When Guo Peng is racing against time, Cheng Yu is also racing against time.

He is seizing every minute and every second to select a suitable candidate for the emperor.

According to Guo Peng's needs, it is best to have no parents when he is underage, and it is better to have fewer relatives, so that he can manipulate and play with him nearby, use it as his pawn, and then abandon it at any time.

Guo someone, who evolved from an ant to a chess piece, and then to a chess player, still likes to play chess very much.

Before and after the establishment of the new emperor, there should be some ghosts, ghosts, snakes and gods jumping out, and then there will be a wave of purges to clean up some uncertain factors and troublemakers.

All-round annihilation from the soul to the body.

Then find an excuse to enter the throne of Wei, directly provoke Liu Bang, break the rule of the Han Dynasty that different surnames are not allowed to be crowned kings, and then find out a group of dissidents hidden within Guo Wei's political group and eliminate them together.

In this way, it is enough to completely pave the way for the emperor, and there will be no obstacles ahead.

He has to pay attention to ways and means.

He wants to be a scientific and rational representative of the Han.

When the Han Dynasty is Tu Gaoye, this proverb can be used well, a serious nonsense, to distort the explanation.

The little emperor can't be less.

There should be no one less process.

Although Guo wants to be the emperor very much, he can hold back his ambitions, he can stick to the most suitable time, and do everything he wants to do.

Cheng Yu's work efficiency has always been very high, and he has never resolutely implemented what Guo Peng has ordered.

So he soon pulled up a leadership team to select the emperor, and selected older and more prestigious old ministers to enter, such as Chen Ji and Cai Yong.

Cai Yong will not talk about it, as Guo Peng's power rises, Cai Yong's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and he is praised as a generation of grandmasters, and Chen Ji is older than Cai Yong, and he has been up and down for decades, and he is the representative of the Yingchuan Chen family, and his identity is naturally noble.

With these two people joining the endorsement, the emperor's candidate will not be questioned in any way.

Then, according to certain political rules, find a suitable candidate for the emperor from the close branch of the bloodline closest to the second emperor of Huan Ling.

Of course, the dominant power is in the hands of Cheng Yu, not others.

Two months later, when Zhuge Liang and others successfully arrived in Yecheng, Cheng Yu found a very suitable candidate.

The youngest grandson of Liu Shuo, the king of the plains, Liu Jian, who is only ten years old.

Liu Shuo, the king of the plains, is the younger brother of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Zhi died, Liu Shuo was already relatively old, and had a reputation for alcoholism, and did not enter the eyes of the imperial court, but Liu Hong was selected.

This time, according to Guo Peng's needs, he wanted to find the children of the royal family who were as close as possible by blood and had a small number of relatives around him.

So Liu Jian entered Cheng Yu's field of vision.

lost his mother and father at a young age, and there was only one grandfather left, Liu Shuo, who was old and struggling to survive on the hospital bed, such a candidate could not be better.

So Cheng Yu immediately personally led the team, taking Chen Ji, who had served as the minister of the plains, Cai Yong, who was very famous, and Tian Feng, Guo Jia and other high-ranking and powerful people to the plains to "investigate" the emperor candidate.

In fact, after the news of Guo Peng's intention to choose excellent royal children to inherit the throne spread, there was no repercussion in the entire Yecheng officialdom.

Wei Chen, who was devoted to Guo Peng, felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

Through the secret reports of the secret agents in the Linzi camp, when Guo Peng learned that some generals in the army were discussing this matter in private, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that Guo Peng wanted to choose a Han clan relative to succeed him as emperor.

Some generals have already begun to communicate in secret, rather than letting the Han clan be the emperor, it is better for Guo Peng to be the emperor, and now choosing a Han clan to be the emperor, no matter how you look at it, I don't think it is the best choice.

There are still quite a few generals who hold such views.

Some of the officials in the officialdom also had similar exchanges in private, and more of them remained silent and waited to see how the situation changed.

Only a few scholars who were devoted to the Han family rejoiced and praised Guo Peng as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

And then the local reaction was also very flat, especially the officials who held real power, the reaction was basically very flat, and they didn't say anything, as if they knew that this matter was not ordinary.

However, the Liu clansmen everywhere were boiling.

Seriously, these Liu clan members are really miserable during this time.

I don't know how many thrones and marquis of the Liu clan have been abolished in a division of the eight kingdoms, and many Liu clan relatives have lost the titles they rely on for their livelihood, and have been relocated to some poor and remote areas, where they can't eat and live in some abandoned fields and houses.

The Han family itself is difficult to protect, who cares about these Liu clan relatives?

They were bullied by officials from all over the country, bullied by bandits, and those who were bullied should not be wanted, but no one cared about them, and they should not be called unhealthy every day, not to mention how miserable it was.

So some clan relatives couldn't stand it anymore, and went to Jingzhou and Yizhou to seek refuge with Liu Zhang and Liu Biao, or to other relatives who had not lost their titles and fortunes, trying to get good treatment.

But these high-status Han clan relatives don't say how good their lives are, for these poor relatives who come to take refuge, they are irritable, and they still have to do some work on the surface, so they can give a bowl of rice to eat, and they can't watch them starve to death.

In this large-scale persecution of the Han clansmen, a large number of Han clansmen were treated harshly as never before, and their numbers were greatly reduced by a great blow.

Few of the influential people stood up to speak for them, and of course there were, but it was not enough to feed so many Han clansmen.

Anyway, one of them was recorded by the secret agents of the Linzi camp and sent to Yecheng for archiving.

At this sensitive moment, people who do nothing are the smartest people.

Naturally, it is not possible to fall into the well.

Guo is good at falling into the well, but he hates people who fall into the same well as him the most, he thinks that such people are as despicable and shameless as him, then it will not work.

Guo can be despicable and shameless, but Guo does not allow others to be as despicable and shameless as him, otherwise, he is coveting Guo's status.

Write it down in a small notebook and slowly clean it up later.

So the remaining Han clan relatives survived their lives, guarding one acre and three points of land, and they didn't know where they would be tomorrow.

Then looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looking forward to the news that Guo Peng was going to select the new emperor, he couldn't help but rejoice and be excited.

After the chaotic war between the princes, the throne of the Han Emperor, which had been pending for a year, was finally about to usher in a new master.

Emperor Liu Hong was in a desperate line, and there was no candidate for emperor, so according to the rules, the new emperor must be looking for it among the close branches of the imperial family.

In order to become the emperor and get rid of the current predicament, a large number of Han clan relatives began to advance to Yecheng and wrote letters to Guo Peng to deliver to Yecheng, hoping to earn impression points.

Because everyone knows that it is not someone else who holds the decision-making power, but Guo Peng.

Whoever Guo Peng wants to be the emperor can be the emperor and get the glory, wealth and supremacy, who cares if you are a close branch of the royal family?

They didn't know what Guo Peng thought, and thought that as long as he performed well enough, he could be the emperor.

There are also many people who beg their grandfathers to sue their grandmothers in the hope that local officials can intercede with Guo Peng and talk about it, and for this reason, they also took out their little remaining property to bribe the local officials set up by Guo Peng, especially the local officials who are close to Guo Peng.

For example, Runan Taishou Xiahou Dun, such as Yuzhou Thorn Shi Manzhong, such as Qingzhou Thorn Shi Mi Zhu, and Wei Prime Minister Cao Cao.

The ugliness of the Han clan relatives was exposed in the eyes of these officials.

There are those who are disappointed, there are those who despise, there are those who are disgusted, and of course, there are fools who accept bribes and write letters to Yecheng to pull relations.

Then some people added fuel to the fire, preaching everywhere the ugliness of these Han clan relatives when they were moving around, and for a time there was a storm in the city, and rumors spread everywhere.

But this matter is Guo Peng's single choice, not a two-way choice, these people have no choice, they can only wait to be selected.

What they are doing is full of smoky miasma, which makes many people disappointed, thinking that it is okay to choose these people to be emperors?

So Cheng Yu took the opportunity to push out the candidate he valued, and then organized a group of inspection teams to inspect the emperor candidate.