After several political storms and coups d'état against the party, Guo purged and suppressed a large number of people who threatened his power, and gradually achieved his goal.

He gradually expanded the emperor's voice in the judicial, personnel, and administrative spheres, and gradually overwhelmed his ministers, gaining the upper hand, and becoming the de facto ruler.

His power continued to expand, which was reflected in the fact that more and more departments in Shangshutai directly obeyed the orders of the emperor, rather than the orders of Shangshuling and Shangshu's servants.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng's power has been plundered by someone Guo, and in fact, they can no longer be regarded as prime ministers.

Before the Luoyang Incident, in terms of personnel and administration, Guo had a great right to speak, and there was no one who could argue with him, and the judicial power was completely controlled by him.

After the Luoyang Incident, the personnel and administrative powers were finally completely controlled by him.

Anyone and group that could share power with him had been tamed by him, or suppressed by him, or killed by him, and he had completed complete control of the central court.

At this point, all the power that an emperor can have, he has mastered.

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

It was not until this moment that Guo Peng, the son of Wei Tianzi, finally got rid of the shadow of the times, got rid of the haze of the era of the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, saw the sun through the clouds, and opened up his own path.

He can straighten his back and declare to the outside world.

He's a true emperor too.

A true emperor who can be compared to Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who really have the power of life and death and make the ministers fearful.

At the same time, the Jingzhou scholars who hid in the Jingzhou Academic Hall to accept shelter were also fortunate to have preserved their vitality relatively well.

As a result, the Jingzhou scholars became the most complete branch of the Tianxia Shiren Group after the Luoyang cataclysm.

So in this imperial examination, Jingzhou scholars shined, not only winning the championship, but also accounting for a considerable proportion.

These latecomers are not at all the same as the group that was in power eight years ago in Yande.

Even during the period when Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing held the high positions of Shangshu, scholars from traditionally disadvantaged areas could not really overpower the strong founding group of the three states of Qingyan and Hebei.

But this wave really hit the lifeblood of the founding group.

Under the coercion of Guo, the founding group was transformed from the identity of the leader of the scholars to the identity of the antagonist, the interests of the two sides were completely inconsistent, and the values were torn apart.

As a result, an extremely terrible rift appeared between the bureaucrats and the young scholars who had not yet become officials, which could not be bridged, and the scholars no longer trusted the high-ranking officials of the dynasty, and even hated the high-ranking officials of the dynasty, thinking that they were all the emperor's dogs.

The existing high-ranking officials no longer have a popular base, they are all subordinates who have been tamed by the emperor, not the [scholar leaders] who can argue with the emperor.

Despite this, this does not mean that the Jingzhou scholars are about to rise and replace the Qingyanji Sanzhou scholars as the next reincarnation.

If there were no imperial examinations, perhaps so.

But since the imperial examination was born, all this is unlikely.

After all, it is impossible for scholars to monopolize the rank of entry and the qualifications to be officials, and the number of scholars is scarce, once the number of books brought by printing blows out, it will not be long before the number of scholars in Hanmen and Li Shu will completely overwhelm the number of scholars.

After all, scholars cannot become the mainstream again.

What this imperial examination brought to them was just the afterglow of the sunset.

Looking at such a sunset, Guo Peng held Guo Jin's hand and pointed out the future to him.

"Ah Jin, do you see it? Today's emperor is the real emperor, the emperor who holds all the power is the real emperor, the financial power, the military power, the personnel power, the political power, the judicial power, all the power is in the hands of the father, this is the emperor.

The foundation of the founding heroes was dug up for the father, they only have status and position now, but no power, the foundation of the scholars has also been dug up for the father, they only have the afterglow of the sunset, there is no future, at this moment, all the forces that can oppose the father are in the weakest time.

At this time, the emperor can do whatever he wants, and he can do whatever he wants, but what you have to do must be something that can consolidate the imperial power, and not act recklessly, otherwise, this situation will be broken quickly. ”

Guo Jin looked at the future with excitement, but he was puzzled by Guo Peng's words.

"My father is already the real emperor, the world is so big, there is no force that can fight against my father anymore, my father has the power of life and death, who else can fight against such a father?"

"Yes."

Guo Peng shook his head: "My father's current power is also temporary, not permanent, my father suppressed the scholars and eliminated the scholars, but although the scholars were eliminated, the officials must always exist, the inspection and the imperial examination are essentially different, but the selected ones are all officials."

The difference between the real emperor and the puppet emperor is whether the power can be taken back after it is divided, and what is given is the real emperor, and if you can't get it back, that is the puppet emperor.

Officials are always a big collective, always smart, excellent, the dragon among people, a group composed of the best and most elite group of people, and the emperor, who has only one person, the emperor of one person, wants to deal with a whole group of bureaucrats, how can it be easy? ”

Guo Jin understood what Guo Peng meant.

"So, the emperor needs assistants."

"Yes, Ah Jin, the emperor needs an assistant, where is the emperor's assistant?"

"Linzi camp, and the inner court."

Guo Jin gave a clear answer.

"That's right, it's the Linzi camp and the inner court."

Guo Peng nodded: "Making good use of the Linzi camp and the inner court is the most important thing to do to consolidate the imperial power in the future, the scholars are destined to decline, and the officials will be reintegrated into a whole, no matter how they are divided, they will always have the same heart when facing the imperial power."

At this time, only the spies and the eunuchs and the emperor are of the same mind, especially the eunuchs, they have no descendants, no power, they cannot survive without relying on the emperor, and they cannot leave their gains to future generations, so eunuchs are more trustworthy than any minister.

But in order to better control the eunuchs and spies, Ah Jin, mastering the army is the most important thing, this time the scholars collectively forced the palace, if it wasn't for the father to use the army, I am afraid that the situation will not be able to be controlled so quickly, as long as the emperor controls the army, everything is possible. ”

Guo Jin nodded again and again.

"Mastering the army, you can lift the table, the ministers are terrified, dare not make times, what the emperor wants to do, most of them can be done, so my father designed and controlled the army more, and even founded martial arts and martial arts, and personally served as the master of martial arts, so as to control the army.

In addition to the army, supplemented by eunuchs and spies, confronting the ministers, fighting for power, and diverting attention, so that the emperor is high, and the ministers cannot directly touch the emperor, they are afraid of the emperor, so the imperial power can be demonstrated and carried forward. ”

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin's shoulder with great satisfaction, with a smile on his face.

"Yes, yes, Han Feizi, you have eaten it thoroughly, you have already understood the consciousness that the emperor should have, but this is not enough, eating Han Feizi thoroughly can make you learn how to deal with the ministers in the central government, but what about the locality? In the local area, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the local subjects do not directly face you, how should you govern the place? ”

Guo Peng asked.

Guo Jin did not hesitate.

"The Lingyi system, or the relocation of local haoqiang to other counties, once there are traces of the appearance of the great haoqiang, they will immediately take action and split their families, so as to curb the emergence of uncontrolled haoqiang in the local area and ensure the status of the imperial court."