At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

It all depends on luck, it all depends on luck.

Anyway, it's impossible right now.

Right now, Guo Peng is holding his son with high hopes in his arms, discussing with him how to go next.

"We have completed the first step, and the next step is the second step."

Guo Peng said in a low voice: "The purpose of the first step is to appropriately reduce the power of the scholars, let the scholars start to split from within, and weaken the resistance they may cause. Now, nine of the fourteen laws have been removed, and the remaining The Five Family Law, before it has grown up, is not difficult to deal with.

In the past, most of the representatives of each of the fourteen schools of law were unwilling to enter Taixue as a doctor. Not a good thing.

Now, the five winning families have reached an agreement with Weifu, and they will select outstanding scholars to enter Taixue to become doctors, and will allocate part of their respective official quotas to Weifu to arrange. If there is no previous preparation, As a father, he should stop here, but he can't do it now. "

Guo Jin nodded.

"Father's goal is to make the Five Classics marked with punctuation marks the real Five Classics, rather than their respective family laws becoming the orthodox Five Classics."

"Yes, as a father, what you need to control is all the right to teach, all the quotas for official appointments, and the abolition of inspections. You cannot hand over the quotas for official appointments to any family law."

Guo Peng narrowed his eyes: "The trick of being a father actually has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage lies in that it can weaken the strength of the scholars in a short period of time, and the disadvantage is that once they really gain a foothold, the five families will lose their strength." It will be more difficult to deal with than the original fourteen together.

That is the five giants. These five families will develop into a gentry that is more powerful than any top gentry in the former Han Dynasty. The real disciples and old officials are all over the world, so this time they will be so willing to cooperate with their father at all costs. Try to depose the other nine.

Whether it is the Yuan family or the Xun family, they all want to take this opportunity to stand up. The Huan family and the Jia family also want to take this opportunity to replace the veterans of the three prefectures of Qing, Yan and Hebei and seize greater power. The Kong family simply wants a Each transcendent status has its own pursuit. "

"But father, I'm afraid they are not very willing to accept punctuation marks. Once they accept punctuation marks, the study of chapters and sentences will be meaningless, and their education will no longer be a secret. Any student, as long as he can read, can read Article, this is probably not what they want to see."

Guo Jin said worriedly.

"You're right."

Guo Peng nodded: "But Ah Jin, the card in Wei's father's hand is not only punctuation marks, but also paper, and printing. There are only punctuation marks, but there is not enough paper, there is not enough paper books, Relying on bamboo slips alone, punctuation marks can only be circulated among them.

If you want books, you need to copy by hand, recognize characters, and understand punctuation marks, but there are no books to read. What's the point?Academics still cannot be moved down, and more people cannot be educated, because resources are completely insufficient, and even if some people benefit, their status will not be shaken. "

"Father means..."

"Start with paper. Paper has been gradually spread out for the father. Since a few years ago, Zuobo Paper has been continuously lowering prices, increasing production, and lowering prices. Bit by bit, today Today, Ah Jin, haven’t you noticed? There are more and more official documents in court.”

Guo Peng reached out and took a memorial book from the table: "Look, this is a memorial book specially customized for the imperial court in Qingzhou. The outer skin is hard, and the inner is paper, which can be folded and can write many things.

Most of the official documents in the court are now using paper. For my father’s expedition, the logistics department of the Ministry of War used 10,000+ sheets of paper in one go. Didn’t you notice the amount of paper consumed during the period? ? "

When Guo Peng said this, Guo Jin suddenly realized.

Speaking of it, because of the pressure, he really didn't care whether he had more bamboo slips or paper documents.

Now that Guo Peng mentioned it, Guo Jin looked again and suddenly found that the number of paper documents on the table in front of Guo Peng had exceeded the number of bamboo slips.

Sneaked into the night wind, moisten things silently.

Unknowingly, because the court bought more and more paper, officials in the court had gradually begun to replace the bamboo slips with paper.

No one reminded them, and no one cared about it, as if it was such a process that no one paid attention to. After this process, paper occupied the mainstream position, and bamboo slips retreated to the second or even third line.

The quality of "Zuobo paper" is good, it can hold ink, and more importantly, it is light in texture. Writing many official documents is just a stack of light paper, which is quite different from the bamboo slips that need to be pushed by a small cart.

I am used to using paper, and looking at the bamboo slips that are not only heavy, but also have a small number of characters that can be written, and cost a lot of money, I feel that it is not the same thing at all.

Guo Jin also remembered that during Guo Peng's Northern Expedition, when many courtiers came to see him, they held this kind of playbook instead of the bamboo slip form.

During official meetings, officials who record relevant issues also use blank paper instead of bamboo slips.

When discussing issues with Cao Cao and Guo Jia, Guo Jin himself wrote on white paper and passed it on to the officials for reading.

Many of the government affairs memorials obtained from local governments were also written in memorial books instead of bamboo slips.

It feels like when he didn't pay attention, it seems that when Guo Peng set off political storms one after another, paper and paper playbooks had quietly completed their invasion of the court, and began to completely replace the cumbersome bamboo slips, and began to dominate the court daily office work.

And when did it all start, Guo Jin didn't notice it, until now.

When Guo Peng talked about it, he realized that this was one of the layouts that his father had started a long time ago, and it was his usual layout method.

When the layout is completed inadvertently, when the quantitative change accumulates into a qualitative change, when someone notices and wants to stop it, everything can no longer be stopped.

"Weifu will soon announce that in Qingzhou, Uncle Zuo has completed the method of making cheap paper and decided to dedicate it to Weifu, and then Weifu will take the lead in offering sacrifices to the Confucius Temple to confirm the status of paper.

Then we started to set up government-run paper-making workshops in an open and aboveboard manner, mass-produced paper in an open and aboveboard manner, incorporated paper into our daily life, and let paper completely replace bamboo slips. Symbols start. "

Guo Peng's face was full of planned expressions.

For him, this was indeed a plan that he started making very early on.

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Feeling Guo Peng's far-reaching layout, Guo Jin was amazed.

"Father is far-sighted, son worships!"

Guo Peng shook his head.

"There is no way to fight against a dragon among a group of people. There is no way to fight normally. Being a father is not a talent. The only thing that can be used is something they don't know, something they can't think of anyway. This takes advantage."

"Is that so..."

Guo Jin nodded slowly.

"Our intelligence is not far behind, we cannot say who is definitely smarter than the other, what we can rely on is what they don't know but we know.

Because you don’t know, you can’t fortify, because you can’t fortify, you don’t know how to deal with it, and you will be defeated in one fell swoop. This is not determined by whether you are smart or not. "

Guo Peng smiled and said: "This is our only chance to win. Only by seizing this opportunity can we come back and win, otherwise, this step is the limit of what my father can do.

Because of these things they don't know, the father can continue to go on. Even so, the father doesn't know where he can go, but the father knows, what the father can't do, you can't do it, future generations It is even more difficult. "

"Father will definitely defeat them completely."

Guo Jin confirmed without hesitation: "Just like my father completely wiped out Xianbei, the world is so big that no one is a match for my father, and my son is alkaline!"

"Hahaha, it's not that easy."

Guo Peng smiled, and shook his head again: "Making paper popular is what I was doing before I became a father. Paper is not a rare thing. It is suddenly popularized now. Although it is unexpected, it is not completely unexpected. So it can be done, it is not difficult.

But once punctuation marks appear, it is challenging their tolerance limit. The so-called family law is nothing more than they have the final say on how to conclude a sentence. Now that punctuation marks are used, it is to prevent them from arbitrarily manipulating sentences.

There is a unified interpretation of the sage's articles, which is a huge shock to them. If they want to change the family law into the national law, if they want to pass it by force, it may not be enough to just recognize their official and academic status and give them orthodox status. .

It must go through a game, and give them some extraordinary things in exchange, supplemented by force deterrence, so that they can accept and admit it. "

Guo Jin felt it was inevitable to do so.

"What is father going to do?"

"Unify the Five Classics for the father, dismiss the nine family laws, that is to dismiss the disobedient nine family laws, dismiss most of the difficult families, and leave behind for the convenience of the father to control, so now Said, they are all on the side of the father.

Moreover, they are all officials. Compared with those highly respected [celebrities] who are not officials, they are easier to deal with, and they are also easy to be manipulated by their fathers. In a moment of father's thought.

Yuan Si is the easiest part of the five new families to deal with. As a father, he is fully confident that he can win Yuan Si, so that Yuan Si does not dare to resist, and obediently accepts the punctuation of "Yi" to do this. Leader, as for the other four..."

Guo Peng was silent for a while, then looked at Guo Jin: "A Jin, which of the other four families do you think is the best to deal with?"

Guo Jin thought for a while.

"Kong."

"why?"

"Because even if my father completes the punctuation of the teaching rights of the five classics and changes the family law into the national law, the status of the Kong family will not change. The teaching is still Confucianism. The academics recognized by Wei Wei are still Confucianism, not Legalism and Taoism. Mohists.

As the descendants of Confucius, Kong’s honorable status will not change, and the core interests of the family will not be damaged. As long as his father lets Kong know that their status and titles are the same as before, and they can still enjoy the hereditary treatment, then Kong’s Certainly there will be no violent resistance. "

Guo Jin's answer made Guo Peng nod his head.

"That's right, the second family that can be won is the Kong family. The Kong family has always understood the general situation and can't be a car with arms. Then there are the Xun family, the Huan family, and the Jia family, Ajin, you How do you think the father should deal with them?"

"To deal with them... the best one to deal with should be the Xun family. The Xun family has been hit by their father and has been in decline for several years. Once they rise up, it may not be so easy to regain their strength.

Father can take this opportunity to take down the Xun family. Moreover, Xun Pushe has always obeyed his father's orders and has never violated his father's orders. He should be afraid of his father. Disaster. "

"Yes."

Guo Peng stood up, walked to the gate of Fengtian Hall with his hands behind his back.

"Xun You is afraid of me, and the Xun family is also afraid of me. The death of Xun Yu brought them deep fear. They knew that I would kill people, and they dared to kill people. So as long as I live, the Xun family will be the same as Yuan's. Dare to disobey me."

With that said, Guo Peng turned his head again and looked at Guo Jin who was following behind him: "Now, only the Jia family and the Huan family are left. The Jia family gave up the rest of the family law and only chose Zhou officials, which is not easy to deal with."

"Why did father choose Jia and Huan?"

Guo Jin suddenly asked.

"I don't have many choices as a father."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Of course there are those who are willing to cooperate, but there are not many who are powerful and famous and can hold the situation. Jia Kui and Huan Dian are also capable, so they are my parents.

Ah Jin, there is no absolute thing in this world. Even as a father, there is no way to control everything. In front of the enemy, the choices are very limited, or even no choice. "

This is true, if there were many choices in everything, Guo wouldn't have had to stare at Yuan Shu back then, and would have kept pushing Yuan Shu's ambitions to make him emperor, and finally turned back.

Many choices are choices without choices. We can only choose a relatively good and less disgusting choice from these choices that are not considered choices.

Guo Jin was speechless, he knew that what Guo Peng said was true and correct.

Therefore, faced with the choice of no choice, the father and son need to work harder to secure the victory.

Right now, Guo Peng's second strategy is a three-step strategy.

First is the paper.

Then there's punctuation.

Last but not least is printing.

Paper is the best solution, because this thing is not a new thing, but all literati are not unaware of the existence of paper, and it is not difficult to promote it throughout the country.

Punctuation marks were a huge shock to scholars, but for someone like Guo, taking a step forward after unifying the Five Classics does not seem to be deliberate for a long time, but more like taking advantage of the trend.

After it is completely cut off, there is still the possibility of the birth of family laws, and the hope of those family laws trying to make a comeback is completely extinguished.

Hiding the fundamental goal, keeping the fundamental goal secret, until the real goal is finally realized, people will realize——

Ah, it turned out to be a long-planned plan.

But at that time, if you want to resist again, it will be too late.

The overall situation is established, even if the face is completely torn apart, there will still be people who are willing to stand by him, and those who are not willing to stand by him will naturally face cruel persecution.

At that time, the non-violent non-cooperation movement of the scholars may not be able to achieve great results.

The bottom line of a person is broken little by little. As long as one breaks through, there will be a second, third, and fourth time, until being broken through the bottom line becomes the norm.

So it is not difficult for the emperor to persecute his subjects, unless he decides to rebel.

None of Guo's subordinates dared to rebel. If there were, it would be a lot easier.

chapter 1154

After May of the sixth year of Yande, Wei State's official academic guiding ideology began to be reorganized, and Taixue finally became the highest institution of the country in the true sense again.

The widely recognized doctor of the Five Classics brought his own teaching assistants to Taixue, bringing real Confucianism education into Taixue.

The scholars' children returned to Taixue, gathered together with the poor families and Lishu's children, and studied in Taixue together.

This is one of the trophies Guo Peng won after winning the Five Classics War.

The large classroom-style education mode promoted in Taixue has also been consolidated. Although it is not the complete class-based education like the children in the training camp, the large-scale classroom-style education is also quite good.

The differences within the Five Classics have been terminated and will not change again. All students can choose a certain classic that they are interested in to study, and at the same time participate in other practical education in Taixue.

Doctors in Taixue were also asked to really teach something useful, not to hide all good things from teaching, otherwise the emperor would be unhappy if he found out.

This is also one of the goals of the compromise reached by the two sides before.

To say that the previous Taixue could only cultivate talents of one county at most, but now, Taixue may be able to cultivate talents of one county.

If there are some more talented people, it is not impossible to cultivate talents from a state or even the central government.