The prefect of the Inspectorate is the Imperial History of the Left and Right Cities, and is responsible for supervising the officials. Generally, it is a civil official, and occasionally makes an exception, mainly to work with the cabinet and the criminal department, and can also bypass the cabinet and be directly responsible to the emperor.

The chief of the National Security Yuan is also the imperial history of the left and right capitals, responsible for the post station and supervising the powerful internally, and responsible for investigating military intelligence, planting spies, and so on. It is mainly connected with the Cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Inspectorate, and can also bypass the Cabinet and be directly responsible to the Emperor.

As the domestic situation calmed down, the spies recruited by Xu Ying at the beginning continued to have messy problems due to their uneven quality.

For example, extortion, fish and meat people!

They used to be called black-clothed guards, and some of them relied on their identities to do mischief, and the magistrates did not dare to interfere at all. Even the incorruptible inspector did not dare to take action directly, so he could only report to the emperor after returning to Beijing.

There were more and more such things, and Zhao Hancai decided to regularize the black guard.

Not only did the black guards change their name to the National Security Yuan, but they also placed all the postal systems across the country under the jurisdiction of the National Security Yuan. A large number of low-level spies have been transformed into post guards. A high-ranking spy, transformed into a post, or simply transferred to the Inspectorate as an honest officer. Therefore, in the post stations all over the country, those post guards are basically part-time secret agents, and the post guards will sort out the information collected by the post guards every day.

In each important border area, the National Security Yuan will set up a branch to be responsible for external intelligence and spies. The headquarters of the National Security Agency is responsible for analyzing the intelligence sent from all over the country.

After losing the right to arrest, the National Security Agency was completely reduced to an intelligence organization and a postal unit.

The one who succeeded Xu Ying in controlling the National Security Yuan was the second child of the inn shop in Huangjiazhen at the beginning. The guy who used to only write his own name and only recognize the name of the dish is now not only literate, but also asked Mr. to change his name - Huang Zundu.

is the same as that old man Huang, he is the character of "Zun".

"Have you ever inquired clearly, who paid for "Confucianism"?" Zhao Han asked.

Huang Zundu said: "There are six major shareholders of Confucianism, and three of them have the largest investment. One is the Li family in Nanjing, the second is the Zhang family in Jiaxing, and the third is the Zhai family in Qingzhou. ”

Zhao Han felt very surprised: "It is quite reasonable for the gentry in the capital and Jiangnan to run a newspaper. Why did Shandong people also come to Nanjing to invest and run newspapers? ”

Huang Zundu explained: "Zhai's ancestral home is Anhui, and in the early Ming Dynasty, he first went to Zaoqiang, Hebei, and was sent to Qingzhou to settle down. During the Tianshun period, he migrated to Xihe Village and multiplied into a large family, known as 'Xihe Zhai Clan'. During the Wanli period, Zhai Fengchong was admitted to the Jinshi, joined the Donglin Party, and was demoted and dismissed by the Eunuch Party. Chongzhen recovered in the second year, became the right attendant of the military department, and was promoted to the left attendant of the military department. He also served as the Imperial History of the Inspectorate, supervised Liao, and took charge of schools, and inspected Tianjin and other places. The front line was defeated, and Zhai Fengchong was dismissed and returned to his hometown. ”

Zhao Han sneered: "It turns out that he has supervised Liaoyu, no wonder he has the money to go south to run a newspaper." ”

Huang Zundu continued: "The person who went south to run the newspaper is called Zhai Wenben, and he is the nephew of Zhai Fengchong. Zhai Wenben was raised in the middle of the Chongzhen period, but due to military disasters and plagues, he did not go to Beijing to take the test. After our dynasty recovered Shandong, Zhai Wenben took the initiative to serve, but only became an ordinary official. It is estimated that he felt that the officials were hard and faceless, so he resigned and returned to his hometown to study. Three years ago, in the imperial examination, he was over six years old, could not apply for the Shandong Township Examination, and made a fuss in the provincial capital, and was arrested and locked up in a cell for three days. After that, he went to Nanjing to mingle, participated in the literary meeting, made friends, and co-founded "Confucianism". ”

"It's resentful! Looking at the whole country, this generation does not know how many people there are. Zhao Han said with emotion.

Zhai Wenben was purely self-destructive in his future, and the Datong Army recovered Shandong quite early, and he was already a clerk at that time. If you can work diligently and have a diploma from the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that you have been promoted to the magistrate by now.

But he disdained to be a clerk and took the initiative to resign and go home. finally looked forward to the imperial examination, but who knew that the imperial court was stuck in age again, and now he can only run a newspaper and sour water.

Even if he didn't get stuck in the imperial examination, even if Zhai Wenben was successfully admitted, his official position would not be higher than that of honestly promoting from the beginning.

Zhao Han asked again: "Who is the Cangxuzi who wrote the article?" ”

Huang Zundu replied: "Zhang Tianzhi, a native of Jiaxing Xiushui, has also passed the imperial examination, and when he took the first imperial examination, he was only three years old. Since then, this person has been angry everywhere, writing articles complaining about the imperial examination system of the imperial court. Because some articles were overwritten, no newspaper was willing to publish them, so he partnered with Zhai Wenben and others to set up his own newspaper. ”

"Very well, you go down." Zhao Han expressed his approval of the intelligence work of the National Security Agency.

In fact, this information can be inquired about clearly without leaving Nanjing, because Zhai Wenben and Zhang Tianzhi are too high-profile.

After Huang Zundu left, Zhao Han opened "Confucianism and Fun" again.

It's not so much a newspaper as a magazine. The news is very small, and it is not market news, nor is it political news, it is all elegant and interesting stories between literati. In addition, there are all kinds of literary works, which are not for the common people at all.

However, the sales of "Confucian Fun" were quite high, just because the article was quite out of line, often insinuating and criticizing the policy, and it was in line with the tastes of the traditional gentry.

This article against the women's imperial examination cites scriptures and classics throughout, and even cites Zhao Han's "Theory of Qualifications".

The theory of personality was used by Zhao Han to advocate equality between men and women, but under Zhang Tianzhi's pen, it became a theory against women's imperial examinations. He stubbornly bites the words "men and women, the positions are not equal, and the qualifications are the same", and repeatedly said that he supports equality between men and women, but he must also pay attention to the actual differences between men and women. Women should be in the Lord, husband and children, and should not show their heads, let alone participate in the imperial examination.

Judging from the article alone, there is no violation, and there is no disrespect to the emperor, and the whole article shouts "The Son of Heaven is above".

Since he didn't violate the rules, Zhao Han didn't bother to care, he didn't engage in the crime of being convicted for his words.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year is still very cold, and there is a heavy snowfall on Chinese New Year's Eve.

It is estimated that it was discovered that "Rulin Fun" was not punished, and other newspapers and magazines began to follow suit and publish similar articles. Some of these newspapers are venting their frustrations, and some are purely for sales.

After all, opposing the women's imperial examination is the mainstream of public opinion at the moment, and newspapers must cater to the majority of readers!

One article after another was published, back and forth on those sets of rhetoric, "I Ching", "Book of Rites", "Female Precepts", and "Theory of Personality" were repeatedly quoted. Moreover, every article inevitably cites the "theory of character", which made Zhao Han a pioneer in opposing the women's imperial examination.

At first, only newspapers and magazines were rhythmic, but gradually, there were more popular discussions. Teahouses, wine shops, theaters, green houses, and tile houses...... The matter is being discussed everywhere, and public opinion is one-sided, and few people dare to speak openly for women anymore.

Eastern.

Feng Ze, a wealthy businessman in Hubei, personally brought his daughter to the imperial examination. Since they only arrived in Nanjing after the Chinese New Year, the inn near the Gongyuan was already full, and the father and daughter could only rent a private house outside the city.

"Alas, Ying'er, let's go back," Feng Ze looked at the pile of newspapers and sighed, "Things are turbulent, this muddy water can't be waded." ”

Feng Shunying lowered her eyebrows and did not dare to express her opinion.

In fact, neither father nor daughter thought of becoming officials in the imperial examination. Feng Shunying came to participate in the imperial examination purely because her fiancé died and she had the status of a widow, so it was difficult to find a good in-law who was the right person. So I want to take the female jinshi exam, whether I can be admitted or not, I can improve my worth, and then let the matchmaker find relatives.

This is the mainstream today, and the vast majority of female students study to find a good in-law!

As soon as I heard that someone's daughter was admitted to such and such a university, the matchmakers immediately flocked to it. Placed in the front court, this is equivalent to a female lifter. As long as you marry home, not only will you have face when you get out, but the children you will have in the future will be smarter, and you don't have to worry about your children's education.

But if someone's daughter has not yet married after graduating from college, or even wants to be an official or graduate student, the situation will immediately take a 180-degree turn. It's hard to get married!

The reasons are, first, after graduating from college, she must be older, and she is already a leftover girl at the age of eighteen or nineteen; The second is that women who are officials or scholars are considered to be unruly, and they will definitely not stop marrying and returning home.

So it's an awkward situation right now, and every year there are a lot of women going to college. But these female college students, basically before the third year, used the winter and summer vacations to get married, and when they graduated, they were all married women.

There are more extreme ones, who drop out of school directly after getting married, because it is inconvenient to go to school again. If you go back to school and find out that you're pregnant, it's really hard to argue. It's obviously her husband's flesh and blood.,Some people say it's a wild seed conceived at school.。

Feng Ze asked the servant to pack his luggage and was about to check out, when Feng Shunying finally spoke.

"Father, since you have come to Nanjing, you can't come in vain." Feng Shunying was unwilling.

Feng Ze pointed to the newspapers: "Good daughter, you have also seen it." The women's imperial examination has aroused the anger of the public, if you become a female jinshi, you will not be able to find your in-laws in the future! ”

Feng Shunying lowered her head and said, "What my daughter means is that since she has come to Nanjing, she will wait for some more time." At least...... I went to the Ministry of Rites to get the exam ticket and left. ”

"That's right!"

Feng Ze's eyes lit up and he thought it was a good idea. Although he did not participate in the imperial examination, he had an admission ticket for the examination, and it was very glorious to pass it out, and the matchmaker could take the admission ticket to say goodbye.

In this year's examination, there are less than ten female candidates.

was frightened by the public opinion of the newspaper, and half of it was directly scared away. Some female candidates didn't even get the admission ticket, so they left Nanjing ahead of schedule, for fear of being poked in the backbone by others.

The pen stick on the newspaper is completely unplayable.

There are indeed women's publications, but they are only circulated on a small scale. A talented woman with a big reputation can be famous, and it is also fueled by talents.

In this situation, few talented people are willing to speak out.

The woman wrote an article to refute it, but she could not find a newspaper to publish it. There are newspapers that are willing to publish it, but they are also tabloids with insufficient circulation.

Zhao Han's original intention was to let the people debate for themselves.

Now this situation makes Zhao Han very disappointed. But he and "Datong Monthly" cannot end up in person.

What can I do?

Zhao Han called Huang Zundu: "Pass it on, and it will be said that the emperor was influenced by the public opinion of the newspaper and felt that women really shouldn't show up." From now on, even textile factories are no longer allowed to hire women as weavers. ”

This news will make the capitalists explode directly!

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