As the imperial court officially awarded the three daughters Liuhong of the Song Dynasty and became female officials of the Ming Dynasty, the decree was issued to all ministries and yamen.

This news swept through the entire Yingtian City at the speed of a violent wind and began to spread outward at an extremely fast speed.

Ordinary people naturally only gossip about this.

People are curious about why the big shots in the court made such a decision, and why they set a precedent for the Central Plains dynasty in thousands of years.

People were even more curious about who the three female officials who became the imperial officials were, what they looked like, and what abilities they had that allowed the imperial court to make such a decision.

To ordinary people, having three women serve as officials in the imperial court is just one more thing that can be discussed for a long time.

For these people, there is no direct connection.

On the contrary, he had a strong interest in Song Liuhong and the other three.

So much so that rumors spread in Yingtian City on this day.

It is said that Song Liuhong was born with the appearance of a fairy. Recently, the emperor's grandson was defeated in the struggle for imperial power. Not only did he ask the royal family for the Wannu Palace in the Xicheng project, but he also used the imperial power as a request to get the royal family and the court to agree to allow the three daughters of Song Liuhong to be the queen.

official.

A colorful gossip became rampant in Yingtian City.

but.

The three daughters of Song Liuhong became officials.

But it caused a huge stir among the civil servants and the gentry class in Yingtian City.

In the court, those old Neo-Confucian scholars who objected were suppressed by Zhai Shan and others, so that the court petition was passed.

But that doesn't mean these people will keep silent from now on.

Among the people, there is even more resistance to this.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section Corridor seemed particularly busy today.

Countless officials who could be classified as the backbone of Neo-Confucianism rolled up their sleeves one after another and were ready to fight when they received the news from the court and saw the decree.

This is the first time in thousands of years that the Ming Dynasty has experienced something like this, not just once or twice.

No matter what I did before.

Even things like the splitting of households between households and the Hongwu New Deal are considered normal by officials.

Throughout the dynasties, no one has done anything innovative.

For officials, opposition is just for the sake of opposition, and it is only because of their own interests.

These people also know best that for thousands of years in the Central Plains, there has been no truly long-lasting so-called unchangeable ancestral law.

It's just about profit.

Those who have interests will agree with it; those who have no interests or even want to cede their interests will naturally oppose it.

But.

Today, Ming Dynasty wants three women to become members of the official class.

Even if she is just a ninth-grade female official with the lowest official rank.

That's something they can't tolerate either.

This is another story.

The most deep-rooted thoughts for thousands of years tell these people that they must firmly oppose this matter.

Countless ancestors established laws and countless examples from past dynasties were dug out from the pile of old papers by these people.

There are even many people who have a certain tacit understanding with Zhu Yunxi.

They unanimously and tacitly brought Wu Zhao out, preparing to analyze this issue from another perspective of Zhu Yunxi, showing that women could not hold power, otherwise it would be a harbinger of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and based on this, they opposed Song Liuhong and the other three officials.

Officials who originally supported Hongwu's New Deal or opposed it all stood together with a tacit understanding this time.

A voice of opposition against Song Liuhong and the three officials is emerging rapidly, and there will be overwhelming opposition memorials, which will appear in the writings of these people, and will flood into the center of the cabinet like huge waves, rushing to the emperor.

In front of the prince and the emperor.

"The ancestors established the law!"

"A time-honored practice!"

"This must not be done!"

"..."

Located outside the Taiping Gate and on the bank of Xuanwu Lake, in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the censors angrily waved the books they found in their hands, flying old dust, venting their dissatisfaction to their colleagues present.

Jiang Yi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sat silently in the courtroom with a teacup in his hand, watching the subordinates of the yamen in front of him perform these actions.

Jiang Yi was originally the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. When he decided to implement the Hongwu New Deal, he and Qi Zhu, the former Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, made adjustments to their official positions at the same time.

One became the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the other became the minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Their superiors at the time, Zhao Mian, the Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Jun, the Minister of Industry, and others were all driven to the fourth road of Yingzhou.

Fundamentally speaking, Jiang Yi was the political loser under the Hongwu New Deal.

Under the original requirement set by the imperial court that officials must have conclusive evidence before initiating impeachment, the authority of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was greatly restricted.

Later, after Gao Yangzhi returned to the capital with his great achievements in stabilizing Jiaozhi Road and occupying the city road, he stepped into the cabinet and began to take charge of the power of the Three Laws Division.

The powers and responsibilities of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were once again restricted.

In the past two years, Jiang Yi has been sitting in the seat of Zuo Du Yushi of the Duchayuan, and it can be said that he is filled with deathly silence.

Same as Jiang Yi.

Nowadays, the censors working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are working much harder than in the past.

In the past, they just needed to hear something.

Or to be more explicit.

As long as it is within their interests and they need to target someone politically, they can write lengthy impeachment memorials at will and then place them in court meetings one after another.

But not anymore.

In most cases now, the cabinet will demarcate a certain place where some problems may arise, and then the Metropolitan Procuratorate will send a censor to investigate.

But at the same time, there will always be people from Jinyiwei secretly investigating.

This eliminated the local benefits that the people in the Imperial Procuratorate wanted, and then he returned to the court and wrote a memorial to bring peace to the world.

Zhu Yunxi and Gao Yangzhi wanted to build the Metropolitan Procuratorate into a specialized internal inspection yamen for officials, but the life of the officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was becoming "increasingly miserable", and they were naturally not happy with this.

In recent years, the government has been very strict and harsh, but they still dare not say anything.

But today is different.

The imperial court wanted three women to serve as officials, which completely impacted everyone's inherent thinking.

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Just for this reason, these officials who were already dissatisfied with the court's numerous reforms in recent years broke out all at once.

The anger in front of the hall continued, but Jiang Yi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sat high on the throne, as steady as Mount Tai.

"Colleagues!"

"Just think about it, if we let the three Song and Liuhong women become officials today, what will happen in the future? Do you want me to wait until I get home and carry water to wash the feet of my mother-in-law?"

"Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, men and women in our Central Plains have been in harmony with yin and yang. Men are in charge of external affairs and contribute to the world. Women are in charge of domestic affairs, supporting their husbands and raising children."

"If men are outside and women are inside, they can harmonize the world and bring peace to the country. But now that the imperial court allows those three women to serve as officials, it can be said that there is an imbalance of yin and yang. If things go on like this, I am afraid that the court will be full of female officials, and I am afraid that the old events of Wu Zhao will happen again!"

"For the great Ming Dynasty, for the people of the world, and for the combination of yin and yang."

"Gentlemen!"

"Please submit this personal memorial to your Majesty Qing to change the female official's proposal!"

The convener stood on the steps below the front porch of the hall.

It is full of sonorous voice and emotion.

Those who gathered were infected one after another.

Start shouting and cheering in agreement.

In front of the nearby public houses in the distance, the new censors who later joined the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the young censors from the Xinxue Department looked at the wave of opposition in the main yamen with solemn expressions.

The imperial court will probably be involved in a dispute over female officials for a long time.

No one expected it.

After the beginning of the 31st year of Hongwu, such a huge shock and turmoil would erupt in the court situation.

And today.

It was not just in one of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's offices that such a wave of opposition occurred.

Almost all yamen were performing common things at the same time.
To be continued...