At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

They didn't know what happened to the emperor's sudden actions, and what happened to the sudden black-armored guards all over the city beating people everywhere.

Anyway, on this day, everyone in Luoyang City knew that they saw those noble officials and imperial students in the past being knocked to the ground by soldiers in black armor wielding sticks.

Then it dragged away, not knowing where it went.

After the black-armored guards beat all these "riot" scholars to the ground, they followed the emperor's order, carried them on their shoulders, and threw them out of the city together, and handed them to Zhao Yun.

Then Zhao Yun transported these soldiers who were beaten and unable to get up together to the military camp for strict supervision.

None of the more than 5000 people can escape.

The emperor allowed some people to die, so the black-armored guards didn't stop much. When Zhao Yun was in charge of the statistics, he counted 150 and eight people who bled to death.

Those who were left alive were also counted, including their names, places of origin, and home addresses.

In any case, the next, their fate can be imagined.

The mighty emperor was never relentless in the face of those who challenged his majesty.

Not to mention that it was such a big fuss this time.

In the afternoon of that day, the hustle and bustle in Luoyang City had ended, and the eunuchs of the inner court left the palace in large numbers to go to the homes of court officials, asking them to go to Fengtian Hall to face the saint.

They have a pleasant face, their faces are full of kindness, and they are surrounded by a happy atmosphere, but obviously, most officials can't feel it.

Except for those Li and Shu officials who had just come to Luoyang to become the emperor's sword, all the senior court officials could feel was the atmosphere of chilling.

Walking on the street, occasionally you can see the blood that didn't come and was washed away.

I don't know which unlucky ghost it is.

Officials, especially those who returned to the official office before the ultimatum and survived, all pale and trembling lips followed the eunuch's lead to the Fengtian Hall to meet the emperor.

Along the way of the imperial palace, there were an unusually large number of black-armored imperial guards with fierce auras. Usually only a few came out to stand guard on duty, but today, all of them came out.

It seems that the emperor is declaring to them - don't forget who this country belongs to.

Indeed, they seemed to have forgotten for a while that this was an empire.

Their Emperor His Majesty has very, very, very great power.

Although the sun is hot, although it is still the autumn tiger in September and has not yet transitioned to the cool golden autumn season, no one feels hot.

A kind of coldness permeated their hearts.

The surviving officers didn't notice they were missing something—

It's not physical, but something very important is lost in my heart.

Poor officials like Cao Cao also felt an emotion inexplicably, an emotion that shouldn't exist.

But now it exists.

So they feel cold.

And another group of officials, those officials who were recruited into the capital from all over the world and came into contact with the existence of the imperial palace for the first time, they did not feel the oppression of that atmosphere at all, they looked at the imperial palace belonging to the emperor curiously and excitedly.

Originally, they would never have the opportunity to see what the imperial palace looked like, what kind of life the dignitaries lived, and they couldn't even come to Luoyang.

But now, they found that they could be officials here.

They crossed a huge gap out of thin air and filled it up. From then on, the moat became a clear path.

They are coming.

Their hearts are fiery, positive, and upward.

They are eager to make a career and return to their hometown to comfort their ancestors who have been eating in the fields for generations. They have developed, they have changed their fate against the sky, and they have created miracles.

No one doubts that this is just a special phenomenon.

Especially now.

Chapter 1197 One thousand two hundred and seven

This is a grand meeting.

At present, all the officials in the capital who can still stand have arrived at the palace.

If you can't stand outside the Fengtian Hall, they will disperse in other palaces, and what the emperor said will naturally be conveyed.

Originally, when there were too many people, only the front group of people could hear the emperor's words, and everyone else had to listen to the conveyance. Mr. Guo didn't have a loud voice, and he didn't have a microphone.

Of course, Guo does not need to directly convey his orders to the ears of every official. The message he wants to convey only needs to be heard by the leaders of this group of officials.

The dignitaries who chose to compromise with him and were terrified by him.

A certain Guo killed more than 5000 scholars, bureaucrats and imperial students in one go, abolished them, and promoted more than 2000 local grassroots officials of Li Shu origin to the capital to serve as central officials.

During this transitional familiarization period, they also need to be fully responsible, so that these Lishu officials can get started with their work faster.

Once the core decision-making team of the central government is stabilized, the central government can be stabilized.

He has stabilized the central government and killed the troublemakers in the central government. He basically controls the local county government and below the county government. Isolated, suspended, rootless duckweed.

If you don't go up to the heavens, don't go down to the countryside, and don't have military power, financial power, and personnel power, you won't be able to do anything for 100 years.

The system of prefectures and counties is designed to stabilize the rule, and the system of decentralization works well.

Decentralization of power and centralization of power, the central government has enough power to control the local governments.

The group of four county guards around Luoyang had already been replaced by someone from Guo, and replaced by the county magistrate who came from a poor family around them, and took them directly to the capital to be imprisoned for questioning.

Now that you've done it, you don't have to worry about the impact.

The central government directly beats them to death, and the local government will never let them go. Whoever dares to jump up and become a demon will die.

More than 5000 people have been beaten with clubs, and Guo will not care about another group of people.

The list of exiles is over there, and it's a matter of a second thought who gets on and who doesn't, but Guo is not worried that too many people will get on and the country will not run smoothly.

After years of hard work, these [suspended strata] suspended between the central and local governments have long lost the ability to wrestle with someone like Guo.

They can no longer be like in the past, a county prefect is a small warlord, and a state governor is a big warlord.

The era has passed, and I can't come back, thinking, it doesn't make sense.

Now it depends on how these suspended officials deal with it, how they express their stance, and whether they choose to submit or choose a dog leash.

Someone Guo is looking forward to their response.

Of course, Guo hoped that they would accept the arrangement honestly like the group of quail-like high-ranking dignitaries standing in front of him.

Not like those 5000 people.

Now that he has already done it, he must do it deadly, so as not to leave any future troubles.

Therefore, the more than 5000 people must be implicated in their families, clansmen, and some relatives and friends. Counting them together, there are 4 or [-] people.

He can uproot 4 or [-] people, let alone you floating officials who have no roots?

Guo believes that many officials may have just realized that the emperor has such a huge power that he can uproot them when he is angry.

However, for someone like Guo, it was in response to the wishes of the middle and lower class scholars, using punctuation marks to attack and tame the top scholar families, and control the core decision-making layer.

But this time, on the basis of stabilizing the core decision-making layer, the middle and lower class scholars, the huge rentier class entrenched in the empire, were wiped out.

Let the imperial examination become a foregone conclusion.

Then, use the rest of your life to consolidate the imperial examination model and open up the way to heaven.

Get through anyway.

So, facing the senior bureaucrats he relied on to maintain the operation of the empire, someone Guo spoke.

"What happened in the past two months, including today's events, is not what I want to see, I don't want to see all this, but all this has appeared in front of Gu, whose fault is this? Is it Gu's fault?

Everything started because of a memorial from Minister of Rites Xu Jing. Officials did not work, Tai students did not study, colluded with each other, went on strike, went on strike, and even went on strike to stop the operations of the industries controlled by their family!

For whom?Show it to Gu!What behavior is this?It is a threat, a threat to Gu, a threat to the king of a country, a threat to the emperor!What courage, what courage, ever since he was granted the title of Wei Gong alone, he has never seen a scholar with such backbone.

Going on strike today, going on strike, going to school, going on strike, will tomorrow be sitting in a group at the gate of Gu's Fengtian Temple, shouting for Gu to abdicate and let the virtuous?Such a person actually has the nerve to tell Gu that Liu Zhang and Liu Cong are going to rebel, and is it Liu Zhang and Liu Cong who are rebelling?right? "

Guo Peng stood up and walked to the steps.

"It's this group of people who rebelled! It's this group of lunatics who don't know the heights of the sky and act recklessly! It's this group of rebellious officials and thieves! They want to take over Gu's country, they want to murder Gu! This group of people deserve death!"

After a round of scolding, someone from Guo asked Su Yuan to read out the punishment decision for these people.

There is no doubt that they will lose their status as scholars and officials, and be deposed as common people.

The rest are processed in batches according to different identities, different levels of participation in events, and different leadership positions.

The least serious cases are those who participated in protests and opposition but had no official status.

Their homes will be confiscated, and the whole family will not be allowed to stay in their place of origin. Instead, they will go to undeveloped frontiers with harsh environments, such as the west of Yizhou and the south of Yangzhou, to become pioneers.

The plot is a little more serious because there is no official leader in the imperial student scholar team.

Their homes will be confiscated, and the whole family will be exiled to the frontier. Not only that, all clansmen in the existing world will also lose the opportunity to obtain student status. Existing student status will be abolished, and they will be expelled from imperial schools, palaces, and schools. hired.

More serious are the officials who were not involved in leading the organization of the protests, but were also involved in the protests.

They themselves will be beheaded, deprived of everything, and lose all their property, identity, and status. Their family members will become sinners for life, and they will be sent to the construction site of the Shu Road. .

The tribe will also be implicated. Those who have a student status will be deprived of their student status and will not be allowed to go to school for life.

The most serious situation is the leader among the officials.

Headed by Huan Dian, together with Wei Shen, Ma Miao and the others, anyone who has worked as a leader will be executed everywhere.

The whole family was convicted as sinners, and all of them were sent to the Shu Road repair project to repair the Shu Road in the most dangerous and steep places until the repair of the Shu Road was completed.

The more officials listened, the more frightened they became, and the more they listened, the more frightened they became.

Because the emperor has an unprecedented number of people to clean up this time, and they are all scholars, and the emperor does not intend to compromise at all this time.

More than 5000 scholars, including their families and clansmen, are finally together. There can be 4 to 4 people, [-] to [-] people!

His Majesty the Emperor didn't say a word, and all of them were disposed of.

What will these people face?

No one knows, the high probability is the end of death.

These are not prisoners of war or criminals, but scholars.

His Majesty the Emperor really did it.

Still use such vicious means.

Until this moment, many people have just woken up from a dream.

All along, deep in their hearts, they regarded the emperor as the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. They were used to that kind of emperor, and they were used to the emperor whose power was limited by them.

They are used to that life.

Such inertia is so strong that until now, after political turmoil after another, they have not realized an indisputable fact.

There have been some changes in the nature of His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire and His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Empire.

Such a change was reflected in the fact that when His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Empire was about to turn the table, they were able to create the Yellow Turban Rebellion as a countermeasure to force the emperor to make concessions.

And when His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire was about to lift the table or even finished lifting the table, they could only stand shivering in front of him, bow their heads, and dare not do anything.

Shouldn't we be resisting?

When the emperor used violence against scholars, shouldn't he stand up?

Many scholars and bureaucrats are thinking this way.

But the fact is that they have been hiding at home, afraid to speak out, afraid to express their opinions, facing everything like a turtle.

Now, in the face of the super-large-scale persecution launched by the emperor, they still dare not do anything, and they are unable to do anything.

Watching helplessly, His Majesty the emperor abolished all the sons of the scholars, the officials dismissed their positions, and the students were driven out of the Taixue.

Then he introduced a batch of local mud legs to the central government to fill the vacancies of officials, and announced that he would recruit more mud legs to enter Taixue to fill the vacancies of students.

Shouldn't His Majesty's actions be aimed at us scholars?

Why are you facing those mud legs?