At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

No one paid attention to it before, or paid attention to it, but failed to make changes, so that the outbreak of the Xiaolian case completely detonated the incident.

In the current situation, it can basically be concluded that there is a major problem in the procuratorial system that must be corrected. If this problem is not improved or remedied, the government of the country will definitely collapse at an accelerated rate.

This is definitely not a scene His Majesty would like to see.

So Xu Jing thought day and night, racked his brains, and finally thought of a solution to the problem.

Chapter 1190 One Thousand Two Hundred Emperors, Are You Really Ready?

Back then, in Yecheng, His Majesty the Emperor held a talent discussion ceremony in order to select good talents.

More than 300 scholars participated in the talent discussion ceremony. They gathered together and took an exam based on their talents. Only those with excellent grades could enter the government of Wei State.

Among the 300 people elected in total, the number of officials who are still working for the Wei Empire so far is 260 seven.

The cultural quality and moral quality of the officials selected through the examination can be seen at a glance.

Compared with the corruption rate of three-fifths of the officials selected by the procuratorate system, which one is better or worse, as long as a normal person can tell.

Xu Jing began to think, is it possible to learn from the example of the big exam and make some changes to the probation system?

After hard thinking, Xu Jing came up with a talent selection system called [Imperial Examination].

Its core idea is to abandon the recommendation and use the subject examination as the only way to select talents.

Any student trying to obtain an official position can sign up by himself, and then take the exam. After passing the exam and being admitted, he can be awarded an official position.

Xu Jing believes that in this way, talents who can truly help the country can be selected, instead of trash who can only eat, drink, and play, and can't even do normal things, let alone select a person because they are too rigid about morality. Criticize those who deceive the world and steal their names.

To sum up, Xu Jing believes that the prosecution system has been proved to have failed in fact, and the time has come to break and reorganize this rule that has been in operation for hundreds of years.

Now is the time to break it down, break it up completely, reintegrate it, and create a whole new system with great vitality.

Guo Peng was very satisfied after the memorandum was handed over.

"Su Yuan, take this memorandum to the cabinet and order someone to copy it, and then pass it on to every government office. I want all officials to know that Xu Jing has done a remarkable thing!"

"According to the order!"

Su Yuan immediately took people to the cabinet and found Cao Cao, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

"Cao Shoufu, this is His Majesty's order to immediately find enough people to copy dozens of copies of this memorandum, and send them to the various government offices, without missing a single one."

"I see."

Cao Cao took the memorial and was very puzzled, not knowing what kind of memorial the emperor needed to publicize.

Generally, only very important political decisions will make the emperor choose to make them public quickly. Is this also a major political decision?

After opening it for a few glances, Cao Cao was stunned.

This is……

Reform of the selection system?

Changed the examination to... the imperial examination?

Cao Cao was shocked, and immediately began to study carefully, and soon realized that once this system was established, it would be a lore for the scholar class, and the scholar class would lose their hundred years of power to select officials. order.

Is this going to start a complete war with the scholars?

This...is what Guo Peng meant?

Then Cao Cao saw the person on the table—Xu Jing.

Cao Cao's expression became very astonished.

Xu Jing?

Xu Jing?

That Xu Jing?

Under the persecution of the emperor, Xu Jing who is being beaten and killed by all the scholars and turned into a street rat?

He's crazy?

Because this matter was so serious that Cao Cao couldn't help but began to wonder if there was something wrong with Xu Jing's mental state.

Then he finally determined that there was nothing wrong with Xu Jing's mental state, because if there was a problem with his mental state, he would not be able to make such constructive policy suggestions.

Cao Cao was sure that once this policy was announced to the public and regarded as the emperor's action trend, it would inevitably push the already serious wave of scholar protests to a new peak.

It is estimated that the group of scholars could not help but ran to the gate of the palace to protest, demanding that the emperor change this strategy.

And those local officials probably won’t let it go. The power of investigation is a very important power for them. If they lose this power, they are no longer qualified to be called [fujun] or [envoys]. The county can no longer be regarded as the country.

The degree of centralization will be further deepened, and the emperor will be more powerful.

The political authority of the prefects and governors will be affected, and they will be completely reduced to low officials, which is too scary for scholars.

For the Wei Empire, it was too scary.

As far as Cao Cao knows so far, more than 70.00% of the officials at the level of county guards and governors are scholars. Once they are dissatisfied with the promulgation of this policy, they will be passive and slow down, and the local area will soon fall into chaos.

that time……

Is Guo Peng really ready?

Cao Cao was very worried.

Although this system is very beneficial to people like them.

Because once this policy is implemented, students from poor families and even Li Shu will be qualified to compete with scholars on the same stage.

Under the circumstances of widely different backgrounds, they have the qualifications to compete with scholars.

This is unbelievable.

Scholars, high above you, how are they qualified to compete with them in the same arena?

Once this policy is implemented, this possibility will become a reality.

As long as Guo Peng announces the start of the imperial examination, this will become a fact!

Cao Cao, who had such an idea, couldn't help thinking about that future.

The only question now is, His Majesty, are you really ready?

Cao Cao ordered the cabinet staff to copy Xu Jing's memorandum separately, and then naturally, the cabinet was the first to be detonated by this memorandum.

The number of scholar-officials in the cabinet and the number of officials from poor families are halved. This is also the result of Guo Peng's continuous release and pull in people over the years, so of course their reactions to this memorial are also different. .

The scholars and officials were basically shocked. When they saw the memorial and saw that the initiator of the memorial was Xu Jing, they immediately slapped the table and stood up, wanting to settle accounts with Xu Jing.

"How can the old thief change the rules for so many years!"

"The shameless old thief An Neng tampered with the law of the ancestors!"

"How can a shameless person steal the heights of the temple!"

"I will definitely play him to His Majesty! Play him fiercely!"

After a period of strong protests and unremitting slander against Xu Jing, the group of scholars finally decided to break their faces with Xu Jing.

Everyone no longer cared about the feelings of Yue Dan's comments back then. To Xu Jing, he was talking about an old thief, why is he still alive.

Scholars and officials dropped their work one after another and began to write memorials to participate in the performance of the old thief Xu Jing.

The poor officials began to transcribe the memorandum with inexplicable excitement, and then summarized it to Cao Cao, who ordered it to be issued to the major central government offices.

Undoubtedly, there were extremely violent repercussions in the major administrative offices.

Scholars and officials generally held a negative attitude towards this, and immediately exploded when they saw Xu Jing's proposal.

Without the slightest hesitation, they immediately began to scold Xu Jing for being a thief for being old and not dead, and immediately began to collectively write memorials to participate in Xu Jing, strongly demanding that Guo Peng remove Xu Jing, and quite a few officials even demanded that Xu Jing be executed directly, so as to Zheng Guofeng.

All central government offices are the same, the scholars and bureaucrats who account for more than 70.00% of the entire group are collectively angry, outraged, and excited.

These officials were not so excited even when Guo Peng asked Xu Jing to conduct a thorough investigation of the moral and academic standards of the examiners in previous years.

It can be seen that this is their real lifeblood and their real pain.

Unlike the attitude of the officials who directly exploded, the chief executives of the officials at all levels were slightly hesitant.

Of course they were shocked to see such a performance, but as chief executives, their status did not allow them to act so emotionally.

They let the officials under them indulge in indulgence, but they themselves were quite calm. They read the performance list seriously, and the more they read it, the more chilled they became, and the more they read it, the more frightened they became.

Because no matter how you look at it, this policy does not seem like someone like Xu Jing could propose it, and Guo Peng actually directly distributed this memorandum to the various government offices to let everyone know in advance. This is clearly a temptation .

The emperor probably cared a lot about this system and was quite satisfied. It could even be said that this system itself was secretly drawn up by the emperor, and now it happened to be brought out to allow Xu Jing to charge forward, while he hid behind to watch the reactions of the officials.

Although I don't know how Xu Jing fell to this point.

Could it be that there are a lot of handles in the hands of the emperor?

It doesn't matter anymore, Xu Jing is already a pawn in charge of the emperor.

If the officials reacted violently, the emperor would probably take a step back. If the officials did not react violently, the emperor would have to push forward.

Although the chief officials at all levels hesitated in their hearts, they were more dissatisfied.

The emperor has really gone too far during this period of time, tossing and tossing, and the officials who are tossing and tossing have nothing to do with their lives. They are attacking classic inheritance families and thoroughly investigating the eunuchs. Now they want to reform the procuratorate system. , Toss everyone to death.

This is really a bit unreasonable.

Although you are the emperor, you can't be too unreasonable, right?

Except for the main leaders of Shangshutai, Yushitai, and Staff Office, the attitudes of the other chief officials at all levels gradually became clear.

As people in the court's decision-making circle, the main leaders of Shangshutai, Yushitai, and Staff Taiwan are quite contradictory about this.

One, their status is placed here, and they are close to the emperor.

Both, most of them were promoted by the emperor himself and belonged to the emperor's cronies.

Like Wang Can, that is Guo Peng's former official.

Like Zaozhi, that is also Guo Peng's old official.

Zhang Zhao is also an old official of Guo Peng.

Guo Yi simply belonged to the Guo family.

Cheng Yu himself was even a retainer of Guo Peng.

Tian Feng's family still has a daughter in Guo Peng's inner palace.

Not to mention Xu Jing.

Only Dong Zhao and Xin Pi, the ministers of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have little direct relationship.

It can be seen that the relationship between senior officials and the emperor is basically tied together.

For them, the attitude of scholars is of course dissatisfied with this, thinking that this will harm their interests.

But as officials, as former officials of the emperor, they did not dare to express clear opposition to the emperor's intentions.

Similar to Tian Feng and Guo Hong and Guo Jia, because they are relatives of the emperor, if they want to object, they don't know where to bring it up.

It's just that the examination examination was changed to the imperial examination. This change is indeed too big, involving the entire circle of scholars.

If this is really implemented, it will be tantamount to forcibly demoting the scholars back to their original form, and they will have to compete for official positions on the same stage as the children of poor families and mud-legged people.

How would they want to?

His Majesty the Emperor was a little too anxious.

chapter 1191 one thousand two hundred and one emperor's disaster

For scholars, they have always been in high positions, and they can easily get official positions.

As a result, there was an imperial examination suddenly, and one had to rely on the exam to become an official. If you don’t study hard and take the exam, you can’t be an official. This...

This is nothing, but to compete on the same stage with poor children and even those mud-legged people...