East Lake Palace, Red Fort.

This Indian-style castle built for Princess Nissa, now with the arrival of the princess and her twenty Rajput maids, is truly full of charming Indian flair – with only the glamorous side of course, not the dark side.

Because the only people who lived in this red castle with Princess Nissa were twenty Rajput maids of the Kshatriya caste. The Rajputs live in northwestern India and are said to be descended from princes, and their caste is considered noble among the Kshatriyas, and they have more Aryan blood.

Therefore, the facial features of the 20 maids brought by Princess Nissa are very three-dimensional, and their bodies are relatively graceful, and their wheat-colored skin looks very healthy, and they can all sing and dance.

However, Zhu Cihong came to the Red Fort for three days in a row, not to enjoy their singing and dancing, but to give the princess an exam...... Although after the first meeting, Zhu Cihong had decided to include Nissa in his harem, but the exam still had to be taken well. If you don't take the exam well, how do you know how talented this Indian female poet is?

Emperor Zhu has to let Princess Nissa take the lead, not to mention let the whole world, at least let the middle and upper classes of the Ming Dynasty know that their Ming army is not good for women, and they don't pay much attention to women's virtues, and what they care about most is women's talents.

What kind of woman is virtuous if she is not talented, but it is not applicable to the emperor's family......

Today is Princess Nissa's personal college entrance examination (it should belong to independent enrollment, right?) On the third day, the interview, written test, and oral test (spoken Chinese) have all ended, and Princess Nissa's results are not particularly ideal, at least she herself is not satisfied, because in the subjects that have ended, she has only scored a total of 445 points (out of 460), and the lost 15 points are all deducted from Chinese.

Although Nissa can write very beautiful Chinese poems, she is also beautiful with a hairpin in one hand. But her level of ancient Chinese is limited after all, and if she is allowed to choose her own topic and have other people's poetry collections to refer to, she can write beautiful poems. But if you let someone else come up with questions to take the test, there is no poetry collection to refer to, and the level will come down immediately! So I only scored 85 points......

As for mathematics, philosophy, and military science, because they were allowed to answer questions in Arabic, they all got full marks - she didn't answer all the questions in Arabic, but in Arabic and Chinese, and some could be answered in Chinese. If not, Arabic is used.

It seems that Emperor Zhu, who made the question, still underestimated this female scholar from India......

Today, Nissa mainly shows her martial arts and musical skills - the princess's painting skills are average, after all, painting is forbidden in the Heavenly Sect, and her identity is not suitable for dancing to show people, but she can use many musical instruments, and can sing in Urdu and Persian.

Because she had to take the test of horse riding and archery, the female student changed out of a white sari dress and put on a Chinese-style arrow suit, which looked really heroic.

The test venue is in a large racecourse at the foot of the southern slope of Moshan Mountain, which is also part of the Red Castle, and was also selected by Zhu Cihong as the examination room for the upcoming Jinling Women's University Martial Arts Examination.

Targets and wooden fences (to prevent the rider from getting too close to the target) and various obstacles to the test of riding were erected.

At the end of the wooden fence, there are more than a dozen standing logs of varying heights, and at the top of the standing trees are grass targets used to test sword skills (swordsmanship).

Zhu Cihong had already sat down on the high platform set up on the side of the racecourse, accompanied by Pan Yuchen, the governor of Dongchang, and Wang Qi, who was appointed as the commander of the guard army after many years. Both of them are veteran generals in the army, and although they are now relegated to the second line, their eyes are still there - the two of them have been selected as the main examiners of the entrance examination of Jinling Women's University, and they are responsible for testing martial arts.

There were also dozens of aunts wearing arrow clothes at the scene, all of whom were widowed and childless new army daughters recruited from Denglai, Fengyang, and Runing. They are more or less exposed to some martial arts, and after becoming palace maids, they become the female guards of the concubines and princesses.

They were transferred to serve as invigilators and ambulances in the examination room - horseback archery and sword play are more dangerous after all!

Of course, the subjects of the martial arts exam also fully consider safety issues.

Whether it is horseback riding, archery, or swords, they are all divided into two grades: difficult and easy. If the candidate chooses the difficult grade, then she may get a full score (30 points, 90 points for the three subjects combined, and another 10 points for physical strength, which must be taken in armor, and the three subjects can be won in one go). If the candidate chooses the Yi grade, then she can only score a maximum of 20 points, and she cannot get physical strength points, and the maximum score for three subjects is 60 points.

Princess Nissa chose all the difficult grades, but gave up the physical strength score, that is, after the exam, she had to take a break before she could continue to take the next subject.

You can bring your own horses and equipment for the exam. Nissa brought a few folded ears from Tianzhu, all of which she had trained and mastered, and chose the best of them to use as her own examination horse. Her bow is also self-contained, consisting of three Persian bows made that resemble works of art. She prepared for the sword exam with a gorgeous Tawa scimitar, with a curved blade and a beautiful pattern on the surface, and a distinctly bulging waist shape on the grip of the handle, as well as an S-shaped gauntlet, which seemed to be a reference to the design of Western swords.

The princess, who was carrying a bow and arrows and a scimitar, knelt down on one knee in front of the great tomorrow, Zhu Cihong looked at her and felt very satisfied, so she smiled and said to her: "Nisha, you already have 445 points...... Enough to become my concubine! So don't be nervous, take it easy. After the women's college exams are over, I will hold a grand wedding for you! ”

The concubine should not have a wedding when she enters the palace, but Nisha's status is special, so of course she has to enjoy preferential treatment.

Emperor Zhu is going to hold a big wedding for Princess Nissa in the Red Fort after the women's university exam!

Princess Nissa glanced at the emperor affectionately, "The concubine must work hard, and she will never disappoint Your Majesty!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded, "I'm here to watch you take the test!" ”

As he spoke, he nodded to Eunuch Pan beside him, Pan Yuchen stood up, saluted Zhu Cihong, and then announced loudly: "First subject, the riding test begins!" Please get on horse, Your Highness the Princess! ”

The exam has officially begun, and this is the first question......

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When Princess Nissa began the martial arts exam, the copies of the papers she made (the Arabic content in them were all translated by Zhu Cixiong) had been secretly handed over to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen and Zheng Du by Zheng Jiangong.

"This, this, this...... What is this? Why can't I read it? ”

What he couldn't understand was Zheng Zhilong, who was holding a math test paper of Princess Kaunisha. Lao Zheng always thought that he was very good at calculating accounts, and his arithmetic must not be bad. But now I can't even read the test papers...... There wasn't a single question he would do!

"Abba," Zheng Jiangong said with a frown, "This arithmetic paper is a little difficult......

"Is this a little harder?" Zheng Zhilong glared at him, "The children have all passed the exam?" ”

"This ......," Zheng Jiangong thought for a while, "can you do a few questions?" ”

"How many questions?" Sweat broke out on Lao Zheng's forehead, "Isn't it easier to make other rolls?" ”

Zheng Sen said: "Chinese is easy, and the test is to write poems and lyrics." ”

Is it easy to compose poems and lyrics? Zheng Zhi Longxin said: I'm so smart, why can't I!

"Can you pass the test?"

"Yes! But ......"

"But what?" Lao Zheng asked.

"However, the Chinese paper is for Princess Nisha, and other candidates do not take the Chinese test, but the French test!" Zheng Sen said, "Our children are fine. ”

"What else?" Lao Zheng asked again, "What is the military test?" ”

"Military learning is easy," Zheng Du said, "very easy...... It's a simple infantry cavalry platoon-level tactic, a rudimentary fortification, and ballistics, all of which can be done by children. ”

Zheng Zhilong glared at him fiercely, "This is called simple? You graduated from the Army Lecture Martial Arts Hall! Of course you can do it, can your daughter do it? ”

"She, of course she can't do it!" Zheng Du shook his head again and again.

Zheng Zhilong patted the table: "Why don't you hurry up and go to the temporary cramming?" Teach a little bit! You can't let the daughter of the Wu family compare! ”

"Abba, Wu Ahuan won't be able to do the topic of martial arts, right?"

"What not? Why does Your Majesty want to take these tests? Go teach! Right away! ”