In September, Lu Zhi was appointed by Emperor Ling, resigned from Dongguan, served as a minister of the emperor, and became a close minister of Emperor Ling, preparing for national policies.

For a time, Lu Zhi became a popular figure.

During the Qin Dynasty and the early Western Han Dynasty, the attendants were just ordinary officials, and they were the prime minister's entourage.

Starting from Emperor Wu, Shizhong became the emperor's close minister, and often got along with the emperor, gradually becoming a valuable position for his confidants, and it was easy to be assigned by the emperor to serve as a senior official in power.

Lu Zhicheng was appointed as the minister, so the signs of Emperor Ling trying to reuse Lu Zhi were seen.

Lu Zhi had no choice but to leave Dongguan and become a servant, but before leaving, he still instructed Guo Peng to stay in Dongguan to continue proofreading books and learn knowledge, and not to slacket off.

Guo Peng received the order from Lu Zhi, so he stayed in Dongguan and followed Cai Yong to proofread the books. A month passed in a flash. In October, bad news came.

The Northern Expedition failed, the Han army collapsed and fled, Tan Shihuai led his army to chase and kill, and the Han army suffered heavy casualties.

In this battle, the Han army lost eight or nine out of ten cavalry, and only one or two of them returned to the north alive. The army, horses, supplies, food and supplies were all damaged, and the loss was lost.

The three chief generals Tian Yan, Zang Min and Xia Yu fled back to the Han area with their confidant cavalry, and the army accompanied them was almost wiped out.

Tan Shihuai took the opportunity to sweep the border counties in the Youbian area. All counties suffered a lot of losses and the people's property suffered heavy losses.

Originally, Tan Shihuai wanted to go further into the Han area to further plunder, but in Liaoxi County, he encountered the tenacious resistance of Zhao Bao, the prefect of Liaoxi.

Zhao Bao's subordinate was the eunuch Zhao Zhong. Zhao Bao felt ashamed of not interacting with him and became an official in a bitter and cold place on the border.

This time he encountered a disaster of fish, but he had always been extremely wary of the northern border troubles. When he heard that the Northern Expedition failed, the Xianbei invaded, he immediately rectified 20,000 troops to fight against the Xianbei.

Unfortunately, Zhao Bao's mother and his wife's family were caught by the Xianbei people on the way to western Liaoning. The Xianbei people used Zhao Bao's mother as a threat to make him surrender.

Zhao Bao made a painful choice between Zhongxiao and Xiao. In order to protect the prefectures and counties and the people, he led his army to cover up the killing, sacrificed his mother, wife and family in exchange for victory, and finally defeated the Xianbei people, stopped the defeat of the Han border army, and turned the tide.

The Xianbei people then retreated to the grassland and did not continue to move south, so the losses of the Han Empire did not continue to expand.

This incident spread to Luoyang in early October. The capital was shocked. A large number of officials wrote letters to impeach Tian Yan, Zang Min and Xia Yu, and dereliction of duty. They lost to the barbarians to destroy the prestige of the country, demanded execution and held accountable for the re-subsidies. They used this to attack the great eunuch Wang Fu, who advocated the war, and tried to start a new round of anti-eunuch wars.

The emperor issued an order to start the war, but the ministers could not pursue the emperor's fault and wanted to retain the emperor's face, so they blamed all the crimes on the eunuchs.

But in fact, if Emperor Ling himself was unwilling to start a war, what could Wang Fu be?

Emperor Ling would not be so confused about the military and national affairs that he had to leave to the eunuchs to operate. However, in this matter, Emperor Ling did need Wang Fu to be a scapegoat, but at the same time, he could not damage his life and could not give the scholar group a chance to make a big fuss.

During this wave, Emperor Ling keenly noticed the attempt of these scholars to reverse the verdict of the Party and the Criminal.

So Emperor Ling immediately made a decision.

Wang Fu was demoted, Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zang Min were demoted to common people, asking them to spend a lot of money to buy their lives. At the same time, they sent people to pay their respects to the mother of Zhao Bao, the prefect of western Liaoning. The heroic deeds of Zhao Bao were written on the heroic deeds, which caused a lot of discussion.

He diverted people's attention.

Shortly afterwards, it was heard that Zhao Bao died of excessive crying and vomiting blood at his mother's condolence meeting.

It is said that Zhao Bao said at the mourning meeting that he was loyal and filial, and he still had the face to live in the world, and then cried and vomited blood and died of death.

However, through the conversation between Lu Zhi and Cai Yong, Guo Peng learned that Zhao Bao was actually determined to die. He took poison before the emperor sent someone to attend the mourning meeting. After apologizing, he died of poison on the spot, showing his "filial piety".

Guo Peng also felt strange. It would be uncomfortable to be too sad, but it is too unusual to die of crying too much and vomiting blood. How can one be sad to vomit blood?

This was obviously a suicide by taking poison.

After understanding the whole story, Guo Peng felt very regretful.

The Han Dynasty governs the country with filial piety, and filial piety is the number one political correctness. No matter how absurd and cruel you are, as long as you are a filial son, you have something to be worthy, but no matter how shrewd and capable you are, as long as you violate filial piety, you are a bastard.

Everyone believes that a filial person is filial to his parents and will naturally be loyal to the country. How can a person who doesn’t even care about his parents prove his loyalty?

This person must be incorrect!

In order to avoid being poisoned by the Xianbei in western Liaoning, Zhao Bao gave up the opportunity to save his mother, which led to his death, which violated the political correctness of the whole society. Even if he made contributions, he would be constantly criticized and insulted in the years to come.

Because filial piety is greater than that of heaven.

So Zhao Bao chose to die, and chose to die with full filial piety, sacrifice himself, protect the people, and protect the descendants.

Sure enough, this is very "political correct". Officials who were still talking about Zhao Bao giving up his mother to repel the Xianbei were "desire for merit" and immediately wrote a letter to the emperor to posthumously confer Zhao Bao. Emperor Ling understood the mystery and posthumously named Zhao Bao as the Marquis of Cheng.

Zhao Bao's affairs successfully diverted the attention of the entire capital and bought time for Emperor Ling. When Zhao Bao's affairs were settled, it was too late for the scholars to try to attack the eunuchs again.

This shameful defeat did not have too serious military and political consequences.

Tan Shihuai was defeated by Zhao Bao, and his arrogance was hit by a head-on attack. Realizing that the Han Empire was far stronger than him, he did not dare to continue moving south.

In politics, the gentry tried to attack the eunuchs with this starting point, but they failed. Instead, they were pushed away by Emperor Ling's Tai Chi pusher. They were so energetic that they had no place to use, and they were very depressed.

It seems that the only loser is three generals who have been deposed as common people.

Among them, naturally, Zang Hong's father.

When Zang Hong learned that his father was demoted to a commoner after he was defeated and fled back to the Han Dynasty, he locked himself in the house for several days and did not come out. It turned out that all the people around him disappeared instantly, just like they had never appeared, just like they did not exist.

Guo Peng didn't care about these things, and broke into Zang Hong's house, pulled Zang Hong, who was lying on the bed, took off his clothes and left a loincloth, and threw it into a wooden barrel full of hot water.

"Don't eat for three days, do you want to become an immortal?"

Guo Peng angrily scolded Zang Hong.
Chapter completed!