Chapter 182: Only the Dead Know
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The court meeting was discussed by hundreds of officials, and Liu Hong, who was the emperor at a young age, was accustomed to this, and the boring court meeting that was tired and sad day after day had made him completely uninterested, and only the hundreds of officials arguing for the sake of discussing politics could make him cheer up.
However, the reason why Liu Hongcan cheer up today is not to focus on the minister's suggestion, but to focus on the quarrel between the ministers. For him, it's just to see it as a lively, after all, in the palace, with him in front of him, the palace maid temple has many rules, and it is rare to see this kind of excitement.
Of course, the scene of the court at this time was not particularly attractive to Liu Hong, but what really caught his attention was the unprecedented union of relatives, eunuchs, and scholars, which was what Liu Hong was most concerned about. But with Yang Qiu's initiative to attack, and the opposition of the eunuch family of officials, he felt a little calmer, all this seemed to be just a coincidence, until he saw that his teachers Yang Ci and Lu Zhi and others did not echo Fu Quan's remarks, the mood was even better, it seems that as long as the three parties are given a reasonable result, the thing he is most worried about will not appear.
As for what the result is?
Very simple.
I only heard Emperor Liu Hong loudly announce that "Ling Sili Lieutenant will thoroughly investigate this case", and he knew the result of this court meeting, after all, this will reasonably quelled the demands of the court's relatives and scholars, and the eunuchs, does Liu Hong need to take care of them? In his opinion, the eunuchs are just his own house slaves, just follow his own orders, he doesn't need to care if the eunuchs have any objections, and besides, aren't there eunuchs like Lu Qiang who are honest eunuchs who agree with his ideas?
At the end of the court meeting, Liu Hongshi Shi Ran left, his face was full of joy, and he was probably still thinking about Fu Quan's sycophant advice just now. The ministers and officials withdrew from the Chongde Hall in turn, and then the acquaintances left together, according to the usual practice of everyone talking, there should be a lot of people discussing Fuquan's remarks today.
Although there are many people who will get up and respond to Fu Quan, it is obvious that most of them temporarily helped Fu Quan because of the reason for rescuing Cai Yong, so when they left the Chongde Palace, Fu Quan could only leave behind Song Yu and Fu Wan, as for the officials of Song and Fu Wan, they were not the only ones who were qualified to go with them.
However, the walking Fuquan still felt that someone was following them, and when he turned his head, it was Duan Cheng, but after he saw Fuquan, he turned around and left as if he hadn't followed them at all.
Amazing! Weird! Fu Quan muttered silently in his heart, he was sure that Duan Cheng was not a member of the original plan.
Originally, among the people who interceded for Cai Yong in the court, there should definitely not be Duan Cheng, but this old captain came out to respond, could it be that after Wang Fu, Cao Jie, Yuan Yu and other great eunuchs left over from Emperor Huan fell one after another, this famous Han general who was attached to the eunuchs wanted to change the court? Or is there a gap between him and Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others who took over Yuan Yu's ascendancy?
Fu Quan couldn't figure this out, if it was reasonable for Situ Yuan to violate the Yuan family's quest for stability and not participate in this political struggle, then Duan Cheng really couldn't find a reason. After all, Yuan Peng's sister Yuan is Cai Yong's biological mother, and Yuan Peng said that he would save his own nephew, even if it would deviate from his pure heart and few desires, ignore the struggle between the DPRK and China, and always be neutral outside the court, not involving the DPRK and the Central Committee, the principle that no one should be offended, and Yuan's political proposition of seeking stability.
But then again, these two points are nothing for the current Yuan Peng, after all, the former, since he paid for the position of Situ in the West Mansion, he has no longer cared whether he is involved in court disputes or not. The third prince who is at the pinnacle of the official has already done it, what else does he need to force? What are they buying officials for? It's not so much spending money to buy power for profit, but spending money to buy fame.
To put it simply, if you want to gain power by selling your official beard, you can make up for it by being an official and buying your own money, which is basically impossible in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Because if you exploit the people too greedily, you may be arrested and raided at any time, and thus lose both fame and fortune. After all, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, very few officials were able to occupy an official position for a long time like Hu Guang and Yuan Tang, and the vast majority of officials would be transferred or dismissed after a few months of taking office.
Because in such a short period of time, it is difficult for normal people to quickly recover the huge investment cost of buying officials. Therefore, at this time, the buyers were rarely for profit, but more for fame, which is why when Liu Hong decided to promote Yuan Peng to Situ, Yuan Peng immediately paid for it. After all, if they pay the money, they can write their previous highest official positions on the tombstone and family tree, such as "the tomb of the late Situ Yuan Peng", to glorify the ancestors, you must know that some people have been wandering in Jiuqing 2,000 stone high-ranking officials all their lives, can they do it early or not early?
In the world, only fools and clean officials who want to save face are unwilling to buy officials, and an excellent politician will not mind how his official position came about, after all, compared to the improper source of official position, it is the saddest thing to have no official position. Yuan Peng has now reached his highest honor as an official, does he still need to worry about whether he fights in the court or not?
As for whether Yuan Peng's move violated Yuan's strategy of seeking stability, whether it would arouse Yuan's disgust was of no importance to him. Anyway, the Runan Yuan family and the Chen Guo Yuan family have been branching for many years, if the second prince of the Yuan family blames him, then it is a big deal for him to continue to divide the family, after all, the second prince of the Yuan family is so ruthless, Cai Yong is still their distant relative in the end, so he will not be saved if he dies like this, Yuan Peng, as the principal of the Yuan family of Chen Guo, also has a reason to go against the second prince of the Yuan family.
Cheng Huang took his two sons-in-law Yang Qiu and Liu He back to the mansion with an angry face.
"It's really hateful that the Fu family and the Song family came forward to harm me." Cheng Huang, the regular attendant, said in a tone full of anger, he was more than fifty years old, his face was white and beardless, and his thin eyes were slightly squinted, if he didn't speak, he thought he was asleep.
"Relatives are hateful! There is not a good thing in these Kyoto heroes, and if one day I take power, I will definitely get rid of it quickly. Yang Qiu hated to be authentic, and his voice was stiff and sharp, which was particularly harsh.
"Uncle, Fangzheng, now is the time to complain, if Fuzi finds out about the false accusation, I am afraid it will be a disaster." Liu He on the side was elegant, his face was uneasy and worried, and his uncle was the name of his father-in-law in the Han Dynasty.
Liu He is a relative of the Han family, from the Hejian royal family, and Emperor Huan Liu Zhi and the current emperor Liu Hong are the descendants of Liu Kai, the sixth son of Emperor Liu Wei of the Han Dynasty, and won the emperor's trust. His brother Liu Qi assisted the general Dou Wu to support the Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and had the merit of following the dragon, but because of Dou Wu's incident, he was murdered by the eunuchs afterwards, and later Liu Hong reused Liu He in order to repay Liu Qian's merits, so that there was a proverb in the city of Luoyang because of this incident, "The white cover car He Yanyan, the river comes to harmony!" Of course, Liu He and the eunuch should have a grudge against killing his brother, but now he is married to the eunuch's adopted daughter, which is also quite interesting.
Cheng Huang gradually opened his eyes, looked at the two of them, and then squinted at Yang Qiu and said: "Fangzheng, you should do this matter, don't spread it outside." ”
"No! Uncle rest assured, only the dead know about this matter. Yang Qiu said coldly. Mobile phone users should browse and read for a better reading experience.