Xuande

Chapter 122 Confused People
There is only victory and defeat, no right or wrong?

What kind of absurd reasoning is this...

But in this court, everyone seems to be doing this.

Lu Zhi was speechless, only a wry smile remained.

He was very tired, and the internal disputes in the Shangshutai had made him exhausted. As a Shangshuling, he was on the front line of the confrontation between Yuan Wei and Yang Ci, and the feeling was really sour.

But he can't be absent.

Liu Bei has done a lot for the school and himself. Now, it's time for Liu Bei to restrain his edge, and it's time for him as a teacher to do something for his disciples.

Lu Zhi asked for sick leave for Liu Bei with exhaustion all over his body, and Liu Bei's sick leave was approved, so Liu Bei was able to recuperate at home, and at the same time restrained his edge to avoid the increasingly fierce court battle.

This happened to give Liu Bei a lot of free time except for the remote-controlled assassination of the three brothers Zhang Jiao.

He either spends his free time with his family, or socializes with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others, and continues to expand his social circle.

Cao Cao's current Yilang status doesn't mean much to him.

In this extremely fierce factional struggle, Cao Cao's status was embarrassing. On the surface, he did not belong to any faction like his family, so he simply avoided it and behaved with his tail between his legs, trying not to attract the attention of others.

Yuan Shao is standing on the united front with Liu Bei, but he currently has no official position and is still living in seclusion, and he can't talk about having any influence on the current situation. He just keeps lamenting that the world is changing.

"The current situation, a few months ago, I didn't even dare to think about it."

At the reception, Yuan Shao sighed again and again, feeling helpless about the current situation in Luoyang City.

Xu You, Zhang Miao, He Yong, Wu Qiong and others who participated in the reception also seemed a little helpless.

Liu Bei knew why they were helpless.

Because the situation has changed too fast, the current situation shows that their political group with anti-eunuchs as the core is a bit out of date and unable to keep up with the historical process.

When Liu Bei joined them in the fourth year of Guanghe, the scourge of the party was still the main contradiction of the big man. The party members were still fleeing around under the threat of eunuchs. It was a bit like trying to survive. The struggle between scholars and eunuchs was still very fierce. .

But when the time came to Guanghe five years, the situation changed drastically.

In less than a year, the party prison was useless, especially the party prison for families that were not present in this text, and it was cancelled.

He Yong was safe and even became an official again.

Zhang Miao is also safe.

Xu You and Wu Qiong, who used to hate eunuchs every day, suddenly felt that they couldn't find their way in life.

All of a sudden they were no longer theoretically the enemies of the eunuchs.

Immediately afterwards, the dispute between modern and ancient literature suddenly became the main contradiction in the Han dynasty. Scholars split extremely quickly. Call one intense.

Yuan Shao followed the Yuan family, who originally belonged to the Jinwen School, but later directly jumped back to the position of the Ancient Literature School. His circle of friends was basically cut off from other Jinwen Wenyue families, and he no longer dared to have any superficial connections. .

A group of people have practiced how to deal with eunuchs for many years, and they are planning to continue to show their strengths after the success that Liu Bei created for them at the beginning, but the times suddenly changed, and the wind direction also changed rapidly.

So that He Yong, who has been running around to deal with the eunuch, fell into confusion.

He was wondering what he had done all these years and what was the significance. The people he couldn't save with all his efforts, and the party that he couldn't end, ended so suddenly.

It's not even as if it never happened.

Then there was the war between modern and ancient literature, the scholars split, and the eunuchs seemed to disappear all of a sudden. The scholars became the main force in the struggle, and the eunuchs retreated to the second line, and their sense of existence was greatly reduced.

If it weren't for the assassination of the emperor and the rise of Dongyuan, the scholars are still tearing each other apart.

But even though the rise of Dongyuan has brought a huge threat to the scholars, the two groups of scholars who have no room for maneuver in the struggle with each other can no longer join hands to fight against the eunuchs, and even their current idea is to use the eunuchs to clean up each other.

Scholars of the Modern Literature School and scholars of the Ancient Literature School, who used to be able to communicate friendlyly, could not continue to maintain the relationship on the surface, and it was even difficult to maintain the relationship in private.

Under the premise that the two sides are extremely hostile to each other, any public or private communication is risky. The elders of each family are also constantly reminding the young people in the family to act cautiously and not to follow the truth.

The incident between Lu Zhi and Yang Biao was taken as a typical case.

Once friends, now they are complete enemies. The Yang family of Hongnong, the Lu family and the Liu family of Zhuojun have become mortal enemies that cannot be resolved, and there must be a decisive battle between each other.

The song "Interview with Yang Wenxian", which was once popular in Luoyang, was full of gorgeous fantasy and romance, and it was a testimony of friendship, but looking at it now, it is inexplicably more sad.

A grain of sand of the times falls on a person, that is, a Wuzhi Mountain, which makes them unable to move, have difficulty breathing, and suffer terribly.

Especially the middle and lower class of the modern literature school and the middle and upper class of the ancient literature school, the huge gap and separation between them caused them to fall into a certain degree of confusion and pain.

Yuan Shao's political squad is united around anti-eunuchs as the core, but now, the dispute between modern and ancient prose is the main contradiction. .

The intensification of this confrontation has directly shaken the foundation of Yuan Shao's political squad. Anti-eunuchs, as a panacea-style political program, no longer have enough appeal to resolve the differences between the modern literature school and the ancient literature school. It is impossible to appeal to more scholars.

His Yuan Benchu's gold-lettered signboard suddenly lost its gold content, as if it had never been a piece of gold, but was plated with gold.

Yuan Shao himself was also very confused, he even felt very horrified.

If it weren't for the Yuan family's soft figure and good at jumping sideways repeatedly, he and Liu Bei would have to become enemies now, and more than half of the members of the political squad that Liu Bei had recruited for him would stand on his opposite side.

If this is the case, his newly established political power and his fledgling reputation will be directly cut in half, and he will return to before liberation overnight.

Is this acceptable?

Even so, the Yuan family's repeated rampages did not come without a price.

Externally, the Jinwen School headed by the Hongnong Yang family has rallied its propaganda machine to stigmatize and attack the Yuan family, exposing their sinful faces repeatedly to the world.

In the political arena, relevant officials of the Jinwen School are also doing their best to launch attacks on Yuan's disciples and former official groups, and various political offensives follow one after another.

For example, in one month in Hebei alone, more than a dozen county-level officials who were students of the Yuan family and former officials were impeached for various reasons ranging from dereliction of duty to corruption.

At the central level, more than a dozen Yuan family members, disciples, and former officials in various central institutions were also impeached and politically attacked, and the attacks were very fierce.

Internally, Yuan's backstabbing of the Modern Literature School and turning to the Ancient Literature School camp at a critical moment was also looked down upon by some disciples and former officials. They thought it was an act of unsteady stance and moral corruption, and they were very dissatisfied.

Even the Yuan family in Runan has a member of the family who publicly claimed that the leader of the Yuan family, Yuan Kuide, should step down, hand over the dominance of the Yuan family, and stop the repeated family behavior, so as to save the Yuan family. reputation.

They almost openly broke with Yuan's forces dominated by Yuan Wei, did not support Yuan Wei,

At that time, Yuan Kai was facing extremely strong political pressure and moral pressure both internally and externally, and was in a very dangerous situation. These days, he often called the younger generations of his family together for a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

It's just a bad day anyway.

At the same time, Yuan Shao also learned that the Xun family in Yingchuan who jumped with Yuan Wei was also besieged.

Some Jinwen Confucian families who also came from Yingchuan publicly claimed that they were ashamed of the Xun family and were unwilling to continue to associate with the Xun family, and even cut off some in-law contacts that had been negotiated.

Xun You and Xun Yu, the next generation leaders of the Xun family, have grown up, and the time has come to promote filial piety, but because of this incident, the family's plan was stranded, and they had to find another way.

Even the matter of Xun Yu marrying the eunuch's daughter was brought up again, which was ridiculed by the people of the time. Everyone was mocking the Xun family for having an eunuch's daughter-in-law, lamenting loudly that the descendants of the god Xun Shu were unworthy, and the Xun family was about to collapse some type of.

Anyway, after these two families were accepted by the ancient literature school, they have already died in the modern literature school and their traditional social circle.

(End of this chapter)