At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

He also found it strange that when he came to Liu Zhang's mansion in the past, there were only laughter and no other sounds, why today...

Until the servants in Liu Zhang's mansion wiped their tears and told Su Yuan the whole story.

He hurried into the mansion to have a look——

"Hey, hello! Anlehou! What are you doing? You... What are you so crazy about doing this kind of thing? Why are you hanging yourself so well, you!"

Seeing Liu Zhang and his family hugging and crying together, with a knotted rope hanging above Liu Zhang's head, Su Yuan was stunned, and then quickly ran over to appease Liu Zhang.

"Grand internal official! I didn't! I didn't have any relationship with Xu Jing! I was wronged! Really wronged!!"

As soon as Liu Zhang saw Su Yuan, he immediately pushed his family away and ran to Su Yuan and hugged Su Yuan.

That guy, with tears and snot running down his face, almost burned Su Yuan's eyes.

"I know, I know, Your Majesty knows that An Lehou is wronged, His Majesty really knows that you are wronged, that's why you sent this old slave here, come here, An Lehou, Anlehou, don't be like this, so many people are watching, Anle Hou!"

It was Su Yuan's good words that made Liu Zhang let go of himself.

Seeing Liu Zhang crying, Su Yuan couldn't help frowning.

Just like that, do you think he can unite with Xu Jing, an old ghost who is afraid of death, to overthrow Guo Wei's regime?

Su Yuan would rather believe that Liu Jian can do this than Liu Zhang.

If he could really do this, why did he surrender back then?

Why don't you die with all your dignity?

It's also good to leave the last fig leaf for the Han Dynasty.

After finally appeasing Liu Zhang, Su Yuan gave Liu Zhang the reward from Guo Peng.

Wine, meat, cloth, gold, silver, jewels, and books.

Seeing these rewards, Liu Zhang's heart finally retracted into his stomach.

"I knew that His Majesty would not doubt me, His Majesty would never doubt me! Hahahaha, hahahaha! Your Majesty! Your Majesty knows me! Knows me!"

Liu Zhang knew that he would not die and could continue to enjoy a luxurious life, so he danced happily.

"Marquis An Le, don't believe the rumors in the capital recently. Some people have gone mad and desperate to prevent His Majesty from doing great things. You must stay steady, trust Your Majesty, support His Majesty, don't do anything, don't do anything. Don't say it, do you understand?"

Su Yuan asked seriously.

"Understand, understand, understand, I absolutely understand, I promise, if I don't say anything, I won't do anything, I won't even go out of the house!"

Liu Zhang immediately put on a look that I understand very well, telling Su Yuan not to worry, he will definitely cooperate and cooperate again.

Su Yuan is not worried about this kind of thing at all, Liu Zhang will definitely cooperate and cooperate again.

Eat well, drink well, play well, sleep well, and have given birth to so many children, and live a more comfortable life than Liu Jian. It would be strange if he was willing to live like this.

After finishing Liu Zhang's matter, Su Yuan ran to Liu Cong's side again.

Liu Cong was also quite frightened.

The reason is that for the sake of making troubles, all the lunatics also slandered Liu Cong.

They said that Liu Cong and Liu Zhang joined forces to conspire with Xu Jing to rebel, to overthrow the Wei Empire, restore the Han Empire, and then support Liu Jian's restoration together.

Liu Cong was also frightened, and shivered at home, fearing that Guo Peng would come to kill him.

Guo Peng also expected it, so he asked Su Yuan to bring a gift to comfort him, telling him that he had absolutely no intention of doubting him, and letting him live his extravagant life in Luoyang City with peace of mind.

"Secretary, please speak kindly to Your Majesty for me, I am truly sincere to Your Majesty, and I have no resentment at all."

Liu Cong held a huge pearl in his hand, and stuffed it into Su Yuan's hand at once.

Su Yuan weighed the weight of this big pearl and smiled.

"This matter, just leave it to our family, don't worry about it."

After a circle of appeasement, Su Yuan completed his mission and returned to the palace to report to Guo Peng.

"Well, that's all right. Don't worry about them not doing anything, but being scared to death. Then someone will put this on me again."

Guo Peng lowered his head and wrote vigorously: "Did Shanyang send someone there?"

"I've already gone, there will be no problems with Lord Sanyang, please rest assured, Your Majesty."

"Ah."

Guo Peng nodded: "It's good to keep the three of them steady. Those scholars will only use this method to oppose me. It's nothing new at all."

Su Yuan hesitated for a while, then took out the big pearl that Liu Cong gave him.

"Your Majesty, this old slave has a good thing here, which is..."

"You can take what Liu Cong gave you. Anyway, if he is willing to give it to you, you can take it. If you want to get things done, you can take it if he is willing to give it to you. I don't care, but if things can't be done, you If you still want to take it, it’s not good, understand?”

Su Yuan's expression suddenly became a little exciting.

"Old slave...understood."

"Well, it's no big deal if you get what you want. Those people who went out from the inner court in this wave basically returned with full rewards? As long as the work is done properly, people are willing to give it to me. I don't care, but If things can’t be done well for money, then it’s not beautiful.”

Guo Peng raised his head, smiled, and handed a piece of paper to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan took the paper, looked at it, and found that there were more than [-] names on it.

"These people are dishonest when they go out to do errands. In order to get more money, they don't do a good job. You can arrange it. In public, cut off their heads and tell everyone that the work is the first, and the money is the most important thing." The second one, I don’t care how to operate it, if things are not done well, the guy who eats will be gone.”

Su Yuan suddenly felt that the clothes behind him were soaked in cold sweat.

Taking a deep breath, Su Yuan nodded immediately.

"Old slave obeys!"

"Well, go ahead and get things done, and call Xu Jing over."

"According to the order."

Su Yuan quickly left the side hall study.

After getting someone to notify Xu Jing, Su Yuan summoned the group of people who had gone out to do errands with a serious face, about 300 people.

At the beginning of the establishment of the East Factory, it was a department for Guo Peng to explore and open mines. There were a lot of experts in it, not only eunuchs, but also professionals who were not eunuchs.

When he went out to do errands this time, Guo Peng specifically asked the people in the East Factory to go out to do errands instead of going to other departments of the inner court, which made Su Yuan a little strange.

But when he thought that this was the emperor's trust, Su Yuan was very happy, and carefully selected more than 300 people to go out with the investigation team, responsible for supervision and encouragement.

In the end, someone still had an accident.

So Su Yuan took the list, called out those 20 people, and ordered them to chop off their heads one by one in front of all the others, without changing expression or beating heartbeat.

It frightened the others to turn pale.

"Your Majesty said, it's not the most important thing to go out to do errands and collect some money. The most important thing is to do things in place, and if you want to collect money after things are done, that's your own business. Your Majesty doesn't care, but If things are not done well, or if things are deliberately not done well for the sake of money, this is the end."

Su Yuan raised the list in Yang's hand: "I tell you, don't think that your majesty doesn't know anything, your majesty's eyes are staring at each of you, remember."

Su Yuan stared at himself, and asked the group of people to clean up the corpses and blood of more than 20 colleagues by themselves, so as to give them a long memory.

I also gave myself a long memory.

Anyway, he never knew where Guo Peng's eyes were staring at him, and where he was staring at other people.

Just like Xu Jing doesn't know where his future lies.

Chapter 1188 One thousand 190 Let the old minister die instead of His Majesty, and the world will be stable

Standing in front of Guo Peng, Xu Jing looked haggard, with sunken eye sockets, and looked weak as if he was about to faint at any moment.

It seems that the pressure of the emperor and the pressure of public opinion had a greater impact on him than Guo Peng imagined.

"Your Majesty, old minister... in ten more days, ten more days, I will definitely be able to accomplish this..."

He had no confidence to speak, and his voice was a little hoarse.

It seemed that if he continued to work for another ten days, he could be buried directly in the coffin.

Guo Peng shook his head and sighed.

"Xu Qing, do you know how many officials here impeach you these days? Do you know how many people want to put you to death?"

"I don't know, but the old minister can probably guess..."

Xu Jing's face was full of bitterness.

"Hehehe, it's good to guess. To be honest, I didn't expect that this wave of thorough investigation would make them completely tear up your face and break with you. I thought they could be more rational. Don't put Things are so ugly, but who would have thought that they won't even give you the last bit of face."

Guo Peng had a regretful expression on his face, as if he was complaining about Xu Jing: "Xu Qing, they really don't give you any face, they want you to die."

Xu Jing himself seemed to have a very insightful smile and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, you are joking. The last bit of face for this old minister is in the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. After investigating Xiaolian in the past, and dragging Cui Yan into the water, the old minister has already become the target of public criticism. .”

"No, you are not the target of public criticism, you are the target of public criticism instead of me."

Guo Peng shook his head and stared at Xu Jing: "Where do they want your life? Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Peigong. Why do they want you to die? They clearly want me to die."

Xu Jing looked at Guo Peng, as if he had seen through everything.

After a while, he lowered his head again.

"Your Majesty, listen to the old minister's persuasion. Please don't move! This move is against the people of the world. The bustling Luoyang today will be the bustling world tomorrow. Your Majesty, stop here and let the old minister replace your majesty." Go to death, and the world will be stable."

When he said this, Xu Jing's face was full of sadness, and then, there was still a trace of relief.

It seems that he really intends to die for Guo Peng.

"Really? The people of the world? Just a few hundred thousand scholars can represent 6000 million people in the whole world? Can they also represent hundreds of thousands of Wei troops in my hands?"

Guo Peng smiled: "Xu Qing, other people can also understand what you can understand. They all know that I am also Xiangzhuang Sword Dancer, aiming at Pei Gong. The current situation is the same as that of Emperor Guangwu back then." It was about the same time as Tian.

Like Emperor Guangwu, I was touching their lifelines. It's strange that they didn't shout, but Xu Qing, have you noticed that the current situation seems to be different from when Emperor Guangwu wanted to save the fields? "

Xu Jing raised his head in doubt.

"What does your majesty mean?"

"Back when Emperor Guangwu wanted to conquer the fields, those tyrants pulled up troops one by one to rebel. Emperor Guangwu sent troops to suppress it at first, but after suppressing this side, the other side rose up and suppressed that side. The border has risen again, and the pressure cannot be finished, and the army seems to be working and not working hard."

Guo Peng smiled and said: "Emperor Guangwu has seen through it and has to compromise, but look at today, does anyone dare to openly rebel?"

Xu Jing tasted the meaning of Guo Peng's words, and felt that today is different from the past.

In the past, there were waves of rebellion one after another in the local area. Everyone rebelled with real swords and guns, shaking Liu Xiu's country and forcing Liu Xiu to compromise.

Today, although the voices of these people are loud, they can only yell and curse. For the time being, no one has really taken actual actions to oppose Guo Peng's policies and force Guo Peng to compromise.

Having said that, Guo Peng's force is too strong, will he really compromise?

Xu Jing was in disbelief, but he was soon shocked.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty must not! No matter what, Your Majesty cannot send troops to suppress them! Once Luoyang bleeds, the whole world will bleed! What will happen after that, old minister... I can't predict it!"

Xu Jing quickly knelt on the ground.

He thought that Guo Peng decided to send troops to massacre those troublemakers, bureaucrats, and imperial students, and to kill them until they were terrified, so that no one would dare to go against his will.

This is indeed a once-and-for-all solution, dispatching the Luoyang Black Armored Forbidden Army to wash the government offices and Taixue with blood, then naturally, this policy will be passed smoothly, and no one will dare to resist again.

but……

Qin Shihuang didn't do it so simply and thoroughly. If Guo Peng did it, later generations would definitely call it the number one tyrant in history.

There is no guarantee of what will happen next.

So many people were killed... there must be someone who started to rebel out of despair, right?

Then the emperor and the scholars completely broke up. Without scholars to help the emperor govern the country, people's minds changed, and everyone was in danger. At that time, the situation of the Wei Empire will definitely be...

Xu Jing didn't dare to think about it any further.

"Xu Qing, what are you thinking?"

Guo Peng laughed for a while: "I will do this kind of thing unless it is a last resort? Impossible, kill them all, who will help me run the country? I am indeed very angry, but it has not reached that point."

Hearing what Guo Peng said, Xu Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then His Majesty..."