Looking at Zhang Rang's back as he left in a hurry, Liu Bei felt a little emotional.
Eunuchs, the Ancient Literature School, and the Modern Literature School, these three political groups that make up three parts of the world in Luoyang City, regardless of their stance, status, or starting point for doing things, one by one, they are all the chief culprits in causing this catastrophe. The culprit.
Their excessive greed and self-righteous arrogance are the fuel that accelerates all this. As long as they have a little conscience, a little look at the suffering of the people, and a little concession of interests, they will not let the situation reach this point.
By the way, there is also you, my Emperor.
You are to blame too.
To be honest, Liu Hong is not stupid at all, but he is too greedy and very lazy.
It can be said that he kept his foot on the accelerator and was not even willing to lift it up to slow down the car named Eastern Han Empire. He was blindly imagining that there were many roads in front of the car, and he was so close to him. The cliff is completely ignored.
He could obviously do more.
So, through these years of observation and thinking, Liu Bei came to a conclusion.
How can we manage this country called Han with a bunch of insects like you?
He assassinated the three Zhang Jiao brothers because he knew clearly that the uprising would not succeed, so he did not want the Taiping Dao uprising to cause too much damage.
But the culprit of all this is not the Zhang Jiao brothers and Taiping Dao, but these people in Luoyang City.
Liu Bei is very fair. He always thinks that he is a fair person, so these people in Luoyang City must also pay the price.
They are hopeless, and there is no other way but destruction to save their souls that have fallen to the extreme.
Liu Bei did not want to sit back and let history flow naturally, and finally completed their elimination through the too brutal method of warlord separatism.
To eliminate them, chaos is needed, but chaos does not necessarily have to be warlord separatism. The side effects of warlord separatism are too great.
The current situation of local separation in the Eastern Han Empire is very serious, and the political independence trend of the county as a country is very serious, but it has not yet reached the state of warlord separatism.
It is much easier to deal with this state of political separation, or limited and individual warlord separatism, than to deal with the war and chaos of a comprehensive warlord separatist state.
So now, Liu Bei is seriously thinking about the script to destroy them in light of the subsequent historical process, and thinking about the script to replace them after destroying them.
After thinking about it, he realized that it is easy to destroy and many scripts can be adopted, but it is not easy to replace it.
As a person with pursuits, destroying them is the means, and replacing them is the goal. Otherwise, what is the difference between him and Dong Zhuo?
Although these guys are corrupt and irredeemable, they are professionals when it comes to governance. It will not be easy to build a new ruling team capable of taking over the power of the country without them.
And there is an important premise.
That is, before destruction comes, Liu Bei needs to personally organize his own civil and military teams with certain experience and scale, as well as an elite army.
Otherwise, how could he take over what was left behind by those who were destroyed?
As for the specific operation mode of this matter, Liu Bei thought about it and felt that Dong Zhuo's mode was quite good.
He actually didn't resent some of the things Dong Zhuo did after he entered Luoyang. For the scholars, eunuchs and the royal family, Dong Zhuo was their vengeance. No matter how bloody they were tortured, Liu Bei took it for granted. .
If you commit too many sins, evil people will be punished by evil people.
But there are problems with Dong Zhuo's model, and the problems are still huge.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was like a terminally ill patient, and the most serious disease was on the head.
He needs a sophisticated surgical operation, which requires the world's top surgeons to operate, to remove the necrotic and rotten body of the head, in order to preserve his life, and then slowly restore his body.
However, the Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty rushed to seek medical treatment due to illness, and chose the doctor Dong Zhuo. Unexpectedly, this doctor Dong Zhuo was a veterinarian and was too rough and cruel.
He only cut, but did not stop bleeding. He operated with such ferocity that he almost cut off the patient's head. After the operation, the patient immediately went into shock. He didn't even perform a blood transfusion, so he started to use the knife on the body and almost gave him surgery. die.
The only shortcoming of Dong Zhuo's model is that it has an army but no team. Dong Zhuo's team simply does not have the ability to take over the country's political power, and Dong Zhuo himself does not have that ability and awareness.
He defeated Yuan Wei by pure chance and luckily took power. Then he just wanted to dominate and become a master. He didn't think about anything else.
Therefore, Dong Zhuo was bound to fail, and the Eastern Han Empire's self-survival effort also failed.
Liu Bei believes that the guiding strategy of Dong Zhuo's model is meaningful, because Dong Zhuo is the same as Zhang Jiao in a sense. They did not belong to the mainstream vested interest groups at the time, but were marginalized groups that were excluded and ignored. They had certain Positive meaning.
However, Dong Zhuo's own ability was too poor to operate this high-end game, and he wasted this opportunity to revolutionize the world.
Therefore, Liu Bei made a bold plan to intervene in the storm at a certain time and actually replace Dong Zhuo and personally perform the operation as an excellent surgeon.
While removing the decayed and necrotic body, he hoped that he could try to control the side effects within a tolerable range.
It needed to be cut, removed, and more importantly, it needed to stop the bleeding and blood transfusion to save his life.
This is not a big statement.
As the founder of Zuo's seventh Spring and Autumn Period family, and as a supernova of the Ancient Literature School, he already has such qualifications in terms of status. What he lacks is nothing more than time.
He needs time and steps.
In the next year or so, there will be two wars, one is the Taiping Dao Rebellion and the other is the Liangzhou Rebellion. These are his best steps.
He would seize these two opportunities and never let them go.
Looking at the falling snowflakes outside the window and taking a sip of wine, Liu Bei's face showed a smile that was colder than the snowflakes.
As expected by Liu Bei, the next direction of the situation did not deviate at all.
Several things happened at the same time.
The first is the eunuch group.
After Liu Hong's suggestion, a group of people from the eunuch group headed by Zhang Rang began to perform severe internal operations.
Their surgery was a real surgery, not a three-drink-style surgery, but the kind of surgery that would really kill someone.
The internal rules of survival of the eunuch group are different from the rules of survival of scholars who still have a veil of warmth. They are relatively pure, not very affectionate, and just climb up by stepping on others.
They are not bound by so many Confucian rules internally, and they act much more decisively than the scholars. This is an important reason why the eunuchs can fight against the scholars, and it is also an important reason why the scholars hate the eunuchs.
But at this moment, no one cares about this.
Zhang Rang dominated Dongyuan and joined forces with Zhao Zhong and other allies to launch a purge campaign within the eunuchs. They used mutual informants, secret investigations and other means to successfully capture more than a dozen reputable eunuchs, including two. Zhongchangshi.
Now there are really only ten of the Ten Constant Attendants left, and they are the serious Ten Constant Attendants.
Then they decisively ransacked their homes and exterminated their families, the speed of which was staggering.
Finally, all the wealth they accumulated was confiscated - as far as Liu Bei knew, the so-called confiscation was nothing more than that the eunuchs who survived the victory took the majority and divided it among themselves, leaving only the smaller half. Presented to Emperor Liu Hong.
And because there was only one emperor and the amount of money was really not small, Liu Hong did not feel that he had suffered a loss. Instead, he was very happy and felt that he had made a lot of money.
So hello, me, hello, everyone, the alliance between the emperor and the eunuch group has been consolidated to a certain extent, and the imperial power is in unprecedented harmony.
(End of chapter)
