Although the emperor's actions are indeed rogue, the emperor is right.

This unspoken rule is an oral agreement, similar to a custom, without written rules, and it was operated for a long time before the founding of the country.

Therefore, after the founding of the country, Wei Lili had no law to stipulate that officials from civilized origins could not be allowed to reach high positions.

It’s just that everyone does this by default. After all, no one wants to bear such an inauspicious infamy.

It is impossible to do things like limiting others' path to rise in secret. If you do it openly and not only do it but also say it, it would be ugly.

Originally, everyone was tacit about each other and did this, and no one thought about violating it.

As a result, the emperor suddenly said that there was no law to make the case, which was to appoint Liu Di as the magistrate of Ye County.

To be honest, there are no problems with the program.

According to Liu Di's resume and contributions made, there was no problem in making him a county magistrate, and Wei Lu also supported him.

Not to mention the county magistrate, as long as he has enough credit and resume, Liu Di can theoretically hold any official position.

Even if he is the chief minister of the cabinet or the Shangshu Ling, he can take charge as long as he has made enough contributions.

There is never any clear regulation in the scope of the legislation of officials in Wei's law that restricts their origins. No matter what your origin is, in theory, you have the qualifications to be a high-ranking official, and there is no problem at all.

But the problem is that officials do not take Wei Lu seriously, but take the tacit unspoken rules between them and the emperor very seriously.

They believe that Wei Lu is just a rule that can be seen by people, and any rule that anyone can see must not be the most important. The most important rule is that it cannot be seen but exists invisible.

So what really matters is not what Wei Lu said, but what the emperor did.

Restricting the way for the children of the common people to become officials is an agreement between the emperor and the scholars before, which is equivalent to a political contract. This political contract was used to exchange the support of the scholars and more than ten years of service.

As a result, if you say no, you don’t want it now, it’s very dangerous.

This is a dangerous beginning.

If you can abolish this rule, you don’t need to make any agreement, then what else do you have to do that is even more incompatible with our agreement? Do you still need your political credibility as an emperor?

Tian Feng felt that this was a very dangerous signal. He felt that the emperor seemed to want to do something with this unprecedented huge victory.

Cheng Yu also felt that this was the emperor's tentative move, and he used Liu Di to test the scholars' bottom line to lay the foundation for a better breakthrough of this bottom line.

Xun You also felt that the emperor seemed not satisfied with the current political ecology and did not rest well after the war as everyone thought. The emperor seemed to want to make trouble.

Xi Zhong also felt that this matter seemed to be just a matter of whether a county magistrate was or not, but if it was really expanded, it would inevitably affect the operation of the entire Wei State officialdom.

Anyone with a little political awareness knows that this is the emperor's temptation. This matter is by no means simple, but...

No one dared to stand up and speak, no one dared to express the emperor's thoughts.

Today is different from the past.

Some people are anxious and want to stand up and say something, but their steps are not at all.

I wanted to do this in my heart, but my body was very honest and betrayed my will.

I don’t dare, I just don’t dare, I don’t dare.

Even though I knew I wanted to stand up and protect my own interests, I didn't dare because the emperor I faced had a little bit of invincible in the world.

Zhou Chen and the other two who stood up were immediately in an isolated situation.

Then, without surprise, became the emperor's focus of attack.

"The meritorious ministers will not give much reward. Will anyone do their best to do things for me in the future?"

"If such a thing happened, wouldn't anyone say behind the scenes that he was harsh on the heroes?"

"Gu Yi has always been clear about rewards and punishments. It is clear about what should be rewarded and what should be punished. Now you don't let Gu reward Liu Di. Do you want Gu to be ridiculed by people all over the world?"

"Or you are jealous of the virtuous and capable, and cannot tolerate those with noble moral integrity to ascend to the high position, so as not to hinder you from taking the opportunity to make profits?"

"When Gu thought that Gu was surrounded by you, he was shuddered! How could you have the heart and responsibility to be an official? If all the officials of Wei State were the same as you, the country would be a country without a country! In a few years, Gu would be the king of the destruction of the country!"

Then Guo Peng waved his hand and dismissed the four of them and rushed back to his hometown to farm.

With a few light words, Guo Peng removed the four accompanying officials who followed him to work in the Northern Expedition and rushed back to his hometown on the spot to seize all the treatment of officials.

And they will also be on the emperor's blacklist, and from then on, their political future will be very slim.

"If such a person is doing official duties by his side, he doesn't know that this is also a dereliction of duty. However, if he sends these people to his side, the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Personnel are responsible for sending them to the Minister of Rites. If he passes the orders, the Minister of Rites Xu Jing and the Minister of Personnel Zhang Zhao will each be fined one month for a warning."

"Abide by the order!"

Someone immediately implemented Guo Peng's order.

"Liu Di, from today on, you will be the county magistrate of Ye County, with a rank of one thousand stones. I hope you will do your best to serve the country in the future. I will never let anyone who does your best to serve the country be wronged, nor will you not get the reward you deserve."

The emperor did not give anyone else any chance. After the punishment was completed, he made the final decision and personally appointed Liu Di as the county magistrate of Ye County.

When Liu Di saw that Guo Peng had waived four people's official positions for his promotion, just to make him the county magistrate, he was immediately grateful and didn't know what to say. He could only kneel in front of Guo Peng to express his absolute loyalty to him.

"Your Majesty's great kindness is beyond my mind. I can only offer this body to Your Majesty and let your Majesty drive you!"

Those officials from civil background looked at Liu Di enviously and excitedly, each with their own thoughts.

Today is Liu Di, but tomorrow may not be them.

Times have changed. They no longer have to be suppressed below the county level, but have the possibility of further serving as chief officials to gain real power!

Liu Di is the first person, and they will also become the second and third person!

The fire of hope, which was about to be extinguished, began to burn again at this time.

Officials from poor families were in a mood to watch the show because this kind of thing did not involve them. Except for a few who were calm and quiet, most of the officials from scholars had their own ideas, and basically felt that this was not a good thing.

The emperor has only promoted a county magistrate now, what after?

After that, the emperor promoted three officials from civil backgrounds to the county magistrates of Bohai County, Qinghe County and Wei County, and promoted a group of county officials who made contributions to the county government.

Judging from this situation, the emperor seemed to plan to directly raise the level of civil officials, allow them to serve as county magistrates, and transfer them to the county government to serve as important auxiliary officials and assist the county magistrate in managing matters in a county.

This scope was suddenly expanded a little, and the channels for the promotion of civil officials were opened up a little.

This makes some people a little nervous, worried, and unhappy.

Nowadays, my ancestors have never been a county magistrate, so I feel embarrassed to call myself a poor family.

In any poor family, at least one of the ancestors of several generations was a county prefect, a two thousand stone official.

Not to mention the descendants, but at least with this scale, they can be called poor families. Otherwise, they would be just a simple local tyrant, and they could only be kings and domineering local officials.

However, in the opinion of scholars, there is no difference.

Now I just let Lishu be the county magistrate, which is not up to the standard of a poor family, but there are one or two things like this. Who knows when the emperor took a whim to promote the upward channels of his subordinates to the prefecture and county level?

In that case, can a vassal official be a two thousand stone official?

Can a group of officials who have all the ancestors who don’t know a single word can be officials of two thousand stones?

Not to mention what scholars think, some officials from poor families are also surprised and slightly unhappy about this.

I feel like my identity has been shaken.

Mud legs are the most humble and disrespected, and are not worthy of being called the people. Most rulers are not even humans in their eyes, but just tools of production, and they are not as valuable as a cow and a horse.

Now Guo Peng actually has the tendency to make them the magistrate of the Two Thousand Stones?

What exactly does the emperor want to do?
Chapter completed!