Xuande

Chapter 529 Don't you, Mrs. Liu, not have the aspirations of Mrs. Liu?

When Liu Bei said these words, all the officials in the court were surprised, and Huang Wan was even more shocked.

What did he realize.

"The general's words are inappropriate, so be careful!"

"Be cautious?"

Liu Bei looked at Huang Wan with a sneer, and said, "Someone privately criticized my previous actions, but I don't care, because I am justified, the Yuan family is rebellious, privately recruiting foreign soldiers, and even the emperor's secret edict, what I did , no one can say that I am wrong.

And what about Yuan Shao?There is no court order, no emperor's edict, and no evidence that those officials rebelled and violated the law. If such a reckless killing of court officials is not severely punished and restrained, when all the eunuchs are killed, everyone thinks that this matter will stop here. Stop, or continue to expand?
Everyone, don't think that only the eunuch was killed. Think about it, everyone, after the order to eradicate the eunuch is issued, are people who have nothing to do with the eunuch really safe?An order is an order, an execution is an execution!These are two different things!

The scourge of witchcraft in Emperor Xiaowu's time was only a crime committed by one person at first, but later, hundreds of thousands of people were implicated and died. How many of them were really guilty and how many were really innocent, I can tell clearly ?Once this hole is opened, can you bear the consequences! ? "

Standing in the court hall, Liu Bei scanned the officials with sharp eyes, and his voice was loud, full of energy, and deafening, which made the officials bow their heads and dare not look up at Liu Bei.

Huang Wan wanted to refute, but after thinking about the lesson of the scourge of witchcraft, he couldn't blatantly oppose Liu Bei's opinion.

Once the opening for wanton killing and wealth taking is opened, the order will be disrupted, and this world will really be in a serious battle royale mode. It's hard to say who will die and who will survive.

The officials looked at me and I looked at you, and didn't know what to say, but the joy in their hearts had disappeared unconsciously.

Finally, Lu Zhi, who had been silent all this time, stood up.

"I think what the general said is reasonable. The scourge of witchcraft back then was widely involved. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of it. Emperor Xiaowu regretted it. The impact of this matter is far-reaching. We should warn future generations not to act recklessly , Undermining regulations.

Yuan Shao's thieves have committed misdeeds in Jizhou, denied the throne of the emperor, and are already rebellious thieves. Now they are imprisoned in Jizhou. They kill court officials and innocent people without evidence and without trial. This is against the entire court and the entire Han law. Rebellion, for this crime, it is not too much to kill his clan.

And the imperial court must not think that it is a good thing just because they kill the guilty. If they do not abide by the imperial court regulations, have no rules, and act recklessly, there will be no limit and no bottom line for killing. Should such behavior be encouraged? "

Lu Zhi's ability to stand up and speak is what Liu Bei is looking forward to.

Huang Wan was very dissatisfied with Lu Zhi.

"What Lu Taiwei said is a little out of date, right? Rebellion is rebellion, eunuch is eunuch, both are the scourge of the big man, how can they be confused?"

Lu Zhi glanced at Huang Wan.

"That's right, Huang Taichang, this matter should not be confused with each other, but Yuan Shao's thieves just combined these two things to make it into one thing, and for this they recruited a group of wolf-hearted people from Jizhou!

According to your point of view, after the eunuchs are slaughtered, the next turn is either you or me. If life and death cannot be judged according to the law but other uncertain things, then I and you Two people, I'm afraid they will die soon! "

Huang Wan was very angry and wanted to refute, but couldn't say anything to refute.

There was silence in the hall, and the voice of opposition disappeared.

After the court meeting, the uneasy Empress Dowager Dong summoned four assistant ministers, mainly to find Liu Bei to go to her palace to talk about what happened in Jizhou.

The hometown of Empress Dowager Dong is in Jizhou. After this incident, Liu Bei heard the news that the family of Empress Dowager Dong seemed to be in some danger.

The people over there were crazy about killing people, and many innocent people were involved. The Empress Dowager Dong was extremely dissatisfied with this, and asked the family to move to Luoyang as soon as possible, and at the same time hoped that Liu Bei would immediately come up with countermeasures .

Similar to the Empress Dowager Dong, Zhang Rang and Jian Shuo also hope that Liu Bei will come up with countermeasures as soon as possible.

Jian Shuo is okay, his main assets are all around Luoyang, and he hasn't had time to expand his wealth.

Zhang Rang has a large-scale property in Jizhou. This wave of Yuan Shao's eunuch purge in Jizhou, Zhang Rang's property in Jizhou was destroyed, everything was destroyed, and he didn't sleep well for several days. .

"Yuan Shao's traitor, you are so bold! I wish I could drink his blood and sleep on his skin! Xuande, you must find a way! This bastard is now spreading the word that you want to eradicate the eunuch. This is putting you on the fire!" , if you really want to get to that point, what else can you do?"

Zhang Rang gritted his teeth and looked at Liu Bei, clenched his fists tightly, and felt pain in his heart.

As for this matter, Liu Bei has his own ideas.

"When I learned that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had escaped before, one of the possibilities I thought of was this possibility, that Yuan Shao or someone among Yuan Shu would attack me for the fact that I and the eunuch joined forces to eradicate Yuan Kai and He Jin.

They will tie me up with the eunuchs and force me to make a choice. If I make a wrong choice, they can attack Luoyang under the banner of the Qing emperor. If I make a choice that suits their wishes, it will be suicide. If the arm is in chaos, it will inevitably fail. "

"Did you think of it?"

Zhang Rang was taken aback for a moment, and then he was overjoyed: "What about the solution? You should have thought of a solution, right?"

When Zhang Rang said this, the other three looked at Liu Bei with hopeful eyes just like Zhang Rang.

Liu Bei looked at these political bastards and shook his head.

"Not every problem has a solution. Just because I can think of a problem, doesn't mean I can think of a solution."

"…………"

Hearing what Liu Bei said, Jian Shuo was in a bad mood immediately, and the empress dowager Dong and Dong Chong also looked bad.

Only Zhang Rang looked at Liu Bei suspiciously.

"You are such a capable person, can you do anything? If you really have no way, will you be so indifferent? I don't think you just thought of what you said in the court just now."

Zhang Rang still knows Liu Bei.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang and grinned.

"I didn't lie to you. I really have nothing to do with this offensive. If Yuan Shao and the others just use this banner and don't do anything specific, I really have nothing to do. I can only bite the bullet and make a military decisive victory. But the problem is, They really hit it off."

"What do you mean?"

"Not only did they use the banner to oppose the eunuchs, but they actually attacked your property in Jizhou, killed people, and killed many people. Unsurprisingly, they got out of control."

Liu Bei sneered and said: "Yuan Shao actually has no other choice. Han Fu ran away and no one endorsed him. If he didn't use this method to win people's hearts, not many people in Jizhou would listen to his orders and help him with affairs and wars, so he had to do it." this matter.

But he thought that when he gave an order, his subordinates would be able to obey him honestly, only killing eunuchs and not killing other people. This is because he has no experience, he has never actually governed a county or a state, and he doesn't know what it means There are policies and measures to counter.

I have governed a state, and I know how many processes the state government's decree will go through from issuance to implementation at the local level, how many hands it will pass through, and what it will look like in the end.

It is said that only eunuchs are killed and only eunuchs are robbed, but do you think those officers and soldiers who actually do things will really only kill eunuchs?Will only the houses of the eunuchs be burned and their property seized?Who doesn't have three or two enemies these days?Will those guys with knives and torches take this opportunity to avenge themselves?

Those soldiers who couldn't get enough to eat had such a rare opportunity to burn, kill and loot. Would they take this opportunity to kill and rob the neighbors next door to the eunuch's house?Could it be possible to stop the atrocities with a single order to kill the soldiers who are red-eyed and grab the attention? "

When Liu Bei said something, even the Empress Dowager Dong felt comprehended.

They thought about it seriously for a while, thinking about the "excellent style" of the Han army, and thinking about their daily behavior patterns...

Well, then probably there is no need for the Luoyang court to intervene, the local government will be in a mess, everyone will be in danger, everyone will be worried that they will become [a member of the eunuch group], and at some point, they will He was labeled as a eunuch group, then beaten by a group of people, his family property was taken away, and his family members were killed...

Who wants to face such a situation?
It seems that there is really no need to worry?
Subsequently, in response to Yuan Shao's "anti-eunuch, anti-Liu Bei" campaign and related political declarations, Liu Bei issued a targeted political declaration in Luoyang, ordering people to spread it in all directions, and informed the prefects and county governors' offices of all states and counties across the country.

In the manifesto, Liu Bei reprimanded Yuan Shao as a traitor of the Han Dynasty, and accused him of attempting to subvert the Han Dynasty and destroy the order of the Han Dynasty.

The reason is that he does not rely on the law to sentence people to death, does not follow the Han law or any kind of law, but decides the death penalty on the basis of whether he has a relationship with the eunuch group.

Liu Bei pointed out that this is a very dangerous behavior. If you can judge people related to the eunuch group to die today, then you can let people who are not scholars die tomorrow, and you can let people who are not noble enough among the scholars die the next day. , In the end, only the old officials of the Yuan family died, and everyone in the world was a loser.

Brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are cancers in the world, and they are sins that must be eradicated. They are trying to subvert the Han world, and they already have ambitions to replace them. This is absolutely unacceptable. They will become the sworn enemies of loyal ministers and righteous men in the world.

Anyone who joins forces with them to disrupt order is a traitor to the Han world, and needs to be eradicated completely, and the three clans must be punished.

This is not just for the disciples of Yuan's former officials, but for everyone!
Anyone who has anything to do with the Yuan family, responds to any call from the Yuan family, and the three clans will never be forgiven.

As a general, Liu Bei will resolutely and thoroughly maintain the orthodoxy and order of the Han Dynasty.

So Liu Bei advises the people of the world to think carefully and weigh carefully, not to follow the call of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, but to follow the orders of the court, to protect the environment and the people, and to resist as much as possible if Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's troops cross the border.

I don't ask you to win, at least, those who represent the government cannot surrender.

The anti-eunuch offensive launched by Yuan Shao and others is a difficult problem that Liu Bei has no way to completely solve at present, unless he directly resorts to military means.

The unexpected incident of Han Fu leading people to Luoyang was also unexpected by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers.

As an old official of the Yuan family, Han Fu, who was appointed as the governor of Jizhou with the support of the Yuan family, abandoned his position and fled to Luoyang to seek Liu Bei's asylum.

Of course, Liu Bei didn't hurt Han Fu, but he didn't treat him favorably either. Instead, he handed Han Fu over to the judicial department of the imperial court for review to see if he was involved in the rebellion of Yuan Wei and He Jin Group.

Han Fu didn't get the rich and idle job that Han Fu imagined, but his life was not in danger, because he was sure that he had nothing to do with this matter, so he had a clear conscience.

And Liu Bei's treatment of Han Fu did not show the lenient policy that some people hoped to see-it seems that Liu Bei did not intend to make Yuan's old officials and disciples too easy.

This worries some people, but it also makes more people look forward to it.

Because the Yuan family and their protégés and former official groups occupy too many political resources, and finally they have a chance to kill them in one breath, and they will never let them go just because of Han Fu.

Today, this goal has vaguely become the goal conceived by the group close to Liu Bei.

In dealing with the issue of Han Fu, Liu Bei actually intended to let him go, thinking of appointing him a idle position to divide and disintegrate the forces of the Yuan Clique, and make Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu become rootless duckweeds.

In this way, it will be easier to deal with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu in the future, and the resistance of officials from all over the country who are former disciples of the Yuan family will be much smaller, and it will be easier to deal with them.

But Jia Xu noticed this intention in time, and privately advised Liu Bei not to do this.

His Yuan family has Yuan's people's aspirations, don't your Liu family have Liu's people's aspirations?

Some people under your command covet Yuan's political resources for more than a day or two. If you can't satisfy them, what they will do is not what you can predict.

"Junhou, to this day, the people around you are not less than the people around Yuan, even more so, so many people follow you and serve you, it is not without desire ?”

Jia Xu's pointed words made Liu Bei aware of some problems that he had neglected in the past.

It seems that he has become politically correct to destroy the Yuan family. If he wants to take some gentle measures, it may cause some internal disputes.

The disadvantages are huge...

After serious consideration, Liu Bei gave up his original plan and decided to conduct quarantine inspection on Han Fu, and further made up his mind to completely liquidate the group of Yuan's protégés and old officials.

(End of this chapter)