At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cheng Yu understood Guo Peng's will.

"I understand. Your Majesty's request, I will definitely do it."

"Well, go ahead, Zhongde, remember, don't care what backers others have, I am your backer."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Cheng Yu salutes again.

He knew he was on a path of no return.

He knew what this road would bring to him and his family.

But it just so happens that he has come all the way, and he has no intention of turning back.

Cheng Yu left the palace without looking back.

On the other side, Yuan Si, who heard some unfavorable rumors about the Yuan family, begged to see Guo Peng and asked Guo Peng to meet him.

Guo Peng agreed.

"Your Majesty! The minister is guilty!"

As soon as Yuan Si saw Guo Peng, he immediately knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty to Guo Peng.

Annexing land and invading farms are definitely serious crimes. If you were an ordinary bureaucrat, your whole family would have been killed long ago, Yuan Si knew it very well.

So he pleaded guilty directly.

"You also know that you are guilty?"

Guo Peng was not polite at all, and did not intend to comfort Yuan Si.

Yuan Si's heart skipped a beat, feeling that this test was not easy.

"Your Majesty, I'm guilty. I spent too much energy on Taixue, so that I didn't have enough energy to take care of my family, so that my clansman acted recklessly and annexed land in Runan County in the name of Yuan's in private, violating the national law. I can't escape the guilt. , Minister, I wish to severely punish the people of the clan with the clan law, and will never tolerate it!"

Yuan Si throws out the second temptation.

He still remembered that Cui Yan got the emperor's forgiveness because he took the initiative to kill Cui Qu.

What happened later was what happened later. At that time, Cui Yan passed the test through danger and continued to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

So he wants to take the initiative and strive for the initiative.

Guo Peng did not reply him directly.

"This matter is still under investigation. What is the situation? We have to wait for news from Captain Sili."

When Guo Peng mentioned Captain Sili, Yuan Si felt annoyed for a while. After thinking about it, he felt that it was necessary for him to put eye drops on Cheng Yu in front of the emperor.

Cheng Yu was someone who had lost the trust of the emperor at the beginning, and once he recovered, he would attack the Yuan family. It was hard to say that he would not be overthrown immediately.

Yuan Si planned to give it a try.

"Your Majesty, Cheng Zhongde, Captain of the Sili School, is also considered a veteran of the imperial court. He has followed His Majesty for a long time, and should respect His Majesty and the royal family. But now, he... he doesn't respect the second son at all! He doesn't respect the royal family!"

Guo Peng put down his pen and looked up at Yuan Si.

"So you want to impeach Zhong De?"

"I don't dare to wear the body of a crime, it's just for the second son, for His Majesty's injustice."

Yuan Si's face was full of righteousness.

So Guo Peng laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha! Interesting, interesting, really interesting, Yuan Qing, I really didn't expect that you would complain about Ah Jun and me?"

"The master humiliated the minister to death, and of course the minister will complain for His Majesty and the royal family."

Yuan Si still had a righteous expression on his face.

"Isn't it?"

Guo Peng smiled: "How do I feel, you are not trying to complain for the royal family, you are trying to make decisions for the royal family."

Yuan Si was taken aback for a moment, but didn't react for a while.

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

"I haven't said anything yet. You are angry, and then you said that you want to use the clan law to punish the members of the Yuan clan? Clan law?"

The smile on Guo Peng's face disappeared, he stared at Yuan Si who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Your family violated the national law, but you have to use the family law to deal with it. Is your family law the Wei law?"

Yuan Si was taken aback for a moment, and then his face turned pale with shock.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty Didn't Mean That, Really! My Majesty Really Didn't Mean This! My Majesty... My Majesty Wants to Plead Guilty! Plead Guilty!"

A kind of severe panic quickly swept Yuan Si's heart.

No, the situation is not right, not at all!

The method that Cui Yan could use back then, how could it not work for me?

Times have changed or the emperor has changed?

its not right!This is wrong!

While doubting himself, he was trembling with fear, for fear that the emperor would severely punish him.

"Of course you are guilty!"

Guo Peng shouted angrily: "As a royal in-law family, the Yuan family actually did such a scandal! Those who don't know think that the royal family instructed you to do these lands! My second son instructed you to do it! Hello! How courageous! How courageous! Is this how the title of the royal family is used?"

Yuan Si was so frightened that his face turned pale, his whole body was tense, and he couldn't breathe smoothly.

He finally realized what this matter was about and what it meant.

I also know how Guo Peng views this matter.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty is guilty! Your Majesty is guilty! Your Majesty please punish! Your Majesty please punish!"

"Things have happened, and the royal reputation has been ruined by you! It is time to punish? What did you do?"

Guo Peng stood up and pointed at Yuan Si and yelled: "Two members of the clan without official status dare to do such a thing. You can imagine how arrogant and domineering the Yuan family is usually! If things go on like this, Yuan Si, are you planning to restore the Chen family? country?"

The punitive words got into Yuan Si's ears, and Yuan Si was immediately stunned.

Chen Guo is the country established by Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu established Chen Guo and served as emperor for more than half a year.

Then he was defeated by Guo Peng going south.

Guo Peng destroyed Chen Guo, Yuan Shu's empire, and the Yuan family in Runan.

Yuan Si has survived to this day because he surrendered early, and has survived to this day as Guo Peng's political propaganda.

When Guo Peng said that he wanted to restore the Chen State, that was a real rebuke.

Yuan Si was so frightened that he couldn't speak a word, and his whole body stood there motionless like a stone statue.

Guo Peng walked up to Yuan Si and stared at Yuan Si with a chill on his face.

"Having the title of the royal family, not only can't act recklessly, but also be cautious, be cautious and vigilant at all times, otherwise it will ruin the reputation of the royal family, do you know what crime it is?

Once this kind of thing involves the royal family, it will damage the reputation of the royal family. Insiders know that the royal family and you are not in the same family, but outsiders don't know it. They just feel that they are a whole. You bastard, and I am also a bastard. "

Yuan Si's face was pale, and his lips trembled slightly.

"Chen... I don't know that such a thing happened...Chen... I'm guilty..."

"Guilty? Death penalty!"

Four simple words are enough to scare Yuan Si home and lie down for ten days.

Guo Peng is still satisfied with such a deterrent effect.

"Gu's pity and favor to Yuan Shi are not the basis for Yuan Shi to act recklessly, so it is better to return all of Yuan Shi's land in Runan.

Naturally, it is also possible to sell it. After that, do not involve Runan again, otherwise, if someone in the court suspects that the Yuan family is trying to restore the Chen Kingdom, Gu will not know what to do. "

With the emperor's last warning, Yuan Si drifted out of the palace in a daze, and immediately held a family meeting after returning home.

At the family meeting, the Yuan family made a decision to return all the more than 2 mu of land in Runan County to the government, or to sell it. All members of the Yuan family withdrew from Runan County. develop.

After this decision was made, Yuan Si fell ill in bed.

Two days later, on the eighth day of October in the ninth year of Yande, Cheng Yu, captain of the Sili school, announced the results of the punishment of the first four families responsible for the land annexation case.

The representative officials of the three families except the Yuan family were related to the annexation of land, so they were killed, the male criminal was killed, and the rest were all exiled to Pingzhou.

The two male clansmen who led the annexation of the land by the Yuan family were executed. Yuan Si lost [-] households and food towns, lost the position of Taixue Jijiu, and was relegated to the original Taixue Jiaoyu.

Yuan Si was also fined two years' salary.

It can be said that he lost both face and face, and lost nothing left. Under Cheng Yu's power, he suffered a crushing defeat, and the title of royal family and relatives did not bring him any help.

On the contrary, it seems to be a bit of a reminder.

chapter 1306

After this incident was exposed, officials from top to bottom of the court were shocked by this incident.

Don't mention the other three families, it's like adding to the head at first glance, but the Yuan family is a real relative of the fifth and third princes.

In the former Han Dynasty, it was an incredible wealthy family, even Wei Guo, which was also one of the few top families.

As soon as Cheng Yu, the Sili school lieutenant, took aim at the Yuan family who was related to the royal family, he killed the two tribesmen who led the annexation of the land by the Yuan family. Yuan Si, the head of the family, was also severely punished, and the Yuan family was hit. Injury.

Cheng Yu actually completely ignored Yuan's special status, pulled Yuan off the horse and insulted him severely. More importantly, it seemed that the emperor was also on Cheng Yu's side.

The father-in-law of his second son, if he said he would be demoted, he would be demoted, and if the clansman said he would kill him...

However, it was normal, the emperor didn't even let his younger brother go, and the Li family of his wife was almost killed, and he didn't care about a mere Yuan family at all.

Many officials were terrified by this, but in the face of the terrifying imperial power, they had nothing to do.

After all the hostile regimes were wiped out, the scholar group was wiped out, the imperial examination system was established, and now the powerful manors are almost completely wiped out, and the tax policy of paying grain as a whole has been established.

The emperor has achieved an undefeated golden body, and now he is in a state of doing whatever he wants.

As far as Guo himself feels, he clearly feels that the power he has now can be compared with Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi and Zhu Yuanzhang, and other emperors are really not easy to compare with him.

Either it's bad in military power, it's bad in political power, or it's bad in financial power.

A certain Guo just [agreed] Cao Ren's retirement, and it was the time when the military power in the army was unprecedentedly stable.

The imperial court also tamed the officials, eradicated the economic base of the opposition, and destroyed the last formed opposition group, the Manor Owners Group, making the political power unprecedentedly stable.

New tax policies were established, and financial power was unprecedentedly strong.

The three powers of military, government and finance are all in the hands, saying one thing, and being arbitrary, it is the pinnacle of power, and the achievement of a complete emperor, or super emperor.

As such a super emperor, Guo even got rid of the restrictions of public opinion, and public opinion dared not impose any restrictions on Guo, otherwise public opinion would die.

In such a situation where imperial power permeates almost every aspect of life, if a certain Guo wants to kill one or two people, he no longer needs the approval of his officials and the understanding of public opinion.

There is no need for Chen Lin to output high-quality articles overnight to seize the high ground of public opinion for him and hold on to the high ground of public opinion.

At this time, with a big wave of Guo's hand, the entire battlefield of public opinion can disappear.

The heart of a single husband is becoming more and more arrogant.

The power of the sole husband is unshakable.

It is such a state.

Cheng Yu, Captain of Sili, the minion of the imperial power, the emperor's eagle dog, it is too easy to understand that he is making trouble at this time.

And the reason for the emperor's attack is also very good.

If you confess honestly, I will let you go and forget the past, but if you do not confess honestly and deceive the emperor, what else can you say?

Isn't the crime of deceiving the king not enough to be punished with death?

For this kind of crime, even if Guo's power was not so terrifying a few years ago, he could still kill the other party, let alone now.

That is justifiable.

So the officials were terrified, and no one dared to speak out. They watched three senior officials at the level of Minister of Shangshutai being killed and the Yuan family being attacked.