Chen Yu's statement shows the recognition of Guo Bin by the Chen family of Xuxian County, especially at this delicate juncture when the attitude of the imperial court is ambiguous, Chen Yu's support has made Guo Bin widely recognized in Shilin, and Guo Bin, who was originally the "own person" of the scholar class, will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced in Shilin. Therefore, the attitude of the wealthy families in the entire Yingchuan County towards Guo Bin has become more and more submissive, and since then, the vast majority of the counties in the entire Yingchuan County have expressed their support for Guo Bin's construction of the ancestral hall.

The way of support is very simple, it is nothing more than the county order to come to Yangzhai to visit Guo Bin in person, listen to the teachings, express his deference, and then most of them will go to the ancestral hall in the southwest of the city to put a stick of incense, clearly showing their support for Guo Bin's move. I have to say that this is indeed a bit bureaucratic, but the officialdom ecology is like this, how can Guo Bin avoid vulgarity? Moreover, although this method is vulgar, it is extremely effective, because if you express your attitude, you can be regarded as submitting a petition, and since then, these large and small county orders have to be seen only by Guo Bin's horse, and they are all their own people.

Guo Bin naturally wants to cultivate his subordinates who are completely loyal to him from an early age, but the cost is too high and the cycle is too long. The so-called ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, whether it is Yangzhai County School or Fulong Villa School, the ability of the graduates to deal with government affairs is even higher than the level of many county orders, because their teaching materials are focused on training people's logical thinking ability. However, after graduation, most of them can only serve as low-level officials who do specific things, and it is wishful thinking to serve as "high-ranking officials" such as prefectural magistrates, at least in the short term, for the simple reason that the appointment of prefectural magistrates must be approved by the central government.

Therefore, trying to win over the existing local officials and use their power to manage the local government is the best choice for Guo Bin at present.

Regarding Guo Bin's behavior of privately building an ancestral hall to worship Liu Tao, what many people don't understand is that the Son of Heaven did not react, because the Son of Heaven knew Liu Tao's name, and Liu Hong himself also valued Liu Tao's outspokenness and daring, so Guo Bin's behavior of raising Liu Tao should be acquiesced by the Son of Heaven, but the strange thing is that even the eunuchs who threw Liu Tao into prison did not come out to be demons, which is a bit unusual.

You must know that these eunuchs rely on the favor of the Son of Heaven, and they are really bullying men and women, and they do all kinds of evil. Don't say that what provokes them is that as long as they are irrelevant to their eyes, they will pounce on them like mad dogs and bite a few bites before they stop, don't say that upstarts like Guo Bin are generals like Huangfu Song, who provoked them to be framed and demoted when they conquered the Qiang people in the west. Who is a clear-eyed person today who doesn't know that Huangfu Song's position as the general of the left chariot was taken away because he had provoked Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong at the beginning?

However, most of the people who think this way are low-ranking petty officials, and most of their speculation about the holy will is the gossip circulating in the officialdom, and the analysis of personnel changes and inside stories in the officialdom is mostly speculation and speculation. Because the low-level officials are still too low to understand the mysteries of high-level politics personally, many simple things cannot help but be over-interpreted, and many seemingly simple things are neglected because they do not know the inside story. The so-called difference is a thousand miles, and it is also politically applicable. The most widely known is that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, low-level officials and even Kang Youwei, who was not yet an official, and other reformers, judged that the Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to put Emperor Guangxu under house arrest, so they thought that the first strike was strong, but in the end, the Guangxu Emperor was really put under house arrest, and the various twists and turns will not be detailed here.

The high-ranking officials who really have a deep understanding of the court situation, but they all understand that Guo Bin can still be his Yingchuan county guard in peace and security because Guo Bin is the emperor's party and the son of heaven.

To put it bluntly, eunuchs are vines attached to the big tree of monarchy, if there is no big tree, then this vine can only climb on the ground, and it is not a fart. Therefore, it is not so much that people are afraid of eunuchs, but that they are afraid of the Son of Heaven.

The officials of the Chinese and foreign dynasties in the imperial court are all humble gentlemen who read the books of sages and sages, step by step as officials, and pay attention to the prestige and official body of officials in everything they do. Moreover, most of these people are the best among the wealthy families in various places, and they are the elite talents that their respective families focus on cultivating, and they all have their own interests behind them, so even if they occasionally do something out of the ordinary, there is a bottom line.

But the eunuchs are different, most of them are from poor backgrounds, and many of them really have no way out before they want to enter the palace and become eunuchs. There is an ancient Chinese saying called "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest", and it is also said that "the body is skinned, and the parents are received", so after "castration" like a eunuch, not only will the body of the parents be destroyed, but there is no possibility of marriage and children. Therefore, if many eunuchs mix well in the palace, most of them will start a family outside the palace, adopt or pass on a child for themselves, and Cao Cao's father Cao Song is the adopted son of the eunuch Cao Teng.

Therefore, eunuchs, as a physically handicapped and discriminated against group, although they do not exclude individual outstanding people, most of them have a different psychology from ordinary people. Therefore, they act more and more recklessly, lacking a bottom line. Moreover, since they have the support of the Son of Heaven, they will naturally carry a little private goods from time to time, such as throwing people who have offended them into prison and torture, in the eyes of ordinary officials, it is extremely difficult to know exactly whether this is the meaning of the Son of Heaven or the eunuch's own will.

Liu Tao's imprisonment is the result of the eunuch's unauthorized decision. Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion has been basically quelled, thieves have swarmed everywhere, and the world is still extremely unstable. In order to maintain the dominance of the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven needed to use the power of the wealthy clans in various places to suppress the bandits in various places, so as not to turn them into a prairie fire. Chen Sheng and Wu Guangyin are still there, and they can't help but be ignored.

The representatives of the wealthy forces in the court are the civil official class, and if the Son of Heaven wants to encircle the wealthy families in the Central Plains, he needs to appease the officials of the Central Plains. It was one thing to lift the scourge of the party, which helped the Han court to survive the most critical moment when the Yellow Turban Rebellion first started, and it was also a matter to promote the meritorious officials in the Yellow Turban Rebellion to officials.

The so-called slap on the wrist to give a sweet date, after eating two sweet dates for the scholar class who have been suppressed for decades, appropriate beating is naturally indispensable, such as trying to raise the funeral specifications of Yang Ci, who was born in Kansai, so that he can be extremely mournful. However, Liu Tao was certainly not a suitable target, because he had a very good reputation among Shilin, and forcing him to death would inevitably cause unpredictable political turmoil, which the imperial court should try to avoid in this turbulent moment. Besides, the imperial court's beating of the wealthy families in the Central Plains is mainly a side knock, what is the reason for the life lawsuit?

Therefore, Liu Hong, the son of heaven, has been anxious about this matter for the past few days, and even Zhang Rang, the regular servant, is not very welcome.

And Guo Bin's current act of sacrificing Liu Tao is right in the mind of the Son of Heaven. For Liu Tao's death, the Son of Heaven must first admit his mistakes when he decrees rehabilitation, otherwise he will at least launch one or two eunuchs to calm the anger of the public, the shortcomings of this are obvious, face is lost, and prestige is damaged! This prestige cannot be seen or touched, but it is necessary to be a leader.

Since Guo Bin specially set up an ancestral hall to worship Liu Tao, the Son of Heaven ignored this matter, and the meaning was deep. Because Guo Bin is an imperial party, his actions are intended by the Son of Heaven in the eyes of outsiders. Moreover, Guo Bin was summoned by the Son of Heaven before leaving Beijing, which further confirmed the rumor that it was appropriate for the Son of Heaven to teach face-to-face. In this way, in the eyes of the world, Liu Tao's matter is more likely to be the eunuch's own assertive behavior, and the Son of Heaven is not aware of it, so the resentment of the people in the world is directed at the eunuchs. This is a clever trick to divert hatred, which Liu Hong used perfectly in the disaster of the party, the sins of the party and the hatred of the scholars, all of which were aimed at the eunuchs standing at the front desk, and the son of heaven who was pulling the line and manipulating the puppet in the back was naturally picked up!

In addition, the Son of Heaven does attach great importance to Liu Tao, otherwise he would not have been named the Marquis of Zhongling last year. Therefore, Guo Bin's act of sacrificing Liu Tao also counted a little knot in the heart of the Son of Heaven.

Moreover, Guo Bin is an imperial party, his own person, and in the hands of the Son of Heaven. Liu Hong asked himself to know Guo Bin very well, from this matter, more and more showed Guo Bin's true temperament, affectionate side, this in the eyes of the Son of Heaven Liu Hong, but felt that Guo Bin is not pretentious, acting recklessly, sincerely, is a real temperament, although sometimes acting without consideration, but it is not a big deal, at least compared with the eunuchs These "little brothers" are much more worry-free. And this image is also consistent with the impression of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, when Guo Bin was summoned several times, so he naturally became more and more at ease with Guo Bin.

As for Guo Bin's lack of emphasis on "loyalty" in his speech, it is nothing. Because although Guo Bin did not emphasize loyalty, he put forward the concept of "Han nationality". Once this concept is promoted, then all those who follow the etiquette law of the Great Dao in the Central Plains can be called the Han nationality, which can greatly enhance the cohesion of the people of the whole country, and also play a certain role in breaking down the local separatist forces. Because since the concept of nationality has been proposed, the concept of family will be relatively weakened!

In the mind of Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, the whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister, if you are loyal to this nation and this country, you are loyal to me, the son of heaven, the Han Dynasty, this is a matter of one and two, two and one. As the Son of Heaven, I still have this bit of self-confidence, and the so-called I am the country! Therefore, he generally appreciated what Guo Bin said when he sacrificed Liu Tao.

As for the reason why the eunuchs are also silent, it is because Guo Bin is an imperial party, and he is more respected by the Son of Heaven than them. Don't look at Guo Bin's short time in office, but he is very valued by the Son of Heaven, and the first meeting gave the Son of Heaven an idea of an exposition, which not only made the Son of Heaven very profitable, but also won a lot of money in the court, and the voice of singing praises and virtues was resounding in the sky.

Later, Guo Bin was fighting in the east and west, and repeatedly made military exploits in the battle to exterminate the Yellow Turban, showing the Son of Heaven's wisdom of knowing people, and bravely shouldering the heavy burden in the danger of the burning of the South Palace, and took the initiative to undertake the reconstruction project of the South Palace, and it was also the important minister left by the Son of Heaven to the crown prince Liu Bian, so Guo Bin's position in the mind of the Son of Heaven is very important.

And even if the eunuch achieves the highest, he is the ten permanent servants, and his biggest role is only to stand up for the Son of Heaven, which is set up by the Son of Heaven to vent his anger for the people below, and is the target to attract firepower. Liu Honggui is the Son of Heaven, and many dirty things need to be done by people with confidants. This kind of thing can't be done by a scholar who reads poetry and books, and a eunuch who has no dignity and no bottom line is just right. Moreover, the foundation of eunuchs is imperial power, even if the people of the world can't do anything about them, they can take it down with an edict from the Son of Heaven, and they can't run out of the palm of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, the target of the eunuch is a puppet that the Son of Heaven can discard at any time, and his status is naturally 108,000 miles worse than that of Zhu Zi's important ministers like Guo Bin. The Ten Standing Servants wait by the side of the Son of Heaven all day long, and they are most familiar with the mentality of the Son of Heaven, how dare they casually take Guo Bin as a demon?