Chapter 169 Sixth Prince, Speak Quickly
"Your Majesty's oral instructions:"
Su Quan did not mention any rules for receiving the imperial edict, but directly stated the emperor's intention.
Qin Zhaoyue was stunned. "No, you want me to take on this job right after I got back?"
She was dumbfounded. Was all her attitude for nothing? And what kind of tasks were these?
"Eunuch Su, if I remember correctly, the Autumn Examination will be held at the end of this month, right?
The registration has already closed, and you want me to figure it out now?"
That’s right, the task His Majesty just gave is to allow the daughters of aristocratic families and court officials to participate in the imperial examinations.
Su Quan nodded, obviously having expected this.
“Originally, it was, but His Majesty has already said that if there is a way to get them to participate, the Autumn Examination can be postponed.
The reason is readily available: the floods in three states, and for the sake of the students, it is reasonable to postpone it."
Qin Zhaoyue scratched his head. The county examination was equivalent to the provincial examination. If you passed it, you would become a juren, just like Fan Jin who went crazy.
Why? Because only when poor scholars and juren masters passed this level of examination could they truly see the threshold of power and nobility.
The privilege of being exempt from taxes and labor service can be rented to landlords, and the income from the registered land alone is enough to survive.
Do not kneel when meeting an official, discuss government affairs with the county magistrate on an equal footing, and do not torture or extract confessions.
At the same time, it is also the starting point for obtaining the qualifications for official selection.
"Wait a minute!" Qin Zhaoyue reacted.
"If the women of the aristocratic families had never participated in the imperial examinations and didn't even have the title of scholar, how could they participate in the provincial examinations?"
She narrowed her eyes and looked at the old eunuch opposite her. "What's going on here?"
The establishment of the imperial examination for women is a national policy that Your Majesty has vigorously promoted.
If there are enough women who gain fame and become officials, especially those who serve in the court, there will be hope for the throne to continue to be preserved no matter whether it is a prince or a princess who succeeds to the throne in the future.
This requirement is clearly contrary to national policy, and there must be something wrong with it.
Su Quan was not surprised at all. According to common sense, he could tell that there was something wrong with His Majesty's decree.
Because he had been instructed in advance, he told everything:
"The Northern Shuofeng Dynasty is interested in negotiating a peace treaty with our dynasty. Special envoys are on their way, one of whom is the Second Princess of Shuofeng.
He had been low-key before and the imperial court had very little information about him. It was said that he was the last disciple of the great sage.
This time, I write to Your Majesty to express my admiration for your literary talent and to request to participate in the imperial examination for women.
Not only her, but also noble women from the four border areas also submitted the petition.
Qin Zhaoyue curled her lips and said, "What admiration? It's obvious that this guy is not holding his fart well."
The veins on Su Quan's forehead trembled. As a princess, her language was a bit too vulgar.
"So, anyone can see that there's something wrong."
Qin Zhaoyue used her brain and she had a clear understanding of herself.
A little clever, with a wide range of knowledge.
However, this kind of national-level game still requires careful consideration to stimulate the political literacy in her Dragon blood.
The second guy on the other side might be a real talent, and he has absolute confidence in giving all the female examinees a slap in the face.
Da Gan is used to calling the Shufeng Dynasty the Northern Barbarians. He has been promoting women's education for so many years, but in the end, one of them emerged and surpassed all the women. Isn't this a slap in the face?
But this is certainly the most superficial reason, the deeper one...
"Are the memorials from the four border courts submitted together or separately?"
"Separation. In recent years, local nobles have been petitioning for separation."
The four border areas were previously inhabited by barbarians, but after the Dagan Dynasty conquered the territories, they began to educate them.
Because it is on the border, it is used for raising horses and training soldiers.
After so many years, the influence of the original nobles is no longer what it used to be.
Most of the people under his rule served as soldiers or signed contracts to raise horses for the court.
Although they were not slaves, they could not leave their home area without permission, and their children were not allowed to take the imperial examinations.
Among the border areas, the most dangerous one is Beiting Ziwei Road because it is adjacent to the Shufeng Dynasty.
Qin Zhaoyue didn't believe that this was purely a coincidence, but he just hadn't thought of the connection yet.
"How is the student enrollment at Zhongchen Dao this year?"
Since she is interested in participating in the women's imperial examination, it is natural that she should go to Zhongchen Dao where Fengjing is.
"I've already checked it out, and there's no one with great talent."
Qin Zhaoyue sighed.
On the one hand, promoting women's education and imperial examinations sounds like a great opportunity for women, but in reality it is not the case.
For ordinary farmers, farm households, and merchants whose family conditions do not allow them to send their children to school, boys should almost always go before girls.
The idea is deeply rooted. After more than ten years, only a few people can truly become self-reliant.
There are environmental factors as well as personal reasons.
For those descendants of the gentry and high-ranking officials, the cost of education was naturally not a big deal. Many families would hire teachers for their daughters, or have them study in clan schools.
However, not many of them were actually sent to the imperial examinations, and the reasons behind this were complicated.
In short, if the next emperor is not a woman, the imperial examination for women will most likely be a joke.
It is easy to pass the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, but by that time, the status of female officials will be very embarrassing.
The higher the official position, the more embarrassing it is. It’s better not to get involved in this mess.
Knowledge is monopolized, and the higher the level, the more so.
The knowledge gained by the children of a farmer through reading the classics, history, and poetry;
One is the descendant of a high-ranking official in the scholar community and has a famous teacher as his mentor.
Among these people there may be disciples of the emperor, or even those who prepare the examination papers;
They are influenced by their elders handling official business at home, and after more than ten years of listening to them, they can also develop a good political sense;
While other poor scholars could not even step out of their hometown, they had already traveled thousands of miles.
Even if two people read the same books, can their accumulated knowledge be the same? Can the policy papers they write be the same?
I don’t deny that there are people with extraordinary talents, but they are a very small minority after all, and the overall difference is huge.
Women from high-ranking officials in the scholar community did not participate in the imperial examinations, so what if an ordinary family was the top scorer?
Not to mention anything else, more than ten years have passed, how many women can attend the morning court?
Looking at the current situation, the quality of students is generally not high. Wait until the second princess of the Shufeng Dynasty comes to slap them in the face.
"Sixth Prince, do you have any ideas about this matter?"
Qin Zhaoyue nodded, "Simple."
Su Quan became excited immediately after hearing this.
Even though the Sixth Prince behaves inappropriately and speaks in a way that can infuriate people, it is clear that he has made many contributions to disaster relief.
At this moment, he no longer cared about the previous verbal insults and hurriedly asked, "Sixth Prince, please tell me, what can you do?"
"Naiyi Zute."
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