Cheng Qian was originally very confident in his achievements, but when Li Shimin asked him to go over for dinner, he handed him a newspaper.

The Empire Times is a newly founded newspaper, which is different from the Half Monthly Talk published on May 1, and this new Times, which was recently founded, highlights an instant core. Although there are not only Half Monthly Talk newspapers in the Tang Dynasty, the Empire Times is the first newspaper that is published and published every day.

The Empire Times also used the empire's water and land station system, using the method of publishing and delivering eleven major cities in Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Xiangyang, Yangzhou, Chengdu, Jinling, Guangzhou, Liangzhou, Youzhou and Hongzhou at the same time, and then delivering in all directions.

This is the mature distribution method from the half month of discussion on the magazine. They used multiple editorial departments to organize manuscripts. Then, as soon as the manuscript was determined, they used the Feige system to transmit the sample magazine to eleven branches and eleven branches, used movable type to print the version and then printed it, and then used the mature water and land station system to distribute these printed newspapers to various states as soon as possible.

There are now 18 roads and more than 300 states in the Tang Dynasty. They can already be printed and distributed on the same day, covering nearly 100 states across the country. Then the next day, basically all states can receive newspapers. At the latest, about 90% of counties can receive newspapers.

Although for some places, the newspapers they received were from yesterday the day before yesterday, this speed still surprised everyone in the world.

Compared to the half-month talks that are published every five days, the Times, which are published every day, are still very popular even if some places are left behind for one or two days before they can be seen.

As for the people in Xiangyang City, where the main office is located, they can see the freshest newspapers every day. The news that happened yesterday can basically be seen the next afternoon.

In fact, the Empire Times is not a morning newspaper, it should be an evening newspaper, because it can only be obtained in the afternoon at the earliest, but yesterday's incident can be seen in the newspaper today without leaving home, which is still surprising and delightful.

Even Emperor Li Shimin is now subscribing to multiple newspapers. Basically, he has subscribed to all newspapers, magazines, weekly magazines and magazines on the market. Of course, he prefers to read Banyuetan and Times, both of which are controlled by Ji Li.

The newspapers run by Li Ji are accurate, time-sensitive, and more objective. Although there are more advertisements, Li Shimin also likes to read the advertisements above. These advertisements are more distinctive, and sometimes you can see many things that cannot be seen in the memorials when reading these advertisements.

He also likes another section that he prefers, which is the People's Livelihood Economics Edition. He especially likes to read various prices, investment promotion, rental and recruitment advertisements, which is the real people's livelihood reaction.

How much rent is in Xiangyang City, how much shops sell for, how much meat is per pound today, how much rice is a bucket, what is the price of vegetables, and how much workmanship is for the people, it is clear at a glance.

Of course, a lot of news will be published in the newspaper, such as the central personnel adjustment just announced by the court and the new list of eleven prime ministers, which were published in the newspaper.

The headlines of the Times today are this news. There is a lot of space behind it, introducing the resumes of these eleven prime ministers, and their comments are very objective. Even though the newspaper's owner is Li Chao, it has not boasted about Li Chao.

Of course, the people must like to read these things, but Li Shimin was not interested in this. He chose the prime ministers, and he knew better each person's resume, and he even mastered a lot of hidden information.

In today's Times, there was a news that attracted Li Shimin.

That is, the Li family published the final exam results of their family recruiting scholars in the newspaper, and there was an admission list on it.

There were not many people admitted to the Li family, with a total of more than 1,100 people taking their exams, and in the end only 100 people were admitted, not even as 100 as mentioned in advance.

Chengqian took the newspaper.

The first name that caught my eye was not him.

That name is not Li Chengqian, nor is it Li Chengzong.

He was a little surprised. I remember that when the exam came out, many people said the exam was difficult. He also felt that the content of this exam was very complicated, even more severe than the imperial court's Jinshi class.

But he still got a good exam by himself.

Looking further down, he was not in second place.

The third place is still not him.

I kept looking down, but in the thirteenth place, Cheng Qian saw the name Li Chengzong.

After reading it, he was a little surprised.

I've just finished 13th?

Li Shimin looked at the prince's reaction and was just surprised to see him, but felt a little relieved. He heard that the prince was very confident about this exam, and was worried that his grades were not very good and he was in a bad mood.

"I have sent someone to inquire. The list of admissions considered by the Li family this time is very fair, just and open. There is nothing wrong with it, including your grades. They have never touched them. The Li family knows that there are no more than five people taking the exam, but they have not adjusted the final admissions list. No. 13 is your real strength."

"It's only thirteenth." Cheng Qian curled his lips.

"Thirteenth place is already very good. There are more than a thousand people taking the exam with you. How old are you this year?"

Cheng Qian shook his head, "But I started studying at the age of three, and all the scholars I taught me were great scholars of the world. I am also a disciple of Li Xiang. Besides, the more than a thousand people in the Li family exam this time were not the best scholars in the world. Most of them were just poor scholars, and many of them were just proficient in literature. I only got thirteen. It seems that my literary talent is not as good as I thought."

Li Shimin smiled and comforted his son that it was beyond his expectations that the prince could get this score. He had read the Li family's test paper and was very difficult. Compared with the imperial examination content in the past two years of the imperial examination, the real Jinshi and scholars were difficult, and the Mingjing subject was not so difficult.

In other words, the person admitted to the Li family this time is actually all the people who are in the rank of a new Jinshi.

This is a very surprising result.

The imperial court took the exam every year, and went to encyclopedias for various subjects every year, and finally admitted hundreds or thousands of people. However, there were actually only a dozen real Jinshi and Mingjing.

However, the Li family selected 100 people at once.

Li Shimin has sent people to inquire about these hundred people.

Most of them are poor families, and they are not even famous before. Some of these people have participated in the imperial examinations in the court, and some have participated in two sessions, but they have all failed.

It’s not that these people are not outstanding, but that the admission conditions of the court are different. Although these poor children are very good at participating in the court, they have no recommendations from high-ranking officials, no circulating literary names, and no outstanding and noble backgrounds. Of course, it is difficult to be selected and admitted after the exam.

There are also some people admitted to the Li family who are unable to participate in the imperial examinations in the court. Some of these people are after the offenders, some are sons of untouchables, children of merchants and craftsmen, and even Hu people.

Although these people were well-read books of sages and had talent, they were not even qualified to participate in the imperial examinations in the court, but the Li family did not restrict them and opened the door to them.

No matter what you ask, just look at your talent.

Among the 100 people admitted to the Li family this time, very few are truly from aristocratic and bureaucratic children.

"Father, I heard that the Li family will hold such scholar recruitment every three years from now on, select outstanding scholars to go to the territory of Duke Zhao, and serve as clerks, accountants, etc. This time, there are so many people taking the exam, and their exams are so open, fair and just. I think that when the exam is started next time, more people will definitely come to participate."

"Father, there are many talented scholars among these scholars. They should be selected and hired by the court and serve the court. To be honest, our imperial examination is really too different from those of the Li family. My son suggested that the imperial examination also reform the imperial examination methods, from one exam in the past year to one exam every three years, and also implement the miscellaneous name system. In addition, change those subjects, set up additional time exams for those junior college subjects, and the Jinshi examination alone is the same as the Li family's examination, which will increase the difficulty of the exam, but those outstanding people must also be admitted more. It is too few to take a few people in one subject, at least a hundred people or even more, so that the court can have a steady stream of outstanding talents."

The prince said something and Li Shimin was very pleased that the prince could see so far.

However, Li Shimin did not plan to answer the prince immediately for this matter.

At the beginning of the establishment of the imperial examination, the original intention was to recruit scholars. However, the Tang Dynasty was established by the support of the old and new nobles and the gentry. The court was the upper and lower, the Guanlong family, the new military meritorious nobles, and the Guandong gentry. These were the most important forces in the court. He was also selecting scholars and officials from poor families and ordinary small landlords, but their strength was still too weak.

The imperial examinations were not many scholars selected in the imperial examinations because the nobles and bureaucrats in the imperial examinations are not willing to see too many scholars selected in the imperial examinations. Their family members can enter the officialdom, so why do they still have to take the imperial examinations? Their rights and interests will be more guaranteed by restricting the imperial examinations.

It’s not that Li Shimin cannot see the current problem of the imperial examination, nor that he does not want to change it, but that he can touch the whole body.

The imperial examination reform, for the poor and small gentry and small landlords, was their entry into the government and a golden road for them to enter politics. But for the great gentry, this was just optional.

For those old families and new military scholars, they insist on opposing it. They all rely on military merits and family protection, and they can practice martial arts and fight. Anyway, they can be transferred to civil servants as military officers. But once there are many scholars in the imperial examination in the future, will their children have to pick up books and change their literature in the future and compete with those mud-legged men for the imperial examination quota?

Li Chao was the chief examiner of the imperial examination, but he did not bring the trick he had done at home to the imperial examination in the imperial examination in the court. Naturally, he had seen through all this. Li Chao did not want to go against the nobles, bureaucrats and the gentry in the court, because he himself was one of these people.

What made Li Shimin unhappy was that Li Chao was not kind.

He did not promote this in the court, but he started doing it in his own home. He did it so thoroughly, and did not care about his background, but only focused on his talent.

Li Chao did things that the court could not do, without any scruples.

Seeing Li Chao admitting hundreds of outstanding scholars all at once, Li Shimin was really a little jealous.
Chapter completed!