"Why doesn't Mr. Cao speak?" Yu Guiren, who has all white hair, asked seriously. "Is there something difficult?"

After a long time, Cao Jie nodded and said: "I don't want to hide it from you, your nobles. Wang Fu, Yuan She, Feng Yu, Zhang Feng, these people are now dead and gone. I am the only one in the North Palace, and I can't even sing."

Got it!"

Mr. Yu said disapprovingly: "If you really can't stand alone, then make peace with these newcomers. What they want is nothing more than the position of a regular servant and a position in the Yellow Gate. As you said, Wang Fu and the others will either leave or die."

, what else can we do if we have so many empty seats?”

"Now that things have happened, how can I not know that I should reconcile?" Cao Jie said sternly. "It's just that the nobles don't know. All the new standing servants already regard me as fish on the chopping board and don't even bother to reconcile with me.

Besides, there are more than ten of them scattered throughout the palace. Even if I want to express my feelings, I have to find a way to get them all together before I can be honest... communicate privately one by one, just for their previous offense and defense.

Alliance, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to trust me, even if they trust me for a moment, they will change in the blink of an eye."

"In this case, I don't know what to say." Mr. Yu couldn't help but replied. "I am old, and these regular servants in the palace don't take me seriously. They just want to summon all the people for you."

People, I’m afraid, are also powerless.”

Cao Jie also continued to nod and said: "This is why I must meet you, old slave. It's not that I don't have some ideas, but the situation in front of me is really too dangerous. I have to fight with you no matter what before I fight to the death.

Your Majesty, I would like to say goodbye... After all, your Majesty and I are already so old."

With that said, Cao Jie took off the two thousand stone permanent attendant's crown on his head, exposed his gray hair, and bowed to the ground in the palace of the noble Yu, paying homage.

Seeing this, Mr. Yu suddenly hesitated to speak, but finally he smiled slightly, sat still, and accepted such a courtesy from the other party calmly.

It was getting very late. After Cao Jie finished his salute, he stepped back respectfully, then left Guiren Yu's palace directly and went to rest in his own room.

"So, Duke Cao has entered the palace?"

In front of the gate of Cao's Mansion, Gongsun Xun, who was returning home, held his knife and looked directly at the bearded scribe standing in front of him. As for Mr. Cao, who was supposed to be in charge here, he didn't know where he was at this time.

"Report to Dr. Gongsun!" Luo Mu saluted respectfully. "That's right. My lord is a regular servant of the Beigong. How can he stay in the inner house all the time?"

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but sneer: "You are also a scholar, but your voice is really sincere..."

Luo Mu lowered his head and said nothing.

"Well, my poker skills are inferior to others and I have nothing to say, but where is the general trend of the people in the world, I hope you, Luo Zixian, can take care of it!" After saying this, Gongsun Xun let go of his hand and was about to turn around and leave.

"Won't the doctor go in and conduct a search?" Luo Mu suddenly raised his head and asked. "You are an official in the capital, and you also have the power and responsibility to enforce the law."

"It came in a hurry." Gongsun Xun responded solemnly. "There was no time to forge counter-proposals, seals, tiger talismans and other items. And if the entire Cao family cannot be wiped out, what is the use of inspecting some property at this time?"

Luo Mu stood alone in front of the Cao Mansion, but he didn't know how to respond.

After a night of depression, Cao Jie's counterattack suddenly appeared on the afternoon of the second day.

"Please stay with me, Mr. Yuan." In a hall in the Weiguan Temple of the Sili School, Gongsun Xun, who was handling Yuan She's duties on behalf of Yang Qiu, suddenly stopped talking in front of Yuan Wei. "I'll go out and receive an official document."

Yuan She, Yuan Wei, and Yuan Shu, who didn't know why they appeared here, all raised their eyes to look at Shi Wanglang and Wang Jingxing, the director of the Secretariat, who appeared outside the lobby, and then they didn't say much.

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Xun came outside the hall and almost immediately felt a bad feeling in his heart.

Wang Lang looked serious. He paused for a moment and then said seriously: "Brother Wenqi, there is something that Mr. Qiao specially asked me to tell you. I don't know whether it is good or bad..."

"Tell me more." After hearing this, Gongsun Xun became more and more alert.

"Today, an official wrote to the court, bluntly saying that the eunuchs harmed the country and impeached Cao Jie, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong..."

After only listening to half a sentence, Gongsun Xun felt his scalp numb. Impeaching Cao Jie was nothing more than impeaching Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong. Is this crazy? Don’t you know how to break down and distinguish the main contradictions?! But with the

Now, to put it bluntly, the chief villains of the eunuch camp are Cao Jie and Wang Fu, right?

To be honest, Gongsun Xun would have thought that this kind of person who carries a big banner and destroys the overall situation is just some people who are stupid. After all, there are just as many idiots among scholars as they just think that the "Book of Filial Piety" is all-powerful.

A thousand stones would cost you a dozen...

However, as soon as Cao Jie entered the palace, someone was so impatient to stir up trouble. That must not be stupid, but bad! There must be collusion and premeditation, which is to separate Cao Jie, who was originally alone, and the other newly promoted palaces.

The middle and noble people are united as one.

It is even conceivable that as soon as this bad guy takes the lead, a large group of fools will immediately follow him with enthusiasm... And what is even more tragic is that Gongsun Xun, Qiao Xuan, and Yang Ci, who are well aware of this, have

There is absolutely no way to stop it, and you might even be hijacked!

Otherwise? Do you want to stand up and say that Cao Jie is a bad guy, but Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong are good guys?!

"That's it. Brother Wenqi can take care of himself." Wang Lang couldn't help but sigh.

In other words, if you stay in a place like Shangshutai for a year and a half, even a white lotus will turn into a black lotus, let alone such a smart young man?

"I understand." Gongsun Xun sighed and could only say this. "Go back and tell Mr. Qiao that I will be careful."

In this way, Wang Lang said goodbye and went back, and Gongsun Xun re-entered the hall to face Yuan She, the regular attendant.

"Yuan Changshi." As soon as he came back, Gongsun Xun was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. He just sat down in the upper seat with his hands behind his back, and his expression changed. "In this situation, I only have one thing to say to you, don't go back home.

, now go out of the city and return to your hometown to retire!"

Yuan She was stunned immediately, but after just one glance at Yuan Wei, he immediately summoned up the courage to ask, "I dare to ask Dr. Gongsun, but what happened?"

"Of course!" Gongsun Xun said calmly. "Cao Jie escaped into the Beigong alone yesterday. We actually have no way to deal with him. And then today someone impeached Cao Jie again. Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and many other ministers are colluding together. It seems that

It is to muddy the water and put us in a position of inability to advance or retreat..."

"In that case." Yuan She's eyes couldn't help but shine slightly. "I am old..."

"In this case." Gongsun Xun suddenly turned down his face. "It becomes even more difficult for me to show leniency to you, a fish that slipped through the net! I only gave you a second look for the sake of your fellow sect, Mr. Yuan. I promise you

You are returning home. But if you still don’t know what you want, I will have to beat you to death in this hall today, and then hang you in front of the city gate to be with Wang Fu! Do you know that Wang Fu was so arrogant in the past?

Are there maggots already?"

Yuan She was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say; Yuan Wei was also dumbfounded, stunned and speechless; even Yuan Shu couldn't help but carefully look at Gongsun Xun who was talking arrogantly at this time, and then secretly sighed that what his father said was not true.

Xu...Of course, back to the present, if others were talking such nonsense, the three people named Yuan in this class would probably just take it as a joke. But the person in front of me is probably really able to do what he says, because Wang Fu and Duan Xi

, Chen Jiu is indeed a lesson to others!

In other words, Gongsun Xun said so. If you don’t believe it, you may really get maggots!

After waiting for a long time, seeing that the hall was speechless for a while, Gongsun Xun became even more impatient and became more and more angry: "Yuan Changshi, the current situation is only about permission or disapproval. Don't think you can really delay it here.

You must know that the more difficult the situation becomes, the more I will do something thunderous to rectify the situation and calm people's hearts! Zhu Huan, Zhu Huan, do you think that because your surname is Yuan, you are not a eunuch?! Can I keep you?

A life, what else do you want?!"

Yuan She turned to look at Yuan Wei, who was silent next to him, and then raised his hands to beg for mercy: "Old slave, I don't have any luck, I just hope that Gongsun Zhonglang will grant me permission because I am a member of the Runan Yuan clan.

Bring some belongings back to your hometown, so that you can buy some land and live in your old age..."

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but look at Yuan Shu with a sneer: "Brother Jiujiu, don't you Yuan family have money to support the orphans and widows in the clan?"

When Yuan Shu heard this, he just lowered his head and smiled: "Look at what Wen Qi said, it's okay if you don't admit it. Now that you have been carried into the door, there will be no shortage of food and clothing for this elder, don't you think?"

Yuan She couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, and then he felt like the world was spinning and he fell to the ground!

By the way, Yuan Changshi is also a big eunuch who has been hanging out with each other since the Liang Ji era. How can he not hear the meaning of Yuan Shu's words? Not to mention how different his attitude is from Yuan Feng in the past. Just listening to this meaning, it seems that he feels that he

He has lost power, so he is considered a redundant waste!

And if this is the case, if he really returns to his hometown in Runan but has no wealth in his hands, wouldn’t he really be lonely and helpless? But then I thought about it, in front of this White Horse Zhonglang who really dared to kill people right away, if Yuan

If you don't support yourself, how can you leave any wealth behind?

So, after thinking about it, the situation in front of me is actually half a dead end!

Damn that Cao Jie, couldn't he escape into Beigong one day later? Maybe he could escape unscathed in this way!

In short, as Yuan She sat on the ground, he became more and more sad and sad the more he thought about it. In addition, thinking about the wealth he had accumulated for most of his life, in the end, he actually sat in the hall and cried loudly... which also made him sad.

The officials and soldiers in the hall watched the excitement.

"Uncle." When Yuan Shu saw this, he couldn't help but grabbed his uncle's sleeve, pulled the latter outside the hall and whispered. "Such a person deserves the surname Yuan?!"

"After all, it is all thanks to the Yuan family." Yuan Wei had no choice but to bite the bullet and replied. "When your father was still in good health, you had told him before that you must protect him!"

"Didn't he already save his life?" Yuan Shu became even more impatient after hearing this. "What else do you want? Uncle, under the current situation, it is difficult to continue the execution of eunuchs, which is also because the power of eunuchs has declined.

situation. But what happened to my father before was that he could not intervene, but he actually sat back and watched the Yang family win a lot of popularity by overthrowing Wang Fu... Under such circumstances, if we forcefully protect a eunuch, how will the world look at us?

Yuanshi? Besides, didn’t my father ask us to pick up the Gongsunshi and Gongsun Xun before?”

Yuan Wei was a man without any ideas. Hearing his nephew's words, he immediately hesitated. On the other hand, Gongsun Xun in the hall also completely lost his patience. He had already called the officials to take down Yuan She.

Torture... As a result, both Yuan Wei and Yuan She were immediately panicked and did not dare to delay any further.

Finally, the two parties agreed that Yuan She's family property would be confiscated and he would leave Luo for nothing, while Yuan promised to escort the other party all the way to Runan and never come back.

And now that Yuan She has been assigned, so far, the eunuch group that relied on the September coup and the second party ban to establish its dominant position in the government has almost only a lonely leader, Cao Jie, still lingering in the palace.

Of course, the situation became more and more delicate as Cao Jie continued to hide in Beigong.

You know, compared with Yang Qiu, Gongsun Xun and others who were helpless, the mood in Shilin was getting more and more exciting. Then more and more people began to write letters requesting execution, and the targets were extended from Cao Jie to

Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong. Later, as the trend formed, some people even publicly raised the slogan of redressing the rebellion of General Dou Wu and Taiwei Chen Fan... Later, as expected, demands for the lifting of party imprisonment also appeared as a matter of course.

Already.

In fact, Gongsun Xun, Yang Qiu, Yang Ci, and Qiao Xuan all knew about this. Doing so would only anger the emperor and make him wary of this matter. He might even turn around directly, but they were unable to stop it at all.

and rebuttal. In fact, even Gongsun Xun had to bite the bullet and jointly signed this memorial with his colleagues at the Shangshutai. It probably meant asking for the death of Zhao Zhong or something... It was also a pain in the ass!
To be continued...