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Chapter 111 Liu Hong "Assassinated"

Liu Hong was not an emperor with strong authority and prestige, and he couldn't establish his own spy organization as smoothly as those founding emperors.

In order for this spy organization to be successfully established and to be effective, there must be a reason that no one can refuse.

Only in this way can the people who are most opposed to this matter not be able to blatantly oppose it.

After all, the emperor's life was threatened, and the emperor needed to protect his own life.

If you oppose Dongyuan, you are opposing the emperor to save his life!
What, you still object?
Are you an assassin?

grab it!
审！
People are scumbags, if you don't fight, you don't recruit, hit me!
Once the dirty water was splashed, the opponents disappeared. In this way, the East Garden will be formally established with a bloody glow.

The deterrent power of the emperor's authority has greatly increased, and the deterrent power of Liu Hong, the prefect of Luoyang, will also become completely different.

Liu Hong was very interested in this plan, so he asked Liu Bei, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others to discuss it, and come up with a more feasible strategy, trying to make a name for themselves in one go, formally establish Dongyuan in one go, and start to make trouble.

There is no doubt that eunuchs are relatively incompetent when it comes to serious business such as national economy and people's livelihood.

They are really not professional enough, unable to maximize their professional ability, open up new tracks, promote industry integration, and develop new growth points.

They're not a group of people doing business.

But when it comes to doing things, splashing dirty water, and playing tricks, they are experts.

As soon as the so-called expert makes a move, you will know if there is any.

Liu Bei just raised an outline, and they immediately enriched this outline into practical strategies, and quickly implemented them. The high efficiency made Liu Bei dumbfounded.

On May 29, the sixth year of Guanghe, the eunuchs took action.

On that day, Emperor Liu Hong went to Taixue as usual to discuss and study the content of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period with the scholars of the ancient literature school. They had a very happy conversation. It was almost dusk when he left, and it was almost time for the curfew in Luoyang City.

And just when Liu Hong was the last alley away from the palace, an accident happened.

More than 50 masked thieves attacked Liu Hong's frame with knives. Liu Hong's guards resisted desperately. The eunuch Zhang Rang among the guards also paid the price for his arm injury. Finally, the guards protected Liu Hong and rushed out of the encirclement. the imperial city.

The assassination of the emperor quickly swept across Luoyang, Luoyang was shaken, and all officials were terrified.

Liu Hong was frightened by the assassination, and he lay on the bed for two days and two nights before recovering. During this period, Manchu civil and military officials scurried around like ants on a hot pot, asking for reliable information everywhere, hoping to find out what was going on. .

The struggle between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school seems to have lost the status of the main contradiction at this moment. Under the leadership of the leaders, the main personnel of the two sides held meetings, meetings and consultations for many times, constantly exchanging information and opinions, and conducting urgent investigations. Does this matter have anything to do with yourself?

Then, immediately investigate whether this matter has anything to do with the other party.

They all knew that at this very sensitive moment, once the other party confirmed that they had something to do with this matter, they would definitely be hit to death by the furious emperor and eunuch group.

Although out of rational thinking, neither side thinks that the other party will do such a stupid thing that can easily cause fire during this sensitive period, but what if there are really such stupid people inside the other party?
Isn't that an excellent opportunity to kill the opponent completely in one go?

The two days when Liu Hong "slowed down" was also an important two-day buffer period for the two major forces of the ancient literature school and the modern literature school to gather information and prepare to deal with each other.

Needless to say, originally, in this matter, the ancient literature school was relatively calm because it had a relatively large advantage in the situation.

On the contrary, the Modern Literature School seemed even more irrational because they were eager to make a comeback. They never thought about rationally analyzing this matter from the very beginning, but quickly reached an agreement, prepared pots of dirty water after pots, and prepared to go to ancient literature. Splash on pie.

They are travelers who fell into the water. Everything they see is like a straw, and everything can be a straw, no matter what it is, they can grab it.

Whatever the truth is, it was done by people from the ancient literature school!
On the side of the Ancient Literature School, there are big names like Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi, and Fu Qian, as well as high-end foreign aid such as Yuan Kui and Xun Shuang, so they are more calm.

The bigwigs gathered together for a meeting, exchanged opinions, and explored the truth of the matter.

In particular, Yuan Wei and Xun Shuang, two top foreign aids who have studied political struggle routines, suggested that the ancient literature school adopt a calm and corresponding attitude, think more about everything, and don't be led by the modern literature school.

At this time, maybe it is not a good time to start a full-scale war. This time should be the time to win step by step. The experienced people always feel that this incident is a bit unusual.

Seeing that they were getting more rational and cautious, and even felt like they were about to figure out the truth of the matter, Liu Bei felt that he had to do something.

Through Yuan Shao's internal relationship with the Jinwen School, Liu Bei learned that the Jinwen School is intensively accumulating dirty water, storing pots of dirty water, and is preparing to take a dirty bath for the Ancient Literature School. .

This allowed him to find an opportunity to break the game.

He decided to take a dangerous route.

He decided to incite the emotions of the young scholars in the Ancient Literature School, and spread the news that the Modern Literature School was going to throw dirty water, inciting the young and energetic them to come to a real fight.

By inciting the bursting emotions of the young faction and coercing the will of the upper echelons of the ancient literature school, they had to stop their rational inquiry and come to the standpoint of party struggle.

If you can't explore the truth, otherwise you will really find out, how can this situation be maintained?
For this, Liu Bei apologized from the bottom of his heart to Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi whom he respected.

But the apology is my apology. When it comes to matters of fundamental interests, Liu Bei still decides to be that despicable spoiler.

He actively communicated with the young scholars in the ancient literature school, pretending to understand their thoughts, and then inadvertently incited them.

And when Yang Ci took the lead on behalf of the modern literature school and poured the first pot of dirty water on the ancient literature school, the situation changed drastically.

On the second day of June in the sixth year of Guanghe, Taiwei Yang Ci stated that the case of the emperor's assassination was very strange. The character Lu Zhi is inseparable from the relationship.

He pointed directly at Shang Shu Ling Lu Zhi, saying that Lu Zhi had a military background and was a fighting faction within the ancient literature school. He was ambitious and daring.

More importantly, his disciple Liu Bei must also be one of the leaders deeply involved in it. I heard that Liu Bei protected Lu Zhi from the encirclement in the army, which shows that he is brave. This time he assassinated the emperor. Participation.

One of the master and the apprentice is the scourge of the big man. If they don't die, the big man will never have peace!

He felt that his above table could put pressure on the ancient literature school and play a role in guiding the eunuch group to attack Lu Zhi.

What to say?

When Liu Bei heard about the dirty water that Yang Ci poured on him, he was quite surprised, because the matter had nothing to do with Lu Zhi, but it did have a lot to do with him, and Yang Ci's conclusion was partly correct.

Herein lies the paradox of history.

But up to now, it doesn't matter what the truth is. In other words, the truth must be buried and never revealed.

And it is true that few people care about the truth.

For example, a group of young scholars who are interested in the ancient literature school, they don't care about this at all.

(End of this chapter)