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Li Hong naturally knows that his ideas are too idealistic, but everything must be taken step by step to know where the next problems will appear and how to solve them.
But if this situation has been maintained, the recommendation and the imperial examination coexist, although the recommendation in history will be replaced sooner or later, but now the pace of development of Datang is extremely fast, if this aspect can not keep up at all, then it is very likely that after the glory of Datang, it will return to the original point, and even there will be a certain historical process of regression.
Therefore, if we want the wheel of history not to retreat, we must allow large families to set up private schools, and the government vigorously opens schools, so as to ban and completely eliminate the momentum of the five surnames and seven hopes, so that they will either decline, or mix in these private schools and schools, rather than the benchmark that the corporal of the world looks up to and become their standard.
Wu Mei also has her own ideas, for a period of time, Li Hong used to be extremely optimistic about officials from famous families, thinking that their height in serving as officials, as well as all aspects of contact with their ears and eyes, are far higher than those of the poor scholars, but this has not been many years, and Li Hong is now going to take the initiative to deny his decision-making back then.
Even if he hadn't ascended the throne at that time, he was still a crown prince, and after he was in charge of Shangshu Province and became Shangshu Ling, he vigorously implemented the decision in the ministry, but now that he is the emperor, he took the initiative to overturn his decision so rebelliously, didn't he consider the face of being an emperor with a golden mouth and a strong word?
Li Hong shook his head and smiled, then raised his head and said, "Compared to the court society, what is the face of the son?" If you can do what your son wants, your son won't care about face, not to mention that you don't know ....... ”
"Yes, you are not only the most proficient emperor in the world, but also the thickest-skinned emperor." Wu Mei looked at Li Hong coldly and said sarcastically helplessly.
Although she said so, in her heart, she still agreed with Li Hong's move after figuring out Li Hong's ultimate goal for continuing to carry out further reforms.
"In your Li Hong's heart, the famous family and the world's corporal doctors are in your heart, are they so inferior to even the officials of the poor family after passing the imperial examination?" Li Zhi thought about it, and still felt that the idea of ruling the world with the scholars who could give advice to the Jiangshan Society was a little unreliable or unreliable.
In any case, although the Tang Dynasty is now peaceful, strong and prosperous, but his son's temperament is unpredictable, and his own decision-making can be overturned.
"In troubled times, there are heroes and heroes, the rulers of the world show the virtuous and virtuous ministers, and the prosperous times give birth to corrupt officials, this is the unchanging rule of history, the world's corporal people can be officials for fame and profit, but it is better than the famous family to hinder the dynasty for greater interests and interfere in the government. What's more, just like the simple lyrics and songs sung by Erchen Rang Wenwen, if you want more people to read and read and write, of course you must read the sage book, but some simple and easy-to-understand truths are much easier than the subset of scriptures and history after the scholar doctor annotated with his own understanding to open up the wisdom of the people, right? Li Hong said with a smile.
"Self-cultivation and Qi family rule the country and the world, it is too idealistic, and there is no such person at all, after all, no one is perfect. And those scholars, the famous Confucians in the famous family, which one of them did not have messy things in the family? Which one can really achieve self-cultivation and Qi family? In class thinking, it is the class that is maintained and rooted in their thoughts, and the Hanmen is the same as the untouchables in their eyes, but in the eyes of the royal family and even the imperial court, in this prosperous Tang Dynasty, if according to their understanding, my royal family is in today's environment of peace in the four seas, and then it should be a monument for them, but why? Li Hong shook his head helplessly, he knew very well in his heart that if he wanted to bypass the scholar class in this society, and the court political affairs and national policy system went straight to the bottom, it was necessary to bypass these intermediate strata and their interests, so as to take the stability of the royal family rooted in the people and ask for the people, so that as long as the people did not rebel, the scholar class and the famous families wanted to rebel and prevent the court's decision-making, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.
"Those who want to be clear and virtuous in the world will rule their country first; Those who want to rule their country must first gather their families; Those who want to gather their families must first cultivate their bodies; Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts; Those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere; If you want to be sincere, you must first know it and know it. Character and then know, know and then sincerity, sincerity and then heart, heart and then body cultivation, body cultivation and then family Qi, family Qi and then national governance, national governance and then the world is peaceful. ”
"Having said that, the words in this book of rites, to put it bluntly, still lie in the individual's self-cultivation, but now look at the family of the famous family, and then look at my Tang royal family, from the father and the queen mother, down to the prince of the clan, except for Li Xian, my Tang royal family is not more harmonious than those famous families now? Haven't we already gone ahead of their great Confucianism and set an example for the people of the world? Li Hong said in the end, looking at Li Zhi's sneer, he suddenly felt that what he said was a little bald, and brought up Li Xian's father's heart disease again.
Sure enough, then Li Hong did not have the opportunity to talk eloquently like just now, and Li Zhi and Wu Mei listened carefully, but became Li Zhi's cynicism and heartache to look at Anxi from afar.
However, on the whole, this trip to Luoyang has completely departed from the original intention of Li Zhi to reach Luoyang in a hurry, but has become a trip for members of the royal family.
The horse-drawn train stopped as soon as it wanted to go, and when it saw a mountain passing by the car, the dragon father would order it to stop, and then he began to visit the mountains and rivers.
From Chang'an to Luoyang, whether it is taking the official road or the horse-drawn train running on the railroad tracks that is unprecedented in history, there is no end at a glance, and the Yellow River cannot be bypassed.
Occasionally, you can see the turbulent Yellow River flowing from one side, and occasionally you can see the Yellow River with a gentle flow, which is irrigated by the farmers in the heaven and earth.
But whenever the horse-drawn train passed by, there would always be more nearby troops from time to time, guarding the royal party from afar, so that the people in heaven and earth could understand at once that this was the honor guard of the Son of Heaven.
Some peasants looked at the groups of people from afar, as well as the vague guard of honor, and their hearts were suddenly full of excitement, this life is obviously not in vain, but they didn't expect to be driven out of the ground by the wife of the family, and they actually saw the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and his party.
Although with the distance between him and the royal honor guard, he couldn't see a clear face at all, but even looking at the grand formation that he had never seen in his life from a distance, he could guess that this should be the appearance of the Son of Heaven.
Along the way, Wu Mei recalled Li Hong's words from time to time, especially Li Hong said with great contempt that those scholars and doctors had never governed a township or county at all, let alone served as a parent official of a state or government, and some of them just read the books of sages and sages at home, and then summed up the experience from the books of the ancients.
This is not a fair thing for the people, the people of Li do not want much, as long as they can live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough to eat, it is enough for them, as for the rest, for them, it is like the gaze of the peasants in the distance looking at this side, after all, it is too far away.
From time to time, there were troops guarding Li Zhi and them when they passed by, so this also aroused the attention and interest of Li Zhi and Wu Mei, because whenever these cavalry saw them, they were different troops in the dust, not the same troops that had been following and arriving from Chang'an.
This made Li Zhi and Wu Mei also very curious, the two of them had more or less heard about the reform of the military department in the past two years, and now it is a bottomless pit, and the budget for a year is completely beyond what Li Zhi knew when he was in power, and it is increasing exponentially.
Even if there is no war in the Tang Dynasty now, except for Jiling City other than Anxi, which resists from time to time, or takes the initiative to fight with the princes of Dashi, there has been no war in other places for a long time.
But even so, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are still the two government offices that spend the most money in the imperial court today, and the annual expenses even make Li Zhi feel frightened for a while after hearing it, and muttering to Wu Mei from time to time: "Was Li Hong deceived by the Shangshu of the two ministries?" Where did all this money go? It can't be embezzled, right? ”
"You can ask him in person, if it really doesn't work, you can also send someone directly to the Ministry of War to check the accounts with the Ministry of Engineering, right?" Wu Mei, who teased Li Hong's youngest son, said absentmindedly.
"I have been in Zen for many years, and I have long stopped asking about the government." Li Zhi saw that Wu Mei was not interested, so he gave up the idea of asking Li Hong.
It's just that this time I saw these dusty troops again, and such doubts once again rose in the hearts of the two.
Although these troops did not seem to have the aura of killing and blood, they still faintly carried a sense of exhaustion and fading after a battle.
I don't know when the sky began to drizzle, and the royal honor guard who should return to the carriage to continue the journey at this time has stagnated because of Li Zhi's stubbornness, although it is raining, Li Zhi is quite interested, and wants to camp at the foot of the mountain not far away, and wait until the rain stops before continuing to hurry.
In desperation, Li Hong had no choice but to accept his fate, obey the willfulness of the dragon father, and in the drizzle, he began to order his entourage to set up camp and feel the difference in the drizzle journey.