788 Eunuchs and spies
When Guo Peng communicated with the officials before becoming emperor, the officials did not understand why Guo Peng did not ignore Jiuqing.
Without Jiuqing, how can you serve the royal family?
Guo Peng told them at the time that he had his own arrangements.
That's what he arranged.
It's just that re-cultivating a group of usable eunuchs is not an easy thing for Guo to do.
Emperor Ling's old eunuchs who had experience in fighting were robbed by Yuan Shu when Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, and they were killed in retaliation by coercive means.
The poor survivors around Liu Xie were also wiped out in the war in Chang'an and the Hongnong fire.
Guo Peng now has no more than 200 eunuchs, all of whom are rookie eunuchs and lack experience in struggle.
Guo cultivated their juggling talents and taught them to read and write, mainly to accompany Liu Jian and monitor Liu Jian.
Liu Jian wants to go to Shanyang Kingdom to be his Shanyang Duke, and at least fifty of these eunuchs must follow Liu Jian, and he can only stay more than a hundred on his side.
There is still a long way to go if it wants to expand to the scale of the 24 yamen.
It doesn't matter, as long as the central imperial power is still there, there is no worry that there are no people who are willing to be eunuchs.
Let's start with the inconsequential, on the surface, the functions and powers of these eunuchs and yamen revolved around the emperor's life at the beginning, which seemed harmless to humans and animals, but it was very necessary.
At the beginning, those civil officials in the Ming Dynasty did not expect that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty could use the eunuchs of the 24 yamen to do so many things.
Originally, he was just a domestic slave serving the emperor, but who would have thought that the cabinet and Jinyiwei would later press the eunuchs.
Guo Peng plans to send people out from now on to recruit people who are poor and unable to eat to serve as internal servants, and those who have experience before will be promoted to be close eunuchs first, and slowly raise the point.
Then he sent someone to teach them to read and write in the inner court and master some cultural knowledge.
Emperor Ling knew that he was engaged in Hongdu Sect to cultivate his own people, and Guo naturally knew it.
The eunuch's affairs are going to start now, and as for the spies, Guo has been tossing for a long time.
The Linzi camp has expanded from a few hundred people earlier to more than 10,000 people now, and every state and county in the Han Empire has secret agents from the Linzi camp waiting for them, and there are branches.
Especially in the Central Plains Prefectures and Counties, the spy strongholds are connected, relying on the developed transportation network of the Central Plains that Guo has spent countless money and painstaking efforts to build, once something happens, Guo can know earlier than the local 600 miles expedited.
The establishment of a spy state is beginning to take shape.
Therefore, over the years, the development of Linziying has not been unfast, and its ability to do things is not strong.
As Guo Peng's right-hand man, the importance of his adopted son Yan Rou has gradually become prominent.
So the remake of Jinyiwei that belongs to Guo has already existed and has been running all the time.
From spying on intelligence to collecting evidence to monitoring the ministers and generals to the surveillance places, Guo spread his minions everywhere, letting them be his own eyes and ears, so that his ears and eyes are clear, and he will not become deaf or blind.
In the command organs at all levels of the Linzi camp, there are war orphans from all over the country who have been adopted by Guo Peng for many years.
After the high-intensity brainwashing and education of loyal monarchs since Linzi Camp was a child, they are all very strict abiding by the rules and obeying the law and are only loyal to Guo Someone.
Now Linzi Camp has become unique in cultivating new talents, and the brainwashing methods are becoming more and more mature and fully sustainable.
Through this intelligence network all over the country, Guo is deaf and clear-sighted, and his control over all parts of the empire is by no means imaginable by ordinary people.
When necessary, this department should be put on the bright side, form a huge deterrent to Shang Shutai, and work with the eunuch yamen to cover what Guo really wants to do.
The eunuchs and spies are basically from Li Shu, which is the Li Shu department in the real sense, and it is also the most direct embodiment of Guo someone's power.
This series of arrangements is all for one goal, that is, to complete the imperial examination system and end the dual monarchy system.
If you don't say everything, if you say everything, Guo can't do it, and he doesn't have the money, what he thinks is that at least some of the children of Li Shu can be enrolled in school with the children of Haoqiang, learn knowledge, and initially build educational institutions directly under the state, and hold imperial examinations within a limited range of people.
As long as the imperial examination can be made a fact and the name system is established, it doesn't matter whether it is the imperial examination of the Sui Dynasty or the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty.
As long as there is the imperial examination, as long as there is a preliminary and basic local educational institution even if it is a very shabby country directly under the country, even if only a very small number of Hanmen and Li Shu can receive education, it is okay.
Even if the imperial examination of the Sui Dynasty is the same as playing, the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty still needs to be surrendered, but later there can be a party dispute between Niu and Li.
It was a process, a process in which Guo himself might not see the result.
If the imperial examination system could not be established, his series of arrangements would be the same as that of Emperor Ling, just the final madness.
But as long as the imperial examination system was established, he won, even if its brilliance was not in Guo Wei, but in later dynasties, it was the same.
Guo only needs the imperial examination.
No matter how the scholars opposed, how they struggled, how desperately they fought to the death.
He won't compromise and won't give up.
The powerful eunuch system and spy system were also mainly used to deal with the death-defying blows that the scholars might launch at that time.
It is absolutely impossible for them to sit idly by, whether it is poisoning, assassination, or instigation of rebellion, they will definitely make a move.
Therefore, from the central to the local, Guo will be fully prepared.
In the central government, it does not matter whether it is assassination, poisoning, or coup d'état, and eunuchs and spies are prepared for this.
Instigating a local rebellion?
Then it depends on whether I have a larger population, or you have a larger population, whether my grassroots government and army are stronger, or your manor thugs are stronger.
Guo has gone all the way, has the conspiracy been used less?
Are the methods used less indiscriminately?
Do you do less despicable and shameless things?
From the son of the county order all the way to the emperor's throne, have I killed fewer people?
The four major families have been overturned by me, and the remaining stinky fish and rotten shrimp still want to play tricks with me?
A group of younger brothers!
It's just one imperial examination away!
It's just one imperial examination away!
It only takes one imperial examination for the Guo dynasty to truly evolve into the Wei Empire!
The monarch is the king, the minister is the minister, his autocratic heart will not be restrained by anyone, he can even directly push history to the Tang Dynasty, if the monarch of later generations works harder, he can even directly push it to the Song Dynasty, avoiding the hundreds of years of darkness and chaos in the middle.
That's enough, what will happen after that, Guo Peng doesn't care anymore, as long as he can end the politics of the scholars and promote the politics of the imperial examination, he is enough as an autocratic emperor.
It doesn't matter if no one understands it, and it doesn't matter if the scholars oppose it together.
What I want is your life, it's strange if you don't object to me, it's strange if you don't want my life.
But if you don't take your life, the people of the world will have to wander in darkness for hundreds of years.
How can I accept that?
I can't accept this continuing to happen, so I'm going to fight you guys no matter what.
You have traditions, and I hold the future.
Guo doesn't know how many years he has to live.
But he has already gambled his hope for the future on his own lifespan, if he can have enough life, there is enough hope to do this, and the longer the life, the greater the hope.
In the end, will history leave you a glimmer of life and let yourself create a real start?
Guo sat on the throne with a solemn face.
He was praying, praying that God would give him a little more life so that he could do what he wanted to do better.