Stare at......

Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and Li Shiyun felt a little like a man on their backs for a while.

Li Shiyun immediately got up and wanted to plead guilty, but was stopped by Li Shimin waving his hand:

"I know that Aiqing's hometown is Shandong, and I inevitably admire those who make money through marriage."

Wei Zheng is a native of Julu County, Fang Xuanling is from Linzi, and he is from Qinghe, and Li Shiqian is from Caozhou.

The faces of several courtiers became more solemn and cautious, and Li Shimin's smile became more and more kind:

"However, as Xuan Cheng said: The above, the example of the people, must not be careless."

It can only be clicked to the point, after all, if the courtiers have become in-laws, is it possible to re-dismantle them on the spot?

How can there be any reason to do this?

Besides, Li Shimin also saw it clearly: these so-called scholar surnames were as well-behaved as quails in Zhenguan, and the real trouble was behind.

How did this great surname of the scholar clan become strong?

Li Shimin's gaze scanned the text twice, and finally locked on two words:

Forbidden marriage, imperial examination.

"Everyone in the world proposes marriage to this forbidden family, so they can gather wealth."

"Poetry and book heirlooms are intensively studied in the imperial examination system, so that their generation can gather fame?"

Li Shimin made his own guess.

The courtiers who had just been ordered hurriedly shouted 666 to His Majesty:

"Everyone can hit the nail on the head with a word!"

"Your Majesty is discerning!"

"His Majesty Hexi inspected the overturn of the car, and should learn from this, this is the blessing of the Tang Dynasty!"

Glancing at Wei Zheng, who was holding his neck, Li Shimin shook his head, let him be.

He had a hunch, this Wei Zheng can be famous in the annals of history, won't it be because he is good at adding blockage to people, right?

While proposing to a woman with a big surname despite the emperor's wishes, he discouraged a woman with a big surname who was "beautiful" from being a concubine, although the starting point was good......

No, no, Li Shimin shook his head, it's all trivial.

"This redundancy is a drawback. Why? Emperor Tang threw out the question.

Wei Zheng immediately listed:

"Redundant officials are the chronic diseases of the former Han Dynasty, and if you want to get rid of this evil, it is better to get rid of it sooner rather than later."

Li Shimin nodded, and then turned his gaze to Fang Du on the other side.

Fang Xuanling came out and considered:

"Later generations called it too rash to call catching money a traitor, but catching money made it inevitable that the people of Shi Deguan would be profit-seeking."

"For the sake of my Tang people, the pursuit of profit is for the blessing of the people, and the pursuit of profit and selfishness is for the silverfish of the Tang Dynasty."

"And the policy of grace and shade says that I am extremely prosperous, it can be seen that later generations have suppressed it, and it should be to investigate the shortcomings of my Tang Enyin and change, and everyone needs to be aware of it."

It may seem troublesome to say, Du Ruhui concluded:

"Cutting money, changing grace and shade, and investigating old policies need to be changed at the same time."

Then he continued: "It is advisable to draw slowly."

nodded, and finally Li Shimin sighed and said:

"In a hundred years of prosperity, the number of the prosperous countries is only three hundred, what is it?"

"Isn't it really the accumulation of the Tang Dynasty?"

……

"The giant Tang Dynasty of Wanjiang has been in the country for two hundred and eighty-two years, which is a pity!"

Previously, Liu Bei's mentality was to watch the excitement, but now Liu Bei is really sorry for this Tang Dynasty.

After all, no matter how you look at it, it is not an exaggeration to say that this Tang is the brother dynasty of the Han.

Shangwu, eunuchs, relatives, etc., now that the redundant officials have come out, they are simply brothers, how can it be sighed?

The sigh is the right judgment:

"The scourge of this family's gate valves, how long has the poison flowed for a hundred years?"

"The concept of this family valve in the Tang Dynasty is especially better than my Han!"

Zhang Fei laughed loudly:

"Brother, after all, the ancestors of the family are princes and generals, and they can't farm and slaughter dogs like Qianshou."

"Then you can only shout loudly to sell your daughter to subsidize the family?"

Mi Zhu also agreed:

"This is self-esteem in the name of banning marriage, and its actions are quite similar to businessmen's methods, exchanging fame for wealth."

"And where is the highest rank in this sect?"

Pang Tong said bitterly:

"Gao is in a group of pretentious children with big surnames, and they actually rely on their sisters and daughters to get fine clothes and food?"

"Sucking the people outside, sucking sisters at home, sucking the monarch's father in the temple, and enriching his own family?"

"How is the behavior of his generation different from that of Jiangdong rats?"

Zhang Fei nodded again and again, only to feel that he had vividly seen the wonderful use of knowledge at this moment.

Pang Junshi is very knowledgeable, and his scolding has a unique flavor.

I don't know if the military advisor starts a fire, which is stronger or weaker than the "never seen such a brazen person" in later generations?

It's a pity that Kong Ming didn't satisfy Zhang Fei's curiosity, he picked up a pen and wrote down several official methods of the Tang Dynasty on the paper in front of him, and then pondered carefully.

The words "catching money" and "chajue" were crossed out in turn, and finally Kong Ming drew a circle on the word military merit after some consideration.

Then Kong Ming raised his head in anticipation, and he was now more and more interested in this imperial examination.

[As we all know, the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was not famous, and the scoring was not standardized at that time, and the personal likes and dislikes of the examiner could greatly affect the results of the imperial examination.

Therefore, the scholars with the surname who participated in the imperial examination quickly summed up an effective way:

Pitching, rowing, and warming.

First of all, bring valuable gifts to visit those powerful people who have more power to speak in the Kyoto area, and try to connect with others, this step is called surrender.

After knocking on the door of Jiadi Zhu, there is the second step: compile your previous proud works, or literary fu or poetry collections into a volume, if it is a big surname, you will also visit your father before this to ask him to polish the pen, and hand such a questionnaire to the powerful in order to leave a name for appreciation, this step is called Xingjuan.

Before the imperial examination, the person who succeeded in the scroll would also bring his own paper to the door again to enhance and consolidate the relationship, and ask for recommendation to make a name, this step is called Wenjuan.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, if the scholar's family was too powerful, the compiled scroll would be presented to the chief of the Ministry of Rites through an intermediary, which belonged to the highest-end Na Provincial volume.

And with these three plus steps, almost every step of the scholar family can easily open the gap with the Hanmen and the white body, so it is already predictable how the imperial examination will be in the end.

Among the 830 imperial examination scholars who left their names in the "Old Tang Book" and the "New Tang Book", there were 589 people with major surnames, 109 people with minor surnames, and only 132 people with white backgrounds.

And this proportional distribution is of course uneven, and several of the emperors are pulled out for comparison when they were in power:

Wutang recorded 55 Jinshi, of which 34 were scholars and 21 were white-bodied.

Tang Xuanzong recorded 132 Jinshi, of which 128 were from the scholar clan and 4 were from the Hanmen white body.

At first glance, it seems that this pot needs to be carried by An Lushan, but what was the situation at the time of Xuanzong? There are 30 recorded Jinshi, 27 of whom are of the Shi clan, and only 3 of whom are Hansu.

The most representative is the sixth year of Tianbao in the time of Xuanzong, at this time the Anshi Rebellion has not yet broken out, and the annals record that Li Longji "wants to seek the people of the world", and issued an edict to open a branch to take scholars.

Prime Minister Li Linfu said that the large-scale opening of the imperial examination will certainly be mixed, and there are fears that there will be people who are confused, and that the influx of lowly people into the capital in the name of the imperial examination is not conducive to public security, and it is recommended that the officials of the county and county first come to the local area to conduct a round of auditions, and only those who are outstanding can come to Beijing for the re-examination.

Li Linfu said very reasonably, so he obtained the right to run the whole thing, so in the end, the result of this imperial examination was that "there is no one who has a person in cloth", and he was all covered by the scholars.

Therefore, Li Linfu gave Xuanzong good news: no trace of the virtuous!

So the poet of Biansai was born, to put it bluntly, he was not willing to do so in Luoyang, Chang'an, and he could not break through the glass ceiling of the scholar clan through the "casting, traveling, and warming" of the scholars.

Among them, typical representatives such as Cen Shen of the Anxi Jiedu Shogunate, Gao Shi of the Hexi Jiedu Shogunate, and Wang Changling who made the Shogunate run between the Shogunate in the border prefectures.

And these are only famous for poetry, and more cronies such as An Lushan's strict and noble are all in Guanzhong Chang'an.

After defecting to An Lushan, only three years later, one served as the chief secretary and the other as the secretary, and finally "returned to his hometown in fine clothes" with the rebellious army.

Objectively speaking, the wind of the children of the scholar clan did promote the artistic and literary style of the society in the Tang Dynasty.

After all, if you want to roll out, the poems must be written beautifully, so the Tang Dynasty's prose and legal poems are also a must, and if they are well written and appreciated by the powerful, they will have everything in that day.

But at the same time, there was also a wind of competition and exaggeration in the society of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, in order to successfully get a solution, Wang Wei personally went to Princess Yuzhen's house to play the pipa, so he was appreciated and recommended by Princess Yuzhen.

Another person recommended by Princess Yuzhen is Li Bai, Li Bai also entered the eyes of Princess Yuzhen with a song "Yuzhen Immortal Words".

Another example is the big official Yu Di, who recorded in the old Tang Dynasty books that he openly amassed wealth, arbitrarily tortured and killed, and had a bad record in his life.

However, in order to succeed in the scroll, Wen Shenghan Yue wrote a gorgeous prose for Yu Di to praise Yu Di.

The ultimate consequence of the scroll was the style of the party, and the people who did the scroll at that time called the powerful people who were scrolled "the lord", and after the scroll was successful, they would be called the "protégés" of the powerful.

Another result of the scroll was that all the scholars gathered in Luoyang, Chang'an, and finally waited for the fallen literati, Huang Chao. 】

"Isn't this just a bribe!"

Zhang Fei scoffed.

For this simple and crude evaluation, Liu Bei Kongming was silent.

If it can be said that this line of scrolls is for appreciation, then as soon as the master and protégé of the latter come out, everyone will understand: the party colleagues are disagreeing.

Pang Tong simply and crudely came to a conclusion:

"This imperial examination, it seems that it must be famous."

"Otherwise, this imperial examination has not yet been examined, and the winner and loser have already been decided."

"Then what is the difference between this imperial examination and not? Abolishing the examination and looking at the background is just a change of name. ”

Kong Ming pondered for a moment, snapped his fingers and said:

"Handwriting, ink, and paper can all distinguish between a big surname and a cold element."

"Consider it from the best, set up an examination venue, supply paper and ink, and collect papers and paste names."

"It's more than that." Liu Ba also joined the discussion:

"The officer who is the examiner must also be separated from the official who examines the examination papers, and this is the case."

Zhang Song pinched his sparse beard and shook his head:

"People have likes and dislikes, and I also have arguments because of the opinions of various families, let alone writing into the test papers, and it is inevitable that the talents in the field will be missed because of the likes and dislikes of the people who mark the examination papers."

Pang Tong said with great interest:

"It's simple, you need to review a paper multiple times."

"But in this case...... Pang Tong counted with his fingers crossed:

"The venue, the materials, and the officials are innumerable, and it is really not easy to do this imperial examination well."

At the end of the light curtain, Zhang Fei also shook his head and sighed:

"The thief is better than Kyoto?"

"I don't know whether to say that Tang is more like Wei Jin this night, or if he copied our Han again."

The new month is full of vitality

(End of chapter)