In October of the 34th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the emperor issued an edict to confer titles on princesses. The fourth princess, Kejing, was conferred the title of Duolo Prince, with the name "Xu". The land west of the desert was designated as the fiefdom of Prince Xu, who was in full charge of it.

This decree that shocked the world caused a huge wave as soon as it was issued.

Officials, civilians, men and women, all of them could not believe it.

"Xu" means the rising sun, symbolizing a new beginning and hope, which shows the emperor's high hopes for Princess Kejing.

Originally, the fourth princess entered the court and participated in politics as a woman, which was a precedent in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

Now, the princess was not granted the rank of princess, but was instead crowned as a king together with the prince, and became the fourth heir to the throne of the dynasty.

All these things make people's minds shake. Some are shocked, some are happy, some are angry, and some are happy.

But no matter what kind of emotion it was, it could not affect the expedited delivery of the imperial edict and the prince's crown and robes to Princess Kejing over 800 miles.

In the distant Western Mongolia, under the witness of Prince Zhi, Princess Kejing changed into the clothes belonging to Prince Duolo, received the imperial edict, and became the one and only Prince Xu.

Women are kings, and the students of the Royal Women's Academy all stay at home to study.

With King Xu in front of them, why don’t they seek enormous wealth and glory?

Before them, before the imperial court sent troops to Moxi, Nalan Yanran had already bid farewell to his mafia, Nalan Mingzhu, and set out on the journey to follow Ke Jing with his bag on his back.

At that time, she gambled everything, leaving behind her family and relatives and following Ke Jing to the battle, just to gamble on that possible future.

Now she had won the bet, and Princess Kejing became Prince Duolo Xu. As the most useful aide to Prince Xu, she was promoted to the fifth rank and became the first female official beside Prince Xu.

From now on, she will work with King Xu to govern Moxi, and then - swing her sword towards the distance.

In November of the 34th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Prince Zhi returned to the capital.

At this time, all the civil and military officials in the court had quieted down.

Ever since the imperial edict to confer the title of king was issued, they had started a tug-of-war with the emperor. Every day they would report Prince Xu and say a few words that a woman could not be king. Then they would be scolded by the emperor and be besieged by a group of princes.

After repeating this process over and over again for a month, they finally got tired of it. Knowing that things were done and they couldn't change anything, they could only accept the fact bitterly.

No matter how much you accept the facts, you still have to stick to the so-called rules of our ancestors.

As a result, many people pretended to obey but actually disobeyed. Although they sent their daughters and granddaughters to girls' schools, when they returned home they forced them to read "Female Rules" and "Female Admonitions" to learn female virtues.

But the old saying is still true: "You have a plan, but I have a ladder."

They pretended to obey but secretly disobeyed, and their own daughters and granddaughters also pretended to obey and were forced to learn women's virtues at home. But when they arrived at college and got together with their classmates, their stubborn parents were almost scolded by them.

Receiving the same education, sharing the same ideas, cursing the same parents who oppress them, and looking forward to a bright and exciting future, the relationship between these students has become increasingly better.

As a result, women's education once again moved forward and attracted the attention of the Imperial College next door.

"Why are they fighting so hard?"

A man asked this, but only got complicated looks from the women.

Yes, why are you working so hard...

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In the 35th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, at the first grand court meeting of the year, Prince Cheng proposed a policy of employing women as officials.

The whole court resisted, so they decided to discuss the matter again on another day.

In March of the 35th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, news came from Moxi that King Xu was fighting against the invasion of Tsarist Russia. In the process of fighting the invasion, the territory of Moxi expanded a little bit.

At that time, Prince Yong proposed a policy to allow women to take part in the imperial examinations.

Once again, they encountered resistance from all the civil and military officials in the court, so they decided to discuss the matter again on another day.

In April of the 35th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Royal Women's College and the Imperial Academy held a competition. After three games, the women's college won the competition with a score of two to one.

In the same month, Prince Cheng and Prince Yong jointly proposed a policy to allow women to participate in imperial examinations and appoint women as officials.

This time, after the Imperial College lost the competition to the Women's School, the court officials wanted to object, but they couldn't speak firmly.

The Imperial College had been teaching for many years, and those students had studied hard for more than ten years, but they were not as good as an Imperial College for Women which had only been open for a few years. How could they oppose women from becoming officials on the grounds that women were not as smart as men?

Prince Cheng and Prince Yong also repeatedly accused them, saying that they were afraid, and that the essence of their opposition to women serving as officials was that they were afraid of being surpassed by women, and that they knew very well that women were better than them.

These words really hurt me.

Aren’t they just afraid?

They were speechless for a moment and were defeated step by step.

As a result, the emperor issued an edict allowing women to take the imperial examinations just like men.

The imperial edict was spread throughout the country through the Daqing Newspaper, and the following imperial examinations became very exciting.

Palace of Heavenly Purity, Imperial Study

"I'm so tired," Yinzhi sat on the ground without any image. He pounded his shoulder and muttered, "Khan Ama, you are really a fool. You let my fourth brother and I do everything. You don't even think of finding a few more brothers to help us."

What he was referring to was the matter of appointing women as officials, saying that it was only for the "scholars". But in reality, there were female officials in the fields of scholars, farmers, merchants, and even officials. Why couldn't there be female labor in other fields?

There is a lot to do with all these things.

And their Khan Ama was a very good boss. He left all the work to him and his fourth brother, and he himself had nothing to do.

As Yinzhi complained, Kangxi, who was accompanying Yinxiang to handle the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, pretended to kick him and said, "I am not idle."

How could he be idle? Apart from the tasks assigned to his sons, he was the one who arranged and supervised most things.

Since he himself was a ghost for hundreds of years before being reborn, he wanted to show everything about the future to the Qing Dynasty, but due to various factors, he could only do it slowly.

There are not enough people to help, which makes him worried. He is already several years old.

And this damn kid is still grumbling about him. Is he relying on the fact that he has a good temper and won't hit anyone?

Kangxi glared at Yinzhi with disdain, then turned to speak gently to Yinxiang: "Thirteenth brother, don't learn from your third brother, who is so lazy that he complains of being tired after doing a little work."

After thinking for a while, he said, "When there are more female officials in the court, there will be talents to be used. Then you guys won't have to take on multiple duties and handle various affairs."

That is to say, the Qing Dynasty is now developing more and more businesses, but there are too few talents available, so he can only drag a group of sons who have lived a new life into a crazy internal competition.

Otherwise, he would lie down too.

Yinxiang didn't have any objection. After all, what he was doing now was actually simple and few, and it was incomparable to the situation in his previous life.

Flipping through the list of officials in the Ministry of Personnel, he looked at his third brother lying on the ground, shook his head helplessly and smiled: "Khan Ama, look at the third brother, he is almost asleep."

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