Situ Chen Tan 'confessed' to his crime of colluding with the rebels, and advised the doctor Liu Tao to 'commit suicide in fear of crime' in prison. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info It's only been a few days? They were still discussing how to rescue Chen Tan and Liu Tao, but as a result, these two ministers of the court actually confessed their guilt and committed suicide in fear of crime?

What kind of collusion with traitors to plot misdeeds, this kind of crime is at most to deceive those officialdom sprouts, as long as people with a little bit of brains know that this crime is simply fabricated by the eunuch eunuchs.

You must know that before this, Chen Tan was the Situ of the third duke, and Liu Tao was not only a counselor who mastered the mouthpiece of the imperial court, but also a respected member of the Han family. These two people are both at the top of the scholar class of the Han Empire, how could they collude with the rebels of the Northern Hu and Qiang barbarians to rebel?

But after these two important ministers of the imperial court were framed in prison by the eunuchs, only a few days later, Situ Chen Tan 'confessed', and the counselor Liu Tao 'committed suicide in fear of crime', what kind of torture did they suffer in that prison, and they couldn't bear it after only a few days?

"Ahem, cough, Your Majesty, Situ's position is to rank in the third important position, since the traitor Chen Tan has confessed, Your Majesty needs to choose another virtuous minister to move to Situ's position as soon as possible." Sikong Zhang Ji coughed a few times, walked out of the train tremblingly, and said to Liu Hong with a wat board.

Here I want to say that although this Sikong Zhang Ji has the same name and surname as Zhang Ji, the general under Dong Zhuo in the future, he is not a person. This Zhang Jizi Yuanjiang is a native of Xiyang County, Runan County, Yuzhou. His great-grandfather Zhang Yu, the official to the third duke. Grandfather Zhang Fan and father Zhang Pan also entered the court as officials. After Liu Hong ascended the throne, Zhang Ji was recommended by Yang Ci to go to Huaguang Hall to teach Liu Hong Confucian classics. In March of the second year of Guanghe (179), Zhang Ji became the commonplace on behalf of Yuan Feng and officially stepped into the list of the three dukes.

It stands to reason that this Sikong Zhang Ji's family has been important ministers of the Han family for several generations, and he was personally recommended by Yang Ci, the lord of the Hongnong Yang family, to Emperor Liu Hong as a lecturer of Confucianism. Such a son of an official eunuch family is ranked as the third prince and has been an emperor, how can he be a highly respected minister in the court, right?

But in fact, a few years ago, this Lord Zhang Ji was already like Taiwei Xu Yu, who secretly took refuge in the eunuch party and became the mouthpiece of Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others in the court. In addition, the children of Zhang Ji and Xu Yu's families have always been greedy and unbridled, and all the civil and military officials in the court are quite dissatisfied with these two villains.

Historically, because of the rapid offensive of the Yellow Turban Uprising, many family properties arranged by the ministers of the DPRK and China in various places were destroyed. Many ministers of the imperial court were angry and pointed the finger at Xu Yu and Zhang Ji, believing that it was Xu Yu and Zhang Ji who had eaten the corpses of the two that brewed rebels like Zhang Jiao.

At that time, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others were still attacked by hundreds of civil and military officials, and when they could not protect themselves, Xu Yu and Zhang Ji were abandoned by the eunuchs and eunuchs in due time, and became the key targets of civil and military officials. At that time, in order to appease the emotions of the civil and military officials, Liu Hong could only dismiss his former master in the name of 'recuperating from illness'. Zhang Ji was extremely depressed after being 'retired' by Liu Hong, and it didn't take long for him to really die. And Xu Yu's position as Taiwei was also obtained by Yang Ci, the head of the Hongnong Yang family.

In this life, because of Wu Yi's contributions, not only did he discover the secret of Zhang Jiao's plot in advance, but also the Yellow Turban Uprising set off by Zhang Jiao did not bring much damage to the Han Dynasty. The pressure of the imperial court is not great, and it has not touched the psychological bottom line of civil and military officials, although there are also some people who are angry with Xu Yu and Zhang Ji because of the destruction of the family industry, but because the number is not large, it is easy to put those people in place according to the ability of the eunuch party and these two people, so Xu Yu is still sitting in the position of Tai Lieutenant, and this Zhang Ji is still sitting in his empty position.

After listening to Sikong Zhang Ji's reminder, Liu Hong, who was still proudly eliminating the two 'traitors' before, immediately remembered that he had another good opportunity to make money: "Situ's position is listed as the third duke, and he cannot be appointed unless he is loyal and virtuous." The previous Situ Chen Tan seemed to be loyal and good, but this time I felt that if someone wanted to be promoted to the position of Situ, he must first show his loyalty to me. Well, let's do it with 10 million yuan, whoever can contribute 10 million yuan to me must be a loyal minister of the court, a minister of my shares, and this position of Situ should naturally be done by him! ”

After the end of the court meeting, all the civil and military officials gathered together to discuss, and the emperor Liu Hong had also set up a sales office in Xiyuan before, but the position of an important minister like Situ had never been publicly 'sold'. If it is said that the eunuchs who indulged the eunuchs and the eunuchs to plague Chen Tan and Liu Tao before, it can be said that they were confused by the traitors and the party, then now Liu Hong openly sells the position of Situ at a price, which simply chills the loyalty of these civil and military ministers.

A few days later, at a dinner party, Liu Hong's Fu Mu Cheng ran over happily: "Your Majesty, the slave maid wants to ask, does Your Majesty have a suitable candidate for the position of Situ that was vacated a few days ago?" ”

Liu Hong still respects Mrs. Cheng, Fu's mother, but at this moment, Emperor Liu Hong is not in a good mood. Because Liu Hong originally thought that he could sell a lot of Situ's position, but in fact, Liu Hong did not receive a good insurance price in the past few days: "Well, Situ's position is very important, I am still making good choices these days, I don't know why Fu's mother asked about this?" ”

Mrs. Cheng smiled mysteriously: "The slave maid is to recommend a virtuous and talented person to Your Majesty." ”

"Oh? I don't know who is talented? Liu Hong took a sip of the wine in the cup and asked a little casually.

"Youzhou celebrity Cui Lie!"

"Cui Lie? Isn't it the grandson of Cui Chu, the son of Cui Pan, Cui Lie and Cui Weikao? This guy had a good name when he was young, and he has held several positions of Taishou over the years, so it is really more appropriate for him to take the position of Situ. Hmm...... "Liu Hong stroked his beautiful beard under his chin and began to think about Cui Lie.

Hearing that Liu Hong was more satisfied with Cui Lie, Mrs. Cheng smiled and said, "Your Majesty has agreed?" ”

"Huh? Ahem, although Cui Lie does have some meritocracy, I am now thinking about not only meritocracy, but also the loyalty of my courtiers. I said before that if you want to take the position of Situ, you need to contribute 10 million yuan to me, can Cui Lie do this? Although Liu Hong is still quite satisfied with Cui Lie's candidate, Liu Hong has not forgotten to use this position as Situ to make a lot of money.

"Oh, Your Majesty, don't blame the slaves and maids for being tongue-in-cheek, it's really that 10 million money may be easy for Your Majesty to come up with, but for those who are in the opposition, 10 million dollars is already an unimaginable huge amount of money. Although this Cui Lie is a member of the Cui clan in Youzhou, his entire family property is only three or four million yuan at most, and he can't take out 10 million yuan at all! Mrs. Cheng seems to have received a lot of benefits from Cui Lie, and began to intercede for Cui Lie in front of Emperor Liu Hong.

Liu Hong waved his sleeves: "I don't care what method he uses, even if he looks at Fu's mother's face, he must contribute at least five million yuan, otherwise no matter how virtuous this Cui Lie is, I will not use it to be Situ!" ”