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Very well, they can learn the ability to fight without a teacher, and they have tossed out the three strikes of school strikes and market strikes.
After receiving the petition from Huan Dian, Guo Peng laughed out loud, feeling that the time was almost up, so he announced the convening of an enlarged imperial meeting.
In this meeting, all the main leaders of the main departments of the DPRK and China participated, and all officials above the ministerial level including the ministerial level participated.
The content of the meeting is very simple.
As the emperor, Guo Peng asked them to express their opinions as quickly as possible, to support Xu Jing's policy of [abolishing the examination and establishing the imperial examination], to express their attitude, and called on the officials who participated in the protest to immediately back to work.
If you don't come back, the consequences are really serious, really, really serious.
Some officials breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that the emperor was finally about to make a move.
Some officials felt tense, realizing that the emperor was about to make a move.
It's just that they don't quite understand why the emperor took action now.
But there is no doubt that Xu Jing is the horse boy who charged forward for the emperor, all of which were requested by the emperor.
Faced with the demands of the scholars, His Majesty the Emperor, who is always good at compromise, will never compromise this time, completely contrary to the scholars, and it seems that he is ready to die.
The emotions of the dignitaries are very complicated.
However, this did not prevent the senior members of the DPRK and the Central Committee who came from poor families to immediately express their support for Xu Jing and the policy of [abolishing the examination and establishing the imperial examination], expressing their support with a clear-cut stand.
The poor officials, headed by Cao Cao, expressed their views and remarks to the outside world, and called on all officials to return to work immediately and stop mixing with those troubled scholars, otherwise the consequences would be serious.
The situation of scholar-officials is more complicated.
But a group of people headed by Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, Tian Feng, Cheng Yu, Guo Hong and others still stood by the emperor without hesitation.
They resolutely expressed their opinions to the outside world and expressed their absolute support for Xu Jing.
As relatives of the emperor, relatives of the emperor, or very unusual relationships, they would never doubt that the emperor would ignore their interests. Even if the imperial examinations were held, they would still have their interests guaranteed.
So they didn't hesitate and didn't worry.
The four masters, Kong Xian, Yuan Si, Xun You, and Jia Kui finally publicly expressed their attitudes. They did not mention the previous rumors, but said that they absolutely supported the imperial examination.
The conflicts between these people and the final choice of sides have always been in Guo's expectation.
Just like every previous change, they didn't really fall down every time, and they didn't really become those who were eliminated, but they still got some benefits.
It may not be a bad thing for those who have already occupied high positions to change the examination examination into an imperial examination.
And if against His Majesty the Emperor...
I can't imagine how they will be treated.
Even if the emperor finally compromised, they would be killed by the emperor before the emperor compromised.
Others benefit, not them, and they have to dedicate themselves to paving the way for others.
Only a fool can do it!
The remaining group of bureaucrats were orthodox scholars, but as Guo Peng's old officials and confidantes, they were picked up by him with one hand, and they occupied high positions in the court and had power, so they were reluctant to bear all this.
On the one hand, it is to cut off from the scholar group. From then on, they will be regarded as traitors of the scholars and will lose the benefits obtained under the prosecution system.
But on the other hand, if you don't obey the emperor's order, you will definitely lose your current power and status under the premise that the outcome is unknown.
I really can't bear it, I can't bear it at all.
More importantly, they don't know whether the scholars' struggle will win, especially under the premise that the emperor has stated that he will never compromise or even do the opposite.
The emperor has always been victorious, whether it is military or political, he has always been victorious.
Yes, the emperor seems to be always winning, as long as he can do it, he will definitely do it.
Do you abandon all opposition to him now and face a very likely outcome of final failure, or turn your back on your fellow scholars and choose to completely support the emperor, but will lose the privilege of being a scholar?
In this dilemma, Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, made the first choice.
He publicly announced his support for Xu Jing's strategy and supported [abolishing the procuratorial examination and establishing the imperial examination]. He believed that the procuratorial system had failed and it was time to replace it with a new system.
The imperial examination system proposed by Xu Jing, which was born out of the Ceremony of Talents, is a feasible system. Once this system is established, it will definitely bring a new future to the Wei Empire.
Immediately after Zhang Zhao, Zaoyi and Wang Can jointly made remarks to the outside world.
They expressed their support for Xu Jing's policy, and believed that the procuratorate system was no longer suitable for the new era. The three-fifths of a procuratorate was abandoned, which was enough to prove that all the procuratorates were rubbish.
At this time, if the imperial examinations are not abolished and the more feasible imperial examinations are selected, then it is completely ignoring the foundation of the Wei Empire, which is tantamount to rebellion.
This statement is a little more imposing than Zhang Zhao's.
After Zaozhi and Wang Can made their remarks, Xinpi, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Dong Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of War, also jointly made remarks to the outside world.
They also believe that the prosecution system has failed, and now that it is implemented, a new system will be chosen to replace the failed system.
Although Xu Jing lacks personal morality, he does not lack public morality. His proposal is out of public interest and should not be subjected to such vicious curses and slanders. They not only support Xu Jing, but also demand that those who maliciously slander Xu Jing be found out and severely punished.
This is a little more deterrent than the statements of Zaozhi and Wang Can.
The bigwigs from Shangshutai, Yushitai, and Staff Office finally made a complete statement, and the entire decision-making circle did not undergo drastic changes as expected by outsiders.
They also collectively appealed to the officials who were participating in the protest to return to their posts immediately, and the protesting scholars to return to the school immediately.
Otherwise the consequences are really serious.
The bosses at the top showed their due attitude, and the rest of the minister-level officials did the same.
Except for a few of them who supported the imperial examination from the very beginning, a considerable number of them have changed their attitude from the original wavering to the present enlightenment.
Not only decisively abandoned the scholar colleagues who came to invite them to lobby them to oppose the imperial examination, but also made public remarks one after another, expressing their support for Xu Jing's opinion.
The attitude of officials at this level has gradually become clear, and most of them have decisively thrown themselves into the embrace of the emperor.
Such an accident happened in just two days.
The emperor did not betray his relatives, but unified the thinking of the decision-making circle.
Those scholars and officials in the decision-making circle all supported Xu Jing's imperial examination system.
Such a statement further impacted the circle of middle-level bureaucrats, and the middle-level and upper-level bureaucrats wavered one after another and began to move closer to the imperial power.
Officials at the Shangshu level and the Minister's level basically sided with the emperor.
This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the scholars who are protesting violently outside.
Chapter 1194 One thousand two hundred and four emperors tore up all political contracts in silence
This statement by high-level bureaucrats regardless of their attributes is a very heavy blow to the protests from the outside world.
Because this can at least prove that the inner circle around the emperor has not been shaken, but has always been united with the emperor.
In order to support the emperor, senior bureaucrats can even ignore the identity attributes of scholars and non-scholars.
The soldiers who are trying to shout and fight feel that they have been betrayed.
The scholars and officials who they thought could lead them to victory betrayed them and turned into the arms of the emperor.
what is this?
Has their struggle gained nothing?
Not only did the emperor not compromise, but he wanted to go one step further and go completely against them?
This is real?
The scholars who were not officials were confused and hated for a while, while those who had become officials, and even held some leadership positions, were shocked.
They immediately gathered in twos and threes to discuss the future direction of this matter.
They all wondered why those bigwigs who came from scholars could accept such a situation, obviously once the inspection was abolished, the interests of those bigwigs would also be lost.
These people just don't have enough levels, they don't understand, if those big bosses don't accept the emperor's request and benefits, they will lose everything.
People are like this, the more they have, the more they are afraid of losing, and the more they want more.
The more you have, the more you want, the more afraid you are.
The situation and way of thinking of the upper-level scholar bureaucrats and the lower-level officials at the bottom, as well as the non-official scholars, are completely different.
Therefore, the upper-level bureaucrats are easy to compromise. As long as the emperor can give them some promises, some promises that make them feel at ease, they don't mind standing on the emperor's side and killing their colleagues.
Middle-level bureaucrats are more vacillating.
But the vast majority of them have bigger concerns, want power, but are reluctant to take the convenient step of advancement, jumping back and forth between the two and don't know how to choose.
The lower-level bureaucrats are more stubborn, young, angry, temporarily unable to see a way to rise, and not worried about anything else, anyway, they will never lose their status as scholars.
The grand scholars feel that they are not afraid of anything, only full of enthusiasm.
In fact, these four aspects are difficult to understand each other, because their interests are completely different.
But Mr. Guo knew it clearly.
So under such circumstances, he endured for a long time, and endured all those who wanted to jump out.
Then, force the upper-middle class and upper-level bureaucrats who are easy to compromise to compromise, drive a wave of compromise, and divide the forces of protest in one fell swoop.
Under the demands and warnings of the higher-level bureaucrats, the swayers in the protest group were hesitant and in a dilemma. In the end, a considerable part of them returned to the government offices honestly.
Such appeals were made three times.
The emperor issued three imperial decrees, one with a stronger tone than the other, and one more urgent than the other.
Officials' appeals are also more urgent, with more urgency in their rhetoric.
A total of three times.
Although Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and others loudly appealed to everyone not to give up halfway, thinking that it was just the emperor's last struggle and that the emperor would soon compromise, they still couldn't stop the actions of those who wanted to leave.
Then the emperor's ultimate move came again.
Those who returned to the official office within the time limit, as long as there were vacancies above them, all got promoted, and those who did not have vacancies above them, they were transferred to other upper-level positions with vacancies.
Those who were promoted to the first level, those who were promoted to the second level, the luckiest guys were directly promoted from the head of the first department to the doctor, and touched the threshold of the servant.
Not to mention, a group of people who came from unknown places, wearing the official uniforms of the central court, and holding appointment documents issued by the Ministry of Officials, took up all the vacant lower-level official positions in the central court.
One counts as one, but all the vacancies are filled by this group of people.
Filled it all out.
The Wei Empire strengthened the centralization of power, and the number of officials in Luoyang exceeded [-]. Except for [-]% of the humble bureaucrats, the remaining [-]%, and nearly [-] officials were all scholars.
During this wave of turmoil, 80.00% of the gentry and bureaucrats clearly participated in the protest action. More than 2000 literati and bureaucrats went on strike to express their strong protest, which caused severe turmoil in the central court department.
Then the turmoil ends.
Because they are replaced by global displacement.
That's more than 2000 jobs.
When the bewildered officials of the bureaucracy asked where they came from, they directly explained that they came from the local area, came from the grassroots governments of various places, and were born with mud legs.
Fortunately, he learned to read and write, and worked as a village head and township head. Later, he went to Taixue for further study, and then went back to serve in county-level and county-level positions. This time, he was directly recruited by the imperial court.
Then everyone knew that the emperor found a group of mud-legged people from the local area to the center to fill the vacancy.
That's right, the central imperial court also has a large number of low-level officials who run errands, handle simple things, write documents, and manage files, which don't require a high political level.
Advanced decision-making is naturally carried out by the highest decision-making level, they only need to communicate, record, handle, and follow orders.
These officials, in fact, as long as they have basic common sense and can read and write, they can get started with a little practice.
But because it is a central official position, the status is different, which is conducive to promotion. It has always been controlled and monopolized by scholars, and even children from poor families rarely come across it, let alone these muddy legs.
But now, these mud legs are here.
Wearing the official uniform of a central official, he looks like a man, but the feeling of bitterness and hatred accumulated in the creases on his face cannot be erased, which is incompatible with the proud and elegant scholars.
But they replaced the proud and elegant scholars, grandly settled in the central government office, and started working and studying. Tell them what to do, let them take over these positions, and quickly restore the normal operation of governments at all levels. The court still has to do things.
It's not just a few people who are stupid now.
They finally realized that when the scholars set off a rebellion, the emperor did not do nothing.
The emperor directly tore up the political contract with the scholars, and directly [introduced] these extremely obedient mud legs from the local area to take over the central position.
The emperor had no intention of compromising from the very beginning, but decided to just go to the end, and took this opportunity to take them all together.