At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cai Yong was taken aback.

"I don't trust those family laws. What I trust is Cai Gong. On the surface, Cai Gong can take the five family laws as orthodoxy. In the end, I still hope that Cai Gong can really draw a conclusion and determine what the sage wants. say what.

I hope that in the end, the Five Classics version set by Cai Gong can be used as the true method of saints. What Cai Gong and Xiaoling want to do, we have to do it in two steps, so that the resistance of scholars will not be so strong . "

When Guo Peng said this, Cai Yong immediately realized Guo Peng's "true purpose".

He frowned.

"Of course this is what I want, but...it's too difficult, Zifeng, be careful."

"Be cautious, of course you have to be cautious, but you have to do things, Mr. Cai, I only told you about this matter, you must be careful, and you can't tell anyone about this matter. Once the news leaks, we will not even take the first step." It can't be done."

Guo Peng held Cai Yong's hand.

Cai Yong suddenly felt that the burden on his body weighed a thousand catties.

"Zifeng..."

"Cai Gong, the stone scriptures we want to burn this time are no longer the Xiping Stone Scriptures with different characters. This time, the Yande Stone Scriptures must be the words of a true sage!"

Cai Yong was deeply moved and encouraged by it.

He decided to use his remaining courage to complete this matter, and then take it as a lifelong pride.

After fooling Cai Yong, the strongest tool man, Guo Peng is really ready for everything.

He asked the five selected families to send people into Cai Yong's [team] to pretend to be a facade, and then sent people to decorate the Yellow Dragon Hall in a fake way, as the meeting place.

Huanglong Hall is a side hall of Fengtian Hall, where some small palace banquets are held, and sometimes Guo Peng will hold banquets here to entertain guests.

He only gave certain people two months.

In fact, two months is not enough time for all family law inheritors to rush to Luoyang.

Moreover, during this period, Guo Peng ordered Yan Rou to issue orders to the spies of the Linzi Camp in various places.

Instruct them to use various secret means to slow down the pace of this group of people's journey as much as possible, let them come as slowly as possible, and as few as possible, so that it is convenient for them to operate in secret.

Anyway, the result of this matter is already scheduled, let them send some people.

It is a symbolic maintenance of the following procedural justice, but if too many people come, it is not good to sit and protest at the gate of the palace every day, so just don't let them come.

Anyway, I have already invited you and set a time. Whether you can come or not is your own business and has nothing to do with me.

Under various arrangements, in early February, a group of inheritors of the seven families closest to Luoyang arrived in Luoyang, reported to the authorities, and then urgently invested in information scouting and relationship dredging.

Chapter 1144 One thousand one hundred and fifty four people like this, see one and kill one

The first batch of families who rushed to Luoyang were not all opposition families.

There are two other descendant families of Meng Shiyi, who belong to the category of Liying. After they came, they plunged into Yuan Si's mansion, seeking the warmth from the emperor, and begging the emperor to hug them.

Then he immediately turned the gun and grinned at the five family law inheritance families who came to Luoyang City to fight against the emperor.

These five families did not come to Luoyang to fight away with bare hands.

They are also families with the right to grant apprentices, but they are not large in scale, not as large as the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong.

There are still some disciples, as well as old officials, but the number is small. After all, they themselves did not obtain high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the Guo Wei regime, and they have no time or qualifications to win over old officials.

Even so, this group of people still has some skills.

Gathered some officials who were able to enter the Luoyang court through their channels, clarified their objections, and immediately used their housekeeping skills, planning to engage in a second wave of war of words with Guo under the nose of Guo.

The first wave was defeated because they were alone and had no leader.

In the second wave, they will end up in Luoyang in person, and they will not be defeated so easily.

Just when the Huanglongdian meeting was destined to be held, they mobilized some political forces to attack the scholars who advocated holding the Huanglongdian meeting and the families behind them, and they clearly opposed the holding of the Huanglongdian meeting.

They themselves were actually prepared for the worst, and they were going to have a decisive battle with Guo Peng at the Huanglongdian meeting, so it was not convenient to participate in the public opinion war in person at this time, and they directed their disciples to protest and criticize at close range.

The flames of war in Luoyang, which had just been quiet for a short time, were rekindled.

But in fact, their disciples are also suffering in their hearts. Because of this relationship, they have to take risks to protest, otherwise they will die in society, but they may not be willing to fight against the emperor.

Historical experience tells them that there is no good end to confronting the emperor.

These big scholars may not know it, but they want some of them to be cannon fodder, responsible for sacrifices, so as to attack the faction that supports Guo Peng.

No way, who made them disciples?

Never before have they hated the unspoken rule of the dual monarchy so much, and never have they regretted being unkind to others.

But there are not many things in the world that don't want to pay for the benefits. There are people who can enjoy it like this, but they are definitely not this batch of cannon fodder.

Guo Peng has always paid attention to maintaining his personality as a strong monarch, and will not forgive anyone who goes against his will. Sooner or later, you must pay the price, so as to warn the officials and tell them not to easily oppose the emperor.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the current era, there are quite a few officials who are rebellious, or think that their status is higher than that of the emperor, and they look down on the emperor.

If you see this kind of people and kill them one by one, you must not encourage this kind of atmosphere.

Moreover, the dual monarchy is also an unspoken rule that Guo Peng is destined to combat and eliminate.

Guo Peng's hatred for this kind of political unspoken rules is no less than his hatred for the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law.

So once there is someone who shows up, kill them immediately, without mercy.

The first batch of officials who criticized Jia Kui, Huan Dian, Xun You and others were 17 people. Some of them were deposed by Guo Peng in the name of slandering the emperor, and some of them were found to be corrupt. Expelled from the capital.

In just five days, on the fifteenth day of the second month, all these seventeen officials were sacked. The emperor mercilessly expelled them from the capital, and quickly promoted a group of new people to take their place.

The emperor's ruthless, quick and precise attack horrified the dissenting scholars.

They suddenly realized that they lacked sufficient effective countermeasures against the current emperor.

These seventeen disciples are just small shrimps, used to test the attitude of the emperor.

They thought the emperor would be angry, but they didn't expect the emperor to slap the seventeen people to death.

A straight punch hit them directly in the face, making them dizzy.

Seeing that the emperor's attitude was so decisive, the officials of the opposition faction were terrified.

Someone is pretending to be sick.

Some people make excuses to shirk.

Some people said that they had urgent business to leave Luoyang and fled directly.

Some people were caught in a dilemma, handed in their resignations in a fit of anger, and left Luoyang naked, returning to their hometown to farm.

You gods fight, we mortals suffer, why?

I can't beat you, so I won't be an official anymore, okay?

It's better not to be an official than to be a criminal!

Because of Guo Peng's strict methods of crackdown, serious internal disagreements occurred in the opposition group of scholars, which led to internal strife. Many people would rather abandon their official positions than continue to fight against the emperor, so the situation of the opposition was even worse. up.

They connected up and down but couldn't connect too many people who could help. They offered olive branches to some powerful officials, but they were tacitly ignored.

So they knew that before they arrived in Luoyang, the emperor had already completed the exchange of interests with them.

The emperor must have reached some kind of agreement with them, such as supporting a group of new classic families after the meeting of the Yellow Dragon Palace, so that these people can unite with the emperor, put on a posture of iron walls, and work together. Get rid of the opposition.

These are the reasons why these powerful officials refuse to cooperate with the opposition scholars, and there cannot be more.

In desperation, they can only pin their hopes on the Huanglongdian meeting, and send the elites of the clan to join the Five Classics research team led by Cai Yong, intending to vigorously argue for their family studies.

At the same time, they still did not give up stirring up public opinion, and even used the theory of prophecy and latitude, saying that there are abnormalities in the astrology, and there are also problems with the celestial phenomena. If the national context is disturbed at this time, disasters and the like will inevitably occur.

There are many well-known old scholars who hold such remarks, and there is still a market for them to say such words.

However, Guo Peng had expected this for a long time, and he also had corresponding countermeasures, such as sending the ultimate oral weapon Chen Lin and the royal professional team-Taishi team to refute the rumors.

The two sides launched the ultimate showdown on the astronomical issue.

One side says that shaking the country's cultural context will lead to great disasters, which is God's will.

One side says that changing the country's culture and thinking is the destiny of heaven, and it is only natural and it will only make the country more prosperous.

The two sides insisted on their own words, fiercely confronted each other, and slandered each other, making the public opinion field chaotic.

The troublemakers can't even determine who is right and who is wrong, so that they have doubts and questions about the existing astrology theory and prophecy theory.

The two sides are constantly competing for the commanding heights of public opinion.

At the end of February, when the deadline set by Guo Peng approached, a total of [-] family law representatives tried their best to overcome many difficulties and obstacles to arrive in Luoyang City and joined the Huanglongdian meeting.

As for the other family law families, except for those who won, the rest have become the represented people.

Under Guo's conspiracy, the only ones who can speak for them are the twelve classic inheritance families except for the three families that lie and win.

Chapter 1145. One thousand 150 five they only need the sign 【Confucius】is enough

The head families who mastered the classic inheritance fully realized that this was an extremely serious battle.

If they are not careful, everything will be lost, and the accumulation of a century will be wiped out, and their foundation will be quickly wiped out by political power.

The truth that reading is for becoming an official rather than learning the principles of sages will immediately play its cruel practical role and abandon these families who have lost their way of advancement.

Just like the theories of the hundred schools of thought that were abandoned after only respecting Confucianism, there are also the laws of the schools of thought that were abandoned after the White Tiger Temple Conference.

Reading is not for being an official, what else is it for?

Is it really to set up a heart for the world, a life for the people, a sage for the past, and a peace for all generations?

No, no, few people have such sentiments, and most of them just enjoy being an official.

If it really wants to be that great, it will not be so smooth to put out the theory of a hundred schools of thought, and it will not be so smooth to dominate the Confucianism.

Without the policy support of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism would not be able to reach the top of the Chinese ideological circle in another 1000 years.

So someone Guo hates these top families who master the inheritance of classics-it is obviously for the sake of being an official, for political interests, isn't it good to be open and honest?Don't get involved in academic issues.

It's really necessary to set up a memorial archway when you become a Biaozi.

Afterwards, the Yellow Dragon Hall meeting was held as scheduled. Emperor Guo Peng, as the man behind the scenes, personally visited the Yellow Dragon Hall on the first day of the meeting, and watched Cai Yong preside over the grand meeting of redistribution of benefits from the chair of the Yellow Dragon Hall.

Guo can actually feel the unkind eyes of those people.

That kind of resentment, dissatisfaction, gnashing of teeth and even wanting to overthrow his gaze.

This feeling, Mr. Guo felt a little familiar for no reason.

Yes, on the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, those people who secretly contributed to the Yellow Turban Rebellion out of resentment against Lingdi's policies looked at Lingdi in a slightly similar way to this moment.

I can't say they are completely similar, but the similarity is still relatively large.

If eyes can kill, Guo feels that he has died more than 1 times by now.

Someone in Guo felt that the reason why the Yellow Turban Uprising did not break out this time was because his foundation was very solid, and he had more land, population and resources than they put together.

So when they found that everything they had together couldn't compete with the emperor, they couldn't actually do anything except incompetent and furious.

I can only obediently come to the meeting.

They were able to threaten Liu Xiu and Liu Hong, relying on the land, population, money, food in their hands, and the resistance military force formed by relying on these elements.

The military power capable of violently overthrowing the dynasty is one of the fundamental reasons. Without military power, no matter how furious it is, it will be incompetent.

With military power, people are not so daring to make you furious.

Emperor Ling tried all means to turn the situation around, but he couldn't do it, because the Han Dynasty was already terminally ill because of the accumulated accumulation.

However, the Wei Empire is still very malleable and has a bright future. What Guo Peng wants to achieve is far simpler than Lingdi Liu Hong.

For example, if he wants to mobilize troops to strangle a certain family, he can bypass the imperial court and give the army an order directly, and then the army will rush over to abolish that family collectively, destroying the bones and ashes.

There was no need to discuss the whole process with any official of the imperial court.

In terms of duties, the Staff Office is closer to the Military Aircraft Department. It is Guo Peng's military advisory organization. All power comes from Guo Peng's authorization. Without the emperor's decree, the Staff Office cannot exercise the power to mobilize the army.

Everyone understands this truth, knows the unspoken military rules of the Wei Empire, and knows that the emperor can bypass the court and directly order the army.