Li Yuanai looked at Gu Jing in front of him with a burning look.

Gu Jing didn't seem to have expected Li Yuanai to be so direct and looked a little embarrassed, but he quickly said: "We are the descendants of the saints, and it is a matter that we should do. The establishment of my Gu family's family is also to promote the saint's method, and we are very honored to be valued by the King of Wu. The King of Wu asked to shame someone, and I have been approved in the name of the Gu family."

Li Yuanai said: "Okay, Mr. Gu is so happy, and I am not difficult for me to do it. For the sake of the Sun family, I will not pursue the matters of the Sun family. But I hope they can learn from it. This is enough to worship ancestors and sacrifice to the family. If outsiders are not relatives or not, what is it that they can sacrifice to them together? Sun Zhongmou is a hero of a generation, but he is still a little short of the time before the people sacrifice."

Gu Jing bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness, you must have brought these words to the King of Wu."

As he said, his face suddenly became tidy and bowed deeply: "Will the King of Wu go south this time be useful for my Gu family? Jiangnan is exhausted, and many younger generations in the clan all want to go north. My Gu family and Jiangnan have been in a thousand years, how can I betray the family business in the clan? My Gu family and Jiangnan depend on each other in life and death."

"And Jiangnan is also a territory of China. I have always believed that the court will not forget this place. After the great rule of the world, I have been looking at each other, hoping that the court can take a look at Jiangnan and be sympathetic to the people of Jiangnan."

"I learned that King Wu ordered to go south, and I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night and couldn't fall asleep."

"The King of Wu is a wise king in the present. He invented a chariot and benefited all people in the world. He dredged the canal and benefited thousands of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait."

"Now that he was ordered to go south, it was obvious that the court had made up his mind to curb the fatigue of Jiangnan."

"The people in Jiangnan have been looking forward to the court for a long time, and I have been looking forward to Your Highness for a long time."

"If Your Highness has the advantage of my Gu family, I hope to say bluntly that there are thousands of people from the Gu family, and I am willing to send you to you."

Gu Jing suddenly said this great story, every word was sincere and he almost took out his heart.

Li Yuanai made Chu blush a little. Although he was telling the truth, he couldn't stand his thin-skinnedness.

Looking at Gu Jing with an excited look on his face, Li Yuanai understood what had been invited by the Sun family.

He came for his own Gu family, but he just found an excuse to plead for the Sun family.

Is it easy for Gu Jing to become the head of the largest clan in Jiangnan?

If it weren't for careful consideration, how could it be so sincerely?

Li Yuanai pondered: "It's not that Gu doesn't believe in Mr. Gu, but that ugly words are ahead. Gu went to Jiangnan this time to all-round improvement of Jiangnan's status in our Tang Dynasty and completely develop the value of Jiangnan. The Gu family is the largest prominent family in Jiangnan and involves many interests. It is likely to hurt the Gu family's own interests. How can Mr. Gu handle himself at that time?"

Gu Jing said word by word: "As long as the King of Wu is not willing to destroy my Gu family, I can bear some losses for a thousand years. And Gu believes that Your Highness will not deliberately make things difficult for his own people."

"Of course not!"

Li Yuanai gave a very positive answer.

It is not a secret that the Li Tang court has always boycotted the aristocratic families.

But the so-called boycott family does not refer to all aristocratic families, but the most representative and influential five surnames and seven hopes.

They gather together and marry each other, just like a towering tree, with roots, stems, branches and leaves connected together.

It can be said that one moves the whole body.

As for other gentry who were separated from the five surnames and seven hopes, they were actually the objects of support from the court.

Li Yuanai never had the idea of ​​hostility towards the late gentry in Jiangnan. Instead, he was willing to support them and went to war with the five surnames.

Because in the eyes of the five surnames and Qiwang, the gentry in Jiangnan is no different from the poor.

Originally, literati were despised by each other, and with the inevitable regional discrimination in ancient times, it was not uncommon for the northern gentry to look down on the southern gentry.

Just like the students from the south looked down on the northern students later.

Li Yuanai looked at Gu Jing in front of him and said, "The requirements for your Gu family are very simple. Do you know why Saint Kong is great?"

Gu Jing cooperated very much and shook his head.

Li Yuanai said solemnly: "Confucius's knowledge and talent may not be the top of his time, but he is the only one who has truly been praised for all generations?"

"There is no other reason, just four words!"

“There is no difference!”

For some reason, Li Yuanai often spoke nonsense to Confucius, saying that Confucianism destroyed China's thousand-year-old culture and imprisoned thoughts. Anyway, he himself respected Confucius very much.

"At the beginning of the birth of Chinese culture, culture was limited to the literati class. Only the children of nobles had the right to learn knowledge, so there was a saying that they learned from nobles."

"What the ancient sages who came from ancient times were the kings of various countries and important officials of various countries. They would have powerful people to treat them as guests of honor, even I am no exception..."

"Only Saint Confucius broke this constraint. He could enter and receive education from him without distinction between aristocrats and civilians, regardless of national boundaries or Chinese.

"There are three thousand Confucius disciples, including Lu, Qi, Jin, Song, Chen, Cai, Qin, Chu and other countries, which not only broke the national borders at that time, but also broke the distinction between the barbarians and the Xia and the barbarians at that time."

"My Chinese culture became popular in the world, and then other schools saw that Confucius's teachings were successful, and began to imitate them. Then there was a great collision of Chinese culture and a hundred schools of thought contend. My Chinese culture also shone brightly because of this."

"This era will progress with the development of society. I believe that even without Confucius, there will be Saint Zhang and Saint Zhao in the future. But who knows whether it will be one hundred years or two hundred years?"

"Sage Confucius promoted the success of Chinese culture in one fell swoop, and no one can compare with this contribution throughout the ages."

"The four words "The Supreme Saint" are the best evaluation and praise for him."

Li Yuanai said with a heavy face and said, "But when I came to Jiangnan these days, I found that the people were ignorant. I would rather believe in the illusory nerves than devote myself to studying Confucius. This is the biggest disadvantage of Jiangnan. Therefore, to govern Jiangnan, the people must first realize that there is a beauty in the book and a golden house in the book. Only knowledge can change their destiny. Mr. Gu's family is the first in the water. If you can contact many friends, relatives and friends, promote Confucius, and carry forward Confucius. Such a beautiful reputation of Gu's family will definitely be passed down from the north to the south."

Gu Jing frowned and said, "Is this a matter difficult? It's easy to say it. Your Highness, please forgive me for saying it bluntly. Your Highness has his own Yan Ruyu and his own golden house. These two sentences are very good, but can it be realized?"

"Of course!" Li Yuanai narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Jing.

The head of the Gu family is really not simple, and he revealed the key in one sentence.

Why are there so few scholars?

There are so many monks and fewer meats.

The root of the problem lies in the court. When the court seeks talents, it is still the best place to recommend.

Only a small number of people entered the imperial examination.

There are so many students in the world, and it is very difficult to only seek a small quota.

It can be seen that it is not easy for scholars to seek official positions, and they have put a lot of effort into seeking one or half of their positions.

Even people like Lu Zhaolin and Li Bai have to submit a letter to seek official positions, depending on the expressions of the nobles.

Not to mention others.

Li Yuanai said slowly: "Mr. Gu doesn't think that the imperial court has opened a palace examination in recent years, and he pays more and more attention to the imperial examination? I am not afraid of revealing one or two inside stories to the teacher. The imperial examination will gradually increase the weight and replace the recommendation of officials. Moreover, even if it is recommended by officials, the other party must have the identity of a scholar."

He was about to call a scholar, but he shut up quickly.

The scholar was a symbol of the identity of scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, scholars were considered excellent talents. Scholars were not something that ordinary people could call them. Scholars were the highest in the subject.

To this day, only one or two people won every year.

The status of scholars is much higher than that of the top scorer.

"I plan to set up an examination room in Jiangnan. Those who have excellent grades will be students. Students can get many conveniences, such as freely working with local government offices. They can rent books from local academies. Those with excellent grades will be funded by the government and go to Beijing to take the exam. Those with special grades can be recommended to study in the Imperial College, etc.."

"In short, the whole Jiangnan is full of desire for knowledge."

Gu Jing said again: "But your highness has ever thought about it. If everyone goes to study and no one cultivates the fields, what should we do? The granary in the south of the Yangtze River is the lifeblood of the country. If this leads to a poor harvest, the crime will be quite serious."

"It's okay!" Li Yuanai said without caring: "Scholars also need to eat. Really poor people will grasp the right position. And I hope that more cunning scholars will spend more time to be lazy in order to save labor and save labor, and find ways to reduce the burden on themselves or increase the yield of the fields."

Reading makes people progress, and grain production will never be reduced due to the development of the times.

On the contrary, various ways to increase food will be derived due to the progress of society.

Gu Jing remained silent for a moment and bowed deeply to Li Yuanai, "I am believing that the King of Wu is in a dilemma. It is a great blessing for Jiangnan to wait for the King of Wu. A certain representative of the Gu family is willing to follow His Highness to contribute to the promotion of the sage culture. He also strives to promote other geniuses in Jiangnan to attach importance to the imperial examination and make them the first students to enter the Jiangnan examination room."

Li Yuanai smiled and said, "Mr. Gu made the most correct decision."

Gu Jing bowed and said, "Gu also feels this."

Li Yuanai asked Di Zhixun to send Gu Jing out of the inn.

Looking at Gu Jing's leaving figure, Li Yuanai whispered: "I still want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, but I don't want it to be so smooth. This Gu Jing is a character..."

After walking out of the inn, Gu Jing bid farewell to Di Zhixun, went out to join the servants who were traveling with him, turned over and looked at the inn, breathed a long sigh, and said, "Go back."

The big stone in his heart finally fell.

Today, Gu Jing is about mercying for the Sun family, but in fact he is investigating Li Yuanai's attitude.

Lou Shide's decisive behavior made Gu Jing notice the danger.

Now Li Yuanai is taking action against Jiangnan's lewd sacrifice, and it is hard to guarantee that he will not attack his Gu family in the future.

Although the Gu family is deeply rooted in Jiangnan, it is not the noble family of five surnames.

To destroy the five aristocratic families is equivalent to killing one thousand enemies and destroying eight hundred of them. But if you really want to destroy the Gu family, the loss is only a little bit, and it is completely within the scope of your tolerance.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Yuanai spoke, she went to learn from their Gu family.

Gu Jing understood that Li Yuanai's proposal was not just a casual statement or a temporary idea, but a long-term plan.

In the heart of this wise king of the Tang Dynasty, he had already had the intention of taking the family.

As the largest family in Jiangnan, the Gu family cannot stay out of the matter.

Either cooperate or follow the situation or kill the monkey for the chicken to show.

Killing a chicken to warn the monkey is no longer suitable for use at this time.

Even the Gu family moved, and the rest was no problem.

Almost in an instant, Gu Jing made a decision.
To be continued...