Guo Peng, who has a large enough population and army, wants to be the emperor, but in fact, he doesn't need the approval of too many scholars.

He's already qualified.

Even if he becomes emperor tomorrow, he can sit on the throne, but he has more things to plan, so he has more preparations.

The external forces of the Haoqiang clan can be destroyed by war, and the internal ones can only be destroyed by political purges.

The number of people who can participate in political discussions, that is, the population who are literate, is about 1 percent of the total population, 450,000.

Of these hundreds of thousands of literate people, only 10 percent, 40,000 or 50,000 can really participate in the political games of the upper echelons.

But just these tens of thousands of people, before that, the land, tribes, and resources they had at their disposal were enough to resist the central government or even overthrow it.

After nearly 20 years of war, they were destroyed by the war, a large part of their foundation was destroyed, they lost their grasp of land resources and population, and what they lost basically fell into the hands of Guo someone.

Whoever controls the population, resources, and land will have a solid back.

There may still be many people who have not had time to change their thinking and realize that after more than 200 years of small government, a terrible big government is emerging.

Since the late Western Han Dynasty, the free and loose social sentiment brought about by more than 200 years of small government has greatly promoted the superiority of the scholar class.

They hadn't had time to realize that they were losing the foundation of this sense of superiority, because Guo Peng was still holding them, just like he had been holding Yuan Shu in the first place.

Soon, Guo Peng will make them realize this.

After the news of the selection of the new emperor was circulated in the officialdom, it also spread to the people, and to the ears of the scholars and Li Shu.

Of course, Li Shu didn't have any discussion, Li Shu, who accounted for the vast majority of the population, couldn't even recognize the words, of course, needless to say, they just had a good time, knowing that the new emperor was coming out.

They are more concerned about the preferential policies of the imperial court for agriculture than about who the new emperor is, and they do not care about politics, nor do they care about politics.

These people account for 99 percent of the entire Han population.

The so-called public opinion, that is, only among 400,000 people is qualified to be conducted, and in modern times, 400,000 people is the population of a small county town.

The heat of public opinion at the level of a small county town.

For the current Guo someone, even if this kind of public opinion heat breaks out, it is said that it is a hot discussion all over the world, but the popularity is only hundreds of thousands of people, but it is not as terrible as imagined.

The opposition scholars and scholars, who make up a very small part of the population, have maintained a high degree of attention to this and have enthusiastically participated in the discussion, and they are extremely concerned about this matter.

But at the end of the day, this group of people also has no decision-making power, and they are part of the 90 percent of the literate population that is not yet able to participate in the political game of the upper echelons.

For example, Zhuge Liang, such as Xu Shu, such as Meng Jian and Shi Tao.

They care, they discuss, they discuss, but they can't change anything.

Compared with those scholars who were included in the ruling group by Guo Peng, they may be more aware of the despair after losing the resources and connections of their hometown, and the significance of official positions and power to a scholar.

Especially for a ruler who did not lack the service of scholars, they were practically worthless.

Guo Peng is giving them opportunities and giving them opportunities.

So when Xu Shu, Meng Jian and Shi Tao were actively discussing this matter, Zhuge Liang didn't pay much attention to it, and he was still studying with peace of mind and preparing for the exam.

Xu Shu asked Zhuge Liang why he didn't participate in the discussion, saying that this was a major national event, but Zhuge Liang made Xu Shu clear in one sentence.

"Let's discuss here with all our tongues, can Gong Wei hear it?"

Xu Shu and the other three looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, they all feel a little speechless.

"Major events in the world, is it Wei Gong who has the final say, or do we have the final say? If we don't have the final say, we shouldn't say more, but we should improve our knowledge in order to get the step of advancement.

Now that Duke Wei has given us the opportunity to take the exam, he is giving us the opportunity to be officials, if we don't seize it, but we are vain, and we are still talking about it, what is the point of the country and us personally? ”

Zhuge Liang painstakingly persuaded the three of them.

So the three of them suddenly woke up and realized their innocence, so they kept silent about national affairs that they couldn't reach at all, and studied and prepared for exams with peace of mind.

Later, Xu Shu saw that Zhuge Liang did not read the Confucian classics, but read a copy of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", which made him a little surprised.

"Kong Ming, you don't read the classics, but you read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", why is that?"

"Duke Wei likes arithmetic, don't you know?"

Zhuge Liang waved the math book in his hand and said: "The number of officials under the command of Duke Wei is huge, and more than once people have preached the importance of arithmetic. ”

Xu Shu and the other three suddenly realized, and immediately borrowed other parts of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" from Zhuge Liang to read, so as to sharpen their guns.

Soon, the time came to mid-September, and the new little emperor Liu Jian had been invited to Yecheng by Guo Peng with a grand specification.

He will stay in Yecheng for a while, and then go to Luoyang at the end of December, and will ascend the throne in the newly built palace in Luoyang.

The little emperor has officially appeared several times in front of the ministers of Yecheng, sitting on the platform, of course, he is still a prince at this time, not an emperor, but he has met everyone as a preparatory emperor.

There was no one else around, and all the servants were equipped for him by Guo Peng, so he looked at everyone timidly, and used mechanical words to make everyone kneel, get up, and then flash.

Guo Peng was very satisfied with him, and his die-hard loyalists were also quite satisfied with this emperor.

With this emperor, Guo Peng can do a lot of things, and he can be justified, of course, the three forces in the south may not listen, but it doesn't matter, as long as he listens in the area under his control.

Guo Peng has someone else to "watch".

This is not important, the important thing is that Guo Peng needs to step to the pinnacle of the ministers in the name of the little emperor, further challenge the nerves of the people in the world, and lay a solid foundation for his ascension to the throne and emperor.

This time, it was already the final preparations.

Of course, all this is still unknown, no one knows what Guo Peng will do after the little emperor ascends the throne, some people have guessed it, but obviously, most people have not guessed.

Even when it comes, they just passively go along with it.

The most important thing at the moment is obviously not the matter of the little emperor, but the matter of the great ceremony.