At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Jin thought about it.

"Does the father think his son is doing something wrong?"

"No, of course you did the right thing. Although some things haven't happened yet, we must plan ahead. But Ajin, how do you know that your father didn't prepare the Linzi camp specifically to deal with the Linzi camp in advance?"

Guo Peng smiled slightly, walked to his desk, opened a box on the desk, took out a stack of papers and handed it to Guo Jin.

"Father, this is... Yan Rou's trace? So detailed?"

Looking at everything written on the paper, Guo Jin was quite surprised.

"The middle camp of the Linzi camp is directly under the father, and the Linzi camp that specializes in supervising the Linzi camp has the power to secretly report violations of the Linzi camp's spies. Their identities are kept secret, and they have a one-way connection with each other. There is no name, only a code name, and Yan Rou doesn't know about it either."

"These... are all prepared by my father? Did my father suspect Linziying very early?"

"It's not suspicion, it's that I didn't believe it that much from the beginning. They are human beings, and they will lie."

"But...Father, just as Father said, these people are outstanding people with great abilities and quick thoughts. What if Yan Rou knew?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng smiled.

"Isn't that better?"

"what?"

Guo Jin didn't react.

"He knows, even if he knows, he still pretends not to know."

Guo Peng's smile disappeared, and his voice was cold.

Guo Jin understood.

He must fully understand.

There is no cronies around the emperor.

All enemies.

So, let's fight, if you don't fight, I feel uneasy.

Mr. Guo very much hoped that those people would fight fiercely and fiercely.

And I am the supreme master who holds the right to arbitrate.

To Guo Peng's satisfaction, the commercial tax increase group and the anti-commercial tax group have begun a fierce battle.

Now that the two sides have started to attack each other, the facts are no longer important, and it seems serious is the key.

The key is to make Guo Peng feel angry, conduct a thorough investigation, and strive to kill this group of leaders who oppose the increase in business taxes in one go.

One can imagine how far Guo Peng would deal with these guys once he really got angry.

This is probably what Wang Can, Cao Cao and others thought.

After a little comparison between the two sources, Guo Peng estimated that about [-]% to [-]% of what happened actually happened.

Some of them are causality reversed, or pure grafting. Compared with the authenticity of the anti-commercial tax group's accusations against Wang Can and others, it is half a catty, and fifty steps are not laughable.

False accusations are not so nice.

It seems that in the future, when such actions are launched, we need to regulate them a little bit. Don't waste the emperor's time with gossip and the like, and you must be responsible if you find out the false accusations.

But after a closer look, Guo Peng still found something worth using.

Among the counterattacks of Wang Can and Cao Cao, the first to bear the brunt was Cui Qu, who wrote the confusing words in the world.

Some officials reported that Cui Qu used his power to bully others many times. Taking advantage of Cui Yan's status as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, he was defiant, bullied his colleagues, accepted bribes, and tampered with the entry and promotion of officials.

The children of the family who deliberately took care of them for their own benefit even extended their hands to the bureaucracy, using the friendship of the bureaucracy to secretly take care of them, giving priority to sending them to wealthy or stable areas, or to the real power departments of the central government.

In this way, promotion can be taken care of in the future, and the possibility of assuming a high position of real power will be greater. Slowly, you can still return to the top gentry status in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

This problem cannot be considered small.

The clansmen of the Ministry of Rites extended their hands into the Ministry of Officials, secretly manipulating the promotion and appointment of officials in the Ministry of Officials.

That's fun.

The official department was actually infiltrated by others.

Mr. Guo grinned, feeling very happy.

The scope of the war can be expanded.

The water is not turbid enough, it needs to be more turbid!

So someone Guo immediately made the matter public.

People made a big publicity, so that the whole court knew that someone from the emperor's side reported to the emperor that Cui Qu had put his hand into the official department.

Cheng Yu and the officials were dragged into the water so easily.

Except for Guo, no one can be alone, otherwise, how could Guo fish in troubled waters?

Cheng Yu also has the Ministry of Officials.

let me go down!

Chapter 910 .920 Cheng Yu was so angry that he was about to eat people

Seeing Cheng Yu as the de facto prime minister wield so much power, Guo felt vaguely unhappy.

The contradiction between imperial power and prime ministership itself is irreconcilable.

It seems that he must slowly find some opportunities to weaken his power. The position of Shang Shuling cannot be handed over easily, and it should not even exist.

Guo, as the founding emperor, has enough prestige to suppress the prime minister, but the descendants may not necessarily.

Who has the better quality to stand out from the group of ministers and become the prime minister, or the Guo family who has a great chance to become the emperor after birth?

Which one is more likely to defeat the elite among the 40 people, or the emperor among the few or as many as dozens of royal children?

The answer is obvious.

Therefore, in Guo's opinion, there is nothing worth discussing about the existence of this position. No matter in name or in reality, the existence of prime minister should not continue.

In the eyes of Guo, the struggle between Xiangquan and imperial power is just asking for trouble.

It's just to reward the heroes, and it's a last resort. Cheng Yu must be rewarded for his years of dedication. This is what he deserves. If even he can't get the reward he deserves, who will risk everything for the Wei Empire? ?

People go through life and death for themselves.

So someone Guo could gradually feel Zhu Yuanzhang's concerns and emotions.

Zhongde, you have to introspect yourself.

You and I are no longer on the same front, you are still a citizen, but I am a king!

I don't mind being Zhu Yuanzhang, don't you mind being Hu Weiyong?

A cold light flashed in Guo's eyes.

Originally, in this struggle, Cheng Yu and the officials were watching from the sidelines.

Shang Shuling personally manages the Ministry of Officials, which proves that the Ministry of Officials is the head of the eight departments of Shangshutai, and the officials who work in the Ministry of Officials are also selected by Cheng Yu himself.

Under Cheng Yu's deterrence, basically no one dared to involve the officials in the internal disputes of Shangshutai.

Everyone said that the person who controls the Ministry of Officials has the power of life and death over the entire Shangshutai. Not too big.

It is simply an official among officials.

Therefore, the officials at Shangshutai called Cheng Yu the "Heavenly Official" and respected him very much, for fear that he would destroy the achievements of everyone's years of hard work if he used his power.

He is not only the head of Shangshutai, but also the head of the personnel department, in charge of personnel work, specializing in the selection of officials, promotion and demotion is just a word from him, who dares to offend?

There were also people discussing whether Cheng Yu's power was too great in private. Would the emperor be at ease with such a great power?

Some people even tried to secretly report to the emperor, telling the impact that Cheng Yu's excessive power might have on the Wei Empire, and admonishing the emperor to be cautious in granting Cheng Yu power.

If the emperor didn't move, it would be the same as if he didn't play the watch.

No way, who made Cheng Yu one of the earliest elders who took refuge in Guo Peng, and also one of Guo Peng's closest confidants?

Cheng Yu also did a good job, with a detached look, he strictly controlled the Shangshutai by controlling the power of the Ministry of Officials, and controlled the Shangshutai well. During the war, he coordinated the affairs of the eight departments of the Shangshutai to serve Guo Peng shared a lot of heavy responsibilities.

He thinks he's doing a great job.

Same this time.

Even the Ministry of Industry, which was managed by Tian Feng, the only minister, was dragged into the water because of Cui Qu's affairs and the problem of being involved in fraudulent construction funds, so that Tian Feng had to personally participate in the tearing war and fight for the Ministry of Industry. Clarify the rumors and ensure the safety of the Ministry of Industry and himself.

Although Tian Feng couldn't shirk away Cui Qu's matter, Tian Feng was quite annoyed and surprised by it.

But the officials are still firmly on the sidelines.

The official department is like a white lotus flower that emerges from the mud without being stained, clean and ripples without being demonic.

But soon, after Wang Can, Cao Cao, and Zaoyi launched their counterattacks, Cheng Yu felt that the development direction of this matter was a bit out of the originally planned track.

This was originally a debate about whether to increase commercial taxes, but in the end, the debate turned into exposing each other's old stories, as if they wanted to expose all the dirty things to the world.

You said that if such a thing really happened, Cheng Yu wouldn't be able to say anything, but as far as Cheng Yu knows, many things are non-existent and fabricated.

How does this work?

This is the court, not the vegetable market, and it's not for you to fabricate facts to attack your colleagues!

The world has just been unified, and there is still so much work to be done. Isn't it shameful that you are so eager to tear it apart?

Cheng Yu, the grand master of the heavenly official, decided to do something.

Just when Cheng Yu was about to take action to quell the debate so as to show off his control over Shangshutai as Shangshu Ling, the situation changed again.

It was this memorandum against Cui Qu issued by an official.

Before Cheng Yu could show his prestige as a heavenly official, Cheng Yu's face was swollen from this performance.

I have always felt that there are people in the bureaucracy that I have firmly controlled and have not escaped from control, and there are people who are cheating, and there are people who are making small moves under his nose. This...

Cheng Yu blushed when he heard the news.

He immediately asked people to check the source of the memorandum, and learned that the source of the memorandum was an official of the Ministry of Finance under Wang Can's subordinates. It must be Wang Can's instigation, but it may not have nothing to do with Cao Cao and Zaozhi.

Both belong to Yuan Cong veterans, pay attention when you start!Don't get me involved, okay? !

Cheng Yu was so angry that he was about to eat people.

He scanned his subordinates with extreme anger.

"Ministry of officials! To select talents for the country, such a scandal can happen! Good! Good! Good! Very good!"

Cheng Yu roared again and again.

Seeing how they all lowered their heads and didn't dare to raise their heads, Cheng Yu slapped the table angrily, then got up and went directly to the palace to ask Guo Peng to see him, ready to plead guilty.

Unlike before, Guo Peng took a while to meet Cheng Yu, which made Cheng Yu feel very uneasy.

Sure enough, Guo Peng got straight to the point and expressed his dissatisfaction with Cheng Yu.

"Zhongde, I entrusted you with such an important official department. I hope you can control the general trend of the entire Shangshutai through the official department, and don't let the Shangshutai go out of control and go astray. Originally, I thought you We did a good job in the past two years, but now it seems that this is not the case.”

When Cheng Yu paid his respects to Guo Peng, Guo Peng sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, dealing with government affairs unhurriedly. Seeing Cheng Yu kneeling in front of him pleading guilty, he said these words unhurriedly.

"You don't seem to be optimistic about Shangshutai for me. It seems that there are many people working under your nose, but you don't know?"

Suddenly, Cheng Yu broke out in cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, the old minister... the old minister was negligent, please punish the crime, Your Majesty!"

Cheng Yubai fell on the ground, trembling.

"Zhongde, you should know how much I attach importance to the official department, how much I attach importance to the appointment and removal of officials, you know I don't like scouting, I know how many dirty things there are, let you take charge of the official department, just to Let you take control of this vital channel.

You can't let everyone go in, you have to have a choice, you have to have an idea, and the result?A mere member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, can do this kind of thing right under your nose, Zhongde, is it because I entrusted someone to someone else, or are you old? "

Guo Peng's understated rhetorical question made Cheng Yu feel cold all over his body.

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