Xuande

Chapter 36 This is a PUA
Under the general environment of the scourge of the party, the dispute between modern and ancient prose actually belongs to the internal contradictions of the scholar class, and the dictatorship of eunuchs is the main contradiction of the current Luoyang court.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dispute between modern and ancient prose could still be regarded as the main conflict in the court, but time has passed, and today is different from the past, and everything has become different from that time.

Reminiscent of Lu Zhi's previous statement of "the water is too deep" and the current attitude of the top family like the Yuan family towards him, Liu Bei easily came to such a conclusion.

But for the Yuan family, Liu Bei concluded that the reason why these guys acted secretly had a deeper conspiracy.

Since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor and imperial power have been two separate concepts. Eunuchs can control imperial power, and foreign relatives can also control imperial power. As long as they are powerful, anyone can control imperial power.

That being the case...

My Yuan family, with the surname of Zhong in the world, four generations and three princes, a wealthy family for many generations, is unspeakably expensive, why can't I ask the top of power?
And if you want to reach the pinnacle of power, only relying on the Yuan family, and their disciples and old officials, is somewhat insufficient.

Those who respect the Yuan family say that their disciples and old officials are all over the world, but the world is so big, how can there be only the Yuan family as a power?
If Yuan Shi thinks that he can control the world by himself, it would be a little too small to look down on the people in the world.

In order to control the imperial power, eunuchs controlled Hongdu school, used Hongdu school to expand their power, and squeezed the living space of scholar politics.

In order to control the imperial power, foreign relatives not only make good use of their own family members, but also cooperate with scholars in a certain sense in exchange for their support.

So if scholars want to control the imperial power, they also need to cooperate with representatives of more power groups in exchange for mutual understanding.

Maybe, the Yuan family is already laying the groundwork for the new system of the Han Dynasty under Yuan's ruling in the future.

In this way, Yuan Shao's initiative to invite at this moment has a somewhat different meaning.

With such thoughts in mind, Liu Bei thought about his various behaviors after coming to Luoyang, and realized that he was already a celebrity in a certain sense.

Standing in front of you is——

Clan of the Han Dynasty, after King Jing of Zhongshan, a rising star of the School of Classical Classics, a master debater of the School of Classical Classics, a personal disciple of Lu Zhi, a master of the School of Classical Classics, and the future heir to the mantle!
Liu Xuande!
Such an identity has obviously surpassed Liu Bei's original background. No one cared about his poor background as a weaver of mats and shoes, but more concerned about his current status in the School of Classical Classics.

As the most important personal disciple of the boss Lu Zhi, especially after he established the personality of a poet, he not only made achievements in serious academics, but also led the trend of Luoyang in hobbies, which will inevitably attract a lot of people eyeball.

It is only natural for someone like Yuan Shao who wants to make trouble to notice Liu Bei.

And from this incident, Liu Bei also noticed something meaningful to him...

After breakfast the next morning, Liu Bei studied military books in his study and read the reading notes that Lu Zhi had prepared for him. At around [-]:[-] a.m., a servant at home sent a greeting card, saying that the person who came last night had arrived again. .

There is no doubt that it is Cao Cao.

So Liu Bei changed into the clothes for going out, tidied up his clothes, and went out.

At the door, Cao Cao stood outside the carriage and looked at him with a smile. When he saw him coming, he performed simple etiquette as a greeting.

"Liu Jun, did you sleep well last night?"

"Naturally, after sleeping until dawn, I wake up refreshed in the morning."

Liu Bei smiled back and saluted.

Cao Cao laughed.

"Liu Jun is really extraordinary. Ben Chu asked me to invite many scholars. When I heard that Ben Chu wanted to meet them, everyone was so excited that they couldn't sleep well. The next day's spirit was not very good. Xuande is the only one who can be so calm."

"Oh? Looks like Yuan Jun has some ideas."

"It's just a little test. There are too many people who want to see the original."

"is it?"

Liu Bei nodded with a smile, and then got into the carriage with Cao Cao.

Sitting in the carriage, Cao Cao praised the poems "written" by Liu Bei, and asked him about the essentials of creating five-character poems and seven-character poems.

"Xuande's five-character poems and seven-character poems are very famous in Luoyang. Many people imitate them, but they can't write Xuande's artistic conception at all. It is really admirable."

Liu Bei thought it was of course the case. There were tens of thousands of poems in the Tang and Song dynasties, and only a few of them were so carefully selected that later generations were familiar with. Can it be awesome?

But if he really wants to talk about the essentials of creating five-character poems and seven-character poems, Liu Bei can only tell Cao Cao that this is a matter of innate talent, and the use of words and sentences is wonderful.

Is the magic of using it all in one mind?

What a mysterious statement.

No wonder Liu Bei was valued by big bosses like Lu Zhi because of his humble background, and he was accepted as a direct disciple. This kind of knowledge is far better than countless children of the noble family.

There are so many talents in the world.

Cao Cao sighed very much.

So Cao Cao became serious and bowed to Liu Bei to show that he had been taught.

Liu Bei smiled and waved his hands.

what is this?
The goods in my head are far less than these.

Along the way, Liu Bei and Cao Cao talked and laughed happily, starting with poems and essays.

The more we talked, the more Cao Cao liked Liu Bei.

Rather, he has had an inexplicable affection for Liu Bei since yesterday.

Because Liu Bei didn't have prejudice against his family background like other people who met for the first time, and he didn't have the same prejudice as other scholars-the eyes of other scholars always made him feel instinctively uncomfortable.

Cao Cao, who was born in a family of eunuchs, is most disgusted by others talking about his family background, but most scholars view this matter in this way.

I thought Liu Bei would care more or less as a scholar, but I didn't expect Liu Bei not to care at all.

Perhaps, this has something to do with Liu Bei's poor background and not being so particular about it.

However, now that the disaster of party imprisonment is intensifying, more and more people dare not be rude to themselves publicly, but in private, how can Cao Cao not know how many insults to himself?

Party imprisonment is a very cruel political method. Scholars who do not deal with eunuchs and are attacked by eunuchs are called "party members" by eunuchs. Party imprisonment means to question party members and imprison them in their hometowns, and not allow them to leave their hometowns. He is not allowed to be an official.

No matter how big an official you are before, as long as you offend the eunuchs and don't deal with the eunuchs, then you can say nothing, just be called a party member, and your political career will be zeroed directly.

Not only myself, but some unlucky relatives and friends will be implicated, and they will not be officials together, and the whole family will be reduced.

Life restarted is equal to yes.

In this matter, whether you are a party member or not has little to do with the ancient literature school of the modern literature school. Many people of the modern literature school were harmed by the party's prison, and some of the ancient literature school were also attacked by the party's prison.

The key is not who you are, only by relying on the eunuch, or at least not blatantly opposing the eunuch, this kind of person can not be defined as a party member and continue to be an official - after all, the emperor also needs scholars to help him govern the country .

In Liu Bei's view, this might not be a kind of PUA.

In this way, scholars who are willing to cooperate are selected and appointed, given power to them, and their reputation is hit, so that they will die in the circle of scholars and have to rely on the emperor and eunuchs to gain a foothold.

Hard work is not evil.

This belongs to the fact that the eunuch group manipulated the imperial power to reduce the overall dimension of the scholars, and the scholars suffered heavy losses for this, and the anti-eunuch forces were severely hit.

This also directly affected the political stability of the Eastern Han Dynasty, making the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was already hard to return, to the point of dying.

It's really not a good thing.

And this is something Liu Bei wanted to understand last night.

(End of this chapter)