"One-two-one, one-two-one, one...... Two...... Three...... Four! ”

"One...... Two...... Three...... Four. On the playground of the Mawei shipyard, the voices of teenage students shook the world.

Due to the lack of buildings and venues, some of the trainees received training under covered buildings. The instructor said loudly to the gang with a straight face, "If any of you don't want to do it here, say it early." Then you can roll up the cover and go home. Anyone who is willing to continue to find a job in the various units under the Nautical Guild will listen carefully. Your future is at stake. ”

The latest promotion chart is drawn on the blackboard, and the huge cadres are written on the top of the blackboard, and at the bottom of the blackboard are the words of huge ordinary employees. On the gap between heaven and earth is written four big words: 'military experience'.

Seeing that no one had slipped away, the instructor pointed to these words and said loudly: "If you want to be a cadre in the future, you have to be a soldier in our army." Don't think that this is a rule that has been set for you, and ask which of the cadres who are now fighting on ships has not fought on ships, which has not killed pirates, and which has not fought with the Mongols. It's just that there was no such hard rule before, and now it is specifically stipulated. ”

The teenage babies didn't understand what a cadre was, so they could only look at the blackboard stupidly and listen to the teacher. There are also some who don't realize what kind of choice they have to face, because they have a lot of fun, so they squeeze their eyebrows with their friends, and prepare to run out with their classmates to play after disbanding.

Everything is in the eyes of the condescending instructors, those babies who don't care at all make the instructors feel a little hated for iron, and a few babies who are very serious at a glance make the instructors feel hopeful. They were firm and seemed very confident that they wanted to achieve a higher status through their military service.

Liu Hongxia is also among these children. She is fourteen years old this year. After six years of schooling, she completed the curriculum of primary school and senior primary school, and now Liu Hongxia is a junior high school student. The girl was a little confused about the future. If she were a boy, her future life would be very simple, like her uncle, she would go on a boat and work for a while, and the people above would arrange for her to go to other industries. The most direct way is to follow her uncle Liu Meng to the distant island of Whale Sea, where it is said that the salary is twice or more than that of Fuzhou.

However, Liu Hongxia is a girl, although she is also a member of the life committee of the class, and she has to follow the teacher to receive things for the class to distribute on weekdays, as well as various things. But what she wants to do in the future, Liu Hongxia can't understand it at all.

Wait for the end of the day's training. Liu Hongxia returned to the dormitory and chatted with her roommates, "Can we also be cadres after becoming soldiers?" ”

The sisters in the dormitory were puzzled at first when they heard this, and then the oldest student in the dormitory asked, "What is a cadre?" ”

The other sisters were also puzzled, they didn't have these educations in their lives. These people have not been away from the countryside for a long time, and many have even just become accustomed to life in the city.

Liu Hongxia left the countryside when she was four or five years old, and unlike these classmates, she only had a very vague impression of the countryside. As her uncle said, she didn't even have a very clear impression of hunger at that time. Since someone asked, Liu Hongxia replied decisively: "Cadres are officials." ”

"Being an official? Is it the kind of official who sits in the yamen? "The girls began to use their imaginations.

"This ......," Liu Hongxia felt as if she couldn't say so. Her uncle did sit in the house, and in the captain's room when he was on the ship. But as soon as he sat down in the room, his face turned unhappy. If it's the kind of high-ranking official, it should be full of joy.

"I've never seen a girl in office." The female classmate said a little timidly.

Liu Hongxia couldn't help but say: "I heard that in the Tang Dynasty, there was also Wu Zetian who was a female official. ”

Regarding Liu Hongxia's statement, the female classmates frowned. The sister who was about the same age as Liu Hongxia said puzzledly: "Female official? Aren't the officials dragons? It is a dragon that has scales on its body and can fly in the sky. ”

Liu Hongxia was stunned, she had also read the words of the so-called True Dragon Son of Heaven, but she had seen Zhao Jiaren. If the official family is really a dragon on the portrait, then Zhao Jiaren, the descendant of the dragon, must also be covered in scales and have horns on his head. And not a human being who looks no different from ordinary people.

The sister paper who is about the same age as Liu Hongxia also studied well, and she tried her best to explain what happened with the knowledge she had learned, "Are you sure that Wu Zetian is the female emperor, not the empress or the queen mother?" I've heard that they live in the palace as well. ”

"She must be a female emperor, it is stated in the historical chronology of the school." Liu Hongxia said in a firm tone.

The little ones are not particularly focused, not to mention that their knowledge has no knowledge of the so-called future. The discussion related to their lives finally ended on whether Wu Zetian was a female emperor or not.

Before class the next day, a few girls went to the back wall. There is a fairly new chronology of Chinese history, which lists the names of the dynasties, as well as the names and ages of the emperors of each dynasty. Sure enough, as Liu Hongxia said, the Tang Dynasty emperor Wu Zetian was marked with a special description of 'female emperor, who founded the Zhou Dynasty by herself, but is generally considered to be the Tang Dynasty'.

At this time, Liu Hongxia breathed a long sigh of relief. The rescue of drowning babies in the countryside left an indelible impression on Liu Hongxia, she was beaten by her uncle Liu Meng for the first time, and she also heard from her uncle Liu Meng that the former official family said 'why not eat minced meat'. She was compared with the official family, which made Liu Hongxia have a strong interest in history. Back at school, Liu Hongxia finally learned from the teacher that 'why not eat minced meat' was the words of Emperor Jin Hui, and then went to find the corresponding books. Then she gave up her study of Emperor Hui of Jin under the painful torture of traditional characters.

But with the foundation of interest, Liu Hongxia cares more about history, as long as it is about history, Liu Hongxia can pay attention to it.

"Really! There really is a female official's family! The female classmates looked at the short note and let out a heartfelt exclamation. Although they didn't know what was going on, they could all get the information that Wu Zetian was the female emperor from the explanation. In their world, women are their female relatives and the people of the villagers. They get married, have children, grow old, and die. Born in the country, died in the country.

They have seen such people, so they believe that all this is the fate of women. As the children of the employees of Zhao Jiaren Group, the most different thing these girls heard was probably that there was a strange woman named Hu Yuelian, who fought at sea like men, and finally got a status no less than that of men. For them, this is the limit of women, and it is not until this early morning that they realize that the world is not so simple.

"Is this true? There really are female officials! The girls chattered and discussed, not seeing the two adults in the corridor walking slowly, and then they were attracted by the exclamations of the girls, and stopped to listen.

"There is also Li Qingzhao in the poems we learned, and Li Qingzhao is also a woman. Or our poetess of the Great Song Dynasty. The little girl who was about the same age as Liu Hongxia also remembered the cases of other outstanding women.

"If there are women who can be officials, why can't we women be officials? The instructor said that as long as we were soldiers, we could be cadres, and we were there at that time, which means that if we were soldiers, we should also be able to become cadres and officials. Liu Hongxia said with some bluff.

If you can be an official, you can call the shots. If she can give orders, Liu Hongxia can at least save the doll who is about to be drowned. Thinking of the situation at that time, Liu Hongxia's heart tightened for a while. She had wanted to see the older woman who was pregnant, although she had no idea what was going on with the pregnancy. However, Liu Hongxia knows that after pregnancy, she can give birth to a cute baby. Then Liu Hongxia saw the other side of the world. So cute little babies can also drown.

Even though she later knew that she was being used, Liu Hongxia still didn't think that she should drown those little babies. However, she knew better that she didn't have the power to make the world change according to her expectations, and if she had the power, if she could be in a high position like her uncle Liu Meng, the world might be different.

Listening to the female babies discussing the female emperor Wu Zetian outside, Sima Kao outside first showed a wry smile. When he heard Liu Hongxia's declaration of being an official full of strange and firm emotions, he couldn't even smile bitterly. And Xu Yuanzhi next to him was originally frowning slightly, but now he is frowning. Regardless of Sima Kao, Xu Yuanzhi walked straight through the corridor with his hands behind his back, never listening to what the girls said.

As a student and instructor, Sima Kao also lives near the school. And Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of Guangzhou, has been in office for three years at this time and wants to return to Lin'an. When passing through Fuzhou, Xu Yuanzhi happened to come to visit Zhao Jiaren, and Sima Kao's teacher and Xu Yuanzhi were brothers in the same school, Zhao Jiaren was busy, and Sima Kao entertained his uncle first.

Looking at Uncle Shi's back, Sima Kao first felt embarrassed, and then curious. I don't know what my uncle will think of Zhao Jiaren's attitude.

When the two arrived at Sima Kao's dormitory, Sima Kao first poured Xu Yuanzhi a cup of tea, and then asked, "Uncle Shi, what do you think of these girls." ”

Xu Yuanzhi glanced at Sima Kao and snorted coldly, "Hmph! I don't have any ideas for you, so you have to trick me? ”

"I am half in favor and half in my heart I am not. But I didn't expect the girls to know that Wu Zetian had been the emperor, and they thought that they could also be officials. This one...... This is really ......," Sima Kao found it a little difficult to evaluate.

"The people can make it impossible to know it." Xu Yuanzhi said a little unhappily.

Sima Kao's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but feel that Xu Yuanzhi's book was well read, and Sima Kao didn't expect such classic words. And Xu Yuanzhi said very unhappily: "Today, these female dolls know Wu Zetian and want to be emperors." Tomorrow they read Mulan's speech, and they will probably become generals. ”

"Hmph. Ha ha! Laughter suddenly came from outside, Sima Kao and Xu Yuanzhi were stunned, this laughter was Zhao Jiaren's, but they didn't expect this guy to eavesdrop on the two of them outside for some time.

Zhao Jiaren hadn't been there for long, but listening to the two people in the room talking was so funny that he couldn't help but laugh out loud. Striding into Sima Kao's room, Zhao Jiaren said: "Xu Zhizhou, you really don't know, I did put Mulan Ci in the textbook. ”

Xu Yuanzhi watched Zhao Jiaren Shi Ran sit down, he picked up a piece of paper from the table next to him and shook it towards Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren looked at it, and it was his thin gold body, and the text content was 'China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; There is the beauty of uniforms, which is called Hua. How to tell students about China's advancement'.

"Zhao Zhizhou, are you going to give a lecture on the scriptures?" Xu Yuanzhi asked with a straight face.

This time it was Sima Kao's turn to be a little uneasy. He deeply regretted why he asked Zhao Jiaren so much, 'What is a scholar'. If he hadn't said more at the time, Zhao Jiaren would not have come up with the conclusion that 'the compulsory course for scholars and doctors is a history class'. He will not leave the work of adjusting the brief history textbook to Sima Kao.

China is cultured, and before the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven and the princes had their own families of historians. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, the emperor has set up a special chair in front of the emperor to talk about the scriptures and history. In the Song Dynasty, it was called the scripture feast, and the lecturer was filled or concurrently served by Hanlin scholars or other officials. From February to the Dragon Boat Festival and from August to the Winter Solstice Festival every year, they take turns to lecture and read on a single day. Now Zhao Jiaren has turned this kind of sutra feast for the emperor into an educational content for children.

Being able to give the emperor a scripture feast is a very high recognition, and after being driven out of the court by Jia Rudao, Sima Kao felt that he had no talent and lost the opportunity to lecture on the scripture feast. However, after being given a topic that could be used as a lecture at a sutra feast, Sima Kao found that he could not make a satisfactory conclusion about it.

In the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren, a straight bachelor, often gave lectures to the emperor, so the XX hall told the story, but it was a very high status. It proves that the man has very good learning. Sima Kao realized that at his current level, he was not capable of bearing the sutra feast, which made him feel great pain. Xu Yuanzhi's words of questioning Zhao Jiaren undoubtedly sprinkled a handful of salt on Sima Kao's inner wound.

Zhao Jiaren was not moved at all, he also sat down and replied calmly: "If you can understand this, the people will be able to fight for Huaxia to the end without fear." I'm not talking about waiting for the Mongols to stick out their heads and let the Mongols cut them off after they enter the Great Song Dynasty, but to join the army and share the winners and losers with the Mongols on the battlefield. ”

"Become a female emperor after winning the war?" Xu Yuanzhi continued to ask with a straight face.

Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "Isn't it difficult for the country to reward meritorious officials?" Do you have to force meritorious people to rise up and rebel? Hua Mulan didn't do it back then, but it proved that Khan really rewarded her for being a high-ranking official. As for the female emperor, these dolls just saw the freshness and talked nonsense for a while. It's hard for Xu Zhizhou to be real with a few female dolls. Or does Xu Zhizhou think that these female dolls are worthy of your attention? ”

Sima Kao looked at the two people who were facing each other, and it was difficult to say who had the upper hand for a while. At least Sima Kao himself saw the events of the morning as a joke. I didn't expect Xu Yuanzhi to be so serious, and Zhao Jiaren actually accompanied him.

Then Sima Kao listened to Xu Yuanzhi sigh, "Wu Meiniang was born in a family of eunuchs, and she entered the palace and became a female official. So when he was with Li Zhi, he was able to govern the government. Jiaren, you are teaching people like this now, I am afraid that you will teach Wu Meiniang again. ”

Zhao Jiaren puffed up his chest and said: "Teaching Wu Meiniang is better than the Great Song Dynasty being destroyed by the hands of Mongolia." I don't hide it from you, I once predicted to Jia Xianggong that Mongolia would go south. There is no need to predict that Mongolia's southward movement will be within three years or even sooner. I'm going to have to plan for a rainy day. ”