I'm not a genius in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 374

Wang Zi'an didn't speak, but just stood there calmly.Seeing Wang Zi An's calm expression, Li Shimin couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment.

"Don't you think I dare not?"

Wang Zi'an smiled.

"I have never underestimated His Majesty's courage. Because of this, I believe that His Majesty will not do such a stupid thing that hurts loved ones and makes enemies happy..."

Li Shimin: "..."

"The empire has developed to this day. Centralization of power is the general trend. All attempts to obstruct it are just manipulative arms blocking the car. The aristocratic family's obsession with the power of the past has become a stumbling block to the development of the Tang Empire. Still not to be underestimated, how to deal with it?"

Li Shimin had already put on a serious look on his face. Hearing this, he couldn't help asking subconsciously.

"How to deal with it?"

"Draw the bottom of the pot and cut off the root cause."

Wang Zi'an looked at Li Shimin with piercing eyes.

"The reason why the aristocratic family is powerful lies in its prestige and its talents. They have worked hard for dozens of generations, and their reputation among the people is growing day by day. They monopolize knowledge, and heroes and talents are prosperous in the family. Therefore, they can survive through several dynasties. If it doesn’t fall, it will grow stronger and stronger, becoming a social cancer that even the imperial court dare not lighten its edge.”

Li Shimin's eyes couldn't help but a gleam of amazement flashed, it was difficult to find one person who could see the problems of the aristocratic family so deeply and so thoroughly.

"Therefore, if you want to weaken the power of the aristocratic family, it depends on prestige and talent, and of the two, the most important thing is talent. Talent comes from education. During the hundreds of years of the aristocratic family, elites have emerged in large numbers. The knowledge and insight have been studied to the point of discovering the secrets, they have famous teachers to teach, they have clansmen to support them, and they have their own talent and hard work, even if your majesty opens the imperial examination, how many ordinary scholars from ordinary families can win?"

When Wang Zi'an said this, Li Er's expression turned ugly.As an emperor, how could he fail to see this problem, but what else can he do, you can't stop the children of the family from participating in the imperial examination, right?

"Compared to the traditional scriptures, if there is no change, I am afraid that after three, five, ten and eight generations, the family will still dominate the situation. The longer the age, the deeper their background. My lord, may I ask Your Majesty, who owns this world?"

The prince's way of nature does not need three or five generations, but only the next generation. When the little girl Wu Jue overthrows Li Tang and ascends the throne, the big knife in her hand can cut these mighty families to pieces.But he couldn't wait that long, those people who died in the flood couldn't wait, those partners who died in Bowangpo couldn't wait, those old people who lost their children, those wives who lost their husbands, those children who lost their fathers, they waited. Too late!

Every word of Wang Zi'an's words made Li Shimin's expression change.

Wasn't this what he was worried about?

He widely held imperial examinations and promoted poor families, but most of the nobles in the Manchu Dynasty were from aristocratic families.Although the patriarchs of those aristocratic families did not serve as officials, they bowed to the princes and stood up to the royal family.What's more, they are so arrogant that they can't even look down on their own emperor, they can't ask for a daughter, and they can't marry a daughter. In their eyes, their royal family is also inferior.Even the clan annals listed them as the first class, while their own royal family Li surname was listed as the second class.

"You know, once your words are spread, even though the world is big, there may not be a place for you, and they will definitely do whatever it takes to kill you."

Hearing Wang Zi'an's words, Li Shimin suddenly glanced at Wang Zi'an with a smile that was not a smile, and said something meaningful.

"Will your majesty say that? Besides, I have never put them in my eyes, but they are just a bunch of rotten people who plant their labels and sell their heads. They have already started to rot from the root..."

Wang Zi'an smiled.

"Your Majesty don't need to test me. Ever since the floods in Huainan Road and Henan Road, since the fire in Bowangpo, since the refugees rebelled and the plague spread, I have been at odds with them."

Li Shimin was silent for a long time after hearing the words, and then he put his hands behind his back and said lightly.

"Your so-called dredging from the bottom of the pot, cutting off the root cause, is to promote your new theories and new teaching materials?"

Wang Zi'an nodded seriously.

"Traditional Confucian classics, various schools of thought, it is difficult to get out of the category of those aristocratic families who have studied for hundreds of years. Instead of working hard, it is better to change the course. Use new textbooks, learn new knowledge, test new content, and select new talents. Then the hundreds of years of accumulation of the aristocratic family will be wiped out."

A trace of coldness flashed in Wang Zi'an's eyes.

"It only takes five to ten years for their advantages in the court to change. Only newcomers are new, and no one hears old people crying. When the ruling and opposition parties pay attention to those who are rising from the poor, those current wealthy families How much influence is there left? At that time, even if His Majesty raises the butcher's knife, they will hardly be able to stop the storm—"

Li Shimin couldn't help but took a deep breath, and looked at Wang Zi'an carefully.

"If I didn't know that you are not yet a weak crown, I would almost suspect that you are a ten thousand year old demon..."

Wang Zi'an: "...Your Majesty, are you praising me or scolding me?"

Li Shimin looked at Wang Zi'an with a bitter melon-like face, couldn't help laughing, stepped forward and patted Wang Zi'an on the shoulder vigorously.

"Your son-in-law, you are indeed doing well, and I am worthy of all my painstaking efforts!"

Li Shimin looked Wang Zi'an up and down, and his satisfaction was almost written on the tips of his hair.With my vision, this wise and powerful decision, this son-in-law is well chosen, good!

This makes Zi'an become a good son-in-law?

Sure enough, the emperor is a big pig's hoof!

"Your Majesty, I remember that Yuzhang's princess title is gone..."

Wang Zi'an looked at Li Shimin with bad intentions, Li Shimin couldn't help coughing dryly when he heard the words, and kicked Wang Zi'an a little angrily.

"Stinky boy, don't get cheap and act like a good boy - that's fine, don't look at me with this kind of eyes, the matter of Yuzhang needs a long-term plan, a long-term plan-"

If Yuzhang is allowed to marry this bastard as a wife with the title of princess, won't the royal family become the laughing stock of the world, and I don't want to lose face? !
That's what Wang Zi'an said, he doesn't really care if the princess is not a princess, it's just that Yuzhang lost the title of princess because he married him, and he is just worried that she has a lump in her heart.Since His Majesty Li Er has already said so, let's look for another chance.

"Go back and write your suggestion carefully, and hand it over tomorrow morning. I don't need to teach you how to write it, do you?"

Li Shimin glanced at him with his hands behind his back, and Wang Zi'an rolled his eyes angrily.

"Is Your Majesty going to set me on fire?"

PS: Chapter 2, it is estimated to be around [-]:[-], and it is under production.

(End of this chapter)