Xiao Rongyan gazed calmly and deeply at Bai Qingyan and spoke genuinely: "Allowing women to study, take the imperial exams, and serve as officials... this must be done! But not now, and certainly not by you as the emperor of a nation! Your goal is to unify the world, and at this time the greatest caution must be taken to avoid internal instability. Should the Zhou be thrown into chaos and disintegration over this matter, it will lose the opportunity to compete for dominance with the Yan Kingdom."
Logically, Xiao Rongyan, as the Ninth Prince of Yan, shouldn't be saying such words to Bai Qingyan, yet he did.
His mother, Empress Ji, was a lifelong pain in Xiao Rongyan's heart, so he too wished to allow women to study, take exams, and hold office, but the resistance was enormous...
Thus he chose to wait until after the unification of the world and national stability to observe and analyze before acting.
After all, once this matter is done, it will surely cause a national uproar.
