A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 671: The old guy surrendered
His Majesty, the great emperor, has returned to his loyal city of Chang'an.

After leading hundreds of civil and military officials to patrol east to Luoyang for five months, Li Shimin led hundreds of officials back to Chang'an.

Part of the reason for this was because there was a shortage of food in Guanzhong, and part of the reason was because only after he left Guanzhong did those people dare to act recklessly.

The Taiji Hall was very bright, with Li Shimin sitting in the middle, the other prime ministers sitting on both sides according to their seating order, and Wang Xuanjing sitting in the first position on the left. He is the crown prince and tutor, Zhongshu Ling, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, ranking first.

In fact, Shangshu Ling was ranked first, but Li Shimin once held the position of Shangshu Ling, and later it was no longer awarded to others. Next, Shangshu Pushe ranked first because Wang Xuanjing had the official position of Crown Prince and Taifu.

The servants on the left and right of the minister are Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui respectively. Originally Xiao Yu was also the prime minister, but he was dismissed from office after being criticized by Wang Xuanjing last time. He went home to think about the past.

In addition to them, there are also Changsun Wuji and Li Ji. As for Wei Zheng, he is from Zhongshushe. Zhongshu Sheren is only a fifth-rank official, but he, a Zhongshu Sheren, has the suffix "Zhizhengshi", which means that he can enter the Zhengshi Hall.

Among the Wang family members in the dynasty, Wang Xuanjing had the highest position, while Wang Xuanlie developed his career in the military. Other Wang family members were either in the military or held lower positions.

This time, after Wang Xuanjing's cleanup, the nobles and noble families became more honest, and Li Shimin was ready to officially launch the imperial examination system.

Although the imperial examination system had been established in the past, it had not been officially implemented. Now after this attack, those nobles and noble families no longer dare to secretly resist, so they can promote the imperial examination system.

Although there were plans to promote the imperial examination system at that time, those people had been pushing the envelope with each other. After all, it requires the cooperation of officials from all over the imperial court.

Now that the Wang family had enough cheap paper supplies and a large number of books in their hands, the time had come to implement the imperial examination system.

Most of the people who can be recommended are officials from various places, or nobles, or senior officials who have become officials. It is basically impossible for ordinary people to meet these people.

In the past, nobles monopolized knowledge, and their descendants were all officials. Later, after the spread of knowledge, aristocratic families rose up, and the acquisition of knowledge became cheaper and cheaper.

The biggest difference between the imperial examination system and all previous systems is that it does not require the recommendation of others. Systems such as recommendation, promotion of filial piety and integrity, etc. basically require someone to recommend.

More and more people can read, and the court can obtain more and more talents.

This time, the imperial court began to officially promote the imperial examination system. All states and counties in the world would set up a sacrificial wine minister. Every three years, scholars in the county would be summoned to take exams. The exam questions would be prepared by the Ministry of Officials and then distributed to each county. After passing the selection in the county examination, you can then go to the capital to take the examination.

The imperial examination system now has a basis for implementation. It has been thousands of years since the invention of paper. Since the Daqian Dynasty, the Wang family has been improving paper.

Therefore, no matter how this method of selecting talents changes, there will still be a large number of poor families and ordinary people who have no chance to be recommended.

This improvement has two directions. One is to produce paper that can be used for writing at the lowest cost possible. The other direction is to increase the cost and make some paper with better quality and more wear resistance.

Low-cost paper is used to make some cheap books, while high-quality and more wear-resistant paper is used to make more important documents and documents. It can also be used to make books for long-term storage.

That is to say, in September of the first year of Zhenguan, the imperial court officially issued an edict to hold the imperial examination. At the same time, the imperial examination system was distributed to all counties. The first imperial examination was prepared a year later. In order for the imperial examination to proceed smoothly, the imperial court gave a lot of time for preparations.

After learning that the imperial court selected talents in an eclectic way, ordinary people, powerful people, and poor families all over the world bought books and sought advice from learned people from all over the world.

This scene was even greater than the sensation caused by Daqian Academy in Dazhou and County. After all, books were expensive during the Daqian period, and it was not easy to enroll in a county school. Now the imperial court has directly abolished the threshold, and anyone can study as long as they think they are capable.

When the imperial examination system was vigorously promoted, Wang Xuanjing did not relax his treatment of the noble families in Guanzhong.

Instead, it officially began to implement immigration policies.

The land in Guanzhong is indeed a rare fertile land, especially the Weihe Plain area, which has abundant water resources and flat land. Suitable for planting.

Development and farming began here in the Qin Dynasty, and it has a history of 1,400 years. Especially since the Daqian period, Guanzhong has become more prosperous due to vigorous development here.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were no serious wars here. The population of Guanzhong has increased, and it has even become the most populous place in the world.

After thousands of years of reclamation, there is no excess land in the Guanzhong Plain. After thousands of years of farming, even with various land-raising and composting technologies, it is inevitable that the land has become barren.

Although the Guanzhong Plain is not small, it is still far behind Hebei, Henan, Nanyang, Huai'an and other places. Basically there is no development potential.

Wang Xuanjing conducted a detailed investigation of Guanzhong, so he was naturally aware of this situation and had always wanted to move more people out.

The Dugu family, as royal relatives of the former dynasty and Empress Dugu's husband's family, was not liquidated after the establishment of the Li and Tang Dynasties. After all, the Li family and the Dugu family were also related. More importantly, the Dugu family has gradually become lonely since the death of Queen Dugu.

He had long since fallen from the first echelon of the Guanlong nobles.

In this severe drought, the Dugu family was also seriously damaged. Originally, the head of the Dugu family could still show some dignity, but now the last fig leaf has been removed.

Without waiting for Wang Xuanjing to send someone to notify them, the Dugu family and other Guanlong families hurried over. There are also those noble families in Hebei who also sent people here.

Wang Xuanjing even heard that the nobles of these aristocratic families began to take the initiative to propose marriage to the daughters of the clan.

You must know that during Li Yuan's time, Li Yuan secretly wanted to marry his concubine to those wealthy families, but he was rejected by these people.

Li Shimin wanted to select a princess from these aristocratic families for his prince, but they quietly avoided him and now sent his daughters to Chang'an one by one. Wang Xuanjing knew very well what this meant.

Wang Xuanjing casually said that he would allow these noble families to enroll in the school together with the prince, but before he formally considered it, these people sent their children over.

It was not a formal policy at all, but in the end these people all took it seriously.

These signals indicate that both the Guanlong nobles and the Hebei aristocratic families have given in.

It's not easy to get these old guys to surrender.

(End of this chapter)