Li Shimin was very supportive of this approach, and in order to encourage these monks, Li Shimin held a Dharma meeting in Chang'an City and rewarded these monks with a lot of things.

With the support of the imperial court, a large number of monks and Taoist priests began to go to the frontier and barbarian lands.

These monks and Taoist priests were issued by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty with royal documents, and if these monks and Taoist priests were threatened elsewhere, they could use the royal documents to ask for help from nearby garrisons.

Li Shimin had already ordered that the frontier garrison should protect the safety of these monks and Taoist priests, and not allow the Hu people and barbarians to kill them.

Even Wang Xuanjing was worried that these monks and Taoists did not know how to spread their beliefs, how to make those Saiwaihu people and barbarians believe in them, and specially held a training.

Needless to say, some tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts, these are just small Taoist ears, most monks and Taoists know about it, and even many people can.

In addition to these, the imperial court began to train them in the ability to survive in the wild, and began to teach them simple medical skills, farming techniques, and breeding techniques, although they were not very proficient, but they had to learn.

At that time, they can completely rely on medical skills, farming or breeding techniques to gain the trust of the Hu people and barbarians.

Of course, this is not to directly let them teach those barbarians techniques, but to let them package these and use their tricks to pretend to be ghosts.

With the help of religious demonstrations, those Hu people and barbarians believe that they have extraordinary divine powers.

When he first knew Wang Xuanjing's plan, Li Shimin was shocked by his operation.

He couldn't understand how Wang Xuanjing, a son of a high-ranking family, could be so proficient in these deceptive tricks. In fact, these things were summed up when Wang's overseas development was carried out.

When the Wang clan was exploring overseas, because they encountered many indigenous tribes with almost no civilization, they had no etiquette at all, and it was difficult to communicate, but once they used religion and gods to communicate with them, the effect would become particularly good.

After seeing this situation, Wang deliberately studied a large number of missionary methods and various tricks.

These things have developed very well among those culturally and backward indigenous tribes.

Now Wang has taught some of them to these monks. After Wang's refinement and summarization, the method of preaching is much more advanced than that of their own sect.

After some training, the eyes of those monks and Taoists who looked at Wang Xuanjing changed, and that look seemed to say, as the prime minister of the imperial court, how can you be more proficient in developing believers than us?

At the same time, this training also completely wiped out the unconvincing in the hearts of those monks and Taoists. With such a prime minister who is proficient in preaching methods, these monks and Taoists should not think about developing again.

People will find your bottom clearly, and as soon as you do it, they will know what you are going to do. How can this fight?

Therefore, these people completely lost the mind to fight in the Tang Dynasty, and could only honestly go to the frontier Hu people and barbarian lands under the orders of the imperial court.

After the promotion of the imperial court, the missionary monks and Taoist priests, and at the same time the protection of the frontier garrison, it did not take long for these people to begin to take root in those barbarian lands.

Next, the imperial court imposed strict restrictions on the monks and Taoists who stayed in the Central Plains, and Wang Xuanjing specially wrote a letter "Religious Affairs Management Notes".

It stipulates the code of conduct for monks and Taoists, and violating these prohibitions is punishable.

At the same time, it emphasized the need for monks and Taoists to be loyal and patriotic.

These monks and Taoists can't let them be idle, what's the use of eating fasting and reciting Buddha? Wang Xuanjing asked Li Shimin to set up martyrs' shrines in Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in various places.

For those who sacrificed for the country, they should be enshrined in the martyrs' shrine to enjoy incense.

Temples and Taoist temples in various places must add martyrs' shrines. At the same time, the imperial court will also set up an official martyr's shrine.

After sacrificing to the Heaven and Earth Temple every year, you have to go to the Martyrs' Shrine to make sacrifices.

Because many temples occupy a vast area, after the removal of a large number of monks, many temple houses were vacant, and these houses were of good quality, so the imperial court converted some of the vacated temples into academies.

Datang, like the previous dynasty, also established Guozijian, Taixue, and academies, and colleges were also established in various counties. These academies were converted from the empty houses of the temple.

There are also some small temples or those that are not suitable for change, and they are assigned to the surrounding people.

Li Shimin communicated with Wang Xuanjing, and he always wanted to implement the imperial examination system.

Wang Xuanjing still agrees with the imperial examination system pioneered by Yang Jian, although this imperial examination system is not vague, the number of admissions is small, and there are various shortcomings.

However, this imperial examination system is still more advanced than the previous examination system.

After thousands of years of development, the probationary system has become less and less effective.

In many cases, the probation system has become an ornament, and it cannot be used for the country.

As soon as the imperial examination system appeared, the Wang family discovered the benefits of this system, and whether they had the talent to learn or not, they would know it after the examination. Although the examination cannot test all talents, it is possible to select a large number of talents.

Wang Xuanjing was supportive of the imperial examination system.

During the pre-Sui period, the number of people admitted to the imperial examination system at a time was very small, and the threshold was also very high, and this time Wang Xuanjing was ready to expand the number.

Increase the number of people who take the imperial examination and increase the number of people who pass.

The imperial examination in the pre-Sui period was almost an open-book examination, and Wang Xuanjing naturally did not plan to open the book this time, but implemented a closed-book examination.

Candidates' test papers also need to be named, and after the review is completed, the test papers will be disassembled and viewed to be as fair as possible.

It's just that as soon as the imperial examination system was proposed, it was opposed by many people. The family gate valve is very unhappy with the imperial examination system.

You must know that if they wanted to be officials in the past, they only needed to find relatives and friends to recommend them, and after the imperial examination, if they wanted to be officials, they had to take the exam, and they also took the exam with those poor families and civilians.

In fact, in the imperial examination system, from the very beginning, ninety percent of the scholars admitted were children of the family. Because in this era, knowledge is still in a semi-monopoly state.

How could those poor scholars and commoners be able to read and read those children of the family.

It is only after the development of the imperial examination system for one or two hundred years that the children of the poor and the common people will have the upper hand little by little.

Even if those family lords were very reluctant in their hearts, but after facing Li Shimin, they had to bow their heads, after all, this was an immediate emperor, if he really fought against him, he would definitely not be soft if he killed.

On the other hand, they also understand that they have an absolute advantage in the current imperial examination.

Therefore, at Li Shimin's insistence, the imperial examination system was still passed.

(End of chapter)