Mrs. Tang looked at her suspiciously, "Why do you suddenly become interested in recommenders?"
Zhou Man sighed and said, "I am thirsty for talents."
In fact, among the group of students entering the Imperial Academy, female students are far inferior to male students.
The imbalance between men and women is too serious. Talented people, Zhou Man thinks that both men and women are available, and they are all her students.
But there was a faint voice deep in her heart telling her that it would not be a good thing in the long run, and she had to do something to at least make the situation not so bad.
Some scholars will choose to be admitted to the Imperial Medical Office when they fail to enter the Imperial College and Mingjing, and then strive for a place to enter the Imperial College from the Imperial Medical Office.
This was discovered by Xiao Yuanzheng last year, because he found that there were suddenly more scholars applying for the imperial medical office.
You know, the people who applied for the imperial medical office in the past were either people with a medical foundation, or children from poor families who were committed to studying medicine.
Suddenly there appeared a scholar who had read the Four Books and Five Classics, could read Chinese characters but didn't know much about medical science...
Scholars can make this decision, but the ladies of the scholarly family will not be like them, so the quality of the students entering the imperial medical office is uneven, especially the comparison between men and women.
It is also because of this that among the female students sent to the Imperial College this year, only one was selected, and the rest of the places were all occupied by male students.
The number of quotas for men and women that Zhou Man set up when he left the capital was completely out of count.
She once wrote a note to express her opposition to this, but firstly, she was not in the capital, so she couldn't compete with them; secondly, the Guozijian's sentence of "admission based on merit" overturned Zhou Man's original rules.
Xiao Yuan was fighting for a few words before acquiescing.
Zhou Man took Mrs. Tang's hand, looked at her affectionately and said, "Sister-in-law Tang, you also said that many people in Beijing envy and admire me. Since this is the case, there is no envy and admiration among the little girls behind their family." Is it mine?"
"If you have this ambition, you might as well contact me. Although I am in Qingzhou now, I can barely speak in the Imperial Medical Office. If they want to enter the official career, I can give them a chance."
Mrs. Tang: "...to become a doctor?"
"Hey, it doesn't have to be a doctor. The Imperial Medical Office is now shoulder to shoulder with the Nine Temples. There are many positions in it. In addition to Beijing, there are also medical offices in various places that need people. The classics and master books are all civilian jobs. Going to sit in the hall to see a doctor, but you still need to understand medical science and medicine."
Mrs. Tang: ...
Seeing Zhou Man's serious face, she also became serious, took her hand and said: "Man Bao, this is a very difficult thing, and it can even be said that it is impossible."
She said: "There is only one woman in this world who can be like you, not only throughout the ages, but also in the future."
"Which one of the daughters of an aristocratic family is not golden and precious? It is impossible for them to run around like the master book of classics and medicines in your medical office," Mrs. Tang said: "It's one thing that they can't accept it from the bottom of their hearts, and neither can the elders in the family." will allow."
Zhou Man pursed his lips, "... You just said that if you were born a few years later, you would also go to the Imperial Medical Office."
Mrs. Tang said proudly: "There are not many people like me in this world."
Zhou Man: ...
Mrs. Tang looked at her and said with a smile: "You haven't taken care of Bai Shan's back house, you earned all the honor by yourself, so you probably don't know where the woman's honor comes from?"
"Husband?"
"Half and half." Mrs. Tang pulled Zhou Man to sit down on a chair under the tree, and said, "Their honor is half that of the back house. Husband and wife, one prospers both, and one loses both."
"A qualified wife in the back house, in addition to taking good care of her husband and educating her children, is also responsible for taking care of the family's property and finances," Mrs. Tang raised her chin slightly and said, "For example, the property of the Tang family, in addition to my father-in-law, has Part of it, and the rest is in my hands."
"Everything Tang He eats, drinks, and uses has to go through my hands. If one day he annoys me and I don't give him money to spend, he will only be poor." Madam Tang lowered her voice and said: " Clan wife, it is not easy for her to manage a family well, but it is easy to destroy a family."
Zhou Man shuddered.
Mrs. Tang said softly: "So don't underestimate the women in the back house. Except for the women in this world who have great abilities and ambitions like you, other noble women will envy and admire you, but they will not take your difficult path. Road. Because of the glory and wealth brought by officialdom, they can obtain it through their husbands and families."
Zhou Man: "What if I can't get it?"
Mrs. Tang spread her hands and said, "Could it be that they can achieve the same achievements as you when they become officials?"
She looked at Zhou Man and said with a smile: "It's not that I meant to praise you, it's the truth. In the future, even if there are women who can achieve your official position, they will not be able to achieve what you are doing now. I am afraid that your official position and title will be destroyed." Be the only one in Dajin."
"When other women enter official positions, they are more likely to be imperial physicians and orders from local medical bureaus. These are those who are good at medicine. Those who are not good will be as you said, become imperial physicians and bookkeepers, and then fight with men to become imperial physicians." Madam Tang said after a pause, "But how many civil positions are there in the Imperial Medical Office? How many women can occupy those positions?"
"Such hard work is not as fast and easy as supporting my husband and raising my son."
Zhou Man: "...I'm not all serving as an official for the sake of glory and wealth."
She seems to have all the glory and wealth now.
Mrs. Tang smiled and nodded her nose and said, "That's why we need to get rid of people who have the same ambitions and talents as you. We ordinary people think about fame, fortune, glory and wealth."
"Okay," Zhou Man realized that he couldn't convince Mrs. Tang, so he could only slump his shoulders, "The Imperial College doesn't agree to open a women's school, has your mother never thought about opening a women's school?"
She muttered: "If the empress can open a girls' school and recruit more daughters from small households, and when they can read and understand the truth, maybe I can lure some of them into the Imperial Medical Office."
After muttering, Zhou Man was stunned, and Mrs. Tang was also stunned. The two of them looked at each other, and Mrs. Tang saw her eyes getting brighter and brighter. She didn't know if she was facing the sun. His eyes were as bright as stars.
Mrs. Tang returned to the house and sat beside Mr. Tang's bed.
Master Tang lay down obediently. Seeing her staring at him in a daze for a long time without speaking, he reported cautiously: "I just got out of bed today for convenience, and I didn't even go out the courtyard door."
Mrs. Tang regained her senses and glanced at him, "If you haven't left the hospital, then you have left the house?"
Master Tang honestly admitted his mistake, "Madam, I was wrong."
Mrs. Tang ignored him and continued to sit in a daze.