I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 113 Influence

"The Book of Rites" says - "After cultivating the body, the family will be in order; after the family is in order, the country will be governed."

For the Confucian scholars who lived in the sixth year of Zhongping, what they learned gave them a noble pursuit of their own morality, family reputation, and harmony in the village.

In history books, there are many records of famous people distributing food to their families during disaster years.

Don't worry about whether people who can't do this do it or not, at least they pursue it.

This is political correctness at this time.

In the Fish and Meat Village, that was something that could only be done by the children of eunuchs, powerful men who did not study poetry and books, and those from poor families who suddenly became wealthy. These were the targets of their criticism.

They are wealthy people who would not do such a thing!

Especially the group of students from the Taipei University. Most of these people come from powerful families. They are young and energetic. Although they are inevitably a bit naive and are often taken advantage of without realizing it, they are also full of passion.

Their reaction was the most violent.

They rarely looked away from the eunuchs. Although some of the eunuchs' children could be implicated in these cases, the proportion was too small.

The Tai students not only demanded severe punishment for the township officials who oppressed the people, but also demanded the punishment of Henan Yin Yuan Shu and Sili school captain Zhang Wen for poor supervision.

There have been so many shocking cases under his rule. Although they have accumulated many years of experience, who told them to catch up? They cannot escape the blame!

During the last public trial of Chen Yi, Yuan Shu arrested the Tai students who were causing trouble. Now that Yuan Shu is not governing well, how can the Imperial students be willing to miss the opportunity? So what about the Four Generations and Three Dukes?

It’s not like you can’t criticize!

Especially He Yong, the lieutenant of the Northern Army. He followed the path of He Jin in his official career. Last time he had a falling out with Yuan Shu because of the Chen Yi incident.

He was on good terms with Yuan Shao and knew that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were incompatible with each other in appearance and heart. Now that he had the opportunity to target only Yuan Shu, how could he let it go?

He Yong has a high reputation among Tai students.

In the Yin Mansion in Henan, Yuan Shu kicked over the table in front of him.

He has been resentful of He Yong for a long time.

Yuan Shu was a heroic hero when he was young and competed with Yuan Shao for fame.

At that time, He Yong was an imprisoned party member, but He Yong would rather make friends with Yuan Shao, who was born in a servant girl whom Yuan Shu disdained, than come to visit Yuan Shu.

This made Yuan Shu deeply resentful, not to mention the subsequent conflicts.

But Yuan Shu understood that no matter how much he hated He Yong now, he could not do anything to him.

Next to him, Yuan Yin, the son of Yuan Wei, saw that Yuan Shu had finally vented his anger and asked, "Brother, what should I do next?"

Yuan Shu said: "It's not too late to remedy the situation. Those ignorant students can only scold them. We were already a step too late when Guan Yu discovered these things. Now we cannot let Guan Yu take all the credit!"

"Not only do we need to send inspectors to inspect the counties, but we also need to find people to redress their grievances..."

Yuan Yin wondered: "Brother, in the past, I often sent inspectors to various counties, but no problems were found. Will it be useful this time?"

Yuan Shu looked confident and explained: "This time I will send more servants to follow the postal supervisors in my name. Any of the officials below dare to hinder this, hum!"

After saying that, Yuan Shu took Yuan Yin's hand and said with sincerity: "As well as overt investigation, there should also be secret investigations. Brother Yin, I trust you the most. Now that I have to sit in Luoyang, I can only entrust you to conduct secret investigations for me. Here we go. When the time comes, I can make my uncle understand that he was wrong about Brother Yin!"

Yuan Yin did not receive the attention of Yuan Wei due to his lack of talent, so he had become friends with Yuan Shu very early. Now hearing Yuan Shu's words of trust, he was moved and excited, and promised: "Brother, don't worry, this matter will be taken care of by me!"

Yuan Shu encouraged him again. After Yuan Yin left, Yuan Shu called his brother Yuan Si, took Yuan Si's hand, and said sincerely: "At this time of crisis, only people of the same clan can be trusted..."

Yuan Shu was trying to save himself, while Zhang Wen, another one who was criticized, was sweating in the Yuntai Palace.

"Yun Chang has done a good job in Luoyang, and his subordinates are also trusted by the people. I heard that the villages in other counties around Luoyang refused to issue bicycles for passing by, and the people who wanted to complain about their grievances had to sneak to Luoyang. Yang, what do you think of Mr. Zhang? Do you think this is a good thing?"

Faced with Liu Bian's question, how could Zhang Wen answer? You can't say this is a good thing, I can only apologize honestly.

"I know that the local government has been suffering for a long time. This is not Mr. Zhang's fault."

Zhang Wen just felt that the prince's words touched his heart, and he said yes again and again.

Liu Bian asked again: "I think it's not good for the common people to come to Luoyang privately. What does Mr. Zhang think?"

Zhang Wen didn't quite understand, so he had to reply: "Your Highness is right."

"Really? Let me just say that Zhang Gong and I must have the same idea, right?" Liu Bian turned to ask Guo Sheng, and Guo Sheng agreed repeatedly.

Liu Bian said again: "So, how can we let the people even complain about their grievances and risk becoming refugees? What does Mr. Zhang think?"

Zhang Wen only felt that the prince's perspective on thinking was quite unique and continued to nod in agreement.

"Since it's not appropriate for the people to come over, we have to send people over. We can't let the people be unable to redress their grievances, right?"

"Yes...no."

Faced with the prince's tuqiong dagger, Zhang Wen reacted and advised: "Your Highness, the Chariot and Cavalry General's troops patrolling inside and outside Luoyang are already exceeding the rules. If they are allowed to patrol other counties again... use soldiers as soldiers. There is no precedent for patrolling messengers before!"

Liu Bian sighed, it would be difficult for a good old man not to be fooled and not let him cook the raw rice first.

He changed his way of saying it and said to Zhang Wen: "I heard that many people in Luoyang don't know the inside story and blame Zhang Gong. They don't know that Yunchang and his men can do everything because of the Without Zhang Gong’s support, how could they achieve what they have achieved today?”

"They are nominally the subordinates of General Chariot and Cavalry, but don't they have anything to do with Colonel Sili? I think Yunchang and the others are actually the subordinates of Colonel Sili."

"Their credit is also the credit of Mr. Zhang. If those people outside knew that Yunchang and the others had the support of Mr. Zhang to redress the injustice of the people, they would definitely regret and blame Mr. Zhang!"

At this point, Liu Bian saw that Zhang Wen was still indifferent, and he couldn't help but get a little angry, and asked: "Don't you want Mr. Zhang to let the people's grievances be redressed as soon as possible?"

Zhang Wen thought of yesterday when his eldest son, who had always been incompetent, had a fight with someone for his reputation, and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.

When he went out in the morning, his wife Cai hesitated to persuade him to resign and return to his hometown in Nanyang.

He also thought of the people who had redressed their grievances and obtained belated justice. They were indescribably grateful to Guan Yu.

Looking at the young prince, Zhang Wen thought that when he was young, he had a great reputation and took stability of the world as his own responsibility. When did he start to change?

Did he make friends with Shangguan in order to pass the exam as soon as possible when he was a Langguan? Or did he ignore the compromises he made when he was a long-time official for the first time?

Zhang Wen blinked and bowed to the prince: "I understand what your highness means. In my humble opinion, I must let the assistant officials from the Sili Xiaowei Department accompany me."

(End of this chapter)