Xuande

Chapter 85 Yuan Benchu ​​is Obviously a Scumbag

On the fifth day of August, Liu Hong convened some permanent servants and Yilang to discuss national policies.

He believes that the decline of the Han Dynasty is due to the lack of virtuous ministers to support the emperor, and the lack of virtuous ministers is due to the party's policy of imprisonment for many years.

He believes that the policy of party imprisonment has lasted for more than ten years, and it has played a role in punishing and warning those who are not ministers. At present, there are no people in the world who continue to offend the emperor and commit chaos, so it seems that the policy of party imprisonment is not meaningful anymore. up.

Therefore, it seems that the time has come for the policy of party imprisonment to be lifted.

Scholars and officials were very pleasantly surprised by this, but Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others believed that this was not the case.

They believe that there are still people in the world who offend the emperor and make troubles who despise the majesty of the emperor. The policy of party imprisonment has been in operation for more than ten years, and no major problems have occurred, so it should be maintained until no one dares to offend the majesty of the emperor. It is possible.

The scholar officials were very angry about this, and started a debate with the eunuchs.

Liu Hong also thought it was not possible. The punishment for those who committed riots was almost enough. If the punishment continues, it will endanger the Han Dynasty.

Zhang asked Zhao Zhong and others to continue to plead not to lift the policy of party imprisonment, kneeling in front of the emperor and begging.

The Yilang who attended the meeting continued to have heated debates with Chang Shi headed by Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, and there was even a tendency to fight.

In the end, Liu Hong decided to take a compromise approach in order to "bridge" the differences between the two parties.

He announced that he would carefully consider the common views of both parties and make a decision at a later date.

On the seventh day of August, Liu Hong made a decision.

When the scholars were eagerly waiting for the announcement of the lifting of the party's ban policy, the declaration made by Liu Hong was not quite what most people thought.

First of all, he announced the appointment of Zhang Rang, the Zhongchang servant, who is also in charge of the Shangshuling.

Then he promoted Lu Zhi, a master of ancient texts and classics, to be Zuo Cheng of Shangshu, and he was still given the title of servant.

He also recalled Fuqian, a master of ancient literature and classics who had been released as the county magistrate, back to the imperial court, and asked him to take over Lu Zhi's position and become one of the ministers of Shangshutai, with the rank of servant.

Then he announced that he would recruit the great Confucian Zheng Xuan into the court as a servant in the capacity of the emperor.

Following Zheng Xuan, he decided to recruit thirteen scholars of the School of Classical Classics who had been imprisoned by the party's policy to serve as Yilang.

Subsequently, some changes occurred in the official positions in Shangshutai. Some low-status scholars and officials of the ancient Wenjing school were promoted, while officials of the modern Wenjing school were restrained to a certain extent in Shangshutai.

This is a terrible thing.

Although the official system of the Eastern Han Dynasty generally maintained the system of the Western Han Dynasty, with the system of Sangong and Jiuqing as the framework, the real power had been completely transferred to Shangshutai.

Therefore, even if the Sangong and Jiuqing are all scholars of the Jinwen Confucianism School, as long as they cannot control the Shangshutai, they cannot have a direct impact on politics, and they are just mascots with high status.

It was Liu Hong's special practice to let the eunuch take up the Shangshutai. The eunuch Cao Jie had previously taken up the Shangshuling, but Cao Jie died of illness two years ago, and the post of Shangshuling was pending.

Now, it is not so unacceptable for Liu Hong to appoint eunuch Zhang Rang to lead Shangshutai again.

What is really unacceptable is the subsequent series of arrangements. After this series of arrangements, in the Shangshutai, the scholars of the ancient Wenjing school have occupied an absolute advantage, and the scholars of the Jinwen Jing school have been suppressed.

According to the gossip, Liu Hong originally planned to lift the policy of party imprisonment, but the eunuchs firmly disagreed, fearing that they would be counterattacked, so they cried to Liu Hong repeatedly in private, and finally made Liu Hong soft-hearted and compromise.

So under the advice of the eunuchs, Liu Hong decided to partially but not completely lift the party.

Those who were released from the party's shackles were the group of scholars of the ancient Wenjing school with relatively weak political power, and the group of scholars of the Jinwen jingxue school whose political power was still huge were still under the influence of the party's shackles.

With the promulgation of this series of decrees, the atmosphere of the entire Luoyang City has entered an extremely delicate state.

For a while, all forces were waiting and watching, all in hibernation, and none of them made a public statement on this series of decrees at the first time.

But the private action is already underway.

Before the position was appointed, some bigwigs of the Jinwen Confucian School widely invited the bigwigs of the Ancient Wenjing School who had met in the past or had relatively good personal relationships to discuss.

They hope that the School of Classical Classics can stand with them on the united front, not to accept appointments, but to fight against eunuchs and emperors together, and stick to the honor of scholars.

Don't believe in the tricks of the emperor and eunuchs. This is an attempt to divide us scholars. This is an extremely despicable act. Don't believe it.

Lu Zhi was invited.

And Liu Bei, who is a rising star and has great influence within the School of Classical Classics, was also invited.

The one who invited them was Yuan Kai, the current head of the Yuan family in Runan, who had just assumed the post of Situ.

The eunuch is still so tough.

However, this position was immediately succeeded by Yuan Wei, so people didn't pay much attention to it.

It seems to be because of Yuan Shao's relationship. This invitation was not initiated by Yuan Kui, but Yuan Shao came to invite Liu Bei himself, and went to meet Lu Zhi with Liu Bei, and then invited Lu Zhi and Liu Bei to Yuan Kui's mansion as guests.

Before that, Liu Bei asked Yuan Shao for his opinion on this matter.

"Opinion? My opinion is not important. I am a concubine, and it is difficult for me to compete with Yuan Ji and Yuan Shu for the family business. It is not my turn to inherit the family business, but in the end, I am still the Yuan family. So you have to work hard.”

Yuan Shao trusted Liu Bei very much, and said in a low voice: "But Xuande, don't worry about me. If you have the opportunity, you can accept a promotion. The higher your position, the happier I will be."

"Yuan Jun, this..."

"This is what I say in my heart, Xuande must believe it and don't have any doubts."

Yuan Shao's expression was very sincere.

Liu Bei believed in this.

At the historical fork in the battle between modern and ancient prose is about to reach a symbolic turning point, Yuan Shao should have noticed something, and he has no advantage in the competition of family business inheritance, which will prompt him to seek some new developments possible.

It is true that one can gain wealth by clinging to the thigh of the family, but Yuan Shao is obviously not a person who is willing to be under others.

He is also a talented son-in-law who wants to slap Yuan's family in the face with a crooked smile.

Liu Bei, as an important rising star in the ancient Chinese classics school, will be the breakthrough point for him to seek a breakthrough, so the better Liu Bei's development is, the happier he will be.

What's more, he didn't think that the Yuan family, who had four generations and three fathers, would fall just like that. After so many years of deep cultivation, the family background was extremely strong. Could it be that the emperor made them fall with a single word?

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

In a sense, this is not a kind of scumbag behavior of [the red flag at home does not fall down, but the colorful flags flutter outside the house].

Well, Yuan Benchu ​​is obviously a scumbag.

(End of this chapter)