The road from Yunzhou to Yizhou is not easy to walk.

Because this is a new road that has only been in more than two years since the renovation project began, it is completely inferior to the northern section of Shu Road from Yizhou to Yongzhou, which has been built for seven or eight years.

After walking out of the primitive jungle of Yunzhou and entering Yizhou, the road begins to be easier to walk, and the road under your feet becomes flat. There is no need to cross mountains and ridges, and there is no need to walk on bumpy roads.

When he embarked on this road, Le Jin seemed to have recovered some of his spirit and began to try to communicate with Tang Ze and inquire about his own affairs.

He really wanted to know how the private letter he wrote to Guo Jia was leaked.

Le Jin raised this question when he was resting at a certain inn.

Tang Ze had no idea about this.

"What can the general know? The letter was sent by the general on his own initiative. This matter is the general's crime in any case."

"I just want to know, of course, if I can't say it, forget it over there."

Le Jin looked at Tang Ze.

Tang Ze did not hesitate.

"The general wants to know, of course, it can. According to what I know, the letter was handed over to His Majesty by Guo Pushe, because Guo Pushe believes that the emperor's close ministers cannot have private contact with the generals in command, and there must be no private contact between the two."

Le Jin was stunned for a moment.

"real?"

"I don't need to deceive the general. I don't know the general or Guo Pushe. I'm just a villain."

Tang Ze shook his head: "What does the general want to view this matter? It is the general's business and has nothing to do with me. I will only explain the matter thoroughly. Next, I will carry out the task assigned to me by Your Majesty and bring the general back to Luoyang."

Le Jin took a deep breath.

He now has to believe that it was Guo Jia who caused all this, and it was Guo Jia who caused him to become a prisoner.

He just wanted to ask Guo Jia to say good things for him, but Guo Jia actually helped him to end now.

Thinking of the incident when he and Guo Jia worked together to attack Jingzhou and Yizhou, and thinking of the past, Le Jin couldn't help but sigh that the world was getting worse and worse, but people's hearts were not as good as ever.

The friend he thought was not his friend, but on the contrary, it became his death talisman.

Guo Fengxiao, I have no grudges and no grudges with you, why do you treat me like this?

Le Jin would not understand what Guo Jia wanted and was facing, and Guo Jia would definitely not forgive Le Jin's stupid behavior.

And Guo Jin has understood the fundamental purpose of all this.

"My father's move is just to make no outsiders in the court."

Guo Jin stood beside Guo Peng grind the ink for him.

Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"Now there can be no outsiders in the entire court. Except for Mr. Cai who has no real power, there is also Zixiao who has left. Except these two people, everyone must be a person in the game and cannot transcend the game, otherwise it will become a disaster for you."

Guo Jin smiled.

"It's just this time, Mr. Feng Xiao should be in a difficult situation."

"In a dilemma?"

Guo Peng smiled disdainfully: "He should have expected some things to let him be free for so long. Some things are not something he can do with wishful thinking. It would be too beautiful to think in the game and want to go beyond the game."

"Father, since this, General Le's problem has been solved, and even the problem of Duke Feng Xiao was solved. There are almost no problems in the government. What will my father do next?"

Guo Jin was still slowly grinding the ink.

"The next step is to release printing technology and let huge, cheap books that everyone can appreciate in the world."

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "Printing and papermaking will completely destroy the gentry into the bottomless abyss. From then on, even if you die for your father, there will be no more gentry reappearance. The imperial examination will surely be as stable as Mount Tai and will never be shaken again, but..."

“But what?”

Guo Jin stopped grinding the ink in his hand.

"But Ah Jin, you will face an opponent who is larger and more difficult to fight against than the gentry."

Guo Peng sighed: "We use them to squeeze out the gentry. Next, what you have to face is them, these officials who entered the court through the imperial examination and imperial examination bureaucrats."

"Are they more terrible than scholars?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng.

"Of course, they are more numerous than scholars, and there is a greater possibility of talent and elites. Scholars cannot recruit ordinary people for their own use, because scholars use blood as contact and look down on ordinary people at all. You can even use ordinary people to defeat them.

But the imperial examination bureaucrats themselves come from the common people. They are a whole, not relying on blood connections, but relying on imperial examinations, examination rankings, and regions of origin as the largest link. It is very difficult to deal with. It is several times more difficult to deal with them than to deal with scholars."

"Then...father, what should my son do?"

Guo Jin was very nervous.

"What to do, what to do, A Jin, you can't count on being a father in everything, let alone something like this that you don't know about being a father."

Guo Peng looked into the distance and shook his head slowly: "Scholars are not completely eliminated, because they use blood as a bond and are limited to some large monopoly families. They refuse to join the newcomers because this will reduce their profits.

They would rather intermarry internally and maintain their bloodlines than outsiders to join and divide profits, so they will eventually become strong, but they will eventually perish. Even if they do nothing for their father, they will perish themselves.

However, the imperial examination bureaucrats are different. They cannot inherit the past and do not rely on their bloodlines, but on the imperial examination. They do not refuse the joining of newcomers. They are even willing to attract talents from all over the world, be willing to promote their descendants, be willing to preach and learn to solve doubts, and be proud of their students all over the world.

Such a group is often more difficult to deal with than those scholars who are narrow-minded in their bloodlines. Their source is infinite first, with excellent newcomers constantly entering, replenishing, and endlessly."

The more Guo Peng said this, the more Guo Jin felt that the future was very difficult.

Why will an enemy be eliminated here and a new and more powerful enemy appear there?

One is stronger than the other, and one is more difficult to deal with. After finally overwhelming one, the other stood up again and grinned at them.

I always feel that they have to face endless enemies and can't see the day of victory that can be relaxed.

Even if he is not careful, he will make a mistake. From then on, he will lose the dominance of the empire and become a lame emperor who cannot control actual power. He will not only make a joke, but may also take the blame for the troubles of his ministers.

From the fall of the real power emperor to the blame emperor, and even turning into rubber stamps for his ministers, this is not the situation Guo Jin wants to see.

"Father, did you know all this from the beginning?"

Guo Jin suddenly remembered the words and things that Guo Peng said to him once.

Guo Peng warned him very early that no matter what his origin, as long as he becomes an official, it will be different immediately. They will still act as a mighty person and even become more powerful.

This is human nature and will not be changed by origin.

His biggest enemy was not the gentry bureaucrats, but the imperial examination bureaucrats who rose to prominence after the gentry bureaucrats were suppressed.

At that time, he felt that all this was quite illusory and there was no need to worry about it.

But when the facts described by Guo Peng really appeared in front of him, he realized that his father might have expected this day long ago.

Guo Peng did not deny it.

"Yes, I had expected this day from the beginning, from the day when I decided to bury the gentry."

"That……"

"I have no way out, no choice. A Jin, you also have no way out, no choice."

Guo Peng stared at Guo Jin seriously: "If you don't rely on them, you can't defeat the scholars or replace the scholars. The scholars will monopolize everything. Our fate will not be better than the previous Han Dynasty, or even worse.

Once the imperial examination bureaucrats become mainstream and become bigger, they can actually do the same thing as scholars, but the process will be relatively long and will not be as fast as scholars."

"Why is my father..."

"Because the imperial examination bureaucrats are more inclusive, they can accept more people, and will not reject outsiders with their bloodlines. They can maintain stability for a longer period of time and allow more people to change their destiny. Relatively speaking, it is more fair, and that's all."

Guo Peng knew what Guo Jin was going to ask, so he answered him in advance.

Guo Jin pursed his lips, feeling that Guo Peng really knew everything.

"But the imperial examination will also bring about the same harm as scholars, right?"

"Of course this is true, but this is not a problem with the imperial examination itself. The imperial examination is just a system of selecting people. It will not cause corruption, corruption, or corruption. It is the nature of human nature. The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. This is the nature of human beings. What does it have to do with the imperial examination?"

Guo Peng shook his head: "I have abolished the imperial examination for my father and chose the imperial examination because the imperial examination candidates do not look at their origins or their bloodliness. Even the lowest-level peasant commoners will be able to wear official uniforms and stand in front of the emperor one day. This is the greatest achievement of the imperial examination.

Compared with such achievements, some of the problems in the imperial examination itself are simply not worth mentioning. The so-called corruption problem is human nature and cannot be solved by changing the imperial examination. For our father and son, insisting on the imperial examination is the only way."

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder.

"If you want to be an emperor, you want to be powerful, and you want to be comfortable, there is no danger. If there is such a good thing in the world, it will not be your turn to do it for your father."

Guo Jin smiled mockingly when he heard this, feeling ashamed of some of his inappropriate thoughts.

"The son disappointed his father."

"You did not disappoint me, I am full of confidence in you."

Guo Peng smiled and nodded and said, "I have completed the development and constantly consolidated the foundation of the empire. Your task is to continue to consolidate the foundation on my foundation.

You have to digest all the land I have won and not have time to digest, and continue to implement the policies I have set. As long as you do all this, you will be a successful emperor."
Chapter completed!