At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Many people felt that Cheng Yu was going to be unlucky, so they went to the table to play Cheng Yu together, avenged those who had vengeance and those who had vengeance, and bombed indiscriminately.

Although Cheng Yu's side fell short for a while, Cheng Yu's accumulated strength over a long period of time made Cheng Yu not defenseless.

Cheng Yu's subordinates and allies immediately went to the table to defend Cheng Yu.

After Cheng Yu learned of this incident, his face turned pale with shock, and he went to the table to defend himself.

He knew that he didn't have such an idea, but Tian Feng wanted to slander him so much, so he hated Tian Feng even more.

At the same time, Cheng Yu also felt a deep fear, thinking of Guo Peng's reprimand to him before, if Tian Feng added fuel and vinegar to the lore again, wouldn't he be...

Cheng Yu was so frightened that his face turned pale, he was terrified, he couldn't eat well, and he couldn't sleep well.

I'm afraid that Guo Peng will dismiss him in a fit of anger.

However, this is not the case.

After Tian Feng played it, it did not arouse Guo Peng's anger, but Tian Feng got a "exaggerated" warrant from Guo Peng to push his performance back.

He also reprimanded Tian Feng by the way.

[Zhongde really committed a lot of crimes, Wei Zao should be overthrown, why is he so prosperous today?Your words are exaggerated, so don't say more. 】

After receiving the emperor's order, Tian Feng's heart was extinguished more than half of the raging fire, as if a basin of cold water had been poured head-on.

After this news came out, it gave Cheng Yu great confidence.

Tian Feng was also accused!

Like him, both were blamed.

Although not being scolded, but...

It is also the dissatisfaction of the emperor!

This is the opportunity!

Cheng Yu immediately revived with full blood and decided to launch a Jedi counterattack.

His subordinates used Cheng Yu's political achievements to prove that Cheng Yu's approach was correct. Perhaps Cheng Yu's attitude was not good, but Cheng Yu's loyalty was beyond doubt.

Although Cheng Yu is a bit ruthless, but he is ruthless for state affairs, not for personal gain, for the country, not for himself, there is a great relationship between the two.

Cheng Yu's approach was certainly wrong, but those people said that Cheng Yu was the emperor in Shangshutai, which was too much.

Everyone could see Cheng Yu's loyalty to Guo Peng. They were talking nonsense with their eyes open, avenging their personal revenge, and complaining that Cheng Yu suppressed them and refused to promote them.

They also listed the origins of those guys who gave Cheng Yu eye drops.

Shaking out all the unhappiness they knew between this group of people and Cheng Yu, trying to let Guo Peng know why these people fired on Cheng Yu.

For example, who is related to Tian Feng.

Who is related to Cui Yan.

Who is behind who is instigating.

Who has conflicts of interest with whom.

Cheng Yu didn't have so many crimes, but he just didn't want these people to take advantage of the loopholes. Cheng Yu guarded the last line of defense for Guo Peng so that he would not be breached. This was Cheng Yu's credit.

Cheng Yu mobilized some of his subordinates to take advantage of the victory and go after Guo Peng, severely criticizing the impeachment of Cui Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Dig up the Cui Qu incident a year ago, bring up the old incident again, say that Cui Yan is not trustworthy, and ask Guo Peng to replace the post of Minister of Rites.

Then he recommended some candidates that Cheng Yu was optimistic about.

If Tian Feng cannot be brought down, Cui Yan must be abolished!

This is Cheng Yu's new goal.

They said, Your Majesty, you must not be blinded!

You have to see clearly who is a loyal minister and who is a traitor!

Not only was Mr. Guo not blinded, he even had a third eye staring at the entire court.

In the four years since he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he has never relaxed for a single day. Since the main contradiction of the country has shifted from an external contradiction to an internal contradiction, he has not relaxed in the slightest.

Does Cheng Yu have any credit?

Of course there are.

Adhering to Guo Peng's will, he strictly guarded the administrative power of Shangshutai and the power of officials, selected many talents that Guo Peng needed, and blocked many bastards who tried to use their connections to enter the central government and engage in nepotism.

Cheng Yu controlled the Ministry of Officials, which to a considerable extent prevented the nepotism of central officials.

So of course he has credit, and of course he has made great contributions to Guo Peng, and he is one of the magic needles of the Guo Wei Empire.

Was Cheng Yu at fault?

Of course there are.

He is self-willed and narrow-minded, and the last thing he likes is when someone contradicts him.

He likes to use the power in his hands to put on shoes for those who don't listen to him, and incorporate it into the crackdown system. While cracking down on nepotism, he also pays attention to cracking down on his political opponents.

Moreover, he is tyrannical and ruthless, and he will never show mercy to the enemies he considers.

There are officials in Shangshutai who offended Cheng Yu, and they are basically either transferred to distant places or demoted, and they do not end well.

As the power hub and the most important executive body of the Wei Empire with the largest number of officials, Cheng Yu's one-man dominance is not a good sign.

This will shake the foundations of absolute monarchy.

In more academic terms, Cheng Yu's ministerial power has violated and affected Guo's imperial power.

Once he is allowed to complete his monopoly in Shangshutai, his power will grow rapidly, the situation in Shangshutai will get out of control, and someone Guo will lose complete control of Shangshutai.

If he wanted to control Shangshutai, he needed Cheng Yu's full cooperation.

Cheng Yu may not dare to disobey him, but once the absolute authority of the Shangshuling is established, can future kings control the Shangshutai through the Shangshuling?

Cheng Yu was able to serve as Minister of the Book and take charge of the Ministry of Officials because he deserved it for his achievements in founding the country.

Guo also had to give it to him, and he couldn't be dethroned without a very legitimate reason.

And Guo has already decided that before he dies, or before he can no longer hold power, he will abolish the existence of Shang Shuling and disperse this part of power.

This power is too great to be entrusted to one person.

Now let Shang Shuling have such a strong authority, let Cheng Yuwei be too big to lose, and in the end, if someone Guo wants Guo Jin to take over the power smoothly, there must be a Hu Weiyong case in the Guo Wei Empire.

The long-running case involved more than 3 people.

Mr. Guo is already forty. According to this era, he has already entered the later stage of life. He doesn't know how long he can live, whether he can survive Cheng Yu.

If someone Guo died before Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu would be better off if Zhuge Liang or Zhang Juzheng, maybe not.

With a powerful and meritorious veteran in front, how can the new emperor rule smoothly?

Guo Jin is not Liu Adou, who has a big heart and a fat body, nor Zhu Yijun, who ascended the throne at a young age. There is also a group of friends who have been trained by someone Guo as his wings, so he must not tolerate Cheng Yu.

At that time, a power struggle will inevitably break out between the monarch and his ministers, and the outcome is unknown.

This is something Guo cannot accept.

Even though Tian Feng made all kinds of mistakes, in a sense, he and Guo have the same interests.

There are people in his family in Guo's harem, and the economic lifeline of the Tian family is in the Mi's caravan, which is controlled by Guo, and an agreement has been reached on this part of the interests.

To some extent, Tian Feng can even be said to be a signboard placed by someone Guo in the Shangshutai, which is specially used to check and balance Cheng Yu.

If Cheng Yu is smart enough, he should know that Tian Feng can't move.

Anyone can be moved, and anyone in Guo can turn a blind eye and close one eye to look at it with a normal heart, eat a piece of melon, and watch them dog bite dog.

But Dong Tianfeng can't.

Especially after Cheng Yu drew in Cao Cao in order to check and balance Tian Feng's advantage, Guo Peng became more determined to teach Cheng Yu a lesson.

Someone Guo is an emperor who hates his subordinates crossing the line.

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Cheng Yu cared too much about his power.

It's nothing, there are too many people who like power.

But he shouldn't challenge the imperial power, even if it's unintentional.

Because someone Guo will only care more about the imperial power in his hand than him, and someone Guo will only pay more than Cheng Yu for this imperial power.

Guo Peng gave him a chance to reflect.

But it seems that he didn't realize what the most fundamental mistake he made was, so someone Guo was not happy.

Tian Feng also exaggerated a bit.

And because of his resistance to Cheng Yu, the traditional scholar forces that had been dispersed before regrouped and inadvertently gathered around Tian Feng, making Tian Feng their leader.

If those people think that it was Tian Feng's efforts that caused Cheng Yu to be defeated, Tian Feng's reputation will increase and he will become a real scholar leader, which is not in Guo's interest.

Someone Guo controls the economic lifeline of the Tian family, and what he wants is to control the life and death decisions of the Tian family.

If Tian Feng finds another way, Guo's control over the Tian family will have problems.

And Cui Yan is dancing again, Guo Peng hates him very much.

The Cui family of Qinghe is indeed still a small shrimp, not as good as the Cui family of Boling, but in the future, it will become one of the five surnames and seven wangs.

After the monopoly of education, the aristocratic family that has produced a large number of talents!

They are Guo's lifelong enemies.

If one can be abolished, one will be abolished. As long as Guo is alive, he will never make them feel better.

Tian Feng Group's offensive firepower and Cheng Yu Group's counterattack firepower seemed to have caused no waves on Guo's side.

However, according to the judgment of professionals, it was because the firepower of the two offset each other, so that the emperor did not know who was wrong and who was right, so he fell into a tangle.

Therefore, under the design of professionals from the two groups, the two sides escalated the scolding war from discussing the facts to personal attacks, and began to try to reduce the dimensionality of the other party from the moral and other aspects.

By this time, everyone was already red-eyed.

It doesn't matter if the opponent is Cao Cao or Cheng Yu, Tian Feng, Qiao Rui or Cui Yan.

Taking advantage of Cheng Yu's domineering and narrow-mindedness, he criticized Cheng Yu, thinking that Cheng Yu was not worthy of being a prime minister.

Grabbing Cao Cao's lust and luxury of private life, criticizing Cao Cao for not following Guo Peng's advocacy to live frugally, but making his wives and concubines extravagant in groups, can such a person be the chief minister of the cabinet?

Tian Feng Group made a move, and Cheng Yu Group also had to make a move. They faced each other tit for tat.

Focusing on Tian Feng's previous statement that he would build the canal to Jizhou, he said that Tian Feng was very selfish and didn't care about the life and death of the Li people.

He also pointed to the example of Cui Yan’s previous crimes, saying that Cui Yan looks like an elder on the surface, but in fact he does all kinds of bad things behind his back, and he doesn’t even care about his family members, which shows that he is hypocritical. talent?

Both sides scolded you back and forth, very intensely, to the point that all the melodies that Mr. Guo saw were the kind of words that were not swearing but better than swearing, which fully demonstrated the high cultural quality of this group of people.

Of course, someone Guo is clear about this, but Guo Jin doesn't know everything. Such a struggle will help Guo Jin see the complicated true colors of these people.

So Guo Jin once again refreshed her understanding of those "elders" who usually smile like flowers and are gentle and dignified.

"Father, I really didn't expect them to do this."

Guo Jin put down the watch and shook her head: "For the sake of power, I don't care about it at all. Such an ugly appearance is really disgusting."

Guo Jin is sincerely disgusted by the various gestures shown by officials in an environment of political struggle.

"They have always been like this, they have never changed. What you see is their mask, what they look like to you, and what they look like to your father. It is not what they are. It involves power and Everyone will change greatly in the battle for status."

Guo Peng pointed to himself and Guo Jin: "As a father now, you will be the same in the future. You are a human being, just the same. People never have only one face."

Guo Jin lowered his head and remained silent.

"The battle between Cheng Yu and Tian Feng is also a battle between the two forces in the court. Cheng Tian's faction is getting more and more fierce. Ajin, in your opinion, who will win this battle better?"

Guo Pengrao looked at Guo Jin with interest.

Guo Jin blinked and realized that this was Guo Peng's test, so she began to think calmly.

"Cheng Lingjun is consistent with his father on all levels. Although authoritarianism and arrogance are not in line with what a prime minister should do, Cheng Lingjun's loyalty to his father is unquestionable. Tian Pushe's words... "