This statement by the top bureaucrats, regardless of attributes, is a very heavy blow to the protests of the outside world.

Because this can at least prove that the inner circle around the emperor has not wavered, but has always been united by the emperor's side.

In order to support the emperor, the high-ranking bureaucrats could even ignore the identities of scholars and non-scholars.

The soldiers who were screaming and fighting hard felt betrayed.

The scholars and officials they thought would lead them to victory betrayed them and threw themselves into the arms of the emperor.

What is this?

Did they fight for nothing?

Not only did the emperor not compromise, but he went even further and completely went to their opposite?

It's true?

The soldiers who did not become officials were confused and hated for a while, while those who had already become officials, and even held some leadership positions, were shocked.

They immediately gathered in twos and threes to discuss the future direction of this matter.

They all wondered why those bigwigs from scholars could accept such a situation, and it was clear that once the inspection was abandoned, the interests of those bigwigs would also suffer.

These people just don't have enough level, they don't understand, if those bigwigs don't accept the emperor's demands and the benefits given, they will lose everything.

People are like that, the more they have, the more they fear losing and the more they want more.

The more you have, the more you want, the more you are afraid.

The situation and way of thinking of the scholars and bureaucrats at the top and the middle and lower officials at the bottom, as well as the scholars who have not yet become officials, are completely different.

So the upper bureaucrats are prone to compromise, and as long as the emperor can give them some promises, some promises that they can reassure them, they don't mind siding with the emperor and killing their own colleagues.

The mid-level bureaucracy is a little more vacillating.

But the vast majority of them are more worried, want power, and are reluctant to facilitate the entry of the ladder, jumping back and forth between the two and not knowing how to choose.

The lower-level bureaucrats are much more iron-headed, young, and angry, and they can't see the upward channel for the time being, and they don't worry about anything else, and they will never lose their status as scholars anyway.

The bachelors feel that they are not afraid of heaven and earth, only full of enthusiasm.

In fact, it is difficult for these four aspects to understand each other, because each other's interests are completely different.

But Guo knows it clearly.

So in such a situation, he endured it for a long time, and put up with everyone who wanted to jump out.

Then, the middle and upper bureaucrats, who are prone to compromise, are forced to compromise, and the wave of compromise is set to divide the forces of protest in one fell swoop.

At the behest and warning of the higher-level bureaucrats, the wavemen in the protest group were torn between a few and a considerable number of them returned to the government offices.

Such an appeal was made three times.

The emperor issued three holy decrees, each stronger than the other, and one more urgent than the other.

Officials' appeals have also become more urgent and their rhetoric more urgent.

Three times in total.

Although Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and others loudly appealed to everyone not to give up halfway, feeling that it was only the emperor's last struggle, and the emperor would soon compromise, they still couldn't stop the actions of those who wanted to leave.

Then the emperor's killer move came again.

Those who returned to the government office within the time limit were promoted as long as there were vacant positions above, and those who did not have vacant positions above were transferred to other vacant upper posts.

Those who were promoted by one level, those who were promoted to two levels, and the luckiest guys were directly promoted from the first division to Langzhong, and touched the threshold of the waiter.

This is not counting, I don't know where a group of people came, wearing the official uniforms of the central court, holding the appointment documents issued by the ministry, and taking on all the vacant lower-level official positions in the central court.

One counts as one, but whenever there is a vacant position, this group of people fills it all.

It's all filled in.

The Wei Empire strengthened the centralization of power, and the number of officials in Luoyang exceeded 4,000, except for 30% of the poor bureaucrats, the remaining 70%, and nearly 3,000 officials were all scholars.

Eighty percent of the scholars and bureaucrats explicitly participated in the protests, and more than 2,000 scholars and bureaucrats went on strike to express their strong protests, causing violent turmoil in the central court departments.

And then the turmoil ended.

Because they were replaced by a monolithic replacement.

That's more than 2,000 jobs.

When the bewildered officials asked them where they came from, they directly explained that they were from the local area, from the grassroots governments in various places, and that they were from mud legs.

Luckily, he learned to read and write, served as a village chief and a township head, and later went to Taixue for further study, and then went back to successively hold county-level positions and county-level positions, this time being directly recruited by the imperial court.

Then everyone knew, and the emperor found a group of mud-legged people from the place to go to the center to fill the vacancy.

That's right, the central court also has a large number of low-level petty officials, who run errands, handle some simple things, write documents, and manage files, and do not need a high political level.

Advanced decision-making is naturally carried out by the highest decision-making level, and they only need to communicate, record, handle, and listen to orders.

In fact, these officials, as long as they have basic common sense, can read and hyphenate words, and can get started with a little experience.

But because it is a central official position, the identity is different, it is conducive to promotion, and it has always been mastered and monopolized by scholars, and even the children of the poor family rarely touch it, let alone these mud legs.

But now, here they are.

Wearing the official uniform of a central official, he looks like a human being, but the feeling of bitterness and hatred piled up with folds on his face cannot be erased, and he is incompatible with the arrogant and elegant soldiers.

But they replaced the arrogant and elegant scholars, settled in the central government office in a grand manner, began to work and study******* and issued an order, so that the officials at all levels should lead these new officials well, tell them what to do and what not to do, let them take over these positions, and quickly restore the normal operation of governments at all levels, and the imperial court still has to do things.

There are more than a few people who are stupid at this time.

They finally realized that when the scholars revolted, the emperor did not do nothing.

The emperor even more simply tore up the political contract with the scholars, and directly [imported] these absolutely obedient mud-legged people from the local government to take over the central positions.

The Emperor did not intend to compromise from the very beginning, but decided to go to the end, and took this opportunity to take them to the end.

The emperor only stabilized a small number of middle- and high-level officials in the central court, so that the center of the court did not stop functioning, and continued to maintain its operation, and then replaced the vast majority of middle- and lower-level scholars and officials.

The Great Change.

The previous ultimatum was the last chance given to them by the emperor.

Those who come back are not guilty of the past, they can still be promoted and raised, and they will be praised and encouraged, and those who don't come back will never come back.

The scholars set off a rebellion, openly opposed the emperor, and also disrupted the social order in Luoyang, which completely angered the emperor.

In silence, the emperor tore up all political contracts, broke with the scholar class, and let go of the suppression of the scholars and purged the scholars.

The emperor made a move.

The first move is to split, and the second move is to bring in reinforcements.

The scholars felt that they were irreplaceable.

But in fact, there are too many Li Shu officials who have accumulated rich administrative experience in the local area over the years and have nowhere to be promoted, so they can only go around.

Moreover, most of them have received a certain degree of education in Taixue, and there is no problem in reading and hyphenating, and the things that the low-level officials of the central government have to do can fully undertake.

These petty officials held by the second- and third-rate scholars, who accounted for the largest number of scholars, had no technical barriers at all, but were artificially set up with blood barriers and monopolized.

In terms of administrative level and experience, which of these grassroots officials who have been going around in the local area for more than 10 years is not better than them?

It's just that the status is humble and cannot be promoted.

In the county, township, and village governments, it is impossible to go up to the county level, the state level, and even the central level.

This is an eternal pain in the hearts of Li Shu officials, and many people die depressed in this helpless expectation.

But they finally got hope.

The total number of officials and officials of the Wei Empire increased after the victory of Guo Peng in the war in the fifth year of Yande.

The reason is that Guo Peng opened up a promotion channel for Li Shu to be a county-level chief official and a county-level auxiliary official, so in the sixth year of Yande, a large number of Li Shu officials were promoted to serve as county-level chief officials and county-level auxiliary officials.

Positions in the frontier areas that no one has been doing for a long time have also been filled.

Guo Peng promoted more than 300 Lishu county magistrates to go to various frontiers, such as Jingnan, southern Yangzhou, western Yizhou, Pingzhou, Mozhou, and western Liangzhou.

They also brought with them an entire administrative team to enrich the administrative power of the frontier and strengthen the Wei Empire's control over the frontier.

As a result, a large number of positions have been vacated in the interior, and a new batch of Li Shu officials have been promoted to appointments.

When the overall number of officials in the Wei Empire increased, it was natural that a large number of petty officials with grassroots work experience would also be produced.

These people used to suffer from having no upward channel, but this time, they are no longer suffering.

The scholar's behavior gave Guo an excellent excuse to tear up the political contract.

Guo never thought that he would make mistakes, because the emperor would not make mistakes, so only the scholars made mistakes.

Therefore, the soldiers who did not return during the ultimatum did not have to return.

Their positions were replaced, and so was their presence.

The emperor further opened up the channels for the rise of Li Shu officials and directly introduced them to the central government.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Zhao and some officials of the Ministry of Officials were shaking their hands when they were rushing to sign these appointment documents day and night.

There was no such thing in their consciousness, although they were close to the emperor, and had always been regarded as an extension of the imperial power and a minion, an eagle dog dedicated to serving the emperor.

Despite this, they never felt anything bad, because they got all the power and benefits, and the others were just jealous of them.

But this wave, they really don't understand, they don't know how the emperor could do this, how he has the courage and courage to do this.

More than 2,000 people, more than 2,000 officials were replaced as a whole, and all those who participated in the rebellion to the end were all held accountable by the emperor, and none of them were spared.

The Emperor's hand was so big that they couldn't believe it.

Li Shu, those mud-legged people, actually directly replaced the positions of the scholars.

They are filling in, and the officials' biggest reliance has lost their threatening effect.

Finished.

The officials of the Ministry instinctively felt frightened and did not dare to write and sign the order, Zhang Zhao's forehead was full of sweat, and his hands were shaking.

But the crown prince himself sat in the ministry, and there were many black-armored forbidden troops around him, so he was staring at it.

Two people questioned it slightly, Guo Jin's face was cold, and with a wave of his hand, the two were directly dragged out and became part of the opponents, waiting for them to end their political careers.

Dare to object?

As a result, all the opposition soldiers were dismissed from their official positions.

Not only them, but also those students who did not return to class in the end of the trouble.

He was abolished for life, abolished as a concubine, not allowed to enter school, not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, and could only be a peasant from now on.

Their names are on the blacklist, and Guo plans to directly gather them and send them to Mozhou in the future, Mozhou is now short of money and people, and they are very much needed to build and support.

A small part of this group of people were officials, and a large part of them were scholars in Taixue, probably more than 5,000 people.

Of these more than 5,000 people, not a single one can escape.

Because Guo knows what they will do.

Therefore, the largest political storm since the founding of the Wei Empire has begun.

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