If he hadn't said this, the most Li You could do was listen to the arguments between Guo Jia and Zhao Yan outside the door of the Political Yuan, and then wait for Guo Jia to order people to capture Zhao Yan. But after hearing Zhao Yan's words After saying this, Li You took action decisively.
If Zhao Yan hadn't been in the Political Yuan at that time and Li You had taken political issues into consideration, Zhao Yan would not have pierced the chest with one sword, at least pierced the heart with one sword, or directly shot him in the head if he was unlucky.
Because that sentence aroused the biggest resentment in Li You's heart. It can't solve the problem, and it can't solve you. If you trample on the rules to be a protective umbrella, then you have to be prepared for me to trample on the rules and trample you to death. Chen Zichuan has taken care of it. It doesn't mean that I, Li You, don't dare to take action directly.
In the past, I was concerned about Lu Su's situation and did not want to carry out a major purge, resulting in a power vacuum at the middle and lower levels. But you, Zhao Yan, have said that. So what extent have those guys who are colluding below done so, and to what extent have they acted recklessly? , Li You guessed that he knew it by touch.
After all, I have lived for more than fifty years, and I have never seen situations where middle-level bureaucrats collude with each other to steal state power and bring disaster to the people. The collusion of bureaucrats is a signal in itself, and Zhao Yan, as a protective umbrella, performs well in this aspect With such unscrupulousness, Li You had some vague guesses about the virtues of those bureaucrats who joined forces.
Isn’t this what the so-called ups and downs are like?
As the top being under the protective umbrella behaves like this, it is self-evident what the situation of the protected bureaucrats below is, so it is simpler, settle the accounts and die, it is as simple as that, there is nothing to say.
It's just that the front foot promised Lu Su, and the back foot changed his mind. It was really too disrespectful.
In addition, if you kill the main force among them, the remaining bureaucrats will definitely restrain themselves. Even if the so-called dog cannot change its habit of eating shit, there is also a saying of killing the chicken to scare the monkey. Even if the old habits sprout, it will take some time. In theory, it can last for a while. .
But seeing Zhao Yan's arrogant look, Li You couldn't bear it.
"Brother, do you want to go together?" When Yuan Shu followed Liu Zhang and ran out, he vaguely remembered something. He always felt that he had been tricked by Li You, so when he went out, he asked casually, "I remember what you did?" This profession.”
Li You shook his head and picked up the scroll on the side. "I'm different from you, and I don't need to be too professional this time. I'll just stay here."
"Don't worry about Li Wenru, we can do it ourselves." Liu Zhang saw Yuan Shu holding the door open and asking Li You. He didn't get the answer he wanted, so he didn't want to waste time. Don't they two brothers kill people? They are also very professional!
"Having said that, the other party is obviously more professional." Yuan Shu ran out and locked Li You in with a lock. "Then, brother, just stay in there by yourself."
"What nonsense are you talking to him about?" Liu Zhang said to Yuan Shu unhappily.
Liu Zhang didn't have a favorable impression of Li You. To be precise, no one in the royal family with the surname Liu had a favorable impression of Li You except Liu Bei. If it weren't for Li You's considerable influence on the bureaucracy and the country's political system, Liu Ye would definitely attack him. A knife belonging to Li You.
"I suspect that the other party is tricking me. Before he came in, he asked for my apartment and asked me to live with you." Yuan Shu explained casually, with an expression as if he was being plotted.
"Really? Then did you give it to him?" Liu Zhang replied casually. His mind was now focused on what he had heard before. The apartment can be discarded, and it can be rebuilt if it is destroyed. But poaching the corner of my Han Dynasty, I, Liu Zhang, will crush them all for you!
"Of course I didn't give it to him if I pulled him like that." Yuan Shu said very domineeringly.
Yuan Shu didn't give in to Li You at all. Yuan Shu would give in in other places. But in the imperial prison, everyone was rubbish. The worst he could do was to take action. I, Yuan Shu, traveled all over the country and rode Chi You's divine horse. I was not a vegetarian either. I gave the order and mounted the horse. He quickly arrived and pushed you, Li You, to the ground.
There is no way, Yuan Shu is really unsure about facing Li You compared to his combat prowess. Although both sides have come from the battlefield, and have personally carried weapons on the battlefield, but because of this, if they want to defeat each other with bare hands, they have no choice. What a certainty.
"Then you are talking nonsense!" Liu Zhang shouted to his mount as he ran out. Of course, such a high-level mount as the Iron-eating Beast would not be locked up in the prison. Even in a private room, the mythical beast would not bother to live in it, so The mounts of Liu Zhang and Yuan Shu were kept outside the imperial prison.
"That's why I suspected that the other party was trying to trick me. If the other party hadn't tricked me, could I have given him a suite?" Yuan Shu said with an unhappy face as he followed Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang stopped immediately when he heard this, but Yuan Shu, who was following Liu Zhang, didn't expect that Liu Zhang would stop suddenly and bumped directly into Liu Zhang's back. Both of them staggered.
"Why did you stop suddenly?" Yuan Shu asked Liu Zhang unhappily after standing firm.
"Highway, would Li Wenru joke about something like this?" Liu Zhang looked at Yuan Shu with a calm expression, but Yuan Shu knew clearly that this was Liu Zhang's serious expression.
"No." Yuan Shu nodded, "The guy said it calmly and said it without a smile, but the guy said it more seriously. In fact, that guy is very serious and will not talk nonsense in this regard."
"So, no matter if he is setting me up or not, I will go out." Liu Zhang looked at Yuan Shu with great seriousness, "What about you?"
"What's wrong with exploiting the common people?" Yuan Shu sneered and crossed his arms. "The most satisfying thing I have ever done in my life is to burn those messy contracts and then force other families to make choices. There is a right path. If you have to, Thinking about the three melons and two dates of the common people."
"I think so too." Liu Zhang looked a little gentler. For him, it didn't matter what the reason was for Li You to appear in the prison. As long as what Li You told him was true, that was enough. He used to He doesn't have the ability to solve it, but now, if he can solve it, he will solve it.
"Let's go out and talk." Yuan Shu looked at Liu Zhang and said, Liu Zhang nodded, and the two quickly walked towards the entrance of the imperial prison. When they met the jailer along the way, they seemed to have not seen the two of them. After all, they had been working here for a long time. All the jailers who knew Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang were aware of the situation.
"Sure enough, it's you two who came out." Man Chong, who had been recalled urgently, stood at the entrance of the prison, looking at Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang who appeared at the door with a calm expression.
"How big is the matter?" Liu Zhang looked at Man Chong. Most of the time, Liu Zhang was no different from a second-rate man. At this moment, he really seemed to be calm and powerful.
"Li Wenru, the censor Zhongcheng, has already gone in. How big can the matter be?" Man Chong said calmly.
The current official positions of the Han Dynasty are actually very strange, because the position of the prime minister is missing, because the prime minister has an overview of the overall situation, commands the ministers, reconciles yin and yang, and serves as the power of the ministers to restrain the imperial power.
Similarly, due to the existence of Liu Tong, the imperial power is not very effective and does not need to be restrained. Therefore, the two highest positions of emperor and prime minister do not currently exist in the Han Dynasty.
Of course, part of the reason why there is no prime minister is that the current government is not suitable. But the absence of a prime minister does not mean that there are no bureaucrats who exercise the powers of the prime minister.
In essence, Chen Xi is the prime minister. It is said that he has the position of prime minister, but in fact there is no difference between him and the prime minister.
In the same way, there is no prime minister, and there is no censor to supervise the prime minister. Although Sikong is theoretically the censor, you cannot ask Cao Cao to supervise Chen Xi. This is unreasonable, so after the prime minister was changed to Shangshu Pushe, the supervisor The official position of Shangshu Pushe was also downgraded, and he became the deputy of the former Yushi doctor, Yushi Zhongcheng.
Therefore, Li You's duty is actually the duty of the censor Zhongchengxing to supervise all officials, which is equivalent to the function of one of the three public servants. But now that Li You has stepped down, he is in the imperial edict.
After hearing that Li You pierced Zhao Yan with a sword, Man Chong knew that the matter was not going to go well. Li You was already in prison. Even if Lu Su wanted to say something, it was hard to say it. In fact, this was To express my stance, whether to be strict or lenient, there is no doubt that I am currently prepared to be strict.
Because the people around Chen Xi, who is in charge of the leniency party, are either the ones who can be wiped out by a slip of the hand, or the type who enforces the law impartially like Man Chong. Although in the end, the execution is unified, the result will definitely not be the result Lu Su thought before. .
"Where is the core?" Yuan Shu said that he understood the situation.
"Jizhou." Man Chong answered directly. Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang looked at each other. Although neither of them were smart people, they had both run a state, and they were the type who had military power and political power. , naturally understand why Jizhou is the core.
"In that case, the second core should be Yuzhou?" Yuan Shu looked at Man Chong and asked, and Man Chong nodded.
"Are there connections between them, and have they spread to other states and counties?" Liu Zhang frowned. He already understood what was going on. The two of them might not understand other things, but they both happened to understand this.
"It's not just that they are connected to each other. In fact, this situation is spreading in itself, but the degree of spread is different in different places." Man Chong replied expressionlessly.
"Tsk, the reason is because the main force of the aristocratic family completely left the country, resulting in the current power vacuum period, and then in order to absorb power, right?" Yuan Shu said unhappily. He understands this thing, and he understands it very well, because he is at a level that allows him to See these things clearly.
"In fact, it is indeed the case. It's just that it didn't reach this level in the first place. It was also the result of multiple factors intertwining with each other. Of course, the root cause is indeed that the family left the local area and invested its power abroad, which resulted in a power vacuum in the local area and that we did not There are not enough talents to support and operate this huge bureaucracy." Man Chong nodded and gave a detailed explanation.
"So the question now is how to kill and how many to kill?" Liu Zhang stood there with an indifferent expression.
