Liu Shangshu really wanted to slap himself twice, blaming him for being too strong just now, and didn't take Zhong Ling, the queen in his eyes, in the slightest, and now he can only ask for more blessings with a small hope.

"Liu Shangshu's move is a crime of bullying the king, and it is not an exaggeration to kill your entire family. However, Your Majesty and I are thinking that you are a veteran of the two dynasties and a conscientious and conscientious person for the country and the people. Zhong Ling suddenly changed his words and said slowly.

Liu Shangshu immediately raised his head when he heard this, and after finding a positive answer in Zhong Ling's eyes, he began to kowtow like a chicken pecking rice, "Thank you Niangniang, thank you Your Majesty for not killing you, in the future, the old ministers and their families will definitely fulfill their duties, and they will never dare to go beyond half a step!" ”

Zhong Ling squinted, his head was still knocked like this, didn't it hurt? She waved her hand and said, "But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, how can you easily let it go of your Majesty's deliberate design?" ”

"But it's punished by the mother!" Liu Shangshu finally picked up a life, how dare he bargain, "In the future, as long as Your Majesty and Niangniang speak, the old minister will die even if he goes up the sword mountain and goes down to the sea of fire!" ”

Pretty!

Zhong Ling slapped her thigh, this is what she was waiting for!

"Ahem...... "Realizing that he was a little out of shape, Zhong Ling quickly adjusted, coughed lightly and said, "I'm not the king of Yin, and I don't want to see those pictures that hurt others and myself, but it's also a coincidence, I really need Liu Shangshu's help here, I don't know if you ......"

"Mother, please speak!" Liu Shangshu clenched his hands into fists and asked respectfully.

"I know that I have run a women's college, and there is a lot of criticism in the court, and you can't stop it. If we want to solve the problem fundamentally, we can only speak with facts. Zhong Ling slowed down, looked at Shen Yichi, who was sitting on the side, and continued, "So I want to hold a competition in three days, and I bother Liu Shangshu to invite hundreds of officials from the court and the central government to preside over the competition." ”

In fact, Zhong Ling has long had this idea, those who oppose women learning to merge into the court as officials are some frogs at the bottom of the well, taking it for granted that women are stupid, inherently unsuitable for using their brains, and they do not have the wisdom and courage to discuss national affairs. Zhong Ling didn't believe in this evil, she just wanted the civil and military officials to see that the female students she taught were no worse than those young talents in their mouths, or even better!

She hopes to use the facts to make those old stubborns completely change their minds, so as to better implement the policy of women's learning!

It's just that there has always been a lack of an opportunity, and there is also a lack of an intermediary to coordinate and connect the two aspects, since Liu Shangshu has taken the initiative to appear, how can she not use it?

"Dare to ask Niangniang what is the competition compared to, individual participation?" Liu Shangshu asked cautiously, so that he could prepare in advance.

"The competition is contested by two parties, one is a student of my women's college, and the other is all the men in the capital, whether they are hundreds of officials in the court or ordinary people who have no meritorious official positions. As for the competition items, let's discuss and decide together for the sake of fairness. ”

Liu Shangshu has lived for such a long time, and has experienced hundreds of games, but it is the first time he has heard of the game in Zhong Ling's mouth.

Despite this, Liu Shangshu felt that compared to his old life, everything was nothing, not to mention that this was the request of his life-saving benefactor! He responded, without the slightest hesitation, and left the imperial study with his children with great gratitude.

Shen Yichi ordered the other attendants to leave and closed the door, grabbed Zhong Ling and sat on his lap, gently scraped her delicate nose, and said with a smile, "You girl, you are very ghostly!" ”

A bad game of chess was played by Zhong Ling with the effect of Wang Bang, which not only played a role in intimidation, so that others could not covet Shen Yichi, but also sold Liu Shangshu a favor, so that an enemy who regarded her as a thorn in the flesh became a confidant who obeyed her words, and arranged a long-planned game, which was simply killing three birds with one stone, which was not easy. Shen Yichi sometimes thinks that if it weren't for the ancient society where the idea of male superiority and inferiority was rampant, Zhong Ling might be more emperor-like than him!

Zhong Ling smiled and scratched his head, "Who makes this group of people always toast and not eat and drink, they can only use some special means to deal with them!" ”

"Your group of female students have only been studying for two months, and they are all pampered, is there any hope for the competition?" Shen Yichi was a little suspicious, it had taken Zhong Ling a lot of energy to make the princess lords obedient some time ago, and he didn't know where she got her confidence now.

The corners of Zhong Ling's lips were lightly raised, and he sold a pass, "What the result is, let's wait and see." ”

Three days later, the competition was held as scheduled.

To Zhong Ling's surprise, this competition not only invited hundreds of civil and military officials in the court, but also many businessmen and literary giants, who had a lot of influence in the capital. It seems that Tobe Shangshu's popularity is much better than she imagined, and everyone is also very concerned about this game. Grave

In fact, the women's college and the matter of women entering the court as officials are boiling over inside and outside the capital, except for Shen Yichi's unconditional support, almost no one stands on Zhong Ling's side, and even many women feel that she is tossing blindly, and it is the duty of women to teach their husbands and children at home, how can they show their heads, and say what kind of rebellious words such as equality between men and women?

They came over today to witness the scene of Zhong Ling slapping his face on the spot, and to see how the queen mother of the dignified Lingyun Kingdom should end this farce.

In this game, the women's college is a team, headed by Zhong Ling, and the men recruited in the past few days are a group, headed by Liu Shangshu. For the sake of fairness, each side writes five slips of paper, each stating the sport that each party is good at, and then draws lots to decide the final event.

In addition to learning embroidery and female red, the women's college also has more than ten kinds of courses such as horse riding, archery, guqin, poetry, etc., which cover a wide range of even many young talents.

Zhong Ling, in line with the principle of fairness and justice, did not write items such as female celebrity on the slip of paper, but chose other sports.

"Dean, we won the embroidery, why don't you write it? The opponent doesn't matter if you are a woman or not, what they write on the note must be physical sports that we are not very good at. "Quite a few female students started complaining.

"This competition was originally to show everyone your excellent side, if you really draw a female red, according to the appearance of their group of small-bellied chicken intestines, they will definitely say something unfair afterwards, we just want to convince them to lose!" Zhong Ling smiled slightly and continued, "Besides, you are all soldiers brought out by me personally, no matter what, I have a lot of confidence in you!" ”

Zhong Ling's words not only showed the reason, but also boosted morale, the female students were full of confidence, after a few months of training, they were no longer the delicate princesses and county lords when they first came to the capital, but brave and good at fighting, so that Zhong Ling was proud of outstanding talents.

The competition was quickly decided after the drawing of lots, and it was divided into three games, namely historiography, medical skills, and the ability to lead troops into battle.

As soon as these three items were announced, there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the venue like a fried pot. The men who participated in the game were gearing up one by one, feeling that they were in control of the victory, as for this ridiculous game, it was just a formality, and the result was self-evident, it seemed that the queen's face was going to be rubbed on the ground.

"We won today, and those women really can't afford to compete with us. We are all familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and there are many people who have practiced martial arts since childhood, the famous Langzhong in the capital, and the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital are also here today, and those women are delusional to compete with us. ”

"That's it, if it's better than embroidery and cooking, we may really not be able to do it, but these three games, it's not me to brag, labor and management can win even with their eyes closed!"

"Alas, you said that this queen is really asking for her own hardship, how good it would be if the women's college couldn't go on and withdraws directly, let's just turn a blind eye and treat it as if nothing happened, and the result is that everyone has to make a fuss, this face, I really don't know where to put it in the future!"

“…”

Many men talked loudly, and Zhong Ling and the female students, who were ten meters away and heard clearly, seemed to have the results of the competition.

A female student finally couldn't listen anymore and wanted to come forward to theorize, but Zhong Ling grabbed her wrist and shook her head to signal them to ignore it for the time being.

"Dean, they are so rampant, this game didn't start a game, they got together to brag, and the voice was so loud that it was clearly for us!"

Zhong Ling raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "What if they show off?" Is it useful to reason with them, they don't know where the confidence comes from, and the result of the theory can only be their own anger. It's better to save up enough energy and give them a hard blow in the arena for a while! ”

Historiography of the first game. Liu Shangshu discharged a middle-aged man who looked like a crepe, with a big belly and a lot of money, it is said that it was compiled in the palace and has been an official in the court for decades.

As a compiler in the palace, he naturally has to read historical collections often, and even the time when every emperor in the past dynasties was born and died can be memorized backwards.

Zhong Ling sent a thin woman, she was originally a little maid under a certain county lord, and she was fortunate to get Zhong Ling's favor, she did not choose to go out to work like most people, and chose to stay and join the women's college.

She was poor in her family since she was a child, and was sold by her family to work as a maid in the general's mansion, dreaming of jumping out of the dragon gate and ending her life of repression and suffering. And Shen Yichi's announcement that on the day that "the students who rank first in each course can enter the court as officials" This holy decree gave her a glimmer of hope, and she read the poetry history collection every day, saying that it is not an exaggeration to say that the head is hanging over the beam and the cone is thorny, and she hopes to rely on her own ability to please the shackles of fate.

The game begins.