Chen Ji came out of Guo Peng's house, sat in the carriage, and returned home in a daze.

At home, Chen Qun just came home from work after 996, smelling of sweat, thinking about taking a shower and changing clothes to incense before going to run errands, and saw his father walking in from outside the door, so he immediately greeted him.

"Father."

Chen Ji stopped and looked at Chen Qun silently.

"Father?"

Chen Qun bent down and arched his hand for a while, and seeing that Chen Ji did not react, he raised his head slightly to look at Chen Ji.

"Long text."

Chen Ji stretched out a hand and stretched out it to Chen Qun.

Chen Qun hurriedly grabbed Chen Ji's hand and leaned in.

"Son."

"In the future, you have to be careful and do things carefully, our Chen family can go all the way to today, it is not easy, your grandfather was born in a humble family, my Chen family has only been a few generations, it is difficult to get to today, no matter what, you must also protect the Chen family, the survival of the Chen family is in your hands."

Chen Ji held Chen Qun's hand tightly.

"Why did my father say that?"

Chen Qun felt very strange, and when he looked closely, he found that Chen Ji's face was pale, his lips were bloodless, and his eyes were straight.

Chen Qun was in doubt, and suddenly Chen Ji's eyes rolled, and he fainted.

"Father! Father! Father!!! ”

Chen Qun was shocked, and immediately called the servants at home to carry Chen Ji to the bedroom in the backyard, and invited the great doctor Hua Tuo to treat Chen Ji.

Within a few days, Guo Peng learned the news that Chen Ji was sick in bed, and he attached great importance to this.

He strictly ordered Hua Tuo and all the doctors in the Great Medical Hall to treat Chen Ji at all costs.

It's a pity that Chen Ji's condition is still getting worse day by day, and he can't get out of bed while lying in bed.

It was also during this period that Guo Peng made public the process of Xun Yu, Zang Hong and others conspiring against each other, plotting to harm the little emperor, and the follow-up treatment.

He said that Xun Yu and Zang Hong and others had never been satisfied with the little emperor's accession to the throne, and never really thought that the little emperor was the emperor.

The Xun clan conspiracy group included Xun Yu, Zang Hong, and the remaining twenty-six Luoyang officials, who conspired to kill the little emperor and elect other Liu clan relatives to be emperors.

Fortunately, Shang Shu ordered Xun You to discover this incident in time, punctured their conspiracy, stopped it, and ordered the arrest of 28 rebels led by Xun Yu and Zang Hong, and crushed their coup attempt.

After interrogation, the evidence was conclusive, and Emperor Liu Jian was furious and ordered Xun Yu and Zang Hong and other 28 people to behead their families.

Guo Peng couldn't bear it, and said that his people had made merits to the Han Empire, and asked them to be spared death.

The emperor did not allow it.

However, remembering Guo Peng's plea and their past achievements, the emperor changed the punishment to the execution of the men and the sale of the female dependents into slavery.

Guo Peng's eldest son, Guo Jin, the lieutenant of northern Luoyang, had always been friendly with Zang Hong's son Zang Biao, and was shocked when he heard this, knelt at the palace gate to petition the emperor, asking the emperor to spare Zang Biao's life, and wrote to his father Guo Peng, hoping that Guo Peng would try his best to rescue, but Guo Peng could not do anything.

Guo Jin cried until he fainted, and he was sick for it.

At the end of December of the first year of Jian'an, Xun Yu, Zang Hong and other 28 rebel ministers and the men in their families were beheaded by the emperor in Luoyang.

During the whole process, Guo Peng did not mention a word about the White Horse Alliance.

Since then, no one has mentioned it again.

Whether it is Luoyang, Yecheng, or any state, county, county and city under Guo Peng's control, no one has mentioned it anymore.

The sacrosanctity of the White Horse Alliance, with the death of Xun Yu and Zang Hong and others, no longer exists.

Start with blood and end with blood.

Because those who should know know the reason, and those who should not know will never know, let alone mention.

After that, something else happened.

For example, Xun Yu pleaded guilty to the emperor, saying that the clansmen committed crimes, and he couldn't find out in time, and almost killed the little emperor, which was his sin, and he wanted to resign because of this to apologize.

The "little emperor" issued an edict saying that Xun Yu was not guilty, Xun Yu discovered Xun Yu's crime in time, stopped it in time, and punctured this conspiracy, which is a great merit and a hero to defend the Han family.

The sin of the clansmen is not the sin of Xun You, Xun You is not only innocent, but also should have great merit and should be rewarded.

So the imperial court added a title to Xun You, added food, and sealed his wife and son, so that he could stay in Shangshuling and continue to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

Xun You wept and thanked the emperor for his kindness.

The entire Xun clan expressed gratitude for the kindness of the Son of Heaven and thanked the "Son of Heaven" for not punishing their whole clan.

This is true for Xun, and so is it for Chen.

During Chen Ji's illness, he made up his mind and decided to resign from the official position, and begged for Guo Peng's bones.

At the same time, he also decided to move the Yingchuan Chen clan to Yecheng, Wei County, and since then he has separated from Yingchuan, no longer taking Yingchuan as his ancestral land, and changed his household registration to Wei County, Jizhou, and dismissed several in-laws that had been agreed between the Chen family and the Xun family.

For this reason, Chen's reputation plummeted, Chen Ji was ridiculed by many people as a "handsome man who knows current affairs", and some people scolded Chen Ji for not protecting his late season.

And Xun got a little sympathy because of this, and did not collapse because of Xun Yu's conspiracy.

Despite this, under the blow of public opinion of the royal literati group headed by Chen Lin, Xun's reputation did not get much better.

Chen Lin and others spoke for Guo Peng during this public opinion war, controlled the public opinion position, and output a large number of high-quality articles, firmly occupying the upper hand.

As a result, the officialdom of Yecheng was talking about Xun Yu, Zang Hong and others' intention to murder the emperor, and they all felt terrible and incredible.

Guo Peng sinisterly took out the previous incident of Xun Yu and Zang Hong's opposition to the little emperor's accession to the throne as emperor, and publicized it together with this incident, and imperceptibly, let the melon-eating masses draw the causal relationship between these two things.

Guo picked it cleanly, Xun You became a hero to protect the emperor, and the dirty water was all splashed on Xun Yu and Zang Hong and other twenty-eight people.

He wasn't worried at all.

For the dead do not defend themselves, and the living dare not defend them.

So the public case was confirmed, conclusive, and recorded.

The Xun family, who was deeply favored by the imperial court, actually participated in the rebellion and actually wanted to kill the life of the little emperor Liu Jian!

It's simply unthinkable.

For this reason, the actions of several members of the Xun clan to raise filial piety and honesty were also forced to be suspended, and the actions of the Xun clan's disciples trying to recommend other Yingchuan scholars were also forced to be suspended.

Xun's political interests were dealt a heavy blow, his political future was almost completely destroyed, there was no hope in sight, and the interests of the Yingchuan scholars were also implicated.

The rest of the Yingchuan officials who were familiar with them and tried to build a network of political relations with the Yingchuan scholars were implicated by this incident and could not continue, and their attempts to reach a political writing agreement with the young Yanshi and Jizhou scholars were also ruined.

The Qing Yanshi and the Jizhou scholars avoided it, lest they reach contact with the Yingchuan scholars.

The roots of the Qing Yanshi and Jizhou scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty were not as deep as those of the Yingchuan scholars, and the Yingchuan scholars originally tried to cooperate with them in exchange for political benefits, but as soon as this major case came out, the cooperation was suddenly terminated.

Years of attempts by Yingchuan scholars to rebuild their network of relationships within the Guo Wei regime were all but destroyed.

Their power has completely declined, they have fallen to the bottom, and for a time there is no hope of a resurgence.

And no one knows about that court debate, and no one knows the reason why Xun Yu and Zang Hong were killed.

Those who knew about it were either dead or given a gag order.

If you don't want to die, just honestly don't talk.

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