In December of the second year of Guangxi, in response to the Yuan family's repeated actions, Liu Wei began to fight back.

The Yuan family's power in the court is huge, and it depends on the support of the Shidaifu group for them. To Liu Wei's surprise, in this Jingzhou incident, most of the scholars and doctors in the court were on his side.

Although the scholars and doctors of the imperial court were not accustomed to Liu Bian's various behaviors since he ascended the throne, they were only aimed at Liu Bian's personal and belonged to the internal contradictions of the people. And Sun Jian is good at killing Taishou and openly confronting the imperial court, which has undoubtedly become a contradiction between the enemy and me. This is absolutely unacceptable to those scholars and doctors who are loyal to the Han Dynasty, and the relationship between Sun Jian and Yuan Shu is already well known to everyone, so at the beginning, the courtiers pointed the contradiction of attack at the Yuan clan in the court.

Jia Xu was keenly aware of the change in the attitude of the Shidafu group towards the Yuan family, so he suggested that Liu Wei use this matter to make a fuss, attack the prestige of the Yuan family in the imperial court, and cut off the Shidafu group from the Yuan family. The method that Jia Xu said in Liu Wei's ear was actually very simple - pretending to be pitiful.

Showing weakness and the enemy, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is Liu Bian's specialty, and Liu Bian, who is good at this, does not need Jia Xu to say in detail that he already has an idea.

On the ninth day of December, Luoyang ushered in the first snow since the beginning of winter. Along with this snow came a special issue from the "Luoyang Times". The Luoyang Times is generally published on the 15th and 30th of the prescribed day, and the so-called special issue is a temporary issue of the newspaper that is not published on the publication date. In general, the contents of the special issue are urgent national events that the people need to know about.

In the special issue, Liu Wei, the son of the Han Dynasty, personally wrote an article and published it on the front page. In the article, talking about the recent Jingzhou incident that shocked the world, Liu Wei claimed in an extremely aggrieved and pitiful tone that this was an organized and premeditated vicious political incident that had a very bad impact on the Han Empire. Its purpose was that a handful of people in power in the court who followed the path of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty bullied themselves to succeed to the throne at a young age, in a vain attempt to undermine the stability and prosperity of the Han Empire and subvert the nascent Guangxi regime. In the article, Liu Wei even implied that although he could be killed without explanation, in order to protect himself, he was willing to abdicate in order to survive. (Avoid living in Chang'an and think it is the people, but seek to survive)

As soon as the article came out, the whole country was in an uproar.

Although the article does not name names, it is extremely obvious that it hints at the leader of the Yuan family, Taifu Yuan Kui.

Courtiers Lu Zhi and Xun Yu, who were loyal to Liu Bian, immediately wrote to Liu Biao after reading the article, hoping that he would retract the idea of Chan Rang, and publicly stated that only Liu Biao was the legitimate heir to the throne of the Han Empire, and only supported Liu Bian's wise leadership. Any young person who tries to get involved in it is a usurper thief, and he will be indignant by people and gods, and the whole world will condemn him.

The military forces, such as Liu Wei's descendants, the Xiyuan Army, the Northern Army and other soldiers behaved more radically, and they wrote to express that all the soldiers were willing to defend the supreme leader of the Han Empire with their blood and lives, and the red sun shining on the world, our loving father, Liu Wei, the son of the Han Dynasty. In the barracks, many soldiers were even more excited and shouted with tears in their eyes, such as "Down with all the reactionary forces that subvert the empire", "Fight to the last man", "Shed the last drop of blood for my loving father".

On the 15th, the main issue of the "Luoyang Times" was written on the front page with a rare headline: The Han Empire has reached the most dangerous time! Call on the people of the world who do not want to be slaves to stand up and unite as one, and use their flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall to defend the empire.

As soon as the article came out, a small number of people had already demonstrated in front of Yuan Kui's mansion under the organization of Chen Haonan, president of the Hongxing Society.

The repeated bombardment of public opinion made the Yuan clan instantly become the target of public criticism, and even those hardcore comrades of Yuan Kui did not dare to stand up and openly support the Yuan clan under the excitement of the crowd. Not to mention the courtiers and doctors who originally regarded themselves as loyal men and helping the world.

When it comes to them, I have to say that the scholars of this era are so cute. Although they had all kinds of dissatisfaction with Liu Bian's behavior that deviated from Confucianism since he succeeded to the throne, once they found out that this kind of thing of the lord being weak and the minister being strong and the powerful minister oppressing the young lord appeared, they immediately broke out with a sense of justice, and they all stood on Liu Bian's side and openly accused Yuan Kui and the Yuan clan of usurping power. For them, the legitimacy of the Han Empire could not be challenged or questioned.

Ma Riyan, who had just been transferred back to the court by Yuan Kui from the position of Hongnong Taishou to serve as the doctor of Guanglu, took the article of "Luoyang Times" to Yuan Kui's mansion angrily, threw it in front of Yuan Kui, pointed at Yuan Kui's nose and asked: "Yuan Taifu, we admire the Yuan family, one family and three dukes, and they are the pillars of the Han family, so we gather around them to support the Han Dynasty." However, the Yuan clan actually instructed others to kill the court officials and humiliate the young master, which really makes us feel chilled! ”

Having known Ma Riyan for so long, Yuan Kui had never seen him say such heavy things to himself. Ma Riyan has always regarded the Yuan family as a contemporary Zhou Duke who assisted the Han family, but now he has exposed such wolf ambitions, how can he have a sense of grief and indignation that he has been deceived.

In the face of Ma Riyan's reproach, Yuan Kui, who had a ghost in his heart, blushed with shame and couldn't say a word. At this time, he scolded Yuan Shu in his heart. Wang Rui's death was indeed that he instructed Yuan Shu to take advantage of the contradictions of Jingzhou officials to take advantage of it. But that is a plan to push the boat along the river, if it succeeds, Yuan Shu can take charge of Jingzhou, and his strength will rise greatly. Once it fails, it will not hurt, let alone the head of the Yuan family hiding behind the scenes.

And killing Zhang Shi was completely Yuan Shu's own assertion. Yuan Kui didn't know in advance, and afterwards Yuan Kui couldn't guess such a stupid thing without asking at all, and only the arrogant Yuan Shu could do it. The imperial court has explicitly ordered him to be transferred from Nanyang, even if he kills Zhang Shi or Liu Biao, he can't help it if the imperial court insists on not appointing him to Jingzhou. Without the name of righteousness, if he wants to take charge of Jingzhou, unless he openly rebels against Jingzhou, he will directly become the target of the joint attack of the princes of the world.

Therefore, Yuan Shu instructed Sun Jian to kill Zhang Jian is completely an act of venting anger that harms others and is not beneficial to himself, and the most stupid thing is that Yuan Shu has already written that Sun Jian is the general of the captivity, and everyone in the world has seen that there is a connection between him and Sun Jian, and then secretly instruct Sun Jian to kill people, fools will see that it is his instigation, and even Wang Rui's death will make people contact Yuan Shu's body. Therefore, the consequence of this stupid behavior is that the Yuan clan has now become the target of the world's corporal criticism.

However, now Yuan Kui has no other way but to resist death and refuse to recognize the relationship between Yuan Shu and Sun Jian. In the face of Ma Riyan's accusation, he quibbled: "Sun Jian's killing of Zhang Shi has nothing to do with the highway. ”

The relationship between Yuan Shu and Sun Jian was clearly revealed, how could Ma Riyan be easily bluffed, and said angrily: "If Yuan Shu has nothing to do with Sun Jian, how can he be regarded as a broken general?" Yuan Shu entrenched in Nanyang, openly disobeyed the imperial edict, refused to go to Runan to take up his post, and now sent someone to kill the imperial court appointed Taishou, what is his idea? The Yuan family is a family of four generations and three dukes, tired of the kindness of the Han Dynasty, when today's son is young, even if there is any fault, our courtiers can only be loyal to death. Yuan Shu did this disobedient thing, did the Yuan family want to stand on behalf of the Han? ”

Ma Riyan's words were sonorous and powerful, pointing directly to the hearts of the people. Yuan Kui was speechless, and at this time, he just wanted to drag Yuan Shu to Ma Riyan and slash him, and then announced that this bastard was picked up by the Yuan family on the side of the road.

At this time, Yuan Kui's wife Ma Lun heard the quarrel between the two, walked out of the inner hall, and persuaded Ma Riyan: "Uncle Weng (Ma Riyan) don't be anxious, although the highway has a connection with Sun Jian, it may not have a deep friendship. Therefore, what Sun Jian did, the highway did not necessarily participate in it. ”

Ma Riyan is the grandson of the great Confucian Ma Rong, and Ma Lun is the daughter of Ma Rong, and he has to call her a big aunt in terms of seniority. Therefore, Ma Lun came forward to persuade him, and Ma Riyan didn't want to say anything, just stood in place and panted for breath.

Yuan Kui also took advantage of this to get off the slope and said: "The road has no deep friendship with Sun Jian, but I just asked him to help temporarily." Sun Jian is arrogant, and he has crossed the line to attack thieves before, and it is not true that he alone is making an opinion. ”

Things have nothing to do with Yuan Shu, everything is done by Sun Jian, a temporary worker. Although Yuan Kui's explanation is still far-fetched, because of Ma Lun's face, Ma Riyan is not easy to completely fall out with Yuan Kui, so he has to leave stupidly.

Although Ma Riyan was sent away, the public opinion attack on the Yuan family did not stop. In this regard, Yuan Kui came to advance and retreat. Liu argued on the table, did not mention anything else, only said that he was old and unsuitable for being in the court, and said that he was sick and begging.

Some hardcore Yuan's friends, such as Yuan Ji, Wu Fu and others, immediately became anxious when they saw Yuan Kui leaving. have been on the table to retain.

Seeing this, Liu Wei also knew that the Yuan clan had been operating in the court for many years, and there were many henchmen and deep-rooted, and it was impossible to get rid of them in a moment. expressed his resolute disagreement with Yuan Kui's begging, and issued an edict to appease him, saying, I already know that the matter in Jingzhou has nothing to do with your Yuan family, and it was all done by Sun Jian, a temporary worker. The Yuan family has served the Han for many generations, and it is indispensable, and you Yuan Kui is even more hard-working, and I have a humerus. So you still stay in the court, and I still need you to assist me in the government.

As soon as Liu Wei's edict was issued, it was considered to have completely defined the Jingzhou incident. The attack on the Yuan family in public opinion has gradually subsided. However, after this incident, the reputation of the Yuan family has become a stinking street. Many scholars had begun to recognize the ambitions of the Yuan family and gradually distanced themselves from them.

The final result was specially handed over to Yuan Kui to handle. In order to show his innocence, Yuan Kui decisively abandoned Sun Jian and convicted him of killing local officials with the intention of rebellion. Originally, he was going to send troops to hunt him down, but fortunately, Sun Jian's old superiors Zhang Wen and Zhu Jun expressed Liu Jian's bitter intercession, and Liu Jian opened up the net and cut Sun Jian off all official titles and reinstated him as a civilian. Before that, Liu Wei also specially added a material to Sun Jian:

"Such people who ignore the law and discipline and despise the court are really Han villains!"

Liu Wei commented on Sun Jian as a villain, and Sun Jian was also notorious.

The Jingzhou incident finally ended with Sun Jian's crime of carrying the bag. Yuan Shu did not stay in Jingzhou as he wished. But he roamed between Nanyang and Runan, inserting forces all over the place, and the court had no way to deal with him for a while. But fortunately, Liu Biao successfully avoided Yuan Shu's interception and entered Xiangyang alone.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter)