Hearing Guo Peng say that he was not a real emperor, Guo Jin was very surprised.

In his opinion, Guo Peng, who is majestic and powerful in the world, is not a real emperor?

"At this point, my father is still not a true emperor?"

"Yes, at this point, the father is still the representative of the scholars and the heroes, not the true emperor."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Ah Jin, don't think it's incredible, this is true, although my father has mastered a lot of land and population, mastered 400,000 troops, and shocked Huaxia, but, you see, Cao Clan, Xiahou Clan, Tian Clan, Mi Clan, Qiao Clan."

Over the years, there have been civil and military generals under the command of the father who have married each other's sons and daughters, building their own relationship networks and forming a huge interest group.

There is a strong group, and there is a group of scholars, and they may take the initiative or just do it unintentionally, but this is also a huge relationship network.

killed a Zang Hong for his father because he touched the bottom line of being a father, and he had to be killed, no one dared to object, but what about others? The poor and powerful are like this, and the scholars are even more terrifying.

Ah Jin, for his father, he still has to use scholars as officials, and he has to use scholars to govern the country, so in fact, the group of scholars is still relying on their blood, not for the appointment of his father, and he has no choice for his father.

Look at the scholars under his father's command, which one of them has no in-law relationship? For the father, he can kill a Xun Yu, for the same reason as Zang Hong, but he does not dare to kill all the scholars, because the scholars are also one of the foundations of the father in a sense, without them, the father will not be able to rule the country with talents. ”

"I see, they have formed such a network of relationships, so the father can't shake their roots?"

"Yes, kill Zang Hong and Xun Yu for your father, so as to hit their network, but this is also out of the necessity of being the emperor and in line with the interests of most people, so these two people were abandoned, but if the father wants to do it to others for no reason, you see that they will not resist."

Guo Peng shook his head and patted Guo Jin on the shoulder: "Now, the prestige of the father is so high that the power of the father is unprecedentedly great, and it is even close to the true emperor, but in the future, when the father is gone, you are also gone, and the power of the Guo Emperor will decline little by little, and it will be lost little by little."

In the end, we will inevitably follow the old path of the Han family, and when another powerful minister appears, who can represent their interests better than our Guo Emperor, that is, when the Wei State falls, Ah Jin, this is not something that can be solved by mastering Junxue.

The scholars monopolized knowledge and the birth of talents, and they had nothing to fear, and the emperor had to cooperate with them, and then he could get talents to govern the country, and the talents cultivated by the scholars would always be the first important thing for the family, and the country was secondary.

In today's situation, no matter how strong and hard the father is, it can only be said that he has done better than Emperor Guangwu, so that he will not be defeated by Haoqiang if he wants to save a field, but his father can only suppress them on the surface, in fact, he still has to compromise and give up power. ”

Guo Peng said the current situation of the Guo royal family, which made Guo Jin very worried.

Standing in Jun's position and considering the problem with Jun's thinking, he also saw the huge crisis of imperial power hidden under the prosperity on the surface.

He was unwilling to become the current Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Become a plaything that is played with by the powerful and applauded.

"Father, this ...... Is there a workaround? Can we just sit back and wait? Confused and inactive? ”

"Yes, compared to the contradiction between Jun and Min and Li Shu that my father told you before, this problem is solved."

Guo Peng pointed to the workshop in the distance: "It can be done from a representative to a real emperor, papermaking and printing are the two powerful tools to solve problems, Ah Jin, do you know the ceremony held for my father before?" ”

"Yes, it's unprecedented."

Guo Jin nodded again and again.

"Yes, the grand occasion is unprecedented, more than 1,000 scholars participated, and 300 people were selected, this is a new model, a way to select outstanding people through the assessment of competition between each other, put everyone in front of us, take a test, and not show filial piety and honesty that we can't see at all.

The disadvantages of filial piety and honesty are too great, that is, the political game between scholars and high-ranking heroes, touting each other, compromising, and promoting, they monopolize the official position, based on blood and relationship, weaving a big net, and entangled the emperor to death.

A Jin, if you want to change the identity of the emperor as the representative of the emperor, it depends on whether the emperor can hold the power to elect officials in his hands, and end the status quo of being an official by blood. ”

As soon as Guo Peng said this, Guo Jin realized something.

"Father wants to institutionalize the talent ceremony and turn it into a model for electing officials in the future?"

"Yes, I want to institutionalize the canon of talent, call it the imperial examination, replace the inspection examination, and become the official election model of our Wei State, and let all officials must pass the imperial examination to become officials.

No matter how glorious his father and grandfather are and his ancestors, if they don't pass the imperial examination, even if they become an official by Fuyin, they are still discriminated against. ”

Guo Peng slammed the stone table fiercely and said: "Cut off the way of inheriting the bloodline official positions that the scholars rely on for their livelihood, and beat them back to their original form!" Let them no longer be officials on their own, they have to rely on the emperor, in this way, the emperor is the real emperor!

The monarch who really has the power of life and death, and will not casually talk about the representative of whom, will be casually conceded by Zen! Whether he is mediocre or brutal, it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to court for forty years, he is the real emperor! ”

Guo Jin swallowed.

"This ...... Can it really be? ”

"It's hard, but it's not impossible."

Guo Peng held Guo Jin's hand: "Ah Jin, what you say next for your father, you have to remember it to death, and you must not forget it." ”

Guo Jin nodded immediately.

"The son knows, the son will remember it to the death, and ask the father to teach!"

Guo Peng nodded and said slowly: "When you are dissatisfied with the status quo and want to make a reform that changes the status quo, you must first understand who is your enemy and who is your friend, which is crucial.

The goal must be clear, and we must not be injured by mistake, because reform is a matter that will touch the interests of many people, and there is a saying that cutting off people's financial resources is like killing their parents, which shows that no matter who it is, touching interests is fatal.

The scholars have touched our interests as kings, and we want to kill them, and in turn, we are also touching the interests of the scholars, and when the scholars find out, the scholars will never sit idly by. ”

"So, only the scholars are our enemies?"

Guo Jin frowned: "But before, my father also counted the poor and powerful in the group of the people, saying that the people are the enemies of the king." ”

"Ah Jin, you remember, no group is a monolith, and the people are naturally not a monolith, in order to occupy more interests, the scholars belittle Haoqiang to a cold family, suppress Haoqiang, make it difficult to enter the central government, and can only stay in the locality.

And no matter how Haoqiang starts, they will always be discriminated against by scholars, and will always be looked down upon by scholars, and they will be inferior to scholars in whatever they do, such as scholars discriminating against Cao's family, so within the scope of the people, Haoqiang and scholars are enemies, not friends. ”

Guo Peng shook his head again and again, and then said slowly: "From the general direction, it is the scholars who are closer to the central power, and it is the scholars who are more likely to threaten the imperial power, and it is the scholars who monopolize the official position, so the first enemy we reform is the scholars." ”