The news that Cui Yan destroyed his relatives for justice shocked the officialdom of the Wei Empire.

It also shocked the Shilin of Wei State.

If central officials know about this, there is nothing that will not be shocked and worried about it.

There are ones that count the other, and everyone feels uneasy and very worried.

Cui Yan has been in the limelight in the past two years.

As the Minister of Rites, he was in charge of the re-examination of the Ministry of Rites and the Public Administration. When local officials were recommended to come to the central government, Cui Yan was the candidate to select them and decided which official could be an official in Luoyang.

This power has made Cui Yan's position in everyone's hearts rise steadily.

Compared with the promotion of the official position decided by Cheng Yu, Cui Yan's power is more important.

With Cui Yan's "yes", Cheng Yu will not be able to perform later. Without Cui Yan's "yes", Cheng Yu will not pretend to be a person who is not selected.

The officials who want to please Cheng Yu are the ones who want to please Cui Yan are those who want to be officials in the central government.

Many people try to please Cui Yan and get in touch with Cui Yan.

Cui Yan showed a straightforward and selfless look, refused to accept any gifts, refused to go through any backdoor behavior, and handled every scholar's questions and answers fairly and selflessly, deciding who would go and who would flow.

This made Cui Yan widely praised and respected by everyone.

As the Han and Wei dynasties changed, the traditional top gentry of Yingchuan gradually weakened, while the second and third-rate gentry of Qingyan and Ji prefectures gradually rose to their status. Cui Yan, as the Minister of Rites, was one of the representative figures.

Recently, many scholars have privately talked about the top gentry families in the old Yingchuan represented by Xun You and Chen Qun, which have declined and been suppressed by the emperor. A huge vacuum of power and voice has emerged. Whoever can seize the opportunity can become a new top gentry.

Obviously, Cui Yan is what everyone hopes for, and everyone thinks that Cui Yan will replace that position and become a new top gentry.

Then there is Tian Feng. The Tian family is not only a gentry, but also a royal relative, and has a marriage relationship with the Cui family. With all the blessings, it is unknown that it has become a top wealthy family no less than the Cui family.

Next is Cheng Yu. Although the Cheng Yu family is from a poor family, the Cheng family is undoubtedly also a genius now.

After ascending the throne, in order to commend Cheng Yu for his contribution, Guo Peng awarded the inheritance of the Cheng family's "Little Du Rule" on behalf of the Guo family in Yingchuan, allowing the Cheng family to pass on this classic from generation to generation.

The Cheng family got rid of the poor family, jumped up, and crossed the class gap and became the Law gentry.

Although the days are still short, many scholars still talk about Cheng Yu's poor family background, the Cheng Yu family undoubtedly has completed the transformation from a poor family to aristocratic family.

For the Cheng family, Cheng Yu's status is equivalent to that of Sima Fang of the Sima family.

With Guo Peng's trust in Cheng Yu, if Cheng Yu's life span is long enough, the Cheng family may have won the position of a scholarly leader in a few years.

The old wealthy family is in decline, and the new wealthy family is making progress. At this critical moment of the alternation between the old and the new, the Cui Qu case broke out.

Cui Yan, Tian Feng and Cheng Yu were all implicated, and the popular candidates for the three gentry leaders were successively captured. The situation in the court suddenly became confusing and the wind blew.

Cui Yan personally beat Cui Qu to death and went to apologize to the emperor, which greatly shocked the hearts of the second and third-rate gentry who had just raised their heads.

They suddenly realized that Cui Yan had fallen.

They are not as powerful as they imagined.

They were far from reaching the power of the top gentry such as Yingchuan and Runan in the Central Committee of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The power of the emperors who eliminated these top gentry families was far beyond their imagination.

Under the emperor's thunderous wrath, Cui Yan, the No. 1 seed player of the gentry leader, knelt without any resistance.

Cui Qu, the clan member, was beaten to death, and Cui Yan begged for mercy.

He fell down.

The shock caused by this news has not subsided, or at the beginning, news came from the Ministry of Personnel that Cheng Yu asked the emperor to severely punish the officials of the Ministry of Personnel.

Seven officials from the Ministry of Personnel were in trouble.

They either surrendered themselves or were found to have abnormal contacts with Cui Qu. Cheng Yu personally investigated and reported himself, expressing his attitude of never tolerating traitors.

The three officials quickly tried and followed the emperor's wishes and severely punished the seven officials.

Because these seven people were guilty of dereliction of duty and abuse of power, they were dismissed, their homes were raided, beheaded, and all their property and illegal gains were returned to the public. Later, the whole family was deposed as commoners and sent to Liangzhou to participate in the military farming.

And he was forced to move his household registration to Liangzhou and never returned to his ancestral home.

Obviously, Cheng Yu didn't want to resist at all, so he knelt down.

Guo Peng personally pulled him through the class gap, so it was obvious that as long as Guo Peng was willing, he could fall back to the poor family at any time.

Cheng Yu was frightened, so he undoubtedly surrendered voluntarily, surrendered unconditionally, and purged the Ministry of Personnel.

His seven subordinates were sacrificed by him in exchange for the safety of himself and his family.

Next is Tian Feng.

Cui Qu himself is an official of the Ministry of Works and works within the Ministry of Works, so Tian Feng has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter. After the incident, Tian Feng actively cooperated with Cheng Yu and the Sansi to investigate and investigate and deal with five officials who were improperly pitying to Cui Qu.

Hand over everything and never tolerate evil spirits.

Well, Tian Feng also knelt down.

The popular seed contestants of the three gentry leaders knelt down together and sang conquest to the emperor.

They were defeated and conquered.

In addition to the seven people from the Ministry of Personnel and five people from the Ministry of Works, several other departments also broke out. The top leaders knelt down and sang the conquest one after another, and handed over ten people who were related to Cui Qu.

There were 22 people who were related to Cui Qu, who were either assisting him in convenience or giving him money to seek convenience.

All were beheaded, family property was confiscated, household registration was seized, and the whole family was deposed as commoners.

Twenty-two households.

More than three hundred mouths.

Except for the twenty-two male owners who were officials, who were beheaded, none of the other family members escaped.

Guo Peng did not implicate their entire clan, but their own family could not escape.

Among them were from Jizhou, from Yanzhou, and from Qingzhou.

Without exception, they were all deprived of their original household registration.

Then Guo Peng ordered them to be moved away from their hometowns.

He either went to Jincheng County, Liangzhou, moved to Yanmen County, Bingzhou, or Liaodong County, Pingzhou, and became a commoner family without any power or capital.

Military farming will be their eternal career.

Another particularly important one -

These twenty-two households will be recorded and will not be allowed to return to the public after being pardoned, and the descendants of the three generations are not allowed to leave their new homeland, return to the Central Plains, and be officials. This is a punishment for corruption, dereliction of duty and misconduct.

Such cruel punishment made officials shudder.

Guo Peng didn't kill many people, and only twenty-two people were killed in such a big deal, but for the remaining living people, it was even more terrifying than being killed.

The scholars were born into a family, but they lost their status as scholars and became a commoner. Moreover, the descendants were not allowed to return to the Central Plains or become officials for three generations. This means that the three generations had no hope. They should not think about returning to their hometowns and returning to this colorful world.

They are ruined.

These twenty-two families are either family branches or main veins. If the emperor doesn't take action, he will be so fierce as soon as he takes action.

If you don’t kill them all, it will have a more terrifying effect than killing them all.

This is more terrifying than forcing Cui Yan to directly practice the monk's method to kill Cui Qu.

Pushing these twenty-two households directly to the bitter and cold frontier to farm in the border area is simply another kind of death penalty.

This is not over yet.

The facts of Cui Qu's illegal and irregularities summarized by the Three Departments' Review were also sent to the emperor.

How Cui Qu used Cui Yan's reputation and power to connect with the Ministry of Personnel and then provided convenience for others was interrogated. The channels and methods were interrogated.

It is said that the emperor was extremely angry about this.

The emperor believed that the Wei State had only been established for two years and such problems had already arisen on the issue of officials. This shows how serious the issue of administration was, and he was determined to strictly rectify this problem.

This made many officials feel a lot of crisis.

They ask around whether such a situation may occur and whether they are safe themselves.

An uneasy panic swept across the entire Shangshutai and also affected the Censorate and the cabinet.

One of the core contradictions hidden before and after the establishment of the Wei Empire seemed to erupt at this time.

The involvement of this core contradiction is really wide.

So once it was exposed, it broke out immediately.
Chapter completed!