Zhen Yan and Liu Bei do not have such a good relationship foundation.
They met on the way to Luoyang, and their relationship was still superficial. However, he did not think of putting himself in the position of someone very close to Liu Bei. Instead, he very smartly placed himself in the position of Liu Bei's retainer, consciously Became Liu Bei's subordinate.
Although the two had similar positions in reality, when Liu Bei brought him into Yuan Shao's circle of friends, he began to consciously treat Liu Bei with courtesy.
He began to pay attention to the distinction between superiors and inferiors, and his words and deeds moved closer to Zhang Fei and others who had followed Liu Bei for many years, and did not consider themselves friends with Liu Bei.
He has already seen that Liu Bei's future is limitless, but his own future may not be clear.
In order to reach a higher level, the most important thing is to hold Liu Bei's thigh. His relationship with Liu Bei is not that deep, so he can only strengthen the bond with Liu Bei through the upper and lower relationship.
Zhen Yan feels that as a subordinate, he still has a lot to offer.
Liu Bei admired this kind of attitude of taking the road very much. People from an official family can have such political awareness. It is conceivable that the Zhen family's family education is quite good.
Therefore, Liu Bei handed over the leadership of his own parade to Zhen Yan and Zhang Fei and asked them to "charge into the battle."
Of course, regarding this matter, Liu Bei also comforted Han Ning, who was anxious because his father was impeached.
"Don't worry, I will handle this matter well. I will never let my father-in-law be framed by the eunuch."
Han Ning held Liu Bei's hand tightly.
"But I heard that eunuchs are very scary. Many eunuchs kill people, killing many, many people."
Liu Bei held Han Ning in his arms and comforted her warmly.
"I also have many friends. Yuan Shao, the son of the fourth and third prince Yuan, is my friend. They will help me. Even if something happens and I am targeted by eunuchs, they will protect me. I also have teachers, and I have other friends. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
Han Ning still felt uneasy, but Liu Bei said this, and she could only trust Liu Bei.
In the final analysis, she is a woman without political power. She has no other way to deal with crises except trusting Liu Bei, and the education she has received since childhood does not have this chapter.
So she just hugged Liu Bei tightly and stopped talking.
Liu Bei knew that it was not easy to appease Han Ning at this time. For Han Ning, comfort at this moment was more like a white lie.
However, in Liu Bei's view, this was an excellent opportunity after he arrived in Luoyang.
He thought there would be other opportunities in front of him, but it turned out that this was his opportunity.
Time passed slowly, and the frame-up operation carried out by the eunuchs was hindered to a certain extent by widespread discussions between the government and the public, and could not be promulgated quickly.
Although Liu Hong was addicted to pleasure and trusted the eunuchs, he seemed to be hesitant about whether to implement this matter.
A county governor is a high-ranking official with two thousand stone, the head of a county, an important local official in the Han Empire, and the cornerstone of maintaining local stability. He serves for ten years and will not be replaced easily unless he commits a crime.
Replacing twenty-six in one breath is equivalent to replacing one-fifth of the county guards in one breath. This move is a bit too big.
Even Liu Hong, who trusted eunuchs more than court officials, felt that this change was too big to make an easy decision and was quite hesitant.
To be honest, when Liu Hong originally issued the censorship statement, he did it with the idea of making a lot of money.
In his opinion, many scholars and officials had great wealth, but behaved improperly and relied on their official positions to make money, which made him very envious and jealous.
Therefore, Liu Hong, who liked to make money, decided to use his righteousness to engage the scholars and officials under the eunuch's suggestion and let them cough up some money.
According to his plan, this matter is to deal with a group of corrupt officials, and then promote a group of new people. Before taking office, the new people must pay 20 million yuan and 2,000 shi for the position. After paying the money, they can take office smoothly.
In this way, corrupt officials can be punished, and the hateful scholar family can also pay for it as a gift to him, killing two birds with one stone.
He had a beautiful idea, but he never thought that the eunuchs were so ugly and manipulated Xu Kuan and Zhang Ji to make things too big, and that one-fifth of the county guards in the entire Han Dynasty would "mutilate the people."
He originally thought that a dozen or so would be enough, and it would be nice to earn hundreds of millions for a while, buy more good things for himself, and make his life more luxurious.
But this time there were twenty-six.
Looking at it now, this matter is really a bit difficult to solve.
Liu Hong is not an imbecile. Although he trusts the eunuch and is willing to let the eunuch handle things on his behalf, it does not mean that he does not care about anything.
Although the memorials he had seen recently were all supportive, he also vaguely felt that something was wrong. It was impossible for such a big matter to be without opposition voices in the government. He might have been deceived.
Therefore, although the eunuch tried his best to persuade him to order the replacement of the county governor, he still refused to give the order. He wanted to wait and see and see the situation in the court.
This matter is now stuck here, in an extremely strange balance.
At this moment when the balance was maintained, the public opinion attack plan led by Liu Bei was being executed smoothly.
The team headed by Yuan Shao performed their duties and quickly completed many tasks set by Liu Bei with very high efficiency.
In one month, Yuan Shao and Zhang Miao, two well-connected men, have completed the [Screaming for Justice] parade teams in eighteen counties, and each team has real people from the county.
They first conducted training in Yuan Shao's mansion and Cao Cao's mansion, listened to Liu Bei's teachings, and then conducted further rehearsals at the foot of Shouyang Mountain outside Luoyang City.
On the other side, Cao Cao learned some secrets of the court through his father Cao Song.
"My father said that the eunuchs wanted His Majesty to quickly order the capture of the county guards on the list, but His Majesty seemed to be hesitant because there were too many people on the list and refused to give the order, so the eunuchs were very helpless. I don’t know what to do, the situation is very tense now.”
Cao Cao told Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and others about this matter at the meeting, which made everyone present feel better.
"The eunuch is too impatient and wants to capture so many people at once that His Majesty finds it difficult to handle. If His Majesty knows that the government and the public are extremely opposed to this matter at this time, His Majesty will definitely withdraw his orders and change his approach!"
He Yong clenched his fists and said: "The eunuchs will definitely try their best to stop us from doing anything. At this moment, it is the time for us to be loyal to our country!"
He Yong's statement sounds a bit scary, but that's what it means. As long as you make the matter bigger and let the emperor know and hear it, everything will fall into place.
Liu Bei's strategy just responded to this situation.
Yuan Shao patted Liu Bei on the shoulder again.
"Xuande is really my best assistant."
"It's my wish, but I don't dare to ask for my ear."
Liu Bei smiled and replied to Yuan Shao, then looked at Cao Cao and asked: "I wonder if Mengde is sure that our wishes will be delivered to His Majesty?"
Cao Cao grinned.
"Xuande has done so much. If I can't succeed, won't I become a joke? At worst, I will bring my weapon. If the eunuchs stop me, I will fight all the way to your Majesty!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
Yuan Shao laughed loudly: "I have Meng De and Xuande, so why worry about not being able to do this!"
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