Wentang

Chapter 157 Digging the Foundation of the Family (1)

Why take the Sui Dynasty as the end of the second stage?Li Shimin and Changsun Wugou were stunned at the same time.

Just now they thought that Yue Shan deliberately used Datang as the beginning of the third stage to avoid disaster.After all, not everyone is as unafraid of life and death as Sima Qian, and they can give up their lives for the sake of Shi Lian.

It seems that the meaning in his words is not the case, is there any deeper meaning?The two fell into deep thought at the same time.

What the hell happened in the Sui Dynasty that Yueshan made it the end of the second phase.

Li Lizhi, a little girl at the side, held onto the globe for a while, but it was just a big wooden ball that could turn around and was not much fun, so she got tired of it after a while.Throwing it aside and continuing to change clothes for Baiyu doll.

After playing for a while, her eyelids started to fight, and then she was seen grabbing the little white jade figure and slipping into the arms of the eldest grandson Wugou in a daze.He opened his small mouth and yawned, and fell asleep soundly.

The eldest grandson Wugou looked at her dotingly, and gently patted her back with one hand to lull her to sleep.When she was asleep, Li Shimin carefully took it and put it on the bed in the inner room and put it away.

The three sat down again to continue the topic just now.

"Could it be related to the imperial examination?" Li Shimin asked.

"The sage is wise, it is the imperial examination." Yue Shan praised: "The imperial examination system can be said to be the closest to a fair and just official selection system."

"Ju Xiaolian has no fixed selection criteria, and no one knows whether the person recommended is really talented, and it is easy to be controlled by the powerful family."

"The imperial examination system is different. It is directly in the hands of the imperial court and it is not easy to be controlled by the aristocratic family. The imperial court can ask questions according to the requirements, and this has the selection criteria. Even if they are not top-notch talents, they will not be mediocre. "

"But you said just now that learning is in the hands of noble families, how could ordinary people pass the exam?" Li Shimin retorted.

"The saints underestimate people's desires too much. The reason why common people's knowledge is not as good as that of the nobles of the family is because the way of selecting officials is controlled by the family. They can't become officials whether they study or not. Instead of spending a lot of energy on studying, it is better to go to the Working in the fields, I received an extra three or five buckets of grain to fill my stomach." Yue Shan shook his head and said:

"If the imperial court implements the imperial examination system and selects officials fairly and impartially regardless of their background, the power of the common people will be beyond your imagination. In the past few years, more noble families may have passed the examination, and in a few years the children of the common people will be able to pass the exam. can replace it.”

"Without talent, even the children of princes and generals can only be idle officials; with talent, even poor children can live in the temple. The imperial court has always insisted on the imperial examination to select officials, and within 50 years, five surnames and seven Wang will be eliminated."

Li Shimin was short of breath, looked at Yue Shan with bright eyes, and asked, "Is it really possible?"

No wonder he was so excited.

He is very clear about the virtues of nobles and aristocratic families. It can be said that the Sui Dynasty perished in their hands.

The emperor is called the son of heaven, and he controls the power of the world in accordance with the destiny, but in fact it is not the case.

From ancient times to the present, the royal family and the noble family have ruled the world together, or the royal family is the most powerful noble.Once the emperor's actions touched the interests of other nobles, he would change the dynasty.

The dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou all originated from this.

Although the blood nobles disappeared after the Qin Dynasty, powerful families came into being, and they replaced the blood nobles and the emperor to rule the world together.

During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the dynasties changed so frequently, and the powerful figures of the aristocratic families were indispensable behind them.The demise of the Sui Dynasty is not so much that Emperor Sui Yang was licentious and innocent, but that he wanted to weaken the aristocratic family and cause a backlash.

Li Shimin, who was born with five surnames and Qiwang, is more aware of the relationship between imperial power and powerful families than ordinary people.Like Yang Guang, he wished to kill all those who disrespected the imperial power immediately.

But he is very clear that this matter must not be rushed.Sui Yang's lesson from the past is right in front of him, and the fate of Tang Dynasty may also die as the second generation.

From the day he became emperor, he has been thinking about how to weaken the power of the family without causing a backlash, but he has never thought of a way.

Today, Yue Shan pointed out a path for him, a path that seemed very feasible.Happiness came so suddenly that he couldn't believe it.

"You shouldn't ask me whether you can do it, but it depends on what you want to do and how determined you are," Yue Shan said.

Li Shimin got up and Yue Shan bowed deeply: "Please also ask Cuilan to teach me."

Yue Shan quickly jumped from the chair and said in a hurry: "No, no, let's talk if we have something to say, we don't want to be so scary."

"Pfft..." Changsun Wugou laughed out loud, these two people... were so much fun.

Li Shimin's cheeks twitched with the urge to punch someone. The originally good atmosphere was completely destroyed by Yue Shan.Taking a deep breath, restraining the emotion of beating someone, he said coldly: "Sit down, tell me honestly if you have any plans."

Yue Shan wiped off his cold sweat, it was too scary.He can accept the great gift from the King of Qin, which is called Lixian Corporal.But absolutely cannot accept the emperor's gift, this is called treason.

Maybe Li Shimin didn't think so much when he saluted, just to express his importance and determination.But Yue Shan absolutely couldn't accept it as carelessly as before.

So he used a rather comical method to resolve this crisis that was not considered a crisis.

After sitting down again, he said: "If we really want to achieve our goal, we must do two things. The first is to improve the imperial examination system, and the second is to popularize knowledge."

The official selection system in the Tang Dynasty was a [-]-[-] split between the imperial examination system and the aristocratic grace system.That is to say, ordinary officials are produced through imperial examinations, and half of the officials are selected from the children of nobles.

The main reason for this situation is that the imperial examination system is not perfect and the cultural popularization rate is too low.

For example, there was only a first-level imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the examination was only held in the capital, and those who were interested in the imperial examination could go directly to the capital to take part.There is no township examination, provincial examination, palace examination, and the three-level examination system only appeared in the Song Dynasty.

The academic system we are familiar with only appeared during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. At that time, great Confucian scholars lived in seclusion in the mountains to avoid wars.

As more people wanted to enroll, they came up with a way to assess admission.Later, there were still too many students, and one or two people could not teach at all, so I invited other great Confucians to teach together.

Thus the academy was officially born.

In other words, there were no academies in the Tang Dynasty.

Confucius was the first to open a private school to teach knowledge to everyone regardless of their background. For the next 500 years, teaching work has been carried out in the form of private schools, without a special academy.

What is the so-called private school?

(End of this chapter)