Chapter 170: Soul Suppression
The breeze blows the Temple of Literature, and the female voice shakes the sky.
Wang Cunshu and Qi Xiaoxing asked and answered each other's questions all the way from the Four Books and Five Classics, and gradually became a debate.
One said "honesty and truth-seeking", the other said "self-denial and self-restraint"*, one was realistic, and the other was self-cultivation, which was really hearty.
Through the gate, he could see the statue of Confucius in the Temple of Literature, and he held the scroll in his hand and looked down to see the two women explain the schools of Confucianism for thousands of years.
Mi Xinlan sat aside, shaking the paper fan in her hand, and carefully described the scene in front of her in her heart.
A female official stood beside her and said with a smile, "Master Mi, the Jinyi guard has invited Governor Lu to go down."
Mi Xinlan nodded slightly, and said slowly:
"It is common to arrest a villain with rampant selfishness, like Wang and Qi who are arguing in front of the Temple of Literature, which is really unheard of, Zhang Dian learns from you and puts those trivial things down to see this scene."
Hearing Mi Xinlan say that arresting Lu Zhongqi was just a trivial and common matter, Zhang Wu, the director of the Shangwen Bureau, hooked her lips and smiled.
"What the adults said is, I thought that Qi Xiaoxing was already a rare talented woman in the world, but I didn't expect that this Wang Cunshu could be on a par with her? It is really eye-opening to see these two people fighting today, and I am afraid that in three or five years, there will be no woman in this world who can compare with these two people in the scriptures."
The fan in Mi Xinlan's hand paused slightly.
"Zhang Dianxue, there are many talented women in this world, if you want to say amazing......
Zhang Wu looked at Mi Xinlan and only saw her lowering her eyes.
"If you want to say that you are amazing, Zhang Dianxue, you should still go out and take a look to know."
"Mi-sama means that you know a woman who is far better than the two in front of you? Who is that? Your niece? Or a famous lady in Hunan and Jiangxi?"
Zhang Wu looked at the two women who were talking again, and couldn't think of what the women who were far superior to them looked like.
"If Mi-sama knows such a woman, no matter what, please recommend her to Beijing."
Mi Xinlan smiled lightly again and shook her head:
"She is in a catastrophe, trapped in the red dust, and when she breaks out of the cocoon, she will definitely shock the world."
After speaking, Mi Xinlan didn't say anything more, and looked at those Confucian scholars again.
When the Confucian scholars in Qingzhou were defeated by Qi Xiaoxing, many of them had already left, and only a few or two people were left at this moment listening carefully to the debate of the two, and the rest were ......
And then there were the peddlers and pawns, who were impatient to listen to these verses, and their eyes were only rolling over the female officials.
"Zhang Dianxue, look at those people, their demeanor, we have to remember them carefully."
Zhang Wu looked over and frowned slightly.
Mi Xinlan said softly: "Since Your Majesty let women be officials, the court orders forbidden, Yanjing City's internal affairs are harmonious, occasionally someone is noisy, and you can also be deterred by Your Majesty's strength, staying in Duanji Hall for a long time, we are occasionally in a trance, and I also feel that it is not difficult for a woman to be an official."
"After leaving Yanjing, these people, will they believe in female officials? They don't believe it, so they will lock their daughters in the house, they will lock their wives in the stove, they will break the legs of women who can read and write, just like Wang Cunshu, they will blind her and tell the people of the world that she is unwilling."
Mi Xinlan's tone was quiet, and Zhang Wu slowly clenched her hands.
"As long as Lu Zhongqi and his ilk are still in charge of these state capitals, these yamen, these clans, these ...... Home, this kind of thing will never stop. Do you think there are only a few people in the DPRK who oppose female officials? No, no."
The golden fan shines in the winter sun, Mi Xinlan looked at the words on the fan, and said with a smile:
"More people, they know that as long as they look on coldly, these heads of families, heads of clans, and parents of a place can easily strangle the female officials. There is no need for them to do anything, as long as people keep telling Your Majesty that women can't do it, women can't do it, women don't want to do it, some things will naturally subside."
In a very short moment, Zhang Wu felt a chill to the bone.
She doesn't feel this chill
Strange, when she was toyed with by the eunuch Zhang into the palace as a female official, and was forced to be a "counterpart" with him, her father sent her a letter, asking her to commit suicide to save Zhang's face.
At that time, she had suffered such cold and cold.
When he looked at Qi Xiaoxing and Wang Cunshu again, Zhang Wu had a new understanding.
She finally understood that what Mi Xinlan said was rare.
Because the appearance of two women debating scriptures in front of the Temple of Literature is not only unprecedented.
There may be no one to come back at any time.
It will be lost in the history books and dissipated from the public.
What to do?
What to do?
Zhang Wu was terrified, how can I make sure that the road they finally came out of would not collapse into ruins?
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"Michael! Mi Xinlan! Your Majesty sent you to Qingzhou, but you want to take down my four-rank court officials without any evidence, and you obviously regard the court law as nothing, is this the way you women are officials?"
Standing in the lobby of the Qingzhou Mansion, Lu Zhongquan looked awe-inspiring and fearless, looking at the female officials wearing official robes in front of him, he sneered:
"That's right, you women will be in power one day, so naturally you have to show some skills that you didn't have before, and use our heads to let Your Majesty know that the ministers oppose women as officials, and you can also have more holy graces! It's a pity, the Skynet is restored and not leaked, Your Majesty is so sage, one day you women will know what you women are doing!"
Mi Xinlan nodded and said to Lian Mo Niang on the side:
"Hurry up and write down the words of Governor Lu, if someone in the court impeaches me like this in a few days, then the eight achievements are Governor Lu's comrades."
"Fellow party? Mi Xinlan, you spew blood! If you disregard people's lives and frame courtiers, everyone will be punished!"
Mi Xinlan nodded again:
"Even record the matter, and make another note, Governor Lu became angry and threatened Qincha's life."
Lu Zhongqi was furious: "Mi Xinlan, you have reversed black and white to this point, are you not afraid of death?"
Mi Xinlan smiled.
"Governor Lu, when you reversed black and white and said that Wang Cunshu didn't want to choose a female official and even hurt herself, didn't you think that such a thing would be used on you?"
Seeing that Lu Zhongqi glared at herself and stopped talking, she opened the fan in her hand.
"Governor Lu, don't hide it, before I came, His Majesty said a word to me."
A woman in her fifties wears a blue official robe on her upper body, a red horse-faced skirt underneath, a leather belt tied around her waist, and an official hat on her head is slightly less than the hairpin on the head of ordinary female officials, but it is particularly delicate and chic, and she is draped in a black Xuanhu cloak, which makes her face like a warm jade, and her aura is moving.
Such a woman, no matter how she looks, should take care of housework in the back house, and revolve around her husband every day, even if she is a little clever and dexterous, she is only used in the intrigue with a concubine.
But it was such a woman, she looked at the four members of the court who were tied up in the hall with a smile in her eyes at this time.
"Your Majesty said that he has heard of a woman who harms herself for the sake of not being an official, but he has never heard of a man who has harmed herself for the sake of not being an official, a man has been an official for thousands of years, and a woman has been an official for several months, and such a bizarre thing can happen. His Majesty said that he didn't want to explain, and he didn't want anything true or false, and if Governor Lu wanted to prove his innocence, he would find a man who harmed himself for the sake of not being an official, and this man was as talented as Wang Cunshu."
On the golden fan, the eight big characters of "Punish women according to the law and boost discipline" were terrifying, and Lu Zhongqi looked at those eight words and suddenly laughed.
After laughing, his head hit the ground hard.
"It turns out that His Majesty has already condemned me!"
Seeing him like this, Mi Xinlan slowly shook her head:
"It is you, from the time you made this plan, you have been condemned."