At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

After a few months, three out of five of the candidates were found to have problems.

So the scholars were dumbfounded.

If there is no inspection, or if the emperor intervenes to do something, their political interests will be challenged, political interests cannot be guaranteed, and fundamental interests will be shaken, which they cannot tolerate.

With the lessons learned from the past, the very painful scholars and bureaucrats who were tossed by Guo were immediately vigilant.

But the emperor didn't seem to have any idea of ​​backing down.

Looking at Xu Jing who was pale and unable to utter a word, the emperor still had a strange mood.

"Xu Qing, how much do you want Gu to be the king of subjugation? Huh? One after another, unfilial and dishonest people are sent to Gu, one here, one there, one from Shangshutai, and one from Yushitai. , the cabinet should also send one, right?

Since the second year of Yande, how much unfilial and dishonest has the Ministry of Rites sent to Gu?These days, there are seventy or eighty problems found in the daylight. If the investigation continues, there will be seven or eight hundred?You can do it! "

Watching Guo Peng focus on Xu Jing, the rest of the officials felt complicated.

They really hated Xu Jing, hated Xu Jing, felt that Xu Jing had no integrity, and was the emperor's running dog, but it had to be said that Xu Jing was an important figure in maintaining the prosecution system, and the power he held was also an important part of the prosecution system part.

Just like Cui Yan back then.

Xu Jing was probably too afraid of being held accountable by the emperor, so he shuddered and directly touched his head to the ground.

"Your Majesty! Veteran... the old minister has only been in charge of the Ministry of Rites for two years. These... these people are not all selected by the veteran, and some... also have the crimes of the former minister of the Ministry of Rites, Cui Yan!"

Obviously, Xu Jing was too scared, and because he was too scared, he directly brought Cui Yan out to try to spread the blame.

This action immediately made many colleagues feel disgusted and looked down upon Xu Jing, and all of them frowned and looked at him with disgust.

Of course it is understandable that you are afraid, but you are not only afraid, you also want to drag your colleagues into the water, you...

Too shameless, right?

Who dares to be friends with you?

You are a lunatic who can bite anyone just to survive!

They secretly made up their minds, no matter what, they would stay far away from Xu Jing, completely isolate him, and then curse him to die sooner.

Thief!

What a thief!

An old thief who only cares about himself and disregards the interests of the collective!

You are the biggest cheater!

That's the case, but when Xu Jing said it, Guo Peng thought of Cui Yan who he had forgotten, and a feeling of disgust surged in his heart.

"Oh, now that you said it, I just remembered."

Guo Peng nodded and said, "Yes, you took over not long ago. Before that, Cui Yan was in charge of this matter. It seems that he sent more unfilial and dishonest things to Gu than you."

Guo Peng's tone was cold, without a trace of emotion, and the bureaucrats suddenly had an ominous premonition.

The next day, the seventh day of August, an imperial decree was issued.

The emperor dismissed thirteen county guards one after another, and drove them back to their hometowns, never to be hired, on the grounds that they recommended inhumane persons.

There were also two county guards who were found to have a relationship with the recommendees and used the state system to seek personal gain for themselves. The emperor ordered them to be beheaded directly, and their homes were ransacked and exiled.

It was not enough to clean up fifteen high-ranking officials of two thousand shi in one breath. The emperor held Cui Yan, the former Minister of Rites who had been driven home, to blame, and ordered Cui Yan to be killed and his family to be exiled.

Cui Shi was completely destroyed.

Xu Jing, the current Minister of Rites, was fined two years of salary.

Then he was asked to commit crimes and meritorious deeds, and immediately led the investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the archives of prosecutors and judges accumulated over the years.

The results of this year's investigation will be directly annulled, and the officials obtained from the investigation will not be accepted. Whether they are truly talented or deceitful, we will wait for the specific results according to the situation.

The emperor is really going to take action on the inspection system.

The scholars who realized this all screamed that it was not good, and felt that things had become very difficult.

The rest of the scholars who were not of sufficient rank could not notice this, they were just panicking about the annulment and direct cancellation of this year's investigation results.

In short, not only Luoyang, but also localities began to stir up.

The governors of the counties and the governors of the states that were not affected also began to worry about whether they would be held accountable for problems with the people they recommended.

The political situation of the Wei Empire, which had just calmed down not long ago, seemed to be entering a new period of turmoil.

chapter 1186

It is different from previous political turmoil.

This political turmoil may affect a wide range of people, not only the Chaju scholars, but also the governors of various counties, and even the governors of various states are in danger of being affected.

Even those who have lost their position may not necessarily survive.

Such as Cui Yan.

In order to protect himself, Xu Jing pulled Cui Yan to take the blame, so that Cui Yan was ordered to die by the emperor, which also made many people hate Xu Jing from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that Xu Jing is a well-deserved old thief.

They cursed Xu Jing viciously, hoping that Xu Jing would die sooner, preferably tomorrow, so as to prevent him from continuing to harm others.

In their eyes, Xu Jing is now harming people, not only killing Cui Yan, but also killing them.

He is still leading the investigation team to investigate those people recommended by Cui Yan in the past years, especially when Cui Yan was Minister of Rites.

Those people had nothing to do with Xu Jing at all, nor did they give Xu Jing any gifts, nor did they have any interests. In order to survive, Xu Jing would definitely bite those people non-stop.

This political turmoil will definitely continue to expand, and there will definitely be many people who will fall under Xu Jing's bite.

They really panicked, so they put up the table in twos and threes, and kept impeaching Xu Jing, thinking that Xu Jing was not worthy of being a high-ranking official, thinking that Xu Jing was not qualified to be a high-ranking official, and should be dismissed, and replaced by someone who everyone believed in as Minister of Rites. high position.

But the emperor acted as if he hadn't noticed, and continued to ask Xu Jing to be in charge of this matter, simply investigating thoroughly.

In less than half a month, Xu Jing found seven more children who had children during the filial piety for their parents, and six other people who ate, drank, and ate meat during the filial piety for their parents. Thirteen scholars and officials were abolished .

An average of one a day, the efficiency is not bad.

The group of scholars could not tolerate Xu Jing more and more, and could not accept Xu Jing's continuation as Minister of Rites.

Especially those officials with vital interests, they knew they had problems, and they knew that Xu Jing would find them out sooner or later.

Under such circumstances, some people lost their minds and finally decided to kill the net.

"Old man Xu won't let us live, and we won't let him have a better life! It's better to die than to die! It's better than just sit and wait!"

A group of officials decided to jointly submit a petition to report the biggest scandal in Xu Jing's life - when the Wei army attacked Chengdu, he tried to surrender and betray Liu Zhang but was still caught by Liu Zhang.

Official break!

They said that Xu Jing was such a shameless person who coveted life and feared death and betrayed his old master.

Such a despicable and shameless person who is greedy for life and afraid of death can actually be the minister of the Ministry of Rites?

This is simply the greatest mystery in the barren world!

Xu Jing is not worthy to be Minister of Rites at all, Xu Jing is not even worthy to be an official, he is not worthy to do anything but die.

They even asked the emperor to execute Xu Jing now to rectify the national morality.

The country that let the people who are greedy for life and fear of death betray the old master as the Minister of Rites must have made a mistake!

Xu Jing's last fig leaf was torn off by this group of people, and exposed naked to the world, so that everyone in the world could see his ugliness, his corrupt morality and character, and let him die socially.

However, the behavior of scholars biting each other and losing their bottom line is also known to the world.

In order to save themselves, they gave up the bottom line, started personal attacks, and strongly demanded that the emperor kill Xu Jing.

This group of officials took the lead in writing letters to cause trouble. In order to expand their influence and cause pressure from public opinion, they went to Taixue to contact scholars and students.

Especially those scholars who have already promoted Xiaolian or are preparing to promote Xiaolian.

The officials expressed that they would unite them to submit a form to the emperor, expand the influence of public opinion, try to kill Xu Jing, and calm the incident.

The students still hesitated.

"Why are you still hesitating? If you keep hesitating, after we fall, you will be right behind us. The way of investigation is not guaranteed. We are waiting now, and you are waiting in the future. Your lips are dead and your teeth are cold!"

The lobbyists sent by the officials kept stating the interests involved: "Once the bandit Xu is allowed to do this and I will be wiped out, will you have a good life? If you want to be an official in the future, will you still have a good life?" Will it be that easy?

He will definitely hold on to his authority, increase the difficulty of the re-examination, and even add some clauses that you can't bear at all. At that time, it will be even more difficult to become an official. Is this what you want to see? "

The rhetoric of the officials touched the hearts of the Tai students.

Tai students also feel that they must take action and work hard for their present and future.

A large group of imperial students who came from scholars jointly wrote a letter, describing Xu Jing as a shameless old thief who is rarely seen in a hundred years, saying that Xu Jing has original sin, such a person must be punished, if Xu Jing is not killed, it is unacceptable!

The tide of slander is surging, wave after wave.

Xu Jing was like a lonely reef standing amidst the thunder and lightning, being constantly beaten by the violent wind and rain, and constantly impacted by the waves, he was very embarrassed.

After the scholars tore off the fig leaf completely, they decided not to die with Xu Jing.

So they used tricks that they would not have used before without worry or taboo.

Some people slandered Xu Jing for corruption.

Some people slandered Xu Jing for dereliction of duty.

Some people slandered Xu Jing's adultery with so-and-so, and cuckolded so-and-so.

There was also Ren who slandered Xu Jingqiang for marrying a woman from a good family, saying that he had snatched the concubine that Xu Jing had recently taken, and he hadn't paid for the concubine, and had beaten her family to death.

Some people used the theory of prophecy and latitude, saying that according to the astrology, it was concluded that there were traitors around the emperor, and if the traitors were not eliminated, the Wei Empire would be very dangerous.

That traitor, surnamed Xu, was very old, and used to work in Shu - he almost pointed the finger at Xu Jing by name.

Some people even simply said that according to the astrology, Xu Jing was going to rebel. Xu Jing was like a poisonous snake, lurking beside Guo Peng, and might rebel at any time, poisoning the Wei Empire to death with venom.

Some people also involved the innocent Liu Zhang, saying that Xu Jing did not forget the old master, so he decided to help Liu Zhang overthrow the Guo Wei Empire.

What is being done now is to kill the upright ministers in the court and replace them with Xu Jing's own people, then control the government, and finally realize the idea of ​​helping Liu Zhang restore the country.

This is overkill.

In order to attack Xu Jing and then Guo Peng's idea of ​​taking action against the police, this group of people actually dragged the innocent Liu Zhang into it.

He told the story vividly and vividly, and even the secret conversation between Xu Jing and Liu Zhang could be told. It felt like Xu Jing and Liu Zhang were listening in on the secret conversation.

Conscience of heaven and earth, Liu Zhang is really good, he really didn't do anything.

Really, since he became a prisoner, except for Liu Cong and Liu Qi, he has not had contact with any courtiers of the Guo Wei Empire, especially the former Yizhou officials.

He avoided these people, how could he approach them?

He honestly eats, sleeps, plays women and listens to music. He has given birth to more than ten children in five or six years, and has become a breeding pig perfectly. It is impossible to engage in any actions against Guo Peng.

So when he heard someone falsely accused him and Xu Jing of joining forces to restore the country, Liu Zhang fainted from fright.

After being woken up by his family crying, Liu Zhang was frightened.

Can the former clan, even the former emperor's clan, live well in the present?

Only one excuse and one opportunity is missing, and he will be killed by the current emperor!

Certainly!

Certainly!

Liu Zhang burst into tears. While crying, he felt that he had no way out and would be killed by Guo Peng. In order to save his wife and children, he simply decided to hang himself.

As long as you die, your family is safe, right?

Liu Zhang tragically prepared to hang himself. The ropes were all tied up, and he almost kicked the chair away. Fortunately, he was rescued by his family soon. The whole family cried again, like the end of the world.

Then, Su Yuan, whom Guo Peng sent to appease Liu Zhang, arrived at Liu Zhang's mansion.

Chapter 1187 One Thousand 190 Seven

When Su Yuan arrived at Liu Zhang's mansion, he heard a burst of crying from the old and the young.