At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

At first, some supervisory officials thought that these eunuchs were sent here to pretend to gain some benefits.

So they gave the benefits to the eunuchs, let them turn a blind eye and close their eyes, check it a little and go back to deal with the errands.

But who would have thought that this eunuch would be different.

They stared at the bribes for a moment, sighed, and shook their heads.

They actually refused to accept bribes, no money!

Then he stared at the side with a dark face, and they must investigate strictly to the end, and no favoritism is allowed.

If the officials don't investigate, they do it themselves, and they have to go back and report to the emperor, saying that these officials are perfunctory, disrespecting the emperor's order, and must be questioned.

Hey, the sun is coming out from the west!

The eunuch doesn't want money, hey!

Is this okay?

So many people fell apart.

Because the eunuchs of the court were watching from the sidelines, whenever someone wanted to let it go for a while, they were coldly warned and had to investigate to the end.

So this wave of investigations was very ruthless, unprecedentedly ruthless, and found problems with three-fifths of the candidates this year.

So the problem got really big.

chapter 1184 one thousand 190 four emperors with bad intentions

After the investigation, some officials of the inspection team really couldn't bear the pressure.

On the one hand, there is the high pressure of the emperor, and on the other hand, the entreaties and threats of fellow scholars. They are like mice in a bellows, angry at both ends, and unpleased at both ends.

They can only cry and beg those eunuchs to show their noble hands, take it away, and if they continue to investigate, everyone will be finished.

If this is really checked, nine out of ten people will have problems, and the remaining one will depend on luck and probability.

I can't afford to hurt you!I really can't afford to hurt it!

That's why these eunuchs stopped one after another, and then took the bribes handed over by the officials into their arms, and announced their return.

Although in the end the eunuchs still took bribes and stopped, and did not kill them all, the three-fifths failure rate was quite shocking.

Now that Mr. Guo's goal has been achieved, it won't delay the eunuchs from going out once in a while to earn extra money.

Among the three-fifths of the scum, there are all kinds of scum.

Or just various forms of filial piety.

Or all kinds of sneaky corruption.

Or it's a misnomer of talent and fame.

Or they are the sons of high-ranking nobles who took shortcuts and tried to pass the re-examination of the government but had limited talents.

Anyway, I can't see a few people who are really virtuous and talented.

At the beginning of August, the list of questionable scholars was placed in front of Guo Peng.

At the same time, part of the background information of all the scholars in Yande, which was requested by Guo Peng to be strictly investigated, has also been completed, and it is also placed on Guo's desk.

Anyway, the problem is quite shocking. When you mention filial piety, what you mention is a group of people who are not filial and honest.

Although he is very clear about this system and is well versed in the laws of various operations, when these things were put on the table for review by the emperor Guo, he still couldn't help showing a mocking expression smile.

The original intention of the system is definitely good, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would never want to create a group of unfilial and dishonest people when he promoted filial piety.

But the problem is that it is people who formulate the system, and it is also people who implement the system.

Thinking about it this way, the imperial examinations were not without problems. Later, party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty also occurred. One of the manifestations of party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty was regional disputes.

As early as the early Ming Dynasty, there were signs of this situation.

Because of the unbalanced economic development, the number of admissions in the north and the south was unbalanced, which triggered a major case, forcing Zhu Yuanzhang to kill a group of people, and finally came up with the north and south list to calm the situation.

In the later period, unspoken rules similar to the legacy of disciples and former officials were formulated, which triggered factional disputes between regions.

It is conceivable that there is no perfect system, or that the system is quite perfect and ideal, but in operation, there will always be problems.

The problem is not the system, but people outside the system.

But just like the choice between peace and troubled times, no matter how false peace is, it is better than real troubled times.

In peacetime, the dead are sneaky, but in troubled times, the dead are generous.

No matter how problematic the imperial examination is, it is better than a perfect examination.

At least, everyone has to take the exam, at least covering all scholars, at least, regardless of family background, regardless of whether your father or grandpa has been a high-ranking official, it is better in terms of fairness.

The imperial examination is not perfect, but it can always make the people at the bottom see hope and grasp it. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been many poor boys who relied on the imperial examination to change their fate.

In the morning, he is Tian Shelang, and in the evening, he goes to the Tianzitang. There is no kind of general, and a man should be self-improvement.

This is a true portrayal of the imperial examination.

It is also the best answer given by people with lofty ideals 1000 years after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang called out that princes and generals have kindness.

So in any case, it is imperative to abolish the examination and establish the imperial examination.

On the sixth day of August in the seventh year of Yande, Guo Peng held a government affairs meeting.

During the meeting, Guo Peng threw dozens of sheets of this year's filial piety review report in Xu Jing's face from the investigation team.

"This is the filial piety you selected for Gu? Isn't it right? Why does Gu think that two [no] words should be added to call it unfilial and honest? Huh?"

Guo Peng's shady voice made Xu Jing tremble. He knelt on the ground and picked up the reports and looked at them for a while, but his brow was sweating, and he couldn't speak clearly.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

"speak politely!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

Xu Jing was startled and trembled: "It is also risky to recruit civilized talents. The local county guards and governors are in charge of selecting candidates, and the ministers can only conduct re-examinations in the Ministry of Rites. It is impossible to ensure that everyone is of good character..."

"That doesn't mean that three-fifths are unfilial, right?"

Guo Peng squinted his eyes and leaned on the chair to look at Xu Jing: "And even if you can't see people's hearts, what is their academic level, Xu Qing, you really can't tell? Is the re-examination by the government just for display? Hmm?"

Xu Jing was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he couldn't say a word, and the other high-ranking officials, dignitaries, and dignitaries also dared not speak much like quails.

In fact, they really want to say that if they really want to talk about it, the re-examination by the government is really a display.

Like local inspections, it’s all just a formality.

As long as Xiaolian is elected, he can be an official. The re-examination by the government does not dethrone anyone, but the position is different.

Some people are really capable and don't need to get the test questions in advance, so let them take it.

Some people are not good enough and need the cooperation of the re-examination from the government. Then Xu Jing will send the real questions to that person not long after he finishes the questions, and a special tutor will help him answer them. He only needs to memorize them.

It has always been done this way.

The emperor has always turned a blind eye to it, and they don't believe that the emperor who started from Xiaolian doesn't know the tricks here.

Everyone has heard a little bit about how the emperor operated like a tiger in one wave back then, but they dare not talk about it now.

To be precise, scholars in the whole society know the tricks of Ju Xiaolian, but everyone tacitly doesn't say it.

Don't talk about it, we can still be friends, talk about it, who will still be friends with you?

There must have been such things a few years ago, but now the emperor asked people to investigate, and the officials who investigated were all in danger.

No one knows when they will be found out, unless those who have not taken the road of filial piety and honesty, the rest who join the Wei government after the founding of the country are in danger.

The number of Xiaolian Maocai who have joined the Wei government in these years is at least [-]. If all of them are found out and the problems are revealed, where can they justify it?

Moreover, this issue is not simply a matter of whether to wipe it out in one go, it is a matter of the emperor interfering with the rights of scholars in a fair manner.

Since Guo Wei's regime has grown stronger, the emperor has reached an agreement with scholars.

He did not interfere with the official selection system of scholars themselves, he did not interfere with Ju Xiaolian, he bypassed Ju Xiaolian system and set up another top-down system, and in exchange, scholars did not interfere with him.

Everyone does not interfere with each other, does not interfere with each other, and the well water does not interfere with the river water. You follow your country road, and I follow my filial piety, and we will divide the political resources of the Wei Empire together.

It's as simple as that, Yande also came here in the first six years, why did something go wrong this year?

It was still so upright to investigate the problem and there was a problem, and why was that bastard from Chenliu County suddenly exposed?

Such things really happen every year, so why did they get exposed this year?

Why did the emperor, who is well versed in unspoken rules, suddenly explode this year?

This is not normal.

Sensitive people immediately realized that the emperor had bad intentions.

The previous series of political fluctuations may have been preparing for these problems.

After the Five Classics and Fourteen School Laws tossed the scholars to death, and introduced punctuation marks in a daze, the emperor actually extended his hand to the field where the scholars would not back down no matter what.

Prosecution system.

Chapter 1185 One Thousand 190 The Five Emperors Are Really Going to Take Action on the Juju System

The investigation system is the core interest for the scholars, the ruling agent class, to maintain their status and existence.

Compared with the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws, the investigation system covering the entire scholar class is obviously more important.

There is no inheritance family of the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law, the group of scholars is still there, the police are still there, and their overall political interests are still there, but there are a few leading families that usually domineering.

The low-ranking gentry themselves harbored dissatisfaction with those top families, and harbored malice towards them. The emperor dealt with them, and the second- and third-rate gentry were even a little happy.

If I can't get it, you can't get it either, everyone is equal, and next, I have the opportunity to step on your head.

Therefore, without exception, the small gentry were unwilling to follow the head families in those places to make troubles, and adopted a tacit and supportive attitude towards all the emperor's actions.

So for several months, the emperor easily suppressed their troubles.

In February of this year, the emperor even sent people to search the ancestral houses of these families, and confiscated all the bamboo slips of family law they had hidden, and stored them in Luoyang.

Guo Peng came up with a new method of burning books and burying scholars in a new era, using force to cut off the possibility of these families continuing to "demagogue".

Yes, Guo Peng sent people directly to the door in order to prevent these top scholar families from being able to teach disciples and revive, and annoyed that these guys were causing trouble in the local area.

A large number of armed men directly came to snatch all the bamboo slips related to the Five Classics and Family Law collected by their families, and directly transported them to Luoyang Zangshu Pavilion for collection.

And then send people to monitor them. Once some people with good memory in their clan try to write silently to restore the five classics and family law handed down in their family, they will directly destroy and arrest those people with good memory, cutting off the possibility of them inheriting the family law.

Such a blow actually made quite a few second- and third-rate gentry feel happy.

They felt that the emperor had avenged them, severely humiliated these head families who used to be domineering, and gave them a bad breath, so they were very happy.

Guo can't understand this feeling.

I attack scholars in order.

Start with the head scholar family first, then slowly expand the attack area, and finally the entire scholar part.

Now I am uniting you, but soon, I will attack you, don't you know?

They really don't know.

So in April of the seventh year of Yande, after Guo suppressed all the leading scholar families and stabilized the situation, he began to expand the scope of attack, change the target of the alliance, and change the target of the attack.

Revolutionary action enters deep water.

He will start to unite his confidants, bureaucrats, bureaucrats from poor families, relatives of the emperor, and officials at the bottom of the Li family, and start to clean up the scholar class.

The object is naturally the prosecution system that scholars completely control and depend on for survival.

In April of the seventh year of Yande, the Chen Liu Xiaolian case broke out, triggering a series of chain reactions.

Emperor Guo Peng was so angry that he ordered the government to send investigation teams to various places to investigate the character and academic level of filial piety, talents, and virtuous founders, and to conduct an all-round investigation of the quality of the scholars.

For the sake of the family's investigation, even the inner court eunuch was sent as a supervisor to forcefully promote the investigation.