When Dong Zhuo led his troops northward, Zhou Shenzheng led his troops to confront the Baibo Yellow Turban Army in Wenxi County, but could not win.
After Dong Zhuo led his own troops and some Luoyang troops to the battlefield, he was not in a hurry to get closer. After sending people to investigate the situation of the Baibo Army, he got some understanding of the Baibo Army.
Later, Dong Zhuo summoned his son-in-law Niu Fu, his kinsman Dong Yue, his subordinate Duan Xuan and others to discuss the war. They came up with some ideas and then led his troops to slowly approach the battlefield.
Regarding the Baibo Army, Mrs. Guo was worried when she learned that Han army reinforcements had arrived on the battlefield, so she sent her subordinate Yang Feng to lead troops to intercept the Han army reinforcements. Dong Zhuo sent his son-in-law Niu Fu to fight. The two armies fought, but Yang Feng was defeated and retreated. So Guo Taisuo's flank was threatened by Dong Zhuo.
When Mrs. Guo learned about it, she blamed Yang Feng. In order to prevent the war from going unfavorably, she asked her subordinate Han Siam to lead troops to stop Dong Zhuo, while she accelerated her attack on Wenxi County in an attempt to establish victory.
However, Han Xian could not stop Dong Zhuo.
He blocked Niu Fu and defeated Niu Fu's attack, but failed to stop Dong Zhuo from personally leading the attack.
Dong Zhuo, who had experienced hundreds of battles and was very brave, led the army to personally attack Han Siam's military formation. As a result, Han Siam was defeated, the morale of the Baibo army was shaken, and the war situation collapsed.
Mrs. Guo was very angry and wanted to kill Han Xian to stabilize the morale of the army, but was persuaded by everyone to stop.
In any case, this battle could not continue, and Guo Tai was forced to withdraw his troops and let Yang Feng and Han Siam lead the troops to break up the rear and take advantage of the situation.
Dong Zhuo considered the strategic requirements for stability and did not pursue. He just set up camp and sent people to contact Zhou Shen in the city.
Dong Zhuo didn't have a good impression of Zhou Shen, and Zhou Shen certainly didn't have a good impression of Dong Zhuo. Thinking that he would be ridiculed if he went to see Dong Zhuo, Zhou Shen decided not to go to see Dong Zhuo.
He gave his seal and ribbon to Yuan Shao and asked Yuan Shao to go to see Dong Zhuo on his behalf. He found a gap and took his guards directly to moisturize.
He didn't want to be ridiculed by Dong Zhuo after meeting Dong Zhuo, and he didn't think Dong Zhuo had the qualifications to ridicule him, so he just calmed down and quickly returned to Luoyang to build relationships and try to get a better outcome.
Faced with Zhou Shen's lack of martial ethics, Yuan Shao had no choice but to take Zhou Shen's seal and ribbon to see Dong Zhuo and tell Dong Zhuo about the matter.
Dong Zhuo was quite polite to the children of his lord's family, and was pleasant to Yuan Shao, but he hated Zhou Shen quite much. He wrote a performance on the spot and participated in it. Zhou Shen didn't understand etiquette and left his post without permission, so he wanted to punish him.
He advocated removing Zhou Shen from his position and making him pay the price for his actions.
Then Dong Zhuo entered Wenxi County, rearranged the defenses, and sent people to reconnoiter the situation of the Baibo Army to prepare for the next stage of combat.
He now holds the responsibility of being the governor of Bingzhou, but if he cannot enter Bingzhou, what kind of role is he being the governor of Bingzhou?
The news that Dong Zhuo had defeated the Baibo Army quickly spread back to the court. Liu Hong finally felt a little better after learning that the front line had won, and ordered to reward Dong Zhuo. At the same time, he also received Dong Zhuo's performance, mentioning that former general Zhou Shen had left his post without permission. matter.
Liu Hong was originally dissatisfied with Zhou Shen, and now he was angry because Zhou Shen left his post without permission, so he immediately ordered Zhou Shen to be punished for this, causing Zhou Shen to lose his position as a former general and reflect on his mistakes in Luoyang Mansion.
The unlucky Zhou Shen lost his position and became a white man before he had time to work for his own future.
After Yuan Wei learned the news of Dong Zhuo's victory in the first battle, he was quite satisfied, and he was also quite satisfied with the current situation where the Yuan family was basically leading the frontline war. He was quite excited, so he criticized Lu Zhi at one or two internal meetings of the Ancient Literature School. Sarcasm.
At that time, Lu Zhi followed some voices within the school and expressed his willingness to continue promoting the agenda of replacing the classics of the ancient literature school with the classics of the modern literature school.
However, in terms of specific methods, Lu Zhi mainly hoped to use milder means to promote this process, and hoped to replace the Modern Literature School with debates and literary battles, rather than introducing vicious battles into the court.
Lu Zhi believed that the current situation in the court could no longer withstand another great battle between modern and ancient literature. The decisive battle at the top of Taixue was too fierce and influential, and it was no longer suitable to be reenacted.
Nowadays, rebellions are rising one after another in the world, and the court needs to concentrate resources to deal with these rebellions to ensure that the country of Han Dynasty remains unchanged. Therefore, everyone should be calmer, self-restraint, put national affairs first, and try not to let political struggles endanger the national situation.
But Lu Zhi's idea was ridiculed by Yuan Wei.
Yuan Wei believed that Lu Zhi was actually a bit weak and naive. The Jinwen School had controlled the interests for so many years. If they really wanted to win moderately, why wait until now?
Just because you can't win in a gentle way, you have to go through the fierce battle before you can replace Gongyang Chunqiu. But now you actually want to take the gentle route?
Isn't this a step back?
How could you, Lu Ziqian, the dignified lieutenant, say such a thing?
"Ziqian, there is no leader in the Jinwen School now. Yang Ci died of illness, Yang Biao kept his filial piety, and Huangfu Song was beheaded. This is a good opportunity for us to replace him. Why do you have such an idea? Don't you think this is a great benefit for us? The timing?"
Yuan Wei looked at Lu Zhi in surprise.
Lu Zhi also looked at Yuan Wei in surprise, and suddenly the words Ma Rixi had said to him rang in his ears.
He couldn't help but look for Ma Rixi, but after looking around for a while he didn't see it. Then he remembered that Ma Rixi had been ill recently and had been recuperating and had not come to the meeting.
He thought for a moment and shook his head.
Ma Rixi was right. He had never doubted this. He knew Yuan Wei's behavior and reputation in the political field, but he was really unwilling to start a fight at this time.
The Luoyang court could not withstand another big fight. If it happened again, the Bingzhou bandits might really have to cross the Yellow River and take Luoyang directly.
So he patiently persuaded Yuan Wei.
"Ciyang, this is not a matter of replacement, but the current situation. War is frequent and the world is unstable. It is not a good time for us to rise up. If we want to rise up, we can wait until the situation is stable before rising up. There is no need to rush at this moment, otherwise the army will be outside. We are fighting, we are fighting inside, and it has affected the army to suppress the rebellion, but what should we do?"
Yuan Wei smiled.
He had calculated Lu Zhi's temperament early on and knew that Lu Zhi was a person with a certain bottom line. Among the senior officials of the Luoyang court, he could even be considered a good person.
In normal times, this bottom line will become the ladder for Lu Zhi to become famous, but in chaotic times, this bottom line will become Lu Zhi's fatal flaw.
Because you, Lu Ziqian, have a bottom line, but I, Yuan Ciyang, have no bottom line.
"Ziqian, I know that you are devoted to the country and selfless, but if you do this, it will be unkind to other people. Your "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" has indeed successfully replaced the Jinwen School, but except for "Zuo's Spring and Autumn", Other classics have not yet successfully become official schools, so how can you stop and do nothing?"
When Yuan Wei said these words, Lu Zhi and some sensible people present realized that something was wrong.
What is this Yuan Wei doing?
Is it to split the ancient literature school?
We cannot say that there is anything wrong with Yuan Wei's statement, or that Yuan Wei did anything wrong.
Because at that time, we really gathered the strength of the entire ancient literature school to deal with the modern literature school, and then successfully pushed the most promising "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" into the official academic sequence, replacing Gong Yang Chun Qiu.
This is not only the effort of the Zuo Spring and Autumn Heritage family, but also the result of the joint efforts of everyone. This credit belongs to everyone.
Moreover, at that time, the ancient literature school also set a great goal, vowing to push other classics into official schools, eliminate modern classics, and replace them with ancient classics.
Not to mention the crucial "Zhou Guan Li", there are also "Mao Shi", "Old Classics", and "Fei Shiyi", which are all staring at eagerly.
The seven major families of your Zuo family in Spring and Autumn are indeed happy, but what about us?
We have nowhere to go.
We are eagerly pointing at the seven major families of your "Zuo Family's Spring and Autumn Period" to help us bring our old brothers into the official school sequence. This is what you promised at the beginning, do you want to go back on it now?
You guys drink spicy food at the front desk, but let us drink northwest wind in the back?
it's not good?
Feeling the gaze of many unkind eyes, Lu Zhi realized that something bad was going to happen and something might go wrong.
Under the current situation, if another wave of disputes between modern and ancient literature is forced and a wave of struggle is set off, the resistance of the modern literature school will definitely not be as strong as before, and the ancient literature school is very likely to succeed.
But the problem is, it's war time.
The war has not yet ceased. Officials from both the modern and ancient literature schools have officials working for the war. If the renewed dispute between modern and ancient literature makes them unable to cooperate and the situation on the front line collapses, it will not be a joke.
So Lu Zhi told Yuan Wei very seriously about the serious consequences of this matter.
"The goal of the school has never changed, there is no doubt about it, but under the current situation, if war breaks out again, it will definitely not be a good thing for the Han Dynasty. Hedong is too close to Luoyang, so we can't lose anything!
If there is another fight now, there will definitely be problems on the front line. When the time comes, the Bingzhou bandits will take advantage of the situation, threaten Luoyang, and disturb the emperor. Neither you nor I can bear the responsibility!
This must be done, and it will definitely be done, but it should be done after the war is over, not now! Now! The court needs stability! "
Yuan Wei could only sneer.
Do you want stability?
But I don't want it.
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PS: No PS.
(End of chapter)
