At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Except for Situ Caiyong, the 84-year-old oldest official of the Wei Dynasty who is regarded as a mascot by everyone, there is no official older than Cheng Yu.

Logically speaking, people who have lived to Cheng Yu's age are also worthy of universal respect in the Wei Empire, a country that pays attention to filial piety and respect for the elderly.

Due to the various welfare policies formulated by the Wei Empire to respect the elderly, wherever there is an elderly person over 70 years old in the local area, they will provide food and drink for them.

It is really like a little doll, holding it for fear of breaking and holding it in the mouth for fear of melting.

During the holidays, the local chief officials will hold a longevity banquet in person, calling all the elderly people over 70 years old in the local area to attend the banquet together. elder.

Due to the special nature of court officials, such as overworked work and frequent political storms, since the establishment of the Wei Empire, there have been few officials who can live a long life.

During the 13 years of Yande, those elders of the gentry who survived the troubled times of the former Han Dynasty were basically exterminated by Guo Peng.

But the families that are most capable of giving birth to old people are these gentry families who have no worries about food and clothing.

Therefore, according to statistics in the first year of Xingyuan, the average age of court officials was less than 30 years old, and a little over 29 years old.

As for the senior officials of the imperial court, those important officials who control the power of the world are generally between 40 and 50 years old, and there are even a few 37 or 50 years old. Those who can exceed [-] years old are all court elders.

Although there is an objective situation that the per capita age is not high, no matter what era, the per capita age is pulled up by these powerful families.

Without these powerful families, simply counting the average age of the people is frighteningly low.

It can only be said that Guo Peng, the Supreme Emperor of the Wei Dynasty, "has made great contributions" in improving the efficiency of the court, reducing the average age of officials, and improving the vitality of officials.

Chapter 1573 One Thousand 490 Emperors of the Three Kingdoms Are Tall and Hard

Thanks to Guo Peng's "hard work and dedication", the political situation left to Guo Jin in the first year of Xingyuan was really much more stable and harmonious.

The real senior officials in the imperial court were only Cai Yong and Cheng Yu, and counting down, it was the 62-year-old Cao Cao who was ten years younger than Cheng Yu.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Yu still relied on his "effort" and "struggle" that he did not lose to Guo Peng, and managed to make himself a rapid decline from the status of "respectable old man" to become "the one everyone wants to kill". And then the fast old thief].

Many people hate it, why is Cheng Yu still not dead?

How old are you?

76 years old and still not dead?

You old thief!

I don't know how many people didn't dare to confront Cheng Yu, and they didn't have that ability. They completely lost the courage to fight against Cheng Yu, and could only secretly curse Cheng Yu's violent death tomorrow, impotent and furious.

But Cheng Yu has good teeth, good appetite, delicious food, good health, no disease or disaster, plays Wu Qinxi every day, and pays great attention to health preservation, often goes to the big medical center for massage and so on.

He just doesn't die.

I have to say that Cheng Yu's hard work is really worthy of Guo Peng's trust in him, and Guo Peng gave him another chance. He lives so hard, is so tenacious, so tenacious, which is moving.

So after Guo Jin succeeded to the throne, she still trusted Cheng Yu very much.

He secretly called Cheng Yu over to teach him the opportunity face to face, and told him that Zaoyi, the leader of the opposition, was upright and there was nothing to catch, but the group of ghosts and monsters behind him had more problems.

It's not the time not to be as familiar with them as usual, but now the time has come, isn't it the time to deal with them?

Since you are recklessly using political righteousness to suppress me, then don't blame me for using a sharp knife to wipe out corruption against you.

You must not think that I am easier to bully than my father.

Don't dare to bully my father, just bully me in this way, do you really think I'm easy to bully?

It's no wonder that the ministers felt that Guo Jin was easy to bully, so they wantonly tested his bottom line. Although Guo Jin's skills were not bad, they were indeed not as decisive and ruthless as Guo Peng.

The hands are softer, not hard.

Guo Peng really used a knife to kill a piece of the sky and still maintain the stability of the court. He can control the situation by destroying a class. He is tall and tough.

In front of Guo Peng, Guo Jin was as lovely as a newborn white rabbit.

Although Guo Jin can't do it to the same level as Guo Peng, he can loosen Cheng Yu's ties to a greater extent, allowing Cheng Yu to contribute his spare energy and do whatever he wants.

open the door!Let Cheng Yu go!

After Cheng Yu got Guo Jin's permission, he excitedly returned to Sili Captain's Mansion, gathered a large group of minions who had nothing to do for more than a year, and announced a new mission.

The emperor has ordered us to move, and we have something to do. Those domineering bastards are the stepping stones for you to gain glory and wealth!

Children, it's time for us to make waves!

Practice them all for me!

Cheng Yu dragged his 76-year-old body, and unexpectedly burst out with the passion that only young people can have, which made the pawns under his command as passionate and enthusiastic, and his whole body was aroused.

Without the emperor's order, Cheng Yu would not have caused waves.

And when there is no order, those formidable pawns in Sili Xiaowei's Mansion actually do some daily work, no different from ordinary officials.

They tried old cases, tortured those bastards in the imperial prison who didn't want to die, refined their trial techniques, studied new interrogation techniques, and so on.

It's not that there are no cases to be dealt with, it's just that the intensity will not be so high, and it will not cause panic among the officials.

And once Cheng Yu got the order, it meant that the high-intensity anti-corruption frenzy that made the officials panic was about to begin.

Once this frenzy starts, it will not end easily. As long as your hands and feet are not clean, you must be prepared to enter the prison. Once you enter the prison, it is not that simple to come out completely. up.

Cheng Yu told them countless times with bloody facts - I am different from you.

Cheng Yu was a different kind of official who sat on the emperor's side. He was just like a stunned young man who had just passed the imperial examination and entered the officialdom. He was full of enthusiasm for loyalty to the emperor and serving the country.

However, ordinary stunned youths soak in the big dyeing workshop of the officialdom for a period of time, hit a wall, and experience the kind guidance of the seniors, they will almost soften, they will be dyed with various colors, and they will no longer be full of loyalty to the emperor and serving the country. .

The seniors in the officialdom will kindly guide them, and they will understand what they don’t know. The more they know, the less pure they will be, and the more careful they are, the newcomers will gradually become old fritters.

But Cheng Yu's career has been ups and downs for decades, but it seems that the more he lives, the more he goes back, back to the very beginning.

At this moment, in the eyes of the officials, Cheng Yu was just like a bastard who just entered the officialdom, full of enthusiasm, full of loyalty to the army and serving the country, and devoted to fairness and justice.

What's frightening is that this bastard holds the Shangfang sword given by the emperor in his hand, and his swordsmanship is quite good.

He can cut first and then play!

At the same time, Cheng Yu has the fearlessness of a bastard and the ruthlessness of a seasoned bureaucrat. He is the most terrifying pawn left by Guo Peng to frighten the officials. Once used, the sky will collapse.

Facing the economic crisis and the political crisis that followed, Guo Jin was keenly aware of the threat to the imperial power from the officials.

They want to break the shackles!

He made a decisive decision and sacrificed Cheng Yu's murderous knife that would drink blood once it was unsheathed.

Go kill!

After Cheng Yu convened the meeting, officials from Sili Xiaowei's Mansion led the pawns to disperse.

They started and they started making waves.

In the first step, they asked the Ministry of Finance and the Audit Department of the Cabinet to hand over all the expenditure accounts of the Ministry of Civil Affairs since the first day of the first month of Xingyuan, claiming to have received an anonymous report that someone in the Ministry of Civil Affairs had embezzled public funds for private use. Conduct a full investigation.

Zaozhi is the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the main initiator of this political turmoil, and the leader of the opposition forces in the court, deeply hated by Guo Jin.

What the emperor tabooed most was that his subjects organized political forces to launch political offensives against the emperor. Those who had done so were all killed by Guo Peng.

But now that Guo Peng has abdicated and traveled far away from Luoyang, some people seem to feel that their time is back.

They can't wait to get their hands dirty and see if their time has really come back.

If they really come back, they will show their teeth and claws.

Guo Jin, who realized this, hated Zaoyi. His ignorant behavior made Guo Jin decide to abolish him and replace him with an obedient person to become Minister of Civil Affairs.

The old people in Guo Peng's era are gradually aging and receding. Some of them are more self-aware and know that they will retreat bravely and not cause trouble for the new emperor.

Zaozhi is different, Zaozhi wants to cause trouble for the new emperor.

This will not work.

Guo Jin wants to let all the ghosts and snakes who think he is softer take a look at whether he is tall and tough.

I want you to see if Emperor Guo is tall and tough!

Therefore, Guo Jin's meaning is very clear, and Cheng Yu's goal is also very clear.

Bearing the expectation of imperial power, Cheng Yu directly instructed his subordinates to attack the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The pawns went on a rampage, breaking into the cabinet to ask Cao Cao for the accounts, and then broke into the Ministry of Finance to ask Wang Can for the accounts.

Cao Cao and Wang Cana are both first-class old fritters, and they have always been obedient ministers under the foot of the imperial power. When they saw the pawns of Sili Xiaowei's mansion coming to the door aggressively, they immediately realized that someone was going to be in trouble.

They were very surprised, surprised that Cheng Yu had been dormant for more than a year and hadn't made any movement, and suddenly came out again.

But what to do they are still very clear.

So they let the pawns grab all the accounts of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Cabinet Audit Department, and then watched the pawns go away.

In the messy cabinet office and the Ministry of Finance office, Cao Cao and Wang Can shook their heads and sighed, feeling that Guo Peng had abdicated for so long, and the familiar feeling finally returned.

Father and son multiply in the same vein, what's the difference?

I just don't know if Zaoyi will be able to get away with it this time.

He violated the emperor's bottom line, prompting Guo Jin's self-consciousness as an emperor to explode, and instantly possessed Guo Peng's awareness and feelings.

Once Cheng Yu makes a move, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be in danger.

Before, Guo Jin calmed down the veteran's heart by appeasing Guan Yu, but now it seems that the old minister's life is going to be difficult again.

I don't know how long these officials can do. I'm afraid it will come when they are the emperor and courtiers.

Cheng Yu instructed the minions to snatch back the account books of the Ministry of Finance and the Audit Department. While instructing the minions to use the nitpicking spirit to do a fundamental inspection of these accounts, he personally led the team to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to fetch the accounts from the Ministry of Civil Affairs. self-retained accounts.

The rules set by Guo Peng—if something goes wrong, the three parties will take out the account books together, and the three parties will confront each other, jointly review, find out the problem, and severely punish the perpetrators.

Now Cheng Yu is going to perform his duties.

And when Cheng Yu was about to come to the door, the Yamen of the Ministry of Civil Affairs had already learned the news from the Ministry of Finance and the Audit Department of the Cabinet.

When they learned that Cheng Yu was dispatched again and was collecting the accounts of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was rumored that someone had reported the illegal activities of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and they were immediately panicked.

Zaoyi was stunned for a while after learning about it.

He is not afraid of Cheng Yu, because he knows that he is clean and has nothing to catch.

But he also knew that apart from himself, few people were not afraid of Cheng Yu.

Because they are not that clean.

Guo Peng killed them and made them dare not do anything wrong for a while. After Guo Jin succeeded to the throne, especially after Guo Peng left Luoyang, the atmosphere in Luoyang's officialdom became a little muddy again.

The new emperor was busy consolidating his power and status, so he had no time to rectify the administration of officials. From the end of the first year of Xingyuan to the beginning of the first year of Xingyuan, Guang Zaozhi heard about five or six black stories from other departments.

Seventeen or eighteen officials were arrested for review, but the overall situation still did not change.

Why doesn't he feel sorry?

Chapter 1574 One thousand four hundred and ninety four A thunderstorm and heavy rain arrived as scheduled

Zao only felt sorry for the officials who were greedy and greedy, but what made him feel even more painful was that the emperor seemed to have used the fight against corruption as a means to eliminate dissidents.

In order to eliminate dissidents, any means can be used to attack and slander dissidents. The fundamental purpose is not to fight corruption at all, but to consolidate power.

This is not an upright method, but a power technique under the control of the emperor. It was like this in Guo Peng's era, and it is still the same when the emperor is changed.

He knew that he had become the emperor's target, and the emperor would not hesitate to use such means in order to hit him.

Is Northwest business really that important?

Agriculture is the foundation of the country!

Zaozhi was heartbroken.

He doesn't think he made a mistake, he thinks he's right, and he's all for the good.

Similarly, Guo Jin didn't feel that he was wrong. He insisted on Guo Peng's policies and felt that all these were necessary, but Zaoyi was threatening Guo Peng's remaining policies and long-term grand strategy.

This is not acceptable.

The violent outbreak of this conflict was directly manifested in the fact that Cheng Yu led a hundred pawns from Sili Xiaowei's mansion to break into the official office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.