This is the difference between eunuchs and scholars.
Eunuchs have no real descendants. Corruption and corruption are mostly for personal enjoyment and retirement, and some will be left to the emperor. Some emperors get much more than eunuchs.
However, most scholars were burdened by their families, and all they thought about was the survival of their families. What they gave to the emperor was definitely not as much as what the eunuchs gave.
Therefore, as long as an emperor can properly control the power of eunuchs, no matter how powerful the country is, at least the emperor will not be short of money.
But if it is an emperor who is not good at controlling the power of eunuchs, life will be difficult.
So the emperor always liked eunuchs more.
In line with this harmony, Zhang Rang followed Liu Bei's suggestion and asked Liu Hong for permission, dispatched part of the garrison in Luoyang City and almost the entire Dongyuan armed spies, and began to comprehensively arrest the "Taiping Taoists" in Luoyang City. ".
This action happened very quickly. Zhang Rang devoted himself to this action with almost energy beyond his time. On the night of February 23rd in the seventh year of Guanghe, he took advantage of the curfew to launch a comprehensive operation.
One night later, more than 1,000 suspected Taiping Taoists were arrested in Luoyang City. More than 300 houses and residences were controlled by the army and Dongyuan spies. Thirty-seven pairs of armors, bows and crossbows were found on the spot. Two hundred and one, more than fifty boxes of arrows, etc.
Armor, crossbows and other items are strictly controlled contraband in any era. They cannot be owned by private individuals under any circumstances. It is better not to be discovered. Once discovered, there is no need to say that the big label of rebellion will be slapped on. Can't kill you.
Zhang Rang thought that he would need to spend some time to find these key evidences, but he found them in one night.
What made Zhang Rang even more excited was that Ma Yuanyi, Zhang Jiao's disciple and an important figure in Taiping Road, was also caught by him.
After this man was caught, he probably knew that he had no hope of survival, and he wanted to die without saying a word. Zhang Rang personally supervised him and sent people to torture him with various tortures, until he couldn't live or die. Destroyed his psychological defense.
Then Ma Yuanyi told everything he knew with tears, snot and urine, just asking for happiness.
Zhang Rang was later shocked and surprised to learn that Ma Yuanyi and the entire Taiping Dao had planned an uprising.
It turned out to be exactly what Liu Bei had guessed. Taiping Dao had a terrifying conspiracy to start a nationwide rebellion, and they were close to succeeding.
The original time for the uprising was the fifth day of March in the seventh year of Guanghe. They agreed to uprising in eight states across the country to jointly overthrow the Han Dynasty.
At that time, thirty-six of their armed forces will rise up together, and hundreds of thousands of Taiping Taoists will rise up. The situation will be so painful that we can't even imagine it.
But for some reason, the three Zhang Jiao brothers died suddenly in Jizhou in December last year, and Ma Yuanyi did not learn about this from any source.
he does not know.
He even heard about this in Luoyang, and no one came to tell him specifically.
But I have to say that there was indeed a problem with his contact with Jizhou during that time. He was feeling uneasy and was about to send someone back to ask what was going on. However, he learned that the Taiping Dao Uprising broke out in Jizhou and Zhang Jiao was dead. .
Of course he did not believe that Zhang Jiao was dead, but there was no reason for Jizhou to take the lead in the uprising. If something happened in Jizhou, then Zhang Jiao's death was indeed a good explanation.
So, what's going on?
While people were panicking, Ma Yuanyi also realized that his situation was very bad.
Some people were ready to leave, and Ma Yuanyi could certainly leave, but his loyalty to Zhang Jiao prevented him from doing so.
He felt that no matter what happened, he could not be a traitor who ran away from the battlefield. He had to support the great cause of the great sage and good teacher, even if the great sage and good teacher was really in trouble, it would be the same.
So Ma Yuanyi decided to call on the remaining Taiping Taoists to continue taking action.
But I don't know why, the court's actions always seem to be one step ahead of him.
He contacted the believers among the eunuchs to prepare for internal explosions, but before he sent anyone there, the eunuchs began a strict internal investigation, and then began to clean up. Everyone who had close contacts with Taiping Dao was arrested, and it seems that many people died. .
Now that the insider in the palace was gone, he tried to find those officials and powerful families with whom he had good relations in the past, hoping to get some help from them.
Needless to say, these people were busy trying to cut off Taiping Road, so how could they care about Ma Yuanyi?
Ma Yuanyi had no choice but to make a desperate move and led his hard-core Taoists to prepare for a desperate fight in Luoyang. However, before the day of action could be reached, the imperial court took the lead.
Ma Yuanyi and more than 20 organization leaders were arrested in a room in the northeast of Luoyang City, and a riot that had not yet been launched came to an end.
It has to be said that Ma Yuanyi is brave enough, but what a psychopath like Zhang Rang likes most is brave people. He likes to torture some seemingly very strong people to the point of psychological collapse and is addicted to it.
It would be great if you can get credit by the way.
What Ma Yuanyi explained was handed over to Liu Hong by the ecstatic Zhang Rang. Not only was Taiping Dao preparing to launch a nationwide uprising, but also the list of those guys in Luoyang City who had close contacts with Taiping Dao. Zhang Rang sorted it out and handed it to Liu Hong.
Of course, the list belonging to the eunuch group was processed internally by Zhang Rang, and the rest were all from the scholar side, as well as some local-level powerful lists.
After Liu Hong learned that Lei Lei was furious and broke many things in the palace, including a porcelain bowl he liked very much, which was also broken by him. In anger, Liu Hong issued two orders.
First, comprehensively clean up Taiping Dao and Taiping Dao related forces nationwide. He would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go. He wants Taiping Dao to be physically obliterated from the human world.
Second, Dongyuan was ordered to start a comprehensive investigation and review of people related to Taiping Road within the central court.
"Whether they are from the ancient literature school or the modern literature school, check them all for me, check them hard! Don't let anyone go!"
Liu Hong shouted angrily for a while with red eyes, then drank some water, calmed down a little, and then added.
"According to my observation, in the current situation, the ancient literature school is strong, while the modern literature school is relatively weak. Remember, you can't favor one over the other. No matter how hard you attack, you can't make the situation unbalanced. Dongyuan can't suppress the scholars too much. It's best to provoke internal fighting between the two sides. , Father, you know what to do.”
Zhang Rang was stunned for a moment, then agreed immediately, then turned and left to get started.
The moment he turned around, Zhang Rang suddenly felt a chill behind him.
Liu Hong has changed, although not much, but still changed.
In the past, Liu Hong paid more attention to material enjoyment and would not pay too much attention to the government. Unless the government came to him, he would never take the initiative to find the government.
But it seems a little different now.
In the past, Liu Hong would never have been able to say such a thing. Liu Hong seemed to have become a bit like a normal emperor.
This is not a good thing for the eunuch group that holds imperial power on behalf of the emperor.
However, the enemy is currently facing a huge change, and Zhang Rang has no time to take care of it for the time being.
He quickly ran out to get ready for business.
As he ran, he suddenly came back to his senses.
In recent times, the number of women who have been favored by Liu Hong seems to be more than in the past few months.
In the past few months, Liu Hong took advantage of his time to go to the Imperial Academy. Many women in the palace complained, and some eunuchs who made money by cultivating relationships with women in the palace also complained.
Things have gotten a lot better this month. It seems that Liu Hong himself is feeling uncomfortable. He goes to Taixue less often and has fun more often.
Thinking like this, the corners of Zhang Rang's mouth suddenly turned up again.
Liu Hong is still the same Liu Hong.
He changed, but not completely.
(End of chapter)
