At a time when the whole country is celebrating the emperor's complete removal of the threat of the northern steppes, there are already some people who are beginning to worry about their future.

They began to suspect that the Emperor would do something they did not want to see with the power of victory.

And once it happens, their countermeasures are rather limited.

What they can rely on is nothing more than the monopoly position of the Five Classics and the Fourteen Laws, as well as a certain control over social and economic public opinion.

This was the absolute means by which they relied for their livelihood in the Eastern Han Empire.

But after the transition to the Wei Empire, all this seems to have changed slightly.

Their cultural monopoly and socio-economic, political, and public opinion control have gone awry and become less secure.

The war in the last 20 years of the Han Dynasty more or less destroyed a group of scholars and a group of heroes, which made the situation in the world change to a certain extent, but this change was not reliable and the extent was limited.

It's just that Guo Peng has used a lot of means to maintain these changes, and they are snowballing bigger and bigger, to the point that some people are surprised.

Subsequently, the Wei Empire was established, and the scholars felt that their situation had changed.

Politically, economically, and in terms of public opinion, it is difficult for them to confront the emperor, who has a lot of resources at his disposal.

The emperor has an unprecedented number of resources at his disposal, and he is very caught and difficult to violate.

At least until he died, it would be difficult for the scholars to do anything about this part of what Guo Peng had mastered, and it would be difficult to devour it.

But there is at least hope for this.

was mastered by Guo Peng for a while, and there was a chance to get it later, as long as Guo Peng died, the future emperors were not as powerful as him.

But the cultural change seems to be not so simple.

If you want to be an official, if you want to be a high-ranking official who really holds power, you have to go through their system and follow the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws.

Under this system, if you can't get their recognition, you can't really grasp the power and go to the political arena to call for wind and rain, which even the emperor can't change.

Because you really don't have a national-level talent training method, the methods and resources that can cultivate national-level talents are in their hands, and the emperor has quite limited control.

But because of the [needs of the times], a long time ago, the emperor bypassed their system and created another system himself.

Teach people to read and write in the villages at the grassroots level, and then appoint village chiefs and township heads through the number of literates, and let those mud legs govern themselves and manage more than 100 people, or 3500 people, or 1 or 2,000 people.

Officials of this level do not need to have too many skills, and they do not need to understand the four books, five classics and six arts.

Those who do well can be sent to Taixue, where they can receive a certain degree of formal education.

For example, the Five Classics and family law and the like.

But that's a relatively small amount, not much, because no one wants to teach.

Taixue's teacher resources are not strong, and they all rely on the famous mascot Situ Cai Yong to support the façade and reluctantly recruit an education team.

This education team is completely out of the eyes of the top scholars, who feel that these people are not even as good as their personal teachers, and they are not worthy of educating them.

Therefore, the children of scholars hardly go to study too much.

Although some of these Taixue teachers were appointed by Guo Peng as doctors of the Five Classics, they were not in their eyes.

There are more than 3,000 students in Taixue, basically the children of the poor family and the children of Li Shu, in the eyes of the scholars, this is a group of mud-legged buns entertaining themselves and sprouting in the enclosure.

However, some scholars also noticed that the things taught in Taixue were not ordinary.

This education team will teach some of the essentials of the Five Classics to the children of the Han Sect and the children of Li Shu in Taixue, but it is definitely not the main thing, things like the scriptures and meanings are just for them to know, nothing more.

In addition, the main teaching content is arithmetic, water conservancy engineering and agriculture, how to deal with Lishu farmers, how to prevent and control various disasters, and so on.

Taixue pursued a realistic education, and completely planned to train these people into capable grassroots officials and administrative officials, and did not think about how many literary and scripture scholars would be cultivated from them.

The emperor didn't want them to make a fuss, he didn't want them to grasp how many scriptures and meanings they could master, and he wouldn't even teach them what it meant to be subtle and righteous, but only let them know what some sages had said, and then he began to teach them how to govern a village, a township, and a county.

To be precise, the emperor did not plan to train any high-level officials, nor did he think about cultivating national-level talents, but only planned to train a group of middle and low-level officials, so that they could be officials at the local grassroots level and control the localities.

As for the central leadership, the emperor didn't seem to care, and still let the probationary system do its own thing.

Every year, hundreds of people enter Taixue, and hundreds of people go out, and when Yande was four years old, more than 1,000 people entered and more than 500 people went out, and they all went to the local government to enrich the team of officials.

This is the reason why Guo Peng has the confidence to carry out a large-scale anti-corruption campaign against local grassroots officials, because he has enough grassroots manpower to fill it, and it is not a problem to kill hundreds of low-level officials.

These people do not have the capital that scholars value, they have not read the scriptures, they do not understand the meaning of the scriptures, and they cannot enter the upper echelons of the empire to hold important power, but they have the ability to govern the local area and develop agricultural production.

Some scholars were unimpressed.

They feel that these mud-legged people don't even know what the subtle words are, so they don't need to go up at all, and they will never become high-level people.

However, some scholars with more sober minds pointed out that the emperor did not need to speak small words to govern the grassroots of the country, as long as these people knew how to produce agriculture and prevent disasters.

The emperor didn't plan to cultivate high-level talents, but only planned to cultivate some grassroots talents and help him control the grassroots well.

This is not a good trend.

This embodies a certain idea of the emperor and a certain line of thought on governance.

But most of the scholars still didn't care.

The emperor doesn't want to talk about righteousness, we want it, the emperor doesn't cultivate national-level talents, we cultivate.

If you want to gain a firm foothold in the central government, you see if he wants to learn the Five Classics and the Fourteen Family Laws, and you see if he understands what it means to be subtle and righteous.

Without the education of the higher knowledge of governance that we have mastered, you can see if they can learn how to formulate national policies and how to grasp the policy direction of a country.

Can a county's talents govern the country?

This is indeed the reality.

It is difficult for Taixue's cultivation model to cultivate national-level talents, unless his own family is already in a high position and he has his own education model for senior officials, such as the current batch of high-ranking officials.

Otherwise, you can only expect to be talented.

If you don't take the road of filial piety, if you don't have a backstage, don't think about entering the central government.

In this way, the selection system of high-ranking and low-ranking officials in the Wei Empire seems to have become two parallel lines that do not interfere with each other.

Scholars play scholars, and others play their own at the grassroots level, and they can never overlap with each other and do not interfere with each other.

This was something that was completely absent before.

Some of the sober-minded scholars suggested that this could lead to an unstable foundation for them, and that once they were completely cut off from the local grassroots, something unexpected and terrible might happen.

But most people scoff at this perception.

They say that our foundation is the Five Classics and the Fourteen Family Laws, which are broken sentences, and are unintelligible subtle words that were not originally created but were made up for the sake of monopoly.

Perhaps the sages themselves didn't know that every word they said could have so much meaning.

But it doesn't matter, they're dead, and the living we say this is, then this is it.

Who cares about the sages?

The more difficult, mysterious, and difficult it is to understand and jerky and incomprehensible, the more convenient it is for our monopoly.

We are the high class.

And those mud legs, that is, the nasty people who roll underneath all day long, etc., this situation will never change.

The upper and lower classes will never merge!

Until the end of the five-year war in Yande, it does seem that this situation will not change.

But after the end of the war, this situation has been broken.

The first batch of officials from Li Shu who served as prefectural commanders appeared.

This was directly appointed by the emperor beyond the imperial court, and it was the supreme imperial power that Guo had strengthened after the great victory in the war, and no one dared to oppose it.

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