There is only victory or defeat, no right or wrong?
What kind of ridiculous truth is this...
But in this court, everyone seems to be doing this.
Lu Zhi was speechless and could only smile bitterly.
He was very tired. The internal disputes in Shangshutai in recent days had made him exhausted. As Shangshuling, he was on the front line of the confrontation between Yuan Wei and Yang Ci. It was a very refreshing feeling.
But he couldn't be absent.
Liu Bei has done a lot for the school and himself. Now it is time for Liu Bei to curb his sharpness, and it is time for him as a teacher to do something for his disciples.
Lu Zhi, who was exhausted, asked Liu Bei for sick leave and approved Liu Bei's sick leave. So Liu Bei was able to recuperate at home, and at the same time, he curbed his sharpness and avoided the increasingly fierce court battles.
This just gave Liu Bei a lot of free time apart from the remote control assassination of Zhang Jiao's three brothers.
He spent this free time either spending time with his family or socializing with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others to continue to expand his social circle.
Cao Cao's current position as Yilang does not mean much to him.
In this extremely fierce factional struggle, Cao Cao's identity was embarrassing. On the surface, he did not belong to any faction like his family, so he simply stayed away and behaved with his tail between his legs, trying not to attract the attention of others.
Yuan Shao is standing on a united front with Liu Bei, but he currently has no official position and is still in seclusion. He has no influence on the current situation. He just keeps lamenting the changeable world.
"A few months ago, I wouldn't have dared to even think about this current situation."
At the cocktail party, Yuan Shao sighed repeatedly, feeling helpless about the current situation in Luoyang City.
Xu You, Zhang Miao, He Yong, Wu Qiong and others who participated in the reception also seemed a little helpless.
Liu Bei knew why they were helpless.
Because the situation has changed so quickly, the current situation seems that their political group with anti-eunuchs as the core is somewhat out of date and cannot keep up with the historical process.
When Liu Bei joined them in the fourth year of Guanghe, the scourge of party imprisonment was still the main point of conflict among the Han Dynasty. The party members were still fleeing under the threat of eunuchs, quite trying to survive. The struggle between scholars and eunuchs was still very fierce. .
But in the fifth year of Guanghe, the situation changed drastically.
In less than a year, the party's prison terms were in vain, especially those for the non-Jinwen family, which were directly cancelled.
He Yong was safe and even became an official again.
Zhang Miao is also safe.
Guys like Xu You and Wu Qiong who used to hate eunuchs every day suddenly felt that they could not find their direction in life.
Suddenly they were no longer the eunuch's enemies in theory.
Immediately afterwards, the dispute between modern and ancient literature suddenly became the main conflict in the Han Dynasty. The scholars split extremely quickly. The scholars of the modern literature school and the scholars of the ancient literature school were all confused with each other. That scene Call a fierce.
Yuan Shao followed the Yuan family. He originally belonged to the Modern Literature School, but later jumped directly to the position of the Ancient Literature School. His circle of friends was basically isolated from other Modern Literature clans, and he no longer dared to have any official connections. .
A group of people had been practicing how to deal with eunuchs for several years, and they were planning to continue to show off the success Liu Bei had created for them, but times suddenly changed, and the direction of the wind changed quickly.
So much so that He Yong, who had been constantly running to deal with the eunuchs, fell into confusion.
He was wondering what he had done all these years and what the meaning was. The people he couldn't save and the party imprisonment that he couldn't end ended so suddenly.
It even seems like it never happened.
Then came the modern and ancient literary war, the scholars were divided, and the eunuchs seemed to disappear all of a sudden. The scholars became the main force in the struggle, and the eunuchs retreated to the second line, and their sense of existence was greatly reduced.
If it hadn't been for the assassination of the emperor and the rise of Dongyuan, the scholars would still be tearing each other apart.
But even though the rise of Dongyuan has brought a huge threat to the scholars, the two groups of scholars who have no room for maneuver in the mutual struggle can no longer join hands to fight against the eunuchs. Even their current idea is to use the eunuchs to deal with each other.
Scholars from the Modern Literature School and Ancient Literature School, who had previously been able to interact in a friendly manner, could no longer maintain their relationship openly, and even found it difficult to maintain their relationship in private.
Under the premise that both parties are extremely hostile to each other, any public or private communication is risky. The elders of each family are constantly reminding the young people in the family to act cautiously and never follow the truth.
The incident between Lu Zhi and Yang Biao was taken as a typical example.
Once friends, now they are complete enemies. The Yang family of Hongnong and the Lu family and Liu family of Zhuojun have become irresolvable mortal enemies, and there must be a decisive battle between them.
The once popular song "Unexpectedly Visiting Yang Wenxian" that was widely circulated in Luoyang was full of gorgeous fantasy and romance, and was a testimony of friendship. However, when I read it again, it feels inexplicably more sad.
When a grain of sand of the times falls on a person, it is like a five-fingered mountain, weighing them down, making them unable to move, unable to breathe, and in great pain.
Especially the middle-lower class of the modern literature school and the middle-upper class of the ancient literature school, the huge gap and sense of separation between them caused them to fall into a certain amount of confusion and pain.
Yuan Shao's political team was united with the anti-eunuchs as the core, but now, the dispute between modern and ancient literature is the main conflict. It is a bayonet fight. The hatred and interests between each other have been completely intensified. .
The intensification of this opposition has directly shaken the foundation of Yuan Shao's political team. Anti-eunuch, as a one-size-fits-all political program, no longer has enough appeal to resolve the differences between the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School. It is impossible to appeal to more scholars.
His gold-lettered signboard of Yuan Benchu suddenly lost its gold content, as if it had never been a piece of gold, but gold-plated.
Yuan Shao himself was very confused, and he even felt very scared.
If it weren't for the Yuan family's soft body and ability to jump repeatedly, he and Liu Bei would have become enemies now, and more than half of the members of the political team that Liu Bei had won over for him would be on the opposite side of him.
If this is the case, his newly established political power and fledgling reputation will be cut in half, and he will return to before liberation overnight.
Is this acceptable?
Despite this, the Yuan family's repeated leaps have not come without a price.
Externally, the Jinwen school, led by Hongnong Yang, has mobilized its propaganda machine to stigmatize and attack the Yuan family, exposing their repeated crimes to the world.
In the political arena, relevant officials of the Jinwen School are also doing their best to launch attacks on Yuan's disciples and old officials, and various political offensives follow one after another.
For example, in one month, in Hebei alone, more than ten county-level officials who were disciples or former officials of the Yuan family were impeached for reasons ranging from dereliction of duty to corruption.
At the central level, more than ten Yuan family members, disciples, and former officials in various central agencies were also impeached and politically attacked, and the attacks were very fierce.
Internally, Yuan's back-stabbing of the Modern Literature School and his switch to the Ancient Literature School at a critical moment was looked down upon by some of his disciples and former officials. They considered it an act of unsteady stance and moral corruption, and they were very dissatisfied.
There is even a clan member of the Yuan family in Runan who publicly claimed that the leader of the Yuan family, Yuan Kuide, was not worthy of his position and should step down and get out. He should hand over the leadership of the Yuan family and stop the repeated family behavior in order to save the Yuan family. reputation.
They almost openly broke with the Yuan family's forces led by Yuan Wei and did not support Yuan Wei.
At that time, Yuan Wei was facing extremely strong political and moral pressure both internally and externally, and was in a very dangerous situation. These days, he often called the family's descendants together with long sighs to discuss countermeasures.
It’s just a hard time anyway.
Yuan Shao also learned that the Xun family of Yingchuan who jumped with Yuan Wei was also besieged.
Some Jinwen Jingxue families who were also born in Yingchuan publicly claimed that they were ashamed of the Xun family and were unwilling to continue to associate with the Xun family. Some in-law relationships that had been negotiated were even severed.
Xun You and Xun Yu, the next generation leaders of the Xun family, have grown up and it is time to promote filial piety and integrity. However, because of this incident, the family plan was put on hold and they had to find another way.
Even the incident of Xun Yu marrying the eunuch's daughter was retold and ridiculed by people at the time. Everyone was mocking the Xun family for having a eunuch's daughter-in-law. They loudly lamented that the descendants of the divine king Xun Shu were unworthy and that the Xun family was about to collapse. some type of.
Anyway, after these two families were accepted by the Ancient Literature School, they were already social dead in the Modern Literature School and in their traditional social circles.
(End of chapter)
