Lu Zhi is the god of war of the ancient literature school, and Huangfu Song is backed by the modern literature school. Zhang Rang is not willing to see either of these two schools becoming a heavy-ranking general and gaining military power.
Similarly, Liu Hong was not very willing to see them get involved in military power, so he agreed to Zhang Rang's suggestion and allowed the eunuch group to achieve a certain monopoly in the Han military circles.
Faced with this situation, both the ancient literature school and the modern literature school are unwilling to see it, but they are powerless.
Didn't they have no chance? Huangfu Song led an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people to attack the Liangzhou rebels. How powerful was he?
But he didn't seize the opportunity.
The Jinwen school could never get involved in military power.
The ancient literature school is similar. Lu Zhi used to lead troops and had military power in a state. Now he is engaged in political work in Luoyang City. He seems to be powerful, but he cannot threaten the interests of the eunuch group.
The only capable Liu Bei was still working as a shepherd in Liangzhou. He was capable and had military power, but he was not in Luoyang.
Luoyang's military power was completely controlled by the eunuch group. Not only that, Zhang Rang also held the position of Shangshuling. Taking advantage of his proximity to the emperor, he was able to compete with Yuan Wei and Lu Zhi in the Shangshutai. Yuan Wei and Lu Zhi could not suppress Zhang Rang.
After everyone summarized it, they were surprised to find that over the years, the eunuch group had quietly expanded its power to this extent.
Not only did they get involved in administrative power, they also invaded judicial power. Not only did they control the central military power, but they also had their own financial power, becoming a complete internal small court.
Even if Liu Hong only relied on this small internal court to complete the administrative transition for a period of time, the large external court was unknowingly usurped of a considerable part of its power.
This caused dissatisfaction between the modern literature school and the ancient literature school.
But under the current situation, it is no longer possible for them to cooperate as before to fight against the eunuch group. The hatred between the two sides is irreversible. The ancient literature school is trying its best to attack "Rituals", and the modern literature school is also Day and night I was thinking about destroying "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals".
They were unable to reconcile their conflicts with each other. Facing the eunuch group's encroachment, they felt quite at a loss of footing.
Let’s not talk about the Modern Literature School. After the death of the soul figure Yang Ci, his son Yang Biao had to observe filial piety for three years and could not appear in the political arena for three years. The Modern Literature School temporarily lacked a reliable leader to coordinate and command.
At first, each major family fought independently for a while, but nothing was achieved and the losses were not small.
They had no choice but to accept the emergency plan made by Yang Ci before his death, which was to use Huang Wan, a very capable disciple of the Yang family, as Yang Biao's mouthpiece and agent, with Huang Wan acting in the open and Yang Biao behind the scenes. Assist, reluctantly taking over the plate given by Yang before.
They need to work hard to promote Huang Wan to a high position during Yang Biao's filial piety, and do their best to support Huangfu Song, strive to let Huangfu Song make contributions again, open up a new track from the military level, launch differentiated competition, and avoid limiting the full power of the Jinwen School on the academic path.
This can be regarded as the biggest decision Yang Biao made after Yang Ci's death.
Such a combination of literature and force can probably maintain the current fundamentals. When Yang Biao ends his filial piety and officially comes out, he will surely usher in a wave of counterattacks that are beneficial to the Modern Literature School.
But for now, everyone still needs to recharge their batteries, hide their capabilities and bide their time, and try not to mess around.
If necessary, some weak states can be appropriately revealed, because it is impossible for the imperial power to watch the ancient literature school defeat the modern literature school.
At least not yet.
Therefore, the modern literature school had to stand up in the face of the new situation, no longer show its sharpness and fight against the ancient literature school, maintain the academic and political status quo, and focus on the military level. It wants to differentiate itself in the current unstable state of the military level. compete.
Jinwen School needs to arm itself and make itself stronger. Strength at the military level is also a very important kind of strength.
A group of people secretly held an internal meeting with Yang Biao. During the meeting, Huang Wan, who had good ability and military vision, proposed an idea.
Although the Ancient Literature School has no military power in Luoyang City, in Liangzhou, Liu Bei, an important figure of the Ancient Literature School, is serving as the state pastor and has military power. This is a great reinforcement for the Ancient Literature School.
Although they cannot have military power in Luoyang City, if they can have strong help outside, then the eunuch group will be relatively concerned about external forces inside, so as to prevent the other party from being overwhelmed and the order broken.
Although Liu Bei was not in Luoyang, he could still provide military protection for the Ancient Literature School. This was a move that perhaps the imperial power who originally promoted this matter did not expect.
Therefore, Huang Wan further put forward the idea that they might be able to take advantage of the chaos in Bingzhou to operate the military force belonging to the Jinwen school, and push Huangfu Song to go further, enter Bingzhou to take charge of the military, and become a strong support for the Jinwen school outside.
It has to be said that Huang Wan's proposal was taken seriously by Yang Biao.
He also felt that Liu Bei's appointment as the shepherd of Liangzhou did not seem to be a bad thing for the Ancient Literature School. At that time, Yang Ci thought it was a major victory for the Modern Literature School, and he even died happily on the spot.
But now it seems that the ancient literature school feels like a blessing in disguise.
The so-called blessing comes from where disaster lies, and misfortune lies behind blessing. It is really difficult to say whether blessing is good and disaster is bad, and misfortune is good.
Under the serious real crisis, Yang Biao began to think that this matter was worthy of discussion. Perhaps launching a military operation against Bingzhou would be a rare breakthrough for the Jinwen School at the military level.
And even if you put everything aside, Bingzhou's current problems are really serious, but if you really want to talk about it, this matter really has nothing to do with Bingzhou.
This incident was originally caused by Jizhou, and the problem in Jizhou came from the Yellow Turban Army that had previously affected most of Jizhou. If we had to trace the source to the person directly responsible for this incident, Liu Bei had to stand up and take the blame. .
Because the three Zhang Jiao brothers were assassinated, about half of the entire Jizhou Taiping Dao organization collapsed before the Yellow Turban Army was established.
A large number of Taiping Taoists fled in all directions out of fear of being held accountable and killed by the court.
Some people fled to the south of the Yangtze River, some to Liaodong, and some people fled westward from the plains into the Taihang Mountains because they did not want to leave their hometown in Jizhou too far.
Due to terrain issues and government efficiency issues, the difficulty of implementing governance policies in mountainous areas is completely different from that in plain areas. Therefore, since ancient times, farmers have been unable to bear the exorbitant taxes and have abandoned their land and fled to the mountains for refuge.
These people are officially called fugitives.
Once you become a fugitive, although your life safety is not guaranteed, the successful recourse by the government becomes very rare. The fugitive can get freedom, of course, it is just freedom. If you are unlucky and there are bandits on the mountain, freedom is also not necessarily.
But in any case, the effective way for the government to manage is to bind people's household registration through land and then collect taxes. Once the people flee into the rugged and dangerous mountainous areas, if the government does not want to pay a huge price to go deep into the mountainous areas to pursue the escaped households, they can only acquiesce. Their escape was successful.
In this case, the government will decide whether it is cheaper to go deep into the mountainous area to pursue the fugitives, or whether it is cheaper to just acquiesce.
The answer is different in different regions, but in Jizhou and Bingzhou, the answer becomes obvious because of the presence of the Taihang Mountains.
It's not worth it. It's not worth it. The government will never spend a lot of energy going into the mountains to track down the escaped households.
(End of chapter)
