The Lone Star of the Tang Dynasty

Mrs. Du Ruhui said worriedly: "Now that Your Majesty has implemented a reform and allowed young men and women to freely love and choose a mate, I am really worried that my family Cheng'er will be deceived by those frivolous children. "

In this regard, Empress Changsun understood Mrs. Du's worries, but she analyzed rationally: "Nowadays, women often see people more accurately than us, and if men are not talented enough, I am afraid that it will be difficult to enter their eyes." As for the issue of portals, although it is a big problem now, it will definitely no longer be an obstacle in the future as the situation develops. "

"What do you mean by that?" the women were puzzled.

Empress Eldest Sun smiled slightly, and implicitly told the truth: "I can't go into details, but just remember that Your Majesty has always valued really excellent and hard-working young people. Even if they come from a poor family, as long as their own strength is outstanding, His Majesty will naturally treat them well. Now that His Majesty is advocating innovation, it is the time for heroes to emerge, so everyone can wait and see. "

She knew very well that Li Er was severely cracking down on the power of the family's gate lords, and was determined to completely eradicate this institutional obstacle. Therefore, those who can be valued and promoted by the imperial court in the future must be the nouveau riche class who have stood out through the imperial examination. His own strength and His Majesty's trust are far superior to any portal background.

Empress Changsun's suggestion made the ladies suddenly open up and deeply agreed.

"No matter which son of the family, no matter how big the family power is, it can't surpass Your Majesty, if our daughter can meet a young talent like Huo Quzhi, it will be a blessing!" The eldest grandson Wuji's wife proposed to take advantage of this grand event to choose a good son-in-law for her daughters, and the ladies immediately responded positively and decided to go to the qin meeting together.

At this time, Empress Changsun smiled secretly in her heart, she had already learned that Li Changge would participate in this grand event, and had quietly used her private money to buy all the pianos. She imagined all the scenes that Li Changge might face at that time, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

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As night falls, Chang'an City is lit up, and the lights of thousands of homes are as dazzling as a galaxy.

Countless lanterns are hung all over the streets and alleys, no matter where you are, you can see the flow of colorful light and shadow.

After Li Changge had dinner with a few maids, he wandered around in this lively market, and suddenly found the bustling feeling of the commercial street in his previous life.

After a short stroll, they stopped at a teahouse in the east of the city. It happens to be located in the center of the piano club's activity area, and you can sit in the teahouse and have a panoramic view of the street downstairs through the window, so that you can immediately go downstairs and participate in the sale of piano utensils.

The teahouse was noisy, and everyone was talking.

Someone mentioned the difficulty of the recent imperial examination: "I heard that the questions in this imperial examination are extremely tricky, and it is easy to say that the four books and five classics are good, but the examination questions involving history books and military books are particularly many and difficult, and eight out of ten questions come from these aspects." "

Another person said: "It seems that the imperial court does have the intention to solve the Turkic problem by selecting talents." "

"However, the Turkic people are powerful, especially the large number of horses, and we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to defeat the Tang Dynasty for a while. "

Someone else sighed, "The Turks come to the border of the Tang Dynasty from time to time to fight grass valleys, but we can't act easily for various reasons. "

"Have you heard? There are rumors that Your Majesty will take military action against the Turks next month!"

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted questions, "Do you also believe in this kind of thing? The soldiers and horses have not been trained well, and the grain and grass have not been prepared, do you think Your Majesty will be so reckless when sending troops at this time?"

"That's right, one of my fellow villagers told me that His Majesty's military rations are only enough for 200,000 troops to fight. And our Datang troops, including cavalry and infantry troops, have as many as five or six hundred thousand, how can we start a war next month?"

Another person also chimed in, adding a new message, "I have also heard that Your Majesty is planning to disarm in the near future, and that if the surplus soldiers have land in their hometowns, they will return to work in the fields, and those who do not have land will be arranged to work in factories outside the city. If we want to disarm, how can we suddenly use troops?"

"That's it, just listen to this kind of gossip, you can't take it seriously. "

One tea guest said disapprerovingly, "I heard a friend who participated in the imperial examination mention that the wages paid by the factories outside the city are very high, and they earn more than farming...... Anyway, there is still time to prepare for next year's imperial examination, so why not review while working?".

The teahouse was crowded with people, and various topics were intertwined, among which the topic of the Turkic situation and sweet potatoes was the hottest.

Li Changge listened to everyone's talk on the side, and couldn't help but smile, feeling that these folk gossip was even more outrageous than the information in the media in his previous life. As for whether the grenade plan he proposed was adopted by Li Shimin, it is still unknown. In Li Changge's heart, he also thought that this plan was too radical, and Li Shimin probably wouldn't accept it.

Li Changge believes that the inappropriateness of the grenade plan is not that it cannot produce results, but that the implementation process will inevitably be accompanied by unpredictable and inevitable casualties. This is different from ordinary military missions, where casualties are inevitable in war, but soldiers usually try to minimize their sacrifices. However, using a grenade to blow up an enemy wall is a huge psychological challenge for any participant, as it is not a basic unit that can be easily replaced in the game, but a real life.

If it is put in the previous life, these 500 people who carry out the mission are undoubtedly all super-level combat heroes, and it is extremely difficult to find such a number of brave people in a short period of time. Therefore, this plan was indeed a bit outrageous in Li Changge's opinion, he only considered the power of weapons at that time, but ignored the problem of people. Now that I think about it, if I really let him plan it, I definitely wouldn't choose this kind of plan. Since he can see the problem, with the wisdom of Lao Li and others, he will naturally not turn a blind eye.

Although Li Changge is concerned about these national affairs, he understands that his identity is only an ordinary foreigner under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and he is not in his position or seeking politics, so he does not worry too much. In the teahouse, in addition to discussing Turkic affairs, there was another topic that shocked him: because of the regular holding of the imperial examination system, Chang'an City actually gave birth to several academies specializing in teaching exam-taking skills.

These academies are not educational institutions in the traditional sense, they follow the trend of scientific examinations, and what they teach each year depends entirely on the content of the exams of that year, which is equivalent to providing preparatory classes for students who participate in the imperial examinations.

When Li Changge heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: It is really jaw-dropping that there were cram schools for exam preparation in the past few hundred years A.D.! What is even more unexpected is that these academies were actually founded by some scholars who had fallen behind, and although the starting point was not high, the business was booming, and some families even sent Confucian scholars from families to teach in the academies in order to influence and make use of these scholars in the imperial examinations, making the academies full of people and very lively.

Li Changge was very emotional about this, and the prosperity and development of Datang society really lived up to its reputation.