When the officials of the Ancient Literature School submitted the plan to promote ancient Chinese classics into the official academic system to Liu Hong as planned, Liu Hong lightly handed it over to the Sangong and Shangshutai for discussion.
Yuan Wei was forced to have a heated debate with Yang Ci, but in the end he failed to gain the upper hand.
When his plan failed, Yuan Wei tried to start a new Taixue debate again, preparing to reuse the previous tricks and humiliate the Jinwen school again, but this time Yang Cixue behaved.
He doesn't take the call.
In addition to claiming illness, he also claimed that he was ill, and even the big guys from the modern literature school also claimed that he was ill. No matter how provocative the ancient literature school was, they just refused to show up.
Even if I can’t argue, can’t I escape?
You are shameless, we are shameless too, I just won’t accept the move, what can you do to me?
What's going on? Is it possible that you still want to chase me to my home and lift me up from the hospital bed to debate scriptures with you?
Do you believe it or not that my heart was so full that I lay down in the coffin?
Under the passive response of the modern literature school, Yuan Wei's attempts to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses failed, and the matter was left unsolved. This made Yuan Wei and the leadership of the ancient literature school very annoyed, angry, and deeply saddened. Powerless.
They began to realize that it would not be easy for them to achieve a quick victory over the Jinwen School.
In addition, Yang Ci also stood on the opposite side of Yuan Wei on many government affairs issues, saying "I will oppose everything Yuan Wei supports, and I will support everything Yuan Wei opposes".
Because there are two people who record the affairs of the minister, the execution of major decisions by the minister requires the joint approval of Yuan Wei and Yang Ci. Without the common approval of the two, major affairs cannot be carried out.
So the show started.
No matter what Yuan Wei supported, Yang Ci must speak against him, express his position from the opposite point, and resolutely not hold the same opinions as Yuan Wei. Unless Yuan Wei obeys his request, he will never sign the order.
This was true for normal government affairs, not to mention Yuan Wei's attempt to promote officials from the Ancient Literature School to gain an advantage in the political arena.
Nine out of ten will not succeed. In this regard, Yang Ci has the momentum to rise up even if he is lying in a coffin. He will fight Yuan Wei to the end even if he pretends to be dead.
Yuan Wei's face turned black and red with anger, his temper became more and more irritable day by day, and he almost stole the characters of Mr. Guan and Mr. Zhang.
However, many things could not go according to Yang Ci's wishes. Every time he saw Yang Ci's hateful old face, he would feel angry and itched his teeth.
Maybe Yang Ci just likes to see Yuan Wei feeling like he hates him but can't kill him.
As a minister, Lu Zhi always wanted to cooperate with Yuan Wei to overwhelm Yang Ci and turn Yang Ci into an empty shelf. However, Yang Ci placed a few of his own people in the minister's office through recommendations, thus controlling some of the minister's affairs. power.
Liu Hong agreed to Yang Ci's recommendation and handed over some positions to the Jinwen School, allowing Yang Ci to regain the power to fight against Yuan Wei.
This can be called a party struggle between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school. It can also be called a party struggle between Yuan and Yang, but this party struggle was definitely caused by Liu Hong.
Lu Zhi saw it very clearly and complained to Liu Bei many times about Liu Hong's actions, saying that Liu Hong used Yang Ci to restrict the Ancient Literature School. This was a distrust of the Ancient Literature School and also caused the political power of the Ancient Literature School to suffer some improvement. Seriously affected.
Lu Zhi felt that Liu Hong had changed and began to play with his ministers and treat them as playthings instead of talents who could govern the world. This was not the emperor's attitude towards his ministers.
Liu Bei listened to Lu Zhi's complaints and agreed with him on the surface, but disapproved on the inside.
Liu Hong uses you, why don't you use Liu Hong?
Everyone treats each other, who treats whom as a plaything?
The tricks are played deeply, no matter who takes whom seriously.
Teacher, times have changed, and the future historical direction will be different.
Liu Bei didn't care about this, he just managed his own network and built his own political power.
In addition to his daily work, Liu Bei helped Zhang Rang set up the Dongyuan, while he had gatherings with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others to drink and play, and he also found time to play with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie.
He seemed to be a master of time management in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and he made his small life prosperous.
After the last day of the five years of light and harmony passed, the six years of light and harmony followed one after another.
The first day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Guanghe was a very grand festival for the Han Dynasty, named Zhengdan.
On this day of Zhengdan, leaving aside the festival celebrations held by ordinary people, as a court official, it is very important to enter the palace to congratulate the emperor on the New Year.
At almost three o'clock in the morning on this day, the Luoyang Palace was about to ring the bell and gather the ministers to enter the palace, and then collectively congratulate the emperor on the New Year and seek good luck for the Han Empire.
So early in the morning, Liu Bei had to brave the severe cold and get out of his warm bed. He was fully dressed, carrying gifts and yawning to meet Lu Zhi, preparing to march to the palace.
To be honest, this is really not a pleasant thing.
The sky was still dark, and the biting cold wind was blowing, which felt like needle pricks on my body, making it uncomfortable and tight.
At this time, leaving the bed and the house to go to the palace and stand in the breeze is definitely a severe test of willpower. I don't know which evil guy set up the etiquette with the smoke.
But it has to be said that this is also a serious national etiquette and cannot be careless. Therefore, Emperor Liu Hong, who always likes to sleep in, has to be exempted from the custom. He even gets up earlier than the officials. He has to make a series of preparations in advance. Think about it. It is also very uncomfortable.
Liu Bei soon arrived at the gate of Lu Zhi's mansion, met with Lu Zhi, and headed towards the palace as an official of the Shangshutai under Lu Zhi.
After arriving at the palace, the officials lined up according to their respective ranks and presented Zhengdan gifts to Emperor Liu Hongjing in the howling cold wind.
According to etiquette, on the first day of the lunar month, the gift presented to the emperor by princes, nobles and high-ranking officials at the three-gong level was jade.
The gift offered by officials who have won more than two thousand stones is a lamb.
The gifts presented by officials ranging from one thousand to six hundred stones were wild geese.
The gift offered by officials with less than 400 shi is a chicken.
Therefore, as the Minister of Thousand Stones, the gift Lu Zhi carried was a wild goose.
And Liu Bei is an official with 400 shi, and the gift he is carrying is a chicken.
To put it bluntly, this is not an expensive thing, it is mainly about etiquette and getting good luck.
Among all the congratulatory officials, only officials with more than 2,000 shi can enter the main hall to meet the emperor, pay homage to the emperor, warm up in the palace, and enjoy the banquet given by the emperor. Those with insufficient rank are not allowed to enter the main hall.
Although Lu Zhi is the minister, he has great power, but his rank is very low. Generally, only in court meetings where important affairs are handled, the minister can sit in the court as the third person. On such festive days, everything must be done according to etiquette and law. The rules are as follows: No matter how powerful you are and your level is not enough, you can still let me blow the cold air outside.
Therefore, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei were so miserable that they could not enter the main hall and had to blow the cold wind outside. At the same time, they had to wait for the emperor to give a banquet after the big bosses inside finished their worship before they could have a hot bite.
Of course, not to mention Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, everyone was the same. Cao Cao, the 600-stone man, and Han Rong, the father-in-law, also had to wait in the cold wind and were not allowed to enter the main hall to worship the emperor.
It was difficult to wait until the end of the pilgrimage, and the emperor gave a banquet. Liu Bei thought he could eat some hot food to warm himself up, but it turned out that the staff in the palace were too inefficient, or they didn't care about low-level officials like them at all, so the soup was sent to Liu Bei It was already a summer ice drink in front of such a low-level official.
It can be seen that for people in the palace, no matter how high their academic status is, it means nothing.
Um.
If it was a hot summer day, Liu Bei would happily drink the iced drink in one gulp and then take a breather.
But now, Liu Bei just wanted to eat something hot to warm his body, but he couldn't even satisfy this request.
And this thing is a banquet given by the emperor. It must be eaten without leaving any part, otherwise it will violate the etiquette and law. If it is seen by the person responsible for supervising whether the officials have behaved improperly in front of the palace, they will be punished.
So Liu Bei watched helplessly as Lu Zhi, who had a weak stomach, took the bowl and ate the summer ice drink one bite at a time, his expression unchanged and his demeanor correct.
How about Lu Zhi becoming a teacher?
Sighing, Liu Bei could only helplessly pick up the bowl of summer ice drink in front of him, endured the discomfort, and ate it cleanly, leaving nothing behind.
pua, this is definitely pua!
If I have the ability in the future, I will definitely change this inhumane rule!
Liu Bei roared in his heart while eating.
After finally getting through this fateful first-day congratulations, Liu Bei could finally follow the trend of officials and leave the palace to go home, preparing for a rare holiday.
Officials in the Han Dynasty had relatively few holidays, and the holiday system was far less superior than that of the Song Dynasty, and lacked flexibility. The overall rules and regulations still retained some residual elements of the ancient unity of the family and the country, and the imperial power monitored officials quite closely.
Apart from anything else, the fact that an official was basically unable to leave his office during work hours already made Liu Bei very uncomfortable.
Once he goes to work in the government office, he cannot leave the government office for five days. He lives with a group of old men all day long, eating and living together. He has to endure them grinding their teeth and farting when he goes to bed at night. Sometimes Liu Bei is in a trance and even thinks that he has returned to his previous life. university dormitory.
I finally went home to rest for a day or two, and suddenly it was another five consecutive days of hellish work.
There are also relatively few long holidays in the Zheng'er Bajing holiday. During the Zhengdan holiday, Liu Bei only has four or five days of leisure in total. Excluding visiting relatives and friends and socializing, the time he can really leave for himself is probably only one day.
So after returning from the palace, Liu Bei couldn't wait to go home and live a three-person world with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie, for fear that he would not have enough time to get along with the couple in the next few days.
In fact, Liu Bei's decision was correct.
In the next few days, he really didn't have any continuous time to spend with his family. Basically, he spent all his daytime visits with each other and social activities.
Lu Zhi needs to visit, Zheng Xuan needs to visit, Yuan Shao needs to visit, Cao Cao also invites Liu Bei to visit, and there are countless guests visiting his home. There are so many social activities that even a social terror king like Liu Bei finds it difficult to resist. .
It’s really not easy after getting to a high position.
(End of chapter)
