Yuan Shao's forces and Chen Dan's forces have reached a consensus on this matter. The two parties have formed a political alliance and are about to share their needs and prepare to launch a political offensive against the eunuchs.
This was one of the few scholars who took the initiative to attack since the outbreak of the Party's imprisonment. Both Yuan Shao and Chen Dan attached great importance to it and made every effort to get more helpers.
Yuan Shao even agreed to He Yong's suggestion and put aside their previous differences and prepared to join forces with Yuan Shu, hoping that Yuan Shu could also mobilize his political power to help them fight against the eunuchs.
As a result, Yuan Shu actually didn't see Xu You, the envoy he sent, behind closed doors.
Yuan Shu's operation made Xu You stupid.
The scholars are about to unite to fight against the eunuchs and launch a rare political offensive since the disaster of the Party. At this critical moment, you Yuan Shu actually stay behind closed doors?
Xu You was furious. When he came back, he severely criticized Yuan Shu, saying that he didn't understand the overall situation and was nothing more than a dog guarding the house.
People around Yuan Shao were very dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's ignorant behavior, and had some faint feelings of contempt for him.
Yuan Shao was silent for a while with a dark face.
He did not invite Yuan Shu out of thin air. He really planned to join forces with Yuan Shu to fight against the eunuchs, and by the way, stage a drama of brotherhood and brotherhood to restore the Yuan family's deteriorating scholarly reputation.
And it should not be said that some of the Yuan family's disciple groups surrounding Yuan Shu are also a relatively powerful political elite force, and they are even more closely bound to the Yuan family.
If they can join in, the force against the eunuchs will definitely be stronger. Once they win, they can lead the Yuan family to make a comeback and gain greater prestige.
As a result, Yuan Shu actually refused.
Do you cherish your status as the legitimate son that much?
In other words, is the entire Yuan family so unfavorable to this political offensive?
Yuan Shao thought about it and sneered.
"Without him Yuan Jiujiu, wouldn't we be able to duel with the eunuchs? Gentlemen, must he Yuan Jiujiu take action in order for us to win?"
To be honest, Yuan Shao is very good at public relations and publicity, and he can stir up the atmosphere with just a few words.
In the past few days, everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared, and everything that needs to be done has been done. The arrow is on the string and must be fired to break the political deadlock. This is the battle.
Yuan Shao stood up and called on everyone to join in a decisive battle with the eunuchs. This was a battle that belonged to the scholars with no retreat!
Yes, what belongs to scholars only belongs to scholars.
Liu Bei stood up silently, acting exactly like the others, with the same anger and high ambition.
As the real director and frontline commander of this political action, Liu Bei assumed very important responsibilities.
He was responsible for commanding the petition team from eighteen counties that everyone had put together, and went to Sili Xiaowei's Mansion to launch a political petition written by Yi Que, forcing Sili Xiaowei's Mansion to respond.
Sili Xiaowei was a very important and special position in the Han Dynasty. His official rank was less than 2,000 shi. In terms of official rank, it was lower than the Jiu Qing of Zhong 2,000 shi, and of course lower than the Liehou and San Gong.
Despite this, the Sili Colonel also has the "elegant title" of "Crouching Tiger". During public discussions and greetings, he is still "disrespectful" to the three princes to show the dignity of the Sili Colonel. Also known as the three sitting alone, they have great power.
The basic duty of Sili Xiaowei is to supervise the officials of the capital and the officials in the surrounding areas of the capital. He often writes directly to impeach officials. He is not afraid of the three ministers and often impeaches them. He is the "culprit" who often causes the three ministers to lose their positions.
Therefore, the high-ranking officials were in turn afraid of Captain Sili. What's even more terrible is that Captain Sili has an armed force composed of 1,200 officials and disciples from Zhongdu. He is one of the very few in the capital who has the ability to command armed forces. official position.
Speaking of taboo words, every time there is a coup or mutiny, the political tendency of Sili Xiaowei is enough to affect the direction of the situation.
Therefore, even if the eunuch is unscrupulous, he has many scruples towards Captain Sili, and cannot infringe on the dignity of Lieutenant Sili.
The current Sili school captain is Guo Hong, who was born in the Guo family of Yingchuan. His father is the former Taiwei Guo Xi.
The Guo family in Yingchuan has a long history and has been passed down for more than a hundred years. The family inherits the legal code Xiao Dulu. They are non-Confucian nobles. They have been engaged in legal-related work in the court for generations, and they have a place in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Bei and others never thought that this kind of political action would force Captain Sili to help them deal with the eunuchs, but as long as the Palace of Sili Colonel responded and accepted their petition, they would have to go to Datian to listen.
The parades in the eighteen counties were used as bargaining chips to force Sili Xiaowei's Mansion to respond.
Use a grand public opinion offensive to force Sili Xiaowei's office to respond, forcing Guo Hong to deliver the letter to them. At the same time, Cao Cao, who serves as Yilang, will escort Situ Chen Dan and go to the palace to submit a letter to the emperor. Bingjin expressed the scholar's anger to Emperor Liu Hong.
Perhaps the unrealistic and extravagant expectations brought to the eunuchs by the successive defeats of the scholars since the disaster of the Party were too inflated.
But Your Majesty, this time, the eunuch went too far.
On March 28, the fifth year of Guanghe, the plan was officially implemented.
On the morning of that day, Liu Bei issued the order for action at his home, and 18 messengers who had gathered at Liu Bei's house in advance went to the locations of the 18 parade teams.
Eighteen parade teams gathered in several unknown courtyards in Luoyang City began to move under Liu Bei's unified order.
They held up wooden boards with large black letters on them, writing their respective places of origin, affiliations, reasons for coming to Beijing, etc., and shouted loudly, "The prefect of so-and-so county, so-and-so, is diligent and loves the people" or "The prefect of so-and-so county, so-and-so, is honest and upright" .
They need to shout loudly and cry loudly at the same time to attract the attention of everyone in the streets and alleys of Luoyang and set the atmosphere in place.
Each procession has a guide who is familiar with the roads of Luoyang City. They will guide the procession through different routes towards the same goal - Sili Xiaowei Mansion.
In this operation, Chen Dan, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were the main forces fighting the eunuchs head-on. If they were lucky, Lieutenant Sili would also help.
Of course, Yuan Shao didn't need to say much and couldn't come forward directly.
Of course, there is no need to say more about He Yong. Once he shows up, the eunuch will be ecstatic, and it won't take long for him to be in a box.
Zhang Miao naturally doesn't need much. The prefect of a county left his post without permission and entered the capital. What are you going to do? Rebellion?
Whenever any of these three people officially shows up, the eunuchs will be ecstatic, and then quickly move out to arrest them and kill them as quickly as possible to create an established fact.
As for Xu You and others, they are willing to contribute, but their organizational and planning abilities are far inferior to Liu Bei's, and they cannot direct from the center. They can only serve as guides who are familiar with the roads of Luoyang to show the way to the parade to prevent them from going astray.
As soon as this team started to move forward, it was really huge and powerful in the huge Luoyang City.
The long team held up big wooden boards with big characters written on them, shouting slogans and moving in a certain direction. They shouted and cried at the same time, with a loud voice.
This kind of movement was the first time even the well-informed Lishu of Luoyang, who was under the Emperor's feet, saw such a movement. They were very curious about this situation and gathered together to watch the excitement.
They couldn't read and couldn't understand what was written on the board, but they were not deaf and could easily understand what was going on by listening to what they were shouting.
But there was no need for them to guess hard. I don’t know what was going on today. There were so many literate people standing next to them. Before they had time to guess, there were literate people nearby. They read the writing on the board.
This is even better. You don't have to guess, and you will soon know what this group of people are here for, what they want to do, and so on.
This understanding doesn't matter, good guy, my feelings are here to redress the grievances in the capital, not just to redress the grievances of the crazy men and women, but to redress the grievances of the county governor where they are from.
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PS: Yesterday afternoon, I started to have a fever, body aches, and a cough. It must be a sheep. Fortunately, there are still some saved manuscripts that can be used. I hope my strain is a little milder and doesn't make me suffer too much. . . .
