Ming issued an edict that I will return to Beijing on the eighth day of the first month of next month. Li Zhongyi glanced at Kong Kun, who was ordered to come to Zhengzhou, and made arrangements lightly.

After Kong Kun heard this, his heart was shocked, could it be that this was going to be a complete showdown?

"You will draw up an edict according to my words." Li Zhongyi knew Kong Kun's hesitation very well in his heart, but some problems had indeed reached the point where they could not be solved without being solved.

"Your Majesty, the minister thought it was ......" Kong Kun still wanted to speak for the reader, but was stopped by Li Zhongyi waving his hand.

Li Zhongyi suddenly sighed and said, "Yushan, do you know why I summoned you to do it?" ”

Kong Kun was speechless for a while, and he knew very well in his heart that Li Zhongyi summoned him to Zhengzhou at this juncture, which was equivalent to letting him get out of the whole matter.

Readers just like hypocrisy, and Kong Kun is no exception.

However, Kong Kun is not only a descendant of Confucius, but also a great Confucian in the world, and he is also the real power of the dynasty. For such Kong Kun, it is naturally impossible for a scholar to let him go easily, and he will inevitably pull him to stand in line.

At this time, Li Zhongyi summoned Kong Kun from Kaifeng City to Zhengzhou Mansion, obviously out of protection.

"Since I started my army in Hechi, I have been invincible and invincible. After mastering the major government, the people's lives are still peaceful, at least they have enough to eat. I relied not on the way of Confucius and Mencius, but on the idea of strengthening the army and the people. Li Zhongyi smiled and talked eloquently, wanting to pull back Kong Kun's thoughts, which was obvious.

Kong Kunming knew Li Zhongyi's thoughts, but because it was difficult to say, he could only continue to play the role of a crow.

"The emperor's martial arts, as long as he is not blind, he must be able to see it." Kong Kun pondered slightly, and then said, "However, for thousands of years, scholars have taken Confucius and Mencius as their teachers, and suddenly changed it, I am afraid that the readers of the world have resentment." ”

That's to the point!

The main contradiction between Li Zhongyi and the Wenchen group is actually the monopoly of the scope of questions in the imperial examination.

To put it bluntly, it is a battle for the standard syllabus of the examination officials!

It is an undoubted fact that the Wenchen group, which has vested interests, will continue to have a strong advantage.

Once they deviate from the scope of the examination questions of the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, hundreds of thousands of scholars in the world will face a difficult choice of fate, whether to study miscellaneous subjects or continue to study Jinshi Science, which is indeed a fatal big problem!

Expanding the scope of miscellaneous scholars, with its advanced nature and rationality, is certainly the direction of Li Zhongyi's standard reform in selecting officials.

There is obviously an irreconcilable contradiction between the new miscellaneous studies and the old Confucianism in the minds of all the people who read the world!

"Yushan, have you ever thought that relying on Confucianism, you can drive out the Tartars and restore China?" Li Zhongyi saw that Kong Kun still insisted on his opinion, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and his tone of voice became a lot heavier, "To tell the truth, depose the hundred schools of thought, respect Confucianism alone, and I don't agree with it in my heart." ”

"On my left hand, there are tea, melons and fruits, and on my right, there are cliffs. Yushan, which side do you choose? "The time to stand in line has arrived, Li Zhongyi has already made his words clear, and he is waiting for Kong Kun to choose freely.

Kong Kun silently walked to Li Zhongyi's right hand, bowed to the ground and cried: "The minister should not have been born in Kongmen. ”

"Good, good, good, so good!" Li Zhongyi clenched his right fist fiercely, opened his legs, and strode out of the room.

Li Zhongyi flicked his sleeves and left, his departure also means that how many years of old friendship have come to an end.

Kong Kun cried fiercely, wiped away the tears, and staggered out. Who would have thought that as soon as Kong Kun walked down the steps, he heard a loud shout from the steps: "Kong Kun answers." ”

"The cabinet participates in the governor's affairs, and the minister Kong Kun respectfully listens to the holy message!" Kong Kun bent his waist and turned back to the ground.

"Under the door: Cabinet Counselor Kong Mou...... Failing to live up to the grace of God...... He was transferred to Lingzhou Zhizhou...... Erqi Qin! Zhi Yuqing, who was in charge of the announcement, looked coldly at Kong Kun at the bottom of the stairs, and felt a little emotion in his heart.

After all, Li Zhongyi still showed mercy to his subordinates, neither killed Kong Kun, nor demoted him to the end, and handed it over to the magistrate for management.

Kong Kun was demoted from the governor of the cabinet to the governor of Lingzhou, and a discerning person can see at a glance that even if Kong Kun is on the wrong side, Li Zhongyi still does not leave a lot of leeway.

In the history of the Celestial Empire, ministers who stood on the wrong side generally ended up extremely miserable. They were either dead or wiped out, and they were almost not spared.

Li Zhongyi demoted Kong Kun to Lingzhou, in essence, he still loved and took care of him.

Lingzhou, a remote place in the northwest, from Lingzhou to Kaifeng, even if it is an urgent delivery of 800 miles, it will take at least ten days to go.

Kong Kun went to Lingzhou and left the power core of the capital far away, and the right and wrong nature also decreased N times.

Moreover, the proclamator is the prefect of Zhengzhou, which shows that Li Zhongyi still saved a certain degree of face for Kong Kun after all.

In officialdom, beating the water dogs is the most common code of conduct.

Li Zhongyi left room for it, which was tantamount to silently warning everyone that Kong Kun may have the day when he will make a comeback, who dares to fall into the well, I am afraid that it will cause the disaster of settling accounts after the autumn!

The more important significance of Kong Kun's demotion lies in Li Zhongyi's warning to the Wenchen Group: Even Kong Kun, who has been following him for many years, has been removed, let alone waiting?

Within a few days, the news of Kong Kun's demotion to the cabinet had spread all over Kaifeng City.

Li Zhongyi was still stranded in Zhengzhou, without the slightest intention of returning to Beijing.

In the early morning, not long after the east gate of Zhengzhou opened, Li Zhongyi, surrounded by his own soldiers, galloped out of the city in a carriage.

After being stuffy in the city for a long time, Li Zhongyi wanted to go out of the city to breathe fresh air, of course, this was just an excuse.

The real reason is that a group of students from the lecture hall are about to graduate, and according to the rules, they have to train to Luoyang on foot, and then return to Kaifeng from Luoyang.

To be honest, since Li Zhongyi established the army in Hechi, he has never relaxed his requirements for the work of the officers and soldiers.

In one day and one night, marching a hundred miles on foot is just the basic skill of the martial arts students.

Li Zhongyi rushed to Fupingji, thirty miles east of Zhengzhou, early, and found a tea shop on the way to Zhengzhou in the market town.

On the second floor of the tea shop, Li Zhongyi sat by the window, drinking tea while knocking melon seeds, enjoying a rare tranquility.

Fupingji, originally a wasteland, has become increasingly prosperous because of the villagers of the nearby ten miles and eight townships who have established a convention to catch up with the market.

It was nearly noon, "1, 2, 1...... 1234......" Li Zhongyi heard the familiar password sound, and he couldn't help but smile knowingly, his students are here!

In the past, Li Zhongyi had many part-time jobs, and the official title counted from beginning to bottom, at least more than 60 words, which can be described as extremely lengthy.

After Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, his only part-time job was to teach the head of the Wutang, and he would regularly go to the Wutang to teach.

As the founding emperor who started by force, Li Zhongyi understood better than anyone else that the importance of the barrel of the gun was not too much to be emphasized.

Li Zhongyi, who is a master of heaven and earth, and Li Zhongyi, who has a combination of heaven and earth, has always firmly grasped the military power of the national forbidden army in his hands, and has never relaxed at all.

Li Zhongyi can recognize every single one of the officers who have graduated from the martial arts hall, and this is difficult to say, but in fact, as long as you put your heart and work hard, it is not particularly difficult.

To put it bluntly, mastering the basic situation of the officers under him is also one of the compulsory courses for military and political strongmen.

As the king of a country, Li Zhongyi likes random conversations of a coincidental nature, rather than talking privately with the cadets and officers of the martial arts hall with a purpose.

People have two sides, a good person who only does good things in his life, Li Zhongyi has never seen it so far. In the same way, he has never seen a villain who has never done good deeds in his life.

Human nature is selfish and profit-seeking, which is the root of social progress.

"1, 2, 1 ......" accompanied by the commander's command, a group of students from the martial arts hall lined up in a neat queue and ran quickly into the streets of the market town.

"Stand upright and rest in place!"

There is no need to look at his appearance, just by his voice, Li Zhongyi has already recognized the officer who led the team, he is the current dean of the lecture hall, Luo Changgang.

Luo Changgang, who is eight years old today Chinese New Year's Eve, was originally the head of the Hechi Township Army, and was promoted to the deputy commander of the First Army.

Due to Li Zhongyi's favor, Luo Changgang took over as the provost of Jiangwutang three years ago.

Because there is no establishment of deputy mountain chief in the lecture hall, Luo Changgang, the provost, is the first person with real power under Li Zhongyi in the lecture hall.

According to the requirements of the regulations, this year is Luo Changgang's last year in the lecture hall, and after the expiration of four years, he will re-enter the combat unit and serve as the commander of a certain military capital.

In the Li family's army, there are currently only the 1st to 5th armies, plus the Guards Army, and the cavalry battalion at the army level, a total of seven corps.

After unifying the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wu Yueguo, the land area directly controlled by Li Zhongyi was at least more than doubled. Then, it is clear that a proper expansion of the army is imperative!

According to the establishment plan drawn up by the General Staff Department, the size of the central forbidden army in the whole country will reach 300,000.

Today, the soldiers and horses of the entire Li family's army, when summed up together, are only 180,000 people, and the expansion of the army of 120,000 is the minimum demand.

Li Zhongyi, who was condescending, saw very clearly that after the students of the martial arts hall entered the market town, not only did they not disperse the villagers who rushed to the market, but they were divided into two teams, left and right, and each sat down to rest.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help nodding secretly, during the period of non-emergency military intelligence, the gathering activities of the fathers and villagers were naturally out of priority.

Starting from the grassroots officers, the continuous cultivation of people-oriented thinking has always been the top priority of teaching in the martial arts hall, and it has never been slackened.

In this era, the army that is truly people-oriented and has achieved the pleasure of helping the people, in addition to the Li Jiajun, there is really no second army.

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