Chapter 112: The truth since ancient times, who has it been since ancient times?
Then he called out his own shadow guard corps.
They stood in a row at the back, and I stood at the front, walking out like a gangster boss.
Mrs. Fang and a few others followed over and happened to see this scene.
Mrs. Fang swallowed and asked, "Chu Chu, are you planning to drive those students away?"
Fang Lingchu's grandmother smiled and said, "No, Chuchu is a sensible child. We will just watch over him."
When Fang Lingchu arrived at the door, the housekeeper had already asked the servants to open the door to form a square that could accommodate several people.
When Fang Lingchu came out, the students became even more excited.
The discussion was also very loud.
"You see, women are like this. They have long hair but little knowledge. They don't know anything and just know how to make trouble."
"That's right. I don't understand why His Majesty would let such a useless girl be an official."
"This little lady Fang looks only 13 years old! Instead of staying at home embroidering and waiting to get married, she goes off to learn how to become an official. It's really out of her mind."
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Those people who were talking about Fang Lingchu came from other places and didn't know how powerful Fang Lingchu was. Fang Lingchu didn't care and just looked at those people calmly.
She waited for someone to bring her a chair, then stood on it, looking like a leader giving her a talk.
He cleared his throat and said, "I know everyone has a lot of questions. Ask them one by one. Don't make a fuss. Although my official position is not high, I am still a princess with a fiefdom, so don't make a move! Otherwise, I don't know what will happen."
After Fang Lingchu said this, her shadow troops were divided into four directions, protecting her in the middle.
She looked at them one by one as if she was being interviewed by a reporter, and said, "Okay, now if you have any questions, remember to raise your hand."
One of the older men said, "This is disrespectful! How can you treat us students like this? We are Juren (Junior High School Scholars). If you do this, I will tell His Majesty to remove you from office."
Fang Lingchu looked directly at the other person and said, "First, I am a princess. Second, you are only a juren at your age, so your knowledge should be average. Do you think you can meet His Majesty? Even if you do, what kind of contribution have you made to the Dragon Kingdom that would allow His Majesty to punish me? Just because you are a student?
So what? Anyone can be a student, as long as they can read. Even though you are a Juren, you are still just a Juren."
Then he said to the system in his mind: [Guagua, give me this person's melon.]
The system said excitedly: [Here it comes.]
Everyone heard two voices, especially the old scholar, who looked at Fang Lingchu with horror. He actually heard two voices.
Those who had never heard Fang Lingchu's inner thoughts were also a little skeptical when they suddenly heard it.
After Fang Lingchu finished speaking, he did not continue, but waited for those people to continue.
At the same time, he finished reading the old man's melon, then looked at him with contempt and said, "Chai Han, from Gaoling Village, 52 years old. He barely passed the imperial examination at the age of 49, and then stayed in the capital. He studied since childhood. In order to support your studies, your family married your first sister to someone else as the 43rd concubine, and your second sister was married to a domestic violence man and died three years later.
The fourth sister was sold and her whereabouts disappeared.
Later, when he was about to get married, he sold his eleven-year-old sister to a brothel and married and had children.
After getting married, you used her dowry to support your studies. When you were 38 years old, you married your first daughter and went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Later, your wife gave birth to another daughter, but you sold her and took the imperial examination again.
It still didn't work. You didn't want to go back to your hometown, so you brought your wife and parents to the capital and asked them to wash your clothes and cook for you and continue to support your studies. Your wife died of exhaustion, your father worked as a groom for someone else and was killed by you, and your mother was sold to the old man next door as his second wife.
If all the scholars in the world were like you, I would rather you all not take the exam.
And what qualifications do you think you have to negotiate with me here? My father is the Minister of Works, and my mother is a talented woman in the capital. And you, a mere scholar, are challenging me here."
As Fang Lingchu was speaking, the old scholar fell to the ground in anger.
Immediately, soldiers came up and took him to the clinic.
It was only at this time that Fang Lingchu noticed that many officers and soldiers had arrived, as well as Gu Wangyan behind the crowd.
But Fang Lingchu just took a look and said, "Next one, who else? Keep asking."
Everyone looked at her warily, but everyone was still unconvinced, and someone stood up.
"Even so, why do you allow women to take the imperial examinations? What do women know about national affairs? Why should they have the same rights as us?"
Fang Lingchu looked at him seriously, then asked, "Does the women's imperial examination bother you in any way? If they can pass the exam, it's because they are capable; if they can't, it's because they are incompetent. They don't understand national affairs. What do you know? Just empty talk? Do you know when the first grain is planted, when it rains, when a child grows their first tooth, or what our country lacks the most?"
If you know nothing, what national affairs are you talking about?"
The man's face flushed red at Fang Lingchu's question, but he still said with a stiff upper lip: "Don't you women know?"
Fang Lingchu waved her hand and said, "I don't know. So, you all don't know either. Why can't they take the imperial examinations? Besides, you men learn the six arts of a gentleman, while women can only stay at home to take care of their husbands and children. You go out and have a good time, enjoying wine and women, and see the beautiful mountains and rivers of the country, while they stay at home to wash clothes and cook for you. You trapped them in this world, and now you come to blame them. You don't understand anything.
Do you give them the opportunity to understand? For example, you, Fan Jiayi, have three older sisters, all of whom are smarter than you. If they were also qualified to go to school, do you think you would still be qualified to stand here and talk to me? "
Every word Fang Lingchu said seemed to strike at Fan Jiayi's heart.
Because his sisters were all very smart, the eldest sister heard that he could memorize the entire text after reading it once, and he learned things very quickly.
The third sister was very strong and eager to study, but no one in the family allowed her to because she was a girl.
Fan Jiayi remained unconvinced and said, "Then who made them born as women? Women are born to take care of their husbands and children, and are born to take care of housework in the backyard, while men go out to earn money to support the family. This has been the truth since ancient times."
Fang Lingchu was amused by this remark. He looked at him coldly and asked, "Whose principles are these principles from ancient times? Confucius's? Or someone else's? Whose principles have been from ancient times?"
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