On February 25 of the third year of Zhongping, Taiwei and Lu Shangshushi Yang Ci died of illness at his home in Luoyang City.
No one could have predicted that he would laugh wildly to death, or that he would die after Liu Bei was confirmed to be the shepherd of Liangzhou.
Originally, the public opinion in Luoyang City was not very optimistic about the political results of Liu Bei and the Ancient Literature School, and felt that the Ancient Literature School might be facing a situation of being beaten by the imperial power and the Modern Literature School.
But everyone never expected that the leader of the Jinwen School, who was regarded as the biggest winner, would actually die.
The situation in Luoyang City has suddenly changed, and the balance of victory has once again swung. No one can predict what the next situation will be like.
The sharpest sword of the Ancient Literature School was about to leave Luoyang for Liangzhou, but the sword holder of the Modern Literature School also died.
As the son of Yang Ci, although Yang Biao has a high reputation and the legacy of his father Yang Ci, he may be considered the next leader of the Jinwen School, but according to etiquette, Yang Biao must observe mourning for Yang Ci for three years.
Of course, people with different statuses also have different choices when facing the period of observing filial piety. Everyone may not serve the full three years of observing filial piety. The most common period of observing filial piety for serving officials is twenty-six months.
However, in the era of filial piety in the Eastern Han Dynasty, everyone was crazy about the field of filial piety, and opened up a vicious competition track [the longer you observe filial piety, the more filial you will be]. The longest record is 20 set by Zhao Xuan from Qingzhou. year record.
Of course, this guy kept his filial piety, but failed to keep his lower body. During the period of keeping filial piety, he gave birth to children, but was scolded by the famous scholar Chen Fan as inferior to pigs and dogs. His reputation was gone. Twenty years of keeping filial piety were wasted. It is sad, ridiculous and deplorable.
Of course, upper-class scholars would not imitate the vicious competition of cerebral palsy players like Zhao Xuan, but in recent years there have been signs of involution in the duration of filial piety. For example, Yuan Shao, after observing filial piety for his mother for three years, had to pay filial piety for his mother. The biological father completed the filial piety period for three years, which won the admiration of the whole city of Luoyang.
Yang Biao is already over forty years old. It is his own choice as to how long he has to observe filial piety. However, no matter what, within twenty-six months, he will never hold any position or publicly participate in political activities. He must keep a low profile. Live your days and be filial to your father.
Then, he can return to Luoyang and resume his position.
This means that in the past three years, the leading family of Jinwen School had to take a back seat.
The ancient literature school lost its sword, and the modern literature school simply lost its sword holder. Life was obviously difficult for both sides. In comparison, the leadership of the ancient literature school was more complete and had the ability to continue fighting.
But there is a big problem with the leadership of the literary school today.
No one knows who will take over as the leader of the Jinwen School before Yang Biao returns to Luoyang, but it is obvious that at this moment, everyone's attention on whether Liu Bei will serve as the shepherd of Liangzhou has dropped.
Yang Ci's death has obviously attracted more attention. Everyone is paying attention to the path of the future literary school after Yang Ci's death and Yang Biao's filial piety.
However, there are also some rumors that before Yang Ci passed away, Huang Wan, a famous party member who had just arrived in Luoyang more than ten days ago, went to visit Yang Ci and was subsequently recommended by Yang Ci to serve as a general. Carpenter.
These gossips have not attracted much attention for the time being. The leadership of the Ancient Literature School is not only singing and dancing, but also as ecstatic as the New Year. They are very happy, thinking that they are about to win the final victory in the battle between modern and ancient literature.
The day after Yang Ci's death, Liu Hong discussed with the etiquette officials about Yang Ci's funeral.
Because Yang Ci was an old minister of the Three Kingdoms after all and had made some contributions to the country. He had suffered without any merit, so Liu Hong showed his respect by wearing mourning clothes and not going to court for three days. Then he presented coffins, clothes, and three hundred dollars in money. Ten thousand, five hundred pieces of cloth, and an edict of mourning was issued.
Regarding Yang Ci's funeral, Liu Hong ordered Zuo Zhonglang General Guo Yi to be the envoy to attend Yang Ci's funeral on behalf of the emperor. He also posthumously presented Yang Ci's Hussars General and Sikong Yin Shou.
When Yang Ci finished the funeral and was about to go out, Liu Hong ordered Shi Chijie, the imperial censor, to participate in the funeral procession on his behalf. officials attended the funeral.
Finally, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty jointly agreed to give Yang the posthumous title of Wen Lie.
Death is the most important thing, and everything will be over once and for all. Even Yuan Wei, who regards Yang Ci as his mortal enemy, is not willing to go against him on Yang Ci's funeral. He doesn't want to cause a lot of criticism, so giving him a good posthumous title can be regarded as the end of everyone for so many years. of tit-for-tat.
He is dead, and this is what makes Yuan Wei happiest.
Under the current situation, Yuan Wei has become the sole person in charge of the Secretariat. Situ Cui Lie is a showman and has no power to record the affairs of the Secretariat. At present, there is no one to compete with him in the Secretariat.
He truly became the only chancellor of the empire.
The officials of the Ancient Literature School were also very happy about this and secretly celebrated their victory.
But at such a moment of "universal celebration", Liu Bei was silently making a series of preparations for going to Liangzhou to serve as the shepherd of Liangzhou.
First of all, as the Mu of Liangzhou, Liu Bei has obviously become the master of Liangzhou. He can independently appoint officials in the Liangzhou Mufu who are directly under him. This is an important way for him to expand his own power.
As for the chiefs of various counties in Liangzhou, although they are nominally appointed by the court, Liu Bei is actually their immediate superior. The so-called county officials are not as good as current managers, and Liu Bei has a strong deterrent effect on them.
Not only that, the imperial court will also take the opinions of the state pastor into consideration when selecting officials. This is even more wonderful when combined with Liu Bei's relationship with Liu Hong, Zhang Rang and others.
Liangzhou has ten counties and two subordinate states. Liu Bei currently only has some contacts with Gai Xun, the governor of Hanyang County. Gai Xun is a rare official from the central government in Liangzhou. He is of great significance to whether Liu Bei can gain a foothold in Liangzhou in the early stage. Therefore, Liu Bei does not intend to move Gai Xun's position.
However, as the counties involved in the Liangzhou Rebellion, Jincheng County, Longxi County and Wudu County, the governors of these three counties are still alive, but because they failed to defend the counties, Liu Bei prepared to impeach them. , deposed them, and asked the court to replace them with people they trusted.
In addition, there are still a small number of rebels in Anding County and Beidi County. The prefects of the two counties cannot be pacified and are inactive. Liu Bei also plans to impeach them, remove them, and replace them with people he trusts.
Liu Bei calculated that among the people he trusted enough and could arrange, they generally lacked real experience in herdsman administration. If he were to manage a large county right from the start, there would obviously be problems.
However, the good thing about Liangzhou is that the average county has less than 50,000 registered residents. A county in Guandong can catch up with the population of several counties here. Although he is called a county governor, he is actually not as good as a county magistrate. With a large population and a sparse population, it is not difficult to manage. Even non-experienced people can use this experience to become an experienced person.
Therefore, Liu Bei planned to first summon them to Liangzhou as his military subordinates, and then let them go to various places to establish military exploits. After some operations, it would be logical to make Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Ni He served as the governor of the five counties respectively.
The reason is also very simple. At this moment, what the governors of Liangzhou counties need is not administrative ability, but military deterrence.
As for administrative issues, they are easy to handle. The Ministry of General Affairs can take over, and then Liu Bei will appoint them all as officials with his power of state pastor, easily and without any pressure at all.
At this moment, Liu Bei realized what a wise decision he had made by recruiting the Ministry of General Affairs in advance.
This directly ensures that he has enough administrative talents with basic abilities. With a little experience, these talents can well take on the grassroots work of states and counties.
So this time, Liu Bei planned to move the entire Ministry of General Affairs to Liangzhou, and arrange administrative, financial, judicial and other helpers for the five of them according to their respective abilities to assist them in governing the place.
In fact, the original county governor was called a county general, which was a military position in itself, and his main responsibility was to lead troops and intimidate the local area.
This is not so obvious in the inland states and counties where peace has lasted for a long time. However, in remote counties with sparse population, the military ability requirements of the prefect are often greater than the administrative ability requirements. It is not uncommon for professional generals to serve as prefects of counties in remote areas.
In a place like Liangzhou, it would be more reasonable for military generals to transfer to serve as prefects or to serve as prefects part-time.
