"Why not? - The 'Eight Heroes' and the 'Ten Heroes' were the best among the upright scholar-officials at that time."
"But why can't these people clean up the filthy atmosphere in the court?"
Bai Yuyue asked again: "These people come from aristocratic families, are well-known, and are quite influential. If they unite together and speak to the outside world as one, they will definitely play a greater role."
The Queen Mother was furious:
"Nonsense! They each come from different families, have different origins, and have different loyalties. Naturally..."
However, she stopped mid-sentence.
She understood what Bai Yuyue meant.
Bai Yuyue, on the other hand, smiled slightly.
Then he said: "The "Book of Zhao" records that at the end of the Zhao Kingdom, the government was in turmoil and people's hearts were unstable. Many upright scholar-bureaucrats set off a cleansing trend, but in the end they failed to restore the situation."
"The big reason is that the scholar-bureaucrats work independently and are not united. But why don't they work together to better exert their strength?"
Bai Yuyue paused and then said: "
It’s not that they don’t want to unite, it’s that they can’t unite at all! They belong to different factions and fight with each other endlessly. This is because most of these scholar-bureaucrats relied on the imperial examination to obtain officials in the court.”
"According to the laws of the country, only those who have passed the Jinshi examination can be officials. Most of these Jinshi are from poor families. They have no other way out except studying and becoming an official."
"Then, who gave them this opportunity? - It's the examiner of the provincial examination! It's the examiner appointed by the emperor himself!"
"Once these Jinshi are selected in the imperial examination, they will naturally be grateful to the examiner who gave them some advice and will be willing to work hard for them."
"As time goes by, several major factions have formed. How can we unite and cooperate among such deeply divided factions?"
As he spoke, Bai Yuyue knelt down and said:
"My servant suggested that the emperor personally take the imperial examination to select scholars, just to prevent the candidates from thinking of the examiner as their benefactor, so that all the scholars in the world can become disciples of the emperor, which will naturally make them more restrained."