At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

He strongly suspected that Sima Yi was here to tease him.

"Sima Duhu, I can't find fault with this solution even if I want to. Didn't you say that someone would be injured? Where is it? Why can't I see it?"

Sima Yi stared at Gong Yun with wide eyes.

"Gong Langzhong, do you want to see someone get hurt? Or do you want to see someone get beaten and unable to get up?"

Gong Yun was taken aback.

Well, I said the wrong thing.

He coughed a few times in embarrassment, obviously he should be angry, but he didn't have the confidence to be angry.

"I didn't mean that, I meant..."

"Gong Langzhong, isn't it good that the matter can be resolved like this?"

Sima Yi occupied the peak of morality and smiled: "Besides, without your approval, I dare not dispatch the police force at will. As long as you dispatch, you will definitely come to trouble me. If such a thing happens once, I don't want it to happen the second time." time."

Gong Yun took a deep breath and looked Sima Yi up and down.

"Sima Duhu, as expected of a disciple of the Sima family in Hanoi, tall, really tall, a person like me who comes from a humble background is really not as good as you, a descendant of a well-dressed family for many generations."

"Oh, oh, I dare not dare, I am just a scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, nothing special."

Listening to Gong Yun's shady words, Sima Yi repeatedly waved his hands to show that he was weak.

Gong Yun smiled strangely, raised his right hand, opened his sleeves, and let Sima Yi look at the strangle marks on his right wrist.

"Without the strength to restrain a chicken?"

"Hahahahaha."

Sima Yi was thick-skinned, and didn't feel embarrassed, and said, "When I was an official in the central government, **** called on us officials not to always sit on chairs to work, but also to exercise actively, so I practiced a little bit. .”

"a little?"

Gong Yun repeated Sima Yi's words, and smiled: "Sima guards me a little bit, but I don't want to have a second time."

"There will never be a second time."

Sima Yi immediately promised.

Gong Yun was noncommittal about this.

"After the matter is over, Sima Duhu remembers to submit a report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for filing, even if there is no problem, it must be filed."

"must."

Sima Yi said politely.

Gong Yun stared at Sima Yi for a few moments, then turned and left.

Ren Yong watched the conversation between the two, and after Gong Yun left, he leaned forward and said to Sima Yi, "Guardian Sima, you offended him this time. He didn't say anything on the surface, but he must remember it in his heart." It's on."

"Just offend it. It's better than messing up and offending the emperor. I'm an official of two thousand stones. Offending the emperor is much more serious than offending a doctor, isn't it?"

Sima Yi heaved a sigh of relief, touched his forehead, and his hands were sweating.

"That's true. Sima Duhu still wants to go back to Luoyang after all."

Ren Yong chuckled: "However, I heard that when Gong Yun was in Luoyang, he was one of the more famous direct subordinates under Guo Butang. Young people do things around themselves, and then put them out in places.

Gong Yun is one of the best, and he was the one who took the initiative to apply for the Annan Governor's Mansion. As for the reason... Officials who voluntarily apply to go to the desolate frontier, once their term of office expires, they will be promoted first. Sima Governor, he may not be later than you Back to Luoyang. "

Sima Yi paused when he heard that, looked at Ren Yong's teasing expression, and smiled wryly.

"You young officials from the central government are lucky. All of you have backers, and all of you have a bright future. How can I, a lonely ghost who is nearly forty years old, take care of me!"

Ren Yong frowned.

He suddenly remembered something.

"Sima Duhu, I remember that you used to be a cabinet official, right? Before the Supreme Emperor proclaimed himself emperor, he was an old minister of the Supreme Emperor. Don't you have anything to do with being in the central government? That shouldn't be the case. Without this relationship, how did you get into the cabinet? ?”

Chapter 1553 One thousand four hundred and seventy three

How did I get into the cabinet?

I beg grandpa to tell grandma, what else can I do?

Dad didn't even want to face me before he stuffed me in.

Sima Yi smiled wryly.

"It can't be said that I can't be an official. It is thanks to Cao Mengde, the chief assistant of the cabinet. Decades ago, when Cao Shoufu was an official in the former Han Dynasty, the recommender was my father."

Ren Yong was taken aback for a moment, and then he was greatly surprised.

In the former Han Dynasty, Sima Yi's father was the leader of Cao Cao, and the relationship was very important.

It is also clear what the relationship between Cao Cao and the Supreme Emperor is.

The two layers of relationship from those years have been superimposed to the present, so Sima Yi won't be almost 40 years old and still a local two thousand stones, right?

Ren Yong was a little puzzled.

"I remember that the rule in the former Han Dynasty was to investigate and judge. It is a great favor for an official to appoint the master. The official will try his best to repay the master. Helping the son of the master to find a position is just the most basic, Sima Duhu, you..."

When mentioning this matter, Sima Yi couldn't help feeling melancholy.

"My elder brother Sima Lang first became an official under the Supreme Emperor because of Cao Shoufu's recommendation. At that time...Ren Langzhong, do you know Xun Yu?"

Sima Yi remembered that Ren Yong was an official of the imperial examination, and Xun Yu had died many years before the imperial examination.

In today's officialdom, there are not many people who still know some things about that era, including Xun Yu.

But Ren Yong happened to be one of them.

"Don't tell me, I really know that Xun You, the left servant of the current staff station, is his uncle and nephew, right?"

"you know?"

Sima Yi was a little surprised.

Xun Yu had been dead for more than ten years, and Guo Peng died a few years before he became emperor. After that, no one in the officialdom dared to talk about Xun Yu publicly, especially after Guo Peng became emperor.

Anyone who dares to talk about Xun Yu's matter is looking for death.

Guo Peng very deliberately wants people to forget Xun Yu and the era when the wealthy noble families dominated the world.

With the several political storms during the Yande period, the old bureaucrats died, and many things were covered up in the dust of history.

Few newcomers knew about this matter, and Xun Yu had been forgotten among the new generation of officials.

In the end, there was actually a new official here who knew about Xun Yu's existence.

"At the beginning, when I was an official in Luoyang, one time, Xun Shilang from the staff desk came to handle some affairs and talked with Wang Butang for a while. , he told me about Xun Yu in private."

Ren Yong explained a little bit.

"Then you know what's going on?"

"I know, it is said that at that time Xun Yu and some people with bad intentions felt that the emperor at that time, that is, the current Duke of Shanyang, was too weak to be the emperor, unable to bear the responsibilities of the emperor, so they conspired to kill the emperor and decided to establish a new emperor.

As a result, the news leaked, they were captured by the Supreme Emperor and handed over to Lord Sanyang. Lord Sanyang was very angry and ordered to kill them. The reward, from the Duke of Wei to the king of Wei. "

"Is this what you know?"

Sima Yi looked at Ren Yong in a little surprise.

Ren Yong nodded.

"Not many people seem to know about this matter now. It was told to me in private by the senior senior official. It seems that public discussion of this matter is forbidden. It is said that the Supreme Emperor owes Xun Yu a debt, so I don't want everyone to mention his sadness. thing."

Sima Yi lowered his head and pondered for a while.

Then nodded slowly.

"That's right, that's it. Xun Yu conspired with another man named Zang Hong to kill the emperor, and was killed after the incident. This Zang Hong's identity is not ordinary, do you know?"

"I know, it's said that it's... a schoolmate and classmate who studied in the former Han Taixue together when the Supreme Emperor was young, and the Supreme Emperor had a close relationship with him. He was a good friend when he was a teenager, but it turned out to be so troublesome... The Supreme Emperor didn't know. What a taste in my heart!"

Ren Yong sighed: "It's no wonder the Supreme Emperor doesn't want people to discuss this matter."

Sima Yi pursed his lips, suddenly feeling that this world was a bit ridiculous.

However, there are ridiculous ways to live in the absurd world. What Sima Yi is best at is extreme survival. Nothing can stop him, an expert in extreme survival.

"That's right, I don't know how the Supreme Emperor feels in his heart."

Sima Yi calmly talked about the bloody past: "But apart from the pain caused by the emperor, my family also suffered. At that time, I hadn't become an official. It was my elder brother, Sima Lang, who was in Xun Yu. The official next to me is Xun Yu's former official."

"…………"

Ren Yong was stunned, and suddenly his eyes widened: "There is such a thing? Then your Sima clan...wrong, since your Sima clan has such a relationship with Cao Shoufu, why don't you become Cao Shoufu's subordinate?"

Sima Yi sighed.

Who knew that times would change so fast?

The imperial examinations are gone, the high-ranking families are gone, the imperial examination system is popular, and people all over the world are proud of reading and taking exams. They have the means to study and are willing to study. This is completely different from the situation in the past when all reading channels were monopolized.

"You officials who come from the imperial examinations don't know much about the examination. When you were officials, the high-ranking and wealthy families were almost dealt with by the emperor.

When we were officials, high-ranking families were still very respected. You probably don’t know very well. The former Han, there are four generations and three princes. They were all top-notch high-ranking families, and only they could be high-ranking officials. "

"Sima Duhu, don't think that we imperial examination officials don't understand Chaju. I was also born in the former Han Dynasty. It's just that I came from a humble background and couldn't reach that place."

Ren Yong looked at Sima Yi with a displeased expression on his face: "Four generations and three lords, a family of scholars, four consecutive generations have served as three lords, extremely honorable and powerful, it can be called the Zhong surname under the Liu surname. Runan Yuan, Hongnong Yang and so on."

"I underestimated you."

Sima Yi smiled, and said, "Now that you understand, you should know that at that time... about 20 years ago, the Yingchuan noble families were still very powerful, Yingchuan Chen, Yingchuan Xun, Yingchuan Zhong The Han family and the Yingchuan Han family are extremely powerful scholars.

The Yingchuan Guo family of the Taishanghuang was only a second-class family at that time. Even so, the family of the Taishanghuang was well-dressed and honored for a hundred years, and the Sima family of Hanoi, where I was born, was a general until my great-grandfather’s generation. It was only in my father's generation that I finally turned into a scholar.

When it comes to background, we are not even as good as the Yingchuan second-class family, let alone the Yingchuan wealthy family?Xun Yu, who was born in the Xun family in Yingchuan, was the first member of the Xun family to take refuge in the Supreme Emperor. Since the Supreme Emperor was the governor of Qingzhou in the former Han Dynasty, he followed the Supreme Emperor, advised him all the way, and made great contributions.

So after the Emperor Taishang defeated Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu occupied the entire Central Plains, he set up a government office in the general's mansion at that time to give an overview of all the government affairs in the Central Plains. The person in charge of the government office at that time was Xun Yu. You can imagine how powerful Xun Yu was at that time .

At that time, Xun Yu's power was no worse than that of Cheng Yu, who was then the Minister of the Book. Xun Yu was born well, famous, and powerful. No matter how many people wanted to follow his path, there was no way to go. My brother can be his subordinate. How difficult it is to be an official. "

"There's still this past."

Ren Yong narrowed his eyes and frowned, nodded slowly, almost understanding why Sima chose Xun Yu instead of Cao Cao.

"Then why did such a thing happen? According to this, Xun Yu was endowed with such authority that he could be called a prime minister. He should be the emperor's confidant. How could that happen?"

Ren Yong felt that Xun Yu's status was so high, he must be Guo Peng's confidant, since he was a confidant, how could he betray him?

To actually conspire with the Taishanghuang's childhood friend to betray him and plot to kill the emperor, this is simply a double betrayal of the Taishanghuang.

It's no wonder that after the Supreme Emperor proclaimed himself emperor, he had a lot of distrust of his courtiers, and repeatedly set off political storms to kill all the officials, killing all the officials.

Ren Yong felt that he could understand Guo Peng.

Sima Yi didn't know what Ren Yong was thinking, and if he knew, he didn't know what he would think.

While recalling the past, Sima Yi lamented the fate of his family.

"Who says it's not? Our family also thinks so, so my father came forward and asked Cao Shoufu, who was the governor of Jizhou at that time, to operate my brother as Xun Yu's subordinate official, and Xun Yu came forward to call my brother.

In this way, not only can I become a close minister of the Supreme Emperor, but also the relationship between the Sima family and the rich family in Yingchuan has been shortened. "

"result……"

"As a result, Xun Yu conspired to kill the emperor, he was killed, and a large number of officials around him were imprisoned. At that time, many scholars and officials died because of this, or were dismissed, which was equivalent to death.

It's just that my elder brother just happened to be seriously ill at this time, and almost died, so he didn't participate in this matter throughout the whole process, and he was not held accountable by the Supreme Emperor, which is considered a blessing among misfortunes.

Although my elder brother came back from the brink of death, the atmosphere at that time was that the subordinate officials should do what the master did. Although it was wrong to do so, my elder brother was not killed together with Xun Yu. , is considered to be detrimental to human integrity. "

Sima Yi said so.

"So, he was ridiculed for being cowardly, lacking integrity, and lost the possibility of continuing to be an official, so he voluntarily resigned and went home to find a job. My family lost the only one who was an official, and his future was uncertain. The matter of my official career.

Now my elder brother has no future, only my third brother and I are still officials in the whole family, and I was also my father who came forward and asked Cao Shoufu to help with the operation, and was made a subordinate official by the Supreme Emperor. good. "