Xuande

Chapter 75 Raising a white-eyed wolf, this is

After observing this series of phenomena, Liu Bei realized that the situation in Luoyang might be about to change.

Before Liu Bei carefully analyzed the reason why the scholars lost so badly in the second party prison, it was because they did not believe that the emperor would completely fall to the eunuch, instead of using the eunuch as a balancing tool.

They didn't want to believe that the emperor seemed to really treat the eunuchs as family members, so the scholars misjudged the strength of the enemy, so that they lost miserably.

Now the scholars seem to have come back, and seem to realize that the emperor's preference for eunuchs is beyond the scope of normal emperors, which is a bit abnormal, and may even be the main reason for their complete defeat in front of eunuchs.

So they began to have a strong resentment.

This is dissatisfaction and resentment directed at the emperor himself, and this kind of resentment is very fatal in Liu Bei's view.

This is something that shakes the foundation of the rule of the Eastern Han Empire.

But neither Liu Hong nor the eunuch group seemed to realize the importance of this matter.

They are still trying to continue to expand their power and suppress the power of scholars.

The goal is good, but the methods and means are really inappropriate.

For example, relaxing or even not caring about the control of the spread of Taipingdao.

The Yellow Turban Uprising took Taiping Dao as its platform, and Taiping Dao was based on the official dominant ideology of the early Western Han Dynasty, the Huang-Lao School. It combined some remarks of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and synthesized a superstitious Taiping Dao, which set off an uprising .

But at its root, this is actually a social phenomenon at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Liu Bei was a street fighter in the rivers and lakes in his early years, he knew that because Confucianism was monopolized by noble families, it was impossible for ordinary people to learn it.

This group of people monopolizes Confucianism and does not open it to the outside world, but the foundation of the empire is not only scholars, but also local tyrants.

Scholars think that tyrants are local tyrants, very lowly, and not worthy of learning Confucianism, but after they have money to meet their survival needs, they will naturally pursue other things upwards, naturally pursue cultural knowledge, and actively strive to get closer to the ruling class.

Except for a small number of them who were accepted by scholars because of good luck-such as Liu Bei himself, most of them were not inherited by Confucianism and could not be transformed into scholars.

In this context, many people in the powerful landlord class at the end of the Han Dynasty turned to study Huang Laozhi and other schools of thought that still have traces.

At that time, the Chu region south of the Yangtze River was very popular in the study of Huang Lao.

Even Liu Bei knew that Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi had publicly stated that he was studying Huang-Lao's learning, and there were great signs of re-introducing Huang-Lao's learning into the court and political situation.

It can be said that after Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi, the theory of Huang Lao was relatively popular in civil society outside the traditional circle of Confucian gentry.

Zhang Jiao is a powerful landlord in Jizhou, and he is also a powerful landlord who cannot transform into a scholar. He can't learn Confucianism, and it is only natural to have contact with Huang Lao's study, Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Program is not surprising.

Although the Yellow Turban Uprising also had the factors of peasants' simple resistance to land annexation, what combined people from different backgrounds and classes from all over the world was not the equalization of the rich and the poor, but the Taiping Dao program.

Since Taipingdao decided to launch an uprising, it has never put forward slogans such as equalizing the rich and the poor, and sharing land. Instead, it has adopted the teachings of Taipingdao as its program of action.

The teachings of Taiping Tao are based on the combination of Huang Lao's learning and Yin-Yang and Five Elements learning.

Therefore, in Liu Bei's view, the Yellow Turban Uprising can also be regarded as a counterattack to Confucianism, which controls social ideological hegemony, by the remnants of various schools of thought after the pre-Qin period.

It is conceivable that if Zhang Jiao is successful, he will naturally govern the country according to the Dao of Peace, instead of Confucianism.

Therefore, the audience of Taipingdao is not limited to poor people, the audience of Taipingdao is full of local tyrants, bureaucrats and even eunuchs in the palace.

In fact, Liu Bei even felt that Zhang Jiao had not received the attention of the court because of the local development of Taiping Dao, which might not have been promoted by Liu Hong and the eunuch group.

Liu Hong and the eunuchs were obviously happy to see an additional force in the society that was at odds with the Confucian gentry. Liu Hong obviously also knew that his predecessor Liu Zhi had openly learned the practice of Huang Laozhi.

This may be a kind of dissatisfaction of the imperial power at being controlled by the Confucian gentry.

Liu Hong has inherited this approach and made it even more extreme.

It's just that he probably didn't expect that after this force became stronger, it would directly point the spearhead at him, directly at the rule of the Han Dynasty, instead of euphemistically targeting the Confucian gentry, and did not become a minion of the imperial power to fight against the Confucian gentry.

Presumably, when he learned that Zhang Jiao was going to rebel and destroy the big man, Liu Hong's thoughts should be very complicated.

This is a white-eyed wolf.

But Liu Hong is not stupid about the current matter.

Liu Bei handed him an olive branch, and he also decided to take this olive branch and see how capable Liu Bei is.

In mid-July of the fifth year of Guanghe, Liu Hong secretly summoned Liu Bei.

Through Zhang Rang's channel.

Liu Hong asked Zhang Rang to send a car to take Liu Bei to the side gate of the palace, and he would personally lead Liu Bei to walk to Liu Hong's study to meet him, which would be safer.

Seeing Liu Bei's expression, Zhang Rang made Liu Bei feel that he had killed his son... Oh, forgot, he couldn't have a son.

Hey Hey.

Liu Bei's expression at that time and the inexplicable sight of him in Xiasanlu may have given Zhang Rang some very negative associations, so on the way to the palace, Zhang Rang warned Liu Bei very annoyed.

"Don't think that you can be arrogant in front of us because you are a member of the Han family, Liu Xuande, you have to remember that our eunuchs are only the servants of His Majesty the Emperor, and there is His Majesty the Emperor who can make us bow our heads and obey our ears.

Don't think that you are a big man who can dictate to us, and even if you are a big man, you are also kind in front of us, and you dare not go beyond the slightest, the Yuan family of four generations and three lords is big enough, right?Is the Yang family of the third generation and the third father old enough?How can they face us? "

Apparently, Zhang Rang was very proud of the eunuch group's victory in the second disaster of party imprisonment, and felt that he was so awesome that he was very unhappy and disdainful when facing Liu Bei, a young man who hurt his face and political interests .

He wanted to take revenge on Liu Bei, but seeing that Liu Bei seemed to be valued by Liu Hong, and he was intimidated by his status as a clan member of the Han family, so he didn't dare to mess around.

This kind of aggressiveness made Liu Bei feel very funny.

"Why does Zhang Hou feel that his majesty is bossing him around? Zhang Hou really misunderstood him. I don't have such an idea. I work for your majesty. Why are you so hostile?"

Liu Bei's contemptuous attitude instantly angered Zhang Rang.

Zhang Rang stepped forward and grabbed Liu Bei by the collar.

"Don't think that His Majesty looks like you can be defiant in front of us, Liu Bei, let me tell you, I want you to die today, you won't live until tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)