At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 1554 One thousand four hundred and seventy four Sima's firm foothold in the Wei Empire

Sima Yi explained a little bit about his past experience, as well as the bloody coup before and after the establishment of the Wei Empire.

Of course, it was beautified according to Guo Peng's script.

What Ren Yong knew was not complete, it was Guo Peng's beautified record. As for the real situation, those who knew would not tell, and those who did not know would never know.

"I see."

Ren Yong nodded slowly, tentatively understanding the ups and downs of the fate of the Sima family.

But soon he felt something was wrong.

"Wait, Sima Duhu, logically speaking, subordinate officials must obey the decision made by the master, but the only way is to rebel, even subordinate officials and former officials do not need to follow.

Xun Yu and others conspired to kill the king, that is an unforgivable crime, it is a rebellion, such a terrible thing, it is not the right way for Brother not to participate in it?How can you lose your future? "

Ren Yong's question happened to be the only loophole in this seemingly seamless statement that Sima Yi noticed.

This is a loophole that Guo Peng himself has no way to make up for.

Because this was the result of the people's hearts at that time, and it cannot be compensated by individuals.

Sima Lang's resignation was the result that people who knew the inside story and sympathized with Xun Yu did not dare to question Guo Peng and turned to vent their anger.

After Sima Lang recovered from his illness, he still took up the position and continued to hold the position. Guo Peng seemed to intend to reuse him, but Sima Lang was considered to have no integrity, a brazen person who was struggling to survive, and was not qualified to continue to be an official.

They ostracized him.

It is a helpless fact that Xun Yu, Zang Hong and others were killed, but their efforts to maintain the legal status of the Han Dynasty and the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty still won the approval of a considerable number of officials in their hearts.

Everyone knows Guo Zifeng's heart. People at that time knew everything they should know, but they were frightened by Guo Peng's bloody butcher knife and brutal force and dared not speak or resist Guo Peng.

fear death.

But my heart is really dissatisfied.

They had no choice but to attack Sima Lang, the traitor beside Xun Yu, with cold violence. They didn't dare to attack Guo Peng.

They felt that Sima Lang, as Xun Yu's subordinate, didn't advance and retreat with Xun Yu, and watched Xun Yu go to disaster, but he himself lived well, which is really shameless to the extreme.

This group of people who sympathized with Xun Yu did not dare to defy Guo Peng openly, so they used cold violence to end Sima Lang's career, venting their resentment and dissatisfaction.

So in essence, Sima Lang's resignation was the last collective resistance of the opposition to Guo Peng's upcoming usurpation of power in a broad sense at that time, and it was their last allegiance to the Han Empire.

Although this kind of resistance was very weak and could not hurt a single hair of Guo Peng, it was still resistance.

Guo Peng has nothing to do with this kind of resistance.

It was unnecessary for Sima Lang to arouse the collective opposition of the people, so as to completely tear his face. At that time, there were no imperial examination bureaucrats for him to use. He had to rely on scholar bureaucrats to govern the country.

So he could only give up Sima Lang and make Sima Lang a scapegoat.

That trivial resistance brought the only remaining logical loophole in Guo Peng's big lie.

As long as you do some understanding of the former Han Dynasty's requisition and expropriation system, you will find that according to the official statement of Guo Peng's screenwriter, Sima Lang, a special existence, should have the opportunity to be promoted and have a bright future.

Because he did not follow the evil group that conspired to kill the emperor, he deserved a promotion and salary increase, so why did he lose his political future?

Of course he will lose his political future, because this is a lie, a lie that cannot be self-consistent, a lie that Guo Peng spun to cover up his ambition to usurp power.

So of course Guo Peng was very unhappy.

He found that there were still people who dared to resist him, even if the resistance was trivial.

Coupled with his own ideals, he must use the emperor's imperial power to drive out all those who oppose him after he becomes emperor.

So in the 13 years since he became emperor, he launched several political storms, seized power, killed officials, persecuted gentry, and destroyed their families. As a result, no less than [-] scholars and their families died.

He almost wiped out all the political forces left over from the former Han Dynasty, all the classic wealthy families were abolished, even the examination system was abolished by him, and it was changed to imperial examinations, which completely changed the ruling class.

He let those who opposed him clearly and those who opposed him in their hearts die.

These people can still live to the present, and they probably dare not continue to oppose Guo Peng.

Already scared out of my wits.

Therefore, Sima Yi was always a little worried, worried that Guo Peng would do something to the Sima family because of this unresolved contradiction.

If he was going to do something, the Sima family couldn't survive.

But fortunately, until he abdicated, the Sima family was alive and well, and two high-ranking officials with two thousand shi were born.

Three years ago, Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang, passed away, and Cao Cao went to offer his condolences in person, reminiscing about the past.

As a result, the Sima clan had gained a firm foothold in the Wei Empire, and was not swept into the dustbin of history along with the Han Empire.

Was Guo Peng not aware of this problem, or was he aware of it, but did not attack Sima for some reason?

Like admiring him or something...

Sima Yi didn't know.

But he knew that he had to smooth things over for Guo Peng's behavior.

This is what he must do as a vested interest.

He thought about it for a while, and decided to find another way, instead of explaining this matter from the logic of the matter itself.

"At that time, although Xun Yu and others were killed, the power of the wealthy Yingchuan family was still there. My elder brother was not buried for the rebellion of Xun Yu and others. I was dissatisfied, so I secretly attacked my brother, causing my brother to go home and lose his job."

Sima Yi skillfully dumped the blame on a group of dead people.

A dead man never speaks or reacts to dirty water being thrown at him.

Ren Yong immediately understood Sima Lang's "situation" at that time and expressed deep sympathy for him.

"So it turns out that those people are so arrogant... Also, before the imperial examinations were held, these scholars indeed occupied all the senior official positions, and there was no place for us people from humble backgrounds.

People from humble backgrounds, not to mention being an official, are unable to read and write, and spend their entire lives digging and eating in the fields, with no day in the sky, how miserable!Now that I think about it, I feel desolate in my heart!

Moreover, not to mention the past, even now, the imperial examination has been carried out for several years now, and thousands of officials have been selected. Aren't all the senior officials still relying on the examination?It can be seen that their power is so deep, if it wasn't for the Supreme Emperor Xiong to roughly wipe out these remaining evils, I don't know what it is like now. "

Ren Yong was full of sighs.

Sima Yi felt a little embarrassed.

He was also from the imperial examination, and he did not take the road of imperial examination. He was also an old official from the imperial examination, and he did not get the ticket for the new era.

Thinking of this, he thought of his friend Zhuge Liang.

This guy was really lucky. At that time, he took part in a talent-discussion ceremony, which was obviously not the same thing as the imperial examination, but in the end he was inexplicably identified as the same attribute as the imperial examination.

So Zhuge Liang's status as the No. [-] scholar was recognized, becoming the first No. [-] scholar from the imperial examination in history, and he was very popular at that time.

Where is this going to make sense?

As a result, Zhuge Liang, who became an official earlier than him, became the leader of the imperial examination officials. He was automatically marked as a pioneer of the imperial examination. ?

Today, when the imperial examination system is prosperous, officials who are not born in the imperial examination are called old officials by officials who are not born in the imperial examination, which means eliminated people who do not meet the historical needs.

And they themselves are new officials with unlimited futures and possibilities.

Indeed, this is also an objective reality. The examination and examination has been terminated, and the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law and the expropriation system have become history. Now there are still some officials under the examination and examination system, but the future must belong to the imperial examination officials. .

They say that the replacement of the old with the new is indeed a reality.

Even if there are no political incidents, decades later, after the death of the last prosecutor, there will be no more prosecutors.

But this kind of reality often makes officials who are not from the imperial examination very unhappy, feeling that they are artificially contemptuous.

Moreover, this group of officials who were not born in the imperial examinations were not only those with vested interests in the procuratorate period, but also those small-level rural officials and county officials who were suppressed and breathless during the procuratorial period.

They were all born in Li Shu, so the difference was not up to them, and they were not those with vested interests in the imperial examinations, but more like a group of excessive products.

It does not belong to the investigation group or the imperial examination group.

The procuratorial examination group despises them from their humble backgrounds, and the imperial examination group despises them for not receiving formal school education, ignorance and lack of knowledge.

But this group of people was the mainstay of the central government of the Wei Empire at the time, and was transferred to Luoyang by Guo Peng during the Luoyang Rebellion to replace the more than [-] officials of Li and Shu.

They have grown up to the present, and they are basically the mainstay in the central government of the Wei Empire, and they often serve as clerks in the local government.

As a result, he was disgusted by both the prosecutorial bureaucrats who were old and the imperial bureaucrats who were newcomers.

This difference in identity recognition within the official group has actually brought about factional struggles in the central government.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that although the bureaucrats have a high status and hold great power, their time is numbered.

As the representative of the old era, the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng has abdicated, which symbolizes that the old era is about to pass. The new emperor Guo Jin received a school education, which is also a symbol of the new era in the eyes of the imperial examination bureaucrats.

Therefore, these people have high status and great power, but have no successors, and it will eventually become a piece of history.

As a product of transition and compromise, Li Shu officials in the Chaju era actually have no successors.

Chapter 1502 One Thousand 440 Second Wang Haibo Thinks This World Is Crazy

Although I don't know why the opponent didn't attack the city, but since the city is besieged, it is a siege.

So he issued a mobilization order to mobilize a large number of troops, and called on other places to send troops to rescue the border together, to ensure that the army of the Zhuian Kingdom was defeated and the important cities on the border were kept, otherwise the entire Zheluo Kingdom would be in danger.

Crap, everyone knows it's dangerous.

The army of the Zheluo Kingdom began to mobilize and moved closer to the border cities, trying to lift the siege of the border cities by the Zhuan army.

King Zhunian was overjoyed when he heard the news, and praised Wang Haibo fiercely.

"Your method is really great. As long as you surround their city, you can force them to fight us in the wild, and you can wipe out their army on a large scale. As long as the army is wiped out, what is this city?"

Saying this, King Zhu Nian suddenly had a new idea.

After defeating the Zheluo Kingdom and occupying the local cities, they can also get a lot of people and prisoners of war, as well as a lot of land. Although they make a lot of money, it takes time to digest.

In the process of digestion, a lot of food, money and other resources are required, and these things are in short supply now.

But at the same time, they also need a lot of ordnance from the Wei Empire to support their powerful combat effectiveness, so their hands are a little tight.

If you insist on saying what is rich, of course, it is the human resources as prisoners of war.

He wanted to talk to Wang Haibo about using the captured prisoners as currency to trade arms with them.

"Materials and money, etc., we actually need them very much, and we need these things even more to occupy these places in the future. The only thing we are rich now is people. We have captured many prisoners of war. I wonder if you need these prisoners?

They can do a lot of things and use them at will, so don’t worry about exhausting them. The place where you live should also need a lot of people to help you do things, right?You should also need women, right?Is it okay to use these prisoners of war to exchange weapons with you? "

King Zhunian looked at Wang Haibo expectantly.

Wang Haibo didn't expect that the king's thinking was so active, and he thought of exchanging weapons with prisoners of war so easily.

This is of course possible. Guo Jun has always been short of people, and now he can exchange weapons for prisoners of war. Wouldn't it be flattering?

But you can't agree directly, you have to bargain and maximize your benefits.

Wang Haibo has been a merchant for so long, so he has some experience in trading.

He pretended to think for a while.

"Of course we need manpower, but on the other hand, we need to take care to manage these people, prevent them from escaping, and feed them to prevent them from starving to death too quickly. These are expenses, so..."

Wang Haibo smiled: "Of course it is possible, but we need to discuss the amount of exchange."

King Zhu charian breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good, that's good, after this battle is over, let's have a good discussion."

"it is good."

The two made an agreement.

The agreement was made, but at this moment, King Zhu Ren also had some other thoughts in his heart.

For example - if they can master the forging method of this magical weapon, wouldn't they need to spend so much money to buy their weapons?

Although this idea only popped up at that moment, it did pop up.

Then, he put all his thoughts on the upcoming siege tactics.

They seized favorable terrain around them, dug tunnel traps, and forced Zheluo soldiers to attack from the bottom up while they occupied a condescending posture.

In the three days since the battle started, almost [-] soldiers of the Zheluo Kingdom were killed, and even more were injured, but there was no progress.