After this wave of cataclysm, the scholars further realized that the difference between them and those mud-legged people was that they were high-end scholars.

That is, the elite among the scholars, the geniuses of the national decision-making level.

The strategic vision and statecraft of those geniuses are the real gap between them and the mud legs, and that kind of national-level strategic vision is an important help that Guo Peng can't leave, except for them, other scholars are not unable to leave.

They are just adding heads, but they want to be the masters.

Once they were defeated, the other scholars realized that they knew more than those mud-legged people.

However, Weiyan Dayi has no role in governing the local grassroots and running errands for the central departments, and officials from Li Shu can also do it, and they are more efficient and do better.

In those central departments, in the positions at the level of local villages, townships, and counties, the mud legs who have been tempered at the grassroots level for more than 10 years have done really well.

Therefore, the emperor recruited these mud-legged people who had been going around the local area for more than ten years to the central government, and let them hold positions in the central government to replace the positions of those scholars.

Then the situation in Luoyang stabilized.

Those mud-legged people are diligent, very enthusiastic about work, very obedient to orders, the emperor ordered down, they ran back and forth, they ran around and toiled, and they couldn't even take care of eating, so they had to do things first.

What the scholars and bureaucrats could accomplish in a day, they could do in less than an hour.

After their joining, the efficiency of the Luoyang Central Imperial Court has been greatly improved, and some things that have been accumulated for more than two months that cannot be handled have been dealt with in less than half a month.

It's horrible.

Those mud-legged people who none of them had ever paid attention to or paid attention to had unknowingly had the ability to replace them!

It is not difficult for those mud legs who have been going around the local area for more than 10 years and have successively held various grass-roots official positions to accumulate rich administrative experience, and it is not difficult to replace these levels of scholars.

And the center of the imperial court has long been tightly encircled by the emperor by various means, and it can't turn the sky.

The local officials, who had not been informed in advance, regretted it and inevitably became part of the group of scholars, losing all their future and future.

They will atone for their sins by contributing their labor to the great cause of empire-building in the future.

And those officials who felt hesitant in advance and missed this [opportunity] broke out in a cold sweat, and with great joy, ushered in their own tomorrow.

At the end of November of the seventh year of Yande, everything was settled.

Guo convened three successive court meetings, which fundamentally confirmed the correctness of Xu Jing's proposal and announced its formal adoption.

Then the Cabinet issued the relevant circular, sent to various departments for confirmation, and officially copied to local governments across the country.

Guo Peng also strictly demanded that the news of this policy should be sent to the most remote townships and villages, so that all the people of the empire could be made clear.

Then, Chen Lin, the strongest mouth cannon in the empire that had been silent for a long time, finally led his royal literati mouth cannon group to start a large-scale action to praise virtue.

Probably because he had been silent for too long and held back too hard, Chen Lin wrote a large number of high-quality articles in one go as soon as he appeared on the stage, and carried out a screen domination action in the entire Luoyang public opinion field.

The opposition, which was devastated by Guo, had already shut up, and the public opinion field in Luoyang was occupied by Chen Lin alone, which was quite a feeling of being overwhelmed by the heights.

Subsequently, the imperial examination system was recognized by legislation as the fundamental system of talent election in the Wei Empire, and the Imperial Examination Law was integrated into the Wei Law, which can no longer be shaken.

The person who led the formulation of this law was Guo himself, and Cai Yong and Shangshu of the Criminal Department were on the side.

A group of imperial elites, under the personal supervision of Guo, made some hard and fast rules on the rules of the imperial examination.

Guo first prescribed the score system for the imperial examination.

Each assessment item must be scored, and each item is set with a certain score, and then selected according to the total score of the exam.

Exams, to count the score.

Guo also stipulated that the officials selected by the imperial examination should first spend three months in various departments of the central government to learn the methods of the imperial court officials, and after the observation of the government, they should be sent to the local villages, starting with the village head.

If you want to be transferred to the central government, you must become an official at the county level, otherwise you cannot enter the central government as an official.

It's something he can do.

But there are some rules that Guo can't do now.

For example, he can't do the grading test, what county test, government test, township test, etc., he can't do it, and he doesn't have this condition at all.

At present, it can only be done to let students who are interested in the world sign up to take the exam in Luoyang independently, and under this premise, they can choose the best of the best, and do a preliminary examination and re-examination, etc., and the local grading test does not have the conditions to achieve it at present.

First, there are not so many resources, second, there are not so many candidates, and third, there are no local conditions, so it can't be done at all.

Other rules, such as the system of obfuscation of names, the system of invigilation, the rules for cheating in exams, and the principles of post-examination distribution, etc., are clearly defined.

Then there was the content of the examination, which was hotly debated by the entire examination law formulation group.

People have their own ideas, each has their own interests, and naturally they put forward different ideas.

For example, scholars believed that since the imperial examination was inherited from the examination examination, it should be the most appropriate measure to take the Confucian Five Classics in accordance with the rules of the public government re-examination under the inspection system.

This is what Confucius advocated, and he felt that it should be done according to the old rules, and the Confucian Five Classics were the official textbooks of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and their influence was far-reaching, and it was natural to continue to maintain them.

But some people think that this will not work.

They believe that even if it is a chaju, there are many other types of examinations, and if only the Confucian Five Classics are examined, it is too biased, and some other categories should be added, such as arithmetic and the like.

The reason is that His Majesty the Emperor has repeatedly mentioned the importance of arithmetic.

This group of people is naturally the children of the Han family, and their attainments in the scriptures are naturally generally inferior to the children of scholars, if only the Confucian Five Classics are examined, the children of the scholars will inevitably occupy the majority, and the children of the Han family and the children of Li Shu who are further behind cannot compete at all.

Cao Cao represented this faction and fought in the ring with Kong, fiercely confronted Kong Xian, and smelled each other's mouths.

In the end, Guo, who held absolute power, made a holy ruling.

"Arithmetic is the foundation of everything, I think it is very important to add arithmetic to the imperial examination, and now books such as "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" are also very important subjects in Taixue, and the imperial examination must be added to arithmetic, not just the Confucian Five Classics."

The emperor spoke, of course, no one could object, so mathematics became a compulsory subject in the imperial examination.

The soldiers lost first.

Later, some people proposed that agriculture is the foundation of the country, which is very important.

The emperor stipulated that after the imperial examination, officials should go down to grassroots positions such as villages and townships to train and get in touch with the people's livelihood, so officials could not be ignorant of agricultural affairs, so as not to delay production.

So these people suggested that knowledge of agriculture should be included in the imperial examinations.

There were also scholars and officials who objected, arguing that it was already very time-consuming to study the scriptures and understand the teachings of the sages, and that agriculture was important, but it was not necessary to study it specifically, and it was enough to learn a little by the way.

The two sides argued, and Guo was once again judged.

The result, of course, is incorporation.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the country, agricultural production is related to the overall situation of the country, every official, regardless of whether he is in the relevant position or not, must understand the affairs of agricultural production, officials cannot not understand agricultural affairs, can not understand the difficulties of the grassroots people's life."

As a result, agriculture-related knowledge has also become a compulsory part of the imperial examination.

The scholars lost again.