For scholars, they have always been in high positions, and they can easily get official positions.

As a result, there was a sudden imperial examination, and you had to rely on the examination to become an official, and if you didn't study hard and take the exam, you couldn't become an official, which ......

It's nothing, but you have to compete with the poor people and even those mud-legged people on the same stage......

Do they deserve it too?

The emperor is a bit excessive.

They also know that Xu Jing is a ghost who charges ahead, specializing in attracting hatred, and the emperor is the manipulator behind the scenes.

The present wave was only a test to test the views of the ministers, especially those who held the power, and the Emperor attached great importance to their views.

Cheng Yu remembered that the emperor insisted on convening the meeting of the Yellow Dragon Palace.

Tian Feng remembered that the emperor forcibly deposed nine of the family laws.

Xi Zhong remembered that the emperor personally determined the Five Classics of the Sage Law.

Yuan Si remembered the punctuation thing.

Xun You remembered the emperor's abolition of private schools and public schools.

Kong Xian remembered that the emperor had allocated money from Neicuri to assist the local government in restoring and rebuilding the school palace and school.

………………

Think of the previous emperor's wave of operations, and then link these operations together, and summarize them to the present!

The high-ranking officials gasped one after another—they suddenly felt that this set was clearly a series of punches made by the emperor.

The Emperor had already finished the previous punches before, and had achieved considerable results, and now he had gathered all his strength in the final punch, ready to decide the victory with one punch.

How long ago did His Majesty the Emperor start planning this move?

This is clearly interlocking and progressive, and whenever they think that the Emperor may end here, His Majesty the Emperor will sneer and tell them that this is just the beginning.

And that's not all!

And so the wave began again.

Tian Feng rushed into the official office of Shangshutai and looked at Cheng Yu, who had a deep personal grievance.

"Did you know beforehand?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know."

"What do you think?"

"What do you think?"

The two looked at each other without saying a word.

"What do you want to say?"

"You say what you want to say first."

"I don't dare say anything."

"Me too."

The two looked at each other again without saying a word.

They really don't dare to say anything, and for them, if they want to say something, it's really too dangerous.

Cheng Yu has to think about himself and his family.

Tian Feng also has to think about himself, his family, and Tian Rou.

In the core decision-making level, once they go against the emperor, or on this kind of issue, the problem will be quite serious, and they don't dare.

After thinking about it, the two didn't dare to say anything after all, so they decided to continue to wait and see the situation.

They didn't agree with it in their hearts, but they didn't dare to show it directly, they could only watch the development of the situation and sit back and watch the success or failure-

As long as the emperor did not explicitly ask them to take a stand, they did not speak.

Or that the situation has not reached that point, and they will not speak.

Xi Zhong, Xun You and Guo Jia discussed this matter in private, acquiesced to each other's development of this matter, and decided to continue to wait and see and not say anything.

Guo Hong and Qiao Rui naturally didn't say a word, they felt that no matter what the emperor did, he would not harm the interests of his family.

The scholars and waiters of Shangshutai, you look at me, I look at you, I don't dare to put a fart.

No one understands better than them how strong the emperor's power and coercion are, and to go against such an emperor is purely an old birthday star hanging, and he is tired of it.

But the situation is really ......

Anyway, the people below are surging, and the waves of resistance are wave after wave.

They didn't dare to speak, so they just waited and saw how it would end for the better.

The core decision-makers of the Guo Wei Empire decided to collectively remain silent, wait and see the situation, and then see what the outcome is.

Except for one Xu Jing, who became the vanguard, the entire upper-level leadership organization of the Guo Wei regime was silent due to scruples about its own status and contradictions in their hearts.

Right now, just looking at Luoyang City, a large number of middle- and low-level scholars and officials have reached a consensus with the scholars in Taixue and realized the series.

They are very loud.

Among them, Wei Shen Langzhong of the Ministry of War, Qu Chu, a member of the Ministry of Industry, Qi Yuan Langzhong of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Ma Miao, director of the Ministry of Finance, were the main speakers and organizers.

They collaborated with each other to organize protests and established an effective protest command system.

They walked in the streets and alleys to publicize Xu Jing's crimes, slandered them, and scandalized them, and put many things that had nothing to do with them on Xu Jing's head.

Things that didn't exist in the first place can be said vividly, just like when they came to the scene to observe.

Especially after the news of Xu Jing's suggestion that the emperor [abolish the imperial examination and establish the imperial examination] spread, this wave of opposition to Xu Jing quickly climbed to a new peak.

In addition to the mental blow, the blow has risen to the physical level.

Xu Jing's residence in the capital was besieged by scholars, who besieged Xu Jing's mansion with stones, clods of earth, wood, etc., so frightened that Xu Jing's family closed the door and did not dare to go out.

The scholars were still angry, and attacked the gate of Xu Jing's mansion with sticks or large stones, trying to destroy the door of Xu Jing's house, rushing in to attack Xu Jing's family, and causing a lot of damage in his house, severely hitting his spirit.

This frightened Xu Jing's family to directly seal the gate and strengthen all exits, so as not to be really impacted by this group of crazy soldiers.

Xu Jing once asked the Luoyang County Commander to intervene in this matter, but the Luoyang County Commander, who was born as a scholar, saw that the limelight was not right, and felt that the emperor was likely to compromise, so he would not stand up to help Xu Jing share anything at this time.

So under the pretext that the road was congested and could not move forward, Luoyang County ordered to ignore the matter at all.

And in this chaotic stall, suddenly, a rumor about [Kong Yuan, Xun and Jia Si also participated in this plan and supported the emperor's policy of abolishing the imperial examination] suddenly spread among the scholars.

The protesters were shocked and indignant.

Led by Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and others, they quickly remembered that these four major families were able to marry the royal family after betraying the interests of those head families.

Some time ago, the wedding of the emperor's second son and Yuan's daughter mobilized the entire Luoyang City.

The other three families also married the emperor's family one after another, agreed on the date of marriage, and waited for the children to reach adulthood before they could get married.

These four families have also received the hereditary title guarantee of not downgrading, which can be said to be the treatment of retirement with the country.

This rumor tells everything with a nose and an eye.

It is said that in order to repay the emperor's kindness, and even obtain more benefits, the four major families took the initiative to assist the emperor in coming up with the policy of [abolishing the imperial examination], and then pushed Xu Jing out as a substitute for the dead ghosts, and they themselves watched the drama in a good way.

Because this thing is very reasonable, and it is very likely to happen, the scholars also widely believe that these four families have been bound to the royal family, so once this rumor became popular, it immediately became the [truth].

The soldiers who were originally besieging Xu Jing's mansion with all their might were divided into five routes.

One way stayed at the gate of Xufu to continue to attack the gate of Xufu, and the other four roads were led by Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, and Ma Miao, respectively, to Kong, Yuan, Xun, and Jia's mansion in Luoyang, and then started an angry siege without saying a word.

The people at the gates of the four major families looked at the annoyed soldiers with a bewildered expression, and were so frightened that they quickly closed the door and called for support.

Except for the Kong family, which was not directly attacked by the scholars because of their special status, the other three families were treated the same as the Xu Mansion.

Stones, clods of dirt, dirty water, ink and the like, smashing hard, spraying hard, shouting angrily and so on.

What despicable, shameless, ungrateful, crossing the river and demolishing bridges and the like, but a strong scolding.

There were also people who wrote articles on the walls of their mansions with pens, scolding these families for hypocrisy, betraying the interests of scholars to ask for merit from the emperor, wagging their tails and begging for mercy.

Because the Confucian Mansion had Confucius's protection, the scholars led by Wei Shen did not dare to commit violence, so they got a large portrait of Confucius painted on paper from somewhere, and carried it at the door of the Confucian Mansion.

Then a group of people sat quietly, staring angrily at the gate of the Confucian Mansion, and asked the people of the Confucian Mansion to come out and give them an explanation.

"The descendant of the dignified Confucius Saint, can he actually do such a reluctantly thing?"

They were under the leadership of Wei Shen, Wei Shen shouted, they shouted together, one sentence after another, the voice was loud and majestic, and they felt that this momentum was about to trample on the wall of the Kong family.

Wei Shen said, if Kong doesn't give an explanation, he won't leave, we will sit here and see when you come out.

The sudden outbreak of rumors and the incredible speed of the scholars' actions made the people of Kong, Yuan, Xun, and Jia all stunned when they learned about it.

We also only learned about this matter not long ago, we didn't know anything before, how did we help the emperor to come up with this policy?

We are also scholars, and we are also victims, okay?

How could we possibly assist the Emperor in such a thing?

Is the brain broken?

But it's useless, on this cusp, no matter what they say or how they express their position, the scholars will never believe it, they will only think that they are quibbling.

And if they come forward to clarify for themselves......

Well, the results can be imagined.

His Majesty the Emperor's plan to lead the way to the east was just right.

Xun You was the first to react, and then sent someone from the staff station to sneak home, let the family prepare for defense, block the gate, don't go out, rely on the food stored in the house to survive, don't worry about any danger, he will solve everything.

Then he was ready to live at the staff desk and not go home.

Anyway, when I go home at this time, I will definitely be surrounded by angry soldiers and beaten to death.

Xun You didn't know when he assisted the emperor in formulating this policy, but he knew that since this rumor had spread, wasn't it.

Therefore, he is already a betrayer in the eyes of the scholars.

Like Xu Jing, he was about to be expelled from the scholars, and the reputation of the Yingchuan Xun clan, which was already in danger, was completely ruined.

Xun You was a little sad.

But if he shows his sadness, he will not only be expelled from the ranks, but he will also become a dead man.

Therefore, he will only treat the matter with silence.

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