The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

His words struck the goat-bearded scholar like a bolt of lightning. He was not a man of strong will, otherwise he would not have failed the imperial examination and had to study some unorthodox methods. His knees softened and he knelt on the ground, but his lips were still as hard as a duck: "How can a woman serve in the same court as a man! I have never heard of this! I have never seen this before, and the consequences will be endless, Your Majesty!!!"

Although the female officials in the inner palace of the Da Sheng Dynasty also had ranks and could call themselves subjects, they were never placed together with the formal officials of the previous dynasty. Instead, they were more like the housekeepers of the emperor and empress in the inner palace, and also served as a bridge connecting the ladies inside and outside the palace.

The female officials mentioned by people today obviously do not include these female officials in the inner court.

Just as the goateed scholar shouted out these words in a grief-stricken voice, something so fast that it was hard to tell what it was hit him in the face with a "bang".

Then came a high and loud female voice. The female voice had a strange accent. When she spoke Mandarin, it was always not standard. But the voice was loud enough and the pronunciation was clear: "Bullshit!"

"If women in Dasheng are not allowed to serve in the same court as men, then what are the officials in the southwest!" Zhuqueyin raised her hand to pry away the knife of a Jinwu Guard and walked in with one hand on her waist. "General Yunhui, who conquered the capital of Xinnan and expanded the territory for Dasheng, is now buried in the mountains. What is the female soldier?!"

She dressed like someone from the Central Plains, which was a rare occasion. However, the clothes looked familiar to everyone, yet also different in some way.

After careful consideration and examination, I was surprised to find that this is a revised version of the official uniforms of the superiors? !

The style and materials are both standard official styles, but they are slightly more like the styles commonly worn by women nowadays, which is more convenient for women to wear without affecting movement and appearance. The rest of the official hat, jade belt, silver fish, sachet, soap shoes and even the patch on the chest are clearly no different from those of male officials.

“Unheard of, unseen?”

"joke!"

Zhu Que Yin bowed to the Empress and then, imitating the high officials, placed her hands on her chest, raised her chin, and looked proudly at the group of troublemakers whose faces turned from red to white: "You scholars, are you going to separate the Baiyi people of our Jimi County from Dasheng on behalf of the Empress and His Majesty?"

Her voice was pleasant to the ear, but her accent was strange. However, no one dared to judge Suzaku Yin's words with a strange accent at this moment. Instead, they were forced by her timely appearance to face a topic that some people had always avoided - female officials had existed for a long time!

Even though these female officials actually originated from some kind of compromise and were ignored for a long time, they did exist.

The goatee fell to the ground, completely speechless. He subconsciously looked at the leader, Yuan Juren, whose lips kept trembling, with an unhealthy white layer on the purple background: "Women...even if women can be officials, but...but they are only small officials in small places. How can women test better than men? How...how can women learn the classics..."

He looked like his heart was broken and he had gone completely insane.

Actually.

In order to organize today's demonstration, these people have put in a lot of effort to link up, because they all know that Queen Xie is difficult to deal with. If they cannot use this incident to force her back to the harem, they will surely face a violent revenge from her afterwards. So, one by one, they are working hard in the direction of success and not failure, without realizing that they are about to face a spider web that has been set up long ago and is coated with venom.

They were about to be trapped to death in this net. As the shadow of death gradually loomed over their heads, Mr. Yuan became increasingly irrational.

"Don't you deliberately give her some leniency because she is a relative of the Queen?!"

"When you were grading the papers, didn't you care about her name or her origin at all?!"

"Are you really not at all afraid of the Queen's power and subconsciously praising her article?!"

Yuan Juren questioned the examiners regardless of anything, as well as those candidates who were on the list but ranked lower than Lin Qiao: "No?! No?!"

"This is cheating!!!" He stomped his feet and jumped up without caring about his image, "Cheating! Cheating!!!"

After the dance, Yuan Juren ignored the threats from the Jinwu Guards who were ready to attack him, stood up breathlessly, and shouted to the sky: "Unfair! Unfair!"

"If this fellow student really feels that the examination papers were unfairly graded, then I do have some poor opinions."

In the miserable laughter of Mr. Yuan.

A man in blue walked out from the Queen's phoenix carriage.

She was tall, with slender and strong hands and feet. Her hair was tied into a simple and plain antique style, half of which was tied behind her head and pinned with a jade hairpin in the shape of a lotus; the other half fell on her shoulders, and the end of her hair was tied with a hairband in the same color as her dress. Lin Qiao walked slowly towards them amid the slightly suspicious gazes of everyone.

Her voice was no different from when she was dressed as a man, low and slightly hoarse: "If you think that I am favored and tolerant by all the adults because I am a relative of the queen, that is why I was able to beat everyone else and get the first place in this examination, then -"

Lin Qiao turned around and saluted the emperor and empress at the top: "Your Majesty, I am willing to take the exam again."

"What's the harm in retaking the exam? As long as you are the Queen's cousin, you can never escape the suspicion of nepotism!" Another candidate hiding in the crowd suddenly spoke up.

Lin Qiao's expression remained unchanged, and he naturally took over the conversation: "I am willing to retake the exam, but I may have to trouble you adults and fellow students to accompany me."

She glanced at the candidates who were on the list today and were summoned here - most of these candidates were acquaintances of Lin Qiao, and when they saw her gaze sweeping over, some subconsciously avoided it, some were stunned, and some, after suddenly realizing it, ignited a burning desire to fight.

"If Brother Lin... no, Mr. Lin invites me, we can have another fight through literature!" The second on the list looked eager to try, "I couldn't ask for more!"

At this point, the more sensitive ministers had already reacted and vaguely realized that they might have become props for the emperor and his wife to achieve a certain goal. However, things had developed to this point and it was difficult to stop them.

Lin Qiao nodded slightly at the second place and said, "I beg Your Majesty to allow the re-examination of the joint examination and to appoint officials to cover the names and copy the papers. Before the papers of candidates are submitted to the examiners for evaluation, their names will be covered with paper and then re-copied in a unified official script. The order will be disrupted before the papers are graded. After the ranking is determined, they will be matched one by one with the papers of the candidates."

"In this way, we can avoid the unhealthy practice of considering the candidate's family background and reputation during the imperial examination," Lin Qiao raised his right hand and pointed to the sky, "and avoid the suspicion of me being treated preferentially. If I fail to win the first place in the re-examination this time, I am willing to cut off my right hand, admit defeat, and never touch the classics again!"

Retake the test.

She might lose, but she never thinks that her behavior is wrong as those people say!