The Seventh Prince went straight to the main hall of the Kings' Hall.
As soon as I reached the door, I saw a few adults inside drinking tea and chatting, looking like salary thieves.
He was so angry that he went straight into the house.
"Li! Qing! Tea!"
Li Qingcha raised his head.
"Why are you here, Your Highness?"
"If I don't come again, I'm afraid the concubine I choose will be sleep paralyzed."
"Pfft! Cough cough..."
Li Qingcha almost laughed out loud.
Xie Chengxuan said, "Your Highness, you misunderstood Li. We... hehe... don't worry, we have already made arrangements. There will be absolutely no problem."
His tone was full of confidence.
The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows.
"what happened?"
Li Qingcha laughed, took out the paper and handed it to the Seventh Prince.
"Your Highness, look. This is the question for the literacy test. The women participating in the selection are required to read it out in the order written on the paper within three breaths."
"It's only seven words. What's so difficult about it? Zhai... Zheng... Jian... Dan... Qi... Guan... Que..."
"How many breaths did Your Highness use?"
"This……"
The Seventh Prince couldn't help scratching his head.
Li Qingcha patted the other person's shoulder.
"Your Highness, can you rest assured now?"
The Seventh Prince's eyes widened as he looked at the question and then at Li Qingcha.
"How did you do it?"
"This……"
"I'm curious!"
Li Qingcha had no choice but to ponder for a moment and decided that he should give a lecture to the Seventh Prince in a simple and easy-to-understand way, so he wrote a line of words on the back of the paper:
The order of Chinese characters does not affect reading.
The Seventh Prince was stunned.
"What's wrong with this sentence? The order of Chinese characters is not... uh... sequential?"
"Yes."
"..."
The Seventh Prince was confused.
He thought this sentence was very ridiculous.
For example, "I am your uncle!" and "Your uncle is me!", can they be the same?
As expected, Li Qingcha said: “I wrote this sentence not to say that this view is correct, but to say that people have inertia and conventions when learning to read.”
The Seventh Prince nodded slowly.
Then, he shook his head again.
"What do you mean?"
"Think about it, all we have seen in our lives are red apples, so when we suddenly see a blue apple, we cannot accept it. The same problem applies to reading. Because we are used to the 'order', when we see the 'sequence', we will unconsciously correct it."
"Hmm... I understand. You are saying phrases."
The gates of Zhai Zheng and Qi were closed.
The structure of these Chinese characters is very complex, so when ordinary people memorize them, they will subconsciously put them into sentences and phrases, disassemble them, and then piece them together, which is very contrary to the habit of reading and memorizing.
Of course, it’s also easy to have self-doubt:
Is this that word?
Am I remembering correctly?
Did I remember it wrong?
……
The Seventh Prince nodded in confusion.
Xie Chengxuan was a Jinshi, but he thought more.
He felt that the theories Li Qingcha talked about were definitely not just simple phrases, and there were deeper things worth exploring.
Although these contents are unheard of, they may have a profound impact on Confucian studies.
He looked at Li Qingcha with more admiration.
The greatest talent of the time!
Chapter 392 I am so disappointed in you!
"..."
"..."
"..."
The main hall of the Kings' Pavilion was quiet.
Everyone was still thinking about Li Qingcha's theories, deeply immersed in them and unable to extricate themselves.
Li Qingcha was bored and stretched himself lazily.
"Ha~"
Even yawning.
The Seventh Prince: ￣□￣｜｜
He waved to the guards and had them spread out the cake boxes on the table. Then he said, "This is what my mother brought for me. There are too many. I can't eat it all."
Just a few words, downplaying the situation.
Li Qingcha nodded secretly.
The seventh prince's political growth is indeed obvious to all.
Luo Weiyang came over, picked out a meat pie, handed the meat filling to Xiao Hui, and ate the pie herself.
With her taking the lead, the others no longer had any worries and started to pour tea and eat cakes.
The Seventh Prince asked, "Li Qingcha, the questions you asked are so difficult, there won't be any problems, right?"
Li Qingcha smiled and shook his head.
"Is this question difficult?"
"Well... it's not that difficult."
"Don't worry, 'snakes have their ways, rats have their ways'. There will definitely be quite a few people who can pass in the end. Otherwise, the emperor will definitely... Sigh... I just want to eliminate a group of people first to reduce the workload."
No one else can put laziness so bluntly.
Lin Sicong and Jie Chengxuan turned their heads away, pretending not to hear.
The Seventh Prince glared at Li Qingcha.
After that, he stood up, picked up a small food box, and said, "I'll go out and take a look."
Hearing him say this, the guards felt a little embarrassed.
"Your Highness..."
"Don't worry, everything will be fine."
"Um...yes."
Li Qingcha shook his head as he watched, thinking that the guards were unlucky to have such an unreliable leader.
She gave Luo Weiyang a subtle wink.
The little foodie understood and poured a box of pastries into the small bag he carried with him. He followed the Seventh Prince out, while standing slightly behind and trying to keep a distance.
With a fortune teller watching over you, it would be easier to avoid risks.
The two of them went around from the back door to the front of the Kings' Hall.
At this point, thousands of people had been selected, but the bleak situation remained unchanged.
The girls' parents were all whispering.
"Have you heard of anyone who has passed the literacy test?"
"I haven't heard of it..."
"How many words did your daughter get in the test?"
"You speak first."
"Seven."
"I have seven here too... Hmm... It looks like they are the same..."
"Seven words can eliminate more than 200 people, leaving no one unscathed? Even the famous talented woman of the Wang family couldn't make it. She cried as soon as she came out, and her eyes were swollen like peaches."
……
Everyone was talking about literacy.
In fact, the most popular stage is the eunuchs. Just the appearance and dignified figure are enough to eliminate 70% to 80% of the candidates.
But appearance is innate, and there is no point in discussing it, it will only cause more trouble.
Therefore, there are more discussions about literacy.
However, they were unwilling to let others take advantage of them, so they kept things secret when talking about it, and no one touched the core.
As things developed to this point, some people noticed something fishy.
Some people from aristocratic families thought that this question was very tricky, so they changed their strategy temporarily, asking their daughter to wait first and letting their good-looking maid to go ahead.
Their job is very clear-
Remember a word or two.
Anyway, the wealthy families are rich and don’t care about the registration fee at all.
In this way, with the help of human assistance in memorizing questions, someone finally broke through the siege and broke through the literacy barrier.
Female contestant No. 1,752 stood out!
This hassle immediately caused dissatisfaction.
"She is Mr. Zhao's youngest daughter..."
"Humph! She was cheating!"
"That's right! It's cheating!"
"I suspect that the Zhao family has colluded with the Ministry of Rites a long time ago!"
……
For a long time, corruption has been very obvious in activities such as selecting concubines and recruiting sons-in-law. Many ugly people can get through by giving some money to the eunuchs.
Everyone knows this, but they don't speak out.
the reason is simple--
Everyone does this.
