The separation of military and political affairs has always been a red line for Li Xuan, and whoever dares to cross it will die!

At present, there are only three armed forces of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army, the Tang Navy, and the Guards, and the other armed forces are not allowed to exist.

The reason for the ban on the nominal troops is not that such troops are useless, but out of the consideration of the separation of military and government, military generals fight wars, civilian officials govern the country, don't make it the same as the Ming Dynasty, a weak civilian official who only reads a few military books can command tens of thousands of troops.

Therefore, even if there is any anti-smuggling team, tax corps, armed patrol police, and other units, they must be carried out under the name of the army, and they must not be placed on the cabinet side.

So for this kind of excerpt, Li Xuan's handling is crisp and decisive!

After dealing with today's recital, it was already more than twelve o'clock at noon, Li Xuan did not go back to the harem to eat, but directly dined in the front hall, and by the way, he also called a few ministers on duty to eat together, and called it a name: Give food!

That's right, even if it's lunch, it's work for Li Xuan, and it has political implications.

Occasionally call the courtiers to eat with them, although it is impossible for these courtiers to eat much in front of them, but they will not be able to eat enough because of their very restraint, but it doesn't matter if they can't eat enough, they will be very happy in their hearts.

Because for them, it means that they are not marginalized!

And when eating, Li Xuan will inevitably say a few words in government affairs, although it is only a few simple words, but for the courtiers, this is actually a kind of task, but it is not as formal as the early dynasty or the imperial meeting and the official audience.

At noon today, Li Xuan said to the Zuo waiter of the Ministry of Rites who was on duty in the palace today: "I heard that this morning, the students in the Guozi Prison had a fight, what is going on?" ”

Li Xuan was talking while eating the vegetables himself, but Xu Li, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, immediately put down his chopsticks, and then said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister also just knew about this matter!" ”

"As far as the minister knows, the students who fought on Guozijian's side belong to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science, and the reason for the fight is because of academic disputes, and the impact of this matter is extremely bad, and the minister will definitely deal with it impartially and seriously!"

Xu Li said while secretly looking at Li Xuan's expression, and saw that Li Xuan's expression was as usual, and he was slightly relieved.

Speaking of this, he was angry, the Ministry of Rites was in charge of education, diplomacy, etiquette and other matters in the Tang Dynasty, and education was naturally the main work of the Ministry of Rites, and the work was also personally in charge of him, the second-in-command of the Ministry of Rites, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites.

Guozijian naturally belongs to the Ministry of Rites, and there were dozens of students in this Guozijian who were beaten by a group, which was simply a loss of the Ministry of Rites, and even the face of this Tang Dynasty, as soon as he knew about it, he carried out a very serious treatment, but this has not been dealt with, that is, he was recruited to give food, and he also did not expect that this matter would reach His Majesty's ears so quickly.

Naturally, he didn't dare to think that His Majesty would not know, and he was also prepared to report it today.

But I didn't expect Your Majesty to know so quickly, this person from the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy is really pervasive!

When he thought of this survey and statistics department of the Hanlin Academy, he was a little worried, although the name of this institution was a bit nondescript, and it didn't sound harmful.

But people with a little political consciousness can come to a conclusion after seeing the actions of the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy and the strange and huge institutional setup, isn't this the Tang Dynasty's version of Jinyiwei, well, maybe it is still a combination of Jinyiwei and the East Factory and the West Factory.

Nowadays, those eagle dogs who call themselves Hantong are already all over the country, and there are Hantong's eagle dogs everywhere, and these spies who exist on the bright side are okay, but what is even more terrifying is those secret agents.

No matter what the minister is, he can't guarantee that there are no secret agents in the people around him!

Today, the matter of Guozijian is a bit big, and the people of Hantong will definitely report it to His Majesty as soon as possible.

Alas, it hasn't been long since the establishment of this Han Tong, and the news has been so well-informed, although it is not yet possible to see the people of the Han Tong brutalizing hundreds of officials, but Xu Li firmly believes that this is just a disguise of the Han Tong, and in time, these Han Tong people will surpass those martial artists in the military and become the henchmen of the cabinet officials.

Xu Li was thinking about Hantong, but Li Xuan was thinking about education affairs!

According to Hantong's report, this time the fight between the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science in Guozijian was not only because of the dispute over academic concepts, but also because of the more complicated ones, including the competition between the liberal arts and the Jinshi department.

According to the regulations on the appointment and dismissal of officials in the Tang Dynasty, the science students and literature students in the Guozijian were directly given fame after graduation, that is, they were able to participate in the imperial examination after graduation, although it was okay if they failed to pass the imperial examination, and they could directly become officials after graduation, but for many students, it was not a journey after all, and the future was always limited.

Therefore, all students who have some pursuits, they are willing to continue to take the entrance examination, and then win the fame of Jinshi or doctorate.

At the same time, because of the emergence of doctoral disciplines, most of the students in the Faculty of Science apply for doctoral disciplines, and once they are admitted to the postdoctoral examination, the starting point of their positions is higher than that of Jinshi, which makes the students of Jinshi, who have always been above the top, naturally very unhappy.

In their opinion, they are full of poetry and book talents, and those students who study science are just a group of craftsmen, who learn arithmetic, physics, chemistry, and other ghost things, and then after these liberal arts students are admitted to the Jinshi, they are not as high as doctors!

In the same way, in fact, those students who are studying science and preparing to apply for doctoral studies also look down on those students in the Faculty of Letters, thinking that they can only adjust their heads and do nothing except write articles in one hand and eight strands.

This morning, just a few students from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Arts mocked each other, and then fought, but the young students were a little impulsive, and finally they began to call friends, and the result was that it became a group of dozens of people.

Li Xuan is naturally too lazy to pay attention to the fights of students, but this reflects some of the current educational problems in the Tang Dynasty.

That is, Li Xuan's goal of boosting science will still encounter great resistance.

However, Li Xuan will not compromise because of this, now he is just doing a doctorate, and in the future, he even plans to reform the Jinshi department, including physics, chemistry, and arithmetic in the compulsory examination, and it is to increase the importance.

The ultimate goal is to merge with the Jinshi Department and the Doctoral Department, and finally form his ideal imperial examination model for selecting talents.

So he thought for a while and said: "Education is a matter of the foundation of the empire, Xu Aiqing must strictly supervise the students to study, don't let them try to cause trouble, in addition, the number of doctoral students you proposed some time ago is still a little less, so let's increase the number to eighty!" ”

In the new round of doctoral examinations proposed by the Ministry of Rites, there were only thirty candidates, although it was twice as many as this year's Dengji Enke, but Li Xuan thought that it was not enough, if it wasn't for the fact that there were not enough candidates for the doctoral examination, he wanted to directly enroll two or three hundred.

After Xu Li listened, he could only say that he obeyed the order.

The words of the Son of Heaven, that is, the oracle, in today's Tang system, the imperial power is highly centralized, and the oracle is no different from the official decree issued by the explicit, the only difference is that the oracle Li Xuan can deny it at any time, but the explicit decree cannot.

However, after leaving the palace, Xu Li had a little headache, after the number of admitted doctors increased to eighty, did he want to reduce the number of Jinshi students, otherwise, the total number of Jinshi and Doctors admitted at this moment would probably exceed five hundred.

This number is large, although it can also effectively alleviate the current shortage of officials in the Tang Dynasty, but it will also greatly reduce the gold content of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty.

In the end, Xu Li also knew that His Majesty was trying to promote the development of the doctoral department, and he always maintained an attitude of not supporting or opposing the Jinshi department.

So when he left the palace, Xu Li had already made up his mind, and he would go back and discuss with a few cabinet bigwigs to reduce the number of new science and technology scholars admitted in Xuanping's spring examination in the third year to about 300, so that with the addition of 80 new doctors, even if it is 380 people, according to the estimated number of students who apply for the examination, it is about the standard of one out of four.

Although the standard is still a bit high, it is not as exaggerated as three to one or even two to one.

It's just that in this way, I'm afraid that those who enter the science department will have some complaints, and perhaps, more students will go to the doctoral department!

Because of the fierce competition in the Jinshi department, the competition in the doctoral department is not so big, and the number of admission places is increasing year by year, those students who want to study for the government will definitely not see this trend.

Therefore, after the Guozijian group fight, the Ministry of Rites issued a new official document, announcing that it would greatly increase the number of admissions for new doctors, and announced that the examination would be held in February of the third year of Xuanping.

The entrance examinations for the Jinshi and Ph.D. courses will be held in March, and the middle ones will be the new Jinshi and the new Ph.D.!