His Majesty Li Er has been in a very unbeautiful mood recently.

In the early years of Zhenguan, the young Tang Empire ushered in the most dangerous moment, and the Turks invaded the Central Plains twice.

Since the implementation of the new policy, it has been strongly opposed by several major families because it involves the huge interests of the five surnames and seven hopes.

Longyou has been short of salt for many years, and the soldiers' health is not as good as day by day.

Coupled with the successive disasters and floods in Anhui, Henan and other places, His Majesty Li Er could not sleep and eat every day.

His Majesty Li Er uses talents in an eclectic manner, and the use of talents and leadership have reached a very high level; He had a discerning eye, saw the inadequacy of personal strength, fully realized that kings are like stones, and good ministers are like craftsmen, so that beautiful jade came out, and he openly adopted the minister's words of progress

Recently, His Majesty Li Er has been concerned about the imperial examination system.

In the Tang Dynasty, the subjects of the examination were divided into two categories: regular subjects and system subjects. The annual periodical examination is called the regular department, and the examination held temporarily by the emperor's edict is called the system department.

There are more than 50 kinds of subjects in the regular course, such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, Ming Calculation, etc. Among them, the subjects of Ming Law, Ming Calculation, and Ming Characters are not taken seriously. Junshi and other subjects are not held often, and Xiucai is a subject, which was very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, and later gradually abandoned. Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi became the main subjects of the Tang Dynasty. Many of the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty were mostly Jinshi backgrounds. There are two sources for candidates in the regular course, one is a student and the other is a village tribute. Born from the Jingshi and the state and county schools, and sent to Shangshu Province, the subjects are called apprentices.

The two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi were originally just trial strategies, and the content of the examination was Jingyi or current affairs. Although the subjects of the two examinations have changed later, the basic spirit is that Jinshi emphasizes poetry, and Mingjing emphasizes scripture and Moyi. The so-called scripture is to open a page of the scriptures, cover the left and right sides, only open a line in the middle, and then cover the three characters with paper stickers, so that the test can be filled. Moyi is a simple written test of the words of the scriptures. As long as you are familiar with the scriptures and commentaries, you can pass the test, and the poetry needs to have literary talent. It was very difficult to get the first Jinshi, so there was a saying at that time that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi".

The regular examination was originally presided over by the examiner of the Ministry of Officials, and later changed to be presided over by the Ministry of Rites, which was called "Quanzhi Gongju". Jinshi and the first name is "Denglongmen", and the first place is called the champion or the head. The people on the same list want to pool money to hold a celebration activity, and the two young people on the same list explore the famous flowers in the famous garden, and call the flower explorer. It is necessary to go to the apricot orchard collectively to participate in the banquet, which is called the flower exploration banquet.

In the Tang Dynasty, not only the test results were obtained, but also the recommendations of various people. Therefore, candidates have rushed to the door of the secretary of state and presented their masterpieces to them, which is called submitting papers. Those who vote to the Ministry of Rites are called public scrolls, and those who are voted to dignitaries and nobles are called line scrolls.

His Majesty Li Er has been worried about this matter recently.

Although it is true that the paper can play a role in discovering and mining talents, the disadvantages are also very obvious, and the consequence is that the wealthy nobles control the door of knowledge and gradually form a unified chain of interests.

His Majesty Li Er has thought more than once, if a country boy, a very cultured and capable country boy, can't find the door to submit papers because he doesn't understand the world, will he pass by the court from now on? So in this way, how many such capable people does Datang lose every year? How many honest and honest officials will the people lose?

Or in the big dye vat of the aristocracy that a clean and upright young man throws himself into, who can guarantee what color he will be dyed in three or five years?

This question is like Sun Wukong's tight spell, which makes His Majesty Li Er's head particularly uncomfortable.

His Majesty Li Er has one of the greatest wishes, hoping that all the people in the world will read the book.

Implement a unified national education system, and all wealthy nobles and poor disciples enjoy the same teaching quality.

The wish is quite good, but the difficulty coefficient of reality is not ordinary, not to mention where to find so many gentlemen? It is to find so many teaching gentlemen, how to ensure the quality of their teaching?

Li Er felt a faint pain when he thought of this. At this time, the little eunuch outside the hall whispered, "Your Majesty, the queen mother is here." ”

"Let the queen in."

"Erlang, it's so late, I heard from the waiter that you haven't had dinner yet, try the ginseng soup I just boiled, and a few pieces of glutinous rice balls."

His Majesty Li Er looked up, a beautiful figure, slowly walking towards him with a big belly, the eldest grandson queen was wearing a wide red cheongsam because she was pregnant, and she was extremely noble and elegant under the background of the oil lamp.

The cheeks without powder are more beautiful and moving.

Empress Changsun, the small character Guanyin, a native of Luoyang, Henan, the daughter of Changsun Sheng, the general of the right Xiaowei of the Sui Dynasty, the current prime minister, the same mother of the eldest grandson Wuji, married Li Shimin at the age of 13, in the last years of martial arts, she tried her best to win the support of Li Yuan's harem for Li Shimin, and on the day of the Xuanwumen Change, she personally comforted the soldiers. After that, worship the crown princess. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he was canonized as empress. When he was in the back position, he was good at using the past to illustrate the present, correct Li Shimin's mistakes in government, and protect the loyal and capable ministers. He gave birth to three sons and four daughters for the emperor.

"Guanyin, the Tai Hospital has explained many times, you need to recuperate now, I, I just wanted to go to the Lizheng Palace to see you, you came just in time, I just have a question to discuss with you."

His Majesty Li Er tasted the glutinous rice, drank a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup, and just wanted to discuss his thoughts with Empress Changsun just now.

"Your Majesty! General Zuo Wuwei is in a hurry for eight hundred miles. The voice of the eunuch sounded outside the door.

"Quick, come up with me." Lu Guogong's temperament, His Majesty Li Er knows it very well, there is no big thing, Cheng Zhijie will definitely not use the eight hundred miles expedited.

His Majesty Li Er was slightly flustered and opened the urgent report sent by Cheng Biting Jin.

As an emperor, he had so many things to think about.

"Hahahaha, God really bless my people and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, Guanyin, I haven't been so happy for a long time."

In the process of dismantling the emergency report, His Majesty Li Er hypothesized a variety of possibilities, such as the Turkic attack, such as the Qiang attack, such as the lack of salt among the soldiers, which has caused a large number of casualties among soldiers, and so on......

"What can make Erlang so happy, the concubine is curious."

"Guanyin, the army and the people of Longyou, the pain of lack of salt is about to pass, how can I not be happy? They are all my people, come on, Guanyin, you take a good look at this 800-mile expedited from the Duke of Su Guo. ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty." Empress Eldest Sun was also overjoyed after reading the emergency report.

As the master of the harem, she married Li Shimin at the age of thirteen, and she had already tightly bound her joys, sorrows and sorrows with the man in front of her.

"The Dow boy from the grassland actually knows the art of salt making? What's even more puzzling is that this kid is twenty-eight years old. Guanyin, does my Datang have such an outstanding young man? ”

is worthy of being a person who can ascend to the Ninety-Five Supreme Throne, and His Majesty Li Er will immediately be able to see the problem through the essence.

"Erlang, don't you often tell your concubines that there are many talented people in my Tang Dynasty, and most of them are hidden in the deep mountains and old forests? This young man who dedicated the method of salt making must be a disciple of Da Yin. The concubine thought that according to General Cheng's temperament, there would be a second urgent report tomorrow morning. ”

"Hahahaha, those who know me, Guanyin maid."

"Guanyin, how do you think this sixteen-year-old boy should be rewarded?"

The concubine felt that for his merits, it was impossible to overstate the reward. But for a young man who is only sixteen years old and whose identity is not known for the time being, it is worth Erlang's consideration. However, just because this young man can dedicate the method of making salt to my Tang Dynasty, let my Longyou army and the people no longer endure the pain of having no salt to eat. In any case, His Majesty will reward him heavily. Everything can wait for General Cheng's second urgent report to come before making a decision. ”

Empress Eldest Sun's words made His Majesty Li Er fall into deep thought.

Whenever His Majesty Li Er pondered, Empress Eldest Sun would always sit quietly aside, this seemingly weak woman actually possessed tremendous energy.