Establishing a medical school? Everyone has different expressions.
If there had not been the previous proposal to make a medical saint, then this move would simply be to promote medical skills and improve the population survival rate.
But the two were combined, no matter how you look at it, they were all for the purpose of giving Sun Simiao a golden body. The emperor was really prepared to support a saint who belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
These people thought more and held up a medical sage who was closely related to the people. The emperor could gain huge prestige through this move.
But precisely because he is a medical sage, when Sun Simiao is gone, the Sun family will only have an honorary status but not a particularly high political status, so there is no need to worry about their rebellion.
If you think more deeply, Sun Simiao is a Taoist leader, and making him a medical saint is also a means to win over Taoism.
The emperor is the emperor, he is really smart.
If it had been the case before, they would have definitely opposed it. From an economic perspective alone, the imperial court could not afford such a large expense.
But things are different now. Glass can generate millions of dollars in income every month, and with Indochina as a granary, there is no problem in supporting this plan.
In addition, the enfeoffment is imminent, and some of the doctors trained by the imperial court can go directly to their own feudal countries in the future.
It was equivalent to using the resources of the imperial court to cultivate talents for oneself, so why not do it, so everyone unanimously approved the plan.
Li Shimin's plan didn't stop there. After confirming the medical school plan, he said: "In the future, we may have to establish dozens or even hundreds of feudal states, which will require a large number of officials."
"Do you want to use the powerful children of the noble family to govern your feudal country, or do you want to use the children of the poor family?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said anything. But they all saw each other's thoughts from each other's eyes. Only a fool uses the powerful sons of the nobles to manage his own country.
This is not the first time that the emperor has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the nobles. Before, they just watched the joke from the sidelines, unwilling and unnecessary to offend the nobles.
Things are different now. Who the hell wants to share the feudal country that I have worked so hard for with the powerful nobles? Is there something wrong with their brains?
But they were not willing to directly confront the powerful nobles like this.
The two sides have coexisted for hundreds of years, with some fighting and cooperation, and some intermarriage with each other. The relationship is complicated and they are unwilling to fight each other to the death.
However, history has proven that this was just a naive idea unilaterally made by the Guanlong Group, and the gentry did not take them seriously.
When Wu Zetian came to power, the gentry seized the opportunity and packed up the Guanlong Group and sent them to the grave.
I don’t know if they ever regretted why they didn’t help Li Shimin deal with the nobles at that time.
Li Shimin has always known that the Guanlong Group has selfish motives, which is why he was hesitant to take action against the nobles before.
But it’s different now. The power of enfeoffment is in my hands. If you want to enfeoff the country but don’t want to contribute, how can there be such a good thing? If you don’t defeat the gentry, none of you want to enfeoff the country.
So he immediately stated his plan: "In order to have enough talents to manage the Tang Dynasty and the feudal states of the ministers, I decided to comprehensively build the academic and political system and the imperial examination system."
He also talked about the envisioned academic administration and imperial examination system.
To put it simply, the academic administration system is to establish a talent training system from the central to local governments, that is, public colleges.
The imperial examination system imitated the mature model of later generations and was divided into county examinations, state examinations, Beijing examinations and palace examinations.
Those who pass the county examination can be considered a scholar and automatically have the qualifications to become a teacher and open a private school.
Scholars can take the state examination, and if they pass the examination, they can become civil servants or minor officials below the seventh rank.
Juren are qualified to take the Beijing Examination, and those who pass the exam are Huiyuan. Members participate in the Palace Examination, and in principle everyone will be ranked.
The top three on the first list are Jinshi, the top ten on the second list are also Jinshi; the 11th to 100th on the second list are the same Jinshi; the remaining ones are Jinshi on the third list.
The first thirteen Jinshi can directly enter the Hongwen Hall as officials, while the same Jinshi and Ci Jinshi are appointed as local officials.
"The teaching materials used by the academy include the Nine Classics, Suan Jing, Tang Dynasty Laws compiled for the imperial court, the Tao Te Ching and the Nan Hua Jing annotated by Sun Zhenren... they will also serve as the standards for the imperial examinations."
Everyone couldn't help but feel frightened. The emperor was about to completely break up with the powerful nobles.
What is the greatest capital of the gentry? It monopolizes the right to interpret knowledge.
The academic and political system used the national annotated version of the classics, completely ignoring the gentry. The imperial examinations were also based on the national annotated version, which forced the gentry to voluntarily give up their family knowledge.
Holding on to family knowledge and unwilling to give up? The emperor will only be happier. It won't be long before the gentry will be completely driven out of the bureaucracy.
Moreover, once the knowledge mastered by the nobles could no longer serve as officials, who would be willing to follow them?
This can be said to be putting a knife directly on the neck of the nobles.
In fact, someone had already done similar things back then, and that was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not directly shout the slogan of respecting Confucianism alone, nor did he publicly attack any of the hundreds of schools.
In actual actions, he gave priority to promoting and appointing scholars with Confucian origins, and then disciples of hundreds of schools, including the Mohist, Yin-Yang, and famous schools, switched to Confucianism.
The successors of these schools of thought were no longer as good as the previous generation, and they naturally died out.
These schools of thought also fought, and there was nothing they could do about human power being in the hands of the emperor.
Rebellion? The military power is in the hands of the emperor. Try to rebel.
The situation faced by the gentry now is very similar to the situation faced by the hundreds of families back then.
This series of plans was so perfect and clearly well thought out. Everyone present could not help but admire that the emperor really planned his plans and then acted.
Then there was helplessness, it seemed that this time we had to face off against the powerful nobles.
At the end of the meeting, everyone left with deep thoughts, except Changsun Wuji who stayed.
Looking at the tired Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji asked with concern: "Sage, are you okay?"
Li Shimin leaned on the chair and said: "It's okay, I'm just a little tired... Do you think these people will help us deal with the powerful nobles?"
Changsun Wuji said without hesitation: "It will definitely happen. No one can refuse the true feudal state."
A person appeared in Li Shimin's mind and said with a smile: "Is it true that no one can refuse?"
Changsun Wuji immediately guessed what he meant and said with a wry smile: "I am too narrow-minded and forgot that there are people like Jing Ke in the world."
Li Shimin sighed: "Why don't I? The more I know about Jing Ke's knowledge, the harder it is for me to feel at ease."
"If Maid Guanyin hadn't intervened, I might have been tempted to attack him. But if I did, the damage would be immeasurable."
Changsun Wuji echoed: "In Jing Ke's own words, the unknown is the most dangerous and frightening thing. The Chen family is so powerful and mysterious that anyone would doubt it."
"But I believe that His Majesty will definitely not take action against him because of his broad mind. You are not such a person."
"To be disrespectful, this is also the reason why I married my sister to you and followed you, and you have never let me down."
"Haha..." Instead of being angry, Li Shimin laughed heartily and said, "Those who know me well are my auxiliaries."
After the joke, Changsun Wuji said seriously: "If you want these people to go all out to deal with the nobles and powerful people, it is useless to rely on promises, you must take actual actions."
"I suggest that we first select a few countries to establish as examples, so as to completely dispel their doubts."
Li Shimin nodded and said: "Which family do you think is best to be granted first, and where to place the fiefdom?"
Changsun Wuji was about to answer when he suddenly heard Ren Feng shouting loudly from outside: "Sage, I have something important to report."
Li Shimin frowned, showing displeasure, but he did not vent his anger on anyone, but asked: "What's the matter?"
Ren Feng said: "Donggong came to report that the Crown Princess is about to give birth."
