At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Can those mud legs really replace us?

There are many questions, but none of them can be asked.

After the emperor announced the definition of the nature of the incident and the punishment regulations, he announced a new batch of officials' promotions and reward lists, completely dividing the political power after the chaos.

So everything has become an established fact and can no longer be changed.

His Majesty the Emperor used his supreme prestige and powerful force to suppress all possible turmoil, and forcibly stabilized the uneasy situation.

In this way, those Li and Shu officials gained a firm foothold in the central government and broke through the limitation of the ascending channel in one breath.

At this point in the matter, many people have no idea what the emperor launched this terrible persecution for.

I don't know, they don't know what this is for. His Majesty the Emperor made such a decision and paid [-] to [-] people and their families as the price.

Not to mention them, even some humble officials expressed deep incomprehension.

They don't understand why His Majesty the Emperor, who was born in a scholar's family, has such deep feelings and expectations for these mud-legged people, they really don't understand.

Why does a scholar from a traditional, typical scholarly family with no worries about food and clothing care so much about this group of mud legs?

They were asked to study and become officials, and they tried every means to improve their upward channels and let them come to Luoyang.

They will never understand, let alone understand, so Mr. Guo does not expect to give any explanation that can be accepted by them.

Ever since, at the end of this grand meeting, His Majesty the Emperor announced the final decision.

Abolish the imperial examination and establish the imperial examination. From next year, the imperial examination system will be completely abolished. The imperial examination system will become the only way to select officials in the empire. Students, regardless of their background, as long as they have a student status, they can apply freely——

No need to go through any channels.

chapter 1198

Registration for the imperial examination does not require recommendation.

Without the recommendation of local or central officials, you can sign up and take the exam. After a very high-level exam and a relatively tragic dismissal system, you can choose the best officials who are suitable for the official position.

The examination is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and Xu Jing, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, is the chief examiner, preparing for the first imperial examination in the eighth year of Yande next year.

According to the rules, the old system of the Talent Discussion Ceremony held in Yecheng was adopted, and the start time of the imperial examination was set on the first day of March every year, which is when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.

Preparations can start now.

When all the dust settled, the emperor forcibly passed the order of abolishing the examination and establishing the imperial examination with absolute power and prestige.

This time, the emperor did not make any compromises with anyone, and any requirements were strictly required to be passed by the emperor, and they were promulgated throughout the country for implementation.

The Dachaohui adjourned, and the inexplicably excited group of officials from Li and Shu, the group of scholars and bureaucrats with an extremely depressed atmosphere, and the group of officials from poor families in the middle left respectively.

They each have their own minds, each have their own thoughts, each has its own thinking and preparation.

The core decision-making layer was left behind.

Including the heads of major government offices and their deputies, as well as the nine ministers, as well as Kong Xian who was not among them, and Jia Kui.

These people formed the core decision-making layer of the Wei Empire, and the experienced decision-making brains were all the best among them.

Faced with their emotions, Guo Peng comforted them.

"This time the decision to pass the imperial examination, your contribution is crucial. You have helped me to stabilize the court and the government. You have made meritorious service. You are heroes. You can choose your own second son, who will be appointed as an official, and you don't need to take the imperial examination. "

The elites in the decision-making circle looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the end, did the emperor leave a gap for these high-ranking officials so that they could enjoy the privileged arrangements with peace of mind, thus drawing a line from those unlucky ones.

After experiencing the torrential blows of His Majesty the Emperor, they are not willing to accept His Majesty's iron fist again.

So no matter how much dissatisfaction they have in their hearts, they have to endure it and suppress their emotions so as not to let them get out of control.

But right now, His Majesty the Emperor seems to intend to leave a way for them to walk better and more smoothly even though they are under the imperial examination system.

After experiencing the iron fist, this date is so sweet, so attractive, and so beautiful.

For Guo, it doesn't matter if he gives up this little benefit.

Because once the imperial examination has formed a scale and becomes the "right way" for officials like Ju Xiaolian to become an official, a chain of contempt among officials will naturally form.

Only those who take the road of scientific research are the best officials and officials who can take on great responsibilities, and those who take the road of shady are useless officials.

Some unspoken rules and other rules will spontaneously form in the officialdom.

For example, with the existence of Shujishi in the Ming Dynasty, only the top three in the first class and the few lucky ones in the election year can become Shujishi.

And in the future, if you want to enter the cabinet and become a cabinet elder, you must be born as a nobleman, otherwise you will not be able to enter the cabinet.

Shujishi are naturally the top three or the top two with the best scientific examination results over the years, and naturally formed an argument of "education first".

You must do well in the exam to reach the peak of being a minister.

Therefore, all things are inferior, and only the social consensus that reading is high can be formed and continued.

In such a big environment, can you, the remnants of the scholars' era, still make any waves?

As long as someone from Guo gives a little guidance and uses the previous imperial examinations to take the top three first-class and top ten second-class exams, an atmosphere of supremacy in imperial examinations and academic qualifications will soon be formed, and the glory of the gentry and the theory of lineage will soon be abandoned. into the dust.

The contempt chain of scientific examination scores among officials can despise you to death.

The county magistrate might as well take care of it now!

In the era of the Great Science Examination, even if your father is the chief minister of the cabinet, an extremely personable minister, and one person is under ten thousand, if you yourself have no fame and reputation, you are not a good person, then you can't even think about entering the cabinet, don't even think about getting a scientific education with a regular background. The recognition and acceptance of the examiners, don't even try to hold the highest authority.

You will always be despised.

This is where the imperial examination is the best compared to the imperial examination.

Even if it is rigid, even if it engages in nepotism, even if it is all kinds of unreasonable, but its fairness is far beyond comparison.

Bloodlines can be inherited, but test scores cannot be inherited.

Someone Guo wants to run the imperial examination system, protect it, care for it, let it grow as soon as possible, and promote the wave of reading to change destiny in the whole society.

Combining study, examination and being an official forms a chain of dragons, so that the low-level Li Shu can also pass the examination and enter the officialdom, thereby changing their own destiny.

Such a trend of thought was promoted on a large scale to completely change the atmosphere of the Chaju era and wipe out the soil on which the gentry depended for development.

So right now, the only thing that is lacking is the "adventure" of the already mature printing technique.

However, before the advent of printing, Guo still needed the help of these top elites in the central government who had been won over and controlled, so as to clean up the people who were about to move around in those places.

So slowly, let's not show the results of printing for the time being, so that these elites can rest assured.

Let them realize that there is no printing technique, and the speed of cultural transmission is still too slow by handwriting alone, and it is difficult for the common people to rely on their numerical advantages to crush the existence of the scholars.

So when the time comes, even if the imperial court implements the imperial examination, scholars will still have an absolute advantage.

This situation cannot be changed anytime soon.

Stabilize for a while, don't make them too nervous, first let them accept and get used to the existence of the imperial examination.

As long as the scholars can continue to hold power, it is still very simple for the scholars to do what they want to do after Mr. Guo dies in the future.

Relying on such a psychological advantage, this group of people can continue to use and continue to shine until the imperial examination system can cultivate the first batch of talents from the bottom.

After that, Guo began to deal with the belated local rebound.

Among the local sheriff-level figures, some voices clearly opposed the imperial examination system.

Without exception, they all believed that the imperial examination system could not replace the prosecution system, otherwise it would shake the hearts of the people.

The hearts of the people.

In this regard, Guo selected a group of their replacements from some outstanding county magistrates and outstanding cabinet officials.

Without exception, they are all the children of poor families and Li Shu's children.

The first son of Li Shu who served as the governor of the two thousand stones was also born.

His name is Wang Chao, a native of Yuzhou, who previously served as the county magistrate of Lantian County, Jingzhaoyin, Yongzhou.

Soon, the prefects of Hedong County, Henan Yin County, and Hongnong County around Luoyang were the first to be dismissed by Guo Peng.

So Wang Chao was directly appointed by Guo Peng to be the prefect of Hongnong County, becoming the first two-thousand-stone prefect in history who was born with mud legs.

In this regard, there is basically no voice of discussion between the DPRK and China.

Scared.

Then, the governors of more than ten counties, including Yingchuan County in Yanzhou, Nanyang and Nanjun in Jingzhou, Guangling County in Xuzhou, and Donghai County in Qingzhou, were directly replaced by Guo.

It was replaced by a small number of children of scholars, and a large number of children of poor families and Li Shu.

This wave of replacements replaced five Li Shu children from Li Shu families, and their average age was over 40 years old——

There is no way, I started late, and followed Guo’s fortune. I still went back and forth in the villages and villages for seven or eight years, and stayed in Taixue for two or three years, waiting until Guo thought they would open up channels for advancement.

They can become the prefects of two thousand stones at this age, which has already made history.

However, with the previous example of Li Shu officials entering various departments of the central court in large numbers, even if they served as two thousand stones, no one could say anything wrong.

Being able to express opposition and protest in their hearts is already the greatest courage of the scholars who have undergone severe suppression.

Most of the governments at the county level under the jurisdiction of the county level are poor and ordinary officials, and the prefect of the county does not hold other powers except administrative power.

Therefore, the personnel changes at the county level did not shake the administrative foundation of the Wei Empire at all, and they were removed and replaced very smoothly without causing any waves.

Of course, they don't want to imitate those predecessors at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and serve the king at every turn.

The reaction of the officials at the state level is what Guo pays more attention to.

Among the officials at the state level, a certain Guo naturally has a basic set.

For example, Guo Rui, governor of Yanzhou, Xiahou Dun, governor of Mozhou, Manchong, governor of Yizhou, Mi Zhu, governor of Qingzhou, Han Hao, governor of Jizhou, etc., these will never sit on crooked buttocks.

Therefore, they also expressed their support for the imperial examination system to replace the prosecution system in the first time.

Then there are the group of governors of the former officials of the Guo family, Mao Jie, the governor of Liangzhou, Chen Gong, the governor of Yongzhou, Lu Su, the governor of Pingzhou, Gu Yong, the governor of Yangzhou, etc. who were personally promoted by Guo.

Although they are former officials of the Guo family, they also have the status of scholars. If they object to such a proposal, Guo will not find it strange.

They will only think that their political awareness is not high enough to continue to take on important responsibilities.

They all seemed to understand the emperor's heart, so they didn't disappoint Guo. When those prefects opposed the operation of the imperial examination system, they chose to support it.

For senior officials like them, worrying about losing their current vested interests is the most important psychology, and other ideas must come second.

After finally gaining such a high status and power in the Guo Wei regime, it is not worthwhile to lose it because of opposing the emperor.

Having said that, losing the advantage of being a scholar is also a major concern.

So they finally chose to support the emperor - after all, power and status are the most important, without power and status, only the status of a scholar may not be considered a good thing.

Of course, the more important thing is that their power is not complete. Compared with the group of scholars in Luoyang who can threaten the emperor with a strike and school strike, they can do less.

They, like the group of sheriffs who hesitated, should be grateful for their hesitation and finally expressed their support.

Because soon, the news that someone from Guo dispatched the Luoyang Forbidden Army to wipe out more than 5000 troublemakers spread throughout the world.

frightened a lot of people.

More than 5000 scholars!

The emperor is really...

The emperor who had been honed in five thousand blood fires was directly dispatched by the black-armored imperial army, and the guards directly blocked all the city gates, square gates and streets in Luoyang.

It is said that the Black Armor Imperial Army chased those scholars all over Luoyang City that day, and beat them to death when they caught up. It is said that this wave killed many scholars.

Whether it is an official or a student.

The [-] scholars who still protested after Mr. Guo's three ultimatums were wiped out by Mr. Guo.

Together with their families and clansmen, the number of people implicated in the end exceeded [-], close to [-], all of whom were beaten into criminals by Guo.

Either they were dispatched to the frontier, they were sent to work as coolies on construction sites, or they were killed.

They lost their status as scholars and their original household registration. They were not allowed to be officials and their family members were implicated. Those who were lucky enough not to be sent to the frontier were also implicated.

Someone Guo completely tore up the political contract with the scholars.

He selected and recruited more than 2000 Li and Shu officials from the local area to station in Luoyang to fill the vacancies of the scholars in Luoyang City, and never caused political riots in Luoyang or even the entire Wei State.

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