At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Although Zhao Yun doesn't necessarily want to talk to him.

Although both of them are from Jizhou, they come from different backgrounds, so they cannot be regarded as the same world at all.

Zhao Yun's family is just a small landowner, not even a big tycoon, even Cheng Yu's background is inferior, and he has never been able to get along with the gentry and bureaucrats.

Moreover, Zhao Yun never made friends with officials. Some officials wanted to see Zhao Yun, but Zhao Yun avoided them like a wolf.

At the beginning, some people were envious of Zhao Yun's power. Some people brought gifts to visit Zhao Yun's house. Zhao Yun ordered his family to close the door tightly, pretending that no one had ever been there, and no one was allowed to enter the house.

So soon the door of Zhao Yun's house was empty.

It is said that the emperor was very happy when he learned about this, and praised Zhao Yun again and again. Afterwards, the rewards given to the Zhao family every year and festival were the crown of all the officials.

It is also very simple to think about it. The commander-in-chief of the 12 guards, the chief of the defense of the Gyeonggi region, is in charge of all the defense of the Gyeonggi region except the imperial city. If Zhao Yun makes friends with ministers...

What does he want to do?

There is no way to follow Zhao Yun's path, so who should I turn to to handle this matter?

Can anyone help me out?

Tian Feng is very male.

Moreover, the focus of this matter itself is not on Cui Qu. If this matter is understood by Cheng Yu as that he colluded with the Cui family to seek his power, it would be bad.

Cheng Yu's desire for power is not low at all, as his deputy, Tian Feng is very clear about it.

Cheng Yu's desire for power is far beyond the imagination of many people. Perhaps it is the sense of disparity caused by his humble background, which makes him attach great importance to power. He firmly grasps the power in his hand and never easily communicates with others .

As Cheng Yu's deputy, I can't intervene in many things at all.

Apart from being fully responsible for the work of the Ministry of Industry, this Shangshu Pushe is just a flower shelf, a vase, which is beautifully placed, and can't play any role.

All the power in Shangshutai was in Cheng Yu's hands, and what Cheng Yu said was what he said, and no one was allowed to refute what he said.

Tian Feng couldn't exercise the power that Shangshu Pushe should have at all, and he didn't even get the respect he deserved.

Cheng Yucai didn't care about Tian Feng. When holding a meeting, he basically treated him as air, and would not ask Tian Feng to help if he was too busy with anything, and suppressed him blatantly.

So Tian Feng was also dissatisfied with Cheng Yu as the boss, but there was nothing he could do.

Cheng Yu is the emperor's confidant, Yuan Cong's boss, and he was born as a surrender. He once fought against Guo Peng, so he naturally has no advantage against Cheng Yu.

However, as Shangshu Pushe, no matter what, he is still the second in command of Shangshutai.

There is no doubt that Tian Feng is the person closest to Cheng Yu. If something happens to Cheng Yu, Tian Feng must be the one who benefits in the end, and the order of succession is definitely higher than that of Cui Yan.

If Cheng Yu thinks this way, it will be bad.

But Tian Feng was really wronged in this matter, to the extreme.

Cui Qu committed a crime, isn't Tian Feng guilty?Cui Qu was an official of the Ministry of Industry, no matter what he said, Tian Feng couldn't get away with it, but he really didn't know.

Cheng Yu wouldn't simply think it was his own scheme, would he?

I hope this old guy won't bite like a mad dog to get revenge on himself.

Tian Feng took a few breaths, only to feel that the chill in early spring was getting stronger.

Tianrou's path is the last one, and she can't take it unless she has to, otherwise she will be suspected of the harem meddling in politics. Once Guo Peng is upset, the last straw is probably gone.

Just leave it there without moving, maybe Guo Peng will still care.

Tian Feng is a smart man, he knows that a quiet concubine benefits the family the most.

Walking out of the official office, breathing in the cold air, Tian Feng felt uneasy.

This cold spring, when will it end?

Inside the palace, Guo Peng is doing abdominal crunches in the study of Qinzheng Hall to exercise his abdominal muscles to maintain his healthy body.

Then suddenly a servant at the door came to announce that Cui Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, asked to see him.

"Your Majesty, see you?"

The great eunuch Su Yuan asked Guo Peng.

"See."

Guo Peng said while doing belly crunches: "But tell him to wait outside the hall first, and let him come in after I finish. There is no rush."

"According to the order."

Su Yuan went to deliver the order.

Cui Yan waited anxiously outside the Hall of Qinzheng, and when he saw Su Yuan coming out, he stepped forward eagerly.

"Chairman, Your Majesty..."

"Your Majesty has something to do, please wait for a while, Cui Shangshu. When His Majesty is done, he will invite Cui Shangshu in. Cui Shangshu does not need to worry."

"This... I dare to ask the chief internal officer, what is His Majesty doing?"

Cui Yan was really anxious.

Anxious to explain, anxious to figure out their own future and the future of the family.

Su Yuan smiled.

He's kind of happy.

"Is what your majesty is doing important to Cui Shangshu? What your majesty wants to do is your majesty's business. Does your majesty have to get Cui Shangshu's consent no matter what your majesty wants to do? Cui Shangshu likes to advise, we all know , but you can’t give advice on everything, right? Your Majesty will be angry.”

"I...I don't mean that, I just...just care about His Majesty."

Cui Yan was pushed back by Su Yuan in a strange way, and anger surged in his heart.

Just about to open his mouth to scold, but the current situation is not good, he has no confidence to get angry, so he can only swallow this breath, keep silent, and stop asking.

"Your Majesty naturally has something to do. Cui Shangshu will wait a moment. When His Majesty's end is over, the old servant will come again."

Seeing Cui Yan deflated, Su Yuan felt extremely happy, and pretended to salute Cui Yan, then turned his head and returned to the Hall of Qinzheng.

Seeing the back of Su Yuan leaving, Cui Yan spat very unhappy, his eyes were full of anger.

If it weren't for the fact that I have problems now, and I have no confidence in my conscience, I would definitely slap this bastard eunuch's face severely!

Relying on being the emperor's personal eunuch, he continued to look like no one else, who would he show his face to?

An eunuch who smells all over his body!

If there is a chance, I will definitely teach him a lesson, and I will definitely...

Thinking of this, Cui Yan suddenly lost his anger, leaving only the sadness in his body and mind.

Is there still a chance?

I don't know if I can keep my official position, but Su Yuan is the emperor's close eunuch. Although he doesn't belong to any of the ten eunuchs in the inner court, he has a detached position in the eunuch system.

The eunuchs who work in the inner court are different from the eunuchs who serve the emperor by his side.

The eunuchs who worked were not as close as the eunuchs who served the emperor. There were almost [-] eunuchs in the ten prisons of the inner court, and only [-] eunuchs could serve the emperor.

And Su Yuan is the leader of these thirty eunuchs.

Because of his superior status, he often went to various environmental management agencies to send messages. The eunuchs and young supervisors of each prison had to be cautious when they saw them, so some people joked that these thirty people formed the head department among the ten prisons in the inner court. Prison No. 11 .

The closest ministers to the emperor, Cheng Yu, and Cao Cao, looked serious and upright, but in fact they put on a smiling face when they saw Su Yuan, at least they were polite.

Therefore, the scholars and bureaucrats looked down on Cheng Yu and Cao Cao, ridiculed and slandered them in private.

Cui Yan is of course one of them.

He has a straight personality, no matter what Cao Cao and Cheng Yu do, he just doesn't give these eunuchs good looks, and scolds them whenever he gets the chance.

So what the eunuchs in Duzhijian are most afraid of is going to the Ministry of Rites to pass on the emperor's orders.

Because no matter what you do, you may be scolded by this Cui Yan, scolded bloody, and even encounter soft violence.

For example, on a sunny day, you have to wait outside, being exposed to the hot sun, and several people have suffered from heat stroke.

On rainy days or when it was chilly, Cui Yan didn't let people in, so he let them stay outside. The eunuch who sent the message often caught cold, and he had to lie down for a few days after returning.

And no one blamed him yet.

The eunuchs in the inner court had very bad feelings towards Cui Yan.

Even when confronted with Su Yuan, Cui Yan has a serious face and never pretends.

As a result, Cui Yan accumulated some prestige among the scholars. At the moment when the top scholars in Yingchuan were declining, Cui Yan seemed to have a tendency to become the leader of the scholars in the dynasty.

In order to speed up this trend, and because he really harbored malice towards these men and women, he acted more aggressively than other officials.

Chapter 914. 920 Four, he should die!

Cui Yan highly praised Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's move to lead troops into the palace to slaughter eunuchs during the Luoyang Rebellion in the last years of the previous dynasty.

He thought it was a way to promote the righteousness of the world, and the eunuch should die.

In private, he also made a lot of speeches on this matter, thinking that although Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had the intention of usurping, the behavior of eliminating harm for the country was correct, and such things as eunuchs should not exist.

As a result, after Guo Peng ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the Ten Inspectors of the inner court were established in just a few months.

The establishment of the ten eunuchs in the inner court expanded the number of eunuchs from the initial 300 in the first year of Yande to the current number of 800.

These eunuchs took over all the jobs in the inner court and separated the outer court from the inner court, making it impossible for the outer court to figure out what happened in the inner court.

Looking back now, some scholars have already recalled it.

They realized that this was clearly the emperor's planned and organized action to rebuild the eunuch system.

Rebuild the eunuch group that once disappeared, and even become larger, more organized, and responsible for more things than before.

But the scholars are not very good at objecting.

Because the eunuchs are basically responsible for the emperor's own affairs at the moment, which can be regarded as the emperor's family affairs. The eunuchs are essentially the emperor's domestic slaves.

It can only be said that everyone was not alert and did not react at the beginning. The emperor seized the opportunity and brought the eunuch back to the court, making everyone very passive now.

Now it is very difficult for the outer dynasty to know the news of the inner court from various channels, and the news of the inner court is almost blocked.

It's hard for everyone to know what the emperor is doing every day, what measures he has, and what ideas he has. Even if he knows, it's not real-time news, but multiple hands-on news that has changed hands several times. .

This is very unfavorable for everyone who is ups and downs in the officialdom.

Just like this time, the emperor suddenly made an attack. No one knows how a debate about whether to increase the commercial tax will come to this point. out.

Cui Yan hated these eunuchs and this group of eunuchs extremely, and thought it was the duty of a scholar to show them face.

But at this moment, he was guilty, he was worried, he was afraid, and he could no longer assume that tough posture.

So Su Yuan felt very happy.

As the great eunuch next to Guo Peng, the group of eunuchs respected him very much, but the scholars always gave him bad looks, and he had to serve him carefully, feeling very upset.

We are house slaves, and it is our duty to serve the head of the family, the emperor. What is it to serve you?

What are you guys!

The anger accumulated in his heart, and he finally had a window to vent today, and he didn't know how happy he was.

Anyway, it's cool.

Back in the study of Qinzheng Palace, Su Yuan reported Cui Yan's actions to Guo Peng.

"He didn't show you face this time?"

Guo Peng asked Su Yuan with a smile while doing belly crunches.

Su Yuan smiled wryly.

"Returning to Your Majesty, yes, this time, Cui Shangshu is kind and pleasant, and he is not bossy and condescending as usual, which makes the old slave feel a little flattered. In the past, those who knew the prison were really afraid of going to the Ministry of Rites. Every time they went to the Ministry of Rites It's going to be a lot of torture."

Guo Peng lay down on the cushion and took a deep breath, then sat up slowly and put on his clothes.

"You are also often angry with him?"

"Old slave... this old slave is used to it."

Su Yuan looked aggrieved.

Guo Peng smiled coldly.