A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 662 The Beginning of Zhenguan
Li Shimin was very supportive of this method. In order to encourage these monks, Li Shimin held a Dharma meeting in Chang'an City and rewarded these monks with many things.

With the support of the imperial court, a large number of monks and Taoist priests began to go to the frontiers and barbarian lands.

These monks and Taoist priests were issued royal ultimatums by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If these monks and Taoist priests were threatened elsewhere, they could use the royal ultimatums to ask for help from nearby garrisons.

Li Shimin has already ordered that the border garrison should protect the safety of these monks and Taoist priests and not allow barbarians and barbarians outside the Great Wall to kill them.

Even Wang Xuanjing was worried that these monks and Taoists did not know how to spread their faith and how to get the barbarians and barbarians beyond the Great Wall to believe in them, so he organized a special training.

Needless to say, there are some tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts. These are just trivial tricks. Most monks and Taoists know it, and many people even know it.

They communicated these things among themselves. In addition to these, the imperial court began to train them in wilderness survival skills and began to teach them simple medical skills, farming techniques, and breeding techniques. Although they were not very proficient, they all had to learn.

At that time, they can completely use medical skills, farming or breeding techniques to gain the trust of barbarians and barbarians.

Of course, this is not to let them teach the barbarians techniques directly, but to let them package them up and use their tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts.

With the help of religious demonstrations, the barbarians and barbarians were made to believe that they had extraordinary divine power.

These monks and Taoists cannot be left idle. What’s the use of eating fast and chanting Buddha’s name? Wang Xuanjing asked Li Shimin to set up shrines to martyrs in Buddhist and Taoist temples in various places.

After seeing this situation, Wang deliberately studied a large number of preaching methods and various deception methods.

The preaching monks and Taoist priests who had been promoted by the imperial court were also protected by border troops. It would not take long for these people to begin to take root in those barbarian lands.

These things developed very well among the indigenous tribes with extremely backward cultures.

At the same time, he emphasized the need for monks and Taoists to be loyal and patriotic.

When he first learned about Wang Xuanjing's plan, Li Shimin was shocked by his actions.

Everyone has a clear understanding of your background. As soon as you make a move, they will know what you are going to do. How can we fight?
Therefore, these people had no intention of fighting in the Tang Dynasty, and could only go to the frontier lands of barbarians and barbarians under the orders of the court.

When the Wang family was exploring overseas, they encountered many indigenous tribes with little civilization. They had little etiquette and it was difficult to communicate with them. However, once religion and gods were used to communicate with them, the effect became particularly good.

Now Wang has taught some of them to these monks. The method of preaching that Wang had improved and summarized was infinitely more advanced than that of their own sect.

After some training, the way the monks and Taoists looked at Wang Xuanjing changed. The eyes seemed to say, as the prime minister of the imperial court, how come you are better at developing believers than we are?
At the same time, this training also completely eliminated the dissatisfaction among the monks and Taoist priests. With such a prime minister who is proficient in preaching methods, monks and Taoists like them can no longer develop.

It stipulates the rules of conduct for monks and Taoists, and those who violate these prohibitions will be punished.

He could never understand how Wang Xuanjing, a member of a noble family, could be so proficient in these deceptive tricks. In fact, these things were summed up when Wang was developing overseas.

Next, the imperial court imposed strict restrictions on the monks and Taoists who stayed in the Central Plains. Wang Xuanjing specially wrote a "Memorandum on the Management of Religious Affairs".

Those who sacrificed their lives for the country should be enshrined in the Temple of Heroes and enjoy incense.

Temples of martyrs must be added to temples and Taoist temples in various places. At the same time, the court will also set up an official Martyrs' Shrine.

Every year after offering sacrifices to the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Temple, one has to go to the Heroes’ Shrine to offer sacrifices. Because many temples occupy vast areas, after the eviction of a large number of monks, the houses in many temples were vacant. These houses were of good quality, so the court converted some of the vacant houses in the temples into academies.

Like the previous dynasty, the Tang Dynasty also established the Imperial College, Imperial College, and academies, and academies were also established in various counties and cities. These colleges were converted from empty temple buildings.

There are also some small temples or those that are not suitable for renovation, but they are allocated to the surrounding people.

Li Shimin had communicated with Wang Xuanjing, and he had always wanted to implement the imperial examination system.

Wang Xuanjing still agreed with the imperial examination system initiated by Yang Jian, although the imperial examination system was not anonymous, the number of people admitted was small, and it had various shortcomings.

But this imperial examination system is still more advanced than the previous imperial examination system.

After thousands of years of development, the effectiveness of the inspection and examination system has become worse and worse.

Many times, the inspection and examination system has become a decoration and cannot promote talents for the country.

As soon as the imperial examination system appeared, Wang discovered the benefits of this system. Whether you have talent or learning can be known by taking an exam. Although the exam cannot identify all talents, it can select a large number of talents.

Wang Xuanjing supported the imperial examination system.

During the pre-Sui Dynasty, the number of people admitted to the imperial examination system was very small, and the threshold was also very high. This time Wang Xuanjing planned to expand the number of people.

Increase the number of people taking the imperial examination and increase the number of people who pass.

The imperial examinations in the pre-Sui Dynasty were almost open-book examinations. Wang Xuanjing naturally did not intend to open-book examinations this time, but implemented closed-book examinations.

Candidates' test papers also need to be anonymous. After the review is completed, the test papers will be opened and viewed to be as fair as possible.

However, as soon as the imperial examination system was proposed, many people opposed it. The aristocratic families were unhappy with the imperial examination system.

You must know that if they wanted to be officials in the past, they only needed to find recommendations from relatives and friends. After the imperial examination, if they wanted to be officials, they had to take the exam, and they still took the exam with those from poor families and common people.

In fact, from the very beginning of the imperial examination system, 99% of the scholars admitted were descendants of aristocratic families. Because in this era knowledge is still in a semi-monopoly.

How could those poor scholars and common people be able to read better than those children from aristocratic families?

Only after the imperial examination system has developed for a hundred or two hundred years will the children of poor families and common people gradually gain the upper hand.

Even though those aristocratic families were very reluctant, they had to bow their heads after facing Li Shimin. After all, this was a horse-riding emperor. If they really confronted him, he would definitely not be merciless in killing him.

On the other hand, they also understand that they have an absolute advantage in the imperial examination.

Therefore, under Li Shimin's insistence, the imperial examination system was passed.

(End of this chapter)