There was no punctuation in the old Chinese.

And sentence reading cannot be mastered without long-term training.

Therefore, even if the printing and papermaking techniques were mastered, the cost of cultural transmission was greatly reduced, but the efficiency of education was still very limited.

And Guo knows what punctuation is, and he also knows the meaning of punctuation.

The use of punctuation marks is a decisive blow to the Fourteen Laws of the Five Classics.

The most authoritative sentence break of the canon is made with new punctuation marks, fixed by the coercive force of the emperor, which cannot be changed, and no other interpretation is allowed to continue to exist.

And from then on, all books must be punctuated in complete sentences, approved by the emperor, and then published in the world for people to learn.

In this way, the dispute is severed, the order is issued, and the middlemen who try to monopolize the right of interpretation are eliminated.

In this way, the cultural monopoly of the scholars can be fundamentally broken and they will be swept into the garbage heap of history.

Directly bring Chinese civilization into the next era, and cross the hundreds of years of boring portal battles.

In fact, Guo has already started to do so.

All the classic books in the thread-bound books produced in the secret workshop in the Taihang Mountains were personally broken by Guo and ordered to be published.

Periods, commas, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, dashes, semicolons, book title numbers......

And so on and so forth, all the punctuation marks were used by Guo someone.

Guo received an elite education from Lu Zhi, learned to read sentences, and has the ability to break sentences.

In his early years, under the guidance of Cai Yong, he participated in the burning of the Xiping Stone Scripture in Luoyang Dongguan, and completely read the fourteen sentence breaking methods and different different characters of the five classics.

Therefore, Guo has an understanding of the interpretation of each of the Five Classics and the Fourteen Family Laws, and has also received specific guidance from Lu Zhi.

When breaking sentences, he mainly makes his own judgments based on his own views and some tone particles, and also has some modern memories that have not been forgotten, and uses punctuation marks to make new sentence breaks and annotations for the five classics.

Then he handed over the five classics after his sentence to the workshop for printing.

In addition, there are some other books, all the books that Guo can get, he finds time to break sentences while reading them one by one.

"Han Feizi", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "Mozi", "Zhuangzi".

These were all broken by himself, published and taught in the Linzi training camp, and also taught to Guo Jin in person, so that he could learn.

As for some of the training camp textbooks he led the compilation, the textbooks that taught them how to do some practical things were of course directly using vernacular and punctuation.

Reject jerky and difficult sentences, and refuse to deliberately make difficult education.

Simple, easy to understand, efficient.

When imparting knowledge to the children of the training camp in the Linzi training camp, Guo will first send someone to teach them how to recognize punctuation marks and teach them how to use punctuation marks.

And teach them how to use punctuation marks to write articles on their own and break sentences on their own.

With clear punctuation marks and the teaching method of one textbook per person, the teaching efficiency has been greatly improved, and the class-based education method has been fully realized, and the mass production of talents can be realized in a certain sense.

Without saying too much at the moment, three to five hundred people a year can still be done.

In the future, if we can expand this teaching method and get a stable source of students, we will definitely solve the talent gap completely.

This is a clear future that can be seen.

It was a punctuation revolution that would determine the fate of the future.

And the biggest difficulty at the moment is that among the country's high-level elites, there are not many who are willing to stand on their side.

Not to mention the top elite talent, which accounts for only one-tenth of them.

There must be very few in this group who can accept this plan.

Because this plan completely destroys the foundation of their interests, it is completely aimed at their interests.

In particular, those families whose family classics have protégés are absolute opponents, and the punctuation revolution will completely revolutionize them.

It is estimated that the Fourteen Schools, which have become academic sects by studying their family teachings, will also rise up against them and strongly protest.

It will also touch their interests.

They will be strongly opposed, and fierce protests will be launched, and even government officials with relevant interests will confront themselves with strong actions of collective resignation.

Non-interested clan officials will also stand on their side out of the sadness of the rabbit and the fox, and some kind of exchange of interests.

If they collectively do nothing, they can completely paralyze the entire national administrative system, and the administration of the Wei Empire will immediately fall into a state of stagnation.

If you do something and mobilize the people in the manor that Guo can't control, do something like rebellion, Guo will be anxious.

That was a fatal blow to the Wei Empire.

Not to mention the grassroots, the higher the level, the greater the proportion of scholars and bureaucrats.

This is especially true in the center.

Despite Guo's repeated attacks, the proportion of non-commissioned bureaucrats in the central officialdom of the Wei Empire still accounts for about seventy percent, and the poor bureaucrats are only about thirty percent, and the Li Shu officials who have been blocked from rising channels are completely nowhere to be found.

If all these scholars and bureaucrats are left to do nothing, even if it is just a non-violent non-cooperation movement, it will be an unbearable burden for Guo someone.

The poor bureaucrats, who accounted for only 30 percent, were simply not enough to replace these tried and experienced scholar bureaucrats in a short period of time, and could not undertake the administrative work of the Wei Empire.

Guo has not been able to replace them with enough reliable talents, and the talents cultivated by Guo himself have not yet been able to take over the existence of these top-level decision-making bureaucrats.

A kingdom cannot be without a king for a day, let alone anarchic for a day.

If it is carried out by coercion, they will all be killed, and of course all problems will be solved.

But after that, how should the country be governed?

It is true that these opponents have crooked butts, but their ability to rule is also indispensable to the country.

After killing them all, the second-level government in the countryside is fine, because the second-level grass-roots government in the countryside does not have the existence of scholars and bureaucrats in the first place, but the central government of Wei and the local administrative system at the three levels of prefectures, counties and counties will inevitably usher in a large-scale paralysis.

If the state order is to be maintained, it is necessary to carry out all-round military management.

That kind of future, Guo someone can't imagine.

With Guo's military strength, it is completely possible to eradicate all the Shi clans and wipe out all the Shi clans, leaving no one behind.

If you go completely crazy and ignore it, then you can even kill Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Lu Yi or something together, and kill it cleanly and very happily.

Then you can also eradicate Haoqiang Manor together and completely control everything in the entire empire.

Fortunately, about 500,000 people were killed, but it was just a river of blood and a mountain of corpses.

It's not hard.

And killing and killing, maybe the other party will directly bend his knees and surrender and dare not do anything, Guo directly harvested a batch of brainless licking dogs, and successfully took charge of the country, and it was easy to do whatever he wanted.

To be honest, at some moments, Guo really thought about it like this.

Even if you exchange the 500,000 Wei troops you have in your hands for one, it is completely possible, so military power is the foundation of feudal dictatorship.

Of course, after calming down, Guo still smiled bitterly, feeling that if he still had a trace of sanity, he would not do this.

In doing so, the superstructure of the entire country is abolished.

Use a knife to talk about everything, as long as it doesn't meet your mind, it doesn't matter if it's suitable or not, you can directly raise the knife without saying a word, and destroy it with one move......

Is this still a normal country?

Is Guo someone Thanos?

If you do this, you don't know what will happen in the future.

This is also the shrewdness of the scholars, the terrible thing about monopoly, and the headache of every centralized emperor.

Therefore, Guo can only follow the established strategy, through unremarkable means, slowly, in a subtle way, through the accumulation of quantitative changes to achieve qualitative change.

He wanted to gradually win over more officials on his side, and gradually train and promote officials who supported the Punctuation Revolution, so that they would occupy a certain proportion of the government at all levels.

After the proportion reaches a certain level, the scholars will exist as a group, and they will be collectively abandoned by Guo and collectively transformed.

And the top scholars who have a family law inheritance and the first-class scholars who are close to them are bound to be opponents of Guo.

The victims of this kind of behavior, the poor bureaucrats and the even more miserable Li Shu bureaucrats, must be supporters of Guo.

It's just that in the center, there will definitely be less support than opposition, and there will be a lot of opposition.

The appearance of punctuation marks is basically the act of digging up their ancestral graves, and it is strange that they can accept it.

Not to mention the top scholars whose interests are directly related and have the right to interpret.

There are also first-class scholars who are close to them and have the internal inheritance of family law, even the second, third and fourth-rate junior scholars who are at the bottom of the chain of contempt of the scholars may not support Guo.

The Punctuation Revolution was aimed at all the scholars who wanted to monopolize culture and protect their own interests, and at all those who wanted to be cultural aristocrats, and in this group, there were bound to be very few people with the opposite attitude.

There are individuals who betray the class, but there is no class that betrays the class.

Guo did not have the energy to find individuals who were willing to betray the class one by one, and it could only be said that in the future great revolution, such people would appear.

What Guo had to do was to ensure that the normal functioning of the national government would not be paralyzed in the midst of this great revolution and in the face of an all-round confrontation between the uncompromising scholars and bureaucrats against Guo.

This is the most important premise, that he can maintain the normal functioning of the government, that the state administrative apparatus and the violent apparatus can function.

Only then can the scholars be persecuted on a large scale.

Killing, exile, demotion, repression.

With this confidence, Guo dared to carry out an all-round attack on the scholars, and even physically exterminated, eliminating, transforming, and forcibly solving the entire group.

With this confidence, even if tens of thousands of people are killed for this reason, to the point where blood is flowing like a river and corpses are piling up, Guo must complete this crucial punctuation revolution.

For this reason, Guo has been preparing silently.

First of all, we should take all the grassroots villages into our own hands.

The creation of a new grass-roots political power, bypassing the traditional state, county, and county levels, and completely controlling the more basic political power at the village level.

Let the imperial power go directly into the localities, take root in the localities, and control their own basic plates.

With the countryside in hand, the basic plate is there, Guo can stand tall, and even if it is an extreme state of nationwide military management, he can maintain the existence of the regime for a period of time.

The scholar class did not have a presence as officials at the village level.

Not a single one in the true sense of the word.

The noble scholars disdained to come into contact with the lowly and filthy mud-legged, and in their eyes, the second-level government in the countryside was a pigsty for the mud-legged people, their own land.

These two levels, no matter what happens, are stable.

Since the stability of the rural regime, Guo has taken the countryside as the foundation, and has constantly arranged for the children of the poor families and Li Shu officials from Taixue to attack upwards and serve as auxiliary officials in the county-level government.

This is the biggest right that Guo has won for Li Shu officials so far.

It can allow them to enter the county government as auxiliary officials.

After the establishment of the Wei Empire, local officials were restricted by Guo's right to summon, and a considerable number of auxiliary officials of the main local administrative officials were appointed by the central government by name, rather than local officials themselves.

This created an opportunity for Guo to mobilize these people to seize the dominance and discourse power of the county-level political power.

It is not enough to have a second-level government in the villages.

The same is true in the county-level government.

As long as officials from humble families and officials from Li Shu can dominate the three levels of government at the village, township, and county levels, then the most basic conditions for launching a punctuation revolution are already in place.