Wentang

Chapter 540 Circles and Seeds

A person can casually come up with a dozen or twenty pieces of knowledge that can be used as heirlooms. Anyone who hears this statement will probably take it as a joke.

But from Yue Shan's mouth, the credibility immediately increased by dozens of percentage points.

At least Wang Ji believed it, Li Shimin believed it, and those Guanlong nobles also believed it.

"Tianshui Zhao family, Dunhuang Zhang family, Linghu family, Wuwei Duan family, Yuan family, Dugu family and other 27 Guanlong nobles agreed to your plan, and each family will send a son-in-law to the academy to worship you as a teacher in the future. "Li Shimin flipped through the roster in his hand and said.

"Twenty-seven families? Not bad, I thought it would be nice to have seven or eight families." Yue Shan said unexpectedly.

"Don't underestimate yourself. Children of the gods, great masters in the literary world, founders of Xinxue, whatever name you name can attract a large group of people to befriend you." Li Shimin said.

"Saint, don't praise too much, I will be lost. I know very well that the reason why so many people agree to join the new school is because of your face." Yue Shan said.

"Hehe... That's right, it's rare that you're still awake. But you have the strength, otherwise, no matter how good I say it, it's useless." Li Shimin said happily.

Then he changed his tone and said: "However, if you really pass on your knowledge to them, I am afraid that a new batch of gentry will be born after a long time."

Sure enough, the emperor is the most ruthless.He was born in the Guanlong nobles, and relied on the Guanlong Group, but he started to take precautions just when there was a slight sign.

But this is the best, the emperor who is like a white lotus is the most undesirable, and the short-sighted emperor is also undesirable.

"It depends on the academic and political system. From next year, Kong Jijiu will spread the academies to every county in the country. After five years, every county will have at least one academy. By then, I will compile all I have learned into a book." , each academy will send a set.” Yue Shan said with a smile:
"At that time, the children of Guanlong nobles will only have a higher starting point than ordinary people. It is impossible to imitate the Shandong gentry back then."

Li Shimin nodded. There were too many things to do near the end of the year, and he didn't think of this academic and political system for a while.

"Using the Guanlong Group to fight against the Shandong gentry bought more time for the imperial court, and also broke the Shandong gentry's blockade of new learning. It also prevented the Guanlong Group and the Shandong gentry from coming together to fight against the imperial court."

"The snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's benefit. After the construction of the school and government system is completed and the imperial examination system is officially implemented, then slowly reduce the number of people who are recommended to be officials and those who are favored to be officials."

"The aristocratic family will lose its former glory and become an ordinary wealthy family. Once there are unworthy descendants in a certain generation, they will disappear completely."

"And the world is not limited to Shandong nobles and Guanlong dignitaries, but more ordinary people. There are also many officials from ordinary people in the court. Saints can promote them, and they can grow into a huge force that can resist the former two over time... ..."

The world can be regarded as composed of countless circles. The two largest circles are the cultural gentry in Shandong and the military dignitaries in Guanlong.

But in addition to the two circles, there are countless small circles, such as the Henan faction headed by the Wagang faction.Representatives are Li Ji, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Wei Zheng, Zhang Liang and others.

There are also officials from small aristocratic families who were not from Shandong cultural gentry, and people from common people who seized the opportunity to rise in troubled times, such as Yu Chigong and others.

By sorting out these circles, we can understand the situation in Datang more clearly and make use of them at the same time.

Right now, we are uniting all forces to promote the new learning and attack the cultural gentry in Shandong. When the new learning has a firm foothold, the construction of the academic and political system and the imperial examination system are completed, and we will further differentiate and treat them differently.

For example, to relax the suppression of cultural gentry in Shandong to prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry.Reduce support for the Guanlong Group, so as not to get stuck in the future.

Support the power of the common people and the small family, gradually erode the influence of the Shandong gentry and the Guanlong Group, and send all the families to the grave together by boiling frogs in warm water.

The Guanlong dignitaries are not stupid, they naturally know that Yue Shan's purpose of accepting apprentices is to use them to promote new learning against the Shandong gentry.

Some didn't want to get involved in this dispute and chose to sit on the sidelines, and some chose to enter in order to let the family climb to a higher peak.

What Yue Shan has to do is to teach these powerful children well, so that they can really learn some unique knowledge.

Does he have a dozen or twenty subjects of knowledge?Both true and false.

The big explosion of information in later generations and as a teacher, he has received all kinds of information baptism.Most of the information was forgotten, and some remained in memory.

In the past two years, as his research on learning has deepened, more and more information has been recalled.

He wrote down all the information he recalled whether useful or not.

The Analects of Confucius, Justice and Education have only used a small part of it, and there are more scattered information waiting for him to use.

Now he only needs to take out the notebook, pick out some related information and connect them into a 'circle'.

These bits and pieces of information are too common in the eyes of later generations, not to mention that they can be seen everywhere, just pay attention to how much there is.

But in the early Tang Dynasty, this information was across the ages, and it was unprecedented novel knowledge.

These information are seeds, which are buried in the hearts of those students, and slowly take root and sprout as the students' knowledge increases.

Yue Shan can kill two birds with one stone by doing so.

Use these seeds to win the trust of the Guanlong Group and let them fight against the Shandong gentry.At the same time, use these students from the powerful families in Guanlong to perfect these knowledge, and turn the seeds into towering trees to add bricks and tiles to the new learning.

Just imagine, if all of his students can succeed in their studies and become a generation of great Confucians, then Yueshan's position in the literary world will be unshakable in the future.It is not impossible to call 'zi' and become 'sage' thousands of years later.

While Yue Shan was busy dealing with the Shandong gentry and the ancient school, the Ministry of Officials also allocated the newly promoted Jinshi. The top three naturally stayed in Beijing to work, and the rest of the candidates had their own allocation.

However, most of them were assigned to various counties to serve as the head of the sixth house, and only the top ten in the second list were eligible to directly serve as official positions such as the head book.

Since the establishment of the system of three shifts and six houses, there is a shortage of low-level officials all over the country, so they can only temporarily transfer famous local scholars to serve.

However, this is not a long-term solution, and it is easy for local tyrants to take over the county magistrate with real power.

The imperial court's plan is to recruit a large number of scholars through the imperial examination in the next two years to serve as the head of the sixth house, and this year's batch of scholars who passed the imperial examination was arranged in this way.

It is worth mentioning that among the 55 students in Dizhou, except for the two who stayed in Beijing, the number one scholar and Tanhua, the remaining 53 students all volunteered to work in Lingnan.

(End of this chapter)