"Okay!" Xiao Ran poured half a cup for Empress Changsun.
"Well, good!" Empress Changsun took the wine glass. The wine was indeed fragrant.
Li Lizhi also had half a cup.
"Sixth Lady, do you want it?"
"A little bit, just a little bit will do." Princess Yuzhang also wanted to try it.
"Little sac, there's still a nest~" the little princess said quickly, "Just a little bit of nest~ Just a little bit will do~"
The little princess stretched out her little hand and gestured a little bit for Xiao Ran to see.
"Okay, okay!" Xiao Ran picked up the chopsticks and gently dipped them into the wine glass. "Mingda, just a little bit."
The little princess stuck out her tongue, smacked her lips a few times, and frowned, "Oh no~"
Not thinking about it anymore, I picked up my fork and continued eating.
The little princess' children's chopsticks have now become forks.
Li Lizhi and Princess Yuzhang felt it and put down their cups silently.
The wine smells nice, but it's too strong and not suitable for girls.
"My dear, this is too spicy!" Li Lizhi handed it to Xiao Ran.
Xiao Ran took it and poured it into his own cup.
Li Shimin also noticed this, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.
The little princess sticks to Xiao Ran because Xiao Ran gives her a lot of things and dotes on her.
Li Shimin didn't expect that Li Lizhi and Xiao Ran were also like this.
He was already unhappy, and now he was even more unhappy seeing Xiao Ran.
Xiao Ran looked at the little princess with eyes full of doting, which even Li Shimin's Empress Zhangsun could feel.
So the couple felt relieved that the little princess followed Xiao Ran.
Whenever the little princess eats delicious food, she will feed it to Xiao Ran first.
The relationship between the two people is extremely good.
"Xiao Ran, what kind of world is it over there?" Li Shimin had almost recovered from the drunkenness and put down his chopsticks.
Want to talk about something interesting.
"It's different from the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty's system was a feudal monarchy, but ours is not."
"Feudal monarchy...is not yet autocratic." Li Shimin naturally knew this.
This was proposed by Han Fei.
Han Fei's political ideal was to establish a unified feudal state with a centralized monarchy. Faced with the fierce struggle between the old and new forces and the situation of separatist rule by the princes in the late Warring States Period, he summed up the historical lessons of the emperor being weak and the princes being strong, and advocated the establishment of a unified feudal state with a centralized monarchy.
Among them, the monarch has the supreme status and power and is the only representative and ruler of the country.
"Autocracy takes time. From the Qin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, didn't the emperor's power grow ever greater?"
"Do you know Daqin?" Li Shimin thought that Xiao Ran knew at most about the recent events in the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't expect that he knew about Daqin.
"Of course. Aren't there books? It's not difficult to understand!" Xiao Ran made an excuse.
Li Shimin also thought it made sense.
Li Shimin didn't find it surprising that Xiao Ran knew history. Compared to knowing history, Xiao Ran's appearance here was even more incredible.
Since he had traveled through time and knew a little about history, Li Shimin didn't take it to heart.
Anyone who has read a little bit in the Tang Dynasty knows a little bit about history.
"Do you know the Tang Dynasty well?"
Xiao Ran nodded. "It's OK. I don't know much. I know that the biggest obstacle to my uncle's dictatorship right now is the aristocratic family. This is also a headache for my uncle!"
"You also know about the aristocratic families!" Li Shimin became interested.
When Xiao Ran talked about the past, Li Shimin would not suspect that Xiao Ran was a time traveler.
I won’t think of anything else.
"A little bit."
"What do you think?" Li Shimin was curious whether Xiao Ran would come up with any different ideas.
"My opinion, uncle, are you asking me if I have any solution to this problem?" Xiao Ran picked up some food for the little princess.
"That's what I mean."
"No!" Xiao Ran was also very direct.
"Huh! I thought you, an outsider, would have a different opinion!"
"I'm just an ordinary person. The aristocratic family has been a cancer for hundreds of years. So many people can't do anything about it, and you expect me to do it? Isn't this a joke? The aristocratic family has hundreds of years of foundation, and the Tang Dynasty has only been around for a dozen years. Uncle, you still want to get rid of him. This is unrealistic."
Li Shimin poured himself some wine, picked up the glass and took a sip.
The aristocratic family was a headache for Li Shimin.
The kind that is helpless!
"I am also working hard. Isn't that the case with the imperial examination system?"
"That can only be considered as a barely restrained effort to curb the continued growth of the aristocratic families. After all, the imperial court is basically composed of people from aristocratic families, and the imperial examinations are also largely influenced by these people!"
Li Shimin picked up his chopsticks, but couldn't help but put them down when he thought of this.
Xiao Ran continued, "The cost of studying in the Tang Dynasty is too high. Ordinary people are lucky to have enough food to eat, let alone study. Natural disasters happen almost every year."
"Many of those who take the imperial examinations are from aristocratic families. Even if they are not from aristocratic families, they must be related to them to some extent. My uncle should find a way to allow more ordinary people to study."
"This way, the imperial examinations will have a chance to be selected. Otherwise, the candidates selected will still be children from aristocratic families, but they will be more outstanding through this selection."
Li Shimin felt that what Xiao Ran said was correct, studying in the Tang Dynasty was expensive.
Books are a luxury, exclusive to the upper class.
"You know a little bit about the Tang Dynasty, and you should know that it's not wealthy right now. After the war, population and production haven't fully recovered, and much of the land is still abandoned. I'm willing to do something, but I can't, right? The treasury is empty, otherwise I'd like to help more people learn to read and write."
Xiao Ran nodded, "I understand a little bit, but I think there is still room for maneuver."
"Tell me about it!" Li Shimin stopped eating with his chopsticks.
Empress Changsun did not interrupt, and Li Lizhi and Princess Yuzhang did not interrupt either.
It was even more impossible for the two little princesses to eat, they just focused on eating with gusto.
"Reading is expensive, partly because paper is expensive! I have improved technology that can increase efficiency and reduce costs, making paper even cheaper. Wouldn't this reduce the cost of reading and writing?"
Li Shimin looked at Xiao Ran and said, "It has indeed decreased, but not much."
"The reason why books are expensive is not because of the expensive paper, but because of the labor cost of copying. It takes a long time to write a book, so the cost is relatively high." Empress Changsun explained with a smile.
Woodblock printing was already available in the early Tang Dynasty, but it was not well-developed and was not widely promoted. Most books still relied on people copying word by word.
Not only is it time-consuming and laborious, but it is also easy for people to make mistakes when writing.
All these make books expensive, so expensive that ordinary people can't afford to read them.
“What if I had more efficient printing technology?”
"I know about woodblock printing. The time cost of engraving is not low, and it is also time-consuming and laborious. The advantage is that it can be printed in large quantities without errors."
When carving, I must check it over and over again.
Li Shimin looked at Xiao Ran.
"Woodblock printing is no good, I have something better."
If all else fails, Xiao Ran will bring a generator over and sell Datang some copiers.
Copying all day long.
"Huh?" Li Shimin was surprised. He didn't expect such an unexpected surprise.
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