Jiayu Village of Red Mansions

Chapter 60

promise? "Shui Zhan said.

Hearing this, Yucun deliberately stretched out his hand to rub against Shui Zhan Xiashen, smiling holyly, but one couldn't help but want to ruthlessly ravage her.

Shui Zhan took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, held Yucun's troublesome hand, and said, "Go and solve the problem with the Supreme Emperor!"

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yucun turned over and got out from under Shui Zhan's body.

Shui Zhan wanted to run away when he saw that Yucun had provoked a fire. Where there was such a cheap thing, he stretched out his hand to stop it. Yucun would not let him succeed, and he came out from under Shui Zhan like a fish. In an instant, he was three feet away from Shui Zhan, and said with a smile: "It's not too late, I'll go to the Supreme Emperor to discuss it!"

After saying that, Shi Shi ran out of the gate of Qianqing Palace, Shui Zhan was so angry that he felt itchy at all, thinking that he must clean up Yucun tonight.

The great eunuch Su Peisheng respectfully sent Prince An's azure-coloured gown foot that disappeared around the corner, and smiled wryly. Today is a bad day, Prince An, you have offended the emperor, and they are the people who are suffering today. yes!

I don't know what Yucun and the Supreme Emperor said. After only one game of chess, the Supreme Emperor actually agreed to Prince An's proposal. The next morning, the Holy Majesty issued an imperial decree to set up a "Tsinghua Hall" for women in the Imperial College. Encourage the girls from the families of princes and ministers to study in the classroom, taught by the teachers of the Imperial College and the female teachers selected from the palace who specially assist the Imperial College teachers, followed by the two big seals of the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, which made people want to borrow The princes and censors who had been bouncing around for a while suddenly died down.

However, there are policies and countermeasures. Anyway, your edict didn't say that you must go, did you?There is that old-fashioned person who has studied Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism all his life, clinging to the so-called virtue of a woman who has no talent, and refuses to let her daughter enter the classroom to study.As the initiator of this proposal, Prince An set an example for all officials, and ordered his adopted daughter, Princess Yinglian to study in the hall. They also entered the hall to study. Suddenly, this "Tsinghua Hall" became a gathering place for the children of high-level and middle-level officials.

At this time, in addition to those guards who insisted on ethics, some ministers who took a wait-and-see attitude also saw the huge benefits. Princesses and princesses, you must know that the connections among female relatives will also have a great auxiliary effect on their future husbands. After staying in such a place, it is also a great capital to choose a husband's family in the future.

In this way, unknowingly, things seem to deviate from Yucun's original intention, but who can say that this is not a new beginning?

Times

It is said that Prince An proposed the establishment of the "Tsinghua Hall" in the court. From the beginning, there was an uproar in the court, and now it is flocking to it. To the benefit.It’s just that this Tsinghua Hall doesn’t just mean you can enter it, it also needs to go through the Imperial College’s unified test, and you can enter after passing the exam. The progress is different, so how can the teachers teach, so this Tsinghua Hall is also an institution of higher learning similar to a modern university. When the teacher comes, he just finds a high-level topic to talk about, and does not start from the "San Zi Jing" .

As soon as this policy comes out, those adults who believe that women are virtuous without talent, and those adults who keep their daughters in the back house and only know how to embroider and fight in the house will feel green from regret. I don't know how to embroider!

In this way, Tsinghua Hall's requirements for student status are very low. It can be said that except for prostitutes and other lowly women, all can apply for admission. resemblance.When this point was first brought up, some so-called moralists were quite contemptuous, but how many women from poor families can be admitted to Tsinghua Hall!So the adults who turned their heads around the corner made a fuss for a while and then stopped.

At the beginning of April in the second year of Yongzheng, Long En, the sage who was descended from the world, summoned all the daughters of the capital to open the Tsinghua Hall to teach the words of the sage. The qualifying examination was scheduled to be held at the Guozijian on June [-]. All unmarried girls over the age of seven can participate.

Although Jia Zheng disdained those gossips, he really wanted the girls in the family to go in and learn something. After work today, he told Mother Jia about it when he was paying his respects to Mother Jia at night. .

Mother Jia was worthy of being in charge of the Jia family for half her life. After listening to her son's words, she pondered for a while and asked, "Will the princesses also participate?"

Seeing his mother's question, Jia Zheng quickly put down his chopsticks and replied, "Only 30 people will be taken. I heard that the nine princesses, the ten princesses, the princesses of Prince An's family, the third prince, the eighth prince, the nine princes and the ten princes' families will all participate." Enrollment."

Mother Jia nodded when she heard the words, and said: "Well, go and register all the girls in the family. The girls in my Jia family are not worse than other families!"

Jia Zheng heard that he promised to do so.

Mother Jia smiled and took a bite of the dish Mrs. Wang served for him, as if she suddenly remembered something, she said, "By the way, second child, you go to the Shijia to deliver a letter, and you can also name Xiangyun girl!"

After Jia Zheng heard this, he quickly agreed. The meal was tasteless because of Jia Zheng's presence. Baoyu always felt that Jia Zheng's eyes were staring at him because his father was next to him. I didn't eat a single bite of the half bowl of japonica rice in front of me.Jia's mother also saw Baoyu's uneasiness, and she drove Jia Zheng away as soon as the meal was finished, and then said to the mandarin duck on the side: "Hurry up and take the plate of crystal elbows and three fresh shrimp dumplings to Baoyu. See you, poor child." Yes, I can't even eat a good meal after being frightened by his father!"

Baoyu took the cage from Yuanyang and didn't eat it right away, but stared at Jiamu and asked, "Old ancestor, Sister Lin and Sister Bao, are they going out to study?"

Jia Mu laughed and said, "I don't know if I can pass the exam!"

Baoyu was dumbfounded, and said in a depressed mood: "With Sister Lin's talent and learning, she must be able to pass the exam..."

Seeing that Baoyu seemed unhappy, Jia's mother couldn't help being surprised, and asked, "It's a good thing that your sister Lin can be admitted to Tsinghua University. Why do you look like this?"

Baoyu just said in a daze: "Sister Lin has gone to school, and I will see you less often."

When Jia Mu heard the words, she was happy to see the harmonious relationship between Baoyu and Daiyu, and said with a smile: "If you can pass the exam, it will be your sister Lin's great fortune! You should be careful about what you are doing. Motivation is the way to go, don't play around all day long!"

Baoyu didn't speak when she heard the words, and she didn't move a mouthful of shrimp dumplings. Lin Daiyu went back to Yangzhou three months ago to visit her uncle who was seriously ill. Her uncle died of illness and she could return to Beijing in a few days. Originally, Baoyu was happy that Lin Daiyu would be back soon, but unexpectedly When this came out, it was like a bolt from the blue to Jia Baoyu. A girl like Sister Lin, who is as light as water, wants to learn the knowledge of Lu Li, so she must defile Sister Lin!

The flowers bloomed at each end, and because of the emperor's opening of Tsinghua Hall, the queen mother thought that her son had finally figured it out and wanted to recruit some talented women to enrich the harem. Shui Zhan made it clear that the opening of Tsinghua Hall this time is purely for the consideration of the daughters of the world, and there is absolutely no selfishness.

The queen mother was a little unhappy when she heard this. There have been no princes and daughters in this palace for several years. Even the youngest ten princesses are already ten years old. At the time, the queen mother thought it was the emperor's benevolence, and she was moved, but the more she thought about it later, the more she felt wrong. Although the emperor was diligent in government affairs and not close to women, he was the emperor after all, the daughter-in-law in the palace They are all old people when the emperor was in the hidden residence. There have been no newcomers in the emperor's harem for several years, which is not acceptable.

This day the queen mother just found an excuse to call Shui Zhan to the Palace of Compassion, and specially called the first female historian in the Palace of Compassion, Jia Yuanchun, who she was very optimistic about, to wait by her side, and reminded Shui Zhan to take Jia Yuanchun in a roundabout way.

Shui Zhan thought for a while, it's not a big deal that there are always no people in the palace, and Shui Zhan is really annoyed by being so "told by the queen mother" every day, at worst, after accepting Jia Yuanchun, he will be just like other concubines. In short, it is impossible for him to sleep with this Jia Yuanchun. If Shui Zhan feels guilty for the women in the palace who have been with him since he was a prince, then for Jia Yuanchun who knows that he is not good. A woman who is close to women but still cuts her head and drills into her harem doesn't feel anything. He doesn't believe that the queen mother will suddenly want to stuff someone into his harem for no reason.

As soon as Shui Zhan returned from the Palace of Compassion and Peace, he told Yucun about it. On the surface, Yucun didn't say anything, but that night he picked up Shui Zhan and kicked him out of bed.After Zhan clutched his stomach and coaxed him with a playful smile for a while to no avail, he had to go to the low couch next to him where he usually sat reviewing memorials to make do for the night.The eunuchs and maids in Qianqing Palace had long turned a blind eye to the emperor's doting on Prince An, and seeing the emperor sleeping alone on a low couch, they didn't make any fuss, but wondered how His Majesty provoked His Highness Prince An.

However, the eunuchs and maids in the Qianqing Palace did not have doubts for too long. An imperial edict the next day made the truth known to the world.