At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Compared with the fact that in the martial arts examination, all the children of Li Shu and a small number of scholars and children from poor families occupy high positions, in the civil examination, the scholars still occupy the upper hand for the time being.

Comparing the top ten of the two sides, the top ten in the martial arts examination are all the children of Li Shu and those from poor families who were born in the martial arts hall, and the children of Li Shu accounted for the majority, reaching as many as eight.

As for the top ten in the literary examination, except for Cao Zhi, who is not a scholar, the remaining nine are all scholars. The highest-ranked student from Lishu ranks eighth, which can already be regarded as a genius, very remarkable. .

Judging from the total number of people admitted, three-quarters of the 800 people admitted in the Wenju Examination were scholars, and only the remaining one-quarter came from poor families and Li Shu.

As for the martial arts exam, only a very small number of candidates who were born as scholars successfully passed the exam, and they were basically the children of Lishu who were born in the martial arts hall.

In a sense, it's also quite domineering.

For such a result, Mr. Guo is already very satisfied.

It is impossible for those Lishu children to gain the upper hand in a short period of time. Hundreds of years of knowledge cannot be compared in just two or three years. Being able to use martial arts lectures and martial arts to pull sideways is already the limit.

If they want to completely overwhelm the scholars, they need more financial investment, build more schools, and recruit more students.

When the number of students increases and the number of students increases, scholars will not be allowed to make irresponsible remarks.

Even if they still have the idea of ​​going back to the past, it is impossible.

It is necessary to hold several more imperial examinations, the more the better, and make the imperial examinations a routine and an unshakable iron law within my own lifetime, so that bureaucrats with imperial examination backgrounds can become the mainstream.

First, the inventory is digested once a year, and after the number of people returns to normal, it can become an imperial examination every three years and return to normal.

In early April of the eighth year of Yande, the admission list for the imperial examination was officially announced.

Among the full-court examinations, nearly 9000 candidates signed up to participate, and the number of admitted candidates reached 200, of which 800 were admitted for the Chinese Judgment and 400 for the Martial Arts Examination.

The list of those admitted has been posted on the large square outside the Luoyang Imperial Palace, together with the public punctuated version of the text of the Five Classics.

The admitted students are divided into three grades: First, Second, and Third.

There are only three people in the first class, 100 people in the second class, and all the remaining applicants in the third class.

Among them, the first class is naturally the best, the second class is the second, and the third class is the second.

According to the news that has been circulated in the palace before, the three grades will be awarded and promoted in the future.

In short, the better the grades, the better the appointment, the higher the future achievements, and the easier it is to be promoted.

This is also in line with the psychological expectations of the candidates.

If No.1 is treated the same as the last one, wouldn't it be meaningless to pass the exam?

Moreover, the top three winners of both civil and martial arts will be received by His Majesty the Emperor and personally hosted a banquet, and they can also enjoy a ceremony called "Royal Street Praise Officials".

It is said that these are the rules left over from the previous Ceremony on Talents, and they were taken back and reused by the emperor. It seems that the emperor likes this method very much.

I heard that at that time, Zhuge Liang, the No. 1 champion in the Talent Discussion Ceremony, is now the governor of Dunhuang, and the real deal is two thousand shi.

The scholars were somewhat dissatisfied, because this power and qualification should belong to them alone, but now, they have to compete with the poor family and those mud-legged people.

Competition is competition, anyway, we can't compete, isn't it still overwhelmed by us scholars?

So these things are quite boring, so what if they do well in the exam?

Of course, they dare not say such words, even the most proud number one scholar Lang Ma Di dare not say it.

Chapter 1229 One Thousand 130 Nine Jingzhou Scholars Thank Cai Mao

Ma Di was really proud of himself.

He and his elder brother Ma Liang made a reference together, and Ma Liang ranked No.17, while he topped the list.

Not only his elder brother, but all the scholars who set off from Jingzhou to take the exam were all trampled under his feet.

Thinking of the banquet given by the emperor and the praise of officials in the imperial street, he was so happy that he was about to fly.

But speaking of this matter, including Ma Di, all the scholars studying in Jingzhou Academy should thank the current governor of Jingzhou, Cai Hao.

If it weren't for Cai Hao, they would all be finished, and soon Jingzhou Xuexuetang would follow in the footsteps of Luoyang Taixue and become a pawn in the emperor's hands, with no way out.

When the Luoyang scholars were protesting before, the Jingzhou scholars also got the news and received the call. After learning about the emperor's actions, they were filled with righteous indignation and very angry.

Many scholars are encouraging people around them to participate in the protest, and they want to directly express their absolute opposition to the emperor, resolutely defending the procuratorial system and the honor of scholars.

As a result, when things intensified, Cai Mao stood up to support the emperor in the Jingzhou incident, expressed his support for the emperor, and sent people to suppress the opposition of the scholars.

Many scholars who resisted fiercely were arrested by Cai Mao and thrown into prisons for strict supervision. He also asked the elders of the scholars to come forward to stop them and forcibly suppress their voices.

At that time, many people insulted Cai Mao in private as a scum of scholars, and they wanted to collectively depose Cai Hao from the position of governor, but the results showed that Cai Mao did the right thing.

The emperor beat 4 scholars, and wiped out nearly [-] of them, together with their families and clansmen, creating the largest number of chains in history. He showed no mercy to anyone, and almost emptied the number of middle- and lower-class scholars in the capital.

The Beijing sergeants were almost empty.

Scholars in Taixue were also hit hard, and more than half of them were implicated.

Because Jingzhou has the foundation of the school established by Liu Biao, the conditions for running the school are the best except for Taixue.

It is also because scholars generally despise Taixue, so before this incident, many scholars' children came to Jingzhou Academy to participate in the study, jokingly calling it "Second Jiangnan".

The scholars who studied here were saved because of Cai Mao's suppression and control, and were not implicated in the Luoyang Incident, except for a few people who were implicated because of the crimes committed by relatives in Luoyang.

So the scholars were terrified, not only did not continue to insult Cai Mao, but instead took Cai Mao as their umbrella and hid in the school hall waiting for news.

Then I waited for the news of the imperial examination.

It can be said that thanks to Cai Mao's protection of the Xueyuetang, this has preserved the last vitality for the scholars, so that they will not be wiped out by the emperor in Luoyang, and they still have the power to fight.

So in this exam, Jingzhou scholars shined brilliantly.

Cai Mao's move seemed very clever to Guo Peng.

Because he preserved the last vitality of the scholars.

This is what Guo did not think of before doing it.

The group of scholars who were killed in Luoyang are inextricably linked to the Qingyanji Sanzhou scholar group that is currently in power in the court.

They are close to the imperial court and occupy a certain proportion in the imperial court and Taixue.

I thought they were taking advantage before, but the emperor's final punch almost wiped out the successors of the Qingyanji Sanzhou Scholars Group.

The power of the Qingyanji Sanzhou Group declined at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Li Shu's children came from behind to seize a large number of positions and became a huge force that could not be ignored and could be used by the emperor.

While the emperor's power was further enhanced to an unprecedentedly powerful level, the surviving Jingzhou scholars and some Central Plains scholars who had "refuged" in Jingzhou came from behind after passing the imperial examinations, and staged a counterattack to seize the future seat of power.

It can be said that the emperor not only completely defeated the traditionally powerful Qingyanji Sanzhou Group, but also brought the power of Li Shu into the central government.

Then, through the imperial examination, scholars from traditionally disadvantaged areas were introduced into the court, which completely emptied the foundation of the current bigwigs in the court.

They counted as one, and almost all became the rubber stamps of the emperor.

Except for themselves, their subordinates, the middle and low-level officials who handle affairs, are all Li Shu officials introduced by the emperor and scholar officials selected by the imperial examinations who are not in the same way as they are.

They all listen to the emperor, not to the high officials.

After this great change, the high-ranking officials who were honest and not talking nonsense were shocked to find that they had lost the foundation of power, and everything had changed.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng were the first to bear the brunt. They had lost most of their power, but they suddenly realized that their power had been completely emptied.

The Shangshutai existed in name only, and all the Shangshu began to do their own thing, reporting directly to the emperor instead of reporting to them.

Not only the original departments, but even the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which used to report obediently, stopped reporting.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng completely lost their qualifications to lead the political situation and be the heads of officials.

Cheng Yu, the original head of all officials, has now become a mascot.

Tian Feng also almost lost his original power and moved closer to Cheng Yu.

This is not what Guo Peng subjectively wants to do, but an unexpected surprise achieved in the process of cleaning up scholars.

It was only after he had dealt with this group of people that Guo Peng realized that his power had reached the level of the [True Emperor].

The officials in various departments are all their own people.

They are no longer monolithic scholars.

So apart from Tian Feng and Cheng Yu, all the ministers and ministers themselves felt bitter.

They are the ones who feel the changes most directly.

Most of their younger brothers were finished, and they were all swept away by the emperor in the previous changes, and a large number of Li Shu's children were filled in, and a lot of things were left to these Li Shu's children to do.

To be honest, these people regard the emperor as their reborn parents. If the order given by the emperor is different from what the ministers and servants have told them, they will definitely obey the emperor's order without hesitation.

To put it bluntly, they feel that the emperor can pass orders directly to various government offices through the eunuchs of the inner court, bypassing the ministers and ministers, and directly sending orders to the ranks of Langzhong and Yuanwailang, and directly handling affairs, making the ministers and ministers become rubber stamp.

That is to say, the emperor did not do this.

The emperor's power is so great, I don't know if it can be unprecedented, it must be unprecedented, even Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi can't compare with the current majesty whose power is greater and wider.

This is something that they experience and feel firsthand.

Power, the power of the emperor hovered around them, and that was how it made them feel helpless and terrified.

Terrible imperial power.

In the eighth year of Yande, Yizhou was fighting, and Luoyang was holding the imperial examination.

At the same time, the power of Shangshutai completely fell into the hands of the emperor.

Since the founding of the country, the power that had to be shared with the officials for the sake of the founding of the country has been completely taken back by someone Guo after eight years.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the beginning, someone Guo only controlled military and financial power.

Judicial power, personnel power, and administrative power are not entirely in the hands of Guo, and they must be shared with scholars.

Among the three divisions, [Xiong Duty] Captain Sili needs to be appointed by Guoyuan to avoid being said to dominate the three divisions.

The personnel affairs need to be undertaken by Cui Yan, at most Cheng Yu should be in charge.

Administration requires the cooperation of Cheng Yu and Tian Feng, and Shang Shutai will implement it. At most, he will set up a cabinet to buffer and defend the imperial power.

These three important powers are not completely in his hands, and there are deficiencies. At that time, he was stronger than Liu Xiu, and he was stronger at the basic level.

In order to regain the power that should have belonged to the emperor, someone Guo deliberately launched many political storms.

chapter 1230 one thousand 140 he is a real emperor

After several political storms and coups by the same party and dissidents, Guo purged and suppressed a large number of people who threatened his power and gradually realized his goal.

He gradually expanded the emperor's discourse power in the judicial, personnel and administrative fields, and gradually overwhelmed the ministers, gained the upper hand, and became the de facto ruler.

His power continued to expand, which was specifically reflected in the fact that more and more departments in the Shangshutai directly obeyed the emperor's orders, instead of obeying the orders of Shangshuling and Shangshupushe.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng's chancellor powers have been plundered by someone from Guo, and they can't actually be counted as prime ministers anymore.

Before the Luoyang Incident, in terms of personnel and administration, Guo had already had a great say. No one could challenge him anymore, and the judicial power was completely under his control.

After the Luoyang Incident, the personnel and administrative powers were finally completely under his control.

Any person or group that can share power with him has been tamed by him, or suppressed by him, or killed by him, and he has completed complete control of the central court.

So far, he has mastered all the power that an emperor can have.

He has successfully completed the centralization of power, broke the political structure of the Eastern Han Dynasty, developed the imperial power to a complete body, and embarked on an unimagined path.

Until this moment, Wei Tianzi Guo Peng finally got rid of the shadow of the times, got rid of the haze of the Eastern Han Dynasty era, cleared the clouds and saw the sun, and opened up his own path.

He can stand tall and declare.

He is a real emperor now.

A real emperor who can be compared with Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi and other real emperors who have the power of life and death and make the officials fear.

At the same time, the Jingzhou scholars who were sheltered in the Jingzhou Academy also fortunately kept their vitality relatively intact.

So Jingzhou scholars became the most complete group of scholars in the world after the Luoyang Cataclysm.

So in this imperial examination, Jingzhou scholars shined brilliantly, not only winning the first prize, but also occupying a considerable proportion.

This group of latecomers is completely different from the group in power eight years ago in Yande.