Yinzhen: Become the favorite of the group in the Qing Dynasty where the brothers were reborn

In the 31st year of the Kangxi reign, right after the New Year and as soon as the court meeting began, the emperor issued several imperial edicts.

The fifth prince, Yinqi, was granted the title of Gushan Beizi and entered the Lifanyuan to work.

The seventh prince, Yinyou, was granted the title of Shanbeizi and assisted in the management of the Imperial Household Department.

The eighth prince Yinsi was granted the title of Gushan Beizi and was in charge of the Ministry of Justice.

In addition, the Royal College for Women was established, which was equivalent to the Imperial College and had such official positions as the Chief Academic Officer, the Dean, the Supervisor, the Doctor, the Assistant Teacher, the Principal, the Registrar, the Classics Bookkeeper, and the Bookkeeper.

He ordered the four princes to take charge of the girls' school affairs, and all the daughters of clan members and daughters of officials were admitted to the school.

If they refuse to comply, the men in their family will be demoted three levels and fined 100 taels of silver to be used as funding for the girls' school.

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As soon as the decree to establish a girls' school was announced, it caused an uproar.

All the civil and military officials in the court were shocked by the toughness of the imperial edict.

If I don't send my daughter to school, I will be demoted and have to pay a fine?

What a fatal decree!

The Manchu officials were not too worried, as they valued their daughters very much, otherwise the term "Manchu aunt" would not have come into being. Besides, they were used to following the emperor, so once the decree came out, they would send their daughters to school without any objection.

What's more, is it a simple girls' school?

That's called the "Royal Girls' College"!

Not to mention the daughters of ordinary officials, even princesses have to go to school, as well as the daughters of high-ranking officials. If you can get some connections with them, why worry about not being able to make further progress?

Therefore, this decree regarding women's education was easy for Manchu officials to accept.

But this is not the case for Han ministers.

They received decades of education in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and the requirement for women was that they should not go out of the main house or step out of the secondary house. Studying was not something that women should do.

Suddenly, a Royal Women's College that was comparable to the Imperial College appeared and forced them to send their daughters there. This was simply a provocation to their beliefs.

As a result, outside the Qianqing Palace, as expected, a group of ministers knelt down and begged the emperor to revoke his order.

Unfortunately, Kangxilang was as hard as iron, and no one would change his decision. He just let them kneel outside and didn't want to pay any attention to their actions.

Not only did he ignore these ministers, he even found them annoying. They kept shouting outside for him to withdraw his order, which annoyed him so much that he wanted to give each of them thirty lashes of the cane.

"Go, Liang Jiugong, drag the ones who are shouting the loudest away and give them ten beatings first."

As an emperor in power, Emperor Kangxi did whatever he thought of. He did not care that the ministers he pointed out were all first- and second-rank officials and were quite old. He just gave an order and started beating them.

However, it also served as a warning to others. The old ministers who were the leaders were all beaten with ten boards, and the rest immediately fell silent and dared not speak again.

But they didn't dare to retreat like this, after all, it was really embarrassing.

They could only continue to focus their attention on those leading ministers, but they didn't know that Emperor Kangxi in the Imperial Study was already considering whether to let these old stubborn people retire and return home.

After all, these people are indeed old.

"Khan Ama, Chen Ting respectfully invites you to see me."

Just at this time, Yinzhen came in.

He came all the way from Yuqing Palace and happened to run into Chen Tingjing, who had just taken office as the Minister of Personnel last year, at the door, so he came over together.

"What did he want to see? Is he here to protest as well?"

Kangxi frowned. He was very satisfied with Chen Tingjing, his minister. He had been neglected several times in his previous life, but was promoted successively in this life because of his talent.

But if even Chen Tingjing came to protest against the establishment of the Royal Women's College, then he would have to teach this man a lesson.

"Khan Ama, Chen Tingjing is here to report serious matters."

Yinzhen and Chen Tingjing were familiar with each other, after all, they were working together in the Ministry of Personnel.

He knew Chen Tingjing well enough. Since he did not protest with the group of Han officials outside, he accepted the emergence of women's schools.

Just as he thought, as soon as Chen Tingjing came in, he first presented his own plan for the positions of female school chief priest to Kangxi, and then directly began to recommend himself: "Your Majesty, I want to recommend someone to Your Majesty, she can be the female school chief priest."

When these words were spoken, not only Kangxi, but even Yinzhen was stunned.

The father and son looked at each other and became curious. They wanted to know who gave Chen Tingjing such confidence that he could definitely perform the duties of the chief priest.

"Let me hear it." Kangxi sat leisurely, wanting to see who Chen Tingjing could recommend.

Unexpectedly, Chen Tingjing spoke without hesitation: "Your Majesty, the person I want to recommend is my wife, Wang."

He really promoted talented people regardless of their relationship with them, and he immediately recommended his wife.

He also talked about his wife Wang's family background, talent, and character, and talked about Wang's ideals and pursuits. He summed it up in one sentence, "I would like to ask the emperor to allow Wang to try. She is worthy of being a female school teacher."

It should be said that Chen Tingjing was very brave.

Kangxi admired his heart and was sure of Wang Shi, whom he mentioned. "Since you are so sure, it is not a bad idea to let her have a try."

Anyway, when he first considered who should be the chief priest of the Women's School, he also considered Chen Tingjing's wife. Now she just came to him on her own initiative.

Thinking of this, Kangxi suppressed the smile in his eyes, coughed lightly, and said lightly: "I hope you won't disappoint me, go down."

After responding to Chen Tingjing's request, Kangxi decisively drove him away.

Chen Tingjing didn't stay long. He got the result he wanted, and staying any longer might not bring any good results.

So he simply withdrew.

Not only that, he also took special care to share the emperor's worries. He stood outside the door and spoke to a group of colleagues with emotion and reason. Soon he persuaded a group of ministers who were already somewhat hesitant to leave.

Since he was so capable, Kangxi naturally wanted to reward him, so he quickly issued an edict, appointing Chen Tingjing's wife Wang as the first chief priest of the Women's School.

As soon as this imperial edict came out, the ministers who were persuaded to leave by Chen Tingjing broke down on the spot.

Well done to you, Mr. Chen, I didn’t expect you had this skill!

Not only that, Chen Tingjing also sent his daughter and granddaughter directly to the list of girls' school, and they successfully became the first batch of students admitted and received commendation from the emperor.

After being stabbed in the back repeatedly, those old stubborn people who had wanted to continue protesting began to waver.

It seems, as if, probably, in fact, it is not a bad idea to go to this girls' school?