Seeing the embarrassed expression on his fifth brother's face, Prince Li Jiancheng felt relieved for some reason. Even he himself couldn't explain why.
Even Li Shimin also found it interesting that the fifth brother was so absurd. Compared to the hateful old Si Yuanji, Zhiyun was really cute.
Li Yuanji even thinks that Li Zhiyun is a good brother. There is nothing he can do about it. Li Yuan usually calls him ridiculous. Look, look!
Who is the most ridiculous now?
Li Jiancheng coughed and came to the rescue for Li Zhiyun.
"Father, I think what my fifth brother said is very true. Now that the Tang Dynasty is about to dominate the world, it is time to change from conquering the world to governing the world. The fifth brother's improvement of printing technology is conducive to the civil administration of my father. He is really indispensable.
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His power is mainly concentrated in the court. If he wants to govern the world, the Qin Palace is no match for him.
Li Shimin also echoed: "What the prince said is true."
Li Yuan hummed and said: "Since your eldest and second brothers have excused you, I will not hold you responsible. But please remember that you are the King of Chu, not a top-notch novelist. You can't do this."
This is something that is degrading to one’s status, do you know that?”
Li Zhiyun sneered and said: "Father, although Er Chen wrote the story, he used a pseudonym, so others don't know it. Besides, Er Chen didn't write it himself, it was all ghostwritten by his subordinates."
Yes, the story of the lotus lantern was all dictated by him and written by Wei Siqi, Wei Zheng and others. Although Li Zhiyun also studied, his level of education was not as high as that of Wei Zheng and others. He did not know many words, which were acquired by Wei Zheng and others.
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Hearing this, the corner of Li Yuan's mouth twitched. This little bastard actually asked his staff to ghostwrite stories for him. It is simply unreasonable!
If he doesn't fight, the little bastard will cause him ridiculous things.
The prince and King Qin, who had always had a sullen face, couldn't help but smile.
Zhiyun, you are such a good boy.
Li Yuanji thought differently. He felt that he was inexplicably similar to his fifth brother. Because he also had many memorials written by ghostwriters.
"I don't allow you to write any more stories, do you hear me?" Li Yuan said angrily.
Li Zhiyun whispered: "The newspaper..."
"Whatever you want." Li Yuan waved his hand and reminded him, "You can write stories, but you are not allowed to write about political affairs on that paper. Do you understand?"
Foolish people, you understand.
"I understand." Li Zhiyun said: "Father, the improved printing technology will be sent to the palace later and handed over to the emperor for processing."
"Yeah." Li Yuan exhaled through his nostrils.
Originally, Li Zhiyun wanted to ask for a 'patent', but after thinking about it, he felt it was unnecessary. In the future, if anyone dares to develop in the newspaper industry, it will be either a distinguished person or a wealthy family, or ordinary businessmen who dare to step in and directly chop off their hands.
Besides, he is the largest group of nobles, who dares to steal his business?
Although there is a military law now, in this era, the military law only targets ordinary people. It is unrealistic to use the military law to punish big nobles and big families.
Li Yuan said: "Dugu Sheng, the Minister of Civil Service, mentioned the imperial examination recently. What do you think?"
What do you think?
Of course I ignore it!
Although the imperial examination is impressive, it was actually a bluff in the Tang Dynasty.
Those who can really become officials are either the children of distinguished nobles or the children of aristocratic families. It is too difficult and almost impossible for ordinary people to pass the examination and get a position.
Those who really like the imperial examination are 'scholars from poor families'.
Scholars from poor families do not mean ordinary people, but children from down-and-out aristocratic families. These people are not valued in the family and have no one to help them gain connections. They can only become minor officials through the imperial examination.
What's more, although the original intention of establishing the imperial examination in the former Sui Dynasty was to promote scholars from poor families, it has now evolved into competition within aristocratic families.
There are only so many positions in the imperial court. Everyone wants to have a good relationship and it's hard to balance them, so let's compare them.
It can be said that the imperial examinations in the early Tang Dynasty were imperial examinations for the children of aristocratic families and nobles.
Nonetheless, this is an opportunity to win over people.
Better than nothing.
Think about it, among the famous officials in the early Tang Dynasty, who came out of the imperial examination?
Very few!
There is no way, the people who hold the power to interpret knowledge now are Shandong aristocratic families. These aristocratic families have deep collections of books, rich family knowledge, and are famous in the world.
Often, questioning a noble family means offending a large number of officials. This is because these officials probably studied under that noble family when they were young.
If nothing else, let’s talk about Bingzhou. There is a Wang family from Taiyuan and a Pei family from Wenxi. How many scholars from Bingzhou studied in these two families?
These scholars will be successful in the future and become officials. Who do they have feelings for?
Family!
Therefore, it is the same reason why the emperor and the aristocratic families rule the world together. Why Lao Li deliberately tried to win over the aristocratic families is also the same reason.
Why can't Li Mi afford failure?
Because he has no family support behind him, when he loses, local officials all have their own evil intentions.
Why are there so many young men under Wang Shichong?
Or because there is no aristocratic family to support him.
It is easy to seize a territory, but it is not easy to stabilize a territory. Most of the people who master knowledge come from various aristocratic families. Only by winning over aristocratic families can the territory be completely turned into one's own, and the local officials can be treated as their own.
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These aristocratic families are like small countries, dotted all over the Central Plains. They may not have armed forces, but there are too many officials related to them.
The reason why Li Tang was able to win Bingzhou, Guanzhong, Central Plains, Bashu, and some Hebei areas so quickly and stabilize them was because the big families in these areas supported Li Tang.
The Wang family of Taiyuan in Bingzhou, the Pei family of Wenxi, the Lu family of Fanyang in Hebei, the Zheng family of Xingyang in the Central Plains, etc.
Not to mention Guanzhong, the home base of the Guanlong family.
When Dugu Sheng, the Minister of Civil Service, brought up the imperial examination, he most likely wanted to give the younger members of his family a backdoor.
Everyone knows it.
Then, the prince and King Qin quarreled again.
No way, this is an opportunity to get close to the Guanlong family. Li Jiancheng doesn't want Li Shimin to continue to kiss each other with the Guanlong family, and Li Shimin doesn't want Li Jiancheng to win over the Guanlong family.
As for Li Zhiyun, he naturally played with one-two-three wooden figures.
This kind of thing is definitely not his fault.
More importantly, even if he could grab this job, it would be difficult. He has no close friends in Guanlong, and it would be difficult to divide the cake.
The most suitable person is definitely the King of Qin, because Dou is his loyal Ma Zai younger brother, and he has a good relationship with the Dugu family. With these two families supporting him in sharing the cake, the other Guanlong families will definitely not question it.
"That's enough!" Li Yuan stopped his two quarreling sons, "Don't you think I'm not bothered enough by arguing all day long?"
You asked for it. Li Zhiyun complained silently in his heart.
The prince and King Qin quickly bowed their heads.
Li Yuan snorted: "Let Dugu Sheng handle this matter by himself, and you all should stop interfering."
"Yes." Li Shimin said reluctantly.
For him, if he can get this opportunity, he can also recruit many outstanding children of the Guanlong family, and then win over more Guanlong families.
pity!
Li Jiancheng, on the other hand, was a little happy. As long as King Qin could not succeed, he would be happy.
As for Li Yuan, he actually wanted to change the imperial examination, but the problem was that he couldn't do it. The reason is very simple. He now has to cooperate well with the aristocratic families.
If the imperial examinations are used to promote poor people and make the aristocratic family unhappy, those idiots will probably hide all the talented people.
Don't question it, those dogs really dare to do this.
They have money, land, food and clothing, and they don't care about that at all.
During the Northern Dynasty, when it was the most chaotic period, several major families north of the river had no idea how many fields and people they hid.
At this moment, the chamberlain Li Zhong suddenly came in a hurry.