Ma Yue's letter arrived in Luoyang through various postal offices, and Liu Hong saw the opportunity and meaning of this letter, which was an opportunity that Ma Yue could not imagine, so that he notified the minister overnight, and the next day it was convenient for the court to be discussed in the deep palace.

Ma Yue brought a letter in the war report to state the current situation in the northern part of Dongjun, and made his statement very important, made his position clear to Liu Hong, and offered a plan to get rid of the thieves, so he asked Liu Hong to issue an edict to allow the northern people to return to Han with the benefit of officials in the north of Dongjun, so as to help him annihilate Bu Ji.

This is a betrayal caused by Ma Yue. In the past, Liu Hong also sold officials, but not only did he need to take Qian Gu as the price, but also the governor of the prefecture and county, and the court officials as the mediators, and those who could meet the requirements of the upper and lower officials could obtain the qualification to buy officials, not just money to buy...... Although he is an official seller, after all, he is still separated by a layer of skin, and neither the official seller nor the official buyer is too embarrassed. And Ma Yue this time, in a small area in the south of Dongjun, directly did not need to go through Shangguan, did not need to go through the imperial court, and was directly taken over by Jian Shuo, the eunuch in the palace sent by the imperial court.

In the eyes of these successive ministers, this is a shameless exchange of land for officials!

Therefore, a letter from Ma Yue caused an unimaginable shock within the Luoyang court, almost pushing him to the brink.

The general He Jin, the Taiwei Yang Ci, the Taifu Yuan Kui, the Great Honglu Cao Song, the court captain Cui Lie and the former officials of the Yuan family and the Taizhong doctor Yang Biao, Shangshu Ling Zhou Yu, Yilang Cui Jun and others thought that Ma Yue's move was without national law, ignoring the ancestral etiquette and the system of conscripting officials of the Han family for 400 years, which showed that he had no shame and blatantly regarded the Han officials as goods to be traded.

What's more, although this matter was only carried out on a small scale in the southern part of the Eastern County, it really violated the foundation of the family's foothold and made them fearful.

On the other hand, there were a little different voices in the court.

Zhongchang servants Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, Sikong Zhang Wen, and Liu Yan, the clan Taichang, thought that Ma Yue's move was just to please the thief, not only without fault but also with merit. He should not be condemned in response to the edict or admonished, and he should not be convicted for counterinsurgency, and I hope that His Majesty will consider it again.

Yuan Kui, Cui Lie and others went from criticizing Ma Yue's strategy to attacking people, believing that Ma Yue was from a lowly background, and it was expedient enough to be a lieutenant in wartime, and His Majesty could no longer treat him more kindly.

On the surface, the two groups of courtiers are clearly distinguished, on one side most of them are Qingliu ministers, and on the other side are eunuchs Zuodao. But in fact, this controversy is really right and not right, and anyone who makes such a request will be treated like this. Because this edict could endanger their position, the scholars were disgusted with Ma Yue, so they were eager to devour his flesh and blood and put him in prison and die on the spot. The faction that expressed some support was mostly eunuchs, and whether this edict was issued or not, it would not harm their interests, and their current status depended on military merit and His Majesty, which was irrelevant. These two groups of people are very smart, and there are few incompetent people who can't understand the current situation.

This sentence stabbed the basket, He Jin was from the same inferior background, and he had just been promoted to a general in the countryside recently, and the remarks of these scholars and doctors of the Yuan family and the Cui family deeply stung him, causing He Jin to suddenly change his camp and start speaking for Ma Yue.

Coming from a humble background is a terrible thing in this era.

No one cares who you are and whose descendants you are, even if you are a wealthy family now, there are no scholars in the family and no influence in the court, so you don't want to squeeze into this circle.

The letter of the minister of Qingliu was very ruthless, and he wanted to put Ma Yue to death. In Qingliu's eyes, Ma Yue is not their faction, and they are attached to the eunuchs in less than a pot, and they are very happy to be able to cut off the wings of the ten permanent attendants. And most of the eunuch faction led by Zhang Rang felt that Ma Yue was not their henchman, just an insignificant chess piece, and more than half of them agreed for the implicit meaning of the edict, as for Ma Yue's life or death, who cares?

The only person who could speak for Ma Yue, Liang Hu, knelt in the court, without saying a word.

At midnight, the Xuanfang Room of Weiyang Palace.

"Yawn~"

Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty sat cross-legged on the dragon couch, which was covered with the recitals of officials at all levels.

"Someone! Bring me clean water. ”

Although it was late at night, the close and brisk footsteps of the attendants of the Zhonghuang Gate outside the Xuan Sect were gradually moving away, and Liu Hong lowered his head and flipped through every piece of music by candlelight.

He had forgotten how long it had been since he had read the minister's letter so carefully, and Ma Yue's letter from the Dongjun War Zone this time caused a sensation in the court, although it made the court meeting as noisy as a bazaar, but it was exactly the result that Liu Hong wanted to see.

Regardless of whether Ma Yue made a deliberate move or an unintentional mistake, touching the bottom line of the clan is what Liu Hong is willing to see.

"How can the imperial power be controlled by the foreign family who controls the land?"

"The beauty, wealth, land, and people of this world are all mine!"

Liu Hong read a letter of advice to the doctor, and threw it to the ground boringly, and the strings in the bamboo slips were broken, and the slips were scattered all over the ground. When did Liu Hong, who is boring about the current situation of the imperial court, tired of watching it? Liu Hong frowned and let out a turbid breath, probably from the day when Jianning officially took over the throne in Taimiao in the first year of Jianning.

Each of the ministers' superiors told the current situation of the court with emotion, attacked the government with great righteousness and awe, and all of them were loyal and quoted from the classics, but the summary was to the effect that I wanted to kill the courtiers who provided me with happiness, cut my expenses, and divide my harem beauties among others, and disliked that my friendly people were not virtuous enough, and it was all my fault that I lost the war, and I won these three princes and nine kings and felt that my right-hand man had a bad character...... In short, I can always find out if I am not, even the sins of Emperor Xiaohuan are counted on my head, and he is not my Laozi!

This kind of sparseness has never been broken, what is the point of me looking at it? It's better to be taken by my father to buy a pair of straw sandals in the country between rivers when I was a teenager!

Suddenly, Liu Hong found a letter on the side of the couch, the exquisite penmanship on it attracted his attention, the familiar handwriting impressed him, and he knew who the owner of Shangshu was without looking at the name.

Elect the Ministry of Shangshu Order, Liang Hu plays, please ask Your Majesty to open it in person!

"Liang Hu, this old man, didn't say a word in the hall, but he wrote such a thick volume and sparse ......"

Liu Hong said, and opened the letter.

"In the second year of Guanghe, the minister was stabbed by the grace of the saint Shi Xiliang, and Changshui rescued Jing from danger, so he had the name of master and apprentice. At the beginning, the minister also did not like Changshui fierce and powerful, did not respect the Han family, different etiquette and chivalrous, but its intelligence and studiousness, the courtier for more than five years, as for the Ming Li Tongshu, people often say that one day the master is a lifelong father, the minister and Changshui, the same as father and son.

Today's minister heard that Captain Changshui wanted to ask His Majesty to change the official position in Yutian of Dongjun, in addition to the crime of returning to the people, this statement is no different from the order of the peerless family, and His Majesty is worried. The minister was so frightened that he trembled and did not dare to speak. The minister heard that Zhonglang Lu Zhi besieged Guangzong and could not advance an inch, Zhonglang Zhu Jun's three armies were defeated, and Zhonglang Huangfu retreated to Changshe. However, in the Changshui War, Jizhou intercepted the Yellow Turban and beheaded more than 1,000 ranks, and the Dong'a rebels surrendered when they heard the wind, and the counties pointed out by the soldiers were broken, and the thieves were awarded the head, and no one in the three armies came out of the right. His people are loyal and courageous, brave and good at fighting, and hope for His Majesty. The minister tasted that Changshui was loyal to His Majesty, and Changshui's heart was the same, and he once said to the minister: It is his life's wish to go to the soup for His Majesty. As soon as he came out of prison, he was anxious to serve His Majesty and was ordered to be in danger. The heart of Changshui, until this moment, either does not love the people, or does not respect the warriors, or does not respect the Confucian, but his majesty is like a god.

The ministers are stupid, do not know political affairs, do not know the connections, have a perverse temperament, and only know how to be loyal to His Majesty. Ranchen once heard that the son is guilty, and his father does not explain it, and it is also a sin. However, today's courtier Changshui is guilty, and the minister doesn't understand it, so what's the use of the minister? Therefore, the ministers are negligent and disturb Your Majesty, and hope that Your Majesty will forgive the ministers for the crime of forming a party for personal gain, and lenient Changshui will discuss the responsibility of the government in vain, and the hearts of the whole minister's father and son, and Changshui will report to Your Majesty's will......"

"Whew." Liu Hong sighed, closed the book, put it aside seriously, glanced at the messy dragon couch, swept all the slips to the ground with one foot, lay on the couch and looked up at the top of the Sanzhang Palace, and muttered: "Liang Hu, Liang Hu, the princes and ministers of the entire court regard me as the Son of Heaven, and you regard me as an old friend who used to frolic in Hongdumen, and unscrupulously regard Shangshu as a letter raft of your master-apprentice affection, but why do I like you so much?" ”

Looking around the dragon couch, the empty and silent Xuan Room, the twenty-seven-year-old Eastern Han Emperor Liu Hong suddenly felt lonely, he missed the Xie Tinghou Mansion in the Hejian Kingdom seventeen years ago, and missed his father who died early in poverty.

Father, my son now has a fortune of ten thousand gold, do you see? Your son is now the Ninety-Five, are you happy? My son is now calling himself me, do you know?

Father, where are you? My son misses you, and all these years, my son is unhappy......