At the beginning, he will be divided by five horses of Tang Taizong

"My son thinks that the Ministry of Officials is better. You don't need a high position to get in touch with the official system of the Tang Dynasty. My son has heard a lot about his experience in business before, and I think he has experience in management."

Li Shimin nodded again, with a smile on his face.

"I'll go see your mother in a while, she's been feeling unwell since the cold weather!"

"Yes, Father!"

"Okay, let's go!" Li Shimin waved his hand.

However, Li Chengqian bowed deeply and said: "Father, my son has fallen in love with a person, and wants to accept her as a concubine to fulfill my father's wish."

Li Shimin's smiling face froze suddenly.

"Wei Zheng's niece?"

"How does father know?" Li Chengqian suddenly raised his head when he heard this.

"This woman, this woman is already a married man!"

Li Shimin frowned and said.

"Father, even so, my son is willing!"

"you"

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian, gritted his teeth, and said quietly: "Whatever you want, the person who entrusts this girl to her life is Qin Shou!"

"Huh? Is this so possible?"

Chapter 128: Father-in-law has several concubines?

"He is just a commoner. Being selected as a concubine is already a step up to the sky, but he still wants to take a concubine. It is an insult to the dignity of the royal family!"

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and said indignantly.

In the Tang Dynasty, influenced by the customs of the Hu people and the Dawan Kingdom, the status of women was very high, even very open, although according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, concubines were allowed to take concubines.

But the status of the princess is very high and very powerful. When the princess marries, it is "married down". If you want to take a concubine, you have to get the consent of the princess, so there is no such thing as a concubine.

As a result, when everyone in the Tang Dynasty talked about concubines, they felt as if the relationship between master and servant was there. A princess who stole was normal, but a concubine who took concubines was unheard of.

"Father, how can you let him do anything wrong like this?"

"Have you considered whether Gao Yang is willing? What about sister Gao Yang?"

""

Under Li Chengqian's impatience, he suddenly stopped after asking several questions one after another, turned his head to look at Li Shimin with a surprised face and asked, "No, Father, you didn't know about this long ago, did you?"

"Presumptuous!" Li Shimin stood up with a livid face and reprimanded: "What do you know? How can this matter be so simple?"

He didn't want to do this either, but the matter has already happened, what else can he do?

Could it be that Qin Shou was killed?

If he could kill it, he would have killed it long ago, so why wait until now?

After a long time, Li Shimin said quietly: "Chengqian, let's not talk about whether there is such a person as Qin Shou. With such a dishonest person, it is impossible for me to agree to let her be the crown princess?"

"Can"

Li Chengqian wanted to say something more, but was interrupted mercilessly by Li Shimin: "Don't mention this matter again!"

""

When Li Chengqian left, he had a gloomy expression on his face, as if he was under the water, making him unable to breathe.

Li Shimin looked at Chengqian's back and sat down again after a long time.

The things in the court are still busy, and there are so many messy things at home,

Now that the imperial examinations are being reformed, the registration date is over, and the date of leaving the exam is getting closer, so he is also busy and distracted.

But after sitting down, it was difficult to calm down again.

He looked at the copybook and couldn't help holding his forehead, then wrote a few strokes on the paper with a pen and crumpled it up, wrote again for a while and then threw it away.

After more than an hour like this, paper balls are everywhere on the ground, and there is nowhere to stay.

I have the general direction, but I don't have the slightest clue about the details of the imperial examination.

How to break the game?

How to solve the problem so that people in remote areas can get the opportunity to become an official through the imperial examination?And how can we increase the chances of cold students becoming officials?

None of this can be achieved with empty words.

Li Shimin threw the pen on the ground, got up and paced back and forth a few times, but found that his thoughts became more and more chaotic, so he couldn't help but shouted: "Come on!"

"Your Majesty!" Yun Rui opened the door and quickly walked in to salute.

"Go and call Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng, Cheng Yaojin and Li Daozong."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Yun Rui led the order to leave quickly.

After a cup of tea, several carriages arrived outside the gate of the palace.

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Li Daozong, Cheng Yaojin and others showed up one after another. If you are familiar with them, you will find that they are all Li Shimin's close officials.

Li Daozong is Li Shimin's younger brother, a son of the clan, and canonized as Duke of Lueyang County.

He has made outstanding achievements throughout his life, participated in many battles against Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, East Turks, Tuyuhun, Goguryeo, etc., and made great military achievements for the unification of the Tang Dynasty and the expansion of territory. .

"Does the Prime Minister know why His Majesty asked me to come here?"

"I don't know!"

Fang Xuanling looked at the others and shook his head.

Changsun Wuji and Wei Zheng just rolled their eyes and didn't speak because they were also vague.

Therefore, the few people met with almost no greetings, so they came to Li Shimin's study under the guidance of the eunuch.

"The minister joins His Majesty!"

"minister"

"Everyone who loves you, please sit down!" Li Shimin motioned for everyone to sit down.

He said straight to the point: "I called you here today because there are not many days until the imperial examinations start. I want to hear your opinions and discuss how the imperial examinations will be."

"How else can we pass the imperial examinations, so that more poor families of common people and people from remote areas can become officials?"

Ok?

Li Shimin's words made several people's eyes widen suddenly, and Li Daozong's face froze in astonishment.

Not

Let more common people from poor families and remote people become officials?

What does this mean?

Fang Xuanling's breath was stagnant, and he said in a daze, "Your Majesty, I don't quite understand what you mean!"

Even Changsun Wuji was stupefied, and couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, do you mean to favor the common people and the remote areas?"

Wei Zheng's eyes were also flickering.

But Li Shimin nodded silently.

What he thought in his heart was just like what Qin Shou said, if he wanted to use the reform of the imperial examination to get rid of the disadvantages of the imperial examination for the powerful and noble families, and to emphasize talent and learning rather than family status, then he must expand the channels for recruiting talents, not only to allow small and medium landlords to participate in the political power, but also Landlords of common clans should be involved, and even poor students should be allowed to become officials, so that people in remote areas can also get the opportunity to become officials.

Such a weakening of the monopoly power of the nobles and nobles, and the selection of officials to be placed on oneself and the court, so that more talents can be selected, and the country of the Tang Dynasty will be more stable.

"hiss!"

Li Shimin's attitude was like a thunderbolt exploding above everyone's heads, and now everyone's eyes suddenly changed, and their emotions were surging.

Even Cheng Yaojin's expression changed at this moment.

He said in a naive voice: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it won't work. How can a noble family let it go?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it must not be done overnight!"

"Once the gentry family is forced into a hurry, the consequences will be unimaginable"

"The time has not come yet, Your Majesty must think twice!"

""

Directly supporting the poor families of the common people is tantamount to directly digging the roots of the noble families, would they be willing?The Tang Dynasty has just been stabilized, so won't there be another disaster by then?

The aristocratic family is terrible, how could they not know?

There is no poor family in the top class, and no clan in the bottom class.

Everyone also knows that the gentry's standing still is a great threat to the imperial power, but how difficult is it to eliminate them?

The demise of the former Sui Dynasty was not unrelated to this. After Yang Jian usurped the throne, he wanted to use the imperial examination system to select poor families to replace the powerful families, but he acted too hastily, and the game collapsed, and the Sui Dynasty perished.

Even Gaozu was able to enter Chang'an with the support of the powerful and aristocratic families.

Therefore, it is definitely not something that can be changed overnight.

Once it is too hasty, the lessons of the previous Sui Dynasty are very likely to happen again.

That's why, when Li Shimin said this, everyone's faces changed drastically and their scalps became numb.

Wei Zheng also remonstrated solemnly: "Your Majesty, I think your Majesty has been too tired during this time and has lost his head."

"You Wei Heizi," Li Shimin cursed while holding his forehead, his face turned blue.

"What are you thinking? How can I not know the roots of the aristocratic family that I have conquered all the way? How can I know that I can't touch the noble family?"

"Why do you think I'm so careless?"

Li Shimin was speechless.

"My dear friends, you should understand that the powerful families, they have been officials for generations, and they are all scholars. They use the Confucian classics they have collected as teaching materials and pass them on to their descendants. This is also the reason why they have been ministers for generations."

"My worry is that the children from the poor families of the common people are far from the disciples of the aristocratic families who were orthodox and rigorously educated since childhood. Wouldn't such a "talent-only approach" promote the development of the powerful and noble families?"

"This is the main point of me asking you to come here, to help out with ideas, on the basis of not angering the aristocratic clan, and how to increase the chances of the poor people of the common clan to become officials, and the chances of being an official in remote areas,"

"Oh"

Everyone wiped the sweat from their foreheads and breathed a sigh of relief.

He couldn't help but sat back in his seat resentfully wherever he went.

But then everyone fell into a difficult situation, not only did not anger the aristocratic family, but also increased the rank and file of the common people, which made everyone scratch their heads.

Everyone sat for two hours in a row, it was already dark, but they didn't discuss any results.

This made Li Shimin's expression a little ugly.

Changsun Wuji held back for a long time, approached Li Shimin, and bowed in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you can ask Qin Shou about this matter. I remember that when he talked about the imperial examination last time, he seemed to have reservations."

"Isn't he not here? Who knows when he will come back? What if I miss something at that time?"

"No, I heard that Qin Shou also signed up for the imperial examination and bought some books. You can ask him!"

"Really? He signed up too?" Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji and asked quietly, "How do you know about this?"

The expression on Changsun Wuji's face suddenly froze, because Li Shimin said that he was not allowed to go to Qin Shou's house without his will, but he didn't ask for it.

"Your Majesty, the subject is guilty!"

Duke E, Yu Chigong has returned to Beijing!

When Li Shimin distributed the meritorious officials, he gave Yuchi Gong the hereditary governor, and the imperial edict awarded Yuchi Jingde the governor of Xuanzhou.

Now he is back in Beijing!

It was Hou Junji who greeted him, "Jingde, we brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"

"Yeah, long time no see!"

"Let's go, I'll cleanse you up!" Hou Junji said eagerly.

"I'm back this time, I haven't seen His Majesty yet"

Yuchi Gong said with a simple and honest face.