Li Chengqian got the desired result and helped the old ghost to stand up, wanting to start digging the ditch again, but was actually told that the entire sewer on both sides of Suzaku Street had been dug up.

Li Chengqian looked at Wang Fangyi and the others who were dirty, and his heart was entangled, so he led the ministers back to the palace.

Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace and went to the Cheng'en Hall to have lunch with the crown princess.

Just put down the chopsticks and was about to kill Mama to hold Xiao Li Bai to tease her for a while, but saw Liu Kui come in.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Priest of the Prince, the Priest of Jiuyan University and Yang Zhou of Hongluqing, are asking to see him outside the Chongjiao Palace."

Li Chengqian glanced back at the crown princess, and the princess smiled gently: "Since there is state affairs, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should deal with state affairs first!" ”

Li Chengqian smiled at the crown princess and got up to go to the Chongjiao Palace.

Li Chengqian came to the Chongjiao Hall and sat down, and first ordered Yan Shigu to come in, because he was now trying to transform the Guozijian.

After a while, the energetic Yan Shigu walked into the main hall and said in a loud voice: "The minister sees His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Yan Shigu was very satisfied with his appointment as the Guozi priest of Congsanpin this time.

Historically, Yan Shigu has always been neglected by Li Shimin to write books behind closed doors, and later because he wrote a book for Li Chengqian, he was regarded as Li Chengqian's party.

In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin went on an expedition to the east, forcibly took Yan Shigu, who was over 60 years old, with him, and died halfway through.

"Yan Qing is flat, give a seat!"

Li Chengqian watched Yan Shigu sit down, and said with a faint smile on his face: "Yan Qing came to find Guwang, but because a group of officials were recently dismissed for being involved in rebellion, and their children dropped out of school in Guozixue and Taixue?"

Yan Shigu hurriedly said when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is like a god, and the minister is here for this. ”

"Then what does Yan Qing think should be done?" Li Chengqian looked at Yan Shigu and asked.

The Tang Dynasty's Guozi Jian Sacrificial Wine was actually the Tang Dynasty's education chief, who was in charge of the decrees of all the schools in Chang'an City, including the Guozi Jian Taixue.

Yan Shi Gu thought for a moment and said: "If there is a vacancy in the number of Guozijian and Taixue students according to the previous practice, Guozijian can send documents to internal and external officials to summon the children of officials to study in Beijing.

Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in charge of the country, the minister wants to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to show it. ”

I said before that the Guozixue and Taixue schools in the Tang Dynasty are both schools that only recruit the children of officials, not to mention that many of the children of officials are themselves the children of gentlemen.

Even if these students really study hard and make progress every day, what these two universities are doing is just a home school for officials, and they will not play much role in the world.

When Li Chengqian established the Tang Royal Military and Political Academy, he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the enrollment methods of the two universities, and Yan Shigu was Li Chengqian's confidant and wanted to take advantage of this incident to resolve Li Chengqian's dissatisfaction.

Li Chengqian nodded when he heard this: "How is the study situation of Guozijian and Taixue students now?"

Yan Shigu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this: "It's worse than officialdom, these students look at their young age individually, but they are all extremely powerful after they became eunuchs. The students of the Guozijian did not look down on the students of Taixue at all.

In addition to cockfighting and lackeys every day, they go to Pingkangfang to hold poetry meetings and praise prostitutes, and the doctors in the school dare not care about it at all, and there are even some doctors who try their best to convince these high-ranking sons......"

Yan Shigu couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke.

Li Chengqian was determined to reform education after hearing this, and sighed: "It's no wonder that these students, their noble birth and future are all doomed, who is willing to study hard?"

Yan Shigu also frowned when he heard this: "Who said it wasn't?" But Datang will hand it over to these people in the future, and the minister is really not at ease! ”

"Yan Qing wrote a detailed note about the shortcomings of Guozijian and Taixue that you have seen these days, and King Gu should change the problems of these students." Li Chengqian said lightly.

"Obey the order!" Yan Shigu got up to receive the order.

"Yan Qing's family will go to the side hall to write, and the lonely king will approve it later." Li Chengqian raised his hand and pointed.

"Obey the order!" Yan Shigu bowed again and exited the hall.

Here Li Chengqian took a sip of water and said to Liu Kui: "Spread Hongluqing Yang Zhou into the hall." ”

"Yes!"

Liu Kui should go out to pass on the people.

After a while, a middle-aged man in his forties walked into the main hall.

"Chen Hongluqing, Yang Guan, see His Royal Highness the Prince!"

"Yang Qing gave a seat!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!"

After Yang Zhou sat down, Li Chengqian asked directly: "What are the major government affairs of Honglu Temple recently?"

The implication is that I didn't hear anything big about Honglu Temple, what are you doing here?

Yang Zhou was newly brought up from other places and had not been in contact with Li Chengqian before. Coming to see Li Li today is actually to use one thing to meet Li Li Chengqian, hoping to get acquainted with each other.

Hearing this, he was stunned, and hurriedly got up and took out two copies of the song from his arms, and said with both hands: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi, Honglu Temple has recently received envoys from Silla and Baekje to the court, and the Son of Heaven is played, Goguryeo is arrogant and arrogant, not only sending troops to attack the two countries, but also blocking the road for the two countries to worship the Tang Dynasty......"

Li Chengqian glanced at Liu Kui, and Liu Kui hurriedly took over the music of Silla and Baekje.

Li Chengqian took the two-point note and looked at it, it was indeed Silla and Baekje who asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to attack Goguryeo.

Li Chengqian took a cursory look at it and put it down, raised his head to look at Li Chengqian and Yang Xuan and said, "Yang Qing, as a Honglu Temple, thinks that the Tang Dynasty should be disposed of. ”

Yang Guan's face became embarrassed when he heard this, he originally thought that Li Chengqian had captured the Goguryeo envoy and wanted to question Goguryeo's guilt.

So as soon as he got the Silla Baekje Songshu, he came in a hurry to curry favor with Li Chengqian.

It's just that Emperor Yang of Sui went on three expeditions to the east and even lost the country, and Li Shimin was persuaded by the minister to go east several times.

If he now takes the initiative to go east to Goguryeo, I am afraid that the impeachment of him will bury him.

If he doesn't fight, then what's the point of him seeing Li Chengqian once?

Li Chengqian saw that he couldn't speak for a long time, so he said directly: "Spread the will of King Gu to Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, and the capital of Youzhou Niu Jinda to infiltrate Liaodong to explore the terrain of Goguryeo's mountains and rivers, and then draw and seal the military department. ”

Li Chengqian also wanted to fight, but he had just fought Xue Yantuo from last year to this year, and it was really not appropriate to send troops to Goguryeo now.

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As Li Shimin's health slowly improved, Li Shimin summoned some old ministers in Taiji Palace every day, and did not mention state affairs, just drinking tea like old friends.

Quietly watched Li Chengqian supervise the administration of the country in the East Palace.

When several ministers saw that Li Shimin was in good health, they quietly wrote to Li Shimin to come out and preside over government affairs, but Li Shimin just laughed at this.

On this day, Li Shimin summoned Gao Shilian, Ma Zhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Li Daozong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Xingcheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and Liu Dewei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to come to the Ganlu Hall to drink tea and talk.

As soon as everyone sat down, Li Shimin dismissed the maids in the palace.

When several people saw it, their expressions became solemn.

"Recently, the handling of government affairs by Zhenguan Chengqian can be regarded as a basis for advancing and retreating, but how can he be mean?"

Li Shimin changed his past routine of only gossiping and directly asked everyone what they thought of Li Chengqian.

Several people were old foxes, and they didn't understand what Li Shimin was thinking for a while, and they didn't dare to speak easily.

Li Shimin saw that everyone was silent and promised: "I have no second thoughts about the prince, and today's questions are just to teach the prince in the future, and you can only speak freely." After that, he said to Gao Shilian: "Gao Qing, you talk about it first."

"Well, what Your Majesty is referring to is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recently ordered the punishment of the Guozijian and the students of Taixue for going outside the city to burn the water tank pipe?"

Gao Shilian asked with a deep groan.

Li Shimin nodded when he heard this: "You don't know that Cheng Qian has written down the detailed rules of Guozijian in his own hand, and in the future, the students of Guozijian and Taixue will only talk about their studies, regardless of their background.

Students must pass the exam to enter the school, and students must take the test every three months in the school, and the last few places in each exam must be demoted, and if they do not pass the test for a year, they will be expelled from the school. ”

Several people heard that this really seemed to be something that Li Chengqian could do.

However, he couldn't say anything for a while, because Li Chengqian had already made Yan Shigu's recital public when he punished the students of Guozijian and Taixue.

The entire Chang'an City was very disappointed with the students of Guozijian and Taixue.

However, Guozijian and Taixue are indeed good places for the children of officials at all levels to study and make friends, and if they only rely on their studies in the future, it will be difficult for the children of officials' families to enroll......

Li Shimin saw that everyone didn't speak, and he knew that Li Chengqian's set would definitely be resisted by the officials.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally decreed a serious style of study, which is also a blessing for these students. It's just that Guozijian and Taixue are all children of officials, if they are all expelled and can't study, how can these children be able to govern in the future?" Gao Shilian heard that Li Shimin was satisfied with Li Chengqian's approach, so he replied.

Sure enough, Li Shimin nodded when he heard this: "What Shi Lian said is not bad, this matter is still slowing down!" ”

Hearing this, several ministers nodded with satisfaction and agreed with Li Shimin's opinion.

Only Ma Zhou got up and said, "Your Majesty, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done is also for the sake of the Tang Dynasty!"

His Majesty opened Hong's grace and let the children of officials enroll in the Guozijian and Taixue.

However, these students are not good at studying, and they gather together all day long to fight cocks and lackeys and ask for flowers and willows, and sometimes even get together to bully the weak and the widow......"

Ma Zhou said that Li Shimin knew all this, so he interrupted Ma Zhou and said: "What King Bin said makes sense, so we still have to take the discipline of Guozijian and Taixue seriously."

I am going to send a superintendent to Guozijian to supervise the behavior of the students, what does King Bin think? ”

Ma Zhou hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince punished the students to burn the sewer pipes with the intention of educating them, but now the six schools are all floating people's hearts.

The smart and studious children of the officials' families are reluctant to be sent to the Guozijian, and only send the children of the untalented families to live a mixed life, how can the imperial court discipline them?"

"Is there such a thing?"

Li Shimin's face turned completely dark, he wanted to give favors to officials here, but he didn't expect that officials should not be the same thing.

And Zhang Xingcheng and Gao Shilian below both changed their faces, because they did just that.

"If it weren't for that, Guozijian and Taixue would have been impeached a long time ago." Ma Zhou replied.

Li Shimin thought about it when he heard this, and it was indeed the case.

The scholars are the most concerned about education, and the education of the students of Guozijian and Taixue is so unsuccessful, if it is the children of the family, it is impossible for their elders to ignore it.