At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Naturally, Le Jin didn't expect it either.

Le Jin never thought that the letter he wrote to Guo Jia hoping to help him say something good would bring him such a horrible ending. If he could have thought of it, he would not send that letter to Luoyang even if he was killed. .

That's for sure.

Because Guo Peng didn't intend to be serious about Jin and Zhang Liao at all, both of them showed the characteristics of "competent and non-threatening".

When the emperor asked them to do things, they fought hard, and when the emperor asked them to review them, they were obedient. This is the general that someone Guo likes.

He obeys orders honestly and has a very high political literacy. Such generals are worthy of reuse and can be reused with confidence. They can even be reserved for Guo Jin to use.

And Le Jin's political literacy is far inferior to these two, let alone Zhao Yun and Cao Ren.

The ranks are too far apart, and they are not comrades on the same level at all.

Guo Peng's purpose of setting off this wave of anti-corruption storms is really just to clean up the moths in the army and the local storage system, and find out the current real data of the local warehouses.

Then hit the generals of each army and hit their prestige to pave the way for Guo Jin.

The others are really just incidental things to do, and they are not mainly targeted at the target.

But who would have thought that when Guo Peng just wanted to sleep, Le Jin made the bed, and then Guo Jia warmed the bed for him very thoughtfully, waiting for him to go to sleep.

Is there such a good thing in the world?

Then of course we have to make good use of it and declare to the world again - I, Guo, am the master of the world's army!

Le Jin didn't think of this, so when the people Guo Peng sent to arrest him arrived in Yunzhou, Le Jin didn't react, and couldn't believe that these people came to arrest him and return him to Luoyang to wait for disposal.

Of course, the entire Southwest Corps viewed this matter in this way. They didn't know what Le Jin had done, nor did they know why the imperial court wanted to arrest him, so they instinctively panicked.

However, as soldiers, they have been indoctrinated with an iron law that must not be violated from the moment they join the army - Wei Jun's military regulations.

This is a higher priority than the commander's order, and all soldiers, including generals, must abide by the rules. Once you violate it, no one can save you, and you will be severely punished by the military judge.

In the group of the Wei Army, the status of military regulations is paramount. Even the emperor, after entering the military camp, must act in accordance with the military regulations and cannot exceed them.

Because the military camp is not a palace where the emperor can do whatever he wants.

There are rules in the barracks, and military rules are paramount.

The military rules stipulate that if they can't move, they can't move. When the military rules let them move, they can move.

It is normal for a coach to be taken away and dismissed by the court when something happens, and it has happened in military regulations.

If it is an emergency and the emperor does not appoint a new commander-in-chief, the original deputy commander-in-chief will automatically take over the duties of the commander-in-chief and take charge of the entire army.

If the emperor stipulates a new commander in chief, the army will need to work under the banner of the new commander in chief, and forget the original commander in chief ever since.

They belonged to the entire Wei Empire, not a specific general.

From entering the barracks to formally entering the combat unit, Wei Jun received a unified military education and training. They were trained by military trainers rather than generals, so the sense of belonging is really out of the question.

It's just that Le Jin is well-known and well-known in this area.

Under his command, even soldiers who have just been rotated and are not familiar with the battlefield will feel at ease and are willing to obey his command. The running-in and command costs of the army are extremely low.

Once Le Jin is gone, the soldiers will be worried, and they will naturally feel flustered, and all command costs will increase.

Even so, they must abide by the military regulations, otherwise they will face strict military regulations.

The soldiers were not allowed to act rashly, but the generals under Le Jin found Tang Ze, one of the four minions of Sili Xiaowei's mansion, who was personally promoted by Cheng Yu, the deputy leader of the joint investigation team who was in charge of bringing them back.

"Tang Jun, what did General Le do wrong? Must he be taken away?"

As the most senior and senior general among all the remaining generals, Li Qian questioned Tang Ze with a puzzled expression.

Tang Ze showed his arrest warrant, told the generals that taking Le Jin away was legal and compliant, and then explained.

"General Le, as a general commanding troops abroad, privately wrote a letter back to the emperor's close ministers in Luoyang Unicom. This behavior is close to rebellion. His Majesty was furious and ordered General Le to be brought back to Luoyang for strict interrogation. These things are no longer something we can participate in. gone."

Tang Ze didn't want to say anything more to them, and after explaining a bit, he was ready to leave.

Li Gan, Zhang He, Huang Zhong and others looked at me and I looked at you, and they all felt incredible.

Le Jin wants to rebel?

Isn't it too much to play, General Le?

"How could this be?"

"Because of the quartermaster's corruption?"

"What on earth is General Le thinking?"

The senior military officers around Le Jin were puzzled by this, but they did not dare to intervene too deeply in this matter. At this point, there is only one way for them to face, and that is to accept.

This kind of thing is not easy to intervene, except for Li Gan who is a veteran who followed Guo Peng all the way from the very beginning, the other generals are all surrendered generals who joined later.

Even Li Gan couldn't intervene, and of course they didn't dare to intervene, otherwise they wouldn't even know how they died if they were killed.

Above the court, every step of the way kills.

Li Gan was appointed as General Annan, taking over Le Jin's command position, becoming the supreme commander of the Southwest Corps, and continuing to command the Southwest Corps to sit in Yunzhou and strangle those foreigners who had never joined.

And Zhang Xi was promoted to Li Gan's deputy and became the deputy commander in chief, his status was completely different from before.

So while they were puzzled and worried, they were also a little bit happy.

The moment Le Jin learned that he was going to be taken away, he was stunned. He couldn't react for a long time, until he learned that his position and personal guards were also dismissed, and he would be escorted to Luoyang by a hundred guards for trial. After that, he reacted.

"This is a misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding! I am loyal to His Majesty! How could I do such a thing!"

Le Jin explained to Tang Ze in a panic: "Tang Jun, how could I rebel? I just wrote to Guo Pushe, hoping that he would say something nice for me, just a few nice words, how could it be related to rebellion? ? Someone slandered me! Someone slandered me!"

Tang Ze shook his head calmly.

"General Le, the general who is in charge of the army abroad privately communicated with the emperor's close ministers. What kind of behavior is this? Think about it for yourself. Do you really not understand? Or do you really have no idea what you did? You don't know this. What does it mean?"

Le Jin sat slumped on the chair for a while, unable to figure it out no matter how hard he thought.

But it doesn't matter, no matter what he thinks or not, he will be taken away.

Escorting him was the emperor's pro-army—the forbidden army. They represented the emperor's personal will. Their appearance together with law enforcement bureaucrats meant that this was a decision reached by the emperor and the court.

Le Jin completely lost any thought of exonerating himself.

He didn't know why this matter would develop to this point.

Didn't he just write a letter to Guo Jia?

that letter...

Who gave it to the emperor?

Chapter 1419 One Thousand 320 Nine is a Bigger and More Difficult Opponent than the Gentlemen

The road from Yunzhou to Yizhou is not easy.

Because this is a new road that has only been repaired for more than two years, it is completely inferior to the northern section of the Shu Road from Yizhou to Yongzhou that has been repaired for seven or eight years.

Walking out of the primitive jungle of Yunzhou and entering Yizhou, the road started to be easy to walk, and the road under the feet became flat. There was no need to climb mountains and ridges, and there was no need to walk on potholed roads.

When he embarked on this path, Le Jin seemed to have regained some energy, and began to try to communicate with Tang Ze and inquire about his own affairs.

He really wanted to know how the private letter he wrote to Guo Jia was leaked.

Le Jin raised this question when he was resting at a post station for dinner.

Tang Ze had no idea about it.

"So what if the general knows? The general sent the letter on his own initiative. This matter is the general's fault no matter what."

"I just want to know, of course, if you can't say it, forget it over there."

Le Jin looked at Tang Ze.

Tang Ze didn't hesitate.

"The general wants to know, of course it is possible. According to what I know, Guo Pushe took the initiative to hand over the letter to His Majesty, because Guo Pushe believes that the emperor's close ministers cannot communicate with the general in charge of the army in private. There must be no personal correspondence."

Le Jin froze for a moment.

"Really?"

"I don't need to deceive the general. I don't know the general or Guo Pushe. I'm just a villain."

Tang Ze shook his head: "How the general thinks about this matter is the general's business and has nothing to do with me. I just explain the matter completely. The next step is to carry out the task assigned to me by His Majesty and bring the general back to Luoyang."

Le Jin took a deep breath.

Now he has to believe that it was Guo Jia who caused all this, and it was Guo Jia who caused him to become a prisoner.

He just wanted to ask Guo Jia to say something nice for him, but Guo Jia actually single-handedly contributed to his current ending.

Thinking of the time when he and Guo Jia cooperated in the crusade against Jingzhou and Yizhou, and thinking of all the past, Le Jin couldn't help but sigh—the world's morale is declining, and people's hearts are not old.

The friend he thought was not his friend, on the contrary, it became his reminder.

Guo Fengxiao, I have no grievances with you, why do you treat me like this?

Le Jin will not understand what Guo Jia thinks and what he is going to face, and Guo Jia will definitely not forgive Le Jin for his stupidity.

And Guo Jin has already penetrated the fundamental purpose of all this.

"Father's move is just to make sure that there are no outsiders in the court."

Guo Jin stood beside Guo Peng to grind ink for him.

Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"At present, the entire court cannot have outsiders. Except Cai Gong who has no real power, and Zixiao who has left. Except for these two people, everyone must be in the game and cannot be out of the game, otherwise , will become your scourge."

Guo Jin smiled.

"Only this time, Duke Feng Xiao should be quite embarrassed."

"Difficult?"

Guo Peng smiled disdainfully: "Let him be at ease for so long, he should have expected some things, some things can't be done by his wishful thinking, in the middle of the game, but want to get out of the game, it's too good to think .”

"Father, since then, General Le's problem has been easily solved, and even Feng Xiaogong's problem has been solved. There are almost no problems in the government. What is Father going to do next?"

Guo Jin was still grinding the ink slowly.

"Next, it's time to release printing, and let the world be infiltrated with huge, cheap books that everyone can read."

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "Printing and papermaking will completely drive the gentry into the bottomless abyss. From now on, even if the father dies, there will be no gentry to reappear. The imperial examination will be as stable as Mount Tai. Shaken, but..."

"but what?"

Guo Jin stopped grinding the ink in her hands.

"But Ah Jin, you will face an opponent who is bigger and more difficult than the gentry."

Guo Peng sighed: "We use them to squeeze out the gentry. Next, you have to face them, these officials who have passed the imperial examination and entered the imperial court, the imperial examination bureaucrats."

"Are they more terrifying than scholars?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng.

"Of course, they are more numerous than scholars, and there is a greater possibility of talents and elites appearing. Scholars cannot recruit ordinary people for their own use, because scholars are connected by blood and look down on ordinary people at all. You can still use ordinary people and the people crushed them.

However, the imperial examination bureaucrats themselves come from the common people. They are a whole, not connected by blood, but by the imperial examination, examination ranking, and place of origin. They are very difficult to deal with. If you want to deal with them, you must deal with them Difficult times. "

"Then... father, what should my son do?"

Guo Jin was very nervous.

"What to do, what to do, Ajin, you can't count on being a father for everything, let alone something that a father doesn't even know about."

Guo Peng stared into the distance and slowly shook his head: "It's not impossible to completely eliminate scholars, because scholars are bound by blood, limited to some large monopoly families, and refuse newcomers to join, because it will reduce their profits.

They would rather intermarry internally to maintain bloodlines than outsiders to join in and divide the profits, so they will eventually become strong, but they will eventually perish. Even if they do nothing for their father, they will perish themselves.

But the imperial examination bureaucrats are different. They cannot be hereditary, do not rely on blood, but rely on imperial examinations. They do not refuse newcomers to join, and are even willing to recruit talents from all over the world.

Such a group is often more difficult to deal with than those narrow-minded scholar families who value blood. First of all, their sources are unlimited, and there are constantly excellent newcomers entering, supplementing, and endlessly growing. "

The more Guo Peng said this, the more Guo Jin felt that the future would be very difficult.

Why does one destroy an enemy here, and a new and more powerful enemy appears there?