At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Yes, and a little more."

Xu Jing turned around and looked at the location of the imperial palace: "We have low qualifications, if we don't rely on His Majesty, we will rely on our poor power, and we are no match for Cheng Zhongde and Tian Yuanhao.

If we want to do these two positions well, we must rely on His Majesty closely. We must do what His Majesty says. If we can't do it, we will definitely be harmed by Cheng Zhongde and Tian Yuanhao. "

Zhang Zhao nodded silently.

"Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your teaching."

"Talking about teaching, it's just something everyone understands, but everyone is unwilling to say it. They are afraid, but I am not afraid, anyway, I am already like this."

Xu Jing waved his hand: "Since being activated by His Majesty, you and I will not be free, what should we do, can Zibu figure it out?"

"Everything is according to His Majesty's will."

Zhang Zhao said, "Your Majesty would also like me to wait for that. Under such a premise, it must be something Your Majesty would be happy to see if you can help your own people a little bit."

"Oh? Zibu is also very transparent."

"After all, I'm almost 50 years old."

Zhang Zhao smiled slightly.

He suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing to get along with Xu Jing who had put down his face and was no longer hypocritical.

At least he himself can say something he wants to say in front of Xu Jing, without having to hide his true thoughts everywhere.

The two thus reached a sense of offensive and defensive alliance.

An offensive and defensive alliance that survived hand in hand in the cracks between Cheng Yu and Tian Feng's two major political groups.

chapter 1008 one thousand and eighteen

The aftermath of this political struggle did not end so easily, and the fact that Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing entered the top ranks continued to expand the aftermath.

It seems to be just a temporary low tide period.

It seems that the next peak period is just around the corner.

Although now everyone does not want that peak to come.

But how can the struggle for power be smooth sailing?

Such an important power cannot be held in the hands, who would really be willing?

Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing's badges of vulnerable groups in the central Wei State made them instinctively disgusted by people from the Qing, Yan and Hebei provinces, but they also won the favor of people from Xuzhou, Yuzhou and Jiangnan.

This is the first group of people from vulnerable groups who have gained a foothold in the power center of Wei after Guo Peng ascended the throne.

The people of Xuzhou were inherently weak, and Mi Zhu's background as a businessman was not appreciated by Xuzhou scholars at all. It was so easy for Lu Su to appear, and everyone was so happy about it.

Many Yuzhou people followed Yuan Shao during the war, and many were killed by Guo Peng during the war.

Therefore, although Guo Peng was originally from Yuzhou, he never liked Yuzhou scholars. The only one who got along well was Xun Yu. After Xun Yu's death, Yuzhou scholars fell into a marginal group.

Now Xun You, the representative of Yuzhou scholars, is a standard lonely minister.

They belong to the Central Plains, but the Yuzhou people are as miserable as the fringe groups in the three southern states. No matter how you look at it, they are very unlucky.

But now, the situation has changed.

Guo Peng ordered Xu Jing and Zhang Zhao to jointly select officials to supplement the lack of officials due to political struggles. Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing unceremoniously filled in a large number of officials from Xuzhou and Yuzhou.

It even filled a lot of officials from the three states in the south of the Yangtze River.

When Cheng Yu and Cui Yan were unlucky, they were unlucky with the two ministers of the Ministry of Officials and the two ministers of the Ministry of Rites.

Taking this opportunity, Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing promoted two Xuzhou natives, two Yuzhou natives, one Yangzhou native and one Yizhou native to these departments to serve as minister-level officials to replace the original Qing, Yan and Ji three A position monopolized by state persons.

In less than ten days, according to Guo Peng's imperial decree, Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing selected more than 50 officials from disadvantaged areas to enter Shangshutai.

More than 50 officials from disadvantaged areas who had previously served in Shangshutai were promoted.

As a result, the composition of officials in Shangshutai has undergone major changes, and the number of officials from disadvantaged areas has more than doubled in one go.

This is not the most important.

The most important thing is that under the auspices of Zhang Zhao and Xu Jing, more than a dozen people entered the major departments to take up positions of real power, taking over the key positions that had been completely controlled by people from Qingyan, Hebei and Sanzhou, which caused the political ecology in Shangshutai to change. changed.

The power of officials from weaker areas, or from areas that were later conquered, began to rise.

It is no longer like the past few years when I have been oppressed by scholars from the three prefectures of Qingyan and Hebei, and I can’t even breathe. If you want to be a high-ranking official, you have to be in the local area, and it is difficult to get to the central government.

If the power is not held in the center, how can it be regarded as the Wei Empire that is really based on the centralized system?

Officials from disadvantaged areas have launched a hard struggle for this, but unfortunately the results have been minimal and they cannot cause any waves.

And now, they're finally making waves.

When he joined the Guowei Group in the later stage, he didn't have time to make any great contribution to Guo Peng. Guo Peng ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. Naturally, they didn't have their share in the first big feudal officials after the founding of the country.

But now that they are coming from behind, they have come to the fore, and they are aggressively advancing into the power core of Shangshutai. How can they not feel joyful and excited about it?

After being promoted from a clerk in the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Zhuge Jin was in a particularly good mood, and he was very happy.

Zhuge Jin is an old official of the Guo family.

This will provide him with a convenience in politics, a convenience that can be counted as a bottom-up convenience. As an old official of the Guo family, he himself is qualified to become a high-ranking official.

But when this qualification will be fulfilled is not certain.

People are divided into ranks and ranks, and officials are divided into ranks and ranks. The top of the official group-the group of former officials of the Guo family is of course also divided into ranks and ranks.

The former officials of the Guo family who followed Guo Peng at the earliest were the top group of people, although Zhuge Jin who later took refuge in him was also an old official of the Guo family.

However, because he was born in a disadvantaged area, he was also regarded as an underachiever within the group of former officials of the Guo family, and was suppressed and despised by the former officials of the Guo family from the three prefectures of Qingyan and Hebei.

Of course, the top political resources are selected by them first, and then they, the old officials of the Guo family who came from disadvantaged areas, can be turned.

In his official career in the past few years, Zhuge Jin also experienced the oppression and depression brought about by such ranks several times.

It was his request to enter Shangshutai. Before Guo Peng became emperor, he entered the predecessor of Shangshutai and worked under Cheng Yu. This was ordered by Guo Peng himself.

But after Guo Peng became emperor, he had the advantage of several years of work experience, but he failed to enter the first-line power echelon of Shangshutai.

After he was assigned to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Shangshu and the Minister did not have his share, and even Yuanwailang, a subdivided department within the Eighth Ministry, was not recruited, so he could only be placed in the back row.

In the end, Zhuge Jin was assigned the deputy position of Yuanwailang.

Just because he was born in Xuzhou, he is only a humble person in the "big family" of the Guo family's old officials and their relatives.

But anyway, he is also a Luoyang capital official, a central official.

Those officials from disadvantaged areas who were not former officials of the Guo family could not even obtain official positions in Luoyang, and could not enjoy Luoyang's convenient living conditions and superior political resources.

Even the official positions in the Gyeonggi area cannot be obtained, and the remote areas are full of these people who are officials.

This made Zhuge Jin very depressed for a while.

How else can I say that people are more popular than people?

Cui Qu, the main perpetrator in the Cui Qu case, was younger than Zhuge Jin, but because of the relationship between Cui Yan and Tian Feng, the Cui clan who were not former officials of the Guo family also got Tian's care.

He took a shortcut by taking advantage of his status as a half-relative. When he first entered the officialdom, he was the deputy of Wai Lang, a member of the Yu Department under the Ministry of Industry.

When Zhuge Jin's road to promotion was nowhere in sight, Cui Qu had already booked a bright future in advance, and he could even extend his hand into the Ministry of Officials.

This made Zhuge Jin depressed for a while, and complained about it with his younger brother Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jun, and even had the idea of ​​​​seeking to let go of himself.

I feel that even if I go abroad, even if I become a county magistrate, I can display my ambitions, which is better than being someone else's younger brother in Shangshutai.

Just because I was born in Xuzhou!

And not a famous family!

At that time, Zhuge Liang, who was still working on [-] in the cabinet, and Zhuge Jun, who had just joined Shangshutai as a small errand official, had nothing to do.

As a result, the Cui Qu case occurred at the beginning of the third year of Yande, and a large number of nepotism cliques holding Guo's former officials were bloodbathed by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng killed many people and drove away many people. Zhuge Jin was not implicated in any way. He thought that the opportunity to counterattack had come, but it didn't.

The top management has not changed, and they still vigorously promote their own people.

People from Qingyanji Sanzhou have been promoted on a large scale, and Zhugejin has also reaped benefits. He succeeded in becoming Yuanwailang, which is not nothing.

Even so, it is far from Zhuge Jin's own vision.

Judging from his qualifications and achievements in Shangshutai, he is not just a Yuanwailang no matter what.

Or because of birth.

Zhuge Jin hated her origin so much that she even had the idea of ​​changing her household registration to the three prefectures of Qing, Yan and Hebei.

As a result, one year later, at the beginning of the fourth year of Yande, the political struggle between Cheng Yu Group and Tian Feng Group was completely detonated.

Cheng Yu was in danger for a while, Tian Feng was in a hurry for a while, the grasshoppers didn't know how to stand in line, and the court was chaotic.

In a critical moment, Zhuge Jin followed Zhuge Liang's advice and did nothing, saying that he was sick and hid at home to escape the catastrophe.

But in the end, the winners were neither Tian Feng nor Cheng Yu, but Xu Jing and Zhang Zhao who had won.

No one would have thought that Guo Peng would act decisively against the heroes, and then take back the crucial powers of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites, and hand them over to two officials from disadvantaged areas.

However, this is undoubtedly a major benefit for officials of vulnerable groups in the world.

With the aftermath of this wave of political struggles, a group of people fell ill and could never be officials for the rest of their lives. Some people took advantage of the trend and won because they were born in disadvantaged areas.

After this wave of struggle, Zhuge Jin was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and became a senior official at the deputy department hall level.

When she first heard the news, Zhuge Jin hadn't reacted yet, thinking it was an auditory hallucination.

But when the official who came to read the appointment document mentioned this matter again and asked him to accept the order to thank him, he only reacted.

This is real, not fake, and not a dream!

It was a miracle that he really became a high-ranking official at the vice ministerial level and crossed the insurmountable gap.

After this incident, Zhuge Jin deeply realized what it means to lose one's horse and know nothing is a blessing, and the identity of Xuzhou native that he once hated brought him rewards at this moment.

There are many people like Zhuge Jin, and Lin Lin always counted more than 100 people.

In this regard, in Shangshutai, a third force that can participate in the political situation gradually formed, and Zhuge Jin was an indispensable member of it.

Years of dormant and suppressed experience made Zhuge Jin favored by Zhang Zhao, who promoted Zhuge Jin with all his strength, and was recognized by Guo Peng.

People from Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and people from the three states in the south of the Yangtze River.

These errand boys who were originally in an embarrassing position have become the last group of people who benefited from this wave of political struggles.

They were like a building block with an incomparably well-shaped shape, ruthlessly inserted into the vacant power center of the Wei Empire.

A large part of the nepotism network built up by scholars from Qing, Yan, and Hebei was severely dug out.

They can no longer maintain a comprehensive monopoly on the top political resources of the Wei Empire.

These vulnerable officials are extremely excited and fortunate that they can be in such a situation.

With such thoughts in mind, Zhuge Jin also threw herself into the heavy work with full of emotions.

They can finally do their work with their heads held high.

Moreover, the officials of the Cheng Yu Group and Tian Feng Group who were hit were relatively depressed for a period of time, acting cautiously and cautiously.

There are two completely different spirits from the weak officials who are bold and aggressive and want to express themselves.

Zhuge Jin was very happy to see the colleagues around her continue to forge ahead and feel the bright future that can be yearned for.

Because of this, Zhuge Jin couldn't understand Zhuge Liang's idea of ​​getting a chance to be released.

"Kong Ming, can you tell me why?"

Chapter 1009 One thousand and nineteen what my brother said won my heart

The father of the three Zhuge brothers died early, and their uncle Zhuge Xuan also passed away many years ago.

Now Zhuge Jin is the elder brother, and the elder brother is like a father, so he treats his younger brothers Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jun more restrictively.