Xuande

Chapter 432 Liu Hong is sick
Let Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu go?

What are they going to do?I want you to go!
Liu Hongcai refused to agree to He Jin's alternative plan, and once again ordered He Jin to act in person. If he did not act, he would be disobeying the order, disobeying the emperor's order, and punishing him!
He Jin was very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. He was the Son of Heaven, and he couldn't handle him in terms of righteousness and fame.

He Jin can take over the appointment, but he has to show that the army under his command is useless, most of them are old and weak, and he needs to go to other places to recruit troops, and then go out after the recruitment is over.

On the other hand, He Jin and Yuan Kai are going to spend money to buy Liu Yan, let Liu Yan increase his efforts to destroy the Yellow Turban Army, or submit a table to the court saying that he can solve the Xuzhou Yellow Turban by himself, and does not need the court to send reinforcements, so as to cut off Liu Hong from moving the tiger away from the mountain possible.

In short, we should use two prongs to deal with each other. No matter what, we can't leave Luoyang, and we can't give Liu Hong a chance to do things.

Seeing that his tricks didn't work, Liu Hong was very anxious. He spent the last day of Zhongping's five years in depression, and ushered in the sixth year of Zhongping in an even more depressed mood.

At the beginning of this year, Liu Hong got drunk from drinking a lot of alcohol, and his body was hot from playing with his beloved concubine, so he went out naked in the cold night to "enjoy the coolness".

To die like this is of course to ask for the hammer. Liu Hong contracted a cold and became ill for a long time. He lay on the bed for more than half a month before he could recover.

After contracting the wind and cold this time, Liu Hong felt that his body was not as good as before. Even if the symptoms disappeared, he often felt tired, did not sleep enough, and was weak.

The doctor told him not to drink alcohol, not to be close to women, rest more, and eat more light food to recuperate his body. After a year and a half, his body will be restored to its original state.

But how could Liu Hong's body, which was used to drinking and sex, withstand the "torture" of quitting drinking and sex?
He went his own way, and as a result, he had many physical problems and was forced to drink medicine every day, but he was unwilling to follow the doctor's advice to abstain from drinking, sex and sex, and to avoid food.

In fact, Liu Hong also has relatively serious emotional problems.

Because of anxiety and a sense of urgency, he was under a lot of psychological pressure, and he needed an indulgent way to relieve the pressure, otherwise he felt that sooner or later he would be driven crazy by the pressure of He and Yuan.

Since the beginning of the new year, Empress He tried to meet Liu Hong many times, and occasionally Liu Hong softened her heart and asked her to come to see her. As soon as she met Empress He, she said how difficult it was for the He family, how it was so important, and asked Liu Hong why She was willing to attack He Shi, and there were many complaints in her words.

Liu Hong was furious, he no longer saw Empress He, and gradually lost control of his emotions, becoming more and more irritable. In this case, he really had no means to relieve the pressure except drinking and indulging in sex.

He is also very difficult.

At the end of the first month of the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Hong asked Jian Shuo to ask Liu Bei again how the preparations were going and whether it was time to set off, and finally got the news that Liu Bei's preparations were almost the same, and he would be able to set off in a few days.

Liu Hong was overjoyed by this, and drank a lot of wine to celebrate, but he was lying on the hospital bed and couldn't get up because of this, and his body became weaker and weaker day by day.

When he was sick, Jian Shuo reported to him many times that He Jin and Yuan Kai were having trouble in private.

For example, they linked up with the officials of the DPRK and China everywhere, made friends with them, gave gifts, and tried to win them over. Most of the officials in the entire court did not refuse He Jin and Yuan Kai's solicitation, and even some officials of the Jinwen School accepted He Jin's offer in private. bona fide.

Only a few ministers such as Lu Zhi, Xun Shuang, Fu Qian, Cai Yong, and Ma Ridun explicitly rejected He Jin's solicitation.

But they were also opposed to abolishing the elders and establishing the younger ones. They didn't want to stand with Liu Hong, they just didn't want to get too close to He Jin, Yuan Wei and others.

Liu Hong was worried on the sickbed.

"As a Taiwei, Lu Zhi has the right to open the government, but he can't fight against Yuan Kai and He Jin, so that He Jin and Yuan Kai are too powerful to be contained. They are really incompetent. If I knew this, I might as well have Recall Xuande at once, let him be the Taiwei!"

Liu Hong's words were not out of anger, he was really dissatisfied with Lu Zhi.

As the Taiwei who has the right to open the government, and the inheritor of "Zuoshi Chunqiu", Lu Zhi himself has a strong attraction to scholars all over the world. Many scholars want to join Lu Zhi's sect and become his disciples , to work for him.

But Lu Zhi didn't like too many people taking refuge in him, and worried that after too many people took refuge in him, his subordinates would be mixed up, and some people would rely on his reputation to do bad things and ruin his reputation.

Lu Zhi believed that since he wanted to become the leader of the ancient literature school, he must have an impeccable reputation, so he regarded reputation as the most important thing, and he adopted an attitude of preferring what is lacking to abuse his disciples, and the selection was extremely strict.

There must be both talent and moral character. The selection criteria are directly close to Liu Bei's. They must have both ability and moral character.

But are there many such people?
At the beginning, many people wanted to join Lu Zhi's family with strong enthusiasm, but soon, this enthusiasm was blocked by Lu Zhi's high demands.

From the time when Lu Zhi started recruiting students until the ancient literature school split and Lu Zhi lost power, Lu Zhi recruited a total of more than a dozen students, and there was not a single student. No one recommended him, and finally he stopped accepting anyone. visit him.

There are a few officials who are promoted by him because of his ability, but most of them are county magistrates in other places, because Lu Zhi believes that those who are useful to the country should go to the local area to practice and exercise their administrative ability, and then return to Luoyang to share the worries of the king.

So on the whole, the number of officials in Lu Zhi Taiwei's Mansion is far inferior to Yuan Kai's Situ Mansion.

Therefore, Lu Zhi could not compete with Yuan Wei in terms of political power. Although he belonged to the Sangong, Yuan Wei could mobilize much more manpower and material resources than Lu Zhi.

In Liu Hong's view, you have such a status, why can't you further expand your power and fight Yuan Wei?

As long as Lu Zhi has some personal power, Liu Hong doesn't need to bother Liu Bei so much.

"In the final analysis, the only person I can trust is Xuande. The others are either too selfish or have strange behaviors. They can be trusted, but they are not capable enough..."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, Liu Xuande will be back soon."

Jian Shuo can only persuade Liu Hong, comfort Liu Hong, and let Liu Hong feel a little relieved.

Liu Hong was silent for a while, and suddenly thought of something.

"Although I recalled Xuande, Xuande can only compete against the He family and the Yuan family in the army. In the court, Xuande does not have too much power. Both the Yuan family and the He family can open a mansion, but Xuande has Without this qualification, how can we fight against He and Yuan?"

Liu Hong intended to appoint Liu Bei as a representative of Liu's forces.

He felt that as long as there was Liu Bei operating power in the court, no matter what happened, even if Liu Bian became the emperor, he would not be easily swayed by He and Yuan.

The clan of the Great Han has representatives, and if the clan is powerful, relatives and scholars cannot bully the emperor, and the emperor has helpers.

However, Liu Bei only held the position of Shangshu Pushe in Luoyang City before. He had power but no status, and could not win over and build his own political power. Now Liu Bei's power is mainly concentrated in Liangzhou and Yizhou, and in Luoyang it is This power is missing.

On the contrary, the Yuan family and the He family are powerful in Luoyang Guang, and they have many minions. Liu Bei is new here, if he is not prepared, he may suffer a loss.

Jian Shuo didn't know much about these matters, so he couldn't give Liu Hong a good adviser, and Liu Hong had no one to discuss with.

Depressed, Liu Hong finally thought of the Shi Changshi who had been neglected by him for several months, and thought of Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

(End of this chapter)