Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2267 Leisure
This Xu Jingzong is quite old, how can he be so careless that he can even knock over pastries?

Fang Jun cursed in his heart. Seeing the water boiling, he picked up the teapot to look for tea leaves, but he opened the tea pot and poured it out, and it was empty...

The cakes were overturned, and the tea leaves were thrown away. How could they not guess that it was Xu Jingzong's mischief?
Fang Jun was immediately furious, this old thing is really under the hood, such methods are not even as good as children!
Out of the pavilion in a huff, went straight to the academy to be on duty, pushed the door in, grabbed Xu Jingzong and asked, "A certain trick provoked you, and you actually used such bad water?"

Xu Jingzong spread his hands and pushed two five six: "I don't know what Erlang said?"

Fang Jun said angrily: "Did you throw away the pastry, did you steal the tea?"

Xu Jingzong said: "I ate a piece of the pastry when I saw it was delicious, but I accidentally knocked over the plate. It was indeed my fault. But in the end it was nothing more than a plate of pastries. Is it too much?"

Fang Jun was choked by him, and asked again: "Where did the tea go?"

Xu Jingzong looked calm: "It was the lower official who took it away... The lower official is also a person who loves tea, but unfortunately his salary is meager and he can't afford the top-quality Longjing. He is happy to see it, so he keeps it for himself. But the lower Officials only want good tea, so they don't even bother to pay attention to the priceless tea pots."

Fang Jun sneered and said, "It's nice to say, but if you don't ask yourself, you're a thief!"

"The officer asked!"

"Who did you ask?"

"Ask Erlang you!"

Fang Jun said angrily: "I was sleeping at that time, how could I hear it?"

Xu Jingzong looked innocent: "If you don't ask, you will be regarded as a thief. Although the lower officials dare not call themselves a gentleman, they also refuse to be a thief. They must have asked Erlang before taking the tea away."

I took it away after I asked. As for whether you heard it or agreed, that is your business, so what should I do?

You can't call me a thief anyway.

Fang Jun laughed angrily: "So, if you want to blame it, blame me for falling asleep and not rejecting it?"

Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "That's true, but even if Erlang refuses, the next official will take the tea away."

Fang Jun pointed to Xu Jingzong's nose. There was nothing he could do with this old bastard.

Fang Jun’s value room is in the innermost room, which is very spacious, and the layout is exactly like that of later generations’ offices. There is an exaggeratedly large rosewood desk, and there are rows of bookcases on the walls, and all kinds of rare books. Everything is available, the reception area is a complete set of official hat chairs, tea tables, and large and bright glass windows with obvious characteristics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is worth mentioning that the floor of the entire value room is covered with a newly developed ceramic tile.

This kind of square ceramic tile glaze is light yellow, crystal clear in the sun, luxurious atmosphere, it is newly made by the kiln factory of the Fang family, and was first used by Fang Jun in the value room of the academy, Kong Yingda, Li Jing, Li Ji After people saw it, they immediately proposed to buy it. Fang Jun gave everyone some of the first batch of tiles produced. He was embarrassed to take money, but it became the best advertisement.These few are all bigwigs from one party, and they planed out the green bricks in the living room or study room at home, and laid this kind of luxurious tiles. Everyone who came to visit was amazed and offered to buy from Fangjia Kiln Factory.

For a while, it became popular in Chang'an, and even spread to the south of the Yangtze River with the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River...

Entering the value room, Fang Jun sat behind the large desk, Xu Jingzong also followed in, looked at the furnishings in the value room, and the corners of his eyes twitched.

Almost all the furniture in this room is made of high-quality red sandalwood. In the past, even the palace seldom had such a grade of red sandalwood. The desk in front of Fang Jun alone may be worth tens of thousands. , Gein red sandalwood is really rare.

Now everyone knows that the navy has discovered a place of production of red sandalwood in Nanyang, but the price of red sandalwood in Datang is still high.

In Fang Jun's words, things like red sandalwood are not necessities of life like rice, but luxuries. Luxury goods must be expensive to be sought after by people. The price of cabbage is as bad as the street. Who cares about it?

As a result, rich people in Datang did not hesitate to spend a lot of money in pursuit of a piece of top-quality red sandalwood, which gradually formed a trend.

More and more officials who have a good relationship with Fang Jun will ask the ruler who actually controls the red sandalwood wood market in the Tang Dynasty for two pieces of high-grade wood to take back to their hometowns when they take office.

And the excuse is very neat, you may find it painful to make a table or a chair, but if you are a colleague, I will take it back as a birthday material, you will be embarrassed not to give it, right?

As a result, Fang Jun reluctantly gave away how much rosewood wood...

The key is that he can't be stared at by others to see if he is going back to be a birthday material. As a result, many people keep it as a family heirloom if they want to go back...

Sitting on the chair opposite Fang Jun, Xu Jingzong smelled the scent of red sandalwood in the room, and asked: "Now that all the affairs are almost ready, and the start of school is getting closer and closer, I don't know what Erlang thinks about the start of school. Ceremony, what do you think?"

As the most important school other than the Imperial College of the Tang Dynasty, it will even become the cradle of countless officials in the military and political administration of the Tang Dynasty in the foreseeable future. The opening of "Zhenguan Academy" has already attracted the attention of hundreds of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty. The opening ceremony attracted much attention.

According to the past practice, a special ceremony is needed to highlight the status of the academy.

Even His Majesty Li Er asked privately several times...

In fact, Fang Jun himself was troubled by this.

The best ceremony is naturally a military parade, following the example of later generations.

The Tang Dynasty did not have the bad habit of "nobleness and inferiority". No matter whether it is a family of ministers or a student of a poor family, they pay attention to "understanding the five classics and six arts", and they pay attention to "literary writing can secure the world, and martial arts can set the world on horseback." No matter how good the knowledge is, weak scholars who have no power to restrain chickens are usually not reused. Civil servants like Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling can still carry swords and leap on horseback to kill the enemy. It has flowed on the body for thousands of years, and now it has been passed down to the world.

A military parade is enough to cause a worldwide shock, causing countless students to flock to "Zhenguan Academy", establishing the academy's status in one fell swoop.

However, he planned to wait until His Majesty Li Er's victory over Goguryeo to take out the military parade, so that he could give His Majesty Li Er's "dragon fart" a good pat.

At that time, Liaodong will be pacified and the world will be unified. His Majesty Li Er will return to the court with the power of a great victory, and the tigers under his command will line up outside Chengtianmen. Emperor" status.

How happy will His Majesty Li Er be at that time?
For his "loyal minister" who offered suggestions and suggestions, he naturally did not hesitate to reward him...

If the military parade is taken out now, what else will there be in the future?
Seeing Fang Jun groaning undecidedly, Xu Jingzong asked again: "Those bastards and second sons of various clans have already had trouble with their families, and now no one can stop these people from entering the academy. But, really? Don’t you give those eldest sons and grandchildren the slightest chance? There are quite a few people who come to me to intercede. Is it all offended?"

Speaking of this, Xu Jingzong felt apprehensive.

It is the emperor's will to suppress the powerful, and as the emperor's close ministers, he should follow closely, that's right.However, after all, this world is still a world of powerful families, and the power of powerful families is so intertwined that even the emperor can only take it easy, not daring to force it too much.

Today, the eldest sons and grandchildren of all the powerful families are rejected from the academy, but the concubines and second sons of various families are also recruited. This is tantamount to offending all the powerful families.

What if His Majesty Li Er had to throw them out as scapegoats in order to appease the anger of the aristocratic family if the situation forced it in the future?
Fang Jun leaned back on the back of the chair, and said indifferently: "We are all your majesty's eagle dogs, and we should protect your majesty from the wind and rain. How can we prepare for the back road halfway? You can rest assured, we Just hold on to this barrier, and leave everything to His Majesty to decide. If His Majesty said that even the eldest son and grandson cannot enter the academy, then we will stick to the gate of this academy. If Your Majesty says to be lenient, we will naturally say what we want to say. .”

The aristocratic family must be suppressed and weakened, otherwise, if it is allowed to expand uncontrollably, playing with the country and the country, and using the rise and fall of the empire as a bargaining chip to seize its own interests, the country will fail.

On the contrary, if the aristocratic families are eliminated in one fell swoop, there will be a vacuum in the power structure, and the landlord and gentry class will take advantage of the situation and fill it in.

It is true that aristocratic families only ignore the interests of the country and the nation for the benefit of the family, but are the landlords and gentry good people?
The example of the late Ming Dynasty is there. They are the same as the family. For the benefit of the family, they can join the enemy. For the continuation of the family, they open the city gate to welcome the barbarians into the city happily, even if they are killed afterwards. Into the river...

People make money and birds die for food. There is never justice and evil in politics. If you want political stability, you can only have balance.

(End of this chapter)