The strong wind that had been blowing for several days finally stopped today, and the cold smoke rising from Taiye Pond had not dissipated at noon.

Shen Shiqing walked up the stone steps. Behind him were Yiji and Sanmao, as well as two female officials who had been newly promoted to Chaohua Garden.

The two female officials were both around forty years old. One was named Yue Su Niang, and the other was named Gao Wanxin. The three cats were following behind Yi Ji. They looked at the two female officials from time to time, but they saw that they were obviously different in height and appearance, but they were still different. He has the same low eyebrows and smooth eyes, and the steps he takes when he moves seem to be measured with a ruler.

Shen Shiqing turned around and saw him grinning, so she stopped:

"Sanmao, what are you looking at?"

"Hehehehe, when I returned to the emperor, when I saw the two aunts, I remembered Aunt Xing who taught me the rules in the past. When Aunt Xing left the palace a few years ago, I went to see her off. Aunt Xing also walked like this. gait."

The three cats smiled and imitated the walking patterns of several female officials.

Yiji stood aside. Seeing that His Majesty didn't speak, he quickly said: "Aunt Xing was the former Secretary Dianzan of the Shangyi Bureau. Sanmao was only four or five years old when she first joined. According to the rules of the palace, a young eunuch of this age is They all ask female officials to take care of them on their behalf, so it’s no wonder that San Mao has always been thinking about her.”

The third cat was born with a round face and a tender face. He was naturally cheerful. He was not rich in stature but was much stronger than the chicken and the four rats. The way he straightened his shoulders and imitated the steps of the female officials was really funny. The little eunuch and the little palace maid followed behind him. I almost couldn't hold it back.

A faint smile could be seen between the brows of the two female officials who had been staring at each other.

His Majesty, who was wearing a long cloak outside his straight dragon robe, stood there and looked at it for a while, then suddenly said:

"Sanmao, do you know where your Aunt Xing is now?"

Sanmao was stunned, tilted his head and said: "Aunt Xing is from Mingzhou. Naturally, she returned to Mingzhou to be supported by the local government until her old age. I heard that there are also wealthy families who want to invite her to teach their young ladies, but I don't want to My aunt looked at the other person's expression and wrote a letter to persuade him. My aunt took care of this slave when I was a child, and my slave can now take care of my aunt."

Being supported by the government and being invited by wealthy families to teach their young ladies was also the way out for female officials in the palace.

Shen Shiqing nodded, said no more, turned around and continued walking to Qionghua Hall.

On the contrary, the three cats were confused. Seeing Yiji following behind the emperor again, they directly lifted up Yiji's robe with their cat paws.

One chicken ignored him, and three cats flattened their mouths.

When they arrived at the Qionghua Palace where the Queen was staying in Xiyuan, the three cats stood outside the palace door and suddenly heard a deep female voice coming from beside them:

"Xiaoguan and others were also taught by Aunt Xing Yueru Xing in the palace. Occasionally, my aunt would mention the meaning of support from Fan Zhangyin in her letters. We all keep it in our hearts. Thank you Fan Zhangyin."

The three cats turned their heads and were shocked to see the two female officials saluting them in unison.

"Farewell, two aunts, don't be so polite."

The three-cat eunuch, who had always been shameless in front of the emperor, now looked like a frightened fat cat, with both claws exploding.

Yi Ji came out of the palace and saw this scene, and shook his head secretly in his heart. These two female officials were also smart people. They knew that San Mao had few errands, but they were close to the emperor, and they never cared about merit. When they came here, they seized the opportunity and made love with San Mao. The cat is almost trapped.

"Your Majesty is looking for Volume 89 of "Zizhi Tongjian". The whole set of books is in the Nuan Pavilion of Chaohua Palace. Please ask Aunt Gao to get it."

Gao Wanxin bowed and left. The three cats looked over and said, "Boss Cat, why are you still reading a book with your empress?"

Yiji didn't say anything, but raised his wing and knocked the cat on the forehead.

It was very hot in the Qionghua Palace. Lin Miaozhen was wearing only a flower-shaped bow with a plain head and a pair of pearl gourds on her ears. She was sitting on the couch with not only books but also papers in front of her. Pen.

"The stories in these history books are really much more interesting than "Women's Rules" and "Women's Commandments". If you had told me that these books were so interesting, I would have asked the maids to read them and tell each other stories all night long. It’s more interesting than them embroidering in silence.”

Shen Shiqing was sitting on the other side of the couch, holding an "Old Tang Book" in her hand and reading. Her ears were filled with Lin Miaozhen's various emotions after reading the history book for a few days. When Lin Miaozhen said that reading was interesting, she laughed. Said:

"Reading can make people reach the Three Emperors and know thousands of miles. I have always felt that there is no one in the world who doesn't love reading. It just depends on what kind of books they read. If I had known that you like history books so much, sister, I would have asked people to read them every day. You tell the story in this book.".c

Lin Miaozhen said with a smile: "I read books not just for fun. There are some truths that I thought only I knew, and I thought I was very great. But after reading the book, I realized that many of the truths had already been written in the book."

As she spoke, she opened a book and showed it to "Zhao Su Rui": "Look, Princess Pingyang can actually lead tens of thousands of people to join the alliance with Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty on the Wei River. If I hadn't read this book, I would have thought that women commanded the army. The stories are all fabricated. Back then, I read the book of Hua Mulan and Mu Guiying, but Su Qian told me that they were all false, which really made me sad for a while."

"Princess Pingyang is not the only woman who can command troops in the world. "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" was brought in a while, and there is a story about Xun Guan saving his father. It is also recorded in "Book of Jin" compiled by Fang Xuanling. "Book of Later Han" Lu Mu in the story is a person with great righteousness. However, the world remembers Princess Pingyang, Xun Guan as the daughter of a man, and Lu Mu as the mother. Her words and deeds are not as obvious as those of a man. If you study this story carefully, There are quite a few. Mu Guiying's story is certainly false. The original wife of Mrs. She, the Zhe family, was also a general. She could ride horses and lead troops. There were also princesses on the grassland who were able to supervise the country's governance. Their achievements No less than her father and brother, sister, if you look at their stories, they are much more interesting than just reading "The Rules for Women."

Lin Miaozhen blinked and was already fascinated by the words: "The world is so big, so women can have so many ways to live?"

Shen Shiqing had a smile on her face and looked at the unfamiliar female officials standing beside Lin Miaozhen.

The last time she talked to Lin Miaozhen about letting the selected palace maids enter the inner study, Lin Miaozhen was not willing at first. Some of the reasons were that Lin Miaozhen did not think that studying was important for women. It was she who first gave Wu Zhangshan's mother the imperial edict to let Lin Miaozhen It was only after she learned that female officers could be somewhat ambitious that she changed her mind.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, someone would hook Lin Miaozhen into reading history books.

Getting the queen interested in history books is nothing. The wonderful thing is that this happened after the female officials fought for their mothers. Obviously, there were people here who wanted the queen to be interested in reading as much as she did, and then pushed the palace to do so. All the palace maids in the palace have the opportunity to study.

"Sister, these female officials around you are quite unfamiliar."

"This is what I asked Xu Gongling to ask for. Since I want the palace ladies to enter the inner study, of course I have to have more female officials around me. Didn't you also add female officials around you?"

Lin Miaozhen straightened up from the couch, her bright face smiling like a spring flower:

"This younger Ms. Zhang is very powerful. If she were a man, I think she could be compared with those of your Hanlin. She is also the one who has been telling me the history books these days, and her lectures are very interesting."

Following the Queen's words, a female official in official uniform and hat quickly knelt down and saluted.

Shen Shiqing took a few glances and found that she was indeed young. Female officials in the Yong Dynasty had to be at least thirty-five years old to enter the palace. She looked only about thirty years old, and her complexion was not as fair as other female officials. There is a slight yellowish brown color on the top and hands.

"Mr. Zhang, please get up and speak. You can make the Queen like to read, and I should reward you."

Zhang Xiniang stood up, lowered her head and said: "Wei Chen is the female historian of the Si Ji, and is in charge of the documents of this department. It is her duty to select books for the queen to read, and she must not be rewarded by your majesty."

While speaking, her thumb pinched the pad of her index finger so tightly that it almost caused bleeding.

"Official Zhang is indeed young. She should be a female official who was promoted from palace maid like Wu Zhangshan before her, right? It is really rare that a palace maid who has been in the palace since she was a child can become a female history officer of the Si Ji Department."

Zhang Xiniang quickly knelt down and saluted again:

"Your Majesty, I admire you so much. I am a widow entering the palace, but I just look young on the face."

He only said that he was a widow entering the palace but did not say his true age, which shows that there is something hidden in it.

Shen Shiqing lowered her eyes and suddenly smiled:

"Sister, I was thinking about who should teach the maids when they enter the inner study to study, but now I have an idea."

Hearing what "Zhao Su Rui" said, Lin Miaozhen clapped her hands on the table happily: "Yes, since the palace maids can study, naturally there should be a female wife. Ms. Zhang, how about you go to the inner study and become a female wife? It's not just You, I think the two aunts also have something in their stomachs. Let them stay at home all day and get angry with those men. It is better to join the palace and become female officials. And Mrs. Shen whom I met at sunrise... Her handwriting is also very good... Your Majesty..."

Lin Miaozhen looked at "Emperor Zhaode" with bright eyes.

"Since women can lead soldiers in wars and supervise the country's governance, they can naturally take the exam. It's better to find some talented women to take the exam like the Hanlin exam. If they can pass the exam, they can enter the inner study and become a concubine. ,How about it?"

Shen Shiqing did not respond to her immediately.

The empress who used to only know how to drink and live a hard life guarding the Changchun Palace is now so full of life that she directly rolls up her sleeves and lets Miss Zhang polish her ink.

"This method must also be included in the booklet for the palace maids to study. Your Majesty, if they pass the exam, how about I give them a salary directly? Not only do I have to give them a salary, but I also have to follow your example and give them a future and a destiny? Or grade?”

"En Yin."

The emperor, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"Give them grace. If they can teach in the inner study, their daughters can also study, just like the Imperial College is to the courtiers. Not only the inner study, I also plan to build a girls' school outside the palace. Those who have retired from the palace will Female officials can then serve as mountain chiefs, and then they can teach women all over the world how to read."

The ink stick almost slipped from Zhang Xiniang's hand. She still lowered her eyebrows, but her hand started to tremble more and more.

It seemed as if she was not in Qionghua Palace at this moment, but in a dream she had never dared to have.

"However, these things need to be dealt with slowly. Sister, you should first write down the matter of selecting the wife of the inner study room through examination."

"Okay." Lin Miaozhen nodded, raised her hand and wrote a memorial that later generations would call "The First Fact of the Great Yong Universe".

The next day, in the early morning, the civil and military personnel of the entire court were stunned by the bombing.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate has a separate review department.

Song Qi, the director of the Ministry of Industry, and others who had been convicted for failing to repair the palace were brought back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to review the matter of cleaning up the accounts of Taipu Temple.

Qin Tongxi, the prime minister of Nantaipu Temple, and others, who had previously had disputes with the Ministry of War over the inability to raise horses, joined the Metropolitan Procuratorate to review the matter of cleaning up Taipu Temple's accounts.

Chu Jiyuan, the minister of household affairs who had previously opposed the imperial expedition to the north and the west, was reinstated as the censor of the right capital of the Ducha Yuan and the left minister of the household affairs department, and took charge of cleaning up the accounts of Taipu Temple.

Compared with these news, the Queen's letter to His Majesty to allow the palace maids to study in the study and to select female academic officers to study is really a trivial matter. In the eyes of the civil and military officials of the court, this was just a matter of His Majesty's dissatisfaction with the court's delay in selecting a Qing Dynasty.

The candidates for the Taipu Temple purposely used women to humiliate the court officials.

Sitting on the dragon chair and watching the people arguing over Chu Jiyuan, Shen Shiqing looked at the morning light in the distance with a slight smile on her lips.
Chapter completed!