The crown prince wanted to find some professionals in Guozijian and Taixue, so that they could assist Sun Simiao in revising, supplementing, and standardizing medical works. This matter has long been spread among the scholars of Chang'an. Therefore, when Li Hong went to Guozijian with Zhang Cambodia and Li Qiao, the Guozijian, which had a dull atmosphere in the past, also became boiling today. Because today's students who are studying in Guozijian and Taixue are here, not to mention, there are many people who want to prepare for the prince to enter the country, and they are ready to show their talents and let themselves be favored by the prince.

Academic institutions such as Guozijian and Taixue are under the management of the Ministry of Rites, and in addition to Zhang Khan Zhi and Li Qiao, who accompanied Li Hong to Guozijian, there was naturally Liu Xiangdao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Li Hong and his entourage arrived at the gate of the Guozijian, and Xiao Yuanwen, the priest of the Guozijian, and the teachings of the Guozijian all came to the door to greet him. When everyone saw His Royal Highness the Prince, they hurriedly saluted Li Hong, Li Hong signaled slightly, and stepped into the Guozijian under the support of everyone.

"You say, does the prince come to the country today for any other purpose?" One of the gentlemen asked.

"Naturally, the prince personally went to the country to select talents, how could it be so simple?" Another man answered.

"What a pity! I heard that the crown prince has been suffering from a stubborn illness since he was a child, and his body is weak, and he lives in the East Palace all the year round to recuperate...", and many people began to discuss.

In fact, there are so many people who come to read today, and many of them come to see the crown prince Li Hong, wanting to see what this prince's Royal Highness who lives in the East Palace and is riddled with stubborn illnesses all the year round looks like? Doesn't it look like a sick seedling?

As soon as Li Hong stepped into the door of Guozijian, he had already heard such discussions, but he didn't care, because through Sun Simiao's healing, as well as his diligent cultivation of the mantra of breathing and breathing, his illness had been slowly cured, and he believed that it would not take half a year for his stubborn illness to be completely cured. Since his stubborn illness is about to be cured, he doesn't mind everyone talking about it like this.

Li Hong and his entourage walked to the square of Guozijian and stopped, thousands of students in the square saluted him, he slightly signaled everyone to be quiet, and then he said, "Everyone, I went to Guozijian today to select talented people, one is to assist Sun Zhenren in revising, supplementing and standardizing medical works, Kuang Shi Wanmin, blessing future generations, and the two Tang Dynasty select good talents, serve the country, and benefit the people. ”

Speaking of this, Li Hong's eyes swept over the thousands of students in front of him, and continued, "Therefore, if you are talented, you don't care about your background and birth origin... Recommend you as an official, and let you enter the Zhongshu Gate, the Six Yamen, and the East Palace Chongwen Museum. ”

Li Hong's sentence was specially said for scholars from poor families.

After speaking, he handed over the task of selecting professionals to Zhang Cambodia and Li Hong, and he himself was invited to the main hall to rest by the priest of the country.

"Xiao Saijiu, when you go to the country today, do you have anyone to recommend?" After taking a sip of tea, Li Hong asked Xiao Yuanwen, the priest of the country, who was accompanying him.

"There are no talented people..."Xiao Yuanwen shook his head and said, "However, there are a few people who are written in the article, but Your Highness wants to see them?" ”

Xiao Yuanwen is a representative figure in the Jiangnan scribe group and one of the most learned people in the Tang Dynasty. As the sacrificial wine of the country's eunuch, he said that there are no talented people, and Li Hong does not doubt it. It's just that if you can't see the pearls and find a few people to go back to the East Palace, it's too shabby, right? said lightly, "Then Xiao Sacrificial Wine will introduce them to Lone." ”

Xiao Yuanwen did not answer Li Hong immediately, but nodded to an edict beside him, and the edict handed a scientific name to Xiao Yuanwen, Xiao Yuanwen handed the roster to Li Hong and said, "Your Highness, this is a record of the outstanding students of Guozijian, Taixue and various academies in recent years, please take a look." ”

As the highest academic institution in the Tang Dynasty, it is the duty of the Guozijian to record the students who are outstanding in terms of articles and resignations every day, so that the imperial court can check them when selecting talents.

The nouns are not thick, there are not many names registered on it, about three or four hundred people, and the introduction is also very simple, Li Hong turned the first few pages and did not find that he affected the talented people, all of them were some unfamiliar names, he felt a little boring, and was about to give up, when suddenly a name came into view, which made his eyes light up - Liu Yizhi.

Didn't expect this person to be here? When Li Hong saw Liu Yizhi's name, a faint smile appeared on his cold face just now. No one knows what the name Liu Yizhi represents, but Li Hong knows very well that in another year, Empress Wu will find that the cronies around her who have fought hard for her to become the queen have been slowly eliminated, so she re-established a new force as a tool for her to control the government. She found a group of talented scholars from the left and right histories and writings. This group of literati scholars was allowed to enter and exit the forbidden middle school from Xuanwu Gate, and the people of the time called them "North Gate Scholars".

After the Empress Wu summoned these article masters into the ban "in the name of revision", in addition to compiling a number of works signed in the name of the Empress Wu, such as "The Biography of the Daughters", "The Minister's Track", "The New Commandment of the Bureaucracy", "The Book of Music", "Shaoyang Zhengfan" and so on. The "Bachelors of the North Gate" were nominally writing works, but in fact they became a think tank, and the Empress Wu secretly ordered them to participate in the government and politics, "to share the power of the prime minister". And the think tank team composed of these "North Gate Scholars" has made a great contribution to creating public opinion and making up her mind after the martial arts. So that in the following 20 years, Empress Wu not only sat firmly in the position of the queen, but after the death of Gaozong, she came to the dynasty to weigh the system, and gradually caused the situation of changing the Tang Dynasty to the Zhou, which was inseparable from the "North Gate Bachelor".

Empress Wu was called the emperor, and most of them were promoted to third- and fourth-grade high-ranking officials, among which Fan Lubing and Liu Yizhi were also prime ministers, and they were also reused for a long time.

Moreover, Li Hong also knew that the "Bachelor of the North Gate" not only helped Empress Wu to divide and reduce the imperial power and relative power, but also made a lot of good strategies for Empress Wu in terms of relevant government affairs. That is, Gaozong was called the Emperor of Heaven, and soon after Wu Zetian ascended to the queen of heaven, she put forward a political program for governing the country with the assistance of the "North Gate Scholar": "Twelve Things of Advice". Its contents are: (1) persuading farmers and mulberries, and giving them a thin fortune; (2) to the three auxiliary land; (3) Rest the army and moralize the world; (4) North-south and central schools are still forbidden to be fancy; (5) Labor-saving labor; (6) Guangyan Road; (7) Du slander; (8) The prince descended to study "Lao Tzu"; (9) The father has been mourning for the mother for three years; (10) The former lord of the Yuan Dynasty has given the person who has been sued and has not been reviewed; (11) Jingguan eight grades or above; (12) Hundreds of officials have been in office for a long time, and those who are in high positions have to be advanced.

Therefore, Li Hong admires the bachelors of the North Gate very much, especially Liu Yizhi and Fan Lubing.

Now that Liu Yiwei is still just a teacher of the Guozijian, and he has not been recognized by the Empress Wuhui, Li Hong naturally doesn't want to let him go, so he said to Xiao Yuanwen, "This Liu Yizhi is still in the Guozijian?" ”

"It's still there." Xiao Yuanwen replied, "His Royal Highness wants to see him, so the old man will send someone to pass on him." ”

Li Hong nodded slightly, put down the roster and stopped reading.

Because Liu Yizhi was able to become the prime minister under Empress Wu, it is enough to show that he is talented, and he was forced to be killed by Empress Wu because he persuaded Empress Wu to return to power in Li Tang, which shows his loyalty to the Li Tang royal family. Such a person is already very lucky to be able to meet Li Hong today, what else does Li Hong want to ask for!

At this moment, a priest hurriedly walked into the main hall, he bowed to Li Hong slightly, and then glanced at Xiao Yuanwen and stopped. Xiao Yuanwen saw that this teacher dared to hide in front of the prince, didn't this make the prince suspect that he was hiding something from him? He yelled, "In front of His Royal Highness the Prince, what can't you say?" What are you doing—"

This teacher was reprimanded by Xiao Yuanwen, so he could only bow his head and say respectfully, "Your Highness, Xiao Xijiu, just now Hu Cao of the Zhou Wangfu joined the army Fan Lubing came, and wanted Xiao Xijiu to write a song for King Zhou..."

Before the words of this sect were finished, Li Hong had already opened his mouth and asked, "What did you just say?" You repeat? Fan Lubing..."

Fan Lubing!

When Li Hong heard this name, he immediately thought of Fan Lubing, who was the prime minister of the martial arts queen with Liu Yi in the "North Gate Bachelor". Although he didn't know if the two were the same person, since they had the same name and were in Guozijian, he didn't mind meeting this person.

Fan Lubing was a Jinshi of Tang Gaozu Wude for six years, and when he was the prime minister, he was loyal and outspoken, and he was not afraid of power. When he knew that Empress Wu wanted to usurp Li Tang's world, he was anxious, so he wrote to Ruizong Li Dan and said, "Relatives and friends, far villains, the blessing of this country." He also advocated the appointment of meritocracy and the dismissal of corrupt officials, which was a policy for enriching and strengthening the army. But Li Dan didn't accept it. In the first year of Yongchang, Fan Lubing wrote to admonish him again, and the Empress Wu was furious, so he sat down against the people, and arrested Fan Lubing and was imprisoned on the Ding Mao day of October.

A generation of pillars of the minister, innocent and suffering, was cut off by the Empress Wu in this way!

When this teacher was asked by Li Hong like this, he was nervously speechless.

Xiao Yuanwen heard it very clearly, although he didn't know why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had such a big reaction when he heard that Hu Cao from the Zhou Palace's Mansion had joined the army, he still replied for this teaching, "Your Highness, there is indeed a Hu Cao in the Zhou Palace's army named Fan Lubing, who has asked his ministers for songs and poems many times. ”

"Let him in, there is something to ask him." Li Hong said to Xiao Yuanwen. Fan Lubing is the prime minister's talent, and whether this Fan Lubing is the "North Gate Bachelor" Fan Lubing, as long as he tries it, he will know?

If you really want to be the "North Gate Bachelor" Fan Lubing, then it will be worthwhile for me to make this trip today, because this is a sudden digging of the two corners of the martial arts!

Although Xiao Yuanwen, the priest of the country, didn't know what the prince wanted to ask Fan Lubing, but thinking that the prince was the brother of King Zhou, he asked Fan Lubing a question, probably about some of the situation of the Zhou Palace, out of concern for the King of Zhou! Xiao Yuanwen is like this, and he doesn't talk anymore.

When the priest heard the prince's order, he immediately took the order and strode out of the main hall.