Chapter 1763 Female Official


    ??For the first time in a thousand years, later generations have shouted the slogan that women hold up half the sky, which can be regarded as confirming that women''s status is equal to men''s. But anything is too much, and eventually some women don''t want equality, but women''s rights.


    ??Even though she eats, drinks, whores, gambles and smokes, her words are still that of a good woman, and her behavior of being cold, trembling, yelling and acting out at every turn has gone against her will and gone to the extreme.


    ?But looking at it on the other hand, is it because for thousands of years, the balance between men and women has always been tilted, and then later generations tried to balance it, but ended up adding weights to one end and accidentally adding too much?


    If it can be generally balanced in the Han Dynasty, what will happen in the future?


    After all, despite the suppression and constraints of the subsequent feudal dynasty, there were still many outstanding women emerging.


    Let’s not talk about outstanding women in literature. Even some people in later generations think that only after the industrial revolution and the large-scale development of long-range weapons of destruction were women able to stand on the battlefield. This is actually a bit biased.


    After all, there is also Mu Guiying, a female general of the Yang family who is very familiar to later generations...


    ??There is also Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty who is also a well-known figure, the Detachment of Women...


    ??There is also Xiao Chuo who is not very familiar, who single-handedly pushed Daliao to the top...


    ??There was even Xun Guanniang, a fierce thirteen-year-old **** from the Western Jin Dynasty, who led the dead soldiers to break out to save her father...


    ? Are the martial arts, courage, political ability, and commanding abilities of these women related to the degree of industrialization?


    Even after the Tang Dynasty, under the repeated suppression of Confucianism, there were still Yang Miaozhen, Yang Zhaobao, Tang Saier, and Qin Liangyu!


    The continued suppression and restraint of women by policies is almost equivalent to tying up one foot of China''s progress. No matter what, it will feel a bit pity and sadness.


    ?You can obviously run faster, but you end up stumbling upon yourself.


    "Why is Shi Yuan afraid of this?" Fei Qian asked, "Or maybe he thinks women are inferior to men?"


    Pang Tong was silent for a moment and said: "No...women are often intelligent, such as Dr. Cai... However, my lord, do you know why female officials are rarely used nowadays?"


    “Shi Yuan, please tell me?” Fei Qian said.


    Obviously, before Cai Yan served as a female doctor, other officials did not have much opinion, but now that Fei Qian has pushed Cai Yan to the front, Pang Tong has noticed something different.


    Many people, including Pang Tong, know what impact the promotion of sentence reading will have on the entire cultural circle and on future scholars. Therefore, Cai Yan can now be said to be a banner for women in the cultural circle. Literary Being an official is also the concept in most people''s minds, so it seems inevitable that Cai Yan will enter the political circle under Fei Qian next.


    ??However, is it really a good thing to let Cai Yan enter the political situation?


    In other words, if Fei Qian wants to recruit a large number of female officials starting from Cai Yan, this will have a big impact on the existing political circle. Will this impact be a good thing?


    Pang Tong didn''t have any ill intentions towards Cai Yan, and it didn''t matter to Pang Tong whether Cai Yan should hold any official position. After all, according to Cai Yan''s temperament, Pang Tong didn''t dare to say that he was better than Cai Yan when it came to Confucian classics, but when it came to strategy, There are only two words left for Cai Yan, haha...


    ?It’s just that Pang Tong noticed that Fei Qian seemed to have this intention, and as a counselor, Pang Tong had the responsibility to remind Fei Qian that Cai Yan was elegant and kind-hearted, and was not suitable for officialdom. And if Fei Qian goes one step further and starts to want to appoint female officials, the risks involved need to be clearly explained.


    ?Fei Qian did not feel offended because Pang Tong''s remarks related to Cai Yan. After all, Pang Tong was not targeting Cai Yan. At the same time, Pang Tong''s ideas were not necessarily his alone, and might also represent the ideas of some other people.


    Pang Tong cupped his hands and said, "The difference between men and women is not strength or wisdom, but pregnancy."


    Fei Qian was stunned for a moment, a little unexpected.


    Fei Qian thought Pang Tong would say that men are strong, women are weak, men are rational, women are emotional, or that men have long-term vision, and women have long hair and short knowledge. , but I didn’t expect that the difference between men and women that Pang Tong mentioned was actually this...


    ?This view of the difference between men and women, if you think about it carefully, there is really nothing wrong with it.


    ?Of course, there are some people with infertility, both men and women, but since we are discussing universality, we cannot take very specific examples to illustrate. Most women bear the responsibility of nurturing the next generation in human society. Otherwise, human society will not be able to continue and develop.


    Fei Qian rubbed the beard on his chin.


    In some knowledge systems accepted by Fei Qian''s later generations, there are talks about the evolution of matrilineal and patrilineal societies. They are basically explained according to official articles. It is generally said that it is because women are more flexible than men and have an advantage in collecting. , and collection is relatively safe. When men suffer a lot from hunting, having older women as leaders can accumulate more experience and better ensure the reproduction of a race. Therefore, in the Stone Age, it was a matriarchal society. Then later in primitive society, we entered a patriarchal society...


    And now thinking about it, it seems that this official statement is just a "cover-up", or strictly speaking, it is not a cover-up, but a part of it is displayed, like an iceberg in the water, what is seen and what is actually , are often inconsistent, but it cannot be said that what you see is not an "iceberg".


    “In this case, it’s not ‘pregnancy’, but ‘heir’…” Fei Qian said slowly.


    This is actually a very heavy topic.


    After all, the closer you get to the essence, the more **** it becomes, and you can’t bear to look directly at it.


    Pang Tong thought for a while and agreed with Fei Qian''s statement.


    For human beings, extreme people have existed in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, but it cannot be said that the small group of extremes represents the entire human race. Human beings as a whole still have the instinct to continue life in their bones, or in other words, they attach great importance to it. The continuation of life.


    That is, heirs.


    The fundamental reason for the transformation of a matrilineal society into a patrilineal society is also offspring.


    The reason is very simple. It is a bit simplistic to only use gathering and hunting to distinguish male and female societies, because in primitive societies, productivity is very low. There is not much difference between men and women in terms of labor harvest, and there is no huge economic gap. , but there is only one kind of production that is unique to women, which is giving birth to the next generation.


    Assume that there is no difference in social status between men and women. In primitive society, with the cultural level at that time, due to the physiological differences between men and women, many children only knew their mother but not their father. Therefore, the mother of the child was clear, and the father was unknown. It is unclear, so if a patriarchal society is formed, the clan relationship will not be clear. If it was a patriarchal society at that time, when distributing property, one would not know who his biological son was, so it would be difficult for social resources to be passed down normally and accumulated, and a strong tribe would not be formed. The relationship between matriarchal clans is very clear. The mother only needs to distribute social property to her biological daughters. This relationship is very direct and simple, and it is also consistent with the undeveloped brain capacity of primitive people. When the relationship is clear, there will be less disputes and resource wealth. Accumulated and passed down from generation to generation, a large clan tribe may eventually be formed.


    ?So why was the matrilineal clan later replaced by the patrilineal clan?


    The fundamental reason is still the difference in the physiological structure of men and women.


    When civilization develops to the point where it knows both its mother and its father, the matrilineal clan will show itself to be particularly disadvantaged. The premise at this time is that if a patriarchal society is formed, the clan relationship can be basically clear. Just like a matrilineal society, the social property of one''s clan can be passed on from generation to generation.


    ?So if you want a clan to further prosper, you must first ensure that the population is prosperous, and the most irreversible situation for a clan tribe is the annihilation of heirs.


    In a matrilineal society, no matter how many men a female clan leader marries, her fertility is still almost the same as if she marries one man. Moreover, the relatively primitive medical level and living conditions, as well as the average age limit, also determine the fertility of a woman. You won''t be able to have many children in your lifetime, and according to the probability, half of them will be boys. If you continue to use women as your heirs, it will easily lead to extermination.


    However, patriarchal society, that is, polygamy, changed all this. The number of women the male clan leader marries will equal the number of times the fertility of the matrilineal society. Therefore, the patriarchal society gradually overcomes the resistance of men having lower social status than women and gradually replaces the matrilineal society.


    So the system of polygamy is actually to ensure more children, and the subsequent monogamy is because...


    ?Fei Qian was about to continue the deduction when suddenly a crab rushed over and cut off his thoughts with a click.


    "In this way, what Shi Yuan said is true..." Fei Qian nodded and said, "It is indeed inconvenient for women to be officials... However, has Shi Yuan ever thought about why Dayu used to control floods? "


    It’s not that Fei Qian has any gender bias, but that when women are pregnant, due to physiological reasons, they will cause various emotional problems. In this case, the impact of hormones in the body is far greater for women than for men. Regardless of whether it is a tribe or a country, the more people under its jurisdiction, the greater the responsibility, and the less likely it is to behave irrationally due to emotional fluctuations.


    ?At the same time, women are also very vulnerable when they are pregnant, but it cannot be said that they expect their opponents to be benevolent and will never attack the female leader while she is giving birth...


    ?Just imagining this kind of scene is intoxicating.


    ?On one side, Wen Po was yelling, "Try harder, harder, harder," and on the other side, your subordinates were yelling, "What to do, what to do..."


    Cough cough cough…


    Leaving aside this inconvenience, another problem is more serious, that is, if it cannot be blocked, once the dam collapses, the impact will not be the flooding of one or two acres of farmland!


    People are ambitious, and the smarter they are, the more unwilling they are to settle for the ordinary. What would be the result if all the normal channels for women to rise were blocked?


    ?Thousands of people have thousands of faces, and there are many people who are willing to help their husbands and teach their children, and naturally there are also those who are very intelligent and energetic. It is quite scary for a woman to be ruthless, and because she lives in a male-dominated society, if a woman wants to stand out, she has to pay more prices, and among these costs, some are her own, and others must be hers. Someone else’s.


    ??When the **** breaks, mud and sand fall down, and the degree of destruction is extremely tragic. For example, in order to ensure that the blood-stained crown on her head would not fall off, Wu Zetian did not hesitate to kill her biological daughter Princess An Ding, poison her eldest son and crown prince Li Hong, and forced the death of her second crown prince Li Xian. She also poisoned her niece Wei Guo and killed her nephew. He Lan Minzhi starved his daughter-in-law Zhao to death, killed his cousins ??Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun, forced his grandson Li Chongrun to death, and his grandnephew Wu Yanji...


    ??Wu Zetian not only killed her own relatives, but also unscrupulously purged the Li royal family of the Tang Dynasty, killing thirty-four members of the Tang clan and strangling almost all the capable Li royal family members.


    At the same time, Wu Zetian also killed thirty-six ministers of the court. Many of the ministers were not because they were incompetent or had any faults, but just because they felt that the prince had grown up and Wu Zetian should keep his word and return to power. There were still many strong bones among them. The veteran generals caused great damage to the national defense force, and this damage induced the rebellion of nomadic peoples such as the border Turks, which eventually led to the Anshi Rebellion.


    On the other hand, if Wu Meiniang was given a more relaxed political environment, and Wu Meiniang''s methods were used not for internal strife, but for external use, with the peak strength of the Tang Dynasty at that time, it might have suddenly reached the horizon...


    Pang Tong frowned and said, "My lord, if you take a woman as an official, do you want to ask for his guidance?"


    Fei Qian nodded, and then said slowly: "Are all the smart people in the world men? If everyone has their own duties and responsibilities, then the family will be like a rock and the country will be stable. If women are restricted, People like you are not allowed to be officials. The fool is stupid, and what is the role of the wise? There are rocks in the road, and there are weirs in the river. The road cannot be passed, and the water cannot flow. Over time, it will collapse. "


    "Of course there are differences between men and women, but there are also differences in official positions. There are duties, responsibilities, uprightness of duties, integrity in one''s profession, correct behavior, restraint of official corruption, responsibilities and etiquette, all of which are different. Officials have their own principles, and officials have the same principles. Isn''t it wonderful to divide one''s responsibilities, to work hard in seeking talents, and to be free in appointment, just like the four seasons of heaven, spring, summer, autumn, and winter?"


    These words of Fei Qian are very reasonable. However, these great principles cannot directly convince Pang Tong.


    Because the principle is too vague.


    Pang Tong slightly wrinkled his black face and looked at Fei Qian, his expression seemed to be conveying two words, that''s it?


    "Haha..." Fei Qian suddenly laughed, pointed at Pang Tong, and said, "Sure enough, it''s just a matter of hiding it from Shi Yuan... This is the first, and the second..."


    ?Fei Qian slowly stopped smiling and continued, "Secondly, it can disturb the hearts of the gentry''s children... Shi Yuan might as well think about the marriage between gentry and clan, and many talented women are limited to the family and courtyard... If there is a little encouragement at this time..."


    ??Fei Qian is naturally not like Lao Cao, who first decides to make friends with other people’s wives by seeing how they are. Instead, in this way, the scope of Nashi has been doubled invisibly!


    And imagine, originally men were still holding back, and some were deciding whether to do it or not. Now if a woman grabs an official position first, she will inevitably have to face the situation of a female boss, and there may even be a tiger''s roar at home: "You old coward and young coward, I''ll do it myself!"


    Isn’t it fun?


    Fei Qian laughed a few times, and finally added when Pang Tong''s eyes widened more and more, "There is another third... In fact, it is also the same as what Shi Yuan just said, it is ''heir'', but This ''heir'' is not an heir, but an heir! If a woman can also be an official, then with the favor, there will be twice as many heirs... then..."


    “Excuse me!” Pang Tong almost jumped up and said with sudden realization, “This is a strategy to use yin to transform yang! It turns out that this is where the lord’s intention lies!”


    (End of this chapter)