At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The four big families, who were unanimously dissatisfied and jealous by the bureaucratic group and the military honorary group, now urgently need the support of the emperor. Without the support of the emperor, they will sooner or later be played to death by these people in power.

With the support of the emperor, they can guarantee their own safety.

But this matter was really brought up by the emperor. Just when they felt that they didn't know what reason to bring up this matter, Guo Jin came to the door to directly promote the matter.

The two sides hit it off.

So, in just two months, Guo Jun has married Yuan's daughter.

With this level of relationship in it, the bureaucratic group and military nobles did not dare to directly attack the four major families, so as not to make the emperor feel unhappy.

The purpose of the four major families has also been achieved.

But for Guo Peng, his goal has also been achieved.

Binding the four major families to death is equivalent to adding a layer of political security. The significance is not obvious now. It seems that the four major families have taken advantage of it.

But it won't be long before everyone knows who has the better advantage.

Before specific actions can be taken forward, Guo Peng has to deal with a wave of belated responses to the Taixue New Deal from the local government.

Limited by the speed of information transmission and traffic conditions, this wave of response was slower than expected.

Anyway, Guo Peng didn't expect that the dust had settled in Luoyang, and Guo Jun's marriage was arranged, and the local reaction was long overdue.

To say what the reaction was was nothing more than a wave of public opinion attacks.

Some people put on an attitude that they would rather die than surrender, clinging to the inheritance of their respective families, and would never compromise with the emperor, such as palace schools, Taixue, etc., don't even think about me going in!

They had already lost their status as officials and academia, but now they lost even the slightest hope left - the emperor actually forcibly disclosed the method of sentence punctuation.

This is simply to destroy their ancestral property accumulated by generations.

Therefore, they are a little braver than those families in Luoyang who are more directly intimidated by Guo.

They choose to fight to the end.

Guo's mouth was about to crooked.

So an imperial decree was issued, and an order of imprisonment that even the Huan family had not encountered was issued.

All the [Reverse Current Family] who lodged a protest and refused to let go of their pseudo-science will all have their academic achievements dismissed and will not be recognized.

And the children of their families are not allowed to enter schools, palaces and imperial schools, the children of these families are not allowed to have school status, and they are not allowed to participate in the promotion of Xiaolian and Maocai.

Such families were named, and there are a total of 32 families in total. There are classic inheritance families, and there are also non-classic inheritance families but families that are very close to them.

They were all dismissed by Guo Peng, and if the students under the school did not enroll in schools, palaces or Taixue within two months, they would be permanently disqualified from promoting Xiaolian and Maocai.

The power and possibility of being an official will be deprived forever.

The blows of those in power will never come too slowly, and they only need to use a little tricks to directly disintegrate the enemy.

After this order was issued, according to the feedback from the spies of the Linzi Camp, the students of the major families hurriedly abandoned the teacher's family, rushed to the nearest academy or school to obtain student status, and abandoned them almost immediately The original [Mentor].

Then those families were dumbfounded.

What should be lost is lost, and what should not be lost is also lost.

All the good virtues preached by the scholars seem to have disappeared, leaving only very naked and pure interests.

They warned all the latecomers with their own prospects and future - don't fight against someone Guo, the consequences will be very serious.

chapter 1179 the sudden appearance of a scandal

After this wave of resistance from the localities was successfully quelled by Guo, the Taixue New Deal was also on the right track.

While Guo was preparing for the final blow, he was also paying attention to the progress of construction and restoration of local schools and academic palaces.

It is impossible for Taixue to accommodate all the scholars in the world. Although they must be most yearning for Taixue, the local Xuegong schools are still the first choice for those who cannot come to Luoyang.

After the construction of the new education model was almost complete, Guo Peng ordered a group of lecturers with teaching experience to be dispatched from Taixue, and asked them to bring the original version of the Five Classics stipulated by the state to local schools and schools to spread the essentials of punctuation marks.

Tell those local students what punctuation marks are, how to use punctuation marks, and how to use punctuation marks to make a fuss.

In short, this wave of popularization and education must be completed as soon as possible, so that punctuation marks can gain a firm foothold as soon as possible, so that it is convenient for someone Guo to start with the prosecution system.

For this reason, Guo also specially approved a sum of funds for the local government to rebuild the palace and school, so that it can attract local scholars as soon as possible.

The source of students for the Academy and the School is the same as that of the Taixue, including scholars, students from poor families, and the children of Li Shu who were selected to serve as rural officials.

As for the number of students, Guo Peng asked to arrange according to the number of teachers in the school and the palace, more or less can be arranged, but the general principle is that the more the better.

Guo Peng restored a shell that existed before the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then he wanted to put some new things into this shell.

During this process, Guo Peng also realized the influence of habits on people.

A new gadget, no matter how bizarre it was when it was first born, as long as it enters the social system and exists for a certain period of time, it will be taken for granted.

For example, when Guo Peng first wanted to let Li Shu's children enter the school to learn knowledge, he was strongly opposed, and had to use various means to make the scholars accept this fact and transfer some benefits.

Up to now, it is normal for the children of Li Shu who are rural officials to study in Taixue.

In addition to being often despised by scholars, scholars are no longer uncomfortable with the fact that they exist in Taixue.

Instead, they feel that this is normal, and it is normal to despise the daily routine, and it does not feel normal to despise it without the routine.

This time when the academy and the school were established, Guo Peng stipulated that the academy and the school should also recruit Li Shu's children. At this time, no one raised any objections, as if they had acquiesced.

Habits have strong inertia and vitality. Once they have taken root successfully, it will be difficult to get rid of them again.

Just like a light that has been seen once, even if it is only seen once, it will never be forgotten in a lifetime.

The bottom line of the scholar was broken step by step, and the exploration was made step by step. Guo's steps became more and more resolute and unquestionable.

What was difficult at the beginning has become easier and easier now, which makes Guo believe that the general trend of the world is being led by him.

power, in his hands.

With this in mind, Mr. Guo became more confident in his plan.

This wave of preparation and waiting lasted for four months until the end of the sixth year of Yande.

Guo Peng spent a lot of money from the internal treasury to help local schools and schools resume construction and recruit students. At the same time, he continued to urge local governments and schools to vigorously promote the existence of punctuation marks.

Committed to let every student know what punctuation marks are, and then learn to use punctuation marks, and be good at using punctuation marks to read and write articles.

In order to achieve this goal, someone from Guo issued three imperial decrees in succession to urge the promotion of this matter. For this reason, a large number of officials from the academic department were sent out to supervise the local academic administration.

After the six years of Yande passed, the seventh year of Yande came.

The first three months of the seventh year of Yande were calm, and it lasted for the last four months of the sixth year of Yande, which made officials and scholars feel relieved and felt that the emperor had finally achieved his goal.

They felt that the emperor had finally achieved the goal of Wenzhi through a series of explosive operations, and was finally satisfied, so they decided to stop for a while.

At the same time, the emperor was probably a little tired, so he didn't do anything for a long time, and the officials and scholars felt that they had spent a very unforgettable period of peace.

Then they tried their best to flatter the emperor, touting his great achievements, and touting him like a saint, a figure rarely seen in thousands of years.

It seems that the emperor is very satisfied.

But just when they thought that the emperor would be stable and the golden age of scholars was coming, a few very unexpected things happened.

These few things are things that no one expected to happen, but happened.

The cause of the incident was the full launch of a new round of filial piety and honesty activities in April of the seventh year of Yande.

Each state and county began to recommend Xiaolian and Maocai to the central Ministry of Rites according to their respective populations, and then the Ministry of Rites conducted a re-examination.

It is said that it is a re-examination, but it is actually more like going through a process and form, and does not dethrone anyone.

Then the scholars can become officials and enter official careers.

This is a policy of state selection of officials that has been implemented since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it has been very mature until now.

It cannot be said that this is not a good system, only that this system is run by people and people are participating.

Today, this system has been completely solidified, and it has become a means for the gentry, officials, and powerful children to divide political interests.

You recommend for my children, I recommend for your children, reciprocate, help each other, and work together to build a network of relationships that includes the whole world.

Officials are always at their fingertips in such matters.

But this time, things seem to be a little different.

After the order of the Ministry of Rites was issued, the local governments immediately started this wave of daily show operations, and the atmosphere in the Taixue became more relaxed and happy.

Because the scholars all know that although there are rules for promoting filial piety, these rules are really not worth mentioning in the eyes of them with status.

They entered Taixue and obtained their student status, and obtained the qualifications to be prosecuted. Then they only need to wait for their family members in their hometown to help them operate a wave together, and then they can wait for the re-examination to enter the Ministry of Rites, and then go to the emperor's side to be a Langguan up.

Everything was supposed to be like this.

But the sudden emergence of a scandal has cast a shadow over the year's filial piety campaign.

The incident happened in Chenliu County, Yanzhou. There was a scholar in a certain county under the jurisdiction of the county. His mother passed away six years ago. He was very filial and decided to keep filial piety for his mother.

Three years of guarding is not enough, and one guarding for six years is widely sung in the local area, and everyone praises him as a filial son.

So he was promoted as Xiaolian by the county guard.

As a result, he broke the shocking scandal that he and his wife gave birth to a son during his filial piety.

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Keeping filial piety is not an easy thing, never has been.

As one of the important components of etiquette, filial piety has extremely perfect and strict regulations.

During the period of filial piety, the filial piety must wear burlap mourning clothes, and cannot wear clothes made of any other materials.

In terms of diet and daily life, except for special cases of poor health, filial sons are not allowed to drink alcohol or eat meat. They must eat bran, swallow vegetables and soup to survive.

Moreover, they have to live in thatched huts, they cannot use pillows, they have to sleep on earth clods, they cannot lay soft cushions, they can only spread straw mats, and they have to sleep on hard ground all year round.

In addition, during this period, you can't get married, you can't entertain, you can't listen to music, and you can't read books.

And the most anti-human thing is that the husband and wife are not allowed to have intercourse or have intercourse until the Daxiang ceremony is held two years later.

In order to reflect filial piety to parents, formalism can be considered to the extreme.

Because filial piety can be an official, the actors and directors in this period also came out in large numbers, shining brilliantly, telling their "filial piety" with dramas that have been passed down through the ages one after another.

Of course, because such regulations are too harsh and are suspected of being anti-human, so although it is said to be three years of filial piety, in practice it is generally 25 months.

If you really want to do something during this period, just don’t be found out, anyway, people don’t have time to do nothing 24 hours a day and stay with you to observe filial piety.

In practice, there are still many things that can be done in the act of keeping filial piety.

Judging from some inside stories that Guo Peng learned, except for a very small number of truly filial sons who can really survive 25 months with abstinence, most of them cannot survive.

But such a project is really important to some dilapidated scholars whose families are relatively poor and have no other way out, or to some powerful local tyrants who have no connections.

The subject of Lian is aimed at small officials in local counties and counties, and they are not officials, so they are not qualified to join in, so filial piety is too important.

As long as you let people know your filial piety, you can be an official, how good is it?

Then be careful when you do things, don't make anything known to outsiders, or the family's supernatural powers suppress it, who cares what you do during the filial piety period?

As long as you are [known] by others that you are very filial, your filial name is being sung by everyone, and you happen to come from a noble family or a powerful family, then there is no problem, the local county guard will definitely recommend it for you , Let you be an official.

So the earth-shattering 24 filial piety stepped onto the stage of history one by one, including that wonderful performance by someone Guo.

However, Mr. Guo played a full set of plays. It took half a year to lay the groundwork beforehand, and he didn't develop in the direction of anti-humanity. It was more or less an excellent plan. Everyone praised Mr. Guo for his superb plan.

This guy is good, the play didn't make a trap.

Everyone also knows that if you don't do that for six years, you will really be the contemporary Liu Xiahui. If you are a man, you will give you a thumbs up and praise you as a real man.

If you sneak around, everyone will act as if you didn't see it and don't know it, out of sight and out of mind.

But you still have children.

It doesn't matter if you have a child, but you haven't concealed the age of your child.

When the family celebrated the child’s birthday, the servants who went out to buy ingredients were happy because the master’s family successfully won the reward. When talking with someone, they accidentally slipped the tongue, saying that the child is four years old this year, and the family has to make arrangements for it. .