Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 311 Extra: On Actions, Not Hearts

"Mother, you have been improving the status of women for so many years. What is your purpose?"

Even though he had ascended the throne as emperor, Qi Qi always called Mei Qian "mother queen" and this never changed.

I don’t know if it’s because she felt the time had come, but Mei Qian has recently taken time off from her busy political affairs and has been spending more time talking to Qi Qi every day.

Mei Qian and Qi Qi talked a lot about the laws and political affairs that have been implemented, and some of them even seemed like they would not happen for a long time.

Mei Qian has repeatedly emphasized to Qi Qi about the status of women. It doesn't matter whether Qi Qi passes the throne to her daughter or son in the future, but she wants Qi Qi to guarantee that the core of the policies she and Qi Chen have formulated over the years will not be overturned.

However, this made Qi Qi curious about Mei Qian's preferential treatment of women over the years: "Is it because my mother is a woman?"

"It's as if you're not a woman."

Mei Qian slowly took the health tea and took a sip.

"I am naturally a woman. Thanks to my mother and father, I became the first female crown prince. Later, I ascended the throne smoothly as an empress. However... I am not the first empress to ascend the throne, so my reputation is a little lower~"

"You're almost forty, why are you still so unstable?"

Mei Qian gently tapped Qi Qi's forehead with her finger.

"I'm just confused. When you were the queen, your father didn't stop you from attending court. Is it possible that your daughter can still stop you from attending court after she ascends the throne?"

Qi Qi was not dissatisfied with Qi Chen for passing the throne to her mother first instead of Qi Qi.

Anyway, she accepted it in the end. If she took the position later, she could relax for a few years. But she still didn't understand it to some extent.

Sometimes she is quite obsessed with the title of number one.

When people mention her in the future, they all say she is the first female emperor. How cool!
"Your father passed the throne to you because you are the emperor's daughter." Mei Qian put down the teacup and said slowly, "I passed the throne to you because you are the empress's daughter."

After Mei Qian finished speaking, Qi Qi stood there in a daze, seemingly not understanding what Mei Qian said.

Mei Qian asked quietly, "I heard that you and Zi Rang have reconciled recently?"

Suddenly, Qi Qi heard her mother turn the topic to her backyard. Her cheeks turned slightly red. She said nothing, but nodded in agreement.

Mei Qian couldn't help but sigh after listening to this.

She didn't expect to see such a ridiculous and cheesy article about her own daughter, and it was even a gender-swapped version.

Her daughter is the "male protagonist" in the ancient melodramatic and cheap novels, and has been flirting with her prince consort for more than ten years.

In the past, Mei Qian showed disdain for some melodramatic romance novels.

She thought how could a protagonist be like that, with entanglements, quarrels, misunderstandings, childbirth, a huge mess of white moonlight and cinnabar mole, and millions of words of trouble, until all these things happened to her daughter.

Especially after she personally asked the Crown Prince's wife for help, a few years later she came to her and said that she wanted to marry a certain boy. Mei Qian felt that her blood pressure was a little high, and Qi Chen also reminded her not to "do anything messy".

As a result, people didn't listen, and as a result, most of the people living in this huge palace were the princesses' "husbands".

Now the drama has finally come to an end, right?

Mei Qian felt that it was so damn difficult that she could see the ending of this melodramatic article before she died!

"I heard from the eunuch that you were planning to send the other men away, is that right?"

"Well, it's not like they haven't had their own jobs these years. They can do whatever they need to do when they get home. There's nothing to do."

Listening to Qi Qi's indifference, Mei Qian felt for a moment that she might have been thinking too well.

"You sent those men away, but what about their children?"

"Forehead……"

"I remember correctly that you and Zirang only have one daughter?"

"Yes. The other children... can follow me and have their own titles in the future, or follow their biological father. I will also take good care of them in the future. There will be no problem."

Mei Qian didn't know who Qi Qi took after with this personality, but if you love someone, you will love everyone in his or her life as well.

If you don't love someone, then you will be so heartless without any hesitation.

"So, you have planned that your child with Zi Rang will inherit your position in the future?"

"Mother?" Qi Qi was somewhat puzzled. "Didn't you agree to let the teacher who taught me teach Lang'er a few years ago? I thought you had agreed." Qi Qi subconsciously thought that Mei Qian did not agree with her daughter becoming an empress in the future, and she was a little anxious: "Lang'er's academic performance is also very good, and you have seen it all these years. Besides... didn't you raise Lang'er?"

Qi Qi was almost saying that Mei Qian didn't love her granddaughter.

But Mei Qian said: "You still have a son."

"But I am also a woman, and Lang'er is my eldest daughter..."

Qi Qi was anxious.

Why didn't her mother say much when her father made her the Crown Princess, but now that it's her turn, why does she start to dislike Lang'er because she is a daughter?
"Because you are the crown princess appointed by your father."

"Then my father..."

Qi Qi seemed to understand something halfway through her words. She looked up at Mei Qian in disbelief and said after a while, "Mother, have you and father thought so far?"

"Do you understand the meaning of taking over the throne from your father and from me?"

"clear."

She took over the imperial power from her father, a right given from men to women.

She took over the imperial power from her mother, the queen mother, a right given from woman to woman.

With the example of her mother and her, there would be no trouble when she passed the throne to her daughter in the future.

But if her mother and she were gone, she already had a son, so it was inevitable that if she wanted to give the throne to Lang'er in the future, others would criticize her for this.

However, Qi Qi thought that the number of male and female officials in the court was almost balanced now, and when she ascended the throne in the future, there might not be much resistance to passing the throne to Lang'er.

Mei Qian seemed to have seen through Qi Qi's thoughts, and said, "Qi Qi, don't underestimate the power of women, but at the same time, don't underestimate the ability of men.

Now, if women do not manage well the little power they have finally fought for, it will be wiped out within two generations.

Although your father and I have been encouraging women to go out of the house, learn to read, study, take the imperial examinations, do business, and do research over the years, both in terms of laws and policies, it is ultimately a struggle for power among the upper class.

In the early days, women who could read and write were mostly from wealthy families, officials, and local tyrants.

Those women became officials through the imperial examinations, or took advantage of the policy of dividing family interests to start businesses, all of which were simply trying to fight for the power that they should have.

In this world, how can there be so many saints who do nothing but save all the women in the world?"

Mei Qian's tone was gentle, her body leaning on the soft cushion, her eyes hazy.

If her daughter hadn't asked today, she herself would have almost forgotten that she had ever questioned why women couldn't be officials.

She was just afraid that she would be alone and helpless.

She must draw her greatest strength from where she comes from.

only--

"Just judging by my deeds and not my heart, your mother, my intentions may not be very good, and my words may not be pleasant to the ears, but just looking at what I have done, how many people in the future will say bad things about me?

Some people, if you look coldly at their articles expressing their concern for the country, and then look at their stupid and stubborn attitude in doing things, you will find that they can't do anything good for the people.

But to be honest, I also want to save face.

I like to be praised when I am alive, and I don’t want to be scolded when I die~
Don't you think so, Officer?

After saying that, Mei Qian glanced at the attendant who was standing respectfully not far away and recording the life of the mother and daughter.

Noticing Mei Qian's pressing gaze, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled awkwardly... Silently, he swung the quill in his hand again and again, muttering:

"Oh, why doesn't this quill pen produce ink..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at the ink from his quill pen that had completely blurred the notes on the page, and then he smiled perfectly.

He also felt that the image of their empress was pretty good now, and that the mother and daughter were just having a private conversation.

hmm~
Later research: What did the empress say to the princess before her death?

Damn! Why is this place covered in ink? ! ! !