The news of Cui Yan's righteous killing of his relatives shook the officialdom of the Wei Empire.

It also shook Wei Guoshilin.

Whenever the central officials learned about this incident, they were not shocked and worried.

One counts as one, and everyone feels uneasy and worried.

Cui Yan has been in the limelight in the past two years.

As the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he is in charge of the re-examination of the Ministry of Rites and the government, and when the local officials are recommended to the central government, it is Cui Yan who selects and decides which official can be an official in Luoyang.

This kind of power has made Cui Yan's status in everyone's hearts rise steadily.

Compared with the promotion of official positions decided by Cheng Yu, whether Cui Yan holds the power or not is more important.

With Cui Yan's "yes", Cheng Yu will have the performance after that, and without Cui Yan's "yes", Cheng Yu will not pretend to say goodbye to a person who is not selected.

It is the officials who want to please Cheng Yu, and the people who want to curry favor with Cui Yan are those who want to be officials in the central government.

Many people are trying to curry favor with Cui Yan and have a relationship with Cui Yan.

Cui Yan showed an upright and selfless appearance, refusing to accept any gifts, refusing to go through the back door, and dealing with each scholar's question and answer fairly and selflessly, deciding who went and who flowed.

This made Cui Yan widely praised and admired by everyone.

At the turn of the Han and Wei dynasties, it was the time when the traditional top scholars in Yingchuan were gradually weakening, and the second- and third-rate scholars in Qingyanji and other states were gradually climbing in status.

Recently, many scholars have talked about it in private, saying that the top scholars of the old Yingchuan represented by Xun You and Chen Qun have declined and been suppressed by the emperor, and a huge power vacuum and discourse vacuum have appeared, and whoever can seize the opportunity can become the new top scholars.

Obviously, Cui Yan is what everyone wants, and everyone thinks that Cui Yan will take over that position and become the new top scholar.

Then there is Tian Feng, the Tian family is not only a scholar, but also a relative of the emperor, and has an in-law relationship with the Cui family, and under all kinds of blessings, it is unknown that it has become a top wealthy family no less than the Cui family.

Then there is Cheng Yu, although Cheng Yu's family is from a poor family, but now the Cheng family is undoubtedly also a scholar family.

After ascending the throne, in order to reward Cheng Yu's merits, Guo Peng granted the Cheng family the inheritance of "Xiao Du Lu" on behalf of the Yingchuan Guo family, and allowed the Cheng family to pass on this classic from generation to generation.

The Cheng family got rid of their humble background, jumped up, and crossed the class gap to become a legal priest family.

Although the time is still short, there are still many scholars who talk about Cheng Yu's humble background, but there is no doubt that Cheng Yu's family has completed the transformation from a wealthy family to a noble family.

For the Cheng family, Cheng Yu's status is equivalent to Sima Fang's Sima Fang.

Coupled with Guo Peng's trust in Cheng Yu, if Cheng Yu's life is long enough, after a few years, the Cheng family will not be able to fight for the status of the leader of the scholars.

The old wealthy family is declining, the new wealthy family is forging ahead, and at this critical moment of the replacement of the old and the new, the Cui Qu case broke out.

Cui Yan, Tian Feng and Cheng Yu were all implicated, and the three popular candidates for the leaders of the scholar clan were recruited one after another, and the situation in the court suddenly became confusing, and the wind was gusting.

And the fact that Cui Yan personally killed Cui Qu and went to ask the emperor for guilt greatly shocked the hearts of this group of second- and third-rate scholars who had just raised their heads.

They suddenly realized that Cui Yan had fallen.

They are not as strong as they think.

They were far from reaching the power of the top scholar clans such as Yingchuan and Runan in the central Eastern Han Dynasty.

And the power of the emperor who eradicated these top nobles was far beyond their imagination.

Under the emperor's thunderous rage, Cui Yan, the No. 1 seed player of the leader of the Shi clan, knelt without any resistance.

killed the clansman Cui Qu, and Cui Yan bent his knees and begged for mercy.

He fell.

The shock caused by this news has not subsided, or at the beginning, there was news that Cheng Yu asked the emperor to severely punish the officials of the ministry.

The officials of the seven ministries were out of luck.

They either surrendered themselves, or were found to have abnormal dealings with Cui Qu, Cheng Yu personally investigated, personally reported, and expressed his attitude of never tolerating adultery.

The three divisions quickly interrogated, adhering to the emperor's will, and severely punished the seven officials.

Because these seven people were guilty of dereliction of duty and abuse of power, they were dismissed, their homes were raided, beheaded, and all their property and illegal gains were returned to the public.

and was forcibly relocated to Liangzhou, and was never allowed to return to his ancestral hometown.

Obviously, Cheng Yu didn't want to resist at all, and he knelt down.

Guo Peng personally pulled him through the class gap, so it is obvious that as long as Guo Peng is willing, he can also let him fall back to the cold at any time.

Cheng Yu was afraid, so he undoubtedly took the initiative to surrender, surrendered unconditionally, and purged the officials.

Seven of his men were sacrificed by him in exchange for their own safety and that of their family.

Next is Tian Feng.

Cui Qu himself is an official of the Ministry of Industry and works within the Ministry of Industry, so Tian Feng has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, after the case, Tian Feng took the initiative to cooperate with Cheng Yu and the Third Division to investigate together, and investigated and dealt with five officials in the Ministry of Industry who had improper pity for Cui Qu.

Hand them all over, and never tolerate adultery.

Well, Tian Feng also knelt.

The three popular seeded players of the Noble Clan Leader knelt down together and sang conquest in front of the Emperor.

They were defeated and conquered.

In addition to the seven people from the Ministry of Officials and the five people from the Ministry of Industry, several other departments also exploded, and the top leaders knelt down one after another to shoot their heads and sing about conquest, handing over ten people who were related to Cui Qu.

The group of people who have a relationship with Cui Qu either assist him in making things easier with others, or give him money to get convenience, a total of twenty-two people.

All of them were beheaded, their property was confiscated, their household registration was seized, and the whole family was deposed as a concubine.

Twenty-two households.

More than 300 mouths.

Except for the 22 male hosts who were officials who were beheaded, none of the rest of the family escaped.

Guo Peng didn't even connect their entire clan, but their own families couldn't escape.

Among them are Jizhou people, Yanzhou people, and Qingzhou people.

Without exception, they were deprived of their original household registration.

Then Guo Peng ordered them to be relocated from their hometown.

or to Jincheng County, Liangzhou, or moved to Yanmen County, or Liaodong County, Pingzhou, and became a family without any power and capital.

Tuntian will be their eternal career.

There is also a particularly important one -

These 22 households will be recorded, and they will not be allowed to return in case of pardon, and the three generations of children and grandchildren will not be allowed to leave their new places of origin, will not be allowed to return to the Central Plains, and will not be allowed to become officials, as a punishment for corruption and dereliction of duty.

Such a brutal punishment made the officials shudder.

Guo Peng didn't kill many people, and only twenty-two people were killed for such a big thing, but for the remaining people who were alive, it was more terrible than being killed.

The scholar family was born, but he lost his identity as a scholar and became a concubine, and the three generations of children and grandchildren are not allowed to return to the Central Plains and are not allowed to be officials, which means that the three generations have no hope, and they don't want to return to their hometowns and return to this world of flowers.

They are scrapped.

These twenty-two families are either family branches or family branches, or the main lineage of the family, and the emperor will not make a move, and he will be so fierce when he makes a move.

does not kill the light, but it has a more terrible effect than killing the light.

This is more terrible than forcing Cui Yan to directly sacrifice the family method to kill Cui Qu.

Driving these twenty-two families directly to the bitter cold land of the frontier to go to Tuntian is simply another kind of death sentence.

And that's not all.

The facts of Cui Qu's violations of laws and regulations summarized by the three divisions were also sent to the emperor.

How Cui Qu used Cui Yan's prestige and power to pull a relationship in the ministry, and then provide convenience for people, the channels and methods of this were all interrogated.

It is said that the emperor was extremely angry about this.

The emperor believed that the Wei State had only been established for two years, and such problems had already appeared on the issue of officials, which showed the seriousness of the problem of official governance, and he was determined to strictly rectify this problem.

This has made many officials feel that there is a crisis.

They go around asking if such a situation is possible and if they themselves are safe.

The uneasy panic swept through the entire Shangshutai, and also spread to the Imperial Shitai and the cabinet.

One of the core contradictions hidden before and after the establishment of the Wei Empire seemed to erupt at this time.

This core contradiction is really wide-ranging.

So as soon as it was exposed, it immediately exploded.

This major case that shocked the government and the opposition at the beginning of the third year of Yande is known as the Cui Qu case.