But when the man looked at the people below the stage, the anger on his face subsided a little.

Just now, when Gu Jiangyu was about to pick up the teapot and smash it at the stage, Chen Qingtang, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family, took the teapot from Gu Jiangyu's hand and threw it at He Yuanzhou without any hesitation.

That’s right, this person’s name is He Yuanzhou.

He was a candidate who had failed the imperial examination three times in a row. He was disgusted and resentful of the bureaucracy behind the imperial examination and felt that his talent was not appreciated. He gave speeches and wrote manuscripts everywhere, criticizing the current bureaucratic culture.

However, he still has a secret hidden deep in his heart.

That is, he had a crush on a talented woman like Chen Qingtang, but because Chen Qingtang married the eldest son of the Xie family, he had been depressed for some time. Now that he saw the married Chen Qingtang again, He Yuanzhou restrained himself a little.

But he didn't know that his speech just now challenged Chen Qingtang's bottom line: "How can you be allowed to provoke a woman on the debate stage? Is this the demeanor that a talented scholar in Wen Ya Pavilion should have?"

He Yuanzhou put on a flattering smile and said, "Madam Chen, I have no intention of provoking a fight."

"Then you should apologize to Miss Gu." Chen Qingtang said in a firm tone.

Gu Jiangyu said: "Mrs. Xie, it won't be too late to ask him to apologize after I finish what I want to say."

Chen Qingtang turned and looked at Gu Jiangyu.

Gu Jiangyu took two steps forward and said, "A gentleman loves money, but he gets it in a proper way. How can it be considered an evil practice for the Queen to send some snacks to Xie's shop to sell?"

He Yuanzhou immediately retorted: "Men are responsible for the outside affairs, while women are responsible for the inside affairs. This kind of livelihood is not something a woman should do. If Your Majesty wants to make money, you can quietly send people out of the palace to do it. There is no need to publicize it."

"What this young man said is contradictory. On the one hand, you advocate that men should be the breadwinners outside the home and women should be the homemakers, but on the other hand, you allow women to secretly make money. How can this be true? Aren't men the breadwinners outside the home? If men are the breadwinners outside the home, why do you need to rely on women to secretly make a living and make money?" Gu Jiangyu asked sharply.

He Yuanzhou responded to Gu Jiangyu with ease: "Before a woman gets married, her family will prepare a dowry for her. Is it possible that the shop under her name is managed by the woman herself?"

"Then the Queen can send the snacks from the palace and sell them in the shop under her own name. She doesn't show up in public and doesn't manage the shop personally. What's wrong with that?" Gu Jiangyu raised his head slightly and said righteously.

Then, He Yuanzhou also responded quickly: "But the Queen is using the brand of the Queen of Dim Sum. She uses her name as the Queen to attract customers and draw the attention of the people of Yanjing, creating a wave of influence."

"Then I have to repeat what I just said." Gu Jiangyu turned around and faced the many dignitaries and women and children in the harem below the stage, and said: "A gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. Did the queen steal or rob it?"

He Yuanzhou's brows gradually furrowed. He had not expected Gu Jiangyu to be so sharp-tongued. She refuted every question he raised: "The Queen did not steal or rob, but she is the mother of a country. After the new emperor ascends the throne, she should immediately expand the harem, select concubines, and consider her offspring, instead of focusing on these meaningless trivial matters."

"Food is the most important thing for the people!" Gu Jiangyu's loud voice, full of penetrating power, echoed in the theater. She turned around and faced He Yuanzhou on the stage: "Corrupt officials are rampant, Duan's bank has embezzled huge sums of money, disasters continue to occur in various places, the Great Zhou is eyeing us covetously in the north, and the Chen Kingdom has 200,000 troops outside the west gate."

"You talented scholars only know how to recite poems and paint in the Wen Ya Pavilion all day long, staring at the trivial matters of the women and children in the harem, criticizing the Empress, but you don't know that the West Gate is in need of people and the treasury is in need of money. You propose to expand the harem and tell the Empress not to focus on making money, looking down on merchants."

Gu Jiangyu spread his hands, turned around and said, "Xiguan is the gate of Yan State. If the gate is breached, millions of people will be torn apart. You still want to continue to stand on this stage, criticizing the Queen, shouting 'everything is inferior, only reading is superior', and shouting about the nobleness of you scholars, but in this chaotic world, 'scholars are useless'." "Open your eyes and look at the outside world. If you are dissatisfied, go to Xiguan and see how hard life the people there live, how thick the smoke of war is, how red the river on the battlefield is, and how many broken families are carried by the corpses on the Chunjiang River."

"Our Queen..." At this time, Gu Jiangyu looked up at Guanminglou: "Her elder brother led 100,000 soldiers to Xiguan this time. Life and death are unpredictable on the battlefield. General Xie led hundreds of thousands of men to go against the odds, but you are stepping on the Queen and criticizing her behavior here. You are all seven feet tall men. Your country is in trouble and the war is imminent. Instead of solving the country's problems, you are competing with a woman like me. I am really ashamed for you."

After Gu Jiangyu finished speaking, all the talented scholars standing on the stage looked unhappy.

The one with the ugliest expression was He Yuanzhou.

Every word that Gu Jiangyu said was undoubtedly a slap in the face. From criticizing the queen of a country to speaking about the crisis of the country, no one could refute her subsequent words.

The war in Xiguan was indeed at a very tense moment, but some people felt that they were not officials in the court, so they should leave the worries to the emperor and his ministers. They just needed to do well in the exams, get a good ranking, and strive to be on the list of successful candidates as soon as possible.

They were not concerned about the war in Xiguan and had never worried about the country's destruction and the family's ruin. Or perhaps, Xiguan was very far away from them and even if a war broke out, they could not reach Yanjing City.

Some people are just so selfish.

"Do you have anything else to refute me?" After Gu Jiangyu finished speaking, she saw many people whispering and He Yuanzhou looked embarrassed, so she asked again.

He Yuanzhou came back to his senses, unwilling to lose to a woman: "There are professionals leading the defense of Xiguan. Our Yan State has also experienced a dynasty of a hundred years. We have seen all kinds of storms. How can you, a woman, know what the battlefield of Xiguan is like?"

Seeing that he was still stubborn, Gu Jiangyu knew that the man in front of him was a narrow-minded man.

She looked up at He Yuanzhou on the stage and said, "You think everyone is like you, a frog in the well."

"Miss Gu, please speak nicely. Why do you have to keep saying bad things and damaging your reputation as a woman? Today I was going to talk to you about what the Queen has done recently, but you brought up the war in Xiguan and talked about other things, intentionally avoiding the main point of the topic." In order to boost his momentum, He Yuanzhou deliberately raised his voice and responded loudly.

The talented people behind him all echoed and supported He Yuanzhou. No one wanted to lose to a woman today.

Gu Jiangyu laughed a few times when he heard this, and responded to the man in front of him with the simplest words: "There is a war in Xiguan, and the people's taxes must be paid to the soldiers on the front line first. Xie's shop donated a lot of supplies to the front line. Did you know that?"

They didn't know, and they didn't want to know. They only knew that they couldn't lose this fight. If they lost, the woman would step out of the backyard and would no longer be under their control.

How can a woman learn to run around like a man? A woman should stay at home quietly, take care of her husband and children, and serve her husband's family.

Her Majesty the Queen must stop all this ridiculous behavior.

At this time, there was a chaotic voice in the back, and the eunuch shouted: "The emperor has arrived——"

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Don't worry about whether I should update one chapter or two. I update 2000 chapters a day. I don't have the capacity to update more. I'm a mother and I have to take care of two children... (End of this chapter)

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