At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Jin couldn't understand what Guo Peng was saying.

But suddenly, two lines of tears flowed down Guo Peng's cheeks.

Guo Peng's complexion changed, and he quickly covered his face with his hands.

"Go ahead, get things done first, my father will be here soon."

Guo Peng waved Guo Jin to leave.

Guo Jin immediately turned around and left the South Study Room quickly.

After leaving the South Study Room, she speeded up and walked a long distance before Guo Jin stopped and turned to look in the direction of the South Study Room.

This was the first time he had seen Guo Peng cry in private since he could remember.

A father who is as tough as steel, a father who is never afraid of any challenge, and a father who holds the power of the world, will shed tears for someone in private?

Guo Jin found it hard to imagine.

For the funerals of the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress, the Wei Empire followed the usual solemn and solemn standards. They did not pay attention to ostentation, but paid attention to the completeness of etiquette and the solemnity of the atmosphere.

Guo Peng believes that this can best reflect people's mourning for the deceased.

That's how the funeral was held for Mi Zhen.

At the funeral, the emperor and empress came in filial piety, and led the whole family to pay homage to the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress, and bid them a final farewell.

A long time ago, the Ministry of Rites suggested to Guo Peng that state-level funerals should be more complete and the regulations more cumbersome and strict, so as to be worthy of the status of the royal family.

Guo Peng shook his head and vetoed it, stipulating that the funerals of the Wei Empire should be solemn, dignified, concise, and straightforward as the core elements, and try to simplify the cumbersome etiquette so that the deceased can be buried in peace as soon as possible.

And personally stipulated the three major elements of [thin burial], [simplicity] and [burial as soon as possible]. Luxurious items such as gold and silver are not allowed to be buried with them, let alone living people. It is stipulated that future generations must abide by these three elements. Make the funeral cumbersome and extravagant.

After this funeral, the remains of the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress will return to Yingchuan, the ancestral home of the Guo family, and be buried in Yingchuan according to the wishes of the Supreme Emperor.

Guo Peng and Cao Lan presided over the funeral together, and as sons of man, sent Guo Dan his last journey.

Afterwards, Guo Peng never showed up again within the time limit for stopping the court.

He entrusted Guo Jin to do all the things, asked Guo Jin to act as the emperor temporarily, and helped him handle government affairs in the South Study Room. He went to review and deal with it.

He went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and lived with Cao Lan for a while.

Guo Peng didn't do anything during this time, he didn't even read a single memorial, he just stayed with Cao Lan.

Talk to her, read books, write and write, eat and eat, live a life that a normal person should have for a few days, abandon all external interference, and look a little bit retired.

It seems that the emperor has suffered quite a blow, and seems to be depressed. He plans to take a good rest for a while, and will not toss the officials anymore. Everyone can feel at ease for a while.

But after many surprise attacks, the surviving ministers with a clear head knew that the emperor was just taking a short rest.

The death of the Taishanghuang may have brought an emotional blow to the emperor, but the Taishanghuang is 69 years old, 70 years old, which is already a rare age.

In other words, the Supreme Emperor has enough money.

So the emperor will not be too sad.

Just like this, the emperor just needs to take a break and let go of the emotions accumulated in his heart. What he wants to do may not be finished, but on the contrary, it is in the process of being brewed.

This time, they guessed wrong, and they guessed wrong.

The wrong guess is that Guo Peng is not depressed, he still has things he wants to do.

What I guessed right is that Guo Peng is really tired and really wants to take a break, and has decided to abdicate.

Guo Peng still has two things that must be done no matter what, and these two things must be done before he abdicates.

First, tidy up the army, tidy up the court, and then tidy up the army and hand it over to Guo Jin.

Second, release movable type printing and use your own supreme prestige to complete this wave of fatal academic downward movement.

Then he can abdicate safely.

He was so tired that he could hardly pull himself together to do more.

But at least, these two things must be done with gritted teeth, and they cannot be left to Guo Jin, because his prestige is not enough.

Guo Peng summoned Cheng Yu during the few days when Guo Jin was exercising the emperor's power on his behalf, and secretly discussed with Cheng Yu the tasks for the next stage.

While completing many major events, Guo Peng did not forget to ask Cheng Yu to make good arrangements for the next things to be done, and let Cheng Yu make good preparations for the implementation of the next stage of the plan.

Sweeping out the treacherous and corrupt people is a long-term work, and we must not slack off every moment.

Although Cheng Yu is only responsible for the cleanup of official corruption in the central Gyeonggi region, the interrogation and detention of local corrupt officials must also be carried out by the central government.

So once they entered the Gyeonggi area, they would be a fish on Cheng Yu's chopping board.

In the same way, officers and military officials who committed corruption crimes in the army were also escorted to the capital for questioning, so Cheng Yu could not only deter civilian officials, but also deter the army.

After the unconventional anti-corruption work was over, Guo Peng set regular anti-corruption work requirements for Cheng Yu.

There are civilian officials in the central government, as well as military officials and military officials.

First solve the corruption problem in the army, then solve the printing business, and finally lead the villains, then you can leave the throne with a wild laugh, and catch the officials by surprise for the last time.

Guo's life, you courtiers, can't even imagine it.

Chapter 1407 One thousand 310 seven Zhao Yun pleads guilty

For many years, Guo Peng has not attacked the army on a large scale.

Except for the attack by the Liangzhou Corps, the attacks in other places were quite light.

However, in recent years, with the implementation of the compulsory military service system, the scale of the army has expanded, and the places where money has been spent have increased, so it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems.

Moreover, for Guo Jin's smooth ascension to the throne, Guo Peng has to do a lot of prelude work for him.

Some people should be rectified, some people should be replaced, take down some of the rotten ones, and replace them with a group of young, strong and energetic ones, so as to ensure the normal operation of the entire army, and also allow Guo Jin to better control the army .

The 30 regular army is also the skeleton of the future Wei Empire's one-million-strong army.

Although in Guo Peng's view, he can't think of any enemies in the future that will require the Wei Empire to mobilize millions of troops to deal with it, it is always good to plan ahead.

There is no such existence in the future that he can foresee, and it is not necessarily the case in the future that he cannot foresee.

The Wei Empire will definitely have an enemy worthy of a battle, but when it will appear, it is not clear.

With these 30 elite troops honed in the flames of war, the army of the Wei Empire will maintain a strong and crushing combat effectiveness for a long period of time.

With them, the army of the Wei Empire can be pulled up anywhere, and they can instantly become reliable grassroots officers, leading a group of recruits to form a combat-capable army.

After a little running-in, you will be able to fight on the battlefield, and you will be able to display a stronger combat effectiveness than ordinary militiamen.

This point has been proven in the previous period of the powerful rebellion. The veteran instructors in each village can lead the village's young men to fight against the rebels, and achieved good results, making the powerful rebels sink into the ocean and unable to extricate themselves.

So their existence is very important to the Wei Empire.

Guo Peng will never allow any force or force to corrupt the army, not even the army itself.

Any person or event that may damage the morale of the army, damage the combat effectiveness and organization of the army must be investigated to the end and will not be tolerated.

"There are so many places where money is used in the military system, and there must be no shortage of corruption in institutions such as military supplies and storage. You must pay attention to everything and care about everything, and you must not slack off."

After explaining the matter, Guo Peng took Cheng Yu's hand.

"There are not many people I can trust. You are one of them. Don't let me down."

Cheng Yu nodded firmly.

"The old minister will never let His Majesty down, and will definitely uproot those greedy people!"

Cheng Yu had already decided to spend his remaining life on exercising power for Guo Peng.

Constantly attacking others to demonstrate one's authority and role, and using power freely and freely is exactly what Cheng Yu dreams of.

Even if you die for it, it's worth it.

The old thief Cheng Yu is also taking his own life with great stud today.

So Cheng Yu returned to Sili Xiaowei's Mansion and announced that they would form a temporary organization to investigate corruption within the army under the emperor's order, and to attack the army. This is an important task in the next stage.

The first thing to check is the capital guards and imperial guard system, starting from the emperor.

Only by clarifying the problems around the emperor can we further investigate the problems in the military system outside the capital. If you can't find out your own problems, how can you investigate external problems?

Over the years, the military expenditure account books that had only been recorded but not used for inspection were taken away by the people of Sili Xiaowei's Mansion, and then they launched a quick inspection.

Military expenditure account books are usually kept in triplicate and handed over to different organizations for safekeeping. This time, Sili Xiaowei’s Mansion got all the information from the three aspects, compared them one by one, checked whether there were any differences, and then reviewed them bit by bit. Check carefully.

The news that the people from Sili Xiaowei's mansion took away the military expenditure account book spread like wildfire.

Soon, the officials realized that Cheng Yu, a dormant man-eating tiger, began to sharpen his fangs again.

Cheng Yu's actions are inseparable from the emperor's instructions. It can even be said that Cheng Yu's actions were carried out by the emperor's order, and there is no problem with that.

They panicked, and just about to say goodbye to their families, they heard that the account books that were taken away were from the army, and they recorded military expenditures, which had nothing to do with the government for the time being.

The officials were very relieved after hearing this, and felt extremely joyful and relieved that they were not the target of this round of emperor's attack.

They finally didn't have to say goodbye to their families in a hurry.

It is not them who will die, but the group of people in the army.

It's just that they don't know why this round of investigation and attack started from the army?

Did the emperor realize that there were moths in the army, or did he say he was going to make a big move, so he cleaned up the "disobedience" in the army in advance?

No one knows why.

But that's how the investigation started, and the initial spearhead was directed at Zhao Yun, the commander-in-chief of the Guards.

The imperial army only has a quota of 5000 people, and all the material allocations are prepared by the inner court. Those who have a meal with the emperor are the emperor's private army.

The imperial army jumped out of the three realms, was not in the five elements, was not supervised by the court, and was not interfered by the imperial court. At any time, the imperial army only listened to the orders of the emperor alone.

Guard the palace, protect the emperor himself, and wait for the emperor to complete some political tasks, such as killing people and the like.

This time, the object of investigation on the quota of the Forbidden Army is not the officers of the Forbidden Army, but the people in the inner court who are responsible for managing the allocation of supplies for the Forbidden Army, and the soldiers and officers of the Forbidden Army are not involved.

The guards are different. Once the investigation is started, the officers, quartermasters, and even the commander-in-chief Zhao Yun will all face investigation and accountability.

For this point, Zhao Yun is not afraid of the shadow obliquely.

He has always managed the money tightly, and reported to the emperor as soon as possible, not daring to hide anything.

The military expenses of the guards are very strictly controlled by him. If there is anything to be purchased, the quartermaster will find him to collect the money. Afterwards, he will send someone to check whether the supplies purchased by the quartermaster are sufficient and sufficient, and whether they are shoddy. Profit from it.

Under such high-intensity supervision, few people can take the money away from Zhao Yun.

But people are not as good as heaven, Zhao Yunna really did his best to die, even so, he still failed to control the hands of some of his subordinates.

That hand is really slippery to the extreme, and it can pick out oil and water under Zhao Yun's control.

The five quartermasters in charge of purchasing meat joined forces to make a fuss about the meat issue and secretly reduced the amount of mutton that was required to be purchased.

They replaced mutton with pork, which is cheaper than mutton, and shoddy it as a good one.

They have earned this part of the oil and water for more than three years at a stretch, earning a lot of money, and they are still very tight-lipped with each other. No one leaked the news to the outside world, and basically did not make large-scale consumption in Luoyang to avoid being monitored by Cheng Yu. to doubt.

It is estimated that they were stimulated by Guo Peng's large-scale anti-corruption before, and upgraded their coping methods. They made blood alliances with each other. If one person was discovered, he would not betray the others. His family members would be taken care of by the surviving ones.

But there is no way around it. After a person's hands and feet were discovered, he was thrown into the prison by Cheng Yu, and various criminal laws were imposed one after another, such as fried pork with bamboo shoots, grilled meat on an iron plate, and fried pork slices. Death is not allowed to die.

Within two days, I recruited.

A total of five people were caught out, and it was discovered that they replaced the more expensive mutton with cheaper pork, and made a lot of profit from it.

All five were arrested and sentenced to death shortly thereafter.

Zhao Yun was shocked when he learned of this incident, and directly staged a plea for guilt in the new era. He took off his shirt and carried the thorns to the palace to find Guo Peng to plead guilty.

Guo Peng was strong and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he went up to help Zhao Yun himself, took the thorns for him, gave him clothes, comforted Zhao Yun, and said that there were only five people with such a large number of troops. It was not Zhao Yun's fault, but Zhao Yun's fault. credit.

He demonstrated Zhao Yun's efforts to keep the army pure. Not only did he not punish Zhao Yun, he also rewarded Zhao Yun with something and praised Zhao Yun.

As for the five people, they will directly kill the clan.

Messy hands and feet on the military funds, and they are still moving around under his nose, this is completely provoking his dignity as an emperor, which makes Guo especially unbearable.

Cheng Yu knew the emperor's heart well, and knew that Guo Peng hated people who tampered with military funds, so he sentenced them to be broken.

Zhao Yun's years of planning for a rainy day were once considered superfluous.