Zhang Rang was very dissatisfied with the current situation, but Liu Bei was satisfied with the current situation.
According to the current political situation, not only is the relationship between eunuchs and scholars increasingly tense, but most importantly, in addition to the internal conflicts among scholars, the relationship between eunuchs and scholars has finally officially transitioned to The point where swords are facing each other.
It was not just the eunuchs who showed their butcher's knives to the scholars. After the disastrous defeat in the era of party conservatorship, the scholars finally began to show their knives to the eunuchs and bared their teeth and cracked their mouths in the post-party conservatorship era.
In a sense, the concession on Dongyuan promoted by Liu Bei was to give the scholars some blood, allowing them to see the side of eunuchs who were tough on the outside and soft on the inside after being imprisoned by the party for a long time.
This successful counterattack against the eunuchs by Liang Daozi will, to a certain extent, encourage the scholars to fight back with a more determined attitude towards the eunuchs.
The vigorous counterattacks of the scholars would further aggravate the eunuchs' emotions, causing the eunuchs who relied on the imperial power to take further measures to consolidate their status and power and suppress the scholars.
And the more tense the relationship between them, the narrower the path for families like the Yuan family and the Xun family, which try to repeatedly play both sides, the narrower the path will be.
When this road finally becomes too narrow to go on, the conflict between the two sides will break out, which will be devastating.
An all-out battle would inevitably break out between the scholars and the eunuchs.
The open and bloody conflict between Sili Xiaowei and Dongyuan marked the further escalation of internal conflicts in the Eastern Han Dynasty in this year. Since then, the two major disputes between scholars and eunuchs, and the ancient literature school and the modern literature school have become a common problem within the ruling class. the main contradiction.
Moreover, the intensity of this conflict is relatively high. The main participants in the two major conflicts seem to be a little unable to control their emotions. The first time a physical struggle occurs, there will inevitably be a next time.
Until the end.
The world is in chaos and warlords are separatist. This is what Liu Bei does not want.
There is some local chaos, but it is necessary.
Especially Luoyang, a place that harbored filth and gathered all the filth in the world at the end of the dynasty. How could it not be in chaos?
The officials of the Luoyang court lined up and killed them all, which was definitely biased, but if every other person was killed, there would be too many fish that slipped through the net.
What made Liu Bei even more satisfied was that after the battle between scholars and eunuchs came to an end, the Ancient Literature School actually wanted to continue the attack.
Because Guo Hong, the Sili captain, is actually considered a member of the ancient literature school in the current situation.
It's funny to say that the Guo family of Yingchuan, where Guo Hong was born, also lived in Yingchuan, a place where wealthy noble families lived. However, their family inherited legal classics and were not strictly Confucian scholars.
However, because the Guo family and the Xun family have a good relationship, and Guo Hong himself has a lot of contacts with Liu Bei, an important figure in the ancient literature school, in the eyes of the modern literature school, which is full of diode thinking, you Guo is a member of the ancient literature school. .
During the previous impeachment storm, the Jinwen School also impeached Guo Hong, believing that he did not have the character to be a Sili Xiaowei, and demanded that someone be replaced by one of theirs.
Of course it didn't work out.
Xun, together with Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, expressed their support for Guo Hong, so the modern literature school was stealing the chicken but losing the rice. This completely angered Guo Hong, who took advantage of the situation and fell into the arms of the ancient literature school.
The "Crouching Tiger"'s defection was a powerful addition to the ancient literature school, but it was even worse for the modern literature school. They overestimated their political influence in the era of party struggle and thought they could operate in secret as they did in the past.
It would be no good for them to anger Guo Hong. Just like this time, Guo Hong wanted to take advantage of the victory to get the investigation power of the case, and then use the opportunity to destroy Dongyuan, accumulate prestige, and establish a foundation for the ancient literature school to further suppress the modern literature school. Give some credit.
Unfortunately, his plan did not succeed.
The Jinwen school is not stupid either. They believe that even if they get the joint investigation power, Captain Sili, who controls the armed forces, is also the leader, and Lieutenant Sili Guo Hong is a member of the ancient literature school, so he should be given the right to investigate. , will definitely bring huge hidden dangers to the Jinwen School.
Therefore, the Modern Literature School unilaterally stopped cooperating, and went further to impeach Secretary Guo Hong, trying to take this key position back from the Ancient Literature School again, thus interrupting the joint attack on Dongyuan.
In this way, the gentleman's agreement reached between Zheng Xuan and Yang Ci can be broken.
The two sides launched a fierce competition around the core position of Sili Xiaowei in Luoyang City. Guo Hong relied on the ancient literature school and fought with the heritage of the Yingchuan Guo family, a legal family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. In the end, he did not lose. Go downwind.
The articles of impeachment of the Jinwen school were refuted point by point, and the matter was settled.
Of course, Guo Hong hated the Jinwen school led by Yang Ci even more.
The entire first month of the seventh year of Guanghe gradually passed in this atmosphere.
Liu Bei resumed his work, but apart from advising Liu Hong, he did not care about the political situation in Luoyang, because the main theme at the beginning of the seventh year of Guanghe was definitely not a political struggle in the court.
The impact of the death of the three Zhang Jiao brothers on the situation in the entire Han Dynasty will of course be mitigated in the long run, because without them, the Taiping Dao uprising troops across the country would not be able to fully coordinate operations, and even how to fight is a question. .
But in the short term, their deaths clearly don't seem to be the case.
The deaths of the three people initially brought panic and confusion to Taiping Dao believers.
The foundation of Taiping Dao is ultimately composed of Zhang Jiao's personal charm and Taiping Tao teachings. Zhang Jiao spreads the teachings and practices them personally. Zhang Jiao tells them to do good things but not bad things, and expands his influence through a series of actions.
For the leaders of Taipingdao organizations at all levels, they have a higher status and know more information. They may have personal interests and have a clearer understanding of the nature of Taipingdao.
But for the largest number of grassroots believers, Zhang Jiao is the god in their hearts.
Because of Zhang Jue's call, they believed that Cang Tian was dead and Huang Tian was standing, and then chose to rebel without hesitation.
Zhang Jiao's value is far greater than that of any one person. Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao together are less than one-tenth of Zhang Jiao's.
Therefore, the news of Zhang Jiao's death quickly overshadowed all other news and quickly spread throughout Julu County, becoming the local headlines and causing a large-scale chain reaction.
It is worth mentioning that the news of the Taiping Dao rebellion is currently only spread among important leaders and has not been disclosed to the majority of grassroots believers. The grassroots believers will only be mobilized on the eve of the uprising. They have no idea before the incident. of.
Therefore, the majority of believers did not know that Taiping Dao was preparing to rebel. They were simply shocked by Zhang Jue's death.
Their first reaction was disbelief.
The Great Master is dead?
Is the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipotent Great Master in their hearts dead?
A large number of local believers in Julu County rushed to the Zhang family's manor like crazy to inquire about the truth, wanting to understand the real situation and expose this stupid lie.
But the cruel fact was before them.
(End of chapter)
