Fantasy Three Kingdoms: Four knots in Taoyuan at the beginning

Chapter 183 Chapter 180, Zhang Wen's struggle
Cai Xi was very relieved to see Cai Mao admitting his mistake.

But he didn't say it out, he was afraid that Cai Mao would become complacent again.

As the old saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

Although Cai Mao now realizes his mistakes, it is inevitable that he will make them again in the future.

Therefore, Cai satirized and said instead: "Degui, this Liu Xuande seems to be a different person from our Cai family, and he must not be allowed to completely control Jingzhou. Do you have any good countermeasures for this?"

Cai Mao thought for a while and said, "Father, Liu Xuande's thinking is good, but there is still a fatal loophole."

"What loophole?"

"How to arrange these officials who have been trained? There are already people in the original positions. If they are promoted, Jingzhou does not have so many official positions to accommodate these people. Once these officials are not properly arranged, there will be a storm."

Cai Xi nodded, this is also where he was puzzled.

Judging from Liu Bei's actions these days, he is definitely not a stupid person.

But such an obvious loophole, couldn't he see it?
It must be seen, so since Liu Bei dared to do this, he must have a countermeasure, but he still can't guess it now.

Cai Hao looked at Cai satirically and said, "Father, don't worry, we just need to strengthen the connection with these people. When the training is completed, we can mobilize some people secretly, and then there will be a good show."

After listening to Cai Mao's words, Cai Xi felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he stopped paying attention to these things, and just asked Cai Mao to strengthen ties with these powerful officials for future preparations.

However, the father and son never imagined how simple Liu Bei's handling method was.

You just need to let these people hang out, and when they cause trouble, get rid of them together with the Cai family.

Liu Bei here in Jingzhou is in full swing preparing for the opening ceremony of Xiangyang Academy, and the invitations have been distributed all over the world.

If it weren't for the changes in Luoyang's officialdom caused by the comet hitting the moon, Xiangyang Academy would have become the focus of the world.

The consequences of the comet attacking the moon and transforming into Chi You Banner were beyond Chen Yuan's imagination.

The Sangongs were shocked, and they resigned from office one after another to avoid suspicion.

The other two are okay to say, the emperor tried his best to persuade them to stay, and all the officials also expressed their merits, and it seems that they probably want to stay in office.

But Zhang Wen has a problem here.

The problem is very simple, the eunuch took Chen Yuan's money and started to make trouble.

The Ten Permanent Attendants headed by Zhang Rang spoke ill of Zhang Wen from time to time in front of Emperor Han Ling, which made Emperor Han Ling feel worse and worse about Zhang Wen.

These eunuchs are very good at speaking ill.

It's not to belittle Zhang Wen, but to praise Zhang Wen.

It is said that Zhang Wen is wise and martial, and he is widely loved by soldiers and civilians in Liangzhou, and he is known as Zhang Longsui.

This move is worse than belittling Zhang Wen.

You are a court minister, known as Long Live, what are you trying to do?

With ulterior motives, wanting to do something wrong.

If this is the case alone, it will not make Zhang Wen step down, but Zhang Wen was once promoted by Cao Teng.

Who is Cao Teng?

Cao Cao's grandfather.

However, he was also a great eunuch.

The ministers in the court often regard him as an eunuch.

Few people communicate with him.

In fact, Zhang Wen really had no contact with these eunuchs.

That is to say, he has a close relationship with Cao Teng.

Generally speaking, Cao Teng is a pretty good person.

Not as vicious as other eunuchs.

But the reality is that the eunuchs are dealing with Zhang Wen, and almost no one in the outer court speaks for him. Zhang Wen's position as Sikong is in jeopardy.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Zhang Wen took action.

Terrace is a square and tall building.

"Erya? Shi Gong" said: The square and tall are called Taiwan, and those without the square are called Guan.

At first, the high "platforms" were mostly used to observe things in the distance or high places, such as beacon towers to detect the enemy's situation; The rebels came to make it easier for the emperor to run away...

After a long period of Qingping, "tai" became a decoration, and then evolved into a symbol of status and power. It became popular for a while, and every household piled up a grave-like earth bag at the door...

Someone added a cover to the "platform" and built pavilions and pavilions, and the meaning was much richer.

For example, the "Zhangtai" used for climbing high and overlooking, watching the scenery and having fun; it is also like the "Tongquetai" in "Tongquechun Shensuo Erqiao" which has a certain ostentatious element; Place the portrait on the "PTZ".

Lantai is not the case, it is only used for collecting books, and it is a veritable national library.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, books were monopolized by aristocratic families, so they were very valuable, and even if you spent money, you might not be able to buy them.

The pavilions and pavilions outside the Lantai, surrounded by springs and fog, and the courtyard locked in spring, like Lijiang bars, have always been the best places for talented scholars and poets in the Eastern Han Dynasty to recite poems, compose poems, gather and pick up girls.

The annual Lantai Poetry Conference is held here.

Although the imperial court is still in the midst of a comet attacking the moon, the Lantai meeting has not stopped. Firstly, it is to relieve the pressure of the imperial court, and secondly, it is also for the imperial court to select talents.

On the height of Lantai, there is known as an elegant house. Open the window from the inside, you can see the stars in the sky from above, and you can see the clouds and smoke from the capital below.

The scenery is unique.

What's even more amazing is that in the middle of the elegant house, there is a small well with the mouth of a bowl built with stones. A quiet spring accompanied by white smoke gushes out of it, like a dragon's breath, and has never been frozen or dried up all year round.

The spring water is sweet, gurgling all the way along the chiseled water tank, and the small stream that the clear spring gathers goes out of the house, and then circles around the elegant house, and then it is like an endless long snake, going round and round, finally converging Enter the Luo River outside the city.

The people surrounded the spring well, sitting cross-legged in two circles, inside and outside, with a small table, a jug of wine, two or three plates of preserved fruit in front of each of them, and gossip about the daily life.

Yang Biao felt that the candlestick might have been filled with insects, and it stinks from burning, and the air was a bit turbid. Then he looked at his old father Yang Ci, who was probably greedy for drinking. In the cold weather, there was a little sweat on his forehead. The corners merged into drops, and they were crumbling. Yang Biao got up quickly and opened the window on his back to breathe.

There was a lot of noise under the window, and the scholars who knew nothing about their worries really sat around the two sides of the stream, happily carrying out the drinking orders, just like themselves back then.

The last time I was so dissolute and unrestrained was before the eunuch Wang Fu conferred the title, roughly six years had passed, and Yang Biao, who was over forty years old, had half gray hair after a lot of hard work.

He didn't care to look too much, he shook his head, turned around and took a glass of spring water and put it on Yang Ci's table, then stretched out his hand, trying to snatch Yang Ci's wine cup that had just reached his mouth.

Yang Ci suddenly realized that he was about to swear when he frowned, and the word "vertical" was on his lips. Yang Biao laughed a few times in fright, and knelt down behind him obediently, feeling very distressed in his heart, thinking that his father would do the same in front of him. Faced with so many colleagues...

When everyone saw them, they choked and laughed, and put their wine bottles in the clear water in front of them to wash them away.

Sikong and Zhang Wen laughed, and said: "Wenxian (Yang Biao, styled Wenxian) is respectful and filial, which is the blessing of the Marquis of Linjin. If you have a son like this, how can your husband ask for it? Marquis of Linjin's son is filial to his grandson, envious of others! "

The son is Yang Biao behind him; the grandson is Yang Xiu, the precocious unicorn son.

Yang Ci was born in the Yang family of Hongnong, and he was the giant of a powerful family. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, no matter how they were ranked, the Yang family of Hongnong could not be ranked among the top three.

No matter how flattering Zhang Wen is, everyone deserves it!
Grandfather Yang Zhen and father Yang Bingjun became Taiwei. In the fifth year of Guanghe, Emperor Yang Ci himself was promoted to Taiwei.

However, after the outbreak of yellow thieves, Yang Ci was dismissed because he disagreed with Emperor Ling. Later, when Emperor Ling moved to Nangong, he accidentally saw Yang Ci's earlier letter about preventing thieves, and felt regretful. With emotion, he was named Marquis of Linjin.He also wanted to pay homage to his Shangshuling and Tingwei, but Yang Ci refused all of them. The emperor's order was hard to violate, so he reluctantly accepted the status of "special advancement".

Although "Te Jin" is a vacant position, it is in the same position as the Sangong, and can participate in state affairs, big and small.

Yang Ci is so proud and arrogant. He has been in office for decades, and he has a high integrity. What's more, he can't find an excuse to leave his old age and return to his hometown. He can take care of his old age and teach his grandchildren at the same time. , It’s free, it’s free, one day Emperor Liu Hong wants to reinstate himself as an official, whether he agrees or not depends on his mood.

Therefore, from the bottom of his heart, Yang Ci looked down on Zhang Wen, and he still spent money to buy his Sikong!
Yang Ci's deep eyes passed over Zhang Wen, and he stared at Yuan Kai with a smiling face, and said loudly: "Speaking of heirs, I am envious of Yuan Situ's family. He has been upright and capable since he was weak, and he can be said to have failed the expectations of the nobles in the world. The old man dares to say that within twenty years, the position of the three princes, you can only avoid the position and let the virtuous! Compared with my family, I am mediocre and mediocre!"

Ranked among the three males?Yang Ci's words are so thick that Yang Gong is so optimistic about Yuan Benchu!The others were silent, all thoughtful.

He didn't provoke anyone, so why did Huatou come at him with a gun and a stick?

Yuan Kui glanced at the old man Yang Ci meaningfully. They are both top-level families. The Hongnong Yang family and the Yuan family in Runan have grievances and ties, and there are often petty fights, but when it comes to dealing with big right and wrong, they are basically at gunpoint. Agreed, but today... the old man pretended to be slightly drunk, closed his eyes firmly after speaking, and before he could answer, Yuan Kai remembered why Yuan Shu, who was beating his back behind him, was silent.

"uh-huh!"

Yuan Kai coughed dryly, raised his hands and said, "If the road is boring, why not go down and find someone to drink?"

Yuan Shu came back to his senses, and the gloom on his face quickly disappeared, "No! Shu Xin is worried that my uncle is suffering from back illness again, so I can't leave him half a step away."

Yuan Shu's words are extremely sincere, let's go?Don't you know how much you weigh?It's better to chat with a group of old men than go down to recite poems and compose fu to make people look ugly.Although he, Yuan Benchu, is old, but he is the son of the concubine, and let the concubine spend the night outside, but he doesn't know that as long as his uncle Yuan Kui is alive, he will never lose!
Yuan Kui stopped trying to persuade him.

At the beginning, he had a majestic appearance, the road was not bad, and he was close to himself since he was a child.

How could he not know Yang Ci's thoughts, Yuan Kai beat his particularly protruding lumbar intervertebral disc, not to be outdone, said: "Marquis of Linjin Miao praised, son Wenxian killed the eunuch Wang Fu back then, that would be a great joy Don’t say anything about it, if the old man is still alive in the future when the text is accumulating merits and achievements, I will recommend you to the position of Sangong with my life, it’s not out of the question!”

hiss……

The officialdom intrigues each other, and the two are more ruthless than the other, and they blow each other into the sky. You must know that the higher you fly, the harder you fall.What's more poisonous is that this Yuan Kai, who had agreed to chat about Fengyue, insisted on bringing up the old things again, and now that the ten permanent servants are rampant again, why is there any mention of killing the eunuch Wang Fu?After that, the depressed Yang Biao kept his tail between his buttocks and never came out...

Yang Biao couldn't bear to be aggressive, "Lord Situ speaks seriously, Biao only hates that Cao Jie man, but he couldn't kill him with his hands, and let him die of illness by chance. So, why do you hate the "Three Monarchs"..."

Cao Jie, Wang Fu, and the three monarchs were all influential figures in the reign of Emperor Huan 20 years ago!
"Speak carefully!" Yang Ci snapped, picked up the wine bottle and drank by himself, "Zizi! After decades of being an idiot, the alcohol is still unbearable!" Yang Ci was obviously scolding his son, but he looked at Yuan Kai who was opposite and spoke.

Yuan Kai snorted coldly, and the temperature around him suddenly dropped to freezing point, and all the juniors who accompanied him in the last seat were sweating coldly.

Zhang Wen laughed, "Although it's good to only talk about Fengyue today, but you are concerned about state affairs, so Zhang will also intervene!"

After ordering some wine with his fingertips, Zhang Wen wrote two words on the table, and then said: "Everyone, please look!"

The people in the two circles inside and outside all craned their necks to look over, and said in a broken voice: "Dang Gu!" After that, they panicked and fell silent.

Many people here have suffered from the party's imprisonment. Yilang Huang Wan and others returned to the capital only after the party's imprisonment was released years ago. He asked in a trembling voice: "Didn't your majesty be relieved? Sir Sikong, what is the meaning of this?"

"Understood?"

Everything in this world can be solved, but how can the grudge between scholars and eunuchs be solved!
Years ago, Zhang Rang agreed to pardon the party members of the world, but he was casting a net to cast food, waiting for a new round of massacres. The sandstorm a few months ago was the prelude!
Looking at the benevolence of the ten permanent servants, it is simply childish and ridiculous!
Zhang Wen smiled, "May I ask you all, who can solve the enmity between you and the eunuch? Wen Xian can solve it? Situ can solve it? General can solve it? In my opinion, even His Majesty can't solve it!"

After a short pause, he said again: "I have recommended Gai Xun to be Jing Zhaoyin, and His Majesty has already agreed. Although Zhang is not capable of the three monarchs, how can he just sit and wait for his death if he cares about his wife and children?"

Yang Biao and Zhang Wen said that the three monarchs were collectively referred to by Taifu Chen Fan, General Dou Wu, and Tinghou clan Liu Shuzhi when the party was imprisoned for the first time in the ninth year of Yanxi. The eunuchs Cao Jie, Wang Fu and other regular servants of the previous dynasties fought to the death, and they were "the ancestors of the whole life".

Yes, gentry and eunuchs have long been at odds!
Zhang Wen's words stirred up waves.

There were two times of Danggu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Each time the ending was that the scholar-bureaucrats could not beat the eunuchs, and were slaughtered and dismissed in the name of forming a party for personal gain.And the last time, Emperor Liu Hong even issued an edict. All party members, old officials, fathers and sons, and brothers who are officials will be dismissed, imprisoned for life, and implicated in the five clans. .How sad!

No one said a word.

Yuan Kai suddenly realized: "No wonder Huangfu Song went to Jizhou to lead the army early. When he asked to lift the ban on party members a year ago, I was surprised!"

In the two battles of the party, why did the relatives join forces with the scholars of the world, and they lost in front of the eunuchs in a mess, with little power to fight back?

Remonstrance!

This idea is extremely bold, and since it was the first of its kind on the Qing emperor's side, fortune and misfortune are unpredictable.

Zhang Wen decided to add fuel to the flames, "Everyone, remember that during the first disaster of the party, Chen Yi, the son of Grand Tutor Chen Fan, is now in Zhang's house..."

"Cough~cough" Yang Ci choked on the wine, coughed continuously, and blushed, "I'm too drunk to drink, so I'll leave first!" This Chen Yi has become a big banner for the dead eunuch, whoever carries it is stupid!

Zhang Wen hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his hand to grab Yang Ci's wrist, "Did the Marquis of Linjin forget Yingchuan Liu Tao and Liu Ziqi? It's a pity, his bones are still not cold!"

(End of this chapter)