After learning about Li Chengqian's performance at the Lu family debate, Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh.
Eunuch Zhou chuckled and said, "It's just that I'm an old servant with little knowledge and I don't know what it means."
"It's okay if you don't know. I'll explain it to you."
"He is saying that others say he is a lunatic, but he says others are actually little kids who don't understand the world."
Li Shimin lowered his head and suppressed a smile: "The last sentence is a bit interesting."
"If it were said to you and me in the current state of mind, it would be a very simple metaphor."
"What I'm talking about is that those wealthy nobles are just a flash in the pan, and now the tombs have become common people's farmland."
While listening, Eunuch Zhou nodded.
Seeing Li Shimin stop, Eunuch Zhou couldn't help but raise his head and ask: "What if it's His Highness's state of mind?"
"That's another meaning." .??.
"He is telling these aristocratic families not to be too arrogant, as it will be of no use, and not to end up making trouble until their graves are dug up."
No wonder the children of those aristocratic families were so angry that their faces turned green.
It turns out that His Highness was cursing someone.
Eunuch Zhou shook his head and smiled.
Li Shimin suddenly stopped laughing and said: "But before that, what Qian'er said is good, the people are water, the country is a boat, the water can carry the boat but also capsize it."
"It's time to put an end to the excessive matters in the prefectures and counties..."
This matter has actually troubled Li Shimin for a long time.
There are too many prefectures and counties, which are difficult to manage, and there are more officials than citizens, so the state treasury cannot make ends meet. This is definitely not possible.
Now Li Chengqian gave him a surprise. The concept he proposed was very complete, and he even thought about the official position of inspection history for himself.
This really saves a lot of things.
In the morning of the next day, Li Shimin took the matter to the court for discussion.
After Li Shimin stated all Li Chengqian's ideas, most of the ministers agreed, except for a few who disagreed because of personal interests.
On that day, Li Shimin directly handed over the matter of how to plan states and counties and how to plan large administrative districts to Changsun Wuji. Everything went very smoothly.
However, at the end of the court meeting, someone stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."
"But it doesn't matter."
Li Shimin waved his hand.
"I am the eldest prince of the current dynasty..."
…
Li Chengqian never imagined that he would be raped in the court.
When Changsun Wuji came over with this news, his face was full of confusion.
Changsun Wuji sighed and said, "You don't have to worry, your Majesty has suppressed this matter."
Li Chengqian chuckled and said, "In the final analysis, it's because I offended the noble family."
"Can you see this too?"
"I don't see, is he worthy of being Changsun Wuji's nephew?"
Li Chengqian’s flattery is worth a wave of 666.
Changsun Wuji's face glowed with pride: "Anyway, you have to pay more attention in the future, after all, people's words can be feared."
"I know."
Li Chengqian shook his head and sighed.
The aristocratic family dared to go against the current prince, something that would never have been seen in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.
But this is not the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the early Tang Dynasty. This era is the last period of madness for the family.
In fact, before there was no such activity as the imperial examination to select talents, things like going against the prince, not to mention going against the prince, happened from time to time.
Because before the advent of the imperial examination, the imperial court selected talents through aristocratic families.
In some dynasties, even the entire court of officials was monopolized by a few aristocratic families.
At that time, if a person wanted to be an official, he had to look at his background first and then his family background. If his background was not good and his family background was not good, his official career would naturally not be good either.
The reason why Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty created the imperial examination system was to break this situation, and to break the monopoly of talented families by aristocratic families.
But it was also because of this that Emperor Sui Yang, a monarch who had made many contributions to China, turned into a dissolute and immoral guy.
To put it bluntly, in one sentence, you cannot offend a Confucian scholar from an aristocratic family by offending anyone.
Although he can't stab you to death with a knife, he can write you into history and make you infamy for thousands of years.
Finally, Changsun Wuji said: "By the way, Your Majesty asked me to ask you, do you have specific plans for the large administrative area you mentioned?"
"this?"
Li Chengqian was not surprised that Li Shimin would know about his affairs.
After all, in this era that I live in, there is no privacy at all about my identity.
Li Chengqian thought for a while and then said: "If you follow my advice, abolish the states and merge them into counties, abolish the counties into prefectures, and prefectures govern counties, and then divide the country into ten provinces..."
"Wait a minute, I'll write it down."
Changsun Wuji waved his hand and asked Xiaochuzi to bring him pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Li Chengqian was talking and Changsun Wuji was taking notes.
What he said was nothing more than the Ten Principles of the Tang Dynasty.
There are Guannai Road, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, etc.
When the recording was completed, Changsun Wuji looked at Li Chengqian with confusion on his face: "Where did you learn these things?"
"Book."
Li Chengqian replied without thinking.
Changsun Wuji was helpless.
He also knows that he can recite the entire Four Books and Five Classics.
But it is really unexpected that this guy can delve so deeply.
Perhaps, he really is that one-of-a-kind genius.
But no matter what, my nephew is a genius, and if he can inherit the throne in the future, he will definitely be a wise master.
Changsun Wuji thought so in his heart, but did not say it out loud.
After asking some more questions about the inspection history, he left.
{Received anger value +8 from Lu Wanjie...}
Just as Li Chengqian was seeing off Changsun Wuji, a system prompt sounded suddenly. what's the situation?
What happened to her? Why is she still angry?
Before Li Chengqian could figure it out, the system prompt sounded again.
{Received admiration value +35 from Lu Wanjie...}
"???"
What the hell?
What is she doing?
Li Chengqian is a bit baffled.
First anger and then admiration?
Is there any other way to play like this?
Li Chengqian didn't know what Lu Wanjie's mentality was now.
Because during the debate, Li Chengqian's words "It's just that" made him hate Li Chengqian so much that his teeth itched with hatred.
But it was also because she hated Li Chengqian that she could never forget the talented man who invented fireworks.
She even felt that it would be a lifelong regret not to meet a man who combined talents and affection like that.
But she didn't know that this man who combined talent and love was the bastard who said she was nothing more than that.
…
After Changsun Wuji returned to the palace, he handed over the reforms mentioned by Li Chengqian to Li Shimin.
The main content is completely centered around the core idea that "the people are water, the country is a boat, and water can carry a boat but also capsize it."
"The Theory of Ten Paths, convert the whole country and ban the prefectures, and turn the whole country into ten paths."
"Inspection history, inspection of officials and disciplines, and rewards and punishments for each after five years."
"Investigation order, inspection of official misconduct, punished by the emperor himself..."
"Okay, okay, okay..."
Li Shimin said three good words in a row.
"At the age of eight, he can think so carefully. It's really hard for him."
"He really didn't disappoint me."
Li Shimin was quite satisfied with Li Chengqian's performance.
And there was a bit of pride in it. When he looked at Changsun Wuji, there was a hint of embarrassment in his eyes.
It seems to be saying, have you seen it, I have a good son.