Liu Hong likes Zhang Rang very much and says that he is wise, but wisdom cannot be eaten as food, and formal methods are still needed to solve problems.
If wisdom could be eaten as food and solve all problems, then the world would be wonderful.
"Then again, this time, if it really comes to that, what means should I use to stop Yuan?"
Liu Hong looked at Zhang Rang: "I always followed the trend before, but if I don't allow it openly this time, I'm afraid many people from the ancient literature school will be dissatisfied with me, and they will point the finger at me.
I became the biggest obstacle and the person they hated, while Yuan became their leader and gained prestige. This kind of thing will only bring more benefits to Yuan, right? "
"This... Your Majesty has thought carefully."
Zhang Rang was also in trouble for a while, not knowing how to end this matter in a legitimate way.
The ancient literature school was in the ascendant, and the Yuan family was in the limelight for a while. They were all striving to get ahead. Memorials poured into the palace like snow, which made Liu Hong feel quite troubled. Zhang Rang couldn't find anything good for a while. Reason for rejection.
Just when the monarch and his ministers felt troubled and depressed, the arrival of two pieces of news gave them an opportunity to solve the problem, but it also brought them new troubles.
At the end of March in the fifth year of Noon, the Gebei Yellow Turban Army in Runan County re-emerged and attacked the counties with great momentum. The new Runan County Governor was defeated by the Gebei Yellow Turban Army and died in battle after a disastrous defeat.
In early April of the fifth year of Zhongping, the Qingxu Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. Organized Yellow Turban armies broke out in many places in Qingxu Prefecture to attack counties and counties with great momentum.
Zhao Yan, the governor of Qingzhou, and Ba Zhi, the governor of Xuzhou, responded improperly and the officers and soldiers were unable to resist. The scale of the Yellow Turban Army expanded rapidly. The local officers and soldiers could no longer cope with it and had to ask the court for help.
After these two pieces of news arrived in Luoyang one after another in mid-April of the fifth year of Zhongping, they instantly took away the short-lived front-page headlines of the Modern and Ancient Literature Controversy and suddenly became a new front-page headline.
Yuan Wei suddenly lost his composure.
What are you doing?
I haven’t settled the debate between modern and ancient literature yet! Why are you making a fuss again?
Don't you want to give me face? !
If you want to make a fuss, you have to wait until I defeat the Jinwen School!
Yuan Wei realized that the situation was not good, so he quickly instigated officials from the ancient literature school and Yuan's former officials to continue to request the establishment of the "Guwen Shangshu", hoping to use the last moment to win the victory before the court's attention was completely taken away.
However, the Jinwen school who reacted no longer fought with Yuan Wei on this issue.
They decided to divert their attention and immediately began to pay all-round attention to the resurgence of the remaining Taiping Dao forces, and launched a public bombardment with all their strength, striving to turn the court's attention to the rebellion.
As a representative of the Modern Literature School, Huang Wan, together with a large number of officials, submitted a petition to Liu Hong, claiming that the reappearance of the Yellow Turban Army was a huge threat to the imperial court, and that the imperial court needed to respond immediately and deploy military force to suppress the resurgent Yellow Turban Army, otherwise There is no peace in the prefectures and counties, and the situation is about to change again.
While Liu Hong felt depressed, he also realized that this was a perfect opportunity.
An opportunity to protect himself from the hatred of the Ancient Literature School and achieve his goal.
So he issued an edict to ignore the modern and ancient affairs for the time being, and the entire court needed to turn its attention to the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army.
Yuan Wei and the Ancient Literature School had no choice but to admit defeat in frustration and accept this outcome that they had never imagined.
To be honest, the resurgence of the Runan Yellow Turban and the Qingxu Yellow Turban are closely related to the Hedong crisis.
The crisis in Hedong had a great impact on the Luoyang court, especially the humiliating defeat of Huangfu Song, which caused the Luoyang court to lose troops and generals and its prestige was greatly reduced.
In the end, the reason why this crisis was settled was not that the Bingzhou bandits were completely defeated, but that their legitimacy was recognized in disguise and they were recruited.
This matter went on for more than a year, completely exposing the incompetence of the Luoyang court.
Inspired by this, the remaining soldiers who were not killed in the first wave of Taiping Dao uprising began to become restless again. They saw the decline of the military force of the Luoyang court, so they had some ideas.
In addition, after the Taiping Dao Rebellion, the entire Eastern Han Empire did not make any noteworthy adjustments in policy. Except for Lu Zhi who did some good things when he governed Jizhou, everything else remained as usual.
Officials in various places continued to work intensively on the track of corruption, forcing farmers everywhere to have no other choice. As a result, a large number of farmers went bankrupt, had no other choice, or went into exile, or simply threw themselves into the Taiping Dao banner to make a living.
They don't care what Taipingdao is, they just want to eat, nothing else matters.
So the power of Taipingdao grew again.
Less than a month after the Hedong crisis was resolved, Liu Hong once again faced the thing he least wanted to face.
The issue of the dispute between modern and ancient literature was temporarily resolved, but the resurgence of Qingxu Yellow Turban and Runan Yellow Turban made him very angry. He really wanted to ask those local officials——
What have you done to prevent me from living comfortably for even a month?
Liu Hong lost his temper in the palace and beat several young eunuchs to vent his anger. Then he sat down panting and reluctantly decided to hold a military meeting to discuss how to resolve the Qingxu Yellow Turban and Runan Yellow Turban issues.
The solution to this kind of thing is nothing more than to send troops to suppress it. There is nothing else to say.
However, the Luoyang court had just resolved the crisis in Hedong, and the rewards given to army soldiers had been reduced. For this reason, a number of armies were disbanded to alleviate financial difficulties, which caused dissatisfaction among some soldiers.
Now that the treasury is empty, can we run carriages and fight wars?
Beat the ass!
It's not that there is really no money available from the treasury, but the little money left is really the final reserve, used to deal with life and death crises and necessary expenses for the court.
For example, if someone suddenly attacks Luoyang and the imperial court is facing collapse, there is no other way but to use the money.
If this money is used now, among other things, the salaries of Luoyang officials will not be paid.
The imperial court cannot afford to pay official salaries. What kind of joke would it be if this were revealed?
So a group of people were arguing and wrangling over there. The public said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right. You said it was my fault, and I said it was your fault.
Yuan Wei still refused to give up, and still wanted to make it clear about the dispute between modern and ancient texts at the meeting. He even involved the dispute between modern and ancient texts in this chaos, saying that "Ouyang Shangshu" could not educate the people, so he As a result, people in the world are in chaos again and again.
If we want to fundamentally solve the problem, we must completely abolish "Ouyang Shangshu" and replace it with "Ouyang Shangshu" that can better educate the people. We should use the wisdom of the ancients to teach the people. In this way, even if the people starve to death, they will still know that the king If you have the kindness, you will not cause trouble casually.
Not to mention, this blatant nonsense was actually endorsed and echoed by many officials from the ancient literature school. The officials from the modern literature school tried their best to prove that this matter had nothing to do with them, and the topic almost went astray.
Liu Hong was sitting at the top, and his dissatisfaction with Yuan Wei was getting stronger and stronger. Just when he was about to curse Yuan Wei angrily, Lu Zhi stood up.
Lu Zhi, who had been silent all this time, really couldn't stand it anymore.
What is this all about?
Lu Zhi, who has truly experienced war and post-war governance, has his own views on civil affairs, and is more aware of the reasons for people's rebellion and how to solve it. Yuan Wei is obviously borrowing the topic and using this matter to benefit himself. profit.
It would be fine in normal times, but now that the country is in urgent need, is this the time when you should seek your own benefit here?
