Li Lizhi noticed something was wrong with Lin Xuan's face and asked, "Husband, what's wrong?"
Lin Xuan came to his senses, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I was thinking about the competition."
No matter who succeeds him, Li Shimin will still live for more than ten years even if historical development is followed.
At worst, when Li Shimin is about to die, he will take his family and sail out to sea.
He advocated going to sea. In addition to wanting Datang to focus its attention overseas, he also wanted to leave a way out for himself.
Li Lizhi didn't think too much, thinking that Lin Xuan was really worried about the competition, and comforted her softly: "Husband, don't worry, even if my father doesn't go, if I can invite the Prime Minister or Zheng Guogong to go, those people will restrain themselves."
Be restrained. It would be better if my husband could invite Dr. Kong."
Lin Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart. Although he had met Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng a few times, he had no friendship with them.
Civil servants know how to protect themselves best. How can one be so easy to hire?
Apart from anything else, those academies have trained countless literati, some of whom are officials and some are scholars. Once Fang Xuanling and others stand up for him, they will undoubtedly offend those people.
If someone has no friendship with him, why should he offend others for him?
As for Kong Yingda, he is a good choice.
Ever since Dong Zhongshu proposed to depose all schools of thought and only respect Confucianism, which pushed Confucianism to its peak, every dynasty from then on would reward the Confucian family in order to win the hearts of the world's literati.
Therefore, the Kong family can be regarded as the leader of the world's literati. If Kong Yingda came forward, those people would really not dare to mess around.
They may not be afraid of Li Shimin, but if the Kong family says something bad about them, scholars all over the world will despise them. This is the influence of the Kong family.
But Lin Xuan gave up after thinking about it. Although Kong Yingda had some interactions with him, most of the people in those academies were Confucian students. Maybe some of them were old friends with Kong Yingda. If he really went to find Kong Yingda, who would he help?
For sure.
"Don't worry, madam, I can handle these, don't worry." Lin Xuan said.
…
At night, Lin Xuan slept at Guo Caiyue's place.
Li Lizhi is relatively reserved and can't let go a lot of the time, but Guo Caiyue gives him everything she wants.
The taste of it is not enough for outsiders to understand.
However, Lin Xuan also likes Li Lizhi's way of holding the pipa and half covering her face, which gives her a different feeling.
In the morning, Lin Xuan got up refreshed, while Guo Caiyue had a tired sleepy look on her face, which showed that she had been tortured by Lin Xuan yesterday.
Lin Xuan put on his clothes lightly and left the room.
The maid was already waiting outside. When she saw Lin Xuan coming out, she was about to salute, but Lin Xuan stopped her.
After Lin Xuan washed up under the service of the maid, he went to the yard to practice martial arts.
Lin Xuan practiced martial arts before to have the power to protect himself.
Now Lin Xuan is used to getting up and practicing every morning. If he doesn't practice, he will feel uncomfortable.
By the time Lin Xuan finished practicing martial arts, Guo Caiyue had already gotten up. The two had breakfast together before Lin Xuan left.
Lin Xuan went to greet his parents and had some breakfast with them.
It's just that Lin Xuan has a big appetite. If he were an ordinary person, he really wouldn't be able to eat it.
After eating, Lin Xuan felt that it was almost time and set off for the palace.
Arriving at the palace, the morning court session was over. After the announcement, Lin Xuan was taken to the Ganlu Hall.
"I see your Majesty." Lin Xuan bowed.
"No gift."
Li Shimin looked a little unhappy. He didn't know if it was because of Princess Gaoyang's incident, or if something happened in the morning that made him upset.
"Your Majesty, I don't know why those academies are crazy. More than a dozen academies have issued a declaration of war to my Boyuan Academy. Your Majesty wants to make the decision for me." Lin Xuan said with an aggrieved look.
Li Shimin naturally knew about Taihe Academy's challenge to Boyuan Academy. After hearing this, he pondered for a while and said, "Why do you think they suddenly issued a challenge to Boyuan Academy?"
"I heard that it seems that the common people said that Boyuan Academy is the number one academy in the Tang Dynasty. Those academies were not convinced, so they issued a declaration of war." Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin said calmly: "Although those academies do not restrict children from poor families from studying, they do not recruit many children from poor families. Even if the people say that Boyuan Academy is the Tang Academy, it will not affect them. Why do they want to fight against Boyuan Academy?"
Book?"
"Um." Lin Xuan was stunned and asked, "Your Majesty, please make it clear."
What Li Shimin said made Lin Xuan realize that this challenge was not that simple.
But he couldn't think of any other reason.
"Do you know where Taihe Academy is?" Li Shimin asked.
"I heard that Taihe Academy is in Shandong."
By the way, Shandong.
Lin Xuan suddenly said: "Your Majesty, do you mean that Taihe Academy is related to the Five Surnames and Qiwang?"
Li Shimin sneered: "Shandong is the headquarters of the Five Surnames and Qiwang. Do you think Taihe Academy can continue to open if it has nothing to do with them?"
"Then other academies are also related to the aristocratic family?" Lin Xuan asked.
Since Taihe Academy has a relationship with the aristocratic family, other academies would not believe it even if they killed Lin Xuan.
Although there were not as many academies in the early Tang Dynasty as there were in the Song Dynasty, there should be dozens of them anyway. Why were there only a dozen or so that declared a challenge to Boyuan Academy?
"That's right, those academies have the shadow of aristocratic families behind them. They are not so much academies, but a place where aristocratic families train their retainers. Although they recruit children from poor families, if the children from poor families do not join them, they will not teach them at all."
Li Shimin said.
This is also the reason why he is afraid of the aristocratic family, which not only monopolizes books, but also monopolizes education.
Even if some children from poor families emerge, they will be ostracized by aristocratic families, resulting in few truly poor children in the court.
Fortunately, the aristocratic families are not united and have fights with each other.
But what if?
This is also the reason why Li Shimin has been deliberately suppressing people from big families to occupy high positions.
Once people from those aristocratic families occupy high positions and form a group, he, the emperor, will be ignored.
"Your Majesty, if those academies are here for me, why are they taking action now?" Lin Xuan said somewhat strangely.
It's normal for aristocratic families to find trouble with him, but why not when the academy first opened instead of now?
If the aristocratic family came to challenge when the academies first opened, it would undoubtedly be the best opportunity.
Li Shimin sneered: "That's because they didn't take your academy seriously at all in the beginning."
Okay, I was underestimated.
Now that the aristocratic family sees the threat from Boyuan Academy, they will naturally not let it go.
The intention of the aristocratic family is very simple. Didn't Li Shimin say that in the future, all officials selected must pass the imperial examination?
Didn’t you develop movable type printing?
It doesn't matter, we can't monopolize books, but we can monopolize education.
With books and pinyin alone, literacy has become easier, but if you want to take the imperial examination, literacy alone is useless.
No one explains those subsets of classics and history, and even the literate can’t understand them.
Although the imperial court had an official academic institution, the Imperial College, the Imperial College was equivalent to a university in later generations. People without certain talents or family background could not get into it.
Grassroots education still relies on academies like these.