New York and the surrounding states such as New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as the entire American political family, as well as businessmen with a certain amount of wealth, such as John Jacob Aster, are all discussing and preparing to participate in the New York imperial examination.

The news quickly spread across the boundaries of the United States, and many Canadians received it.

Next, it even spread to the mainland of Taixi, and the intellectuals of the Taixi countries were also eager to participate.

The New York imperial examination soon became the hottest topic in the Tessie world.

So much so that it was about to overshadow the heat of Napoleon's reign, the independence of Canada and the United States.

It was mainly the entry of the Ming Dynasty that forced Napoleon to stop the offensive, and the course of the war between the two sides came to a standstill.

The two sides began to build defensive positions on a long front in Central Virginia, western North Carolina, and southwestern Tenna.

Waiting for the troops dispatched by Britain and France to arrive in Yinzhou, the real battle to the death.

This situation was promoted as mediation by the Taixi media, and the two colonies of Dongyi were the remuneration for the Ming Dynasty to mediate the Yinzhou War.

The two Changshi Mansions of Dongyi Kingdom, while preparing for the official imperial examination, in order to take over the subordinate county seats, in order to deal with more people, had to ask Xichang to help, and temporarily recruited a group of translators in advance.

For the time being, it will be used as external personnel, and after they pass the assessment, they will be given the official establishment of Dongyi State.

George Thomas Staunton, a peripheral member of the West Factory, also hung up the establishment of the Dongyi Imperial Court through this channel.

Si Dangdong didn't just come to rub the establishment, but also took the nationality and even citizenship of Dongyi to cooperate with Ruan Yuan's work.

Thomas Stockton, who openly consulted with Right Long History in Wilmington, was also screened out for hire.

Stockton was a graduate of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.

Stockton has historically served as a soldier with the highest rank of infantry major and was the thirty-third governor of Delaware.

Stockton, who is 25 years old this year, can be regarded as relatively capable among young people of the same age.

At the suggestion of the West Factory, Nguyen Yuan took Thomas and Stockton with him as his translator and informal staff.

That morning, as Staunton was sorting out the list of translators sent to the counties, a question suddenly came to mind.

So Staunton immediately went to ask Ruan Yuan:

"Dong Weng, including his subordinates, is now a civil servant in the Dongyi Governor's Mansion.

And the translator can be regarded as a bridge between the royal palace and the people, so should they indicate something in the crown and clothing?

"Should we continue to wear everyday clothes, or should we change to the clothes of the traditional clerical staff of the Ming Dynasty?"

Ruan Yuan was planning the details of the exam, and when he heard this question, he thought of Zhu Jingyuan's reply.

It is mainly the Taixi people to be used in the future of Dongyi, and the Taixi civil servants in Dongyi, how to screen them.

Ruan Yuan actually didn't doubt Zhu Jingyuan's judgment.

Ruan Yuan, like most traditional Ming people, actually has no good feelings for people who completely abandon their own ethnic group.

In ancient times, there was not much affection for people who surrendered easily and flattered people of different races.

But the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty all remembered the reminder of His Majesty Emperor Shizu:

"Don't expect everyone to be loyal, honest, and right all the time.

"If you only want to find perfect courtiers and subordinates, you will inevitably fall into a situation where no one is available.

"Putting people in action with shortcomings is an ability that all decision-makers should have."

Ruan Yuan also understands that in order for these people to play a role, they must first be seen clearly.

And to see a person clearly, sometimes it only takes a few words, and sometimes it can take many days.

You can go to the survey and evaluation specifically, or you can find an opportunity to evaluate at any time.

So Ruan Yuan commanded:

"Dangdong, you go and gather the hired translators, let's have a small meeting and discuss it together."

Staunton was visibly surprised:

"Dong Weng, do you need the translators to talk more about this kind of thing? You just decide, right? ”

Ruan Yuan thought for a while and reminded Staunton to say:

"I want to hear everyone's opinions, just to understand everyone's mentality......"

Staunton suddenly realized:

"I'll arrange it."

Half an hour later, in the medium conference room of Dongyi's Right Changshi Mansion, all the twenty-four translators recruited by the local government were present.

The interpreters sat in their seats, all visibly nervous and excited.

Sensing that Ruan Yuan was observing above, he sat even more dangerously, and he didn't dare to breathe.

Ruan Yuan once again looked at these "bridges" between Ming and the West as a whole.

On his left hand side was Staunton, on his right hand side was Stockton, and more than twenty other translators lined up on either side.

When recommending the people of the West Factory, they chose a relatively young person as much as possible, and the translators present were all between the ages of 18 and 30.

Among them, there are also six women, who have been specially selected by the West Factory.

The women of Tessie are certainly far more open in their personal lives than the women of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for this is the religiously restricted monogamy, which has led to the phenomenon of mistresses becoming conventional.

If the women of the whole society are very conservative, if adultery is a felony like the Ming Dynasty, how can the nobles of Taixi legally get more women?

Kings and top nobles can't spend all day fooling around in brothels.

Therefore, Tessie women are only open to the relationship between men and women, and they are still subject to various restrictions in normal life.

They can't wear pants, and their clothes can't leak out of their limbs, but they can leak out of their chests.

Their political status is also not high.

In the original history, the female officials of Taixi in the nineteenth century and before cannot be said to be completely absent, but can only be said to be rare, and there is no essential gap between them and the female officials in ancient China.

They were all given official status for some special reason, or by special people for special purposes.

In other words, their status is unrepeatable.

There is no universal and open normal way to become an official.

Tessie, where parliamentary politics was very common, did not officially begin to grant women the right to vote until the beginning of the twentieth century.

In this world, due to the initiative of Emperor Shizu Zhu Cihong, women in the Ming Dynasty had to rely on the same opportunity to go to school and participate in the imperial examination as men very early.

Since then, political rights have been acquired that are nominally very similar to those of men.

In the Ming Dynasty, fair schooling and imperial examinations were the most important political rights, which were equivalent to the right to vote for women in Taixi.

Although the government has not taken the initiative to promote and take care of it, coupled with the influence of social customs, the actual number of women in official positions is still relatively small.

However, it is already possible to see the names of several female officials on the list of officials in various places.

They are already universal.

It is no longer dependent on the special needs of certain people, and it is no longer because of some special circumstances that one accidentally becomes an official.

Their identities and achievements can be replicated.

Other women, if they aspire to them, have the opportunity to become officials like them as long as they study and participate in the imperial examinations.

The popularity of Mingxue in the Taixi continent also led to the relative improvement of the political status of women in Taixi.

However, the women of this world rarely fight for the right to vote, but naturally choose another path.

Under the banner of learning from the Ming Dynasty, the Taixi court was required to adopt a universal system of evaluation, appointment and dismissal of civil servants and officials.

In other words, most of them are anti-election and support the imperial examination.

Because the struggle for the right to vote is not as fast as the universal imperial examination system in many cases.

Women are given the right to vote, and the female elite is going to go to the elections, and they are going to mobilize ordinary women.

Moreover, the right to vote and the right to be elected are not the same thing, and being able to elect others does not mean that you can allow others to elect yourself.

However, if the imperial examination system is popularized, as long as they study hard, they will have the opportunity to become officials directly.

The key is that to promote the universal imperial examination system, you can pull the tiger skin of the Ming Dynasty, and the Daming West Factory will secretly give some support.

At the same time, this also leads to the fact that most of the elite women in Taixi generally respect and support the culture and system of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Dongyi Guo translated here, and found many elite women from Taixi who were willing to come to work.

These translators are all born at least in the middle class, at least in the class of people who have no worries about food and clothing.

Otherwise, there will be no chance to go to school, let alone a chance to be proficient in Daming Yayan.

And the translators can be regarded as the face of the Ming ruling class, although their status is similar to the translators in the anti-Japanese drama, but now their images cannot be selected according to the harlequin, so they must be positive roles.

Therefore, none of the twenty-four translated translations selected are ugly in image.

Most of them are above average, and a few men and women can even be said to be very handsome.

In their costumes, only three of them are dressed in traditional Tessie costumes, all of them men.

All six women wore Ming-style skirts, and seven men also wore Ming-style caftans.

The last eight boys wore "New Ming-style Taixi suits" designed by Prince Daishi.

Staunton wore a Ming-style gown, and Stockton wore a new formal attire.

The Changshi Mansion did not ask them how to dress before.

So how they choose their clothes can explain their attitude to a certain extent.

Ruan Yuan felt that just by looking at the clothes, he could divide these people into several three or four different types.

When the local people see them, they definitely feel differently.