After Qing Mo finished speaking, everyone revealed looks of sudden realization!
"This method is excellent!"
"That way, it will be fair and impartial. The entire article selection process will be open to the public, and no one will be able to question the results!"
Yu Shinan, a great scholar of the age, immediately stroked his beard and nodded repeatedly!
Though the other great scholars still felt somewhat uneasy, they also found this a fair way to compete and voiced their agreement one after another!
"Mm! Since all of you ministers agree with the National Preceptor's proposal, then we shall proceed as such!"
Seeing that every official present agreed, Li Shimin, as emperor, immediately made the final decision!
"Oh! Right! There's one more thing!" Just as Li Shimin finished speaking, Qing Mo raised his hand again!
"What further instructions does the National Preceptor have?" Wei Zheng, who stood closest to Qing Mo, was the first to turn and look over!
"A small matter! That honeycomb coal I came up with before—it's already being used throughout all of Chang'an by now, right?!"
"It's just that the stove has always been called a honeycomb coal stove. I don't think that sounds very good, so I want to give it a new name!"
"Let's call it... the 'Ping'an Stove'!"
"The 'Ping'an' from Zheng Ping'an!"
The moment Qing Mo's words fell, Zheng Ping'an, who had been playing the invisible man from the very beginning, instantly lifted his head. Utter shock immediately surfaced in his small eyes!
And when they heard that Qing Mo, the National Preceptor, had actually used Zheng Ping'an's name to name the honeycomb coal stove that nearly every household in the Tang Dynasty would use!
All the officials present instantly turned purple-eyed with envy, their faces immediately filled with the word jealousy!