Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 770 Ming Xiu Plank Road Crossing Chencang
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Li Xiuning held a towel made of cotton cloth, gently dried Chen Ying's body, and slowly put on clothes for Chen Ying.Chen Ying changed into a pajamas made of cotton cloth.

Li Xiuning touched the soft cotton cloth and said: "This cotton is woven into thread and woven into cloth. The effect is not bad. It is smooth and flat, strong and flexible, and it is not easy to get dirty. It breathes well and absorbs sweat. It is cool in summer and warm in winter." .”

Chen Yingdao: "Of course the fabric is good. I hope that all military uniforms will be made of hemp silk in the future. It's just a pity. For the time being, cotton production is mainly made of bedding."

At this moment, Li Xiuning took out a secret letter, handed it to Chen Ying and said, "Chen Lang, take a look at this."

Chen Ying glanced at it, took it but did not open the secret letter, he sighed and said, "San Niang, are you still worried about Chang'an?"

Li Xiuning nodded and said, "The palm of the hand is flesh, the back of the hand is flesh..."

Chen Ying sighed, pointed to the ceiling and said, "The root cause of the conflict between the Crown Prince and the King of Qin is not with them, but with the top. There is no way to reconcile it!"

Li Xiuning smiled wryly and said: "I also know, it's just that the confrontation between Erlang and elder brother is getting more and more serious. Now elder brother has someone impeach Du Yan for embezzling people's fields, and the evil servant beat people to death. (now Xichang, Sichuan). Erlang also launched a counterattack, dealing with Donggong counseling to join the army, Prince Zhongyun Wanggui... Now the most urgent task is how to explain to the eldest brother and Erlang..."

"Explain?" Chen Ying smiled wryly, "How to explain? How can we calm down the chaos?"

"This..." Li Xiuning was speechless for a moment.

Chen Ying sighed and said, "I'm afraid, this matter will not be so simple!"

In terms of politics, although Chen Ying is a rookie.But after all these years in the officialdom, even stones should be enlightened.What's more, Chen Ying is not stupid.

Chen Ying flipped through the recent secret reports, and slowly found the crux of the problem.Li Jiancheng wrote to Li Yuanyi "Please set up a memorial to the four schools".Li Jiancheng wrote in the memorial: "Self-victorious people are strong. The way of self-improvement lies in the accumulation of talents. To accumulate talents, we must first set up schools and cultivate talents. The way to seek talents is to establish four schools first, and cultivate people. Like a tree, one year later in school, one year later in talent..."

Seeing this, Chen Ying roughly guessed Li Jiancheng's intentions.

The prerequisite for establishing education, especially government schools, is to prepare for the great revitalization of the imperial examination system.However, once the imperial examination system is implemented and the examination system is opened to select scholars, it will mean that the family politics since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties will come to an end.

Of course, the imperial examination system was not created by Li Jiancheng. To be precise, it should have been created by Yang Jian and carried forward by Yang Guang.However, the aristocratic clan saw Yang Sui's determination to eradicate the aristocratic families, so these aristocratic clansmen began to stir up trouble for their own interests.

Under the counterattack of the entire aristocratic class, Yang Guang failed. As the so-called winner and loser, Yang Guang not only died, but was nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

But right now, Li Jiancheng is doing it very cleverly.

He first released a huge smoke screen to intensify the dispute between the crown prince and the King of Qin, thereby attracting the attention of the whole world with the dispute in the East Palace, and prepared to establish the Four Schools in a silent way.In prefectures and counties, the four disciplines of religion, law, medicine, and martial arts were established publicly, and began to cultivate talents from poor families.In this way, after a few years, when the bachelors of the four disciplines have grown up, at this time, Li Jiancheng will be able to win undefeated if he breaks his face with the aristocratic family.

After all, the imperial examination system benefits the interests of scholars all over the world, especially the interests of poor scholars.For their own benefit, these humble scholars will definitely stand on Li Jiancheng's side.

Seeing this, Chen Ying took this memorandum, looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Do you know who is behind the crown prince's plan?"

Chen Ying has knowledge that surpasses the common people for nearly a thousand years, so he naturally knows that the existence of aristocratic clans is already a cancer in the world.However, this malignant tumor has already formed a climate, and Yang Guang wants to change this miserable circle, so he expanded the policy of only 12 candidates in the imperial examination during Yang Jian's period, and developed the imperial examination system on a large scale.

Li Jiancheng himself was born in a powerful family. Standing in Li Jiancheng's position, he would definitely not take the act of knocking down a powerful family rashly.Looking at Li Jiancheng's previous actions in Chang'an or Shoubian, I am afraid that Li Jiancheng should have such a profound insight into the imperial examination system that there should be another expert behind the scenes.

Li Xiuning thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's Wei Zheng, Wei Xuancheng..."

"Wei Zheng." Chen Ying smacked his lips lightly. Even those who don't know the history of the early Tang Dynasty should have heard the story of Li Shimin and Wei Zheng. You can remonstrate to Li Jiancheng that the world must be peaceful, and the King of Qin must be killed first. It is conceivable that Wei Zheng is also a person who uses unscrupulous means to achieve his goals.

Not only did Wei Zheng hide this plan from most of the aristocratic families, but he also almost hid it from Chen Ying.

If Chen Ying hadn't stood on the shoulders of a historical giant, he might have been fooled by Wei Zheng's plan to build a plank road and cross Chen Cang secretly.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying complainingly and said, "What time is this, you still read jokes!"

"It's not a joke, but we've all been cheated!" Chen Ying suddenly had an idea when he said this.With Fang Du's ability, he might easily see through Wei Zheng's intentions. After all, Fang Du's judgment is not in vain.However, the status of the two in Li Shimin's heart was finally not as good as that of Changsun Wuji.

In case Li Shimin was seen through by Fang Xuanling or Du Ruhui and tried to persuade Li Shimin not to fall for it, Wei Zheng's plan would be difficult to implement.

However, Changsun Wuji is different.He had suffered too much in the Western Regions and was very angry with Chen Ying.

If he is free, Changsun Wuji will definitely persuade Li Shimin to increase the scope of attack, thus escalating the dispute between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng again.

At this time, the more intense the dispute between Li Erlang and Li Dalang, the greater the benefits to Datang. As long as Datang completes the system of shifting from aristocratic politics to imperial examinations, Datang's even greater internal friction can be alleviated.

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said: "Sanniang, you said that Changsun Wuji is in the Western Regions, would it be too cruel for Princess Qin?"

Li Xiuning said: "Chen Lang, what are you thinking?"

Chen Yingdao: "I want to let Changsun Wuji go back!"

Li Xiuning's face suddenly changed upon hearing this: "How is this possible?"

The conflict between Changsun Wuji and Chen Ying could no longer be reconciled. Under this circumstance, once Changsun Wuji got out of trouble, he would definitely take revenge on Chen Ying!
But in this situation, Chen Ying was not afraid of revenge from Changsun Wuji.If a general has no enemies, or in another way, no one can check and balance, then this general will be really dangerous.

(End of this chapter)