The daughter of a noble family is reborn, and she is doted on by her godmother.

Women taking the imperial examinations.

Before leaving, Professor Zhu Ling said that she felt this design really gave women a new way out. If women could participate in politics, it would at least serve as a role model for many people.

“Even as women, they shouldn’t be confined to the kitchen. They should have their own unique strengths, and they should be remembered.”

It is said that among Professor Zhu Ling's family members, there are many older sisters and aunts who are no less talented than the men in the family, but most of them can only stay behind the scenes. Neither the public's memory nor the written records in history books will record their names.

However, "it shouldn't be like this."

Unsurprisingly, Teacher Zhu Ling wanted to take the imperial examination because she wanted to break free from her own constraints and create an opportunity for others to develop themselves.

My mother told me that Teacher Zhu Ling did very well in the imperial examinations.

However, Mother also said that although the results of the imperial examination were indeed good, the court did not seem to have directly assigned suitable positions to Teacher Zhu Ling and the others, and needed to discuss and decide on them later.

Generally, those who passed the imperial examinations were assigned to local county government offices. However, since this was the first time female scholars had passed the examinations, the imperial court couldn't directly draw a conclusion about whether they would be accepted by the people in various regions.

This is what Teacher Zhu wrote in a letter to her mother after she passed the exam.

After waiting for several more years, Professor Zhu Ling brought more news. The situation was still not good.

Originally, the imperial court had female officials, such as the four departments of the inner palace and the inner prime minister, but these mostly served the royal family and the inner palace.

If women who passed the imperial examinations ultimately ended up in the inner palace, I don't know about others, but at least Teacher Zhu Ling would definitely be dissatisfied. She is definitely not the kind of person who would only stay in the inner palace.

It seems that the female scholars who participated in the imperial examinations at that time were also dissatisfied.

It is said that with the permission of the Imperial Tutor Fan, several enlightened ministers, and the Empress, it was finally decided that Zhu Ling and her fellow female scholars, the first batch of Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations), would mainly serve as teachers in academies supported by the imperial court.

Several more talented female scholars, however, were involved in minor tasks such as document editing at the Hanlin Academy.

Teacher Zhu Ling didn't go into too much detail in the letter, and my mother didn't understand their specific job duties either.

No wonder I never heard of these female scholars in my previous life.

People in the capital probably still thought it was improper for women to show their faces in public, so they rarely discussed it.

However, because these female scholars were diligent and conscientious in their work and never made mistakes, they naturally did not become gossip and spread among the people of the capital.

As far as I can remember, the only news stories related to women taking the imperial examinations were about a young master from a prestigious family marrying a talented woman.

"These kinds of things can't be changed overnight."

This is what my mother said after receiving Teacher Zhu's letter.

At that time, my mother's expression was one of deep regret.

I didn't know how to offer any advice, so I could only listen quietly and see how my mother reacted.

Yuan Chen, who was standing next to her, also seemed a little disappointed.

I haven't received any letters from Teacher Zhu lately, and I wonder how she is doing now.

I remember the last time she wrote was a year ago. We've moved quite a bit this year, so it might be better if Teacher Zhu sent the letter to Xin'an City instead.

Sigh, I hope everything goes well for the teacher.

After all, in their previous lives, female scholars who passed the imperial examinations were basically just topics of conversation among the nobles. No one had ever heard of any woman achieving anything. If they had actually heard of it, how could there not have been a reaction in the capital?

Let's talk about the current situation.

Before the Yun family moved here, my mother had been operating in this area for some time. She said that she had built many professional granaries in many places, and also had corresponding shops to operate them, responsible for buying and selling grain.

Thanks to the favorable weather and lack of war in recent years, grain production has been stable, and there has been no requisitioning of grain from ordinary people due to war.

Of course, my mother told me that she made a lot of preparations when she was doing these things, but the specifics are probably only known to my sister Yuanchen, Ruihe, and herself.

I know some of that too.

Although Sister Yuanchen asked me to help organize the ledgers, she probably felt that I couldn't fully understand the contents of the ledgers, so she confidently let me look at most of them.

Yuan Chen's sister gave me mostly tasks to calculate some scattered values, but I am a special case, not a real ten-year-old child.

I can tell that the amount of grain my mother is collecting now, or rather, the amount of grain she handles each year, is definitely not the amount that an ordinary grain merchant should have.

Based on my past life experience, the grain stored up in the General's Mansion in my previous life was only a fraction of what my mother has now stored.

With so much grain, is there really no problem? That was my initial doubt when I first saw it, but then I thought about it again and realized it should be fine, since the ledger records both the amount of grain received and the amount of grain sold.

After a year, the old grain will be sold and the new grain will be replenished.

There shouldn't be any other problems.

I originally thought that when we arrived in Changgan City, my mother would open a larger grain shop as a place for mobilization and collection, but she only built a small grain shop.

In contrast, her mother continued to keep the jewelry shop, embroidery shop, and cloth shop, which were shops selling handmade goods.

He Yuru stayed in Xin'an City, but another sister, Xia Ye, who was Yuru's apprentice, came to Changgan City with her mother and opened a branch of Yanchun Pavilion.

Regarding this, Mother meant that if Yunji were to be judged by its scale, it would certainly be a renowned business nationwide by now.

However, given some past experiences, it is still best not to be too ostentatious.

"The tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind." Sister Yuanchen completely agreed with her mother's arrangement, perhaps because of the old incident with the Yuxing Trading Company.

I've come to understand Yuan Chen's background over the years. Although I guessed it back then, it's now confirmed.

Although the current policy direction of the court is to encourage merchants to operate businesses, Mother and Sister Yuanchen are always on guard against changes in the court's policies, fearing that one day they might not allow merchants to operate businesses again or discourage them from doing so.

For this reason, many people still think that Yunji is just a small business, but in fact, Mother has connections in most industries.

Now I'm all grown up. Although I'm only eleven years old, I still have things I can do even though I'm small.

I can't just stay behind the scenes.

I still remember when I was embroidering things for my mother in the back room of the Pingyang County Government Office, she said that I wouldn't have to do these things anymore. However, whether in my past life or this life, I am still more adept at these delicate things made by women.

I may not be able to take the imperial examinations for women like Teacher Zhu, but becoming an embroiderer shouldn't be a problem.

Well, let's not talk about the past. Now we need to prepare to deliver the newly dyed fabric to the people's homes in Changgan City.

This is a great opportunity for door-to-door sales.