Huang Jiu sat opposite Huang Boyi, smiling and holding Tianyou in her arms. She hadn't been with her son and father like this for a long time.

Feng Yuchen is not in the imperial capital now, and there are only three of them living in the palace.

It's time for her to stop and spend time with her father.

"Father, shall I prepare delicious food for you tonight? I haven't cooked in person for a long time."

Huang Jiu smiled and looked at him. He had detoxified him a year ago. His health was much better, but his hair was much whiter.

It is better to have gray hair than to have something wrong with your body.

Thinking about the past few years, it seems that she has not cooked food for them for a long time.

Huang Boyi took Tianyou from her arms and hugged him. Thinking of the meals his daughter had cooked, his mouth watered with greed.

"I'll take care of the child! You hurry up and cook!" He was rude to his daughter.

Here he only enjoys family happiness and is not an emperor. This is the kind of life he wants to live.

He had a headache every day when he faced those treacherous and cunning courtiers. Now that he has his daughter to share his worries, he feels a lot more relaxed.

"Okay, okay! Just wait!"

Huang Jiuxiao looked at the bright eyes of the old and the young, they were really two foodies!

Han Yue also followed Huang Jiu to the kitchen and took out a lot of fresh vegetables from the space. Han Yue helped wash the vegetables.

"Your Highness, you seem to be in a particularly good mood today." Suddenly he thought of cooking, and it was obvious that His Highness was in a good mood.

Huang Jiu kept moving her hands, like a woman who usually cooks for children and the elderly at home, always with a faint smile on her face.

"I'm in a good mood today! I found the talent I need, of course I'm happy!"

Huang Jiu felt very happy when she thought about the students' answers.

The Xiling Kingdom has outstanding people and countless talents and beauties, but they are suppressed just because they are not nobles. If this continues, the country will be destroyed sooner or later.

Since it is her father's country, she naturally does not allow such things to happen.

"It's His Highness's long-term thinking that allowed those poor families to have a place to play!" Han Yue thought of the changes in the past few years and was grateful that Xiling Country had such a Highness.

Huang Jiu stopped cooking and suddenly thought of something, "Han Yue, how about the matter where I asked you to issue an order to select female officials?"

She has added another assessment this year, that is, the female officer assessment. She hopes that through such an examination, those women will have room to display their abilities.

In Xiling, the status of women is even more humble. A strong woman like the White Queen does not dare to stand up in front of her father and always has to be humble and submissive.

Women in ordinary people's homes have no human rights. Once they get married, they must stay at home all the time. They cannot go out easily or show up easily. All they see is the square world of their husband's family.

When they have children, they stay at home all day long to take care of them, serve their parents-in-law, and wait for their husbands to come home. Even if there is no food at home, they cannot go out to find food casually and can only wait for their husbands to bring home food.

Sometimes their husbands bring other women home, and they can only endure this result and have to put on a smile to share their husbands with other women.

In Xiling, unmarried women have more freedom. They can go out and swim in the lake with their friends, and even the noble women can invite their masters to teach at home.

After getting married, she no longer had that kind of freedom. She could only abide by the three obediences and four virtues like ordinary women, and take care of her husband and raise her children at home. From then on, she lost her complete freedom.

No matter whether you are happy or not after getting married, a woman has no right to refute and can only suffer in silence for the rest of her life.

There are also women who go out to do business without being bound by their husbands' families. They are criticized more than understood, which makes many women shy away from doing business.

After Huang Jiu learned about the situation of Xiling women, she decided to open a palace school. No matter whether they were nobles or poor families, men or women, they could enroll as long as they passed the examination. The construction of the palace school was almost completed, and she wanted Xiling to

The woman lives like a human being.

Just before the big exam, she issued a decree to select female officials in the palace. Anyone who passed the exam would get the corresponding position and salary.

It has been several months since her decree was issued, but now there has been no movement.

Han Yue's face looked a little ugly, "Your Highness, it was the Queen who blocked your will. She only selected a dozen women from the noble women and brought them into her palace. She also said that the rules of the ancestors cannot be broken and women should obey them.

If you do the three obediences and four virtues too much, it will only make people look down upon you."

Han Yue rolled her eyes so many times in her heart, Queen Bai still had the nerve to say that women should follow the three obediences and four virtues?

The daughters she has trained are all born with a bohemian appearance. She still wants to imitate the original Queen Yi and sit in that position herself!

Is this what she calls the three obediences and four virtues?

Huang Jiu smiled, "Now that she can't protect herself, why is she still thinking about those old rules? Isn't training those noble women just to give them to my father? What a beautiful idea she has!"

The White Queen was banned by her father, but she was still unwilling to fail and was still planning the future of the noble clan.

The rules of her ancestors she was talking about were the rules set by Emperor Yi, the only queen in the history of Xiling.

Queen Yi did not sit on the throne until she was in her fifties. That was because her sons died and her husband also died. The entire royal family had no candidate to inherit the throne. She had no choice but to be elected as the queen by the courtiers.

During his eleven years in office, most of the policies he implemented were absurd, and the one that Huang Jiu despised the most was the suppression of women.

Perhaps because she was persecuted a lot by women in the harem when she was young, she formulated a series of rules to restrain women after she ascended the throne.

In her eyes, women are just tools for men to give birth to children. She does not need women to make any contribution to the country. As long as they are obedient and can give birth to children, they are the greatest contribution to Xiling.

There is also a law that if a woman gives birth to more than ten children, she can get a plaque of commendation, which can also honor her ancestors.

During the reign of Queen Yi, there were indeed many women who gave birth to more than ten children, and they all received awards from her.

Men are also encouraged to marry more wives and concubines if they are able, and have children and heirs to contribute to the growth of Xiling.

This kind of thing is what men most want to see. As long as they are rich men, whether they are nobles or poor families, there is no special case of monogamy. They all have three wives and four concubines, and they are full of flowers.

At that time, the population of Xiling was growing continuously. In the eleventh year of Queen Yi's reign, the number of the army had increased a lot.

Queen Yi's policies made the woman dissatisfied, but she could not refute it, so she could only endure the humiliation and live silently.

Later, Empress Yi died, and all the women in Xiling wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate. For the sake of their own lives, they could only curse her silently in their hearts.

Later, the Xiling royal family changed hands and changed a lot of Queen Yi's weird rules, but only the harsh conditions for women didn't change much.
Chapter completed!