At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

But in the eyes of scholars, it makes no difference.

Right now, we just let Li Shu be the county magistrate, which is not up to the standard of a poor family, but there are two or three of this kind of thing. Who knows when the emperor had a whim and a guy promoted his subordinates to the state and county level?

In that way, Li Shu was born to be an official of two thousand shi?

A group of mud-legged people whose ancestors can't read a single word can be officials of two thousand shi?

Not to mention what the scholars thought, some officials from humble backgrounds were also surprised and slightly upset by this.

I feel like my identity has been shaken.

Mud legs are the most humble and least valued. They are not worthy of being called people. In the eyes of most rulers, they are not even human beings, but just production tools. They are not even worth as much as a cow or a horse.

Now Guo Peng actually has the tendency to make them the guards of the two thousand stones?

What does the emperor want to do?

Chapter 1127 One thousand 130 seven they had a little worry

At this moment when the whole country is celebrating that the emperor has completely wiped out the threat of the northern grasslands, some people have already begun to worry about their future.

They began to suspect that the emperor would do something they didn't want to see with the power of victory.

And once it comes true, their countermeasures are quite limited.

All they can rely on is the monopoly of the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law, as well as certain control over social, economic and public opinion.

This is the absolute means by which they lived in the Eastern Han Empire.

But after the historical transition to the Wei Empire, all this seems to have changed slightly.

Their cultural monopoly and control over socioeconomic, political, and public opinion have gone awry and become less secure.

The 20 years of war at the end of the Han Dynasty more or less destroyed a group of scholars and a group of powerful people, which made a certain improvement in the world situation, but this change was not reliable and the degree was limited.

It's just that Guo Peng used many means to maintain these changes, and it snowballed like a snowball, to the point of surprising some people.

Later, the Wei Empire was established, and scholars felt that their situation had changed.

In terms of politics, economy, and public opinion, it is difficult for them to fight against the emperor who has a lot of resources in his hands.

The emperor has unprecedentedly many resources in his hands, and he has captured them to death, making it difficult to invade.

At least before he died, it was difficult for the scholars to do anything about the things that Guo Peng had mastered, and it was difficult to devour them.

But at least there is hope.

It was controlled by Guo Peng for a while, and there is still a chance to get it later. As long as Guo Peng dies, the future emperors will not be as powerful as him.

But cultural changes seem to be not so simple.

If you want to be an official, if you want to be a high-ranking official who truly holds power, you must go through their system and follow the five classics and fourteen methods.

Under this system, without their recognition, it is impossible to truly grasp the power and go to the political arena to call the wind and rain. This point, even the emperor cannot change it.

Because you really don't have a national-level talent training method, the methods and resources that can cultivate national-level talents are in their hands, and the emperor has quite limited control.

But because of [the needs of the times], the emperor bypassed their system a long time ago and created another system himself.

Teach people to read and write in the villages at the grassroots level, and then appoint village heads and township heads according to the number of literate people, and let those mud-legged people manage themselves, managing more than 100 people, or three to five hundred people, or one to two thousand people.

Officials of this level don't need too many skills, and don't need to understand the four books, five classics and six arts.

If you do well, you will be sent to Taixue, where you will receive a certain degree of formal education.

For example, the five classics and family law.

But that is relatively small and does not take up much of the proportion, because few people are willing to teach.

The teaching resources of Taixue are not strong, relying on Situ Caiyong, the mascot of the dynasty who is very famous, to barely recruit an educational team.

This education team is completely out of the reach of the top gentry. They feel that these people are not even as good as their personal teachers, and they are not worthy of educating them at all.

So the children of scholars seldom go to Taixue.

Although some of these Taixue teachers were so outstanding and were appointed as Doctors of the Five Classics by Guo Peng, none of them caught their eyes.

The more than 3000 students in Taixue are basically the children of poor families and Li Shu's children. In the eyes of the scholars, this is a group of mud-legged bumpkins entertaining themselves and enclosing themselves.

However, some scholars have noticed that the things taught in Taixue are unusual.

This education team will pass on some of the essentials of the Five Classics to the underprivileged and Lishu children in the Taixue, but it is definitely not the main thing. The scriptures and other things are just for them to know, nothing more.

In addition, the main teaching content is arithmetic, water conservancy engineering and agriculture, how to deal with Lishu farmers, how to prevent and control various disasters and so on.

The education in Taixue is biased towards reality, and it is fully intended to train these people to be capable grassroots officials and office officials, and it does not think about cultivating many masters of literature and classics from it.

The emperor didn't want them to make fuss, didn't want them to master the scriptures, and didn't even teach them what is meant by small words and great righteousness. He only let them know what the sages said, and then began to teach them how to govern a village, a town, and a county.

To be precise, the emperor did not intend to train any high-level officials, nor did he intend to train national-level talents, but only planned to train a group of middle- and low-level officials so that they could serve as officials at the local grassroots level and control the local area.

As for the high-level central government, the emperor didn't seem to care, and still let the procuratorate do its own thing.

Hundreds of people enter Taixue every year, and hundreds of people leave. In the fourth year of Yande, more than 1000 people entered and more than 500 people left. They all went to the local government to enrich the official team.

This is why Guo Peng has the confidence to carry out a large-scale anti-corruption campaign against local low-level officials, because he has enough grass-roots manpower to fill in, and it is easy to kill hundreds of low-level officials.

These people do not have the capital that scholars value, have not read the scriptures, do not understand the meaning of the scriptures, and cannot enter the high-level empire to hold important powers, but they have the ability to govern the local area and develop agricultural production. If they do well, they can basically stabilize a county. place.

Some scholars disagree with this.

They feel that these mud-legged people don't even know the meaning of small words and righteousness, so they don't want to move forward at all, and they will never become high-level people.

However, some sober-minded scholars pointed out that it is not necessary for the emperor to govern the country at the grassroots level, as long as these people understand agricultural production and disaster prevention and control.

The emperor didn't intend to train high-level talents, but only planned to train some grassroots talents to help him control the grassroots. As for the trivial matters, the emperor didn't care at all.

This is not a good trend.

This reflects a certain thought of the emperor, a certain way of governance.

But most scholars still don't care.

The emperor doesn't want to make small talk, we want it, the emperor doesn't cultivate national talents, we cultivate them.

If he wants to gain a firm foothold in the central government, you need to see if he needs to study the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law, and see if he needs to understand what it means to say things in a small way.

Without the education of advanced governance knowledge that we have mastered, you can see if they can learn how to formulate national policies and how to grasp the policy direction of a country.

Can a county be able to govern the country?

This is indeed a reality.

It is very difficult for Taixue's training model to cultivate national-level talents, unless his family is already in a high position and he has his own education model for senior officials, such as the current group of senior officials from poor families.

Otherwise, you can only hope that you are talented.

If you don't take the path of being filial and honest, if you don't have a backer, you don't even think about entering the central government.

In this way, the selection system for high-level officials and low-level officials of the Wei Empire seemed to have become two parallel lines that did not interfere with each other.

Scholars play with scholars, and others play their own at the grassroots level, and it is never possible to overlap with each other and not interfere with each other.

This was something that never existed before.

Some scholars with a clear mind pointed out that this may cause their foundation to be unstable. Once they are completely separated from the local grassroots, some unexpected and terrible things may happen.

But most scoff at this notion.

They say that our foundation is the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law, which are punctuated sentences, which are incomprehensible words and meanings that we did not have but were created for the sake of monopoly.

Maybe the sages themselves didn't know that every word they said could have so much meaning.

But it doesn't matter, they are dead, and we who are alive say it is, so it is.

Who cares about the sages?

The more difficult, mysterious, and difficult to understand, the more convenient it is for us to monopolize.

We are noble and noble.

And those mud-legged people are the vulgar people who roll around all day long, and this situation will never change.

High and low will never meet!

Before the end of the five-year war in Yande, this situation does not seem to change.

But after the war ended, this situation has been broken.

The first batch of officials of Lishu origin who served as county magistrates appeared.

This was directly appointed by the emperor beyond the imperial court, using the supreme imperial power strengthened by a certain Guo after a great victory in the war, and no one dared to object.

Chapter 1128 One thousand one hundred and thirty-eight someone in Guo finished the skirmish in Yecheng

In the Wei Empire, everyone vaguely had a strange consensus.

What the emperor orders to be done, will be done.

For example, he wants to appoint Liu Di as the magistrate of Ye County.

Even if this kind of thing is asked to go through procedural justice, the Ministry of Officials will never stop it.

Zhang Zhaoquan relied on the emperor to gain a firm foothold. For the appointment of these county magistrates, he would immediately approve the appointment, making the appointment reasonable, legal and impeccable.

Then the unspoken political rules that had prevailed in the Guowei Group for more than ten years came to an end, and the mud-legged people at the bottom rose to power on a large scale, flexing their muscles in the county-level government and completely occupying the mainstream.

At the government level at the county level, there will also be a large number of mud-legged people who enter the county government with the appointment documents of the official department, hold some important powers at the county government level, and jump under the nose of the county prefect who is a scholar.

But the prefect of the county has no power to dismiss these officials appointed by the Ministry of Officials.

Although this cannot affect the overall situation at the central level, it just makes people very uncomfortable and unhappy.

The situation changed, and Li Shu, who was suppressed so tightly that he could not threaten the status of the scholars, unexpectedly had the qualification to challenge the scholars.

They can also be county magistrates or county magistrates.

In the past, they could not touch this threshold, and this threshold is the starting point of scholars.

But it's different now.

Li Shu can be the county magistrate and county magistrate, and can hold the same position as scholars.

Although scholars start as county magistrates, and it is very easy to get promoted.

But isn't that a shame?

What can we do, they can do too?

Where is our particularity?

At that time, a mud-legged man with dry skin and filthy skin will actually work as a colleague with a scholar of noble birth and family members who have been officials of the Sangong level for several generations, and discuss the development plans of various counties in the county mansion together...

Is this normal?

Uneasiness and worry permeated the hearts of some scholars. They were uneasy, wondering what the emperor's actions meant, and whether it meant that the emperor had further political plans.

But soon Guo Peng made some barely explained explanations for his behavior.

He talked about this matter when he held a government affairs meeting with Tian Feng Chengyu and other senior officials.

"Among the current officials, there are some people with good backgrounds who think that they are born superior, and they are born to be high-ranking officials. Someone else replaces, you say, is this normal?"

Guo Peng's sharp eyes scanned the officials, and the officials answered [abnormal] duplicity, and secretly slandered Guo for being shameless and shameless.

Your family is the bastard who most wants to be superior to others, who needs to be worthy of his own identity, and who needs to be replaced by others for generations!

Of course, they wouldn't dare to say such words even if they killed them, so Guo, who knew it very well, climbed up the pole.

"What do you say that they are not allowed to hold positions above the county magistrate, and that they should be restricted to below the county-level government, okay, I don't mind, but how did I hear about Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Pingzhou, these remote places? Can't even find someone to do the post of county magistrate?"

Guo looked serious and scanned the group of officials.

The officials all bowed their heads and fell silent.

Nonsense, who wants to be an official in a remote area!