281 Forge a path to heaven called the exam
Guo Peng knows very well that the Tuntian system is not an artifact.
This is not such a remarkable policy, and it has been practiced many times by our ancestors.
Then why is it that apart from Cao Cao's large-scale operation, no other warlord has carried out Tuntian on a large scale?
Don't they see the benefits of tuntian?
No, people are not stupid, why can't they see it?
It's not that other warlords don't want to use it, it's not that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu don't want to use it, it's that they can't do it.
First of all, their butts sit on the side of the Shi clan gate valve, and the Shi clan gate valve are class brothers, and they are all the way, and it is impossible to damage the interests of the Shi clan gate valve.
If you want to cultivate land, you need land, you need to produce people, you need means of production, and in whose hands are these things?
In the hands of the gentry clans, they controlled the means of production of the population and land, and the fertile land in the world belonged to them, and they hid a large number of hukou for their own use.
Yuan Shao was faced with a lack of military rations, and he wanted to be like Guo Peng, but how did he start?
Betraying their own class?
Yuan Shao didn't have such an awareness, he didn't understand these things yet, and the gate lord clans didn't understand it very well.
Unlike Guo someone, who deliberately used the Yellow Turban Army to sweep away local forces, and then directly occupied these lands logically, collected them from the government, and then pretended to be compassionate, and sold them cheaply.
Yuan Shao is not as good as the Yellow Turban Army, even if he had, he would not do it, he would not want to do this, and he would not think of doing it at all.
In his education, in his worldview, such ideas did not exist and never would be.
He, and they, were destined to be unable to farm.
Enjoying the great political convenience of the fourth and third dukes, he must pay a huge price for this, and he must protect the interests of those who support him, otherwise, he will be overthrown.
Therefore, the army recruited by Yuan Shao had to pick wild fruits to satisfy hunger, and when Yuan Shu's army lacked food, they needed to go down to the river to catch fish and shrimp.
They had no stable source of food of their own, and relied on the help of their class brethren for everything except plunder.
Cao Cao engaged in the tuntian system because his background was too low and was not accepted by the mainstream, and if Cao Cao was born in a scholar clan and had a broad scholar base, he would not have done so.
Only the traitor Guo who is full of intrigue and calculation will do this with all his heart.
This was done in various ways, killing people with knives and driving tigers and wolves, sweeping away the places and establishing a small sphere of influence in the Qin and Western Han dynasties.
And outside this sphere of influence, the world is still in the hands of the Shi clan gatekeepers, even if they have not yet developed to the complete body, but they are not too far from the complete body.
However, Guo still deeply understands and understands that if he can't change the course of the politics of the Shi clan, Tuntian is just making wedding clothes for others.
It could not change the gradual formation of the politics of the Shi clan, everything he did was to prepare for the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, just as Cao Wei made a wedding dress for the Sima clan.
It's just that Cao Cao is too against the sky, and Yuan Shao is like a dog with the wind and waves, otherwise the founder of the Western Jin Dynasty should be Yuan Shao.
With Cao Cao's strength against the sky, he ordered three orders to select talents from the children of the poor family, and tried his best to change the course of history.
Because he has always been a man, and the strength of one person cannot stop the wheel of history from moving forward, whether it is an abyss or a smooth road ahead of the nation.
Guo Peng is not Cao Cao.
It's not just a strengthened version of Cao Cao.
He knows where he is and what challenges he will face in the future.
Economic issues are embodied in concrete terms, and more deeply, they are social and political issues.
The food problem is digging down, which is the social and political problem of the gentry clan occupying a large amount of land and the imperial court having no land.
How can it be changed and how can it be solved?
What ended the politics of the gentry clan?
Was it the attack of Hou Jing's rebellion on the gate lord clan? Was it Wu Zetian's blow to the Shi clan gate valve? Was it the massacre of Zhu Wen at the White Horse Station? Is it the ultimate chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms? Is it the personal will of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi?
Neither.
It is the improvement and promotion of printing and papermaking.
The transformation and popularization of printing and papermaking gave those who were interested in reform a decisive weapon to launch a decisive attack on the old order, and the imperial examination system that was born in the Sui Dynasty finally shined in the Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, Cao Cao did not have these two decisive weapons, and he used political strongmen and iron-blooded armies as weapons, but he could never win.
What can defeat the gate lords of the noble clan and solve the fundamental problems is not a political strongman or an iron-blooded army, but the invention, popularization, and application of new science and technology.
The class enemy lurking within the Shi clan, Guo Someone, knew that the magic weapon that he could really defeat the enemy was this belief that transcended the times, and that there was only one other branch.
No matter how strong a political strongman is, his life will eventually end.
No matter how strong the iron-blooded army is, there will eventually be a time when the force will fail.
Only the progress and development of science and technology is the only one that will not end or stop, and will bring infinite hope to the future.
Cao Cao's failure against the sky was because he did not know the truth that science and technology were the primary productive forces, and he did not understand that papermaking and printing were his only and most reliable allies.
And Guo's road against the sky is not only accompanied by rolling human heads and mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, but also the dawn of science and technology.
At the end of the sea of corpses and blood, light up the dawn of science and technology.
Holding the two decisive weapons of printing and papermaking, he did his best to open up the road to heaven called the exam, which will be the goal of Guo's life.
If it is passed on, it will one day be able to dispel ignorance and dispel the ghosts of the bloodline nobles, for this reason, even if it is infamous for eternity?
Killing, calculating, tragic, and dehumanizing.
Mean, treacherous, vicious, tyrant, executioner.
And how?
Guo didn't care.
I don't care.
You hate me, you hate me, you want to eat my flesh, you want to drink my blood, you will leave me stench for ten thousand years, and you will cut me off from my offspring.
But as long as I light this light, you will never think about being high again, and you will no longer want to monopolize everything by birth.
It only needs to be lit once, and it is enough to light it up once.
Some rays of light are seen once, even if they are obscured for a while, they will not be forgotten.
On the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was dark in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see the road.
It's pretty much the same now.
I laid a lot of foundation, but I still can't see the way.
I also know that no one will lead me in front of me, no one will light the light before me.
So, let me be the first guide.
Maybe I'm lonely because I'm alone.
Maybe I'm not alone, because after I open up this path called the exam, there will be more and more people who will do it.
To make room for them, to make them appear, to let them grow and grow, so that even if I die, they will keep moving forward.
I know what will happen in the future, the bureaucrats selected by the examination are no more incorruptible than the gentry, but at least they are not hereditary, at least they can give children from poor backgrounds the possibility of becoming the country's chief ministers.
The dynasty is Tian Shelang twilight to the Tianzi Hall, will no longer be a myth.
I don't know what will happen in the more distant future, whether there will be problems that science and technology cannot solve, or whether science and technology will become new problems.
But I believe that even if new problems arise, there will be means that go beyond science and technology to solve them.
Just as those ancestors who crossed the sea of corpses and blood in despair used their lives to light the dawn of hope.
There will still be people, and there will be people who will inherit this will, carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, and once again light the dawn that symbolizes hope and illuminate the road ahead.
Because once upon a time, the road in front of me was illuminated in this way.
This is how a group of great idealistic doers lit the dawn of hope and illuminated the path ahead.
And now, you're too much of a hindrance.
It's really in the way.
If you don't die, how can I light this light?
It's a waste of space for you to live, and if you want such a large area for one person, you can keep 10,000 people alive.
So, please.
Guo folded his hands and prayed silently.
Please.
Go to hell.
Lu Fengxian, help me, this is your last usable value.