Lu Ren's incident was found out by Mao Jue, and then Cao Ren and Cao Hong actually caused a result of public anger, isn't it too exaggerated? And Lu Rentuntian's exploits are known to everyone, so isn't there anyone to help Lu Ren intercede?

There are not one or two aspects involved in this matter, let's start with Cao Hong.

Previously, Cao Hong's clan guests were in trouble in the township, and Mi Zhen's caravan was defeated, and Lu Ren finally cut Cao Hong's people, and for this reason, he almost fought with Cao Hong outside Xuchang City. Although Lu Ren died until Cao Cao came to relieve the siege at that time and did not make a big deal about it, Cao Hong was also punished for this, and naturally formed a bond with Lu Ren. Cao Hong, who is now in his thirties, has just nodded, it is when he is young and vigorous, and his personality is already stingy, so how can he give up on Lu Renshan? Therefore, Cao Hong has always wanted to find out some of Lu Ren's faults, so as to avenge Lu Ren's revenge. And Cao Hong has this mentality, of course his subordinates will follow Cao Hong, and they will also pay special attention to Lu Ren's affairs.

This time Mi Zhen sold iron, Xun Yu, Liu Ye, and Zhen Jiang certainly controlled it very well, and there were no loopholes that would be seen on the bright side, but after all, because of the large number, there would still be some clues after all. Since those house slaves under Cao Hong were deliberately looking for Lu Ren's fault, they would naturally find out something after careful investigation.

Of course, Cao Hong's people didn't think that there would be anything wrong with Xun Yu and Liu Ye's official warehouse here, after all, Xun Yu and they also released thousands of catties of iron for civilian needs, so Cao Hong's people all stared at Lu Ren's side, and it was found that Lu Ren took advantage of the lack of iron goods in Xuchang to traffic at least a few thousand catties of tax-evading private iron to Xuchang and make huge profits from it, and then Cao Hong's people told Cao Hong about these things.

Cao Hong didn't report to Cao Cao immediately after knowing these things, because Cao Hong realized that Cao Cao was gradually relying on and trusting Lu Ren. In addition, he was somewhat wronged last time, and he reported it like this, it is likely that Cao Cao will think that Cao Hong is deliberately retaliating against Lu Ren, so he will not take it as a thing.

And in Cao Hong's opinion, even if Cao Cao knew that Lu Ren's sale of illicit iron for profit was true, with Cao Cao's attitude of gradually relying on Lu Ren, he might only call Lu Ren over to reprimand and warn, and then deduce that after all, he had said that he had said that he would be exempted from taxes, so as to let Lu Ren go...... But don't forget that Xu Du has more than 1.7 million grains and grasses in the warehouse this year, who has the greatest credit. Lu Ren helped Cao Cao become a wealthy master, so with Cao Cao's personality, where would Lu Ren make some of his own money Cao Cao would talk too much? Even for later generations, there is a saying that Cao Cao does not avoid petty greed.

Thinking of this, Cao Hong knew that the influence of natural words alone was not enough, so he pulled Cao Ren in. Cao Ren is strict with the law and discipline, and he is more respected by Cao Cao than Cao Hong, so he can say a few more words in front of Cao Cao. According to the current situation, what Cao Hong's people found out under their intention was only one-sided, so how much would Cao Ren, who didn't care much about Lu Ren, know?

In this regard, Cao Hong first listed the evidence of Lu Ren's tax evasion to Cao Ren, said it in the name of law and discipline, and then deduced that it was inconvenient for him to come forward to report to Cao Cao because he had a feud with Lu Ren. But Cao Ren thought about it for a while, but he felt that his situation was not much different from Cao Hong, and he came forward to tell Cao Cao that the situation was not much better. After thinking about it, Cao Ren relayed these things to Mao Jue.

Why do you want to tell Mao Jue? Because Mao Jue is the official Cao Peng, he is in charge of the selection and reporting of officials. Originally, the supervision and reporting of officials should be the business of the imperial historian, but now the imperial historian in the court is meaningless at all, so this aspect of the matter is in the hands of Cao Cao's Mao Jue. And Mao Jue is well-known for being an upright official, and it is more useful for him to report Lu Ren than anyone else.

The complaint came to Mao Jue, and Mao Jue naturally had to go through it to investigate. And Mao Jue's investigation, what he found was not much different from what Cao Hong's people found, that is, Lu Ren did have tax evasion and private iron. With Mao Jue's personality, he will naturally bring it up to Cao Cao on a formal occasion. Cao Ren and Cao Hong also hoped that on such a formal occasion, they would poke out Lu Ren's affairs in front of everyone, so that Cao Cao could not cover Lu Ren in the way of the face of his ministers.

As for the ministers who followed Cao Cao to punish Lu Ren, they were actually divided into two different purpose factions. One faction is the standard guardians, such as Taiwei Yang Biao (Yang Xiu's father) is one of the representatives. In the eyes of these people, the salt and iron industry has always been an important material and a source of heavy taxes strictly controlled by the government, and iron, as a strategic material, must not be exempt from taxes. Lu Ren's trafficking in "smuggled iron" also avoided taxes, which was of course absolutely intolerable for this kind of defender.

The other group of people is a little gloomy, because they hold a grudge against Lu Ren, let's put it this way, Lu Ren's Tuntian political affairs here in Xuchang have actually touched the fundamental interests of many wealthy families. According to Lu Ren's original speculation, he avoided the direct conflict of interest with the wealthy family as much as possible when he was in Tuntian, and used the method of treating the people of Tuntian with kindness and developing agricultural science and technology, so that the people gradually got rid of the control of the wealthy family This gentle method slowly weakens the strength of the wealthy family.

To be honest, this is not Lu Ren's idea, to be precise, Cao Cao's idea, Lu Ren is just touching Cao Cao's hair. And Lu Ren was full of thought that no one would see this kind of thing in a few years, and even if he did, he would just hide behind Cao Cao and flash after a few years, so he didn't have to be afraid of anything at all. But Lu Ren still underestimated the IQ of these wealthy families, and many wealthy families have actually seen the adverse impact that the situation will have on the family if it develops.

On the other hand, in a sense, Lu Ren secretly joined hands with the Xun family, so he also took special care of the Yingyin Xun family, such as the so-called "composite rural industrial structure" Lu Ren is currently only implemented here in the Xun family, and it is not used in other places. Lu Ren's original intention was to first experiment with the theoretical knowledge he copied from the Xun family, which could cooperate with him, and then gradually promote it if the results were good, but this was not the case in the eyes of other wealthy families.

For them, the Xun family was originally the most influential family in the Ying, Xu area, and finally saw that the Xun family showed signs of decay, and they were waiting for the Xun family to fall and their own family to replace them, but the appearance of Lu Ren made the Xun family turn around. In a word, under the mentality that everyone wants to be the boss, can this be acceptable to these wealthy families?

And the Xun family's fame is too big, no one dares to move, but Lu Ren is a person with no foundation, of course, Lu Ren must be moved to curb the further development of the Xun family. Now that you have encountered such a good opportunity, why don't you rush forward and bring Lu Ren down first? Speaking of which, Lu Ren is actually a bit pitiful, because he inadvertently played the role of a reformer similar to Wang Anshi.

It's just that Cao Cao, Lu Ren and the others, originally saw that the matter was almost done, but no one thought that someone would poke out Lu Ren's incident at this time, but Cao Cao couldn't step down in front of so many officials. The benefits of salt and iron are the heavy taxes of the country, do you really want Cao Cao to wave his hand and say that he had promised to exempt his taxes and bring it over like this? There is still Cao Cao's cronies among the large group of people kneeling in the court! These people just don't know what's going on, and Cao Cao can't let these people chill.

At this moment, Cao Cao's face was cloudy, and he had changed several colors in an instant, but his eyes were only focused on Cao Hong's body. Cao Cao: Who is that? He can often see through many things at a glance. At least at this moment, Cao Cao had already realized that Mao Jue was just being used as a gunman by Cao Hong.

After another thought, Cao Cao asked Mao Jue: "Xiaoxian, how should Lu Ren be dealt with according to the law?" ”

Before Mao Jue could answer, Xun Yu preemptively opened his mouth and said: "Ming Gong Mingjian!" Although Yihao was negligent, he thought that Yihao did not intend to evade taxes, but only unintentionally! He is Xu Du Ling, he has enough responsibility for the needs of all parties in Xudu, last year Xu Du lacked iron goods, he sent caravans to buy back iron goods to make up for the shortage of Xu Du iron goods, which is reasonable. It's just that he has never held such an important position, so it is inevitable that there will be some shortcomings, and the Ming Duke had promised that the Mi family could be exempted from the capital business tax, and he was exempted from it without knowing it for a while. As for his trafficking in smuggled iron, I'm afraid there is no way to talk about it, right? ”

Mao Jue was about to argue, but Cao Cao raised his hand to stop Mao Jue, and turned to Lu Ren and asked, "Lu Ren, I ask you, do you know that the tax on salt and iron is not exempt?" ”

Guo Jia secretly twisted Lu Ren, and at the same time lowered his voice and said, "Pretend to be stupid!" ”

Lu Ren is not stupid, and immediately put on an innocent appearance...... In fact, there is no need to put it, Lu Ren really feels extremely aggrieved at this time: "I, I really don't know!" I thought that since you gave the order, Cao Gong, you could all be exempted. ”

Xun Yu followed up in a timely manner: "Ming Gong, but anyone who uses power for profit, after he succeeds, he will all fill his own pockets, but Yihao has never had private property, this is something that everyone in Xu Du knows, which shows that it is just an unintentional mistake." In addition, Yihao Tuntian has made great achievements in the past three years, and although he has made this mistake now, he has made great contributions. I also hope that Ming Gong can see the merits of Yihao's long-term work. ”

If this kind of thing is said by someone else, it will not be able to suppress anyone, but if it comes out of Xun Yu's mouth, the situation is very different. Xun Yu was originally a celebrity, and his moral character was recognized up and down in Xuchang, and people like him stood up and interceded for Lu Ren, no matter who it was, they had to think about it, even those who didn't want to watch Xun's strength grow, they had to weigh whether it was appropriate to match Xun Yu on this occasion. Of course, this also gave Cao Cao the best step down......

(Originally, I wanted to use the original setting, but after thinking about it, I changed it.) Shamelessly ask for tickets, ask for collections, ask for recommendations! ）