In that year, in Yecheng, in order to select good talents, His Majesty the Emperor held a ceremony to discuss talents.

More than 1,300 scholars participated in the ceremony, and they gathered together to take an exam based on their talents, and only those with excellent grades could enter the Wei government office.

Of the 300 people elected, the number of officials who are still working for the Wei Empire is 267.

The cultural and moral qualities of the officials selected by the examination are clear at a glance.

Compared with the three-fifths corruption rate of the judges selected by the probation system, as long as you are a normal person, you can see which is better or worse.

Xu Jing began to think about whether he could learn from the example of the big exam and make certain changes to the probation system?

After hard thinking, Xu Jing thought about the talent selection system called [Imperial Examination].

The core idea is to abandon the recommendation and use the subject examination as the only way to select talents.

Any student who tries to obtain an official position can register on their own, then take an exam, and after passing the exam, they will be awarded an official position.

Xu Jing believes that in this way, we will be able to truly select talents who will be helpful to the country, and will not be wasted who can only eat, drink, and have fun and not even do a little normal thing, let alone select a group of people who deceive the world and steal their reputation because they are too rigid about morality.

To sum up, Xu Jing believes that the probation system has proved to be a de facto failure, and that this rule that has been in operation for hundreds of years has reached the point where it has to be broken and reorganized.

It's time to break it, break it completely, reintegrate it, and create a new system with strong vitality.

After this recital was handed over, Guo Peng was very satisfied.

"Su Yuan, take this recital to the cabinet and order someone to copy it, and then pass it on to every official office, I want all officials to know that Xu Jing has done a great thing!"

"Yes!"

Su Yuan immediately personally took people to the cabinet and found Cao Cao, the first assistant of the cabinet.

"Cao Shoufu, this is His Majesty's order, let you immediately find enough people to copy dozens of copies of this music sheet and send them to the major government offices, and no one is allowed to be missed."

"I see."

Cao Cao took over the recital, and was very puzzled, not knowing what kind of recital the emperor needed to publicize.

Generally, only very important political decisions will make the emperor choose to make them public, is this also a major political decision?

After opening it and looking at it a few times, Cao Cao was stunned.

This is......

Reform of the electoral system?

Changing probation to ...... Imperial examination?

Cao Cao was shocked, and immediately began to study it carefully, and soon realized that once this system was established, it would be a lore against the scholar class, and the scholar class would lose the rank of elected official that they had controlled for a hundred years.

Is this going to be a complete war with the scholars?

This...... Is it Guo Peng's meaning?

Then Cao Cao saw the person on the table - Xu Jing.

Cao Cao's expression became very stunned.

Xu Jing?

Xu Jing?

That Xu Jing?

That Xu Jing, who was being shouted and killed by all the scholars under the persecution of the emperor and became a rat crossing the street?

He's crazy?

Because this matter was so serious, Cao Cao couldn't help but wonder if Xu Jing's mental state was a little problematic.

Then he finally determined that there was nothing wrong with Xu Jing's mental state, because if he had a mental state, he would not be able to make such a constructive policy proposal.

Cao Cao was sure that this policy, once announced and seen as a trend in the emperor's actions, would inevitably push the already serious wave of protests against the scholars to a new peak.

It is estimated that the group of scholars will not be able to resist running to the gate of the palace to protest, demanding that the emperor change this strategy.

Moreover, those local officials are not expected to give up, the right to inspect is a very important power for them, and without this power, they are no longer qualified to be called "government kings" or "envoys", and the local government can no longer regard the county as a country.

The degree of centralization will be further deepened, and the emperor will be more powerful.

The political authority of the county guards and assassins will be affected by this, and they will be completely reduced to bad officials, which is too terrible for the scholars.

For the Wei Empire, it was too terrifying.

As far as Cao Cao knew, more than 70 percent of the officials at the level of the county guards were scholars, and once they became dissatisfied with the promulgation of this policy and slackened their work, the local government would quickly fall into chaos.

At that time......

Is Guo Peng really ready?

Cao Cao was very worried.

Although this system is very beneficial for people like them.

Because once this policy is implemented, these students from poor families and even Li Shu will have the qualifications to compete on the same stage with scholars.

With a wide variety of backgrounds, they have the qualifications to compete with scholars.

It's incredible.

Scholars, high up, how can they be qualified to compete with them in the same ring?

Once this policy is implemented, this possibility will become a reality.

As long as Guo Peng announces the start of the imperial examination, this will become a fact!

Cao Cao, who had such an idea, couldn't help but start thinking about that kind of future.

Now the only question is, Your Majesty the Emperor, are you really ready?

Cao Cao instructed the cabinet staff to copy this Xu Jing's recital separately, and then naturally, the cabinet was the first to be detonated by this recital.

The number of scholars and officials in the cabinet is half of the number of officials from poor families, which is also the result of Guo Peng's continuous release of people and the continuous pulling of people in over the years, so of course their reactions when they see this performance are also different.

The scholars and officials were basically shocked, and when they saw this performance and saw that the initiator of the performance was Xu Jing, they immediately slapped the table and got up, wanting to go to Xu Jing to settle accounts.

"How many years of rules, how can an old thief change it!"

"The shameless old thief An can tamper with the law of his ancestors!"

"How can a brazen person steal the height of the temple!"

"I'm going to play him to Your Majesty! Join him hard! ”

After this period of strong protest and unremitting slander against Xu Jing, the scholar group finally decided to tear up their faces with Xu Jing.

Everyone no longer cares about the feelings of the Yuedan comments back then, and they are an old thief to Xu Jing, why is an old thief still not dead.

The scholars and officials left their work one after another and began to write a recital to participate in Xu Jing's old thief.

The officials of the poor family began to transcribe this sheet with inexplicable excitement, and then summarized it to Cao Cao, who ordered it to be released to the major central offices.

Undoubtedly, there has also been a very violent reaction in the major offices.

Scholars and officials generally have a negative attitude towards this, and they exploded directly when they saw Xu Jing's proposal.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately began to scold Xu Jing for being a thief for being old and not dying, and immediately began to collectively write a recital to participate in Xu Jing, strongly demanding that Guo Peng remove Xu Jing, and a considerable number of officials also demanded that Xu Jing be directly beheaded to correct the country's style.

The central bureaucracy was the same, and the scholars and bureaucrats, who accounted for more than 70 percent of the entire group, were collectively angry, angry, and agitated.

Even when Guo Peng asked Xu Jing to thoroughly investigate the moral and academic level of the inspectors in previous years, these officials were not so excited.

It can be seen that this is their real lifeline, where their real sore feet are.

In contrast to the attitude of the officials who exploded directly, the chief executives at all levels were slightly hesitant.

Of course, they were shocked to see such a recital, but as the chief executive, their position did not allow them to act so emotionally.

They indulged their subordinate officials, but they themselves were quite calm, and looked at the watch carefully, and the more they looked at it, the more cold they became, and the more they looked at it, the more frightened they became.

Because no matter how you look at it, this policy is not like something that a person like Xu Jing can put forward, and Guo Peng actually directly delegated this recital to various government offices to let everyone know in advance, which is clearly a temptation.

The emperor is afraid that he is quite concerned about this system, and he is quite satisfied, and it can even be said that this system itself was secretly formulated by the emperor, and now it is just right to take it out for Xu Jing to charge ahead, and he hides behind to watch the reaction of the ministers.

Although I don't know how Xu Jing fell to this point.

Could it be that there are a large number of handles in the hands of the emperor?

It doesn't matter, Xu Jing is already a pawn who charges for the emperor.

If the officials reacted violently, the emperor would probably take a step back, and if the officials did not react violently, then the emperor would have to move forward.

Although the chief officials at all levels were hesitant in their hearts, they were more still dissatisfied.

The emperor has gone too far for a while, tossing and turning, tossing and turning officials are not living, and it is to crack down on the classic inheritance family and thoroughly investigate the scholars, and now he has to reform the inspection system, what kind of imperial examination, and toss everyone to death or life.

This is a bit unreasonable.

Although you say that you are the emperor, you can't be too unreasonable, right?

Except for the main leaders of the Shangshutai, the Yushitai, and the Staff Desk, the attitudes of the remaining commanders at all levels gradually became clear.

As people in the decision-making circle of the imperial court, the main leaders of Shangshutai, Yushitai and Staff Tai were quite contradictory about this.

First, their status is here, and they are close to the emperor.

Most of them were personally promoted by the emperor and belonged to the emperor's cronies.

Like Wang Cang, that is Guo Peng's former official.

Like Zao, that is also Guo Peng's former official.

Zhang Zhao is also Guo Peng's former official.

Guo Yi is simply Guo's own family.

Cheng Yu himself was even Guo Peng's retainer.

Tian Feng's family also has a daughter in Guo Peng's inner palace.

Not to mention Xu Jing.

The two ministries of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are left with Shangshu Dong Zhao and Xin Bi who have little less direct relationship.

It can be seen that the relationship between high-ranking officials and the emperor is basically tied together.

As far as they are concerned, the attitude of the scholars is of course not satisfied with this, and they feel that this will harm their interests.

But as officials, as former officials of the emperor, they did not dare to express clear opposition to the emperor's intentions.

is similar to Tian Feng and Guo Hong and Guo Jia, because they are relatives of the emperor, they say that they want to oppose it, and they don't know where to mention it.

It's just that the inspection was changed to the imperial examination, which is indeed too big, and it involves the entire circle of scholars.

If this is really implemented, it will be equivalent to forcibly demoting the scholars back to their original form, and they will compete for official positions on the same stage with the children of the poor family and the mud legs.

So how could they be willing?

His Majesty the Emperor was a little too anxious.

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