I understand, of course I understand, how could Zhang Rang not understand this kind of thing?
If he doesn't understand such good things, he might as well stop being his chief eunuch.
Zhang Rang's two hands kept rubbing together, rubbing them back and forth.
"If this is the case, wouldn't it be beautiful?"
"Of course, isn't this better than all your secret schemes? This is a conspiracy. Direct confrontation is the most advantageous method for you."
Liu Bei nodded and said slowly: "So, do you still care about Shangshu Ling? Zhang Changshi?"
Zhang Rang licked his lips and rolled his eyes.
"I don't care anymore. If I say that, I don't care anymore. Then Liu... Xuande, when will you and I discuss how to arrange this East Garden? This is something that His Majesty is particularly concerned about. We can't take it lightly. !”
The status switching is really fast.
This is of course also a feedback to the eunuch group.
In any case, this time the eunuch group actually gave up a lot of benefits. Now that the struggle has achieved a staged victory, if nothing is given to them, they will definitely not be able to bear it, and they will inevitably cause trouble.
At that time, it was the time when this political and academic struggle was tense and stalemate, and we could not allow any problems within ourselves.
But political power is indeed very tight, and Liu Bei can't make the decision, so he might as well throw out a secret service agency for the eunuchs to take control of, open up new tracks, and find new industry outlets, so as to temporarily satisfy them.
Now it seems that Zhang Rang is indeed very satisfied.
Liu Bei was very satisfied with Zhang Rang's attitude change, so he nodded and promised to secretly discuss with him tonight the many details of the formation of Dongyuan.
Dongyuan must be built up as soon as possible so that the emperor can hold a powerful card that can be played.
Once this card takes shape, it will be of great benefit to Liu Bei himself.
Liu Bei is very willing to do anything that can maximize the role of eunuchs, suppress the power of scholars to the maximum extent, and prevent the power of scholars from expanding too fast before he has enough ability to turn things around.
No matter what, this group of eunuchs has rich experience in political struggles. If they cannot be well armed and trained, it would be a pity to be taken over by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
You have to let the two tigers compete so that you can fish in troubled waters and make a profit.
but……
Liu Bei also fully realized the feeling of seeking skin from a tiger.
There are no absolute allies or enemies in the political arena. Current allies may not become enemies in the future.
Once a spy agency is formed, its destructive power is huge, and it may not be a double-edged sword.
It is true to seek skin from tigers and dance with wolves.
But looking at it conversely, it is easier to cooperate with eunuchs than with scholars.
At least most of the eunuchs who came from humble backgrounds had clear interests.
Provide them with enough benefits and they will be your staunch allies—until you can't provide them with enough benefits.
And the scholars...
Are you a scholar who knows what it means to have a negative heart?
They had too much from the beginning and had high self-esteem. Only higher power in the world can make their hearts beat. However, power is a rare commodity, so scholars are not destined to be good partners.
Since we want to pull up Dongyuan, we definitely need a secret headquarters that cannot be seen in the light, and we also need some secret branches scattered inside and outside Luoyang City. We must choose a place that is very inconspicuous at first glance, and it is best not to be there. Inside the place, but underground.
It's that kind of scene where it's a serious business on the surface, and intelligence officers coming and going below the ground, which makes you feel very familiar.
Personnel must also be reliable, reliable, and reliable. All candidates must be young, have both parents dead and no other relatives, and have a clean background. They must cut off all contact with the outside world and undergo rigorous physical, lurking, spying, and cultural training. Master the skills of espionage.
But then again, Liu Bei is not a professional in the field of intelligence. He only uses the experience accumulated from playing secret battles with his opponents when he was a street fighter.
The most successful one was to spy on the location of the opponent's lair, and Xingye led a surprise attack to kill the opponent. Other than that, Liu Bei really had no experience in intelligence warfare.
Fortunately, Zhang Rang had some experience in sending people into the enemy's lair to spy on intelligence or bribe the enemy's cronies to obtain intelligence, so he shared it with Liu Bei, and the two got together to figure out a set of regulations.
As this matter was being handled, Liu Bei suddenly felt that it was really despicable for him and Zhang Rang to come together to find ways to deal with the scholars.
Although he has obviously gained the trust and entrustment of important matters from the school, he has been secretly harming the school's good deeds.
What a despicable villain.
but.
Quite interesting.
He does not think of himself as a scholar, but others think that he is a scholar.
His ass never sat on the scholar side.
We must stand tall, open up the pattern, and cannot rest on our laurels.
Whether it is the ancient literature school, the modern literature school, or the eunuchs, generally speaking, they are all bastards. There is no fundamental difference. No matter who is in power, it will not be better for the Han Dynasty, nor will it improve the people's livelihood of the Han Dynasty.
How can we accomplish great things with these insects?
So, if you all can’t do it, let me do it.
Strike when it's time to strike, and do it ruthlessly.
In cooperating with Liu Hong and Zhang Rang, Liu Bei gradually found another thing he wanted to do at this stage.
If developing and strengthening itself is the main mission, then this matter can be said to be a side mission, or even a legendary world mission.
To prevent scholars from reaching the peak according to the historical trajectory, that is, to prevent scholars and powerful people from converging along the historical trajectory and creating a super-large power class that was not completely eliminated in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the scholars and the powerful had not yet completely merged. The general environment in which the scholars controlled the intellectual power and the landlords and powerful landlords controlled the land and population had not been completely broken.
With the Wu Hu chaos in China and the Jin Dynasty moving south, scholars and powerful people gradually merged into one, creating a far-reaching political power group in Chinese history - aristocratic families.
They made their fortune in the Han Dynasty, grew up in the Wei Dynasty, and matured in the Jin Dynasty and beyond. They took the manor economy as the basis, the metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties as the representation, and the nine-level Zhongzheng system as their entry level. They profoundly influenced the Chinese history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and even the Sui and Tang Dynasties. develop.
It was they who formally created the political rule that the upper-class families had no humble families and the lower-class families had no nobles. It was they who trampled under their feet the saying that princes, generals and ministers should rather have the seed, and proudly claimed that they had the seed.
Of course, they didn't end well.
Huang Chao superimposed Zhu Wen, followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The dark and terrifying chaos ended them by physical means, and only then began the dual society of monarchs and civilians after the Song Dynasty.
Their influence is too great and too dangerous.
When Liu Bei was just a second- and third-rate scholar, he did not think of stopping them, but unconsciously worked hard to become them.
But when Liu Bei half-stepped into the top of the social pyramid of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was shocked to find that he had become a member of this group of people.
If the Liu family of Zhuo County really becomes a member of the high-ranking gentry clan in the future and becomes a member of a wealthy family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, is this really what he wants to pursue?
In the process of getting along with the scholars, Liu Bei became aware of his own heart.
He is not willing to be such a person, nor is he interested in dancing with such a group of people and then getting rotten and stinking with them. His butt is not sitting on the side of the nobles.
He doesn't like the nobility.
To be honest, if this step can be taken early, maybe we can use the power of Dongyuan to make the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion a little smaller and not make it so big.
Can you make it?
Looking at the slowly falling snowflakes in the sky, Liu Bei let out a long sigh.
(End of chapter)
