Xuande

Chapter 109
When the ministers of the Ancient Literature School submitted the plan to promote ancient Chinese classics into the official school system to Liu Hong according to the scheduled plan, Liu Hong lightly handed it over to Sangong and Shangshutai for discussion.

Yuan Kui was forced to have a heated debate with Yang Ci, but in the end he failed to gain the upper hand.

When the plan failed, Yuan Wei tried to set off a new debate on Taixue again, planning to reuse the previous tricks and humiliate the Modern Literature School again, but this time Yang Cixue behaved.

He doesn't accept the offer.

In addition to calling sickness is calling sickness, even the big bosses of the modern literature school called sickness together. No matter how provocative the ancient literature school is, they just don't show up.

Can't argue, can't I hide?

You are shameless, and we are shameless too, I just don't accept the move, what can you do to me?
What's the matter?Is it possible that you still want to chase me to my house and lift me up from the hospital bed to argue with you?

Believe it or not, I just lay down in the coffin with a straight heart?

Under the passive response of the modern literature school collectively raising the card of avoiding war, Yuan Kai's offensive of trying to maximize its strengths and avoid weaknesses failed, and the matter was left unsolved. This made Yuan Wei and the leadership of the ancient literature school very annoyed, very angry, and deeply moved powerless.

They began to realize that it was not an easy task for them to win a quick victory over the Jinwen School.

In addition, on many government affairs issues, Yang Ci also stood on the opposite side of Yuan Kai, paying attention to a "I will definitely oppose whatever Yuan Kai supports, and I will definitely support whatever Yuan Kai opposes".

Because there are two people who record the affairs of the minister, the Shangshutai needs the joint approval of Yuan Kui and Yang Ci to implement the major event resolution. Without the joint approval of the two, no major event can be done.

So the good show was staged.

No matter what Yuan Kai supported, Yang Ci must sing against him, express his position from the opposite place, and resolutely disagree with Yuan Kai. Unless Yuan Kai obeys his request, he will never sign an order.

This is true of normal government affairs, not to mention Yuan Kai's attempt to promote officials of the ancient literature school to gain an advantage in the political field.

Nine out of ten will not be able to succeed. In this regard, Yang Ci has the momentum to uncover the coffin even if he is lying in the coffin, and he will fight Yuan Kai to the end even if he cheats the corpse.

Yuan Kai's angry face was black and red, and his temper became more irritable every day, and he almost robbed the characters of Guan Erye and Zhang Sanye.

However, many things can't go according to Yang Ci's intentions, and every time he sees Yang Ci's hateful old face, his teeth itch with anger.

Maybe Yang Ci just likes to see Yuan Wei's feeling of hating him but being unable to kill him.

Lu Zhi, as Shangshu Ling, always wanted to cooperate with Yuan Wei to overwhelm Yang Ci and turn Yang Ci into an empty shelf, but Yang Ci put a few of his own people in the Shangshutai through recommendation, thus mastering some of the Shangshutai. power.

Liu Hong agreed to Yang Ci's recommendation and handed over some posts to the Jinwen School, which gave Yang Ci the strength to fight Yuan Kui again.

This can be called a party struggle between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school, and it can also be called the Yuan Yang party struggle, but this party struggle was definitely facilitated by Liu Hong.

Lu Zhi saw it very clearly, and complained to Liu Bei many times about Liu Hong's actions, saying that Liu Hong used Yang Ci to restrict the ancient literature school. to a severe impact.

Lu Zhi felt that Liu Hong had changed. He began to play tricks on his courtiers, and began to treat his courtiers as playthings instead of talents who could govern the world. This was not the emperor's attitude towards his courtiers.

Listening to Lu Zhi's complaints, Liu Bei agreed on the surface, but disagreed in his heart.

Liu Hong uses you, why don't you use Liu Hong?
Everyone is mutual, who treats whom as a plaything?

The routine is deep, whoever takes who seriously.

Teacher, times have changed, and the future historical trend will be different.

Liu Bei doesn't care about these, he just manages his own circle of contacts and builds his own political power.

In addition to his daily work, Liu Bei helped Zhang Rang set up the shelf in Dongyuan, and at the same time, he had parties, drinks and fun with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, and also took time to play with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie.

He seemed to be the master of time management in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and he lived his small life happily.

After the last day of the five years of Guanghe, the sixth year of Guanghe came one after another.

The first day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Guanghe is a very grand festival for Dahan, named Zhengdan.

On this day of Zhengdan, regardless of the internal festival celebrations of ordinary people, as an official of the court, it is very important to enter the palace city to congratulate the emperor on the new year.

At about three o'clock in the morning of this day, the Luoyang Palace was about to ring the bell to gather the ministers and ministers to enter the palace, and then collectively congratulated the emperor on the new year, and wished the Han Empire a good fortune.

So early in the morning, Liu Bei had to get out of the warm quilt against the severe cold, dressed neatly, brought gifts, and yawned to meet Lu Zhi, ready to head for the palace.

To be honest, this is really not a pleasant thing.

It was still dark, and the icy cold wind was blowing, and it felt as if it was being pricked by needles, making it uncomfortable.

At this time, leaving the quilt and the house and going to the palace to stand and blow the air is definitely a severe test of willpower, and I don't know which wicked guy with smoke set up the etiquette.

But I have to say that this is also a serious national etiquette, and it cannot be sloppy. Therefore, the emperor Liu Hong, who always likes to sleep late, can't avoid it. He even got up earlier than the officials, so he had to make a series of preparations in advance. It is also very uncomfortable.

Liu Bei soon arrived at the gate of Lu Zhi's mansion, joined Lu Zhi, and marched towards the palace as an official of Lu Zhi's Shangshutai.

After entering the palace, all the officials lined up according to their ranks, and presented Zhengdan gifts to Emperor Liu Hong in the howling wind.

According to the law of etiquette, on Zhengdan Day, the gifts presented by princes, nobles and senior officials of the Sangong level to the emperor are jade biscuits.

The gift presented by officials with more than two thousand stones is a lamb.

The gifts presented by officials from thousands of stones to six hundred stones are wild geese.

Officials under four hundred shi presented chickens as gifts.

Therefore, as the order of Qianshi Shangshu, the gift Lu Zhi carried was a wild goose.

And Liu Bei is an official of four hundred shi, and the gift he is carrying is a chicken.

To put it bluntly, this is not an expensive thing, the main thing is etiquette, and it is a good thing.

Among all the officials of the congratulations, only officials with more than two thousand stones can enter the main hall to meet the emperor, pay homage to the emperor, warm up in the palace, and enjoy the emperor's banquet.

Although Lu Zhi is a Shang Shu Ling, he has a lot of power, but his rank is very low. Generally, the Shang Shu Ling can only sit in the court as a three-person seat at the court meeting when dealing with important affairs. According to the rules, no matter how powerful you are or if your rank is not high enough, you can still blow cold wind outside for me.

So Lu Zhi and Liu Bei couldn't enter the main hall together, they had to blow the cold wind outside, and at the same time waited for the emperor to give a banquet after the worship of the big brothers inside, before they could have a warm bite.

Of course, not to mention Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, everyone is the same, Cao Cao, who is six hundred shi, and Han Rong, the father-in-law, have to wait in the cold wind and are not allowed to enter the main hall to worship the emperor.

It was so easy to wait until the end of the pilgrimage and the emperor gave a banquet. Liu Bei thought he could eat some warm food to warm his body, but the efficiency of the staff in the palace was too low, or they didn’t care about low-level officials like them at all, so the soup was sent to Liu Bei When this low-level official was in front of him, it was already a summer cold drink.

It can be seen from this that for people in the palace, no matter how high their academic status is, it is meaningless.

Ok.

If it was a scorching summer day, Liu Bei would happily drink up the iced drink, and then take a comfortable breath.

But now, Liu Bei just wants to eat something warm to warm his body, but he can't even satisfy this requirement.

And this thing is still a banquet given by the emperor, it must be eaten, and there must be no leftovers, otherwise it will violate the etiquette and law, and if the person in charge of supervising whether the officials have lost their manners in front of the palace, they will have to question them firmly.

So Liu Bei just watched as Lu Zhi, who had a bad stomach, ate up the summer iced drink one mouthful at a time, without changing his face, and with a good demeanor.

How about Lu Zhi being a teacher?

Sighing, Liu Bei could only helplessly pick up the bowl of summer ice drink in front of him, endured the discomfort, and ate it cleanly, leaving nothing behind.

pua, this is definitely pua!

If I have the ability in the future, I will definitely change this inhumane rule!

Liu Bei roared in his heart while eating.

After finally surviving the terrible celebration of Zhengdan Day, Liu Bei can finally follow the trend of officials to leave the palace and go home, ready to welcome the rare holiday.

Officials in the Han Dynasty had fewer holidays, and the holiday system was far less superior than that of the Song Dynasty, and it lacked flexibility. In the overall rules and regulations, some remnants of the unity of the family and the country in ancient times still remained, and the imperial power monitored officials very closely.

Among other things, the fact that an official is basically unable to leave the official office during work hours has already made Liu Bei very uncomfortable.

Once you go to work in the government office, you can't leave the government office for five days. You live with a group of old men all day long, eat and live with them, and you have to endure their teeth grinding and farting when you sleep at night. Sometimes Liu Bei even thinks that he has returned to his previous life. university dormitory.

After finally going home to rest for a day or two, it was five consecutive days of hellish work in the blink of an eye.

And there are relatively few other long holidays that are held in a row. Liu Bei only has four or five days of leisure during the Zhengdan holiday. Excluding visiting relatives and friends for social activities, I am afraid that there is only one day for himself.

So after returning from the palace, Liu Bei couldn't wait to go home and live a three-person world with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie, for fear that there would not be enough time for husband and wife to get along in the next few days.

In fact, Liu Bei's decision was correct.

In the next few days, he really didn't have any continuous time to get along with his family. Basically, he spent all his daytime visiting each other and socializing.

Lu Zhi needs to visit, Zheng Xuan needs to visit, Yuan Shao needs to visit, Cao Cao also invited Liu Bei to visit, and there are countless visitors from his own house, and there are so many social activities that even a social horror king like Liu Bei finds it difficult to resist. .

After ascending to a high position, it is really not easy.

(End of this chapter)