At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"What I mean is, dogs that can bite people don't bark. They bark so cheerfully, which means that they don't dare to bite people. This is a group of vicious people. They are more afraid of me to use troops than you are, because whether to use troops or not , all in my mind."

Guo Peng sighed: "Things have developed to this point today, they don't dare to grin at me directly, they just grin at you, thinking that by killing you, they will force me to give up the thorough investigation of Xiaolian's past.

For this fig leaf, they can give up a lot of things, including you, they can give up, but Xu Qing, I can't bear you, without you, I can't find such a good helper to help me manage The Ministry of Rites is gone, you can't die. "

Guo Peng expressed his attitude to keep Xu Jing, which made Xu Jing very happy.

But Xu Jing was also puzzled, wondering how Guo Peng would keep him.

"Your Majesty, there is a lot of people outside, shouting to depose and kill the old minister. Even if His Majesty backs down, at the very least, the old minister will be removed from his position. The old minister... I'm afraid I won't be able to help your majesty take charge of the Ministry of Rites. The old minister is incompetent."

Xu Jing kowtowed.

Guo Peng stepped forward and helped Xu Jing up.

"I am the only one who can remove you from office. I will not let go, and I will not agree. No one can remove you. Of course they cannot."

Guo Peng stretched out his hand and patted Xu Jing's shoulder: "But this is the end, Xu Qing, if you want to go against the current, not only save your life, but also keep your position, then you need to do what ordinary people can't do, and endure what ordinary people can't bear." ,Do you understand?"

Xu Jing suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Your Majesty means..."

"Didn't I say it? Go upstream."

Guo Peng grinned: "They want you to retreat greatly and make great concessions, so you have to do the opposite and break with them completely. You have to go further, not only to investigate, but also to investigate thoroughly. Raise your hand, abolish the procuratorate, and set up a new one."

"..."

Xu Jing stood there dumbfounded, with his mouth slightly open, looking at Guo Peng in disbelief.

"Xu Qing, don't be surprised. In this situation, no matter how much you back down, as long as you back down, you won't be able to survive. They will definitely chase you hard. Once you back down and show a little timidity, they will know you It's so bullying.

Therefore, your only chance of survival is to fight them tit for tat to the end, beat them to the ground, and walk up their corpses, so that you can survive, and live better, and continue to serve as the Minister of Rites. "

Guo Peng had a seductive look on his face: "Even go one step further and reach the pinnacle of life."

Chapter 1189 Xu Jing was fortunate to be the No. 190 actor in this drama

Guo Peng briefly analyzed the current situation for Xu Jing.

He wanted Xu Jing to know that there is a crisis, but there is also an opportunity.

To find opportunities in a crisis, seize them, move forward bravely, and break through the desperate situation, then what appears in front of his eyes is vitality.

Only by breaking through the desperate situation can we usher in a new future, and the new future must be even better for him.

As long as he can rush through.

He rushed over against the soldiers.

Xu Jing was stunned for a while.

"What His Majesty said...abolish the procuratorate and establish a new one...is it true?"

"real."

Guo Peng nodded: "Didn't you say it? Now it's a dead end. If you want to break the dead end, you have to use a method that can subvert anyone's cognition. The words are not surprising and you will use a bigger game to break this dead end. , force them to fight you, and then you win, in this way, you will break the deadlock."

Seeing Guo Peng's confident expression, Xu Jing really wanted to die immediately.

Abandon the investigation...

Your Majesty, you are about to let me die, I really dare not see what will happen next...

Xu Jing knelt down again.

"Your Majesty, you can't do it. Your Majesty, if you want to make a move, you are going against all the scholars in the world. The foundation of the country will be shaken, and the country will not be able to support it, Your Majesty!"

There was even a bit of crying in Xu Jing's words.

Mr. Guo shook his head, feeling that Xu Jing was really cowardly.

"Xu Qing, who told you that the foundation of the country is scholars? The foundation of the country is not scholars. Do you think I don't know about this kind of thing? I've already talked about this, and you still want me to say What? Xu Qing, don't lie."

Xu Jing suddenly fell silent.

"Don't bring up this kind of rhetoric anymore. It's fine to deceive the ignorant outsiders. You are stupid or I am stupid in front of me. You think you will be reborn by those scholars. Accept? Xu Jing, you have been abandoned, you are no longer regarded as a scholar by them!"

Guo Peng's harsh reprimand shocked Xu Jing.

He knew that Guo Peng was right.

He has been abandoned.

To put it bluntly, he can no longer continue to mix in the scholar group as a scholar.

If a scholar has a status symbol, his status symbol is gone.

In fact, he is no longer regarded as a scholar.

As a person who is no longer a scholar, I can no longer consider issues from the perspective of a scholar.

Xu Jing suddenly realized this.

"Your Majesty, old minister..."

"Xu Qing, remember, even if you want to do something for them, they will let you die. Your son, your grandson, and your descendants will all die if they don't survive."

Guo Peng held Xu Jing's hand: "The only thing you can rely on is me. If I don't protect you, how do you think they will treat you?"

Xu Jing was stunned for a while.

Yes, that's right.

Now everyone wants him to die, and only Guo Peng and the emperor can be relied on.

Only the emperor can keep him alive.

But isn't it all caused by you?His Majesty?

What on earth are you going to do?

Xu Jing's heart was filled with grief and indignation.

"Your Majesty, the investigation is related to the advancement of all scholars to become officials. If your majesty changes the inspection easily, once the scholars feel threatened, then this matter... really cannot end, and the inspection Although there are problems, it is still a good way to select talents!"

Xu Jing wanted to live, but he was also afraid of change, and even more worried that he would become that victim.

Guo Peng knew what he meant.

"So, after changing the inspection, there must be some new ways of selecting talents."

Guo Peng nodded: "Xu Qing, I don't know if you have heard that when I was still in Yecheng, I once held a talent discussion ceremony for more than 1000 scholars. There were a lot of scholars who took the exam that time. , the occasion is unprecedented."

Xu Jing raised his head and looked at Guo Peng.

"I have heard a little bit that there are officials in the Ministry of Rites who have passed the talent evaluation ceremony, and they often mention that grand occasion."

"Well, I think that's a good one, normalize it, and replace the investigation."

"what?"

Xu Jing didn't react immediately.

"Ah what? I'm still reminiscing about the Talent Discussion Ceremony, and I think it's really good. I did select a group of talents by gathering together for the exam, and those talents now have their own As a result, anti-corruption has rarely been involved over the years.

So I feel that it is best to use that method to select the best. Compared with the method of local officials' recommendation and then the public government's re-examination, this method is more intuitive and effective, and it can select talented talents. Qing, what do you think? "

Xu Jing said that I don't know about this matter, what's the use of you telling me?

"Your Majesty, the old minister knows very little about this..."

"It doesn't matter, I will ask Su Yuan to send you some materials later, you can study it a little bit, and then, you give me the form and say, you propose to reform the system of selecting officials."

Xu Jing was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes widened immediately.

Is the emperor going to use him as a knife?

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

Guo Peng ignored him.

"Think about it, the examination is the first to be examined before the examination. The re-examination by the government does not dethrone the filial piety. The recommendation is the most important. The examination is just incidental. But the ceremony I conducted before is There are those who are dismissed, so the exam is the most important thing, and the two focus on different things.

The direction of the reform of the Juju is to change the recommendation-based to the test-based, cancel the recommendation of local officials, and allow students to sign up for themselves, and then take the test uniformly. The test can also be divided into different subjects, such as Xiaolian, Maocai, and Xiaolian. Like the virtuous, the founder, and the like, the selection of scholars is divided into subjects, um, it is called the imperial examination. "

Guo Peng clapped his hands happily as if he had just created a new system.

Imperial Examination?

Xu Jing swallowed, but it didn't relieve the dryness of his throat.

In the era when Zuo Xiong was just established, the re-examination of the government was still a little shocking.

But after Zuo Xiong, the re-examination by the government was purely a display, it had no effect of dethroning, it was just a symbolic meaning, to tell the emperor that I had a selection process.

That's it.

The most important thing in the prosecution system is the recommendation of local officials, which is the recommendation of the governor of the state and county. Only with the recommendation can one become an official, and with the recommendation, the local governor can have the opportunity to organize his own political forces.

On this point, the original imperial examinations have not changed. If you want to participate, you need a recommendation. The Sui and Tang dynasties were similar, and it was not changed until the late Tang Dynasty.

And what Guo Peng wants to do is called reform, which is actually a change of the world, changing the most important link of recommendation, making it the main test, and allowing students to sign up freely, this...

This is terrible.

Needless to say below the county level, county-level chiefs are not qualified to be filial and honest, only county guards and state governors are qualified to recommend talents, and more than [-]% of those who serve as county guards and state governors are scholars.

Even if the emperor deposes more than half of the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law, and the rest will be returned to the central schools, and public schools will be used to replace private schools, but the attack will be on the head of the scholar family, and the fundamental power of the scholar is still there. More than half of the local governors are scholars.

They can use this method to control the official positions of the empire and suppress the power of the humble bureaucrats who control less than [-]% of the share.

However, the emperor wants to implement the imperial examination, remove the important power of recommendation, and change it to a simple examination to decide whether to admit scholars to become officials. This is completely digging out the foundation of the monopoly of scholars.

Without monopoly power and qualifications, the group of scholars will decline sooner or later. They can no longer be superior and have the qualifications to be officials from birth.

But to pass the exam, compete with more poor students and even those mud-legged people who were born in Li Shu.

It would be strange if they agreed!

Your Majesty, you might as well let me die!

Xu Jing's heart was filled with desolation.

If I say this and make this kind of reform, I'm afraid I really won't be able to live!

Seeing that Xu Jing didn't answer for a long time, Guo Peng felt the need to continue hitting him.

"Xu Qing, the outside world is bustling, everyone wants you to die, but I don't want to, I don't want to bear it, but if you want to be martyred, I can't help it."

This was a naked threat, a threat without any cover-up, which made Xu Jing tremble all over.

The sadness and excitement that filled his heart just now disappeared without a trace, and Xu Jing realized that if he was really willing to die, he would not have abandoned Liu Zhang and fled across the wall back then.

He is just an ordinary person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

If you help the emperor, you will not necessarily die, but if you help the scholars, you will die immediately.

Faced with this dilemma, Xu Jing only hesitated for a moment, and chose to throw himself into the embrace of the emperor—scholars would never forgive him anyway, and he had only one choice, the emperor.

Then, someone Guo once again started his old profession - director.

And Xu Jing was fortunate to be the No. [-] actor in this drama.

Not everyone can be the male lead of someone Guo, at least, he needs to be a high-ranking official at the ministry level.

Subsequently, on August 25th, the seventh year of Yande, Xu Jing formally submitted a petition to Guo Peng.

Xu Jing believed that after this period of inspection, he found that there was a very fatal loophole in the prosecution system. This loophole was so terrible that it directly led to the corruption of scholars' morality.

Three-fifths of the scholars recommended by the procuratorate for one year were deceitful people, which is enough to prove that the problem of the procuratorate system is very serious.

Referrals, referrals by local officials, that's the problem.

For recommendation, you only look at his reputation, his background, and his reputation. If he has a good evaluation, he can get a recommendation. If he has a bad evaluation, he can't get a recommendation even if he is very capable.

The public re-examination will not dismiss anyone, it is just a symbolic meaning, good grades can speed up promotion, and poor grades will fall into the lower ranks, and no one will be dismissed.

Regardless of whether he is a bully or not, no matter whether he is a morally corrupt person or not, he can enter the central government through this set of rules.

This is too dangerous.