Fu Tang

Li Congjia looked at him angrily: "Why don't you come here, it's good news, bad news, you can just say something, anyway, you have to listen."

Shi Xueting sat down slowly and said, "That's so boring."

Li Congjia looked at him in dismay, thinking that this guy had also gone bad.

Shi Xueting just smiled, Li Congjia was unhappy about Duan Susu's incident for several days, and finally he was coaxed to turn around a little bit, and finally the war in Shandong was pacified.

This can be regarded as a good thing, but after one stroke, many heads fell to the ground, so it is not so wonderful.

Li Congjia was not necessarily so sad for those rebels, he was sad for the population!Later generations came up with all kinds of magical policies for family planning. Later, when the population declined and found that they couldn't bear it, they opened the door to the second child. It was only a second child, and the birth was not allowed.

But when I came to Li Congjia's place, I wish everyone had more children. Although I feel sorry for the women, the country's population is too small, and nothing can be developed. The Tang Dynasty has such a large land area, and it cannot be developed without many people. !

As a result, many remote areas are uninhabited, and they will always be noticed by neighboring countries. Although those places are barren mountains and mountains, Li Congjia is very stingy in terms of the concept of land. If it is his own, he will not give it to others, even if no one is vacant There is no one else!

Thinking about it this way, Li Congjia also understands why every time the country is established after the war, there will be a population tax that requires unmarried women between the ages of 15 and 30 to pay high taxes.

However, no matter how much Li Congjia hopes the population will increase, he will not formulate this kind of tax. He even canceled the population tax. If he wants money, he will find a way to earn it himself, either from the pockets of neighboring countries, or from the pockets of wealthy businessmen. , anyway, the pressure cannot be exerted on ordinary people.

It is precisely because the population drops sharply after the war, Li Congjia feels distressed when he sees this number now, even if they are aristocratic families that must be eliminated, and they are rebels, Li Congjia can't help muttering: "What kind of rebellion are you doing when you have nothing to do?" , built the whole family into it, right?"

Especially after seeing the new value of Dasuo Maangyue, he couldn't help but sighed again. However, at this time, two news came, and Shi Xueting had to tell Li Congjia about the two news in a different way, so as to let Li Congjia himself. Pulled out of sorrow, while not letting him get so angry.

Seeing that Shi Xueting insisted on playing this game, Li Congjia had no choice but to say: "Let's get the bad news first, don't lay the groundwork, just say, I can hold on."

Shi Xueting smiled, remembering that Li Congjia was not like this back then, he always muddled along, as long as life was worry-free, he would instinctively avoid bad news, but now he is not like this, he began to choose to face difficulties.

Shi Xueting said: "Korea chose to go to war, and Khitan became their support."

The strange Li Congjia was not very angry when he found out. He just sneered and asked, "What help can the Khitan help them? We must have traveled by water to fight Korea. What else can the Khitan provide besides providing money and food?"

Khitan is a completely landlocked country. The flatness of the grassland makes their cavalry number one in the world. However, when fighting at sea, whether these people can stand firm on the ship is one thing. Therefore, Khitan's support for Goryeo can only be food and money.

But these two are also Khitan's shortcomings. If Khitan is really rich enough, why would they come to rob Datang from time to time?

So for such bad news, Li Congjia didn't take it seriously at all. He knew that Khitan would definitely not sit still. In history, Khitan feared that the relationship between Song Dynasty and Goryeo would threaten it, so they kept sending various things to Goryeo. , now is also the same way, but the Khitan will send things to Koryo, but will not help Koryo to fight, Li Congjia is very sure of this.

There's nothing to worry about when you think about it that way.

"Tell me what is the good news?" Li Congjia stared at Shi Xueting, and he decided that if Shi Xueting's good news was so boring, he would let Shi Xueting go back to Guoshifu to sleep by himself!

Shi Xueting smiled lightly and said: "The good news is that the lucky boat you have been thinking about before has begun to take shape."

Li Congjia's eyes lit up instantly after hearing this: "Have you passed the sea trial?"

Shi Xueting said: "I heard that the sea trial has passed, and it is estimated that there will be a serious memorial in two days. This time, the students of the academy have put in a lot of effort."

Li Congjia was stunned for a moment: "A student from the academy?"

Shi Xueting nodded: "According to the method you specified before, the first batch of students who entered the academy have graduated and are ready to participate in Chunwei."

Li Congjia just had a look of joy on his face, and suddenly realized that he seemed to be happy too early. He scratched his head and said, "Academy students participating in Chunwei, it seems that there are no other students."

Shi Xueting was slightly taken aback: "You have so much confidence in them?"

Li Congjia put down the ink pen in his hand and said: "Of course I have. I have not relaxed my supervision over the academy these years. Don't even think about how many people of insight have been sent by me to be teachers. Knowing that children who study hard have a broad vision, of course, they may not be able to compare with children from local schools in terms of poetry, poetry, and Fu, but you know my habits. There are not many poetry, poetry, and poetry exams, and they can only be counted as a bonus item. If the basic score is not met, even if there are bonus items, they will not be admitted, so these children are born with an advantage over others."

Shi Xueting said seriously: "This is not a long-term solution."

Li Congjia understood what Shi Xueting meant. Such injustice would cause social turmoil. Farmers would rebel if they didn’t have enough to eat, and the scholar-bureaucrats would rebel if they found their interests could not be safeguarded. Therefore, Li Congjia had to find a way to prevent them from rebelling.

Li Congjia asked, "How many students are graduating this time?"

"32." Shi Xueting said.

Li Congjia immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's fine, there are only 32 people, even if we record all of them, it won't be a big problem."

Shi Xueting smiled wryly and shook his head. If it was according to what Li Congjia said, these 32 would occupy all the previous rankings. How could there be no problems?

Li Congjia said: "It's time to reform the academy. Well, it seems that Shi Xingyi's eldest son is managing the academy now?"

Originally, it was Fan Zhi who came to manage the college, but the Zhou family made a big deal. Li Congjia had to drag Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu back from the academy to help. Now the court cannot do without these two, and they don't have the energy to do it again. To manage the academy.

As for Shi Xingyi's son Li Congjia, he still trusts him very much. This family feels like they were sold to Li Congjia, and apart from sometimes disagreeing with Li Congjia in terms of education, most of the time they follow Li Congjia.

In the past, Shixingyi's academy didn't have any subject of physics and mathematics at all, but he accepted it well, and Li Congjia opened it as soon as he said it.

When Shi Xueting saw that Li Congjia wanted to reform the academy, he knew that he didn't take Goryeo seriously at all. After thinking about it, it was true. When Emperor Taizong said that Goryeo would be destroyed, it would be destroyed. Although it cost a lot of money, there is such a lesson from the past. It is impossible for Li Congjia to repeat the same mistakes.

Li Congjia is often an activist, and the solution he came up with is simple, isn't it unfair?To be fair, the academies are divided into two parts, one is the elementary academies that the children of honored nobles can enter since they were young, and the other is the higher academies that recruit students from the entire Tang Dynasty every year. To enter the academies, one must take an exam.

Li Congjia felt that this could be regarded as a small spring. Well, the imperial court's serious selection examination is in spring, so the admission time of the college should be set in autumn.

In terms of teaching and educating people, Li Congjia feels that he is not very capable, but he can be said to be very familiar with the setting of school functions. After all, later generations have spent most of their lives in schools from primary school to graduate school.

To be honest, Li Congjia also hopes to build as many schools as later generations, so that the illiteracy rate in Tang Dynasty can be reduced to a very low level, but this can only be thought about.

In the past, he would still think that he was considered the founder of the country, and he should be able to do what Tu Taizu could do. Now that he thinks about it, he knows that it is impossible. Some things need the right time, place and people.

The experience of Taizu Rabbit conquering the world was too difficult, but it was precisely because of this that there was a situation of breaking through and then standing.

Li Congjia is different, he will no longer copy what he wants regardless of what he used to do, and now he will think more when doing something.

Shi Xueting was worried that it would be unfair and that other students would be unhappy, but the non-discriminatory examinations of higher colleges would make the honorable dissatisfied, so Li Congjia simply changed the method, and your children can enter elementary colleges from an early age.

The first-class teachers are being cultivated. If this is not as good as the poor students from those institutions, these people should do what they should do as soon as possible. The members of the member family are not allowed to join. Of course, this is based on family theory. If a noble family does not even have a fourth-rank member, then this family...is not considered a big family, and it is normal that they cannot enter the elementary school.

Li Congjia sighed while writing, it’s really impossible not to specialize, Xungui can always have a wider path than the poor students, even if they don’t take the exam, they can still stand at the top of the Tang Dynasty if they pass the father and grandfather Yuyin.

Li Congjia couldn't fight against the whole era, so he could only do his best to open a less difficult path for those poor students. Of course, things like the Ming Dynasty, where everything was inferior and only high in education, must never happen.

Obviously, in the Tang Dynasty, there were already many subjects in the imperial examination, which can be said to be all-encompassing. As a result, it was passed on for some reason, and it became a debate that only read articles. In the Ming Dynasty, there were only stereotyped essays.

Stereotyped text was originally just a format for argumentative essays, so there is nothing right or wrong. If you only test stereotyped essays, then there is something wrong with the imperial court. It is strange that such a country’s thinking is not rigid. There is no other place to play. what?The real talents have also been buried.

Li Congjia just wrote a brief summary of the regulations, then raised his head and said to Shi Xueting: "Is it time to set up a military academy?"

Shi Xueting was stunned for a moment: "Military Academy?"

He was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should persuade him or not. It is different from the knowledge of various schools of thought. Everyone in these studies thinks about how to spread their ideas. The more people learn them, the happier they are. But the art of war is not the same in this era. The ability to eat is passed on from one generation to the next, even from one's own family members, so those veterans are willing to pass it on to outsiders?

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting and asked, "Are you willing to pass on what you know?"

Shi Xueting was slightly taken aback, and suddenly his heart became hot. The disciples he took in before were usually lay disciples, and what he taught were some official or other knowledge. As for whether his mantle can be inherited, he is not sure. He cared very much, not to mention that he didn't even feel that he had nothing to say.

But now that Li Congjia asked him if he wanted to pass it on, Shi Xueting had to admit that he really wanted to.

In fact, it is a good choice to pass it on to Li Congjia's son. After all, he is destined not to have a wife and children, but Li Congjia's son has only one son, who will be emperor in the future, so Li Zhongyu only needs to know about it and not too much detail.

Shi Xueting didn't want to accept any more disciples. After all, if he was really a closed disciple, he would harm the children if he didn't teach well, but it would be different if it was an academy. The question of character can be handed over to the respected old man.

It's just that the Military Academy...how to do it?

Just when Shi Xueting was hesitating, Li Congjia had already written out his thoughts like a dragon. After being together for so many years, even if Shi Xueting didn't speak, how could he not see that Shi Xueting was moved?

The establishment of a military academy is actually not that difficult. In fact, it is equivalent to adding an additional discipline, but there will be subdivisions under this discipline. The college is divided into many departments.

Anyway, there are two kinds of civil and military examinations in the Tang Dynasty now, so that the students will have more opportunities, and when recruiting students, the requirements for the source of students are actually similar to those of the liberal arts colleges, but the physical fitness of the candidates is required to reach a certain level. It doesn't matter if the conditions are not good, as long as they can reach the level of ordinary people, military academies are also required.

It's just that the current problem of the Military Academy is whether they can find a teacher. Seeing Li Congjia trying to think about various regulations, Shi Xueting couldn't help but said, "Aren't you afraid of teaching generals who can only talk about soldiers on paper?"

Li Congjia came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the theory is definitely indispensable. I taught the theory a year ago, and when they have enough theoretical knowledge, let them go to various armies for internships. In the future, I will hold some military exercises. Otherwise, simple drills will not achieve the goal of strengthening the army, so let them try it during the drill."

It's not that Shi Xueting doesn't understand military exercises. After all, there have been such deductions from ancient times to the present, but can simple military exercises exercise?

Li Congjia briefly told him about the military exercise, and Shi Xueting realized after listening to it that Li Congjia's so-called military exercise was to restore various factors of the war as much as possible.

Shi Xueting found it difficult, but Li Congjia said it simply, and later he simply ignored it. Anyway, if Li Congjia needed it, he would teach the students.

After Li Congjia wrote a general idea, he sent someone to inform the Privy Council to prepare for a meeting. Now the generals who are away from the expedition have returned to report their duties. Come back to debrief.

The Privy Council originally thought that Li Congjia's meeting was to discuss matters related to the Eastern Expedition to Korea, but Li Congjia unexpectedly threw them a topic of establishing a military academy.

Zhao Kuangyin and the others looked at each other in blank dismay. Today's meeting was very large-scale, and basically all the officers of Yang Ye's level were present. A rough count was as many as 200 people.

Li Jingda, as Li Congjia's uncle, coughed lightly and said under everyone's expectant eyes: "Your Majesty, why did you suddenly think of establishing a military academy?"

Li Congjia glanced around and said: "I know what you think, it's nothing more than thinking that the art of war is a family treasure, and it's the capital to live and live, but why don't you think that Sun Bin and Sun Wu are all worse than you, don't they also write books and talk about it? In fact, both civil and military principles are the same. It all depends on talent. Even marching and fighting depends more on talent than reading. No matter how stupid people are, they will always memorize it as long as they work hard. However, the art of war needs to be flexible. , Of course, I will never force this matter, if you don’t want to build it, at worst, I will ask the national teacher to accept a few disciples to teach it.”

Li Congjia's words are absolutely heart-to-heart, but the last two sentences are shocking. Everyone can see Shi Xueting's ability, and his disciples are also very good. Yang Xin will not talk about it. She is definitely a good candidate to be in charge of the household department. As for Shi Xueting's other female disciple, she is also good at doing business.

Although Shi Xueting has never taught his disciples to march and fight, if Shi Xueting wants to recruit disciples, not to mention the children from poor families outside, even some low-level soldiers would like to send their children there. Who would not want such a good thing in front of the emperor?

Of course, the generals also knew that if Shi Xueting cultivated his disciples in a big way, according to Li Congjia's habit of holding grudges, it would be very difficult for the children of their clan to have the right to speak in the Privy Council in the future.

Li Congjia was not afraid of them at all, after all the military power was in Li Congjia's hands, it was too difficult for them to compete against Li Congjia.

Zhao Kuangyin said directly: "Your Majesty, why did you say that? I absolutely support the establishment of a military academy!"

Yang Ye looked at Zhao Kuangyin in shock. Pan Mei and others, who had fought with Zhao Kuangyin before, immediately supported Zhao Kuangyin. Although they couldn't figure out why Zhao Kuangyin agreed so readily, they knew that Zhao Kuangyin would never suffer. , It must be right to follow Zhao Kuangyin.

Li Hongji also immediately said: "If there is a need, I will also become a teacher. I have never thought in my life that I will be able to teach and educate people one day."

Li Congjia happily assigned the task. Anyway, he has always been like this. He put forward an idea, held a meeting with the top management and found that it works, then assigned the task and let them perfect the charter. He will be the last to check.

Anyway, with so many people, why does he waste time and effort doing it himself?

After the meeting ended, Yang Ye chased after Zhao Kuangyin and asked, "Grandpa, can you tell the general what's going on?"

Li Hongji and Li Jingda were also looking at him. Although these two were princes, Zhao Kuangyin didn't intend to save face. He said directly: "You guys...you are all stupid. I just think that the guy who eats doesn't want to spread the word. Why don't you think about it?" Are those students our disciples? If you look at the students in the academy, you will know that it is impossible for His Majesty to accept fools into the academy. As long as they can be admitted, they must be first-class talents. My nephew is useless, don’t you still want to find a disciple to inherit the mantle? Now that there are ready-made candidates, why hesitate?”

Pan Mei was more careless and said directly: "But that's not my only disciple."

Zhao Kuangyin patted him on the head with a fan and said, "Short-sightedness, if others can enter the academy, it means our children can also enter. What a huge network this is?"

Everyone suddenly realized, Li Jingda murmured: "I knew His Majesty would not forget us, and indeed he was looking for a way for us."

The generals who had been worried that they would lose to the cabinet without a battle in the Privy Council were instantly moved. However, Li Congjia, who was grateful by them, had no such idea at all. He just wanted more students to study systematically.

The education method of the later generations of the Rabbit Dynasty has always been criticized by the Chinese people, but in fact, the success rate is indeed high. Even foreign countries will adopt this method to educate their children. Now Li Congjia also wants to copy a little bit, not all copies, as long as he can Just train more talents for Datang.

The news of Li Congjia's plan to build a military academy quickly spread to the civil officials, but the civil officials in Datang are very generous. Although their first reaction was that the military industry group would be more united, their second reaction was: Are their children also Can enter the military school?

After all, this is an era in which military generals have not been overly belittled, and it is also an era in which it is regarded as the highest honor to be a general.

Li Congjia saw that the grading of the college and the construction of the military academy were progressing smoothly, so he turned around happily and said to Shi Xueting, "Let's go, let's go to Changle Mansion."