Guo Peng slightly analyzed the current situation for Xu Jing.

He wants Xu Jing to know that the crisis is both dangerous and organic.

To find opportunities in the crisis, seize opportunities, move forward bravely, and break through the desperate situation, then what appears in front of him is vitality.

Only by breaking through the desperate situation can he usher in a new future, and the new future must be better for him.

As long as he can rush through.

and the soldiers rushed over against each other.

Xu Jing was stunned for a while.

"Your Majesty's words...... Abolish probation and establish a new one...... Is it true? ”

"Really."

Guo Peng nodded: "Didn't you say it?" Now it's a dead end, if you want to break the dead end, you have to use a way that is enough to subvert anyone's cognition, talk without being shocking and endless, break this dead end with a bigger game, force them to fight with you, and then you win, in this way, you have broken the dead end. ”

Seeing Guo Peng's words, Xu Jing really wanted to die immediately.

Abolition of probation......

Your Majesty the Emperor, let me die, I really don't dare to see what will happen next......

Xu Jing knelt down again.

"Your Majesty, you can't make a move, Your Majesty, if you want to make a move, you are doing against all the scholars in the world, the foundation of the dynasty will be shaken, and the dynasty will not be able to support it, Your Majesty!"

Xu Jing's words even had a little crying in them.

Guo shook his head, feeling that Xu Jing was too cowardly.

"Xu Qing, who told you that the foundation of the dynasty is a scholar? The foundation of the dynasty is not a scholar, do you think I won't know about this kind of thing? I've got it all said for now, what else do you want me to say? Xu Qing, don't talk nonsense. ”

Xu Jing suddenly fell silent.

"Don't put forward this kind of argument again, even if you deceive ignorant outsiders, you still have a foundation in front of me, are you stupid or am I stupid? Now that this has happened, do you think you will be re-accepted by those scholars? Xu Jing, you have been abandoned, and you are no longer regarded as a scholar by them! ”

Guo Peng's sharp reprimand made Xu Jing frightened.

He knew that what Guo Peng said was right.

He has been abandoned.

To put it bluntly, he can no longer continue to mix in the group of scholars as a scholar.

If a scholar had a status symbol, his status symbol would have been gone.

In fact, he was no longer considered a scholar.

As a scholar who is no longer a scholar, he can no longer consider problems from the perspective of a scholar.

Xu Jing suddenly realized this.

"Your Majesty, the old minister ......"

"Xu Qing, remember, even if you want to do something for them, they will let you die, your son, your grandson, your descendants, they will not survive, they will all die."

Guo Peng shook Xu Jing's hand: "The only thing you can rely on is me, if I don't protect you, what do you think they will do to you?" ”

Xu Jing was stunned for a moment.

Yes, that's right.

Now everyone wants him to die, and the only one who can rely on him is Guo Peng, only the emperor.

Only the emperor could keep him alive.

But aren't you the cause of all this? Your Majesty?

What exactly do you want to do?

Xu Jing's heart was full of grief and indignation.

"Your Majesty, the inspection is related to the advancement of all scholars as officials, if Your Majesty easily changes the inspection, once the scholars feel threatened, then this matter ...... It really can't end, and although there are problems, it is a good way to select talents! ”

Xu Jing wants to live, but he is also afraid of change, and he is even more worried that he will become that victim.

Guo Peng knew what he meant.

"So, if we change the probation, there must be some new ways to select talents."

Guo Peng nodded: "Xu Qing, I don't know if you have heard that when I was still in Yecheng, I once held a ceremony for more than 1,000 scholars, and there were a lot of scholars who took the exam that time, and the grand occasion was unprecedented. ”

Xu Jing raised his head and looked at Guo Peng.

"I've heard a little about the officials in the Ministry of Rites who have become officials through the Talent Ceremony, and they often mention that grand occasion to this day."

"Well, I think that's good, normalize, replace the inspection."

"Huh?"

Xu Jing didn't react at once.

"Ah what? On the matter of the talent ceremony, I am still reminiscing, I think it is really good, with the way of gathering together for the examination, I did select a group of talents, and those talents now have their own achievements, and there is little involvement in anti-corruption over the years.

So I feel that it is best to use that way to simply and neatly select the best, compared to the method of local officials to recommend, and then the government re-examines the method, this method is more intuitive and effective, and it can better select talented real talents, Xu Qing, what do you say? ”

Xu Jing said, I don't know, what's the use of you telling me?

"Your Majesty, the old minister knows very little about this matter......

"It doesn't matter, after that, I'll ask Su Yuan to send you some materials, you study it a little, and then, you give me a table, just say, you propose, reform the official election system."

Xu Jing was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes immediately widened.

Is the emperor going to use him as a knife?

"Your Majesty, Your Minister......"

Guo Peng ignored him.

"You think, the inspection, is the first inspection, only then there is a move, the re-examination of the government does not dethrone filial piety and honesty Maocai, recommendation is the most important, the exam is only incidental, but the previous ceremony of the discussion of talent I conducted was degraded, so the exam is the most important, and the focus of the two is different.

The direction of the reform of the examination is to change the recommendation to the examination, cancel the recommendation of local officials, and allow students to sign up by themselves, and then take the examination in a unified manner, and the examination can also be divided into different subjects, just like filial piety, Maocai, virtuous and square, etc., and the same as the same, the subject is different, well, it is called the imperial examination. ”

Guo Peng clapped his hands very happily as if he had just created a new system.

Imperial examination?

Xu Jing swallowed his saliva, but it couldn't relieve the dryness of his throat.

The re-examination of the public government was still a little deterrent in the era when Zuo Xiong had just been founded.

But after Zuo Xiong, the re-examination of the public government was purely a decoration, and it did not have the effect of dethronement, but only a symbolic meaning, telling the emperor that there was an assessment in my selection of people.

That's all.

The most important thing in the probation system is the recommendation of local officials, the recommendation of the governor of the prefecture and county, with the recommendation can become an official, and with the recommendation, the local governor has the opportunity to organize his own political forces.

This point, the original imperial examination has not changed, if you want to participate, you need to recommend, the Sui and Tang dynasties are similar, until the late Tang Dynasty did not change.

What Guo Peng wants to do is called reform, which is actually to change the world, replace the most important link of recommendation, and turn it into an exam-based, and also allow students to sign up freely, which is ......

That's damning.

Needless to say, below the county level, county-level magistrates do not have the qualifications to promote filial piety and honesty, and only the county guards and state assassins have the qualifications to recommend talents, and more than seventy percent of those who serve as county guards and state assassins are scholars.

Even if the emperor deposed more than half of the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws, and the rest were taken into the central school and replaced the private school with a public school, it was the head scholar family that was attacked, and the fundamental power of the scholars was still there, and more than half of the local governors who held the power of inspection were scholars.

In this way, they can completely control the official positions of the empire and suppress the power of the poor bureaucrats, who control less than 30% of the share.

The emperor wanted to carry out the imperial examination, take away the important power of recommendation, and replace it with a simple examination to decide whether to admit scholars as officials, which was completely digging out the foundation of the monopoly of scholars.

Without monopoly power and qualifications, the group of scholars will decline sooner or later, and they can no longer be on top of the ladder and have the qualifications to be officials from birth.

And to pass the exam, compete with more poor students and even those mud legs who were born in Lishu.

It's strange if they say yes!

Your Majesty, you might as well let me die!

Xu Jing's heart was full of desolation.

If I say this kind of thing and make this kind of reform, I'm afraid I really won't be able to live!

Seeing that Xu Jing didn't answer for a long time, Guo Peng felt the need to continue beating him.

"Xu Qing, the outside world is bustling, everyone wants you to die, but I don't want to, I can't help it, but if you are bent on martyrdom, I can't help it."

This is a naked threat, an undisguised threat, which makes Xu Jing tremble.

The tragedy that was full of tragedy just now suddenly disappeared without a trace, and Xu Jing realized that if he was really willing to die, he would not have turned his back on Liu Zhang and fled over the wall.

He's just an ordinary greedy person who is afraid of death.

Helping the emperor will not necessarily die, and helping the scholars will die immediately.

In the face of this dilemma, Xu Jing only hesitated slightly, and chose to throw himself into the arms of the emperor - the scholar would not forgive him anyway, and he had only one choice, that is, the emperor.

Then, Guo started his old profession again - director.

And Xu Jing is fortunate to be the No. 1 actor in this big drama.

Guo someone's actor is not something that anyone can do, at least, he has to be a high-ranking official at the ministerial level.

Subsequently, on August 25 of the seventh year of Yande, Xu Jing officially submitted his report to Guo Peng.

Xu Jing believes that after this period of testing, he found that there is a very fatal loophole in the probation system, which is very terrible, and directly leads to the corruption of the morality of scholars.

Three-fifths of the scholars recommended by the one-year probation were those who deceived the world and stole their reputations, which is enough to prove that the problems in the probation system are very serious.

Recommendations, recommendations from local officials, that's the problem.

Recommendation, just look at the reputation, look at the background, look at his reputation, look at his reputation, if the evaluation is good, you can get the recommendation, and if the evaluation is not good, even if the ability is strong, you can't get the recommendation.

The public government re-examination will not dismiss anyone, it is just a symbolic meaning, good grades can accelerate promotion, bad grades will fall into the inferior, and will not dismiss anyone.

Regardless of whether he is a deceitful person or not, whether he is a morally corrupt person or not, through this set of rules, he can enter the center.

It's too dangerous.

No one paid attention to it before, or paid attention to it, but failed to make changes, so that the outbreak of this filial piety case completely detonated this incident.

In today's situation, it can basically be concluded that there is a major problem in the probation system that must be reformed, and if this problem is not improved and not repaired, the collapse of the official rule of the dynasty will definitely be accelerated.

This is definitely not a scene that His Majesty the Emperor wants to see.

So Xu Jing thought about it day and night, racked his brains, and finally thought of a solution to the problem.