East Lake Palace, Red Fort.
This Indian-style castle built for Princess Nisha is now truly full of charming Indian style due to the arrival of the princess and her twenty Rajput maids - of course only the charming side, not the dark side.
Because there were only twenty Rajput maids from the Kshatriya caste who lived in this red castle with Princess Nisha. The Rajputs live in northwest India and are said to be descendants of princes. Their caste is considered nobler among the Kshatriyas, and they have more Aryan blood.
Therefore, the 20 maids brought by Princess Nessa have three-dimensional facial features, graceful figures, and their wheat-colored skin looks very healthy, and all of them are good at singing and dancing.
However, Zhu Cixiang came to the Red Castle for three days in a row, not to enjoy their singing and dancing, but to give the princess an exam... Although after the first meeting, Zhu Cixiang had already decided to include Nisha into his harem. , but you still have to take the exam well. If you don't take the exam carefully, how can you know how talented this Indian female poet is?
Emperor Zhu must let Princess Nisha take a good lead, not just the whole world, but at least let the middle and upper classes of the Ming Dynasty know that their Ming army is not good at women and does not value women's virtues. What they care about most is Women's talent.
It is virtuous for a woman to have no talent, but this does not apply to the emperor's family...
Today is already the third day of Princess Nisha’s personal college entrance examination (should it be an independent enrollment, right?). The interview, written test, and oral test (spoken Chinese) have all ended. Princess Nisha’s results are not particularly ideal, at least she herself is not. Satisfied, because in the completed subjects, she only scored a total of 445 points (total score of 460 points), and the 15 points she lost were all deducted for Chinese.
Although Nisha can write very beautiful Chinese poems, she is also beautiful in small regular script with hairpin flowers. But her level of ancient Chinese is limited after all. If she is allowed to choose her own topics and there are other people's poetry collections to refer to, she can write beautiful poems. But if you let others come up with questions and there is no poetry collection to refer to, your level will drop immediately! So I only scored 85 points...
As for mathematics, philosophy and military science, because they are allowed to answer questions in Arabic, they are all full marks - she did not answer all questions in Arabic, but used Arabic and Chinese bilingual. Some of them could answer in Chinese, just like use Chinese. Failing that, Arabic was used.
It seems that Emperor Zhu who proposed the question still underestimated this female academic from India...
Today, Princess Nisha wants to show off her martial arts and music skills - the princess's painting skills are average. After all, Tianfang Sect prohibits painting, and her identity is not suitable for dancing for people to watch. However, she can use many kinds of musical instruments and can also Can sing in Urdu and Persian.
Because she had to take the horse riding and archery exams, the female top student changed out of her long white sari skirt and put on a Chinese-style archery jacket. She looked really heroic.
The exam location is a large racecourse at the foot of the southern slope of Moshan Mountain. This is also part of the Red Fort. It was also selected by Zhu Cixiang as the exam venue for the upcoming Jinling Women's University martial arts exam.
Targets and wooden fences were erected for the horseback shooting test (to prevent knights from getting too close to the target), as well as various obstacles for the horseback riding test.
At the end of the wooden fence, there are more than a dozen standing trees of varying heights. On the top of the standing trees are straw targets for testing swordsmanship (sword skills).
Zhu Cixiang had already sat down on the high platform set up on the side of the racecourse. Accompanying him were Pan Yuchen, the governor of the East Factory, and Wang Qi, who had been appointed the admiral of the bodyguard army again after many years. Both of them are veteran generals in the military. Although they have retreated to the second line, they still have their eyesight - they have been selected as the main examiners for the entrance examination of Jinling Women's University, responsible for testing martial arts.
There were dozens of aunts wearing arrow jackets at the scene. They were all widowed and childless female dependents of the New Army recruited from Denglai, Fengyang, and Runing areas. They all had some exposure to martial arts, and after becoming palace maids, they became the female guards of the concubines and princesses.
They were brought here to serve as invigilators and first aid in the examination room - riding horses, archery and swordsmanship are more dangerous after all!
Of course, the subjects of the martial arts examination also take safety issues into full consideration.
Whether it is horse riding, archery, or swordsmanship, they are all divided into two levels: difficult and easy. If the candidate chooses the difficult level, then she is likely to get full marks (30 points, the three subjects add up to 90 points, and the other 10 points are physical points. She must wear armor to take the exam, and she can win the three subjects in one go). If the candidate chooses the Yi level, she can only score 20 points at most, and she cannot score physical points. The maximum score for the three subjects is 60 points.
Princess Nisha chose difficult subjects, but gave up the physical points, that is, after finishing a test, she had to take a break before continuing to test each subject.
You can bring your own horses and equipment for the exam. Nisha brought several fold-eared horses from Tianzhu, all of which she had trained well, and she selected the best one to use as her exam horse. She also brought her own bows, three Persian bows made almost like works of art. What she prepared for the sword test was a very gorgeously made Tawa scimitar. The blade was curved and the surface showed beautiful patterns. The grip part of the handle was obviously bulging and had an S-shaped guard. The hands seem to be based on the design of Western knives.
The princess, who was carrying a bow and arrow and a scimitar, knelt down on one knee in front of the Emperor of Heaven. Zhu Cixiang looked at her and felt very satisfied, so he smiled and said to her: "Nisha, you already have 445 points. .....It’s enough to become my concubine! So don’t be nervous, relax and take the exam. After the women’s college exam is over, I will hold a grand wedding for you!”
As a rule, a wedding should not be held when a noble concubine enters the palace, but Nisha has a special status, so of course she must enjoy preferential treatment.
Emperor Zhu is planning to hold a wedding for Princess Nisha in the Red Fort after the women's college exam!
Princess Nessa looked at the troubled emperor with deep affection, "I will definitely work hard and will never disappoint His Majesty!"
"Okay!" Zhu Cixi nodded, "I'll watch you take the exam right here!"
As he spoke, he nodded to Eunuch Pan beside him. Pan Yuchen stood up, saluted Zhu Cixiang, and then announced loudly: "The first subject, the riding trial begins! Your Highness, Princess, please mount the horse!"
The exam has officially begun, and now is the first question...
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When Princess Nesa began her martial arts exam, copies of the papers she wrote (all the Arabic content were translated by Zhu Cibing) had been secretly handed over by Zheng Jiangong to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen and Zheng Du.
"This, this, this... what are these? Why can't I understand?"
The one who couldn't understand was Zheng Zhilong. He was holding a math test paper from Princess Kaonisha. Lao Zheng always thought that he was good at calculating accounts and must be good at calculation. But now he can't even understand the test paper...he can't do any of the questions!
"Abba," Zheng Jiangong said with a frown, "this arithmetic paper is a bit difficult..."
"Is this a little difficult?" Zheng Zhilong glared at him, "Have all the children passed the exam?"
"This..." Zheng Jiangong thought for a while, "How many questions can you do?"
"How many questions are there?" Lao Zheng was sweating on his forehead. "Are the other papers easier?"
Zheng Sen said: "Chinese is easy, just write poems and write lyrics."
Is it easy to write poetry and lyrics? Zheng Zhilong said in his heart: I am so smart but I can’t do it!
"Can you pass the exam?"
"Yes! But..."
"But what?" Lao Zheng asked.
"But the Chinese test paper is specifically for Princess Nisha. Other candidates will not take the Chinese test, but French!" Zheng Sen said, "Our children are all fine."
"What else?" Lao Zheng asked again, "What's the military exam?"
"Military studies are easy," Zheng Du said, "very easy... even simple infantry and cavalry platoon-level tactics, elementary fortification techniques, and ballistic techniques can be mastered by even a child."
Zheng Zhilong glared at him fiercely, "Is this called simplicity? You graduated from the Army Lecture Hall! Of course you can do it, but can your daughter do it?"
"She, of course she can't do it!" Zheng Du shook his head repeatedly.
Zheng Zhilong patted the table: "Why don't you hurry up and cram the Buddha's feet? You need some teaching! We can't let the daughter of the Wu family compete!"
"Abba, Wu Ahuan can't do the questions taught in the martial arts hall, right?"
"What's not enough? Why is Your Majesty taking these exams if it's not enough? Go and teach! Now!"
