Xu County.
Kong Rong was escorted to Xu County.
This is a big event...
Suddenly, Xu County became lively, as if it was a festival.
Kong Rong survived. If Kong Rong was killed during the festival, it would be a festival. Eye bells of all sizes buzzed like black-headed flies and gathered on Kong Rong's affairs. Countless mouths were wriggling like maggots, biting them tightly, sucking blood and eating meat, and making cheerful moans.
Natural disasters must be accompanied by man-made disasters.
There was a flood, and some were victims, and some pretended to be victims.
There was a fire, and some were fighting soldiers, and some pretended to be fighting soldiers.
Man-made disasters often cause natural disasters.
In Xu County, the people who were having fun were eating flesh and blood and smiling.
Isn't it just for fun?
What else is there to be more fun than what Kong Rong has done now?
What you see must be the truth?
What you hear must be the truth?
Three-year-old children know that this may not be the case, but when they really meet in life, how many people will consider the relationship between "truth" and "illusion", the problem between "truth" and "lie"?
People always feel that they need the "truth", but most of the time, the so-called "truth" prerequisite is not whether the "truth" itself is true, but whether people are willing to believe that the "truth" is true!
As long as someone is willing to believe, even if it is false, it is the "truth" to that person! On the contrary, if people are unwilling to believe this matter, then even if it is absolutely true, it is just "rumor that cannot stand scrutiny" or something "unconforms to actual imagination".
So, what is the truth and the truth?
Is it a "fact"?
Or "believe"?
Is it a serious crime to conspire to rebel?
Obviously yes.
So should we investigate the treason in detail and find out all the accomplices and accomplices?
Obviously it is also necessary.
But the problem is...
Most people know that Kong Rong and Kong Wenju’s crime of “rebellion”…
That's just that.
After all, there is a saying that scholars rebelled and failed for three years. Just like the grumbling horse monkey, if he really wanted to rebel, it would definitely not work.
People like Kong Rong gather together to criticize this and accuse that, but saying that this is the evidence of his rebellion, I am afraid that anyone who hears it will find it absurd.
This is like a group in a later generation, and not only does it block the group with one click, but it also sends warm water checking meter to the group members one by one, it seems like a little bit too much and overcorrects it.
So it became more and more like a farce.
『See Your Majesty!』
In the Chongde Hall, all officials came to see each other.
Liu Xie sat on the throne, first glanced at Xi Lu intentionally or unintentionally, then raised his hand slightly to signal, "All my beloveds are flat."
There are still procedures that should be found. The eunuch of the yellow sect shouted in a loud voice: "If you have something to do, report it early, and leave the court if you have nothing to do!"
As soon as the eunuch of the Yellow Gate finished speaking, Xi Lu stepped out of the train and bowed and started to speak: "Report to Your Majesty, I will lead the colleagues of the Censorate to investigate the Kong family case. Now I have found out."
Liu Xie already knew a little, but he still pretended not to be clear and asked: "Did you find out? Then let's just say it!"
"Report to Your Majesty, a case of Kong's family was a matter of Confucius's reign and Kong Wenju, and he was appointed as the Beihai..."
Xi Lu talked, retelling the content again, and then added some subtle, not-so-important crimes, such as "not following the court ceremony, bald scarf and abrupt officials", etc. The final conclusion was that Kong Rong was a great rebel hidden in the Han court. It was Xi Lu and his colleagues from the Censorate who caught such a person who had no loyalty to the Han Dynasty, had collapsed his thoughts, had no beliefs, lost principles, and had a large number of groups, small groups, and arrogant people slandered the government, were unfaithful and unfilial, were not honest in officials, did not distinguish between relatives and integrity, and was inflated by greed. He used his power for personal gain, could not be civil and resentful, and could not be safe in the country without arrest.
Xi Lu burst into tears, "Report to Your Majesty, I have received the emperor's kindness and become the chief censor, but I never thought that Kong's boldness, ignored the king's law, and refused to arrest him, injured and killed many court officials. This was a very serious crime! Your Majesty!"
After hearing this, Liu Xie couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, saying, "Your Majesty, your Majesty." It sounds like Liu Xie himself is guilty of the most serious crime...
Although Liu Xie was somewhat prepared, he couldn't help but feel a little moved when he heard Xi Lu say so simply that Kong Rong said nothing, extremely cruel and unforgivable.
After Xi Lu finished speaking, he saw the doctor's order. The military advisor took the wine and reported to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty! Kong Wenju's facts are unforgivable! All kinds of crimes are really out of reach! I want to impeach the Kong people led by Kong Wenju, with a total of nine charges! The crimes should be punished!"
Hearing Lu Cui's words, Liu Xie glanced at Cao Cao intentionally or unintentionally, and his expression became solemn, and he slowly said: "Oh? Nine major crimes? Should I be punished? Let me report it!"
"Kong Wenju was guilty of being corrupt! According to a thorough investigation of the archives in Beihai, he found that since Kong Wenju became an official in Beihai, he had been greedy for money, embezzled public funds, and falsely reported the amount, and had greedy for no less than five million yuan! Among them, there were also cases of vacancies and chaos, and the tax was cut off from the court and used for other purposes. The number was huge, with more than ten million yuan!"
"Confucius two crimes and formed a party! According to the investigation by my ministers, Kong Wenju boasted of his descendants of Confucius, used his reputation to recruit despairers, gathered arrogant people, bribed imperial officials, and showed good news to local officials. Now he has formed a party in the countryside! Among them, there are also connections between Guanzhong and going south to Jiangdong, which is a great plan! "
"Kong Wenju's crimes are three, unfaithful and unfilial! Kong Wenju..."
『Enough!』
Just when Lu Cui wanted to continue reading, he was suddenly interrupted by Liu Xie.
If you want to inflict a crime, why not worry about it?
Is Kong Rong really a rebellion? Is it really a disloyalty and unfilial situation?
If we only look at the evidence provided by Xi Lu and Lu Cui, Kong Rong would be a traitor with great crimes and ulterior motives!
But what if you look at the problem more comprehensively?
It’s just a pity that many people just want to see what they want to see. They don’t want to see all the facts, and even insult the person who lets them see the truth. It’s because the person who revealed the dark side has been unspoken, so they see the dark side. Otherwise, why wouldn’t ordinary people see it?
Why are others okay, but you have so many things?
Why can everyone do it, but you can't?
Those who empathize with capital may not only be at individual times.
Liu Xie looked at Xi Lu, turned to look at Lu Cui, and said in a deep voice: "Civilian Xi, Lu Jijiu, do you two impeach Kong Wenju, do you have any detailed evidence of the crime? If there is evidence of the crime, where does it come from?"
Xi Lu lowered his head and replied: "As the imperial censor, I am loyal to Your Majesty and responsible for the court, I naturally dare not let go without mistakes. I am guilty of impeachment of Kong Wenju, all of which were investigated by the Censorate and confessed by officials involved in the Beihai case. After repeated verification, there is no possibility of falsehood!"
Lu Cui also said: "All the crimes I have raised are true!"
Liu Xie nodded and said, "Since that's the case, Kong Wenju's great crimes are all due to your interrogation?"
Xi Lu and Lu Cui looked at each other, and naturally they were hard to deny, and it was impossible to deny it, so they agreed in unison.
Liu Xie nodded, suddenly slapped the handrail of the throne and said in a deep voice: "If it were as the two beloved ministers said, why could such a traitor continue to do evil for so long?! Could it be that during this period, the officials and nine ministers of the court were all arranged by the officials in various places?! Why was there no one to investigate? Until the Censor Xi and Lu Jijiu, the two beloved ministers, could this matter be revealed? There may be any disturbances in the court officials, and there may be any unclear decisions in the Shangshutai?! Investigate! There must be something strange about this matter! Continue to investigate thoroughly!"
In the hall, the ministers' expressions changed suddenly.
When I see someone else's mountain fire, whether I feel pitiful or gloating, I am a little far away from me, but if a fire is about to burn on my own...
"His Majesty……"
When Xi Lu saw that the sign was wrong, he wanted to say something, but Liu Xie shook his sleeves, "Those who plot against the enemy are now the harm of the Han Dynasty. If it were not for the full investigation of the Lord, how could the country be stable? Investigate! Continue to investigate! I don't believe that just by Kong Wen's stuttering scholar, he could gather so many murderers! Where does the weapons, armor and stomach come from? Where does the corner of the golden drum and flag get?! Can there be thieves in Qingzhou connect with him?! Is there any internal thief in Yingchuan secretly communicate with him?! Xi's begs! The poem says, "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety." This is the end of the way! This matter is to be told to the two begs! You must not stop here! We should thoroughly investigate the rebellion to eliminate future troubles! I am tired! Let's go here first and retreat to the court!"
After saying that, Liu Xie stood up, shook his sleeves and left.
All officials were helpless. No matter what their thoughts were, they could only bow their heads in the sharp voice of the eunuch of the Yellow Sect and bow...
…=╮(╯▽╰)╭b…
During the three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, when the children of the gentry entered the career of officialdom and wanted to climb from the middle to the higher level, the way to advance was actually not much different from the feudal dynasties that followed.
First of all, we must have a clear understanding of the court's policies, a overall understanding of various laws and regulations, as well as the relationship between factions and figures of the court. This makes it possible to at least reach the position of the minister, the supervisor, or some important official positions under the nine ministers, or even a certain Cao under the three ministers, which is considered a better promotion point.
Then, he was placed outside the place and served as the prefect of a certain place, an important county, a vassal state, and transferred two or three times in different prefectures and counties. Only in this way can he accumulate sufficient qualifications, experience and connections. This is the second step.
Then, if an official has excellent political achievements during his tenure as a local official and has strong backers in the court, he will return to the central government again. With sufficient qualifications, means, ability and luck, he can go further and become an important figure in the court, ranking among the three ministers, and from then on, one person is below ten thousand!
However, this is just a normal way to advance, and it is not applicable to Cao Cao and a series of people from the Xiahou clan of Cao.
After entering the officialdom, these people from the Xiahou family of Cao were like rushing into the wild boars on the farmland, mixing the original rules of the farmland into nothing worthwhile.
It was too chaotic before, and there was constant disputes everywhere, and the day was in danger. No one knew whether the flags hanging on the city today would be replaced with another one tomorrow, so they didn't have time to worry about it or think about anything. It would be good to survive. However, as the situation gradually stabilized, the three-legged tripod was re-formed, and the barriers to movement between classes were reflected.
Of course, the same is true for various areas of the border officials, such as Fei Qian, Sun Quan and others, and there are similar problems.
However, Fei Qian was a little better. People who sat in some top positions all showed glory in the midst of several bloody storms. Only a few later generations, such as Sima Yi, Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Liang, were occasionally questioned and hostile to others, but no one dared to say anything about copying a few more times.
For example, Pang Tong, Xun Chen, Xun You, Jia Xu, Xu Shu and others, basically no one dares to do any small moves easily. After all, the people who made small moves before were already dead, and they were placed next to the road with a very miserable death.
At the same time, under Fei Qian's rule, there were not many direct and incompetent people in the corpse and bare position. Compared with Cao Cao and Sun Quan, it was almost negligible. Most officials were capable, and middle and lower-level officials were also selected from the exam, so there were naturally fewer conflicts among the top and bottom, and everyone had a good score. Whether they could be promoted or competed, the capable ones were promoted, and the mediocre ones were demoted. If they won, they would be successful and the middle and lower-level officials were selected, and if they lost, they would be inferior to others.
There is nothing to say, and no one will listen if you say it.
If you don’t agree, go to the exam!
Every year, Enke does not prohibit grassroots officials from participating, nor does it have a thirty-five-year-old death line or a graduation line. So as long as you have the ability to go, you will have the chance and naturally there will be less complaints.
However, among Cao and Sun, a large number of children of their clans take shortcuts often means that there will be some hidden dangers!
Cao Cao is even more serious here!
It seems that the local officials were sent to become officials in the border areas, which was quite hard for the period. However, for those ambitious officials, it was absolutely an indispensable and critical step. Because of the old dual-monarch official structure of the Han Dynasty, once you have the opportunity to become officials in the border areas, you will be the little emperor in the local area! When promoting confidants, buying officials, and expanding your connections, there is no much pressure or competition. As long as you manage carefully, you can get a large number of confidants and friends and enter the court center in the future. Some people can also help you.
But now, the promotion routes of these children of other clans have been interrupted.
Then when Cao Cao gathered the counties and counties in various places, except for a few places that were destroyed and collected, most of the other areas were renovated. On the surface, they bypassed the original ID's monster machine and wanted to set up a restoration, and they immediately burst.
How could Cao Cao not understand this?
So Lao Cao has been doing it all the time, really doing it.
Lao Cao is committed to turning other people's wives into his own great cause, so that other people's sons become their own sons. Among so many adopted sons, there will naturally be some excellent offspring, thus avoiding the situation where their children are lonely and inadequate.
On the other hand, Lao Cao is constantly weakening the power of local gentry.
If you can buy what you can buy, you can win over what you can win over. Only if there is no way, will you kill.
It's like dealing with Kong Rong.
After Kong Rong fled back to his hometown from the city of Xu County, Cao Cao never did anything, nor did he say what to do to Kong Rong. Why did he suddenly attack Kong Rong?
Are those old accounts of Beihai that always reveal the world?
Obviously, it wasn't, it was just Kong Rong who trapped himself in this period of time.
Originally, when Xi Lu wanted to get into Kong Rong, Cao Cao ignored it and didn't care much. After all, the focus of his attention was not on Kong Rong at that time, but Cao Cao did not expect that Kong Rong would still be afraid, and he would still be afraid in his heart, so he would inevitably attend some gatherings and meet some people, so he felt that he was still under the support of the "people" and received some comfort.
But when attending a banquet, of course you have to drink. If you drink too much, sometimes you don’t say anything and then you’re recorded by someone who is interested... Bah, it will be revealed, which will naturally anger Cao Cao and the people of the Cao Xiahou family under Cao Cao.
Some things cannot be known to ordinary people! It is better to cover the fig leaf, or the people below the audience will laugh and say that there is a big word on the official’s butt. How can you manage it? How can you govern it?
Kong Rong submitted a memorial to "The System of the Ancient Kings and Capitals". In the memorial, Kong Rong advocated "a thousand miles away, no feudal princes", which meant that Cao Cao would go to Yingchuan and leave Yuzhou to the emperor Liu Xie to manage it. This suggestion to consider it completely from the perspective of the emperor, respect the emperor, and expand the real power of the Han Dynasty was obviously contrary to Cao Cao's strategy of "using the emperor to command the princes".
Of course, in addition to these scenes, Kong Rong was also involved in another thing...
Therefore, Cao Cao would let Kong Rong die. If Kong Rong could not be killed, then there would definitely be a second person coming up to criticize him. The third person and the last group of interns and apprentices flocked to him. What should Cao Cao do then?
Of course, if Kong Rong could change his attitude and turn to Cao Cao's side, Cao Cao would definitely stage a "respecting the wise and the nobles". There is no need to explain the boots and other things. Unfortunately, Kong Rong himself would only let the pears and was so stupid that he thought this time, just like he and his brother were fighting for death, he was given a glorious reputation.
In his character design and life, Kong Rong finally chose the character design.
In the prison in Xu County, although Kong Rong could not see guests, outside the prison, there were always "people" coming to visit him. He shouted loudly in his name, expressing his "support" to Kong Rong, which made Kong Rong even more convinced that suffering is only temporary and light is ahead!
But Kong Rong didn't know at all whether the so-called light shining on him was artificial or natural...
The glorious eyes are charming.
Chapter completed!