At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Officials who have made no mistakes themselves should not be punished, and wanton sitting together is not the way of a wise king.

Many people have been implicated, they have no right to choose, and they themselves are helpless, I hope Guo Peng can understand.

Guo Peng ignored them.

At this time, it is time for him to expand the scope of attack to centralize power, and you actually stop it?

Of course, if you don't post it, you don't see it.

As a result, they saw that Guo Peng was silent about this, and they thought there should be some drama, so they gathered more than ten people to submit the performance together, and together they handed over [-] performances, begging Guo Peng for leniency.

It is strongly demanded to reduce the scope of the attack, punish the culprits, and let go of the middle and low-level officials who were forced to join.

Their behavior completely angered Guo Peng.

In a fit of rage, Guo Peng ordered the sixteen officials listed above to be whipped thirty times, thrown into prison, and punished severely for the crime of offending the emperor.

Guo Hong, the imperial historian, together with Wei Guoyuan, the Sili school who had been pretending to be sick before but now suddenly recovered, and Guo Yi, the minister of the Ministry of punishment who has been working as an ostrich, interrogated the case overnight.

This time, the efficiency of the third division was as fast as lightning.

Before dawn the next morning, they jointly made the decision to abolish the sixteen officials as common people, deprive them of their original household registrations, and exile the whole family to the village of Jiuquan County, Liangzhou.

This interrogation decision was immediately approved by Guo Peng, and it was implemented immediately and could not be changed.

Guo Peng still felt that it was not enough, and the punishment was not severe enough, so he added three additional punishments of not being an official for three generations, and hit their descendants with a stick.

As a result, the number of officials implicated has increased again.

Among them, the number of officials who lost their official positions and exiled out of Beijing rose to [-].

Only 47 of the [-] people did not implicate their descendants, but they themselves were not allowed to be officials for life.

Having said that, after losing their original household registration and being moved to Liangzhou, their political future was basically abolished.

In places like Liangzhou, there is not as good a network of people as the Central Plains states and counties to provide them with the opportunity to be officials.

Start all over again?

How long will it take?

Unless Liangzhou quickly becomes a prosperous place, they will have a chance to return to court.

This is not bad.

The 59 families behind the remaining 59 people will not be allowed to be officials for three consecutive generations, and they will be exiled to Liangzhou to participate in farming and go to build Liangzhou. Their political career will be zero within a hundred years. remember them?

It's such a harsh punishment.

The emperor was furious and terrified, so no one dared to speak out.

All the officials were terrified and kept silent, not daring to say a word, not even submitting a memorandum, for fear that they would be implicated.

The officials who were punished but did not leave Luoyang were even more afraid to speak out, led by the pale-faced Cheng Yu, they collectively went outside the Hall of Qinzheng, confessed their guilt to the emperor, and begged the emperor to appease his thunderous anger.

After leaving them to dry for an hour and a half, Guo Peng asked Su Yuan to come out of the Hall of Qinzheng and tell them all to leave.

Honestly do what you should do, do practical things, dare to gossip, and be careful of your children and grandchildren for three generations!

Officials feel sorry for each other.

Although the terrible punishment came to an end, Guo Peng's thunderous anger and sudden severe punishment left every official in a daze.

Cheng Yu is like this, Tian Feng is like this, Cao Cao is like this, and Qiao Rui is like this.

No one is not afraid of such punishment results.

Chapter 1004. One thousand and fourteen Cui Yan case

Cao Cao and Qiao Rui were not substantially punished.

However, under Guo Peng's instruction, Cao Lan and Da Qiao wrote a letter to Cao Cao and Qiao Rui respectively.

The officials who were punished were in constant panic. For several days, they were so frightened that they dared not sleep at all.

When all the dust settled, they took a few sighs of emotion.

The emperor's wave of blows came too fast and too fiercely, without giving them any chance to react, everything was settled.

Those who were expelled, those whose descendants could not serve as officials for three generations, those who were demoted, those who were punished and deprived of their salaries, all of these, totaled [-] people.

The bureaucratic power of Shangshutai was severely hit.

The imperial guards directly under the emperor in full armor scattered out to assist the officials of the three divisions in handling official duties.

Under the guidance of the officials of the third department, all the officials who were to be expelled were arrested, their homes were ransacked, their property was confiscated, and then they were collectively expelled from the capital and handed over to the relevant departments to send them to the place of exile.

A large group of men, women and children lost everything and could only wear the clothes on their bodies. They were roughly pushed and driven by the imperial army, and they were driven out of the capital crying.

Then collectively get on the bullock cart and go to the unknown future.

No one knows what their future holds, but what is certain is that it must be very difficult.

Luoyang's flowery world, stone roads, the prosperous four major markets in the southeast, northwest, clean public toilets, and fresh air have nothing to do with them from then on.

The superior economic and political resources in Luoyang City have nothing to do with them since then.

Cui Yan's house was completely taken over by a black-faced forbidden army. All family members, including Cui Yan himself, were driven out of the house, thrown on a bullock cart, and driven out of Luoyang City.

He and they will never return to Luoyang City again.

The crying family was kicked out of the capital, and then escorted back to his hometown in Qinghe by heavily armed troops.

His own direct descendants will also be imprisoned in the local area. For three consecutive generations, they cannot be filial and honest officials, and can only live by farming the land.

Because of Cui Yan's incident, Guo Peng pursued Cui Yan's family members and asked him to sit down.

Cui Yan's two brothers who were the local county magistrate and county guard were also dismissed, and they were driven back to their hometown to become ordinary people. At least Guo Peng would not want to recover when he was alive, and he would farm the land honestly.

The reputations of Xiaolian and Maocai of the Cui clan were all abolished, and they were not counted, and they were not allowed to be elected as officials.

This is Guo's own decision.

Because he hated Cui Yan, he asked his relatives to sit together and was severely punished.

The Cui family of Qinghe just got a little bit of meaning, but all their efforts were abolished by someone Guo, and once they were beaten back before liberation, they were abolished as a commoner family.

It can be said to be extremely miserable, and it can even be said that except for life and a part of the land, everything was lost, and all the various resources accumulated over the years of drilling and camping were all deprived, and there was nothing left.

Cui Yan is a typical example, and besides the typical ones, there are many officials, big and small, who have been implicated.

Someone Guo [furiously] expanded the scope of the attack.

The central government severely punished [-] officials, of which only [-] officials were abolished.

But at the local level, the relatives of these [-] people, and the relatives who are officials at the third level of the state, county and county, have also been jointly investigated by the three departments.

In the end, more than 70 local officials who did commit malfeasance were found out, and more than 60 local officials who did not commit malfeasance were also abolished together, losing all political power.

It means that not only the branches that are officials in the central government of many families have been brutally hit by politics, but also the local branches have been hit, and the power of drilling for several years has been wiped out.

This time, Mr. Guo didn't just deal with central officials at the central government, but the local government was also implicated. Compared with the Cui Qu case a year ago, the political struggle this time has a greater impact and a wider scope of involvement.

Not only will he lose his official position and status, but his clan members will also be implicated and cannot be an official.

The large-scale dispatch of the black-clothed imperial army in Luoyang made the officials all over Luoyang tremble, for fear that they would displease the emperor in any way, and thus follow in the footsteps of this group of people.

The situation in Luoyang was completely taken over by the forbidden army commanded by the officials of the third division, and the dispatch of the forbidden army also showed that the emperor's anger was pouring out.

No one dared to offend the emperor at this time, and no one dared to intercede for those colleagues. They could only watch their good colleagues suffer political blows.

The two powerful groups in Shangshutai, Cheng Yu Group and Tian Feng Group, were hit by Guo Peng's thunder and suffered heavy losses.

Under such circumstances, on April 26, the fourth year of Yande, Guo Peng issued an order and announced several things.

One is to appoint Xu Jing, the former Taixue instructor, as the Minister of Rites.

The second is to appoint Zhang Zhao, the former governor of Hedong County, as Minister of the Ministry of officials.

The third is to announce that the plan to extend the canal to Jizhou is considered feasible by the emperor, and ordered the Ministry of Industry to come up with the implementation regulations as soon as possible and start research and discussion.

The fourth is to warn the officials of various ministries that the emperor is very angry because of this incident, and they must be careful.

For the sake of the battle of spirits, the emperor actually saw such an ugly side of the officials!

Some people even bleed because of this, fighting and bleeding at the feet of the emperor, and even wounding the official doctor Guo Hong, who didn't pay attention to the majesty of the emperor at all, and he was very angry.

This severe punishment is not the end, if there is another such ugly fight, it will not be like this now.

will die.

Remember, only I can make you bleed.

The cold warning shocked everyone's heart.

In this political turmoil, Cui Yan was the highest official toppled.

Although the incident was not caused by him, and he was not the most unlucky, it was because he had the highest official position and caused the greatest repercussions. Therefore, this major political case in which a large number of officials were punished and countless family members were involved was named "Cui". Yan Case】Name.

Two consecutive major cases were officially identified by Guo as a person with the surname Cui. In a sense, the Cui family is destined to remain in history.

But unfortunately, they can't get any political capital.

On the contrary, all the political capital earned must be lost.

Therefore, the Qinghe Cui family was completely abolished.

Following the Yuan family in Runan, the Yang family in Hongnong, the Xun family in Yingchuan, the Chen family in Yingchuan, and the Zhong family in Yingchuan, the sixth well-known family on the scale was also devastated by Guo.

Unlike the first five, the Cui family was purely looking for the smoke on their own, and it happened to hit the muzzle of someone Guo, who would be right for them if they didn't attack their entire family.

At least someone Guo didn't kill anyone, he just killed his heart.

Because they were too frightened, the survivors didn't even pay much attention to the first three orders of the emperor.

It wasn't until the turmoil of this matter gradually passed, and after more than ten days, that Xu Jing and Zhang Zhao had already taken office, did they notice what changes the emperor had made to the court situation.

Shangshutai, which has been hit hard and has a large number of downsizing, has ushered in a group of new power holders.

Xu Jing, a native of Runan, used to preside over Yuedan Ping. He is highly respected and famous. He is well known all over the world. It is not a problem for him to be Minister of Rites.

Zhang Zhao, a native of Xuzhou, although his qualifications are low, but he is old and a well-known scholar in the local area.

After going through the posts of county magistrate and county guard, he is now promoted to the central government as Minister of the Ministry of Officials. From the promotion of two thousand shi to [-] shi, there is no problem in terms of procedure.

But if everything was done according to the procedure, then the entire court would have been harmonious long ago.

It is because many things cannot be done according to the procedures, and many things have to go through overt and covert political struggles and exchange of interests, so many people are surprised by this matter.

Chapter 1005. Did [-] win or lose?

Xu Jing is indeed very famous, and the scholars all over the world know this person. He has presided over the Yuedan Review and commented on many scholars.

Many scholars have gained fame and embarked on official careers because of him. His reputation is so great that he is indeed very suitable to be a minister of the Ministry of Rites.

but……

The fact of betraying the Lord and seeking glory made everyone feel bad about him.

Such a thing as surrendering over a wall is unbelievable.

Are you that afraid of death?

Afraid to the point where you don't even want your face?

Although I dare not say it, although I have the same respect for him on the surface, but in fact his reputation has been ruined, just because he recommended too many people, and no one dared to push him down from the altar.

This is a very simple reason.

So later the emperor sent Xu Jing to Taixue as a teacher to educate students, and everyone thought it was quite appropriate, and it would be good to let him stay in Taixue for the rest of his life.

But this time, Xu Jing was actually appointed as Minister of Rites.

This is...

There is a feeling that when you eat a very sweet burger, you open the bread covering it to see what it looks like inside, and you see three half-bitten cockroaches lying inside.