[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Lin Ruhai directly objected: "Your Majesty, if you are proposing this, it is very likely that none of the civil and military officials will agree with your proposal."

Still the same sentence, if there is no shortage of population, whether she wants to delete the legal provisions that force women to be married if they are not married at the age of 20, or increase the legal provisions of the legal age of men and women, all civil and military officials will not Too much against it.

But now that the country is short of people, no one will agree to her doing this.

Now the officials left in the imperial court are either the new Jinshi who have just passed the imperial examination, and they are full of enthusiasm and want to do a great cause for the country and the people, or they are still under the strict investigation of Linliu's liquidation. No major problems have been found, and there are officials who have a heart for the country and the people.

Most if not all.

Regardless of the former or the latter, it is impossible to agree to Lin Liu's proposal.

The legal age is 22 years old, that's all. Even before Lin Liu came to the throne, a really sophisticated family would be engaged to their daughter at the age of [-] or [-], and they would have to wait until they were [-] or [-] when they really went out.

The legal age of marriage is 22, but raising the man's age by three or four years, and raising the woman's age by five or six years, and it's not 22 to get engaged, so it won't cause too much backlash.

But after that, you will be fined if you are not married at the age of 25, and you will be forced to marry if you are not married at the age of [-]...

Although I know that Lin Liu is considering women, but considering the population, it is obviously not feasible.

Lin Ruhai glanced at Lin Liu again, with serious eyes: "Your Majesty, I do not agree."

Ji Song frowned, looked at Lin Ruhai, and then at Lin Liu: "Your Majesty, isn't 30 too old? At this age, if a wife gets married earlier, she will soon become a grandma. You said that you can't get married at 30 , was allowed to force marriage..."

What is the difference from allowing a woman not to marry?

This time, let alone Lin Ruhai and Ji Song, even Sheng Man and the others who hadn't figured out how the court works could not help frowning after hearing this proposal.

It's just because they are all women, and they can be regarded as beneficiaries of this legal provision, that's why they never spoke.

Lin Liu smiled: "I once heard a gentleman named Lu Xun say that we Chinese like to compromise, and he even gave an example to prove his words."

Everyone was attracted by Lin Liu's words and looked up at her.

Lin Liu continued: "Sir, if in winter, when everyone is crowded in the same room, you feel the air is stuffy, and you want to open a window to breathe, other people will obviously not agree, even Most likely accusing you of being selfish."

"but……"

"If you said you wanted to knock off the roof at this time," Lin Liu laughed, "They will definitely quarrel with you in order to stop you, and then come up with a compromise idea that is the best thing to do."

"For example, open a window."

Everyone present was not an idiot, and they understood what Lin Liu really meant when they heard this.

They all bowed their heads in thought.

After a while, Lin Ruhai smiled and clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "The gentleman who pointed out this situation and explained it clearly with such a simple and vivid example must be a person with great wisdom."

Having been an official in the court for many years, Lin Ruhai knew very well that what he said was very correct.

In the past, no matter who made a suggestion, the military officials of the DPRK and Chinese would always have a quarrel, and when a consensus was finally reached, the original suggestion was completely changed.

If a smart person would do this subconsciously, but no one can say it clearly.

And I can't grasp the degree well.

After laughing, Lin Ruhai said, "Since what your majesty said before, it's just a cover-up to let the official media come to your door to force a marriage if you don't get married at [-]. I don't know what your majesty's real intention is? If your majesty tells the ministers, wait until you choose a day to raise this issue." matter, we can also cooperate with you.”

Lin Liu smiled: "The legal age of 22 must not be changed. If it is changed, even if the girls' school really cultivates outstanding students, it is very likely that the family will take them back to marry before they get their grades."

And after getting married, you really don't have that freedom, and you don't have that much freedom.

"My bottom line is that you can only be fined if you are not engaged at the age of 22," Lin Liu said with an extremely serious expression. "Only when you are not married at the age of 25 can you be forced to marry."

Lin Ruhai breathed a sigh of relief, 25 years old is still acceptable.

As soon as this idea came up, he froze immediately——

Lin Ruhai realized that he himself was like what Xiao Qilin said, a moderate person who likes to compromise.

If before, Xiao Qilin directly proposed that marriage can only be forced if he is not married at the age of 25, he must not agree.But now that he heard this number, he felt relieved. He felt that 25 years old was very young, and he didn't think that girls younger than this age would have an impact on the country's population growth if they didn't get married.

Lin Ruhai opened his mouth, and couldn't help laughing at himself after a while.

Not only him, even Ji Song, even Daiyu, even Sheng Man and the others all laughed in unison after Lin Ruhai laughed.

It turned out that they were all ordinary people, no different from other people.

When Lin Liu brought up the matter in the court hall, as expected, the whole court room erupted into a quarrel.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Lin Liu watched the civil and military officials below who used to be self-proclaimed to be fastidious people arguing back and forth, except that they didn't swear, and the words that made people frown, If those remarks were translated into vernacular, they would be no different from a shrew cursing the street.

Occasionally, I met a few clumsy people who would wave their fists and threaten people if they couldn't make any noise. I really couldn't bear to look at them.

Lin Liu used to be full of expectations for the scene of "verbal battle against Confucian scholars" that might appear in the court hall, but the longer she sat in the emperor's seat, she learned more how to swear when she was in the court, but she never saw it once. To the so-called war of words.

What I see the most is the group of Confucian scholars fighting with each other.

Lin Liu: "..."

When all the civil and military officials had quarreled and quarreled, Lin Ruhai and Ji Song stepped forward to lead the rhythm, directly focusing on the age of "30 years old".

After arguing for a long time, until the sun had risen to the top, all the people reached a consensus, and decided to follow the emperor's wishes, a legal age of marriage could be added, and the latest age of engagement and marriage age could be postponed, but The numbers 25 and [-] must be reduced—

22 and 25 are fine.

Lin Liu made a decision on the spot: "Okay, since all the lovers think so, then it's settled like this. But women with fame and fame must be distinguished from ordinary women, and they can't all pass the exam. They are all court officials." If you are a reserve official, you will be bullied by a mere official media."

"I thought about it and decided that if someone passed the examination of scholar before 22, even if they are not married by 22, they don't need to be fined; Choose when to get married."

If someone wants to pursue an official career and doesn't want to be hindered by marriage, she will naturally support her.

She did not discuss this matter with Lin Ruhai and Ji Song. After all, she also saw the ministers in the court and thought that some of the men first established careers and then married, and did not get married before they passed the Jinshi examination.

Since men can study the imperial examinations without distraction, if women are interested, why can't they?

Because of this idea, Lin Liu added this law.

And there is a very big advantage in doing this——

Those girls who don't want to get married at least have a way to realize their wishes, instead of sitting in their rooms complaining about themselves, but completely unable to make decisions about their marriages.

And there is never a shortage of such girls. In order to achieve their goals, they will not only enroll in women's schools, but also redouble their efforts and studies, hoping to be admitted as a scholar and a scholar as soon as possible.

This is a good change for Lin Liu, the country and themselves.

The civil and military ministers naturally wanted to object, but Lin Ruhai and Ji Song instantly understood Lin Liu's plan, and immediately opened their mouths to cooperate with her.

Lin Ruhai said directly: "The imperial examination is difficult. How many scholars have passed the exam and have not passed a child student? If the emperor really wants women to not be distracted while studying, in fact, before the age of 22, if she passes the child student test before the age of 22 If you get engaged, you can also avoid her fine."

Ji Song then said: "Master Lin is right, not only is it unreasonable to be a scholar before the age of 22, but even the rules of being a scholar before the age of 25 seem a little unreasonable. There are so many ministers in the court, but Those who can really pass the examination before the age of 25 are probably no more than five fingers, if the emperor really sympathizes with the difficulty of women's studies, and the examination of the scholar before the age of 25 can let the other party only control their own marriage."

The two presented the facts and reasoned, and soon made cold sweat break out on the foreheads of the opposing ministers.

There were more than a hundred civil and military ministers present, even if military generals were excluded, there were still hundreds of civil servants.

Because the nobles of the royal family in the previous dynasty have all fallen, there are really only one of the civil servants who are still standing in the court, and they are all obtained from the imperial examination.

They know their own family affairs, they don't know when other colleagues passed the exam, but they don't know when they passed the exam?

The so-called Thirty Old Masters and Fifty Young Scholars.

Like the Lin family, the imperial examination is just like playing. As long as you end up in the exam, you will definitely pass the exam and come back. That is a very small minority of the minority, and it is basically a special case.

Most officials can only pass the Jinshi examination when they are in their [-]s or [-]s.

As time goes forward, at least 25 years old can pass the exam, and most of them are in their early thirties.

The civil servants subconsciously glanced at Lin Liu on the dragon chair, seeing that her expression seemed to move intentionally, they were so frightened that they hurriedly spoke.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to Master Lin and General Ji. Your previous proposal is already very good. If you pass the examination before the age of 22, you will not be fined even if you don't get married at the age of 22. And if you win the exam before the age of 25, you will not get married after that." The idea of ​​not forcing marriage is really great."

"Your Majesty is wise and powerful. The words of Master Lin and General Ji sound a little too much. How easy is it to test for a child and a scholar?"

"That's right. Your Majesty's proposal is more appropriate. Master Lin and General Ji should not cause trouble. Don't even think about it. If it is true as you said, how many women would be willing to marry and have children?"

"..."

Seeing that Lin Liu didn't respond to their words, one of the ministers even mentioned the relationship between Lin Liu, Lin Ruhai and Ji Song: "Your Majesty, you can't just because Master Lin is your adoptive father and General Ji is your fiancé , you accepted their proposal. You are the emperor, and you can speak well, so you can’t keep your word! Your previous proposal was good, and there is really no need to change it!"

Lin Liu glanced at the minister standing below, she suspected that if she didn't express her opinion, the minister might say anything.

If it gets into that kind of field, the situation will obviously be difficult to deal with.

So he smiled and said: "Although I am very moved by Master Lin and General Ji's proposal, since everyone is so opposed, let's follow my previous proposal."

As soon as these words came out, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs immediately knelt down and shouted long live.

So this regulation was also finalized.

Lin Liu directly recruited people from Dali Temple to add or modify the legal provisions "discussed" in the court, directly recorded in the legal text, and then spread it to all parts of the country in the form of palace newspapers.

At the same time, Lin Liu also directly wrote the news that the court will open a women's school in the mansion newspaper, but due to insufficient teachers and other reasons, the women's school will only be opened in the capital for the time being.

——As Lin Ruhai expected, this so-called women's school did not cause much disturbance; firstly, it was because of the legal provisions in front of the legal age to attract attention, and secondly, because the existence of women's school was completely ignored by these officials in the eyes.

——After all, besides the daughters of merchants, the only ones who have the opportunity to read and write are the daughters of these officials.If they don't send their daughters to schools, it won't be long before these schools close down by themselves.

There are three female credits, one school teaches from enlightenment to the examination of scholar; the other school teaches from scholar to examination and then graduates; the last school also teaches students the Four Books and Five Classics, but the main courses are piano and chess Calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, camellia and other talents.

Except for the third school, the other two schools are free of tuition fees for the first year, books, tuition and miscellaneous fees. Because it is a boarding system, they can only leave the school once or twice a year, so the first year's board and lodging fees are also free.

Of course, the most attractive thing is the last one——

If you are talented in reading, you can get excellent grades in the exam every year, and you will have the opportunity to study in the future without tuition fees. There will also be bonuses for the top ten. If you are successful in the exam, the school will also reward gold and silver.

However, because the teachers are not yet in place, the opening time of the three girls' schools is set after the palace exam next year. If girls who intend to enter the girls' school, regardless of their status, just need to register at Jingzhao Prefecture Yin before the palace exam next year. .

Because this female school didn't even have a teacher, no one signed up after the news was sent out.

But the most indispensable thing in this world is a girl with a tragic fate.

Half a month after the news of the women's school was released, a girl from Jingzhao Prefecture finally came to sign up.Although this girl is really too old for her age——

The girl's name is Fu Qiufang, she was beautiful and affectionate, but unfortunately she is already in her twenties.

And she is still dressed as an unmarried girl, obviously not married.

At such an old age, even after Lin Liu proposed the reform of the legal age of marriage, he still needs to pay a fine, and will be forced to marry within two years.

After seeing Fu Qiufang, the governor of Jingzhao opened his mouth: "Young girl is so old, and she doesn't want to hurry up to meet someone to get married, so why do you still sign up for school?"

All the Jinshi women in Enkede have names and surnames, and Jingzhao Fuyin has also remembered them all in his mind. The girl named Fu Qiufang in front of him is obviously not one of them.

Of course, if you pass the Jinshi exam, there is no need to apply for a women's school again.

But this also shows that Fu Qiufang has no fame.

And without fame, you can only go to the women's school that has been educated from enlightenment to a scholar——

It is conceivable that when the girls' school starts, most of the girls who will be sent to this school must be illiterate girls, even if there are older ones, it is absolutely impossible for them to exceed fifteen.

No matter how old they are, they are either already engaged or married, or they are young ladies from rich families. Even if they sign up, they will only go to the third talent school. How can they come to this school?

Fu Qiufang bit her lip and argued: "The imperial court has not stipulated the school age!"

The governor of Jingzhao was a little embarrassed: "Although the imperial court has not stipulated the age for admission, at your current age, even if you enter school, you will not be able to pass the exam within three years, and you will not be married by then?"

He is not a very good person, but he is still a relatively good parent officer, so he persuaded earnestly, "The most important thing you should do now is to go home and find a good man to marry, instead of running to sign up for school. Otherwise, wait You are 25, and it will be difficult to find a suitable family when the time comes, and those waiting for you are either widowers or handicapped people, and may even send you directly to the border."

Even if Fu Qiufang was three years younger, he would not be so entangled, nor would he meddle in others' business to persuade others.

But 23 years old is really too big.

Fu Qiufang gritted her teeth: "My lord, please put the name of the minnv on the list. The minnv also read books in her early years, so it's not that she has no foundation at all. She is also proficient in poetry and poetry. The only one who has never studied It's just a policy theory. Wait until June and July for the county examination, and the folk girl will definitely be able to pass the exam..." She paused, then changed her words, "The folk girl will definitely be able to pass the exam for a child student, so don't worry."

Seeing her insistence, Yin Jingzhao sighed and could only write down her name.

Seeing her name on the registration form with her own eyes, Fu Qiufang breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly bent ninety degrees to Jingzhao Fu Yin, and bowed: "Thank you, sir!"

After speaking, he left Jingzhao Mansion.

Jingzhao Mansion Yin looked at Fu Qiufang's back in astonishment, opened his mouth, and murmured after a long time: "This girl is not bad looking, even if she is old, there is absolutely no shortage of people coming to ask for her, why did she take the last one?" How many years to gamble on an invisible future?"

The yamen servant who had been as quiet as a chicken before said at this moment: "Master, you don't know, this girl Fu Qiufang is quite a celebrity in the capital."

Jing Zhaofu Yin was taken aback: "Celebrity?"

The yamen servant nodded: "This Miss Fu Qiufang has an elder brother named Fu Shi. This person has never followed the right path. He even made a general judgment in the previous dynasty, but because he is now under strict investigation, he is found Corruption and bribery took tens of thousands of taels of silver, so after ordering him to make up the silver, he was dismissed from office."

"Although Fu Shi was lucky enough not to be beheaded, the things he did before can be regarded as being found out. One of the most despicable things was that Fu Shi saw that his sister was a beautiful woman, and then With both talent and beauty, he wanted to sell her for a price, but he didn't make an engagement to her after the girl reached the age of marriage, but instead wanted to marry a rich and noble family through an excellent girl, and also wanted to build a relationship with her."

"I heard that in the previous dynasty, Fu Shi had been in constant contact with Jia Zheng, the second housekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion. Judging by his thoughts, it seemed that he wanted to marry Fu Qiufang into the Rongguo Mansion."

"But there were three men in the Rongguo Mansion at that time. The eldest house, Jia Lian, and the second house, Jia Zhu, had already been married, so there was no possibility of marriage at all; there was only one Jia Baoyu who was born with a jade title in the entire mansion, and he had never been engaged."

"But the age difference between Jia Baoyu and Fu Qiufang is six or seven years. Fu Qiufang has an elder brother like Fu Shi, and the Rongguo Mansion doesn't like it at all. But this person can't read people's faces, not only doesn't care, He even tried to bring his sister to Rongguo Mansion to be seen by others."

"Simply, the Rongguo Mansion can be regarded as a respectful family. I haven't seen this girl Fu Qiufang, but she has preserved a bit of her reputation."

"However, Fu Shi has never given up on the idea of ​​marrying powerful people through his younger sister. Until his official son is gone, he is still ruthless. After finding out that there is no way for his younger sister to marry into a rich and noble family, he actually thought of sending Fu Qiufang to the Be a concubine."

"Although Miss Fu refused desperately, with such a big brother around, Miss Fu Qiufang's marriage may be difficult..."

After hearing this, Yin Jingzhao was stunned, completely unaware that there was such a hidden secret behind Miss Fu.

Thinking about what he said just now to persuade others, he couldn't help but patted his forehead angrily: "If what you said is true, then wouldn't what I said before stab a knife in Miss Fu's heart?"

Fu Ya said with a smile: "Your Excellency has good intentions, and Miss Fu is also a reasonable person. Not only will she not blame you, but she is also very grateful to you."

The governor of Jingzhao still sighed, full of guilt towards Fu Qiufang.

After thinking for a while, he directly ordered the servant: "You go to my house to find my wife, and ask her to sort out all the books and notes I used in the previous scientific examinations, and then hand them over to Miss Fu. It is barely my apology."

The yamen servant was stunned, he didn't expect Fu Qiufang to have such good luck.

Just as she was about to nod her head in agreement, she hesitated: "But Fu Qiufang's elder brother also passed the imperial examination? She shouldn't be short of books and notes for the imperial examination, right?"

Yin of Jingzhao Mansion glared at him: "Why are you so stupid? If Fu Shi agreed to allow Miss Fu to study in a women's school, how could it be that Miss Fu went to Jingzhao Mansion to sign up in person today? After all, she is a girl who has not left the cabinet. It's not appropriate to take the curtain away. I'm afraid that Fu Shi not only disagrees with Miss Fu's going to a women's school, but also doesn't agree with her taking the imperial examination. If this is the case, it is naturally impossible to hand over the books and materials of the imperial examination back then to Miss Fu has learned."

The yamen servant came to a sudden: "So that's the case, it's still adults who are aware of the details."

Jingzhao Mansion Yin shook his head with a smile, and said: "After you send the books and materials to Ms. Fu, ask her to copy a copy and keep it for herself. Remember to send the original back to me. My child will still use it for the imperial examination in the future."

Fu Ya nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely tell you this and bring it to you."

……

Everything was difficult at the beginning, with the first person to sign up, the others saw that there was a big head, and the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture did not do anything to Fu Qiufang because of this, so they boldly came to the Yamen to sign up.

Although the number was not particularly large, many of the girls came from poor backgrounds, and most of them came for the free board and lodging fees and scholarships, but Lin Liu didn't care at all.

The enrollment of the women's school is going smoothly, and the teachers of the women's school are naturally on the agenda.

So on this day, Lin Liu directly called Lin Ruhai, Ji Song, and other female officials to the Imperial Study Room: "After I went back and thought about it, I felt that it took a long time to observe the character and thinking to get an accurate conclusion. Pick out the right candidates in a short period of time. However, you can pick out the ones with good talents as soon as possible."

Daiyu blinked, and looked at Lin Liu expectantly: "How do you pick them out? Are you holding a poetry meeting?"

Lin Liu laughed: "How is it possible to hold a poetry meeting? Of course it is an exam."

"take an exam?"

Everyone looked at Lin Liu in unison, with puzzled expressions.

Lin Ruhai asked, "Is it an exam like the imperial examination?"

Lin Liu nodded and shook his head: "Yes and no. We need to list how many teachers these three girls' schools need and what subjects they need. For example, whether it is poetry, poetry, essays, or the Four Books and Five Classics, etc. Wait, we need to have a clear understanding, and then formulate questions according to our own needs to test the level of these concubines."

Lin Daiyu's eyes lit up: "Then, based on their test scores, are they suitable to be teachers?"

Lin Liu nodded with a smile: "Yes, character is too erratic. We can only draw a more credible conclusion through long-term observation. But talents cannot be faked. We just need to invite a few more Those who are recognized as excellent in relevant aspects will naturally get a convincing test score."

Now that you have grades, you can naturally choose teachers for teaching according to your grades.

Exams are definitely one of the fairest selection methods in the world.

Lin Liu looked at the others: "What do you think?"

They nodded naturally, thinking that the idea of ​​selecting teachers through exams was a great idea.

But who's asking the question?

Lin Liu smiled: "Anyway, this exam is not an imperial examination, so there is no need to think too much about it. For the exams related to the Four Books and Five Classics, I will directly hand it over to my father to write the questions. I think that with my father's talents and learning, I will definitely be able to produce a suitable exam paper; as for For exam questions related to poems and songs, I will teach..."

She turned her eyes around Sheng Man, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai, and then directly pointed at Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, "I heard that you two are excellent in poetry, so I will hand over the examination papers for poetry and poetry to you. gone."

As soon as the words fell, Sheng Man couldn't help frowning: "Your Majesty, my humble minister..."

Lin Liu laughed: "Sir, don't worry, because you have been a teacher before, and you are familiar with the temperament of those noble girls, so I plan to let you take charge of a special test paper."

Sheng Man looked at Lin Liu suspiciously: "What test paper?"

"I would like to ask Mr. to write down all the difficulties and unexpected situations I encountered when I was sitting in Gaomen, and write down the questions for the exam." Lin Liu smiled, "The students admitted by the third school must be of good background. If I find a teacher who doesn't understand this aspect at all, I'm afraid I will be bullied."

"There are so many people present, and only the gentleman has relevant experience. I can only entrust this special examination paper to the gentleman."

Although respecting teachers is the mainstream nowadays, it is impossible for teachers to be violently bullied by students in modern times.But verbal violence and cold violence are also violence. If these women who came out of the harem become teachers, if they don't have enough means, they may not be able to get the respect of those girls.

Sheng Man didn't expect Lin Liu to consider this point, and nodded after a long pause with a smile: "Although young girls are cute, they are really a headache when they get temperamental, and they are really easy to be bullied if their wrists are not good enough."

So he gladly took up the task.

After that, Lin Liu distributed the talent test questions of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, wine and camellia to other female officials.

During the whole process, Ji Song was listening by the side, although he never wandered into the sky, his eyes were indeed a little empty——

Obviously, he didn't think that what was discussed today had anything to do with him.

but……

Lin Liu suddenly named Ji Song: "General Ji, you have read books before, so you should be proficient in the six arts of a gentleman, right? I will leave the exam questions to you."

Ji Song was taken aback for a moment: "Do you still want to test the Six Arts of a Gentleman?"

Lin Liu laughed: "Of course I have to take the exam. Since I decided to take the imperial examination, I have to learn the six arts of a gentleman. Otherwise, when I attend a party in the future, when someone asks me, these female candidates don't even know the six arts of a gentleman. Seeing a joke?"

Ji Song hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, you probably don't know that even among the male candidates, there are very few people who can master the Six Arts of a Gentleman, and no one will find fault in this aspect."

Because finding fault with female candidates in this regard is also finding fault with oneself.

Lin Liu frowned after hearing this: "Those candidates can't show the six arts of a gentleman?"

The so-called six arts of a gentleman are rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Etiquette and music are easy to understand, etiquette and music, books and numbers are not too difficult, just calligraphy and arithmetic, and the most difficult thing for scholars should be archery and imperial control, one is archery, and the other is the skill of driving a chariot .

Now that the chariot has withdrawn from the stage of history, it is said that it is the six rituals of a gentleman, and when people mention it, they will rule it out by default.

What affects scholars today is not imperialism, but shooting and numbers.

Calligraphy As long as you start reading, you must start practicing calligraphy. If you don’t have a good handwriting, you will be deducted by the examiner even during the exam——

Although at this time there is no such thing as a test paper, but if the test paper is not clean, the first impression of the examiner will be bad, and the ranking for you will naturally not be very high.To a certain extent, the examiner deducted more points in the test in his mind than in the clear.

Etiquette is even better. Even if you can't get in touch with the relevant etiquette when you are studying, you have to learn it by yourself when you enter the court and become an official. Otherwise, it is very easy to offend people without knowing it in interpersonal communication.

Music is not difficult. Today's society only requires you to have a musical instrument that you can afford.

But archery skills and arithmetic are really embarrassing.

A book of nine chapters on arithmetic, how many scholars have fallen on it?However, today's imperial examinations, before Xiucai's children's examinations, did not take mathematics. The palace examination only had policy theory, that is, only the college examination, the township examination, and the general examination, but only one question.

This question can be used to gain points, but because there is only one question, the proportion is not large. It is conceivable that except for those candidates who want to compete for No.1, other people will not pay attention to this question at all. .

Lin Ruhai and Ji Song explained the current situation, Lin Liu frowned tightly after listening.

Although the Dream of Red Mansions is an overhead world, it can be clearly seen between the lines that there are shadows of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty began to decline during the Qianlong period, and then the first and second Opium and Film Wars occurred, as well as the Eight-Power Allied Forces Invasion and China Wars, and...

Lin Liu felt that it was necessary to let these civil servants who couldn't lift their hands or shoulders, who didn't take mathematics seriously, and sneered at physics and other knowledge, to learn archery and mathematics as strange and skillful civil servants.

If given the chance, she would even force current officials to learn scientific knowledge.

So even after listening to Lin Ruhai and Ji Song's words, she did not give up on this plan, and decided to include the six arts of gentlemen in the assessment scope, "If no one in the palace concubine is good at the six arts of gentlemen, I will also try to find some teachers who are good at it. , You must thoroughly learn the six arts of a gentleman.”

Not only Lin Ruhai and Ji Song, but even Sheng Man and others don't understand why she values ​​the six arts of a gentleman so much.

Lin Liu smiled: "It is precisely because those candidates in that line don't care about the six etiquettes of a gentleman, female candidates must learn them, and they must learn them well, so that when they enter the court and become officials in the future, if someone attacks them with gender, they will directly treat them as gentlemen. The results of the Liuli examination are thrown in their faces, so that they can wake up and know who is the unqualified official."

As soon as these words came out, Sheng Man and the others couldn't help smiling.

Lin Ruhai and Ji Song looked at each other, and couldn't help but shed tears of sympathy for those candidates who hadn't successfully passed the imperial examination.

Oh, according to what Lin Liu said, it seems that even court officials can't escape the "persecution" of the gentleman's six rituals.

Lin Ruhai and Ji Song, who are very familiar with the six rituals of a gentleman, felt more sympathy.

Gee...

pitiful!

……

The meeting ended, and everyone began to get busy with the exam papers.

Because they are not sure about the talent and learning level of those concubines, Lin Ruhai and others are naturally timid when they ask questions. They are very worried that if they ask questions that are too difficult, none of them will pass the time. Next year's women's school will not have a suitable wife, but it will be a big problem.

Without ready-made teachers like concubines, they would never be able to go to the officials' homes and invite their wives to be teachers one by one.

Because there are many issues to consider, it is really not so easy to get a good test paper in a while.

And when Lin Ruhai and others were busy preparing questions, Jia Min pulled Lin Ruhai and Daiyu while eating and said, "Baoyu will get married in three days, no matter how busy you are, father and daughter, you must give that day to me." Get out."

After Rongguo Mansion was ransacked, the dowries of the wives and the preparations made by the old lady earlier stabilized quickly after the initial difficult days.

Jia Min used the money that the old lady had saved with her before, and personally went out to buy a big house with three entrances, and the whole family lived in it. Although it was not as luxurious as before, it was still quite affluent.

At least they live better than most people in the capital.

It's a pity that when Lin Liu came to the throne and strictly investigated the officials, the Rongguo Mansion was dragged out by some other offending officials——

They probably thought that Lin Liu valued the Lin family so much. As the Lin family's in-laws, if the Jia family was implicated, Lin Liu would definitely punish them leniently, and it might even be possible to wipe out all the crimes on them for the sake of the Jia family. .

But what I didn't expect was that after Lin Liu heard about this, he directly asked people to follow the rules, without paying attention to the Jia family at all.

Although both Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng have been sent into exile, the Jia family is only implicated, so according to the rules, the Jia family only needs to be fined a sum of money.

In order to cling to Jia Zhu, the only seedling of the Jia family left in the imperial court, the old lady had to take out a lot of possessions from her private treasury.

Although this did not have much impact on the Jia family's life, news spread that Lin Liu didn't care about the Jia family.In addition, except for Jia Min, no one else from the Lin family has ever appeared in the Jia family; in addition, Jia Baoyu is actually engaged to a girl from the former royal family, and the people who originally looked at the Jia family with admiration also cut off their contacts with the Jia family. , Jia's family immediately became deserted.

If Jia Zhu hadn't been an official in the court, Jia's family would have left behind so much money after their house was confiscated.

Jia Min didn't have any feelings for the rest of the Jia family, but she loved the old lady, so when Jia Baoyu and Miaoyu got married, she wanted the whole family to go there to save face for the Jia family.

Lin Ruhai didn't know the news of Jia Baoyu's marriage yet, but after hearing Jia Min's words,