Thinking about the current political situation in the imperial court, Yang Jian sorted out his thoughts, the gate lords of the Guanlong Shi clan were a big help for the establishment of the Sui State, and even a big help for the establishment of the Zhou State back then, but since they could help, they could also help. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Jian is confident that he has a way to suppress these gate lords, scholars, and magnates, but what about his son, can he suppress it?

The forces of all parties are intertwined, today's loyal ministers, tomorrow may be the new dynasty's dragon heroes, if Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong did not die young, then the current minister of the Sui State is probably still the pillar of the Zhou State.

Yang Jian is now in the prime of life, and he feels that he can live for at least ten or twenty years, but how to prevent his children and grandchildren from being deposed by the ministers in the future and turning the country into someone else's thing is a long-term problem that needs to be considered.

First of all, the big families control the shortcomings of the selection of officials, and the formation of parties for personal gain must be cracked down, and the selection system of officials must also be reformed, which is the policy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

Otherwise, no matter how it is really selected, those who are selected are all children or clansmen of the big family, how can it go on like this?

Suppressing the big family requires a force, relatives, eunuchs, clans, the experience of various dynasties and generations for hundreds of years shows that these forces are simply unreliable, Yang Jian himself is a relative on the throne, so he needs a new strength, that is, a scholar from a cold family.

Otherwise, the emperor alone, once he accidentally breaks the balance of power in the court, it is easy to have problems, not to mention that the young emperor will ascend the throne, and sooner or later it will be over.

Let the scholars of the poor family have the opportunity to be selected, so that their official career is closely linked to the imperial court, not benefiting from the family lineage, not benefiting from the shadow, and their loyalty to the imperial court is much higher.

That is to say, it is not so easy to do, the selection of officials, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system has cut off the ascending channel of the poor scholars, and the inspection system is not much better.

Show talent, don't know books. Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live. Hansu is as white and turbid as mud, and Gao Diliang will be as timid as a chicken.

No matter how good the inspection system is, the talents selected in the end are this kind of waste, Yang Jian wants to suppress the imperial power to suppress the family, so he has to select talents through a suitable system, so that the scholars of the poor family have the opportunity to be high-ranking officials.

He thought about it for a long time, and had a draft in his heart, the new selection system is different from the inspection system, Yang Jian called it the imperial examination, that is, the opening of the science and the selection of scholars.

No matter what the background is, if you want to be an official, you have to take the exam, and the imperial court selects officials through the exam, and only those who have real talent and real learning can pass the exam to become an official.

Is that all there is to it? No, the key is the exam, and if you want to pass the exam, you have to be knowledgeable.

Learning, now the family has the advantage, the reason is the financial resources, the family has a family study, can afford to teach the Confucian knowledge, the children of the clan do not have to run for a living, from the enlightenment can always concentrate on reading.

Where do poor scholars have such good conditions?

What's more, it costs a lot of money to study, please ask your husband to teach at home, or go to the school to apprentice, which requires money and food, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone consumed on weekdays are not low in cumulative cost.

It is foreseeable that if the imperial examination is opened, even if it is an academic examination in the first few years, on the whole, the children of poor families may not be able to pass the examination of the children of the family, so how to reduce the cost of studying is the key to the smooth implementation of the imperial examination.

Yang Jian already has a plan, he wants to build official schools in the state and county, so that the poor scholars have the opportunity to study, and as for how to reduce the cost of reading, the key lies in books.

The spread of knowledge needs books, and the circulation of books depends on hand-copying, that is, the so-called maid books, so the price of a book is not cheap, and the practice of writing needs paper, and the paper is not cheap, to solve these two problems, you can effectively reduce the cost of reading.

But just as he was trying to figure it out, someone had already solved it.

Little bunny, I'm not done with you!

Even after six years, Yang Jian became nameless when he thought of someone, nearly three years ago, he sent someone to Shannan to rescue his daughter Yang Lihua, but the result was a failure, and after reading his daughter's letter, he didn't send anyone to Xiyang City again.

This refers to the fact that he did not send someone to Xiyang City to rescue again, but it does not mean that he did not send someone to spy on the news, and the news contained some major discoveries.

There were several books on the desk in front of Yang Jian, and the reason why they were called "books" instead of the usual "volumes" was because they were really several "books", which were bound into volumes by Huangzhou booksellers.

The ingenious binding method, each "page" paper has content on both sides, which is really paper-saving, and the highlight of Huangzhou Book is not only this.

Engraving printing is a technique disclosed by Huangzhou booksellers, who first engrave the content on a wooden board with anti-Chinese characters, then brush with ink, and then cover the white paper, the so-called "printing" is like this.

As far as Yang Jian knows, some booksellers in Chang'an have begun to organize people to carry out "engraving printing", which is expensive to make plates, but it is convenient to print books in large quantities.

The books produced by the Chang'an booksellers are also bound into volumes, but even so, the price is still about the same as the Huangzhou books shipped thousands of miles away, and the Huangzhou books in the bookstore have been selling well, so what is the problem?

The problem is on paper.

This is not a secret in Huangzhou, where the books produced by booksellers are not only of good quality, but also cheap.

Therefore, the price of the books bound by the Huangzhou booksellers is low, and the bound books can be easily trafficked together with other goods.

The Sui and Zhou countries were hostile, and the border was heavily armed, but this did not mean that it could stop the merchants' instinct to seek profits, as has been the case for hundreds of years.

In this way, even in Chang'an, the price of Huangzhou books is very advantageous, and Yang Jian sent people to buy many books in Chang'an Bookstore, especially the full set of "Hualin Quanlu" and "Xiuwen Palace Yulan".

The binding and printing quality are very exquisite, even if you don't look at it, it is good to put it on the shelf, and there are these two sets of books in the imperial study, and the momentum is much stronger when you meet the courtiers.

But Yang Jian didn't pay attention to this, but what Yu Wenwen was thinking.

Engraving printing, improved papermaking, according to the news obtained by the detailed work, is promoted by the "one-legged bronze man", Yang Jian thinks that this little rabbit cub can make a lot of money by printing books, but why not keep the engraving printing secret?

Doing business, it is natural to keep the essentials of making money as a secret, this is good, take the initiative to introduce the mystery to outsiders, so that the booksellers here in Chang'an know, want to come to Jiankang, Yecheng, Jiangling and other places are also familiar with the mystery of "engraving printing".

Is it arrogant and arrogant, thinking that others can't compete with you?

Or do you have a better printing technique on hand?

Thinking of this, Yang Jian had some expectations, he felt that Yu Wenwen must have better printing skills in his hands, and he could print books at a lower cost, and this was what he had always needed.

A large number of cheap books can make more people afford to read, and when more and more people can afford to read, then the monopoly of the family on knowledge will be broken, and the next implementation of the imperial examination will be a matter of course.

It may take ten or twenty years for the conditions to be ripe for the opening of the imperial examination, but Yang Jian can afford to wait, he is now in the prime of life, and he feels that it should not be a problem for him to live for another ten or twenty years.

Twenty years later, when my son succeeded to the throne, the little seedling I planted with my own hands had grown into a towering tree, and my children and grandchildren could enjoy the shade under the tree.

As long as the son fights for strength, no, as long as he can keep it, then the rivers and mountains of the Great Sui will be passed down from generation to generation.

Thinking of this, Yang Jian couldn't help but be overjoyed, Yuwen Wen inadvertently helped a lot, he was like a child who picked up a copper coin and was excited.

"You only know about the scourge of my daughter, you only know about selling books to make money, but you don't know..."

Yang Jian was shocked, and he suddenly thought of a possibility: Could it be that Yu Wenwen intended to promote engraving printing, and the price of books was so low that more people could afford it?

This fang is similar to what I saw? How is this possible! (To be continued.) )