At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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From the maturity of papermaking to the mass production of paper, to the emperor summoning representatives of several major families, and then to this earth-shattering imperial decree.

Cao Cao finally understood what was going on.

But he still has a doubt that has not been solved.

"But the improvement of papermaking technology should not happen in a short time. From the former Han Dynasty to the present, Feng Xiao, this matter..."

"Stop here, Mengde, this matter is of great benefit to our family and has no harm. You don't know anything, and I don't know anything. Your Majesty is whatever you say, understand?"

Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao sternly, for fear that he would say something that shouldn't be said.

For Guo Jia, who was born in the royal family, and Cao Cao, the representative figure of his relatives, this matter is a good thing, a great thing.

They sat in different places with their buttocks, and they didn't have to frown or panic at all. They were the basic foundation of the emperor, and the emperor would not attack anyone who attacked them.

Therefore, they just need to call without thinking, don't say anything else, just pretend they don't know anything.

To sum up, what His Majesty says is what His Majesty tells them to do, and they will do it.

It's that simple.

Cao Cao understood and nodded.

"Understand."

After finishing speaking, the two lowered their heads, put their hands in front of them, and walked on the way to meet the emperor like everyone else, just like ordinary people without any outstanding colors.

Soon, a group of ministers arrived in front of the side hall of Fengtian Temple and asked Su Yuan, who was guarding in front of the hall, to see the emperor.

Cheng Yu, Cao Cao, and Xi Zhong all stepped forward to ask to see the emperor, and Su Yuan went to report.

After a while, the door of the palace opened wide, and Su Yuan greeted the ministers to enter together.

After entering, they were hand-given a new-style thread-bound book as soon as they saw the emperor's face.

The cover is blue, with a white frame in the upper left corner, and the title of the book is written in the frame.

Or "Shangshu", or "Spring and Autumn", or "Li".

Paper quality, status quo, after opening, you can see that very neat and correct lowercase characters exist on the paper column by column from right to left and top to bottom.

Then there are strange symbols, such as [,], [. ] and the like, as well as [""] and [:] and the like.

They don't know what these symbols are, but they can see that after being separated by these symbols, reading becomes very easy, and they can read without reading a sentence, and they can read sentence by sentence without the slightest feeling of jerky or unpleasantness, and it is clear at a glance.

It feels like their ability to punctuate sentences after years of practice suddenly becomes useless.

Even if you don't need to learn sentences to read, as long as you know the characters and hold such a book, you can understand any classic.

At this time, listening to the teacher give a little lecture on the scriptures and taking notes, it is simply getting twice the result with half the effort. Compared with the previous education model of word of mouth, I don’t know how many times easier.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with what the emperor said, really there is nothing wrong, he really got the right to interpret and teach the classics from the hands of several big families, the emperor said how to interpret the classics from now on Calculate.

What kind of deal did he make with those families?

But none of that matters anymore.

The important thing is that from now on, he will educate students in Taixue in this way.

The humble family and the nobles together!

There are even Li Shu's children!

Many officials gasped and looked at each other. Everyone could see the surprise and even the slightest bit of fear in each other's eyes.

"How about it, the [book] made by the solitary person is not bad, isn't it? Stack the paper together, use the method of sewing clothes, and bind these papers with thread to make it a book. In this way, it is very comfortable to hold in your hand. Lightweight, one book can write an entire volume of classics, which is cheaper and more convenient than bamboo slips.”

Guo Peng smiled and raised a copy of "Shangshu" in his hand: "Unfortunately, the speed of copying by lonely people is a bit slow. It will take some time for every student of the Taixue to have a copy, but it doesn't matter, the book Already, I plan to educate students in this way in the Taixue in the future, and I think it will be much better than before."

The emperor's words sounded very relaxed, and did not answer the biggest doubts in the hearts of the courtiers - when did this plan start, and why did it hide it from us?

But the emperor didn't say anything, and none of them dared to ask.

Cheng Yu definitely didn't dare, Xi Zhong didn't dare, Cao Cao didn't even dare, the bigwigs of the three main power departments didn't dare, and of course the heads of other departments behind them didn't dare either.

The families of these officials are naturally involved in it, and they are still very concerned about this matter. Now they want to ask but dare not ask, and they are very anxious.

So the situation felt a bit stalemate.

Until Guo Jia stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, this is a big matter, and the matter involves too much. I don't know if Your Majesty has fully grasped it."

Guo Peng understood what Guo Jia meant.

"This matter, I have a complete grasp of it. It is inconvenient to say more about the specifics, and you don't need to know, but you only need to know. I want to abolish private schools and promote public schools. From then on, there is no need for the existence of various family laws. If If you want to study, you have to go to a public school established by the government.

As for this matter, Gu has reached a consensus with Yuan Qing and Xun Qing. They understand the righteousness and deeply understand Gu's painstaking efforts, so they decided to take the initiative to hand over the classic inheritance to Gu, retreat to the second line, and fully assist Gu's construction public school.

The representative of this public school is of course the Taixue. Set up the Taixue, build it well, let the scholars see how good the Taixue is, and then restore the local schools and schools step by step, and restore the public school. order was restored. "

Guo Peng explained a little bit.

Xuegong School Taixue and so on existed in the Han Dynasty and the period before the Han Dynasty, and they also existed for the purpose of popularizing education.

However, the lack of rigid requirements such as paper and printing technology has not really broken the educational monopoly. As a result, private schools have become popular and small-scale elite education has been carried out.

Turn the education that should educate the people into a luxury, and then monopolize it, and the birth of a scholar is just around the corner.

Coupled with the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang to destroy the Taixue, and a large number of Taixue students flowed into private schools and even private schools of local warlords, such as Liu Biao's school.

Guo's Linzi Academy and later Yecheng Academy developed and grew under such a background, and then restored to today's Taixue.

To break the status quo of private schools, vigorously promote the existence of public schools under the control of the government, improve the educational resources and quality of public schools, and let students come from public schools instead of private schools, which will greatly change the future.

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Therefore, the existence of officials has been severely curbed by someone Guo through administrative means.

The existence of disciples will also be killed by Guo with the existence of public schools.

Once the action of abolishing private schools and establishing public schools is successful, the situation where students and old officials are all over the world will become history in the hands of Guo.

Once the former disciples and former officials become history, the dual monarchy will be broken by itself, and it will naturally dissipate in the long river of history.

The autocratic monarchy will be strengthened unprecedentedly, and the power of the emperor will expand rapidly, to the point where officials and ministers can't look directly, and completely own everything.

Guo's dream of restoring the imperial power to the state of Emperor Wu of the Han and Emperor Qin Shihuang was no longer just a dream.

Few of the ministers here are fools for such a trend, and few of them can't see it.

But just as Xun You, Yuan Si and others saw it but still accepted the emperor's conditions.

The hole cards held by the emperor are not of the same order of magnitude as the hole cards held by them.

When the cards in his hand were not good enough, he would not play them, just like a representative of the interests of the ruling class, including scholars.

When the cards in his hand were good enough, he tore off his disguise, exposed his identity as a class enemy hidden among the people, bared his teeth and claws, and grinned.

Today, after nearly 30 years of practice, Guo finally made his C debut, and after another six years of official debut, he has become a superstar, unstoppable.

He has already built his regime into a super tentacle monster entrenched in the land of China.

The tentacles of imperial power have penetrated into the localities unprecedentedly, and they have mastered the most fundamental constituent units of power—the means of production represented by grassroots people and land.

So when they developed resistance and tried to resist, they were shocked to find that they had nothing to fight against the emperor.

In the past, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty used the party to deal with the scholars, and the scholars could use their tentacles in the local area to push Zhang Jiao to the fore, using Zhang Jiao's ambition to force Emperor Ling of Han.

As Lu Jiang, the great eunuch next to Emperor Han Ling, said to him—"The party has been imprisoned for a long time, if you conspire with the Yellow Turban, you will regret it."

This is their ultimatum to Emperor Han Ling, and it is also the last blow to force Emperor Han Ling to compromise in the face of an out-of-control situation.

At that time, they could still do such a thing.

But now...

At the grassroots level of the Wei Empire, townships and villages were built one after another, one after another, one after another without stopping.

From the construction of the Central Plains to Hebei, from the construction of Hebei to Guanzhong, from Guanzhong to Jiangnan, and then extended to Liaodong, and is still under construction.

Every township and village is a grassroots unit, and there are grassroots officials working as officials, and these grassroots officials... are not under the control of scholars.

Their eyes have always been on the center, they have always been monopolizing culture, and then use their own advantages to provoke those tyrants who want to make trouble, combine with them, and use their force to cooperate with them.

But now the local tyrants are far from being everywhere like they were in the late Han Dynasty. Guo Peng wiped them all out, and then built Tuntian townships and villages directly under the government's jurisdiction.

The number of existing Haoqiang manors cannot be said to be small, but each Haoqiang manor is surrounded by Tuntian townships and villages.

You want to unite and rebel?

OK, you try.

When the rebellion is announced here, the militia self-defense forces in the surrounding villages will sternly press down and beat the manor on the ground, and the manor will be eradicated by the way.

It's not a day or two for someone Guo to be unhappy with the local powerful manor.

If they really dare to rebel, then Guo will definitely let the village chiefs and militia instructors lead the militiamen to clean up those manors.

Then in one go, the powerful manor economy was completely eradicated from the land of China, the last bastion of separatism was also eradicated, and the economic model was completely unified.

To this day, Guo is still enduring part of the existence of the powerful manor, and the existence of the hidden population, because there is no suitable excuse to do it.

If they were the first to rebel, someone Guo would be happy to ask for it.

Mr. Guo has already understood the basis of these scholars' ups and downs, and he has been building his own foundation to prevent these scholars from messing up his foundation from the grassroots.

For so many years, the local management has been treated like an iron bucket, and it has been completely separated from the scholars.

Then, he attacked the power of scholars at the central level and the cultural monopoly power that scholars depended on for a living, and successfully used his absolute power and prestige to force them to submit.

Originally, the only remaining form of resistance for the literati was the non-violent non-cooperation movement.

Everyone resigned collectively, paralyzed the government, and forced the emperor to make concessions when the emperor had no talents capable of governing the country, so as to preserve the fire for everyone's survival.

But the emperor was too cautious, and he was still not at ease when he had such an advantage, and he wanted to hold a meeting of the Yellow Dragon Palace before doing it, which would lead to fighting and division among the scholars.

Then he succeeded in dismissing two-thirds of the inheritance families, forcing them to turn into the opposition and lose their qualifications and abilities to overthrow clouds and rain.

In the end, they attacked the five victorious families and won over the other four families in one fell swoop.

Only the last family was left, who didn't even know what happened.

Up to now, the scholar families who still have the ambition to interpret the classics and teach have no idea how to resist the emperor.

Because there are only five leaders left, but when they have not achieved the status of giants, they were strangled to death by the emperor in advance.

They handed over the right to interpret classics and to teach, accepted the emperor's price tag, handed over the family's private school with the promise of resting with the country, joined the Taixue, and helped the emperor complete the action of abolishing private schools and establishing public schools.

They themselves have also completely changed from the nature of futuristic scholars who have not yet achieved perfection to the nature of royal relatives and nobles, becoming imperial nobles, not monopoly academics.

Of course, the threat of nobles is far less than that of school lords.

Not to mention the development of the gentry school to the full body, that is, the combination of academics and military force, the aristocratic family with a pen and a pistol, is the super existence of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the 700 years of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

They pushed the manor economy to the peak, separated from the country at the basic level of the economy, and in fact achieved the model of "the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals".

Therefore, the country has nothing to do about it, unless it is eliminated violently, but that will inevitably cause a chain reaction. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the situation faced by the central government was even more desperate than that at the end of the Han Dynasty.

But now, this historical process was forcibly interrupted by the hunk Guo.

So these scholar elites all knew that they had already lost, and they lost under the emperor's years of forbearable preparations and strong ambitions.

They were powerless to resist and could only accept the situation obediently.

At any rate, they are also scholars, at any rate, they can still be officials, at any rate, their birth advantage still exists, at any rate, the emperor did not do everything right.

Led by Guo Jia, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu, the ministers bowed to their emperor one after another, expressing their follow and submission.

They knew that the emperor's strength was irresistible, and they knew that the emperor was so powerful that they could not shake it. It was more comfortable to lie down and submit to it than the stupid behavior of a mantis acting as a chariot.

As a result, the heated discussion among officials quickly shifted from the essence of the matter to punctuation.

Officials began to enthusiastically study the new Five Classics after punctuation marks and punctuation marks.

It is said that there are some differences in the Five Classics Family Law, which was more successfully established as the national law. It was proposed by Cai Yong and the emperor personally made the decision.

Issues at the official level subsided after the audience.

Almost all the officials acknowledged this situation, and told their children who were in the center of the whirlpool——those who have not signed up, go to Taixue to sign up first!

Then, almost simultaneously.