After a whole day of discussion, everyone has initially reached some acceptable plans, and has the most basic unified point of view on the new ancient literature school version of "White Tiger Tongyi".
Next, there will be at least a month of discussions to determine many principles and detailed issues. These require the full participation of the royal family, and are not things that the ancient literature school can handle behind closed doors.
So Liu Bei entered the palace and went to the Empress Dowager to discuss convening a "White Tiger Viewing Conference" in the new era.
The Empress Dowager Dong did not know much about this matter. Her knowledge was not that broad, and she cared more about pure interests rather than the process required to achieve them.
Empress Dowager Dong was not very interested in these processes and had few ideas. Seeing that Liu Bei wanted to convene an important meeting to determine the country's governance system, she decided to hold it. Anyway, she didn't have many ideas, and there was no such thing in Luoyang City. There is no opposition.
In other words, there are, but they have lost ground.
In order to ensure the style of the meeting, Liu Bei suggested that the meeting be held in the palace, and the venue was Changle Palace, the Queen Mother's residence.
Liu Bei's suggestion had some considerations, the most important of which were two.
One is because Liu Hong died here. Liu Bei believed that Liu Hong wanted to promote the ancient literature school to completely replace the modern literature school during his lifetime, so he held it here to "comfort the late emperor."
The second is that this time the ancient literature school was able to successfully replace the modern literature school. The main contributor was the Empress Dowager Dong. She held a meeting in the Queen Mother’s palace and asked the minutes of the meeting to record the achievements of the Empress Dowager. For the Empress Dowager Dong That's a good thing too.
Empress Dowager Dong was very moved by this, so she agreed to open the Jiade Hall, the main palace of Changle Palace, as the venue for the meeting, and asked Liu Bei to call everyone here for the meeting. As the nominal host, she would bring the young emperor Liu Xie with her. Attend this meeting.
In this regard, Dong Zhong, who happened to be serving at the side at the time, did not change his expression and seemed to have no opinion on this. When Liu Bei and Empress Dowager Dong were talking, there was no movement.
After Liu Bei left, Dong Chongcai said with a worried look: "Liu Bei is a general and the leader of the ancient literary school. He can be involved in military power, political power, and even culture and education. With such great power, he has to rebuild Baihutong." Yi, are you really not worried?"
Empress Dowager Dong suddenly showed a look of boredom.
"Zhong, you say these words every time you see me. I don't know what you are worried about. Xuande is a clan member of the Han Dynasty. His surname is Liu and he is of the bloodline of Emperor Gaozu. What are you worried about? Only when you can live a comfortable life with peace of mind The most important thing is, don’t say it again. If you say these words again, don’t come to my place."
Dong Chong could only keep silent and never say such words again.
But the worries and fears in his heart did not disappear. He was worried that Liu Bei would give him little shoes to wear because of what happened before.
Why was he so obsessed at that time that he wanted to stumble Liu Bei?
Now Dong Zhong deeply regrets the decision he made when he was deceived by Huan Dian, Zhang Xi and others. If he hadn't made those little tricks at that time, maybe he could still live a comfortable life with peace of mind, and at worst he wouldn't compete with Liu Bei.
But now he is extremely worried that Liu Bei will retaliate against him after he consolidates his power.
Even if Liu Bei said personally that he would not retaliate against him, he would still be worried.
However, there is no medicine for regret in the world. He regretted it and there was nothing he could do about it.
Now that the Jinwen school has completely lost power, I heard that several old guys have hanged themselves. Could such a tragic situation involve him?
Dong Zhong no longer dared to think about it.
On the other side, Huan Dian, Zhang Xi and others had taken the opportunity to attend the funeral of an old scholar to get together and secretly discuss their last resort.
Huan Dian and Zhang Xi, as well as seven or eight family members including the Gao family, Fu family, Xue family, etc. gathered together to discuss the tragedy of many people hanging and committing suicide in the past few days, as well as the dispersion of disciples from various families. Farce, all without feeling annoyed, sad, frustrated, and hopeless.
In fact, their positions were still there, and the imperial court did not remove them from their positions, but they lost their status as high-ranking officials and their right to recruit disciples. No matter how high their official positions were, they were still without roots.
No one will follow them anymore, no one will work so hard for them, and there will not be so many people around them offering benefits so that their family and their children can live comfortably without having to Participate in involution.
In the future, if they want to gain power and more resources, they must turn inward. They have no qualifications not to turn inward. Their comfort zone has been taken away by Liu Bei!
They exchanged the tragic stories of various families with each other.
Those unscrupulous disciples and even some snobbish disciples, when they learned that their family had lost its high position in the family clan, immediately deserted and left their clan school. They went to unknown places. Only a few of them remained. Followed by their side.
Some people even stole some valuable things when they left and then fled quietly.
There are also some families who have given gifts to them suddenly send people to the door, wanting to take back all the gifts they have given, and do not want to waste the money.
The huge gap and strong sense of frustration made them extremely painful, and they didn't know how to deal with this painful emotion.
Various emotions swept through the hearts of these frustrated people. Finally, under the influence of extreme emotions, Huan Dian spoke.
"Everyone, I have something to say. I wonder if you are willing to listen to it."
Everyone looked at Huan Dian.
Huan Dian looked around at the faces of the losers and slowly said: "If we just give up and do nothing, the decline of the family is inevitable. In ten years at the latest, the family will inevitably decline and cannot be maintained. Even if it can be barely maintained, The Ancient Literature School will not let me off easily.
None of us can guarantee whether the powerful Liu Bei and the families of the Ancient Literature School will launch some revenge on us and make our family suffer more humiliation. Therefore, there is only one way to change the current situation. "
"any solution?"
Zhang Xi did this admiration very well.
Huan Dian gritted his teeth and squeezed out four words from his mouth - "Assassinate Liu Bei!"
The scene suddenly froze, and the big guys of the Jinwen School all had expressions of horror on their faces. Then you looked at me, I looked at you, and the expressions on everyone's faces were the same fear.
Then Fu Wan, the servant from Dongwu in Langya County who was the first to react, loudly raised objections.
"No! No! Never! Liu Xuande is the general of the dynasty! The chief auxiliary minister! Not to mention whether the assassination of him can be successful, even if the assassination is successful, what will be the consequences? Who can predict what the consequences will be? If he dies, those arrogant soldiers under his command will crush Luoyang! Will we survive?"
Fu Wan had a look of horror on his face, waving his hands and shaking his head.
Huan Dian was furious.
"Fu Gong! Are you willing to watch the family decline and never recover? Aren't you afraid!?"
Fu Wan had a look of horror on his face and was breathing heavily.
"I'm afraid! But I don't want to die! Assassinate Liu Xuande? Duke Huan, did I hear wrongly, or did you lose your sense of proportion? Who is Liu Xuande? Back then, Yang Gong couldn't do it, Yuan Wei couldn't do it, and He Jin couldn't do it. Yeah, why do you think you can do it now?"
"Just because they can't do it, doesn't mean I can't do it!"
Huan Dian gritted his teeth and said: "No matter how talented Liu Bei is, he is still a human being, and he is also made of flesh and blood. He will die! Just one knife, just one knife, and he will die! And once he dies, the ancient literature school will have no backbone, and there will be no more Are they our opponents? The only person worthy of fear in the Ancient Literature School is Liu Bei! Even Lu Zhi is not worthy of fear!"
"Then you can't kill him! How could he be assassinated by you so easily? If you fail to assassinate him carefully, you will lose your life instead!"
Fu Wan pointed at Huan Dian and shouted angrily: "Don't put all of us in danger just because of your anger! Once the assassination fails, Liu Xuande will only find an opportunity to kill us all!"
When the time comes, don’t talk about surviving! Whether the family can continue is a question! Have you seen how Liu Bei dealt with Yuan? Clan execution! Execute the clan, Duke Huan! If we are not careful, all of us and our entire family will be wiped out! "
Fu Wan's angry shouts were quite intimidating, and some of the less courageous scholars of the Jinwen School suddenly felt that what he said was reasonable.
If we don't take action, it will be really hard for everyone to lose their political status, but they won't die yet.
If you do it, it will be okay if you succeed, but if you fail, you will definitely die.
So the scene quickly turned into a dispute between two factions. One faction supported Huan Dian, could not bear the days after the family's decline, and wanted to return to the top, while the other faction wanted a stable life, refused to take risks, and did not want to fight with Liu Bei made further opposition.
A group of people argued and argued, and finally the hardliners represented by Huan Dian gained the upper hand.
They generally cannot stand the huge contrast after the family's degeneration, and feel that if this situation is allowed to continue, they will have no words to see their ancestors after they die.
At the same time, they agreed with what Huan Dian said that Liu Bei was very confident and had never been assassinated since he entered politics, so he must have had little advance preparation in this regard.
As long as the planning is proper, the possibility of Liu Bei being killed is extremely high.
As for what will happen after killing Liu Bei...
Kill first and then talk.
(End of chapter)
