At the end of the Taiping Dao uprising in Jizhou, the situation in Luoyang City suddenly intensified.
The sudden actions of Zhang Rang and Dong Yuan disrupted the respective arrangements of the ancient literature school and the modern literature school. They each lost the opportunity. When facing the emperor's angry questioning, they bowed their noble heads to the emperor for the first time. We have to admit that they did make mistakes.
However, Zheng Xuan and Yang Ci still unanimously appealed to the emperor to defend their own people.
No one knew that Taiping Dao had rebellious ambitions. Everyone was just curious about Huang Lao's studies. This was openly encouraged by the imperial court. Everyone should not have done anything wrong in complying with the imperial court's call.
All in all, the fault lies with Zhang Jiao, not with the officials.
They tried their best to pass the blame and were unwilling to take the blame.
In order to further distance himself, Yang Ci took the lead in launching an attack on the Ancient Literature School and called all the leaders of the Ancient Literature School from Zheng Xuan down, saying that they were involved with Taiping Dao and were suspected of rebellion and needed to be investigated.
There were Taiping Dao activities in Qingzhou where Zheng Xuan lived, there were Taiping Dao activities in Youzhou where Lu Zhi and Liu Bei lived, and there were Taiping Dao activities in the places where other big figures of the Ancient Literature School lived, so they were all suspected and all had to be investigated.
Yang Ci also claimed that the reason why these people cooperated with Taiping Dao was that they were imprisoned by the party, so they had hatred for the Han Dynasty, so they conspired to unite with Zhang Jiao to cause rebellion.
Then he impeached the Sili Colonel Guo Hong for his guilt. As the Sili Colonel, he did not notice the conspiracy of the courtiers and the collusion with Taiping Dao. This is completely unreasonable.
Even if it is not dereliction of duty, it is just confusion. How can such a person be allowed to continue to hold the position of Sili Xiaowei?
Therefore, he must also be deposed and investigated!
After the Ancient Literature School learned of Yang Ci's statement, they were furious and strongly demanded a counterattack.
Zheng Xuan, an old scholar, had been tinkering with academics all his life and wanted to avoid disputes and establish orthodox scholarship. He finally founded Zheng Xue, which formally ended the dispute between modern and ancient literature. However, in the end, he seemed to have gone astray. Academics were promoted, but People are also trapped in the political whirlpool and cannot extricate themselves.
The academic debate between modern and ancient literature has not continued, but the political debate between modern and ancient literature has completely broken out.
The dignified god actually turned into a rebel who colluded with Zhang Jiao on the battlefield of political struggle.
He was heartbroken and depressed.
But now, he had no choice, so under Liu Bei's strong suggestion, the big guys of the ancient literature school had no choice but to fight back and completely repelled the accusations of the modern literature school.
There seem to be more Taiping Taoists active in the Central Plains!
Especially in Yuzhou, especially in the Runan area of Yingchuan, how many Taiping Taoists are there!
How many high-ranking noble families live there?
Are there only Xunshi and Yuanshi over there?
Aren’t the lairs of you guys all Taipingdao active?
Are you secretly instigating this?
Come on, let's face each other at the middle gate, hurt each other, who is afraid of whom?
At this critical moment, Liu Bei once again became the top organizer and attacker of the ancient literature school's external propaganda and public opinion offensive. The big bosses went up to the court to confront Yang Cizhongmen, and he launched the ancient literature school's scholars outside the court. The disciples have a passionate confrontation with the lackeys of the Jinwen School.
The two sides quarreled again.
Then, under Liu Bei's instigation, the forces from both sides launched the first physical debate in Luoyang City.
The young supporters of both sides finally no longer limited themselves to using their mouths to decide the outcome, but instead used their fists instead of their mouths, turning Luoyang City into a hot land of youth and blood.
The situation escalated, and the era of physical debate began. The ancient literature school and the modern literature school were finally not satisfied with the traditional debate and started physical debate.
Then Liu Hong was happy.
He immediately instructed Dongyuan to arrest people for review. Based on the lists proposed by both parties, they would conduct separate investigations and not let anyone go.
It has to be said that this version of the Taiping Dao Uprising did give the Eastern Han Empire more leeway and more time to react.
The Jizhou Yellow Turban Army, led by Gao Zheng, Yan Sheng and Wang Meng, did not send a message to the Taiping Taoists in the Central Plains in time to start an uprising. The two sides did not even have symbolic coordination. The threat was naturally local, not national. of.
What's even more terrible is that their plan for a nationwide uprising was known to Luoyang in advance.
Therefore, although the party struggle in Luoyang City was fierce, you came and I debated physics, the military arrangements there did not fall behind.
It's time to fight.
Liu Hong personally presided over the military meeting. In addition to the presence of the three officials and nine ministers, he also selected civil and military officials who were good at military affairs to participate in the meeting and gave them privileges to protect them from party disputes. Liu Hong was still clear about this.
As a capable minister with clear military achievements, Lu Zhi was also summoned by Liu Hong to attend the meeting, and Liu Bei, as a disciple of Lu Zhi, was also able to attend the meeting openly and openly.
At the meeting, Liu Hong disclosed Taiping Dao's national uprising plan and informed the attendees of Taiping Dao's wolf ambitions. Many officials attending the meeting were frightened, and then they realized that Taiping Dao was like a little white rabbit in the past. It's actually a bad wolf.
They all rebuked Taiping Dao and Zhang Jiao. Liu Hong got tired of hearing this and waved his hand.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. I called you here to ask you to discuss a response plan. Zhang Jiao is dead, so stop scolding. The question now is, how should the Taiping Dao thieves respond?"
Liu Hong forcefully asked the officials to discuss serious matters and come up with motions, then everyone would know that it was time to show their true abilities.
When it comes to talking nonsense, many people here are good at it, but when it comes to marching, arranging troops, and winning battles thousands of miles away, they just don't know.
They could only recommend some experts who were good at military affairs to answer the emperor's questions, and they themselves served as the background board and atmosphere group for discussing the issues.
In addition to Lu Zhi, the officials selected to participate in the actual discussion included Zhu Jun, the admonishment official of the dynasty, and Huangfu Song, the nephew of Huangfu Gui, the general who conquered the Liao Dynasty.
Among them, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun both had military merits. They had fought for the country to quell rebellions and had wide reputations in the court.
Huangfu Song was born in Liangzhou and was a descendant of a family of generals. Although he was knowledgeable, he had no actual military exploits. The reason why he was promoted to the military council by Liu Hong was because of the recommendation of the eunuch Lu Qiang.
But this is easy to understand. Because of the century-old Han-Qiang war, the situation of the Liangzhou people during the Eastern Han Dynasty was very bad. Even within the ruling group, the Liangzhou people were second-class citizens and would suffer a lot of unfair treatment.
Although Huangfu Song was born as a general, and his father and ancestors had made many military exploits, because of his identity as a Liangzhou native, if he wanted to gain a foothold in the court, he would not be able to do it by himself without a solid backing.
The eunuch Lu Qiang had always had a reputation for being honest and upright among the eunuchs. Huangfu Song felt that relying on him would not disgrace his family name. Lu Qiang was also very capable and sent Huangfu Song to Liu Hong as soon as he took action.
Huangfusong probably wanted to show off well, so he was the first to respond to Liu Hong's question.
"Your Majesty, I think that since Zhang Jue is dead, Taiping Dao has no leader, is not a powerful weapon, and is not something to be feared. The imperial court can send troops to Jizhou to destroy the rebels. Once the rebels in Jizhou are destroyed, all the Taiping Daoists in the world will turn into birds and beasts and disperse."
Although Liu Hong didn't understand military affairs, he vaguely felt that this statement was a bit too simple.
"Really?"
"Seriously."
Huangfu Song said: "Of course, just annihilation is not enough. I ask you to kill all the Taiping Dao thieves in Jizhou and then kill all the prisoners and build a temple in Beijing to frighten the Taiping Dao thieves in the world. In this way, the Taiping Dao thieves Everyone will definitely be frightened and dare not cause trouble."
(End of chapter)
