At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This political turmoil with unprecedented and serious consequences had a serious impact on the officialdom at the end of the first year of Jian'an.

This is Guo Peng's purpose.

He just wanted to attack the scholars in Yingchuan and Runan.

In the Han Dynasty, Yingchuan produced a large number of talents, and a large number of Yingchuan people served as officials in the central government. Since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the proportion of Yingchuan natives who served as the three princes ranked first in the country. After the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty Even more so.

So there is a saying that the world's best talents come out of Yingchuan.

Whether it is the number and quality of scholars, or the number of family classics, it is unrivaled in Yingchuan, and it is difficult for Runan scholars with the same cultural background to compete.

Runan scholars have been devastated under the circumstances that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have perished one after another and the Yuan family is almost extinct.

Most of them followed Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and suffered a devastating blow in Guo Peng's war against Er Yuan. Under the framework of political correctness, Guo Peng focused on the Runan scholars and put them on the hat of political prisoners. They are out of date.

The rest are Yingchuan scholars.

Scholars from Yingchuan have a deeper central background and relationship network than those from Runan. Even after experiencing war and displacement, they have not been greatly affected. They can still invest in various places and find their own way out.

Their background and the number of outstanding children are their biggest reliance. In this regard, the gap between the top gentry and the small gentry is very large.

This made Guo very unhappy.

The Hongnong Central Committee is gone, but the Yingchuan scholar group is still there. Their background is difficult for other scholars, including the civil official group under Guo, to resist.

They refused to admit defeat, they continued to fight, they seized power, brought the traditions of the Central Committee of the Eastern Han Dynasty into the Guo Wei regime, and influenced them, so it would not be so easy for Guo Peng to replace the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Guo Peng has been deliberately suppressing the status of Yingchuan scholars in his group, vigorously promoting his cronies, Han scholars, Qingyan scholars, and Jizhou scholars to fight against Yingchuan scholars.

And Xun Yu's self-destructive behavior gave Guo Peng an excellent breakthrough point to blast the Yingchuan Scholars Group.

With the passage of time, as Guo Peng's prestige and power continued to increase, as he made progress bit by bit, after three rounds of persecution, he finally broke up the strength of the Yingchuan Scholars Group and wiped them out. His prestige and power have hit rock bottom.

Not easy.

There are many scholars in Yingchuan.

Among them, the Xun family, the Chen family and the Zhong family are the representatives. The three families are at the top of the scholar group, and they are on the same court as the Hongnong Yang family and the Runan Yuan family. The children of the three families communicate with each other and marry each other.

Guo's second goal after destroying the Hongnong Central Committee was the top noble family in Yingchuan headed by the three families of Xun Chenzhong.

Now there is a Xun Yu from the Xun family, who committed the crime of treason, was beheaded, his reputation plummeted, and his political interests were hit hard.

The Chen family left Yingchuan because of the transfer of household registration, and left the Yingchuan base camp directly.

The Zhong family was even worse. The direct descendant Zhong Yao died in the tragedy of the Hongnong Mutiny, and his whole family was also killed by the rebels. Officials, low status.

The Xun family, the Chen family and the Zhong family, as the representative families of Yingchuan scholars, suffered from such political changes, although they were not devastated, they were still skinned and bloody.

With Xun You, whose reputation has become bad, and Chen Qun, who has little qualifications, as the representative figures, it is impossible to fight against Qingyan scholars, Jizhou scholars or even humble scholars.

After they were taken down, Guo Peng quickly arranged for his cronies to take over the vacated positions and took away this part of the power.

They could no longer stop Guo Peng's advance.

He didn't dare to continue to block Guo Peng's progress.

On this basis, on the first day of February in the second year of Jian'an, Emperor Liu Jian of the Han Dynasty sent people to Yecheng for the fourth time to canonize Wei Gong Guo Peng as King of Wei, and bestowed Jiuxi on it.

That is, nine items that symbolize status and power, including chariots and horses, clothes, Lexian, Zhuhu, Nabi, tigers, axes, bows and arrows, and scorpions.

Holding Jiuxi is basically the same as the emperor, possessing the legitimate power of life and death.

This time, Guo Peng accepted.

Call the king and add Jiuxi.

The sword goes to the hall, and the emperor does not kneel.

Feuding a state and establishing a country, within the feudal state, is equivalent to the emperor.

He majesticly tore up the 400-year talisman of the Han Dynasty, the White Horse Alliance, and became the fourth person to destroy the White Horse Alliance and cross that line.

The first three didn't have a good end, they died, their families were wiped out, and they left a bad reputation for thousands of years. As for whether Guo himself will have a good end, Guo doesn't dare to really say it now.

Maybe he failed and died?

Who knows?

But there is no doubt that Guo is extremely successful now.

The three waves of political purges have cleared away all stumbling blocks on his way forward, and the rest is only a matter of time.

He has become the king of Wei, and the Duke of Wei was also promoted to the Kingdom of Wei in the second year of Jian'an.

Guo Peng, and the country he created, are only one step away from becoming a unified empire.

Really one step away.

Guo Peng held a grand celebration ceremony in Yecheng, recalled almost all the important generals who commanded the army abroad and the important ministers who governed the place outside, and led them to worship the heaven and the earth together, and worshiped the Guo's ancestral temple, and once again established Cao Lan as the queen of the Wei king. Guo Jin established all the titles and inheritances as the crown prince of King Wei.

Afterwards, Guo Peng became the general of the Han Empire in a low-key manner, and became a general under one man and above ten thousand people that no one has ever done since He Jin's death.

But for now, the title of Wei Wang has far overshadowed the limelight of the general.

King Wei, king!

Wang with a different surname!

Since Zhulu, there has never been a king with a different surname in the Han Dynasty!

The ministers support, the army supports, and the people of Wei Guo support the King of Wei!

In the territory of Wei State, there is not a single flag with Chinese characters in sight.

It is said that Wang Mang and Yuan Shu tore up the White Horse Alliance because they directly became emperors.

Wang Mang ascended to the throne in the name of a duke and a "false emperor".

Yuan Shu was even more bachelor, directly crossed several levels and proclaimed himself emperor with rocket-like speed, and directly established the Chen Empire.

Neither of these men became kings.

Empress Lu named Zhulu kings mainly to fight against foreign ministers and Han family clansmen, but she didn't really think about making Lu's descendants emperors.

Only Guo Peng, one step at a time, one step at a time, kept his feet on the ground, crossed the bones, waded through the pool of blood, and walked towards the supreme position with countless crimes and conspiracies.

Step by step, step by step, step by step to the supreme position.

Walking extremely solidly, walking extremely carefully, walking extremely shrewdly.

He is the one who really destroyed the Han Dynasty.

The one and only big thief in the world!

When Guo Peng wore the clothes of the king and led the officials and generals to sacrifice to the heaven and the earth, he was actually a little emotional in his heart.

As far as he is concerned, he has overcome the humbleness of his birth, broken through the roadblock ahead, stepped over the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, and finally he is still one step away from the final destination.

A person who travels hundreds of miles is half ninety. When he became the Duke of Wei, he was considered to have reached the ninety position, and when he became the king of Wei, he was 99.

There are no obstacles in front of him, and the enemy is either eliminated physically or mentally.

There are no more obstacles.

Guo Peng slowly closed his eyes, then opened them, and smiled contemptuously at the blue sky and white clouds above his head.

Liu Bang, have you seen it?

It has been 400 years, you Liu Han has been in the country for 400 years, it has been 400 years!

It's over.

you lose.

I won.

Chapter 690. 690 His Majesty Nine will always be happy and happy

The official establishment of the Kingdom of Wei indicates that Guo Peng is only one step away from proclaiming himself emperor.

As long as he wants, as long as he wants, as long as he does.

Everyone already knows where the finale is, and everyone is making intensive preparations for the finale.

At this stall, Guo Peng got up from Yecheng, took the support and frame of King Wei, and went to Luoyang as King Wei.

The trip to Luoyang this time is not only to go to Luoyang to thank the little emperor face to face, to perform a political performance, but also to have a personal matter.

When Guo Peng went to Luoyang, he took Cai Yong's two daughters, Cai Yan and Cai Wan, with him.

Cai Yong and Bao Xin are the lucky survivors of the previous political turmoil.

But it can't be said that way, because Bao Xin survived in a single thought, but Cai Yong would die anyway, Guo Peng would not hurt him, not to mention that this time Cai Yong happened to miss this political turmoil because of his illness , was even more fortunate to save himself.

Before and after the political turmoil, Cai Yong lay in bed and couldn't get up.

Even if Cai Yong is involved, his identity and experience are his life-saving talismans.

Guo Peng would not kill Cai Yong no matter what, on the contrary, he would give him the highest treatment, lift him up high, and let him obtain a detached status.

After the political turmoil passed, Bao Xin became seriously ill and almost lost his life. After his condition stabilized, he asked the emperor to resign.

Soon, the "emperor" agreed to Bao Xin's resignation, but Bao Xin was not allowed to return to his hometown. He could only move his family to Luoyang, and he was not allowed to return to Yanzhou for life.

For this reason, Bao Xin wrote to Guo Peng privately to ask him to return to his hometown, but the result was that not only his own family, but also his brother Bao Tao's family were sent to Luoyang.

Bao Tao was implicated and dismissed from his official position. The whole family was sent to Luoyang from their hometown in Taishan, and even the family registration was forcibly changed.

The family's land, property, and population were confiscated, and a piece of wasteland outside Luoyang was granted to the Bao family, allowing them to "farm, study, and inherit the family." This was the last tenderness for them.

There is no room for negotiation.

Bao Xin was depressed because of this, but he had to write to Guo Peng to admit his mistakes and express his gratitude, in exchange for the chance to live on.

He was really grateful, because he was considered lucky, at least his family was saved.

Zang Hong and Xun Yu are both dead, and their family members have not been preserved. One can imagine the miserable future for a group of female relatives, and no one dares to lend a helping hand.

Compared with these two, Bao Xin felt that he was really lucky.

Although I dare not say whether there is a future in the future, I dare not say whether I can return to Guowei Central Committee in the future, but no matter what, I still survived. As long as I can survive, there is still hope for everything.

Bao Xin looked at everything so optimistically. After all, he was the biggest contributor to Guo Peng's acquisition of Yanzhou.

He believed that Guo Peng still wanted this love, so he survived.

Although Cai Yong's condition gradually recovered, he was frightened when he heard about the terrible change in the court, and his condition recurred again. So Guo Peng took this opportunity to send Cai Yong's two daughters and Mrs. Cai Take them to Luoyang to take care of Cai Yong.

Both of Cai Yong's daughters have time.

Cai Yan lived alone at home, while Cai Wan stayed in her boudoir.

The reason why he didn’t go to Luoyang with Cai Yong before was that Cai Yong felt that Luoyang hadn’t been built yet, so he didn’t take his family with him. past.

No need now, Guo Peng brought his family here.

Speaking of it, Guo Peng felt a little unworthy for Cai Yan.

After Guo Peng took Cai Yong to Qingzhou for protection, his influence soon expanded to Yanzhou. At this time, Cai Yong recommended to Guo Peng the scholar He Dongwei who he was very optimistic about.

Wei Ke is a descendant of Wei Qing, and the family of the Wei family in Hedong is a wealthy family. Guo Peng accepted Wei Ke and arranged for him to try out for the county magistrate and other positions. He did a good job and made quite a lot of political achievements.

Afterwards, Cai Yong negotiated a marriage contract with the Hedong Wei family, and married the eldest daughter Cai Yan to Wei Ke's clan brother.

Guo Peng went to see it on purpose, and this person was not that Wei Zhongdao.

After questioning, Guo Peng learned that Wei Zhongdao had died of illness during Dong Zhuo's rebellion, and Cai Yan married another Wei's son.

Later, in order to save face for Cai Yong and take care of Cai Yan's future, Guo Peng, as half of his natal family, promoted Cai Yan's husband to be an official. A county magistrate of Jiyin County was appointed to try out the ability.

By coincidence, before Lu Bu invaded Yanzhou, Cai Yong happened to be ill, so Cai Yan returned to Qingzhou to visit Cai Yong in the state of Qi.

At that time, Lu Bu led his troops to attack Yanzhou, and Jiyin County fell. Cai Yan's husband, as a confidant directly promoted by Guo Peng, surrendered.

Because Guo Peng's counterattack was fast enough, he was lucky enough to survive. Afterwards, he tried to cover up the fact that he surrendered, but the surrender was reported to Guo Peng truthfully by the surviving assistant officer.

What the hell is better than running away?

There were not no officials who escaped at that time, and there were naturally some who surrendered, but as Guo Peng's trusted aide, he represented the face of Guo Peng and even Cai Yong himself. How many people have you slapped in the face by surrendering like this?