The debate over whether to impose a commercial tax or not, which has only been around for a month now, is moving more and more in an unpredictable direction.

This is not Guo someone's original intention, but since there is such a trend, Guo doesn't mind making a little move, being a behind-the-scenes promoter, and expanding the scope of the struggle.

In the more than two years since the founding of the country, he has been busy with wars and local governance, and he has not paid much attention to the rule of officials and these central ghosts, and he has not had enough energy to pay attention to it.

These things have actually been investigated a lot by Linzi Camp, and Yan Rou has also reported them, but Guo has no time to deal with them, so he has to postpone them.

Now there's time, take a look.

Hey! Interesting!

Unexpectedly, they made their silent operation sound and impressive, and they also stretched out their hands into the officials' department and played their best tricks in the center.

Guo originally just wanted to take out a small amount of money from the pocket of the scholar Haoqiang to spend it, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big gain.

Originally, I just wanted them to tear each other apart, be hostile to each other, and then tear their faces to lay the foundation for the political struggle in the court, but I didn't expect to get such a big gift.

There are problems on my side, there are problems on the other side, and there are problems on both sides, but one side is less timid and a little more obedient to the rules, and the other side is bold and does not follow the rules very much.

It seems that if this operation is to end, it will not be solved simply by collecting a toll.

You can get more, and you can get it more refreshingly.

You can really bite a piece of meat and chew it well, and get a taste of what these fat guys are like.

If you scavenge for the people's fat and ointment, then I will scavenge your fat and anointing oil, and build more villages and roads, which is called perfect dynamic balance and perfect circulation.

This is the responsibility of the emperor.

After Cheng Yu got Guo's instructions, he returned to Shangshutai with a dark face, returned to the official office of the ministry, looked at the full hall of officials, and became angry.

Then he ordered to turn himself in before the deadline for the problem, if he didn't turn himself in, if he found out that he was engaged in private operations, it would not be as simple as losing his official position.

Someone will always pay for it!

The wind in the ministry suddenly became tight.

After the officials fell into internal rectification, the environment of the entire Shangshutai also became quite sinister.

The three aspects of Yu Shitai, Si Li's lieutenant, and the criminal department suddenly discovered that the problem was no longer limited to a few rumors and unfounded false accusations, and before they knew it, the problem had expanded.

It has risen from economic disputes to the level of political struggle.

A few smart people have realized that at this point, it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong, what matters is that the emperor already knows everything.

Now it's all right.

They don't even know if the interrogation will continue.

The Imperial Historical Tower, the Shangshu Observatory and the Cabinet have been implicated, and there are many issues that are no longer simply a question of whether to raise commercial taxes or not.

This is a political issue, involving a struggle for political power, and it is no longer an economic issue.

At present, there is only one staff station in the safest place in the Manchao Hall that does not participate in government affairs, and the other three core institutions have never been so envious of this transcendent staff station as they are now.

In the past, they all thought that the staff station had no status, and only when the emperor needed to use troops would the staff station be used, and the staff station was just a decoration at other times, so they jokingly called the staff station "viewing platform".

As a result, the Cui Qu case was discovered, and the observation deck was the safest, and their authority was only to march and fight, and no one was implicated in this matter, and no one was falsely accused.

The economic dispute has made it impossible for the Cabinet with audit powers to get involved.

The problem of official corruption and framing each other made the Imperial Observatory deeply trapped in it and unable to get out.

And Shang Shutai, who was in the whirlpool of struggle, became the target of public criticism.

Now the situation seems to be clearer.

Regardless of whether Cui Yan knows about this matter or not, Cui Qu, the little person who wanders in it and stirs up the wind and clouds and brings the trend of history, is a member of his family's clan, and Cui Yan is to blame.

Or that many families have such a small person in the court, but Cui Qu did too much, was exposed and reported, and was suddenly exposed to the spotlight, putting this ugly secret operation under the emperor's nose for the emperor to see.

The wise man already felt a deep fear at this time.

They remembered that the terrible emperor who was ruthless to Xun Yu and Zang Hong had not held officials accountable on a large scale for almost two years, and more than two years of relaxed life seemed to have made them relax their vigilance and vigilance.

But the emperor never changed himself.

This time, will someone pay the price of their lives again, and will there be some big people who will fall to the ground?

Is there anyone who wants to pay the price of their lives in exchange for everyone's safe passage?

In the official office of the Ministry of Rites, Cui Yan's face was pale, and in the face of the worried eyes of several former protégés and former officials, Cui Yan couldn't say a word.

"Gong Cui, in the current situation, you want to give us an idea."

"Yes, Cui Gong, if it goes on like this, when will it be a head?"

"Cui Gong, will this kind of thing implicate many people?"

Looking at the panicked appearance of his right-hand men, Cui Yan himself was actually quite panicked.

To be honest, he didn't know about it.

Because Cui Qu is an excellent descendant in the family, he just wants to promote it a little, expand the power and discourse power of the Cui family in the court, seize the vacuum position left by the top scholars of the Eastern Han Dynasty after being suppressed by Guo Peng, and push the Qinghe Cui family up.

There is no family that does not aspire to the status of the third prince of the fourth or even the third prince of the fifth generation, and the old wealthy family has fallen, won't these emerging forces have a chance?

But who would have thought that a mere Cui Qu would be so bold as to do this, form a party in private, stretch out his hand where he shouldn't be extended, and offend more than one person?

What's worse is that this guy is still under his own banner!

Sitting in this position, Cui Yan was cautious.

He himself is also the identity of a subordinate, after Yuan Shao's defeat, he took refuge in Guo Peng, his status and fame are slightly greater than Tian Feng, but he is not as good as Tian Feng, and there are women in the clan who are taken as concubines by Guo Peng.

However, he is also a famous family, and he has a position as a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he doesn't think it's too much.

In his position, he also tried his best to create a formal and cumbersome etiquette system for the Wei Empire, acting as the general person in charge of various large-scale activities, and also being responsible for the re-examination of the public government.

Who would have thought that such a thing would be encountered.

But it cannot be said that he himself is absolutely innocent, because he understands this rule.

The scholars monopolized important official positions by monopolizing knowledge, suppressed the powerful, bullied Li Shu, and shared the world with the emperor, and this official position was naturally assigned by them.

In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, from the central to the local, many official positions could be determined by birth and fame, and there was no need for the emperor to appoint them personally.

Most of the emperors are young children, the level is very low, and the quality is not high, just go through the motions, the scholars divide their spheres of influence, you choose me, I choose you, and it's done.

But in the Wei Empire, it was different.

Emperor Guo set up a ministry to manage the promotion and appointment of officials nationwide, and local officials and central officials at the five levels of prefectures, counties, counties, and villages had to pass the official appointment of the ministry and bring the appointment documents of the ministry to take office.

Although the probationary system and the filial piety system were still in operation, the emperor's opinion played a great role.

The difficulty of the re-examination of the government presided over by Cui Yan has become very great, and it is not so easy for many scholars to pass the re-examination of the government to become an official next to the emperor and then enter the government.

In fact, this is nothing, in the early period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperors did just that, no different from Guo Peng.

This is the case with filial piety and honesty in itself.

Filial piety and honesty are also really talented and learned, often have experience in the local area first, and they can do things when they enter the imperial court, so that they can be recommended.

Otherwise, filial piety will be exposed when he goes to the emperor's side to be a lang official.

Maocai will also show his stuff when he goes directly to the government to do business.

Although Liu Xiu could not restore the Western Han Dynasty, he could still have the final interpretation of the selection of officials.

However, this system has very high requirements for the emperor, and if the emperor cannot grasp the power and the level becomes low, he will naturally not be able to control the power to select officials, nor can he continue to select high-quality talents.

In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, a series of small emperors and emperors could grasp the final interpretation of a fart.

The right to interpret the election of officials naturally fell into the hands of others, and they no longer needed to press their descendants to study literature and martial arts desperately, and then there was a situation of "showing talents, not knowing books, raising filial piety and honesty, and living separately from the father".

What Guo Peng has done now is nothing more than to bring the official election model back to the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

The privileges of the dual monarchy that the guys tossed out later were restricted.

Cultivating protégés is the same as always, but the difficulty of cultivating old officials has increased dramatically, and there are more and more imperial officials appointed by the emperor through the ministry, and it feels that everyone's power is not easy to expand.

But judging from their practice, the emperor still gave them a mouth and gave them preferential treatment.

Officials from scholarly backgrounds have a high starting point and many high-ranking officials, while officials from strong backgrounds have a low starting point and few high-ranking officials.

For some small actions of the scholars, the emperor treated them as if he didn't see them, and turned a blind eye, which can be seen from some of Cheng Yu's practices.

This is also a positive for them.

So it seems that this has led some people to think that they shouldn't be.

They seemed to feel that the emperor would not block their further actions, as long as they rubbed and rubbed and rubbed and rubbed and rub

They were cautious at first, cautious, and then found that the emperor did not react, so they opened one eye and closed one eye.

So he began to jump sideways repeatedly on the verge of death, and then found that the emperor still did not react, and still turned a blind eye......

So they jumped into the circle of death in one breath and began to twist Yangge and dance the ghost step dance, and they did it boldly and boldly, and it became an open secret, which seemed to be unknown only to the emperor.

Once the incident happened, everyone was in danger, but the emperor did not make trouble first, but took the lead in letting the officials carry out a major rectification.

It seems that the emperor is just cleaning up the officials and Cheng Yu, but some people have already smelled some bad smells.

Cui Yan is one of them.

The re-examination of the government is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, which is one of the important functions and powers of the Ministry of Rites.

The outstanding candidates selected by the Ministry of Rites will be handed over to the Ministry of Officials to arrange positions, and it is also because of this authority that some people think that the Ministry of Rites can compete with the Ministry of Officials in a sense.

Some people even came to the conclusion that Guo Peng was optimistic about Cui Yan and had the idea of letting Cui Yan be the next Shang Shuling.

Cui Yan didn't dare to think like this, but he also had some expectations, but with the incident in the east window, he felt that such expectations were not good for him.

After thinking about it, Cui Yan decided to immediately defend himself, trying to explain his innocence and helplessness, and see if he could reduce the impact on himself.

There are still some protégés and former officials behind him, and he has fallen, and these people can't get benefits, and the forces of the Qinghe Cui clan are just about to rise, and they are going to face such a blow?

Cui Yan suddenly became anxious.

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