At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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As the name suggests, Shangshan supervises eating, Shangyi supervises wearing, imperial horse supervises walking, and imperial servant supervises living. The four eunuch institutions have the same status.

The members of the four institutions are all eunuchs, and the heads are called eunuchs. Each prison has one eunuch with palm seal, two assistants and two young supervisors, and is in charge of the operation of the institution.

Through emergency preparations before and after the founding of the country, Guo Peng only had more than 500 eunuchs, which was slightly insufficient.

However, considering that the number of royals is not so large, these manpower is enough for the time being. Counting 1000 court ladies, the scale of [-] people is barely enough for Guo Wei's royal family.

The four eunuch institutions were established soon. Under Guo Peng's manipulation, they quickly started to work, but soon, Guo Peng discovered another problem.

All the things used by the royal family had to be purchased outside. The four prisons went out to purchase separately. Not only was the procedure cumbersome, but it was also a waste of time and money, and there was a possibility of corruption.

So Guo Peng announced to the outside world that he would newly establish an internal official supervisor, which would be the agency in charge of the royal family's funds, and an agency that would uniformly purchase all the materials needed by the inner court.

When this news was released, some officials objected, saying that the royal family funds are also placed in the treasury and allocated by the Ministry of Finance. Now that an internal official supervision is set up, should the internal officials supervise the money or the Ministry of Finance will manage the money?

Guo Peng slapped his head, yes, it makes sense!

So he immediately ordered to set up an internal treasury dedicated to the royal family outside the national treasury, and calculate it separately. Please trouble the Ministry of Finance.

Then the number of eunuchs must be increased from 500 to 700.

The official who raised the objection was stunned, completely unaware of what he had done.

The matter was not over yet. Some officials thought that the eunuchs were greedy, so they went to Guo Peng. Later, the story of the eunuchs' greedy money-gathering during the reign of Emperor Huanling of the Han Dynasty advised Guo Peng, saying that the eunuchs were not trustworthy. Guo Peng has to pay attention.

They still suggested setting up a Shaofu and letting scholars take charge of the royal family's finances.

Guo Peng slapped his head again!

Correct!

Makes sense!

It's easy to get corrupted.

So Guo Peng turned around and set up a new department in the cabinet, called the Audit Department, which was in charge of auditing financial expenditures.

Guo Peng stipulated that any financial expenditure in the inner court must be submitted to the audit department through a written report. How much money was used and what was purchased must be listed and handed over to an unrelated audit department for review.

From the moment when the royal family funds enter the internal treasury managed by the internal officials, the audit department of the cabinet is responsible for reviewing. Any expenditures and income must be confirmed by the audit department at the same time, and then the internal officials can receive and allocate funds. If there is a problem, the audit department needs to be responsible. responsibility.

Then, Guo Peng "further" thought that eunuchs would be corrupt, and other court officials would also be corrupt, so he directly expanded the audit scope of the audit department.

Guo Peng ordered the Audit Department of the Cabinet to also extend the scope of audit to the Ministry of Finance. Not only the Ministry of Finance itself must keep records of all revenue and expenditures of the Ministry of Finance, but the Audit Department must also keep records. If there is a problem, the three departments will jointly review. Comparing the records of the two aspects, we must find out the problem.

And no matter whether the problem is found or not, if something goes wrong, the audit department will definitely sit down.

It’s fine if you don’t ask questions, but if you ask questions, a new department will be added, and there will be an extra step in handling affairs.

The new emperor, Guo Peng, did not intend to do what the courtiers said at all, but set up new departments one after another willfully, making the officials dizzy.

Moreover, the position of the cabinet among the ministers immediately changed from a trusted and confidential department to an indispensable and important institution. The cabinet with the power of auditing should not be underestimated.

And this power is also in the hands of Cao Cao, the chief assistant of the cabinet. Cao Cao was ordered by Guo Peng to personally take over the work of the audit department and to be the "guardian of the money bag". The importance of the Audit Division was immediately highlighted.

This is not the end.

Not long after, about a month and a half after the founding of the country, in February of the first year of Yande, Guo Peng felt that the affairs of the inner court were complicated and inconvenient to deal with, and the message transmission was not fast enough, so he added a prison for the inner court.

The Duzhijian set up by Guo Peng was responsible for going back and forth between the inside and outside of the imperial city, delivering the emperor's written orders to the various government offices, and bringing the written feedback of the officials back to the emperor for processing.

Then wherever the emperor was going, they had to be alert in advance, step on the spot in advance, follow the emperor closely when he set off, and fight with their lives when necessary to protect the safety of the emperor.

Those who entered the Duzhi prison were all young and strong young eunuchs with sharp legs and feet, who were in charge of summoning and serving as a sounding board, and also provided convenience for the emperor to handle state affairs at a high speed.

Then, by the way, Shangbaojian and Yinshoujian were established to manage, preserve and distribute the seals, seals and ribbons needed by the emperor, empress and officials from all over the country.

Then, because charcoal and wood are often used for heating and cooking in the palace these days, they were originally placed under the supervision of internal officials. Guo Peng felt that this way the internal officials supervised too much, so he set up a firewood supervisor to deal with the needs of various palace institutions in the inner court. Charcoal and firewood, including candles, are consumables for kindling.

Then one day, a case used by Cao Lan damaged a corner of the table. Cao Lan wanted to repair it and use it again, but it took a long time to repair it after ordering.

Guo Peng heard about this matter, and he immediately felt that it was necessary to set up an institution for repairing utensils that everyone could use in the palace.

He further thought that the palace needs a weaving supervisor who can undertake the manufacture and repair of all the utensils required by the royal family, so the weaving supervisor came into being.

Guo Peng ordered the Ministry of Industry to select excellent craftsmen to train the eunuchs and maids in the palace, so that they can master certain skills so as to better serve the royal family.

For example, making furniture, making gold and silver jewelry, weaving and weaving silk, dyeing cloth, washing clothes and so on, all these have to be done by people.

The officials have not yet reacted, Shangshan Supervisor, Shangyi Supervisor, Yuma Supervisor, Yuyong Supervisor, Neiguan Supervisor, Shangbao Supervisor, Yinshou Supervisor, Salary Supervisor, Duzhi Supervisor and Weaving Supervisor, all of a sudden there are more in the inner court. It took only a month for ten eunuch institutions to grow from scratch.

Such rapid emergence and rapid establishment are still formal departments, eunuch departments serving the emperor in a serious manner, which makes many people at a loss.

For the first time, they knew that serving the royal family required so many different departments and so many eunuchs to do it, and the names were still very serious, which was much higher than Lingdi who ran a nude swimming pool and ten permanent attendants.

They all gave Guo Peng a thumbs up from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that he was really an exquisite emperor who lived his life so exquisitely.

What about living frugally?

What about your thrift in the past?

As a result, the number of eunuchs and court ladies in the inner court began to expand, and expenditures also began to expand, which caused dissatisfaction among some officials.

For example, Cui Yan, such as Guoyuan, both of them belong to the kind of more upright people. Seeing Guo Peng showing signs of enjoying themselves, they immediately went to the table, saying that when the new dynasty was established, it should be frugal. Want to indulge in pleasure?

Well, you can treat me like that.

Guo Peng expressed his satisfaction at the fact that the outside world began to speculate that he would start to enjoy himself after he became emperor.

As long as you don't suspect that I am taking the opportunity to expand the group of eunuchs to defend the imperial power, everything is fine.

TM's Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were really too ruthless. They killed all the eunuchs in the period of Emperor Huan and Lingdi. The remaining two or three kittens were destroyed in Hongnong City. The group of eunuchs in the Han Dynasty was completely wiped out.

Now he has to spend his time cultivating some eunuchs who can fight with scholars...

It's not easy. It's not easy. It's really not easy to cultivate a group into an existence that can fight with scholars. You have to be careful to restrain them, and you can't really let them mess up power.

After all, these eunuchs are really just Guo's own slaves.

It's certainly okay to let them bite outsiders, but if they awaken the will of the white-eyed wolf and start eating inside and outside, then it's time to do it.

Sometimes eunuchs are not absolutely loyal, and it is not uncommon for them to collude with each other. It is meaningful to establish a third party.

Therefore, Guo Peng gave the cabinet the right to audit. This power can not only cooperate with Yushitai to clean up scholars, but also to clean up households.

However, the cultivation still needs to continue to be cultivated, and the organization still needs to continue to organize.

Because compared to scholars, their own slaves are more reliable and more lovable. At least life and death are in their own hands. The impact of killing an eunuch is completely different from killing a scholar.

Then after there were so many eunuchs and yamen, some of the original Jiuqing's official positions serving the emperor could no longer exist, and Guo's domestic slaves could be competent.

For example, part of the authority of the servant, and the authority of the Shaofu.

Especially Shaofu.

The authority of the Shaofu is related to the emperor's personal financial rights, and Guo Peng will not hand over his money bag to a person who cannot be trusted.

In the future, he will use his domestic slaves to do many things, such as mining and so on. The emperor must have money in his hands, not the money in the treasury, but the money in his own pocket.

So Guo Peng replied to the officials that the new dynasty was just established, and some new atmosphere was needed to show the world, saying that this was the beginning of a prosperous age.

He is also very frugal, but he just needs to subdivide the work to be done and assign a full-time person to better serve the royal family in the inner court.

The reply was dry, official articles, not nutritious, which aroused the concerns of the officials.

They were all worried about whether Guo Peng became the emperor, or he was full of ambition and wanted to enjoy it, and wanted to spend a lot of money to enjoy it, and didn't want to continue to make progress.

Just at this time, news came from the south that Liu Zhang proclaimed himself emperor in Fengtian in Chengdu and inherited the heir of the Han Dynasty, indicating that the Han Dynasty was not over yet. He also named Liu Biao the king of Chu and established the Kingdom of Chu in Jingzhou.

Both of them raised the banner to oppose Guo Peng's usurpation of the throne, and called on all benevolent and righteous people loyal to the Han Dynasty to crusade against Guo Peng and the puppet dynasty he established.

So the ministers got the opportunity to speak out.

Chapter 783 Erguo's boring life

Guo has always been a person who loves reading.

He has studied Confucian classics under the guidance of Guo Dan since he was a child.

Arrived in the imperial capital at the age of 12, followed Cai Yong to further study classics, and explored the inner needs of Confucian scholars in this era from the perspective of literati.

After becoming Lu Zhi's disciple, under the guidance of the pragmatist Lu Zhi, he began to pry into the mystery of Confucian hegemony to dethrone a hundred schools of thought, and then he was worthy of learning.

It’s not that he doesn’t work hard, nor that he is not talented enough. It’s just that the Taixue education in this era is very rough. It’s basically a word-of-mouth education model, and the teacher only says once. Whether a student can realize it or not depends on his own talent. and chance.

And elite education is just one-to-one word of mouth, and the teacher has the possibility of teaching it many times, and the chances of students becoming talents will be greater.

But those eligible for elite education, even among the 40 educated, are only about [-] percent.

Fortunately, someone Guo is one of one percent of those 40 people.

It can be said that without Lu Zhi's on-demand and careful teaching, Guo would not understand the most advanced game rules of this era, and it would be difficult to continuously seize opportunities and maximize his own interests.

And through the elite education during this period, Guo has acquired the ability to continue learning and increase his knowledge.

He can break sentences.

This is very important.

Because there are no punctuation marks at this time, the article is consistent, how to punctuate sentences, how to understand the meaning of the ancestors, all are taught by the teacher. up.

How to punctuate a sentence even determines how to understand the true meaning of this article, determines the future direction of this school of scholars, and the social status of a family.

The so-called mastering the right to interpret classics means mastering the right to punctuate sentences. The Yuan family in Runan has mastered the power to punctuate sentences in "Yi" before becoming an unshakable academic suzerain, four generations and three princes.

Lu Zhi can punctuate sentences, but his family does not have the right to punctuate a certain classic. Without such qualifications, he can only teach Guo Peng how to punctuate sentences and how to understand the meaning of his ancestors, which has greatly benefited Guo Peng.

These days, if you want to read and get books, it is not difficult, the difficulty lies in learning.

Without a teacher who can teach you sentence sentences through a lot of practice, even if you have books to read and can recognize characters, you will not be able to learn the meaning of the scriptures. Self-study is a luxury, and there is no room for self-improvement.

Only by learning to punctuate sentences can there be the possibility of self-study, and punctuated sentences are an important power monopolized by academic sects, and they are tightly held by them and will never let go.

So someone Guo can punctuate sentences, and being able to use his own punctuation marks to punctuate sentences is one of his greatest advantages and one of the reasons why he can continue to learn by himself.

For example, his self-study of "Han Feizi".

During the war to expand the territory, someone from Guo accidentally obtained a set of "Han Feizi" from the flames of war.

He has never read "Han Feizi" in his past and present lives, so he regards this set of "Han Feizi" as a treasure, and keeps reading it as long as he has time. So far, he has read it 73 times and copied it by hand five times. There are new experiences every time.

Through study, he believes that this set of "Han Feizi" is the most suitable textbook for emperors to study.

Han Fei uses poetic language to explain the cold power relationship and reveal the intrigue between the monarch and his ministers. Compared with the stories of Yao, Shun and Yu's abdication that Confucian scholars specially used to fool people, "Han Feizi" is the conscience.

After the founding of the country, someone Guo personally gave Guo Jin a set of study books, the most important of which was "Han Feizi", especially the article "Raising Power".

He personally annotated this article, allowing Guo Jin to study this article in depth, understand the essence of the daily battles, and understand the most straightforward and thorough hostile relationship between monarchs and ministers.

Depose all kinds of schools, depose these cold things, and what remains is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality.

But the essence of these things will not change. No one can take away the essence that Guo has gained insight through the war.

What's more, he still has the ability of self-learning, which is enough to learn Han Feizi's chapters independently without guidance.

No one can limit his self-improvement, no one can limit his thoughts and insight into his action patterns.

Therefore, he not only mastered Confucianism and legal provisions, but also mastered Han Fei's thoughts on power and tactics, and began to learn and use power tactics to control his courtiers, step by step to the top.

Up to now, no one can stop Guo from viewing his courtiers in the same way as enemies. No matter who they are, they will be enemies in his eyes.

As an emperor, when you get up in the morning, you have to fight with your courtiers with wisdom and brains in the field of power, and face the courtiers head-on.

When going to bed at night, you have to fight with your wife and concubine with your body on the bed. Through your body and the degree of love you have for your wife and concubine, you can control the family power behind your wife and concubine from the side.

Life is endless, battles are endless, every day is full of battles, life is boring and dangerous, it is no wonder that emperors have often struggled to live long since ancient times.

After a deep understanding of the essence of being an emperor, every time he confronts his officials, pressures him in the name of righteousness, and restricts his behavior, at that time, someone Guo will realize that the war is about to end. here we go.

However, gentlemen, you have never realized that I am a person who likes to fight.

Gentlemen!I love war!

Someone Guo laughed wildly and opened his arms to meet the challenge of the courtiers!

The ministers were very dissatisfied with Mr. Guo's large-scale construction and construction of the inner court for his exquisite life. They thought it was a sign of the emperor's degeneration and a dangerous signal.

So led by Shangshuling Cheng Yu, followed by Wei Guoyuan, Minister of Sili, and Cui Yan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, they instigated a large number of officials from Shangshutai to come forward together, with sincere words and tears in their words, asking Emperor Guo Peng to stop enjoying himself and divert his attention Go to Jiangnan and transfer to Jingzhou and Yizhou, which have not yet been pacified.

The world has not yet been unified, so you are going to rest on your laurels?

This is what Cui Yan said on the table.