Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 751
Princess Yiyang is the eldest daughter of Tang Gaozong. Because she was born early and she is cute and cute, Tang Gaozong loved her for several years.However, with Concubine Xiao Shu's death, her bad luck also followed, and her younger sister, Princess Gao An, was thrown into the Yeting Court by Wu Zetian to do rough work with the servants.

A princess with a noble status is reduced to the status of a servant, and she is often hated and ridiculed by the servants.The frightening thing is that after she was thrown into the court, no one remembered her existence anymore, so she could only live a miserable life.

It was Prince Li Hong who made Princess Yiyang see the light of day again.

Li Hong was the eldest son of Empress Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty. Because of his "benevolence and virtue", he enjoyed a high reputation at that time.

Once, when Li Hong inspected Yeting, he was surprised to find that there were two princesses living there, and they were not too young.With compassion in his heart, he immediately went to Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, hoping to marry the two princesses who had passed the marriageable age into wives and restore their status as princesses.

Wu Zetian couldn't object to Li Hong's remonstrance, so she had to reluctantly agree to the matter, and randomly selected a guard named Quan Yi as her son-in-law.

Tang Gaozong was quite displeased when he saw this, but he didn't say anything.Wu Zetian knew that he was dissatisfied when he saw it, so he had to give Quan Yi the post of Zuo Guoyi in Qizhou Prefecture.

After Wu Zetian established the Wu Zhou regime, he vigorously suppressed Li Tang's clan and set up a reporting mechanism.Soon, Quan Yi was falsely accused of treason and executed by Wu Zetian
Princess Yiyang, who lost her husband, soon died of terror in the political storm that Wu Zetian blew up.

Concubine Xiao Shu's youngest daughter was brave and resourceful. When Concubine Xiao Shu was killed by Wu Zetian, Princess Gao An was only 6 years old, but Wu Zetian didn't let her go because she was young, and directly put her and her sister, Princess Yiyang, into the tuck court.

Later, with the help of Prince Li Hong, Princess Gao An left Yeting, and under Wu Zetian's arrangement, she married the guard Wang Xu.

After Wu Zetian established the Wu Zhou regime, he launched a political struggle to cleanse Li and Tang's former troops. Wang Xu was accused of treason and was executed together with Quan Yi.

After Wang Xu's death, Princess Gao An was imprisoned in Yeting again.However, Princess Gao An is a smart person. In order to save herself, she claimed to be a filial piety for Wang Xu. She did not eat or drink for more than 90 days. fully appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone was amazed, so they asked her why she was able to be healthy suddenly, and she said that she was protected by Guanyin Bodhisattva.So it was passed on to ten, ten to a hundred, and soon it reached Wu Zetian's ears.At that time, Wu Zetian admired Buddhism and claimed that she was the emperor Maitreya Buddha who came down to save all sentient beings.

Therefore, even though Wu Zetian knew that Princess Gao An was fooling people, she couldn't expose her. In addition, Princess Gao An was not a threat to her, so she let Princess Gao An go.

In 714 AD, the 66-year-old Princess Gao An not only saw the death of Wu Zetian, but also saw the death of Princess Taiping. Seeing that the grievances had finally come to an end, she died suddenly.

Wu Zetian was too vicious, and killed too many members of the Li family, so Li You knew that Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu were not the same thing, but still let his mother and concubine protect them. Li You was worried that Wu Zetian would treat the Li family in the future. His descendants are too vicious.

At least now that they have their own mother, these children can still be carefree. Without their mother, they really have nothing.

But what Li You didn't expect was that it was precisely because of him that Wu Zetian hated his mother and concubine, and Wu Zetian would actually stretch out his poisonous hands to his mother and concubine.

Li You looked at Yue Ying on the side and smiled, "You can help me to look at the things in the palace in the future. The mother concubine is still the same as before, let the mother concubine pay attention, Wu Meiniang is not a good person."

"I know Li Lang...!" Yue Ying smiled and nodded.

At this moment, Yaoyu walked in and said, "Your Highness, everyone is here!"

"Oh! Everyone is here, okay, I'll go there later!" Li You stood up with a smile, and shouted to Li Mingda: "I'll leave first if I have something to do, you guys have fun, don't fight !"

"Understood!" Li Mingda quickly responded.

Following Li You, he left the stadium, and under Yaoyu's protection, Li You came to his own conference room. Li You's conference room was in a garden with houses, pavilions, springs, stones, flowers and plants. There is one more Xiaoxi, Li You walked across the small bridge and came to the meeting room.

Seeing Li You coming in, everyone in the conference room stood up and bowed and shouted, "My Highness."

Li You laughed: "Everyone is welcome, we are all a family and don't need to be like this!" After speaking, Li You motioned for everyone to sit down, and under Li You's motion, everyone sat down.

These people are respectively, Xu Damao, who used to be Liu Dageng's dog-headed military adviser, is now Li You's middle-level manager, and has received a sixth-rank title; Scholar, the current fifth-rank official. Others are also Li You's confidantes, but the people here have a characteristic, that is, they are all from poor families.

The reason why Li You called all the poor families together this time was to reform the imperial examination system. Li You had already ventilated these poor officials beforehand, and this time Li You demanded reform of the imperial examination system.

This imperial examination system must have the characteristics of fairness and justice. Candidates have no age, status, family and other conditions. As long as they are talented, even children from poor families can participate.

And the purpose of this reform of the imperial examination system is to select as many intellectuals with humble backgrounds as possible, because the talents selected from the low-level will consider more for the common people, and truly fulfill the responsibilities of parents and officials. Politics became clearer and more honest, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.Moreover, it injected fresh blood and vitality into the existing officials.

The selected talents are all obtained through hard study and scientific examination, adhering to Confucian teachings, so they all have high quality.

Li You wanted to abandon the previous imperial examination system, because the former imperial examination system was entirely for the scholar-bureaucrats to see the benefits in it, and to enter the ranks of officials through recommendation, but this would be very dangerous, what danger, the collective The danger of confronting the imperial power is too obvious now, so Li You wants to break through this danger.

Also, if the imperial examination system with a hereditary system cannot be broken, then those noble families will be more expensive, and the rich will become richer; while the oppressed slaves and poor people who are far away from this class have no advantage to compete with it; After all, all resources are bound by money.

Li You changed the imperial examination system in order to turn the hard work of poor students into grades, thereby changing the fate of their families. To Li You's surprise, Li You soon got a very good imperial examination measure , that is a vague name.

(End of this chapter)