"Li Xiu, where do you think our imperial academy should be?" Li Shimin, who was on the top of the mountain, looked at the Nanshan Academy below, and suddenly turned his head to ask Li Xiu, the family can open an academy, and the imperial court can naturally run an academy, which is also Li Xiu's countermeasure, after all, if you only rely on the method of mixing sand with the family academy, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and the imperial court opening its own academy is the root cause, so as to compete with the family for talents.

"The location of the academy is not important, even if Your Majesty opens a academy next to the family academy, it is no problem, but I am now thinking about what advantages the academy opened by the imperial court should have compared with the family academy, otherwise it will be difficult to compete with the family academy!" When Li Xiu said the end, he couldn't help but show a worried look.

The advantage of the family lies in the profound cultural heritage, which even the imperial court cannot compare with them, and this point also has a fatal attraction to the world's scholars, so it is easy for the imperial court to open an academy, but the key is how to highlight their own advantages, so that they do not fall behind in the competition with the family, which is the most critical.

Li Shimin couldn't help but show a contemplative expression when he heard Li Xiu's words, and after a long while, he slowly spoke: "I remember that you said before that the academy run by the imperial court is completely different from the Guozijian, but I don't have much experience in things like the academy, I don't know if you have any good ideas?" ”

"There is indeed a huge difference between the academy and the Guozijian, the most important thing is the source of students, the Guozijian is known as the highest institution of learning in the Tang Dynasty, but except for the children of nobles and officials, ordinary people can't enter at all, and the academy is completely different, it doesn't look at the background, as long as you can meet the conditions of the academy, even a beggar can go in and study."

"It is precisely for this reason that when the academy recruits students, the first thing to do is fairness, justice, and openness, of course, these are only the most basic, I estimate that although Cui Gan's side will give preferential treatment to the children of the family, it can also do this in general, and in addition, it depends on our own advantages."

I saw Li Xiu pause when he said this, and then spoke again: "The advantage of the family is that it has a profound heritage, but Your Majesty's advantage is that it has the right to choose officials, whether it is the imperial examination or direct promotion, it ultimately depends on Your Majesty's intentions, so I think that the academy opened by the imperial court can highlight some advantages in the selection of officials, which is a bit similar to Guozijian, of course, it is not necessary to directly grant the official position of prisoner like Guozijian." ”

"I understand what you mean, to put it simply, the academy I want to run is actually a national eunuch that is not limited to the student's background, but it does not have to directly grant students official positions, but in the imperial examination or promotion, give the students of the academy a little preferential treatment, at least a little more advantage than the students of the family academy." Li Shimin also quickly concluded after hearing this.

"Your Majesty is wise, that's exactly what the minister means!" Li Xiu immediately nodded and said, he and Li Shimin have known each other for many years, and they have a tacit understanding with each other, and their communication is smoother than others.

"But how to give this preferential treatment, how to grasp this degree is the key?" Li Shimin suddenly spoke again at this time, it is appropriate to give some preferential treatment to the academy opened by the imperial court, but if it is given less, it will not have the effect of attracting students, and if it is given too much, it may let some opportunistic people mix in, and it is not easy to grasp this degree.

"Hehe, in fact, it's not complicated, for example, the academy opened by the imperial court is better in terms of accommodation and food, it doesn't need to be much better, as long as it is stronger than the academy of the family, and you can often send some famous ministers to the academy to give lectures, giving students the opportunity to get to know these ministers of the court, so that when they participate in the imperial examination in the future, they will not be embarrassed by submitting papers, and even some selection mechanisms can be set up in the academy, so that individual extremely outstanding students can directly obtain official positions without participating in the imperial examination, etc." Li Xiu smiled again at this time and said, with great power in hand, it is simply too simple to give the academy a little privilege.

For Li Xiu's suggestions, Li Shimin also nodded again and again after hearing them, these are not particularly big preferential treatment, but they make the academy of the imperial court highlight its own advantages at once, at least more prominent than the academy of the family, so as to naturally increase the attractiveness of his academy.

"In addition, in order to train officials for the imperial court last time, didn't the minister suggest opening a school for officials, and you can also combine the academy with the school for officials, for example, for some students who have failed to do so for a long time, you can let them enter the officialdom through the school of officials, starting from a small official, as long as they have the ability, sooner or later they will have a day to get ahead!" Li Xiu finally spoke again.

Compared with the scarce number of officials, the large number of officials is also more important to the rule of the imperial court, plus the bank needs a large number of officials, so Li Xiucai suggested that Li Shimin open a school of officials, although this school of officials is very low-key, but it has begun to train a large number of officials for the Tang Dynasty, of course, it is not yet effective, but after more than ten years, the influence of this school of officials may be greater than that of Guozijian.

"Good way, I almost forgot about the clerk's school!" Li Shimin also immediately praised when he heard Li Xiu's words, although he had known Li Xiu for many years, sometimes Li Xiu's thoughts still made him feel a little unable to keep up.

At that moment, Li Shimin and Li Xiu discussed some details of the academy opened by the imperial court, and Li Xiu also tried his best to tell some of his ideas, so as to facilitate Li Shimin's reference, but at the end of the conversation, Li Shimin suddenly asked again: "Academies and military academies are the same, they all need a respected person to serve as the mountain chief, Li Xiu, who do you think is the most suitable in the court?" ”

"For the candidate for this mountain chief, the minister has two people to recommend!" I saw that Li Xiu groaned a little and said again, of course it was impossible for him to forget such an important matter, in fact, when he first proposed this proposal to Li Shimin that day, he already had a corresponding candidate in his heart.

"Oh? I don't know who they are? Li Shimin immediately opened his mouth to inquire.

"The academy must be fair and fair in selecting students, so the candidate for the mountain chief must also be upright, and it must also have a high reputation among the scholars, so the first thing that comes to the minister's mind is Wei Zheng Wei Dafu, his character, reputation, ability, etc., are extremely suitable for this mountain chief!" Li Xiu immediately told the first person in his heart.

Hearing Li Xiu's recommendation of Wei Zheng, Li Shimin did not show a surprised expression, in fact, the first thing he thought of just now was Wei Zheng, but soon he shook his head and said: "Wei Zheng is indeed a very suitable candidate, but now Wei Zheng is in charge of the affairs of the Monk Daolu Division, so he has no time to doppelganger, not to mention that I have other things to use him, so I am afraid that he will not have time to serve as this mountain chief." ”

"Your Majesty is the same as I thought, and I am also worried that Dr. Wei will not be able to separate, so I thought of a second candidate." I saw Li Xiu speak again at this time, and when it came to the second candidate, he couldn't help but show a mysterious smile on his face.

"Who is it?" Li Shimin also noticed the expression on Li Xiu's face, and asked with a very interested expression at the moment.

"Xiao Yu!" Li Xiu said with a smile an unexpected name.

Last time, because of the suppression of Buddhism, Li Xiu and Xiao Yu also had a conflict, and afterwards Xiao Yu resigned angrily, and personally painted a "Zhenguan Law Difficult Map" to satirize Li Xiu, although Li Xiu did not take it to heart, but now he actually recommended Xiao Yu, the former opponent, but it still surprised Li Shimin.

"You actually recommend Xiao Yu, this old stubborn? You have to think clearly, even if he knows that you recommended him, I'm afraid he won't thank you in any way! Li Shimin immediately said to Li Xiu that he had dismissed Xiao Yu several times, so his stinky temper couldn't be clearer.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the reason why the minister recommended Xiao Yu is because he is indeed the most suitable candidate besides Wei Zheng, and he didn't want to get his gratitude or anything like that!" Li Xiu smiled indifferently and said that he really didn't care much about Xiao Yu.

Hearing Li Xiu say this, Li Shimin also calmed down and thought about it, and found that it was really like what Li Xiu said, Xiao Yu was indeed very suitable for the position of the mountain chief of the academy, firstly, his talent and reputation were not worse than Wei Zheng, and secondly, Xiao Yu had been idle at home since his last dismissal, and the most important thing was that Xiao Yu was born in the Xiao clan of Lanling, belonged to the southern scholar clan, and the northern scholar clan with the five surnames and Qiwang did not like each other, so he did not have to worry about him colluding with Cui Gan and these people as the mountain chief.

Of course, with Xiao Yu's stinky and hard, and even Wei Zheng's old-fashioned character, he is not the kind of person who secretly plays conspiracy, in fact, Xiao Yu's character is not suitable for being an official, otherwise he would not have been dismissed several times, but if he is allowed to teach and educate people, it is very suitable.

"You've really picked a good candidate!" Thinking of the above, Li Shimin also shook his head helplessly and said, Originally, he also had a few spare candidates in his heart, but now compared with Xiao Yu, he really feels that there is no more suitable person than him.

After discussing the affairs of the academy, Li Shimin and Li Xiu looked at the academy opposite on the top of the mountain, and then went down the mountain to leave, but just when the two of them left Pei Lian's courtyard and were about to take the carriage back to Chang'an, they suddenly saw a carriage coming from the mountain road next to them, and then a young girl poked out of the car window and waved at Li Xiu while shouting: "Sir, why did you come to Nanshan?" ”

Seeing the girl in the car, Li Xiu couldn't help but be stunned, and then glanced at Li Shimin next to him a little nervously, because the person who came was his student Wu Mingkong, and she still had a bad relationship with Li Shimin in history, which made him worry.