The first families that arrived in Luoyang were not all opposition families.

There are two other inheritance families of Meng Shiyi, who belong to the category of "Winning". After coming, they plunged into Yuan Si's mansion, seeking warmth from the emperor and asking the emperor to hug them.

Then he immediately turned the gun and grinned at the five family inheritance families who came to Luoyang City to confront the emperor.

These five families did not come to Luoyang to fight away without any hand.

They also have families with disciples, but they are not large in scale, without the size of the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong.

There are still disciples, and there are also old officials, but there are only a small number. After all, they themselves did not gain a position of high-ranking officials in the Guowei regime, and they had no time or qualifications to win over old officials.

Despite this, these people are still a little capable.

Some officials who were able to enter the Luoyang court through their channels were gathered, and they clarified their opposition, and immediately took advantage of their special skills, intending to have a second wave of verbal battle with Guo under the nose of Guo.

The first wave was defeated because they were alone and had no leader.

In the second wave, they personally took over Luoyang and would not be defeated so easily.

At the stall where the Huanglong Palace Conference was destined to be held, they mobilized some political forces to criticize the scholars who strongly advocated the Huanglong Palace Conference and their families behind them, and clearly opposed the Huanglong Palace Conference.

They were actually prepared for the worst and wanted to fight Guo Peng at the Huanglong Palace Conference, so it was not convenient to participate in the public opinion war in person at this time. They guided their disciples to protest and criticize them from a close distance.

The war in Luoyang, which had just calmed down, rekindled.

However, their disciples were also in pain. Due to this relationship, they had to risk protesting, otherwise they would be social death, but they might not be willing to fight against the emperor.

Historical experience tells them that there is no good ending to fight against the emperor.

These scholars may not have no idea, but they just want to make some of them be cannon fodder and be responsible for sacrifice in order to crack down on the forces that support Guo Peng.

There is no way, who made them disciples?

They have never hated the unspoken rule of the double monarchy as they are now, and they have never regretted that they met the wrong person as they are now.

But there are not many things in the world that you can enjoy this way after getting the benefits but don’t want to pay. But it is definitely not this batch of cannon fodder.

Guo Peng has always paid great attention to maintaining his strong monarch's character and will not forgive anyone who goes against his wishes. Sooner or later, you must pay the price, so as to warn the ministers and tell them not to easily oppose the emperor.

There are still quite a few ministers who have crossed the Eastern Han Dynasty to this era who are rebellious, or who think that their status is higher than that of the emperor, and they look down on the emperor quite seriously.

Such people, if you kill one, you will never encourage this kind of trend.

Moreover, the second monarchy is also a hidden rule that Guo Peng is destined to crack down on and eliminate.

Guo Peng's hatred for this political unspoken rule is no less than his hatred for the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws.

So once someone emerges, they will immediately take action to kill him and never show any mercy.

The first batch of officials who criticized Jia Kui, Huan Dian, Xun You and others, totaling 17. Some of them were deposed by Guo Peng in the name of slandering the emperor, and some were [investigated] about corruption, and their homes were immediately dismissed and their homes were expelled from the capital.

It took only five days before and on February 15th, all seventeen officials were dismissed. The emperor drove them out of the capital without mercy, and then quickly promoted a group of newcomers to take over their positions.

The emperor's ruthless and quick and accurate move frightened the scholars who held opposition.

They suddenly realized that they lacked sufficient effective countermeasures against the current emperors.

These seventeen disciples are just small shrimps, used to test the emperor's attitude.

They thought that the emperor would be angry, but they did not expect that the emperor would slap these seventeen people to death with a slap.

He hit them in the face with a straight punch, making them dizzy.

Seeing that the emperor's attitude was so resolute, the opposition officials were all terrified. No matter how much the scholars mobilized, they would not dare to submit their words easily.

Someone pretended to be sick.

Someone took advantage of the excuse to rude.

Some people say that they have urgent business tasks to leave Luoyang and escape directly.

Some people were embarrassed and were angry everywhere. In anger, they submitted their resignation to stop being an official and left Luoyang naked and went back to their hometown to farm.

Why do you gods fight and we mortals suffer?

I can't beat you, can I stop being an official?

Even if you don’t become an official, it’s better than becoming a sinner!

Because of Guo Peng's strict measures to crack down, the opposition scholars' groups experienced serious internal discrimination, which triggered internal strife. Many people would rather abandon their official positions than continue to submit or oppose the emperor, so the opposition's situation became even worse.

The people who were connected up and down but could not connect too many people who could provide help took the initiative to submit olive branches to some officials from powerful backgrounds, but were tacitly ignored.

So they learned that before they arrived in Luoyang, the emperor had completed the exchange of interests with them.

The emperor must have reached some kind of agreement with them, such as supporting a group of new classic families after the Huanglong Palace Conference, so that these people can unite by the emperor, put on an iron-clad posture, and work together to kill these opposition parties.

The only reason why these powerful officials refuse to cooperate with opposition scholars is that there is no more.

In desperation, they could only hope at the Huanglong Palace Conference and sent elites from the clan to join the Five Classics Testing Team led by Cai Yong, intending to argue for their family studies.

At the same time, they still did not give up on public opinion, and even used the theory of prophecies and divination, saying that there are differences in astrology and celestial phenomena, and that if the national cultural context is moved at this time, disasters will surely occur.

There are many famous old scholars who hold such remarks, and they are quite marketable for saying such remarks.

However, Guo Peng had long anticipated this and had relative response measures, such as sending Chen Lin, the ultimate verbal weapon, and the Royal Professional Team - Taishi Team, to refute the rumors.

The two sides launched an ultimate showdown on the issue of astronomical phenomena.

One side said that shaking the national cultural context would face great disasters, which is God's will.

One side says that changing the country's cultural thought is the will of heaven and the will of heaven is the right thing to do, which is natural and will only make the country more prosperous.

Both sides held their own opinions, fiercely confronted each other, and stinked each other, which made the public opinion field chaotic.

The perverted person cannot even determine who is right and who is wrong, so he has doubts and questions about the existing astrological theories and prophecies and divination.

The two sides are constantly competing for the commanding heights of public opinion.

At the end of February, when the deadline set by Guo Peng came, a total of fifteen family and law representatives used all means to overcome many difficulties and obstacles to reach Luoyang City and joined the Huanglong Palace Conference.

Besides those family and law families, except those who win, the rest have become representatives.
Chapter completed!