Xuande

Chapter 373 The Yellow Turban Resurrection
Liu Hong likes Zhang Rang very much, saying that he is wise, but wiseness cannot be eaten as food, and formal means are still needed to solve problems.

If wise men could be eaten and solve all problems, then this world would be wonderful.

"Again, this time, if it really comes to that point, what method should I use to stop Yuan Shi?"

Liu Hong looked at Zhang Rang: "Before, I always followed the trend. If I don't allow it openly this time, I'm afraid it will cause many people from the ancient literature school to be dissatisfied with me, and they will point the finger at me.

I have become the biggest obstacle and the person they hate, while Yuan Shi has become their leader and gained prestige and fame. This kind of thing will only benefit Yuan Shi more? "

"This... Your Majesty has considered it thoroughly."

Zhang Rang was also in trouble for a while, and he didn't know how to end this matter in a legitimate way.

The school of ancient literature is in full swing, and the Yuan family is in the limelight at the same time. They are all striving for the upper hand, and the memorials pour into the palace like snow, which makes Liu Hong feel quite tricky, and Zhang Rang can't find anything good for a while. reason for rejection.

Just when the pair of monarchs and ministers felt troubled and depressed, two pieces of news gave them an opportunity to solve this problem, but also brought them brand new troubles.

At the end of March in the fifth year of noon, the Gepi Yellow Turban Army in Runan County re-emerged and attacked counties and counties with great momentum.

At the beginning of April in the fifth year of Zhongping, the Qingxu Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and organized Yellow Turban Army broke out in many places in Qingxu and Xuzhou to attack counties and counties with great momentum.

Zhao Yan, the governor of Qingzhou, and Ba, the governor of Xuzhou, only responded improperly, and the officers and soldiers could not resist. The scale of the Yellow Turban Army expanded rapidly.

After these two news arrived in Luoyang in mid-April of the fifth year of Zhongping, they instantly took away the treatment of the short-lived front page headlines of the debate between modern and ancient Chinese, and suddenly became the new front page headlines.

Yuan Kai suddenly became restless.

What are you doing?
I haven't settled the dispute between ancient and modern Chinese yet!Why are you making a fuss again?
Don't give me face? !
If you want to make trouble, you have to wait until I defeat the Modern Literature School before making trouble!
Yuan Kui realized that the situation was not good, so he quickly urged the officials of the ancient literature school and Yuan's old officials to continue to submit a petition to request the establishment of "Guwen Shangshu", hoping to use the last time to win the victory before the court's attention was completely taken away.

But the Jinwen School, which has reacted, no longer fights with Yuan Wei on this issue.

They decided to divert their attention, and immediately began to pay attention to the resurgence of the remnants of the Taipingdao in all directions, and launched a bombardment of public opinion with all their strength, trying to turn the court's vision to the rebellion.

Huang Wan, as a representative of the Jinwen School, together with a large number of officials submitted a form to Liu Hong, claiming that the reappearance of the Yellow Turban Army was a huge threat to the imperial court, and the imperial court needed to respond immediately, and immediately invested military force to suppress the resurgent Yellow Turban Army, otherwise There is no peace in the states and counties, and the situation is about to change again.

While Liu Hong felt depressed, he also realized that this was a perfect opportunity.

A chance to achieve his goal by protecting himself from the hatred of the Paleo School.

So he issued an edict, regardless of the matter of modern and ancient Chinese, the entire court needs to fully turn to the matter of the Yellow Turban Army's rebellion.

Yuan Kui and the Ancient Literature School had nothing to do about it, they could only admit defeat in depression and accept this result that they could never have imagined.

To be honest, the revival of the Runan Yellow Turbans and Qingxu Yellow Turbans has a lot to do with the crisis in Hedong.

The Hedong crisis dealt a great blow to the Luoyang court, especially the humiliating defeat of Huangfusong, which caused the Luoyang court to lose troops and generals, and its prestige was greatly reduced.

In the end, the reason why this crisis was quelled was not because they completely defeated the Bingzhou bandits, but because they recognized their legitimacy in a disguised form and recruited them.

This matter has been tossed back and forth for more than a year, completely exposing the incompetent side of the Luoyang court.

Inspired by this, the rest of the troops who did not die in the first Taipingdao uprising began to restless again. They saw the decline of Luoyang court's force, so they had some ideas.

In addition, after the Taipingdao uprising, the entire Eastern Han Empire did not make any noteworthy adjustments in policy. Except for Lu Zhi who did some good things when he governed Jizhou, everything else remained as usual.

Officials from all over the country continued to work intensively on the track of corruption, forcing farmers everywhere to have nowhere to go. As a result, a large number of farmers went bankrupt, had nowhere to go, or went into exile, or simply threw themselves under the banner of the Taipingdao to make a living.

They don't care what Taipingdao is, as long as they eat, nothing else matters.

So the power of Taipingdao grew again.

Less than a month after the Hedong crisis was resolved, Liu Hong once again faced the thing he was least willing to face.

The issue of the dispute between modern and ancient Chinese has been temporarily resolved, but the resurgence of Qingxu Yellow Turban and Runan Yellow Turban made him very annoyed. He really wanted to ask those local officials——

What exactly did you do to make it impossible for me to live comfortably for a month?
Liu Hong lost his temper angrily in the palace, beat several young eunuchs to vent his anger, then sat down panting, and reluctantly decided to hold a military meeting to discuss how to solve the Qingxu Huangjin and Runan Huangjin issues.

The solution to this kind of thing is nothing more than sending troops to suppress, there is nothing else to say.

However, the Luoyang court had just resolved the crisis in Hedong, and the rewards given to the soldiers had shrunk. They also disbanded a group of troops to alleviate financial difficulties, which caused dissatisfaction among some soldiers.

Now that the treasury is empty, you can run a horse-drawn carriage and fight a war?
Fuck it!
It's not that there is no money in the national treasury, but the remaining money is really the last reserve, which is used to deal with life and death crises and the necessary expenses of the court.

For example, if someone suddenly attacked Luoyang, and the court was facing collapse, there was no way to do it, so the money had to be used.

If this money is used now, among other things, the salaries of Luoyang officials will not be paid.

The imperial court can't pay official salaries, if this is said, what kind of joke is it?

So a group of people were arguing and wrangling over there, the public said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the woman was right. You said it was my fault, and I said it was your fault.

Yuan Kai still didn't give up, and still wanted to clarify the dispute between modern and ancient prose at the meeting, and even drag the dispute between modern and ancient prose into this chaos, saying that "Ouyang Shangshu" could not educate the people, so it was written. It caused people all over the world to revolt again and again.

If we want to solve the problem fundamentally, we must completely depose "Ouyang Shangshu" and replace it with "Guwen Shangshu" which is more able to educate the people, and use the wisdom of the ancients to teach the people, so that even if the people starve to death, they will know the king If you have the kindness, you will not make trouble casually.

Needless to say, this blatant nonsense was actually approved by many officials of the ancient literature school, which made the officials of the modern literature school try their best to prove that this matter had nothing to do with them, and the topic was almost taken astray.

Liu Hong sat at the top, and his dissatisfaction with Yuan Wei became more and more intense. Just as he was about to scold Yuan Wei angrily, Lu Zhi stood up.

Lu Zhi, who had been silent all this time, couldn't stand it any longer.

What is this all about?
Lu Zhi, who has really experienced wars and post-war governance, has his own views on civil affairs, and he is more aware of the reasons for the people's riots and the solutions. profit.

It’s okay to put it in normal times, but now that the country is in urgent need, is it time for you to seek profit for yourself here?

(End of this chapter)