Chapter 245 The Emperor's Family Matters
Li Longji has been a wise ruler for more than 20 years. Even though he is indulging in pleasure at the moment, he is far from being a fool. Even his eyesight on people and things are still extremely arduous.
In Gao Lishi's eyes, Chen Guang's articles were plain and straightforward, and even abominable words, but Li Longji could see that it was pragmatic and feasible from the almost verbose vernacular writing.
There is no gorgeous rhetoric or quoting classics. It is just a fact and reasoning, and then analyze and answer one by one, two, three, four, and explain the measures needed to be taken clearly and clearly.
This current policy is not only for the superiors, but also for the Guizhou people below. No one can cheat or deceive the people in such a straightforward article.
Gao Lishi looked at the saint's face changing, and he couldn't help but secretly called himself a stranger. You should know that the saint likes musical verses and essays. If an article like Chen Lang was replaced by someone else, he would probably have been thrown away long ago.
"The word Chen Lang is not bad!"
After a long time, Li Longji put down the current policy of Chen Guang's writing about how the four towns in Anxi should be transformed into land, attract the people in the pass, and develop agriculture, culture and commerce, and couldn't help but think about it attentively.
Li Longji had a strong desire to expand. In his opinion, if he did not defeat the Tubo people and completely incorporated the river into the sphere of influence of the Tang Dynasty, he would not be as good as Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong. For him, he was unbearable. Therefore, when Xiao Bolu stopped tribute under the instigation of Tubo, he was determined to destroy Xiao Bolu and kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and at the same time he wanted to take back the stone castle.
In Li Longji's past understanding of the four towns in Anxi, it was used to cut off the arms of the Turks and Tubo. Just as the Han Dynasty managed the Western Regions to deal with the Huns, although the military expenditure of the four towns in Anxi was as high as one million guan a year, compared with the consequences of Tubo's acquisition of the Western Regions, this million guan was really nothing.
However, although the Anxi Protectorate has maintained the strength of the Tang Dynasty in the four towns of Anxi over the years, no one has ever used such plain words to analyze the current situation and existing problems of the four towns of Anxi, and has given solutions, and the list is extremely clear.
A lot of content even made Li Longji start to examine some of his past policies. Of course, this was what Chen Guang saw in the current affairs and policies that caused him to think deeply. If he had changed to the court officials below, he would have fallen the memorial long ago.
"Liss, when will the test be put in today's provincial examination?"
"Next fifteenth, Your Majesty."
Gao Lishi looked at the thoughtful saint and felt that Chen Lang's articles could have caught the saint's eyes? What a favor this is!
"This year, this provincial examination will be changed to palace examinations."
Li Longji's words surprised Gao Lishi. You must know that since the establishment of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, the Shangshu Province has always been presided over the examination, that is, the palace examination was briefly established during the Wuzhou period. Unexpectedly, the saints broke this rule for Chen Lang.
"By the way, don't let this news go out for now, I have to wait a little longer."
"Here, your majesty."
Gao Lishi looked at the saint who suddenly returned to his wise and capable saint when he was in his prime, and couldn't help but feel a sense of trembling. He felt that the saint was afraid that he would make big moves next.
"Sanlang's place, we can arrange for him to meet Chen Lang."
Li Longji originally planned to fulfill Chen Guang's wish and let him return to Anxi to be a general guarding the border. The friendship between the two ended in the world, but now he changed his mind that Chen Guang could go to Anxi to experience it, but in the end he still had to return to Chang'an City because Chen Guang had the talent of a prime minister.
Gao Lishi couldn't see the mystery in Chen Lang's article, but Li Longji understood that if the country wants to be rich and strong, he needed Chen Guang to do things steadily and didn't care about fame. Moreover, Chen Guang was so young that he had been hard-working for a few years, and it wouldn't be a big deal for him to practice Anxi in the future.
As long as he can achieve one-tenth of the Chenli article he wrote, the four towns of Anxi are self-sufficient and do not need to allocate military funds from the court. If they can do half of it, they can beat Tubo and even flatten Lushecheng.
"Come back, call Saburo to see me, remember not to leak the news."
Li Longji called out Gao Lishi who was about to leave and whispered, his son had become honest and honest recently, and finally understood who the prince relied on. It was time to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.
Thinking that the power transfer in the Tang Dynasty has been bloody and bloody, Li Longji couldn't help but sigh in secret. He only hoped that he could pass the throne safely and not have the situation of father and son fraternity again.
Gao Lishi left in surprise. Although the relationship between the saint and the prince changed greatly as the prince was abandoned over the years, the saint suddenly secretly summoned the prince and had to cover up his eyes and ears. He was puzzled. Could there be any mystery in Chen Lang's article? But he has also read it. In addition to the unique font and unique noble spirit, the content of the article was about how to manage the four towns of Anxi, attract refugees in the pass to settle down, how to monopolize trade on the Silk Road, collect taxes, and expand its power to the countries in the river.
How could these things be related to the prince?
Even when he arrived at the East Palace, Gao Lishi didn't understand. When he heard Gao Lishi coming, Li Heng, who had been practicing chasing with flutes every day in the past few days, said excitedly, "Second brother, but Aye allowed me to go to see everyone Shen."
Speaking of which, Li Heng had been looking forward to leaving the East Palace to breathe for a long time, but since the last time Gao Lishi came to pass Aye's order, there has been no movement. No wonder he had such an association.
"Sanlang, don't worry, it was the saint who summoned him and asked His Highness to change his clothes."
Gao Lishi lowered his voice and asked the eunuch who was accompanying him to take off his clothes. Since the saint secretly called the prince, he naturally made preparations.
Li Heng was stunned for a moment, then became ecstatic. Aye must have something important to summon him secretly. Thinking of Li Linfu's eyes and ears in the East Palace, he suddenly wondered whether Aye was dissatisfied with Li Linfu.
Seeing the prince's face changing constantly, Gao Lishi coughed softly, "Sanlang, is the saint still waiting?"
"My second brother said yes, I'll change my clothes now."
Li Heng quickly changed into the eunuch's clothes, then looked at his confidant beside him and said, "I will go with my second brother to meet Aye. Just say I have already fallen asleep and no one will come."
After saying this, Li Heng calmed down and followed Gao Lishi. He kept his head down and hid in the shadow behind Gao Lishi. At the same time, he kept thinking in his heart, if Aye wanted to deal with Li Linfu, how should he deal with it?
After leaving the Eastern Palace, Li Heng gritted his teeth and suddenly spoke to Gao Lishi in front of him, "Second brother, what is the purpose of Aye suddenly summoning me?"
Gao Lishi didn't want to answer such sensitive questions, but he thought that the saint had just read Chen Lang's scriptures and had nothing to avoid, so he replied in a low voice, "Sanlang, after the saint had just read Chen Lang's article, he asked me to call Sanlang to meet him. As for what he was doing, I don't know?"
Gao Lishi really didn't understand what the saint was thinking this time, but Li Heng next to him was already ecstatic. It was because of Chen Guang's reminder to Li Mi that he saved the defeat under Li Linfu's aggressive offensive. Now that he heard this news, he wanted to meet Chen Lang even more, and at the same time he became more curious about the articles mentioned by Gao Lishi.
Chapter completed!