The observation system is the core interest of the ruling agent class that can maintain status and existence.

Compared with the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws, the system of recommendation that includes the entire scholar class is obviously more important.

There is no family of inheritance of the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws, the group of scholars is still there, and their overall political interests are still there, but there are only a few top families who usually act as a domineering blessing.

The scholars with low rank themselves were also dissatisfied with the top families and had malice towards them. The emperor dealt with them, and the second- and third-rate little gentry were even a little happy.

You can't even think about what I can't get. Everyone is equal. Next, I will have the opportunity to step on your head.

Therefore, the little gentry, without exception, were unwilling to cause trouble with the top families in those places, and adopted a defensive and supportive attitude towards all the emperor's actions.

So for several months, the emperor easily suppressed their troubles.

In February this year, the emperor even sent people to search the ancestral homes of these families, confiscated all the texts of the family law bamboo slips they hid, and collected them in Luoyang.

Guo Peng has created a new way of burning books and burying scholars in the new era, and used force to cut off the possibility of these families continuing to [demonize people's hearts].

Yes, in order to prevent these top scholars from being taught or resurrected, Guo Peng was also angry that these guys were causing trouble in the local area, so he sent someone to the door.

A large number of armed personnel went directly to their homes to snatch all the bamboo slips related to the Five Classics and Family Laws collected by their family and transported them directly to the Luoyang Library for collection.

Then someone will be sent to monitor them. Once some people in their clan have good memory try to write and restore the Five Classics and Family Laws that they pass on from their family, they will directly destroy them, arrest those who have good memory, and cut off their possibility of inheriting family law.

Such a blow actually made a considerable number of second- and third-rate little gentry feel happy.

They felt that the emperor had avenged them, and had severely humiliated these head families who had been domineering in the past, and gave them a sigh of anger, so they were very happy.

Mr. Guo couldn't understand this feeling.

I attack scholars in order.

First, start the attack from the head scholar family, then slowly expand the attack surface, and finally the entire scholar part.

Now I am uniting you, but soon I will hit you, don’t you know?

They really don't know.

So in April of the seventh year of Yande, after suppressing all the top scholar families and stabilizing the situation, Guo began to expand the attack surface, change the joint target, and change the target target.

Revolutionary action enters deep waters.

He was going to start uniting with his confidant scholars and bureaucrats, poor bureaucrats, royal relatives, and lower-level civil officials to start to deal with the scholar class.

The object is naturally the system of recommendation that scholars completely control and rely on for survival.

In April of the seventh year of Yande, the Chenliu Xiaolian case broke out, which triggered a series of chain reactions.

Emperor Guo Peng was furious and forced the government to send an investigation team to various places to investigate the filial, honest, virtuous, and upright character and academic level of various places, and conduct a comprehensive survey of the qualities of the qualities of the senators.

In order to investigate at home, eunuchs from the inner court were even sent as supervisors to forcibly promote the investigation.

A few months later, three-fifths of the stewards were found to have problems.

So the scholars were stunned.

If there is no indication or the emperor makes trouble, their political interests will be challenged, and their political interests cannot be guaranteed and their fundamental interests will be shaken, which is something they cannot tolerate.

With the lessons learned from the past, the scholars and bureaucrats who were very painfully troubled by Mr. Guo immediately became alert.

But the emperor seemed to have no idea of ​​giving in.

Looking at Xu Jing, who was pale and unable to say a word, the emperor was still sarcastic.

"Xu Qing, how much do you want Gu to be the king of a country that is destroyed? Ah? One after another, one is unfilial and uninhibited, one is given to Gu, one is given here, one is given there, one is given to Shangshutai, one is given to the Censorate, and one is given to the cabinet, right?

Since the second year of Yande, how many unfilial and untrust have the Ministry of Rites sent to the side of the house? During these days, there were seventy or eighty problems found out. If you continue to investigate, there would be no seven or eight hundred? You can do it!"

Seeing Guo Peng gathering fire on Xu Jing, the rest of the officials were in a complicated mood.

They did hate Xu Jing and Xu Jing, thinking that Xu Jing had no moral integrity and was the emperor's lack of power. However, it has to be said that Xu Jing was an important figure in maintaining the system of recommendation and the power he held was also an important part of the system of recommendation.

Just like Cui Yan back then.

Xu Jing was probably too afraid of being held accountable by the emperor, so he shivered and directly touched the ground with his head.

"Your Majesty! Old minister... The old minister has only been the Minister of Rites for two years. These... these people are not all selected by the old minister, but also... there are also the crimes of the former Minister of Rites Cui Yan!"

Obviously, Xu Jing was too scared, because he was too scared, so he brought Cui Yan out to try to disperse the blame.

This action immediately made many colleagues dislike Xu Jing and looked down upon him. They frowned and looked at him with a very disgusting look.

Of course it is understandable that you are afraid, but not only are you afraid, you also have to drag your colleagues into the water, you...

Too shameless?

Who dares to be friends with you?

You are such a crazy man who can bite anyone to survive!

They made up their minds in their hearts that they would be far away from Xu Jing and completely isolated him, and then curse him to die sooner.

Old thief!

What an old thief!

An old thief who only cares about himself and ignores collective interests!

You are the biggest deceiving person!

That's the case, but when Xu Jing said this, Guo Peng remembered Cui Yan, who was forgotten by him, and a feeling of disgust surged into his heart.

"Oh, I remembered this when you said it."

Guo Peng nodded and said, "Yes, you took over not long ago. Before, Cui Yan was responsible for this matter. It seems that he gave more unfilial and untrust than you gave."

Guo Peng's tone was cold and there was no trace of emotion, and the bureaucrats suddenly had an ominous premonition.

The next day, on the seventh day of the eighth month, an imperial edict was issued.

The emperor dismissed thirteen county magistrates in succession and drove them back to their hometowns and never hired them, because they recommended them to be inhuman.

Two other county magistrates were found to have a relationship of interest transfer with the recommended person and used the state system to seek personal gain. They were ordered by the emperor to behead and their homes were confiscated and exiled.

It was not enough to deal with fifteen high-ranking officials of 2,000 stone in one breath. The emperor held Cui Yan, the former Minister of Rites, who was driven home, to be ordered to be sentenced to death and exiled to his family.

Cui was completely destroyed.

Xu Jing, the current Minister of Rites, was fined two years' salary.

Then he was asked to make meritorious contributions and immediately led an investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the archives of the prosecutors accumulated over the years. No matter what, he had to investigate it to the end and wipe out the dirt.

The results of this year's recommendation will be invalidated and officials who will not accept the results of the recommendation will not be accepted. Whether they are talented and virtuous or those who deceive the world and steal the reputation, they will be discussed after the specific results are released.

The emperor really wants to take action on the system of recommendation.

The scholars who realized this all secretly complained that things were becoming very difficult.

The other scholars with insufficient ranks could not notice this. They were just panicked about the fact that the results of this year's recommendation were invalidated and directly cancelled.

In short, not only Luoyang, but also the local area has also begun to get restless.

The county magistrates and governors of various states who were not affected also began to worry about whether they would be held accountable because of problems with the recommended person.
Chapter completed!