But now it is different. The literacy test is based on hard indicators. If you know it, you know it. If you don’t know it, you don’t know it.
This thing can't even be given as a gift.
Many families do not pay attention to their children's education. Their daughters only have teachers, but no maiden of the right age to study with them. They cannot even find anyone to help them in an emergency.
Gradually, the voices of discussion became louder and louder.
The crowd pressed forward and surrounded the stage.
"We want to see Xinxiang Bo!"
"Yes! We need to see the test questions! We need to know how difficult the test questions are!"
"Someone come quickly!"
……
The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows.
Just as he was hesitating whether to go in and say something, the door to the Kings' Hall opened.
Li Qingcha, Lin Sicong, Xie Chengxuan,
The three of them came out together.
As a royal relative, Lin Sicong's Qilin patched robe lit up and immediately suppressed the noise.
He shouted, "Who dares to make a noise in front of the kings' hall?"
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "Master, which of these girls who are eligible to be the princesses of the emperor's wife is not well-read? How could they be illiterate?"
Lin Sicong stared at the man for a while, then looked around.
"Everyone has questions?"
"Correct!"
"Well then, let the person who asked the question, Lord Li Qingcha, the head of the Ministry of Rites's Reception Department, explain it to everyone."
Lin Sicong stepped back.
Li Qingcha took a step forward and unfolded the question in his hand.
The gates of Zhai Zheng and Qi were closed.
"Everyone, are these rare characters?"
Everyone was stunned,
They read through and found that they were indeed not uncommon characters, but at the same time they were certain that it would be quite difficult to read these seven characters without stuttering in three breaths.
Someone said: "This topic... this topic is a bit... hmm..."
Li Qingcha smiled.
"Seven characters, and none of them are rare characters. Could anyone find it difficult?"
No one said a word.
They didn't dare to make eye contact with the people around them.
did not expect……
"Oh...indeed, it might be a little difficult."
Everyone was stunned and looked at Li Qingcha in surprise, not understanding why Li Qingcha wanted to criticize himself.
Li Qingcha just laughed.
"The reason why I say it's difficult is because you are all parents of the girls who are participating in the selection. Since you are men, you will naturally find it difficult. But..."
She cleared her throat.
"These seven words are all from the first two chapters of the Four Books for Women, The Instructions for Women. The first one, the word '齋' in '而齋告焉'..."
Li Qingcha spoke slowly and announced the origins of the seven words.
Afterwards, she said righteously: "The first two chapters of "Female Commandments" only have a total of more than 500 words. Picking out seven words from them and asking women to identify them, is that considered forcing a man to stay?"
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Silence swept the entire front yard of the Kings' Mansion.
No one dared to say anything.
Li Qingcha continued, "You all should know that I am not from an imperial examination background, but even so, I am still sensible. Pick out seven words at random from "Learning" and "Governing", which Confucian scholar can't read them?"
There was still silence.
Everyone felt ashamed after being scolded by Li Qingcha, but they were unable to refute.
The Four Books for Women, which literate woman doesn’t know how to recite them?
What's more, Li Qingcha only picked seven words from the first two articles...
I can't answer this, which is really wrong.
They all felt a little ashamed.
Li Qingcha looked sad.
"I am so disappointed in you!"
After saying that, he went straight back to the Kings’ Pavilion.
Chapter 393 This World is Too Small
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It was quiet in front of the Kings' Pavilion.
Everyone looked at each other, a little confused as to how things had turned out like this.
Lin Sicong shook his head.
"Hey... tell me... tell me about you guys! You have to make Master Li angry!"
After saying that, he stomped his feet and chased back to the main hall of the Kings' Pavilion.
Everyone was stunned.
Is there really something wrong with me?
I also began to doubt myself.
Someone lowered his voice and asked Xie Chengxuan: "Master Xie, what should we do now? Is Master Li going to give up?"
Xie Chengxuan's face turned cold, and he shook his robe.
"Giving up? Don't you see who forced you just now? Li Zhushi was loyal to the emperor and the country, cared about the Seventh Prince, and shared the emperor's worries. How come you say that this is a conspiracy?"
"Well……"
"Who wouldn't feel chilled when you say that?!"
Xie Chengxuan was the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, which is roughly equivalent to a modern deputy minister, and even had much more power than a deputy minister.
Being in a high position and getting really angry can put people under a lot of pressure.
No one dared to say anything.
Xie Chengxuan couldn't help but snort coldly.
"Humph!"
Then he turned and entered the Kings' Pavilion.
The three people in charge of selecting the prince's wife disappeared just like that.
Everyone whispered,
"Who was that person talking nonsense just now?"
"not me."
"Yes...it's the Guan family!"
"Damn it! Don't throw dirty water on me... I wasn't the first one to raise objections to Mr. Zhao's daughter!"
……
They began to shift the blame.
The Seventh Prince wanted to laugh, so he stood on tiptoe to look at the candidate girl from Mr. Zhao's family.
Because she was holding a round fan in her hand, only half of her face near her eyebrows could be seen. It wasn't ugly, but it wasn't very pretty either.
The Seventh Prince had no likes or dislikes about her appearance.
However, the Seventh Prince really didn't like Miss Zhao's temperament.
He's very literary and doesn't seem like the type who can play or make noise.
The Seventh Prince couldn't help but sigh.
He thought of the note Sirou wrote to him to trick his mother, saying that feelings are the most important. He didn't understand it at the time, but now that he is in the situation, he truly understands it.
Mutual love is definitely a luxury for the children of the royal family.
As I was thinking about these things, the quarrels among the families participating in the selection gradually escalated, and there was even a tendency for a fight to break out.
An official from the Ministry of Rites rushed out to maintain order.
"Everyone be quiet!"
No one listened to him.
It was still a quarrel.
The clerk had no choice but to raise his voice and shouted again: "Be quiet! Anyone who doesn't keep quiet will be disqualified."
All of a sudden they became obedient.
Some people said: "Since Lord Li is angry, can the selection process still proceed?"
Others nodded in agreement.
Li Qingcha's anger was not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing was that the questions for the literacy test were forced to be made public and they had to come up with new questions.
Without Li Qingcha, the selection of the prince's wife would be impossible this time.
The clerk coughed lightly.
"Everyone, you quarrel day and night, can you make Lord Li change his mind?"
This tip is quite obvious.
Someone immediately understood, stepped forward, and said loudly: "Master Li, please calm down."
After saying this, he bowed deeply in the direction of the main hall of the Kings' Hall.
Others saw it and followed immediately.
For a time,
"Please calm down, Lord Li."
They rushed towards the kings' palaces like a tsunami.
puff~
The Seventh Prince laughed out loud.
Next to him, a female voice asked, "What's so funny?"
The Seventh Prince didn't pay any attention, thinking it was Luo Weiyang, and answered casually: "Li Qingcha's opportunistic questions really fooled these old scholars... Hehe... I think there should be quite a few people here who are juren, right?"
