At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This is his arrangement.

It's not easy for Guo to retrain a group of usable eunuchs.

All the old eunuchs who had fighting experience in Emperor Ling's reign were robbed by Yuan Shu when Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, and they were all killed by force in retaliation.

Those poor survivors around Liu Xie were also wiped out in the Chang'an war and the Hongnong fire.

Guo Peng currently has more than 200 eunuchs in his hands, all of whom are new eunuchs and lack fighting experience.

Someone Guo cultivated their juggling talents and taught them how to read, mainly to accompany Liu Jian and monitor Liu Jian.

Liu Jian was going to Shanyang Kingdom to be his Sanyang Duke. At least 100 of these eunuchs had to follow Liu Jian, and he could only stay with more than [-] eunuchs.

There is still a long way to go to expand to the scale of 24 yamen.

It doesn't matter, as long as the central imperial power is still there, there will be no people who are willing to be eunuchs.

Let’s start with the insignificant ones. On the surface, the functions and powers of these eunuchs and yamen revolved around the emperor’s daily life at the beginning. It seemed harmless to humans and animals, but it was very necessary.

At the beginning, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not expect that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty could use the eunuchs in the 24 yamen to accomplish so many things.

Originally just serving the emperor's domestic slaves, who would have thought that the cabinet and Jin Yiwei would be overwhelmed by eunuchs later.

Guo Peng plans to send people out to recruit poor and poor people to serve as servants from now on. Those who have experience before will be promoted first to be close eunuchs, and they will be promoted slowly.

Then send people to the inner court to teach them to read and write, and to master some cultural knowledge.

Emperor Ling knew that Hongdu school was used to train his own people, and Guo also knew it.

The matter of the eunuch is about to start now. As for the spies, it was someone Guo who started to toss about it a long time ago.

Linziying has expanded from a few hundred people in the early days to more than [-] people now. Every state, every county, and every county in the Han Empire has spies from Linziying, and there are branches.

Especially in the counties and counties of the Central Plains, the spy bases are connected together, relying on the developed transportation network in the Central Plains that Guo spent countless money and painstaking efforts to build, once something happens, Guo can expedite it sooner than the local six hundred miles. Know.

The establishment of the spy country took shape.

Therefore, over the years, the development of Linziying can be said to be unhappy, and its ability to handle affairs is not weak.

As Guo Peng's right-hand man, the importance of his adopted son Yan Rou has gradually become prominent.

So Guo's own copy of Jinyiwei already exists and has been running.

From spying on intelligence to collecting evidence to monitoring officials and generals to monitoring places, Guo has spread his minions all over the place, letting them be his own eyes and ears, so that he can see and hear, so that he will not become deaf or blind.

The command organizations at all levels of the Linzi Camp have war orphans adopted by Guo Peng over the years.

After the intensive brainwashing education of loyalty to the emperor since childhood in Linziying, they all strictly abide by the rules and laws and are only loyal to Guo.

Now the Linzi camp has a unique style in cultivating newcomers, and the brainwashing techniques are becoming more and more mature and fully sustainable.

Through this intelligence network that spreads all over the country, a certain Guo has sharp eyes and ears, and his control over all parts of the empire is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

When necessary, this department should be put on the bright side to form a huge deterrent to Shangshutai, and together with the eunuch's office, it will cover up what Guo is really going to do.

The eunuchs and secret agents are basically from Li Shu, they are the Li Shu department in the true sense, and they are also the most direct manifestation of Guo's power. Their existence is an important means for Guo and Li Shu to attack the people.

This series of arrangements is all for one goal, which is to establish the imperial examination system and end the dual monarchy system.

Not to mention everything, everything, Mr. Guo can't do it, and he doesn't have the money. What he wants is to let at least some of the Li Shu's children go to school with the wealthy and powerful children to study, learn knowledge, and initially build educational institutions directly under the state. Hold imperial examinations within a limited crowd.

As long as the imperial examinations can become a fact and the system of ambiguous names is established, it doesn't matter whether it is the imperial examinations of the Sui Dynasty or the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty.

As long as there are imperial examinations, as long as there are elementary and basic local educational institutions even if they are very shabby directly under the state, even if only a very small number of poor families and Li Shu can receive education, that's fine.

Even if the imperial examinations in the Sui Dynasty were the same as playing games, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty still needed to be contributed, but later there could still be disputes between Niu and Li.

It was a process, a process that perhaps Mr. Guo could not see the result by himself.

If the imperial examination system cannot be established, his series of arrangements will be the same as Lingdi's, just the last madness.

But as long as the imperial examination system is established, he will win, even if its brilliance is not in Guo Wei, but in later dynasties, that is the same.

Mr. Guo only wants the imperial examination.

No matter how the scholars object, how they struggle, how they fight to the death.

He won't compromise, he won't give up.

At that time, the powerful eunuch system and spy system will also be mainly used to deal with possible fatal blows launched by scholars.

It is absolutely impossible for them to sit still, whether it is poisoning, assassination, or rebellion, they will definitely take action.

Therefore, from the central government to the local government, Guo will be fully prepared.

In the central government, it doesn't matter whether it's assassination, poisoning, or a coup d'état. The eunuchs and spies are prepared for this.

Instigate a rebellion locally?

It depends on whether I have a larger population or you have a larger population, whether my grassroots government and army are stronger, or whether your manor thugs are stronger.

Mr. Guo has been going all the way, is there less use for conspiracy?

Have you used less and less indiscriminate methods?

Have you done less vile and shameless things?

From the son of the county magistrate all the way to the throne of the emperor, have I killed fewer people?

The four major families have been overthrown by me, and the remaining rotten fish and shrimps still want to play tricks with me?

A bunch of brothers!

Just one imperial examination!

Just one imperial examination!

Only one imperial examination is needed, and the Guo Dynasty will truly evolve into the Wei Empire!

The king is the king, and the minister is the minister. His autocratic heart will not be restrained by anyone. He can even directly push history to the Tang Dynasty. Years of Darkness and Chaos.

That's enough, Guo Peng doesn't care about what will happen afterwards, as long as he can end the gentry politics and promote the imperial examination politics, as an autocratic emperor, that's enough.

It doesn't matter if no one understands it, and it doesn't matter if scholars object together.

What I want is your life, if you don't object to me, it's strange, if you don't want my life, it's strange.

But if you don't give up your lives, the people of the world will spend hundreds of years in the dark.

How can I accept it?

I can't accept things like this continuing to happen, so no matter what, I'm going to fight you guys.

You have the tradition, I hold the future.

Mr. Guo didn't know how many years he had left to live.

But he has already bet his future hope on his lifespan. If he can live long enough, he will have enough hope to accomplish this matter. The longer his lifespan, the greater his hope.

In the end, will history leave him with a chance to make a real start?

Guo was sitting on the throne with a solemn face.

He was praying, praying that God would give him a little more life, so that he could better do what he wanted to do.

Chapter 780 780 Nine Sixth Edict

The basic structure of the center is basically completed here.

The rewards that should be awarded, the transfers that should be transferred, the central core department was clearly arranged by Guo Peng.

Cheng Yu and the others knew about this.

Before Guo Peng made the official announcement, he vented to them about the central political system and military system he had designed. Of course, they were not allowed to participate too much, as long as they obeyed orders.

The officials were a little puzzled at first, but they gradually came back to it later.

The emperor wants to centralize power.

Also, how could the founding emperor not centralize power?

Some time before the founding of the country, many people were discussing, and they all felt that the emperor might want to centralize power and get all the power he deserved, and would not be willing to be an emperor like Emperor Huandi Lingdi.

This is not something impossible, nor did it exceed the expectations of the officials, but they did not expect Guo Peng to change the administrative structure in a circle.

However, if it is said that Guo Peng has any subtle arrangements, it does not seem to be possible, that is, to separate the affairs of Dahonghe and set up a foreign ministry, and the tasks of Guang Luxun and Weiwei are changed to military personnel. To do, we installed group called Janissaries in the center.

Guo Peng has not yet made clear arrangements for other positions serving the emperor, such as Shaofu.

None of the ministers knew what organization Guo Peng planned to replace those positions, or who he would appoint to do them.

Looks like there's more to come.

The military reward is the sixth edict, and the amount of information in this edict is quite large.

As far as the Imperial Guards set up by Guo Peng are concerned, the Imperial Guards are not literal Imperial Guards, but a combination of Imperial Guards and Guards.

The Imperial Army is responsible for defending the imperial city and the palace city, and the guards are responsible for protecting the entire Luoyang area except the imperial city and the palace city.

Guo Peng's newly built Luoyang City is divided into three parts, the most central imperial city, the outer circle of Miyagi, and the outermost outer city. Three concentric frames are set together. The imperial city is Guo Peng's home. It is the office of the central administrative department, and the outer city is all other parts of Luoyang City.

The Forbidden Army is the original Tiger Guards.

Guo Peng reorganized the Five Thousand Tiger Guards into the Forbidden Army, and appointed Xu Chu as the left general of the Forbidden Army and Dian Wei as the right general of the Forbidden Army.

Xu Chu and Dian Wei took turns, one was in charge of directly inspecting the palace city, the other was in charge of inspecting the entire imperial city, and they rotated every day. They were treated the same, regardless of superiority or inferiority. Their main duty was to defend the royal family and Guo.

The guard army is different from the forbidden army, and the guard army has a much larger establishment.

In Guo Peng's concept, the commonly known entire Sili Xiaowei Department, namely Hedong County, Hanoi County, Hongnong County and Henan Yin County, are all in the Luoyang area, the pan-capital area, and the capital is directly under the jurisdiction of the capital, so what the guards need to protect are these four regions, as well as inside and outside Luoyang City.

In order to defend these places, the number of guards is of course very large, a total of 11 people, and the 5000 people of the imperial army are added together, 5000, which is an absolute force to protect the capital area.

The Guard Army takes the General of the Guard as the commander-in-chief, and has four generals to assist the General of the Guard, the Left General of the Guard, the Right General of the Guard, the Front General of the Guard, and the Rear General of the Guard.

Guo Peng ordered Zhao Yun to serve as the general of the guard army and the commander-in-chief of the guard army.

He also appointed Cao Hong as the left general of the guard, Cao Chun as the right general of the guard, Li Dian, the nephew of Li Gan, the former general of Jianwei, as the former general of the guard, and Guo Dong, the former garrison of Taiyuan County, as the rear general of the guard.

Each of the four led an army, and together they assisted Zhao Yun in commanding the guard army.

The guards also directly obeyed the emperor Guo Peng, and did not obey anyone else's command.

The existence of the imperial guards directly replaced the necessity of the existence of the nine ministers such as Guang Luxun and Wei Wei, and divided their duties.

Of course, this is not incomprehensible in the eyes of the officials. Judging from the actions of the new emperor, it is obvious that he is strengthening the centralization of power.

Especially military power, all important military power is in the hands of his own people, directly under the command of the emperor himself.

This of course weakened the authority of scholars, but now no one would think of singing against the new emperor.

As soon as he came to the throne, you sang the opposite tune. Do you want to be Xun Yu or Zang Hong?

This is part of Guo Peng's overall plan to weaken the authority of scholars, and it is also an aboveboard conspiracy to use the prestige of the founding emperor to accomplish things. This is similar to metaphysics, because prestige is invisible to you, but it does exist.

He wants to transfer some powers originally held by scholars to other cronies. For example, the Central Guards will no longer be directly controlled by scholars.

And some functions and powers in the palace that originally belonged to scholars will also be replaced by eunuchs.

Guo Peng wants to completely exclude scholars from his inner court and army.

The establishment of the central army is to exclude scholars from the struggle for military power. Guo Peng would not do such a thing as Emperor Ling using a large number of scholars to serve as the eight lieutenants of Xiyuan.

The army is the army, and the scholars are the scholars, and the scholars should be civil servants honestly, never wanting to control the military power.

The experience and lessons of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are right in front of him. Guo has not forgotten how much effort he put in to defeat Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and even how many years he was licked by Yuan Shu's dog before turning himself into a man.

In terms of the entire army, Guo Peng made great changes, directly changing the military system of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.

He first established the regulations that civil servants should be civil servants and military officials should be military officials. He further determined that county magistrates should be civil servants but not military officials, and military officers could not be civil servants.

Then he created the military rank system and the military job system.

Among the rules he created, the rank of the military represents the merits of a soldier and the treatment he deserves, while the rank of the military rank refers to the command status of a soldier, which is the sequence in wartime.

The military rank is always set, and if you have it, you have it, and multiple people can have one at the same time, not the only one.

Some of the military positions are permanent and some are not permanent. The non-permanent ones will only be dispatched when needed, and one person will be assigned to each post. After the post is over, they will be dismissed or replaced by other permanent positions.

Ranks from high to low are ten grades, first-class general, second-class hussar general, third-class chariot general, fourth-class guard general, fifth-class township general, sixth-class Zhenyuan general, seventh-class Mingwei school lieutenant, eighth-class Waiting for Captain Xuanwei, ninth ranking Captain Xuanwu, and tenth ranking Captain Wude.

Among the military positions, the military positions in the Central Army sequence are all permanent. There are two generals of the imperial army, one general of the guard army, and four generals in the front, rear, left, and right sides of the guard army, a total of seven positions.