Ma Tan: That's really a spring breeze.

He referred to it with his elder brother Maleonn, and as a result, Maleonn was ranked seventeenth, and he was at the top of the list.

Not only his elder brother, but also the scholars who set off from Jingzhou to take the exam together were all trampled under his feet.

As soon as he thought of the emperor's banquet and the royal street boasting officials, he was so happy that he was about to fly.

However, speaking of which, this matter, including Ma Yan, all the scholars studying in Jingzhou Academic Hall should thank the current Jingzhou Thorn Shi Cai Mao.

If it weren't for Cai Mao, they would all be finished, and soon Jingzhou Xuetang would follow in the footsteps of Luoyang Taixue and become a chess piece in the hands of the emperor, with no way out.

When the Luoyang scholars protested before, the Jingzhou scholars also got the news and received the call, and after learning of the emperor's measures, they were indignant and very angry.

Many scholars were agitating the surrounding people to participate in the protest, and they wanted to express their absolute opposition directly to the emperor, and resolutely defended the probationary system and the honor of the scholars.

As a result, when things intensified, Cai Mao stood up for the emperor in Jingzhou, expressed his support for the emperor, and sent people to suppress the opposition of the scholars.

Many fierce protesters were arrested by Cai Mao and thrown into prisons to be strictly guarded, and the elders of the scholars were asked to intervene to stop them and forcibly silence their voices.

At that time, many people privately insulted Cai Mao as a scum of scholars, and they also collectively went to the table to depose Cai Mao as a stabbing historian, but the results showed that Cai Mao did the right thing.

The emperor beat 5,000 scholars, and cleaned up nearly 40,000 of them along with their families and clansmen, creating the largest number of scholars in history, showing no mercy to anyone, and almost emptying the quota of middle and lower class scholars in the capital.

Sergeant Kyo was almost empty.

The scholars in Taixue were also hit hard, and more than half of them were connected.

Jingzhou has the foundation of the academic hall set up by Liu Biao, and the conditions for running the school are the best except for Taixue.

It is also because the scholars generally despise Taixue, so before this incident, many scholars came to Jingzhou Academic Hall to participate in the study, jokingly calling this [Erxia Jiangnan].

The scholars who studied here were saved because of Cai Mao's suppression and control, and they were not implicated in the Luoyang Incident, except for a few who were implicated because of the crimes committed by Luoyang's relatives.

Therefore, the scholars were frightened, not only did they not continue to insult Cai Mao, but they also used Cai Mao as their umbrella and hid in the academic hall to wait for the news.

Then I waited for the news of the imperial examination.

It can be said that thanks to Cai Mao's protection of the academic hall, this retained the last vitality for the scholars, so that they would not be wiped out by the emperor in Luoyang, and they still had the strength to fight.

So in this exam, Jingzhou scholars shined.

Cai Mao's move is very smart in Guo Peng's opinion.

Because he preserved the last vitality of the scholars.

This is something that Guo didn't think of before he started.

The group of scholars who were killed in Luoyang were inextricably linked to the Qingyanji Sanzhou scholar group that was currently in power in the DPRK.

They are close to the imperial court and occupy a certain proportion within the imperial court and in Taixue.

I thought they had taken advantage of them before, but the emperor's last punch almost swept away the successors of the Qingyanji Sanzhou Shiren Group.

The power of the Qingyanji Sanzhou Group declined at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the children of Li Shu later came to the top and seized a large number of positions, becoming a huge force that could not be ignored and allowed to be used by the emperor.

At the same time that the emperor's power was further strengthened to an unprecedented level, through the imperial examination, the surviving Jingzhou scholars and some Central Plains scholars who "took refuge" in Jingzhou came from behind, staged a preemptive attack, and seized the future power seats.

It can be said that the emperor's hand not only completely defeated the traditionally powerful Qingyanji Sanzhou group, but also introduced the power of Li Shu to the central government.

Then, through the imperial examination, scholars from traditional disadvantaged areas were introduced into the imperial court, which completely hollowed out the foundation of the current bigwigs in the court.

One of them counted as one, and almost all of them became the emperor's rubber stamp.

In addition to themselves, their subordinates, those middle and low-level officials, were all Li Shu officials introduced by the emperor and scholars and officials who were selected by the imperial examination and who were not in the right way.

They all listened to the emperor, not to the high-ranking officials.

After this great change, the high-ranking officials who were honest and did not talk nonsense were shocked to find that they had lost the basis of their power, and everything had changed.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng bore the brunt of it, they had gone to most of their power, and suddenly realized that their power was completely hollowed out.

Shangshutai existed in name only, and all the Shangshu began to go their own way, reporting directly to the emperor instead of reporting to them.

Not only the original departments, but also the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which were originally obedient and reporting on their work, began to stop reporting their work.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng completely lost their qualifications to lead the government and serve as the head of officials.

Cheng Yu, the original head of the hundred officials, has now become a mascot.

Tian Feng also almost lost his original power and moved closer to Cheng Yu.

This is not what Guo Peng subjectively wants to do, but an unexpected surprise achieved in the process of cleaning up the scholars.

After cleaning up these people, Guo Peng realized that his power had completely reached the point of the [True Emperor].

The officials of each department are all their own people.

It's no longer a monolithic taxi.

Therefore, in addition to Tian Feng and Cheng Yu, the various Shangshu and Shilang themselves are also bitter and tight.

They are the ones who feel the change most directly.

Most of their younger brothers are finished, and they were swept away by the emperor in the previous changes, and a large number of Li Shu children were filled, and a large number of things were handed over to these Li Shu children to do.

To be honest, these people regard the emperor as a reborn parent, and if the orders issued by the emperor are different from those relayed by the scholars, they will definitely obey the emperor's orders without hesitation.

To put it mildly, they felt that the emperor could directly convey orders to various official offices through the eunuchs of the inner court, bypassing Shangshu and Shilang, and directly sending orders to the level of Langzhong and Wailang, and doing things directly, so that Shangshu and Shilang would become rubber stamps.

That is, the emperor did not do it.

The power of the emperor is so great, I don't know if it can be overcome, unprecedented is probably certain, even Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can't compare with His Majesty today who has greater power and a wider scope.

It's something they feel firsthand.

Power, the power of the emperor hovered around them, and that was how they felt helpless and frightened.

The terrible imperial power.

In the eighth year of Yande, Yizhou was at war, and Luoyang was holding the imperial examination.

At the same time, the power of Shangshutai completely fell into the hands of the emperor.

Since the founding of the country, the power that had to be shared with the ministers for the sake of the founding of the country has been completely taken back by Guo after eight years.

It is no exaggeration to say that at the beginning, Guo only controlled military power and financial power.

The judicial, personnel and administrative powers are not entirely in the hands of Guo and must be shared with the scholars.

Among the three divisions, the [Xiongzhi] division lieutenant needs to be held by Guo Yuan, so as not to be said to dominate the three divisions.

Personnel needs to be undertaken by Cui Yan, and at most Cheng Yu needs to be checked.

The administration requires the cooperation of Cheng Yu and Tian Feng, and Shang Shutai executes, and he can set up at most one cabinet to buffer and defend the imperial power.

These three important powers are not completely in his hands, and there are deficiencies, and at that time, he was stronger than Liu Xiu, and he was stronger at the basic level.

In order to regain these powers that should have belonged to the emperor, Guo launched many political storms with all his thoughts.