Lord Yuan

Chapter 10 The Emperor Short of Money

Luoyang.

Dahong Luqing Mansion.

Yuan Wei looked at the ruler slips in his hand and was a little surprised.

"How can I be willing to serve as an official in the imperial court if I am a prodigal by nature?"

He picked it up and continued to look back.

The more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, and the content in my heart felt like it was stuck in my throat and I was unwilling to spit it out.

Yuan Shu was used to being dissolute and had an active nature. Although he was respectful and courteous to his younger brothers and acted like a handsome gentleman, he would often attend gatherings of young men from local aristocratic families in Runan.

But all this is superficial, Yuan Shu did it for the Yuan family to see, but behind the scenes, he is what the people call a fierce ghost on the road. Seeing Yuan Shu's figure is like seeing the king of hell urging his life.

When he left his post and returned home last time, he met many people who told him about Yuan Shu's atrocities. However, due to the power of the Yuan family in Runan, no local officials dared to intervene in this matter.

Yuan Shu has always been used to this, without anyone restraining him.

Only then did Yuan Wei realize that Yuan Shu had such a dissolute nature, but after all, he was the legitimate son of the Yuan family, and his brother had always trained him as his successor. Now, I have to obey my brother's letter.

He was a little bit stuck in a trap. On the one hand, he felt that Yuan Shu's future was difficult, and on the other hand, there was also Yuan Shu's eldest brother, the real eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Ji, who was an official in the court.

This person has inherited most of Yuan's resources, coupled with his own elegant demeanor, and comes with high-level buffs when he appears, so he can be promoted without any pressure.

Yuan Shao sometimes had to feel a little bit of envy and jealousy towards his nominal brother.

Although Yuan Ji had never done anything unreasonable to Yuan Shao, and he was not as open-mouthed as Yuan Shu, but Yuan Ji's innate leadership talent still made him feel the pressure.

A pressure from a superior.

However, without pressure, there would be no motivation. Yuan Shao had already regarded Yuan Ji as one of his competitors deep in his heart.

If I want to carry forward the Yuan clan, I, Yuan Shao, may not be as good as you, Yuan Ji.

But if you want the Yuan family to become the common master of the world, kill the eunuchs, and become famous all over the world, you are not as good as me.

Yuan Shao has this confidence.

Now, the disaster of Party imprisonment has not yet begun, and the noble Party members still have a chance to breathe, and they can hang on the rope hanging between the cliffs.

If the party prison is restored, the court is destroyed, and a large number of party members are destroyed, no matter whether you are a noble person or a well-known domestic celebrity, clinging to this unreasonable party prison will be like the later Qin Hui who fabricated Yue Fei's story. There is no reason for this, no matter how many times you open your mouth, you can't explain it, and you can't solve the fear in the emperor's heart, the fear of the power of the party members.

The emperor is the supreme king. For him, the party's imprisonment is nothing more than the death of a group of people and the replacement of a group of people who continue to hold office.

A solid official position and a smooth life.

It was performed vividly here by Emperor Ling.

Whenever something big happens in the country.

Like a landslide.

Like a crack in the ground.

Such as border riots.

It's like the sky is sweet but no dew or rain falls.

In his eyes, appointing and removing senior officials was as simple as playing house.

And if the government is opened, the Sangong Ling Emperor, who has the affairs of Lu Shangshu, still understands the powerful relationship and will not dismiss him easily.

Of course, there is also a hint of power and money trading in this. After all, Emperor Ling used the term "selling one's official position and conferring a title" to an unparalleled degree, and everyone in the court scrambled to learn from it, as if they would become out of place if they didn't join the team.

Is Emperor Ling short of money?
very short.

To what extent it is lacking.

In order to balance the situation of all parties, he established a Hongdu sect among his relatives, eunuchs and noble families.

And Emperor Ling, once the emperor, should have been sitting high in the court, strategizing thousands of miles away.He was completely different from other emperors. The emperor was demoted and stood in front of this national university, which symbolized China's first.

Public sale of office.

Ordinary people have never seen such a battle. In their impression, shouldn't the emperor be like a dragon, either staying in the East Palace with three thousand beauties in the harem, or handling government affairs in the palace?
Today the sun rises in the west, and His Majesty the Emperor unexpectedly appears in ordinary people's homes.

Even more outrageous.

Surrounded by a group of eunuchs, the young-looking emperor was sitting cross-legged in front of the academy with papers placed in front of the door.

It had the words "selling one's official position" resolutely written on it.

The common people looked at these dazzling words, and most of them did not recognize those words.

Historians once made statistics and found that in the entire Han Dynasty, less than [-]% of the people had the qualifications, capital, and ability to learn writing.

This means that among the people standing in front of the emperor, only eight out of a hundred people may recognize the word written in front of them.

Of course, the emperor himself had no intention of letting these untouchables, who only knew how to work and knew how big the world was, know him. The reason for his appearance here today was only one word.

money!
Money can turn the devil around.

The governor can be sold, the county magistrate can be sold, and the governor is of course among them. Even if the emperor is in a good mood and sees a lot of money collected, the positions of the three public officials may not appear on the transaction column.

of course.

This kind of Sangong does not have any real power. It is not like opening a government to manage affairs. This kind of power is just a false name.

I can usually take it out to show off to some unsuspecting colleagues that I am the Third Duke, and my family is hereditary.

However, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, strictly speaking the fifth and third princes, all had real power, and three or four of them were real powerful men with the title of Lu Shangshu Shishi.

This is why the children of the Yuan family dare to tell outsiders that I, the fourth generation and the third son of the Yuan family, are the reason.

In more than a year, these enviable high-ranking officials will regret staying in the court.

If the team is on the wrong side, the emperor will let you understand what it means to accompany the emperor like a tiger, and it is an evil tiger with no chance of turning around.

Although Yuan Wei has not been promoted to Sangong, he is currently Dahonglu, one of the nine ministers.

At that time, all the princes, kings, princes and princes of their respective countries, as well as foreign monarchs or envoys, were regarded as guests of the emperor, so most of the affairs related to this were handled by Da Honglu.

For example, princes and princes were granted titles, or their sons ceased to be heirs, as well as seizing titles and land.

When the princes of the princes came to Beijing to see the emperor, Dahonglu presided over the ceremony; when the king of princes died, Dahonglu sent envoys to express his condolences, and drafted edicts and posthumous titles.

When the rulers of vassal states under the Han Dynasty accepted titles from the Han Dynasty or met with the emperor, as well as when foreign envoys came to make contributions, Dahonglu also took care of ceremonial affairs.

The salary is two thousand stones.

If this official position is listed on the Ling Emperor's sale list, the starting price will be 2000 million yuan.

Now, my brother wrote a letter asking him to arrange the position of the highway.

As early as the year before last, Yuan Feng had been recommended by officials from other places and the prefect of a county, making Yuan Shu a filial and honest subordinate under him. However, because there was no corresponding official position in the imperial court, he was appointed as Lang Guan first. When the imperial official position became vacant, he would be an alternate. Lang Guan intervened.

Yuan Wei is aware of these situations.

What made him difficult was that his brother mentioned in the letter whether His Majesty was in good health now. If there was any problem, he must go back to Runan and discuss important matters.

The body of His Majesty the Emperor was discussed in the rulers. According to the laws and regulations, he could be thrown into prison and dismissed from his post, or beheaded in serious cases.

There is no room for maneuver.

Yuan Wei looked at the letter in front of him and was stunned for a long time, then he burned it with a fire.

Call your servants, pack your bags, and go see His Majesty the Emperor.

(End of this chapter)