At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Yuan family and Yang family, four generations and three princes, disciples and old officials all over the world, they have all disappeared into the dust of history.

The Xun family and the Chen family, the top gentry families in Yingchuan, and the absolutely excellent candidate families for the Central Sangong, are now in decline, not as good as before.

Especially the Xun family, because they violated the emperor's taboo, they stood in the wrong team, and were beaten by the emperor. They suffered heavy losses and almost returned to their original shape.

Now there is only one Xun You in the entire Xun family who works honestly on the staff desk, almost equal to a tool man.

The Xun family was suppressed miserably.

The Chen family didn't know what happened, it should be implicated by the Xun family. Not only did they lose their Yingchuan household registration, but they were moved to Ye County, Jizhou. The respected Chen Ji also died of illness a long time ago.

Now there is only one Chen Qun in the Chen family who works honestly in the Ministry of Civil Affairs and behaves with his tail between his legs. The rest of the scholars are afraid of his sensitive identity, and few dare to associate with him. They are basically equivalent to tool people.

Where do the top giants of the year still have the glory of the past?

Although the current rising stars are absolutely unwilling to let these old-fashioned families rise again to seize the political resources they have finally obtained.

Those top gentry who were all-powerful in the Eastern Han Dynasty all had extremely powerful reputation, political power or military strength in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But in the 20 years of troubled times, they all turned into fly ash and disappeared without a trace.

The big families who opposed the emperor no matter whether it was military or political, did not end well.

Other scholar families who were lucky enough to survive to the time of the Wei Empire, after seeing the fate of these families, they all behaved honestly with their tails between their legs.

Can not violate the emperor's taboo.

The emperor gives, we take.

If the emperor doesn't give it, we can't grab it.

To cooperate with the emperor, you can't confront the emperor, and you can't let the emperor feel that everyone is threatening him. It's really embarrassing. He has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands. It's not a joke.

This was originally the consensus of all.

But now, someone has committed a taboo.

The emperor was angry.

It seems that a storm is coming.

Cui Yan thought about it, felt uneasy, and couldn't think of a solution, so he immediately went to find Tian Feng, trying to find a solution to the problem.

Tian's daughter is one of Guo Peng's concubines, so the Tian family can be regarded as a member of the foreign relatives group.

The Tian family itself has the status of a noble family, and now it is a family of foreign relatives, so it has done well under the support of Guo Peng, and it seems to be a representative family of Jizhou scholars.

As a scholar family in Jizhou, the Cui family has always been very close to the Tian family, and the relationship between the two families is very good. Now that this kind of thing happened, Cui Yan had to find Tian Feng for a solution.

But Tian Feng's current life is not easy.

He is the only servant of Shangshutai.

After Chen Ji's death, Guo Peng did not arrange another Shangshu Pushe, he was the only Shangshu Pushe, and if Cheng Yu was the de facto prime minister, he was the deputy prime minister.

He is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and is in charge of the waterproof and road projects of Tianxia City. Today, when Guo is doing a lot of infrastructure construction, countless money has passed through Tian Feng. He is of course a high-ranking person.

It turned out that Cui Qu, an important figure in the center of the vortex, was actually Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, and an official of his Ministry of Industry.

The reason why Cui Qu entered the Ministry of Industry as an official is inseparable from the relationship between Cui and Tian.

Regardless of whether this is actually the case, everyone thinks so anyway, because Cui Shi and Tian Shi are indeed very close.

The two are now related by marriage.

Although Cui Yan and Tian Feng did not know about this incident, it cannot be said that it must have nothing to do with them.

The relationship is deep.

So while Cui Yan was anxious, Tian Feng was also anxious.

He himself is not opposed to the tax increase policy.

Because the Tian family was incorporated into the imperial business group by Guo Peng and participated in the Mi's caravan as a shareholder, they could get a lot of wealth, but they had to pay huge taxes.

So Tian Feng is very happy to let everyone pay taxes with him.

He also planned to speak for Wang Can and Zaoyi and support them.

As a result, he never expected that because of an official under his command, the entire Ministry of Industry was involved in this vortex and it was difficult to extricate themselves.

In the counterattack launched by Wang Can and others, in order to deal with Cui Qu, they successively revealed several problems with the project funds of the Ministry of Industry, all of which Tian Feng himself did not know.

Tian Feng was so frightened that he quickly organized manpower to investigate overnight.

The problems that broke out outside were not found, but many problems that did not come out were found. Not to mention, they were mainly concentrated in the Yu Department where Cui Qu worked.

The Ministry of Yu is one of the departments under the Ministry of Industry, in charge of Shanze, gardens, vegetation, firewood, and burials.

This is the reappointment of Yu Cao Shangshu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the imperial palace, it is responsible for adding bricks and tiles to the emperor's daily life, modifying and modifying the royal garden, adding and subtracting, so that the emperor feels comfortable.

In the official office, it is responsible for providing some necessary daily consumables to the foreign court official office, and also doing a good job in greening the environment.

After the founding of the Wei Empire, Guo Peng set up ten eunuchs' yamen to take care of all the affairs inside the palace.

Even if there is no qualification to participate in the palace, it is the repair and reconstruction of official offices outside the palace. It is necessary to deal with money, so the chief official Lang Zhong and the deputy official Wailang of the Yu Department are recognized as one of the fat jobs.

Wei Law stipulates that corruption must be imprisoned for three generations.

But Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that corruption should be peeled off.

Guo never thought that Wei Lv could stop corruption. It is the emperor's art to turn a blind eye and close one eye. When the time comes, it is also the emperor's art to beat Wei Lv to death in one breath.

Cui Qu is Wailang, a member of the Yu Department, an adjutant of the Yu Department, but not the chief officer, and this kind of thing happened in the end.

It is conceivable that there are other shady things in the entire Ministry of Industry that have not been tossed and understood. How many of these accounts are unclear and traceable.

Tian Feng was very anxious, and when he was arranging manpower to investigate this matter, Cui Yan came.

"Ji Gui! What do you mean by coming here at this time? Don't you think my place is not messy enough? It's hard to clean up the situation here, what else are you going to do?"

As soon as Tian Feng saw Cui Yan, his face was full of unhappiness and complaints.

"Yuan Hao! My place is also very chaotic, but there is no way to do it? Things have come to this point, I can only come to you to discuss it!"

"What do you want to discuss with me? Cui Qu's incident is not big enough? You don't hurry up and explain to His Majesty, what are you doing here? If anyone sees it, you and I will definitely plot and plot. Oops!"

Tian Feng stared and wanted to drive Cui Yan away.

Cui Yan was helpless.

"The matter has come to this point, no matter what we do, it is useless! Is the marriage between you and me a secret? At this moment, we can only survive if we work together, otherwise, the Xun family and the Chen family are ours. end!"

After Tian Feng thought about it, he felt that it made sense, so he closed the door and asked Cui Yan to sit down, and the two discussed the matter together.

"The incident happened so suddenly, I never thought that this matter would be involved in such a situation. It was just a business tax increase or not, but it turned out to be so troublesome! Cao Mengde and Wang Zhongxuan simply..."

Cui Yan's face was full of sadness: "Who would have thought that the trouble could reach this point today? It's only been about a month. If the trouble continues, I don't know what will happen! When the time comes, His Majesty will be furious, and none of us will be able to reap the benefits." ?”

Tian Feng nodded anxiously.

"The matter has come to this point, it is meaningless to say these things, Ji Gui, this time, Cui Qu caused a big incident, which violated His Majesty's taboo. If we dig deeper, I don't know how many people will be involved. Everyone was tacit. , Once it is revealed, the problem will be serious, you have to be mentally prepared, this person cannot be guaranteed."

Cui Yan showed hesitation.

"This... at least he is from my family. He is very knowledgeable. The family is very optimistic about him. I even recommended him to His Majesty, hoping that he can enter the cabinet..."

"What kind of cabinet do you still want? Not losing your head is the best ending! You still don't know how His Majesty handles affairs? You haven't seen what happened to Xun Wenruo and Zang Ziyuan? How did Chen Gong die? Haven't we figured it out yet? The result! It’s only been a few years? Forgot?!”

Tian Feng shouted eagerly: "In short, the Cui family can't protect him, not even his family. If you want to protect him, your Qinghe Cui family will be destroyed."

"This……"

Cui Yan looked terrified: "Your Majesty acts kindly, this...isn't it enough?"

"Isn't it?"

Tian Feng sneered and said: "At the beginning, the Xun family and the Chen family thought the same way! Is your Cui family more prestigious or the Xun family and the Chen family? Did your Majesty hesitate when he destroyed the Chen and Xun families? What about Xun Yu and Chen Ji? A veteran who has not followed His Majesty for many years? Kindness?"

Cui Yan stopped talking, her expression was shaken.

After thinking again and again, Cui Yan nodded with difficulty.

"If I give up Cui Qu, cut off with him, and go to His Majesty to plead guilty, will the Cui family survive this calamity safely?"

"It's hard to say, I can't give you an accurate answer, but at least I won't follow in the footsteps of Xun and Chen, and I won't end up like that."

Tian Feng shook his head.

"To get to this point?"

Cui Yan didn't want to believe it.

Tian Feng suddenly became angry.

"This matter is nothing in the former Han, but now it's not the former Han, it's Wei! Today, His Majesty handles affairs, and he pays attention to the fact that no one can cross the line. You can't cross the line drawn by His Majesty! Even if you step on the line, as long as the problem does not Great, Your Majesty can turn a blind eye, but you can't cross over!"

Tian Feng shouted angrily: "Wai Lang, a member of the Yu Department in Cui Qu, actually used your identity to reach out to the official department! He hooked up with officials of the official department! What kind of behavior is this? You don't think about it yourself? The appointment of officials in the world, can you not It is executed by the Ministry of Officials, is Cui Qu the Minister of the Ministry of Officials? Or the Emperor?!"

This roar scared Cui Yan enough.

"No...it's more than that, right? They're just a few petty officials, and it's impossible to affect the overall situation. This...how could Your Majesty..."

Tian Feng immediately stretched out his hand to interrupt Cui Yan's words.

"Cui Jigui, don't tell me what your Majesty will think when he knows about this matter, first think about what Cheng Zhongde will think about this matter! He is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and your son did such a thing under his nose. He kept it from him, he didn't know, he only found out when the incident happened.

That's it, that's all!Let me tell you, when things have come to this point, even if His Majesty is merciful and doesn't do anything to you, Cheng Zhongde would like to tear you apart!You are hitting him in the face!You don't understand Cheng Zhongde's character?Brutal!He can do such a thing! "

Cui Yan kept wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Cheng Zhongde came from a poor family, and he has been promoted by His Majesty all the way. I know that many of you look down on his background, but you must know that he was the first person to seek refuge with His Majesty, and he was from His Majesty's closest retainer! Retainer! Even Guo Fengxiao is not as close as him!

You offended Cheng Zhongde to death this time!Also implicate me!He knows that I am related to your family by marriage, can he think of me in this matter?Um?I am Shangshu Pushe, he is Shangshuling, I am a surrender, and he is Yuan Cong!Once he angers me, will I have a good life? ! "

The more Tian Feng talked, the angrier he became, and he pointed at Cui Yan and cursed.

After being scolded, Cui Yan's face became paler and paler. When Tian Feng finished speaking, Cui Yan's face was already pale and trembling.

"If... In this way, I... Aren't we..."

Tian Feng took a heavy breath and calmed down his emotions.

"Go to His Majesty and plead guilty right away! Don't delay any longer. If you plead guilty now, you might be able to save the future of you and Cui Shi. If you don't do this, once Cheng Zhongde takes action against you, don't expect me to help you. It's hard to protect itself.

How many people have been implicated by Cui Qu this time? Once they are punished by His Majesty, what will they think of you?What will you think of me?Um?Cheng Zhongde alone is enough to kill me, what does this matter have to do with me?I do not know!If it weren't for you!And that Cui Qu!As for me? "

Tian Feng took a heavy breath again, with a look of regret on his face.

"I shouldn't have promised you to support that bastard! How many people will be implicated if he does wrong things alone? If His Majesty is determined to rectify, you! Me! And Cheng Zhongde! Who can get out of it?!"

When Tian Feng talked about this, Cui Yan no longer had any chances.

Cui Yan lowered his head, closed his eyes, and nodded silently.

"I see, I will go, but Yuan Hao, you...don't you plan to do something? If Cheng Zhongde is really dissatisfied with you, then...what will you do?"

"You still care about me? Take care of yourself, you are the person directly responsible!"

Tian Feng rolled his eyes, and then said worriedly: "Cheng Zhongde and I have never had a good relationship. This person has a surly temperament and can't rub the sand in his eyes, and he can't tolerate people who disobey him. Those friends of Cui Qu are Hopeless.

What I say here... hmph, he must be dissatisfied with me, but Cheng Zhongde's dissatisfaction with me is one aspect. At least one of my family has a daughter who is His Majesty's concubine and also gave birth to a daughter for His Majesty. No matter how dissatisfied Cheng Zhongde is, it depends. Hold your hand at this point. "

Tian Feng said in a low voice: "It's really ridiculous. At this time, my whole family has to rely on two women to keep it safe...It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous!"

"There are still two girls in your family. My family... doesn't even have such girls."

Cui Yan sighed deeply, and said, "I don't want to do what he thinks. It's best if I can keep my official position. If I can't keep it...let's leave it to fate. I can't stop the emperor from doing what he wants, so what can I do?"

After finishing speaking, Cui Yan got up tiredly, left the office of the Ministry of Industry, and went straight to the palace.

Chapter 913 San Cui Yan hates eunuchs very much

Watching Cui Yan leave, Tian Feng frowned.

Cui Yan is not alone in this matter?

After thinking about it, Cui Yan even wanted to intercede with Zhao Yun for help, but he still didn't do it.

It's not that the emperor didn't know how much he attached importance to the army. If he went to Zhao Yun because of this matter, not only he would be finished, but even Zhao Yun would be in danger.