When Qin Wan arrived at the Hanlin Academy, everyone who should be there was there. She told them the date chosen by the emperor, and everyone felt the difficulty of the task.
The Imperial College's chief academic officer looked around at everyone and said, "Time is tight and the task is heavy. We must quickly appoint the invigilators and examiners. Once His Majesty has made his decision, we can quickly draft the exam questions and announce the exam date."
Qin Wan told them the emperor's chosen candidates: "The emperor personally selected my third uncle and Assistant Qin to participate in the test, so I will go too."
It's not appropriate for Qin Chan, a little girl, to be locked up with a group of men for a month. She can be assured of being with anyone.
Lord Yu was very fond of the young girl Qin Chan. He looked at Qin Wan eagerly and asked, "When will your second uncle come back? I want to talk to him about Assistant Professor Qin's marriage."
"Sir Yu, we are talking about the imperial examination." Qin Wan reminded him with a smile and brought the topic back.
Lord Yu smiled awkwardly. Who had let Prince Du cling so tightly to Qin Chan? He couldn't go to Qin Chan, so he had to go to her parents. But now wasn't the time to bring up that. He immediately focused on the matter, suggesting a few invigilators. "I'm the one who presided over the Spring Examination, but since it's the En Exam, I can't be directly responsible. Once I've chosen the invigilators, I'll avoid any suspicion."
The Imperial College's chief academic officer agreed, as did everyone in the Hanlin Academy. "Those of us who participated in the Spring Examination will not participate. If we don't have enough people, we can just select from among the royal family and nobles."
Everyone selected the examiners for the special examination, and Qin Wan took it to the emperor for review. After the emperor looked at it, he crossed out a few people, re-selected a few, and threw it to Qin Wan.
Qin Wan's eyebrows jumped when she saw the new arrivals: "Two imperial uncles? Are their health okay?"
The newly added people were none other than the Old Prince and Prince An. The Old Prince presided over the Imperial Examination, while Prince An participated in setting the questions. The Old Prince was upright, while Prince An was a bit eccentric. Putting aside their ages, just Prince An's temperament...
Qin Wan was really worried that the questions would be so strange that people would not be able to answer them.
The emperor was very relieved and waved his hand, saying, "Prince An will definitely not let you down."
Qin Wan hesitated to speak, and went down to convey the order with concern.
Xie Qing was very reluctant to let Qin Wan go when he learned that she was going to participate in the preparation of the special examination questions: "Can't she just not go?"
"I'm worried about my cousin going alone, and didn't you suggest that we come up with a title like 'Only women and villains are difficult to raise'? If I hadn't mentioned it, who would have known that we were going to come up with this title?" Qin Wan looked at Xie Qing and became playful for once.
Shooting oneself in the foot, this was Xie Qing's only thought at this moment. He regretted it very much, but there was nothing he could do. He could only reluctantly send Qin Wan into the palace gate where the imperial examination questions were to be drawn up. Looking at the palace gate being locked, he knew that they would not be able to come out until the special examination began.
Not only officials were not allowed to bring servants when entering here, even the Crown Princess like Qin Wan was not allowed to bring more than one person. Her presence with Qin Chan actually eased Qin Chan's nervousness.
At night, the two of them slept side by side. When Qin Chan learned that her answer to the question of the chief wine was going to be proposed as a topic for the imperial examination, she was surprised and asked, "Is it okay?"
"Why not? Don't you want to see what students all over the world think of women? Don't you want to see what they think of women serving as officials?" Qin Wan asked seriously.
Although Qin Wan was the Crown Princess, she was the first woman to be involved in politics, and the first female official was Qin Chan.
Although Qin Yan was the first female general with a title, there were countless women who were qualified to be female generals in history. The Zhou Dynasty was really the first time in history that there were female officials.
Qin Chan's eyes showed a mixture of anticipation and fear, but then came a determination: "I want to see how the world views women serving as officials. I also want the world to see how I rose from an assistant professor at the Imperial College to the imperial court!"
An assistant professor at the Imperial College, a sixth-rank official, this position was neither high nor low, but it was very difficult to move from the Imperial College to the imperial court, not to mention that she was a woman.
The emperor placed her in the Imperial College instead of directly sending her to the court as a minor official, simply because if a woman was sent to the Imperial College as an assistant teacher, as long as her knowledge was up to standard, not many people would complain. If she was sent to the court as a spectator, even if she was only a seventh-rank attendant or a minor official, as long as power was involved, opponents would definitely threaten to kill themselves.
In the dark night, Qin Chan's eyes sparkled like stars in the sky, or like a tiny light in the dark night: "Girl, why not?"
Qin Wan took her hand and smiled as she explained her plan: "I plan to have the girls in the girls' school take the exam for the scholar degree the year after next. If successful, we'll have a female scholar the year after next, the first female juren the year after that, and the first female jinshi the year after that."
"Although Miss Feng is unruly and lacks manners, she is a good reader. I have asked her to teach, and will let her try her hand at the industry next year." Qin Wan was looking forward to seeing Miss Feng's transformation.
Qin Chan hugged Qin Wan as if hugging hope, and the woman broke through worldly hope.
The Qin family treats their daughters very well. They live a free and easy life. However, it is this freedom and ease that makes them see the difficulties of being a woman. If they can break through the constraints of this world on women, they will face any difficulties and obstacles head-on!
Originally, Qin Wan thought it would be difficult to convince Prince An and others to use such a question. However, in fact, Prince An and others actually agreed with Assistant Professor Qin's answer to the chief priest's question.
Prince An clapped his hands and smiled, "Our Great Zhou is developing rapidly. What we need are new talents and new ideas. Those pedantic people can be screened out."
This question was designated as the final policy essay question, and the remaining questions also entered into heated discussions.
Days like this passed quickly. Before anything happened, the Spring Examination was approaching, but the topic had not yet been decided.
In the end, they collected all the questions, avoided the questions from this year's Spring Examination and the previous Spring Examination, and found the tricky ones to set.
The candidates who had one more chance to take the imperial examination learned from the mistakes of the last time. This time, the topics they predicted were all about the prince's rebellion and the strategies for governing the country.
After all, during the Spring Examination, the topic was farming, which just happened to coincide with the newly promoted grain varieties. Shouldn't it be about the prince's rebellion this time?
At the very least, there should be questions like how to govern the devastation, how to comfort the people who have suffered from the war, and how to resettle the refugees, right?
However, when everyone got the test paper, they were dumbfounded because no one guessed the question correctly.
Everyone looked at the test paper and wailed inwardly, wishing they could catch the person who wrote the test and beat him up. What the hell is this? What the hell!
After they had gone through so much trouble to finish the first round of the Four Books and answer the essays in the second round, they were stunned when they saw the third round of papers.
What they learned was the strategy of governing a country, and the topic they predicted was also the strategy of governing a country. Now let them answer which is harder to raise, a woman or a villain?
They think they are difficult to raise, very difficult to raise, just as difficult to raise as the person who set the question.
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