Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

The military aircraft meeting had dispersed, and Zhao Chen walked forward.

At this moment, Li Gang chased him from behind.

"Your Majesty!" Li Gang shouted loudly.

"Teacher, what else is there for you?" Zhao Chen stopped, and waited for Li Gang to come to his side before he asked.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the imperial examination is of great importance, and you must not act hastily! For hundreds of years, the imperial examination has been based on Confucianism. If your Majesty changes hastily and causes turmoil in the country, what should we do?" Li Gang said.

"According to the teacher's opinion, how should we implement it?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty can set up imperial examinations throughout the country, and still only take Confucianism! Open schools all over the country, and they should only learn Confucianism! But Your Majesty can set aside a county to study practical learning." Li Gangdao.

Zhao Chen thought for a long time, then shook his head.

"Your Majesty, what the old minister said is the safest way! The old minister has thought about it just now. There may be some truth in what you said at the military aircraft meeting, but no one knows whether it is really useful, so you need to try it first. OK!" Li Gang said.

"I also had this idea before, but now I feel more and more that it is not feasible! Education and imperial examinations are different from other things, and it takes too long to implement them! Trials and experiments in local areas cannot show results without ten years of work Come! Therefore, I will not agree!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, you are only eighteen years old, and you can't wait for only ten years?" Li Gang asked.

"I have other considerations." Zhao Chen smiled and said lightly.

"Your Majesty, are you not afraid of opposition from Confucian scholars all over the world when you implement such an imperial examination?" Li Gang asked again.

"It is precisely because I am afraid that the Confucian scholars in the world will oppose it, that I have to reform the imperial examination sooner!" Zhao Chen said.

This is what he calls "other considerations".

Now that the world is experiencing wars, countless Confucian scholars were killed by the Jurchens in the Central Plains and Yanyun, and a group of Confucian scholars were recruited by the Jurchens. They are considered traitors and cannot be used! The same is true for Xixia, North, and Liaodong! However, Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Sichuan were under the governance of Zhao Chen, and there was no imperial examination for eight years. Some young people either joined the army or joined the Production and Construction Corps, and the number of pure Confucian scholars was also very small! Only the large number of Confucian scholars in the south of the Yangtze River may cause some disturbances, while Zhao Chen plans to compromise temporarily in the south of the Yangtze River! The rest of the country except Jiangnan has implemented a new education system and a new imperial examination system. After a long time, when the advantages are revealed, Jiangnan will naturally change.

If the new education and imperial examination system are not implemented now, the world will be peaceful, and there will be more and more scholars, all of whom are Confucian scholars who grew up reading Confucian classics. In ten years, the resistance Zhao Chen will face will be infinitely greater than now!

"Your Majesty, if you do this, the world will be in chaos sooner or later!" Li Gang said.

"I will proceed with this matter safely! I still have not made a decision today, but let you all go back and think about it. I will not implement this matter until the government and the government agree on it!" Zhao Chen said.

Zhao Chen didn't care about Li Gang's "chaos in the world" at all!

The possibility of Confucian scholars rebelling is too low, too low! There is a poem in ancient times called "The ashes are not cold in Shandong, and Liu Xiang didn't read books." After Qin Shihuang ruled the world, Confucian scholars pointed and pointed. Before the "pit ash" of books cooled down, the world began to be in chaos. None of the rebellious Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were scholars! From ancient times to the present, there have been no scholars who rebelled, either poor people like Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Zicheng, or court ministers and nobles like Cao Cao, Yang Jian, and Zhao Kuangyin!

"Your Majesty, think twice!" Li Gang said painstakingly.

"I will also think hard!" Zhao Chen nodded and said.

*** ***

Zhao Chen led a few guards towards the back, still thinking about this matter along the way.

As for whether Confucianism is good or bad, history has long proved it!

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was far behind the world, and the Qing government officially abolished the Confucian-based imperial examination system! The Qing government even invited Confucius out of schools all over the country.

During the period of the Republic of China, the New Culture Movement prevailed, and Confucianism was overthrown.

In the modern society of later generations, no matter in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc., Confucianism is no longer the mainstream knowledge in society, and students from all countries will not only study Confucianism!

The painful lessons of later generations tell Zhao Chen that if Confucianism is still the mainstay, I am afraid that the Chinese nation will still suffer hardships in the future, and even become a semi-colony of European and American whites, and be bullied by the Japanese invaders who are trying to reform their laws! Confucianism will only make this country more and more conservative and make this country more and more backward, so education and imperial examination reforms are imperative!

Education is the foundation of a country! The reason why Germany in later generations is strong is precisely because of modern education! And Zhao Chen also wants to implement China's educational reform step by step.

It is already the season of warm spring and flowers blooming, and the north of the palace is very quiet!

Until now, there are not many people here! Compared with the scale of tens of thousands of people in the imperial palace of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is simply unimaginable!

Walking to a secluded courtyard, there were only two court ladies standing at the door, Zhao Chen nodded towards them, and then entered the courtyard.

There are peach blossoms everywhere in this courtyard, and the fragrance of flowers comes from here, while Qin Yuzhen and Song Qingyao are practicing swords here.

Qin Yuzhen's martial arts skills were better than Song Qingyao's, but they were not competing in martial arts, the two of them were as graceful as butterflies, and they stopped after a while.

"Husband!" Song Qingyao was delighted when she saw Zhao Chen, and walked over first.

Zhao Chen smiled, and he pulled Song Qingyao to sit on the stone chair in the yard, while Qin Yuzhen also stopped at this moment and walked towards here.

"Your Majesty is not happy today?" Qin Yuzhen said.

"I'm not unhappy. I'm just discussing the matter of education and imperial examinations. The ministers of the DPRK and China disagree with me. I'm still thinking about ways to persuade them." Zhao Chen said.

"Actually, what His Majesty is doing is reform." Qin Yuzhen said.

"That's right, it's a reform!" Zhao Chen said.

"Wang Anshi's reform decades ago, not only failed, but made me even worse in the Song Dynasty. Don't be like Wang Anshi, Your Majesty." Qin Yuzhen looked at Zhao Chen with bright eyes, and said.

"Of course I'm different from Wang Anshi! I have prestige and power that Wang Anshi doesn't have! Wang Anshi's reforms are full of resistance. All the scholars and bureaucrats in the world oppose him, but my prestige is not inferior to Taizu and Taizong. No one can oppose me! If I If the law is not changed, no one will be able to change the law after that!" Zhao Chen said.

Zhao Chen expelled the Tartars and restored China, and his prestige even surpassed that of Song Taizu and Song Taizong. It was with this prestige that he was able to subdue some opposing voices and completely change the land of China! If he does not change now, future generations will not have his prestige, and change will be even more difficult.

"Junior Sister Qin, sit down first! Husband, you have been busy in the court for so long, and it's too boring to talk about the government when you come back." Song Qingyao laughed.

"Then what do you want to say?" Zhao Chen stopped and smiled.

"Why don't you tell me what happened in Huining Mansion back then? Why did Junior Sister Qin and Junior Sister Xue turn red every time I mentioned it? Why didn't they tell me, so I had to ask my husband to tell me." Song Qingyao road.

As soon as Song Qingyao finished speaking, Qin Yuzhen's face turned red, and she went outside without looking back.

"Actually, it's nothing..." Zhao Chen thought for a while, and still told what happened that day.

"Husband, you have seen their bodies, you have to be responsible for them." Song Qingyao said.

The laws and regulations of this era are completely different from those of later generations. Like what Zhao Chen did that day, they should have belonged to Zhao Chen long ago.

"Ayao, I'm sorry for you... It should have been enough to have you, but Yueru entered the palace early, it was very pitiful, and later Miss Qin and Miss Xue should not have." Zhao Chen put his arms around Song Qing Yao said softly.

"My husband is the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, emperors have always been seventy-two concubines in the Sangong, Six Courtyards, but my husband has only four daughters. This is unprecedented! I know that many ministers in the court let me My husband enriches the harem, but my husband has not agreed, A Yao is very grateful." Song Qingyao said with a hint of resentment in her voice.

"I promise, there will never be such a thing again in the future! Apart from the two of them, I will never bring other women back." Zhao Chen said.

"My husband doesn't seem to have really got Junior Sister Qin and Junior Sister Xue, right?" Song Qingyao smiled coquettishly in Zhao Chen's arms.

Zhao Chen nodded awkwardly.

"I'll help my husband with this matter, but you must keep your word, and there will be no other women." Song Qingyao said.

"It's natural! I'm already satisfied with having you all, so how can I get along with other girls?" Zhao Chen said.

The two of them chatted under the peach tree, and it took a long time before they left here.

*** ***

On April 20th, Zhao Chen held another military meeting, but this time the discussion was still inconclusive. Veteran officials such as Li Gang and Li Ruoshui still opposed the reform of the imperial examination.

In the next few days, Zhao Chen went to the mansions of various ministers to discuss with many ministers, but he still couldn't convince Li Gang and others.

On April 28, the Military Aircraft Department discussed the matter of education and imperial examination for the third time, but there was still no result.

On May 2, Li Gang wrote a letter opposing the reform of the education examination!

On May 5th, Li Ruoshui also wrote a letter opposing the reform of the imperial examination!

On May 10th, Li Gang, Li Ruoshui and more than ten ministers from the DPRK and China wrote a letter opposing the reform of the imperial examination. Li Gang claimed that if Zhao Chen insisted on the reform of the imperial examination, he would rather resign as minister.