Chapter 369 Outside the West Garden Gate, a warning from the Han Emperor
Of course, for an official position like San Gong, which is related to the security of the country, Liu Hong naturally has to be extremely careful about the appointment of various personnel.
Some middle-level official positions are not included here, such as those below Guanneihou, Huben, Yulin and other department positions under Guang Luxun. These are all for sale to the public. As long as you have enough money, you can become an official.
Generally speaking, the sales price of official titles is calculated based on the salary. For example, the rank of Changshui Xiaowei, which Cao Cao currently serves, has a rank of two thousand shi, and the price is 20 million yuan, which is equivalent to one thousand gold.
It is worth mentioning that this thousand gold can only buy an official position in name only. If you really want real power and become a truly legitimate official, you have to go to Xiyuan to pay a quarter of the official price. As
The legitimate handling fee is five million dollars.
It is equivalent to saying that for an official position with a rank of two thousand dan, one must spend 25 million yuan to get the seal and ribbon and become a legitimate official of the Han Dynasty.
This step is called paying money.
Fortunately, Cao Cao did not buy this official position by himself, but Liu Hong accepted his fate in person. He did not have to spend any money to buy the official position. He only had to pay the handling fee for taking office, and he could get the seal and ribbon to prove that he was the captain of Changshui.
Thereby commanding the soldiers and horses of Changshui Camp.
However, when Cao Cao came to the West Garden with his servants and a cart containing five million and five baht, he was turned away by the official Zhao Zhong.
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Speaking of which, Zhao Zhong and Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng are old acquaintances. Now that they meet his grandson, it is natural to exchange a few words.
"Aman, speaking of it, since you followed Yuan Shao at the back door every day, it has been several years since we were together like this and chatted with each other." Zhao Zhong glanced at Cao Cao, who was obviously taller, and suddenly sighed.
Cao Cao's grandfather, Cao Teng, was an old man in the palace. In the first year of Yongning, sixty-four years ago, when Emperor Shun was the crown prince, Empress Dowager Deng saw that Cao Teng was young, cautious and kind, so she sent him to Shun.
He stayed by the emperor's side and studied with the crown prince.
Because of this, Cao Teng gained the favor and trust of Emperor Shun. When Emperor Shun came to the throne six years later, Cao Teng was immediately honored as Xiaohuangmen, and later promoted to Zhongchangshi.
After that, Cao Teng moved to Changqiu due to his meritorious service in planning to welcome Emperor Huan. He was named Feitinghou and was given the title of Special Advancement.
It can be said that Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others are just small roles in front of him.
What's more, the latter had served in the palace for more than thirty years without any obvious mistakes and was able to recommend worthy people. After being impeached by Zhong Hao, he was still able to call Zhong Hao a capable official, so he was praised by people.
In terms of reputation alone, he can beat today's Ten Constant Attendants.
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"The Changqiu is over, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and a new generation replaces the old. Now the inner court of the Great Khan is still your old man's world. I will trouble you to take care of me in the future." Cao Cao said with a smile.
There is an old saying that goes well, don't hit someone with a smiling face. To these ten regular servants, Cao Cao didn't want to offend, so he naturally spoke with a smiling face.
After a while of greetings, Zhao Zhong immediately conveyed Liu Hong's wishes, which was to give Cao Cao a high hat. Although his grandfather Cao Teng was only an eunuch, he was loyal, so he also hoped that Cao Cao could be loyal to him.
The country lives up to its divine grace.
After Zhao Zhong conveyed the emperor's will, he left without looking back, leaving Cao Cao and others in a daze.
"Brother, is this handling fee waived?" Cao Ren asked with some uncertainty.
"It should be exempted." Cao Cao said uncertainly, and then looked down at the wooden plate in his hand and the official uniforms with seals and ribbons placed on the wooden plate. He seemed to be deep in thought, guessing Liu Hong's deep meaning.
You know, that was five million and five baht, which was not a small amount of money. The emperor actually said he didn't want it and he didn't want it. Cao Cao didn't believe it.
After all, Liu Hong's reputation for loving money has already been established among the Han Dynasty. In the memory of all Luoyang officials, he is the foolish Liu Hong who fell in the eyes of money.
But now, Cao Cao really couldn't understand Liu Hong's operation.
Since he couldn't figure it out, Cao Cao simply stopped thinking. At this time, he found that on the wooden plate, in addition to the seal and ribbon official uniform of Captain Changshui, there was also a folded silk cloth. This made Cao Cao mutter.
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"Zixiao, take it." Cao Cao handed the wooden tray to Cao Ren, who was accompanying him, and then slowly opened the silk, and a trace of shock suddenly appeared on his face.
"As the captain of Changshui, you should be driven by the emperor of the Han family. You should not have so many connections with the noble families that you forget that you are a Han official."
Looking at the handwriting on the silk, Cao Cao's face was full of horror, because he didn't know what Han Emperor meant and which aristocratic family he was referring to.
"Han Emperor, Han Emperor, it seems that everyone underestimates you." Cao Cao looked in the direction of Luoyang Nangong and muttered to himself. At this moment, he had a new understanding of this fatuous emperor.
"Zi Xiao, go back home immediately!" After receiving the seal, ribbon and official uniform, Cao Cao did not dare to stay here for a long time. He immediately shouted, turned around and got into the large carriage used to pull five million and five baht.
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At this moment, he can't wait to take office.
Eight thousand elite troops, plus fifteen thousand auxiliary troops, are enough capital for him to make a good splash.
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After returning to the mansion, Cao Cao sent Cao Ren and others away. His originally smiling expression turned gloomy in an instant.
"Who is this? I didn't expect that your hand could be stretched out long enough." Cao Cao looked in the direction of Nangong and murmured to himself.
Cao Cao did not dare to underestimate Da So He He's espionage force that had been established for hundreds of years. After Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, unified the world, he established the Da So He He intelligence organization based on the Qin Dynasty's Black Ice Platform.
It had only one purpose, and that was to train it to become the eyes and ears of the empire. After all, there were still many forces at that time, and even big men had to be careful.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Under Da So He's terrifying search, many opponents of the Han Dynasty and even the emperor were destroyed. Even if it was as powerful as the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, it was still under Da So He.
With the support of intelligence, he was eliminated by Zhou Yafu.
It can be said that Da Shehe was a knife in the hands of the Han Dynasty, which nipped in the cradle any possibility of threatening the empire's rule, thus safeguarding the empire's rule.
From the time when Dahan was founded to this time, Dahan has been established for nearly 400 years, and it has brought many times of vitality to Dahan.
Take Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu as an example. He was able to dominate the world so quickly because he was the son of destiny and his own abilities were among the best, but the support of others was also a part that could not be ignored.
Otherwise, Liu Xiu's road to unification would not be so smooth, and there would definitely be certain twists and turns.
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However, no matter how mysterious Yuhi is, this power cannot hide the fact that it is an espionage organization.
The Han Empire, as the holder of the sword, has been on the road to decay, and as the espionage organization that continues to grow parasitically in the shadow of the empire, it is naturally no exception.
Take the current Yellow Turban Rebellion as an example.
A few months ago, there were tens of thousands of mobs operating under the nose of the Han Dynasty, and they almost attacked Nangong. However, the imperial court did not even have any news.
The reason why this happened is because the Taiping Sect's penetration into everyone has reached an alarming level, and the facts are enough to make people shudder.
As the eyes of the empire, Da Shehe's duty should have been to eliminate all forces that oppose the empire, but the reality is that their eyes are covered with a layer of cloth, and they cannot even see the poisonous snakes around them.
From this it can be seen that Da Shehe is now almost paralyzed and has basically reached the point where he is useless.
However, even a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Cao Cao did not dare to relax his vigilance against a veteran espionage organization like Da Shehe. After all, where its resources are, it is far from establishing the Black Ice Platform that has only been established for a few years.
Jin Yiwei is comparable!
And now it seems that this is indeed the case.
After all, there are capable people in Da He He, such as Wang Yue, the sword god of Liaodong, Zhang Rang, the first of the ten constant servants, and Jian Shuo, the official of Huangmen.
These three people are the three major commanders who are now in charge.
As for Liu Hong, Cao Cao actually didn't think highly of this guy. He just thought he was an unscrupulous and foolish king. But now it seems that he underestimated him.
He appointed these three people, all of whom were loyal to the Han Dynasty, because only in this way could he control who was the powerful and prevent them from being used by political opponents.
Wang Yue, the sword god of Liaodong, served Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling one after another. His loyalty was naturally beyond question, so he was appointed by Liu Hong as one of the three commanders of the Great One.
The other two commanders, Zhang Rang, who was the Ten Permanent Attendant, and Jian Shuo, the trusted eunuch, were the swords that Liu Hong pushed in the front stage to compete with the aristocratic family.
Their abilities in other areas may be average, but when it comes to their ability to engage in conspiracy and conspiracy, they are definitely outstanding.
Take Zhang Rang, for example, who is not only sinister but also scheming. He is Liu Hong's sharpest and most trusted sword, while Jian Shuo, who is strong and brave, serves as Liu Hongming's face guard.
And as the Great So He Organization, a powerful weapon of the country, was mastered by a group of eunuchs such as Shi Changshi, it basically became their tool to suppress their political opponents.
Regarding the Ten Constant Attendants, many people take it for granted that there are ten eunuchs, otherwise why would they be called the Ten Constant Attendants.
In fact, there are not only ten people, but twelve people. They are called Shichangshi by the people just for the sake of easy memory.
These twelve people are: Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Gui, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, Han Kui and Song Dian. They all serve as regular ministers.
In the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the ten regular servants respectively refer to: Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Feng Xu, Duan Gui, Cao Jie, Hou Lan, Jian Shuo, Cheng Kuang, Xia Yun, and Guo Sheng.
These ten people were regarded as traitors by their friends and were named "Ten Constant Attendants".
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "These twelve people are all ministers of the imperial court, and they are the nobles and nobles. Their fathers, brothers, and children are in prefectures and counties. They are greedy and lowly, and they are harmed by others."
The Shi Changshi were not fools either. They knew that the emperor re-appointed them just to create trouble for the aristocratic families. Therefore, they completely let themselves go and relied on the emperor's favor to start extortionate expropriation and sell their official positions.
In this era, those who could enter the palace as eunuchs were all people with status. Most people did not have this qualification, so these eunuchs had their own fathers, brothers and children.
So, relying on the support of people in the court, they began to run rampant in the countryside, causing harm to the local people. And because there were people above them, the local officials did not dare to take care of them at all.
Moreover, if it was just this, it was nothing. After the death of the official Yuan She, Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong directly said in public that Zhang Rang was his father and Zhao Zhong was his mother, which caused an uproar in the government and the public.
The power of the Ten Constant Attendants is evident.
Especially in the original history, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huangfu Song, who had made great achievements and was famous all over the world, was slandered by the imperial court because he offended the ten permanent servants.
Thousands, and was granted the title of Marquis of the capital and township, with a settlement of 2,000 households.
It was not until three years later that the Liangzhou rebels became more and more powerful. At this time, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty appointed Huangfu Song as the general of the left, to supervise the former general Dong Zhuo, and each led 20,000 soldiers to resist the enemy.
The ten regular attendants in original history all had such terrifying power, let alone this era!
In particular, after the second disaster of party imprisonment, when the shocking war god Wang Teng was deposed by the Han Emperor, he began to lose the support of the army. Without the powerful force of the army to protect him, he pushed Shi Changshi to the front desk.
However, Cao Cao didn't pay attention to the ten permanent servants at all. Although they were very capable in engaging in intrigues and intrigues, Cao Cao didn't think that Zhang Rang, who was only focused on intrigues and intrigues, would be able to discover anything.
"No, there's Jian Shuo!" Cao Cao almost exclaimed, he had almost forgotten this person.
Jian Shuo is also one of the commanders of the Great Han Dynasty. His ability is naturally not bad, and the most important thing is that he is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
Compared to Zhang Rang and the others' intrigues and expansion of their own rights, what he was probably thinking about was to serve the big man. Just like today, Liu Hong would suddenly send him such a sentence. The only possibility that Cao Cao could think of was that the lurker showed his weakness.
After all, the establishment of Heibingtai or Jinyiwei took only a few years, and even the water-flushing room was the same. In the case of lack of experience, it was inevitable that some of these lurking personnel would have unclean hands and feet, and Jian Shuo would discover their flaws.
"Why are these damn losers so careless!" Cao Cao suddenly thought bitterly.
However, judging from Emperor Han's attitude, he probably didn't know much, otherwise, he wouldn't have this attitude.
He probably just knew that he had frequent interactions with aristocratic families and was even in danger of leading them completely, so he adopted the strategy of giving a candied date and a stick.
With this thought, Cao Cao finally let go of his trembling heart.
"It seems that you have to be careful in the future and don't capsize in the gutter." Cao Cao murmured to himself.
