Xuande

Chapter 119 The road to nowhere

Zhang Rang's sudden and serious point made Liu Bei speechless.

Because he found that what Zhang Rang said was correct and reasonable.

It would be fine if the Taiping Dao incident broke out on its own, but if it was identified and exposed in advance, those who lost their interests because of this, would they really be grateful to Liu Bei?

not necessarily.

Zhang Rang was close to Liu Bei, and he was quite sincere.

"You are so young now, and you are already a scholar with a very high status. It is time to restrain your edge and look up to you. You have won the admiration of thousands of people by showing your sharpness, but you have offended many people. Deeply jealous.

Now that the ancient literature school and the modern literature school are fighting fiercely, you will still be safe, but if you continue to show your sharpness, it is hard to say whether some of you will be dissatisfied with you. I feel very sorry for you Worried. "

Liu Bei was silent for a while, suddenly felt something was wrong, raised his head and looked at Zhang Rang strangely.

"Are you reminding me?"

"Yeah, can't you? I'm not as knowledgeable as you, but I have met and experienced as many people as you. You know knowledge, and I understand people."

Zhang Rang was quite complacent: "Liu Xuande, you are a genius in the world, but you obviously still have a lot of things that are not well thought out. I kindly remind you, don't kill yourself, you are too young, and you don't have any deep roots. With His Majesty's secret support, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you well."

Liu Bei thought carefully about the meaning of Zhang Rang's words, and was not in a hurry to express his opinion.

Zhang Rang is not in a hurry.

Strangely, Zhang Rang didn't even realize that his tolerance for Liu Bei was getting higher and higher.

And recently, for some reason, he felt that Liu Bei looked a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Although Liu Bei still kept teasing him in daily contact, he didn't feel angry about it.

When Liu Bei raised his hips and arched him, he swore that he really wanted to tear Liu Bei apart, but now, even if such an idea appeared, it was more like a joke.

This is strange.

Obviously there's no need to mention him, obviously there's no need to grab him, but it's actually pretty cool to watch him seek his own death.

But when things came to an end, Zhang Rang still couldn't hold back, and mentioned Liu Bei, pointing out the pros and cons to him.

Is this something he would do?

Zhang made himself feel a little strange.

Liu Bei didn't know about Zhang Rang's mental activities, but he realized an important point.

The reason why the upper-level leaders of the Eastern Han government ignored the development and growth of Taipingdao so much is probably because they didn’t think it was a bad thing from the bottom of their hearts.

What the Taiping Daoists pay attention to is not Confucianism, but Huang Lao's learning, but this is what Liu Hong's predecessor Liu Zhi admired. The imperial power seems to agree with the rise of such learning among the people, and it can even be said to be happy to see it It worked.

Anyway, as long as it makes the Confucian scholars feel uncomfortable, the emperor will be happy.

The emperor likes it, so the eunuchs in the palace must of course do what they like, so almost all the great eunuchs who have the conditions to learn know about it, and they will learn a little about Huang Lao's learning, which in turn caused the rise of the Taipingdao. unimpeded.

And the eunuchs are nothing more than asking for money, regardless of the teachings of Taiping Tao, as long as you give money, the eunuchs don't mind associating with you.

There are many contacts, there will always be a few eunuchs who will become believers, and one or two more eunuchs who have a certain status will become believers, and those little eunuchs will naturally contact the Taiping Dao in order to please the big eunuchs.

Just like a snowball, there will be more and more people in the palace who believe in the way of peace.

One of the important reasons for Liu Hong's attitude seems to be that the court eunuchs generally favored Taiping Dao and Huang-Lao's studies.

At least at this time, Liu Hong and the eunuchs who can talk are not Taiping Taoists, so they don't believe that Taiping Taoists will rebel at all.

They felt that there was no need for Taoist Taiping to rebel.

This is determined by the environment of the times they live in, and it will not be easily changed by a few words.

It seems that it is very difficult to take the upper-level route to directly attack the leadership of Taipingdao.

This feeling made Liu Bei feel very uncomfortable.

Knowing that what to do is right, and knowing that the leaders of the situation at that time were all fools, it seems not difficult to change the final outcome.

But when he put himself in this situation, he found that those fools who made decisions didn't seem to be really fools.

Each of them has their own logic behind their behavior, forming a closed loop that belongs to them, and this logic seems to be very in line with the current situation, and it seems to be the optimal solution in the current situation.

However, the real optimal solution obtained from the perspective of God faces many difficulties, and some of them cannot even be operated within the existing system at all, and there is no way to start.

Liu Bei finally understood why there have been so many parties and dissidents from ancient times to the present, but they still think that they must be right.

Because some things are really unreasonable, and human beings cannot understand each other. In the face of a crisis, every person in a high position will have his own ideas, and for those who hold different opinions from them, their views are also very high. unanimously—

[If such guys continue to exist, the country will be finished sooner or later, if they are not killed, the country will be finished! 】

Each of them thinks that they are right, that only they can save the country, and each of them believes that the other is an insect, and they must try their best to kill each other, and then save the country by themselves.

Well, good idea, don't think about it next time.

Seeing that Liu Bei fell into deep thought, Zhang Rang, who hadn't had time to finish thinking, didn't have extra thoughts to continue thinking about why he seemed to dislike Liu Bei less and less.

He still has a lot to do.

For example, manipulating Dongyuan to open fire on scholars.

Using the investigation of the emperor's assassination case as an excuse, the East Garden spies had no scruples about picking people up. People from both the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School in Luoyang City were taken away to assist in the investigation, and once they were taken away, few were able to escape unscathed. .

For this reason, all the bigwigs in Luoyang City are nervous.

Inexplicably, they felt a wave of small party crimes coming towards them, not the party's disasters, but better than the party's disasters. Are these eunuchs investigating the case, or avenging their own personal revenge?
It must be the latter, right?

If it was put in the original, the ancient literature school and the modern literature school might be able to meet the eunuchs as scholars, and dispatch the three forces of Yushi Zhongcheng, Tingwei and Sili Xiaowei to fight together.

But now, they can't.

Because the judicial system has been used by the ancient literature school and the modern literature school to fight against each other.

Before the assassination of the emperor, there were at least seven or eight absurd or sinister accusations against Yang Ci, Zheng Xuan, and other bigwigs from both ancient and modern literature that needed to be investigated and verified.

You come and I come, all kinds of rumors are not drafted, wishing to spread rumors about the relatives of the other party who have been buried in the ground, let alone the living people.

There is a filthy existence that needs humane destruction to purify the air. Everyone is carrying a serious crime of human relations, and not killing them is not enough to anger the people.

Among them, Liu Bei made great efforts.

In order to facilitate the deadly struggle between the two sides, Liu Bei jumped up and down in various ways to guide the young scholars who worshiped him to incriminate the old guys of the modern literature school, so he almost created an Eastern Han version of "Luo Zhi Jing" to open the eyes of the other party up.

As a result, the judicial system controlled by scholars and officials fell into meaningless internal friction. Faced with the strong rise of the Dongyuan forces under the control of the eunuch group, the judicial system controlled by scholars was unable to give corresponding counterattacks and was unable to defend itself. power.

In addition, Dongyuan was investigating the assassination of the emperor, and had the highest priority and righteousness. Facing this peak, the scholars were powerless and unable to parry.

Zhang Rang is so happy, staying in the private prison in Dongyuan all day to guide the executioners in the private prison to perform various memory recovery techniques on the scholars, it is really abnormal.

Liu Bei has no time to care about these.

During this period, he used the family relationship of Cao Cao's family to ask Cao Cao about the situation of believers in the Taiping Dao within the eunuch group. data.

In September, Liu Bei drew conclusions based on a series of data, and these conclusions did not make him feel optimistic.

(End of this chapter)