruited in recent years. After all, the female official system was only planned within the past ten years." Lin Jin now understood all the unreasonable things. Why are the women in the Mandarin Duck Army so skilled and good at fighting? It's completely different from the men in the army who only know a few tricks and rely entirely on momentum.

It turns out that they were all cultivated since childhood.

"Civil officials and military officials are different. Civil officials maintain domestic stability while military officials fight foreign aggressors. In addition to personal bravery, the battlefield also depends on the cooperation between comrades. However, it is different in the court. If you don't have talent, you will only hurt others and yourself."

Lin Jin said that he understood, and handed the file to Heng Mu carefully: "What else?"

So the significance of compulsory education is not only to enable the poor to go to school, but also because of this.

"Are you thinking of exempting girls from tuition fees? Or lowering the tuition fees for girls to study." Song Shiqiu spoke out Lin Jin's thoughts as if he could read her mind.

"How does your Excellency know?" Lin Jin was stunned. Could it be that his thoughts were so easy to guess?

"Because the late emperor and I had thought of this method at the beginning, but later we found that it didn't work." Song Shiqiu directly poured a basin of cold water on Lin Jin, making her heart completely chilled.

"W-why? Why not?"

"The reason is very simple. Let's talk about it one by one. Would you be willing to exempt women from tuition fees?" Song Shiqiu asked.

Lin Jin frowned. The teacher must be unwilling. "But the women's academy is different from the men's academy. One is opened by Daxia, and the other is opened by them."

The difference between public and private.

Song Shiqiu's Adam's apple rolled and he laughed loudly, "Okay, then why only exempt women from the tax, why not men? What is worrying is not the lack of tax but the inequality. Have you ever thought about the consequences of this?"

Lin Jin was choked by this question: "But...then..."

She wanted to say that men in this era have already received many preferential treatments, but she knew this was wrong before she even said it. Even if it was reasonable in this era, it would only make people more dissatisfied with women's academies.

"Then we can open a men's academy and exempt men from paying tuition fees?" Song Shiqiu predicted what Lin Jin would say next, "Will the imperial court pay for the tuition fees?"

Lin Jin bit her inner lip. Song Shiqiu had already finished speaking, so what else could she say?

"The imperial court will pay for the tuition, which means we have to create more official positions. This is not a difficult thing, but since we have to create more official positions, not everyone can be a teacher. What do you think the consequences will be? The teachers who used to make a living by teaching will no longer have students."

"Of course, they can continue to teach, but they can no longer accept students for tuition. If this is the case, all the previous problems can be easily solved." Song Shiqiu chuckled, then his voice sank and his face became serious. "Then comes the more important problem."

Lin Jin was upset by Song Shiqiu's attitude: "What?"

"If the people could read and write, then knowledge would not be in the hands of the powerful only. The more the people knew, the harder it would be for the powerful to control their hearts. Do you think this academy can continue to operate?" The tuition fee is both a threshold and a talisman for the women's academy.

Lin Jin had always thought it was a simple matter, but it turned out that there were so many twists and turns behind it, and in the end it was all based on the class system of feudal society: "Okay, I didn't think enough."

Song Shiqiu glanced at the sky and said, "It's almost time for dinner. Let's eat well first. You've lost some weight in the past two days. How come?"

Because Lin Jin suddenly found that her brain had become dull. The symbiosis of rice, fish and ducks is not suitable for the north at all. The crops in the north are not in paddy fields, and the main things to do are to prevent pests and water and fertilizer. So during this period of time, she went to the fields during the day to check the situation, and thought of solutions in the house at night.

"It's okay, I'll be fine once I'm done with it." Lin Jin felt a headache when thinking about the farming task that he hadn't completed yet. He didn't want to think about it anymore. "Tomorrow is Qingming Festival. My brothers and I will go to pay respects to my mother's cenotaph in the morning. We can only visit Sister Shi Xia's grave in the afternoon."

When Lin Liu's mother died, she was just a concubine in the Lin family. She had no status and was directly buried in a mass grave. Therefore, Liu Zhengqing and Tu Huaining could only build a cenotaph for her. Even the clothes on the cenotaph were newly bought.

"Wait until you come back." Song Shiqiu couldn't get away tomorrow morning. There was a hook-pulling competition in the army. Although he was a civil official, he had to go and watch it. After all, the emperor had asked for it, and several other colleagues had gone, so he had to go.

Lin Jin wanted to say there was no need to wait, but then she guessed that Song Shiqiu might have other things to arrange, such as visiting his parents’ graves, right?

"Then I'll come back tomorrow to make jujube paste cakes..." Lin Jin paused, looking embarrassed, "Didn't we light fires during the Cold Food Festival?"

Song Shiqiu hummed: "That's true, but is your meal today cold?"