In the new round of political purge, a group of officials who had opposed the Huanglongdian Conference were jointly investigated by the three divisions under the arrangement of Guo.

And then most of them were found to be wrong, or corruption, or malfeasance, or whatever.

After that, he was either demoted or his home was raided, and the lightest punishment was also demotion and retention to see the after-effects.

A group of scholars were deprived of their household registration and no longer recognized as scholars, and were exiled to the southern frontier, where they went to the four counties of Jingnan and the southern part of Yangzhou, where they were required to settle down and were pardoned and could not return.

If you go against the emperor, you will never end well.

Guo needs to firmly engrave this kind of understanding in the heads of these bureaucrats, into their DNA.

Anyone, once they decide to oppose the emperor, must be prepared in advance to suffer revenge without information.

Then, the emperor's cronies and members of the New Pentateuch school quickly took over these powers.

By mid-May, in less than a month, the emperor and vested interests had erased all traces of the Nine Family Laws in Luoyang.

It's so fast and so efficient, it's a miracle under the bureaucracy.

It can be seen that for the sake of power and profit, the bureaucracy can also act quite quickly.

And in the foreseeable future, there is no possibility of a revival of these nine family laws.

I don't know if these nine family laws can be passed on to a future emperor who is willing to restore them.

It's hard to say, think about it, aren't "Guliang Chunqiu" and "Zuo's Chunqiu", which were not included in the official academic system, also circulated to the present?

It's all about creation, it's all about luck.

It's not possible right now, anyway.

Right now, Guo Peng is hugging his son, who has given high hopes, and discussing with him what to do next.

"We've already gone through the first step, and now it's time for the second step."

Guo Peng said in a low voice: "The purpose of the first step is to appropriately reduce the strength of the scholars, let the scholars start to split from within, and weaken the resistance they may cause.

Most of the representatives of the previous fourteen families were reluctant to enter Taixue as doctors, and Taixue was quite unworthy of the name, and it was already good for the students to be able to govern a county, and it was rare to be able to serve as a number of two thousand stones, which was not a good thing in the long run.

Now, the winning five families have reached an agreement with the father that they will select excellent scholars to enter Taixue to become doctors, and will allocate a part of their respective admission quotas to the father to arrange, if there is no previous preparation, the father should stop here, but not now. ”

Guo Jin nodded.

"My father's goal was to make the punctuated Pentateuch the true Pentateuch, rather than their respective family laws becoming the orthodox Pentateuch."

"Yes, what a father wants to grasp is all the right to teach, all the quotas for admission, and the cancellation of probation, and not to hand over the quota to any family law."

Guo Peng narrowed his eyes: "The move of being a father actually has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that it can weaken the strength of the scholars in a short period of time, and the disadvantage is that once they really gain a foothold, these five families will be more difficult to deal with than the original fourteen combined."

That is the five giants, these five will develop into a clan of scholars who are stronger than any of the top clans in the former Han Dynasty, and the real protégés are all over the world, so this time they will cooperate with their father so sparingly, and try their best to depose the remaining nine.

Whether it is the Yuan family or the Xun family, they all want to take this opportunity to turn over, the Huan family and the Jia family also want to take this opportunity to replace the old ministers of the three states of Qingyan and Hebei and seize greater power, and the Kong family simply wants a transcendent position, each with its own pursuit. ”

"But father, punctuation, I'm afraid they are not very willing to accept it, once they accept punctuation, then the learning of chapters and sentences is meaningless, and their education is no longer a secret, any student, as long as they are literate, can read the article, this is not what they want to see."

Guo Jin said worriedly.

"You have a point."

Guo Peng nodded: "But Ah Jin, the hole cards in my father's hand are not only punctuation, but also paper, and printing, just punctuation, but not enough paper, not enough paper books, just relying on bamboo slips, punctuation marks can only circulate among them."

If you want books, you need to copy them by hand, you need to know how to read them, you need to know punctuation, but you don't have books to read, what's the point? Academics still can't move downward, and we can't educate more people, because the resources are completely insufficient, and even if it benefits some people, it will not shake their position. ”

"Father means ......"

"Start with paper, paper, for the father has gradually spread, a few years ago, I have been constantly letting Zuo Bo paper reduce the price, continue to increase production, continue to reduce the price, little by little, today, Ah Jin, haven't you noticed? There are more and more official documents used in the DPRK and China. ”

Guo Peng stretched out his hand and took a notebook from the desk: "You see, this is a notebook specially customized for the official affairs of the imperial court in Qingzhou, the outer skin is harder, the inside is paper, it can be folded, and it can write a lot of things."

Now most of the official documents of the DPRK and China have begun to use paper, and for my father's expedition, the part in charge of logistics of the Ministry of War used more than 100,000 pieces of paper in one go, and the amount of paper consumed by the DPRK and China during this time, haven't you noticed? ”

Guo Peng said this, Guo Jin suddenly realized.

Speaking of which, because of the excessive pressure, he really didn't care whether he had more bamboo slips or more paper documents at hand.

Now that Guo Peng mentioned it, Guo Jin took a second look and suddenly found that on the case in front of Guo Peng, the number of paper documents had exceeded the number of bamboo slips.

Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently.

Unconsciously, because the court bought more and more paper, so that the officials in the court have inadvertently begun to replace bamboo slips with paper.

No one reminded them, and no one cared, as if it was a process that no one paid attention to, and after this process, paper took over the mainstream, and bamboo slips took a back seat, or even a third line.

The quality of "Zuobo paper" is good, it can hold the ink, and more importantly, the texture is light, and many official documents are just a stack of light paper, which is very different from the bamboo slips that need to be pushed by a small cart.

If you are used to using paper, it feels completely different when you look at the bamboo slips that are not only heavy, but also have a small number of words that can be written and are expensive.

Guo Jin also remembered that when Guo Peng was on the Northern Expedition before, when many courtiers came to see him, they held this kind of recital book in their hands, not a bamboo slip system.

In official meetings, the officials who record the relevant issues also use blank paper instead of bamboo slips.

When he held a meeting with Cao Cao and Guo Jia to discuss problems, Guo Jin wrote on white paper and passed it to the officials to read.

Many of the government affairs that we get from the local government are written in the notebook rather than on the bamboo slips.

It feels like when he didn't pay attention, and it seems that it was also when Guo Peng set off political storms one after another, that paper and paper transcripts had quietly completed the invasion of the imperial court, began to fully replace the cumbersome bamboo slips, and began to dominate the daily office of the imperial court.

And when did all this start, Guo Jin didn't notice, and he didn't notice it until now.

When Guo Peng said it, he realized that this was one of the layouts that his father started a long time ago, and it was the layout method that his father was used to.

When the layout is inadvertently completed, and the same quantitative change accumulates into a qualitative change, someone notices that when they want to block it, everything can no longer be stopped.

"The father will soon announce that in Qingzhou, Zuo Bo has completed the method of making cheap paper, and decided to dedicate it to the father, and then, the father will take the lead in going to the Confucian Temple to sacrifice and determine the status of the paper.

Then we began to openly engage in government-run paper workshops, openly and openly mass produce paper, and incorporate paper into our daily life, so that paper can completely replace bamboo slips, and after this step is done, the father can start punctuation. ”

Guo Peng's face was full of planned expressions.

This was indeed a plan that he had been making for a long time.