Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 115 Usage of Liberal Arts

Although Li Tai and Li Shimin were chatting, after the chat, Li Tai left the palace and went back to Gaoling to work.

After all, as a royal child, especially a royal child who still wants to seize the throne, things like emotions are so rich.

I want to work, I want to make contributions, I want to make Datang even greater!This is the normal idea.

But Li Shimin took Li Tai's words to heart, and took the initiative to find Fang Xuanling, saying that he would cut the emperor's expenses from the imperial court's expenses, and hoped that Fang Xuanling would support him in the court.

Fang Xuanling did not expect Li Shimin to propose this method suddenly, but Fang Xuanling still supported it.

As for Li Shimin's idea, the court quickly divided into two factions to discuss it.

To a certain extent, the split between the palace expenses and the imperial court expenses, and then the imperial court distributes salaries to the royal family, is also in line with the Gongyang School's idea of ​​"the son of heaven is one noble".

So although there are disputes, it should be agreed in the end.

However, what is really rare is that after the cutting is done, the functions of the Shaofu Supervisor will definitely be aggravated.

So what is the imperial court, what is the emperor's, the specific division of financial needs, and how much money the imperial court needs to support the emperor each year, all these need to be carefully sorted out by the royal family and the imperial court.

Therefore, although Li Shimin proposed to establish internal funds to strengthen the Shaofu Supervisor, even the important court officials represented by Fang Xuanling agreed.

But how to divide resources and power in this process requires enough time to operate.

This kind of thing requires a slow quarrel between the servants and the important officials of the court.

Li Shimin himself has not felt much, but for other bureaucrats, the lower they are, the more they can feel the changes in power. .

So that is really a fight for every inch of land, and the two sides have a lot to gain.

It can be said that after Li Shimin put forward this suggestion, the entire Tang Dynasty neither cared about the surrounding border affairs nor cared about other internal affairs of the court, and was all focused on this feast of cutting power.

No way, to some extent, this is a cut of interests between the royal family and the court.

And in the process, there will definitely be benefits that are small for the country but extremely rich for the individual.

It's like a grain of sand from the times falling on a person is a mountain, but a grain of gold sand from the times falling on a person is a mountain of gold. It may be crushed to death, but good luck is more than enough to fight for one. Lifelong wealth.

Of course, compared to the civil servants fighting for their own interests in this matter, the military generals were much quieter because they didn't get involved, and Zhang Wansui started running to the general's mansion one by one.

Most of the general's mansions will definitely give this face to Zhang Wansui's invitation.

After all, Zhang Wansui is in charge of the horses. As a general, anyone who is mentally disabled will have trouble with the logistics.

Moreover, Zhang Wansui came here in person to invite him so face-saving, but he only sent out a dozen or twenty personal guards.

It's just that with the mansions running over, it's easy. For example, after Li Jing knew the whole story, he said that he would send his personal guards to join them.

Of course, there are more difficult things to deal with, such as Yuchi Jingde, with his arrogant demeanor that I sent someone to show you face.

Even if he did join, Zhang Wansui and the people around him would be annoyed.

Coming out of Yuchi Jingde's mansion, Wei Panti beside Zhang Wansui couldn't help but said:
"Teacher, why do you have to come and run this matter yourself, just leave it to the disciples to run this trip, why should you suffer such a crime of begging for help!"

Hearing Wei Panti's complaint and concern, Zhang Wansui smiled calmly and said:
"I'm just a general, and I'm trusted by the sage to be in charge of Taipu Temple. Speaking of which, the court is full of talents, do you think I'm missing one?"

"..." Wei Panti was silent for a while when he heard Zhang Wansui's words, and struggled, "The teacher is also very good!"

Hearing his apprentice's protection, Zhang Wansui smiled and said:
"It's not lacking. In fact, if you change someone from the army, who can do worse than me, a big boss who came out of the army.

What I can do is to help the saint do it well, and what I do is nothing more than my duty. "

"Teacher..." Wei Panti wanted to say something when he heard Zhang Wansui's words, but he didn't know how to say it.

"I know how much resentment you have towards King Yue.

I feel that the king of Yue didn't do anything. Except for building a racetrack, we left Taipusi to do everything else. "

Looking at Wei Panti's appearance, Zhang Wansui said,

"But you need to understand that this Great Tang is not only the Saint's Great Tang, but also our Great Tang."

"Our Great Tang?" Wei Panti was a little dazed when he heard Zhang Wansui's words, and he couldn't understand it at all.

But Zhang Wansui said calmly: "Because you didn't come all the way with the king of Qin, it's hard for you to understand this feeling.

But for us veterans who followed King Qin to fight in the north and south, we can feel that the Tang Dynasty is not only the Tang Dynasty of the saints, but also has our own efforts and beliefs in it.

Therefore, as long as it can make Datang prosperous and strong, we are all willing to do it. After all, with my ability, that's all! "

"Teacher..." Wei Panti couldn't understand the inexplicable sense of mission in Zhang Wansui's words, but Wei Panti could feel that for Zhang Wansui, it was a shame to invite soldiers from various residences to join the polo industry But it is as sweet as sugar.

"Which mansion are we going to go to next?" Zhang Wansui asked Wei Pan.

Wei Panti quickly took out a scroll, looked at the names recorded on the scroll, and said:
"The next ones are the residences of King Hejian, King Rencheng, Duke Yi and others."

"Go and see how these people react!" Zhang Wansui said.
"Taking advantage of this time, run over to other soldiers along the way to see if anyone is willing to participate in this racecourse.

After all, we are not just polo, like equestrianism, horse racing always needs people to participate! "

"Okay, teacher!" Wei Panti repeatedly agreed, "I'll go down and make the order of the visiting list."

Looking at Wei Panti's hard work, Zhang Wansui seemed to see himself in the past.

After waving his hand, he went back to Taipu Temple first. After all, being able to visit a top general in one day is already very efficient for Zhang Wansui.

And these need to be run one by one by oneself, that is the slightest bit of laziness that cannot be stolen.

However, Li Tai didn't do anything as Wei Panti thought, but came to the library of the agricultural school.

"How come the king of Yue is free to come over today, he is a rare visitor?" Yan Qinli couldn't help being surprised when he saw Li Tai.

"What are the rare visitors? I often come to this library to read books!" Li Tai argued when he saw Yan Qinli.

Facing Li Tailue's nonsense with his eyes open, Yan Qinli didn't refute, but just watched quietly.

Well, Li Tai felt a little embarrassed when he was looked at. Even though his face was impenetrable, he still couldn't hold back his face when faced with such a sincere gaze.

The voice lowered and said: "Occasionally, I will come to this library to read books!"

Yan Qinli withdrew his gaze, and said in a puzzled tone, "I don't know why King Yue came here today?"

"I want to dispatch some people from the liberal arts!" Li Tai said calmly, "I plan to open bookstores in Gaoling and Chang'anfang City, and publish some documents, mainly about the achievements of the agricultural colleges and introduce the bookstores of the agricultural colleges."

"It's a bit of self-promotion!" Yan Qinli looked a little embarrassed when he heard Li Tai's words.

To be honest, Yan Qinli had never thought of this kind of thing, after all, books are quite sacred these days.

"No way, I haven't seen other Confucian scholars brag about our school! Naturally, I can only let my own people do it!"

Li Tai said indifferently, "Otherwise, why would there be a liberal arts department in the sixth agricultural department!"

Hearing Li Tai's words, Yan Qinli had a look of sudden realization on his face.

What Yan Qinli didn't understand most all the time was that Li Tai established the liberal arts department, but he didn't see any support from Li Tai for the liberal arts department.

On the contrary, Li Tai paid more attention to several sub-subjects such as mathematics, medicine, ink, and music.

With the implementation of the water transportation system and the corvee system, mathematics talents are basically absorbed by these two places.

The hospital plan of the medical department is currently stagnant, and one of the most important reasons is that there is not enough grassroots medical personnel.

After all, mathematics can still be progressed slowly in the way of learning and progressing, but medicine really needs to rely on time.

Although Le Ke has no obvious support, Lu Cai was born in Le Ke, has his own positioning for Le Ke, and is also making steady progress.

As for Mo Ke, although Li Tai doesn't have many plans, he allocates the most money to Mo Ke every year.

The weights and measures and other technical tools used by Moco in the water transportation system also played a role.

There are only liberal arts, and basically all liberal arts students simply participate in copying books in the library.

Although this is an important plan for the continuation of the aristocratic family, for individual liberal arts students, it is impossible for them to stay in the library all their lives.

After all, the library is only a librarian when it develops to the extreme, so what is it?

And when the agricultural school was opened for almost three years, Li Tai finally thought that the liberal arts students were about to graduate.

To be honest, it's not that Li Tai has forgotten these people, but that he hasn't had a suitable opportunity to arrange for them.

What Li Tai hopes most is naturally to let them become a newspaper office, and then become his own mouthpiece, and follow Confucianism to talk to each other.

Don't look at the current Li Tai who seems to be in a hurry, he doesn't see Li Tai being suppressed at all.

That's because Li Chengqian hadn't obviously formed a confrontation with Li Tai, otherwise Li Tai's reputation would have been rotten by now.

So plan ahead, prepare for the newspaper organization, don't seek to whitewash your reputation among the gentry, but at least consolidate your reputation in the basic market, this is what Li Tai hopes to do.

After all, if you don't occupy the position of public opinion, others will.

And there are too few liberal arts students trained by themselves, and they simply cannot support the arduous task of debating Confucianism.

Li Tai has no doubts that if he wants to show such a little bit of meaning, even if Confucianism can't deal with him, it will dig out the roots of the liberal arts.

The biggest difference between liberal arts students and other disciplines is that students from other disciplines are not directly in competition with scholars from traditional universities.

These people are doing hard work, and Confucian students just turn a blind eye and ignore it. They even wish that the dirty work will be handed over to people from agricultural colleges, and they will do it themselves. live.

After all, agricultural colleges were originally doing the work of Tian Shelang, and Confucian students like myself naturally read sage books.

But after the liberal arts students came out, it became completely different. The liberal arts students were in direct competition with them.

The only way out for them in the future must be to develop into civil servants, but it is a pity that the imperial examinations in this era are not vague.

Unless Li Tai can be recognized by Confucianism, it is almost unrealistic for students from agricultural colleges to pass the imperial examination and become official officials.

It was really seeing a name block a name, it can be said that there was no exception.

The only way to pass is to focus on cultivating those students with the same name and the same city. Maybe it's because the examiner's eyes are wrong, so maybe it's fooled.

As far as reality is concerned, even the seemingly rough road of the imperial examination is closed to itself.

So there is no way, if you can’t go up to the upper level, then you have to go down.

Li Tai planned to set up bookstores in various cities and towns in Chang'an, specializing in selling magazines of agricultural colleges and disseminating the ideas of agricultural colleges.

In addition to Chang'an, the Weishui Ferry must not be let go, and the idea of ​​an agricultural school should be spread in the Weishui Basin first.

After all, it is impossible to go head-to-head with Confucianism. I should find a way to spread my thoughts to the peasants who are weak in Confucianism. This is what I need to do.

Of course, Li Tai really wanted to run a newspaper, but to be honest, with the productivity of this era and the number of literate people in this era, it would definitely be a loss to run a newspaper. Unless the newspaper can spread throughout the country, whoever runs the newspaper will lose money.

So Li Tai still chooses to start with the monthly magazine, or the semi-monthly magazine.

Write some chicken soup for the soul, add some words about agricultural colleges, just deal with it first, at least it can make money.

For Li Tai, the most important thing about this bookstore is that it can support these liberal arts students from agricultural colleges.

To be honest, Li Tai, who played the role of a guide, knew very well that he could not give these students cultural knowledge, and then kick these students into the society and let them fend for themselves.

Because of this approach, it was as if Nora, who had run away, faced this cruel world and had to either fall or come back.

This approach is extremely irresponsible.

Of course, the biggest possibility is that the talents he cultivated with great difficulty were absorbed by Confucianism, and he might turn his head to criticize himself, especially when he lost power.

Therefore, I must arrange their future destinations to satisfy their material and spiritual respect.

"First set up a bookstore to sell miscellaneous books and magazines, wait for a few years, and when the bookstore stabilizes, some people will be able to become elementary school teachers. Select outstanding students and directly enter the school. In this way, the foundation of the agricultural school has taken root. !"

(End of this chapter)