Chapter 36: The Other Way
Zhang Zhaohua has recently begun to consciously express herself, and several articles on her art have used seven or eight points of force, and she has indeed seen the effect, and the female officials who have read it are full of praise, and even alarmed Mama Gongzheng, and she also feels that it is a well-deserved good article after reading it. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, the female officials let them learn to solve the problem, undertake the topic, start speaking, and write the pen, as if it was the same thing as the Bagu Wen, but the Bagu Wen was selected from the four books, and they were selected from the four women's books, and Zhang Zhaohua has always suspected that the female officials are not going to teach the future concubines to learn these things, after all, after learning these, can they still go to the imperial examination-
Therefore, Zhang Zhaohua believes that female officials have their own considerations, that is, to select smart and well-written girls, and if they can't choose concubines in the future, they will want her to be a female history and a female official.
First of all, it should be explained that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to court education, not to mention that the eunuchs with the sole authority in the future were all selected by the inner study hall, and said that the current palace rule is that after the palace maids are selected into the palace, they will send the palace knowledgeable and virtuous female officials or female historians to educate them, in addition to the "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", there are also "The Book of Filial Piety", "The Book of Songs", and even the "Analects" and "University", but the most important thing is the "Female Commandment" such as the four female books.
As for the results of this kind of education, Zhang Zhaohua felt that it should not be very good, because she once heard the two female histories talking, saying that most of the palace ladies are vulgar, even if they are carefully educated, they can't learn, and they are the so-called rotten wood, and they can't carve things.
The qualifications of the palace women are not good, and the age has passed the appropriate period of learning, so although there are female historians who teach in the morning and evening, they still can't become talents, and the palace women don't have a few talents, so they can't hold the position of female officials, so female officials can only be selected from the people, so in the three drafts in the Hongwu years, both times were selected female officials, not palace maids.
The requirements for the selection of female officials are that women over thirty years old, under forty years old, without a husband, can read and write, and are familiar with algorithms, and are willing to enter the palace, after the assessment, they will be directly awarded the title of female talent, and after teaching in the palace, they will be slowly promoted to female history, palace officials and even officials of the six bureaus.
Nowadays, the Shanggong or female historians who are about 50 to 60 years old in the palace are all selected from Suzhou and Hangzhou in the fifth year of Hongwu to serve in the palace; and those who are about thirty or forty years old are selected in Songjiang and Huzhou in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, and it is said that all the female officials and female histories in the palace are selected from outside, and none of them are learned by the palace maids to be admitted to the female officials.
The treatment of female officials is much better than that of ordinary palace women, once the palace women enter the palace, there is no possibility of going out, and they are confined to the court for life; but female officials are different, in the twenty-second year of Hongwu, the emperor ordered the female officials of the Liushang Bureau to serve in the palace for a long time, or five or six years, they can be released from the palace, returned to their parents, and allowed them to "marry from the right to marry", and some elderly female officials can also return to their hometowns, "to the end of the destiny". If you want to stay in the palace, you will do as it should.
You can stay if you want, and you can go home when you want to go home - but there is also a rule that cannot be written, that is, before the female officer leaves, you must bring out someone who will serve you.
What does it mean, that is, if this female official wants to go home, it is okay, but you must teach an apprentice who can take your place, and you must teach it well, because if this apprentice commits a crime, he will also implicate the master, even if the master has been out of the palace for many years.
This was implemented in the twenty-second year of Hongwu, and at this point, almost all the female officials who wanted to go home were stumped. Because the palace women really can't teach, what they taught today, tomorrow will be forgotten in a blink of an eye, at the beginning the female officials also comforted themselves "Qiji jumps, can't take ten steps; No matter how many hand boards you play or how many calves you flog, it's useless, and if you can't learn it, you can't learn it.
Fortunately, there is a draft this year, and after the third round of selection, there are more than 50 who can read and write, which can make the female officials overjoyed, because in addition to the five or six show girls who are married to the prince, there will be more than 40 women's qualifications there, which can be taught well and let them replace themselves as female officials.
So Zhang Zhaohua thought about it for a long time, and also synthesized the above information, she felt that being a female official was the best and safest way at present.
Maybe less than a year, maybe three or five years later, the emperor died, and that grandson Zhu Yunwen sat in the position of emperor as he did in history, and the first thing he had to do was nothing else, that is, to cut the domain. If according to the path Zhang Zhaohua set for himself before, Zhang Zhaohua worked hard to become a princess, but if the prince she married happened to be on Emperor Jianwen's list of cutting domains, would everyone still have a job?
Looking at Emperor Jianwen's treatment of these vassal kings, she remembered that several princes in history were ruined and killed, and even Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was forced to pretend to be crazy, which shows how much it was tormented - at that time, could the prince he married protect himself?
Okay, even if he was cautious, he handed over the military power, handed over the guards, handed over the service, handed over everything, and then exchanged for a vassal king who existed in name only, but everyone survived in the hands of Emperor Jianwen. But when Jingnan comes, who knows if it will be implicated? Which side will you stand in the two camps of Jianwen and King Yan? Can you guarantee that the land of your vassal country will not be plagued by war? Can you guarantee that the imperial court or Jingnan's army will not take the population captive in your vassal country?
It's not that the risk is too great, it's that you can't take such a risk. Once Zhang Zhaohua came to this conclusion, he had to find another way. When she found out about the plans of the female officials, she felt that God had opened a window for her.
Be a female officer.
What are the benefits of being a female officer, there are too many benefits, as I said before, she will be able to apply to go home after about five or six years. She doesn't remember when Zhu Yuanzhang died in history, but she is very sure that it should be after 30 years of Hongwu, because she watched TV in her last life, there is a Hong Kong TVB TV series called "Hongwu Thirty-two", she glanced at it at the time, and the emperor was alive in the first few episodes.
It is estimated that it was around the thirty-first or thirty-second year of Hongwu, Zhang Zhaohua calculated the time, and it should be about five or six years from the death of Zhu Yuanzhang to the self-immolation of Emperor Jianwen. Zhang Zhaohua can enter the palace as a female official, and when Jing Nan hits the root of the imperial city, he runs out of the palace and runs home.
And there are other advantages to being a female official, such as having a Yulu, and this Yulu is actually equivalent to an official of the same grade in the outer court, an official of the fifth or sixth grade, nearly 20 treasure money a year.
I heard that the emperor was very harsh on the imperial supervision, but he was very kind to the female officials, and even the female officials who had been worshiped by his side for a long time returned to their hometowns, and he gave them a lot of money, not to mention, but also asked them what wishes they had, which could be fulfilled together. This affects the other palace concubines in the palace, and they also treat the female officials around them very well, and most of the demands they have can be understood and achieved.
Wouldn't this be very good - Zhang Zhaohua can completely join the ranks of female officials, if she can get the blue eyes of the nobles in the palace, it is not difficult to ask her to help bring a word to King Zhou or something. Maybe you can even tell the king of Zhou in person, because every vassal king enters Beijing, and there must be female officials around him to serve.
The above is Zhang Zhaohua's plan, since she wants to be a female official, she can't reserve her talent, but to show it as much as possible like a peacock opening the screen, so every time she plans a topic, she does it very carefully, of course, she has a lot of opinions that are written and crossed out, and she doesn't dare to copy it when she copies it, after all, she can't rush for quick success, if an article is too dangerous and treacherous, it will be considered a bad heart, and it will be related to character.
Therefore, Zhang Zhaohua's efforts are rewarded, every article is made, and the female officials compete to read it, and each article can be recited as a model essay in class.
Even in the biggest assessment on September 15, that is, the exam that decides whether these show girls can go further, the female officials deliberately put her paper on the top, so as to be the first to read it - but this time it is very strange, after reading Zhang Zhaohua's test paper, the female officials all looked at each other, feeling that this time she made a mistake, and the paper was very unsatisfactory.