When Guo Peng announced the class, the news of his complete victory in the Northern Expedition had not yet reached Luoyang.

To be precise, we haven't even arrived in Bingzhou yet, because it's a long way to go.

In the center of the core of the Wei Empire, the city of Luoyang was still calm.

After Emperor Guo Peng left, the political atmosphere in Luoyang City suddenly became relaxed, and officials of all sizes secretly breathed a sigh of relief, expressing sincere relief for the emperor's departure.

Guo Peng's sense of coercion is too strong.

Really, really too strongly.

When Guo Peng was in power, 996 and 007 were the norm, up to the bigwigs of various Taiwan, down to the small officials of various ministries, and few officials could have a good time on weekdays.

As soon as they opened their eyes, they got up and went straight to the official work, and in the face of the heavy work piled up like a mountain, they couldn't breathe, so they could only take a deep breath and start their serious work.

I finally took a breath, and I found that it was lunchtime, and I went to the canteen to eat together, ate a meal, filled in my stomach and came back to rest, and then another afternoon of work.

After taking a breath, I found that it was dinner time, and there were not many people who could go home from work, and the officials of important departments had to stay and work overtime, so they could only go to the canteen to have a meal, and then continue to come back to work overtime.

After taking another breath, the overtime has ended, and it is now a quiet night, and it is time for everyone to go home and sleep.

And so the day ended.

When I woke up the next day, it was a new reincarnation.

They feel that they are like instruments, they are working when they open their eyes, and they are sleeping when they close their eyes, and they are worried that they will be involved in political storms and lose their power and status, and they have no honor of being an official at all.

Is this an official?

Fortunately, the ten-day rest day did not force everyone to work overtime, and those who worked overtime also took turns off, and there was always a time to rest.

At this time, I can also accompany my family a little, take a good bath, inspect the children's homework, and then pay my wife a good salary.

There's no way, I'm too tired from work, I wander around my house like a zombie, I can't even lift my head, how can I talk about paying public food?

Being able to take a break is the most luxurious pleasure.

Now that Guo Peng's Northern Expedition has left Beijing, the coercion from the emperor has suddenly disappeared.

Although the workload is still the same, in everyone's opinion, it is also time to take a proper breath.

Because there were many things that had to be transferred to the emperor's Northern Expedition camp to be handled by the emperor, it took time to come and go, and the things that could be handled in Luoyang on the spot were reduced by a part.

This is the time to rest and relax!

At first, they maintained the previous rhythm of life and work because of the inertia left by Guo Peng, but later suddenly realized that the emperor had gone to the Northern Expedition, and there was no emperor in Luoyang City now.

Now it is the crown prince who is in charge of the country, and Cao Cao and Guo Jia are the auxiliaries.

The crown prince has little prestige, Cao Cao and Guo Jia are both traditional civil officials, with a certain prestige, but they cannot be compared with the emperor himself.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng, who could suppress Shangshutai in the past, were not there, and those who remained were all Shangshu, and the Shangshu of each ministry did not need to be shot by Shangshu Lingshu and Shangshu servants, and they could directly pass the matter to the prince of the prison country himself, so that the prince could decide.

Speaking of decision-making, there are not many things that the prince can decide, and a considerable part of them still have to be sent to the Northern Expedition camp for the emperor to deal with.

Everyone respects the prince on the surface, and deals with it in the morning and afternoon, but in fact, there are not many people who take the prince seriously.

After all, it is the crown prince, not the emperor, according to the politically correct statement, everyone's loyalty is dedicated to the emperor, not to the prince, the prince is the prince, and he is only the prince, the emperor does not die for a day, and the prince is always the prince.

This relaxed atmosphere, Guo Jin is keenly aware.

But he can't change it.

As the crown prince, he knows very well what he should do and what he should not do, and he has the name of supervising the country, but in fact his power is relatively limited, and his responsibilities are as heavy, but after all, someone will help him to do things.

Guo Peng left behind him a ruling team with rich experience and strong ability to handle government affairs, and Guo Jia and Cao Cao are good at military and political affairs, and with their assistance, handling state affairs is not a problem.

Other important matters that even Cao Cao and Guo Jia couldn't handle were naturally sent to the Northern Expedition camp and handed over to Guo Peng to deal with personally, and it was not Guo Jin's turn to do it.

If you want to talk about prestige, Guo Jin also has a little.

For example, he is diligent, sleeps at night, deals with affairs in the palace very early, goes back to rest very late, works very hard every day, and has not slacked off for a day since Guo Peng left.

Moreover, there is no mistake in dealing with problems, and he can always do it right, and there is no problem with the operation of the government, so the courtiers praise Guo Jin for his diligence and fatherly style in handling government affairs.

However, this did not make Guo Jin happy.

Those things that can be done right are inseparable from the help of Cao Cao and Guo Jia, without Cao Cao and Guo Jia on the side, Guo Jin, who is new to national government affairs, will also be in a hurry, including his small team.

Lu Yi and Lu Yu, who could help him deal with government affairs, were panicked, and they didn't know how to deal with these government affairs when they were facing them.

Then Cao Cao made a move, solved the problem by dividing it by two, and then helped Guo Jin to get through the initial panic.

It's the same in military affairs, if you want to say that Guo Jin has received some training in government affairs, and he can get started quickly after being instructed, then Guo Jin really hasn't had much contact with military affairs, and without Guo Jia's help and Zhao Yun's cooperation, Guo Jin can't play.

During this time, Guo Jin was fully aware of his own shortcomings, so he studied hard, soaked in the palace of diligence from morning to night, studied carefully in the place where his father used to deal with government affairs, handled it properly, and gradually found some tricks.

However, it didn't take long for him to notice that there was a wind of laziness and slackness gradually permeating the entire court.

When observing Guo Peng's handling of government affairs by Guo Peng's side, he would see that those officials were extremely hardworking one by two, and when they came to ask for instructions, they all trotted all the way and trotted all the way, for fear of being punished by the emperor for delaying time.

All in all, it's tense and serious, and every second counts.

In front of himself, he couldn't see this attitude of the officials, they were very relaxed, relaxed, with a leisurely smile on their faces, this smile made Guo Jin a little unhappy and a little worried.

I am not happy that I have not received the respect I deserve, and I am worried that I will not be able to coerce the court like my father, and I will not be able to make officials do things seriously, which is a problem.

So it wasn't until this moment that Guo Jin deeply realized what Guo Peng's [prestige] often talked about meant.

It means that even if you sit here and don't move, you can make the court officials cautious and dare not slack off.

It was what he wanted, but he couldn't get right now.

He deeply understood what Guo Peng's operation was to gain prestige for him, and what kind of necessity it was.

Prestige is not something that the superior is born with, but needs to be earned through his own efforts.

With such a consideration, one night, Guo Jin left Guo Jia behind and asked Guo Jia what Guo Peng meant in the hearts of the courtiers.

Guo Jia saw through what Guo Jin was thinking at a glance.

So he took out the jade axe that Guo Peng gave him.

"Your Highness, this jade axe was given to the minister by His Majesty, before His Majesty left, he said to the minister, if His Majesty can't come back, then the minister will hold this axe to help His Highness ascend the throne, help His Highness become the emperor, and do his best to assist His Highness in this life."

Guo Jin was taken aback.

"Father said something like that? How can it be? Why can't my father come back? ”

"Your Majesty is naturally invincible, but there is no absolute in everything, Your Majesty handed over this jade axe to the minister, which is an attitude in itself, in case Your Majesty really can't come back, the Wei State needs the emperor, then the minister will hold the jade axe to help His Royal Highness ascend the throne and be the emperor, and stabilize the court."

Guo Jin's face was full of surprise.

"This ...... How so? ”

"It's an attitude, it's a preparation, it's a declaration."

Guo Jia pointed to the jade axe: "This is a plaything that Your Majesty usually plays with in your hands, and it has no meaning in itself, but because Your Majesty likes it, it has an effect."

In case of anything, the minister holds this axe to help His Highness ascend the throne, and with this axe, His Highness will ascend the throne without hindrance, which is His Majesty's position in the hearts of the ministers. ”