At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

They deserve it too?

The emperor is a bit too much.

They also knew that Xu Jing was the one who charged the front to send the dead, who was dedicated to attracting hatred, and the emperor was the manipulator behind the scenes.

The current wave is just a test, to test the views of the officials, especially those in power, the emperor attaches great importance to their views.

Cheng Yu remembered the emperor's insistence on calling the Huanglongdian meeting.

Tian Feng remembered that the emperor forcibly dismissed nine of the family laws.

Xi Zhong remembered that the emperor personally determined the Five Classics sage law.

Yuan Si remembered the matter of punctuation marks.

Xun You remembered that the emperor abolished private schools and established public schools.

Kong Xian remembered that the emperor allocated funds from Neikuli to assist the local area in restoring and rebuilding palaces and schools.

………………

Reminiscent of the previous wave of operations by the emperor, and then linking these operations together, summed up to the present!

The high-ranking officials gasped one after another—they immediately felt that this set was clearly a series of punches from the emperor.

The emperor had already finished the previous punches and achieved considerable results, and now he gathered all his strength in the last punch, ready to decide the outcome with one punch.

How long ago did His Majesty start planning this move?

This is clearly interlocking and progressive. Whenever they think that the emperor may stop here, His Majesty the Emperor will tell them with a sneer-this is just the beginning.

It's not over yet!

So the wave started again.

Tian Feng rushed into the official office of Shangshutai, and looked into the eyes of Cheng Yu, who had a deep personal grievance.

"Did you know beforehand?"

"do not know."

"I do not know either."

"What do you think?"

"What do you think?"

The two were speechless.

"What do you want to say?"

"You say what you want to say first."

"I dare not say anything."

"Me too."

The two looked at each other silently again.

They really dare not say anything. For them, if they still want to say something, it is really too dangerous.

Cheng Yu has to think about himself and his family.

Tian Feng also has to think about himself, his family and Tian Rou.

At the core decision-making level, if they disagree with the emperor, or on this issue, the problem will be quite serious, and they dare not.

After much deliberation, the two dared not say anything after all, so they decided to continue to wait and see the situation.

They didn't quite agree with it in their hearts, but they didn't dare to express it directly. They could only watch the development of the situation and sit back and watch the success or failure——

As long as the emperor did not explicitly ask them to express their views, they would not speak.

In other words, if the situation has not reached that point, they will not speak.

Xi Zhong, Xun You, and Guo Jia discussed this matter in private, and each other agreed to the development of this matter, and decided to continue to wait and see without making a sound.

Guo Hong and Qiao Rui naturally didn't say a word, they felt that no matter what the emperor did, it would not harm the interests of their family.

The ministers and servants of the Shangshutai look at me and I look at you, and they don't dare to fart.

No one understood better than them how powerful the emperor's power and coercion were. To fight against such an emperor would simply be an old birthday star hanging himself up and getting tired of life.

But this situation is really...

Anyway, the people below are turbulent, and the wave of resistance comes one after another.

They didn't dare to speak, and simply waited and watched it get better, to see how this matter would end.

The core decision-makers of the Guowei Empire decided to remain silent collectively, wait and see the situation, and then see what the result is.

Except for one Xu Jing who became the vanguard, the entire upper leadership organization of the Guo Wei regime was silent because of scruples about their own status and conflicts in their hearts.

Right now, just looking at Luoyang City, a large number of middle and low-level scholars and officials have reached a consensus with the scholars in Taixue and realized a connection.

They are very loud.

Among them, Wei Shen, a doctor of the Ministry of War, Qu Chu, a member of the Ministry of Industry, Qi Yuan, a doctor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Ma Miao, a director of the Ministry of Finance, were the main voices and organizers.

They collaborated with each other to organize protests and established a rather effective protest command system.

They walked in the streets and alleys to publicize Xu Jing's crimes, slander and vilify them, and put many things that had nothing to do with them on Xu Jing's head.

Things that didn't exist in the first place can be said vividly, just like they came to observe the scene in person.

Especially after Xu Jing's suggestion to the emperor to "abolish the examination and establish the imperial examination" was spread, this wave of anti-Xu Jing quickly climbed to a new peak.

In addition to the mental blow, this blow has risen to the physical level.

Xu Jing's house in the capital was besieged by scholars. They besieged Xu Jing's house with stones, soil, wood, etc., so frightened that Xu Jing's family closed their doors and dared not go out.

The scholars were still angry, and attacked the gate of Xu Jing's mansion with sticks or big stones, trying to destroy Xu Jing's house, rushed in and attacked Xu Jing's family, wreaked havoc in his house, and ruthlessly Strike his spirits.

This frightened Xu Jing's family to directly seal the gate and reinforce all the exits, so as not to be really attacked by this group of crazy scholars.

Xu Jing once asked the Luoyang County Magistrate to intervene in this matter, but the Luoyang County Magistrate, who was born as a scholar, saw that the limelight was not right, and felt that the emperor would probably compromise. At this time, he would not stand up to help Xu Jing share anything.

So the excuse that the road was congested could not move forward, and the Luoyang county magistrate didn't care about it at all.

And at this chaotic stall, suddenly, a rumor about "the four masters of Confucius, Yuan, Xun, and Jia also participated in this plan, and supported the emperor's policy of abolishing the examination and establishing the imperial examination" suddenly spread among the scholars. spread.

The scholars who resisted were shocked and turned into grief and indignation.

Headed by Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and others, they quickly remembered that after the four major families betrayed the interests of those leading families, they were able to marry the royal family.

Some time ago, the wedding of the emperor's second son and Yuan's daughter mobilized the entire Luoyang city.

The other three families also married with the emperor's family one after another, agreeing on the date of marriage, and waiting for the children to grow up before they can get married.

These four families have also received the guarantee of hereditary titles without demotion, which can be said to be the same treatment as the country.

This rumor tells everything with its nose and eyes.

It is said that in order to repay the emperor's kindness and even obtain more benefits, the four major families took the initiative to assist the emperor to come up with the policy of [abolishing the inspection and establishing the imperial examination], and then pushed Xu Jing to be a scapegoat. watch a play.

Because this matter is very reasonable and likely to happen, scholars also widely believe that the four major families have been bound together with the royal family, so once this rumor became popular, it immediately became [truth].

The soldiers who had besieged Xu Jing's mansion with all their strength were divided into five groups.

All the way to stay at the gate of the Xu Mansion and continue to attack the gate of the Xu Mansion, the other four led by Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, and Ma Miao went to the residences of the four masters of Kong, Yuan, Xun, and Jia in Luoyang. Said the angry siege began.

The disciples of the four families looked at the angry scholars in a daze, and were so frightened that they quickly closed the gates and called for reinforcements.

Except for the Kong family who were not directly attacked by the scholars because of their special status, the other three families were treated the same as the Xu family.

Stones, soil clods, dirty water, ink, etc. can be smashed vigorously, sprayed vigorously, shouted angrily, and the like.

What despicable and shameless, ungrateful, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, etc., can be scolded vigorously.

Some people wrote articles on the walls of their mansions with pens, scolding these families for their hypocrisy, selling out the interests of scholars to ask the emperor for credit, begging for mercy and so on.

Because the Confucian mansion was protected by Confucius, the scholars led by Wei Shen did not dare to commit violence, so they never knew where to get a large portrait of Confucius painted on paper, and stood it on the door of the Confucian mansion.

Then a group of people sat quietly, staring at the gate of the Confucian Mansion angrily, and asked the people of the Confucian Mansion to come out and give them an explanation.

"The dignified descendants of Confucius, can they do such a mediocre thing?"

They were under the leadership of Wei Shen, Wei Shen shouted, they shouted together, one after another, the voice was loud and majestic, it felt like this momentum was about to knock down the walls of the Kong family.

Wei Shen said that Kong will not leave unless he gives an explanation. We will sit here and see when you come out.

The sudden outbreak of the rumors and the actions of the scholars were so incredible that when the people of Kongyuan, Xunjia and the four major families learned about this incident, they were all dumbfounded.

We only found out about this not long ago. We didn’t know anything before, so why did we help the emperor come up with this policy?

We are also scholars, we are also victims, okay?

How could we assist the emperor to do such a thing?

Out of your mind?

But it's useless, on the cusp of this storm, no matter what they say or how they express their views, the scholars will never believe them, they will only think that they are sophistry.

And if they stand up and clarify for themselves...

Well, the result can be imagined.

His Majesty's strategy of diverting disasters to the east is just right.

Xun You was the first to react, and then sent people from the staff desk to sneak back home to make the family prepare for defense, block the gate, don't go out, rely on the food stored in the house to survive, don't worry about any danger, he will take care of everything.

Then he was ready to live at the staff desk and not go home.

Anyway, going home at this time will definitely be surrounded by angry soldiers and beaten to death.

Xun You didn't know when he assisted the emperor to formulate this policy, but he knew that since the rumor had spread, it was not true.

Therefore, he is already a traitor in the eyes of scholars.

Like Xu Jing, he was about to be expelled by the scholars, and the precarious reputation of the Yingchuan Xun family was completely ruined.

Xun You was a little sad.

But if he showed his sadness, he would not only be expelled from the army, but also become a dead man.

Therefore, he will only treat this matter with silence.

chapter 1192 one thousand two hundred and two the emperor is too quiet

Xun You was the first to react, and the other three did not react very slowly, and they also realized that this was the emperor's conspiracy.

They were shocked and tried to explain, but soon found that there was no way to explain this matter.

Before the matter of marrying the emperor, there was an uproar, and everyone in the world knew about it, and they all knew that they had made great benefits by cooperating with the emperor.

It is natural to go further now.

Explanation?

They have already been regarded as traitors by the scholars, and if they have to explain that they have offended the emperor, wouldn't it be a disservice to both sides?

The military honorary group and the bureaucratic group have already seen them very unhappy. If they want to offend the emperor, the emperor will eat them if the scholars don't tear them up.

At that time, even if the emperor fails and is forced to compromise, it will be easy to deal with them.

All escape routes were blocked, or in other words, since their first compromise, there was no escape route.

The general situation is so, the contradiction between the emperor and the scholars has intensified, and it has reached the point where it is either black or white, and there is no room for the existence of gray areas in the middle.

To support the procuratorial examination or to support the imperial examination is a matter of choosing one or the other, and the two sides cannot coexist.

The four of them felt bitter, but they couldn't say a word. Looking at the surprised eyes of their colleagues, they really felt what it meant to be a dumb man who was suffering from eating Coptis chinensis.

Things have come to this point, it is meaningless to say.

The scholars launched attacks on their respective mansions, causing disturbances and demonstrations everywhere, disrupting the normal economic and life order in Luoyang, and there was a tendency that they would not stop unless the emperor compromised.

Wei Shen, Qu Chu, Qi Yuan, Ma Miao and other middle and lower court officials reacted the most to this incident and also opposed it the most, so they were furious.

Let those who speak the loudest or organize the most active resistance be the leaders, let them take on the task of organizing, and unite with the Tai students to make the trouble as big as possible.

As a result, the entire Luoyang City is uneasy.