"A-Niang doesn't have to worry about me, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and there are so many years, don't think too much." Cheng Jin had a heartless smile on his face, and comforted him like an innocent child.

"You are still a child, I don't understand...... Mrs. Cheng pressed her eyebrows tiredly, and suddenly made a lot of determination as if she thought of something, "Ah Jin, you go to the imperial examination." ”

Cheng Zhan mentioned this matter to her before, and she has been hesitating, worried that the imperial examination will affect Cheng Jin's marriage, but at this juncture, Cheng Jin's fame in the examination is the best way to break the situation.

Liang Dian stipulates that once a woman achieves fame, she can marry freely, without the orders of her parents, the words of the matchmaker, and even the marriage does not have to be ignored, everything depends on the autonomy of both men and women, and at the same time there is a rule that she must be a wife.

This also starts with a public case in the time of Taizu, when a female county magistrate who entered the imperial examination won the blue eyes of King Qi, the son of Taizu, and wanted to be accepted as a side concubine, but the female county magistrate insisted on refusing to accept it, the reason was that she did not want to be a concubine.

After Taizu knew, he actually appreciated the sentiment of the female county order, and issued a decree that those who can be admitted to the imperial examination are even women who are handsome among the people, and those who can be awarded officials to educate the people are people with both ability and political integrity.

So the princess of Qi, who gave birth to two sons and a daughter for the king of Qi, was inexplicably demoted to a side concubine, and the female county commander was welcomed into the palace of the king of Qi in a beautiful way and became the princess of Qi.

This incident was not only the original Princess Qi's anger, but also the voices of opposition inside and outside the court were also higher and higher, and later Taizu Qiangang made an arbitrary decision and personally reprimanded and demoted several officials who were the most fierce, so that the opposition was suppressed.

At that time, it was already the old age of Taizu, and he became more and more arbitrary, so happy, and more and more strict, although he was not as easy as the tyrants of the previous dynasty, but he was often angry and reprimanded.

Although Xiao Sheng was born in the army, his literary talents and eloquence are also first-class, and he often refutes people on the spot and can't come to the stage, those literati are thin-skinned, even if they have a backbone, they can't stand him so embarrassed, and some of them are fragile, and they are scolded by him so much that they choke their breath on the spot.

There was a royal history before, who threatened the king with a tentacle to commit suicide, and directly stepped on Xiao Sheng's bottom line, not only did he fulfill the reputation of this imperial history's death, but also wrote the ten major crimes of this imperial history with his own hands, denounced him as a disloyal, unkind and unrighteous person, and the pen was like a knife to nail him to death on the pillar of shame, and the whole family of this imperial history was not a criminal, and his descendants were never allowed to enter the imperial examination.

In this way, he does not have the notoriety of indiscriminate killing, and he is still the emperor who is majestic and merciful, but those who oppose him have gained infamy, and their children and grandchildren cannot raise their heads.

As soon as this incident came out, he was as quiet as a chicken.

Since then, those ministers have usually been very tactful in their admonitions, and even if they oppose it, they dare not use radical actions to blackmail Xiao Sheng.

Later, the ministers in the cabinet who pretended to be deaf and dumb revealed the news, and people understood that Xiao Sheng was thinking about the Empress Zhuang and respecting the queen.

Since Empress Zhuang Jing, Taizu swore not to establish a new one for the rest of his life, and built a Sihua Palace for Empress Zhuang Jing in the palace, which shows the deep affection of the emperor and queen, when Empress Zhao was famous all over the world, the thirteenth year has been admitted to understand the Yuan, with her talent and learning, it is possible to become the first female champion of the three yuan and the first in history, but for Taizu gave up the opportunity to continue to enter the imperial examination, and was willing to hide in the harem to assist Taizu to win the world.

Taizu once said to others that the most regrettable thing in his life is not only that Empress Zhuang Jing is not out, but also because Empress Zhuang Jing is weak, and none of her eight sons have been raised and taught by her personally.

The more dissatisfied he saw these children, the more he missed Empress Zhuang Jing, the new princess of King Qi, although her family background and appearance were mediocre, but it made him think of Queen Zhao, so there was such a puzzling one.

After that, he passed the throne to the king of Qi, and after the king of Qi ascended the throne, several princes were raised by the queen, which also confirmed this from the side.

But Cheng Jin knows that these rumors are all deceitful nonsense, Xiao Sheng is not the kind of person who is obsessed with the love of his children, what does he miss Queen Zhuang Jing, he doesn't even let go of her soul, and what kind of thoughts do he talk about, it is better to say that he is more convincing than a weak heart.

What's more, people like him, I'm afraid they don't know what a weak heart is, but they just used her as a disguise, the original intention was just to recruit talents for the sake of the beam, although the previous dynasty allowed women to participate in the imperial examination, but most of those brave and talented women were born in famous families, because of the family, these women are usually reluctant to enter the office, but hidden in the inner courtyard of the house for the family plan.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, Xiao Sheng's ambition to sweep away the previous dynasty, the most needed, and the most lacking is talent, even the courtiers of the previous dynasty He reused, not to mention women, as long as it is beneficial to the Liang, he is willing to use.

Xiao Sheng has been with her for a long time, not like those pedantic men who look down on women, but feel that women may not be inferior to men, there are also many talented heroes among women, because there were not only several female generals under Xiao Sheng's command back then, but also many female officials, those brave and talented women can prosper the family as long as one is there, just like Zhao Hua was also for him back then, and he was willing to give up his future.

On the one hand, he wanted to enrich talents for his own use, and on the other hand, he wanted the local family to become bigger, so he deliberately promoted women to the imperial examination.

What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom.

Although there are not many women who can be admitted to the imperial examination, but there are not a few people who participate, but those who have surplus wealth at home and love their daughters, as long as their daughters are willing to go to school, most of them will send them to school.

But these women who have entered the school have a high vision, and they are naturally no longer satisfied with blindly marrying and marrying dumbly at the behest of the elders in the family, and getting along with male students in the academy day and night.

Those women were full of thought that they were sincere in their efforts, and they had the rules of Taizu in front of them, and they would be able to be their wives, and they didn't care whether the other party had a wife or not, and they didn't take the other party's previous wife in their eyes.

But they forgot that the freedom of marriage decreed by the Emperor Taizu was not only free for women, but also for men, and if men did not want to marry those women, as long as they were not included as concubines, it would not be considered a violation of the order, and they only needed to give some money to settle the knot privately.