If you really want to calculate this account, it is actually very simple.
Although after Li Er came to power, he promulgated the imperial examination system, and scholars all over the world were excited and celebrating.
But even so, the content of the exam generally does not follow the Confucian classics of the Four Books and Five Classics, otherwise...
Otherwise, apart from this, there won’t be much that can be tested.
What's more, during this period of military power, although Li Er was very skilful, he was actually quite vigilant. Unless his family was clean and no one had committed any crime for several generations, and the investigation was correct, even though there was a military examination, it would not be possible.
Definitely not something that everyone can refer to.
But before, people like Qin Ruochan, Cheng Chumo, and Xiao Rui were all nobles, so they rarely felt the resistance.
But in fact it was not that simple. In Li Sheng's memory, Li Er initially began to suspect that Hou Junji had evil intentions. The reason for the rift between the emperor and his ministers was Hou Junji's enthusiasm for learning the art of war.
The whole world has been conquered, and Goguryeo's vitality has been severely damaged. You, Hou Junji, still have to learn the art of war?
What do you want to do after learning the art of war?
Therefore, the art of war will not work either.
As for natural science, many people believe that there has been no natural science in China since ancient times. This is completely nonsense.
Nine Chapters on Arithmetic was written so early that it is simply a wonder in the world.
It's just that for things like arithmetic, many wandering Taoist priests use astrology and fortune-telling as a scam, and it is easy to become unpopular over time. In later generations, foreign experts and scholars...
It’s too late for people to brag about their own ancestors. Who wants to help you brag about China? As for the mainland of China...
Unfortunately, Confucianism not only does not brag about these achievements, but is extremely discriminatory towards the techniques of "Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai". If you say that you have read the Four Books and Five Classics vaguely, but are extremely proficient in arithmetic, most Confucian scholars will immediately break up with you.
, simply not doing his job properly.
The reason is very simple. After all, counting is only needed by those who work, and it is useless in the struggle for power and profit.
If this is the case, then who is the serious person to learn this stuff and brag about it?
In short, due to various factors, under the general environment, the highlight of the imperial examination has always been literature, history and philosophy, and the channels for calculating military skills are very thin.
In other words, Li Er wants to take the imperial examination, but actually...
The ones who really have the advantage are the aristocratic families.
Of course, this is not because Li Er favors aristocratic families - it's just a joke - but this is actually the case. This is the result of various factors and historical inertia.
But now...
A very embarrassing thing is that the various government affairs related to the national economy and people's livelihood that Li Er is currently engaged in basically have nothing to do with Confucian scholars.
Although Li Er still insists on selecting scholars through the imperial examination, Wang Jing, Pei Ji and others, as stakeholders, have long noticed that Confucian scholars are involved in these matters, not to mention how many Confucian scholars from Guizhou have been recruited by Li Er.
, and the question of which kind of great Confucianism are these Guizhou Confucian scholars? Just talking about this matter, apart from the identity of Confucian scholars, the degree of participation in Confucianism itself is basically not high.
In today's Tang Dynasty, young scholars are discussing more and more topics such as arithmetic and geometry.
In the second year of the imperial examination, Li Er set the tone, and the people from Tiance Mansion presided over the test papers, and there were more and more questions on arithmetic geometry, physics, and chemistry.
Keep going like this...
Wang Jing and others simply dare not think about what will happen next.
If we talk about the future world, the people who are in charge of the world's people's livelihood are no longer the great scholars, but these Guizhou leaders, and recently the so-called "engineers" like Li Er...
Then what will become of this world? Is there still room for Confucian scholars?
Wang Jing and others became extremely anxious when they thought of this, and Pei Ji among them even couldn't sleep at night.
And after thinking about it, the only way to stop this is to overthrow Li Er...
And besides that, try to seek benefits for the family as much as possible.
But this time in the Northern Xinjiang war, such a good opportunity turned out to have such a strange result...
How could this not make Wang Jing and others worried?
However, on this day, Wang Jing was melancholy in his mansion. Suddenly, the old housekeeper informed that the old man of the Zheng family, Zheng Taishan, had arrived, saying that he had important information.
Wang Jing was startled, but... Zheng Taishan was also an elder of the Zheng family in Xingyang. He was highly virtuous and respected, and he would not speak easily, and when he did speak, he would not lie.
This time I came to visit, I thought I had something to say...
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On the other side of the road, Li Er was presiding over government affairs in the palace. After withdrawing his troops from northern Xinjiang, he no longer interfered.
That's what it's like to be an emperor, the key is to judge people accurately.
Once you get it right, you need trust.
If the general is not satisfied with the king's order, these words are not to encourage the general to engage in trouble and go off alone. In fact... they are used to warn the king.
Since you let others lead the troops, you must trust their abilities and conduct. Otherwise, trust in a team will be useless, and any cooperation will be nonsense.
Of course Li Er knew this very well.
but……
The reason why he didn't ask Cheng Yaojin to report military intelligence from time to time was because of trust and the need to express this trust to Cheng Yaojin - as long as he didn't ask for help, he wouldn't ask more questions.
But dealing with others is one aspect, and how you feel is another aspect.
In fact, Li Er was extremely nervous. After all... we were at war after all. Who knew what would happen?
During this period, Wang Jing and others were so excited that they couldn't sleep at night. In fact, Li Er didn't sleep well either.
but……
After receiving the battle report, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Such a happy thing, Li Er is naturally...
"Xuancheng, Xuanling, Keming, you three come with me!"
On this day, Wei Zheng and others were able to feel Li Er's palace and entered the Ganlu Hall.
The three of them were discussing and pondering along the way. It is said that the battle report from Northern Xinjiang has also arrived in Chang'an. After reading it, Your Majesty may have to hold meetings until late at night. After all, major events in the world are going on.
I never expected to hear Li Erlai say this as soon as I entered the palace.
Wei Zheng and the other three looked at each other in surprise.
No, it seems that I want to see His Highness...
But didn’t you just receive the battle report? Why did you have to see His Highness as soon as you got the battle report? Is it possible that His Highness needs to come to the rescue again this time?
Doesn’t that mean something happened in Northern Xinjiang???
Du Ruhui was the first to hold up his hands and said in horror, "Your Majesty, this...is the Northern Territory broken?"
"Your Majesty, if this is really the case, our top priority is..."
"Alas, alas, what are you so obsessed with?"
Li Er laughed and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you that the war in Northern Xinjiang is going very smoothly!"
As he spoke, he threw a pamphlet out, and Wei Zheng and others quickly caught it and took a look.
This review...
"It's true..."
"...Oh my god, it went so smoothly..."
Everyone was surprised when they saw Li Er with a smile on his face, "So I said, I will take you to fulfill your wish this time!"