There are relatively few people in Guo Peng's harem, and together there are only one queen, five concubines, and six women.

But among these six women, they are also related to relatives from far and near.

Women never really join in groups. It is normal for a four-person large circle to include five small circles.

And in the harem, the situation is similar.

Judging from what Tian Feng secretly learned, Cao Lan and Xiahou Lin have the closest relationship because of the relationship between Cao and Xiahou.

The sisters of Big and Big Bridge are naturally connected by blood, so there is no need to say much about the relationship.

Mi Zhu was Guo Peng's old minister. Although he was of a low background, his status was very important. He made many contributions and made many contributions. He also lost his younger brother Mi Fang.

For Guo Peng's career, the Mi family made a lot of money, so after Guo Peng ascended the throne and became emperor, he also thought about giving Mi family some compensation.

Mi Zhu was deeply trusted by Guo Peng, and Guo Peng even handed over the position of governor of Qingzhou that he had served as the position of governor of Qingzhou to Mi Zhu to show his honor and favor to Mi.

In addition, there are many children of the Mi family in the court and serve as officials in the army. The Mi caravan traveled all over the country, with a wealth of wealth and strong financial resources.

With such a background, Mi Zhen served Guo Peng very early, and spent only time with Guo Peng next to Cao Lan. In all senses, he was a good partner to curry favor.

Tian Rou once tried to get closer to Mi Zhen, using Mi Zhen as a backer, and further opened up the relationship between the Tian family and Mi family.

However, Mi Zhen was born with a calm nature and liked to be alone and form a circle. She just refused Tian Rou's intention to surrender.

Tian Rou had no way to get closer to Cao Lan and Mi Zhen, and her relationship with Xiahou Lin was not bad, so she had to get close to the latecomer's sisters, Big and Big Bridge, and join the group with these sisters to keep warm.

This time, facing the weak character of Daqiao and the big and brainless Xiaoqiao, Tian Rou quickly gained the initiative and had a good relationship with the sisters.

These are the three more obvious circles.

As for whether there are other circles, it is hard to say.

However, the harem is a small society. Although each has its own belongings, because the queen Cao Lan has too stable status, there is no real struggle in the harem, but only close relatives and distant places.

Thinking of this, Tian Feng thought of Qiao Rui, the Censor General.

Qiao Rui turned out to be a subordinate of Yuan Shu, the emperor of the pseudo-Chen Empire. He was defeated many times in the war in which Guo Peng pacified the Chen Empire, and then surrendered to Guo Peng.

Then he exchanged his two daughters for a bright future and was entrusted by Guo Peng with important tasks.

This is actually a small stain. Although everyone dare not say anything on the surface, they still look down on Qiao Rui in their hearts.

But this did not prevent Qiao Rui from entering the core of power of the Wei Empire soon.

After the founding of the country, Qiao Rui entered the Censorate and served as the Chief Censor of the Censor. Together with the Censor Guo Hong, he assumed the responsibility of picking up officials of the Wei State.

In other words, the Censorate’s main target is the Shangshutai, the central office of the Empire.

The Shangshutai is the department that has been targeted by the Censorate, and the cabinet and staff station have basically not been targeted in this regard.

The Censorate is a knife in the hands of the emperor, and this sentence is not wrong at all.

And this knife is specifically aimed at Shangshutai.

Among the three departments, the Sili lieutenant mainly participates in serious cases. Only the Sili lieutenant who is serious will participate and do not participate much in small fish and shrimps.

The Ministry of Justice is more responsible for the enforcement of the law, and various cases across the country can be involved. The civil officials are more responsible for the management of the complex.

The Censorate is specifically targeted at officials.

The most officials in the Shangshutai are, so the greater the pressure on the Shangshutai.

I won’t talk about Qiao Rui, half of the relatives.

Guo Hong can basically be regarded as the patriarch of the Guo clan of Yingchuan. He served as the court magistrate in the previous dynasty and was a legal authority.

During the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, Guo Hong voluntarily resigned and took the entire family to Qingzhou to join Guo Peng. Now he is here to be the censor, and no one can tell that he is not here.

Because the Censorate and Guo Peng have a close relationship, the Censorate was able to escape from many things. Moreover, compared with the Shangsorate, the Censorate is much simpler.

If you can have some helpers in the Censorate and some help, you can turn your unfavorable situation around.

Cheng Yu and Guo Hong had no contact, and looked down on Qiao Rui, thinking that he was a shameless person who sold his daughter to seek honor, so he chose to win over Cao Cao and worked with Cao Cao to target Hotan Feng from the Ministry of Works everywhere.

Tian Feng felt that he could not sit still and wait for death. He watched Cheng Yu and Cao Cao join forces to defeat him and lose his power and family's future, so he decided to try to join forces with Qiao Rui.

I don’t ask for anything else, I just want to use Qiao Rui’s power in the Censorate to protect myself.

This matter is actually not very involved in the harem, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, both Cao Cao and Cheng Yu know that.

Those women are used to save their lives, not to fight. Cao Lan cannot really fight with Tian Rou and the sisters of Big and Big Bridge.

This is a symbolic existence.

The real key is that Cao Cao, who holds the audit power, has strong lethality over the Ministry of Works controlled by Tian Feng. If Cao Cao keeps his eye on the Ministry of Works, Tian Feng really cannot guarantee that he can escape unstoppable.

In order to counter Cheng Yu and achieve self-protection, Tian Feng also needs a killer weapon that can target officials.

Previously, Cao Cao and Wang Can launched this large-scale Cuiqu case, which involved a wide range of cases, basically disrupting the situation before the court.

As one of the three departments, the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice and the Sili School lieutenant, was responsible for hearing many cases. Under Guo Peng's high pressure, he had to handle it impartially and offend many people.

The scholars and families were in unison and killed one of the houses, and there were three, four, five or six other houses. Unless the entire family was killed, it would be a future.

Sansi was also worried that this kind of trouble would pose some kind of threat to them, but under Guo Peng's high pressure, he had to deal with it impartially.

Now everyone in the Sansi has opinions about Cao Cao and others.

The Shangshutai not only had a lot of opinions about Wang Can, but also many people had opinions about Cao Cao and others.

This group of people was just frightened by Cao Cao's special identity and the power of auditing, and did not dare to express this anger, for fear of offending the queen and the future emperor.

Therefore, Tian Feng felt that in order to arouse their anger against Cao Cao and others, and make them dare to fight Cao Cao, and reorganize the political forces that can be used, it is necessary to win over a key player who can compete with Cao Cao.

If you can have a suitable helper, you can integrate Cui's former political power and become your own backing and arm support.

After talking to Cui Yan in private, Cui Yan supported Tian Feng's idea.

Tian Feng also felt that it was right to do this and there was nothing wrong with it.

Cheng Zhongde, you pressed me step by step and insisted on putting me to death. Do you really think I am a mud-knitted person and it will be broken when you touch it?

snort!

Tian Feng decided to fight back.

Since Cheng Yu can use Cao Cao to attack Tian Feng with economic means, forcing Tian Feng to shrink his hands and feet to deal with it, Tian Feng can also use the Censorate to counter Cheng Yu.

Only when this countermeasure is achieved can the strength of both sides be balanced, otherwise Tian Feng feels that he will be killed by Cheng Yu sooner or later.

If you don’t commit any crime, you cannot guarantee that all the officials under your subordinates are clean. Even if one of them is caught, you will be very dangerous. Cheng Yu will definitely hold on to it and expand the situation.

Once Guo Peng's anger is aroused and he ordered a strict investigation, Tian Feng will be finished.

By then, Tian Rou can save Tian Feng's life at most, and Tian's political future will be difficult to say.

Let’s look at the Xun family and the Chen family. Xun You and Chen Qun are basically synonymous with lonely officials. Because of the previous disasters, although Xun You and Chen Qun had power and status in the Staff and Shangshutai, no one dared to approach Xun You and Chen Qun.

Tian Feng once thought about getting close to Xun You and Chen Qun, but later he thought about it and felt that he was seeking death. He probably would have been killed by Guo Peng in advance before he was killed by Cheng Yu.

So Tian Feng gave up and was even more afraid of losing his political future.

If Qiao Rui's help and using the energy of the Censorate to fight against Cheng Yu and Cao Cao, then the situation will be able to achieve a certain sense of balance.

At least it won't be killed.

To be honest, at the beginning, Tian Feng really didn't want to fight Cheng Yu.

He, a surrendered minister, did not dare to confront old ministers like Cheng Yu. However, Cheng Yu bullied people too much and oppressed him too much. He repeatedly pushed forward to kill him. He could not find a way to surrender.

Cheng Zhongde, if you are not kind, don’t blame me for being unrighteous!

Will it be that simple if you want me to die?

I didn't want to go against you, you forced me!

A cold light flashed in Tian Feng's eyes, and with strong dissatisfaction and hatred towards Cheng Yu, he began to take the Qiaorui route.

He used some means and power to help Qiao Rui some insignificant little things. After several times, in the second half of the third year of Yande, Tian Feng and Qiao Rui's relationship became closer and closer.

Both families have a lot of money led by Guo Peng to do business together in the Mi caravan. In terms of business, the two families have quite some contacts.

Although there were not many other relationships before, as a scholar, it would not be difficult for Tian Feng to have a good relationship with Qiao Rui.

The Qiaorui family was born into a local tyrant, and their status was not as good as the Tian family. When they were both relatives of the outside world, their relatives were not as close to the Tian family.

However, Qiao Rui took the initiative to make friends with Guo Hong with the relationship between the water and the tower. Guo Hong is also the leader of the Guo clan of Yingchuan, and is more able to speak in front of Guo Peng, so Qiao Rui, who has two life-saving talismans, is still quite safe.

As long as he doesn't cause trouble, no one will take the initiative to provoke him.

It seems that Qiao Rui is willing to interact with Tian Feng, and he is not unhappy because of Tian Feng's intentional approach, which makes Tian Feng very happy.

During the second half of the third year of Yande, Tian Fengdu and Qiao Rui spent many holidays together.

Either make an appointment to drink or enjoy antiques together, but the interactions between each other have become a little frequent.

The two got closer and closer, as if they were half of the relatives of the foreign country, which made others dare not discuss it.

Then because of this incident, many people began to have close contacts with Tian Feng. The scholars and bureaucrats who lost their leader seemed to have a new backbone because Cui Yan was knocked to the ground.

The power groups that once collapsed under the oppression of Cao Cao, Wang Can and others gradually became a trend of reuniting.

The alliance between Wang Can and Cao Cao and others was a little stronger, and they were not hit hard by any substantial blow. The actual blow was all on the group of people who opposed the commercial tax, including Cui Yan.
To be continued...