When Liu Bei learned of this, it was already the fifth day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of Guanghe.
The three dead men sneaked all the way and hurriedly arrived at Luoyang and brought the news to Liu Bei, so that Liu Bei learned that his assassination plan was successful.
Liu Bei doesn't yet know what changes the deaths of these three people will bring to the entire situation.
But he knew very well that the Taiping Tao Rebellion, which could sweep most of the Han Empire at once, would never happen again.
Except for Zhang Jiao, no one could order the Taiping Taoists in the eight states to revolt at the same time, dealing a heavy blow to the Han Empire.
The subsequent change in the situation was indeed completely different from the situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty that Liu Bei remembered.
The situation in Luoyang City is completely different.
After the ancient literature school and the modern literature school fiercely attacked each other, they found that they could not do anything to each other. For a while, the battle between modern and ancient literature would not end, and there would be no winner.
On the other side, Dongyuan, led by Zhang Rang, kept arresting scholars and going back for review on the grounds of investigating the assassination of Liu Hong. The best outcome was a good beating, but no one escaped unscathed. This caused panic and panic among the scholars. Extremely dissatisfied.
Under such circumstances, although the scholars of the two schools could no longer cooperate sincerely, they really could no longer tolerate the issue of eunuchs.
So Zheng Xuan and Yang Ci held a meeting, and the two sides decided to join hands temporarily to deal with the eunuch matter first, and then continue to fight against each other.
After the two sides reached an agreement on the goal, Sili Xiaowei, Tingwei and Yushi Zhongcheng jointly submitted a petition to complain that the eunuch's behavior of arbitrarily taking people for investigation was too bad and was no longer a normal investigation, so he asked Emperor Liu Hong to investigate the case. Leave it to the three parties for joint investigation.
The three parties strive to find out the real culprit who assassinated the emperor within three months.
In addition, three parties joined forces to impeach twenty-five trusted officials of the eunuch group, and the impeachment memorial rushed to the palace like a thunderstorm.
What's more, Guo Hong, the captain of the Sili School, directly used 1,200 armed personnel under his control to confront the Dongyuan-affiliated spies head-on.
The two sides collided in the Luoyang market, faced each other with swords, and a large-scale fight resulted in bloodshed. People on both sides died as a result, and the matter was very loud.
This was an unprecedented and fierce resistance incident, far exceeding Liu Hong's previous imagination.
Liu Hong was very surprised when he saw that the resistance of the scholars was so strong. He thought how could the scholars unite together again?
So he quickly summoned Zhang Rang to ask him the reason. Zhang Rang did not dare to say that it was his excessive tyranny that caused the collective resistance of the scholars. He could only continue to say that the scholars were very hateful, would resist the emperor, and would fight for power and gain.
Fortunately, Liu Hong seemed to have heard about Zhang Rang's behavior during this time, and did not quite believe his words, so he came to Liu Bei to ask the reason.
Of course, Liu Bei didn't have anything nice to say. He retorted to Zhang Rang and told Liu Hong that Zhang Rang had gone too far. The only way now was to close the case behind closed doors and find a scapegoat. At the same time, he wanted to silence Dongyuan for a while and could not continue. Make a scholar.
Liu Hong was unhappy, but instead of punishing Zhang Rang, he asked Zhang Rang to do as Liu Bei said and not to continue doing wrong things.
Zhang Rang was obedient and did not dare to argue, so he could only do as he was told.
He was submissive to Liu Hong, but hit Liu Bei hard. After leaving the palace, Zhang Rang gave Liu Bei a good deal of Zuan damage. Liu Bei was not to be outdone, and he also used Zuan damage to him. The two of them scolded each other until they were left dry. The dry tongue calmed down.
"How many times have I told you that the current situation is hard-won. The goal of Dongyuan is to establish deterrence, not to arrest and kill people randomly. Dongyuan wants to become a serious court institution. What about you? You put Dongyuan What do you think it is?"
"It's your turn to teach me a lesson? You actually dare to speak ill of me in front of His Majesty. Do you know the consequences of doing so?"
"Can you control Dongyuan without me? Can you have all this without me? You don't want to thank me but you still scold me?"
Liu Bei glared, pointed at Zhang Rang's head and cursed angrily: "If the situation is as favorable to you as it is today, you should kneel down and thank me!"
Zhang Rang's face turned red with anger.
"Don't think that I can't deal with you because His Majesty trusts you! There were many people who thought this way in the past, but they all died in my hands!"
"Firstly, Your Majesty trusts me. Secondly, I am a member of the Han family. Thirdly, I have a very high status in the ancient literature school. Fourthly, I never speak ill of people behind their backs. For these four points, if you can find someone better than me, Good substitute, I stick my neck out for you to chop!”
Liu Bei's eyes widened and he pointed at Zhang Rang: "If you can't find it, then listen to my opinion before you do anything! Don't mess up the situation I worked so hard to create! What crime do you deserve for ruining His Majesty's important event?"
Zhang Rang was so angry that his hand pointing at Liu Bei kept trembling.
"How dare you talk to me like that?"
Liu Bei ignored him, turned around and left after scolding him, leaving him with a proud and aloof figure.
Zhang Rangqi's blood pressure soared and he almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
But a cold wind blew by, and he calmed down inexplicably.
Yes, after fighting against the scholars for so many years, Liu Bei was the first being who could bring them such a substantial victory.
The situation in Luoyang City is so strange, all thanks to Liu Bei.
Regarding the four points he mentioned, Zhang Rang asked himself that he really couldn't find a better substitute, especially the fourth point.
When facing his collaborators, he is upright and does not say bad things about people behind their backs. He always says it to their faces, scolds them in person, and hits them in front of them. He is worthy of being a former street fighter.
It is much more secure to deal with such a person than to deal with an old silver coin whose mind is unpredictable.
But speaking of it this way, is Liu Bei actually an aboveboard person?
Thinking like this, Zhang Rang felt ridiculous to himself.
A person who is tantamount to betraying the master actually behaves in an aboveboard manner?
Isn't Liu Xuande afraid that he will reveal a little bit of information to the scholars and make his true face exposed to the world?
Zhang Rang thought about this for a while, but soon felt that this situation was unlikely to happen.
Judging from the relationship between eunuchs and scholars, if Liu Xuande, a supernova of the ancient literature school, secretly helped them to harm the scholars, there was a slight chance that it would be treated as a joke.
And what good will this do to Zhang?
The more disadvantageous things are to a scholar, the greater the benefits to him.
Zhang Rang shook his head.
Dongyuan has calmed down for the time being.
Liu Hong gave Dongyuan some small punishments, but considering that they were "protecting the monarch", he gave them small punishments and big warnings, just to make sense.
Dongyuan has really restrained itself a lot, and has released all those who should be released. However, the investigation power has not been released, and the investigation is still continuing.
In addition, Dongyuan also came up with some [hard materials], making everyone think that their investigation had made some good progress, and they could barely explain the situation.
But this time's concession still made Zhang Rang very unhappy. He worked hard and prepared to find another opportunity to impress the scholars.
(End of chapter)
