Facing the emperor's inquiries that seemed intentional or unintentional, Cheng Yu sat upright without changing his expression.

He survived Guo Peng's layers of tests. To be honest, he was not afraid of Guo Jin's questions at all.

Although Guo Jin is very similar to Guo Peng in all senses, Cheng Yu can most clearly feel that Guo Jin's behavior is imitating Guo Peng.

A kind of imitation like a tribute.

His words and deeds can be seen with a strong smell of Guo Peng. Many of the things he did were done by Guo Peng.

Of course, he is not Guo Peng, he is not as good as Guo Peng, and in all senses he is not as good as Guo Peng.

After ten years of Yande, Guo Peng has reached the peak of power. He can do whatever he wants and no one dares to go against him. That is the moment when his prestige reaches the top, and he is the world who truly uses his ability and attitude to suppress the world.

Guo Jin was just using Guo Peng's remaining power and his knife in Guo Peng's hand to do business.

If Guo Peng was already dead, he was already dead. In the first and second years of Xingyuan, Guo Jin faced a situation that was definitely not just at this level.

The ministers always thought of taking back the power taken away by the emperor.

Throughout history, this power is controlled by the kings and monarchs alone, which is far less than that of the powerful and noble ministers.

For most of the time in history, this power was divided and controlled by the interest groups in the ruling class, rather than controlled by the emperor alone.

There are only a handful of emperors or rulers who can be called centralized.

After all, that's terrible.

The court, or ministers, actually opposed the centralization of the monarch in this system.

Even if it is a centralized emperor, he must distinguish different moments in his life.

Sometimes he had to share power with the powerful and ministers, and sometimes he could only be dictatorial and authoritarian.

During the thirteen years that Guo Peng was emperor, what he had at the beginning was nothing more than military power and the ability to overturn the table.

Then he took control of the regime step by step, then overthrew the gentry and mastered the education power, and finally completed changes at the economic level, established his unique authority through the Great Rebellion, and wiped out all opponents.

It was already ten years since Yande, and he had only three years of real life as an autocratic dictatorial emperor.

In these three years, the pressure and despair that Guo Peng brought to everyone was unprecedented.

I never knew it later, but in the past three years, every person in the ruling class could feel the terrifying pressure from the emperor.

That kind of pressure has been unforgettable for those ministers who have experienced it.

So as soon as Guo Jin got angry, the ministers immediately thought of Guo Peng's angry look. They were instantly timid and knelt down and sang conquest.

It is hard to say that this is not because they are scared by Guo Peng.

Then Guo Peng chose to abdicate and handed over the throne to Guo Jin. Guo Jin took advantage of the remaining power left by Guo Peng to ascend the throne successfully, rectify the military, regime and financial power, and gradually settled in the throne.

This is indispensable for Guo Peng's secret promotion and help. Without Guo Peng's careful preparations, the handover of the throne will definitely not be so smooth.

If Guo Jin cannot sit firmly in the throne under such circumstances, it will be a waste of Guo Peng's training for so many years.

Fortunately, what he did was qualified, and he was an emperor who looked at it from Guo Peng's perspective. If he was placed in other dynasties, he could be regarded as an excellent emperor.

However, as a person who has experienced the entire journey of the Guowei Empire from its infancy to its prosperity, Cheng Yu felt from the bottom of his heart that Guo Jin was far inferior to Guo Peng.

After all, he has never experienced the things that Guo Peng has experienced, and his vision of things is not as sharp as Guo Peng. In order to accomplish something, Guo Peng can prepare several years or even ten years in advance to lay the groundwork, but he probably cannot.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be harsh on Guo Jin, this is the environment in which he grew up.

The general environment does not require him to charge and fight in blood. The general environment requires him to live peacefully, take over power safely, and continue the Guo and Wei Empire safely.

Guo Peng has done enough, and it would be great if he can continue to do all this well and there is no other need.

So in Cheng Yu's opinion, Guo Jin, as the heir to Guo Peng, is already excellent enough.

The heirs that Guo Peng trained for the empire through hard work are already excellent enough. If it is better, it is not something that can be cultivated, it depends on talent.

Just like Lu Zhi also has many students, why is only Guo Peng who survived until the end became emperor?

Cheng Yu never expected Guo Jin to surpass Guo Peng. He only needed to exercise his power steadily and allow the Wei Empire to survive steadily and not do anything to shake the foundation of the country. That would be enough.

Cheng Yu seemed very familiar with what he did now.

These are all things Guo Peng has done before.

Other ministers may feel fear of Guo Jin in anger, but Cheng Yu will not.

Guo Jin is not the second Guo Peng, which is both a misfortune and a great blessing.

The Wei Empire is just an empire, and it cannot withstand the second emperor who can say such words as "If Wei cannot let its people be full, then it should perish".

After calming down his mood, Cheng Yu respectfully answered Guo Jin's question.

"Your Majesty should tell the old ministers in the court by severely punishing Zao Zhi, not to use their qualifications to negotiate with Your Majesty. They are ministers and ministers, and they cannot threaten the monarch. This is the duty of the minister.

Therefore, no matter how high their qualifications are, or how old the emperor is, they cannot do such a thing. This wind cannot last long. Once they are indulged, they will suffer endless disasters."

Guo Jin nodded with great satisfaction and admired Cheng Yu more and more.

This precious sword is so easy to use!

Just getting older.

Can you find a treasure knife that is equally useful in the future?

He had such an idea.

"Well, it's true. Mr. Zhongde's words have won my heart. My magnanimity is not the reliance of their superiors! Mr. Zhongde, strictly investigate the Ministry of Civil Affairs! After that, it can be appropriately expanded to the other departments... except for the academic departments."

"Since the order."

Cheng Yu nodded in agreement.

He knew what he should do.

Soon, from mid-June to early July, Cheng Yu advanced rapidly and bloomed at multiple points.

After defeating the Ministry of Civil Affairs with one blow, he chased and fought hard, went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs three times in a row to get people, and took away one-fifth of the officials and officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in one breath, causing a huge shock to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

For seven or eight days, every day, the magistrate of the Sili School entered the Civil Affairs Department with weapons and announced the crime very neatly. Then he took the people with iron ropes, without giving anyone a chance to make a quibble.

Not only that, Cheng Yu also arrested more than 100 corrupt officials from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works and other court departments through the interests of corrupt officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and even affected the staff and the Censorate.

The sergeants of the Sili School Office attacked in an all-round way and showed their might, which scared the entire Luoyang court to tremble. From high officials to minor officials, they were silent.

All arrested officials were put into the imperial prison, severely tortured and interrogated, and further interrogated their interests.

The torture specialists in the imperial prison used all the techniques that had been studied for many years in one breath, and all the eighteen torture styles were placed on the table, and they were used one by one, so that these criminals could not survive or die.

Basically, not many people can withstand the first six styles. Those who can withstand the first six styles are considered heroes among the criminals.

To be fair, even the judiciary themselves cannot bear these punishments, let alone these criminals.

So, this trend of expanding the storm of integrity was scared to the court officials in one breath. They instantly remembered everything Guo Peng did, and their despair and helplessness at that time.

Central officials were like this, and local officials around Luoyang City were shocked every night and were uneasy.

The one who was scared the most was of course the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was the most popular.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs' service system was once nearly paralyzed and could not handle it. A large amount of government affairs were piled up in the Ministry of Civil Affairs' official deployment and could not be handled. The entire court experienced a certain degree of disorder.

Guo Jin sent the auxiliary ministers and subordinates in the cabinet who were responsible for connecting with the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to hold them accountable.

He angrily scolded Zaozhi and ordered Zaozhi to restore the normal operation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and to do his best to handle daily government affairs. If he cannot, he will be severely punished.

This is quite difficult.

But it doesn't matter, Guo Jin just wants to be so difficult.

Zao Zhi was pale and led a group of trembling officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to chase the progress of work under the supervision of cabinet officials. He worked overtime for several days and could not go home.

The normal operation of the imperial court was barely maintained.

During this process, people from various departments were constantly taken away by Cheng Yu to investigate, and few people could return to the government safely to do business. Those who could go back were simply chosen sons. When they saw their old friends, they would hug their heads and cry.

In just less than half a month, the three departments worked overtime to interrogate the criminals day and night, and upholding Guo Jin's will, thirty-eight officials were sentenced to death.

The house search operation was also in full swing, with various stolen goods such as gold, silver and jewelry transported to the treasury in boxes. The huge amount of stolen goods made the crimes of these corrupt officials cleared the world.

Guo Jin did set off this storm of integrity to crack down on Zao Zhi and opposition forces, but when he found out that the corruption of these officials was so huge, he was also angry.

[The Supreme Emperor abdicated less than two years ago, and corruption among officials has become popular! Could it be that all the ministers think that my sword is not good?]

Guo Jin personally wrote this warrant, asking the cabinet to send it to various departments of the court to vent his anger.

In order to warn the ministers, Guo Jin ordered the thirty-eight death-sentence officials to behead them publicly as soon as possible.

The men in their family were sent to a cow laborer, but they were not forgiven when they encountered any problems. All the women were sold, or they were put into the Jiaofangsi to be slaves.

Thirty-eight bloody heads mean that the emperor's anger was completely ignited. This storm of integrity, which itself is a political action, has developed in the direction of a real storm of integrity.
Chapter completed!