832.832: Two Female Scholars
From the announcement of women as a reference in the 14th year to the 16th year of Xinqi competition, two women became disciples of the emperor together with other Jinshi, and were awarded official positions after the palace examination.
One of the female Jinshi is from the Northwest.
He was Shao Yuanzhi's sister. He was nearly thirty years old when he was admitted to the Jinshi. Shao Yuanzhi had been released as a parent official in the family. His sister was only one year younger than him and had just passed the Jinshi exam.
The girl's name is Qian Niang, and she is the youngest daughter born to the first wife of Dahu Shao.
When the female worker in the weaving workshop selected a female official, Shao Dahu asked the daughters at home to study. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years passed, and the other daughters of the Shao family gave up when they learned to recognize words. Only Qian Niang persisted.
Of course, Qian Niang married, and Qin Anzhou had a good academic style. Qian Niang got a generous dowry and chose a scholar to marry him.
Her husband has a good personality and supports her to continue studying. Now that Qian Niang has passed the exam in high school, her husband has failed.
A woman called her mother before getting married, but after getting married, she became a family. She was subordinate and shadow of others throughout her life, as if she was not worthy of even a daimyo.
A high school Jinshi, without Qian Niang, without Shao Brothers, and there is Shao Qian.
Her great reputation is written on the imperial list, she is a new Jinshi!
No one knows how difficult this road is for Shao Qian.
She passed the Jinshi exam, and her husband's family might be a little unhappy. She felt that she wanted to show up and be colleagues with a group of men, and she was unwilling to be her son to be suppressed by her daughter-in-law.
But my parents' family held a big banquet, which was as happy as Shao Yuanzhi in high school.
No, he was even more excited than Shao Yuanzhi's high school.
Dahu Shao never dreamed that the green smoke from the Shao family's ancestral tomb could emit twice.
The concubines of Dahu Shao envied Mrs. Shao, and Mrs. Shao’s knots for many years were completely resolved.
What's wrong with having a daughter?
Having a daughter can still bring glory to the family!
If it were the same in the past, if Dahu Shao wanted to take a concubine because he had no son, Mrs. Shao would have beaten him up!
It is true that Shao Qian works hard enough, and it is also because she is open-minded and allows women to take the scientific exam. How dare Mrs. Shao think about it decades ago?
Mrs. Shao couldn't help crying when she thought of the grievances she had suffered in the back house over the years.
Shao Dahu has always respected his legitimate wife, but it did not prevent him from pampering his concubine.
Dahu Shao definitely didn't do it right, but the general environment is like this. Mrs. Shao could not stop her husband from taking concubines in the past, and this society did not give the young ladies the opportunity to make a name for themselves.
It's different now.
Women can work, do business, practice medicine, and conduct scientific research.
With so many ways out, fewer ladies are willing to be concubines in recent years.
Mrs. Shao hoped that one day, the Great Wei Dynasty would no longer allow men to take concubines, and that anyone would live a monogamous life. The medical book that preached said that it was not the woman's fault that she could not have children, and many of them were unable to have children.
If there is no child, there is no child. A child that the poor cannot support can also be adopted by a child who can live a life.
Although Mrs. Shao thought so, she knew that she could not see such a life when she was alive, and even her daughter Shao Qian could not witness it, but her granddaughter, or her granddaughter, might be able to see it?
The second female Jinshi came from a famous embroidery shop in Suzhou and Hangzhou, named Qu Ya.
Qu Ya was adopted by Xiufang's boss when she was a few years old. Someone who selected Xiufang to become a female official. After joining the officialdom, she sought grace for her two adoptive mothers, but was revealed to be a famous prostitute in her early years.
A girl raised by a prostitute actually passed the imperial examination and became an official in the court with everyone. How can she tolerate this?
But this prostitute has not only long since left her home and became a good person, but has opened an embroidery shop for more than ten years and adopted those little girls with miserable fate, but also spent a lot of money to hire a teacher to teach the adopted daughters. One of them finally passed the scientific examination and stood out.
Qu Ya was able to pass the imperial examination and become an official, and according to the rules, she could ask for an imperial edict for her mother. Since she had no biological mother, why not ask for an adoptive mother?
If you really want to pursue it, when my son was raised by his adoptive mother today, Mrs. Meng was a maid of the Gu family in her early years, and now she is the first-class lady of the imperial edict. After the death of the empress dowager, Mrs. Meng became the emperor's closest elder.
If Qu Ya's adoptive mother could not be granted an imperial edict, wouldn't it be Mrs. Meng... It's been sixteen years since the beginning of the new era, and there are still people who determine one person by their origins. There are two county lords in the northwest, one is the daughter of a merchant, and the other is the maid next to Mr. Cheng in his early years. The contributions made by others are only much greater than those of men.
A woman can adopt many miserable girls by herself. She has persisted in doing good deeds for more than ten years and cultivated talents for the Great Wei Dynasty who can pass the scientific examination. Not to mention just good prostitutes, even if they were criminals in the past, they could be punished according to the law, and they should be rewarded if they should be rewarded!
Qu Ya's request was approved.
Suhang Embroidery Village, Shishi and Hongxiao have all their edicts.
It took them more than ten years to break free from the constraints of their early experiences. The reward for the imperial edict is more of recognition and encouragement than commendation.
They have been doing the right thing for more than ten years.
The girls adopted by the embroidery shop changed batch after batch. Qu Ya passed the imperial examination and the other girls lived a good life. Shishi and Hongxiao changed the fate of girls becoming prostitutes.
What is a cheap book?
Who is born to be inferior!
It's not that they want to be prostitutes.
Mrs. Shao in the northwest felt that fewer ladies were willing to be concubines, and Shishi and Hongxiao were both hoping that one day they would cancel their humble residence and should not even exist in brothels and other places.
Men are having fun, and women can only be used as playthings for people to enjoy?
Why?
If an official is convicted, the female family members in the family will be charged into the church hall and become official prostitutes. This is the most disgusting law. If you want to punish the crime, you will be punished together and let the law judge it. Even if you are sentenced to beheading, exile, or imprisonment, it is better than being sentenced to a lowly citizenship!
Hongxiao used to be indignant, but now she has a very peaceful mind.
Not possible now, not necessarily in the future.
There are more and more female officials in the court, and no matter the rules that restrict women in this world or the unjust laws, they will gradually change.
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In the 18th year of the new revelation, the prince was already sixteen years old, and Cheng Qing was thirty-six years old, and he served as the chief minister for five years.
She felt that it was time for her to retire.
In the 19th year of Meng Huaijin ascended the throne, the changes in the Great Wei Dynasty were too great.
If you want to do things, there must be something to do.
But Cheng Qing has contributed twenty years of his youth to the Great Wei Dynasty and has spent all his best years on changing the Great Wei Dynasty.
The prince grew up, and the disciples taught by Cheng Qing, her three brother-in-laws were already in high positions. Nanyi Academy has produced many talents. The court has changed a lot of fresh blood. Even her adopted son Cheng Chi has become an official. Her adopted daughter Cheng Ying is preparing to take the scientific examination. There are too many talents, and it seems that she does not need to continue to work hard to continue burning herself for the Great Wei.
After living for the Great Wei and others for so long, Cheng Qing wanted to live for himself.
The few things she has done recently are already handing over. Xiao Yunting, who is far away in the northwest, smelled something strange and wrote a letter to Cheng Qing:
Chapter completed!