Xuande

Chapter 83 I wish us a happy cooperation, Zhang Changshi

Facing Zhang Rang's abrupt words, Liu Bei was not surprised.

"Oh?"

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang's calm expression and said with a smile, "What's unusual?"

"Such a humble background can make you a scholar in the end."

Zhang Rang sighed and said: "Your Majesty grew up in the Hou's Mansion. Although he was not rich and powerful, he did not suffer hardships, so His Majesty does not understand how much thought and effort it took for you to become a scholar today from a mere weaver of mats and shoes. What's more, you are only 21 years old, a person like you is rare in 50 years."

"you know me?"

Liu Bei put away his smile.

"You think I don't understand? If I have your talent, forbearance, and opportunity, why should I abandon my manhood, betray my family, and become a despised eunuch?"

Zhang Rang suddenly smiled, a little sadly.

"I'm from a similar background as you. I don't have a wealthy family, and I need to struggle to barely get enough to eat. But I don't have your tenacity, your ruthlessness, your ingenuity, and your chance, so I can't be you.

The only thing I have in common with you is that I am also unwilling to freeze and starve to death for the rest of my life, I am not reconciled!Why can they be prosperous and rich, but I can only suffer from hunger and starvation?Why is God so unfair?I can not be reconciled!I am not reconciled!

In order not to be starved to death, in order not to be bullied by others, I have no other choice, I can only castrate and enter the palace and become an eunuch. Even so, when I first entered the palace, I was still an ant, suffered all kinds of bullying, and served people with shit , clean the toilet, and even sleep in the toilet.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, as long as I can't die, as long as I'm still alive, I will try my best to climb up!I did it!I have climbed up now!I enjoy the glory and wealth that many people dare not dream of! "

Zhang Rang cried while talking, as if he wanted to pour out the bitter tears he had accumulated for many years.

However, Liu Bei didn't feel anything about it.

There are too many people suffering in this world, so this is not the reason why you will indulge yourself to amass money and do all kinds of evil after you get your wish.

And, do we know each other well?

Why are you complaining to me?
Could it be that you expect me to give you a warm hug?

So Liu Bei shook his head.

"So, you are doing it for glory and wealth?"

Zhang Rang seemed to be stimulated by Liu Bei's contemptuous expression, and was furious.

"Otherwise? What else can I do for it? What else can I do for the sake of glory and wealth if I try my best to climb up? What about you? Aren't you just for glory and wealth?"

"Prosperity and wealth are only incidental, and the root of what I seek is not here."

"Where is the one you seek? Tell me!"

Zhang Rang walked up to Liu Bei angrily, and glared at him: "You are noble? You are amazing? Have you suffered what I have suffered? Have you ever carried feces and urine? Have you ever slept in a filthy toilet? Have you ever eaten there? Food? Have you had any?"

"I sympathize with your personal experience, and I applaud your unremitting spirit of struggle. I have nothing to say about what you are doing now."

Liu Bei glanced at Zhang Rang, and walked straight past him.

"Don't think that you are the only one who is the most miserable person in the world. There are many people in the world who have endured hardships and can't get over for a lifetime. I have seen many people who are worse than you, and you are not the only one."

"But in the end, if I were you, I don't seem to have any better way to change the situation, so I'm not more noble than you, and I don't blame you."

"But at this moment, I hope you can have a clear understanding. We are allies, allies who fight against the scholars. With me, you can be targeted and more efficient. Without me, you are blind and cannot fight correctly. It cannot threaten the fundamentals of scholars."

"Similarly, for me, with you, my method can threaten scholars better, but without you, I can't use much strength even though I have supernatural abilities."

"What is right and what is wrong, Zhang Changshi, as a senior official, should be able to tell the difference clearly. Let's let the past pass. The future is what we need to grasp."

"Finally, I wish us a happy cooperation, Zhang Changshi."

Leaving these words behind, Liu Bei left the palace without looking back, nor did he look at the expression on Zhang Rang's face at this moment.

He and Zhang Rang had a similarly bad family background, a similarly bad childhood, and a similarly bad situation.

But I have to say that he has a grandfather who was an official, a father who was a minor official, and the clan as the last support. When he grew up, he also got the opportunity to worship Lu Zhi as a teacher.

He is an ordinary person, but his ordinary person may be much better than Zhang Rang's situation of entering the palace as an eunuch.

As long as there is a choice, as long as there is a way to rise, as long as the ruling class is a little gentler to the ruled class, and the attack is not so harsh, so as to give them a little breathing space, who is willing to abandon their descendants and enter the court to be underestimated by others?

Zhang Rang was not at fault.

So who is at fault?
Walking out of the palace, looking up at the gray sky, Liu Bei's mood was extremely gloomy.

However, no amount of gloom could stop his progress.

Because if we don’t move forward, the School of Modern Literature and the School of Ancient Literature will really converge in a certain sense.

Originally, the appearance of Zheng Xuan and the popularity of Zheng Xuesuo have already accelerated this trend. If this last opportunity is not seized to split them, once the troubled times break out, not only will Liu Bei himself have no future, but the path he envisioned will also be unable to follow. down.

The war broke out, the central government collapsed, and the last chance to rely on the imperial authority to split the scholars and severely damage the scholars' strength will also be lost. After the pure chaos comes, what the tortured world will pursue is order, not struggle.

Liu Bei would never let this kind of thing go, and miss the opportunity.

Now that the opportunity is here, why not give it a try?

There was no turning back when he opened the bow, since he hugged Liu Hong's thigh, there were some things that he had to try.

Beginning in August of the fifth year of Guanghe, some changes took place within the Han court.

The matter originated from Liu Hong's show operation.

The 26 prefects who were framed were rewarded, and they will become Yilang and come to the central government to serve.

Then, the 26 county sheriff positions they left vacant will need to be replaced.

It wasn't until this time that some belated scholars realized how disgusting the emperor's strategy of retreating into advance was.

Liu Hong personally presided over the selection of 26 new candidates for the sheriff, and then selected 26 scholars.

None of them have anything to do with Hongdu School, they are all the most orthodox scholars.

Then Liu Hong asked them to pay.

2000 million yuan per person, come to Xiyuan to pay, pay with one hand, and deliver with one hand, no bargaining is allowed, and there is no deception.

Then you can go to work.

How disgusting is that?

The nobler the scholars, the more they couldn't bear such blatant insults. It was a matter of course for them to become officials.

To be an official, the court should give them money. When will it cost money to be an official?

This is a great shame!
To pay or not to pay?
If you pay money, you can become an official, but your reputation will be bad.

If you don't pay the money, your reputation will be preserved, but your power will be gone.

How to deal with these two difficult choices?
Just when the scholars were struggling and secretly hated Liu Hong's policy, for some reason, Liu Hong suddenly changed his attitude and let the sheriffs of six counties go, and gave the official seals without asking them to pay. Let them go.

(End of this chapter)