The probationary system is the core interest of the scholars, the ruling agent class, who can maintain their status and existence.

Compared with the Five Classics and the Fourteen Laws, the inspection system that encompasses the entire scholar class is obviously more important.

There is no inheritance family of the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws, the scholar group is still there, the inspection is still there, and their overall political interests are still there, but there are just a few missing head families who usually act as prestige and fortune.

The low-ranking scholars themselves are secretly dissatisfied with those head families, and they also harbor malice towards them, the emperor cleans them up, and the second- and third-rate junior scholars are even a little happy.

What I can't get, you don't want to get, everyone is equal, and next, I also have the opportunity to step on your head.

Therefore, the little scholars, without exception, were unwilling to follow the head families in those places to make trouble, and adopted a tacit and supportive attitude towards all the emperor's practices.

So for a few months, the emperor easily suppressed their troubles.

In February of this year, the emperor even sent people to search the ancestral homes of these families, confiscating all the bamboo slips they had hidden and storing them in Luoyang.

Guo Peng came to a new era of book burning and Confucianism, using force to cut off the possibility of these families continuing to [demagogue].

Yes, Guo Peng sent people directly to the door in order to make these head scholar families no longer able to teach apprentices and never recover again, and he was annoyed that these guys were making trouble in the local area.

A large number of armed men directly came to the door and snatched all the bamboo slips related to the Five Classics and family law collected by their family, and transported them directly to the Luoyang Library for collection.

Then they will send people to monitor them, and once some people in their clan with good memory try to write and restore the family law of the Five Classics handed down by their own family, they will directly destroy it, arrest those who have good memory, and cut off the possibility of their inheritance of the family law.

Such a blow actually made a considerable number of second- and third-rate junior scholars feel happy.

They felt that the emperor had avenged them, severely humiliated these head families who had been powerful in the past, and gave them a bad breath, so they were very happy.

Guo can't understand this feeling.

There is an order in which I strike at the scholars.

Start with the head Shiren family, then slowly expand the striking area, and finally the entire Shiren part.

Now I'm uniting you, but soon, I'm going to fight you, don't you know?

They really don't know.

So in April of the seventh year of Yande, after Guo suppressed all the head scholar families and stabilized the situation, he began to expand the scope of attack, change the target of the alliance, and change the target of the attack.

Revolutionary action went into deep waters.

He is going to start uniting his henchmen and bureaucrats, poor bureaucrats, relatives of the emperor and the low-level officials, and start to clean up the scholar class.

The object is naturally the probationary system that the scholars completely control and rely on for survival.

In April of the seventh year of Yande, the Chen Liuxiao case broke out, which triggered a series of chain reactions.

Emperor Guo Peng was furious and ordered the government to send investigation teams to various places to investigate the character and academic level of filial piety, talent, virtue and integrity, and to conduct an all-round investigation of the quality of the scholars.

For the sake of the intensity of the investigation at home, he even sent the eunuchs of the inner court as supervisors to forcibly promote the investigation.

A few months later, three-fifths of the officers were found to be in trouble.

So the scholars were dumbfounded.

If they do not have a probation, or if they are intervened by the emperor to do something, their political interests will be challenged, their political interests cannot be guaranteed, and their fundamental interests will be shaken, which they cannot tolerate.

With the experience of the past, the scholars and bureaucrats who were very painful by Guo immediately became vigilant.

But the emperor didn't seem to have any intention of backing down.

Looking at Xu Jing, whose face was pale and couldn't say a word, the emperor was still yin and yang.

"Xu Qing, how much do you want Lone to be the king of the country? Yes? One after another, the unfilial piety and incorruptibility are sent to the lonely side, one is sent here, one is sent there, one is sent to Shangshutai, one is sent to Yushitai, and the cabinet is also going to send one, right?

Since the second year of Yande, how much unfilial piety has the Ministry of Rites sent to the lonely side? At these times, there are seventy or eighty of them that have been found to be problematic, and if we continue to investigate, there will be no seven or eight hundred? You can! ”

Seeing Guo Peng concentrating on Xu Jing, the rest of the officials were in mixed moods.

They do hate Xu Jing, dislike Xu Jing, and feel that Xu Jing has no discipline and is the emperor's lackey, but I have to say that Xu Jing is an important person in maintaining the probation system, and the power he holds is also an important part of the probation system.

It's the same as Cui Yan at the beginning.

Xu Jing was probably too afraid of being held accountable by the emperor, so he trembled and touched the ground directly with his head.

"Your Majesty! Lao Chen...... Lao Chen took over as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites for only two years, which ...... These people are not all elected by the ministers, but there are also ...... There is also the sin of the former Ministry of Rites Shangshu Cui Yan! ”

Obviously, Xu Jing was too scared, because he was too scared, he directly moved Cui Yan out to try to distract the blame.

This move immediately made many colleagues disgusted with Xu Jing and looked down on him, and they frowned and looked at him with very disgusted eyes.

It's understandable that you're afraid, of course, but not only are you afraid, you're going to pull your colleagues into the water, you're ......

Shameless, right?

Who would dare to be your friend?

You whole madman who can bite anyone to survive!

They secretly made up their minds in their hearts, no matter what, they would stay away from Xu Jing in the future, and completely isolate him, and then curse him to die early.

Old thief!

What an old thief!

An old thief who only cares about himself and ignores the interests of the collective!

You are the biggest deception!

The words were so, but when Xu Jing said this, Guo Peng remembered Cui Yan who had been forgotten by him, and a sense of disgust came to his heart.

"Oh, you said that, Lone remembered."

Guo Peng nodded and said, "Yes, not long after you took over, before that, Cui Yan was in charge of this matter, and it seems that he sent more unfilial piety and incorruptibility to Gu than you." ”

Guo Peng's tone was cold, without a trace of emotion, and the bureaucrats suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

The next day, on the seventh day of the eighth month, a holy decree was issued.

The emperor dismissed thirteen county guards one after another, and drove them back to their hometowns to be never hired, on the grounds that they recommended non-human people.

There are also two county guards who were found to have an interest transfer relationship with the recommended person, and used the state system to seek personal interests for themselves, and were ordered by the emperor to be directly beheaded and exiled.

After cleaning up fifteen high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones in one go, it was not enough, and the emperor held Cui Yan accountable for the expulsion of his predecessor, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and ordered Cui Yan to be killed and his family exiled.

Choi's was completely destroyed.

Xu Jing, the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was fined two years.

Then he was asked to make meritorious service for his crimes, and immediately led the investigation team to conduct an all-round investigation of the files of the prosecutors and prosecutors accumulated over the years, and no matter what, he had to investigate to the end and sweep away the dirt.

The results of this year's inspection will be directly nullified, and the officials who have obtained the inspection will not be accepted, whether they are really talented and virtuous or those who have deceived the world and stolen their reputations.

The emperor is really going to do something about the probation system.

The scholars who realized this secretly cried out that it was not good, and that it was very difficult for them to make things very difficult.

The rest of the scholars who were not of sufficient rank were not aware of this, and they were just very panicked about the invalidation and cancellation of this year's inspection results.

In short, not only Luoyang, but also the local government began to be agitated.

The county guards and state assassins who were not affected also began to worry about whether they would be held accountable for the problems of the people who recommended them.

The political situation of the Wei Empire, which had just calmed down for a short time, seemed to be about to enter a new period of turmoil.

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