While Li Yuanji accepted these 19 students from the four major academies as students, the discussion between the DPRK and the Central Committee on this has never stopped.

There are many people who are worried about this, and there are many who say they don't care.

Just when the imperial examination was underway, Wei Zheng found Li Yuanji alone.

"The minister thinks that His Majesty's behavior of accepting these nineteen students is a little inappropriate." As soon as the two met, Wei Zheng cut straight to the point.

He had known about this matter for a long time, and he wanted to bring it up at a very early stage, but it was not the right time at that time, although it was a little late now, but in the same way, it was not too late for Wei Zheng.

He's waiting, he's waiting for the attitude of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and now that most people are against it, then it's time for him to stand up.

If Li Yuanji put it forward in front of them, Wei Zheng would naturally be able to advise directly, but this time it was Li Yuanji's decision directly and it was not put forward in the cabinet, which also led to Wei Zheng not having a suitable opportunity to advise.

At the beginning, Wei Zheng just thought that Li Yuanji wanted to teach them some technical knowledge.

But now, with the arrival of these nineteen students, he knew nothing about it, so the situation did not allow him to wait any longer.

"Why does Qing think it's inappropriate?" Li Yuanji asked Wei Zheng rhetorically.

"The minister thinks that there are several advantages of His Majesty's personal apprenticeship, first, it can make the success rate of these nineteen students higher, second, His Majesty can train them specifically, and third, it also has a certain stabilizing effect on the Tang Dynasty." Wei Zheng did the opposite, but directly said several benefits.

But to Li Yuanji's ears, this so-called benefit is indeed a benefit, but it is also obvious that Wei Zheng is insinuating that he is using these benefits to tell himself the disadvantages of doing so.

The so-called success rate is higher, doesn't this mean that these nineteen people will inevitably have smooth sailing in their future careers because of the fact that they have the protégé of the Son of Heaven?

In fact, it's normal to think about it, one is a student who has been taught by himself, and the other is a strange student who still needs to get acquainted with and adapt, which one has the right of priority, does this still need to be considered?

Doesn't cultivating them mean that you can do whatever you want with them?

The most direct benefit is that they can give themselves whatever they want, no one will raise objections to themselves, no one will put forward some difficulties for themselves, as for whether it is difficult or not, it is their own consideration, who should put this difficulty on, that is their own decision.

And for the stability of the Tang Dynasty, there is indeed a few decades later, the high-level officials of the imperial court are all students of the emperor, can this be unstable?

But this is also a counter-sentence, since the high-level are all students of your emperor, what else do so many scholars in the world have?

Who doesn't study hard to get to a high position in the future? Who wants to be capped somewhere?

In the long run, it will inevitably have a huge blow to the students of Datang, so that they will not be able to study with peace of mind, but always worry about their future.

In this way, although the imperial examination system created with great effort will not be abolished, its gold content and students' interest in participating will be greatly reduced, in other words, this decision will be harmful to Datang and not beneficial in the long run.

"What do you think, what should I do?" Li Yuanji continued to ask.

"I don't think Your Majesty should do it. Now the systems are very good, the people can live and work in peace and contentment, students can concentrate on studying, officials can go to the government with peace of mind, businessmen can operate single-mindedly, the situation in the Tang Dynasty is thriving, every day has a different scenery, and the most important thing for Your Majesty to do is not to do it, and then let time to verify the reliability of these systems, and once something is found to be inappropriate, or abandoned and re-mentioned, or fine-tuned, this can appease the world, second, make the world's heart return to the court, and third, make Your Majesty maintain the status quo, or have a higher prestige. Wei Zheng said directly, obviously he had already thought of a countermeasure before he came.

If you don't do it, you can't go wrong.

If it is in troubled times, in an era when the lives of the people are in misery, this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable.

But now Datang has stabilized, and all walks of life have also improved, and those cabinet ministers even met privately to discuss, and according to the current situation and the prediction of the future, they finally gave an extremely conservative data.

Everyone agreed that if Datang could continue according to the current situation, it would take a maximum of 20 years to restore Datang's national strength to the heyday of the former Sui Dynasty.

And the most radical is Ma Zhou, who believes that ten years is enough.

But more ministers still feel that fifteen to twenty years is more reliable, of course, this is only a difference in the prediction of the future, not a big deal.

But in any case, this also proves a problem, that is, most of these cabinet members can see the arrival of the Tang Dynasty in their lifetime.

And Shengshi, what is Shengshi?

Say 1,000 to 10,000, it's just two words, stable!

Therefore, in this environment, in the midst of the beautiful expectations of the government and the opposition for the future, Li Yuanji made such an incredible decision alone.

Although everyone didn't say it, they all thought in their hearts that this was a decision to undermine stability and delay the Tang Dynasty's prosperity.

How long did it take for the Tang Dynasty to return to the level it had at the height of its heyday in history?

The answer is more than a hundred years!

How long did it take for the Tang Dynasty to surpass the level of the Sui Dynasty in history?

The answer is never done in a lifetime!

These ministers don't know this, but Li Yuanji does, and it can even be said that this is a kind of ceiling of the modern system.

And the Tang Dynasty in history has proved this, if you don't change, you can't reach new heights in your life, at most you can only maintain a flat state.

Wei Zheng's exhortation can be seen as his own opinion, or it can be seen as the opinion of the majority of officials.

Li Yuanji was slightly disappointed in his heart, but he couldn't put forward higher requirements for them.

After all, not everyone can have that kind of far-sighted vision, and if they are not traversers, they may not be as good as them.

Being able to restore an acne-ridden dynasty to the level of the pre-Sui heyday in more than a hundred years has proven that they are capable.

Half a step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a madman.

Li Yuanji can feel the artistic conception of this sentence more and more, his thoughts are thousands of years ahead of these people, although both sides are trying their best to run-in, but there is always some estrangement.

It's like a chasm, a myriad of generations.

Li Yuanji knew that his decision was correct, and the direction he guided was all towards the future development trend.

If you do this, you will let the Tang Dynasty and the Han nation enter the modern society early.

But they don't know that, no one knows that.

This made Li Yuanji feel a sense of loneliness, and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the cold.

In fact, at the end of the Song Dynasty in history, society was already developing towards the prototype of industrialization, but it is a pity that the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty and the fall of the Song Dynasty completely smashed this sprout.

With the rule of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the Qing Dynasty, this directly led to the backwardness and defeat of China.

"What Qing said, why don't I know it? Could it be that in Qing's opinion, I am the kind of person who would do anything to ruin the previous efforts? Li Yuanji asked with some disappointment, disappointed not because they couldn't keep up with their own thoughts, nor because they stood up to express different opinions, but now, it can be said that the prototype of industrialization has appeared, but no one really realizes that their thinking should change.

That feeling is like letting the emperor of the Qing Dynasty be the chairman of the new era, a good hand, but because of ideological problems, he was played a bad hand.

"It's you who should reflect!" Li Yuanji pointed at Wei Zheng mercilessly and said.

He felt that he could no longer endure it, otherwise, the generation gap would only get deeper and deeper, and in the future, the differences between the two sides would become bigger and bigger.

Although they are ministers and they are kings, even if they have opinions, they don't dare to exaggerate them.

But the monarch and the ministers are not unified in their thinking, which is a big trouble after all.

This is also the reason why Li Yuanji will vigorously promote young people, in addition to the fact that they do not have the breath of those officials, they do not have a deep background, but more because they are young and more receptive, and in the future, when they adapt to the present and take a high position, they can seamlessly connect with themselves, at least not like now.

The admission of students was only a small fuse, and it was also a trigger for Li Yuanji's anger, and the fundamental reason was because Li Yuanji was dissatisfied with the outdated thinking of these ministers.

Wei Zheng was stunned, obviously he didn't expect the emperor to say this, and he was even slightly angry in his heart, thinking that Li Yuanji had made an achievement, and began to look at the ministers unpleasantly.

But whether it is pleasing to the eye or not, what does it have to do with yourself? What can I do about it? I couldn't do anything but just stare at it.

"You are still doing things step by step with the old ideas, you have only seen the development of Datang in the past few years, but you have not seen his inducements, his potential, and have not made any preparations for his future, even if it is just some nihilistic and unreliable fantasies, you have none of them.

You are still coping with errands with the idea of an agrarian society, you have never taken the industrial society into account at all, you still think that farming is fundamental, but you have never thought that the greatest benefit of industrialization is that you can let one-tenth of the people feed nine-tenths of the people, and nine-tenths of the people can change more.

You never thought that you could travel from Luozhou to Chang'an in one day, and you didn't realize that this is the benefit of industrialization.

If you still use the old ideas to face the current development, and if you don't reflect on the change, sooner or later, even if I don't eliminate you, this era will also eliminate you one by one.

Do you think I took in these nineteen students to gain more power? Wrong, wrong, so wrong......"