Liu Bei was not comfortable, and so were the others.
Starting from the first day of the first lunar month of this year, the party struggle between Yang Ci and Yuan Wei, as well as the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School, became increasingly fierce among the government and the public.
Both sides tried their best to find each other's weaknesses and tried their best to put each other to death so as to gain a chance to completely defeat each other.
Because Yang Ci impeached Yuan Wei and Xun Shuang for their misconduct, he fabricated some sleazy rumors out of thin air to try to get Yuan Wei and Xun Shuang to die, and his methods were very vicious.
Some dovish forces within the Yuan family and the Xun family were humiliated and their power declined greatly. The mainstream forces of the Yuan family and the Xun family had no choice but to completely break up with the Jinwen school, leaving no room for relaxation between them.
The ancient literature school and the modern literature school are becoming more and more distinct, and they are more and more like two political parties that dislike each other. They have a very clear sense of group and friend-enemy.
The party struggle in the late Eastern Han Dynasty officially began.
Liu Hong watched the two sides bite each other, watched both sides unconsciously hand over the arbitration power to him, and let himself decide the outcome of their struggle. He did not feel the approaching danger at all, but became more and more happy.
This feeling of being deeply involved in political struggle made Liu Hong feel very good.
And Liu Hong did more than that.
With the help of Liu Bei, Liu Hong visited Taixue many times since the first month of the sixth year of Guanghe to listen to the lectures of Zheng Xuan, the newly appointed doctor of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period, and personally discussed some contents about Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period with Zheng Xuan—— Liu Bei helped organize it, Liu Hong only had to memorize it in advance.
When Zheng Xuan discovered that Liu Hong was not just here for a formality, he became a little more thoughtful.
Since Zheng Xuan took over as Dr. Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals and officially started teaching at Taixue, students from all over the world have been rushing to Taixue, crying and shouting that they want to apprentice with Zheng Xuan and join Zheng Xuan's sect. Even if they just become Zheng Xuan's disciples, Nothing is wrong.
The Modern Literature School did not care about the Ancient Literature School's full ascendancy within Taixue at first, but after Yang Ci's restoration, as the academic atmosphere of Taixue quickly recovered, Yang Ci felt that the situation was not good.
When I saw that Taixue was developing rapidly and was about to become the academic territory of the Ancient Literature School, I was shocked and immediately decided to use resources to compete with the Ancient Literature School.
Under the leadership of Yang Ci, seven of the thirteen Dharma inheritance families currently under control quickly responded to his call and sent outstanding core members and outstanding disciples to Taixue to resume their studies. Their career in Taixue was almost abandoned.
It's not that they really want to give up any political interests, but it is necessary just to compete with the Ancient Literature School for popularity and for students who don't need to devote much political resources.
After this battle, the huge popularity of the Ancient Literature School made Yang Ci and others feel frightened. They felt that they could no longer play the game of a small circle in isolation, and they had to give the illusion of being open to the outside world to improve their reputation among the people. .
If we don’t change the illusion of prosperity, the fat water will turn into waste water that no one in the world cares about!
Of course, they can't give up the real benefits, it's just giving lectures. If there are really outstanding ones, it's not a big deal to accept a disciple as a token, but they will never accept a disciple.
Where is this?
By February of the sixth year of Guanghe reign, the Jinwen school’s Taixue career, which had been almost abandoned, began to improve. When some scholars really discovered that these Yue families had come up with something meaningful and invested it in Taixue. , I couldn't help but want to take advantage.
Because the Jinwen school has indeed not come to an end yet, and it seems that it can continue to survive for a while.
Only with competition can leeks have a good life.
Zheng Xuan's existence is tantamount to obtaining some serious "fertilizer" for a large number of fresh leeks. Those powerful families really want to compete with Zheng Xuan for the right to speak within Taixue.
The original Imperial College in the late Han Dynasty claimed to have 30,000 imperial students, but it is difficult to say how many of them were actually studying and how many were just hanging out.
Anyway, as far as Liu Bei knew, most of the tens of thousands of Taixue students came to Luoyang to see the world. Most of them started from entering Luoyang Taixue until they "completed their studies", even the classics they learned I don’t even know what the doctor looks like.
I just spent a lot of money from my family to come to Luoyang.
These 30,000 Tai students brought a great consumption boost to the old Luoyang people in Luoyang City. Although the old Luoyang people looked down on these Tai students from other places, they still praised their consumption ability.
Of course, as long as you keep the money, you don’t need the people.
Go back and forth wherever you go.
However, starting from the beginning of the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, the casual atmosphere of Taixue began to disappear. The gangsters who used to always mess around no longer dawdled around so much, and began to study the classics seriously.
The prosperous academic atmosphere of the early Eastern Han Dynasty seems to be returning to Taixue little by little and reappearing in Taixue.
The ancient classics teachers seized the opportunity to teach extensively, held various forums and lectures on the vast grounds of Taixue, and spread the meaning of ancient classics. There was a feeling of breaking through family distinctions, and the academic atmosphere in Taixue It suddenly became thicker.
You can often see teachers and students gathering together in the Taixue building to talk about academics.
If the weather clears up, the teachers and students will go outside and sit together under the shade of the trees. The teacher will talk and the students will listen, which is quite interesting.
Following this trend, Liu Hong, who had received Liu Bei's professional training, appeared many times in Taixue to discuss the classics with Zheng Xuan, and asked Zheng Xuan for advice. He pretended to be a serious student and sat opposite Zheng Xuan with some scholars. Listen to him lecture.
Zheng Xuan, who didn't understand why, was inexplicably excited, and the scholars who didn't understand why were also inexplicably excited.
Liu Hong is the emperor after all.
Regardless of whether he was ridiculed as the governor of Luoyang, he was still the emperor, and he was still an adult emperor.
The emperor personally participated in the teaching of the classics, and discussed the classics seriously with Zheng Xuan and the scholars. This has not happened for many years?
After class, Liu Hong was not in a hurry to leave. He randomly picked a nearby student to talk to him about Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period. The selected student was so excited that he was shaking all over. Groups of scholars gathered around Liu Hong to listen. When he spoke, it felt like the stars were shining over the moon.
Liu Hong enjoyed this feeling very much.
He began to feel the comfortable feeling that Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang had felt.
Perhaps, this is the respect that an emperor should enjoy, right?
As the creator and behind-the-scenes manipulator of all this, Liu Bei gained greater trust and appreciation from Liu Hong. Because it was inconvenient for him to be promoted, Liu Hong secretly gave Liu Bei property many times to commend Liu Bei for his efforts to revive the imperial power of the Han Dynasty. hope.
Liu Bei has become Liu Hong's "mountain prime minister" and the person Liu Hong trusts most outside the eunuch group.
Whenever Liu Hong had any serious questions about the Eight Classics, he would ask Liu Bei for advice, especially about Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period. Liu Hong would also ask Liu Bei for advice.
Gradually, Liu Hong himself was no longer satisfied with reciting the standard answers, but really began to study Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period, and there was no tendency for him to slack off for the time being.
Liu Bei didn't expect that Liu Hong would really get into the act while acting.
Of course, this is a good thing.
If the imperial power wants to be revitalized to a certain extent, Liu Hong does need some real skills.
Here Liu Hong is having a great time hanging out in Taixue, and over there Yang Ci and Yuan Wei are constantly biting dogs in the Shangshu Taiwan. You scold me and I scold you. You throw dirty water on me and I put a hat on you. Lu Zhi He was busy dealing with the constant disputes within the Chancellery and was exhausted both physically and mentally.
Among the people, scholars from the ancient literature school and scholars from the modern literature school constantly staged street debates and even street fights, releasing a lot of evil fire accumulated by both sides. The magistrate of Luoyang and the captain of Sili were involved many times. , difficult to escape.
In the palace, the eunuchs were not idle either, holding back a stream of evil fire and preparing to release it.
At the end of the dynasty, the demons and monsters are always trying to do something to make the car on the edge of the cliff fall into the abyss faster.
Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong took the lead and secretly selected a group of experts to enter the East Garden. They built the skeleton of the East Garden according to the details discussed by Zhang Rang and Liu Bei, and then filled it with flesh, blood and internal organs, hoping to establish this department as soon as possible.
Then he severely demonstrated the power of the eunuchs.
By May of the sixth year of Guanghe, the infrastructure of Dongyuan was almost completed, and centralized training was also in full swing. Next, a problem that no one could ignore was placed in front of them.
How can the special royal institution of Dongyuan be officially established and appear in front of the world in an upright and fair manner, and how can it successfully launch the first shot of creating a new world?
It is undeniable that Liu Hong is not an emperor who can do whatever he wants so far.
Especially when it comes to the power of the government, both the ancient literature school and the modern literature school are going crazy. Liu Hong wants to get involved casually. He is too conspicuous and can easily attract hatred.
He needs a legitimate reason that cannot be more legitimate so that the Dongyuan organization can be established in a serious manner and begin to establish its own deterrent power.
So, what to do?
The eunuchs brainstormed for a while and thought of many ways, but Liu Hong shook his head and denied them, feeling that they were too deliberate.
In the end, Liu Bei came up with a rather shocking plan.
Liu Hong needed to be "assassinated" before "Long Yan was furious" and ordered a thorough investigation of the "assassination case", further muddying the waters of the dispute between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school, and then announced that "Dongyuan" was a spy intelligence agency directly under the emperor. of formal establishment.
In other words, they need to direct and perform a drama of bitterness and use bitter tactics to stand on the high ground of rationality.
In this way, Dongyuan can make its debut.
(End of chapter)
