I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 490 Yuan Ji's Abandoned Plan

Luoyang.

For Liu Bian, these days have been a series of good news. The frequent banditry in various places that originally worried him are now being eliminated little by little in various ways under the governance of the two thousand stone officials he appointed to various counties and kingdoms.

Although the Han Dynasty lost many people due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it has not experienced the more horrific wars among the princes, and talented people are emerging in large numbers. There are both young and old people with both moral integrity and talent, so there is no need to worry about a lack of successors.

The Han Dynasty had nurtured scholars for hundreds of years, and the training and education of scholars had become a system both officially and privately.

When the country provides them with a platform to display their talents, they will be able to seize the opportunity and shine the brightest.

The Southern Xiongnu Right Guli King Qubei wants to take the surname Liu? Let's go to the Shangshutai to discuss whether this is necessary given the current situation of the Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou.

Tian Feng used the Yuan family of Runan to quell the rebellion in Runan? Isn't this similar to when he sent Yuan Shao to quell the Yellow Turbans in Runan?

Wang Yun, Sima Fang, Chen Gui, Zang Hong, Zhang Zhao, Cui Yan, Wang Lang and other officials who had been in office for many years or had just been appointed, faced the challenge and gave their answers to Liu Bian in their own way.

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"Waste, real waste!" Yuan Ji was so angry that he smashed everything he came across frantically.

It was the first time for his servants and maids to see their master lose his composure like this. In the past, no matter what happened to their master, he would never lose his composure like this.

His wife rushed over after hearing the news, but was also driven away by Yuan Ji with a roar.

When Zhang Jue started the rebellion, he used "The Blue Sky is dead, and the Yellow Sky should be established. The year is Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous" as his slogan, and set the time and place for the rebellion. However, he was forced to start the rebellion ahead of time because of someone who informed on him.

Yuan Ji's plan was different. He did not show up in person, but took advantage of the concerns of the powerful families about the land measurement and incorporated his ideas into the strategy to counter the land measurement. In this way, as long as the powerful families adopted the strategy that was passed on indirectly from him, then he would control the rhythm of how the powerful families should respond at that stage of the land measurement.

Yuan Ji had a beautiful idea. Although the spread of news was slow, as long as no one could be sure that these strategies came from him, he would not be implicated even if someone reported it.

Although Yuan Ji was low-key, he was influenced by Yuan Kui very early on and, like Yuan Kui, he also had his own great ambitions.

He boasted of his unrivaled talent, but in the end he was not as valued as his younger brother, who had great ambitions but little talent and was only interested in fame.

Although he was the Chief Censor, he was mostly just a clay statue. Although the Censorate had undergone reforms and expanded its staff, the emperor clearly preferred the secretive Ministry of Examination.

What the superior likes, the subordinates will follow. Even when the common people wanted to file complaints, they liked to go to the pavilion outside the city left by Guan Yu, rather than his Censorate - even though his Censorate also had a government office to accept lawsuits from the common people.

As Yuan Wei grew older, Yuan Ji's reluctance grew stronger.

In his opinion, everything should develop in the direction he says.

The Hefei Rebellion was an unexpected surprise, but if there was no Hefei, Yuan Ji felt that there would be someplace else.

But the speed at which the two thousand officials in various places suppressed the bandits...are all these officials so capable?
But no matter whether Yuan Ji could accept it or not, the fact was here - the counties and kingdoms could deal with the bandits on their own, so there was naturally no need for elite troops to be sent from Luoyang. And with a large army stationed in Luoyang, there would be no chaos.

Yuan Ji's subsequent plans collapsed halfway.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"Get lost!" After a roar, Yuan Ji finally reacted, "Uncle..."

"What have you been planning these days?" Yuan Wei looked at the hysterical Yuan Ji, feeling pain in his heart. He asked slowly, "Tell me, are the bandits everywhere recently your doing?"

All the people nearby were driven away by Yuan Ji. Yuan Kui was not afraid of being heard. Yuan Ji looked at Yuan Kui, whose face was full of wrinkles and old age, and suddenly sneered, saying, "What does it have to do with me? These big families have troops in their hands that dare not be registered. They are afraid of being punished later, but they dare not gather together to cause chaos. So they can only let these troops go out first, become thieves, and then see what happens next..."

"Isn't this normal?"

Yuan Wei said: "It is normal, but when the big families in the north and south do the same thing, it is not normal."

"I didn't know you had such courage?"

"Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Yuan Ji looked at the mess on the floor of the house, cleared a space with his feet, sat on the floor, and then looked up at Yuan Wei - "Since my father passed away, I have often looked up at my uncle like this. At that time, my uncle, like my father, was the person I wanted to be."

"But now, my uncle is old and has long forgotten his original ambitions!"

Yuan Ji looked at Yuan Wei, who was also sitting on the ground like him.

Yuan Wei said earnestly: "I am old, but today is different from the past. Even an old man like me can still adapt, why can't you?"

"The world does not belong to one person!" Yuan Ji said, "Yes, the current emperor is a wise ruler, and he has almost subtly eliminated the influence of eunuchs and the Party Ban, but this is not enough!"

"The current emperor is a wise ruler, but what about him? What about his descendants? Who can guarantee that there won't be another emperor named Xian? And who can guarantee that the successor will always be a young emperor without the worry of foreign relatives causing trouble for the country?"

"Only we, the scholars and officials!"

"Only when one cultivates oneself can one have a harmonious family, and only when one has a harmonious family can one govern the country. When the court is full of virtuous and good people, the world will be at peace. This is the truth my uncle taught me, but he himself has forgotten it."

Yuan Wei sighed and said, "Aren't the officials in the court considered virtuous nowadays?"

"How can you call yourself a virtuous person if you can scare them into silence with just one sentence from the school affairs department?"

Yuan Wei sighed secretly, he knew that Yuan Ji had gotten into a dead end.

In recent years, he has been observing from the sidelines and has long understood why Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and others, who were all upright and famous scholars, did not strongly oppose the School Affairs Department, which was interested in prying into people's private lives.

——Because the emperor never fully trusted the literati, if there was no Ministry of Education, there would be eunuchs, or even a Ministry of Education controlled by eunuchs...

But Yuan Ji could no longer accept this logic.

Yuan Wei finally said: "Runan is not peaceful now, and the family lacks a leader who can make decisions. You should resign and return home!"

"Why? Unless I die!" Yuan Ji refused.

"Do you really have to let me personally give you a cup of poisoned wine?"

Faced with the enraged Yuan Wei, Yuan Ji remained unmoved.

Yuan Wei was indeed old, and he really couldn't bring himself to do anything to Yuan Ji.

By the time he left Yuan Ji's mansion, his shoulders seemed to have lowered even more.

Sitting in the carriage, Yuan Wei closed his eyes, not knowing whether his decision today was right or wrong.

(End of this chapter)