At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This old boy is very treacherous and cunning, and he doesn't want to take any responsibility.

The more Ren Yong looked at Sima Yi, the more he disliked him, and the more he wanted to beat him up.

But there is no way, what he said is indeed reasonable.

Chapter 1549. What kind of bicycle do you need in one thousand four hundred and sixty nine?

In the current situation, the non-cooperation of the merchants in the government is already a fact. It is difficult to break the deadlock without using coercive force.

But once coercive force is used, even if weapons are not used, it is inevitable that someone will be injured. When the Ministry of Criminal Justice investigates it, Sima Yi's side is really not easy to explain.

Sima Yi was at the end of his tenure as the guardian, and he was about to be transferred and left. Whether he was promoted, demoted or transferred at the same level, this matter had a great impact.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has no financial responsibility. No matter how serious the economic crisis is in this matter, no matter how many shops close down, the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice will still eat and drink as they please.

At that time, they might really be able to do things like adding insult to injury.

After the bad things that must be done are done, then go to blame the people who did the bad things. This is the source of their political achievements.

Sima Yi was dumbfounded.

Who is willing to do such a thing if you are charged with guilt after doing something?

These bastards are also extremely selfish and bad to the bone.

When things happen, they sit on the sidelines and watch from the sidelines, hiding in the official office and not leaving the door. When the crisis is over, they will wash themselves like white lotus flowers to uphold justice.

During every political storm during the Yande years, the Ministry of Punishment did this.

Under the leadership of Guo Yi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, they sat on the sidelines collectively, and when the matter was over, they came out to follow the emperor's order to "uphold justice" and reap a wave of benefits and political interests.

How many people hate the Ministry of Criminal Justice so much, but it's useless, who let the head of the family be a relative of the emperor.

Now it seems that the criminal style of the criminal department in the central government has obviously continued to the local areas. In this kind of thing, the thief will die. The typical upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

When it comes to that, Sima Yi really may not have a good fruit to eat, and Ren Yong obviously won't speak for Sima Yi.

Therefore, Ren Yong felt that it was meaningful for Sima Yi to maintain such a degree of vigilance and foresight in this matter, otherwise he would be paid for it when he was sold.

Naturally, an old fritter like Sima Yi who has been in the officialdom for more than ten years would not be a stunned young man.

So Ren Yong could only think carefully.

In this matter, he and Sima Yi are already grasshoppers on the same rope.

If things are not done well, Sima Yi neglects his duties, and he also neglects his duties. Sima Yi has no good fruit to eat, and he has no good fruit to eat.

So in this matter, he had to stand with Sima Yi and help each other in the same boat. If the two of them quarreled, it was guaranteed that there would be no good results together.

Thinking about it this way, Ren Yong felt that he had to join hands with Sima Yi to put a little pressure on the people in the Ministry of Punishment, so as not to make trouble for them when the time comes.

It's best to take the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice together when doing business, and everyone commits crimes together, and see how you hold me accountable in the future.

"What Sima Duhu said is indeed reasonable. After careful consideration, I feel that it is necessary to report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice in advance."

Hearing Ren Yongsong, Sima Yi heaved a sigh of relief.

He smiled and said, "Since that's the case, it should be sooner rather than later. Let's report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice as soon as possible?"

Ren Yong nodded helplessly.

So the two decided to set off immediately to visit Gong Yun, the local head of the Criminal Ministry.

Walking on the road, Sima Yi wanted to get closer to Ren Yong, so he asked Ren Yong what role the court played in this matter.

"Shut down those small shops that have not yet been established, and keep those famous shops that have grown to a large scale. If we ask us to do such a thing, isn't it making us offend people?"

Sima Yi looked bitter.

Speaking of this matter, Ren Yong was also very dissatisfied.

"I also heard that there was a lot of quarrel in the court over this matter, but the decision to close those shops that couldn't stand the delay was made at the very beginning. The problem is... It is said that the emperor originally wanted to allocate a sum of money. Give it to the local Ministry of Finance, and let the finance department forgive the loans of those small businesses, so as to relieve their worries."

"Then it's a benevolent thing to do. Why should we encounter such great resistance?"

Sima Yi frowned and asked, "Who objects?"

"A lot of people are against it, not to mention those in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of War. There are also many people in the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance who are against it. It is still the same old rhetoric, saying that emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is the foundation of the country, and the Northwest should not be allowed to engage in commerce. , so that the farmers in the northwest don't do their jobs, they all go to low jobs.

It’s fine if nothing happened before, but now that something happened, if we don’t hurry up and depose the Northwest’s cheap industry once and for all, should we still allocate funds to the Northwest and take money from the treasury to subsidize the lowly industry?Isn't this ridiculous?There are so many people who have such views, and the emperor is helpless to play the watch desperately. "

Ren Yong shook his head again and again.

Sima Yi hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

"This...is too much."

"No way, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and business is a cheap industry. The emperor has never opposed it. How can he oppose it today?"

"And then what?"

"Then? Of course, the emperor doesn't want the Northwest Commerce to be deposed. It has finally developed to this day, and deposed? Isn't this the same as the former Han Dynasty when the court wanted to abandon Liangzhou?

So the emperor was furious, dismissed the three officials who yelled the most fiercely in court, severely reprimanded Zaobutang, the Ministry of Civil Affairs who took the lead, and then forcibly passed the current resolution. "

"Is there such a thing?"

Sima Yi was a little hard to imagine.

Ren Yong sighed: "Even if the current situation is caused by the emperor's anger, if the emperor ignores it, with Zaobutang's qualifications, the business in the Northwest would have ended long ago. Years, placed in the former Han Dynasty, that is also a figure with disciples and old officials all over the world."

Sima Yi nodded slightly.

"Zaobutang has always paid attention to farming and farming. It is said that when the Supreme Emperor was still the prefect of Shanggu in the former Han Dynasty, he assisted the Supreme Emperor in handling farming affairs in Shanggu County. Among the many veteran officials, Zaobutang has made a lot of contributions."

"That's natural, otherwise, why would those old officials regard Zaobutang as the leader?"

Ren Yong said in a low voice: "Zaobutang has deep qualifications and great contributions, and has always been strong. Wang Butang has low qualifications and insufficient credit. Keeping Northwest Commerce, the current situation is really hard to say."

Sima Yi nodded slowly, then frowned.

"The Zaobu Hall has always been the Emperor's confidant, and it is also the Emperor's policy to do business in the northwest. How could the Zaobu Hall be so opposed to the Emperor's policy? I can't figure it out either."

Ren Yong smiled helplessly.

"It's also interesting to say that Zaobutang has been in charge of farming affairs since he became an official of the Supreme Emperor. He has been farming for decades, and his achievements are all over the world. All the farming farms in the world have the hard work of Zaobutang. Zaobutang attaches great importance to this. thing.

It is said that Zaobutang was very dissatisfied with the large number of farmers in the northwest who did business instead of concentrating on farming. They believed that this was a move that would make farmers lazy, cunning, selfish, and focused on making money, which would affect the atmosphere of the entire Wei state. "

Sima Yi was stunned for a moment, and unexpectedly found that Zaozhi's reason was quite reasonable.

In recent years, there have been endless business cases in the Annan Protectorate's Mansion about intrigue among merchants, some of which were so bizarre that even Sima Yi's heart was shocked, and he felt that people's hearts were sinister.

This was unimaginable before.

"What Zaobutang said... may not be unreasonable."

Sima Yi looked at Ren Yong.

Ren Yong hesitated for a moment.

"Actually, I think so too, but well, what the other side said makes sense. The climate in the northwest is bitter and cold. No matter how hard you work, the grain harvested in the fields is not as much as that in the Central Plains. If you don't do business, you can't support so many people. eat."

Sima Yi weighed left and right, and felt that it was indeed very difficult to make a decision.

The current situation was won by the emperor, which showed that the emperor was not willing to give up the business in the northwest and chose to stand on their side, but the conditions were relatively harsh.

What bike do you want?

The two could only think about how to deal with Gong Yun later.

chapter 1550 one thousand four hundred and seventy

Gong Yun's tenure in the Annan Protectorate was not as long as that of Ren Yong.

Compared with Ren Yong's seriousness and forcefulness, he looks less forceful and serious, but rather easy to talk about.

But if you think that he is really a talkative person because of this, then you really misidentified him.

The officials of the Ministry of Punishment were recognized as difficult to deal with in the officialdom of the Wei Empire, and they were recognized as difficult to deal with.

It seems that every official of the Criminal Ministry has learned the cleverness and slickness from their old Shangshu Guo Yi, and they are all elites in the officialdom.

how to say.

When there is a problem, as long as it has nothing to do with them, you can slip away faster than anyone else, without getting a single leaf on your body.

When there is interest, no matter whether it has anything to do with them or not, it is more fierce than anyone else.

When it comes to seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, Guo Yi puts it second, and no one dares to say it first.

He himself is still a relative of the emperor, so there was a saying in the central court that year-not so much that Cao Cao and Guo Jia are the weather vane of the government, it is better to say that Guo Yi is the real weather vane.

Guo Yi's qualifications are not less than Yuan Congpai's, and he is also a member of the royal family. His surname is Guo, and he is related to the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng, so he is not easy to mess with.

Moreover, this person is quite low-key, and even gives people the illusion that he has no sense of presence.

But this illusion will change every time there is a political storm in the court.

Because people are always surprised to find that in the political storm, Guo Yi is the real tumbler.

Even Guo Jia was punished by the Supreme Emperor. Guo Yi has been Minister of the Ministry of Punishments for so many years, so he is still in power, but he has never been criticized. No matter how far the political storm goes, he is always the one who stands still .

As if the political storm had nothing to do with him.

After the political storm, he will come out to clean up the mess.

The conviction of the crime, the beheading of the beheading, was a joy, and then won the trust of the Supreme Emperor. The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment continued from the first year of Yande to the first year of Xingyuan.

The officials under his command seem to have learned this "great wisdom" from him.

In the political storms over the years, the Criminal Department was rarely affected. It can be said that it was the least damaged and the safest among the officials of the various ministries.

This directly caused the officials of other ministries to feel inexplicable reactions when they saw the officials of the Ministry of Punishment.

But there is no way, people are trusted, they can do things, and they can reap benefits.

This Gong Yun is similar, he usually has no sense of presence, doesn't cause trouble, and doesn't trouble Sima Yi, he feels like an honest and kind person.

But when he can make political achievements and benefits, Sima Yi is like a dish in front of him, letting him pick and choose.

Facing this person, even as shrewd as Sima Yi, he felt that the chances of winning were not great.

Coupled with the suppression of local attributes by the central government, Sima Yi really didn't dare to single out this smiling tiger without Ren Yong by his side.

But with Ren Yong by his side, Sima Yi became more courageous, and felt that his chances of winning against this smiling tiger were a little bit higher.

Gong Yun felt a little surprised when he learned that Ren Yong and Sima Yi were visiting together, but he also had some thoughts in his mind when he thought about the official documents issued by the court before and the current chaos in the Annan Governor's Mansion.

Is the relationship between Sima Yi and Ren Yong good?

He had never heard of it.

On the contrary, I have heard many times that Ren Yong privately thinks that Sima Yi is a counselor who dare not take responsibility, and Sima Yi does not necessarily like Ren Yong very much. .

The relationship between the two is definitely not good.

Since there is no such thing, it is obvious that these two people have now become grasshoppers on the same rope, bearing the same responsibility, so they have reached a certain agreement, and they are working together to make troubles.

Let these two people reach a temporary alliance and come to me to do things together, it seems that the problem is indeed serious.

Want me to step into this muddy water?

Think beautifully.

Gong Yun took a deep breath, put on a smile, and walked towards the reception hall with a smile.

Here, Sima Yi and Ren Yong had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Gong Yun coming, they got up together and cupped their hands towards Gong Yun.

"Oh, Langzhong Ren and Duhu Sima, you two are rare guests here, let alone appearing together, this... Could it be that the sun came out from the west?"

It's professional for Gong Yun to pretend to be stupid, Sima Yi and Ren Yong knew it well, they looked at each other.

Sima Yi winked and signaled to Ren Yong to take the initiative to attack—you are an official of the central government, you attack first, and I will assist you.

Ren Yong had no choice but to charge forward.