After another period of time, Shi Liuxun, the governor of Nankang Prefecture, also came to Chang'an from Nankangzhou:

"Shi Liuxun, the governor of Kangzhou, Chennan, see Your Majesty!"

"No courtesy, flat!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Liu Xun, I read your book, you come to tell me, how did you come up with the book "Please Your Majesty to Strengthen the Garrison in Guangzhou"?" Liu Xun bowed down and replied:

"Your Majesty, you should know that the minister served in Xiao Milling in his early years, served as the Huangmen Squire, and presented the strategy of Jinglu Lingnan, after Xiao Milling saw the minister's strategy, he agreed with the minister's strategy, and let the minister lead the army south to attack Lingbiao and seize more than 50 cities. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Xiao Milling is defeated. The minister was in Lingnan at this time, thinking that the mantis arm could not stop the car, so he presented the watch to the Tang Dynasty and was awarded the history of the governor of Nankang Prefecture. Li Jiancheng nodded:

"Liu Qing, should you capture Lingnan, now I am afraid that Lingnan will be lost, and you will lose your political capital!" Liu Xun Zhengse said to Li Jiancheng:

"Your Majesty, the minister's dedication to Your Majesty's "Please Your Majesty to Strengthen the Garrison in Guangzhou" is for Your Majesty's great cause, not for the minister's fame!" Li Jiancheng saw that Liu Xun was so serious, nodded to Liu Xun, and instructed Liu Xun to continue:

"Your Majesty, that Lingnan seems to be a high mountain and a dangerous road, but in fact, the strategic location is extremely important. At the beginning, in the Spring and Autumn Period, when the Chu State had not yet vigorously mapped the Central Plains, it had to develop to the south, although the south had many water networks, but the products were abundant, and a lot of fertile land was reclaimed for both military and civilian purposes, and by using the population of the southern Baiyue, it was necessary to plot the Central Plains. Subsequently, Qin Shi Huang ordered Wang Jian Ping Baiyue, the land of Annan, and to see the South China Sea, Ren Huan built a city on the shore of the South China Sea, to prevent the rebellion of Annan Yueyi, now, the salt of the South China Sea for the people of Jingchu, Guangzhou City has become a place where overseas businessmen gather in our dynasty, and the land of Annan has not been recovered, the barbarians of Annan Yue have always rebelled, and Lingnan Ning Changzhen has always had the heart of dominating Lingnan, once Ning Changzhen occupies Guangzhou, and then unites with the barbarians of Annan, one has a war of soldiers, and the other has available wealth for the north to invade Changsha, Guiyang, Lingling, Wuling and other places, I'm afraid these four counties will not be protected in the future! After listening to Liu Xun's words, Li Jiancheng nodded-worthy of being the person who served as the prime minister in later generations. There is really real talent in the belly. At the beginning, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many Baiyue mercenaries from Lingnan Annan in the Chu State to participate in the war, and the courage of these Baiyue infantry was world-famous.

"Excellent! Liu Xun, I have understood the importance of Guangzhou, Liu Xun, I am now worshiping for the matter, Feng Qingyuan County male, in the future, stay in the prelude to the palace! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, the situation in Guangzhou is urgent, and good generals must be sent there! ”

"Hahaha! Liu Aiqing, you don't have to worry, I have already appointed General Xie Shufang Xie as the governor of Guangzhou and the leader of Qiongzhou before you came, I have already received the report, General Xie has arrived in Guangzhou, redeployed the troops, Ning Chang really dare not invade the border. ”

"Ahh Your Majesty is really far-sighted! But Your Majesty, there is one more thing I want to explain to Your Majesty! ”

"Liu Aiqing, you say!"

"Your Majesty, the minister still has a letter that I want to report to Your Majesty!"

"Say!"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now the court is the plan to use people, Your Majesty is broad-minded, promulgated the order of asking for advice, so the people are enthusiastic, Your Majesty, since the Han Dynasty, the rise of the family, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the nine products in the system are rampant, the upper grade monopolizes the high position of the court, and the lower grade can only be a small official, and how many talents of the people are buried, please Your Majesty, from the new open imperial examination, so that the folk talents can be used by His Majesty!" Li Jiancheng also thought about reopening the imperial examination when Li Tang was just established, but he was only the prince, not the emperor, and he also needed the support of the Guanlong family, and the imperial examination was a fatal blow to the family, especially the Guanlong family. Because most of the Guan Long family are military generals, and most of the imperial examinations are civil officials, especially in the Jiangnan area, the literary style is extremely prosperous, so there are very few people who pass the imperial examination. The Guanlong family hated the imperial examination because of this, and after the establishment of Li Tang, the southern family supported Xiao Miao, Fu Gongtuo and others, so in the selection of central officials, Guan Long has always been the first, Qi Lu second, and there is no one in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, on the one hand, Liu Xun hopes to take the opportunity to increase his weight in Li Jiancheng's heart, and on the other hand, he also wants to increase his strength in the central court center! Li Jiancheng thought for a moment:

"Liu Xun! I'm ready for you! Li Jiancheng announced in the court that he intended to reopen the imperial examination, and the news spread throughout Chang'an City through the court, and the reactions of the major families were different. Even within the Guan Long family, there are many different attitudes towards the imperial examination. However, the Guan Long family did not dare to work against Li Jiancheng openly, everyone was waiting for others to come forward, and at the core of this whirlpool were the Dugu family represented by Li Yuan's mother family and the Dou family represented by Li Yuan's wife family and Li Jiancheng's mother family. Dugu Leping, the patriarch of the Dugu family, came to the mansion of his in-law, Dou Yan, who is also the patriarch of the Dou family:

"Brother Dou Yan, now the Holy One is going to reopen the imperial examination again, the former Sui Yang Guang offended our Guanlong family because of the imperial examination, and finally lost the world, and now, the Holy One wants to reopen the imperial examination. Isn't he afraid of losing the world again!? "It is Dugu Leping, the eldest patriarch of the Dugu family, who speaks, and the two families of the Dugu family and the Dou family are also the core families of the Guanlong clan. After the Guan Longshi clan heard that the imperial examination was going to be reopened, they realized that their advantages would disappear soon, so today Dugu Leping immediately came to Dou Yan of the Dou family to discuss what to do? After Dou Yan heard Dugu Leping's words, he immediately reprimanded Dugu Leping:

"Leping, you're a bit rebellious when you say this!" Dou Yan has been an official since Yang Jian of the former Sui Dynasty, and later went through Yang Guang, Li Yuan and now Li Jiancheng, Dou Yan has gone through four dynasties, and it can be said that he is an old minister of the four dynasties. also knows that from Yang Guang at the beginning to Li Jiancheng now, their purpose is to weaken the power of the bureaucrats of the world clan in order to achieve the goal of concentrating all power into their own hands. But is it useful to resist yourself? In order to avoid future disasters, after Dou Yan was established by Li Tang, he stayed at home for a long time in the name of cultivating immortals, and Dou Yan knew that the decline of the Guan Long family was absolutely impossible to avoid.

"Leping! In fact, what His Majesty did was not wrong, you know, the performance of the children of these families is really bad, I heard that a few days ago, someone actually fought with a few Hu merchants in the Orchid Restaurant, and our children were injured. It's so unbelievable! "A few days ago, the children of the Dugu family and the children of the Dou family got drunk in a orchid restaurant, provoking a Western Regions dancer, who knew that this Western Regions dancer was the daughter of the restaurant Hu Shang, in the dispute, several children of the Dugu family and the Dou family were seriously injured, and the people of Jingzhao Mansion detained all the Hu merchants, and the parents of the children of the Dugu family and the Dou family who participated in the fight were severely reprimanded by Li Jiancheng afterwards, and Dou Yan also reprimanded the children of the Dou family because of this matter:

"Humph! If you don't practice well, don't study hard, you just know how to fool around outside all day long, don't know that the sky is high and thick just because you are a royal relative. Dugu Leping listened awkwardly, knowing in his heart that Dou Yan was also reminding himself not to behave everywhere because of his identity:

"Brother Dou, the children of this family are arrogant, but if this imperial examination comes up, then at that time, the advantage of our Guanlong family will be gone, and there are only so many positions in this court, and then let those Eastern devils of Qilu and those Southern barbarians of Jingchu in Jiangnan come over, then our children will have no future." Dugu Leping is telling the truth, but it is also a lie. Nowadays, the Dugu family is not as good as the Dou family, on the one hand, the Dugu family is Li Yuan's mother, and now it is Li Jiancheng who sits in the world, and Li Jiancheng's biological mother is Queen Dou, so compared to the Dou family, the relationship between the Dugu family and Li Jiancheng is farther away, coupled with the Dugu Huai'en Rebellion and Dugu Xiude's murder of Wang Shichong, which makes Dugu Leping feel that his relationship with the Li Tang royal family is becoming more and more rusty, although Li Yuan is not dead, this Dugu family can still stand in the court for a while, but, who knows that once Li Yuan dies, How many days can the Dugu family bounce on Li Tang's court? And as soon as this imperial examination opened, not only did Qilu, Jing Chu, and those Eastern devils and Southern barbarians in Jiangnan grab jobs together, and, when Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty opened the branch to take scholars, he also recruited some mud legs into the court, although Dugu Leping is a military general, but also believes in the creed of the high-grade Wuhan Gate and the low-grade Wushi clan, originally in the court, standing with Wei Zheng, Li Ji, Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Biting Jin and others, Dugu Leping was already a little uncomfortable, when the time came, Standing together with some more mud legs in the court, Dugu Leping had goosebumps all over his body when he thought about it. Dou Yan naturally knew Dugu Leping's thoughts.

"Leping! You must know that this court is the emperor's court, and it is also the court of the people of the world, and the emperor is the lord of the world, so he naturally needs to cage all the talents in the world into his cuffs. Besides, the emperor hasn't fully announced it yet, in my opinion, only by urging the children in his family to practice martial arts and read and write is the right way! You must know that the emperor is not a person who can admit defeat casually! ”

"Humph! Even if the emperor is unwilling to admit defeat, we can't sit still! Besides, this matter of the court, persuading the Holy Lord to go on the right path, is also our duty as courtiers, no matter what the emperor says, he is our relative! Dou Yan heard the meaning of Dugu Leping's words, so he had to close his eyes and say nothing. Dugu Leping saw that Dou Yan didn't speak, and knew that Dou Yan was going to escape again, so he had to turn around and say goodbye.