After leaving the city, the important ministers in the side halls of the prefecture's palace did not leave the palace one after another until the dinner party was over.
Luo Chuan originally wanted to stay with Zhao Wuji for another cup of tea, but the latter refused directly and hurriedly left the palace and returned to the Military Affairs Office. It can be imagined that recent events have really made the Military Affairs Office very busy.
Luo Jiang didn't leave. He just sat behind the desk and drank cup after cup. He didn't stop drinking until Siqi brought a jingling girl into the side hall.
"My dear friend Ganmeizi pays homage to the Grand Administrator!" The girl walked to the middle of the hall and saluted Luo Chuan who was walking down.
"Get up," Luo Chuan smiled and nodded at her. "You will have many opportunities to enter the palace in the future. You don't have to bow when you see me when you are alone. It would be too troublesome to kneel down and worship." He added
He looked at Siqi and said, "Is the decoration over at the East Side Hall finished?"
Siqi nodded, "I just used a silk screen to separate some space, and put some futon cushions inside to avoid embarrassment."
Luo Chuan said, "Let's leave it like this for now. We will think of other ways later. You two go to practice first, and I will go over after having a few words with Uncle Jiang."
Siqi hummed and took the sweet plums and went away.
After Luo Chuan asked Gao Shixian to go out, he walked to sit down next to Luo Jiang and said with a smile, "General Luo, although you seemed to have had quite an unpleasant quarrel with the Luo family later on, after all, you grew up in a noble family, why are you now
You almost made yourself a public enemy of the nobles just to stand up for the commoners? Could it be that you once fell in love with the daughter of a commoner family, so you were particularly close to the commoners?"
Luo Jiang glared at Luo Chuan fiercely and raised his right hand, but after looking at the gorgeous clothes he was wearing now, he finally took his hand back and said, "I just thought that since you wanted to do this civil and military examination in the first place,
With the intention of renewing the elite class, it is natural that the original purpose is to allow common people to truly get opportunities and to allow outsiders to truly receive fairness. Now..."
He pursed his lips in the direction of the now empty civil servant case, looked at Luo Chuan and sighed, "Nowadays, such civil and military examinations may seem fair, but how fair are they actually? In addition to the martial arts examinations, there are two aspects: Taoism and Taoism."
For ordinary people, subjects other than subjects are useless, and the test questions and evaluation methods are full of loopholes. As long as these Lijun dignitaries move their fingers, none of the outsiders will be able to pass, hey...
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Luo Chuan picked up the wine bottle on Luo Jiang's desk and shook it. There was not much left, so he filled up his wine glass, "Uncle Jiang, it takes less than a day to freeze three feet. What's the point of thawing the ice?"
It can be changed overnight. Even if we open a so-called oral examination or simpler channels for the common people, will they really be free?" He shook his head and said, "It's impossible. Needless to say, I will do it myself.
It’s impossible to joke about the foundation of Li County. If I really want to let illiterate civilians enter the temple, I will be the biggest fool in the world. The only way to completely change the desperate situation in which civilians are unable to rise is to let more of them.
Many people can read and write!”
Luo Jiang's face was full of surprise, "Nowadays, all the literate people in the world only work for the rich and powerful. Who would go and teach the common people to read?!"
"There will be," Luo Chuan laughed. "Back then, there were no civil and military examinations, and civilian literacy was almost meaningless. But now that there are civil and military examinations, the situation is very different. Those rich and powerful people who are lucky enough to make money in business
Will people hire a husband to teach their children to read and read? Maybe one day they, merchant families, will also have important ministers? Those powerful children such as Dou Bingzhang who are not satisfied in the officialdom and even in the family, will
Wouldn't it be possible to recruit a group of smart civilian children to teach them how to read, and then one day one or a few of them would really become the pillars of the court, and then they would be famous all over the world and respected as teachers?
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Luo Chuan patted the dumbfounded Luo Jiang on the arm and said, "Uncle Jiang, I heard that if a butterfly from Lijun flaps its wings, it will form a tornado on the East China Sea in a few years, let alone me from Lijun.
The prefect opened a road to the sky north of Li city for everyone in the world?! Believe me, with this road to the sky, everything in this world will become different, but all these changes will take time. We
What we have to do is to continuously exert influence on it during its development so that it does not go too far."
Luo Jiang nodded and asked, "Before I came to this side hall after the court meeting today, Zhao Wuji told me with emotion that he didn't expect you to say those words in the court hall, but right here in this hall, he
Some people dare to speak arrogantly, do they need to be taught a lesson?"
Luochuan shook his head and said, "Now that Li County has more than 300,000 troops in my hands, who dares to really stand against me? It's just that some old and powerful families think that I am too young and in the middle.
Having been a hostage in the capital for many years, I didn’t understand what was going on in the court, so I wanted to take advantage of the initial court meeting. At first, I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity I mentioned before about "following the old rules" and simply discuss it directly in the court.
As for the civil and military examinations, the civil servants of the dynasty sang a great show to make me agree to something. But I didn't expect that Dou Qiushi, Chen Yu and Xie Wushang didn't agree. Even Mu Ze, who was supposed to belong to their camp, didn't agree.
If you dare to object, you can only let it go, but the civil and military affairs cannot be done. As the current head of civil servants, you, Dou Qiushi, can suppress the military led by Zhao Wuji on our behalf, right?"
"Dou Qiushi really agreed and took the risk of offending me to death in my first court meeting as the new governor to suppress the military. He did this openly and openly," Luo Chuan said, without any trace of anger on his face.
Instead, he smiled and said, "Of course I can't be partial to anyone, but it won't work if I don't show any expression at all. I'm afraid that those sly heads will think that I can't live without them and they will dare to bite me, so I changed the position of the county magistrate.
After throwing it out, the smarter Yumu head should figure something out... As for making Dou Qiushi the county magistrate, he gave the position of chief official to Zhou Zhongqing, and transferred the position of chief official from Baitong to the old powerful family.
Gongsun Runze's mention of becoming the head of the household probably surprised the emerging nobles..."
He looked at Luo Jiang who was obviously not listening seriously and said, "In short, they should all be more sensible from now on. Then I will just be a pleasant young prefect. Otherwise, it won't be a big deal even if I pull out an elm head."
Yan Tieying gave up with a few words of reprimand..."
Luo Jiang only seemed to understand, but his heart felt much better. He picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it down in one gulp, "I probably will never be able to understand what people like you and your son are thinking in their hearts, but I know that since I came out of Zhongjing City
From now on, you have accomplished everything you want to do, so go ahead and do whatever you want. If one day all the powerful people are against you, then it doesn't matter if I really become a public enemy of the nobles." He patted Luo Chuan's hand.
He stood up and walked out of the palace, "I'm going to defend the city."
Luochuan nodded without looking at Luo Jiang's back.
He looked at the empty row of tables opposite with an indifferent expression, raised the wine bottle and poured the remaining wine into his mouth.