Xuande

Chapter 54

Yuan Shao seems to have the spirit of inclusiveness, and is willing to accept heroes from all over the world to work for him under his command, but he can't control and control these talents under his command well, and can't maximize their strength.

He seemed to think that he only needed to recruit talents to his subordinates, and then he only needed to let them develop their respective abilities, and nothing else mattered.

Under the banner of the fourth generation and the third lord Yuan's, these talents will definitely devote all their strength to him. The others are not the most important. If the people below fight, let them fight, it may be better.

Just like right now, Liu Bei sorted out the quality of talents under Yuan Shao's command, and found that Yuan Shao's command was really a big dye vat.

From the perspective of the School of Confucianism, Yuan Shao has the School of Ancient Classics and the School of Modern Classics.

are opposite to each other.

From the perspective of geographical origin, Yuan Shao has his old family from Runan, Hebei people, Luoyang natives, Central Plains people, and northern Youzhou people like Liu Bei.

They are not harmonious with each other and often engage in regional discrimination.

In terms of family origin, there are local tyrants, official families, and scholar families.

There is also a clear chain of contempt between each other.

From the perspective of official power, there are two thousand stone prefects and white civilians.

Will there be no difference between officials and commoners?
From a political point of view, there are scholars and eunuchs.

This is the enemy of life and death, the main contradiction.

Even the political spectrum at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty could not accommodate such a team composition that deviated from the original spectrum.

But Yuan Shao didn't take this kind of thing seriously.

He chose to let the cliques under his command form groups with each other, and he did not limit, guide, or suppress the ideas and practices of a certain faction. He sat back and watched the gradual birth of the gap between the various teams, and never took any means to suppress or bridge the contradictions between his subordinates.

For example, Yuan Shao didn't care about Cao Cao being isolated by many small gangs, and he didn't take the opportunity to take Cao Cao into his heart, so that Cao Cao could truly become his confidant and advise him.

He accepted Cao Cao, probably just to complete a political mission.

So the depressed Cao Cao could only move closer to Liu Bei, the only one who didn't mind his background, and formed a very good relationship with Liu Bei, and even faintly became a state where Liu Bei was the main and Cao Cao was the auxiliary.

Yuan Shao didn't seem to care about this either.

So Liu Bei made friends on his platform like a fish in water and raised his social status. It can be said that there are great scholars who have contacts but no white friends. While his reputation is growing, his political future is also secretly optimistic by many people.

Many people think that Liu Bei, as a disciple of the great Confucian Lu Zhi and a good friend of Yuan Shao, will definitely be able to rise to a higher level in the future. Although he is only a small official at present, once he has the opportunity, he will definitely be able to skyrocket and become a high-ranking official.

However, Liu Bei hadn't waited for the opportunity to be promoted, but he happened to face the aftermath of the party's misfortune.

The cause of the incident was the first month of the fifth year of Guanghe. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong, did not know whose suggestion he had listened to, or perhaps he had thought of it himself. Eliminate harm to the people" and remove incompetent local officials.

This order came quite suddenly, and it also came very strangely. There was no news beforehand, but the order was issued suddenly, which made many officials in the court at a loss.

Lu Zhi didn't know about this matter beforehand, and felt that he was caught off guard. Many officials at Shangshutai felt that this order was a bit inexplicable.

"San Gongcao should be in charge of state and county officials in the senior high school entrance examination class. It was completed last year, and the evaluation of pros and cons has also been completed. Logically speaking, this kind of thing should not happen again. Why do you suddenly want to report officials who harm the people?"

Lu Zhi was very worried about this. He told Liu Bei in private that he suspected that this was another good thing done by the eunuchs.

They are planning to eliminate dissidents and increase their power.

Sure enough, how could the eunuchs let go of such a good opportunity to break away from the system and eliminate dissidents?

According to the regulations, the third Duke Cao of Shangshutai has the power to assess the achievements of state and county officials in the world. This is an institutional power, and it is not currently controlled by the eunuchs, so they did not do what the eunuchs wanted to see during the year-end exams.

So they took this opportunity to start a wave of things and bring a wave of rhythm.

They quickly mobilized their power in the imperial court, using the eunuchs Taiwei Xu Yu, Sikong Zhang Ji and their minions to launch another wave of sudden attacks on the power of the non-eunuch group.

They did not launch a strike against the county governors who corrupted the local eunuchs who corrupted the law, but launched a strike against 26 border state and county officials who were found to be fine after the assessment last year, and slandered them as corrupt officials. Liu Hong, demanded that they be deposed.

It is conceivable that after these 26 local officials who are not Afu eunuchs are deposed, they will be immediately assigned to Afu eunuchs to take up these positions. The power of the eunuch group will be further strengthened, while the power of scholars will be further weakened .

Originally, it was not up to Liu Bei, a little shrimp, to express his opinion on this matter, because even Lu Zhi had no ability to intervene in this matter, let alone Liu Bei, who was only Shangshutai Lingshi, so Liu Bei had no intention at first. Participate in this matter.

But Liu Bei was still passively involved in this political turmoil.

Because among the 26 officials at the county level who were framed by the eunuch group to participate in the performance, there was the name of his father-in-law Han Taishou Han Rong.

He was promoted by Han Rong as a Xiaolian, so that he could arrive at Luoyang as an official, not to mention that Han Rong is still his father-in-law, and he must participate in this matter and serve his old father-in-law, otherwise Is he still a person?
What's more, as far as he knew, Han Rong didn't have any great political achievements, and his hands and feet were not too clean.

But he is lenient in politics, doesn't like to toss the people, doesn't engage in ostentation and performance projects, and belongs to the general who picks generals among the dwarfs. During his tenure, the people lived a peaceful life and ate a few more rice bran.

So Han Rong didn't have much credit, and he wasn't considered an upright official, but he definitely couldn't be called a corrupt and corrupt official.

The eunuchs did this purely to replace these disobedient sheriffs with their own people so that they could grasp more political resources and economic interests. This is a struggle for power in the world.

The struggle between scholars and eunuchs has actually failed, and the appearance of the disaster of the party is a sign of the failure of scholars. The eunuchs have the upper hand, and the scholars are at a disadvantage.

The reason why the eunuchs did not kill all the scholars was mainly because the scholars had mastered the knowledge of governance, and the educated people from the children of the eunuchs and the eunuchs attached to them were not enough to completely replace the scholars.

The establishment of Hongdumen School was an attempt by the new forces to break the monopoly of scholars over official positions.

This attempt seems to be quite successful so far. In many places, local tyrants and other people who had no advanced ranks in the past have obtained the care of eunuchs through the relationship of Hongdu School, so that they can serve as county magistrates, county guards, and governors, and become eunuchs' minions. , Competing for power with scholars in the local area.

The current situation is caused by the fact that the scholars have gone too far before.

Through the White Tiger View meeting, the first-mover scholar families monopolized almost all of the political power, and even the late-mover scholar families had to rely on the ancient texts to compete for political interests with the first movers, let alone the local tycoons who did not even master the Confucian classics.

However, local tyrants own land, population, and money, so they will naturally pursue political power upwards. Just being a local official cannot meet their political needs.

Now the eunuchs are in control of the Hongdu school, and they urged Han Lingdi Liu Hong to select the Hongdu school, and forcibly opened up a way for them from top to bottom. Among them, there must be ambitious people who take refuge in the eunuchs and change their fate against the sky. .

If Liu Bei knew that he was not Liu Bei, maybe he would follow the path of an eunuch, enter Hongdu School, and become a county magistrate or county guard.

At that time, the world will be in chaos anyway, and if you pull up an army, who cares if you are from the Hongdu School?
Everyone has to eat with a knife.

But now that Liu Bei has become the lucky one in a thousand and has successfully changed his social class, he naturally has to make good use of his social status to gain more advantages for his goals.

Moreover, although the eunuchs objectively broke the strong control of the scholars on political power and enhanced the mobility of social classes, subjectively they were only for their own self-interest.

Most of the people they selected were the children of their own family, Afu's own people, and even those who bought officials. After taking office as officials, their actions were mostly fish and meat and harmed the village, which did not have much positive meaning.

They are just a group of opportunists. They will follow whoever wins and who has the most power. If the scholars are really willing to accept them, they will never cling to the eunuch's thigh.

Eunuchs and scholars are equally different, and the two bastards are more assholes than anyone else, so there is no need for Liu Bei to change his position as a scholar, and even if he wants to change, it is not now.

Under the current situation, the eunuch is undoubtedly his enemy.

(End of this chapter)