blenderwars Chapter 726 Just Beginning
Chapter 726 Just Beginning
Chapter 726 Just Beginning
Li Shimin asked Chang He if he had been advised by an expert, and Chang He naturally did not dare to hide it, telling Li Shimin that Ma Zhou had come up with all these.
As a result, Ma Zhou came into Li Shimin's sight and got Li Shimin's attention. He made steady progress all the way, and finally became the prime minister.
Most of the officials in the Tang Dynasty now did not pass the imperial examination, which shows that the imperial examination system in the early Tang Dynasty did not play a big role.
But since Lin Xuan proposed not to be an official without the imperial examination, ordinary people finally saw their chance.
As a matter of fact, the imperial examinations were all about thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. The imperial examinations were popular in the Song and Ming dynasties, but there are many examples of many people who failed to pass the exam after a lifetime of examination.
But this does not prevent ordinary people from having hope in the imperial examination.
Now hearing that those scholars are boycotting the imperial examination, these people are a little bit outraged.
This scene happened in various teahouses and restaurants in Chang'an.
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After Cui Hao dispersed, he went home in a carriage. On the way, he heard the shout of selling newspapers, and frowned. Every time a newspaper came out, the servants in the house would buy it and send it to his study.
He also remembers when the new issue of the newspaper will be released. It is obviously not the day when the newspaper will be released, so why would anyone be selling newspapers?
For some reason, Cui Hao had a bad feeling.
Cui Hao stopped the carriage and asked someone to buy a newspaper and come back.
Not long after, the newspaper was bought back.
When Cui Hao saw the contents of the newspaper, his face changed drastically, and he shouted: "Hurry back home."
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Baiqi has the most spies in Chang'an. It can be said that whenever there is any disturbance in Chang'an, as long as Li Shimin wants to know, he will know it in a short time.
The new issue of the newspaper caused such a big commotion that Li Shimin couldn't be hidden from it.
After Li Shimin got the news, he knew that Lin Xuan was responsible for this incident.
Li Shimin thought for a while, a smile appeared on his face, and asked Baiqi to pay close attention to the movement of this matter, but not to intervene.
He wanted to see what Lin Xuan was going to do next.
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When Cui Hao returned home, he immediately asked people to call over the principals of the other families in Chang'an.
In fact, he didn't need to call, those people got the news and rushed to Cui's house.
Wang Liang was the first to arrive. Seeing Cui Hao sneered, he said, "Brother Cui, you caused this incident. What's your explanation for what happened now?"
"What does the old man need to explain?" Cui Hao said with a cold face.
Wang Liang said: "Brother Cui, don't you know what the people in Chang'an are talking about us now?"
"Isn't it just a group of untouchables? Even if they criticize it, so what?" Cui Hao said disdainfully.
"Untouchable?" Wang Liang sneered, "Did Brother Cui forget about the Yellow Turban Rebellion?"
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was not the first peasant uprising. Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted: Princes, generals, and ministers, it is better to be kind.
It also opened the chapter of peasant uprisings. There were many peasant uprisings in the Western Han Dynasty, and they were not uncommon in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
For those peasant uprisings, the aristocratic family is watching from the sidelines, anyway, the world has nothing to do with them.
But the Yellow Turban Rebellion undoubtedly made them see the power of the people.
At that time, the Yellow Turban Army was short of food, so they chose to attack the powerful families from all over the country.
But the aristocratic families felt the threat of the Yellow Turbans, and they helped the court one after another, so that the court quickly put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Afterwards, the aristocratic family discovered a phenomenon, that is, most of the aristocratic families with better reputations are fine.
The fundamental reason is that the aristocratic family gave Liang to help the people when disasters occurred in the local area.
And when the people can survive, they will naturally not risk their lives to become rebels.
And the Yellow Turbans not only rob the powerful families, but also the ordinary people. In this way, when the Yellow Turbans come over, the people will unite and help defend the city. The Yellow Turbans have no siege equipment, so they will naturally go if they cannot attack. somewhere else.
And those people who can't survive, they don't care whether the Yellow Turban will rob them, anyway, they have nothing, and they can't survive themselves, so naturally they won't help those aristocratic families to defend the city.
After summarizing this lesson, the family began to care about reputation very much.
Even if they exploit the people, once a natural disaster occurs, they will still pretend to serve some porridge.
People in this era are used to being exploited, and they would be grateful if you treat them a little better.
"Hmph!" Cui Hao snorted coldly, unwilling to talk to Wang Liang.
Wang Liang didn't continue to ridicule. Although the five surnames disagree, they are also in harmony. This matter is no longer a matter of the Cui family. It is not a good thing to have a fight with Cui Hao now.
Not long after, several other principals arrived one after another.
Several people sat together and discussed.
"Everyone, how should we solve this matter now? It has already been spread, and if it continues to spread, everyone will take it seriously." Wang Liang said.
Lu Yuan said: "The top priority now is to calm this matter down as soon as possible. The old man thinks that the people kneeling at the gate of the palace should be dispersed as soon as possible. Otherwise, no matter how we explain it, the people will not believe it."
The rest of the people agreed with Lu Yuan's words and asked Cui Hao to let those people withdraw.
Although Cui Hao felt a little unwilling, he also knew that it was the best choice to do so now, so he sent someone to deliver the letter.
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Regarding the family's boycott of the imperial examination, the public opinion that wanted to cancel the imperial examination reached its peak.
If one's interests are touched, even the literati and Confucians who are usually respected and respected are equally irreconcilable.
For a while, the whole of Chang'an was full of insults to those scholars.
Lin Xuan was sitting in the carriage, listening to the abuse, a smile appeared on his face.
Those people are afraid that they still don't know what happened.
Lin Xuan was blocked, and no one was allowed to contact those kneeling scholars, just to keep them ignorant of what happened outside.
The aristocratic family probably has someone to notify them now, the premise is that they can get in.
There was a playful smile on Lin Xuan's face. This matter has just begun, and it will be fun if it continues to ferment.
The carriage went around all the way to Xuanwu Gate, and Eunuch Zhang was already waiting for Lin Xuan at the gate.
Lin Xuan got out of the carriage, and after checking, he entered the Xuanwu Gate under the leadership of Eunuch Zhang.
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Just as Lin Xuan thought, Cui Hao sent someone to notify the kneeling scholars, but they couldn't get in at all.
The scholars who were kneeling were surrounded by the Forbidden Army. If they wanted to get in, they had to break through the blockade of the Forbidden Army.
Unless you break in by force.
But this is the gate of the imperial palace. If they forced their way into the palace and were given the name of attacking the imperial palace, they would kill them directly, and their death would be in vain.
The boy saw that there was nothing he could do, so he had to go back and return to his life.
"Your Majesty, is this trying to break the face with our family?" Cui Hao said angrily.
He didn't know that it was Lin Xuan who made it. After all, only Li Shimin could mobilize the forbidden army.
Lu Yuan said: "Now is not the time to talk about these things. Now that those people have been blocked, it proves that there is still some way to go. We must solve this matter as soon as possible."
"Solution? How to solve it? No one can see it now." Cui Hao said angrily.
(End of this chapter)