"Hey, Duke Zhao, uncle." Li Ke sighed.
Changsun Wuji: "..."
If you call me uncle now, my scalp will go numb.
"Your Highness, it's okay if you have anything to say." Changsun Wuji smiled bitterly.
"I thought you could understand me." Li Ke said.
Changsun Wuji: "..."
How do you let me understand.
"You guys, do you all think that I am disgusted with these wealthy families?" Li Ke said with a disappointed look on his face.
Everyone: "?"
Is not it?
"Look, I said you don't understand me. Am I that kind of person?" Li Ke sighed.
Everyone: "..."
Although I really want to say no, since Your Highness has said so, then I will reluctantly listen to what Your Highness has to say.
"Actually, it's very simple. I am doing it for the good of the Tang Dynasty and the court of the Tang Dynasty!" Li Ke sighed and said, "Think about it, what is the current situation like? The Langya Xu family is just a small episode, and now the number of Ten thousand candidates joined the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, although most of them worked as local officials."
"But there are also thousands of outstanding students who have entered the various departments of the Tang Dynasty to work. Are these newly promoted students in their prime, high-spirited, blaming Fang Qiu, giving guidance to the country, inspiring writing, and being useless at the moment? What is the status of Marquis Wanhu?"
"This... it seems like this, but it's true. Young people must always be passionate and energetic, otherwise they wouldn't be called young people." Wei Zheng hesitated and said, the young people assigned to their sect's province People, Wei Zheng is still very satisfied.
He saw his own shadow in these young people, and saw their spirit of seriousness, serious work, and fear of power. As a supervisory department, officials in the Menxia Province must have such a spirit.
"Isn't this right? It is a good thing to have such a spirit, but it is not a good thing to have such a spirit all the time. They must know that the world is big, and every mountain is higher than the other. The strong will have its own way! "
"They are elites, yes, but their targets, the wealthy families, are not soft persimmons."
"If they are really strong, then let's compare them to the elite disciples of these powerful families. As far as I know, although there are legitimate sons from various families who participated in these exams, the real elites did not actually participate. "
"So, when I announce this, do they have to work hard and secretly compete with each other, fearing that they will be outcompeted by these disciples from aristocratic families?" Li Ke asked lightly.
"This... it seems like this." The three of them were a little confused, but Li Ke was telling the truth. He had accurately captured the mentality of these new officials.
All three of them vaguely noticed something.
Because what His Highness said, these newly promoted officials are not only compared with the candidates who will participate in the future, they are now compared with many officials who just joined the job last year or two years ago.
This exam was the first in the history of the Tang Dynasty, or China, and those who had joined before were naturally from well-established families.
They have secretly begun to compete with the seniors who joined the company before. Now that they know that a new batch is coming, of course they must compete with each other.
"Isn't this the end? It's certainly a good thing that they have such a mentality. To put it another way, at this time, I announced that the imperial examination will continue to be held and the selection system will continue to be held. Are these aristocratic families very angry and feel that I am disgusting them? Are you looking down on them on purpose?"
"At this time, some statements and comments appeared in newspapers such as Datang Weekly and some messages. They said that the so-called elites from powerful families are actually just paper tigers. They were elites before because there were no people in the world to follow them. They compete, and now that there are people in the world, what they have learned is just a bunch of rubbish.”
"Their so-called talent is just mediocre, and their strength is mediocre."
"Do you think the elites really cultivated by these aristocratic families will be very angry? Will they want to argue with each other?" Li Ke asked again.
Several people:"……"
Your Highness, please treat yourself as an individual. You want them to compete with each other. Do you need to say this? Even if they are not angry in the first place and do not want to argue, if you encourage them like this, they will become angry even if they are not angry.
In that situation... none of them knew what to say, but they all came from a well-established family, so of course they knew the mood of the family's disciples.
Especially the top group. If you tell the top people from the Li family in Longxi that the top people from the Wang family in Taiyuan are better than them, they will have doubts and then look for opportunities to verify it.
But if you say that a person from a common family, or if you say that a person from a poor family is better than them, they will definitely be extremely arrogant.
They definitely don't believe it, and they don't think highly of these people, but don't they care? No, when these people they look down on have shown some ability, these people will look down upon them on the surface, but secretly they will definitely work harder and strive harder, and will not allow themselves to fail.
This is the pride and method of them as disciples and top elites from aristocratic families!
If Li Ke makes such a provocation now, he doesn't have to think about it to know what the future will be like.
"Look, do you all understand what I mean? The court needs vitality and cannot be sluggish. When everyone does things for the court to show their abilities, it is not to criticize their colleagues. If you try every possible means to play political struggle, the country will certainly become stronger."
"When officials compete based on ability, and when officials take pride in showing off their abilities, this is naturally a positive competition. It is not about criticizing one's political opponents, conspiring to frame each other, or deceiving each other."
"This kind of court is prosperous."
"And now, isn't there such an opportunity? The high-spirited disciples of these ordinary people need to be calmed down, and the arrogance of these elite disciples from aristocratic families must be made to bow their heads."
"Isn't it just right for both sides? Everyone competes fairly, justly, and openly. This is of course a good thing, and in this way, the country is stabilized, the court's work efficiency is higher, and the court has more talents."
"So, Duke Zheng, do you think I was wrong in establishing the imperial examination system and this selection system?" Li Ke asked.
Wei Zheng: "..."
Your Highness, you are right, but I am wrong. My thinking is too simple. Your Highness, you are indeed too... too wise and mighty.
"Your Highness is indeed far-sighted, but I and others have a short-sighted vision." Wei Zheng and the three of them saluted one after another.
I admire you, I admire you so much. You are worthy of being the one who invented "Datang Weekly". Tsk tsk, your grasp of people's hearts is really proficient, so proficient.
