In fact, the state visit in this period is very simple, because Datang is the strong side, so it is okay to show the strong side of Datang, those barbarian small countries that respect the strong, will naturally be attached to it, and Li Shimin in history can be the Khan, let alone now.

The first point Sun Xiangfu mentioned first was the scale of the mission's escort.

The number of people can not be too much, too much The cost of the envoy will be very large, and it will also make those small countries afraid, which will cause unnecessary trouble, about 1,000 people are enough, but the combat effectiveness of this thousand people must be strong, and the selected people must be tall and burly, and the equipment used must look strong, through this small corner, to show the spiritual outlook of the Tang Dynasty to all countries.

The second point is that the mission should have people from all walks of life in the Tang Dynasty, agriculture, industry, business, medicine and even a huge team of musicians, all of which are indispensable to leave a deep impression on foreigners in all aspects.

The third point is that the minister who is sending the envoy must have the power to sign a cooperation framework agreement with a foreign country, and the country that has been recognized by the Tang Dynasty, in the future, what kind of protection does a businessman with Datang nationality need to get in this country, what kind of preferential treatment do they get, and even tax exemption policies, and so on.

This requires the envoys to talk to the king specifically, you know, many Hu merchants in the Western Regions are registered in Shanyang, once the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions countries have signed similar framework agreements, then, the household registration in their hands will play a big role, even if the Tang Dynasty does nothing, in the Western Regions countries, there will definitely be a group of businessmen who call themselves Tang all year round, active in the market.

This kind of method will invisibly make the people of various countries, or rulers, no longer strange to the Tang Dynasty, and it can be regarded as a means in the early stage of cultural propaganda.

The fourth point, of course, is to give some economic and material assistance to weak and small countries, and invite qualified countries to participate in the world's first big competition to be held in Dingxiang City three years later.

Then there are people from all walks of life such as agriculture, industry, commerce, medicine, and entertainment, who are free to play in the countries of the Western Regions, and I believe that they can find points that are beneficial to themselves.

For example, Sun Xiangfu plans to send Sun Erli to get back the seeds of various edible or used crops in the Western Regions, and try to cultivate them, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty will have more food and more resources to use.

Workers can be a lot of low-tech things, directly in the local factory construction, organize local people to produce, with local resources, local labor output, to earn local people's money, this is a more common development model in later generations, science and technology developed countries, some of the technology content is relatively low, more manpower production and manufacturing in some poor countries, only need to put one or two people in charge there, on the energy source to obtain very rich profits.

business, there are more things to do, to examine what commodity they need, and our demand for their commodity natural resources, with this data, it will be easier to do business according to their needs and our own needs in the future.

If there is a large trade project, you can sign an agreement with the local king through the envoys at the national level, such as the country that produces iron ore, and the Tang Dynasty can directly sign a mineral supply agreement with them, how much ore you give me every year, how much grain, silk, porcelain, etc., directly target the needs of the two countries, and refuse middlemen to make the difference.

Speaking of medicine, with the current medical level of the Tang Dynasty, it should be able to throw off dozens of streets in the Western Regions, the Taiyi Department will send Zhen's new generation of famous doctors Zhen Quan, Zhen Bin and others, Shanyang Medical College, is to send Wang Youdao, who is second only to Sun Simiao, and Russell and others with a group of adult medical students who originally had a good foundation to do some advanced medical technology demonstrations.

Musicians, in addition to the musicians of the court, are a team of folk musicians headed by Wangjianglou, who will show the people of the Western Regions the music of the Tang Dynasty concert, as well as a variety of songs and dances with national characteristics, mainly for cultural propaganda and display.

Of course, these are still the main framework, how many people to really go, how many materials to bring, still need to be slowly selected and considered, but undoubtedly, this will be the court due to the reform of some of the contradictions resolved a lot, everyone's mind, have shifted to how through this large-scale mission, to gain fame, to compete for interests, if there is no accident, the situation of this mission, will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

On October 18, the first imperial examination of the Zhenguan Dynasty finally began, and Sun Xiangfu became an invigilator, and soon, at the door of Guozijian, Kong Yingda saw the quality of scholars in this period.

"Zhengming, why do we have clearly stipulated that we can't bring books and cheat sheets into the examination room, but these scholars don't listen?"

Xiao Yu looked at the mountains of books and small paper at the door, and asked puzzled.

"The things in the books are ideal, but the reality is not the ideal world, since the Han Dynasty, so many people have studied the Confucian classics, familiar with the Confucian sage's Analects, the Spring and Autumn Period, have you ever seen anyone who has really become a saint?"

Kong Yingda, who was beside Xiao Yu, said this, had a hot face, but he couldn't refute it, because in addition to the candidates of the Jinshi Subject, the candidates of other subjects did have very few entrainments, and even, many people didn't know what they were going to take, and they also brought saws, axes, and accounting chips. Because, before that, there were no classics that taught merchants how to do business and how to do work.

As for medicine, there are books such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing Suwen" during the Han Dynasty, as well as Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" and "Jin Kui Yaolu", etc., which are considered medical skills, and "Shennong's Materia Medica" is regarded as a must-read medicine book for all doctors.

However, even these books, by the early Tang Dynasty, were incomplete, such as Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", only the chapter on typhoid fever remained, and Hua Tuo's "Ma Boiling San" and various surgical treatment techniques were all lost.

Therefore, the treatment of diseases in this period mainly depends on the experience of the physician himself, and a physician can effectively cure several common diseases in one aspect, which is already a good level, and most diseases are not treated.

If you want to test them, in fact, you can only use some common diseases to test, and if you get profound, then I can only regret to tell you that this year's medical science is in vain, because no one can pass the test.

"From this point of view, in the future imperial examinations, this kind of entrainment behavior will be strictly investigated."

Xiao Yu said, Sun Xiangfu nodded in agreement and said, "This time they have learned a lesson, next time, they will use more secret methods to entrain, so strict investigation is necessary, however, there will always be some fish that slip through the net, but, fortunately, we still have a practical level, even if their test results are good, they can't do it in actual work, it can only show that they are a waste, and practice is the only criterion for testing the truth." ”

"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth······

Xiao Yu repeated Sun Xiangfu's words silently several times before nodding and saying, "Zhengming said this well, I hope these candidates can understand your hard work, and when they practice, they can practice and do more good things for the country and the people." ”

"It is always the ruling class who are in power, and it is impossible for them to do good deeds for the country and the people, just like Confucianism, and to put their ideals into the real world. As long as they do less evil and oppress the people less, our country will not be far behind. ”

Even in the 21st century, when the level of civilization far exceeded that of ancient times, how many officials were dedicated to serving the people! Vanity, greed, luxury, etc., are the emotions that normal people will have, and no one can erase these human emotions, as long as most people are physically and mentally positive, and do not do evil, the country can still maintain rapid development and continue to become rich and strong.

"What Zhengming said is that those who have the ability to be officials may not be good officials, so you and I have a long way to go!"

Xiao Yu and Sun Xiangfu were just chatting, but Kong Yingda on the side listened to their conversation very much, and they had a lot of insights in their hearts.

Confucianism is a panacea, he can change his nature according to the needs of the rulers, as long as they always put themselves in the position of serving the rulers, there must be rulers who need it.

The Li Tang Dynasty seems to pay more attention to practice, so when he lectures in the future, he should focus on exhorting students to be biased towards practice, so as to make the emperor like their Confucian system, so as to change the situation that martial arts are rampant in the court, and peasant children like Sun Zhengming can be in power.

In winter, everyone's clothes are thick, 8,000 people, just to search again, it takes a lot of time, although an hour in advance began to let students enter the examination room, but the time to start the exam is almost late, because, candidates also have to find their own position in the unfamiliar examination room, more than 8,000 headless flies in the situation of arching in the chaos is very chaotic, and there are only more than 30 invigilators in the examination room to manage, and it took a long time to sort out the order, so that all the candidates can find their own position.

Thinking that he might have to do it again in the afternoon, Sun Xiangfu decisively went to Li Shimin and asked him to transfer an extra battalion of soldiers over, open several times the search channel, and send as many invigilators as possible, although he knew that the imperial court was very busy now, and due to the fact that the establishment was too tight, each official had his own things to do, but he could let them help finish the exam first, and then go back to work overtime in the evening to do their own things!

After the letter was sent, Sun Xiangfu had time to inspect the examination room, and saw many candidates scratching their ears and cheeks to think of answers, some of them continued to write, and Sun Xiangfu was a lot of relief, this is the effect he wanted, and some people who wanted to plagiarize and plagiarize all looked confused in the end, which made Sun Xiangfu a little proud.

If you want to plagiarize, there is basically no way, don't look at the person on the left who writes very quickly, people are taking the test for engineering, the first question is to copy a thousand-word text according to the text on the test paper, as long as you don't make mistakes, this question will have a full score.

Don't look at the person on the right who keeps writing and drawing, people are taking the arithmetic, there is a special scratch paper for its calculation, you are a liberal arts student, answer your own test paper in a proper manner, and the first major question in front of the fill-in-the-blank question, is a good score of the question, basically as long as you are familiar with the four books and five classics, and see the prompts before and after, you know what the middle sentence says.

Starting from the second question, it is to write the entire scripture silently, which is not an ordinary difficulty.

The third question is to compose poems, and those who usually have creative reserves can have an advantage, and those who don't have it are afraid that this question will be a little difficult to score.

The fourth question is an essay question, writing scenes, people, and things.

The fifth question is the policy question, which answers the solution and the reason why it has been done according to the questions raised in the exam paper.

Six sessions in three days, in addition to the first topic that can get some points by rote memorization, liberal arts students have to write six poems, sing six kinds of things, write six essays, express their understanding of literary classics, and strive for the six problems encountered by the imperial court, express their own opinions, and write their own ways to deal with them

This made most of the liberal arts students who saw the exam papers frown.

"Zhengming, isn't it too difficult for us to enter the Shike examination paper?"

"Probably not! This is a scroll that you made with Kong Sacrifice Wine, and many ministers such as Your Majesty and Fang Xiang have seen it! ”

"Yes! However, the time for answering the question for an hour and a half is too short, and even if the old man picks up the pen to answer it himself, he can only barely finish it. Xiao Yu replied with a sad face.

"The taller ones in the short group, anyway, the overall score is low, and they are also the ones who take the middle and high scores from the low scores, I think it's very good, when they answer the questions, they should also think about the trade-offs, either answer the high-scoring questions first, or answer the questions that you are sure that you can definitely get points, or, you really have real talent and learning, and people who are like a spring of literature and thinking, can quickly answer all the questions."