At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

There are really a lot of scholars and students who frantically poured into Taixue because of the chaos, and the four major families are constantly calling for scholars to enter Taixue.

The number of students in Taixue has increased so much all of a sudden, if they all take the path of the Taixue graduation exam to become officials, where will the status advantages of scholars be reflected?

It is impossible for scholars to compete with poor families and Li Shu's children on the same stage. This is an insult to scholars.

Being forced to study with them is already very face-saving, okay?

The way of promoting filial piety must be reserved for scholars and must not be let go. This is different from the monopoly of the top gentry for the right to teach and interpret classics. To promote filial piety is the overall interest of the scholar class. Can benefit, once touched, the entire scholar class will almost explode.

The extent of the explosion is definitely not like this time, someone Guo cleverly planned to sacrifice Huan, and then controlled it properly.

The whole country of Wei is about to explode.

According to the current trend, it is a foregone conclusion that public schools will prosper and private schools will decline.

Moreover, judging from the spirit of the emperor's imperial decree and some gossip, it won't be long before His Majesty the Emperor will officially issue an administrative order to abolish private schools and establish public schools.

His Majesty the Emperor wants to fully transfer the right to education to the central government, and no local private lectures are allowed, only the central imperial schools and local palaces and schools are allowed to give lectures.

Students all over the world can only be recognized for their education received in the Central Taixue, local schools, and schools. The educational resumes received in private teaching facilities are not recognized, and even their student status cannot be mixed.

Student status is very important. Only with student status can one be recognized as an official candidate.

That is to say, you can be promoted as Xiaolian and Maocai only if you have a school status. If you don't have a school status, it means that you have not received an orthodox education, so you can't do it.

This is the emperor's request, a request that must be fulfilled, and the scholars feel that there is nothing wrong with it.

Anyway, as long as their privileges are still there, everything can be discussed. If the privileges are gone, that is the big problem.

Now it's just a matter of enrolling in a school, and then mixing up a student status. In fact, it doesn't make much sense for a family with strong academic strength within the family.

The path of being filial, honest and talented is still maintained, so everything is ok, and if you enter school, you will enroll.

So soon, the children of scholars had to go to public schools to study, and get mixed up with their school status, and then they could walk the road of filial piety, honesty and talent.

Although this is harmless, it is very harmful to private schools. The originally recognized private schools suddenly become unrecognizable, which makes some people very upset.

The source of this unhappiness was of course caused by the four major families.

Yuan, Xun, Kong, Jia.

In order to please the emperor, these four families actually handed over all the educational resources of their respective families to the emperor, allowing the emperor to greatly expand the strength of the Taixue education team.

It can be expected that the Yuan family, the Xun family, the Kong family, and the Jia family will probably become the common enemy of all scholars who are unwilling to accept this situation but have to accept it.

They exchanged the right to interpret classics and to teach in exchange for eternal security and wealth, and then abandoned other families with common interests in one breath.

The abandonment was very decisive, without the slightest hesitation, he was directly abandoned.

Guys, you guys did a really good job.

They dare not hate the emperor, because the emperor is too strong to make them despair.

But these four masters are not that strong, and they have been given titles such as ungrateful for profit, dog legs, etc., so they are naturally hated.

Not to mention the hatred of those families, even officials who have no direct interest in this matter will be jealous of them.

Jealous that they have gained such a prominent position by relying on the shadow of their ancestors.

And the hard work of these officials for more than ten years is far less than their shadow.

This makes people feel very unfair and very uncomfortable.

The military honorable group who came up with a knife and a gun would also be jealous of them.

Jealous that they won the hereditary title that will not be downgraded without taking any risks, and they can retire with the country.

The titles we earned by throwing our heads and blood on the battlefield are not as good as those of you who rely on your ancestors to get the title!

Every generation has to be downgraded by one level. For the Viscount Baron with a low title, if one or two generations fail to live up to expectations, the family will be beaten back to its original shape.

So the military noble group was also dissatisfied with them.

Both the bureaucratic group and the military honorable group are dissatisfied with them. They have no other way out except to surround the emperor tightly and squeeze into this circle as a relative of the emperor to seek protection.

The cultured nobles of the four major families have been reduced to the point where they cannot survive without the protection of the emperor.

And the biggest beneficiary, of course, is only His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor was the only complete beneficiary, and what he paid was completely disproportionate to what he received.

But because of the backing of powerful force, others dare not say anything.

So in this incident, everyone lost, only the emperor won.

The result is that now, scholars who enter Taixue to study, from enrollment to graduation to becoming an official, all have to accept the single-handed arrangements of His Majesty the Emperor and cannot resist.

There was no such reason before, but now, there is.

Sure enough, within a few days, in mid-July, when the Taixue reform was in full swing, the emperor issued a new order.

In addition to the eight departments of Shangshutai, one was added, named the Ministry of Education.

The original Taixue administrative team served as the backbone of the Ministry of Education, and Yuan Si, the Taixue Jijiu, served as the first minister of the Ministry of Education.

The significance of the existence of the Ministry of Education is to oversee the educational activities of all public schools across the country, including Taixue.

Then His Majesty the Emperor announced at the same time that private schools will be abolished nationwide and public schools will be built.

All students must enter the local academy, school or Taixue to obtain student status, and then they can be regarded as students, and thus they can obtain the qualifications of reserve officials.

Without a student status, even a scholar cannot become an official through the road of filial piety.

The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites will also strictly pay attention to the control of student status when screening, and students who are not from Taixue or local schools and schools will not be included in the official system.

chapter 1174 one thousand one hundred and eighty four imperial power expansion

With the promulgation of these two orders, the public school system dominated by the central government began to fully recover in the Wei Empire.

In addition to the start of construction and expansion of the Central Taixue, the lost palaces and schools in the local area have also been regained by the local government, and preparations for reconstruction and enrollment have begun.

The state set up a school palace, the county set up a school, and then the central Taixue.

At this stage, there is no distinction between the three in terms of teaching level, so it is not possible to say that the academy is better than the school.

Just because the administrative level of the founding parties is different, the titles are also different.

But the student status of the state school palace and the county school is the same as that of the Taixue school, and there is no difference in the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites. You will not disapprove of your student status because you have not been taught by a famous teacher.

With a student status, you can participate in a series of political actions in the selection of officials, and you can be recognized as an imperial official. Without a student status, it is useless for you to be amazingly talented and proficient in the Five Classics. If you don’t recognize it, you won’t recognize it.

The most critical issue is that this student status is equivalent to a symbol of receiving government education.

In other words, your educators do not belong to any private person, but to the central government.

You are not anyone's protégé, if you insist, you are a protégé of the central government.

In the end, Mr. Guo was still attacking the social phenomenon of protégés and old officials.

Officials lamented.

Although he had known for a long time that His Majesty's desire for power was very strong, he did not expect him to take action on this matter.

Previously, administrative measures were used to limit the number and power of old officials, which greatly reduced the power of local government officials, making them unable to resist the central government.

Now another student status has been tossed out, blocking the student's way to expand political power.

The move of student status is really ruthless.

A simple change of identity deprived the group of disciples of the soil that could survive.

Everyone is a student in a public school led by the Ministry of Education. What they receive is not a private education from a certain family, but a public education from the central government. Everyone is the same.

Whose disciple could this be?

But such a result should have been expected when the four major families handed over the right to interpret and teach classics.

With such important things handed over, it doesn't really matter if there is one more student or one less student.

His Majesty the Emperor tore everyone's relationship network to pieces, forcibly added the process of government certification in this link, turned the scholars' self-talk into a formal national procedure, and inserted his will.

Very good, this is someone Guo.

Someone Guo likes to insert his will in many strange places.

However, the Bosses are powerless and can only accept it.

What else can I do if I don't accept it?

rebel?

Facing the vicious hundreds of thousands of Wei Jun, they really have nothing to do.

Moreover, in the Taixue education, the emperor still had many strange requirements.

For example, when the teacher gives a lecture, he must follow the sentences in the book, and he is not allowed to express different opinions in other family laws at will.

This is a very strict requirement to implement the regulations.

When anyone is teaching, they must follow the notes in the book, and they are not allowed to express their opinions at will to affect the learning content of the students.

Therefore, some officials in the academic department privately felt that the emperor was engaged in a new round of burning books and burying Confucianism, and what he did was very unethical, even more brutal than Qin Shihuang.

They can't say that about Guo, because if Guo is more brutal than Qin Shihuang, he will kill them as soon as he learns about the situation.

What they said will soon be known to someone Guo, and will be discovered by the all-pervasive Linzi camp spies, and then told to someone Guo, as one of the ways that someone Guo controls the court and influences the government.

Knowing that someone was slandering him in private, Guo Peng smiled.

"Look at a person, don't look at what he said, but look at what he did. What he said is not important, just complaining. If he really takes action, then kill him."

This is the code of conduct entrusted to Yan Rou by someone from Guo.

With the increasing concentration of power, as someone Guo got closer to the real emperor and got rid of the status of general agent, and the situation changed, Mr. Guo began to gradually increase the frequency of activities in Linziying.

Guo has gradually begun to transform into a real emperor, and this qualitative transformation requires greater autocratic rule to maintain.

Whether it is the increase in the number of people in the inner court or the increase in the number of people in the Linzi camp, it is a sign that the emperor's imperial power has expanded and begun to expand outward.

A certain Guo needs the inner court and Linziying to provide him with more help, more intelligence, more information and more channels, so as to stabilize his power as the emperor.

The number of people in the inner court, the number of people in the Linzi camp, the scope of activities, and the things to be done must be extended outward.

The Linzi Camp will be even more pervasive.

The inner court should start to get rid of the role of "professional earning money for the emperor", and start to develop in the political field, building two professional and strong imperial power defense lines.

And it is convenient to carry out the final blow to the scholars and destroy everything about them.

Therefore, during his five or six years in Yande, he expanded the number of eunuchs in the inner court, and in a certain sense expanded the chances and authority of eunuchs to go out to do business.

In a sense, he has made it clear that the eunuchs who go out to handle affairs are upholding his will, acting on his behalf, coercing the court officials, and galloping in the direction of coercing the court officials, so that they will be fired instead of the emperor in the future.

This is what he must do as an autocratic emperor.

In the future, after the scholars are overthrown, the bureaucratic group will become a whole again, and there will be no possibility of being split, and the division of scholars, poor families, and Li Shu will no longer exist.

At that time, simple identity politics could not be used to divide the bureaucracy. If we tried to do so, it would inevitably set a bad precedent for regional blackmail.

To fight against the bureaucratic group, the eunuch group is needed to contribute.

Then the agents were on the sidelines to assist.

These three groups need to check each other and reach a delicate balance so that the emperor can continue to hold power and sit firmly on the throne.

Therefore, when carrying out a series of operations to strengthen the power of the eunuch and Linzi Ying, Guo will also feel very tired.

He had just cleaned up the scholars, but he had to prepare to deal with the bureaucratic group of imperial examinations that had not yet appeared. As an emperor, Guo felt that he was really tired.

But what if you don't?

Political power is a very delicate existence. If one is not careful, it will cause an imbalance between the forces of the enemy and ourselves, which will affect the political power of the emperor.

The huge power in the hands of Mr. Guo was not achieved overnight. When he first became the emperor, he had very limited control over the court's personnel power, and it was only after a series of struggles that he justifiably seized the personnel power.

But he can't do these things alone, he can't do so many things alone, he needs to hand over the power to others to exercise.

Then what he needs to focus on is to ensure that this power is given out and taken back.

The micromanagement in this area is too fine and too difficult.

So when I think about it, I need to use eunuchs and spies to fight against the bureaucratic group, and let the eunuchs and spies check each other, balance the relationship between civil and military, and stabilize my absolute control over the army. The representative aristocratic group had too much communication and contact with the bureaucratic group...