A group of scholars led by Lu Bi jointly played to list Confucian classics as a compulsory subject for enrollment in major schools, but Li Qi vetoed them without hesitation.

This is the drawbacks that existed after integrating the Central Plains and absorbing a large number of Confucian ministers into the court.

Led by Zhang Xian, coupled with Li Qi's intention to weaken the power of the military ministers, these original so-called Confucian ministers have become more and more influential in the court.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the principle of "overthrowing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", Confucian learning is no longer a simple thought, but has become a political power to safeguard the interests of the ruling class. In fact, the imperial examination before the Tang Dynasty was not limited to Confucianism, although the so-called "Ming Jing subject" had the largest number of candidates.

This is because although Confucian scholarship covers the content of past historians, it is still best to learn, and it only needs to be memorized by rote, while other subjects such as "Ming Law" and "Ming Calculation" need to be tested for very professional knowledge.

It's a bit like the liberal arts and sciences division of later generations.

In his previous life, Li Qi was the most opposed to this kind of "liberal arts and sciences class" system implemented in order to cope with the college entrance examination, which caused many liberal arts students to lack the most basic scientific knowledge, and even if they became officials, they were often deceived by the "simple chemical magic" of some "masters". However, science students lack basic knowledge of national geography and national history, and to put it bluntly, they are cultivated into "talents" who are indifferent to patriotism, only have money in their eyes, but have no concept of national and national right and wrong.

Confucianism was set as the only subject of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, and then after the rise of science in the Southern Song Dynasty, it became narrow-minded, exterminated human nature, regarded any non-Confucian knowledge and learning as heresy, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it completely imprisoned the people's thoughts.

The legend of Zhao Pu, the prime minister of the early Song Dynasty, "Half of the Treatise on Ruling the World" was first realized in the Yuan Dynasty, and the original meaning was to satirize those "Mr. Science", saying that Confucian knowledge can only be believed in half of it. In the Ming Dynasty, this story was deliberately distorted by those "great Confucians" again, and the realm was sublimated to the mythical status of "only half of the Analects can govern the world".

In other words, a "Analects" has only 20 chapters and 11,700 words, and the number of words in the Analects will be equivalent to a chapter in the network of tens of millions of words in later generations, which can cover the universally applicable academic content?

This is pure!

Confucian books should be read and examined, but they cannot become the main direction of study for scholars all over the world, and can only be regarded as archaeological texts.

On the contrary, "Arithmetic", "Agricultural Book" and "Nature" have been included in the compulsory subjects for admission to major schools.

These are the good things that can really be learned and put into practice.

An official, who doesn't even know the least arithmetic, how can you govern the place?!

It is almost impossible to think that one person can promote the progress of the whole society, and this kind of thinking is like a fool moving mountains. But if the knowledge is spread to this world, coupled with the identity of the emperor, let a large group of people spread and promote it, and the result will be very different.

If something is good, it will be effective.

In less than 10 years, the knowledge structure of scholars in Jindi, Guanzhong, and Hebei Province has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Li Qi believes that within 20 years, a new group of scientists and thinkers will emerge.

That's where the upside effect comes in.

As long as this group of people gradually becomes a climate and has a great say in the court, it will be difficult for this Confucianism to want to dominate and monopolize the world's learning and thought.

Although the imperial court has resumed the imperial examination, the system has undergone great changes, somewhat similar to the college entrance examination in later generations.

After passing the imperial examination, one is that they will not be directly conferred on officials, but will enter the major schools to study, and will only be allowed to be conferred after graduation. The second is that officials above the seventh grade must go to Jinyang Taixue for further training before being promoted, and only after graduation are they allowed to take up their posts abroad.

That is to say, with the government schools established by the six imperial courts of Jinyang, Zhenzhou, Jingzhao, Luoyang, Xingyuan, and Chengdu as the center, graduates of each government school are allowed to be granted official positions below the county level, responsible for training grassroots officials. Jinyang Taixue, on the other hand, is similar to the central training school, which is responsible for the training and further education of middle-level officials.

This avoids the situation where some private learning and ideas interfere with the imperial education system.

All scholars must pass the examination of the imperial court's education and training system before they can become official officials.

This is also a talent monopoly.

In contrast to the government schools, the same military academies were set up in various localities to train military commanders and security officials in various localities, and the two training systems for civil and military affairs were separate and independent.

The power to appoint, dismiss, and transfer military attachés such as military lieutenants, state defense envoys, and regimental training envoys in each county rests with the military department, not with the ministry of officials, and the power of local armed command belongs to the central envoy, not to the Privy Council. The Privy Council, which was only responsible for the deployment and operational command of the standing army, was now shifting its functions in a direction similar to that of the General Staff.

The checks and balances of power in the court are mutually restrained and constrained: Shang Shuling Ren Yuan is in charge of the six ministries, Zhang Xian, the envoy of the Central Gate, is in charge of the nine temples, the privy envoy is in charge of the army, and the Tuntian Order is in charge of the world's military affairs.

Speaking of which, Lu Yan of Tuntian Ling has nearly 700,000 Tuntian troops in his hands, and his power is also very great. It's just that the Tuntian Army and the garrison standing army in various places are often appointed with overlapping powers, and the Privy Council and the Ministry of War also restrict and limit the power in his hands to a large extent.

In addition, the Imperial Historical Observatory, as an independent supervisory body, not only became a permanent institution of the imperial court, but also expanded its scale and began to be stationed in local areas to supervise and supervise local officials.

In the eighth year of the Republic, after pacifying the Central Plains, the imperial court did not carry out any major military operations this year, but made every effort to adjust the localities and implement a new system of official selection, appointment and dismissal.

The cold wind gradually rose, and after the autumn harvest, the imperial court began to successively dispatch Hexi, Shuofang, Hetao, and Yunnei cavalry to Hebei, and even Li Yichao, the envoy of the difficult festival, also received a notice to send his brother Li Yichao to lead 5,000 party cavalry troops to Zhenzhou to listen to the command.

In October, Li Qiqin led 30,000 forbidden troops and Yunzhou cavalry from Jinyang to Hebei.

The army is gathered, this is the first time he has taken the initiative to provoke a war against the Khitan, and the target is the Lulong region controlled by the Khitans in Youzhou!

The excuse is easy to find, after Shi Jingjiao defected to the Khitan, he was appointed as the envoy of the Lu Long Festival, and the Tang Dynasty prepared to send troops in a big way in the name of "rebellion".

The 150,000 army is nearly one-third of the current standing strength of the Tang Dynasty, plus the nearly 80,000 troops concentrated in the Bashang area, which can be regarded as a huge momentum.

Li Qi's goal was very simple, that is, to advance the defense line in Youzhou, Hebei Province to the line of the Yanshan Ming Great Wall. If the Khitans were willing to give up on their own initiative and retreat outside the Guanwai, they would only be regarded as conducting a large-scale military exercise and training. If they refuse to withdraw their troops, then everyone will have a large-scale decisive battle......

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