When Du Shaoqing heard Yu Shinan summoning him to pass, he felt a thrill in his heart and sweated coldly.

With guilt and worry, he asked his apprentice Di Renjie in a low voice: "Huaiying, did Xuanxuan cause trouble at your master's house?"

Di Renjie couldn't help but laughed out loud, thinking that the junior sister wanted to hide it from her parents, but she didn't know that her parents had known it a long time ago. The child had been away from home for several days, so how could her parents ignore her?

Du Shaoqing angrily knocked his apprentice, "I wonder if this unlucky apprentice is in a hurry?"

"No, my junior sister is very well-behaved at the master's house and has not caused trouble." Di Renjie replied seriously.

"Really? Not right. This girl has never been a well-behaved person, right?" Du Shaoqing muttered.

Di Renjie waved his hand calmly and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just that he helped Yu Mansion clean up the kitchen on the first day of his trip, and the next day he just cleaned up several of his grandsons. Now they are all obedient to their junior sisters, and everyone gets along very well."

Puff...this is not a big deal?

"This girl is really. She causes trouble everywhere. Don't she know that it is someone else's family who is visiting him. How can she be..." Du Shaoqing stamped her feet in anger.

Di Renjie smiled and advised, "It's really okay. After all, the junior sister is a princess, and the master loves her very much. No one dares to disrespect her.

As for the matter between children, Master, don’t you know the skills of your junior sister? You will be the elder sister wherever you go."

"She's called "Fox and Tiger Power"..."

"Anyway, the younger sister is very popular at the master's house, so don't worry. This time the master asked me to invite you there because Kong Yingda, the priest of the Imperial College, just now, it seems that it was because of the scientific examination."

Di Renjie told the whole story and the consequences. Du Shaoqing's face turned pale and red. Finally, he burst into laughter. It would be better to accept a proud disciple. If old man Kong Yingda really came to take the exam for himself, wouldn't it be troublesome?

After some preparation, Du Shaoqing and his apprentice traveled to the mansion to visit Yu Shinan.

As soon as they met Du Shaoqing, he apologized, "Teacher, I'm really sorry. The two children have caused trouble for you. Don't worry, I'll take them all away in a while..."

Yu Shinan said dissatisfiedly: "Take it away? What's your heart? I just got close to my two children for a few days, so you took it away? No!

I'm asking you to come here to discuss something, but you're fine. When you meet, you'll want me to have a child. I don't usually see you here a few times. This time I know that you're going to accompany me. I just think that you are sensible and filial to your teacher. I didn't expect that you are still so stupid.

I am very satisfied with the two children. Huaiying cooks for me personally every day. Xuanxuan is simply a pistachio for her teacher. These two little guys are more filial than my grandson. How can I bear to let you take them away?"

Du Shaoqing's cheeks were so hot that his cheeks were hot. He quickly smiled and said, "Teacher, you spoil them too much. These two are inferior to the other. In your eyes, they have become treasures that are in the sky and in the earth.

Since that's the case, let's leave them to accompany you for a while.

I wonder what the teacher called the disciples to come?"

Yu Shinan's face was slightly relaxed and said with a hunch, "Kong Yingda has been here. He wants his teacher to come forward to persuade you to resign from Your Majesty and not be the questioner for this scientific examination, because now, a large number of literati in the court and the country oppose you to ask for your question."

"Really? That's so good. The disciples are worried. They have never done it before. How can they do it well? Once something goes wrong, it will be a misleading family and a disaster to the country and the people." Du Shaoqing agreed loudly.

Well??? Yu Shinan didn't expect this disciple to think so, "You don't want to take over? This is not right. It doesn't look like your personality. You have always liked to show off."

Show off? What kind of limelight?

Du Shaoqing exclaimed wronged: "Teacher, you have misunderstood. Disciples are the ones who are responsible for being low-key and never like to show off."

After giving Du Shaoqing a blank look, Yu Shinan said angrily: "Look at what you have done in a few years, how many people have done more in their lifetime. If you don't like to show off, who believes that you don't like to show off?"

"Those, those are taken care of by the disciples because they were forced to helplessly. In fact, I don't like the trouble inside..." Du Shaoqing said weakly.

Yu Shinan waved his hand and stopped him and said, "Okay, no matter what you used to do, this time, I hope that you will take on important tasks and do your errands well. This is also Your Majesty's expectation."

"But you just said that most people, including Kong Yingda, the priest of the Imperial College, opposed it..."

"The reason why those people oppose is because they are afraid that they have bad intentions and impure goals, so you have to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

And those who really need your efforts are hoping that you can shine in the scientific examination to change their destiny.

As for Kong Yingda, this person objected to having no selfishness, because he was worried that you were young and inexperienced and could not do well in the examination. But don’t worry, now he didn’t know how to do it anymore, and he was persuaded to go back."

Du Shaoqing was a little confused, "It's just a question for the imperial examination. Whose question seems to have little impact on the national election, right? What are they afraid of me?"

Yu Shinan was silent for a moment, stared at Du Shaoqing and asked, "Did Your Majesty talk to you when you built a school?"

"No, he only said that the Tang Dynasty is now in a hurry to lack people who are studying and literate to govern the country, so he strongly supports me in building a school." Du Shaoqing shook his head.

With a long sigh, Yu Shinan said, "Originally, this source needs to be explained to you. Since this is the case, I will point it out.

In previous years, the imperial examinations were not meant that there were no people who came from the people who read and read, but the imperial examinations were selected for the country. To put it bluntly, who would choose to be an official.

So countless pairs of eyes were staring at the imperial examination, or listening to these vacant official positions, among which the most powerful ones were famous families such as the Five Clans and Seven Hopes.”

Du Shaoqing sighed: "Yes, when it comes to the many scholars, they have to be a family that has been a thousand years old. There is not even a decent school among the people. But every family has a library of books, who can compare to it?"

No, no, no, it’s not the reason, Yu Shinan waved his hands repeatedly.

"From the time when the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, the imperial court selected talents and became the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, and the major families today basically began to rise after the Three Kingdoms.

For hundreds of years, we have been holding positions at all levels of the court. This is why it is said that a thousand-year-old family and a hundred-year-old dynasty have been called for. The strength of these people has been added up, and even the court has to give in."

Du Shaoqing nodded and said, "I know this, I have experienced it in business in recent years."

"The imperial examination system was established in the former Sui Dynasty to break the barriers of these aristocratic families. It was just that it was easy to know and difficult to do. In today's Tang Dynasty, it was very effective to follow the previous Sui Dynasty, but it had little effect.

It was not until your appearance that there was a glimmer of hope in this matter, which was also the fundamental reason why the five surnames and seven hopes were hostile to you." Yu Shinan finally reached the point.

The root cause? Du Shaoqing was stunned, as if this was the reason.

I am just a son-in-law. Even if I have been named a talented man, it seems that I can't stop these aristocratic families from doing anything, but why do they hate them so much as soon as they come up?

Just because the emperor got a talented son-in-law? It doesn't make sense.

Now that the teacher said this, it really makes sense.

"Teacher, do you mean that I have improved papermaking and handed down movable type printing, so that the world will not lack books, and at the same time build public schools, so that more people can go to school and study, more people will participate in the imperial examination in the future, and the scope of the imperial examination will be increased, so that the court will rob the jobs of the children of the aristocratic families in disguise, so they are hostile to me?"

Yu Shinan nodded and said, "That's about that."

You may not know that in the past, a scholar from the countryside wanted to pass the imperial examination, relying solely on his personal talent was far from enough.

Because the officials who set the questions and even the judges were all from the aristocratic families, the imperial examination, which was invented as a weapon to deal with the aristocratic families, was finally controlled by the aristocratic families, which was useless. How ridiculous?

The imperial court basically cannot recruit a talent that is worthy of public confidence every year, because they included talents before the exam.

There is a method called "submission", which means that a student needs to submit a letter or pay a poem to those noble officials before the scientific examination to show loyalty and depend on it. Then, if the student can excel in the scientific examination, there will be people who will be responsible for it.

The first official selected in this way is still not the court, but the family.

Saying so much, do you understand?"

Du Shaoqing nodded mutely, almost shocked. Although no one tortured this information carefully, he has only a slight understanding of life in Chang'an in recent years. Unexpectedly, he still shocked when he heard it today.

No wonder there is a saying in the world that a thousand-year-old family and a hundred-year-old dynasty is like a very strict industrial chain, which has been run by others. It is almost impossible to break this blockade.

The former Sui Yang family was able to invent the imperial examination system, which was indeed a masterpiece, but unfortunately, the Sui Dynasty declined when it was prosperous and died in only two lifetimes.

Du Shaoqing was a doctor and had a slight understanding of history. He had no idea that the powerful man who truly broke the barriers of aristocratic families in history was the Empress Wu Zhao. In other words, the Tang Dynasty had not completed the third generation of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Gaozong. Until it was passed down to Wu Zhao, the empress genius genius collapsed the blockade of these aristocratic families.

There is no empress in this life, and it seems that he has to rely on Du Shaoqing to do it. He didn't think so much, after all, he is not good at governing the country.

"Disciple understands it, that is to say, we start from the basic links of papermaking, printing books, teaching, etc., and we are about to reach the final election before entering the officialdom.

What I have to do now is to set questions and select them to break their years of bad habits of submitting papers?”

Yu Shinan smiled and said, "Yes, this is also the reason why Your Majesty in the court supports you as the main question-setting person."

"But you said that there is still a difference between the question setting and the selection of the talent selection. Where can I make the questions? It would be nice to rely on the assistance of the question-setting ministers in previous years.

The final judgment and selection of the papers were still the other people, it was a waste of trouble!" Du Shaoqing spread his hands and smiled bitterly.

"So you need to use your intelligence and talent to design questions ingeniously! Haven't you always had so many wonderful ideas? If you can have a masterpiece this time, it can not affect the students' answers, and avoid the fraud and favoritism of papers, then it will be the best of both worlds.

You have solved the problems of many years in one move. Wait for you to be admired and loved by students all over the world!”

Yu Shinan analyzed it to Du Shaoqing as both encouragement and temptation, but Du Shaoqing said that he was under great pressure. Is there such a good thing? If so, he would have been found in so many years, and wait for me to get it?

Hearing the students' questions, Yu Shinan pondered for a moment and reminded: "The schools you have opened now account for a large proportion of the schools you have opened, and the main target of this talent selection is them.

Since it is your school, are there any unique skills? In the end, the students in the school can answer, but the aristocratic students of aristocratic families may not be able to answer?"

Du Shaoqing thought hard, paced back and forth in Yu Shinan's study, muttering to himself: "If such a thing had been said earlier, it would be possible to temporarily invent one to teach in the academy. Now it is too late.

My academy teaches a lot, so I can’t even take the basic herbal knowledge, right? Those who choose to go to the Imperial Hospital.

I'll think about it...

By the way, do you think arithmetic test work is OK?”

"Arithmetic?" Yu Shinan's eyes lit up, "You mean, test the abacus you invented? Officials are required to manage local government affairs. It is not impossible to take this question, but they have little advantage.

The abacus you invented has been particularly popular in the past two years, and it is hard to find people. Moreover, each company has its own secrets of numbers and calculations, which should not be underestimated.

Of course, if you don’t have a better way, this move is better than nothing, you can try it!”

Du Shaoqing slapped his thigh and laughed: "No need to take the abacus, I know what to take. There is really something unique in my school, so I remember it."

"Oh? Really? Let's hear it!"

...

The two whispered each other, and Du Shaoqing said in detail. Yu Shinan heard it and said in surprise: "Oh my God, why did you know how to teach these things by chance?

If you really make contributions in one fell swoop, you can only say that the aristocratic families should fall in your hands, this is destiny!"

Du Shaoqing said, "I didn't think so much. When I founded the school, I just wanted to copy the basic education in my previous life, just to cultivate talents. No one thought about calculating anyone. We are good people, but in the end we happened to make a family of aristocratic families collided. Haha, I'm sorry, you deserve to be unlucky!"

"Shaoqing, if you have gained some insights in the scientific examination, you will feel at ease. You can go and communicate with Your Majesty, and then ask a few capable people to help you with the questions. Your Majesty will make arrangements for you.

I have a private matter here to discuss with you, it is about the girl Xuanxuan." Yu Shinan said with a strange expression.

Du Shaoqing waved his hand and said, "I know you always like children. I just didn't agree to you, and neither of them took them away...
Chapter completed!