"Presumably His Majesty feels that His Highness is not very thorough in handling government affairs. When His Majesty feels that His Highness is handling affairs in a thorough manner, he will naturally ask His Highness to handle some important memorials," Du He consoled him.
He has been labeled as Li Chengqian, so he naturally hopes that Li Chengqian's rights will be greater.
Don't think that reviewing memorials is of little use.
Take the Ministry of Personnel as an example.
The Ministry of Personnel is nominally in charge of the appointment, removal, examination, promotion, promotion, transfer and other matters of civil servants all over the world.
But in fact, they do not have the right to decide on the appointment and dismissal of officials and the transfer of staff.
At most, it can only manage the appointment, dismissal and transfer of county magistrates, and beyond that, the personnel department has no rights.
Generally, when an official position is vacant, the Ministry of Personnel will draft a memorial and submit it to the provincial minister. The Provincial Council will select some officials, write it down, and finally submit it to Li Shimin for decision.
There is an unspoken rule. Generally, the person written at the front is the person who will take over that position.
If Li Chengqian can handle these memorials, he can slowly place his own people in some key positions.
When officials know that Li Chengqian has this right, they will naturally move closer to Li Chengqian, and the benefits can be said to be very great.
But it is a pity that the memorials sent by the Ministry of Finance were all about local Mingsheng, and Li Chengqian had no access to the memorials to the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War.
Although Li Chengqian knew that Du He only said words of comfort to him, he just complained and could not do anything.
"I understand. It's getting late now. You should go back first." Li Chengqian said.
"Yes." Du He stood up, saluted, and prepared to leave.
At this moment, Yao Yuanwen walked in.
"Your Highness, the Queen sent a message saying that His Highness King Jin wanted to visit the eldest princess. The Queen was worried and asked Her Highness to accompany His Highness King Jin." Yao Yuanwen said.
"Your Highness, this is a good thing." Du He said with his eyes shining.
Li Chengqian said with some confusion: "What do you mean?"
"Does Your Highness know that the Prince Consort competed with more than a dozen academies such as Taihe Academy a few days ago, and His Majesty went to watch it in person?" Du He said.
"Gu naturally knows, but what does this matter have to do with the mother asking Gu to accompany the pheasant slave to visit Li Zhi?" Li Chengqian asked.
Du He did not answer Li Chengqian's question, but said: "Your Majesty previously issued a decree that no one could become an official without taking the imperial examination, but the response from the aristocratic families was not great. Does your Highness know why?"
"Because most of the scholars in the world come from aristocratic families?" Li Chengqian guessed.
Du He shook his head and said: "In addition to this, another reason is that aristocratic families have a monopoly on education. Most of the scholars in the world are from aristocratic families. Among the remaining small number, many are disciples of aristocratic families. The real children of poor families are not
Not many. In addition, there is another important reason, that is, the imperial court does not attach great importance to the imperial examination, and very few people are admitted, so the aristocratic families do not care much."
Although the Tang Dynasty adopted the imperial examination system, the maximum number of people admitted to the Jinshi examination at any time was only twenty or thirty people. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, no one was admitted.
Mingjing Ke can only admit 70 or 80 people at most. In other words, the maximum number of people admitted to this literary examination is only 100 people at a time, and when it is less, 20 or 30 people are considered normal.
Just imagine, a large empire with a population of tens of millions has countless officials. However, the maximum number of people admitted to the civil examination is a hundred or so, and the number of people admitted cannot keep up with the replacement rate of officials. This shows that the Tang Dynasty’s
The vast majority of civil servants did not come through the imperial examination system.
This is also the reason why the aristocratic family did not respond much to Li Shimin's order.
How many people can be admitted through the imperial examination?
Even if you start lending money to enroll people now, you can't enroll thousands of people at once.
Admitting a few hundred people is simply not enough. In the end, recommendations are still needed.
Moreover, aristocratic families had a monopoly on education, and most of the people admitted to the imperial examination were members of aristocratic families.
As for the Imperial College, it can be understood as a university.
He recruited officials' children and people recommended by local officials with certain talents and learning.
It is precisely because of these reasons that people who are not allowed to enter official positions without taking the imperial examination are a joke in the eyes of aristocratic families.
Li Chengqian still didn't understand Du He's words and waited quietly for the next sentence.
"The prince-in-law established an academy, which naturally became a thorn in the side of the noble family, so this competition was held. Your Majesty went there to sit for the prince-in-law. It is very likely that your majesty secretly supported the prince-in-law to establish this academy.
It is to break the aristocratic family’s monopoly on education." Du He guessed.
"What does this have to do with going alone to visit Li Zhi?" Li Chengqian asked in confusion.
"Your Highness, think about it, if your Majesty secretly asked your consort to establish this academy, then all the students in this academy can be regarded as disciples of the emperor in the future, and the talented people among them will definitely be put to great use by your majesty. If it can be done in advance,
Winning over..." Du He said with a smile.
Li Chengqian's eyes lit up and he had to say that what Du He said was very reasonable.
It is very difficult to win over those old officials.
Although he is the prince, his status is also very embarrassing.
Li Shimin is in his prime, and he still needs to be the prince for many years.
Taking refuge with him at this time would arouse Li Shimin's suspicion.
The officials in the DPRK and the Central Government are all old foxes. How could they not see this? This also led to the fact that as the prince, not as many people who really took refuge in him were those who took refuge in Li Tai.
But it's different when it comes to winning over those scholars. Those people are helpless and need someone to rely on, and Li Chengqian is the prince, so he is naturally a very good candidate to rely on him.
As long as he contacts those people first, the chances of winning over them are very high.
Seeing that Li Chengqian understood what he meant, Du He smiled and said: "The prince went to visit the princess, and he could meet with the consort. How could the consort not know who the talented people are in the academy? As long as the consort revealed a few things, he could win over them secretly.
That’s why I said this is a good thing.”
"But Lin Xuan has been alienating Gu recently. When he came back this time, he hasn't come to see Gu until now. I'm afraid he won't want to tell Gu." Li Chengqian calmed down and said.
"Your Highness is overly worried. The Prince Consort now has military power in his hands and needs to avoid suspicion. But this time the Prince went there on the orders of the Queen, so naturally no one would say anything."
"The prince-in-law marries the eldest princess. For the prince-in-law, he naturally hopes that the eldest princess's Qin brothers will inherit the throne, which is also good for him. And His Highness and the eldest princess have the closest relationship, so the prince-son-in-law naturally favors His Highness." Du He
Said confidently.
Li Chengqian thought of what he had done before and felt that what Du He said was very reasonable.
Although Lin Xuan didn't explicitly say that he wanted to join him before, he did help him with advice. Although he is a little alienated from him now, as Du He said, as a general leading the army, it would not be a good thing for both of them if they had close contact with him.
.
Thinking of this, Li Chengqian's dissatisfaction with Lin Xuan for alienating him during this period completely disappeared.
"Manager Yao, go prepare a generous gift for me." Li Chengqian ordered.
"Wait a minute." Du He said, "Your Highness, the gift only needs to be acceptable, it doesn't need to be too expensive."