Xuande

Chapter 117 Only people change their minds, irreversible

Liu Bei couldn't understand what Lu Zhi meant.

After today, the friendship between Lu Zhi and Yang Biao ceased to exist.

They became enemies and could never be friends again.

However, it doesn't matter.

Liu Bei didn't have any friendship with Yang Biao. As for what Lu Zhi thought in his heart, it was meaningless at this moment when the dispute between ancient and modern prose had escalated into a party struggle.

Lu Zhi is one of the leading figures of the ancient literature school. This is his identity label, and it also determines all the things he needs to do in the future.

From now on, he is a slave of this identity label.

But Liu Bei is not.

Because Liu Bei doesn't care about the identity label of the Fanyue family at all, he can give it up at any time.

Neither Lu Zhi nor Yang Ci nor Yang Biao possessed this kind of psychological advantage.

So they are destined to fail to make big things, but Liu Bei is always preparing and accumulating strength to make big things happen.

When there was no one around at home, Yang Ci slowly opened his eyes, and sighed helplessly at Yang Biao beside him.

"It's changed, really changed."

"What changed?"

Yang Biao looked at his father.

"I can't say it, but it just feels like something has changed."

Yang Ci sighed: "Biao, the road ahead will become more and more difficult. Let's make some preparations."

"Prepare?"

Yang Biao said in amazement: "Could it be that we really..."

"Change, everything is changing, even if it doesn't change now, it will definitely change in the future."

Yang Ci thought of Liu Bei's sharp words, and besides being annoyed, he also laughed at himself a little: "For example, some scholars dare to call me an old thief in public, which shows that people's hearts have changed, and all changes in the world have changed." It can be redeemed, but the only thing that can’t be redeemed is people’s change of mind.”

Regarding all that Yang Ci said, Yang Biao was silent.

After this debate, Dong Yuan launched more radical actions. First, he arrested and interrogated several members of the Yang family. The reason was that their description of the assassination process was too detailed, which made people suspect that they were the leaders, so they had to be investigated. .

At the same time, several disciples of the ancient literature school were also arrested. The reason was that when the eunuchs came to question them, they spoke fiercely and contradicted the officials of the East Garden.

Now, mobilization is not about tea.

That was a serious hands-on interrogation.

Say!
How do you know so carefully?

do not know?
If you don’t know, I’ll call until you know!
forget?

come!

Give me a memory recovery technique!Help him remember well!
A disciple of the Yang family and a disciple of the ancient literature school were beaten to death, but they did not admit anything, and were beaten seriously and thrown out of prison.

In the next few days, the two died one after another.

The two schools were shocked, and immediately asked Dong Yuan for an explanation, but Dong Yuan's explanation was very simple.

For the safety of the emperor, such means are necessary.

Whoever dares to stop, whoever dares to resist, will have contact with the rebellious thief and will be investigated!
Otherwise, just deal with it as a traitor!

The fierce aura repelled the scholars who went to question him.

Dongyuan's bottomless interrogation continued.

Dongyuan began to show his power, and the ancient literature school and the modern literature school finally noticed something wrong with this matter.

But what is wrong, they are still a little confused.

From the current point of view, the more important thing is that Liu Bei's anger against Yang Ci has spread throughout Luoyang.

Everyone knows that Yang Ci slandered Lu Zhi but was stunned by Liu Bei, Lu Zhi's disciple, and became a brazen old thief.

What happened at the same time was the further confrontation and mutual attack between the School of Modern Literature and the School of Ancient Literature.

It is impossible for the two parties to achieve reconciliation, and the conflict is getting deeper and deeper. Although facing the joint attack of Dongyuan controlled by the eunuch, there is no sign of cooperating with each other. Instead, they are thinking about how to use the eunuch to kill each other.

This is something far more serious than the disaster of party imprisonment.

At that time, at least there was a certain degree of tacit cooperation between the ancient and the modern, but now, there is nothing.

In its place has been a more intense, stark confrontation.

Some people still want to maintain their sanity, and the doves on both sides still want to save the situation, but the more radical and more resolute radicals can no longer be contained.

The radicals within the Ancient Literature School were completely irritated by the bad framing behavior of the Modern Literature School, and the radicals within the Modern Literature School were also completely angered by Liu Bei's targeted remarks.

The ancient literature school claimed that the thieves of the modern literature school tried to put them to death. This is an irreparable and unforgivable evil act.

But the modern literature school claims that the rebels of the ancient literature school disrespect saints and teachers, are rebellious, and are a complete jerk, especially that Liu Bei, who is simply a traitor without a king and father, should be beaten to death with a stick.

The sects of both parties went to the table to play against each other, accused each other of leading the assassination of the emperor, poured dirty water on each other, turned black and white, and the methods gradually became more vicious.

For example, Liu Bei was once attacked by rotten eggs on his way home from the government office to take a bath. Although he escaped one, he failed to escape the second one.

However, he still felt that these old men from the Modern Literature School were not decisive enough. Anyone who had a bit of courage to directly assassinate him would be better than rotten eggs in the street.

What else can Liu Bei do besides disgusting Liu Bei?
Can Hongnong Yang's lost face be brought back?
Obviously not.

After being insulted like this, none of the members of the Yang family stood up to fight him with such a reason, which is obviously unreasonable.

Back then, because someone insulted his teacher, Xia Houdun drew a knife in the street and killed the person who insulted the teacher. It is conceivable that it is not strange to kill people in the street for such a matter of reputation in this era.

But no one came to trouble Liu Bei, and at most they used rotten eggs to paste his face to disgust Liu Bei.

It is reasonable to say that the Yang family is the third generation and the third father. The disciples and old officials are not as good as the Yuan family, but there are also a lot of them. The result is that there is no one who dares to bring a knife to Liu Bei to settle accounts. I don’t know if they all know that Liu Bei has been on the battlefield. , is a fierce man with a hundred horses to save Lu Zhi, so I dare not.

Pooh!
A group of rats.

But Liu Bei is not in the mood to engage in low-end emotional disputes with these stupid insects for the time being, and the young scholars of the ancient literature school will help him to relieve his hatred.

His main energy now is actually on Dongyuan.

To be precise, it was placed on the intelligence department inside Dongyuan against Luo Yang.

Liu Bei really intervened in the work of Dongyuan and became one of the founders of Dongyuan. According to the division of labor discussed between him and Zhang Rang, Liu Bei was in charge of intelligence collection in areas other than Luoyang, and Zhang Rang was only responsible for Luoyang. interested in information.

Because he thinks that Luoyang is in the world, gathering the essence of the whole great man, mastering Luoyang is equivalent to mastering the great man, and mastering Luoyang, one can know all kinds of information.

Moreover, it should not be said that the local political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty when the county was the country also made it more difficult for Luoyang's intelligence personnel to carry out their work. It is as difficult to rebuild a national intelligence network as it is to rebuild the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Rang took it for granted that he would not engage in home court advantage, but had to fight hard in the away game.
Therefore, he lacked interest in intelligence gathering in areas other than Luoyang, and he did not even plan to allocate manpower to target areas other than Luoyang at the beginning.

But Liu Bei didn't think so.

He talked a little about the plundering of horses by Cheng Dazhi's group before, and connected it with the thriving Taipingdao in Jizhou area, thinking that the Taipingdao people were plotting something wrong.

He wanted to persuade the upper-level forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty to attack Taipingdao in advance, and strive to eliminate the forces in Taipingdao in various states in advance, so as to avoid the full-scale outbreak of the Taipingdao Rebellion.

"Previously, Taoist Taiping had already rebelled in Jizhou, and was apprehended and captured by the local government, but he was caught later. However, judging from his actions, it is obvious that he has not learned any lessons, and there is even a great possibility of rebellion."

Zhang Rang felt strange and did not understand this.

"Why do you pay as much attention to this kind of thing as Yang Ci? And even if there is such a thing, it is also a matter of the local county. What has it to do with us? The local county is not willing to let us reach out for anything. We manage?"

(End of this chapter)