"You don't have to worry about Li Mu anymore. I have my own arrangements for the factory guards."

"Your Majesty, this"

"Go down." Li Shimin waved his hand, Yuan Tiangang bowed and took a break. Eunuch Gao also wanted to sneak out, but Li Shimin left it with his eyes. Li Shimin asked Eunuch Gao to bring a Jindun, signaled Li Mu to sit down, looked at his eyes, and said, "Li Mu, what do you want to do?"

"Your Majesty, I want to open up the situation."

"It's a mess that makes people mess up, and that's what it means to open up?"

"During ancient times, we have always emphasized that teachers are famous. Even if some reasons are extremely far-fetched, they still have to be there. Why? Is it because people don't know it or when people don't understand it?"

Li Mu looked serious and said, "I have also thought about this issue, why?"

"I tell you!" Li Shimin stared at Li Mu and said, "That's all to give his future generations an explanation. As long as you have a reason, future generations can embellish it. Because thousands of years later, when all the world is dead! Li Mu, I can't understand, and you have to leave a good reputation for yourself. You just want to write an arrogant and domineering person in history books. After so many things, you can't change the way you do things!" The more you said, Li Shimin became more angry and said, "Sometimes, what you do makes me unable to cover you up, because you can't think of a reason! Now you are better, you've become more and more powerful, and you dare to involve me. What did you mean just now? I told Yuan Tiangang that what you did was my instruction? You said with your conscience, when did I instruct you!"

"Your Majesty, I am giving glory to Your Majesty, and for your Majesty's good!"

"I don't need it!"

"I am trying to protect myself and don't want to show off too much, so as not to be jealous of others again!"

Li Shimin sneered: "What have you done long ago? Now I remember it? What are you thinking about? Don't keep me in the dark."

If you don’t keep you in the dark, are you still as stupid as before?

Li Mu felt sorry for his heart, but he didn't show any of it. He said in a show-off tone as before, "Your Majesty, I want to ask Your Majesty a question, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to say a few truths."

"It's mysterious again," Li Shimin glared at him, but there was no way, and said, "Tell me."

"Thank you, I'll ask." Li Mu asked very seriously: "What is the purpose of Your Majesty's enrollment of imperial examinations?"

"It goes without saying that we naturally have to choose a few useful talents for the country."

"Your Majesty's thoughts are of course good, but I think that the imperial examination has another function, and it is a more important role for Your Majesty and the world."

Li Shimin wondered: "What else can be found besides selecting useful talents for the country?"

"Cage of patriots."

Li Shimin frowned and looked at Li Mu, as if he felt it was inappropriate, but he did not interrupt him.

"The so-called gentry is all kinds. Most of them are not favored by Your Majesty, but some are not detested by Your Majesty. For example, Kong Yingda Kong's offering of wine. Although he was a little sour, His Majesty would not hate him. Why? Because Your Majesty knew that he was just a scholar with no great ambitions. He would never think of rebelling, nor any evil ways."

"But there are some people who study and become gentry, which is purposeful and wrong."

"How many heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, how many grassroots were there? Most of them were gentry. Even if they were not, the rules of doing things were also managed by the gentry. Therefore, I think that not everyone would think of serving the country after studying. People know more and have complex ideas, and what they want more is to realize their ideals or goals, which is very difficult."

"Therefore, although the so-called imperial examination is to select talents for the country and cultivate pillars of the country, it can also be used as a means, a means to cage patriots. When smart people are busy with fame and fame, and cannot extricate themselves, the remaining ones that can rebel and seize power will not become a climate. Your Majesty regards as a fisherman, stands on the river bank and casts a big net, and uses fame as bait, letting the fish drill by themselves, so that the fish will not know themselves and cannot extricate themselves. By the time they react, it will be too late to regret it."

Li Shimin thought for a while and murmured: "If the imperial examination also became an imperial scheming, how should I select talents?"

"It's not impossible," Li Mu explained; "What I mean is that as long as Your Majesty attaches importance to the imperial examination, it will make the gentry have fantasies. As long as you study hard, you can achieve success and fame. With this idea, more and more people will participate in the imperial examination, and Your Majesty's cage will become bigger and bigger. The fewer people think about it, the more stable your Majesty's world will be."

"Well..." Li Shimin nodded, opened his mouth to say something, suddenly reacted, and said, "What does this have to do with what I asked you?"

"Of course there are." Li Mu explained seriously: "Rebellion, there is only one who leads the way, but not the one who has ideas. Money is also indispensable, so if you control the rich, you will have one of the capital for rebellion. Your Majesty used the imperial examination to cage the scholars of the world and strangle these thoughtful people. I will think of a way for Your Majesty to control these rich people. Will the people in the world still have a chance to rebel?"

"I understand the meaning of the words, but I can't figure out how the trading market you are building can be a rich man who controls the world?"

"This is very simple, Your Majesty." Li Mu explained patiently, saying: "When money becomes shares, money will circulate. Your Majesty can tax any circulating money, whether it is commercial tax or deed tax, etc. In this way, the country's money will at least increase."

"In addition, when the goods become futures, during the delivery period, the market that controls first-hand news can do a lot of things. The benefits are definitely more than a little bit."

"When the trading market has formed a certain scale and no one can do without it, the goal of Your Majesty's prison of merchants in the world can be achieved." Li Mu said seriously: "Your Majesty, everyone has a lazy side. I have come up with so many ways to make the business of these merchants easier, and at the same time let them ignore it. Their business is easy to do because of the trading market and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When they adapt to this way of doing business, they fall into the control of the court. The trading market can cut off a businessman's lifeline at any time, so that he has no chance to resist."
Chapter completed!