Xuande

Chapter 108 Let More People Survive

From a relatively high perspective, it can be found that Taipingdao has not really united a social class that can be relied on as its own basic board.

For Taipingdao, it is impossible for the upper-class scholars to unite in place.

They are vested interests, there are too many of them, and they think highly of themselves. If they want to win their support, Zhang Jiao can't afford that price.

So the targets left for them to fight for are very clear.

Either unite the lower classes, or unite the powerful landlords. These are people who are dissatisfied with the current system. Seizing their needs, claiming that they can meet their needs, and mobilizing their strength, may be successful.

The people at the bottom need land, and the powerful landlords need official positions, knowledge, and more land and wealth. These are all visible things, and they can be given to them.

But there is no Taipingdao, and Taipingdao only unites themselves—Taipingdao people.

The members of Taiping Dao are complex, ranging from poor beggars who are about to starve to death, to rich eunuchs beside the emperor, and they are all-encompassing. What unites these people is Taiping Dao's own philosophy.

This is not to say that it is impossible to do so, but to be successful, Taipingdao needs more believers, and needs to have their ideas accepted by more people.

There are more than 5000 million people in the Eastern Han Empire, not to mention that most people can accept it, at least it cannot be believed by only a few hundred thousand people. Not only will there not be enough manpower, but it will not be able to form a wide understanding.

This is very dangerous for a new regime.

So after all, if you want to rebel successfully, you still have to unite a certain social class with enough strength.

The low-level people have a numerical advantage, and the powerful landlords have a financial advantage. If you unite with any of them, you will have the possibility of success.

Zhang Jiao didn't realize this, and relying on more than 40 members of Taiping Daoists, he felt that Lao Tzu was the best in the world, so he could rebel.

While uniting believers, Taipingdao has also pushed the vast majority of people in society who don't think so to their own opposition through the slogan that the sky is dead and the sky should be established.

Therefore, it is not incomprehensible for the Yellow Turban Army to become synonymous with robbers and robbers from the beginning of the Taipingdao uprising army, and to carry out indiscriminate stabs at the whole society.

The failure of Taipingdao was doomed from the time they started their uprising.

A uprising that was doomed to fail, a muddled uprising that did not have a clear political and economic program, a uprising that did not mention the division of land between the rich and the poor, inexplicably became an epoch-making uprising. The opening drama of the play.

Liu Bei and Zhang Jiao have no personal grievances, not to mention hatred, they just regret it.

If it wasn't for Zhang Jiao, if it wasn't for Tai Ping Dao, wouldn't the result be better?

There is no if in history, and Liu Bei has no power and does not want to prevent an oppressed person from rebelling against his own oppressor. If he does not know the outcome of the Taipingdao uprising, he will not take any special actions and will not have any feelings.

But as a person who knows everything, he doesn't want too many people to die in this fruitless war. The input-output ratio is too low, too uneconomical.

The chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty began. The war and the collapse of order caused more than half of the population to die in this chaotic world with no end in sight. The poor people's desire to have enough food turned into fuel for careerists. Burn the whole country to death.

No matter how dilapidated the order is, it is more suitable for a person to survive than the chaotic world without order. It is exactly the saying that it is better to live than to die.

Wouldn't it be better if we could go another way?

Liu Bei has his own ideas.

Before realizing this idea, he has only one goal - to let more people survive before he has the ability to change the world.

If the scale of the Yellow Turban Army was not so large, and the scope and duration of the spread were not so long, so that more people survived, even if they were just lingering, wouldn't it be better?
He still doesn't have the ability to change everything, but even so, he also wants more people to survive, so that those who would have died because of this, can survive as much as possible.

After crossing the hurdle that is bound to die, will those poor people survive?
Even if you live an extra year, half a year, even if it's only three months.

He wants people to live, and he wants more people to live.

Just survive!
With such a wish, Liu Bei spent the last month of the five years of Guanghe. In contrast to his stability, there was violent turmoil in the entire court.

Liu Hong appointed Taiwei Yang Cilu Shangshushi, together with Situ Yuan Kui to take charge of Shangshutai Shi. This decision aroused a thousand waves. At first, not only the ancient literature school was inexplicably terrified, but the modern literature school also felt inexplicably baffled.

At first, they all felt that they were going to send it, and they were all going to die, but in the end, the twists and turns, another village was revealed, Yang Ci, the defeated man, and Yuan Wei, the victor, were in charge of the official affairs together, and they both had the power to make final decisions on state affairs .

Both of them are San Gong, both of them are recorded in the book, and their status is equal, regardless of whether they are superior or inferior, so the impact on the political situation is naturally equal to the court.

After a short period of panic, the ancient literature school gradually came back to realize that this was part of the emperor's power, and the emperor had never really stood by their side, just as they had never really stood by the emperor's side.

There are hundreds of battles every day, how can there be any real friendship between the monarch and his ministers?
After a short period of ignorance, the Jinwen School also realized something, and ecstasy followed.

Liu Bei's guess was right. The Modern Literature School was nearly beaten to death by the Ancient Literature School. After finally taking a breath, he didn't care whether it was a deliberate effort by the imperial power.

They have only one idea——

Live and make the betrayer pay.

They decided to give the ancient literature school and the traitors a little color, and let them know what the end of bullying them would be.

The Ancient Literature School, the Yuan family, and the Xun family were not prepared for such a situation.

They never expected all of this in advance, how the emperor's political level suddenly improved so much, and a wave of operations successfully created a situation where two tigers were fighting each other, while he himself sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, doing that indifferent bystander.

And as the struggle deepens, he will inevitably become that crucial arbiter, and once he becomes the arbiter, it means the revival and return of the imperial power, which is a very dangerous situation for them.

The ancient literature school tried their best to prevent the emperor from appointing Yang Ci, and wanted the emperor to withdraw his order, but they couldn't even see the emperor's face again-Liu Hong said he was sick.

What's more strange is that the Emperor Mingming still maintains the policy of restricting the party of the Jinwen School, but inexplicably lifted the imprisonment of several families. Strengthen Yang's political power.

This incident essentially announced that the party's prison policy is no longer a map gun for large-scale and all-round strikes, but has become a tool.

A political tool to realize the emperor's personal political ambitions.

There is no doubt that although the Jinwen School is completely at a disadvantage academically and politically constrained everywhere, they still maintain a certain amount of political power and appeal despite the fact that a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

Yang Ci, as a highly respected leader of the Modern Literature School, even if he was once defeated, his prestige still exists, and now that he is recording the affairs of the Minister, he has once again become the leader of the Modern Literature School, the political core, and the object of high expectations from everyone.

The Modern Literature School was able to temporarily unify all thoughts under his call. As long as he is still alive, the Modern Literature School will never fall, and will definitely fight fiercely with the Ancient Literature School.

In particular, the Yuan family and Xun family who were stabbed in the back have become the thorn in the side of the Modern Literature School.

It doesn't matter whether the emperor is manipulating the situation. The School of Modern Literature and the School of Ancient Literature can no longer reunite to fight against the imperial power. The two sides have completely torn their skins apart.

Now Jinwen School only wants revenge.

Great revenge!
The genius of the emperor and the eunuch group completely disrupted the ancient literature school's future political and academic layout, and many things they discussed in the previous meeting faced uncertainty.

For example, their plan to push "Fei Shiyi" and "Guwen Shangshu" into the second batch of official academic status was fiercely blocked.

(End of this chapter)