Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

In Taiji Palace, Li Yuanji looked at Cen Wenben's memorial with a sneer on his face.

“These people, seeing that operations in various places have not been affected, are now starting to panic.

These people were very tough at first. They launched a rebellion and resigned from office. Now they are begging for mercy. It is really ironic.

They have always thought themselves superior to others, so why don't they continue to be so arrogant now? "

Li Yuanji was not surprised at these people's shamelessness. The longer they survived, the more shameless they became. These noble families had completely lost their original hypocrisy and arrogance.

Li Yuanji thought that these people could hold out for a while, or even launch a full-scale rebellion to overthrow him. However, Li Yuanji did not expect that these people would be unable to hold out so quickly, and even behaved exceptionally docilely.

Cen Wenben below also had a smile on his face. When these things broke out, he was very worried. Now that these people are like this, he really wants to laugh.

“Your Majesty, I believe that even if these people come together, they must follow the national policy formulated by Your Majesty.

In addition, those who were originally dismissed from office will still maintain the status that Your Majesty has stated: they are not allowed to enter the government or engage in business within five generations, and they are not allowed to leave their registered place within three generations.

At the same time, once evidence of corruption, oppression of the people, etc. is found, these people will be held accountable, including those from wealthy families.

Under this set of operations, supervision of these noble families should be strengthened to prevent anyone from inciting the common people to rebel as they did before."

Li Yuanji looked at Cen Wenben in surprise. He really didn't expect that Cen Wenben was such a cruel person.

But what Cen Wenben said was exactly what Li Yuanji thought. These people wanted to beg for mercy now, but it was too late for some of them and it was not too late for others. However, those people had to accept his conditions, especially the Five Surnames and Seven Families.

He would never allow these powerful aristocratic families to exist in his Tang Dynasty. If there was one, he would beat them down.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. You go down and make the arrangements. If anyone wants to see me, go talk to them first. If they still have illusions, forget it."

After Cen Wenben agreed, Li Yuanji immediately talked about the important matter of the imperial examination.

"Now the results of the preliminary examinations in various places have come out. A total of 83,927 people will come to Chang'an to take the exam. You should notify all places to try your best to help these students who come to take the exam.

The establishment of the examination hall and the reception must be completed as soon as possible, otherwise so many people will come to Chang'an without a place to stay or take the exam, which will cause great harm to the prestige of the court.

This kind of thing must never happen, understand?"

“Your Majesty, rest assured that the placement of our examinees and the construction of the examination hall will be completed within this month for use by students all over the world.

Moreover, the examination halls and accommodation scale were designed to accommodate 100,000 people, making it convenient for the imperial examinations to be held again in the future.

At the same time, I have also asked the Ministry of Works to set up a second set of facilities. With the establishment of the academy, the number of students will inevitably increase dramatically in ten years or even longer. By then, there will be even more students taking the imperial examinations. The second set of facilities can effectively meet the needs of the imperial examinations."

Li Yuanji nodded in approval. He attached great importance to this imperial examination. It could be said that this was a pioneering move. As long as it was done well this time, future imperial examinations would draw on its experience and develop a more perfect imperial examination system.

To put it bluntly, this time the imperial examination was taken as the first, not only because the country was just beginning to settle and needed this imperial examination to stabilize people's hearts, but also to set an example for future imperial examinations.

In the following time, many things were discussed one after another. However, even though many plans had been made, he now had to proceed step by step.

After Cen Wen left, Kong Yingda followed him to Li Yuanji as if he was following him, and began to discuss the detailed formulation of the imperial examination system with Li Yuanji.

After everything was settled, Kong Yingda took out the test questions formulated by the Ministry of Education, a total of three rounds of test questions. After Li Yuanji looked through them all, he reduced some of the questions on classics and focused mainly on practical government affairs, as well as local governance, and increased the number of questions in these areas.

Kong Yingda wanted to object, but his objection was ultimately ineffective and he could only start to implement what Li Yuanji said.

After finalizing these matters, Li Yuanji began to expand the scale of the School of Engineering and began to increase publicity for the School of Engineering.

Not everyone can enter the current College of Engineering. Originally, the descendants of people from the five prefectures of Lingnan could enter directly, but if they were from other places, they would all have to undergo background checks. This was because Li Yuanji was worried that someone would betray him after graduating.

The status of the College of Engineering has been greatly elevated by Li Yuanji. Most of the students there are from poor families or common people, while children from aristocratic families are the rarest. Because of the background check, many people are stuck at this stage.

Several months passed and students from all over the country arrived in Chang'an one after another. There was only one month left before the imperial examination began.

At this time, good news came from the Research Institute again, and Li Yuanji immediately came to the Research Institute.

"Don't salute, tell me, what breakthrough have you made?"

Li Yuanji looked very happy. He just wanted to know what technological breakthrough had been made. Among the several technologies he had mentioned before, only the telegraph was developed first. Because this was Li Yuanji's key requirement, the research institute focused all its energy on the telegraph and finally developed it.

Duan Shilin took Li Yuanji inside, equally excited.

"Your Majesty, the technology you gave me to power the telephone and incandescent light bulbs has all been realized!"

"Oh? Really? Take me to see it!"

Li Yuanji was really excited this time. The telephone and the electric light were out. Although he had a hunch that they would be the initial ones, if these could be produced, how long would it take for better ones to come?
When Li Yuanji came in, the first thing he saw was the lit incandescent lamp in the room. Li Yuanji's eyes were burning with excitement.

"Your Majesty, this is the incandescent lamp that Your Majesty mentioned. It has already been developed. As for the circuit, it is a breakthrough made in the previous electromagnetic technology. With the guidance given by Your Majesty, the machine that powers it was made.

The wires connected to the back of the lamp are copper wires, which are protected by a layer of glue. If you touch them with your bare hands, you may get injured or even die.

Li Yuanji had no intention of listening to Duan Shilin's explanation. What if Duan Shilin understood the situation better than he did?

Li Yuanji just sighed that electricity had finally come out, and incandescent lamps were also available. From now on, thousands of households in the Tang Dynasty and people all over the world could gradually say goodbye to those oil lamps.

"Well, well done! But you can't slack off. Make better lamps as soon as possible.

As for the electricity that makes the lights turn on, we also need to research a more stable power source. By then, we can use fixed power generation and lines to connect electricity to each household. Each household only needs to install the light in the room to use it.

Although this is a bit difficult, you can take your time." Power generation technology is another technology. If you want to make progress on the current basis, Li Yuanji knows that it is very difficult.

But there is no way, these technical difficulties need to be solved by scientific research institutes.

After seeing the electric light, Li Yuanji immediately went to the telephone. This was the earliest telephone technology, also known as a magnetic telephone. It was powered by its own battery and a hand-cranked generator to send call signals.

Li Yuanji tried the telephone and found it was somewhat complicated to use, not as simple as he had thought.

But Li Yuanji didn't care. Now that the telephone had come out, the subsequent progress would be very fast. Li Yuanji knew clearly that starting from the magnetic telephone, the development of the telephone was really like riding a rocket, constantly changing.

With the advent of telephones and electric lights, Li Yuanji immediately began to install them in the imperial palace. He also installed incandescent lamps in the examination rooms and in the rooms where candidates were accommodated.

When the incandescent lamp appeared, everyone was stunned. No one had ever thought that it was possible to shine in this way. The effect was much better than the original oil lamp, and the light it emitted was extremely dazzling.

Everyone couldn't take their eyes off the scene, and were deeply shocked.

Especially when electric lights were installed in the students' rooms, the brightness of the lights made everyone's eyes stare straight. It was the first time they saw the light and warmth like the scorching sun.

The news about the Tang Dynasty electric lights spread across the world like a hurricane. However, people who had never seen them did not believe them, but the rumors were very credible.

It was not until local government offices and newspapers published detailed information in newspapers that most people began to believe it, but there were still a few people who chose not to believe it.

It was not until electric lights were gradually installed in various cities that more and more people began to believe in it, forcing those who had never seen it to believe it.

The emergence of the telephone made communication between officials at all levels more smooth. Chang'an was the first to start laying telephone lines, truly realizing the transmission of sound over thousands of miles.

The technologies that emerged one after another made people all over the world happy, but also made those aristocratic families who were against Li Yuanji grit their teeth.

Because during this period of time, under the in-depth investigation of the Jinyiwei, many people's past crimes were discovered, and most of them were beheaded. However, among these people, many people were implicated. It can be said that during this period of time, their people were beheaded every day.

As the situation became increasingly unfavorable, the Five Surnames and Seven Families began to be unable to hold on. Some smaller families could not withstand the pressure and directly surrendered to Li Yuanji, and began to do exactly what Li Yuanji asked.

However, the five surnames and seven families who refused to believe in evil united and prepared for a final desperate struggle, preparing to launch a rebellion and capture Chang'an.

But what the Five Surnames and Seven Clans did not expect was that just as they gathered their men, Duke Qi Xie Shufang arrived with a large army. The masterminds were all killed, as well as most of the Five Surnames and Seven Clans. Except for the leader and others, the rest of the rebels all became laborers for the Tang Dynasty's infrastructure, the kind that would work for their entire lives.

Li Yuanji's iron-blooded purge dealt a heavy blow to the Five Surnames and Seven Affiliations once again. The remaining people of the Five Surnames and Seven Affiliations chose to surrender one after another and fully comply with the conditions given by Li Yuanji.

The suffering of the Five Surnames and Seven Families made everyone in the world see Li Yuanji's determination and the possibility that they would never have a chance to turn things around, so they all completely turned to Li Yuanji.

However, in secret, some people were still planning to bring in Li Yuanji's enemies from outside. However, looking around the Tang Dynasty, all of them were under the territory of the Tang Dynasty. These people began to contact those who opposed the rule of the Tang Dynasty in their destroyed countries.

However, almost all of this was under the surveillance of the Jinyiwei. Through these people, the Jinyiwei once again found out those who were hiding in the dark and plotting against the Tang Dynasty, and they were caught in one fell swoop.

The Jinyiwei's successive actions made the people of the world see that the Jinyiwei were even more perverted than Li Erbaiqisi at the beginning, and also made those who were still angry and unwilling to give up completely sober up.

While the Jinyiwei joined forces with armies from all over the country to crack down on these people, the imperial examination in Chang'an began in full swing. After a month, three rounds of tests were all completed and the names of those who passed the exam were announced throughout the country.

With these people, the problem of replenishing court and local officials was greatly solved.

Two years later, the construction of railways around Chang'an was finally completed. The improved cars have started running on the newly renovated roads, and the trains have officially started to be put into use.

Today's Chang'an City is very different from before.

At the same time, Li Yuanji's system task was also completed at this time. Li Yuanji, who had obtained millions of contribution points, began to consume again, exchanging them for power transmission technology and a large number of infrastructure drawings.

During these two years, hybrid rice and corn were fully commercialized in the Tang Dynasty, the food problem was almost solved, and the population increased rapidly. In two years, the number of new people reached five million.

During the past two years, a big problem has also emerged: with the advent of industry and the massive construction of factories, the treatment of people working in the factories has gradually become problematic.

In order to solve this problem, Li Yuanji convened Cen Wenben, Wang Xuance, Ning Chun and others to discuss the matter, and finally re-drafted the laws related to labor work and promulgated them to various places.

In addition to the development within the Tang Dynasty, the places originally conquered by Li Yuanji also began to be governed with high intensity, especially the former Harsha Dynasty and surrounding countries. Li Yuanji officially began to migrate the population and allowed the Han people to fill in various places.

With the help of telegraph communications, people's livelihood in various places was developing rapidly. Although there were still rebellions in some remote areas, they were all suppressed by the Tang army.

Today's navy is also beginning to replace its warships in an all-round way, and armored battleships are constantly being launched and put into service to deter the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty.

As development continued, another five years passed, until the eighth year of Kaiping, when the Tang Dynasty had undergone earth-shaking changes. With the transmission of electricity, electric lights entered thousands of households, many train lines were built, and cars were running on the roads.

The changes in the Tang Dynasty were in all aspects. Cotton textiles, which were out of reach before, are now available to every household.

There is no more hunger in the Tang Dynasty today. Even if there are natural disasters from time to time, the continuous expansion of arable land, coupled with strong food reserves and transportation, allows them to get through it safely.

Today's Tang Dynasty has truly achieved prosperity for the country, a strong nation and a strong people, with a population of nearly 200 million.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty was incomparably vast, far exceeding that of any other dynasty.

The army of the Tang Dynasty had an astonishing 1.5 million soldiers, all of whom were well-equipped and well-trained Type A troops.

The Tang Dynasty's civil and military achievements reached their peak at one time.

At this time, Li Yuanji was finally no longer willing to be lonely, and he mobilized a group of important ministers and famous generals of the Tang Dynasty to begin discussing another expedition.

When this news spread, people from all over the world supported the Tang Dynasty's expansion and expanded its territory again.

At this time, Li Er's latest news came, which made the troops go forward again. (End of this chapter)