"What are you going to do?"

"Princess, help take a look at the horse ring."

Li Zheng walked away as he spoke, Wang Ding was stunned and watched Li Zheng leave, and a horse snorted as if he was disgusting Wang Ding.

Wang Ding glanced at the horse circle, sat down again and knocked on the melon seeds, "The county marquis actually left the old slave here and left like this?" ”

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he left the horse pen and came to the village alone.

Today, the blacksmith shop has begun to officially open.

The blacksmith's shop is somewhat simple and needs to be improved.

Seeing that Li Zheng was coming, Tie Da took out the three-edged thorn and handed it to Li Zheng and said, "County Marquis, are you still satisfied with it?" ”

Li Zheng is holding the three-edged thorn in his hand, and the manufacture of the three-edged thorn is not difficult.

With the three-edged thorn in his hand, Li Zheng looked at the situation at the tip, and now there is only polishing left before the edge.

"Good, just polish it out."

"Whoa!" Tie Da bowed in response.

Di Zhixon came over and said, "The county marquis borrowed a step to speak? ”

Glancing at Di Zhixon, Li Zhengcong handed the three-edged thorn to Tie Da again and let him continue to build.

Following Di Zhixon to the riverside, Li Zheng asked, "Uncle Di, what's wrong?" ”

Di Zhixon opened his mouth and said: "Recently, I heard that His Majesty is about to open the imperial examination, but now it is difficult to open the imperial examination. ”

However, when it comes to the imperial examination, it seems that Li Shimin really wants to weaken the influence of the five surnames.

Li Zhengchang sighed and said: "It is said that it is going to open the imperial examination, Your Majesty is going to do something to the family." ”

"That's right." Di Zhixun also nodded and said: "The biggest obstacle this time is the Qinghe Cui clan, since the Han Dynasty, the Qinghe Cui clan has a high prestige in Shandong, how many scholars will respond when they raise their arms." ”

"You're trying to get me to figure it out, too?" Li Zheng asked.

Di Zhixun nodded, "It would be best if the county marquis had a way." ”

Li Zheng said in a low voice: "My method is also very simple, just kill them." ”

Di Zhixun smiled bitterly, "The county marquis said true love, but this time there was also a rumor in the court, saying that His Majesty had cleared the powerful. ”

"Uncle Di is worried about the powerful?"

Dickinson nodded.

Li Zheng said: "Don't worry, there will be no big incident, for the royal family, they will protect the powerful, especially those new magnates who Li Shimin personally raised." That is, the eldest grandson Wuji, Cheng Biting Jin, these people, they can be said to be the new magnates of the Tang Dynasty.

"But the powerful people that Li Shimin also wants to destroy are those families and scholars."

"In what sense did the location of these great families affect Li Shimin's power and rule."

Li Zheng called His Majesty's name one by one, but he didn't talk about it, Di Zhixun looked around and no one else said again: "So the county marquis thinks that His Majesty is targeting those families." ”

"Not so. The new magnate was for Li Shimin to consolidate imperial power, and he needed a bottom-up rule to consolidate his own power. ”

Li Zheng continued: "But those families are different, they will be an obstacle to Li Shimin's domination of the world." As for the obstacle, it's a big deal to eradicate it. ”

Di Zhixon asked, "Do you think Your Majesty will really do something to the five surnames?" ”

Li Zheng smiled bitterly, "I can do it, I don't think he will make a big move, it's almost time to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger." ”

It makes sense why the five surnames have existed for so long.

Li Shimin is a ruthless person, and from the point of view of the ruthless people, Li Shimin is not ruthless enough to eradicate the five surnames.

There are many ruthless people in Datang, and there is no shortage of Li Shimin.

Li Zheng then said: "Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young jinshi, imperial examination? What kind of imperial examination is today's imperial examination? ”

"What kind of imperial examination does the county marquis think is considered a imperial examination?"

"Fair, just, long-term, efficient." Li Zheng said.

"Could it be that the current imperial examination county marquis thinks it is unjust?"

Li Zheng said to him: "Does Uncle Di think that the current imperial examination is fair and just? In the election of the township sages, the scholars traveled from all over the Central Plains to the capital Chang'an, and first reported to the Ministry of Rites of Shangshu Province. ”

"Uncle Di thinks that just how much time this step takes, maybe the imperial examination will end before they reach Chang'an, and today's imperial examination system is a hotbed of corruption."

"How many of them have received benefits from it, and how many people have been brushed down by the self-opinion of the Xiangxian Prefecture Government, this is injustice."

Household Department, there are now five eunuchs in front of and behind the Household Department Case Library, helping Li Chunfeng.

In addition to eating, sleeping and daily relief, Li Chunfeng almost never goes out in the case library of the household department.

Dozens of scrolls were pieced together and pasted on a wall, which was filled with dense numbers.

Li Chunfeng dropped the last stroke, and once again stepped back and looked at the number icons on the wall, this kind of chart was still learned in Li Zheng's academy.

Seeing the change in the values on the graph, Li Chunfeng muttered to himself: "The poor road has finally been calculated, and it has finally been calculated." ”

Several eunuchs looked at Li Chunfeng, who was almost crazy, and were a little stunned.

Li Chunfeng carefully tore off the drawings on the wall one by one and pasted them on a large wooden board, and several eunuchs helped to paste them carefully.

Li Chunfeng said: "Be careful, these data are about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. ”

The eunuchs nodded their heads and carefully tapped to the canvases.

It wasn't until the canvases were pasted that they showed a huge diagram.

Let these eunuchs carry this huge wooden plank, Li Chunfeng finally walked out of the case library of the household department.

Under the gaze of the household officials, Li Chunfeng swaggered out of here, all the way to the Ganlu Palace, Li Chunfeng asked the guards to report.

Li Shimin, who was discussing the imperial examination with Fang Xuanling, now has no time to deal with Li Chunfeng.

The guard said, "Your Majesty, Daoist Li Chunfeng also brought a very strange wooden plank with some strange things painted on it, and it stood at the door of the Ganlu Palace. ”

"Strange stuff?" Li Shimin asked curiously.

Fang Xuanling also said: "Your Majesty, we might as well go and have a look." ”

Li Shimin walked out of the Ganlu Hall this time, saw Li Chunfeng and asked, "Daoist Li Chunfeng, are you ......?"

"Your Majesty! The minister has been in the household department for so long, and it has finally been made. Li Chunfeng let go of the way and let Li Shimin's eyes fall on this plank, "This is the result of Poor Dao these days." ”

Li Shimin looked at the huge chart and asked curiously, "Dare to ask what the painting on it means, and why my line is so low." ”

"Your Majesty, listen to the details of the poor way." Li Chunfeng introduced: "This chart records the situation in various places today, from the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Jing Emperor Chan let the emperor located in Yang Jian, Yang Jian changed the country name to Sui to start recording until now. ”

"The poor road records the population, the annual grain income, the commercial tax, and the number of conscripts."

There are a total of four things recorded, Fang Xuanling looked at this big chart, but it was clear at a glance, the Sui Dynasty began to prosper, and the population of the Sui Dynasty began to decline gradually from the year, until the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was no data, and there was a blank period of nearly ten years.