At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cao Cao couldn't believe the account books, and sent people to the states to check, and then counted the number, counted the population, and prepared to report it to Guo Peng.

When the three land account books were thoroughly investigated, most people cooperated.

Cao Cao and Guo Jia are also a bit persuasive. Xiahou Dun, who was far away, even wrote a letter to warn the Xiahou tribe. Cao Lan and Xiahou Lin also wrote letters to their respective tribes in the harem, telling them to pay attention to matching Guo.

Never fight against someone Guo, never try to deceive.

This time, it's for real.

After checking and checking, even the source of the land in Cao Hong's hands had to be found out, but it turned out that something went wrong with a guy who was a bit surprising.

Guo's younger brother, Zhao Wang Guoyang.

This guy Guo Yang can always surprise someone Guo in some unexpected places, such as the land level.

Guo's original land in Yuzhou had been sold during the war, and after a certain Guo occupied Yuzhou, he didn't think about buying it back, because all the land in the world belonged to him.

After all, the house in Qiao County was only a refuge for Guo and his son, since it was sold, it was sold.

But Guo Yang is different. Guo Yang only has a short prince, and he has nothing but the salary for the prince.

Therefore, Guo Peng allocated a piece of land to Guo Yang in Zhao County, where Guo Yang's [Zhao Wang] title was located, about [-] mu, and [-] households of food, which was definitely enough for him to spend his days and nights.

Originally, Guo Peng didn't even plan to give him so much food, he just planned to give it to hundreds of households, but Guo Dan came over to mention this matter to him, and the meaning behind the words was to give the little boy who didn't live up to expectations. Son do more benefits.

Guo Dan knew that Guo Peng hated Guo Yang, so he advised him to put on a friendly face even on the surface, and not let outsiders see discord within the royal family from the rewards, which would be bad for the royal family's reputation.

Guo Peng thought for a while, and felt that what Guo Dan said was also reasonable, so he raised Guo Yang's treatment, which could be regarded as a little face for the emperor's father, who had the right to raise a husky to maintain the harmony of the royal family.

Chapter 1272 Cao Cao sold Guo Yang without hesitation

Guo Yang seemed a little dissatisfied with the reward Guo Peng gave.

Inside and outside the words, it seems that there is a feeling of complaining about Guo Peng's stinginess and lack of generosity.

Even with Yang Shi, he was not very happy, and felt that Guo Peng was too harsh on his brothers.

The foreign ministers all have three or four thousand food towns and more land. As a result, the rewards of their own brothers and princes are not as good as those of other marquises.

Guo Peng was very angry.

"I haven't made any achievements, I only know how to eat, drink and play to waste my time. What else do you want? Other people's food and fiefs are all bought with their lives! What about you? What did you do?"

Guo Peng yelled angrily at Guo Yang, which scared Guo Yang away and shocked Yang Shi.

After all, the mother and son did not dare to show their teeth to Guo Peng.

The matter was settled just like that.

But this time, the officials sent by Cao Cao to inspect accidentally discovered that the land belonging to Zhao Wanghuangzhuang did not seem to be limited to only [-] acres.

There are more, more land is delivering benefits to King Zhao's manor.

When they were checking, they discovered that besides the [-] mu of land, there were at least thousands of mu of land in King Zhao Huangzhuang that had never appeared in the court records.

When they planned to further verify, they were beaten and kicked by a group of black-clothed thugs who broke in suddenly, and then took away the land account, followed by a very routine fire incident.

The house where the account books and land records were piled up in Zhao Wanghuangzhuang caught fire. All the account books were burned to ashes, and there was nothing left.

After this incident happened, Cao Cao attached great importance to it. Cao Cao felt that something was wrong and planned to investigate it himself.

As a result, Guo Yang found Cao Cao himself, hoping that Cao Cao could help him hide this matter.

He does have a large amount of private land in Zhao County, claiming that he "bought" it through various means.

But Cao Cao already knows what the actual situation is.

"I also ask Mr. Cao to help me. Please don't let your brother know about this matter. If you let your brother know about this matter, I... Mr. Cao, please!"

Guo Yang ordered someone to bring a box of five hundred catties of gold and present it to Cao Cao, hoping that Cao Cao would hold his hand high and let him go.

Cao Cao was silent for a while.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have my own way."

Cao Cao accepted Guo Yang's bribe with a smile.

Then he turned around and told Guo Peng about the matter secretly, betraying Guo Yang.

If it was someone else, Cao Cao probably would have to think about the pros and cons of this matter for him, and weigh it a little bit, but if it was Guo Yang, Cao Cao didn't hesitate at all.

No one knows what is going on with the Guo Brothers better than the people of the Cao Clan and Xiahou Clan.

To put it simply, Guo Peng never regarded Guo Yang as a brother, but rather despised him and loathed him.

Guo Peng's biological mother died very early. When he was five years old, Guo Dan married another Yang family and gave birth to Guo Yang when Guo Peng was six years old.

Since then, the Yang family has treated Guo Peng coldly and played cold violence. Due to Guo Peng's status as the eldest son, he can't do anything, so he often speaks sarcastically and eccentrically.

But how can Guo Peng be an ordinary child?

A generation of emperors must be extraordinary when they are young. The Guo family in Qiao County, which was dilapidated at that time, became different because of Guo Peng's existence.

Guo Peng has been with Cao Cao since he was eight years old, and Cao Cao admired the courage he showed.

At that time, Cao Cao often put Guo Peng on his horse to share a horse with him. He almost regarded him as his own brother. He was very friendly to him and optimistic about his future.

Cao Cao had also heard about Yang's unscrupulous affairs, and he didn't like such women who wanted to make the patriarch depose the elders and establish the younger ones.

Yang also miscalculated the status of Guo Peng, the eldest son, in Guo Dan's heart, as well as Guo Peng's own deep scheming. He did not expect that Guo's father and son wanted to break through the predicament, and Guo Peng's dark heart was far beyond normal. people.

So at the age of 12 when Guo Peng was [-] years old, Yang's father and son teamed up to make money.

Guo Peng came up with a plan for digging ice for fishing, and told Guo Dan, but not Yang Shi, who voluntarily participated in the project, and then became a dishonorable stepmother, in an embarrassing situation.

In fact, she herself is not glorious, but at least she has the title of aunt, so no matter what benefits Guo Peng has, she always has her share.

Later, as Guo Peng's status and power rose, so did her status, and now she has become the Supreme Queen, the most honorable woman in the country, by virtue of Guo Peng's power.

It can be said that a tool person has the blessing of a tool person, and she also enjoyed the treatment of leaving a name in history.

Logically speaking, she should be very satisfied, even grateful to Guo Peng.

There is also Guo Yang, who has not made any achievements, knows nothing but eating, drinking, and playing. He knows how to enjoy himself all day long. Wang Jue, isn't this the most gratifying thing?

What more could he want?

But everyone knows that Guo Yang and Guo Peng don't look like the same father.

Useless, ignorant and incompetent, he used to rely on Guo Pengqing's status as the lord of Yan Erzhou to eat and not give money, which can be described as low to the extreme.

How short is your brother of food money?

Everyone sees that he is Guo Peng's younger brother and doesn't care about him, just give Guo Peng face.

However, Guo Peng himself has repeatedly shown that he doesn't care about his younger brother at all, and he treats Guo Yang very perfunctorily.

Guo Peng once arranged a job for him, asked him to do some small things, and had the idea of ​​supporting him a little bit, but soon Guo Yang couldn't stand the hardship, so he just went home and quit, and Guo Peng didn't care.

After proclaiming himself emperor, he granted Guo Yang a King of Zhao due to his blood relationship, gave him thousands of acres of land and a generous salary, and sent him away directly, out of sight and out of mind, and let him stay in his residence honestly No running around.

Guo Yang probably also knew that his elder brother the emperor never wanted to see him, so he restrained himself a lot, living his luxurious life secretly and not teasing Guo Peng.

Everything seems to be in harmony.

But Cao Cao didn't expect that Guo Yang secretly used his status as the king of Zhao to start thinking about the land in Zhaojun.

According to the results of the preliminary investigation, the extra land he gained was inseparable from the farming farm. There are many signs that the higher-level bureaucrats are not ignorant of this, so the sheriff of Zhaojun and the governor of Jizhou at that time were by no means innocent.

But the investigation was incomplete because the evidence was destroyed.

However, Cao Cao knew that Guo Peng hated this younger brother very much, and didn't care about his situation, and didn't even mind teaching him a lesson, so telling Guo Peng about this matter was definitely not a bad thing, and he could earn a wave of impression points.

So Cao Cao sold Guo Yang without hesitation, and by the way told Guo Peng about Guo Yang's bribery of himself.

Naturally, the five hundred catties of gold were given to Guo Peng as a flower offering to the Buddha.

Cao Cao recounted what Guo Yang did and said to Guo Peng with added fuel and vinegar, and told Guo Yang that Guo Yang was suspected of annexing land in Jizhou, and asked Guo Peng to judge.

Guo Peng was furious, broke his tea bowl on the spot, and immediately ordered Su Yuan to mobilize the inner court staff, Cao Cao mobilized the Qingzhang team, the two sides formed a joint investigation team, and took the emperor's order to Zhaojun, Jizhou to investigate the matter. clearly.

Whether it's the sheriff of Zhaojun or the governor of Jizhou, no matter who it is, as long as they are involved, let me check it out!

The royal family must keep the stalls of Qingzhang land clean. Over the years, Guo Peng has also strictly controlled the royal family. Judging from the current results of Qingzhang, this kind of control is still very effective.

But he didn't expect Guo Yang, a counselor, to be doing something secretly, and he didn't let him know.

Guo Peng was very angry, so he called Guo Yang to the study in the side hall of Fengtian Hall.

Chapter 1273 One Thousand 180 Three Deposed King Zhao

Guo Yang is very afraid of the elder brother of the emperor, afraid of his strength, his power and status, and also afraid of his methods of killing without blinking an eye.

On weekdays, quietly relying on his power to do bad things, it must be based on the fact that most of the officials do not know that Guo Peng hates him.

If outsiders know that the royal family is not in harmony, he will be no different from a wild prince as a blank slate.

So when Guo Yang heard that Guo Peng, who had never taken the initiative to summon him before, wanted to summon him, he immediately collapsed on the ground in fright.

If Su Yuan hadn't come to the door directly to block people, Guo Yang probably would have thought of running away.

Even so, after entering the palace, Guo Yang tried to spend money to bribe the servant to let him inform his mother Yang, hoping that Yang would come to save him.

He already guessed that Guo Peng was looking for him, and also guessed that Cao Cao betrayed him.

While he hated Cao Cao, he was also seeking a way to survive.

The most important thing now is not to pursue Cao Cao's responsibility to avenge Cao Cao, but to let himself survive first.

At the beginning, Guo Peng was almost beaten to death because of bullying. After that, Guo Yang was very afraid of Guo Peng, and he didn't dare to let him know any dark history related to him, for fear of being beaten again.

He was scared of being beaten.

After seeing Guo Peng, as expected, Dong Chuang's incident was revealed, and Guo Peng learned about his private annexation of land in Zhao County.

Guo Peng was so annoyed that he yelled at him and didn't say anything about his brotherhood. When he was in a hurry, he picked up a stick and beat him to death.

"Now you know how to beg for mercy? Trash! Trash! Why didn't you see you being such a trash when the land was annexed!"

Guo Peng continued to beat Guo Yang mercilessly until Empress Yang came in crying.

Yang ran in crying, looked at Guo Yang, whose head was bleeding, and hugged Guo Yang tightly as soon as his eyes turned red.

"Yang'er!! My son! Guo Peng! You want to beat me! Even my mother-in-law can be beaten to death together!"

Yang's heartache was probably also extremely painful, and he yelled at Guo Peng at the top of his voice, destroying the harmonious situation that the two sides had barely maintained for decades.

Of course, more than 30 years ago, the Yang family could not do anything to the 12-year-old Guo Peng, and now the Yang family, who is in his 50s, certainly cannot do anything to the emperor Guo Peng.

But it was too emotional and reasonable, Guo Peng couldn't continue to fight.

And at this time, Guo Dan also ran over after hearing the news, panting and watching this scene, he was suddenly very sad.

"Zifeng! The emperor! One family! One family! Why did this happen!"

Guo Dan ran up to Guo Peng and grabbed Guo Peng's hand, for fear that he would continue to fight.

Guo Peng took a deep breath and shook off the stick in his hand.

"Father, when he annexed the land, he didn't belong to my family! He knew how much I valued the land, but he actually took action against the Tuntian farm, annexed the land privately, forced the farmers to sell themselves as tenants, and ruined the family! It's lawless!"

Guo Peng has no mercy or emotion for Guo Yang and Yang Shi.

But how much face should be given to Guo Dan.

Also just a little bit.

"I want to clear the land of the whole country, and he took the lead in resisting. Well, my family is the first to make a mess. What kind of face should I face the people of the world! Unfaithful to the king, unrighteous to brothers, disloyal and unrighteous What face do you have to take the high position of King Zhao!"

Guo Peng immediately called Su Yuan and made a decision in front of Guo Dan and Yang.

"Abolish Guoyang Zhao's throne, demote him as a commoner, confiscate all his property, and send him to live in a farm outside Luoyang City. Let me reflect carefully, reflect seriously, when will I be good at self-reflection, and when will I return to Luoyang!"

Neither Guo Dan nor the Yang family thought that Guo Peng would be so ruthless, so straightforward, and directly abolished his only younger brother and the only king of the Guo clan.

Guo Yang was still crying bitterly to win sympathy, but when he heard this, he fainted from fright.