When all the scholars saw the emperor coming, they hurriedly knelt on the ground and said together: "Your Majesty, calm down, the common people dare not!"
Looking at the group of calligraphers kneeling in front of him, Yang Gao was still angry, with a low face, and said coldly: "This imperial examination is absolutely open and fair. As for why you can't compare with a woman, that can only be It shows that you are incompetent. You still dare to gather people here to make trouble. It really brings shame to all scholars! Why are you still here? Why don't you go back and study hard?"
Qian Yiqian, the leader of the group of scholars, quickly stood up after hearing this, took two steps forward, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty! The imperial examination is unfair. It is true that I was so angry that I couldn't hold back my words. I hope your Majesty will calm down." . It’s just that the grassroots and others hope that Your Majesty can cancel the results of Fu Xiang, who disguised himself as a woman to participate in the imperial examination. Otherwise, the grassroots and others will never go back!"
When Yang Gao heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, he stared at Qian Yiqian and said, "You dare to threaten me?"
"Grass people don't dare!"
Qian Yiqian quickly knelt down on the ground again and said in a deep voice: "It's just that ordinary people don't want the imperial examination system, which is originally beneficial to the country and the people and highly praised by thousands of students, to be ruined by a woman!"
Yang Gao glanced at Qian Yiqian coldly and said: "I remember that there is no provision in the imperial examination system that prohibits women from taking part. Fu Xiang also obtained excellent results based on his own ability, without any fraud, and was in good order. Why should I cancel her results?"
Qian Yiqian's expression changed greatly, and he lost his voice and said: "Is it possible that His Majesty intends to keep this woman? As far as I know, this woman's grades are indeed excellent. If nothing happens, she will definitely be one of the top three. According to the rules set by Your Majesty, this woman will Wouldn’t it be possible for a woman to enter the court and become an official?”
Yang Gao snorted disdainfully: "Why not?"
"Your Majesty, is it absolutely impossible?"
Another leading scholar, Hou Fangyu, also stepped forward quickly and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there has never been a precedent for a woman to serve as an official in the court since ancient times. This move is very different from the etiquette! I hope your Majesty will think twice!"
Yang Gao said calmly: "There has never been a precedent, so I am the first to create it. Although the etiquette system was created by the great sages of our ancestors, a wise man will make mistakes every time he considers it. It is inevitable that there will be flaws in it. We will wait for it. Later generations can modify and correct it!"
"Your Majesty, how can we modify the ancestral rules without authorization?"
Qian Yiqian and Hou Fangyu loudly dissuaded him: "If your Majesty really changes the rules of the ancestors, the country will not be a country!"
"Ancestors are humans too! As humans, we will inevitably make mistakes."
Yang Gao ignored Qian Yiqian Hou Fangyu's dissuasion at all, and said in a deep voice: "Everything in the world, the living beings, the sun, the moon, the stars, everything is changing all the time, why can't the ancestral rules change? King Wuling of Zhao modified the old customs of the Central Plains, riding and shooting in Hu clothes, This is how he became one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period."
Hou Fangyu argued: "At the beginning, King Zhao Wuling changed the ancestral system to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but why does your majesty change the ancestral system today? What effect can a group of women have on the court?"
"Who says women can't serve the court and the country?"
When Yang Miaozhen heard this, he was immediately furious. His eyebrows stood up, his apricot eyes widened, and he grinned and said: "Although I, Yang Miaozhen, am also a female classmate, I have practiced martial arts since I was a child and practiced marksmanship hard. On weekdays, thirty or fifty guards can't get close to me. Besides, this Miss Fu inside, wouldn’t a prostitute like you outclass you all?”
Yang Gao nodded and said: "Sister Huang is very reasonable. You must not underestimate women! Let's not talk about far away, let's talk about this dynasty. There is a chivalrous woman Mu Guiying in Qingzhou who is very skilled in martial arts. She once saved Yicheng. The name of the princess. Besides, Li Yuan’s daughter Li Xiuning, although she is the daughter of a rebel, she is good at fighting and has made great military exploits for Li Yuan!"
Qian Yiqian raised his head and said with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty, if women can also study and become officials, where will that leave us scholars? If Your Majesty really insists on his own way and insists on modifying the ancestral etiquette, the common people are worried that Your Majesty will lose money because of this. The heart of a scholar in the world!”
Yang Gao smiled slightly and said: "I don't think the scholars in the world are so narrow-minded. As the saying goes, gentlemen are jealous of fair ladies! In the future, you all hope to have a well-educated, dignified and beautiful person who can compete with you in reciting poems and raising cases. Where is your wife? Or a lady who doesn’t understand anything and can’t speak to you for a few words all day long?”
Qian Yiqian was silent, but Hou Fangyu still argued forcefully: "Your Majesty, ordinary people think that women are just subordinates of men. How can they be compared with men..."
Snapped!
Before Hou Fangyu finished speaking, Yang Miaozhen rushed forward, slapped Hou Fangyu's fair and handsome face, pressed his lips tightly and shouted angrily: "If you dare to talk nonsense to my aunt again, my aunt will beat you to death with big-eared melon seeds!"
Yang Gao also looked gloomy. After saying so much, Hou Fangyu still stubbornly clung to the old principles. It seemed that it was impossible to reason with a scholar like Hou Fangyu.
Thinking of this, Yang Gao no longer hesitated, waved to the guards behind him, and said: "These scholars gathered a crowd to cause trouble in the Hanlin Academy, blatantly violating the laws of the imperial court. I thought it was understandable that they were excited for the moment, so I Don’t hold them accountable. Just blow them all away.”
"According to the order!"
Several guards responded and stepped forward to drive away Qian Yiqian, Hou Fangyu and others.
Qian Yiqian and Hou Fangyu were shocked when they heard this and shouted hurriedly: "Your Majesty, we are all scholars, how can you treat us like this?"
After Yang Gao ascended the throne, he modified the method of selecting guards. The palace guards are no longer the children of well-known aristocratic families, but elites selected from the army.
The guards who came out of the army always had a fierceness about them. When they saw a few soldiers shouting madly and refusing to leave, they immediately drew their swords out of their sheaths and said viciously: "Get out of here, or I'll chop you all with one knife if you don't get out!" "
Seeing several guards actually drawing their swords at each other, several soldiers from Qian Yiqianhou's area were so frightened that their faces turned pale with fear. They didn't even need to urge them now, and they all ran away in the blink of an eye.
After the few scholars were driven away, Yang Gao looked back at Yu Yunwen and said with a smile: "Yu Aiqing, come with me to meet this strange woman!"
