Chapter 184 Three Things
"Now Luoyang has no worries about food. The food and grass delivered by the noble families plus the grain stored in Luoyang granaries will be enough to support us until the autumn harvest next year. Even if we continue to collect refugees in the meantime, we can barely maintain it."
Chen Xi continued his report, and at this point he couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the Luoyang families. Without the generosity of these families, Luoyang's construction progress would have been much slower.
"However, since we have to take care of more than just Luoyang, Li Ru will purchase grain from Jizhou and transport it to Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Luoyang. Specialized troops will be responsible for the safety along the way. I hope that the incident with the Jizhou family will not happen again. Do you understand?"
Chen Xi said this half jokingly and half threateningly, but the ministers who had something to hide did not think so. They all knew how powerful the Shadow Guards under Jia Xu's command were, so they couldn't help but feel nervous.
"The above is the latest situation. Now let the general announce what will happen next."
Chen Xi sat down with a smile on his face, and then Guo Hao slowly stood up.
"Today I have three things to do. Whoever messes up these three things will die. Is that clear enough? Is that understandable enough?"
Guo Hao's words were so shocking that all the ministers were frightened. It was also the first time they saw Guo Hao's fangs bared, as if his previous easy-going image was fake.
"The first thing is that the imperial court will issue a recruitment order to recruit talented people from all over the world, regardless of their background, only their ability! And from now on, the imperial examination system will be established, divided into civil and military subjects, and every four years, the imperial examination will be held to select talented people!"
An old stubborn man from aristocratic family who couldn't see the situation clearly wanted to stand up and refute. The people around him hurriedly pulled his sleeves, hoping that he would sit down.
But their inner resistance was no less than that of the old stubborn people. Guo Hao did this to completely break the system of recommendation by aristocratic families and to attack the root of the aristocratic families.
That has been a recommendation system for more than a thousand years, and it is also the guarantee for the aristocratic families to control the class threshold.
“Who’s for and who’s against?”
Guo Hao looked around at all the ministers, and all the ministers who met Guo Hao's eyes lowered their heads. Even the children of aristocratic families knew that this was Guo Hao's counterattack against the aristocratic families. Guo Hao's tolerance towards the aristocratic families had made them become a little too demanding, and now Guo Hao's counterattack had come.
"Very good!" Guo Hao nodded with satisfaction.
"The second thing is that Luoyang will soon open a new school to accept all kinds of school-age children. All officials in the court will serve as lecturers, regardless of whether they are civil or military, old or young."
The ministers present were even more disheartened. If the imperial examination was to undermine the foundation of the aristocratic families, then Guo Hao's opening of a school was completely intended to impact the status of the aristocratic families in governing the people.
Likewise, no one dared to object. Guo Hao held all the power in his hands. Even if they wanted to resist, they could not confront him head-on.
"The third thing is that Luoyang is going to establish a large library to collect books from all over the world. You all need to do your part."
In the end, this matter did not cause any objection among the ministers. After all, Emperor Lingdi had done it before, which was to store books in the Eastern Palace, and they did not have any objection.
"By the way, the library not only contains Confucianism, but also military books, Legalism and other schools of thought."
Guo Hao's last addition was like thunder and lightning. Guo Hao actually planned to let the various schools of thought challenge Confucianism!
"How can the general do this!" Lu Zhi stood up immediately. He had felt something was wrong since the last time Li Ru and others arranged an official position for Hua Tuo. Now seeing Guo Hao showing his fangs, he immediately objected angrily.
Liu Bei stayed beside Lu Zhi but couldn't stop him no matter how hard he tried. He was filled with despair. By confronting the general head-on, wasn't Lu Zhi just looking for provocation?
"Get him out of here!"
Guo Hao didn't even bother to pay attention to Lu Zhi. After he and Chen Xi discussed the matter, he expected that there would be opposition. He originally planned to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, but Lu Zhi's identity was rather special, so he could only choose to let the Sun Cavalry to fork Lu Zhi out.
If it were someone else, he would dare to chop down even a great scholar to prove his determination.
"General, are you serious?" As he spoke, another great scholar stood up.
Guo Hao looked at it and thought, oh, there is no way to cut this one either. The one who spoke was Cai Yi, the pioneer who spoke for him in a fair manner.
"Fork it out!"
Guo Hao couldn't bear to do anything to the old man who had helped him, so he could only choose to turn a blind eye to it.
Then some Confucian scholars stood up to oppose Guo Hao's third policy, with a spirit of sacrificing their lives for justice .
The first thing was acceptable to everyone, because Liu Hong had already issued this recruitment order when he was selecting the eight schools in Xiyuan, so they had no pressure at all to accept it.
The imperial examination was just like that. No one really thought that once the imperial examination began, children from poor families would be able to compete with children from aristocratic families, right? How could there be so many poor people like Guo Jia and Lu Su?
Aren’t most of them children of aristocratic families like Xun Yu and Xun You?
How many people were from poor families in the late Eastern Han Dynasty? To be honest, Lu Su could hardly be considered a poor family.
Among Cao, Liu and Sun, who is from a poor family?
No one really thinks that Liu Bei was from a poor family because he could have a great scholar like Lu Zhi as his teacher, right?
Even if Liu Bei was selling straw sandals, so what? No matter how poorly the royal relatives were doing, they were still royal relatives.
Everyone can accept the second thing. It's just the Imperial Academy run by Liu Hong himself. It's just the old routine of training his own team. It doesn't pose a threat to the aristocratic families.
It just shook the foundation of the family to some extent, but the towering tree of the family is not so easy to fall down.
Only the third thing is absolutely unacceptable to Confucian scholars. This is a dispute over the great way.
How many years did it take Confucianism to completely eliminate all other schools of thought?
For this reason, Confucianism went astray and resorted to the trick of putting Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside. In the end, Legalism was completely destroyed by Confucianism.
Everyone who studies Legalism thinks that he is studying Confucianism, and the Legalists have been uprooted.
Military strategists, haha, to be honest, if there hadn't been wars every day in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucianism would have squeezed out the military strategists long ago.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, Confucianism was almost completely dominant. All other schools of thought had gone to pieces, and Confucianism was the only one that dominated the world.
Now Guo Hao wants to give a hand to the Hundred Schools of Thought, restore them and recreate the flourishing situation of a hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin era?
Yes, allowing a hundred schools of thought to contend is indeed a good thing, and it can promote everyone's progress.
But this is not a good thing for Confucianism. Why should Confucianism come down from its dominant position and compete with other schools of thought?
Confucian scholars accounted for the majority of the court, and the rest who did not stand out were also Confucian students.
For example, Liu Bei, a disciple of Lu Zhi, not speaking out does not mean that he will not become an obstacle in the future.
In this era of respecting teachers, if Liu Bei did not stand on the same side as Lu Zhi, he would not be able to recruit people in the future and his reputation would be ruined
