Chapter 10: Gone Without a Trace (1)

The southwest wind blew, and although it was approaching dusk, the heat continued to bulge from the ground and from the sky with the evening breeze. At the end of the western skyline was a large crimson and purple sunset, like a fire, and the light of the fire pressed on the palaces of the tall palace, so that the palace group was continuous. Draped in a magnificent red smoke and purple cloud.

It was still very hot and stuffy.

Outside the window, each palace NV can't stand the heat, one by one is wearing a thin silk skirt, only a wipe is tied inside, frolicking under the willow tree or under the locust tree, walking, because the fabric of the dress is thin out of a large piece of pink and white plus cut the old palace NV, it looks very eye-catching.

Staring outside, but Li Wei was by no means looking at these beautiful palaces, he was thinking about his thoughts.

The Tang Dynasty had many merits, and it would not be overdone like later generations. A seven-grade county order can be arrogant and accusing Yue Fei of such a festival, which effectively guarantees the combat effectiveness of the army. The ideology of the Tang Dynasty was also relatively open and inclusive, of course, this kind of openness and inclusiveness was reserved in his bones, and his attitude towards various Hu people was even more arrogant. Self-confidence is overdone.

However, this kind of self-confidence can guarantee the blood of the soldiers and even the entire nation

This is Li Wei's favorite place.

There is also the acceptance of new things, which is also easier than in other dynasties. For example, the clothing, music, and customs of the Hu people were all inclusively absorbed by the Tang Dynasty. Another example is the wild resignation Mingyue, which was not officially canonized, coupled with a tacit understanding, it was placed in the East Palace, and there was no minister's strong admonition.

But there is one thing, interests.

That generation, as a ruler, had to take into account the interests of all parties. It is precisely because the interests are not handled well that Wang Anshi's reform will fail. In the Tang Dynasty, interests were the top priority, and all the top families could be proud of the royal family. There are also a huge number of meritorious descendants, that is, the emperor, and the interests of these Jingying people cannot but be taken into account.

Any change involves a variety of interests. For example, the two canals, the simplest, to do some dams and steep, and in order to delay the steepness of the canals, zigzag canals must be excavated, these zigzag canals cannot be carved into mountains, and must be walked along the valley detour. Some farmland will inevitably be submerged, and this is the loss of interests.

Further, the construction of wharves and inns and warehouses will involve huge interests.

There are still few conflicts of interest brought about by the two canals. If there are various changes in the future, the conflict of interests will be even greater. His own means are still too soft, which requires the help of his mother.

Liu Renliang asked again: "Your Majesty, this is your idea." ”

"Yes."

Liu Renliang still didn't quite understand why His Majesty had this idea, and he didn't know it as His Majesty's confidant, so Cheng Wuing knew about it. But Li Wei didn't need to explain anymore, Pei Xingjian also heard about it and came to the East Palace. told the story again, and then said unconvinced: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother can't do this." ”

"How can the Queen Mother do this?" Li Yiyan also said angrily.

"Li Qing, Pei Qing, don't worry." Li Wei said: "This matter is not so simple...... Whether it is proposed by the queen mother or I propose, as long as it is implemented, it is for the sake of the country's strength...... If it weren't for the struggle for power and struggle, the queen mother would have carried out all kinds of changes, and I would welcome it in my heart. If you want the country to be strong, you have to make some revisions to the policies of today's imperial court, and as long as there are revisions, many people will inevitably be dissatisfied...... There are people in the court who hinder it, even if I see its benefits, I don't dare to implement it, and it is better for the queen mother to do it. ”

"Your Majesty, it's not what you think...... Li Yiyan was a little anxious, compared with the emperor, the queen mother's strength is the art of power and strategy, the means are bold and vicious, and the disadvantage is righteousness and action, especially action. So no matter what means the queen has, in public opinion, almost all the people support the emperor. However, if the queen mother implements the emperor's ideas, then the emperor is just an idea, and the queen is acting, is the idea important, or is it important?

The scales will tilt even further.

"Don't worry, let's wait for the process...... Since the mother wants to reform, then let the mother reform first. ”

"Your Majesty......" Li Yiyan was still worried.

But Pei Xingjian finally understood what Li Wei meant, and said: "Li Xianggong, Your Majesty is right, let the Queen Mother take the lead first." ”

Shangguan Wan'er stood next to her and laughed.

Li Wei sighed in his heart, as a qualification, Li Yiyan is bad, not even as good as Shangguan Wan'er.

Cheng Wuing brought it in.

Li Wei asked him to sit down and asked, "Why did you convey what I said to you and Pei Lang to the queen mother?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother summoned the ministers to see her, and then asked a few words by the way, but the ministers did not dare to hide it. I didn't expect ...... The minister is guilty. Cheng Wuing suddenly fell to the ground and said.

"Get up."

"The minister was so frightened that he did not dare to get up."

"You get up, I don't blame you. In fact, whether it is me or the queen mother, it is beneficial to the country to implement this decree. But I have some ideas in mind, so please come over and discuss it together. ”

Li Wei and Pei Xingjian are not very wary of Cheng Wuing. He was proposed by Wu Zetian, and if Wu Zetian asked, he would definitely know everything. Besides, he is just a military general, and he can't shake Li Wei's roots. It is Pei Yan who will become Li Wei's biggest stumbling block.

Cheng Wuing sat down again, and Li Wei said: "The queen mother is very smart, she draws inferences from one another, and thinks of martial arts, which is more perfect than my idea." But it is not easy to implement, and what is the purpose of martial arts, as I originally proposed, is to raise more talents. So the queen mother said, test the bow horse strategy. But isn't that the case? For example, there are bows, there are good bows and bad bows, and the bows used by the children of the family and the poor will be different, even if the court uniformly uses the bow. And what about horses? There are also good and bad horses in the stable, how to ensure that the horses are used in a fair way? It's all secondary. The main thing is strategy, a disciple of the family, in exchange for Pei Lang who participated in the martial arts at the beginning, can write a good handwriting, poor disciples, how much can he learn? Even if you have some strategy in your stomach, you may not be able to learn to write it, and you may not have a good hand when you write it. Some people can't even write. ”

"Your Majesty, it makes sense, if you let the minister participate in this martial arts, the words written by the minister will also not be able to be obtained." Cheng Wuling said.

"Not only the writing strategy of the martial arts, but also the imperial examination also has many drawbacks, and many tribute students come to the two capitals every year to study. If the family situation is good, he won't care, so he will treat his son as if he went out to relax and see the world. How many families with poor family backgrounds can withstand this economic pressure? The recruitment rate of the imperial examination is very low, and the more bad the family background, the worse the effect of the study tour. Originally, the purpose of the imperial examination was to maximize the number of talented people for the country's use, and to give some talented people the opportunity to get ahead. However, the various drawbacks of this system are likely to make some families bear the burden and break up the bad wives. ”

Li Shimin once entered the examination room of the imperial examination, and when he saw that in the examination room, from young talents to white-haired old men, he once said proudly: "The heroes of the world are all in my bag." ”

These capable people put their minds into the imperial examination, and they don't have time to think about how to rebel. So Li Shimin has this to say. However, when the Li family founded the country, most of them were heroes and heroes, or famous families helped each other, such as the Pei family in Hedong, the Xue family, the Taiyuan Wang family, and so on. Therefore, in essence, the continuation of the scholar system of the Western Han Dynasty is also here.

Various policies are also taking care of the interests of the family. Including this study tour system, the disciples of the Taiyuan Wang family are here, then they must be young Junjie, and the disciples of the Cui family are here, not to mention. In fact, fortunately, at this time, the famous family was still very high, and in the late Tang Dynasty, Zheng Bantang, Cui Bantang, Lu Bantang, and Li Bantang often appeared in the court.

Therefore, it is said that it is to put all the heroes in the world into the bag, it is better to say that most of the famous families are in the bag, but the benefits for the common people are very small.

"That's true......" Liu Renliang mused.

If there is no strong first, even if they are as talented as Wang Bo and Luo Bin Wang, they may not be able to get on the high school list as they wish. For example, Xi Chong, if he hadn't met His Majesty, even if he studied well, if he wanted to be admitted to the Jinshi, it would be like ascending to the sky.

Or, like himself, how much credit he has made, and how long has it taken to enter the political core?

"There is another way," Li Wei stood up, paced a few steps and said, "The martial arts that the Empress Dowager said is for the country to absorb talents, not to provide more opportunities for the powerful to gain disciples. The first is to tell the examiner not to leak the test questions. ”

This article was done very well, and the Tang Dynasty held dozens of scientific examinations, although the first was in the admission of Jinshi, but no official dared to leak the test questions and said: "The second is the name system." ”

"Obfuscation?"

"Well, it is to paste the surname of the student, admit it with the content of the test paper, and wait until the result comes out, and then open the place where the name is pasted and make the list public. However, unlike Wenju, Wuju cannot focus on beautiful handwriting and fluent writing, but on strategy, and can use martial arts as an examiner to avoid more drawbacks. ”

"That's a good idea," Cheng said loudly.

Not only did he think it was good, but Li Yiyan and Liu Renliang also thought it was a good way and looked at Li Wei silently.

"It's a temporary idea of mine, it's not urgent now, there are many more important things to do immediately, such as Pei Lang's expedition to the Western Regions."

"Yes."

"General Cheng, you can also retreat, since the queen mother wants to set up a military superintendent and martial arts, for the sake of the country, you can also think of a way."

"Whoa."

Seeing Cheng Wuling retreat, Li Yiyan said eagerly: "Your Majesty, why do you want to tell him?" ”

The Queen Mother only said that the military affairs supervisor and the martial arts were held, but she did not say the specific strategy, and Li Wei did not say the specific method, but the general direction had already been formulated. According to this general direction, the Queen Mother will be able to make a great contribution.

"Li Qing, everything is for the country's ......"

"But ......" Li Yiyan didn't say anything, Liu Renliang tugged his arm and said, "Li Qing, the method is good, but there will be a lot of trouble." ”

Li Yiyan suddenly understood.

……

Cheng Wuing left the East Palace. He was shocked into a cold sweat, although he had some military talent, but he was not Pei Yan, as a child of a top family, he had always been famous for his rule, although the emperor was angry, he was so angry that he once put a knife on his neck, and he was helpless to take Pei Yan.

The emperor wants to deal with himself, it's too simple.

Fortunately, I pretended to be stupid and sold crazy.

However, the emperor's idea is good, a vague name system, not only martial arts, can solve many shortcomings of the imperial examination. No, the Queen Mother put the proposal out and let all the ministers think about it, Pei Yan probably couldn't think of this section, if Liu Renliang said it in front, and then said that this idea was originally thought by the emperor, but let the Queen Mother fight for merit, the Queen Mother not only could not make meritorious deeds, but was slapped by the emperor and Liu Renliang and Li Yiyan.

immediately found Pei Yan, and he didn't have any loyalty to Wu Zetian, but he had a bad relationship with Pei Yan. He began to be in the upper position, and Wu Zetian's promotion was one thing, mainly Pei Yan's recommendation.

Therefore, I found Pei Yan and told me what had happened.

"Obfuscation?" After Pei Yan heard this, he was stunned for a long time.

"Yes, Pei Xianggong, that's a good idea."

"General Cheng, I know well, but why does the emperor know that you will inform the Queen Mother, and still say it?"

"The emperor also wants to work together."

"You underestimated the Emperor."

"I didn't underestimate the emperor, he is very capable."

"General Cheng, the idea is a good idea, but it is by no means as simple as you think," Pei Yan frowned.

"I still don't understand."

"Yes...... Benefit. You go back first, and wait for me to show the Queen Mother. Pei Yan sent Cheng Wuing away and came to Shangyang Palace. Tell me what happened.

"Pei Qing, what do you think?"

"It's a good method, but it's hard to implement. The imperial court seeks generals, and most of them take meritorious disciples as generals. Except for a few descendants of the founding merits, although most of them have made meritorious deeds, they are not to the point of being rewarded exceptionally, so the children enter the three guards. Gain a resume in the third bathroom, and then improve step by step. For example, in the battle of Qinghai this time, there were many disciples of such families seeking positions in the army. Although there are sacrifices, as long as they survive, let them have more wishes. If there is a military affairs superintendent, and then the military is used, the selection of generals will be very large. Although it is fair to use vague names to record people, it will also win the hearts of many soldiers, but ......"

"And yet what?"

"However, the home of the Meritorious Eunuch will lose an important privilege. Not only martial arts, once the vague name system is implemented, Wenju will inevitably adopt the vague name system, martial arts is only a selection of generals, and Wenju is the real material for cultivating pillars for the country. In fact, there are benefits of study tours, so let the ministers see and see the talents, morals, and festivals of these study tour students

"Then Pei Qing is against it."

"The minister also did not know that if the system of vague names was implemented, there were many drawbacks, but there were also many advantages. For example, a fairer selection of people, at least whoever advocates first, and whose grace these chosen people will be thanked. It is something that has never been done for a thousand years, and this can be inscribed in the annals of history. For example, Your Majesty, he will also help the Queen Mother. If this article is implemented, it will be the beginning of advanced innovation, and if he implements some policies in the future, there will be less controversy. He said three things intermittently, and actually guessed Li Wei's mind ten out of ten times**.

It was the emperor who made a move, and it was not good not to take it, and it was not good to take it.

This thoughtful man also felt embarrassed.

To put it simply, Wu Zetian and Pei Yan can fight for rights at the same time, make the country strong, and they are not excluded in their hearts. But no matter what the move, it will hurt the interests of some people. Wuju is the same as military supervision, and Li Wei also said the system of vague names, which makes the system of military affairs and military supervision more perfect.

This is the good side and the bad side, that is, who does the evil person first.

If Wu Zetian and Pei Yan want to covet this credit, the wicked must do it first. Don't be greedy, that's good, all the previous efforts are abandoned, and Wu Zetian's proposal has become empty talk.

This is where Pei Yan's headache f@.

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