Jiankang Mansion is peaceful and peaceful after the snow.
Li Xingchen was wearing a white robe. Except for a stretched golden dragon embroidered on the hem of the clothes, there was no mark to prove his identity as emperor. Xiao Xiang, who was following him, was also wearing a white robe, with a few red plum blossoms dotted on the skirt.
Add a bit of cuteness and vitality to her.
Among the green mountains, you can see the yellow wall appearing at the end of the road in the mountains. White snow covers the branches and the yellow wall. Coupled with a few white plum blossoms blooming under the wall, it feels like a fairyland.
Li Xingchen couldn't help but think of a popular saying about Huangluo in later generations.
When it snows, Nanjing turns into Jinling.
And what appeared before his eyes now was none other than Jinling after the snow.
Jinling Academy is right in front. This is the Stone Mountain of Jinling. It is also the place where Li Xingchen once participated in the Jinling Poetry Society. Naturally, because of its unique geographical location, it represents Jinling City and the culture of Jinling City. Naturally, Jinling Academy chose to locate here.
Of course, the more important thing is that there are several dilapidated monasteries on the mountain, which can be directly used as school buildings after renovation.
There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers are in the mist.
Li Xingchen also once walked around Jiankang Mansion. The number of temples around Jiankang Mansion is really much more than that of later generations, let alone the entire Jiangnan. After all, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the early years of the Southern Dynasties, Jiankang Mansion was a confrontation between the north and the south.
The first line, which is more militarized and has more prosperous culture, is actually the Wu and Yue areas further south, such as Wu County, Kuaiji and Shanyin. The famous "Preface to the Lanting Collection" was written in "Kuiji Shanyin"
"Orchid Pavilion".
Therefore, compared with Jiankang Prefecture, further south, there are obviously more temples, and most of them have been destroyed and abandoned during the Hou Jing Rebellion.
These dilapidated temples seem to be a symbol of the power of the Southern Dynasty. Although Nanchen is still lingering in the southeast, after all, it is not the Southern Dynasty that once regained the Central Plains several times.
However, it was precisely because of Nanchen's decadence that Li Xinchen was given the opportunity to make progress. And now the college, which was built on the original temple, represents the rebirth of a culture. This represents the dynasty and many cultural institutions.
Sons of man no longer pray for peace through the blessings of gods and demons, but want to gain more knowledge so that they can go higher and further.
This is the rebirth of a dynasty on its original ruins, and it is also the re-germination of learning.
Climbing up the stairs, Li Xingchen had already seen the people who came to greet him.
It's not the Lantern Festival yet, and the academy is still on holiday. At the New Year's and New Year's Day ceremonies, the court had already had a falling out over the academy's participation in selecting talents next year. Even the ignorant southeastern gentry planned to join forces to resist.
In the end, who would have known that they would all be caught in one fell swoop by Li Xingchen, who had already figured out their ins and outs.
The storm that was set off in the court soon swept across the entire court and the public. The properties of these southeastern nobles who intended to cause rebellion were quickly annexed by the court. At the same time, the Tianshui Liang family in the northwest also suffered almost the same fate.
Representative Li Xingchen forcefully announced to the world that the aristocratic family system that had dominated the Southern Dynasties for three hundred years had fallen apart and no longer existed.
From now on, the aristocratic family can no longer fundamentally shake the integrity of the imperial power. On the contrary, through strong force, the imperial power can decide the life or death of the aristocratic family.
The various aristocratic families that relied on Li Xingchen and contributed to the founding of the country have gradually transformed from the original aristocratic families into the founding aristocrats of the Han Dynasty. Although they also have enough land and wealth, they even have talents recommended under the nine-level Zhongzheng system.
quota, but their power has been greatly curbed, and the new talent selection system is obviously attracting more people's attention.
The aristocratic family is no longer as unattainable as before. On the contrary, as long as there is a chance, any poor family or even the capital of Guizhou may become an aristocratic family through their own efforts, or become an upstart in the court. The myth of the aristocratic family has been broken, which represents a new era.
The system of selecting talents no longer requires Li Xingchen to vigorously promote it, and it will naturally become more popular.
In contrast, Jinling Academy, which has been at the center of this storm of public opinion and even struggle, has been surprisingly calm. Under Li Xingchen's protection, Jinling Academy has successfully completed construction and enrollment, and is waiting for the start of school after the Lantern Festival.
Now the new headmaster of Jinling Academy is rushing to welcome him. After seeing Li Xingchen, he solemnly bowed his hand and said: "Xiao Cong of Jinling Academy, please see your majesty, Concubine Shu."
Li Xingchen looked at the handsome young man standing in front of him and couldn't help but sigh that his father-in-law's genes were indeed good. Xiao Cong was the eldest son of Emperor Xiao Kui of the Western Liang Dynasty, and he was truly the crown prince of the Western Liang Dynasty.
After the fall of the Western Liang Dynasty, these things naturally disappeared. Moreover, Xiao Xiang was named Concubine Shu by Li Xunchen, so Xiao Kui became an out-and-out father-in-law of His Majesty, and his son Xiao Cong was naturally also the uncle of the state.
It's a bit funny to say that Li Xingchen successfully turned the emperors of Xiliang and Nanchen into his relatives, which naturally prevented to a large extent the possibility of someone trying to control them for rebellion. After all, these emperors were ultimately
They are still relatives of the emperor and the country. As long as people in the government and the public use their brains, they will feel that they will not give up glory and wealth and choose to take desperate risks.
Because his elder brother-in-law was very honest and obedient, Li Xingchen naturally had no reason not to take advantage of him.
The Xiao family of Lanling was also a famous scholar. The heyday of literature in the Southern Dynasties occurred in the era of Nanqi and Nanliang, when the Xiao family of Lanling was the emperor. At that time, everyone from the emperor to the officials below,
They are all literary giants who laid a solid foundation for the later development of Sui and Tang literature to its peak.
For Xiao Kui and Xiao Cong, as the emperors of Xi Liang, they were actually just puppets controlled by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. They knew this very well. As long as the Northern Zhou Dynasty felt that they were not pleasing to their eyes, they would naturally
They can be destroyed directly, or Xi Liang can be destroyed directly.
This is what Yang Jian did in history. He simply summoned Xiao Cong to Chang'an, and Xi Liang disappeared naturally. Therefore, in the eyes of Xiao Cong, the first emperor of Xi Liang, Xi Liang still had the chance to become Southern Liang.
Hopefully, by Xiao Kui's generation, they would have given up completely, so being captured in Nanchen was a relief for the father and son.
At least Chen Xu didn't kill them at that time.
Later, Li Xingchen actually released the father and son and asked them to take charge of Jinling Academy, which surprised and delighted them even more. At least the Lanling Xiao family could return to their original business, which meant that they were worthy of their ancestors.
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Of course, Li Xingchen also had his own considerations in making this choice.
It is not so easy to determine the mountain leader of each academy. After all, the most important thing for each mountain leader is reputation and convincing the public.