C364 Layered factor (1/2)
On the other side, Xiao Wen and Li Gang chatted all the way back to Li Gang's office.
Tang is an important turning point in Chinese history. In the habit of life, there were no chairs in the country before the Don, and people usually just sat on their knees. The difference between kneeling and sitting was actually to see if the butt was stuck to the heel.
Stick close to the heel, and you're sitting.
If your ass is off your heel, you're on your knees.
However, nobles and the rich were more particular, so when they sat down, they would prepare a soft praying mat.
A small aristocrat without money could be rather shabby. They used ordinary cloth to make a praying mat, which was filled with something like thatch.
As for the rich and particular aristocrats, they might use silk as a cushion to fill it up with goose feathers.
However, was speechless when he saw how shabby it was to use a straw cushion to weave directly.
”Here in the Tang, although the imperial examination system has been gradually developed. However, before Empress Wu's reign, the imperial examinations and the Nine Pins of Harmony were still a system that complemented each other. Therefore, although the Imperial examinations were also a way up, it was far from the level of concern that the future generations had. Presumably, this is also the reason why the Songyang Academy, as a holy land of the Confucians, does not have enough funds to maintain it! ” Xiao Wen thought.
As for why did Li Shimin not personally provide the funds to raise the level of the Songyang Academy s?
Xiao Wen was not surprised. After all, Li Shimin was the emperor. Although in the early days of feudal age, there weren't as many licking dogs as in Zhu Yuanzhang's era, as long as people weren't stupid, they would still try to guess at the emperor's thoughts. After all, this thing was a weather vane on the political scene.
Therefore, if Li Shimin rashly spent money on the Songyang Academy, not only would he want the Songyang Academy to do better, he would also leak out a piece of information to the entire nation — — He, Li Shimin, wanted to support the Confucian clan by supporting the Songyang Academy. On this basis, he fought against the aristocratic family, who was originally in control of talent education.
However, in this world, although the An Xi Capital Residence had already been established, the process of establishment had already included the shadow of too many aristocratic family s.
As a result, before he could defend against the attacks from the aristocratic family, even Li Shimin did not dare to help him rashly.
However, as the emperor, Li Shimin might have this difficulty. But this kind of difficulty wouldn't affect someone like Xiao Wen.
Maybe in the future, Xiao Wen's name would become famous. However, at this point in time, even though Xiao Wen was the burly man's good deed, he was not actually very famous among the various kingdoms.
So much so that even the first friend he had met in Great Tang Dynasty, Cheng Huaimo, was much stronger than him.
At least when people from other nations brought up Cheng Huaimo, there were still people who knew that Cheng Huaimo was the son of this famous general of the Great Tang Dynasty.
There were benefits to being able to make a name for oneself and making a name for yourself. He could let you go anywhere, and with a shake of the tiger's body, a group of subordinates would come over and kowtow to you.
However, there were benefits to having a low reputation and not having a high reputation at all. That was freedom of doing things, so there was no need to think too much about it.
Therefore, when Xiao Wen saw that the facilities of the Songyang Academy were so simple and crude, and that they seemed to be short on funds, he immediately understood their difficult situation.
So he went straight to the point, ”It seems that even if Principal Li is hot-blooded and wants to do a good job on this Songyang Academy. However, if we do not have enough money to support them, I'm afraid there will still be some trouble! ”