At this moment when the whole country celebrates that the emperor has completely wiped out the threat of the northern grasslands, some people have begun to worry about their future.

They began to suspect that the emperor would do something they would not want to see with the power of victory.

Once it comes true, their countermeasures are quite limited.

What they can rely on is nothing more than the monopoly position of the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws and a certain control over social and economic public opinion.

This was the absolute means they relied on for a living in the Eastern Han Empire.

But after history transitioned to the Wei Empire, all this seemed to have changed a little.

Their cultural monopoly position and social economy, politics and public opinion control have all been problematic and have become less reliable.

In the 20 years of the late Han Dynasty, the war more or less destroyed a group of scholars and powerful people, which brought about a certain change in the situation in the world. However, this change was not reliable and the degree was limited.

But Guo Peng used a lot of methods to keep these changes going, and he rolled bigger and bigger like a snowball, so big that it surprised some people.

Subsequently, the Wei Empire was established, and the scholars felt that some changes had occurred in their situation.

Politically, economically, and public opinion, it is difficult for them to confront the emperor who has a lot of resources.

The emperor had unprecedented resources, and he was caught very deadly and was difficult to violate.

At least before he died, it was difficult for scholars to take action against this part of what Guo Peng had mastered and could not swallow it.

But at least this can see hope.

He was mastered by Guo Peng for a while, and there was still a chance to obtain it later. As long as Guo Peng died, the descendants of emperors were not as powerful as him.

But cultural changes seem to be less simple.

If you want to be an official and to be a high-ranking official who truly holds power, you must pass through their system and follow the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws.

Under this system, if they cannot get their recognition, they will never really grasp the power and enter the political arena. This cannot be changed even by the emperor.

Because you really don’t have a national talent training method, and the methods and resources that can cultivate national talents are all in their hands, and the emperor has very limited control.

But because of [the demand of the times], the emperor bypassed their system a long time ago and set up another system himself.

Teach people to read in the grassroots villages, and then through the number of literacy, village chiefs and village heads are appointed, letting those mud legs manage themselves, and manage more than one hundred people, or three or five hundred people, or one or two thousand people.

Officials of this level do not need much ability or understanding the Four Books, Five Classics and Six Arts.

If you do well, you can be sent to the Imperial Academy and receive a certain degree of formal education in the Imperial Academy.

For example, the Five Classics and Family Laws.

But that one is relatively small and does not account for much proportion, because no one is willing to teach it.

The faculty resources of the Imperial Academy were not strong, and they were all relying on the famous mascot Situ Cai Yong to support the store, and barely recruited an education team.

This education team is completely invisible to the top gentry. They feel that these people are not even as good as their personal teachers and are not worthy of educating them at all.

Therefore, the children of scholars hardly went to the Imperial Academy.

Although these Imperial Academy teachers were so outstanding that they were appointed as doctors of the Five Classics by Guo Peng, they were not attracted by their eyes.

There are more than 3,000 students in the Imperial Academy, basically the poor and the children of the common people. In the eyes of scholars, this is a group of mud-legged local buns who are entertaining themselves and enveloping themselves.

However, some scholars also noticed that the things taught in the Imperial Academy are not ordinary.

This education team will teach some of the essence of the Five Classics to poor children and children of the common people in the Imperial Academy, but it is definitely not the main one. The meaning of the classics is just for them to know, that's all.

In addition, the main teaching content is arithmetic, which is water conservancy engineering and agriculture, how to deal with common farmers, how to prevent and control various disasters, etc.

The Taixue school is a more realistic education, and it is completely intended to train these people into capable grassroots officials and service officials, and does not think about cultivating many literary and classical masters from it.

The emperor did not want them to do things, and did not want them to master the meaning of scriptures, and would not even teach them what the meaning of words meant by minor words. He only let them know some of the things said by his ancestors, and then he began to teach them how to govern the land of a village, a township and a county.

To be precise, the emperor did not intend to train any senior officials, nor did he think about cultivating national-level talents. He just planned to train a group of middle and low-level officials to let them be officials at the grassroots level of the local government and control the local government.

As for the senior central leadership, the emperor seemed to not care and still let the advisory system do its own thing.

There are hundreds of people entering the Imperial College every year, and hundreds of people leaving. In the fourth year of Yande, more than one thousand people entering and more than five hundred people leaving. They all went to the local government to enrich the official team.

This is the reason why Guo Peng has the confidence to carry out large-scale anti-corruption campaigns on local grassroots officials, because he has enough grassroots personnel to fill it up, killing hundreds of low-level officials is no problem.

These people do not have the capital that scholars value, have not read the scriptures, do not understand the meaning of the scriptures, cannot enter the empire and gain important power, but have the ability to govern the local area and develop agricultural production. If they do well, they can basically stabilize the territory of a county.

Some scholars disagree with this.

They felt that these mud legs didn't even know what the meaning of the truth was, so they didn't mention moving upward, and would never become a high-level person.

However, some scholars with clear minds suggested that the emperor did not need to make a small statement in governing the grassroots of the country, as long as these people understand agricultural production and disaster prevention and control.

The emperor did not intend to cultivate high-level talents, but only planned to cultivate some grassroots talents to help him control the grassroots. As for the subtle meaning, the emperor didn't care at all.

This is not a good trend.

This reflects a certain idea of ​​the emperor and a certain way of governance.

But most scholars still don't care.

The emperor should not make a small statement. We should not train national talents.

If you want to gain a foothold in the central government, do you see whether he wants to learn the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws, and do you see whether he wants to understand what is a subtle meaning.

Without the education of higher ruling knowledge we have mastered, do you see if they can learn how to formulate national policies and how to grasp a country's policy direction.

Can a county govern the country?

This is indeed reality.

This cultivation model of the Imperial Academy is difficult to cultivate national-level talents unless his family is already in a high position and has his own education model for senior officials, such as the current group of poor officials.

Otherwise, you can only expect your talent.

If you don’t take the path of being a filial and honest person, if you don’t have a backstage, you won’t want to join the central government.

In this way, the selection system of senior and low-level officials of the Wei Empire seemed to have become two parallel lines that do not interfere with each other.

If scholars play with scholars, others play with their own at the grassroots level. They will never overlap with each other and will not interfere with each other.

This was nothing before.

Some scholars with clear minds suggested that this may cause their foundation to be unstable, and once they are completely separated from the local grassroots, some unexpected and terrible things may happen.

But most people laugh at this view.

They say that our foundation is the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws, which are severing sentences, and are unknown subtle meanings that have not been created in order to monopolize them.

Perhaps the sages themselves didn't know that every word they said could actually have so many meanings.

But it doesn't matter, they are dead, we say this is, then this is.

Who cares about the ancestors?

The more difficult it is, the more mysterious it is, the more difficult it is, and it is difficult to understand it, and the more convenient it is for our monopoly.

We are the high-ranking ones.

And those mud legs are vulgar people who roll down all day long, and this situation will never change.

The upper and lower flow will never merge!

Before the end of this war in Yande five years, this situation does not seem to change.

But after the war ended, this situation was broken.

The first batch of officials from the common people who served as county magistrates appeared.

This was directly appointed by the emperor through the court, and he used the supreme imperial power that Guo had strengthened after the great victory of the war, and no one dared to object.
Chapter completed!