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Chapter 1054 - Chapter 1054 Girls' School

Chapter 1054: Girls’ School Chapter 1054: Girls’ School Editor: Atlas Studios “Don’t.

Let them note down the criticisms as they are.

It makes me happy.” As Qi Haoran looked at Mu Yangling in a daze, he could tell that she was genuinely happy.

“YouaEUR| With that, who will go to study at your school?” “There are many families in this world who want their daughters to receive an education but can’t afford to hire a teacher.

Besides, it’s good as long as the Technical Institute can continue operating.” Mu Yangling established a girls’ school divided into two institutes: one was the Virtue and Culture Institute, and the other was the Technical Institute.

The main subjects taught in the Virtue and Culture Institute were cultural knowledge, zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

In short, the subjects that rich families required their daughters to have knowledge of in this era.

The institute’s tuition fees were not cheap, but it was still much cheaper than hiring a private teacher.

As many ministers objected, the Virtue and Culture Institute did not manage to recruit many female students.

Most of them were daughters of low-ranking officials and middle-class families.

However, Mu Yangling believed that as long as they persisted, the Virtue and Culture Institute would successfully recruit more and more students in the future.

The Technical Institute enrolled girls from impoverished families, offering low tuition fees, numerous scholarships and financial aid, along with various work-study programs.

It primarily taught them a variety of livelihood skills, with needlework and practical technical skills being the most attractive.

When Mu Yangling got her subordinates to recruit such female students, her marketing strategy was to emphasize the good life that this school could bring them.

Moreover, there was no limit to the age of the students.

While it was the Virtue and Culture Institute that attracted the attention of the ministers, Mu Yangling actually valued the development of the Technical Institute the most.

Students from the Virtue and Culture Institute would go on to get engaged, get married, and become housewives.

The knowledge and skills they learned in the academy were just there to enhance their lives.

Most of the ideas she instilled in them might even be rejected because their lives were stable and they did not have to worry about their livelihoods.

To these women, advocating for women to hold up half the sky was a joke.

Instead, it would only push them further away.

However, it was different for the female students in the Technical Institute.

What they learned in the institute would one day allow them to earn a livelihood.

These skills could let them earn money and have a say in their family.

Mu Yangling had selfish motivations.

In the past, she didn’t have a daughter, so she didn’t want to risk the world’s condemnation to advocate equality between men and women.

All she could do was use her identity to tell everyone that women could also achieve many feats.

She could use her power to suppress the Cheng-Zhu school of thought’s theory and suppress it in all aspects so that women’s status wouldn’t decrease too much.

However, she had a daughter now, and girls always had a hard time in this world.

Even if she and Qi Haoran were rich and influential, they could not guarantee that their daughter would definitely have a happy life in the future.

For example, it was normal for men to take in concubines in this era.

Even a princess could not stop her prince consort from taking a servant girl as his handmaid, let alone their daughter.

In this world, it was extremely difficult to find a man who refused concubines and handmaids out of devotion to a woman.

Even Qi Haoran had mixed feelings about the idea of concubines before they got married.

Besides, how many Qi Haorans were there in this world?

Hence, Mu Yangling wanted the status of the women in this world to be raised.

That way, her daughter would have more choices in the future and her life would be better.

She would not jump out and wave her hands, saying that men and women should be of equal status, that girls could prop up half the sky.

But she would attempt to bring about that with her actions.

She would help women have a higher status in their family and have more say in society.

Expanding out from one point, her daughter would be able to live more freely in the future.

In order to raise their status in the family, they had to first have the ability to earn a living.

One’s economic foundation determined the superstructure.

This was absolutely true within a certain range.

Mu Yangling did not care about how the Virtue and Culture Institute would develop in the future, but she hoped that the Technical Institute could persevere.

Although many people objected, the girls’ school was after all private and had nothing to do with those ministers.

If they were opposed to the idea, they could choose not to send their daughters to the academy.

However, how many officials in this world were of high enough rank to stand in the Imperial Court and oppose Mu Yangling?

After half a year, when the girls’ school reopened, more students had enrolled in the Virtue and Culture Institute, and the Technical Institute was even more popular.

Seeing this, Mu Yangling decided to expand the campus and open another branch in the north and Guangzhou.

The titles of Empress and Princess Consort Rong proved very useful, and many people signed up to enrol in the school.

A few stubborn old men in the Imperial Court were so angry that they pulled off quite a bit of their beards.

Most of them, however, were already used to such things and did not have the strength to object.

Princess Consort Rong was too aggressive.

Not only did she promote it in the institute, but she also got newspapers everywhere to guide public opinion and tell everyone that a girls’ school was a place that taught girls all kinds of skills, including helping their husbands and teaching their children.

It had nothing to do with seizing power and things like that.

By doing that, it made those who objected seem like they were making a fuss out of nothing and couldn’t bear to see women doing well.

Even their mother, wife, and daughter looked at them strangely.

Don’t be surprised.

Even though the newspaper had only been established for two years, they had already become widespread.

This was because Prince Rong’s estate’s newspaper agency had a fashion newspaper that specialized in writing about women’s fashion, jewelry, and various methods of raising and nourishing children.

Despite having only been established for less than a year, it had become very popular among women.

This time, the controversy of the girls’ school was also published in the fashion newspaper.

Due to this, the inner estates of the various ministers were in chaos, with some agreeing, and some opposing.

In short, the chaos caused by this controversy in the Imperial Court mirrored the chaos seen in their homes.

After being bullied at home, the ministers decisively stopped attacking the girls’ school, only hoping that they could again have peace at home.

The war in the north was about to break out at any moment, and disasters were occurring everywhere.

Water conservancy facilities had to be repaired, roads had to be repaired, river dikes had to be consolidated, corruption had to be eliminated, and there was also the important task of promoting agriculture.

With so many crucial matters to deal with, why would they waste their time on the girls’ school?

If the Empress and Princess Consort Rong wanted to leave their mark in history by setting up a girls’ school, then so be it.

In any case, it wasn’t as if they could get women to enter officialdom.

That’s right.

The ministers unanimously thought that the Empress and Princess Consort Rong were so determined to set up a girls’ school because they wanted to leave their names in history.

Otherwise, why would they go to all that trouble?

After all, the princesses of the royal family would be sent to the palace to be taught.

At the very least, each family could hire private teachers to teach them.

Surely that wasn’t inferior to what was taught in the institute?

They didn’t dare to say anything else, but they dared to pat their chests and guarantee that the education received in the institute paled in comparison to the education their children received at home.

Therefore, since they weren’t doing it for the princesses, could it be for the girls from poor families who couldn’t afford to hire a private teacher?

No way would they believe it.

Even Li Jinghua assumed that Mu Yangling wanted to make some contributions to leave her name in history.

Could Mu Yangling, who stood on the shoulder of giants in history, tell them that her vision was far-reaching and unique?

Of course not.

She preferred to see those men fume after they realized her long game, provided that they could live for a long time.

Mu Yangling sighed and lamented that life was really lonely.

It was only at this moment that she felt that she had additional memories of her other life.

Qi Haoran glanced at his lonely wife and said faintly, “Do you find it lonely?

How about I go to the academy and apply for two days of leave for the children?” Mu Yangling’s body stiffened and she waved her hand repeatedly.

“I’m not lonely anymore.

Don’t I have you to accompany me?

It’s better not to disturb the children.”

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