Sima Yi briefly explained his past experiences, as well as the bloody coup before and after the establishment of the Wei Empire.

Of course, it was beautified according to Guo Peng's script.

Ren Yong didn't know everything, it was all recorded after Guo Peng's beautification. As for the real situation, those who know will not say it, and those who don't know will never know it.

"I see."

Ren Yong nodded slowly and learned about the ups and downs of the Sima family.

But soon he felt something was wrong again.

"Wait, Sima Protector, logically speaking, the subordinate officials must follow the decisions made by the leader, but only on the way of rebellion, even if the subordinate officials are, the subordinate officials do not have to follow them.

Xun Yu and others conspired to kill the monarch, which was an unforgivable crime and a rebellion. Isn’t it the right way to prevent my brother from participating in such a terrible thing? How could he lose his future?"

Ren Yong's question happened to be the only loophole in the seemingly seamless statement that Sima Yi noticed.

This is a loophole that Guo Peng himself cannot make up for.

Because this was the result of the hearts of the people at that time and could not be compensated by individuals.

Sima Lang's resignation was the result of people who knew the inside story at that time and who sympathized with Xun Yu did not dare to question Guo Peng, and instead took their anger.

After Sima Lang recovered from illness, he still took up his position and continued to hold the position. Guo Peng seemed to plan to reuse him, but Sima Lang was considered to be a shameless person and was not qualified to continue to be an official.

They excluded him.

It was a helpless fact that Xun Yu, Zang Hong and others were killed, but their efforts to maintain the legal status of the Han Dynasty and to maintain the orthodox Han Dynasty were still approved by a considerable number of officials in their hearts.

Everyone knows Guo Zifeng's heart, and people at that time knew everything they should have known, but they were afraid to speak and dare not resist Guo Peng's bloody butcher knife and brutal force.

fear death.

But I was really dissatisfied.

There was no way, they did not dare to attack Guo Peng, so they had to use cold violence to attack Sima Lang, the betrayer beside Xun Yu.

They felt that Sima Lang, as an affiliate of Xun Yu, did not advance and retreat with Xun Yu. He watched Xun Yu go to trouble, but he was very shameless.

These people who sympathized with Xun Yu in their hearts dared not openly disobey Guo Peng? They used cold violence to end Sima Lang's career and vented their anger and dissatisfaction.

So essentially, Sima Lang's resignation was the last collective resistance of the opposition in a broad sense to Guo Peng's impending usurpation of power and seizing the throne? It was their last allegiance to the Han Empire.

Although this resistance is very weak? It cannot hurt a hair of Guo Peng, but it is also resistance.

Guo Peng has no choice but to resist this kind of resistance.

For Sima Lang, it was people's collective opposition, and thus completely tear the face? Isn't it necessary? At that time, no imperial examination bureaucrats asked him to use it, and he had to rely on scholars and bureaucrats to govern the country.

So he had to give up Sima Lang and let Sima Lang be a scapegoat.

That insignificant resistance brought about the only remaining logical loophole in the lies woven by Guo Peng.

As long as you understand the former Han Dynasty's inspection and recruitment system, you will find that if you follow the official statement of screenwriter Guo Peng, Sima Lang's special existence should have the opportunity to get a promotion and a bright future.

Because he did not follow the evil group that plotted to kill the emperor? Should he be promoted and raised? Why did he lose his political future?

Of course he would lose his political future? Because this is a lie, an unconsistent lie, a lie woven by Guo Peng to cover up his ambition to usurp his power.

So of course Guo Peng was very unhappy.

He found that there were still people who dared to resist him, even if this kind of resistance was insignificant.

With his own ideals, he must use the emperor's imperial power to kill all those who oppose him after he becomes emperor.

So in the thirteen years after he became emperor, several political storms were launched, seizing power, killing officials, persecuting the gentry, destroying the family, and thus killing less than 50,000 scholars and their families.

He almost killed all the political forces left over from the former Han Dynasty? All the classic wealthy families were abolished, and even the system of recommendation was abolished by him, and changed it to the imperial examination, which brought about a major change in the ruling class.

He let all those who had been explicitly opposed to him and those who were in their hearts die.

These people can survive until now, and probably don’t dare to continue to oppose Guo Peng.

I've been scared long ago.

Therefore, Sima Yi was also a little worried, worried that Guo Peng would do something to the Sima family because of this unresolvable contradiction.

If he planned to do something, the Sima family would not be able to survive.

But fortunately, until he abdicated, the Sima family lived smoothly and produced two high-ranking officials of two thousand stones.

Three years ago, Sima Yi's father Sima Fang died, and Cao Cao went to pay his respects to remember the past.

Therefore, the Sima family gained a firm foothold in the Wei Empire and was not swept into the garbage dump of history with the Han Empire.

Was Guo Peng not aware of this problem or did he notice it, but did not attack Sima for some consideration?

For example, admiring him or something...

Sima Yi didn't know.

But he knew that he had to smooth things over Guo Peng's behavior.

This is something he must do as a vested interest.

He thought for a moment and decided to find another way, not explaining the matter from the logic of the matter itself.

"At that time, although Xun Yu and others were killed, the power of the Yingchuan wealthy family was still there. My brother did not die for Xun Yu and others' rebellious actions. The scholars in Yingchuan did not dare to oppose the Supreme Emperor on the surface, but were secretly dissatisfied, so they secretly attacked my brother, causing my brother to go home and work unemployed."

Sima Yi was familiar with the blame to a group of dead people.

The dead will never speak, nor will they react to the dirty water that is poured on their bodies.

Ren Yong immediately understood Sima Lang's "situation" at that time and expressed deep sympathy for him.

"So that's how those people were so arrogant... It's true that before the imperial examination was held, these scholars did occupy all senior official positions and did not have the position of those of us who were from humble origins.

People with a humble background, let alone becoming an official, it is impossible to read and read. They spend their whole life digging food and eating in the fields, and it is so miserable. How miserable! Thinking about it now, I feel sad!

Moreover, let alone the past, it is now that the imperial examination has been implemented for several years, and thousands of officials have been selected. Among the senior officials, are they still those who rely on the imperial examination to rise to power? It can be seen that their power is so deep. If the Supreme Emperor and the Great Master were not cleared out these remnants, they would not know what they are now."

Ren Yong was full of sighs.

Sima Yi felt a little embarrassed.

He was also a former official who was not in the imperial examination and did not get the ticket to the new era.

When he thinks of this, he thinks of his friend Zhuge Liang.

This guy was so lucky. He participated in a genre of talent and talent at that time. It was obviously not the same as the imperial examination, but inexplicably it was considered to be the same as the imperial examination.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's identity as the top scholar was recognized, becoming the first top scholar in history to be admitted to the imperial examination, and he was in the limelight at that time.

Where can I go to reason about this?

As a result, Zhuge Liang, who entered the official position earlier than him, became the leader of the imperial examination officials, and was automatically marked as a pioneer of the imperial examination. He got the ticket to the new official as an old official. Do you want such good luck?

Now that the imperial examination system is prosperous, officials who are not from the imperial examination are called old officials by officials from the imperial examination, meaning they are eliminated people who do not meet historical needs.

And they themselves are new officials with unlimited futures and possible possibilities.

Indeed, this is also an objective reality. The recommendations have been ended, and the Five Classics and Fourteen Laws and the Extension System have also become history. Now, there are some officials under the recommendation system, but in the future, they will inevitably belong to the imperial examination officials.

They say that the alternation between the old and the new is indeed reality.

Even if there is no political incident, after decades, after the last official of the last official of the investigation will no longer be there.

However, this reality often makes officials who are not from the imperial examination and feel that they are artificially despised.

Moreover, among these non-electual officials, they are not only vested interests in the era of the examination, but also those under the suppression of the era of the grassroots officials and county officials who are in a breath of breath.

They are all born into civil servants, and they are not the only ones who are the vested interests of the imperial examinations, but are more like a group of excessive products.

It is neither an examination group nor an imperial examination group.

The inspection and examination groups disliked their humble origins, and the imperial examination groups disliked them for not receiving formal school education, without education or knowledge.

But this group of people was the mainstay of the central government of the Wei Empire at that time, and was transferred by Guo Peng to Luoyang during the Luoyang Rebellion to replace more than 2,000 civil officials.

They grew up to this day and were basically the mainstay of the central government of the Wei Empire, and often served as servants in local governments.

As a result, he was disliked by the officials who were the old and the officials who were the newcomers.

This kind of identity difference within the official group actually leads to factional struggles in the central government.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that although the bureaucrats in the imperial examination have a high status and hold great power, they have not had much time to go.

The Supreme Emperor Guo Peng, who is the representative of the old era, has abdicated, symbolizing that the old era is about to pass. The new emperor Guo Jin received school education, which is also a symbol of the new era in the eyes of the imperial examination bureaucrats.

Therefore, these people have a high status and great power, but no successors will eventually become a piece of history.
Chapter completed!