Li Chengyang closed his eyes and thought about it, Cao Cao held his beard and wrote down the order with a sad face, no matter who he is, as long as he can ensure the normal operation of his rule, even a dog must be served well.

A generation of heroes was forced to do this, and it does seem a little sad and ridiculous.

"Now Father, you are facing the same situation?" , Li Chengyang asked Li Shimin.

Li Shimin nodded: "Talents, there is a shortage of talents at any time, Yang Jian realized this problem at that time, and racked his brains to come up with a way to alleviate this problem."

"Imperial examination system?" Li Chengyang patted his head.

Li Shimin nodded: "Indeed, in order to get rid of the constraints of the family, he came up with this method, but in the end, the symptoms were not cured."

Li Chengyang scratched his head and wondered: "Since there is a imperial examination system, don't the scholars in the world not have to continue the path of the previous dynasty and directly ascend to the imperial court through the imperial examination?" How can it be said that it is a symptom but not a cure? ”。

"Almost all the scholars in the world are now from the family, even if it is your uncles who follow me to fight the world, they are actually from the family, but most of them have declined, in the final analysis, they are also in the family line", Li Shimin pointed to the bookshelf on the side:

"Books are expensive, ordinary people can't afford them at all, and the total number of books is still small, many people can't buy them if they want to, and there are times when several generations read the same book, and a book is passed down as an heirloom until the day when someone gets ahead."

Books are expensive, paper is more expensive, this is what Li Chengyang knew before, but he didn't understand it so clearly, the paper is bought one by one, Li Chengyang, as the prince, naturally won't worry about this, but the people don't have such good conditions as Li Chengyang.

"And ah, from the advent of this imperial examination, of course those families can't tolerate it, they are afraid that the imperial examination will slowly replace them, so they continue to suppress those scholars who have no background, if the scholars don't give them investment papers, then don't think about the day they can enter the examination room, let alone think about the day they get ahead, and even if a scholar is lucky enough to enter the examination room, in terms of knowledge alone, they can't compare to the families with a complete heritage."

"So the intention to establish the imperial examination was good, but in the end it was disrupted by the families?" Li Chengyang dragged his chin.

Seeing that Li Shimin nodded, Li Chengyang continued to ask: "Don't they really take imperial power seriously, why are they so arrogant?" ”。

"They are not arrogant, they only have a thousand-year-old family, how can there be a thousand-year-old dynasty, have you heard this sentence", Li Shimin smiled helplessly after hearing this, and raised a more acute question.

Of course, Li Chengyang has heard of the statement of the thousand-year-old family, not only in his previous life, but he has also heard this sentence many times in the Tang Dynasty, but he has regarded it as a boastful statement of the family, and he doesn't care about these things, but when he hears such words from Li Shimin's mouth, it may be true.

"Isn't this sentence deliberately released by them in order to elevate their status?" , Li Chengyang asked cautiously.

"Of course not, and this sentence is very right, from the end of the Han Dynasty to our Tang Dynasty, all of them prove that their statement is okay, there are only thousand-year-old families, not thousand-year-old dynasties, so it is normal for them to ignore us at all."

Looking at Li Chengyang's puzzled eyes, Li Shimin had to explain:

"After the end of the Han Dynasty, until the Sui Dynasty, four hundred years, experienced hundreds of dynasties, the longest dynasty during the period was Wei, which lasted for sixty years, and the shortest was the Eastern Jin Dynasty, only three years, not to mention anything else, just say that the Sui Dynasty only lasted for thirty-eight years", speaking of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin's tone was a little low:

"In the past four hundred years, the tide has ebbed and flowed, no one can continue the prosperity of a hundred years, on the other hand, these families, their inheritance from the Han Dynasty to the present, has been in a complete inheritance, each dynasty lasts for twenty or thirty years, just the inheritance of one generation, then the dynasty for them, is naturally dispensable, now even the Sui Dynasty is not mentioned, only thirty-eight years, in the four hundred years of history is nothing."

This is the first time Li Chengyang knows the details of the family, and it is also the first time to meditate on the various ways in it.

Walking out of the imperial study, he was still thinking carefully about the background of the family, and knew a lot about the situation of the family from Li Shimin:

Wei existed for sixty years before the Sima family stole imperial power and established the Western Jin Dynasty.

The Jin Dynasty existed for fifty-four years, and it was divided into the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, plus the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms, of course, not only the Sixteen Kingdoms, but these sixteen countries could represent the general situation at that time, so they were recorded by the historians.

Then it entered the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a total of one hundred and sixty-nine years, in which the dynasty changed, no one could gain a firm foothold at that time, you sang and I appeared, countless ambitious people built the country together, a road is a country, a city is a country, a village will even give birth to an emperor to come out, how chaotic and chaotic.

In the end, Yang Jian was born, ending this chaos, completing unification, and establishing the Sui Dynasty.

However, thanks to the merits of Yang Jian's son Yang Guang, this dynasty, which was supposed to leave a strong mark in history, died early, cheapening his Li family.

The previous chaos, the situation of the division of the heroes, the map of the central Han was cut apart, I think there were many families hidden behind the scenes to scold Fang Xuan, during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, almost every township had some characters who called the emperor.

And since the family can protect itself at that time, it must have joined it, and played some key roles, such as making an emperor to support it, according to the land area of a small country at that time, the family can arrange the small country clearly, whether it is the emperor supported by the family themselves, or those emperors who were born in the wilderness, they must worship the family as an ancestor.

Since then, the imperial power has become a plaything in the hands of the family, unlike the Li family who owned the entire Tang Dynasty, some small countries that existed at that time had no taxes, and there was not so much capital to cultivate the army, no matter where, as long as there were many people, it must be more than attacking, this is the law of history, and those local emperors have no to rely on, they can only rely on the contemporary family to pay for them, and it is no longer like the state of the emperor during the Han Dynasty.

For four hundred years, the power of the family is above the imperial power, or it is on a par with the imperial power, and the time passed down from generation to generation in the family may be one dynasty past, and then a new dynasty will appear.

Many people from the family at that time had gone through the change of seven or eight dynasties when they were alive, not to mention that at that time, just now, the people in the family who were fifty or sixty years old had experienced the Zhou Dynasty Zhou Wu Emperor Yuwen Yong, Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Yun, Northern Zhou Jing Emperor Yuwen Yan, Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian, Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, these seven famous and surnamed emperors, among which there were also Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and other uncrowned kings who were not recognized by the world.

It is indeed a little difficult to make them have a sense of awe of the imperial power, and now those who have experienced the seven emperors are still in power in the family, in their eyes, Li Shimin or Datang may not last long, and it is estimated that Datang will always be finished before his death.

Not only do they think so, but even looking at Li Shimin's performance, he himself has a little bit of this idea, this is not just someone who said it, the teacher of the previous car and the teacher of the rear car, Yang Guang and Li Shimin are also very familiar, according to the generation, Yang Guang is still Li Shimin's cousin, it is because he is familiar that Li Shimin knows what kind of person Yang Guang is.

To say that Yang Guang is a tyrant who is tyrannical, Li Shimin doesn't believe it, it's just that Yang Guang is a little too hasty, as long as he can hold on for a few years, everything will get better, Yang Guang has never been mediocre, but he is a little overjoyed, if this is placed in the Han Dynasty, it is just that the people suffer a little more, but as long as Yang Guang completes the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty and flattens Goryeo, then the Sui Dynasty will usher in a take-off.

The bad thing is that Yang Guang's actions are too big to disturb the family, to be honest, the people of the Sui Dynasty did not live a good life, but compared to before, I don't know how many times better, before the troubled times, more than ten countries attacked each other, with the ass to know what kind of life the people were living at that time, the people who can live peacefully and steadily are satisfied, where will they raise troops again and pull themselves into the war.

It is unknown how much power the family has made Li Chengyang, but the family definitely plays some disgraceful roles.

This family also includes the current Li family, Li Yuan, who was born in the Guanlong Group, is the spokesperson of this group through and through, this group of people is different from the previous family, the Guanlong Group is a group of generals led by force, and the previous Yang Jian is also a member of the Guanlong Group.

It's just that what Yang Guang did later did cause public anger, and the Guanlong Group turned its head and began to support Li Yuan, which allowed Li Yuan to hold the banner of justice and replace him.

Li Chengyang remembered a sentence that Li Shimin once commented on Yang Guang, and he couldn't think of when, Li Shimin compared Yang Guang to Yao Shun, not Ji Xuan, which is enough to prove that Yang Guang did a good thing, but he just chose the wrong time.

With such an easy control of the change of the throne, you want the family to be in awe of the court? It's basically impossible, Li Shimin himself doesn't have that self-confidence.

Li Yuan and Li Shimin, who absorbed Yang Guang's lesson, no longer dare to start reforms drastically, to be honest, it is really not easy to gradually suppress the family, look at the people in the dynasty, how many are from the family? The people who hold the real power are all Li Shimin's henchmen, most of the people in the family have a very high status, but there is no real power that matches the status, except for Li Jing, the god of the army, who is really capable, so Li Shimin is reluctant to leave it behind.

This is already the limit of what Li Shimin can do, if Li Shimin still doesn't know what to do and continues to suppress the family, he may step on Yang Guang's old path and be kicked off the throne by someone who came out of nowhere.

With the accumulation of two generations of Li Shimin and Li Zhi, it was only after a quick knife that the family was expelled from the court, and since then it has truly achieved self-respect.

But the family is still secretly accumulating power, but in the end it was arrested by Zhu Wen, after Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Dynasty and established the Great Liang, by the way, he threw all the people of all the five and seven sexes into the Yellow River, composing the last sound of the family, and since then there has never been the appearance of the family gate valve on the table.

That's why Li Shimin will be so jealous, for fear that his every move will make the family unhappy, that group of people have no ability to fight, but the ability to provoke trouble is first-class, as long as there is no excellent opportunity, Li Shimin will not dare to compete with the family head-on, can only play Tai Chi with them within the rules of the game, looking forward to one day to catch the flaws leaked by the family.