"Principal Cao, this is Jin Dongzhu. He is very talented in arithmetic. I leave it to you. You must teach him well."
In the principal's room of Jinling Girls' School, Zhu Cixiang handed Dongguo Gege, oh, it's not princess now, but Jin Dongzhu, a civilian girl, to the principal of the girls' school.
Dongguo Gege is the princess of Heshuo in the Qing Dynasty. This status does not matter now, but once the Ming and Qing Dynasties start a war in the future, the trouble will be big. So Emperor Zhu used a trick to announce that Dongguo Princess would move into the Laoshan Palace. At the same time, the real Dongguo was brought to Nanjing and let her study at Jinling Girls' School under the name of Jin Dongzhu, a civilian girl.
When she reaches the age of 16, she will be drafted into the palace and become Zhu Cihong's chosen attendant. She will have the same starting position in Emperor Zhu's harem as Wu Sanmei, Zheng Chagu, Ning Xiangyu, and Fei Zhen'e.
And Zhu Cixiang would not let Dongzhu reach the sky in one step, but would let her be promoted one level at a time, one level a year, and it would take eight years to be promoted to the position of the imperial concubine.
At the same time, Dongguo, who "lives" in the Laoshan Palace, will "die" of illness before entering the palace.
In this way, there is no Aisin Gioro Dongguo in the world, only the imperial concubine Jin Dongzhu who was born as a civilian girl. The future war conflicts between the Ming and Qing Dynasties will have nothing to do with Jin Dongzhu...
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will teach Miss Jin well." Principal Cao is Principal Cao Huachun. He doesn't know that Jin Dongzhu is Dongguo Princess.
But why should a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl be sent to Jinling Girls' School by the emperor himself? This Jinling girls' school is not something that just ordinary girls can attend! The girls who study here are either the princesses and princesses of the Zhu family, or the daughters of princes, generals and prime ministers! Zhu Cixiang's eldest daughter Zhu Tianfeng and younger sister Zhu Aiyu are both studying here now. Zhu Tianfeng is in the first grade of primary school. Princess Zhaoren Zhu Yuyu is older (11 years old) and has already read books, so she is taking a preparatory course to remediate "Primary School Mathematics" and "Primary School French". After completing the supplementary courses, she will go directly to the fifth grade.
And this Jin Dongzhu should be like Princess Zhaoren, take a preparatory course and then go directly to fifth grade. In this way, you can graduate from primary school in three years and be almost ready to enter the palace...
Cao Huachun's old face was filled with a kind smile, and he looked at the civilian girl Jin Dongzhu sitting next to Emperor Zhu with a smile.
He has also gone up now and calls himself "Old Minister" instead of "Old Slave". This is because he is not a chamberlain now, but a hero who has overcome difficulties and has been granted the title of Marquis of Tianjin!
He was able to become a marquis because many soldiers from the Cao family followed him to escort him south. In Emperor Zhu's initial basic market, there was a share of Cao Huachun. Now many Cao family children have grown into the backbone of the new army or the pillars of the imperial court, while Cao Huachun himself is enjoying happiness in Nanjing City. It was not until Zhu Cixiang was planning to build Guizhou Primary School that he was invited to serve as the principal of the girls' school.
The teachers in the girls' school were all eunuchs, and the first people to receive Western-style teaching from Zhu Cixiang were his guards and eunuchs. Some of the eunuchs are really capable of learning, and their level is not very high, but they are enough to take on the job of primary school teachers.
Now Emperor Zhu uses two legs to cultivate new talents. The children of nobles go to elementary school, middle school, and university (Jingxuetang) and become talents step by step.
The common people, on the other hand, studied "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" and "New Arithmetic Science" by themselves, and then went to take the imperial examination.
This arrangement is not to discriminate against civilians, but because educational resources are really limited and priority can only be given to the successors of the ruling group. At the same time, geniuses with strong self-study ability are selected from among the people of the country through examinations, and then they are allowed to use self-study as the main method to become self-study.
The probability of being self-taught is of course low, but if you can succeed, you must be a genius with a high IQ, enough to cope with the scientific exploration of the 17th century.
Moreover, China has a large population, and its huge population base also means that there are many geniuses. Through self-study exams, you should be able to discover many.
Oh, today Emperor Zhu discovered a little genius, Jin Dongzhu. She is smarter than Wu Sanmei, Zheng Chagu, Ning Xiangyu, and Fei Zhen'e. These four women are not stupid either. Among them, Zheng Chagu can also be called ice-smart, and she is also very good at math problems (probably she inherited it from Zheng Zhilong). Wu Sanmei is a little worse. She doesn't like to study very much, but she is also extremely smart. women, but they are still not as good as Dong Zhu.
Dongzhu's self-study of "Primary School Mathematics" has been very effective! And his understanding ability is very strong, and he can understand part of the content in "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian".
This brain is probably inherited from Dorgon, right?
After arranging for Jin Dongzhu's enrollment, Emperor Zhu returned to the palace. He first went to the Queen's Kunning Palace to visit Wu Sanmei, who was undergoing confinement.
Wu Sanmei was once again blessed with a daughter, and she was really destined to have a daughter!
But it doesn't matter, Sanmei is still young, and she can continue fighting after a while... But Emperor Zhu still needs to pay more attention to her, because just when Wu Sanmei was about to give birth, Zheng Chagu became pregnant again. !
If Zheng Chagu gets her way and gives Zhu Cihong another son, then Wu Sanmei's status in the harem will be shaken. Emperor Zhu was worried about his eldest wife, so he showed his support for Wu Sanmei during this period.
When he arrived at Kunning Palace, he heard a burst of laughter coming from inside. He quickly walked to the door of the dormitory, then opened the door and went in. The queen's bedroom is very large, but it becomes very warm due to the heating effect brought by the earth dragon.
As soon as Emperor Zhu entered the door, he saw Wu Sanmei, a silly girl, sitting on the couch in her pajamas, surrounded by two little girls, one old and one small, playing with the baby!
There is no sense of crisis at all about not being able to give birth to a son!
The older girl is Tianfeng, the eldest daughter of Emperor Zhu, who is very tall. At first glance, a 6-year-old child is almost as tall as a seven or eight-year-old child. Needless to say, she will definitely be a tall girl in the future. As for his appearance and personality, he is more like his mother, and he is also a little silly and sweet. When he saw Emperor Zhu come in, he jumped out of bed, jumped forward to salute, and handed an examination paper to Emperor Zhu with a smile.
"Dad, my daughter got a 10 in math."
10 points? What's the total score?
Emperor Zhu took the test paper and looked at it. There were only 10 questions on it, including simple addition and subtraction. If the answers were correct, that would be a perfect score.
"Okay, okay, good test!" Zhu Cixiang nodded with satisfaction and touched Xiaosha Baitian's head, "But you have to keep working hard. This is only the first year. It's still early to be admitted to college!"
Wu Sanmei smiled after listening to Emperor Zhu's words: "Your Majesty, do our children still need to take the exam to go to college?"
"Of course you have to take the exam!" Zhu Cixiang took his daughter's hand, walked to the edge of the bed, sat down, and then looked at the swaddled baby, "Children of the royal family don't have to take the exam, so children from the prince's family don't have to take the exam. Do we need to take the exam? Do children from a family with hundreds of officials need to take the exam? If we don’t take the exam, then what’s the need to study? How will we become talented in the future? We, the children of the Northerners, are all incompetent, so the world in the future will not belong to the Southerners?"
This was something that could not be said in public, but Emperor Zhu had no scruples in front of Wu Sanmei.
He paused and then said: "The children of noble families can be given preferential treatment in the exam, such as an extra 10 to 20 points... But after all, they have to sit in the same examination room with the Jiangnan scholars, otherwise the children of noble families will be Talent can’t come out.”
The purpose of Emperor Zhu's elite education was, of course, to maintain the balance between the nobles from the north and the officials from the south. Whoever overwhelms the nobles or the scholars would affect the Ming Dynasty. To maintain balance, the best way is to start with talent cultivation and design an unfair education and examination system... It must be completely fair. The number of nobles from the North is so small. From a probability perspective, they It was also impossible to compete with the southern gentry.
"But Tianfeng is a girl!" Wu Sanmei pouted, looking like she didn't like reading.
Emperor Zhu just smiled and shook his head: "The women of noble families have to study more. They will raise offspring for the noble families of the Ming Dynasty in the future. The reason why the noble families in the past were corrupt is that they were born with wealth and no need. Work hard; the second is that they are poor in upbringing. They only know how to pamper their children and do not know how to urge their children to learn both civil and military skills. However, it will become rotten in two or three generations. This is the root of the Tumubao incident and the decline of our dynasty. The ultimate reason!”
