Datang: Get a god-level selection system at the beginning

Li Wenbin sneered: "Cui Langzhong, tell me, how can I believe my king's words?"
"It's very simple. Please ask His Highness the King of Qin to issue a military order in front of His Majesty. If His Highness fails to quell the locust plague, he will be a treacherous minister who will bring disaster to the country and the people. At that time, His Highness, please kill yourself in front of His Majesty."
"Bold, presumptuous!"
Changsun Wuji sternly shouted: "How many heads can you lose, Cui Yu, if you dare to attack the prince like this in front of His Majesty?"
"Duke Qi, I'm just talking about the facts. Why are you so excited? Is it because King Qin is your nephew?"
"Master Cui, pay attention to your words, you said these words in front of His Majesty."
Du Ruhui couldn't help reminding him aloud.

"Your Majesty, I have made a slip of the tongue because I was worried about the victims, please forgive me."
"It's okay, Cui Aiqing did this for the common people."
Li Shimin waved his hand, expressing that he didn't mind very much.

"Master Cui, I understand what you mean. Do you just want to say that if this king can't control the plague of locusts, he will kill himself?"
"Hmph, His Highness said it himself, but the lower officials didn't say it."
Li Wenbin twitched his lips in a typical manner: "Then again, if this king really did it, why would Mr. Cui deal with himself?"
You said that if I can't control the plague of locusts, I will die, so what should you do if I can do it?
"If His Highness can really show his might and save the people of Li, the lower officials are willing to make amends to His Highness with their heads."
"not enough."
"not enough?"
"You are a mere Langzhong of the Ministry of Officials, who is an official of the fifth rank. Why should you bet your life with this king?"
Although this Cui Yu is only from the fifth grade, but the Ministry of Officials Kaogongsi Langzhong is the first-class fat vacancy in the world. It is because he was born in the direct line of the Boling Cui family and he is capable that he can occupy this position.

But no matter how important the position is, it is not enough compared to Li Wenbin, the King of Qin.

Cui Yu took a deep breath: "What does His Highness King Qin want you to do?"
"That... the king asked you to assassinate Jieli Khan, can you do it?"
"You can't do that."
"Then unite with Xue Yantuo and attack the Turks from the north and the south, can Master Cui do it?"
"This... even the lower officials can't do it. Your Highness, the lower officials are civil servants and have no military involvement."
"Oh, that's it? Then you can write an enlightenment article for young children that is comparable to the Three Character Classic. This is what a civil servant should do. Master Cui should be able to do it?"
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd of officials.

Cui Yu's face turned red: Li Wenbin can't blame him for what he can't do!
The Three-Character Classic was praised by Yan Zhitui, saying that it could be listed alongside the Four Books and Five Classics. How could he, Cui Yu, be able to write such an article?

Li Wenbin sneered: "You can't do martial arts, you can't do literature, you can't do anything together?"
"Your Majesty, I don't know one thing. I don't know how such an ignorant person became such an important official in the examination department."
"Zhu Zi'an dare to insult me?"
"You were the one who humiliated me first. You are a mere fifth-rank official who wants to bet your life with me. Such a person who doesn't know what is good or bad, who doesn't know how to respect and humble, this king is just defending himself!"
"Your Highness, please don't engage in verbal disputes before Your Majesty."
Cui Tongjian, the Minister of Rites with the highest official position, said in a deep voice, "How about asking Your Highness to state a condition first?"
Li Wenbin smiled and said, "Okay, Cui Shilang's words are human."
He scolded Cui Tongjian and Cui Yu in one sentence, and Cui Tongjian didn't turn his face on the spot because he thought he was self-cultivated.

"If this king wins, you Boling Cui family will hand over the family scriptures, how about it?"
Cui Tongjian never imagined that Li Wenbin would actually make such a request. That school of Confucian classics is the foundation of their Boling Cui family.

Ordinary people have to serve the Cui family if they want to take a look at it. Now that Li Wenbin asks them to hand it over, it is obviously tantamount to breaking the foundation of the Cui family.

"So, Cui Shilang doesn't dare?"
"It's not that I don't dare, it's just that this Confucianism is the foundation of my Cui family, and it must not fall into the hands of irrelevant people."
"Cui Shilang, you have misunderstood. This king is not interested in your Cui family's Confucian classics. Those things are like dung to me."
Before Cui Tongjian could get angry, Li Wenbin went on to say: "What I want you to do is that once I win, you will disclose the family scriptures to scholars all over the world."
"Open it to the scholars of the world?"
"That's right, that is, hand over your Confucian classics to Guozixue and Taixue. As long as you are a Guozi student or a Taixue student, you can learn it."
"And don't worry, the imperial court will make it clear that this is the Confucian classics learned from your Cui family, and will not covet the sky."
Li Wenbin's words made Cui Yu confused: If you want our Confucian classics, you don't want to keep it for yourself, or you want to make it public?You don't even want fame, so what are you trying to do?

Cui Yu doesn't understand, but it doesn't mean that Cui Tongjian also can't see through the mystery.

After thinking about it for a while, he understood Li Wenbin's sinister intentions: This is not just to cut off the roots of my Cui family, but to fundamentally solve all powerful families!
Although the aristocratic families do not hold soldiers now and have no military power in their hands, they can still become a serious problem for the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, that is because they occupy the promotion channel of officials.

If you want to become an official, you need to rely on recommendation and the imperial examination.

Needless to say, recommendation has always been the entry step for the children of the powerful, and the imperial examination is another very important channel for promotion.

Most of the knowledge is in the hands of various families, and they all have the right to annotate the Four Books and Five Classics, that is, the final interpretation right.

They said that the sage's words are interpreted in this way, so they must be interpreted in this way, even if the emperor comes, it will not work.

In this way, the promotion of the master officials is not what they say?
And Li Wenbin's move is to break this monopoly and truly disclose knowledge to all scholars.

If this is really done, and there are more literate people, can these aristocratic families still have their current status?

It's like when Rabbit was first established in the previous life, even a middle school student could be regarded as a high-level intellectual.

But decades later, college students almost everywhere, even those who clean toilets require a college diploma, so who cares about a middle school student?
Cui Tongjian saw it very clearly. Li Wenbin's move was to dig a hole for all the powerful families, and then let them jump in by themselves.

"How about it, Cui Shilang, do you dare to make this bet with this king?"
"This king couldn't solve the problem of the locust plague, so he committed suicide on the spot; if he can solve it, the Boling Cui family will publicize his family's Confucian classics to the world."