At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 908. 910 Eight Powerful, Really Powerful

This matter is indeed not big, and it does not involve important real power officials in the central government.

It's just that Wang Can cultivated a group of wings through Chen Gong and deepened his relationship with Chen Gong.

After the power of summoning local officials has been greatly weakened, there are very few convenient positions that can be arranged, whether it is the governor of the state or the prefect of the county, and most of them have no real power and belong to the nature of staff.

Guo Peng didn't care about this part of the official position.

The Ministry of Officials controlled by Cheng Yu is an important channel for Guo Peng to control the promotion and appointment of key officials.

Basically, he has the final say on the appointment of officials, and the official department makes decisions. Only the official department can appoint and dismiss officials, and other ministries and private individuals do not have this power.

Cheng Yu also understood in his heart how much Guo Peng cared about this position, so he would pay attention to discuss everything with Guo Peng, ask Guo Peng for instructions on everything, and never dared to act arbitrarily.

He knew Guo Peng's desire for power and determination to centralize power firmly, he knew the reason why Guo Peng let him control the Ministry of Officials, and he also knew how terrifying and powerful this lord was.

But it is about the privileges of the scholars, so in some places, Guo Peng will also ask Cheng Yu to take care of them.

Therefore, Guo knew about the exchange of interests among the children of some scholars, the advantages of entering the Shangshutai as an official or being promoted, but he secretly acquiesced.

Within the scope of Cheng Yu's control, it is in a state of turning a blind eye and giving preferential treatment to the scholars.

Even if this is the case at the central level, of course there should be gaps at the local level.

For Mr. Guo, the enhanced version of the general representative, it is still not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang's. We will weaken it here, and give him a little convenience there.

Of course, this matter must be strictly prohibited on the surface, and it is absolutely not allowed.

So other things can refute the rumors, but this one, Wang Can can't refute the rumors no matter what.

Zaozhi himself is very dedicated, obsessed with farming and unable to extricate himself, and has never been corrupted, so he can't find any problems.

But his two men were certainly not entirely clean.

Everyone has a little problem, sloppy hands, if it is exposed, it is also a crime, not to mention dismissal and imprisonment for three generations, demotion is certain, but it has no major impact on Zaozhi.

As for Cao Hong, he was really wronged.

After being beaten up by Guo Peng once, he no longer dared to have any extravagant hopes for the land, and he was very strict with his family. He dared not accept bribes from guests, and refused to see them again and again.

As for the family servants in his family tampering with the caravan's money, Guo didn't really care about it, and it was hard to stop it.

Don't do anything to the land, Guo Peng is already very satisfied with him.

For Cao Cao, it is probably a knock on the mountain to shake the tiger, for Zaozhi, it is also a kind of containment, and for Wang Can it is the real murderous intention.

It seemed that they were really planning to kill Wang Can, to deter the supporters of the tax reform in the DPRK and China, so as to maintain the status quo and continue to eat and drink to their fullest.

However, this big drama has just begun, and Guo Peng is not in a hurry at all. He only arranges relevant officials to follow the procedures, and he has not raised any opinions or made any statement.

Many people don't quite understand what the emperor means.

But the emperor didn't make a statement, and they couldn't figure it out, so they could only follow the established strategy.

Anyway, they are absolutely not happy to levy business tax.

Soon, the counterattack of Cao Cao and others came as expected.

Guo Peng once again received a large number of performances.

Reports of corruption and malfeasance by a new batch of officials.

It was the counterattack of Cao Cao, Wang Can and others, a counterattack specifically aimed at the previous batch of attacks.

The two sides are quite a bit of a tit-for-tat feeling.

Expose the other party's corruption, dereliction of duty, as well as bullying others, oppressing goodness and other illegal behaviors.

One by one, Guo Peng felt that all the officials around him were rotten.

However, according to the secret report of the Linzi camp, Guo Peng found that there were also a lot of false accusations and fabrications, or they added fuel and vinegar to turn black and white.

What didn't happen was said to be there, normal operations were turned into crimes by turning black and white, and some small mistakes were embellished and turned into major crimes of corruption.

The most typical case is a case in August of the second year of Yande.

A county magistrate in Chenliu County, Yanzhou, who was a son of an official of the Ministry of Rites, was reported to have accepted bribes from the wounded person when investigating a wounding case.

Thus, he stigmatizes the victim as the one who initiated the attack, leaves the victim alone, and allows the perpetrator to go unpunished.

This is a felony and deserves a heavy punishment.

According to the investigation report of Linziying, the cause of this wounding case was that the children of two farmers ran to each other's fields and trampled some unharvested grain.

The parents of both parties were aggrieved, and both believed that they had suffered more losses than the other party, so they started a dispute. The dispute became more and more serious, and the anger became more and more intense. The two families even fought.

In anger, the male owner of the other family beat the male owner of the other family with farm tools, injured his forehead, and bled a lot.

The circumstances were serious, and the village head reported the matter to the county government according to the procedures.

The boundary of Yanzhou was pacified by Guo Peng early on, and it has always been stable. After the implementation of the farming system and the official salt and iron camps, the people became more stable, and such things rarely happened.

Moreover, Guo Peng is very concerned about this kind of abnormal death case. Every abnormal death case will be summarized to the Central Criminal Department, and it will even have an impact on the promotion of local officials.

At that time, the county magistrate had been in office for two years. The county had always been stable and nothing like this had happened. So the county magistrate was a little surprised when he heard that it was a bloody incident. investigation.

The family of the victim felt that it was wrong, and at that time the victim had been ordered by the village chief to take care of him. The mistress of the family thought about it and sent a stewed chicken to the temporary residence of the county magistrate, hoping to tell her husband Nice words, exempt from punishment or something.

The county magistrate asked Facao, and Facao, who was familiar with Wei law, thought it was impossible.

The state-owned state law family has family rules. The Wei Law clearly stipulates that private fighting among the people is prohibited, especially fighting with weapons and wounding people. It is a felony. If the circumstances are slightly more serious, they will be sentenced to a serious crime. If death is caused, they will be paid directly.

But the cause of this matter is not complicated.

It was mainly caused by quarrels and disputes caused by children playing with each other. The man who was injured was not life-threatening, and the degree was relatively minor, so it could not be regarded as a real weapon fight, so this matter was handled according to the general disputes among the people.

The victim was ordered to make an apology and pay all the medical expenses and recuperation expenses. The owner of the victim was sentenced to repair the water conservancy project for free for ten days. damage crops.

And the stewed chicken was sent to the home of the injured man to replenish his body.

The two parties were also neighbors at first, and they didn't look good when they made such a mess, so they had no objections, and then completed the process of apologizing under the supervision of the county magistrate, and the matter ended like this.

But after the end, when the county magistrate was about to leave, the family of the injured rushed up with two big fat ducks, saying that they had grown up eating locust gnats, the meat was delicious, and they wanted to give it to the county magistrate, put it down and run away.

The county magistrate couldn't laugh or cry, so he accepted it.

So Cao Cao and others learned about this matter from some unknown source, and then took it out to make a fuss, and engaged in operations such as accepting bribes and bullying good people, injustice, false and wrong cases.

It is said that the county magistrate's professional level is not strong, but he is not small. He accepted bribes, so he turned black and white, and should be severely punished.

Strongly demand that according to the law of Wei, he be dismissed from office, abolished as a commoner, and the descendants of the family be imprisoned for three generations.

Then he also emphasized that this person has a backer in the Ministry of Rites, and it will not be difficult to become a sheriff or be transferred to the central government in the future. He must be given eye drops and his entire family.

It was obviously a simple civil dispute, and the county magistrate handled it very well. Afterwards, the two ducks were given away by the farmers as a thank you, but after this operation, the taste changed immediately.

Accepting bribes and engaging in unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Once the circumstances are serious, this is an absolute death penalty in Wei Law, and even the lightest ones will be dismissed.

Great, really great.

Cao Cao and Wang Can have capable people under their command.

If it wasn't for Guo Peng's back-up of Linziying's case, he might have believed it and sent someone to investigate and collect evidence.

Chapter 909 Nine can expand the scope of the war

Cui Yan and others spared no effort in attacking Wang Can and Cao Cao and others, and Wang Can, Cao Cao and others also fought back quite sharply.

They splashed dirty water on each other, framed each other, turned black and white on each other, and made things out of nothing.

Sure enough, crows are black all over the world, bureaucrats are bureaucrats, and the essence remains unchanged.

It can only be said that some people's positions and interests are in line with Guo's, so Guo used his strength to play Tai Chi push hands very well.

But whether it is Wang Can, Cao Cao, or Cui Yan, although their positions are different, they have never been pure and innocent lambs, but black crows with deep thoughts.

Not bad, not bad, a bit bureaucratic.

Guo Peng put these people's operations in front of Guo Jin, taught him carefully, and let him see the doorway clearly.

"Did you see it? When it comes to political disputes, it doesn't matter whether something is true or not, because there are so many things that no one can verify all of them, which is too energy-consuming.

They didn't know that Linziying was doing this, so after a little comparison, Weifu could know what changes they made, who they wronged, and what they really hit. "

Guo Peng pointed to two completely different watches to Guo Jin.

One is the above table of the cabinet officials, and the other is the investigation report of the Linzi camp on the matter.

Guo Jin compared them and was deeply surprised.

"This kind of thing is related to human life and the future of three generations of the family. Could it be framed indiscriminately and then reported to the emperor? Uncle...Cao Shoufu and Wang Shangshu actually did such a scandal... and those people have nothing to do with it." What's the difference?"

Guo Jin was very angry.

"There is no difference, they are all your enemies."

Guo Peng gave these people an accurate definition of their nature, and then said: "The fact that these things are not recorded in the history books does not mean that there are no such things. There are only a few words about political disputes recorded in the history books. Who knows how many false accusations and how many times there are framed in them? ?

In every political battle, it is unknown how many people were wrongfully imprisoned or even lost their lives, and it is impossible for future generations to know, because there is no right or wrong in political battles, only winners and losers, Jin, you have to remember , Political disputes, there is no right or wrong. "

Guo Peng pointed to the two melodies.

"Only results."

"Father, the result is..."

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng.

"Add business tax."

Guo Peng said: "Other than that, it doesn't matter who is not wronged, who is wronged, who escapes punishment, who dies wronged, it doesn't matter what is beneficial, so it comes. As for the truth, does it matter? To them It is not important to us, and it is even less important to us father and son."

"..."

Guo Jin was silent.

Guo Peng shook his head, stepped forward, and hugged Guo Jin.

"A Jin, if you want to control the court, you need to have two eyes, one eye is used to read the performances of the officials, and the other eye is used to read the secret report of the Linzi camp, and then weigh it and make the best choice for you. Don't be influenced by any one eye when making your own thoughts."

Guo Peng pointed to Guo Jin's two eyes: "The eyes are only responsible for seeing, and the head is responsible for thinking."

Guo Jin nodded silently.

After a while, Guo Jin suddenly raised her head and looked at Guo Peng.

"Father, what should we do if one day the secret report from the Linzi Camp is no longer trustworthy?"

Guo Peng smiled.

"Why do you think that the secret report from the Linzi Camp is also untrustworthy?"

"The Linzi camp has the right to spies and reports, and it is completely unrestrained. Although they were domesticated by their father, they all have eyes, ears, and mouths. They also have human desires. If they collude with the courtiers out of desire, what should they do?" how?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng very seriously.

The smile on Guo Peng's face was even stronger.

"Do you really believe that as a father, sooner or later, Linziying will be put on the bright side?"

"Father taught his son that if you want others to know, unless you do nothing yourself, Linzi Ying can hide it for a while, but not for a lifetime."

Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right, you can live in Linzi camp for a while, but you can't hide forever. Sooner or later, you have to show it to the public. Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is not to cover your eyes and think it's dark , Ah Jin, we seem to only have two eyes, but we need to pay attention to it."

"Father means to organize another department similar to the Linzi Camp to clamp down on the Linzi Camp?"

Guo Jin seemed to understand.

"Would you choose that?"

Guo Peng smiled and looked at Guo Jin.