Liu Bei could not understand what Lu Zhi meant.
After today, the friendship between Lu Zhi and Yang Biao no longer exists.
They became enemies and could never be friends again.
But it doesn't matter.
Liu Bei had no friendship with Yang Biao. As for what Lu Zhi thought, it was meaningless at this time when the dispute between modern and ancient literature had escalated into a party struggle.
Lu Zhi is one of the leaders of the ancient literature school. This is his identity label and determines everything he needs to do in the future.
From then on, he was a slave to this identity label.
But Liu Bei is not.
Because Liu Bei doesn't care about the identity label of the Wenyue family at all and can abandon it at any time.
Neither Lu Zhi nor Yang Ci nor Yang Biao possess this kind of psychological advantage.
So they are destined to be unable to do anything big, but Liu Bei is always preparing and accumulating strength to do something big.
When there was no one around at home, Yang Ci slowly opened his eyes and sighed helplessly at Yang Biao beside him.
"It's changed, it's really changed."
"What has changed?"
Yang Biao looked at his father.
"I can't tell, but I just feel like something has changed."
Yang Ci sighed: "Biao, the road ahead will become increasingly difficult. We need to make some preparations."
"Prepare?"
Yang Biao said in astonishment: "Are we really..."
"Change, everything is changing. Even if it doesn't change now, it will definitely change in the future."
Yang Ci thought of Liu Bei's sharp words. Although he was annoyed, he also had a hint of self-deprecation: "For example, some scholars dare to call me an old thief in public. This shows that people's hearts have changed. All changes in the world have changed." It can be undone, but it cannot be undone unless people’s minds change.”
Regarding everything Yang Ci said, Yang Biao was speechless.
After this debate, Dongyuan launched a more radical action, first arresting several disciples of the Yang family for interrogation. The reason was that they described the assassination process in too detail, making people suspect that they were the leaders, so they must be investigated. .
At the same time, several disciples of the ancient literature school were also arrested. The reason was that when the eunuch came to inquire, they spoke fiercely, contradicted the officials in Dongyuan, were suspected of disregarding the emperor's life and death, and were suspected of treason, and needed to be interrogated.
This time, mobilization is not about inviting people to tea.
That was a serious hands-on interrogation.
explain!
How do you know it in such detail?
have no idea?
If you don’t know, I’ll beat you until you know!
forget?
Someone come!
Give me a great memory recovery technique! Help him remember it well!
A disciple of the Yang family and a disciple of the Ancient Literature School were beaten to death, but they did not admit anything. In the end, they were seriously injured and thrown out of prison.
A few days later, the two men died one after another.
The two academic factions were shocked and immediately asked Dongyuan for an explanation, but Dongyuan's explanation was very simple.
For the sake of the emperor's life, such a method was necessary.
Whoever dares to stop or resist is connected with the rebellious thief and will be investigated!
Otherwise, he will be treated directly as a traitor!
The ferocious aura drove away the scholars who came to question him.
Dongyuan's bottomless interrogation continues.
Dongyuan began to show his power, and the ancient literature school and the modern literature school finally realized that something was wrong with this matter.
But they were still a little confused as to what was wrong.
From the current point of view, the more important thing is that Liu Bei's angry rebuke of Yang Ci has spread throughout Luoyang.
Everyone knows that Yang Ci failed to slander Lu Zhi but was scolded by Lu Zhi's disciple Liu Bei and fainted. He became a shameless old thief and lost face. The lintel of the Yang family was dim.
What happened at the same time was the further confrontation and mutual criticism between the modern literature school and the ancient literature school.
It is no longer possible for the two sides to achieve reconciliation, and the conflict is getting deeper and deeper. Although they face a joint attack by the eunuch-controlled Dongyuan, there is no sign of coordinated operations. Instead, they are deliberately thinking about how to use the eunuch to kill the other party.
This is something far more serious than the calamity of party imprisonment.
At least at that time, there was a certain degree of tacit cooperation between modern and ancient literature, but now, there is nothing.
What replaced it was a more intense and clearly divided confrontation.
Some people still want to maintain their sanity, and the doves within both parties still want to save the situation, but the radicals, who are more numerous and more determined, can no longer be contained.
The radicals within the Ancient Literature School were completely angered by the vicious slander of the Modern Literature School, and the radicals within the Modern Literature School were also completely angered by Liu Bei's targeted remarks.
The ancient literature school claimed that the thieves of the modern literature school were trying to kill them. This was an irreparable and unforgivable act. The old and decayed people actually tried to hinder the flow of history. The two sides could only resolve the matter by a thorough battle.
The Modern Literature School claims that the rebels of the Ancient Literature School do not respect the saints and teachers, are treasonous, and are utter bastards. Liu Bei, in particular, is simply a rebellious minister and traitor without a king or father, and should be beaten to death with sticks.
The disciples of both sides played tricks on each other, accusing each other of leading the assassination of the emperor, smearing each other, confusing right and wrong, and the methods gradually tended to be worse.
For example, Liu Bei was once attacked by rotten eggs on his way home from the government office to take a shower. Although he escaped one, he did not escape the second one. His face was smeared with rotten eggs and he was so disgusted that he couldn't eat anything that night.
However, he still felt that these old people from the Modern Literature School were not decisive enough. Anyone with a bit of courage would be better off directly assassinating him than being a rotten egg in the street.
What else can Liu Bei do besides disgust Liu Bei when he is beaten by rotten eggs on the street?
Can Hongnong Yang's lost face be restored?
Obviously it can't be done.
After being insulted in this way, no one from the Yang family stood up to fight with him for such a reason. This was obviously unreasonable.
Back then, Xiahou Dun was so angry that someone insulted his teacher. He drew a knife and killed the person who insulted the teacher in the street. It is conceivable that in this era, it is not strange to kill someone on the street for such a matter of honor.
But no one came to trouble Liu Bei. At most, they would use rotten eggs to smear their faces to disgust Liu Bei.
Logically speaking, the Yang family's three generations and three princes are not as good as the Yuan family, but there are still a lot of them. As a result, there is not a single person who dares to come to Liu Bei with a knife to settle accounts. I don't know if they all know that Liu Bei has been on the battlefield. , is a fierce man who saved Lu Zhi with hundreds of horses, so he didn't dare.
Pooh!
A bunch of rats.
But Liu Bei has no intention of engaging in low-level moral disputes with these stupid insects for the time being. The young scholars of the ancient literature school will help him to relieve his hatred.
His main focus now is actually on Dongyuan.
To be precise, it was placed on the intelligence department within Dongyuan targeting people other than Luoyang.
Liu Bei really got involved in the work of Dongyuan and became one of the founders of Dongyuan. According to the division of labor discussed between him and Zhang Rang, Liu Bei was responsible for intelligence collection in areas outside Luoyang, and Zhang Rang was only responsible for Luoyang. interested in the information.
Because he believed that Luoyang was in the world and gathered the essence of the entire Han Dynasty. Mastering Luoyang was equivalent to mastering the Han Dynasty. If you master Luoyang, you can get any information.
Moreover, it should not be mentioned that the local political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the county was the country, also made it more difficult for intelligence personnel in Luoyang to carry out their work. To build a national intelligence network was as difficult as rebuilding the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhang Rang takes it for granted that he should not take advantage of the home field, but have to fight hard in the away game. Isn't this a sacrifice of the good to compete with the weak?
Therefore, he had little interest in collecting intelligence in areas outside Luoyang, and did not even plan to allocate manpower to target areas outside Luoyang in the first place.
But Liu Bei didn't think so.
He talked a little bit about the previous robbery of horses by Cheng Dazhi's group, and connected it with the booming Taiping Road in Jizhou area, thinking that the Taiping Taoists had evil intentions.
He wanted to persuade the upper-level forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty to take action against Taiping Dao in advance, and strive to deal with Taiping Dao's forces in various states in advance to avoid a full-scale outbreak of Taiping Dao rebellion.
"Previously, the Taiping Taoists had rebelled in Jizhou and were suppressed and captured by the local government. They were only fished out later. However, looking at their actions, it is obvious that they have not learned any lessons, and there is even a high possibility of rebellion."
Zhang Rang felt strange and didn't understand this.
"Why do you pay as much attention to this kind of thing as Yang Ci? And even if there is such a thing, it is the matter of the local county and country. What does it have to do with us? The local county and country are not willing to let us help us with anything, but when something goes wrong, we have to Do we care?"
(End of chapter)
