When Grand Duke Luo and his daughter boarded the most ordinary small four-wheeled carriage produced by Shanghai Shenche and drove away. Next door to his house, in a large and luxurious mansion, a motorcade drove out, all luxurious four-wheeled carriages. Even the horses pulling the carriages looked tall and handsome. On each carriage, there was a The word "Chen" on a gray background identifies the flag.
This is the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Shen Tingyang, the Marquis of Chongming, is sending his granddaughters to take the exam! The Shen family is second only to the Zheng family as a "largest family rushing to take the exam", with a total of eight girls passing the re-examination. These eight girls are not all Shen Tingyang's direct granddaughters. Five of them are girls from the Shen family in Chongming.
Among them, Shen Tingyang's direct granddaughters all grew up in Yingtian Mansion and are graduates of Nanjing Girls' High School, while the five girls from a branch of the Shen family are graduates of Shanghai Women's College. The former pays attention to civility and martial arts, and all graduates can ride horses and archery, while the latter has great advantages in Confucianism and arithmetic - most of the students at Shanghai Women's Academy come from citizen families living in Shanghai, and they all take exams. Those who enter will definitely have a higher IQ than the aristocratic women in Nanjing Girls' High School, but their martial arts (physical fitness) will definitely be inferior.
However, Shen Tingyang still found a girl from his family who was outstanding in all aspects and extremely beautiful, named Shen Xiulan, who was now sitting opposite Old Shen.
Old Shen twirled his white beard and looked at the girl in front of him, thoughtfully. The wealth of the Shen family is actually not much less than that of the Zheng family, but they act in a very low-key manner. They do not have their own vassal town or vassal state, and not many of their children hold high-ranking officials. But this does not mean that Old Shen does not have the ambition to take the family to a higher level... It is just that he knows that the biggest difference between the Shen family and the Zheng family is that the Zheng family is related to the royal family, while the Shen family and The royal family is not related.
And "getting a princess" is undoubtedly the best opportunity for the Shen family to catch up from behind!
Now the conflict between the Wu family and the Zheng family is not small. No matter which family the princess comes from, it will intensify the party strife in the court. But the Shen family is different. The Shen family has a good relationship with the Wu family and the Zheng family. Among them, the Shen and Wu families are old friends - Shen Tingyang was in charge of Ningyuan Pay Road back then, could he have a bad relationship with Wu Sangui? Later, Zhu Cihong established Maritime Bank and developed the Shanghai commercial market, and linked the royal family, the Zheng family, and the Shen family together.
Therefore, letting a girl from the Shen family become a princess should be acceptable to both parties...
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Wei Zaode, the chief assistant of the cabinet, has brought his youngest daughter Wei Qingxiu to the examination room for the re-entrance examination of Jinling Women's University. The examination room is also on the shore of East Lake, south of Moshan where Princess Nesa's Red Castle is located, called Moshan Academy. It was originally a college under Wuhan Taixue University, but is now loaned to Jinling Women's University. It was not only an examination room, but also the campus of the Women’s University during its stay in Han Dynasty.
Wei Zaode's daughter is also extremely outstanding and beautiful. Although she is only twenty-eight years old, she is already tall and graceful, with picturesque facial features and an unearthly coolness, as if she were a fairy from heaven who has fallen into the mortal world.
Also arriving earlier than the Wei family father and daughter were the charter king Zhu Cibing and a large group of warblers and swallows he brought - the girls brought by the charter king were all his sisters and nieces, either princesses or princesses, in short They are not qualified to choose a princess, but women still have to take the exam.
Because these princesses and princesses are required to marry nobles as usual, and they have to shoulder the responsibility of cultivating loyal ministers for the Ming Dynasty. How can I be uneducated?
The charter king, who was surrounded by twenty or thirty beautiful girls aged fifteen or sixteen, couldn't find any beauty, and his brain ached. These little girls are all asking him about exam questions!
The Charter King is the chief examiner, and of course he knows the questions for the first and second exams now. Emperor Zhu personally handed them to him last night.
But can he speak out? What happens when you get tired of being the charter king? Besides, what are you princesses and princesses so anxious about? As long as your test scores are on the admission line...you won't be able to become a princess anyway!
Seeing Wei Zaode and his daughter rushing to the examination room, the charter king hurriedly shouted: "It's almost time, you can enter the examination room... Come in quickly, get the examination certificate, there is a number on the certificate, take your seat according to the number, and wait for the examination papers to be handed out , you will know what to take the test!"
The girls chased him away after hearing his voice, and all of them pouted and complained about the charter king.
"You knew it but didn't tell us, you bad luck king..."
"If you don't protect your sister, I will tell the Emperor!"
"I want to tell my father..."
"I want to tell my mother-in-law!"
"I want to tell..."
Zhu Cibing had nothing to do with some girls, so he had to let them sue them. Emperor Zhu would not listen to these children's nonsense anyway. Most of the emperor's daughters were almost unrecognizable. Who cares? And when you pass the exam, I will be your secretary, so you must respect your teacher!
After coaxing a group of little girls into the examination room, Zhu Cibing went to meet Wei Zaode.
"The first assistant has arrived very early!" King Fu said with a smile.
"Come early," Wei Zaode said, "We still have to go to the Cabinet Office Yamen... Although we have stopped attending lunch these days, we still have to do things!"
"It's really hard work, Chief Assistant..." Zhu Cibing glanced at the fairy-like Wei Qingxiu and almost fell in love - isn't this the Ming Dynasty version of Princess Nisha? Although it's a little less exotic, it's a little more fairy-like...
The Charter King thought to himself: How come a beautiful girl who doesn’t eat the fireworks of the world is not suitable to be the Crown Princess and the Domain Princess? How about marrying a prince who is well-educated and has five cars and a dozen streets to collect rent...
Thinking of this, the Charter King smiled and said to Wei Zaode: "Since the Chief Minister still has important national affairs to attend to, then leave your daughter to me, and I will take her to the examination room... You will have someone come this afternoon. Just take it, nothing will go wrong."
Of course, the examination room is closed, with the aunt and palace maids watching, and the guards guarding the outside, so of course nothing can go wrong. There is also a canteen and a quiet room for resting in the examination room. After the morning exam, the girls eat in the canteen, then rest for a while and prepare for the afternoon exam.
Moreover, these girls think that they are not just stuck in school. They have all studied in new-style girls' schools and have taken many exams, so they will not feel uncomfortable.
These new-era upper-class girls are completely different women from their mothers’ generation.
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"Xing'er, I heard that you are often with Ah Huan these days?"
"We meet often."
"What do you think of her?"
"It's pretty, but a little too fierce."
"Too fierce?"
"Yes, she has been fierce since she was a child..."
In the Qinzheng Hall of East Lake Palace, Emperor Zhu was talking to his son Zhu Hexing at this time. Zhu Hexing is sixteen or seventeen years old, but he is very tall and burly. He is not as weak as he was when he was a child - he is a premature baby. He was in poor health and small when he was young, but as he grew up, he began to follow his father. Mom, it’s getting bigger and bigger, and now it’s a “little giant”.
But although this "little giant" is quite big, his thoughts are very simple, a bit like that "silly white sweet". His brain is pretty good. Although he is not as good as the local tycoon, he was still in the middle and upper reaches when he was studying in Laoshan Elementary School and Laoshan Middle School. Later, he was admitted to the Jiangwu Hall based on his own ability. Now he is studying with the team at the Wuchang East Lake Branch of the Jiangwu Hall, and he has excellent grades. It looks like he could become a good general.
But this person's financial intelligence is so poor, he doesn't know how to manage money, and he doesn't even bother to manage accounts and money, as if he thinks money is dirty.
Don't say that the royal family is rich all over the world and does not need to spend money. This is all done by civil servants to fool the stupid emperor... There are many places for the royal family to spend money, at least in today's Ming Dynasty. . It is difficult for an emperor who does not know how to manage money to become a wise king. Emperor Zhu wants to turn Jinling Women's University into a financial college, with the purpose of cultivating queens, princesses and wives who are good at financial management for the future Ming Dynasty monarchs (not only emperors, but also kings and vassal princes)!
