Chapter Seventy-One: Long Live the Empress
This man, who is said to have come from the imperial court, frothed at the mouth and read the decree for a long time, but the problem also came
- What is he talking about?
Yes, the villagers of Anjia Village, who were born and raised, could not understand the official language.
Liu Chenxing, as a villager of Anjia Village, finally learned the pronunciation of ancient Chinese at this time, and he still had an authentic accent in Qingyang County, Beizhou, Hebei Province, and of course he couldn't understand the official dialect.
Liu Chenxing was dumbfounded.
She never expected that she would encounter such an embarrassing situation when she heard the official documents of the imperial court for the first time, and she was busy looking left and right, but although she saw that Ye Niang and other villagers were in a daze, they were not in a hurry at all.
Liu Chenxing's black grape-like eyes rolled, then he emptied his eyes and continued to listen to the book of heaven.
In the face of a group of villagers who could not understand the official language, the official messenger who read out the will of the imperial court should have been prepared.
Therefore, when he finally read out the will in his hand, I saw him close the silk silk, and then held the back of one hand of the silk silk, put one hand under his mouth, and cleared his throat with a few "cough coughs", and then used the local dialect of Qingyang County to summarize two major points and three small points in the vernacular:
1. The Empress Dowager was invited by the people to ascend the throne as emperor on September 9, and changed her name to Zhou. At the same time, the emperor was the emperor's heir and the surname Gu was given. From then on, they were no longer the people of the Great Qi Shen Dynasty, but the people of the Great Zhou Gu Dynasty.
Second, when the new emperor ascends the throne, he naturally wants to give amnesty to the world, not to mention the unprecedented female emperor system. So the newly appointed Empress Gu Shi waved her hand and there were three new decrees:
First, the emperor's grace blessed all the people and exempted this year's autumn tax.
Second, the empress attaches great importance to the selection of talents, and cherishes the students in the world, so she opens an additional imperial examination.
So on October 15 of that year, the county test was added. On December 1, a state test was added. In May of the following year, a provincial examination was added.
In addition, next year's imperial examination will be held as usual.
Third, the empress believed that there were matrilineal clans in ancient times, and it can be seen that women are not inferior to men. Since women can read and write, it is natural to set up a female imperial examination.
The female imperial examination is all in accordance with the existing imperial examination system.
The first women's examination was scheduled for May of the following year.
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Probably thinking that Anjia Village is a small village, there will be no scholars at all, let alone any female scholars, and the official who read the will probably said about the increase in the imperial examination and the establishment of the female imperial examination, and then returned to the exemption of autumn tax, and concluded: "The empress cares about the people of Li and exempts you from paying this year's autumn tax, so thank you quickly!" β
In recent years, the rumors that the Queen Mother is going to be the empress have spread to everyone, and now that the Queen Mother is finally the empress, the villagers don't think it's so shocking, but there is a sense of settled.
Therefore, when I heard that the Queen Mother became the empress, I invariably sighed:
"Oops, the Queen Mother is finally the emperor herself......"
"Yes! The rumors of this empress have been going on for many years, and they have finally come true! β
"I said that the Queen Mother will become the empress sooner or later, isn't that it!?"
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The villagers were talking about it, and whoever became the emperor was the same to them anyway.
But when they heard that the empress wanted to exempt this year's autumn tax, the villagers reacted differently.
was overjoyed, excited and unable to control himself, as for whether to increase the imperial examination in the future, or whether the founding female imperial examination had turned a deaf ear, and only cared about thanking the empress vigorously, as if she had become a loyal supporter of the empress.
An Fusheng's family is well-off, and he had already learned in advance that he was not as excited as the villagers, and seeing that the villagers did not react to the words of the official messenger's thanks, he was afraid of annoying the official cha unpleasantly, and he didn't care about the loess and dust on the ground, so he quickly knelt down on his knees and shouted: "Long live the empress!" "I want to say something thankful, but he is just a villager, and he has never been out of their Qingyang County in his life, and he only remembered that the emperor was long live, so he said dryly.
Although his words were poor, An Fusheng was highly respected in the village, so the villagers also knelt down one after another.
"Long live the Empress!"
The voices came and went, one higher than the other.
In the blink of an eye, they have knelt together, and they are all shouting long live.
Looking at a scene that only appears in costume TV series, Liu Chenxing had no intention of sighing, she just wanted to laugh at the sky now - hahaha.
In fact, as far as she knows, in the history of the Celestial Empire, only the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has had a female imperial examination.
But at that time, there was already the germ of capitalism, but now it is clearly still in the heyday of feudal society, and there is a decree on equal rights for men and women such as the female imperial examination!?
Hahaha, Liu Chenxing thinks that Uncle Liu is not the protagonist of the peasant imperial examination, she is!
It turned out that I was worried about how rough this peasant girl's life was.
When I was young, I was poor and oppressed, and when I was older, I married a peasant wife, and my husband was a baby in the boiler by the stove, and the chickens and dogs were really sad.
See!
Uncle Liu said that she had no talent for poetry, and this miserable life allowed her to write limerick poems.
But now it's okay, she can take the imperial examination!
Liu Chenxing's blood was suddenly boiling, and his brain was opened.
The Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Empire also produced an empress, and even produced a talented woman like Shangguan Wan'er, who was deeply used by the empress and drafted an edict for the empress, with the name of "women's prime minister".
Now it is surprisingly similar to the Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Empire, maybe she is the second Shangguan Wan'er!
Hahaha!
Liu Chenxing was excited and excited.
Seeing that everyone was kneeling, the little daughter was still standing straight, and she didn't know what the little head was thinking, she smirked, but fortunately, the little daughter was small and short, even if she was standing, it was almost the same as an adult kneeling, which was not so eye-catching, she breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly dragged the little daughter down, and urged in a low voice: "Don't kneel down yet!" β
Kneeling on the hard and dirty yellow earth, Liu Chenxing was finally pulled back to reality.
Look at the pious villagers on the left and right, and then look at the loess flying sand on the ground, what a female prime minister, what Shangguan Wan'er is second, and she is annihilated in an instant, she is still the little peasant girl who is struggling to make money.
But the future is bright, Liu Chenxing smiled again in a blink of an eye, and quietly said to his beauty A-Niang: "A-Niang, we can also take the imperial examination!" β
Liu also studied, or was taught by Liu's father according to the content of the imperial examination, she also complained about injustice when she was young, why can men take the imperial examination, but women can't?
Especially after her father left, when they were persecuted by the Liu clan, she was even more resentful.
It's just that after a long time, she slowly learned to accept, and when she got married, the tedious housework and children no longer made her have any energy to think about it.
She thought that her heart was calm, but when she heard about the female imperial examination, her heart beat violently uncontrollably.
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Can you also take the imperial examination?
Liu Shi was stunned for a moment, then looked at his little daughter gently, and said, "A-Niang will definitely send you to study for the imperial examination." β
The voice was always soft and warm, drowned in the voices of the crowd shouting long live.
The corners of Liu's mouth were slightly upturned, and he worshipped the empress thousands of miles away with the crowd with great reverence.
Long live the Empress.