Xuande

Chapter 33
Because he was in a good mood, one day when he took Liu Bei to visit Yang Biao to discuss some matters with him, Lu Zhi teased Liu Bei about it.

"My teacher has known you for several years, but you have never told me that you are good at five-character poems and seven-character poems, and that you can write such magnificent poems, Xuande, you surprise me so much. Do you know how many people have been asking for it recently? To accept apprentices as teachers?"

Lu Zhi saw that Liu Bei liked Liu Bei more and more, and felt that the surprise and face this disciple brought him was getting bigger and bigger.

Many people now praise Liu Bei when they see Lu Zhi, and even praise Lu Zhi for his good teaching, and ask Lu Zhi if he has any ideas about further accepting disciples.

Lu Zhi just laughed and waved his hands again and again, saying that he would concentrate on handling government affairs and serving the country, and would no longer accept disciples.

Liu Bei is the closed disciple, there is no next one.

There is no one in the family who has children who have not yet apprenticed to a teacher. They feel sorry for this.

Liu Bei also heard about this and thought it was funny.

"Teachers teach, students learn, but they must also introspect themselves, improve themselves, and learn as much as possible. Teacher, students follow the teacher to learn with the idea that the blue is better than the blue."

Lu Zhi turned his head to look at Liu Bei, then looked up to the sky and laughed, patted Liu Bei's shoulder repeatedly, and nodded in praise of Liu Bei's lofty ambition.

When they got to the door of Yang Biao's house, Lu Zhi called the door himself and opened it, but the doorman said that Yang Biao was not at home.

Lu Zhi felt strange.

"Obviously we made an appointment with Wen Xian, why isn't he here?"

"This... the villain doesn't know..."

Lu Zhi suddenly felt very depressed.

This time for the appointment, he thought the weather was good, so he deliberately didn't take the car, but came over, thinking about begging for a drink, but Yang Biao was not at home.

So he could only look at Liu Bei helplessly.

"If Yang Wenxian doesn't have a valid reason, I'm afraid he will owe a good meal."

Liu Bei could only smile, and set off on the way home with Lu Zhi. Before leaving, he happened to look back and saw an apricot flower in Yang Biao's mansion protruding from the courtyard wall, blooming beautifully.

Liu Bei rolled his eyes and suddenly had an interesting idea.

He whispered a few words to Lu Zhi, Lu Zhi's eyes lit up, he laughed out loud, and praised Liu Bei's talent again and again.

So within a few days, a song "Interviewing Yang Wenxian, No Encounter" spread in Luoyang City.

The poem says [Ying Lian's clogs are imprinted with green moss, and the Zhumen have been detained for a long time, but the garden is full of spring and cannot be closed, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall].

Liu Bei made some changes to this poem, and directly changed the name to "Jian Yang Wen Xian Bu Yu".

The first two sentences are indifferent, but the latter two sentences are really interesting, not only turning the invisible spring scenery into something tangible, but even a bit playful, which is loved by people.

There is no dispute, such vivid, interesting and even witty verses must be the works of Liu Xuande.

The hearts of the scholars in Luoyang who were hurt by the boring and poor poems were finally nourished by Liu Xuande's masterpiece.

When Yang Biao heard this poem in the official office, he suddenly realized that he had forgotten an important thing, and felt guilty immediately. He hurried to see Lu Zhi, apologized to him, and expressed his apology by inviting him to his home again .

Lu Zhi laughed and agreed.

Of course, Liu Bei will be brought along this time, and the two will attend together to attend Yang Biao's appointment.

This time Yang Biao was not only at home, but also went out to wait in person.

Seeing Liu Bei, Yang Biao said with a smile: "A poem by Xuande, everyone in Luoyang knows that I have neglected Zigan, maybe even the descendants will know, Xuande, you are really talented .”

Yang Biao said this with a smile, without the slightest intention to blame.

So Liu Bei laughed and said: "Mr. Yang is going to be famous in history. I will make a footnote and add a little color. Later generations will definitely find it more interesting when they look at Mr. Yang."

"Hahahahaha!"

Yang Biao laughed, seeing that Liu Bei was more pleasing to the eye, he welcomed Lu Zhi and Liu Bei into the mansion. There were also many maids with good wine, good food, singing and dancing, showing the demeanor of Hongnong Yang, the third generation and the third father.

Liu Bei ate and drank very happily, and ate up all the food without knowing it. Yang Biao laughed when he saw it, and asked someone to serve Liu Bei another food. Liu Bei was not polite and ate up again.

"Xuande has a good appetite!"

Yang Biao thought that the food in his mansion tasted excellent, and the guests recognized it, so he was overjoyed.

After drinking for three rounds, Yang Biao asked people to remove the empty dinner plate, served sweet drinks and fruits, turned the singing and dancing at dinner into a gala music for digestion, and talked about the things in the court.

"Cao Jie is ill. I heard that the illness is quite serious. I haven't come to Shangshutai for several days."

Lu Zhi took a sip of his drink, shook his head and said, "The Son of Heaven actually regards eunuchs as ministers. We didn't expect that before, who would be willing to live under eunuchs if they didn't do their best for the country?"

"Shangshutai is not a formal official office after all. The emperor can do whatever he wants, but he has an important position and authority. What can we do?"

Yang Biao sighed, shook his head and said: "I can only say that I am incompetent, unable to help the emperor, and to set the court order, I can only let the eunuchs make troubles, there is nothing I can do, alas..."

Lu Zhi also felt very helpless for a while, and sighed repeatedly.

Liu Bei buried his head in eating the fruit, and didn't interrupt the conversation of the bosses.

Of course, it is very unfavorable for scholars to have eunuchs governing.

Not to mention the Eastern Han Dynasty after the implementation of the party ban, the situation of scholars was very unfavorable, and the situation of eunuchs governing became more and more serious. Now even the foreign relatives were touched by eunuchs. Seeing the complete imperial power of the Trinity appearing on the stage again, if you want to say that you don’t panic, That is impossible.

Because of such a political situation, the eunuchs' previous efforts to stir up a dispute between modern and ancient literature were unsuccessful. No matter whether it is the school of modern literature or the school of ancient literature, without sufficient interests, they can still handle it clearly in the face of the threat of complete imperial power. of.

Judging from the current situation, the eunuchs are very powerful. The emperor Liu Hong trusted the eunuchs, and he opened the Hongdu school to cultivate the power of the imperial eunuchs and literati.

At the beginning, Hongdumen School was just an institution set up by Liu Hong to satisfy his literary style, but later on it was controlled by eunuchs, and now it has become a way for eunuchs to train their party members.

Moreover, under the impetus of the eunuchs, the emperor Liu Hong also came up with [Hongdu Menxuan] from time to time, selecting candidates who were satisfied with the eunuchs from the Hongdu School to take up official positions, which to a considerable extent affected scholars' perceptions of administrative positions and administrative positions. monopoly of power.

Now the power of the scholars is indeed severely compressed by the emperor. The biggest and final advantage that the scholars can grasp is the cultural advantage and the advantage of public opinion. This is also the most unsolvable deadlock, and it is the part that Liu Hong cannot shake.

Mastering the power of interpretation of Confucian academics, scholars are invincible. The emperor can only suppress them, but cannot completely tame them. Once they die, the government will inevitably cease.

Liu Hong has the reputation of being stupid, but in Liu Bei's view, if these things are Liu Hong's own wishes, then he is definitely not stupid. It's just that the Eastern Han Dynasty is hard to return, and the accumulated disadvantages are too serious. He has no way to recover .

However, based on the analysis of the current situation, Liu Bei prefers that Liu Hong is really just a mascot and appearance supported by the eunuchs, and a series of methods of suppressing scholars, including the second disaster of party imprisonment, are not his original intention.

He was only 13 years old at the time, and had not yet received a complete education in imperial studies. He had not been emperor for long, and if he could see through the crisis of imperial power so quickly and choose to unite eunuchs to fight against his relatives, he would be a genius.

Ying Zheng wasn't that awesome when he was 13 years old.

And some of the things he did later for pleasure also fully reflected that he didn't have any superb political skills at all, and it was more like being pushed forward by someone.

Of course, Liu Hong didn't have that ability, and the two scribes who could represent the modern and ancient schools of literature to a certain extent, obviously didn't have the consciousness to revolutionize their own lives to bring new life to the Han Dynasty.

Loyalty, loyal to what?

Whether it is Liu Hong, or the Han Dynasty, or his status as a scholar, or his life of glory and wealth.

Liu Bei didn't know.

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