Liu Xian raised his eyebrows, he was very disdainful of the old school. In particular, the very famous sentence of U Ren: "Faithfulness is the armor, and etiquette and righteousness are the trunk", Niu broke so much that it directly appeared in the history textbooks of the Celestial Empire.

What a 'science' this should be. Invulnerable?

Zhang Shouyan did not deny Liu Xian's sarcasm on his face, but continued to say: "The two palaces summoned Wu Ren, Xu Tong, and Weng Tonggong to ask about Li Hongzao's seizure of love. ”

"After Prince Gong learned about the intentions of the old school, the person who most hoped that Li Hongzao would be worried, on the surface, when facing the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, he put the emperor's studies and temperament first, and most firmly advocated that the Li family should win love."

Early the next morning, Prince Gong led the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department to the Hongde Hall to discuss the matter of seizing love. Prince Gong first passed on the decree, expressing that "leaving Li is a last resort", and then urged the ministers to be interested and stop being bound by moral constraints. Uren and others still replied reasonably, emphasizing that etiquette should not be violated. ”

Hearing this, Liu Xian couldn't help but laugh. He already understood the meaning of Prince Gong's words 'want to capture and indulge' in Zhang Shouyan's mouth. Prince Gong really has a scheming.

He lacks a good impression of the old school who is about to fall into the trap. In fact, in Liu Xian's view, the so-called old school is nothing more than a group of political forces that nominally emphasize Taoism, but in fact they are allied because of interests. Although in this matter, no matter whether Li Hongzao and others are sincere or false, at least they have done it. This is still commendable.

Just like many people in later generations praised Cao and belittled Liu, saying that Liu Bei was black and hypocritical, but Liu Xian also felt that even if Liu Bei was really hypocritical and hypocritical, people would be hypocritical and hypocritical for a lifetime.

Zhang Shouyan had a smile on his face, Liu Xian's understanding was very good.

After some competition, Prince Gong's faction succeeded in creating an "established fact": the reason why Li Hongzao insisted on adhering to the system for three years was not only his personal will, but also the support of the overall conservative faction behind him. So after Prince Gong and others replied like this, the two palaces were naturally very angry, and asked, "Since Wu Ren and others are rude to take away affection, why don't they tell the truth when they were summoned before?" There was no objection to Nair, and it was only after two decrees to stay that this was played, which is incomprehensible. ”

Ci'an and Cixi** should feel that they have been used by others to clear their reputations. Liu Xian said in his heart. And to make the two palaces dissatisfied with the overall conservative school and even distrustful, this is the best effect pursued by Prince Gong and his faction.

And so it is. The two palaces were angry, and the consequences were very strict.

Half a month later, the main candidates of Prince Gong's faction and the diehards gathered in Dongnuan Pavilion to be questioned by the two palaces. The two queen mothers asked Wu Ren and the others, "Why is this performance repeated, don't you forgive the bitterness, or don't you have any opinions?" "Prince Gong also fanned the flames, and the old school was completely caught in the situation that Prince Gong had done, and they were in chaos."

Liu Xian was silent, and knew in his heart that as far as the ruler was concerned, if the conservative faction sat down with his intentions, then his intentions would be 'his heart could be punished'.

"He is only submissive, and he can't argue. Although Xu Tong, Weng Tongyi, Xu Jin and others interjected a few words, they were soft-spoken, and "they can't fight." Even Pingsu and Li Hongzao, who have a very good relationship, are also "upset", complaining that they "why don't you discuss with them for a few days". In this temple battle, the old-school camp was completely defeated. ”

At this point, Prince Gong's wishful thinking was revealed: through the guò love case, with the help of the imperial court, he attacked the camp of the old school, so that the two palaces and the representative of the old school, Li Hongzao and Li Daren, were suspicious. In this way, Prince Gong can open the way for the alternate military aircraft Hu Jiayu to drum and strengthen his own power.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven. In August, Zeng Guoquan impeached Hu Jiayu with a piece of paper, and in October, Wang Yuanfang, who had always been in good health, suddenly died of illness. Zeng Guofan had to fully support the money and grain at this time in Liangjiang so that Li Hongzhang could suppress it, and then there was the construction of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. Brought Shen Guifen closer to the Military Aircraft Department, and it was impossible for the two palaces to turn the Military Aircraft Department into a hall of words for Prince Gong [Westernists], and ordered Li Hongzao to "go straight as usual after a hundred days, and there is no need to make any more stubborn words", Prince Gong's organs were exhausted, and in the end it seemed that the bamboo basket was empty. ”

"In fact, before last year, the conflict between the old school and the Westernists was not too sharp. Although both sides wanted to influence the two palaces and the emperor to dominate the affairs of the family and the country, they did not reach the point of toppling. It's just that Prince Gong has always held a grudge against the expressions of Wu Ren and others in his deposition last year, and he has been pushed by prejudices, but whenever he has the slightest opportunity, he wants to fight back and retaliate.

Nowadays, in Beijing, the old school and the Westernist school have been clearly distinguished. ”

Zhang Shouyan sighed. Minghui is like Prince Gong, and he can't see the knot on his body.

"Yi? It is worthy of the devil six. I'm afraid that this nickname is not only because of his foreign affairs, but also because of his scheming! Liu Xian was ashamed of himself. In terms of political struggle, his wrists are still too tender and tender.

"Differences in political opinions, even more so than life and death enmity. The fifteenth uncle read poetry and books, and forgot the old things about Sima Guang and Wang Anshi? "What about the two who were close friends before Wang Anshi's change, and their political opinions are different, isn't it still black and white?

Liu Xian suppressed the feelings in his heart and stretched his waist. The old-fashioned school, the Western-style school, some of the things in the history books at the beginning, are now real in front of themselves. But they are their future enemies, black and white!

"Now we have to consider the candidate for governor of Hubei. There is no news from Beijing now, which shows that this hot hand is really lacking. ”

In fact, Liu Xian is not too worried about who the candidate for governor of Hubei is, and it will have nothing to do with Zeng Li anyway.

Zeng Guoquan only went down, if the governor of Hubei was still Zeng Guofan's person, then Beijing would simply be announcing to the whole world - I am afraid of Zeng Guofan, I am afraid of the Hunan army. The IQ of the Big Three is not so funny.

And the current governor of Hunan is Li Hanzhang, who is Li Hongzhang's eldest brother. Li Hongzhang is already the governor of Huguang, and his eldest brother is the governor of Hunan, and the governor of Hubei is a member of the Huai army, so isn't Huguang completely in the hands of the Li family?

Beijing's IQ will not be so low.

So Liu Xian didn't have too much urgency to find out. But it is still advantageous to know earlier.

Now Liu Xian even wonders if Beijing will send a conservative faction to Hubei to take up a post. In that case, if he wants to open a few modern mines in Hubei next, he will have trouble.

ps: Tongzhi for five years, Yi? Impeached, Cixi took the opportunity to attack and removed him from all official positions.

After that, the princes and ministers wrote a letter one after another. Speak. When Cixi summoned eight conservative ministers such as Uren respectively, she made it clear that she was against Yi? The disposition cannot be changed; When summoning Wen Xiang and other ministers of military affairs, he said, "You should jointly ask for a reappointment, and you just do it."

So Wu Ren and Wen Xiang and others jointly held a meeting attended by the six ministries and nine Qing and others, but when Wen Xiang conveyed the will of the Queen Mother, Wu Ren resolutely objected, saying that this was not the will of the Queen Mother, and the two sides held their own opinions, argued endlessly, and completely tore their faces.