Villainess Wants To Turn Over A New Leaf - Chapter 505

In ancient times, when men were superior to women, they did not serve as officials and did not need to be literate. Except for the daughters of nobles, women among the common people were not allowed to enter any form of academies.

Until Song Jinglan, at Lin Feilu’s suggestion, established the new official position of ‘Youth Education Officer’. These positions were only to be held by women. Although the rank was low, it set a precedent for a woman to serve as an official in history and was more than enough to shock the world.

However, rather than being an official position, the Youth Education Officer resembled the role of a female teacher who taught young children.

They did not need to be extra knowledgeable or well-versed in academics and the like, but they only needed to be gentle, literate, possess a skill that could be taught and nurtured to kids, and truly love children to participate in the selection.

When Song Jinglan first implemented this title, he was stopped by the conservative faction as usual. But the Song Dynasty had always been ruled by his one word and any form of obstruction was practically nothing to him, which ended up being dispersed with a wave of his hand.

It’s just that the initial selection was a bit difficult because there were really few female candidates who were called upon.

Lin Feilu did not want to achieve equality between men and women in this era. She just hoped to make women’s status and life better as much as she could within her ability.

After her wedding, Song Jinglan ordered all the beauties in the palace to be sent out of the palace. Nevertheless, since several of them were sent into the palace as pawns by the family, once they left the palace, their value to the family was completely lost. Therefore, those days must have been rough for them as they were no longer of use.

Moreover, the Empress Dowager also hoped to keep a few people to accompany her in the palace. After all, Lin Feilu could not go to talk to her every day. After learning of the situation, she asked Song Jinglan to send away only those who wanted to leave the palace. The remaining few stayed in the Chonghua Palace to accompany the Empress Dowager.

After the implementation of the Youth Education Officer, no women came to try their hand at first. Lin Feilu thought about it and felt that she had to set a precedent and an example for everyone, so she summoned the four remaining beauties to the Yong An Palace and asked them if they would be willing to take up this position.

Since they were selected by their families and sent to the palace, the four women would be naturally proficient in all kinds of art— music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Later, seeing as to how they managed to survive Song Jinglan’s ‘tyrannical’ cleansing methods, she guessed that they never tried to pull any stunts on him and were law-abiding individuals.

Their days in the palace were dull and boring. Except for the area around the Chonghua Palace, they did not dare to go anywhere else for fear of bumping into the Emperor and the Empress. To their families, they have become abandoned children. Now that the Empress was kind enough to allow them to serve as officials that could change their stagnant day-to-day lives, who wouldn’t agree?

Thus, the first batch of Youth Education Officers were born.

Lin Feilu gave them intensive training for a period of time before the four beauties became kindergarten teachers. From there, they started a happy life as teachers in Springfield Flower Kindergarten.

Compared with her teachers who only babbled so much before, the kindergarten teachers who have gone through her vocational training were obviously more suitable to teach these little kids.

Although the court officials always wanted to send their children to the Royal Kindergarten, many of them cried and didn’t want to go to school every time. It wasn’t until the teachers in the kindergarten were replaced by these female officers that the young children looked forward to going to school every day.

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