The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

"Master Li, the emperor invites you to come over." After the court, the little eunuch next to the emperor came over and said that the emperor invited him to go over. Li Wen was not surprised, if the emperor never looked for him, he would be surprised. "Please, Eunuch Zhang, lead the way."

"Master Li, this way please."

Li Wen followed the little eunuch to meet the emperor.

The emperor did not summon him in the imperial study, but in the pavilion in the center of Minghu Lake.Before he got there, Li Wen saw the emperor standing in the pavilion with his back turned to him from a distance, and when he entered the pavilion, he knelt down and saluted, "I see the emperor."

"Li Aiqing, please get up." The emperor asked people to get up, and waved for the maids and eunuchs to leave.

Soon all the people left, Yang Shaomu sat down and told Li Wen to sit down, "Perhaps my little brother knows why I asked you today, right?"

Li Wen sat down at the seat opposite to the emperor, and when he heard what the emperor said, he nodded and asked with a smile, "Your majesty, didn't you say that you have made up your mind?" Who said this in the early court just now? is it?He really thought that the emperor had already made up his mind.

"..." Yang Shaomu, junior brother is so courageous that even he, the emperor, dares to tease him.

After making a little joke, Li Wen said that it was time to come up.

"Why are you so hesitant, Your Majesty, on this matter? The root of this problem is that there are too few talents and generals in Dacheng. Do you think so?" Li asked a very fundamental question. The question is, why did the emperor hesitate to appoint people, and there were no talents needed by the court.

Why is there no talent needed by the imperial court?Can a person who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and can compose poems and articles become a general?

"If there were more good generals like Zhao Zhuo in the imperial court, your majesty would not have to hesitate as much today as you do now." Li Wen smiled slightly and said, "If there are many great talents and countless good generals, then the majesty's troubles today Does it cease to exist?"

This is the time when the imperial court needs talents and generals. Good officials are hard to come by and good generals are hard to find. Will he be able to meet the emperor's employment standards?

Li Wen mentioned a question, that is the importance of education, "Education plays a pivotal role in the whole of Chengdu, as long as more children study, these people will be able to achieve success in all walks of life in the future, and the imperial court can choose from them. Some of the best people are used by the court, so that the emperor doesn't have to worry about lacking good ministers and generals."

In the final analysis, it is still education.

In this era, only the children of scholars and wealthy businessmen have the opportunity to study, while the children of ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to study.One of the fundamental reasons for this is poverty. It is because of poverty that ordinary people do not have the ability to let their children go to school. If parents have the ability, they will definitely be willing to let their children go to school.

When it comes to education, the issue of people's livelihood must be mentioned, and people's livelihood... is really blank.It is still impossible to popularize education in this era, but the imperial court still needs to attach importance to education, to grass-roots education, and to let more children go to school, which involves the issue of money.

Li Wen mentioned an education issue at the grassroots level, "Under the university, we should open primary schools. Primary schools are schools for young children. They are called 'primary schools', which is our current rural school. It’s like building a house, only if the base layer is firmly built can the upper layer not collapse.”

"Elementary school?" Yang Shaomu heard these two words for the first time, but when he heard Xiangxue, he understood that the word "elementary school" was indeed a more vivid and clear description.

Li Wen explained to the emperor the university, primary school, and a middle school inserted in the middle. The content of the study is not just to cope with the imperial examination, but can be targeted, teaching without distinction, and teaching with talents.

However, he only briefly mentioned this issue, and did not go into too much detail.

I made a little digression, so I went back to the main topic.

Last time, after he presented the plan of building a university to the emperor's desk, none of the ministers in the court objected. The emperor had already approved it, and the matter of building a university was already in the process of selecting a site.

Li Wen mentioned the matter of opening a university, "Your Majesty, the opening of a university we mentioned last time focuses more on culture and education. Your Majesty, I have a suggestion here. We need to build another martial arts academy to teach military art and tactics. Knowledge, no one is born knowing how to fight, these are acquired by soldiers after learning and training the day after tomorrow."

"...As for the soldiers on the battlefield, most of these people groped and learned on the battlefield, and no one taught them how to

How to fight. "

There are even many people who don't even know the characters. How can a soldier who doesn't even know the characters read military books and learn the art of war?Then there is a problem, the soldiers only know how to charge and attack, but they don't know how to use the art of war.Li Wen asked, "Then, if we invite these veterans back to be teachers, will we be able to train more generals for Dacheng?"

"In this way, even if these veterans who have retired from the battlefield cannot continue to kill the enemy on the battlefield, they can still be used by the court and cultivate more talents for the court. If there is such a school, General Zhao will stay in the Here in the capital, you can continue to cultivate more talents and good generals for the emperor, can't you?"

After making a big circle, Li Wen returned to the question of whether General Zhao should stay in the capital or go back to the border.He called General Zhao "Abo" because he treated General Zhao as a half-father.In view of the fact that the general sent him a box of gems last time, he felt that he still had to help the general and let him stay here in the capital to accompany his wife.

"Sure enough, after listening to the words of my junior brother, my heart immediately widened." As the emperor of Dacheng, Yang Shaomu naturally hoped that Dacheng would be full of talents and countless good generals, but how can Dacheng be full of talents and have more Good general?

After hearing what Li Wen said, Yang Shaomu finally understood.

"Your Majesty, isn't the tax collected by the Household Department increasing every month? Now the Household Department has taels of silver. Your Majesty, if these taels of silver collected can be taken from the people and used for the people, wouldn't it be great? "After the implementation of the new tax law in several important cities and towns below, the monthly taxes collected by the Ministry of Households have risen in a straight line. Li Wen knew more or less about the commercial tax collected.

"You have the nerve to say it, you just set up a trade market before, and now you are doing that... what?" The emperor couldn't think of it for a while, he looked at the little brother who came here just by opening his mouth, it was more money than the following The officials were still ruthless, "Universities will be opened in the future, do you think these will not cost money?"

Every sum here is big money, and the money collected by the household department went out before it was warmed up.

"Ahem..." Li Wen smiled awkwardly, feeling a little guilty, "Isn't that for making more money? Opening markets and building shopping malls all make a lot of money. And your majesty, do you think running a school doesn't make money?" Li Wen slammed and settled a bill with the emperor. You must know that in later generations, you will not lose money when you start a school. As long as your school can be run and run well, there will be a lot of people carrying money. Seek progress.

In short, it means that although he spends money quickly here, he also earns money very quickly.

"En." There is no doubt about this, the treasury's money is still the way this kid Li Wen thinks, the Ministry of Households only has money now, Yang Shaomu knows it all too well.If all the officials in the court could find a way to get money for the emperor like Li Wen, the emperor would be able to lie down every day without any worries.

But Li Wen was right about one thing. The imperial court should pay attention to education. Only when the local rural schools are well established, the imperial court will have more talents to use.

Seeing the emperor's appearance, Li Wen knew that he had figured it out.

Come today, Li Wen still has something to report to the emperor, he took out a tabloid from his cuff, put away the smile on his face, and said seriously, "Your Majesty, this is the information received by the newspaper office below, please The emperor has a look."

Yang Shaomu took it, and when he saw it, his face turned ashen, which was extremely ugly. He slapped the tabloid on the table and said angrily, "It's unreasonable! These officials don't care about the emperor! Check it out!" , this matter must be strictly investigated!"

In fact, this is indeed the case. The emperor is far away in the capital, and local officials are called "earth emperors", which means that they are emperors locally.These officials didn't pay attention to the emperor who was far away in the capital at all, thinking that no one could control them if the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and they could do whatever they wanted down below.

"Your Majesty, if these bugs are not eradicated and the officialdom is not cleaned up, the existence of these people will one day drag down Dacheng." They are carrying out vigorous reforms here in the capital, but the localities are still the same, and the officials still have not carried out any reforms. However, local people are still bullied by local bullies and bureaucrats, so what is the use of the imperial court's reforms and efforts?

Only by getting rid of these bugs and replacing them with a new batch of capable officials to carry out a top-to-bottom transformation can Dacheng be able to radiate new vitality and move forward.Instead of staying in place all the time.

Seeing the emperor looking at him, Li Wen guessed that the emperor was playing tricks on him, and he suggested, "Your Majesty, I still have a lot of things to do here in the capital, and I really can't get away. Look, my lord, King Jianning has nothing to do in the capital, so he is very suitable..." I am the imperial envoy, what do you think, the emperor?