Word spread that female physicians were being recruited to promote cesarean sections.
Along with it came a new law.
King Zhou strictly decreed that any pregnant woman who died in childbirth must undergo a cesarean section, and could only be buried after the fetus had been removed. He also had this new law dispatched by swift horse to Li Jing, who was carrying out reforms at Chentang Pass.
Next came selecting the women to enroll.
Delighted, Zi Shou selected a hundred daughters of nobles and ministers, ordering their parents to bring the tuition fees and send their daughters to the medical academy.
Fei Zhong, who was responsible for delivering the decree, found himself in a difficult position. Even when people sold their sons and daughters, the buyer had to pay. Why did parents have to pay out of their own pockets to send their daughters to the medical academy?
Zi Shou felt perfectly justified. How else am I supposed to earn foolishness value?
These nobles' merchant caravans are still being organized, so I can't collect commercial taxes yet. But I have to find some excuse to collect money. I teach you cesarean sections, you pay tuition. That's as natural as heaven and earth!
Not happy? Then say it loud!
I couldn't ask for more!
No one actually spoke out loudly, but rumors and gossip behind his back were inevitable.
The nobles and ministers sending their daughters away had, for once, united against a common enemy.
You agreed, Fei Zhong and Huang Feihu, because you don't have daughters!
What are those of us with daughters of just the right age supposed to do?
At Shang Rong's prompting, Yang Ren submitted remonstrances several times.
Once again, the nobles of Chaoge were a field of wailing geese. Their sons had gone into business