Chapter 688: Gu Yi is about to ascend the throne

"Sima Fang, what a beast!"

Learning that the mastermind behind the assassination of Gu Yi was the Sima family, all the civil and military officials under Gu Yi's command felt filled with righteous indignation.

Especially the hot-tempered generals, who wished they could pull out their swords on the spot and chop Sima Fang to pieces!

They couldn't win on the frontal battlefield, yet they played this suicide set behind the scenes.

They really didn't want any face at all!

Thus, the generals requested to lead troops to attack Cao Cao and destroy the Sima family.

Compared to the civil and military officials under his command, Gu Yi's mood was relatively much calmer.

Even, he actively pacified the emotions of the civil and military officials.

Regarding this, the civil and military officials felt very strange, but in the end, they shut their mouths with words on the tip of their tongues.

With their understanding of Gu Yi, their own lord didn't seem like someone who would suffer a loss.

The damn Sima family, they even played this assassination set, how could this be tolerated?

However.

Given their understanding of Gu Yi.

The civil and military officials thought again, Gu Yi doing this must also have his own arrangements.

Sure enough.

The next day, led by Cai Yong and others, a piece of rhetoric criticizing the crimes of the Sima family spread in Chang'an City.

The speed of spread was extremely fast.

It was estimated that in less than a month, it could spread throughout the entire Great Han.

Of course, in that piece of rhetoric, the most important plot was not criticizing Sima Fang, but praising Gu Yi's outstanding achievements in pacifying the world.

At the same time, openly and secretly, it called for Gu Yi to ascend the throne and establish a new dynasty.

Yes, it was just that bold.

They were too lazy to even pretend.

The puppet emperor Liu Xie was only a few years old now and was of no use at all.

Imperial authority?

This thing didn't exist at all.

And it started from the time of the young emperor Liu Bian, and he was no longer an emperor with real power.

Up to now, it had been more than ten years.

However, if one really talked about the decline of the Han imperial authority, I'm afraid one would have to look further ahead.

To put it plainly, the power structure of the Han, especially the Eastern Han, had existed with huge problems from beginning to end.

It was better during the time of Emperor Guangwu, Liu Xiu.

After all, Liu Xiu knew how to balance.

The aristocratic families couldn't take much advantage in his hands.

But after Liu Xiu died, the later emperors were generally not very good.

Even, there were more than ten little emperors of the Eastern Han who died before they were ten years old in succession.

This group of little emperors was called the "Eastern Han Kindergarten" combination by later generations.

Although it was a joke, it was enough to show that the power structure of the Eastern Han was really rotten from the inside out.

Let's put it this way, there are always people who say the Eastern Han perished because of Emperors Huan and Ling.

But in fact.

These two emperors, compared to the "Eastern Han Kindergarten" combination before them, were at least emperors with real power.

Liu Hong even created a combination of foreign relatives plus eunuchs to check and balance the aristocratic families.

It's just a pity that it played out of control in the end.

Thereby causing the essence of the weakness of the Eastern Han imperial power to be completely stripped from the inside out.

In other words.

Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling cannot be considered incompetent rulers.

Criticizing them as dim-witted rulers was from the perspective of the aristocratic families.

If considered from the perspective of imperial power, Emperors Huan and Ling were at least emperors with real power who had made achievements.