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Chapter 17 Learning from Cao Cao

Hu Guang was taken aback for a moment, and said in a slightly annoyed tone, "Hmph, they don't have the guts yet!"

"That's why you made them feel insecure!" Yuan Qiao listened, and said casually, from the tone of his voice, he didn't seem to care much.

"Impossible!" Hu Guang subconsciously denied upon hearing this.

Yuan Qiao didn't answer, obviously he didn't care about the follow-up matters.

Hu Guang felt bored, so he clicked offline and exited from the chat group system.Suddenly, he thought of something and froze.

After the original Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he hated the eunuchs headed by Wei Zhongxian to the bone. Not only did he whip Wei Zhongxian's corpse, but even after the minister submitted the list of eunuchs, he felt that the number of eunuchs was far from enough. Few people.Even after the case is over, party disputes in the name of eunuchs still continue, because they are effective.

Thinking of this, Hu Guang suddenly seemed to have a little impression. Historically, the civil servants and eunuchs of the Chongzhen Dynasty seemed to have a good relationship, so that the factory guards did nothing. In the writings of those literati, it was said that the factory guards of this dynasty were loyal men .It's just huh!
Recalling that when Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, there was only one eunuch Wang Chengen by his side, and the civil servants and generals surrendered one after another, even including a large number of eunuchs.Is this phenomenon simply attributed to these people's greed for life and fear of death?Isn't there a little bit of Emperor Chongzhen himself?

At this time, Hu Guang remembered a famous saying of Mencius: "If the king regards his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers will regard the emperor as his heart; Treat the king like a bandit."

Although this passage is a bit absolute, it is not unreasonable, at least the original fate of Emperor Chongzhen more or less reflected this point.Although some courtiers were martyred, this was against the background of thousands of years of Confucianism.Thinking of this, Hu Guang realized something.

At this moment, Wang Dehua outside seemed to be unable to wait any longer, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the servants are just doing a simple check, but the involvement is already shocking, and many eunuchs with palm prints are involved. Please have a look."

Hu Guang frowned when he heard this, and suddenly said to the outside: "Decree, all the imperial study rooms above the twelfth prison, the fourth division, and the eighth bureau junior prison are waiting for you."

Wang Dehua was overjoyed when he heard that, it seemed that His Majesty was angry, and he was afraid that he would make an example.Hehe, seeing that you usually don't respect our family, now that our family has these real evidence, we will definitely make you look good!
Thinking so, he immediately responded loudly: "Your servant obeys the order!"

Wang Dehua's movements were quick, and within half an hour, almost everyone was there.

Afterwards, Hu Guang set up his study room.Along the way, the eunuchs and maids who served were all trembling.Others may not know the situation, but they are on duty and probably know what will happen next.Quite a few were even very scared in their hearts, because they might be involved.

The young supervisors and eunuchs in the imperial study room are all powerful figures in the inner palace. When they rushed here, they more or less knew what happened.Immediately, many people turned pale, looking at Wang Dehua with resentment, jealousy, regret and so on.

In the imperial study room, only Wang Dehua held his head high.He guessed in his heart that His Majesty chose to be in the imperial study, obviously to deal with this matter severely.With His Majesty's temper, I am afraid that many people will lose their heads this time!Thinking about it, he felt very proud.

Even when the emperor came, among the shrill greetings, Wang Dehua had the loudest voice and the most strength.

After Hu Guang sat down, he looked at a group of eunuchs and young eunuchs kneeling below him. After a moment of silence, he turned his eyes to Wang Dehua who had been waiting for him for a long time.

Receiving the reminder, Wang Dehua suppressed the excitement in his heart, took out a fold from his sleeve again and said: "Your Majesty, all the inside and outside of the palace that the servants have checked are here, please have a look."

Apart from his voice, there was no other movement in the imperial study room.After he finished speaking, he became so quiet that he couldn't even hear his breathing.

But the emperor didn't speak or signal, leaving Wang Dehua frozen there with a stack of papers, which surprised him a bit.

After a while, Hu Guang spoke slowly, with a serious voice: "Although I haven't read the list, I can guess that there will be many of you in that fold. Don't you know it's a big taboo?"

The emperor was angry and said such words, everyone in the imperial study, including Wang Dehua, dared not face Hu Guang directly, and all bent down to the ground, not daring to move.There were even quite a few people whose backs were already drenched in sweat.

Hu Guang glanced at them and felt their fear, so he said softly: "But you people are my confidantes, so I let you sit in these positions and run errands for me. For the sake of the past, I spared you this time. But if there is a next time, I will punish his nine clans!"

In this case, even Wang Dehua, who was unwilling, had no choice but to join the others in thanking him loudly.

After the imperial study room became quiet again, Hu Guang signaled, "Burn it!"

After hearing this, Wang Dehua burst into tears.But no matter how reluctant he was, he had no choice but to get up and throw the folded book in his hand into a warming charcoal basin beside him, watching the sharp weapon used to attack others turn into ashes after a lot of hard work.

When the other young eunuchs met, they understood that the emperor was following Cao Cao's allusion to burning letters, and used this to signal that he would stop worrying about it, and forgave this time, and couldn't help but feel very moved.

"Ding, achievement value +1, from eunuch Shen Liangzuo!"

"Ding, achievement value +5, from eunuch Gao Qiqian!"

"Ding, achievement value +1, from eunuch Cao Huachun!"

"Ding, achievement value +5, from eunuch Li Fengxiang!"

"..."

The sound of ding ding ding rang non-stop. Except for Wang Dehua who did not contribute, everyone else contributed achievement points.Hu Guang glanced at the lower left corner of the chat group system, and saw that the achievement value finally stopped at 381.

This time, Hu Guang was happy, not bad, not bad, it was a complete surprise!
But on the surface, Hu Guang still kept it as it was. After Wang Dehua returned to his original position, he said: "You should read more "Nei Ling" and "Zhong Jian Lu" at ordinary times, and don't go out of the inner school. Just throw these two books aside, or you won't remember your duty, and you will easily follow Wei Ni's path!"

He also knew from the memory of the original Emperor Chongzhen that basically all the eunuchs in important positions came from the Neishutang.

This "Internal Order" is the commandment given to eunuchs by emperors of all dynasties since Taizu and Taizong; while "Zhongjianlu" collects the deeds of law-abiding eunuchs from all dynasties and generations, and serves as a model for eunuchs in Ming Dynasty to follow.

(End of this chapter)