If there was another choice, Li Mao would never sit still in Guanzhong.

Long before the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, the Guanzhong region had the reputation of the land of abundance.

However, after the Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong area was destroyed by agricultural production technology three times.

One was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Wang Mang usurped Khan, and the Green Forest Army and the Red Mei Army fought bloody battles in Chang'an, which caused a sharp decline in population and serious damage to agricultural production.

The second time was at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Chang'an became the main battlefield for the princes everywhere, and Dong Zhuo burned Chang'an City again, which also caused the population to drop sharply again.

The third time was during the Wuhu Rebellion, when those Hu people ate two-legged sheep when they were hungry, causing a large number of ordinary people to flee south, and the population of Guanzhong area dropped sharply again.

Until the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong wanted to change the decline of Guanzhong, and spent a lot of effort to repair Zhengguo Canal and Sanbai Canal.

But in the end, after the restoration was completed, the irrigated farmland was less than half of that of the Qin and Han dynasties.

With the population growth in recent years, the Guanzhong region is no longer self-sufficient in food.

Now.

The top priority in front of Li Mao, in addition to conquering the four major towns in Guanzhong, the most important thing is to ensure the rations of the people in the jurisdiction.

If it weren't for the system to let him hold Guanzhong, Li Mao would have planned to go to the land of Bashu.

"Needless to say, just do what I want! Tomorrow you will make the edict and give it to the celebrant to seal it, and then it will be made clear to the world. ”

Li Mao said very firmly.

I can't save my life, where can I take care of the chaos in the world?

Even if there are separatist forces everywhere at that time, Li Mao is not afraid.

Anyway, he has made preparations to destroy the world and rebuild it.

The old does not go, the new does not come.

Throughout the Tang Dynasty, the power of local wealthy families was still strong, and the five surnames and seven wangs had always occupied more than half of the official positions in the court.

In history, it was not until after the Huangchao rebellion that the power of the family gradually died out.

Although there were many reasons for the fall of the Tang Dynasty, many historians believe that the Niu Li Party Struggle had the greatest impact.

The Niu Li party struggle is completely a game between the gate lord forces and the poor scholars in the court.

This game lasted for nearly 40 years, so that the central court was completely paralyzed, and even Tang Wenzong at that time issued a sigh: It is easy to go to Hebei and it is difficult to go to the party in the DPRK.

Throughout the Kaiyuan period, there were almost no poor scholars among the ministers of the court.

The main reason is that the imperial examination adopts the system of not obscuring names.

Whether a scholar can pass the exam or not, the examiner mainly relies on the candidate's fame and reputation on weekdays to judge.

There was a word that was popular at the time, and that was "row rolls".

Specifically, before the imperial examination, those who want to participate in the scientific examination must first give their works to the powerful, important ministers, and celebrities, and use their hands to market their fame and pave the way for the imperial examination.

The poet Buddha Wang Wei was recommended by King Qi in order to be admitted to the Jinshi in the year of the weak crown.

Han Yu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, failed to pass the exam three times, and when he was recommended by Zheng Yuqing, the prime minister, he became a high school jinshi in one fell swoop.

As for Li Bai, he was more miserable, and he was not even qualified to participate in the imperial examination.

He tossed around Chang'an City all day long, firstly, to find important ministers to guarantee the qualification to participate in the imperial examination, and secondly, to go straight to Tianting and directly obtain the qualification to enter the office.

Although this can also select some talented people, more often than not, it gives the examiner the opportunity to operate in the dark.

After all, since ancient times, there is no first, and no one is sure that one of the two articles will be better, so it becomes the examiner's final say.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, the people of the gate lord clan still lived in the temple, so most of the people who came out of the imperial examination came from local wealthy families.

After the Anshi Rebellion, with the lack of talents in the imperial court, scholars from poor families climbed to high positions step by step, and naturally admitted scholars from poor families in the imperial examination.

This makes people from wealthy families unacceptable.

So this is also the reason why there has always been party strife throughout the Tang Dynasty later.

Thinking of this, Li Mao became even more determined to destroy the world and rebuild.

"Did you write down what I said?"

"The ministers have written it down."

Li Linfu and Xiao Song answered at the same time.

At this time.

The moon is already hanging high.

Just as they were about to pack up their pen and ink, Li Mao continued to speak.

"I also plan to reform the imperial examination system."

"The current system is not fair to the candidates."

"I plan to hold a imperial examination at the beginning of spring in March next year."

"In this exam, all the test papers are all named, and in order to prevent the examiner from identifying the candidates through the notes, I will ask the celebrant to arrange for someone to copy them down and then arrange for grading."

As soon as this statement came out.

Li Linfu's heart suddenly tightened.

In an instant, he understood that the emperor wanted to fight with the family.

The implementation of such a imperial examination system almost cut off the foundation of the family in the court.

Although Li Linfu was born in the royal family, he was already broken by his generation.

He thought that he could climb to the position of prime minister without the slightest hint of family power.

Therefore, Li Linfu has no intention of opposing this policy.

Anyway, the emperor doesn't listen to persuasion, and the whole world belongs to the emperor, and the emperor can toss as much as he wants.

At this time, Li Linfu was thinking about retreating again.

Xiao Song is different.

His ancestors also had emperors, and now the family is still huge, known as the Lanling Xiao family.

Like the five surnames and seven wangs, it belongs to the top gate valve of Datang.

Xiao Song came to Li Mao so early to bet on both ends of the family.

Now, Li Mao wants to dig up the roots of the family, and Xiao Song naturally won't agree.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the imperial examination system cannot be changed without authorization, and this is a policy to disrupt the government."

"The establishment of a province can also win the support of some scholars, but as soon as the imperial examination reform system comes out, the hearts of the people in the world will be attributed to the Luoyang puppet emperor!"

After speaking, Xiao Song knelt on the ground.

Hum!

Li Mao sneered in her heart.

Knowing what Xiao Song meant, as long as the imperial examination system was reformed, the Lanling Xiao clan would give full support to Li Longji in Chang'an.

But is Li Mao afraid?

He wasn't afraid at all.

This world is no longer the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Although the gate lords still live in the temple, the Tang Dynasty has dominated the world for more than a hundred years, and the newborn nobles have long been dissatisfied with their political status.

As long as there is an opportunity, there will definitely be people who will jump out to support the establishment of the province so that they can gain power.

An Lushan, a Hu person, why can he lead 200,000 soldiers and horses to rebel?

It is precisely because of the support of local forces in Hebei.

Li Mao didn't believe that those new families that had developed in the past hundred years would be satisfied with their current political status.

All the policies that come out now are just to provoke the contradiction between the new family and the top gate valve.

After letting them dog-bite each other, Li Mao finally stood up and reaped the benefits of the fisherman.