Chapter 336: The Rise of the Cold Gate
Historically, emperors and commoners were the most natural allies, because they had their common enemy, the aristocracy. The aristocracy has always considered only their own interests, and has been desperate to enlarge their interests. They can coerce the emperor and threaten the emperor's throne upwards, and they can exploit the people and annex the people's land downwards. Therefore, the emperor has a deep wariness of the aristocracy, and in order to maintain his rule, he must suppress the aristocracy, consider and take care of the interests of the common people, and the suffering that the common people can feel, the most direct harm is the greedy nobles and corrupt officials from the major nobles. Historically, the people were the most looking forward to the Ming monarch, and once the Ming monarch was in power, he would inevitably suppress the aristocracy and safeguard the interests of the large number of ordinary people to consolidate his rule.
In fact, Li Xuan has his own plan in his heart. According to the law of development of history and society, that is, the development of history and society is a gradual process, and any society has its own material and social basis for existence. Anyone who vainly attempts to act in a way that does not act in accordance with the laws of history and social development, and vainly attempts to enter a relatively advanced society all at once, will inevitably be retaliated against by history and society as a whole, and will ultimately end in failure. The same is true of Chinese society. Whether it is the transformation of primitive society into a slave society, or the transformation of a slave society into a feudal society, or the transformation of feudal society into a capitalist society and a socialist society in later generations, they will inevitably undergo a great change and an unusually bloody war. Li Xuan did not like war, he wanted to gradually change the entire Datang society in a relatively mild way, so that the Datang society gradually had the economic, material and social foundation for the transformation to a more advanced society. Throughout history, power is gradually moving downward, before the Qin Dynasty Shang Dynasty changed the law, power was in the hands of the emperor alone, Zhou Tianzi is not only the son of heaven of the whole country, but also the patriarch of the entire Chinese nation. has supreme power, no one dares to infringe on it; In the pre-Qin period, after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, a situation was formed in which the emperor and the nobles jointly controlled the situation, the nobles supported the emperor, and the emperor gave the nobles fiefs, gradually forming the prototype of feudal society; By the time of the Tang Dynasty, feudalism had reached its peak, and with the rise of the imperial examination system, the vast number of children from the poor had more opportunities to contact power. participated in the governance of the country, forming a situation in which the emperor, nobles, and outstanding talents from poor families controlled power together; It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that a large number of ordinary people began to gradually awaken, but they tried to contact and control power, and finally formed a capitalist society and a socialist society in which ordinary people could participate in and discuss politics. There are two deepest reasons for the transformation of the social system and the awakening of the common people: one is the innovation of technology. Economic development, and the other is the popularization of knowledge, and more people have the ability to access, control, and use power. And Li Xuan, as a descendant of the world, understands best. The importance of education and the importance of universal knowledge. From the moment he invented movable type printing, he intended to awaken the people and innovate technology through the popularization of knowledge. And then promote the development of the entire Datang society and Datang system.
Not long after movable type printing was popularized and spread by the Tang Dynasty, all the people of the Tang Dynasty could easily obtain books, listen to and learn the way of the sages. Li Xuan contributed "Persuasion Poems" to the Tang Emperor Li Shimin:
Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of millets in the book.
There is no need to raise a hall to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book.
Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book.
Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book.
If a boy follows his life's aspirations, he reads the Six Classics to the window.
The Tang Emperor Li Shimin liked this poem very much, and this poem would encourage the people of the Tang Dynasty to send their children to the school to cultivate talents for the future use of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Li Shimin immediately agreed, and issued an edict to be immediately promulgated throughout the country through movable type printing.
This poem was written by Zhao Heng, Song Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. It shows that only reading to seek fame is the best way out in life, once you become famous by reading, wealth, beauty, status will be obtained, and ideals and ambitions will also be realized. This poem is very utilitarian, but it is simple and easy to understand, and it is most easily accepted by ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Xuan is looking forward to the popularization of Datang knowledge, and everyone in Datang wants to learn, because Li Xuan knows deeply in his heart that only the most ordinary ordinary people are the creators and changers of history, and they are the most important driving force for the progress of the whole society and the development of civilization.
With the popularization and dissemination of movable type printing, the talents among the people of the Tang Dynasty will gradually move to the Tang Dynasty and the center of power in the Tang Dynasty through the imperial examination. These talents are different from the children of the major wealthy families, and their families are far from the major wealthy families, which can be described as a poor family. Their participation in and discussion of politics will inject new blood into the entire Tang Dynasty, expand and consolidate the ruling foundation of the Tang Dynasty society, change the situation in which the major wealthy families monopolize the government and politics, and play a role in restraining and balancing the major wealthy families. And this is the first step that Li Xuan has to do, after that, the majority of the children of the poor will inevitably protect the interests of the common people at the bottom, because that is their only and strong supporter, and the second step that Li Xuan has to do is to wake up the lowest and the broadest masses of the people together with the vast number of children of the poor family who have entered the Tang Dynasty, so as to promote the development of the entire Tang Dynasty society, and then promote the rapid economic and technological development of the entire society, so as to achieve the goal of returning to the next generation.
In Taiji Palace, Tang Emperor Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and fell into deep thought.
The scenes of his contact with Li Xuan at the meeting, Li Shimin felt that Li Xuan had his own plan, but everything Li Xuan did now was beneficial to Datang, so that he couldn't see clearly what Li Xuan was planning, Li Xuan was too smart and too mysterious, which made the Tang Emperor Li Shimin dare not relax his vigilance and vigilance against Li Xuan. Li Xuan, if you use it well, it will be of great benefit to Datang, and if you don't use it well, it will be of great harm to Datang.
Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, is the residence of Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling was also pacing back and forth in the study, thinking about Li Xuan's every move and the meaning behind Li Xuan's movements. Other ministers can ignore Li Xuan's mysterious actions, as the head of the ministers, Fang Xuanling, the right-hand man of the Tang Emperor, will not ignore it no matter what. Li Xuan's every action, every suggestion, passed through Fang Xuanling's mind one by one, after some thought, he didn't guess what the plan behind Li Xuan's actions was, he also felt that everything Li Xuan did was beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, he, like the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, wanted to wait and see what happened, and then take a look to see what kind of plan Li Xuan had and what Li Xuan wanted to do. (To be continued......)
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