Guo Peng's attitude made some officials confused, and also made some officials feel that the emperor was just pretending to be mysterious and ready to compromise.

So another group of people joined the resistance queue.

They made public remarks that they opposed Xu Jing's proposal, demanding that the emperor remove Xu Jing, stop the investigation into the prosecutors and reopen the prosecutors.

Not long after, it was around the eighth day of the September 19th, and the county magistrates who were closer to Luoyang began to report the report.

They expressed their serious concern for Xu Jing's proposal, and they hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would not be deceived by the slanderous ministers and should stick to his initial attitude.

They believed that the recommendation was the masters' method and an important talent selection mechanism. They suddenly abolished the strange imperial examination, which was completely Xu Jing's whim.

They attacked Xu Jing as a person who betrayed his old master and was unfaithful and unrighteous. He should be dismissed or even killed. How could he steal the position of Minister of Rites?

A group of local county magistrates who were born in scholars began to react to this matter.

They also felt the huge lethality of the imperial examination system to them and decided to firmly oppose it.

At the same time, they learned through various channels that the scholar-in-law protest movement was taking place in Luoyang and were very excited.

They felt that the scholars who had been concessions step by step in the face of imperial power have finally straightened their backs. They fought against imperial power head-on for the first time, and showed an attitude of never giving in.

This is a good thing, and it is a good thing anyway.

Scholars should bravely stand up against the imperial power, limit the imperial power, and put the evil imperial power in a cage!

Only by putting the imperial power in a cage can their power be demonstrated, they can replace the imperial power, become the real masters of this country, do whatever they want.

Therefore, the imperial power must be restricted. Since the founding of the Wei Empire, the emperor's increasingly powerful power must be completely restricted in this wave!

Crisis and crisis, there is opportunity only if there is danger!

Hold on!

With Luoyang as the center, scholars and county magistrates who were conveying the news all felt that this was a great opportunity.

Except for a few scholars and county magistrates, they felt something was wrong.

They felt that the emperor's reaction was not strong enough and might have a backup plan. They also hesitated because of their relationship with the emperor and their future.

However, more scholars and county magistrates expressed their dissatisfaction and asked the emperor to consider the people's hearts and the voices of the vast majority of scholars to stop this dangerous behavior.

After external support was conveyed to Luoyang, the resistance in Luoyang City was further escalated.

In order to better carry out the coordinated movement, Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and others agreed to elect the Huan family, the only one among the five major legal families who had not married the royal family, as the leader.

Together, they elected Huan Dian as their leader, leading them to fight against imperial power and talk to the emperor.

Three major demands—

First, dismiss Xu Jing and kill Xu Jing, the "old thief" who harmed the country and the people.

Second, stop changing the inspection system and restore everything to its original state.

Third, stop reviewing the enrollment of the senators and keep all those who have been found to have any problems.

No one can be left behind.

If we don’t have one left, we will not stop this all-round confrontation. Let’s see if the state machine cannot operate, will we still be your emperor?

Huan Dian was actually quite hesitant. After the incident happened before, he was excluded from the core decision-making circle. He only realized everything in one step, and he was particularly frightened.

Now facing this kind of thing, he became even more uneasy.

He instinctively felt that he could not do this leader, and could not take the scholars to find the emperor for power. This was a clear challenge to the imperial power, and once it angered Guo Peng...

Huan Dian understands how much Guo Peng cares about power.

He also knows how strong Guo Peng is.

He doesn't want to be a typical one.

He instinctively feared the imperial power and the emperor with supreme prestige.

In this matter, he originally wanted to be a turtle with a head-shifting turtle, but seeing more and more people in this family were motivated and screamed, he could not control the Huan clan members to join the protest army.

In the end, Huan Dian was forced to agree to everyone as the leader and submit a petition to the emperor on behalf of everyone, slightly restraining the scholars' excessive actions and asking His Majesty the Emperor to agree to their request.

I agreed and everything returned to its original state.

If they do not agree, they will continue to strike, strike, and even further impact on the daily order in Luoyang, such as controlling family industries to strike the market.

Very good, they can learn the skills of fighting without a teacher, and they have all been troubled by all three strikes.

After receiving the petition submitted by Huan Dian, Guo Peng laughed loudly, feeling that the time was almost right, so he announced the convening of an enlarged meeting of the imperial front.

All the main leaders of the main departments in the court participated in this meeting, and all the officials at the level of the minister and above participated in the meeting.

The meeting content is very simple.

As the emperor, Guo Peng asked them to make their own remarks as quickly as possible, supported Xu Jing's policy of "abolition of the recommendation and establishment of the imperial examination", expressed his attitude, and called on officials who participated in the protest to return to work immediately.

If you don't come back, the consequences will be really serious. To be honest, it's really serious.

Some officials breathed a sigh of relief and realized that the emperor was finally going to take action.

Some officials were nervous and realized that the emperor was about to take action.

But they didn't quite understand why the emperor took action now.

But there is no doubt that Xu Jing is the gangster who charges for the emperor, and all this is what the emperor requires.

Faced with the demands of scholars, His Majesty the Emperor, who had always been good at compromising, would never compromise this time and would completely go against the scholars. It seemed that he had already prepared to fight to the death.

The emotions of senior officials and nobles are very complicated.

However, this does not prevent the officials from the poor from making remarks immediately to the outside world, supporting Xu Jing, supporting the policy of [abolition of the recommendation and establishment of the imperial examination], and expressing their support with a clear standpoint.

The poor officials, led by Cao Cao, expressed their opinions and remarks to the outside world, and called on all officials to come back to work immediately and stop mingling with those troublemakers, otherwise the consequences would be serious.

The situation of scholars and officials is relatively complicated.

However, a group of people led by Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, Tian Feng, Cheng Yu, Guo Hong and others still stood on the emperor's side without hesitation.

They decisively expressed their opinions to the outside world and expressed their absolute support for Xu Jing.

As royal relatives, emperor relatives, or very unusual relationships, they will never suspect that the emperor will ignore their interests. Even if the imperial examination is held, they will have interests guaranteed.

So they don't hesitate or worry.

The four great masters, Kong Xian, Yuan Si, Xun You, and Jia Kui, finally publicly expressed their attitude. They did not mention the previous rumors, but only said that they absolutely supported the imperial examination.

The conflicts between these people and the final choice of sides have always been within Guo's expectations.

Just like every change before, they did not really fall down every time, and did not really become the people who were eliminated, but could still gain some benefits.

Changes to imperial examinations may not be a bad thing for those of them who already occupy a high position.

And if you oppose His Majesty the Emperor...

I can't imagine what kind of treatment they will face.

Even if the emperor finally compromises, they will be killed by the emperor before the emperor can compromise.

It is the others who benefit, not them, who have to devote themselves to paving the way for others.

A fool can do it!

The remaining group of bureaucrats were from orthodox scholars, but as Guo Peng's old officials and confidants, he took them up and occupied a high position in the court, possessing power, and was reluctant to part with all this.

On the one hand, it is to cut off the scholars and be regarded as traitors of scholars from then on, and will lose the benefits gained under the system of recommendation.

But on the other hand, if you do not obey the emperor's orders and the outcome is unknown, you will definitely lose your existing power and status.

I really can't bear to let go, I can't bear to let go at all.

More importantly, they did not know whether the struggle of scholars would win, especially when the emperor made a statement that he would never compromise or even had to reverse it.

The emperor has been victorious all the time, both in military and political terms.

Yes, the emperor seems to be winning forever, and as long as he can do it, he will definitely do it.

Should we abandon everything and oppose him now, face a very likely outcome that will fail in the end, or will we turn our backs on our fellow scholars and choose to completely support the emperor, but will we lose the privilege of being a scholar?

In this dilemma, Zhang Zhao, the Minister of Personnel, was the first to make the choice.

He publicly announced his support for Xu Jing's strategy and supported the [abolition of the recommendation and establishment of the imperial examination], believing that the recommendation system has failed and it is time to choose a new system to replace the recommendation system.

The imperial examination system proposed by Xu Jing, which was derived from the Talent Ceremony, is a feasible system. Once this system is established, it will surely bring a new future to the Wei Empire.

Following Zhang Zhao, Zao Zhi and Wang Can jointly make comments to the public.

They expressed their support for Xu Jing's policy, believing that the recommendation system has entered a new era now, and the abandonment rate of three-fifths of the recommendation is enough to prove that all the recommendations are waste.

If the imperial examination is not abolished at this time, it is completely abolition of the imperial examination, which is more feasible, then it is completely a matter of not taking the foundation of the Wei Empire seriously, which is equivalent to rebelling.

This statement is a little more imposing than Zhang Zhao's.

After Zao Zhi and Wang Can made remarks, Minister of Foreign Affairs Xin Pi, Minister of Justice Guo Yi, Minister of Justice Dong Zhao, Minister of War Dong Zhao, also joined forces to make remarks to the outside world.

They also believe that the recommendation system has failed, and now a new system has been chosen to replace the failed system after implementation.

Although Xu Jing lacks personal morality, he does not lack public morality. His proposal is public sentiment and should not be cursed and slandered so viciously. They not only support Xu Jing, but also demand that those who maliciously slander Xu Jing be severely punished.

This is more intimidating than the statements of Zao Zhi and Wang Can.
To be continued...