Guo Peng analyzed the current situation for Xu Jing a little.

He wants Xu Jing to know that there is crisis and opportunity.

If you want to discover opportunities in a crisis, seize opportunities, move forward bravely, and break through desperate situations, then what appears before him is vitality.

Only by breaking through the desperate situation can we usher in a new future, and a new future will definitely be better for him.

As long as he can rush over.

He rushed over with the scholars.

Xu Jing was stunned for a long time.

"Is it true that what Your Majesty said... abolish the recommendation and establish a new one?"

"real."

Guo Peng nodded: "Didn't you say it? Now it's a dead end. If you want to break the dead end, you have to use a method that can subvert anyone's cognition. You don't say that it's amazing and never stop. Use a bigger set of dead ends to break the dead end, force them to fight you to the decisive battle, and then you win, so you will break the dead end."

Seeing Guo Peng's words sounded so convincingly, Xu Jing really wanted to die immediately.

Abandoned the recommendation...

Your Majesty, please let me die soon. I really don’t dare to see what else will happen behind me...

Xu Jing knelt down again.

"Your Majesty, you cannot take action. Your Majesty, if you want to take action, you are going against all the scholars in the world. The foundation of the country will be shaken, and the country will not be able to support it, Your Majesty!"

Xu Jing even had a little crying voice in his words.

Mr. Guo shook his head, thinking that Xu Jing was really too cowardly.

"Xu Qing, who told you that the foundation of the country's dynasty is a scholar? The foundation of the country's dynasty is not a scholar. Do you think I don't know about this? I have said this to this point. What else do you want me to say? Xu Qing, don't tell lies."

Xu Jing suddenly stopped talking.

"Don't mention this kind of statement again. It's okay to deceive ignorant outsiders. Is it that you are stupid or I am stupid? Now that things have come to this point, do you think you will be accepted by those scholars again? Xu Jing, you have been abandoned, and you are no longer regarded as scholars!"

Guo Peng's stern reprimand shocked Xu Jing.

He knew that what Guo Peng said was right.

He has been abandoned.

To put it bluntly, he can no longer continue to be mixed in the group of scholars as a scholar.

If a scholar had a status symbol, his status symbol would be gone.

In fact, he is no longer regarded as a scholar.

As a scholar who is no longer a scholar, he can no longer consider issues from the perspective of scholars.

Xu Jing suddenly realized this.

"Your Majesty, old minister..."

"Xu Qing, remember, even if you want to do something for them, they will make you die. Your son, your grandson, and your descendants will not survive and will all die."

Guo Peng held Xu Jing's hand: "The only thing you can rely on is me. If I don't protect you, what do you think they will treat you?"

Xu Jing was stunned for a while.

Yes, that's right.

Now everyone wants him to die. Only Guo Peng and the emperor can rely on.

Only the emperor can keep him alive.

But wasn’t all this caused by you? Your Majesty?

What exactly are you going to do?

Xu Jing's heart was filled with grief and anger.

"Your Majesty, the recommendation is related to the advancement of all scholars as officials. If your Majesty makes changes to the recommendation easily, and once the scholars feel threatened, this matter... will really not end. Moreover, although there are problems with the recommendation, it is also a good way to select talents!"

Xu Jing wanted to live, but he was also afraid of change and was even more worried that he would become the victim.

Guo Peng knew what he meant.

"So, if you change the recommendations, there must be some new ways to select talents."

Guo Peng nodded: "Xu Qing, I don't know if you have ever heard that when I was still in Yecheng, I held a ceremony for more than a thousand scholars. There were many scholars who took the exam that time, and the grand occasion was unprecedented."

Xu Jing looked up at Guo Peng.

"I heard a little that there are officials in the Ministry of Rites who have passed the ceremony of the Talent and Talent, and they still often mention that grand occasion."

"Well, I think that's good, normal, and replace the recommendation."

"ah?"

Xu Jing didn't react at once.

"What? I am still savoring the matter of the Talent Ceremony. I think it is really good. By gathering together for the exam, I did select a group of talents. Those groups of talents have achieved their own results now, and anti-corruption has rarely been involved in the past years.

So I feel that it is best to choose the best in such a way. Compared with the method of local officials' recommendation and then the re-examination of the public government, this method is more intuitive and effective, and can better select talented real talents. Xu Qing, what do you think?"

Xu Jing said I don’t know what the use of telling me about this?

"Your Majesty, the old minister knows very little about this..."

"It doesn't matter. I'll ask Su Yuan to send you some materials later. You can study it a little, and then you will submit a report to me and say, you suggest that you reform the official selection system."

Xu Jing was stunned, and then immediately widened his eyes.

Is the emperor going to use him as a knife?

"Your Majesty, I..."

Guo Peng ignored him.

"You think, the examination is to investigate first, and then the examination is to be held. The re-examination of the government does not dismiss the filial and honest people. Recommendation is the most important. The examination is only by the way. However, the talent discussion ceremony I conducted before was dismissed, so the examination is the most important, and the focus of the two is different.

The reform direction of the recommendation is to change the recommendation as the main one to the examination, cancel the recommendation from local officials, and allow students to register by themselves, and then take the examination in a unified manner. The examination can also be divided into different subjects, just like filial piety, talented, virtuous and upright, and to select students in different subjects. Well, it is called the imperial examination."

Guo Peng clapped his hands happily as if he had just created a new system.

Imperial Examination?

Xu Jing swallowed, but it could not relieve the dryness of his throat.

The re-examination of the Gongfu was a little shocking in the era when Zuo Xiong was just founded.

However, after Zuo Xiong, the re-examination of the Gongfu was purely a decoration and had no effect of being demoted. It was just a symbolic meaning, telling the emperor that I had an assessment for selecting people.

That's all.

The most important thing in the recommendation system is the recommendation of local officials, which is the recommendation of prefecture and county chiefs. Only with recommendations can one become an official. Only with recommendations can one have the opportunity to organize their own political forces.

This point was not changed at the initial imperial examination. If you want to participate, you need to recommend it. The Sui and Tang dynasties were similar, and it was not changed until the late Tang dynasty.

What Guo Peng wants to do is called reform, but it is actually to change the world. He will change the most important recommendation link, and will mainly take the exam, and also allow students to register freely. This...

This is so fatal.

Needless to say, county-level officials are not qualified to be filial and honest, so county magistrates and state governors have the qualifications to recommend talents. More than 70% of those who serve as county magistrates and state governors are scholars.

Even if the emperor dismissed most of the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws, and the rest were taken to central schools and replaced private schools with public schools, it was a blow to the top scholars, and the fundamental power of scholars was still there, and most of the local officials who held the power to report and prosecute were scholars.

They could completely control the imperial official positions in this way and suppress the power of poor bureaucrats with less than 30% of the share.

The emperor wanted to promote the imperial examination, remove the important power of recommendation, and change it to a simple examination to decide whether to admit scholars to be officials. This was completely digging out the foundation of the monopoly of scholars.

Without monopoly power and qualifications, the group of scholars will decline sooner or later. They will no longer be arrogant and will be qualified to be an official at birth.

And we have to pass the exam and compete with more poor students and even those who come from common people.

It would be strange if they agreed!

Your Majesty, you might as well let me die!

Xu Jing's heart was full of desolation.

If I say such words and make such reforms, I am afraid I will really not be able to survive!

Seeing that Xu Jing did not answer for a long time, Guo Peng felt that it was necessary to continue to hit him.

"Xu Qing, the outside world is bustling, and everyone wants you to die, but I don't want to, I can't bear to leave it, but if you are determined to be martyr, I can't do anything."

This is a naked threat, without any concealment, which made Xu Jing shudder all over.

The tragic moment that had just been filled with heart suddenly disappeared without a trace. Xu Jing realized that if he was really willing to die, he would not have betrayed Liu Zhang and fled over the wall.

He is just an ordinary person who is greedy and afraid of death.

Helping the emperor may not necessarily die, but helping scholars will die immediately.

In the face of this dilemma, Xu Jing just hesitated for a moment and chose to turn to the emperor's arms - no matter how scholars would not forgive him, he had only one choice, that is, the emperor.

Then, Mr. Guo once again started his old career - director.

Xu Jing was fortunate to become the number one male lead in this drama.
To be continued...