Shu Chen

Chapter 3 Undercurrent
A gentleman is modest without contention, a group without a party.

Although Confucius proposed to adhere to the principle of "unbiased and non-party" in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Shuhan regime was not monolithic, driven by the interests of grouping together to keep warm in the official career.

From the beginning of the First Lord Liu Bei's campaign against the Yellow Turbans to the establishment of the Shuhan regime, the talents gathered under his command have formed four political forces from factors such as geography, interests and belonging.

One is the Yuan Cong Department.

Such as Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Jian Yong Mi Zhu and Sun Gan and others.

Runan Chen Dao and Yiyang Wei Yan, who joined later, can also be included in this column because they were born in the minions of the First Sovereign Liu Bei.

They are all veteran officials who swear to follow Liu Bei to start a business, and enjoy a detached position and absolute trust in the Shuhan regime.For example, when the First Sovereign ruled Shu, Guan Yu guarded Jingzhou, Zhang Feizhen Baishi, and Wei Yan served as the prefect of Hanzhong; Chen Dao led the palace to ban the guards, and Zhao Yun commanded the soldiers to be in and out of Chengdu, and almost all military power in Shu Han was in control.

However, with the death of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Mi Zhu and others of the older generation, the current lineage of Yuan followers is gradually declining.

Zhao Yun, the most prestigious, has a loyal and loyal personality, while Yong'an's superintendent, Chen Dao, is self-denying and loyal, and he has no desire to fight for power.

Moreover, because of their relationship with the First Sovereign, their descendants were all young and thin.

For example, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao have just passed their weak crown years, and their official positions are servants.

Only Guan Ping, who had the opportunity to continue his father's reputation, was defeated and died in Jingzhou.

Blue and yellow not pick up, it is inevitable.

The second is Dongzhou Shi.

For example, Wu Yi who entered Shu with Liu Yan and his son, or foreign scholars who avoided disaster in Yizhou because of war and famine, such as Fazheng, Li Yan, Xu Jing and Fei Guan.

These people were given preferential treatment when the First Sovereign settled Shu.

For example, the law that was relied on as the mastermind was the first Shangshuling of Shu Han, Wu Yi's clan sister was accepted by the First Sovereign as his wife, and Dong He and Zhuge Liang co-administered the affairs of the Zuo General Dasima's house; and Li Yan was later succeeded as Shangshuling. .

But nowadays, due to various reasons such as Fazheng, Dong He's deceased, Meng Da's investment in Wei, etc., the Dongzhou scholars are more noble and noble, and the latecomers are also mostly middle-level officials in the Shuhan regime.Li Yan, who was also entrusted with the orphan, was in charge of the Central Capital to protect the military at home and abroad, but he stayed in Yong'an, strayed from the center, and gradually withdrew from the court's decision-making.

And because many Dongzhou scholars were from Jingzhou, they gradually assimilated into Jingxiang clan after Zhuge Liang opened the government.

Well, the third political force of Shu Han is the Jingxiang faction, which is also the force that controls the power of Shu Han today.

At first, the First Sovereign Liu Bei was accepted by Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou. He first lived in Xinye as a guest, and later joined the Soochow Wu at Chibi to defeat Wei Wu, and he was able to accumulate the foundation of swallowing Bashu in the west.

During this period, the scholars of Jingzhou origin gathered, and they have made great achievements.

Such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Ma Liang, Lai Gong, as well as Huang Zhong and Huo Jun, Deng Fang and so on.

Today, Zhuge Liang, as the prime minister, is entrusted with the administration of the Gukaifu, and the palace and the palace are all integrated.The Jingxiang system also rose with the tide.

Fourth, the Yizhou Department was formed by scholars from Bashu.

It is also the faction with the lowest voice and the most suppressed faction in the Shuhan regime today.

In other words, from the separatist occupation of Yizhou by Liu Yan and his son to the establishment of Shuhan today, local scholars in Yizhou have never stopped playing love and killing dramas with those in power due to their interests.

The land of Bashu has been closed since ancient times, with a remote corner, as well as the rich production and the benefits of salt and iron, it is very easy to give birth to domineering local aristocrats.These Yizhou nobles often took advantage of their wealth, bullied the common people, and did whatever they wanted, causing the people in Shu to think that there were ten households and eight in chaos.

The Yizhou Department is the spokesperson of the Yizhou aristocracy.

When Liu Yan was in power, in order to consolidate his power, he entrusted the execution of more than ten people, including Wang Xian and Li Quan, the tycoons of Yizhou, which provoked the Qianwei prefect Ren Qi and the school captain Jia Long to attack.The furious Jia Long even wanted to make a decision to bring the wolf into the house and join forces with Dong Zhuo.

After Liu Zhang succeeded Yizhou Mu in power, there were rebellions by Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and others.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, Zhao Wei of Pai County bought the local officials of Jingzhou with money and bribes, and joined the local tribes in Yizhou to raise an army, intending to expel Liu Zhang.

Even inviting the First Sovereign to enter Shu was the result of Zhang Song, a wealthy family in Yizhou, taking the initiative to act as an inner responder.

It's just that after the First Sovereign Liu Bei took control of Bashu, in order to maintain long-term stability and consolidate his power, he also adopted an attitude of suppressing more than winning over the nobles of Yizhou.

Such as plundering the wealth of the wealthy, enriching the inventory and military resources.

Under Liu Ba's suggestion, the First Sovereign Liu Bei ordered the casting of "Zhibaiqian" and appointed officials to control market prices. Within a few months, the wealth of the local nobles was plundered and the Yizhou treasury was enriched.

Such as strict law governing Shu.

Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, Yi Ji, Liu Ba and Li Yan jointly created "Shu Ke", restraining the local forces in Yizhou from invading the weak with the strong, so that the big tyrants dare not merge the fields and hide the hidden households.

Such as suppressing the official positions of the Yizhou clerks.

When the First Lord Liu Bei was alive, the only person who could participate in the decision-making of the temple center was the Brazilian Huangquan.

However, after his defeat in the Battle of Yiling, he chose to go north to the Wei Dynasty because he had no way to return to Shu, and let him be raised above the Han Dynasty, and there was no longer a mouthpiece for Yizhou.What made the situation of the Yizhou clique even worse was the fact that before and after the first emperor Liu Bei's great expedition, Huang Yuan, the prefect of Hanjia, raised his troops to rebel, and then Yong Kai, a wealthy family, killed the prefect, and united the Yueyi King Gao Ding and Zhu Bao to rebel against Nanzhong Zhu. county.It also allowed the suppression of Yizhou scholars to become a tacit understanding of Shuhan courtiers.

Zheng Pu was a native of Yizhou.

Under such a situation, even if Zheng Pu has the intention to embark on a career and is determined to serve wholeheartedly for the restoration of the Han Dynasty, he will still get twice the result with half the effort because of the label on his head.

Therefore, Zheng Pu thought about it, and felt that his career was bound to be thorny; he also had the awe of "people who have left a name in the history are not ordinary people". It quenched the fire in my heart, and I was more inclined to the happy life of Xiaofu Ji'an.

But he didn't want to, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's actions after opening the mansion gave him a glimmer of hope.

It is not that Zhuge Liang ignored the safety of Shu Han and turned to appeasement and condoning the rise of the Yizhou nobles; but after the establishment of the government office, it can be seen from the selection of candidates for the placement of subordinates that he did not deliberately suppress Yizhou scholars.

For example, Zhang Yi, a native of Chengdu in Shu County, is a manifestation of meritocracy.

Zhang Yi was previously held by the rebel Yong Kai and was given to Sun Quan as a gift.When Zhuge Liang was in power, when he dispatched Deng Zhi to the Eastern Wu alliance, he specifically asked Sun Quan to release him.As soon as he returned to Yizhou, he was appointed as the prime minister's mansion to join the army, acting on behalf of the prime minister's government affairs, and also served as the central government of Yizhou, which was very important.

For example, Ma Zhong (Hu Du), a native of Langzhong in Brazil County, is the embodiment of promoting talents.

Ma Zhong's previous official position was no longer than Han Changchang, but because the first lord Liu Bei said with emotion, "Although Huangquan has lost, but he has regained the fox, there is no shortage of virtuous people in this world."The intention of deliberately supporting and cultivating is obvious.

In other words, granting Zhang Yi and Ma Zhong a prominent position is due to Zhuge Liang's justice for the country; then, his courtesy to Du Wei, a great scholar in Yizhou, is a subtle release of goodwill to Yizhou scholars.

(End of this chapter)