This is a big pilgrimage meeting.

At present, all the officials who can still stand in the capital have arrived at the palace.

If you can't stand outside the Fengtian Palace, then scatter to other palaces, and what the emperor said will naturally be conveyed.

Originally, as soon as there were many people, the emperor's words could only be heard by the first group of people, and everyone else had to listen to the transmission, Guo was not a loud voice, and there was no microphone.

Of course, Guo does not need to directly convey his orders to the ears of every official, and the message he wants to convey only needs to be heard by the leaders of this group of officials.

The dignitaries who chose to compromise with him and were frightened by him.

Guo killed more than 5,000 scholars, bureaucrats, and students in one fell swoop, abolished them, and promoted more than 2,000 local grassroots officials from Li Shu to serve in the capital as central officials.

During this period of transition and familiarization, it is also necessary for them to take full responsibility for it, so that these Li Shu officials can get started with their work more quickly.

If the core decision-making team of the central government is stabilized, the central government will be stabilized.

stabilized the central government and killed the central troublemakers, and the local county governments and county governments, including the county governments, were basically controlled by him, and even if the officials at the level of the state assassin and the county officials wanted to make trouble, it was equivalent to being isolated, suspended, and rootless.

If you don't hear from the top, you can't go down to the countryside, you don't have military power, financial power, and personnel power, and you won't be able to do anything for a hundred years if you give them it.

The system of counties and counties was designed to stabilize the rule, and the system of decentralization worked well.

Decentralization, centralization, and the central government has enough power to control the localities.

The four county guards around Luoyang have been ordered by Guo to be replaced, and they have been replaced by county guards from poor families around them, and they are directly brought to the capital to be imprisoned for questioning.

Now that you've done it, you don't have to worry about the impact.

The central government will directly kill you, and the local ones will never let go, and whoever dares to jump up and be a demon will wait to die.

More than 5,000 people were beaten with sticks, and Guo would not care about another batch of people.

The exile list is over there, and whoever goes up and who doesn't is in a thought, and Guo is not worried that there are too many people who go up and the country is not running smoothly.

After years of hard work, these [suspended strata] suspended between the central and local governments have long lost the ability to wrestle with Guo someone.

They can no longer be like back then, a county Taishou is a small warlord, and a state assassin is a big warlord.

The times have passed, and there is no way back, and it makes no sense to think.

Now it depends on how these suspended officials deal with it, how they express their attitude, and whether they choose to surrender or choose a dog leash.

Guo is looking forward to their response.

Of course, what Guo hopes more is that they will accept the arrangement honestly like the quail-like high-ranking officials and dignitaries standing in front of him.

And not like those five thousand people.

Since you have already done it, you have to make a dead hand, the kind that will not leave future troubles.

Therefore, these more than 5,000 people must be implicated in their families, clansmen, and some relatives and friends, and so on.

He can go down to 30,000 or 40,000 people and uproot them by hand, let alone you rootless duckweed suspended officials?

Guo believes that many officials may have just realized that the emperor actually had such a huge power, and once he was angry, he could uproot them.

However, for Guo, he conformed to the wishes of the middle and lower-class scholars, used punctuation to attack and tame the head scholar family, and controlled the core decision-making level.

And this time, on the basis of stabilizing the core decision-making layer, the middle and lower class scholars, the huge rentier entrenched in the empire, were bulldozed.

Let the imperial examination be a foregone conclusion.

Then, he used his remaining life to consolidate the imperial examination model and open up the road to heaven.

Get through no matter what.

So, in the face of the high-ranking bureaucrats on whom he relied to keep the empire running, Guo spoke.

"What has happened in the past two months, including today's events, is not what Lone wants to see, Lone doesn't want to see all this, but all this has appeared in front of Lone, whose fault is it? Is it Lone's fault?

Because of a memorale from Xu Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, everything began, the officials did not work, the students did not study and studied, colluded, went on strike, went on strike, and went on strike, and they wanted to stop the operation of those industries controlled by their family!

Who is it for? Show it to Lonely! What is this behavior? It's a threat, a threat to Lone, a threat to the king of a country, a threat to the emperor! What a big boldness, really a big boldness, since he was named the Duke of Wei, he has never seen a scholar have such a backbone.

Today's strike, school boycott, and market boycott, tomorrow will be sitting in a ball at the gate of the lonely Fengtian Temple, shouting for the lonely to abdicate and make way for the virtuous? Such a person was embarrassed to say to Lone, Liu Zhang and Liu Cong were going to rebel, was it Liu Zhang and Liu Cong who rebelled? Right? ”

Guo Peng stood up and walked to the front of the steps.

"It's this group of people who rebel! It's this group of bold and reckless fanatics who don't know the sky! It's these thieves! They want to take away the lonely country, they want to kill the lonely! This group of people is innocent! ”

After scolding angrily, Guo asked Su Yuan to read out the punishment decision for these people.

There is no doubt that they will lose their status as scholars and officials, and they will be deposed as commoners.

The rest are processed in batches according to different statuses, different levels of involvement in events, and different leadership positions.

The lightest of the circumstances were the students who participated in the protests and oppositions but had no official status.

Their homes will be raided, and the whole family will not be allowed to stay in their hometown, but will have to go to the harsh and undeveloped frontier areas, such as the western part of Yizhou and the southern part of Yangzhou, to become a reclaimer.

The plot is a little heavier is the leader of the team of Tai student scholars who has no official status.

Not only that, but all the people in the living world will also lose the opportunity to obtain school status, and those who already have school records will be abolished, driven out of Taixue, school palaces, and schools, and those who have official positions will be dismissed and will not be hired for life.

More seriously, officials who were not involved in leading the protests but were involved in the protests.

They themselves will be beheaded, deprived of everything, lose all their property, identity, status, and their families will become lifelong sinners, and will be sent to the Shu Road construction site, where the family will die of old age, sickness and death, until the Shu Road project is completely completed.

Clansmen will also be implicated, and those who have school status will be deprived of their school status, and they will not be allowed to enroll in school for life, and those who have official positions will be removed from office and not allowed to be rehired for life.

The most serious of the cases is the leader among the officials.

Headed by Huan Dian, Wei Shen, Ma Miao and others, but anyone who has done leadership or other work will be beheaded all over the house.

The people were convicted of sinners, and all of them were sent to the Shu Road repair project, and went to the most dangerous and steep place to repair the Shu Road until the Shu Road repair was completed.

The more the officials listened, the more frightened they became, and the more they listened, the more frightened they became.

Because the emperor has an unprecedented number of people to clean up this time, and all of them are scholars, and the emperor has no intention of compromising at all this time.

More than 5,000 scholars, together with their families and clansmen, can have 30,000 or 40,000 people, 30,000 or 40,000 people!

His Majesty the Emperor was silent, and all of them were disposed of.

What will these people face?

No one knows, but it is likely to be the end of death.

These are not prisoners of war, nor sinners, but scholars.

His Majesty the Emperor really did it.

Or with such ferocious means.

It is only at this moment that many people have just woken up from a dream.

All along, deep down in their hearts, they regarded the emperor as the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were used to that kind of emperor, and they were used to the emperor who was limited by them in the depth and breadth of power.

They're used to that kind of life.

Such inertia is so strong that until now, after political turmoil again and again, they have not realized an indisputable fact.

There were some changes in the nature of His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire and His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Empire.

This change was reflected in the fact that when His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Empire wanted to flip the table, they were able to stage the Yellow Turban Rebellion as a countermeasure to force the Emperor to make concessions.

And when His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire wanted to lift the table or even finished lifting the table, they could only stand in front of him and tremble, bow their heads, and dare not do anything.

Aren't we supposed to resist?

Shouldn't the emperor stand up when he was violent to his scholars?

Many scholars and bureaucrats think so.

But the fact is that they have been hiding at home, not daring to speak out, not daring to express their opinions, and facing everything like a turtle with a shrunken head.

Now, in the face of the emperor's super-large-scale persecution campaign, they still dare not do anything, they can do nothing.

I watched His Majesty the Emperor abolish all the children of those scholars, remove the officials from their posts, and drive the students out of Taixue.

Then a group of local mud legs were introduced to the central government to fill the vacancies of officials, and it was announced that more mud legs would be recruited into Taixue to fill the vacancies of students.

Shouldn't His Majesty the Emperor's actions be directed toward us scholars?

Why are you going for those mud legs?

Can those mud legs really replace us?

There are many questions, but none of them can be asked.

After the emperor had finished defining the nature of the incident and the regulations on punishment, he announced a new batch of official promotions and reward lists, completely dividing the political power after the chaos.

So everything became a fact and could no longer be changed.

His Majesty the Emperor, with his supreme prestige and absolute force, suppressed all possible unrest and forcibly stabilized the uneasy situation in the people's hearts.

In this way, those Li Shu officials gained a firm foothold in the center and broke through the restrictions of the upward channel in one go.

At this point, many people no longer understand what the emperor is launching this terrible persecution campaign for.

I don't know, they don't know what it's for, His Majesty the Emperor made such a decision, paying the price of thirty or forty thousand scholars and their families.

Not to mention them, even some poor officials expressed deep incomprehension.

They didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor, who was born in the scholar family, had such deep feelings and expectations for this group of mud-legged people, they really didn't understand.

Why would a traditional typical scholar from a family of scholars who have no worries about food and clothing care so much about this group of mud legs?

It is to let them study and let them become officials, and they are also trying to improve their promotion channels and let them come to Luoyang.

They will never understand, let alone understand, so Guo doesn't expect to make any explanations that are acceptable to them.

So, at the end of this great court meeting, His Majesty the Emperor announced the final decision.

Abolish the examination and establish the imperial examination, starting from next year, the inspection system will be completely abolished, and the imperial examination system will become the only way to elect officials in the empire.

There is no need to go through any channels.