At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Guo Peng said that when you are more powerful than your subordinates, your subordinates will take the initiative to flatter you, please you, and say some flattering words to you.

This proves that you are on the right path.

If your power is not as great as that of your subordinates, if you have a problem with your brain, you will go up to the table to praise you and say good things about you, and they must be sarcasm and ridicule you.

Whether there are people around you to flatter you, say flattering and pleasant words, and whether there are sycophants by your side, this is one of the important criteria for judging whether an emperor is qualified or not.

Those scholars always said that the emperor must be surrounded by people who dare to speak out and commit crimes. Only in this way can he be a truly wise emperor.

Guo Jin once thought it was right, and then was slapped on the head by Guo Peng.

"I don't even have a flattering person around me. If someone dares to step on your head and tell you what to do, you still have the nerve to call yourself an emperor? What kind of emperor are you? Duke Sanyang?"

This slap woke Guo Jin up.

He got out of the trap set by the scholars in time, and followed Guo Peng's footsteps, thinking that a real emperor with power must have a certain number of sycophants around him.

And when those who used to be quick to do things also start flattering and showing their loyalty, it proves that the power of you, the emperor, is already very strong, so great that no one can contend.

Obviously, all the famous and surnamed people in the court now went to the memorial table to celebrate Guo Peng's victory, and none of them pulled down. This is enough to prove that Guo Peng's prestige and power have both stood at the top.

He is fully equipped with the prestige and power to decide the affairs of the world with one word.

Guo Jin couldn't help thinking of what his father had said to him before the expedition.

His father's imperial conquest was to push his own prestige and power to the peak, relying on this prestige and power to do what he always wanted to do but always felt that the timing was not right.

Promote the existence of punctuation marks, promote the punctuation mark revolution, and forcibly end the dispute between modern and ancient Chinese and family law.

Unify academics, unify thinking, take the peak of culture from private hands back to the government, turn private schools into public schools, and all interpretation rights of learning belong to the central government and the government.

Let those families who try to monopolize the power of academics and the power derived from academics with the power of classic interpretation be destroyed, so that all those who have such ideas will never have the opportunity to do so again.

Examinations were abolished and imperial examinations were changed. From now on, the selection of officials across the country will all adopt the method of examination. Except for military meritorious service, no recommendation or hereditary inheritance is allowed.

Test their literary talents and test their moral character, and use this as the standard.

No matter who came from a noble family, poor family, or Li Shu, they all have the same qualifications to take the exam, and the ascending channel has been opened up. Although it is still narrow and unstable, this channel has been opened up.

Unprecedented to be opened up.

This is what Guo Peng wants to accomplish with prestige and power.

Guo Jin took a deep breath and forcibly held back the excitement in her heart.

Father has made too many preparations for this day.

The secret workshop hidden in the mountains of Bingzhou, the piles of paper books, and the mature technology that can be formed into a production line are my father's preparations.

A sufficient number of children in the training camp privately held by the father, as well as the Linzi camp with tentacles all over the country, are also father's preparations.

Enough money, a strong enough army, a sufficiently broad grassroots government, and a sufficient number of grassroots officials have all been prepared to form the cornerstone of the stability of the entire country.

In the name of sweeping up corrupt officials, free up some official positions for their own people, let their own people have more positions, hold more power positions at the grassroots level, and hollow out the foundation of the gentry.

Holding up the gentry and turning them into castles in the air will make them lose their foundation in a state of complacency, further lose the power to resist Guo Peng's absolute power, and thus lose the monopoly position they rely on for their livelihood.

Then, the emperor of Wei State is the real emperor, the one and only emperor.

When the ministers rejoiced for the dream of the coming prosperous age.

A time when the populace congratulated each other for the coming golden age.

When people with bad intentions face Guo Peng's strength and are extremely desperate.

At this time, there is no difference between what Guo Jin thinks and what Guo Peng thinks.

Everything that victory can cover up is in his eyes, and he can't help but imagine what kind of grand occasion it will be for the Wei Empire if his father succeeds.

Everyone has an equal opportunity to study, and everyone has an equal opportunity to take the exam.

The imperial court can select real talents through examinations, not those bastards who can only enter the imperial court by relying on their parents, grandparents or other nepotism.

With a wider selection of people, the emperor has greater bargaining power, and everything will no longer be decided by the scholars, and the scholars will not be able to cover the sky with one hand and manipulate public opinion.

However, Guo Peng told Guo Jin everything, the only thing he didn't tell Guo Jin was that the father and son were not a historical trend.

It is the original historical trend that scholars go to the peak.

The only thing the scholars did wrong was that they failed to help Yuan Shao get rid of Guo Peng, and they failed to recognize the true face of a certain Guo in time, so that he became emperor.

The emperor is a countercurrent, a countercurrent that is heading for an unimagined path, a countercurrent that has no precedent to follow, and a countercurrent that will be smashed to pieces if you don't pay attention.

The undefeated golden body can make Guo Peng a steady emperor, but it can't make him a revolutionary.

Guo Peng nominally promotes government reform as an emperor, but the core of this reform is a revolution.

This is not a power struggle within the ruling group, not a family game of power, but an explicit revolution.

It's just that the identity of this revolutionary happens to be the emperor, so it's no big deal.

Scholars always thought that they were the foundation of the dynasty and the pillar of the emperor, but Guo Peng no longer regarded them as the foundation.

They are outdated in Guo Peng's view, and it's time to be eliminated.

Guo Peng knew very well that the Wei Empire was different from the Eastern Han Empire. The foundation of the Wei Empire was not scholars.

The Eastern Han Empire was established with the support of great powers.

Without those big tyrants investing in Liu Xiu, without Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang investing in Liu Xiu Group and giving him soldiers, horses, food and grass, the Eastern Han Empire would not have been established.

From this point of view, the Eastern Han Empire established by Liu Xiu has never really penetrated into the people.

After the Baihuguan meeting, these great tyrants gradually transformed into a more advanced gentry. By monopolizing academics, they hijacked the Eastern Han regime in a more advanced way and became its [foundation].

This was not the case at the beginning of the establishment of the Wei Empire.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Guowei Group, no scholars participated in the shares. Except for Guo Peng himself, who was a scholar, none of his subordinates were scholars.

In the beginning, the Guowei Group was composed entirely of poor families and powerful people and ordinary people.

It was not until Guo Peng became the prefect of Shanggu that some scholars joined the Guowei Group as individuals, and they did not bring family resources to invest in the shares.

Only the Cao family, the Xiahou family, the Cheng family, and the Guo family were the first to invest.

They invested in Guo Peng with their own wealth and lives, obtained a certain amount of equity, and got rich returns.

The rest is Guo Peng himself who accumulates capital, obtains food, obtains resources, builds an army, and strengthens the regime through farmland.

It can be said that Guowei Group has been in an absolute controlling position from the very beginning.

Throughout the Qingzhou era, which was growing and developing, except for the Guo family, no gentry family tried to invest resources in the shares.

Because they don't think Guo Peng can have the last laugh.

Yuan Shao is strong enough, Yuan Shu is also strong enough, even Liu Biao's reputation and territory are great, Guo Peng does not have any advantage in the beginning, and his foundation is not stable.

Although this method brought Guo Peng the predicament of lack of talents in the early stage, it also prompted him to implement the lower-level strategy more simply and thoroughly.

Let him work harder to promote policies, put the tentacles of power at the lowest level, teach people to read, implement literacy policies, and discover the first batch of people who can serve as grassroots officials from a large base of Limin people, and control the bottom for him .

From the very beginning, he followed the line of the people and laid a solid foundation for Guo Wei's regime.

After the Guo Wei regime is fully mature, it will be very difficult for someone to buy shares, or it will be very difficult to obtain decisive equity.

The foundation of the Wei Empire was Guo Peng's single-handed creation of the system of garrison farms all over the country.

All the soldiers, military rations, ordnance supplies, military expenses, etc. needed to maintain the existence of the Wei Empire regime were all produced by this system, and there were not many great gentry and powerful people to invest.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Wei Empire, Guo Peng had the confidence and qualifications to set off political storms one after another.

Because he knew that he had absolute control over the Wei Empire.

Most of those scholars only rely on cultural monopoly to invest in technology after the group's great success, occupying a little bit of poor equity, but want to obtain the decision-making position in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Is there such a beautiful thing in the world?

Scholars can't be wiped out for a while, but scholars don't want to use technological monopoly to counter his absolute control.

When the grassroots forces are completely unable to compete with Guo, the most they can do is rely on their cultural monopoly to launch a non-violent non-cooperation movement to force Guo to make concessions.

Resignation, passive sabotage, strikes, sit-in demonstrations, etc., shut down the government and make someone Guo unable to do things.

This is their biggest and only reliance, they are no longer able to provoke the world again, and plan a [Yellow Turban Uprising] to show some color to Guo.

But the sure-fire weapon to break the technological monopoly of scholars is already in the hands of someone like Guo, and the technological monopoly of scholars is just a joke in Guo's eyes.

Guo Peng, who was on his way back from the expedition, was sneering silently.

Chapter 1123 One thousand 130 three He actually tried to assassinate the emperor!

At this time, except for Guo Jin, no one knew what Guo Peng was going to do.

But Manchaotang has already begun to prepare for the emperor's triumphant return.

For the first time in the world, the emperor of the Central Plains Empire personally led the Northern Expedition to the depths of Mobei, killed the Xianbei people in their hometown, and sacrificed to the heavens on their territory, officially announcing the end of Xianbei.

Is there anything more exciting than this?

Huo Qubing did it before, but he is not the emperor.

Guo Peng is the emperor, and the political meaning is completely different.

The situation of the Wei Empire has been completely different since then, not the same as in the past.

A country that completely wiped out the Mobei Grassland Empire, even if the opponent was only one-fifth the size of the heyday, is also the meritorious service of the Wei Empire.

The battle against Xianbei has been presided over by Guo Peng since the Han Zhongping period. From the beginning to the end, this war can also be said to have been fought intermittently for 20 years.

After Tan Shihuai's death, Guo Peng began to make a fortune in northern Xinjiang, starting with killing Helian, and then Guo Peng personally led the army to kill Fuluohan and Suli as the end. This protracted war finally came to an end.

Basically, it can be said that Xianbei was destroyed by Guo Peng.

It was he who attacked Xianbei uninterruptedly for 20 years, bloodletting Xianbei continuously, and constantly deteriorating their living environment, which made their population of one million continue to decline and decrease in 20 years.

The population is declining, and the potential for war is naturally declining. In the end, the Xianbei people have the power to fight the first battle. With just the power of the first battle, the Xianbei people are completely overwhelmed.

In the end, the Northern Expedition of the Wei Army was decided by the First World War.

This has a completely different meaning.

The imperial literati team headed by Chen Lin immediately started political propaganda, writing articles advocating Guo Peng's monstrous military exploits, and promoting Guo Peng as an omnipotent god from heaven to earth, and people should treat him with respect and obedience like a god.

He is everything, he is all, everything he says is right, what he says is the holy decree, and his holy decree is absolute and unquestionable.

Chen Lin has been Guo Peng's licking dog and the head of the Queen's team from the very beginning.

He has always sat his ass upright, and has always stood by Guo Peng's side to advocate for him, attacking scholars who are dissatisfied with Guo Peng, and seizing the high ground of public opinion, so he has a very bad reputation among some scholars.

This time is no exception.

Someone privately ridiculed Chen Lin as the No. 1 eulogy, and started flattering the emperor in a hurry before he came back.

Some people described Chen Lin as a loyal big yellow dog beside the emperor, saying that Chen Lin was more loyal than the big yellow dog, and she was also favored by the emperor.

When Chen Lin learned about it, she was not angry but happy, and worked harder to output high-quality articles for the emperor, creating the absolute status and absolute power of the emperor, so as to express her loyalty.

What's wrong with being a dog to the emperor?

The dog next to the emperor is more precious than you people!

While you guys are mocking me, you don't know how eager you are to get a status like mine.

Chen Lin sees these guys thoroughly.

Chen Lin, who has been following Guo Peng since she came out of Luoyang and has been fighting at the forefront of the public opinion war, is very aware of her position.

Those who rejoice are naturally rejoicing, those who are busy flattering are also busy writing articles to flatter, those who are worried have their own worries, and those who are looking forward have their own expectations.

Everyone has their own ideas and practices in this tide of the times, and they are preparing for their own future together.

As a result, I never thought that the future has not come yet, and new news has arrived.

On August 26, the fifth year of Yande, the emperor's order to resume the war was sent back to Luoyang.

People were stunned, and only after getting accurate information did they suddenly realize.

It turned out that Karasuma Dashan Yu Nanlou, who was traveling with the emperor, tried to assassinate Guo Peng on the way back!

He actually tried to assassinate the emperor!

When he toasted the emperor, he hid a dagger in his arms and directly attacked the emperor.

Fortunately, the emperor is also a powerful general, with a foundation of force, he dodges and kicks over the difficult building, and then the angry and panicked generals rush up to suppress the difficult building, kill all the Karasuma people on the scene, and calm down This sudden rebellion.