"Anything else?" Wang Jibao looked at Lu Xueying.

Lu Xueying waved her hand again and again: "I will do whatever you ask me to do." But I can't take care of the question. ”

Wang Jibao said thoughtfully: "It's actually not bad to choose someone who listens to the command. "If you don't have great wisdom, but you are willing to obey the leadership of your superiors, it is actually a manifestation of a good employee.

Lu Xueying opened her mouth slightly, and said in some surprise: "Huh? What I said is useful, right? ”

"Of course it works. You used to be a very creative person. How can this become a family and raise children, it is like a different person. Wang Jibao shook his head and sighed.

Many women are like this, once a person who used to be very ambitious returns to the family, he thinks more about his husband and children, and thus loses the initial momentum.

If Lu Xueying was not a person with ideas a few years ago, then no one would dare to say that she had an idea.

Before she and Lu Hongbo got married, she could do things like blocking Wang Yuxun every day, and as a woman, she took the initiative to propose marriage to the man.

I chatted with the two of them a little more, and when it was close to noon, I wanted to leave the two of them for lunch together. But both of them were worried about the children at home, so Wang Jibao asked Liangchen to bring some pastries for the two of them to take back for their children to eat. The other day, those little guys loved to eat when they stayed here.

The matter of the Lord Regent's establishment of the Zhan Mansion to elect female officials was posted on various bulletin boards in Shaojing City as early as possible.

This time, the examination will be divided into two examination rooms.

One of the examination rooms was set in a three-entry mansion selected by Wang Xibao that was very close to the Shaowang Mansion. It will be transformed into her Zhan Shi Mansion.

The other examination room is set at the Royal Palace.

Because there are many high-grade stewards and palace maids in the palace, they are more experienced in management. If nothing else, it may be the key unit for the selection of female officers this time.

When it really came to the day of the election of officials, because there were more people in Shaojing who had a wait-and-see attitude, there were really not many people who came to Zhan Shifu for assessment, and there were only sixteen in total.

After Wang Jibao asked Liangchen and others to arrange seats for them, he explained the order of the examination room. Then the test papers will be issued uniformly to start the assessment.

When the test papers were issued, the candidates were a little dumbfounded when they saw that the test questions were not imaginary poems and songs at all, and most of them were actual questions.

Especially among them, there are a few so-called Shaojing talented women, who usually ask them to write a poem to make a fu, and then a pair or something, they are good, but this time the exam questions really make them feel embarrassed by the rich daughters who don't understand the suffering of the world.

For example, there are a large number of refugees in the city, as a female official, what can you do for them?

Soup kitchen, right? Right? Since there is no better answer, it is soup kitchen. Anyway, when there are refugees, many families will do this to show that they are a charitable family. Even they sometimes do it in their own houses. As a result, most of the candidates answered in this way.

When you become a female officer, what can you offer to widowed women so that they can support themselves and their children?

What else does this offer? Give me some silver. Some people wrote down this answer. Obviously, the family has a lot of money.

How to place the remaining palace maids and eunuchs in the harem?

Is this a bit difficult? Or do you want to sell it? Obviously, her family has dealt with people like this.

What do you want to do for the people after becoming a female official?

I don't know? Isn't being this female official doing things for the eldest princess? What to do for the people? It is to give or help the poor during the New Year's holidays.

If you had ten thousand taels of silver in your hand now, what would you do with it?

10,000 taels! It's not a lot but it's a lot, but what exactly is it going to do? I don't need to buy more food, clothing, etc. for disaster relief.

……

The following test questions are varied, including agriculture, medicine, education, etc., and the answers are even more varied.

It wasn't until there were two questions on the "Four Books and Five Classics" that there was a relatively unified answer.

When these people returned, they were all empty-hearted. What kind of questions are these? If there were no questions in the "Four Books and Five Classics", it is estimated that some of them would be able to hand in blank papers.

The result of the verdict is quite laughable. In the end, Wang Jibao could only select three of them who were a little more reliable, and entered the re-examination five days later.

Early the next morning, Wang Jibao went to the palace to visit the little emperor Xu Zhenhua, who had not been seen for many days. In the end, the little emperor pestered her to supervise the hall with her, and assessed the palace maids who applied for the female officials.

Although most of these palace maids have grades, there are two assistant harem masters of the third grade, four palace maids who used to serve Emperor Shaowen from the third grade, and a few palace stewards like Lanxiang Mama from the fifth grade.

But this rank is not the same as the state-recognized official position of the female official of the Zhan Mansion. There is no comparison between the salary and the treatment. Therefore, after hearing that Wang Jibao was going to recruit female officials, these palace maids who were still worried about their future prospects were also eager to participate. You know, this is a major event for the glory of the ancestors.

"See Your Majesty! See Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess! ”

Seeing that Xu Zhenhua was speechless for a long time, Wang Jibao glanced at him and pulled his little hand. Xu Zhenhua realized that he was not a child who was playing with Wang Jibao this time, but the king of a country.

So he waved his hand and said majestically: "No courtesy!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Her Royal Highness Princess Xie! ”

After everyone got up, Wang Jibao said to Su Mingran: "Okay, Female Officer Su, take your people to arrange seats for them to start the assessment." ”

"Yes!" Su Mingran then took out a list, began to roll call according to the list, and then assigned seats.

After everyone sat down, Wang Jibao called Liangchen, beautiful scenery, bright sun, and sunny day four people curly.

The content on the paper is similar to the content of the previous day's assessment, but today's assessment has added palace affairs, words and deeds, morality, etiquette, female celebrity and other aspects of the assessment.

The palace maids in the palace often get the grace to leave the palace, and the most common occupation is to raise the grandmother. Zhou Yaxue gave her a wake-up call. Since society attaches more importance to women, there should be professionals specializing in management and assessment among her female officers.

How many of those people outside can compare with these palace maids in the palace, especially the elderly grandmothers? Therefore, Wang Jibao left this exam question to this group of palace maids to answer.

At the end of the assessment, Wang Jibao asked Su Mingran to read the paper with her.

Overall, they answered much better than those who signed up outside the palace. At the very least, many of them answer the questions from the perspective of the overall situation, rather than just their own thoughts.

On the day of the re-examination outside the palace, Wang Jibao admitted a total of three more pragmatic people who answered.

Two of these three people arrived at the Eldest Princess's Mansion and Zhan Shi's Mansion in advance. The other one dragged on and on for half an hour.

Wang Jibao decisively let the third person out.

After the remaining two people finished saluting Wang Jibao with trembling, Wang Jibao glanced at the two people who were still quite nervous.

Among them, the one on the left is tall and has a somewhat bitter face, which is commonly known as the bitter gourd face. The one on the right is petite, but his appearance is delicate, and he belongs to the small jasper type. Judging by the age, both of them should be over twenty years old.

Wang Jibao said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Congratulations on passing the preliminary examination and entering the second examination." Please report to your home first. ”

The next two people, you look at me, I look at you, are both motioning to the other party to speak first.

Wang Jibao also found that his question was too unspecific, so there was such a result, so he immediately corrected: "The one with a taller figure on the left should report first." ”

The man took a step forward and said to Wang Jibao's very restrained body: "The people's woman Qiao Huang." ”

Finished? That's too simple, isn't it?

Wang Jibao had to ask: "What else?" Like how old are you? The more detailed you are about your current situation and what you are doing at home, the better. ”

The man bowed and said, "Yes." Then he recounted his situation:

"The woman is twenty-three years old this year, and her name is Xiu'e. His ancestral home is Yuanshui County in the suburbs of Shaojing. My father was originally a showman, but because my mother was sick, my father gave up continuing to gain fame and became a teacher in a private school, making a living from teaching.

Since there is only one daughter in the family, my father began to teach women to read and write since she was a child. Later, my mother died when she was eight years old. In the following years, my father's health was not good, and the family had no savings, until the woman was fifteen years old, and my father also passed away.

Before his death, my father sent the woman to Qiao's family, a wealthy local family who had been married to a baby since childhood. But who would have thought that their family would finally demote the women to concubines on the grounds that the women were fathers, mothers, and possibly husbands. If the woman did not agree, their family used the funeral of the woman's father as a bargaining chip to force the woman to comply. In the end, the women had no choice but to agree.

One day after being a concubine for three years, the husband was beaten to death because he drank flower wine and robbed the oiran with others. The husband's family insisted that it was the husband who was killed by the people's women, and finally drove the people's women out. ”

Wang Jibao asked with concern: "What happened later?" How did you live the next five years? ”

Huang Xiu'e replied: "The women came to Shaojing to make a living, washing clothes, sewing and mending, and doing some embroidery work. A few days ago, I heard that the eldest princess Zhan Shifu was going to recruit female officials, and the women thought about giving it a try. ”

Huang Xiu'e was a little embarrassed in the end. She was not even willing to hire her from wealthier families, so she could only support herself by doing some rough work in the end.

Wang Jibao nodded, and then asked, "What are you good at?" ”

"In addition to literacy and hyphenation, folk women really have nothing else to be good at. But the women are willing to endure hardships, and the women don't need to be any female officials, as long as the eldest princess is willing to take them in, the women are willing to do whatever they want. Huang Xiu'e said in an almost pleading tone at the end.