The number of people in Guo Peng's harem is relatively small, and there is only one queen, five concubines, and six women.

But among these six women, there are also distant relatives.

Women are never really in a group, and it's normal for a big circle of four to include five small circles.

And in the harem, the situation is similar.

Judging from what Tian Feng secretly learned, Cao Lan and Xiahou Lin were the closest because of the kinship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family.

The big and small bridge sisters are naturally connected by blood, and the relationship is naturally needless to say.

Mi Zhu is Guo Peng's old minister, although his background is very low, but his status is very important, he has made a lot of contributions and made a lot of contributions, and he also lost his brother Mi Fang for this.

For Guo Peng's career, the Mi family has paid a lot, so after Guo Peng ascended the throne and became emperor, he also thought about giving the Mi family some compensation.

Mi Zhu was deeply trusted by Guo Peng, and Guo Peng even handed over the position of Qingzhou Thorn History that he once held to Mi Zhu to show his honor to the Mi family.

In addition, the Mi family also has many children in the court, the army as officials, the Mi caravan footsteps all over the north and south of the river, the family wealth, financial resources are very strong.

has such a background, and even more Mi Zhen served Guo Peng very early, and the time spent with Guo Peng was second only to Cao Lan, and he was a good partner in every sense.

Tian Rou once tried to get closer to Mi Zhen, using Mi Zhen as a backer to further open up the relationship between Tian and Mi.

But Mi Zhen is tranquil by nature, likes to be alone, and forms a circle of her own, and she just refuses Tian Rou's intention to take refuge.

Tian Rou had no way to get close to Cao Lan and Mi Zhen, and her relationship with Xiahou Lin was not salty or light, so she had to approach the latecomers and the big and small bridge sisters and report to the two sisters to keep warm.

This time it was more successful, in the face of the weak character of the bridge and the big-chested and brainless bridge, Tian Rou quickly took the initiative and had a good relationship with the two sisters.

These are the three circles that are more obvious.

As for whether there are other circles, it's hard to say.

However, the harem is a small society, although each has its own belonging, but because the queen Cao Lan is too stable, there is no real struggle in the harem, just distant relatives.

Thinking of this, Tian Feng remembered Chengqiao Rui in the imperial history.

Qiao Rui turned out to be a subordinate of Yuan Shu, the emperor of the puppet Chen Empire, who was repeatedly defeated in Guo Peng's war to pacify the Chen Empire, and then surrendered to Guo Peng.

then exchanged his two daughters for a good future, and was entrusted with important tasks by Guo Peng.

This is actually a small stain, although everyone doesn't dare to say anything openly, they still look down on Qiao Rui in their hearts.

However, this did not prevent Qiao Rui from quickly entering the power core of the Wei Empire.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qiao Rui entered the Imperial History Observatory and served as the Imperial History Zhongcheng, and together with the Imperial History Doctor Guo Hong, he assumed the responsibility of picketing Wei officials.

In other words, the main target of the Imperial Historical Observatory is the Shangshutai, the central office of the empire.

Shangshutai is the department that has been targeted the most by the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the Cabinet and Staff Desk can be said to have basically not been targeted in this regard.

The Imperial Observatory is a knife in the emperor's hand, and this sentence is not wrong at all.

And this knife is specifically aimed at Shang Shutai.

In the three divisions, the captain of the division is mainly involved in serious cases, and the captain of the division is only involved in serious cases, and he is not very involved in small fish and shrimp.

The Criminal Department is more responsible for the enforcement of the law, and all kinds of cases across the country can be involved.

And the Imperial Observatory is specifically aimed at officials.

Shangshutai has the most officials, so the more oppressive the Yushitai will be on Shangshutai.

Qiao Rui won't talk about it, half a relative.

Guo Hong can basically be regarded as the patriarch of the Yingchuan Guo clan, who once served as a court lieutenant in the previous dynasty and was a legal authority.

During the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, Guo Hong took the initiative to resign and took the entire family to Qingzhou to join Guo Peng.

Because the relationship between Yushitai and Guo Peng is very close, Yushitai can retreat from many things, and compared to the troubled people in Shangshutai, Yushitai is much simpler.

If you can have some helpers and a little help in the Imperial History Terrace, you can also turn around your unfavorable situation.

Cheng Yu had no relationship with Guo Hong, and looked down on Qiao Rui, thinking that he was a shameless person who sold his daughter for glory, so he chose to win over Cao Cao and join hands with Cao Cao to target the Ministry of Industry and Tian Feng everywhere.

Tian Feng felt that he couldn't sit still, and watched Cheng Yu and Cao Cao join forces to overthrow him, losing his power and the future of his family, so he decided to try to unite with Qiao Rui.

Don't ask for anything else, just use the power of Qiao Rui in the Yushitai to protect himself.

In fact, this matter cannot be involved in the harem, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu are both clear.

Those women are used to save their lives, not to fight, and Cao Lan can't really fight hand-to-hand with Tian Rou and the big and small bridge sisters.

It's a symbolic existence.

The real key thing is that Cao Cao, who holds the audit power, has a strong lethality to the Ministry of Industry controlled by Tian Feng, and if Cao Cao stares at the Ministry of Industry, Tian Feng really does not dare to guarantee that he can get out of the Ministry of Industry.

And in order to counter Cheng Yu and achieve self-protection, Tian Feng also needs a killer weapon that can target officials.

Before, Cao Cao and Wang Cang set off this large-scale Cui Qu case, which involved a wide range of cases, and basically mixed up the situation before the imperial court.

As one of the three divisions, Yushitai was responsible for hearing many cases with the Criminal Department and the Lieutenant of Sili, and under Guo Peng's high pressure, he had to handle it impartially, offending many people.

The scholar family is in the same spirit, and has killed one of the rooms, and there are other three, four, five, or six rooms, unless the whole clan is destroyed, it will be a trouble.

The third division was also worried that this kind of aftermath would bring them some kind of threat, but under Guo Peng's high pressure, he had to deal with it impartially.

Now the people in the three divisions have opinions about Cao Cao and others.

Shang Shutai not only has a lot of opinions about Wang Cang, but also many people have opinions about Cao Cao and others.

This group of people was only afraid of Cao Cao's special status and the power of auditing, and did not dare to express this anger, for fear of offending the empress and the future emperor.

Therefore, Tian Feng felt that in order to arouse this kind of anger against Cao Cao and others, so that they dared to fight against Cao Cao and reorganize the political forces that could be used, they needed to win over a key player who could resist Cao Cao.

If you can have a suitable helper, you can integrate the former political forces of the Cui family and turn them into your own backing and help.

After talking to Cui Yan in private, Cui Yan supported Tian Feng's idea.

Tian Feng also felt that he was right to do this, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Cheng Zhongde, you are pressing step by step, you have to put me to death, really I am a mud kneader, and it will break when I touch it?

Hum!

Tian Feng decided to fight back.

Since Cheng Yu can use Cao Cao to attack Tian Feng by economic means, forcing Tian Feng to shrink back and be difficult to deal with, then Tian Feng can also use Yushitai to counteract Cheng Yu in turn.

Only when this kind of countermeasure is achieved, can the strength of the two sides be balanced, otherwise Tian Feng feels that he will be killed by Cheng Yu sooner or later.

If you don't commit a crime, you can't guarantee that the hands and feet of your subordinates are clean, even if one of them is found out, you will be very dangerous, Cheng Yu will definitely bite and expand the situation.

At that time, once Guo Peng's anger was aroused and a strict investigation was ordered, Tian Feng would be finished.

At that time, Tian Rou will save Tian Feng's life at most, and Tian's political future will be very difficult to say.

Look at the Xun family and the Chen family, Xun You and Chen Qun are basically synonymous with lonely ministers now, because of the previous disaster, although Xun You and Chen Qun have power and status in the staff platform and Shangshutai, no one dares to approach Xun You and Chen Qun.

Tian Feng once thought about getting close to Xun You and Chen Qun, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was a self-defeating way, and it was estimated that he would be killed by Guo Peng in advance before he was killed by Cheng Yu.

So Tian Feng still gave up, and was even more afraid of the future of losing his political future.

If you have the help of Qiao Rui and use the energy of Yushitai to fight against Cheng Yu and Cao Cao, then the situation can be balanced in a certain sense.

At least not to be killed.

To be honest, at the beginning, Tian Feng really didn't want to fight with Cheng Yu.

He is a subordinate, and he doesn't dare to confront Cheng Yu at all, but Cheng Yu deceives people too much, oppresses him too much, and repeatedly pushes him to death, and he can't find a way to surrender if he wants to.

Cheng Zhongde, you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!

If you want me to die, will it be that simple?

I didn't want to go against you, you forced me!

A cold glint flashed in Tian Feng's eyes, and with strong dissatisfaction and resentment towards Cheng Yu, he began to take the bridge route.

used some means and power to help Qiao Rui with some trivial favors, and after several times, in the second half of the third year of Yande, the relationship between Tian Feng and Qiao Rui became closer and closer.

Both of their families have a lot of money that Guo Peng led and invested in the Mi caravan to do business together, and in business, the two families have some contacts.

Although there were not many contacts in other senses before, as a scholar, it would not be difficult for Tian Feng to have a good relationship with Qiao Rui.

The Qiao Rui family was born in a strong place, and their identity is not as good as Tian's, and when they are also relatives, their intimacy is not as good as Tian's.

However, Qiao Rui took the initiative to make friends with Guo Hong by taking advantage of the relationship between the buildings near the water, Guo Hong is the patriarch of the Guo clan in Yingchuan, and he can speak more in front of Guo Peng, so Qiao Rui, who has two life talismans, is still quite safe.

As long as he doesn't cause trouble, no one will take the initiative to provoke him.

It seems that Qiao Rui is also quite willing to associate with Tian Feng, and he did not feel unhappy because of Tian Feng's deliberate approach, which made Tian Feng very happy.

In the second half of the third year of Yande, Tian Feng spent time with Qiao Rui.

Or meet for a drink, or meet to appreciate antiques, anyway, the interaction between each other has become a little frequent.

The two got closer and closer, and seemed to be befriending each other as half of their relatives, so that others did not dare to talk about it.

Then because of this incident, many people began to have close contacts with Tian Feng, and the scholars and bureaucrats who lost their leaders because Cui Yan was knocked to the ground seemed to have a new backbone.

The disintegrating power groups that had once collapsed under the oppression of Cao Cao, Wang Cang and others gradually had a tendency to reunite.

The alliance between Wang Cang and Cao Cao and others was somewhat stronger, and none of them received any substantive blows, and the actual blows were all on the group of people who opposed the commercial tax, including Cui Yan.

Therefore, after the conclusion of the Cui Qu case, there was still a situation in which one side eliminated the other's strengths.

Cui Yan fell, the new leader did not appear, and some people were at a loss.

It's a pain in the way they are taxed.

Cheng Yu worked very hard and efficiently, and toll booths across the country were quickly set up after that.

According to the statements of the caravans, there were basically toll booths on every other stretch of road, which were managed by special personnel, all of whom were officials of the Ministry of Finance, who collected tolls directly.

Depending on the weight of the goods, the number of carts, the number of personnel, and other factors, the officials of the Ministry of Finance will charge them.

I don't get much each time, but I get a lot of times.

It's not that it's unacceptable, after all, it's fast to take the official road, and the safety along the way is guaranteed, but the part that could have been eaten was forced to vomit, and I was not happy, very uncomfortable, and wanted to find someone to vent.

But they don't have a backbone, and the other side is very strong.

At this time, Tian Feng showed a different demeanor and got closer to Chengqiao Rui in the imperial history, which made many people interested.

Cui Yan is abolished, but Cui Yan and Tian Feng are sons and daughters, will Tian Feng really ignore Cui Yan?

Some people smell something strange from it.

The situation at the imperial court took a subtle turn.