At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

His background seems to be not only his elder brother Zhuge Jin, but also...

The emperor?

Is Zhuge Liang really in the heart of the emperor?

Mao Jie swallowed, feeling a little complicated.

Chapter 1517 One thousand four hundred and fifty seven Sima Yi and Mao Jie

After the discussion with Mao Jie ended, Guo Peng ended his journey in Chang'an.

He gave Mao Jie a bad check and asked him to wait slowly for the opportunity to return to Luoyang.

As for when to cash this empty political check, that is Guo Jin's business, and Guo Peng is only responsible for giving it.

After Guo Peng left, Mrs. Mao complained to Mao Jie that Guo Peng came too suddenly, and she was unprepared, so she was really nervous when entertaining Cao Lan and the others.

Mao Jie laughed and cried a lot.

"Nervous? That's what you call nervous, ma'am, if you're nervous, what do I call it?"

"It's just the Supreme Emperor's visit. The Supreme Emperor is no longer the emperor. Anyway, it's just the old man coming out to relax. What are you afraid of?"

"Say you have no knowledge."

Mao Jie shook his head: "The Supreme Emperor abdicates. Believe it or not, if he says he wants to dismiss me, we can pack up and go back to our hometown in a month's time!"

"Isn't it?"

"Isn't it?"

Mao Jie sneered for a while: "It was the Supreme Emperor who established the Wei State, not His Majesty the current Wei State, and have you seen the eldest grandson of the Emperor with him?"

"I saw it."

"That's the next emperor."

"........."

Mrs. Mao had some difficulty understanding Mao Jie's leaping thinking.

How could that young man be the next emperor?

His Majesty has not been on the throne for less than a year now, so why is he the next emperor?

Will this be too fast?

There will be no one to help Madam Mao explain things that she doesn't understand, and naturally Mao Jie won't either.

Of course, there is no need for Mrs. Mao to figure it out, as long as Mao Jie figured it out.

Mao Jie has figured it out now, so he knows that the most important thing he needs to do now is to speed up the rectification of Yongzhou's economy, grasp the overall market of Yongzhou's economy, and firmly control it to deal with the coming shock.

An extraterritorial war thousands of miles away will actually affect my economy here?

Mao Jie deeply felt the wonder of the world.

Then he turned around and went back to the Yongzhou Governor's Office, while writing a memorial to Emperor Guo Jin, he issued a decree - from now on, no more restaurants, hotels and foreign trade shops will be approved.

All existing applications will be rejected, and all subsequent applications will be rejected.

Among other things, we should first rectify from the source to contain the external torrent, and then find a way to deal with the internal flood that has begun to rage.

If you don't check, you don't know. After checking, you are startled. For the first time, Mao Jie felt that his steps were too big.

The number of shops related to foreign trade, as well as those wine shops and hotels in the territory of Yongzhou is really unexpected.

Moreover, quite a few of them are small in scale and low in quality, so they will be the first to fall if they encounter an impact.

These are private small shops set up following the trend during the prosperous economy at that time. They were designed to make a small profit. When the economy was prosperous, the big shops ate meat, and the small shops could also drink some soup. In this case, let alone soup , there is no water to drink.

While wiping off his cold sweat, Mao Jie began to prepare for the coming economic and political storms in the near future.

Whether you can cross the past is your chance to go to the next level.

In the past, a book can be expected.

If you can't make it through, then simply resign voluntarily, and save yourself from being chased and beaten by those old conservative bureaucrats.

Mao Jie thought so.

After leaving Chang'an City, Guo Peng thought that no matter what, he would stay in Beiting Dufu for a while.

He wanted to see how far Zhuge Liang, who was sent out to grow and train by himself, had grown.

A change in business should not be enough to reflect Zhuge Liang's talent and growth.

As he said, in the future, after he dies, it will be Zhuge Liang who can really inherit his will and govern the Wei state.

At present, in Guo Jin's own talent pool, Lu Yi is considered top-notch. Lu Yi is indeed smart, but he does not have much administrative experience at present, and he is not yet a pillar of the country. He is alone and needs help.

In terms of military affairs, the Wei Empire currently has countless military professionals, and the main force of the Mesozoic Era also has many military talents. It is not Zhuge Liang's turn to rule the roost.

But when it comes to administration, among the administrative officials of the Mesozoic era, Zhuge Liang is definitely the first choice when it comes to administrative ability.

Zhuge Liang should stay by Guo Jin's side and help him handle major national affairs. Guo Jin needs to give him full power to let him fully display his talents and implement his ideas.

Whether it is economics or administration, or strengthening centralization, the experienced Zhuge Liang should be a good hand.

And judging from his daring to break the boundaries of the market and develop business in an aboveboard manner, he is also a politician who dares to act.

He deserves his place in history.

With a mere one state against the strong Wei ten states, using the strength of 100 million registered population against the strength of 500 million registered population, we took the initiative to launch five offensives, and even had two large-scale strategic offensives. ring life.

Not to mention the results of the battle, being able to launch five offensives with the power of one state can itself reflect Zhuge Liang's strong political ability.

Without this kind of political ability for overall planning and enforcement, it is impossible to launch an effective strategic offensive. Before discussing military capabilities, Zhuge Liang's political ability should be given full marks.

On this level, Zhuge Liang is even stronger than Xiao He who is beside Liu Bang.

In terms of military and strategy, Zhuge Liang may not be as good as Han Xin and Zhang Liang, but if Zhuge Liang did all the things of the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, isn't it enough to be called great?

As the second emperor, Guo Jin needed people who dared to do something to help him, and being able to promote Zhuge Liang to Guo Jin was because Guo Peng felt that there would be no big troubles in Guo Jin's reign and even in the future Guo Chengzhi era. important prerequisite.

Guo Jin needs helpers, one Lu Yi is not enough, and Zhuge Liang is needed to be safe.

Only in this way can we ensure the stability of the overall situation, and some small fluctuations in the overall situation will not shake the true foundation of the Wei Empire.

Speaking of Zhuge Liang, Guo Peng thought of Sima Yi again.

According to what he knew, Sima Yi and Mao Jie had a very close relationship.

It seems that before and after the major corruption case broke out in Liangzhou, the two had some intersections, and then Sima Yi was appreciated by Mao Jie.

The public information is the result of Mao Jie's appreciation of Sima Yi's governance of the region.

But the private reason, as far as Guo Peng knew, was that Sima Yi disclosed an important news to Mao Jie, which allowed Mao Jie to protect himself when the Liangzhou corruption case broke out.

This is the secret information discovered by Linzi camp secret agents.

It is said that Sima Yi had secretly visited Mao Jie at that time, had a private discussion with Mao Jie, and gave Mao Jie a lot of help.

At that time, Guo Peng was very impressed, and felt that Sima Yi, apart from other things, was first-class in his ability to resist pressure and his political vision. Not to mention his political ability, he was first and foremost an excellent politician.

Using one's own advantages to make political deals with superiors is not something that ordinary people can do.

Afterwards, Mao Jie, who had survived the crisis, reciprocated, and Sima Yi's younger brother Sima Fu was appointed by Mao Jie as a subordinate official to work in Liangzhou Governor's Mansion.

So the content of the political transaction between Sima Yi and Mao Jie was exposed.

Sima Yi used this incident to seek political benefits for his family, and successfully recommended his younger brother Sima Fu to Mao Jie, becoming Mao Jie's former official, and bound him together.

The Sima family has a second way.

At that time, the inspection system and expropriation system were still in operation, and Mao Jie's right to call was still in existence, so Sima Fu went to Mao Jie's side to work and worked by his side for more than two years.

It is said that his work ability is relatively strong, and he has been trusted and reused by Mao Jie.

Mao Jie is a very politically credible person, and he will not be perfunctory casually. Obviously, Mao Jie believes that supporting the Sima family is good for his future, so he also takes care of Sima Fu.

In the seventh year of Yande, on the eve of the establishment of the imperial examination system, the world was turbulent, and the conflict between the emperor and the gentry intensified to the point of irreconcilability.

At that time, the county magistrate of Guzang County in Wuwei County openly opposed the imperial examination system, thinking that it was a disastrous move for the country and the people.

Mao Jie seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to recommend Sima Fu, who publicly supported the imperial examination system, as the magistrate of Guzang County.

He seized a good opportunity and took advantage of a big loophole to transform Sima Fu, who was an official, into an official.

As for whether Sima Fu really supported the imperial examination or for the purpose of becoming an official, it is unknown. Anyway, their Sima family, as a member of the gentry, betrayed the position of the gentry and became one of the very few gentry families who supported the imperial examination system.

Up to now, Sima Fu has been promoted from the county magistrate of Guzang County to the prefect of Wuwei County because of his outstanding political achievements, and has become an official of two thousand stones.

It can be said that it has successfully turned over from the point of being a salted fish.

Officials and officials are two different concepts, which are equivalent to the difference between regular workers and temporary workers. The benefits and power of the two are very different.

Before the imperial examination era, there was a watershed between clear streams and turbid streams, and after the imperial examination era, there was a gap between those who were born in examinations and those who were not born in examinations.

It is the difference between those who formulate policies at the top and those who run errands below, and the two did not even have conversion conditions before the imperial examination era.

Many officials are born officials, but officials cannot be born officials.

Even in the era of imperial examinations, there were many restrictions, such as not allowing officials to become officials and so on.

When Guo Peng first restricted the inspection and expropriation system, he also brought the power of appointing and dismissing officials to the central government and left the power of appointing officials to the local governments, thereby limiting the authority of local governors.

Since then, the local governor can only recruit officials, but cannot decide the candidates for the officials. This is a great blow to the local governor.

Talented and visionary people definitely want to be officials, and they are not willing to be mere officials. In the past, only poor and powerful people would become officials, and scholars were all official officials.

Under such circumstances, Guo Peng was able to suppress local forces in the era when the imperial examination had not yet been established, and ensure that talents flowed to Luoyang to gain the centripetal force of the central government.

But the choice of the scholar family is by no means the only one. It was the same when the Han Dynasty had not perished, and it was the same after entering the Wei Dynasty.

It was the norm at that time to have one hand in the center and one hand in the local area.

Chapter 1518 One thousand four hundred and fifty eight Zhuge Liang is a politician

Scholars' families existed widely at that time, and besides pursuing the status of officials in the central government, they would also let other children of the family seek other paths.

When the inspection system and expropriation system still existed, even if the local officials were only qualified to recruit officials, they still had the opportunity to enter the local area from the central government.

Moreover, in the 13 years since Guo Peng proclaimed himself emperor, there have been seven or eight political storms, large and small, and officials have been killed for various reasons every year.

In case the sons who follow the central line fall in the political struggle, the scholar family has other investments to stop the loss.

It is impossible for Sima Lang to return to the Central Committee, his reputation has been completely ruined with the death of Xun Yu, and no one will accept him.

It is said that he has settled down to study and work at home, and has lived a life of farming and studying as a traditional scholar. It seems that he has completely given up the idea of ​​making a comeback.

Sima Yi inherited Sima Lang's unfinished business. Through Cao Cao's relationship, he took the central route and became Guo Peng's old official. He was released from the cabinet to the local chief official. Once he was recalled, he would definitely be able to serve as a senior central official.

That is, the question of when he will be recalled still bothers him.

Logically speaking, Guo Peng felt that Sima Yi should not be so eager to find other backers, but after thinking about it carefully and comparing the backgrounds and living environments of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, Guo Peng realized where Sima Yi's uneasiness came from.

Zhuge Liang has an elder brother Zhuge Jin who is an important official in the Central Ministry of Civil Affairs.

And this elder brother Zhuge Jin was promoted by Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and both belong to Xuzhou.

Zhang Zhao's daughter, Zhang Muqing, was in Guo Jin's harem, and was related to her.

After all the calculations, in addition to the relationship with Guo Peng, Zhuge Liang also has a way of contacting the new emperor Guo Jin.

So even in the post-Guo Peng era, Zhuge Liang is still as stable as Mount Tai, relying on his extraordinary talent and courage to create political achievements, waiting to be recalled to the central government because of his outstanding achievements.

This is a typical example of the living environment being superior to yours but still competing hard with you. There is no way not to be excellent.

But Sima Yi has no such conditions, he has no one in the center.

After Guo Peng abdicated, he had no contact with the new emperor, and he had no guarantee that he could return to the central government. He was really not sure that he would be able to return to the central government unless he was hugged by his thigh.

Especially under the trend that local power is becoming more and more restricted and central power is becoming more and more concentrated, the future of local officials is really limited. If they cannot return to the central government, they will not be able to control the power of the world.

Do you spend your whole life in Annan Protectorate Mansion, a ghostly place far away from the central government?