Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 193 Conspiracy
In Lujiang City, in the Gaofu, the county magistrate and the captain were sitting at the top. Below were the Gong Cao Shi, the Recorder, the Shaofu Shi... a group of subordinate officials of the Taishou Mansion.

They also have a common characteristic, that is, they are all subordinate officials who were promoted when Liu Xun was in office!

As for the other five officials, sect governors, etc., either they were already officials in the prefectural government when Lu Kang was there, and Liu Xun did not touch them after he took office, and at most they were kept empty; or they were re-promoted by Zhou Yu after Liu Xun retired. of……

Now is the time for the latter to feel proud again. Only the officials led by Liu Xun are reporting to the group to keep warm.

Although Liu Xun nominally performed a meritorious service by offering the city, he... offered it too late, and Bai Tu obviously didn't like him either.

Bai Tu had no intention of settling accounts after the fall, so the imperial court appointed Liu Xun as a Marquis of Guannei and allowed him to live out his life.

In this way, these Liu Xun's subordinate officials are his stepmothers!
It can be said that they had a sleepless night tonight. The last news they received was that Bai Tu was safe and sound, and... among the people who returned to the city together, there was also Jiao Qing.

Probably even Jiao Qing himself didn't know that he had been targeted by these "big guys (fake)" before!

The matter starts with Gao Biao and Master Gao...

Before Gao Biao, he was actually a young man who also fell in love with Liu Lanzhi, the Liu family. After all, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, unlike later when etiquette was prevalent, older girls did not even have the chance to go out.

There is also a sentence in "The Peacock Flies Southeast". When Liu Lanzhi was divorced, she said to her sister-in-law, "On the seventh and nineteenth day of the lunar month, don't forget to play together." Women also have fixed days to go out to play every month, and occasionally they fall in love. It's normal to be happy.

This was nothing at first, but in the end Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi fell in love, and the Jiao family proposed marriage first. After the marriage was successful, Gao Biao started to have some sinister ideas out of jealousy.

Moreover, Jiao Zhongqing lost his father when he was young, and Jiao's mother was a philistine. Originally, Jiao Qing's branch was a side branch of the Jiao family. Thanks to Jiao Qing's own ability, he managed to become an official.

Previously, Liu Lanzhi was not only young, beautiful, virtuous and virtuous, but also more or less the same clan as the prefect. Mother Jiao also felt that this was not a loss.

However, now that Liu Xun has been idle, and his former subordinates have all been implicated because of their relationship with him, Mother Jiao looks down on Liu Lanzhi even more...

But in fact, this is overthinking. Whether Liu Xun or Zhou Yu, it was a problem whether they could remember Jiao Qing before, let alone pay attention to who his wife was!
It's just that people have prejudices and will look at what they see. Including Jiao Qing being made things difficult for Gao Biao several times, Jiao's mother also interpreted it as a failure in his official career, and then believed that "this is all because of the Liu family's daughter."

Not long ago, the old bureaucrats in Lujiang completely erupted in their resentment towards the Chariot and Cavalry General’s Mansion when the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ evaluation officials came in. Even this represented not only the old bureaucrats in Lujiang, but also not everyone in Jiangdong thought so. , just waiting to see the situation in Lujiang.

And now Lujiang Gujiu, headed by County Magistrate Gao Ming and Captain Qin Gu, are also going to take a "big gamble" and completely put themselves in the middle of the whirlpool. Maybe... they can still maintain their current status. Even if they are resigned, at least in the future. Among the scholar-bureaucrats, being able to show off one's face can be regarded as a bargaining chip for a comeback in a few years.

Of course, they were also frightened when Bai Tu was assassinated - they didn't dare to bet so big, the assassination had nothing to do with them, it was a game where both the loser and the loser had to die.

They dared to make things difficult for Bai Tu, and it was best if they could slightly surpass Bai Tu in terms of "popularity".

As for complete overwhelm?That's not a temporary success. With Bai Tu's popularity now, it's hard to shake!
As for this matter of "adding to the problem", Gao Biao came up with the idea - and he was Gao Juncheng's nephew, so he could be said to have some say.

Bai Tu's biggest controversial point is that "killing one person is like killing my father". While this has gained him countless fame, there are always some Confucian scholars who are willing to guide him towards "unfilial piety".

Of course, with the popular foundation created by the Xianshi Zhiwen and Kong Wenju, who "knows Confucius best", cheering for him in the Confucian Academy, a group of Jingzhou Confucian scholars and Central Plains scholars could not gain the upper hand at all.

In addition... there is another thing, and that is what Bai Tu said when he refused Cao Cao's marriage.

Those were not Bai Tu's formal remarks, but they were spread by interested people, and some of Bai Tu's views on marriage were obviously not in line with the positive energy of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Gao Biao and the others didn't want to force Bai Tu into marriage... they weren't that desperate.

Rather, I want to use this as a breakthrough to guide Bai Tu's "violation of filial piety" from the perspective of marriage, and then sharpen the sword and send arrows to the main force attacking Bai Tu's "killing one person is like killing my father".

At the same time, they did not dare to really compete with Bai Tu. After all, no matter how strong their heads were, they were still mortal bodies...

Gao Biao's idea is to promote a story that is in line with the positive energy of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, as the best refutation of Bai Tu's wrong views on marriage and love - instead of attacking Bai Tu head-on, the natural safety factor is also high, Bai Tu is likely to suffer a dumb loss .

And in this positive story, the one Gao Biao is planning to sacrifice is the bastard Jiao Qing!

Jiao's mother's dissatisfaction with Liu Lanzhi was originally due to Gao Biao's contribution. At this time, he suggested that he should use this matter to continue to fuel jealousy until Jiao's mother was determined to let Jiao Qing divorce his wife Liu Lanzhi.

If Jiao Qing submits, then this will be a positive story - "Book of Rites" says: The son is very suitable for his wife, and the parents do not tell (yue), out.The son is unsuitable for his wife, and his parents say: "This is a good thing for me."

What do you mean?
If a son likes his wife very much, but his parents don't like her, then he should divorce her; if his son doesn't like his wife, but his parents like her very much, then he should live with her for the rest of his life... These are all things that are in line with etiquette and filial piety.

The "Book of Rites" is one of the greatest political correctnesses of Confucianism, and it will not be wrong anywhere.

As for Jiao Qing, if he doesn't submit, it will give the superiors an excuse to punish him and remove his filial piety and integrity. This is also a positive story about "punishing evil and promoting good".

In short, it was intended to trigger a discussion about Bai Tu's wrong views on marriage and love... then it was successful.

Of course, based on Gao Biao's understanding of Jiao Qing, he should not be able to do this. Even...in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, very few people could do this, and the more distinguished people were, the less likely they would be.

With Jiao Qing's character, he would definitely use a slow-down strategy, but after he slowed down, Gao Biao naturally had other options, and he didn't want Jiao Qing to be a down-to-earth example of positive energy.

Gao Ming felt that his nephew's idea made sense, and discussed it with Captain Qin Gu. Qin Gu also decided to find someone to secretly give Qin Luo, his concubine's daughter, a make-up, and quietly approached Jiao's mother as a matchmaker - it was not a matter of course. Secretly?They haven't divorced yet, it would be embarrassing to tell them!

This indeed strengthened Mother Jiao’s mind...

However, what they didn't expect was that Jiao Qing actually got into a relationship with Bai Tu in a daze, and seemed to have made a great contribution this time?

For a moment, Gao Ming was a little shaken as to whether to continue this matter.

Gao Biao saw that this was okay?
So he persuaded his clan uncle even more. The reason was that Jiao Qing was now more capable of attacking Bai Tu, and... Jiao Qing just brushed his face with Bai Tu, could he still communicate with the majestic Han Chariot General? What's wrong with parents?
Therefore... it is impossible for Bai Tu to know the situation of the Jiao family!
(End of this chapter)