Li Zhi threw himself into the pool.

He didn't know how to water and immediately drank a few sips of bath water, but fortunately, Li Xiao's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly pulled the emperor who was constantly fluttering.

"Your Majesty, please stand up straight, this is shallow water."

Li Xiao saw that the emperor was still fluttering in panic there, and couldn't help but remind him.

Li Zhi fluttered several times before he straightened his legs. When he stood up straight, the water actually reached his chest.

It's a little embarrassing.

Li Zhi touched the water on his face, but he didn't care about the embarrassed appearance just now, as soon as he grabbed Li Xiao's hand, it was very hard, and Li Xiao's wrist hurt when he held it.

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Li Zhi asked.

Several guards quickly rushed to the edge of the pool, but Li Zhi waved at them, "Retreat to a hundred steps away, no one is allowed to approach here, if there is a hard intruder, there will be no mercy!" ”

The guards looked at each other, and finally bowed down with their hands on their swords.

Li Xiao helped the emperor, "Your Majesty, it's better to go ashore first." ”

The young emperor's mind was completely confused, and he only felt his brain buzzing at this time.

Under the pergola, Li Zhi took a towel to dry the water on his body.

"Do you know what will happen to you if that sentence just now gets out? There is no place to die! ”

No one has ever dared to say so arrogantly that he wants to exterminate the Shi clan, even Emperor Taizong does not dare to have such a thought, he does not dare to think about it.

When Taizong cultivated the clan chronicles, he only suppressed the corporal clan slightly.

"Your Majesty, the nobles of my Tang Dynasty have made meritorious contributions to the establishment of the imperial court, but what about the gate lords of the scholar clan? What credit do they have, but with the advantage of controlling academics, they threaten me from time to time in the Tang Dynasty. ”

The peak era of the scholar clan was in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and under the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the scholar clan reached its peak. As the so-called selection of scholars is not based on talent, but only on the family, this system Li Xiao feels ridiculous.

Although the Tang Dynasty's system based on the door shadow system was not good, in fact, it was also a disguised nine-product Zhongzheng system, but there was still some progress.

Li Xiao is now a nobleman, and in the division of power classes, he is assigned to the Guanlong group by default, although he is only a new minor nobleman.

But really speaking, Li Xiao's background is actually a small landlord in Guanlong. His class is the landlord Shu clan who wanted to be promoted by the imperial examination system at the beginning of the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty.

The landlord Shu clan was not as powerful as the Shi clan, but it was more numerous, and this class was the controller of the countryside.

If you die of the Shi clan, the landlords of the Shu clan will have a real day.

In history, it was the imperial examination system that killed the scholars, the Tang Dynasty first played the aristocracy to death, and there was no real aristocracy after the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Tang Dynasty played the imperial examination very slippery, and used the imperial examination to play the scholar clan similarly, and finally the scholar clan reversed their concept and joined the imperial examination army, and even gradually controlled the imperial examination by virtue of their academic advantages.

But in the blink of an eye, in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the group of martial artists, madmen, soldiers, ruffians, and ruffians completely broke the family background of the scholars and the backbone of the literati, and the literati became the most despicable group of people in that era.

Song Liguo, Yanwu Xiuwen, although set the national policy of governing the world with scholars, but since the Song Dynasty, there is no real scholar, the Song Dynasty and the emperor ruled the world together, has passed the imperial examination to enter a new class, they are the Shu landlords as the main force of the new scholar class, but it is no longer the Han and Wei Dynasty scholars.

In Chinese history, the real aristocrats and scholars all ended up in the Tang Dynasty, but the nobles died early and the scholars died later.

After the Tang Dynasty, the two great unified dynasties of the Han people in the Song and Ming dynasties actually had no real nobles and scholars, and some were only scholars.

Wuxun nobles and scholars, Li Xiao felt that in fact, the scholars were more dispensable.

"Your Majesty, of course the minister understands, but because of this, doesn't Your Majesty feel that these scholars are too deep-rooted and have a big tail?" Li Xiao tempted the emperor, "In fact, I have suppressed the Shandong Shi clan for so many years and experienced several dynasties, but it has not had any effect, and the real reason is that it has not hit the lifeblood of the Shi clan!" ”

Cui Zhiyi treated Li Xiao like this, this is not only a personal grudge between the two of them, this time there is Cui Zhiyi, next time maybe there will be another Wang Moumou, Lu Moumou will come.

Li Xiao knew that many of the things he did were actually intolerable by the scholars, such as Li Xiao's establishment of the Lanxi Academy in Lanxi.

In the past, the scholars didn't really look at it, and it was just a small landlord's family school, but after Lanxi Academy had funds and the support of several bigwigs in Beijing, and Li Xiao's correct guidance, it can be said that it is becoming more and more prosperous, and the enrollment is increasing.

At the beginning of the new semester in the second half of this year, the academy has continued to expand its enrollment, and the number of students in the academy will be increased by two or three times, with thousands of students, and this influence will no longer be limited to Lanxi Township, or even Lantian County.

And the school is the confinement of the scholars, and they will not easily share this power with others. Li Xiao is a small landlord and a small nobleman, if he dares to touch this piece, they will never be polite.

Another example is that Li Xiao has now mastered the printing technique, although the printing technique has not really been used, but Cui Zhiyi has already discovered the huge potential of the printing technique and the threat to their scholars.

These technologies and industries, such as papermaking and ink-making, were mainly in the hands of scholars in various places, and the scholars mastered academics, books, and even paper, pen and ink for copying and writing.

For a long time, through this monopoly control of academic and educational resources, only a very small number of people in the world have been able to grasp knowledge and be able to read and write.

This is also a special means for them to maintain their high position, they are people who master knowledge and scholarship, and whoever sits in the world has to share the world with them.

Li Xiao's printing technology will bring about a revolution in books, when a set of Nine Classics will no longer be worth more than a dozen or even more, and the cost of printing a set of Nine Classics may only cost one or two times, and more people will be able to buy books.

Scholarship and knowledge will no longer be something that will be held up to the untouchables, something that the nobles will never allow.

Li Xiao's printing technology will be taken away by them, and if they master it, Li Xiao believes that they will not really reduce the price of books much.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty.

Just Lanxi Academy and printing, Li Xiao has already offended the entire scholar clan, this is not a personal grudge between Li Xiao and the Cui family, Li Xiao can see it very clearly.

If he didn't take the initiative to attack, then he would soon be overwhelmed by those warriors.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to dedicate engraving printing to Your Majesty, and printing books with this printing technology can greatly reduce the cost of books. To copy a book of 10,000 characters by hand, you have to pay at least the same money, not counting the paper money, but if you use engraving printing, as long as the printing volume is sufficient, then the cost can be greatly reduced. ”

"How much can it go down?" Li Zhi asked.

There are many scribes in Chang'an, with an average price of 10,000 words. If you are a famous scribe, the price is even higher. Therefore, knowledge is indeed very valuable in this day and age.

Any book can cost thousands or even tens of thousands.

If anyone has a few hundred books in their family, they are all rich people, and if any family has thousands of books, it is definitely the top rich.