Chapter 5014: Both ability and political integrity
After receiving the order, Li Junxian had a head as big as a bucket. Emperors of the Tang Dynasty liked to visit privately incognito, stroll out of the palace, immerse themselves in the wealth and fireworks of Chang'an, and enjoy the sense of accomplishment of the prosperity under their rule, but they didn't care at all if "White Dragon Fish" "Submit", how many heads will fall to the ground?
But he cannot be persuaded. He is not Wei Zheng. He does not have the courage and responsibility to remonstrate directly. He can only select fifty elite soldiers to personally lead the team and protect Li Chengqian, Liu Ji, and Xu Jingzong who are wearing regular uniforms. Go out of Xuanwu Gate.
Li Junxian wanted to send someone to Lishan Mountain to inform Fang Jun, but Li Chengqian stopped him: "I'm just going for a walk to relax. There is no need to inform Fang Jun in advance."
Li Junxian had no choice but to obey.
Wang Fangyi, the guard of Xuanwu Gate, stood under the city to see Li Chengqian off, while Li Junxian rode in front of him and told him: "When your Majesty leaves the palace, you should guard the gate carefully."
Wang Fangyi said: "From now on until His Majesty returns to the palace, the Xuanwu Gate will be closed tightly and no one will be allowed in or out!"
A group of people rode horses and walked through the inner garden along the road. It was drizzling and very pleasant. Bypassing the Daming Palace, which was almost completed, we crossed Baqiao and headed straight to Lishan Mountain.
Looking from a distance, Lishan Mountain is covered with indigo. Up close, you can see the bright green grass buds facing the sun. Teams of people are methodically cleaning up the fallen leaves and silt accumulated in the past winter at the canals. A craftsman is turning a huge water tank. On one side of the wheel, animal grease is added to the bearings, and there are farmers wearing bamboo hats holding cattle, rolling up their trouser legs, and plowing the ground in the paddy fields...
In the distance, wisps of smoke drifted away in the drizzle.
Li Chengqian looked at the picture of Taoyuan and the prosperous times in front of him, and felt that the anger and fatigue that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time were greatly relieved. As an emperor, he rules over the world, and while enjoying the support of the world, he is naturally willing to see himself after working hard on government affairs. To achieve the best results, if everything in the world was like Lishan Farm, I would be comparable to Yao and Shun...
A young boy was walking barefoot and holding an old cow on the roadside. When he saw a group of dozens of horses galloping towards him with the sound of hooves rumbling, he was frightened and quickly moved to the side of the road. He hugged the old cow's neck tightly. To prevent the old cow from being frightened by the horse.
When the horse came close, he reined in his horse and stood still. The leader was a man with a majestic appearance, fair skin, a little fat, a short mustache, and a kind expression. He asked with a smile: "Excuse me, young man, do you know where Fang Jun is?"
When the child heard that he was looking for Fang Jun, he turned sideways and released one hand, pointing to a gurgling river not far away. There were several greenhouses scattered beside the river in the sunny side: "Erlang must be over there!"
Li Chengqian looked up, pulled off a jade pendant from his waist, threw it to the child from his horse, and shouted: "I'm giving you a small thing, don't lose it!"
The child caught it with quick hands and feet, and opened his mouth with missing front teeth: "Thank you for the reward!"
"Haha! It's not bad that a child in the mountains can have such vision!"
Li Chengqian took the lead and ran towards the river from the fork in the road. Dozens of guards behind him followed suit. He crossed a stone bridge like wind and clouds and reached the bottom of the river.
From a distance, they are just a few greenhouses at the bottom of the river valley. When you get closer, you realize that there is a cave. The river meanders at the bottom of this valley. There is a gentle open space on the north side. The greenhouses are one next to another. Not only is the mountain on the north blocking the north. The wind blew, and many greenhouses and chimneys were smoking. There were obviously ground dragons inside.
The group came with great fanfare and had already alarmed the people here. Several strong young people came up to ask. They were surprised when they saw Li Junxian. When they looked into the crowd again, they immediately recognized Li Chengqian and hurriedly knelt down. Kneel down and salute.
When Li Chengqian saw that these young men recognized him, he knew that they were probably Fang Jun's soldiers and had seen him before, so he asked, "Where is Fang Jun?"
"Erlang is in the greenhouse. I'm going to report it now."
"No need, just take me there."
"Here!"
Li Chengqian and his party dismounted, and dozens of imperial guards immediately dispersed to occupy favorable terrain so that they could rush to His Majesty's side to rescue him as soon as possible in case of emergencies.
Li Chengqian took Liu Jie, Xu Jingzong, and Li Junxian into a greenhouse with their hands behind their backs.
In March in Guanzhong, the grass buds are slightly dew, and the weather is warm and cold at first, but as soon as you walk into the greenhouse, you are greeted by a rush of hot and humid air. In front of your eyes are ridges of seedlings growing vigorously, racks of cucumbers dripping with green, and a row of borders. The leaves of the leeks are fresh and tender... It feels like being in a vegetable garden in the middle of summer.
Fang Jun, who was wearing a narrow-sleeved, round-neck robe and a futou, bent down and picked a cucumber from the cucumber stand, washed it casually in the ditch, opened his mouth and took a bite, and then saw Li Chengqian A group of people broke in.
He quickly spat out the cucumber in his mouth, stepped forward to greet him and said, "Your Majesty is here. I am sorry for the delay in greeting you from afar."
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "I came here on a whim without telling you. What crime is Erlang guilty of?"
His eyes stayed on the cucumber that Fang Jun took a bite of. Without waiting for Fang Jun's reply, he strolled to the cucumber stand and picked one, washed it in the ditch, and opened his mouth to bite...
Li Junxian hurriedly took two steps forward and tried to stop him: "Your Majesty..."
The safety of the king of a country is closely related to the society and the world. Even if the food in the palace has to undergo many inspections, how can he eat freely outside the palace now?
If something goes wrong, who can take responsibility?
However, before he could finish his words, Li Chengqian had already taken a bite, chewed it with relish, and even suggested: "You all pick one and try it. It's fragrant, sweet and crispy, and it tastes great. It's much better than the ones in the palace!" ”
Fang Jun watched Xu Jingzong and Liu Ji picking cucumbers, then came to Li Chengqian's side, took a bite of the cucumber in his hand, and said with a smile: "There are many fruits and vegetables here that are bought by the imperial family and sent to the palace. What your Majesty eats in the palace is no different than this.”
Li Chengqian nodded: "So it is important to say that the food is delicious, but it is also more important to adapt to the time. For example, cooking wine in the snow, drinking tea in front of the moon, eating a cucumber in the field, and sitting in the palace eating those cooked by the imperial chef. The vegetables produced are completely different.”
Fang Jun smiled and expressed his approval. Eating is like this. It not only pays attention to the quality of the food, but also needs to match the environment and mood. If the environment and mood are right, even the most ordinary food can be delicious and delicious.
Liu Ji came in chewing cucumbers, pointed to the shelves full of cucumbers, and said, "I have heard for a long time that Taiwei is proficient in greenhouse cultivation. Even rare fruits and vegetables can be cultivated in greenhouses and then sold in the greenhouse." Chang'an dignitaries, with this alone, have a lot of income. Why not grant this technology to Wentang Supervisor? If Wentang Supervisor can also cultivate these fruits and vegetables, and then supply them to the palace, it will save a lot of money for the palace. An expense.”
"Haha,"
Fang Jun glanced at Liu Ji and said with a smile: "It's not that I am too precious to give up these skills. It's just that Wentang Supervisor is superfluous and corrupt. How many of them are really specializing in cultivation technology? They are just a bunch of bureaucrats. That's all. , you, Zhongshu Ling, are responsible.”
Liu Ji's face froze.
Fang Jun continued: "What's more, these skills are not obtained out of thin air. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay tuition fees. Now that I have gained a little, I can't let me contribute selflessly, right? Zhongshu Lingdang Remember, the country cannot compete with the people for profit.”
Liu Jie: "..."
He snorted angrily, took a big bite of the cucumber, and chewed it vigorously.
Xu Jingzong walked aside while chewing cucumbers and pretended to look at the corn seedlings. He was afraid that he would burst out laughing...
"Don't compete with the people for profit." This is almost the advice given by the official class of all dynasties to the country and the imperial power. Its superficial meaning is naturally correct. Once the country and the imperial power end with their huge privileges, how can private business survive?
Monopoly is inevitable.
However, in fact, since the positioning of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, there have been few pure merchants. The so-called merchants are all agents of aristocratic families. Therefore, the so-called "competing for profits with the people" does not mean "competing for profits with businessmen", but Compete with "officials, aristocratic families, and powerful families" for profit.
However, those so-called Confucian disciples like to talk about this sentence most, in order to isolate the country and imperial power from business, making business monopolized by them.
While denigrating and belittling the role of merchants, Confucianism shouted "Don't compete with the people for profit" while arranging clan members and cronies to monopolize business and make huge profits.
It’s really both upright and upright...
Li Chengqian finished eating the cucumber, threw the cucumber root aside, walked to the corn seedlings, looked at it, and asked, "Erlang doesn't seem to care about the imperial examination?"
Fang Jun followed suit. Wen Yan paused and said calmly: "The imperial examination was re-implemented through reforms after the ministers advised Emperor Taizong. How can you not care? But the current imperial examination is indeed not that important."< br>
Liu Jie and Xu Jingzong both looked at Fang Jun.
Li Chengqian was surprised and said: "What do you mean by this?"
Fang Jun had nothing to avoid and said: "The current imperial examination is just to promote and stabilize this national policy and make it a path to officialdom recognized by everyone in the world. But under the current situation, Your Majesty also understands that even if you take the first-level examination Hundreds of times, those who are selected are the children of aristocratic families. The children of poor families who can stand out are very rare, and there are no children of ordinary people... These children become officials, but they are of little use. "
Li Chengqian naturally understood the meaning, nodded and said: "Although the method of selecting talents has changed, those people are still selected."
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Fang Jun sighed: "The aristocratic family's monopoly on education has been entrenched for thousands of years. How can it be changed overnight?" He picked up an iron sickle from the side of the ridge and squatted down to cut leeks: "The imperial examination cannot only test Confucian classics. Raise the natural subjects to the same proportion, so that the selected officials can have both ability and political integrity. Confucianism focuses on cultivation, while improving officials only focuses on moral character, while the natural subjects focus on them. In terms of technology, improving the talents of officials. If a person with virtue but no talent becomes an official, he may be a good person, but he may not be qualified. If a person with talent but no virtue becomes an official, he may have outstanding political achievements, but he will definitely be corrupt. How to cultivate officials with both ability and political integrity, and talents It is the ultimate goal of the imperial examination... The first crop of leeks was cut the day before yesterday, and now the second crop is just right. I invite your Majesty to cook the hot pot. "