Yuan Shao seems to have the courage to accept all rivers and rivers, and is willing to accept heroes from all over the world to do things for him under his command, but he can't control and control these talents under his command very well, and he can't give full play to their strength.

He seems to think that as long as he recruits talents, he can just let them use their abilities, and nothing else matters.

Under the banner of the Yuan clan of the fourth world and the third prince, these talents will definitely dedicate all their strength to him, and the others are not the most important.

Just like right now, Liu Bei sorted out the talent under Yuan Shao's command and found that Yuan Shao's command was really a big dye vat.

From the perspective of the school of classics, Yuan Shao has the ancient school of scriptures and the school of modern scriptures.

are in opposition to each other.

From the perspective of regional origin, Yuan Shao has old family members from Runan, people from Hebei, locals from Luoyang, people from the Central Plains, and people from Youzhou in the north like Liu Bei.

They are also not in harmony with each other, and often engage in regional discrimination.

In terms of family background, there are local heroes, eunuchs, and scholars.

There is also a clear chain of contempt for each other.

From the perspective of official power, there are 2,000 stone guards, and there are also white-bodied civilians.

Will there be no difference between an official and a commoner?

From a political point of view, there are scholars and eunuchs.

This is the enemy of life and death, where the main contradiction lies.

A political spectrum in the late Eastern Han Dynasty could not accommodate this team composition that deviated from the original spectrum.

But Yuan Shao didn't care about this kind of thing.

He chose to let his subordinates form gangs and factions to hold each other, did not restrict, guide, or suppress the ideas and practices of a certain faction, sat back and watched the gradual birth of the gap between the teams, and never took any means to suppress or bridge the contradictions between his subordinates.

For example, Yuan Shao didn't care about Cao Cao's isolation by many small gangs, and he didn't take the opportunity to take Cao Cao into his heart, so that Cao Cao could really become his confidant and give him advice.

He may have accepted Cao Cao only to complete a political task.

So the depressed Cao Cao could only move closer to Liu Bei, the only one who didn't mind his background, and formed a very good relationship with Liu Bei, and even faintly formed a state in which Liu Bei was the main and Cao Cao was the auxiliary.

Yuan Shao didn't seem to care about this.

Liu Bei made friends on his platform like a fish in water, raised his value, it can really be said that he talked and laughed and had no dealings with Confucianism, and his reputation was getting bigger and bigger, and his political future was also secretly optimistic by many people.

Many people think that Liu Bei, as a disciple of the great Confucian Lu Zhi and a good friend of Yuan Shao, will inevitably be able to go to the next level in the future, although he is only a minor official at present, but once he has the opportunity, he will inevitably be able to rise to the top and become a high-ranking official.

However, Liu Bei did not wait for the opportunity to be promoted, but he happened to receive the aftermath of a wave of party trouble.

The cause of the incident was the first month of the fifth year of Guanghe, and Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, did not know who he had listened to, or if he thought of it himself, and issued an edict to the court officials to harm the people and derelict the state and county officials, intending to come to a wave of "eliminating harm for the people" and deposing the incompetent local officials.

This order came quite suddenly, and it came very strangely, there was no news released beforehand, and the order was suddenly given, which made many officials in the court at a loss.

Lu Zhi didn't know about this beforehand, and he also felt that he was caught off guard, and many officials in Shangshutai felt that this order was a bit inexplicable.

"The state and county officials in the mid-year examination should be in charge of the three princes, last year has been completed, and the evaluation of the merits has also been completed, so it stands to reason that there should be no more such things, why do you suddenly have to report the officials who harm the people?"

Lu Zhi was very worried about this, and he privately told Liu Bei that he suspected that this was another good thing made by the eunuchs.

They are planning to eliminate dissidents and increase their power.

Sure enough, how could the eunuchs let go of such a good opportunity to exclude dissidents from the rules of the system?

According to the regulations, Shangshutai Sangong Cao has the power to evaluate the performance of officials in the prefectures and counties of the world, which is an institutional power, and is not currently controlled by the eunuchs, so he did not do what the eunuchs wanted to see during the year-end examination.

So they took this opportunity to make a wave of things and bring a wave of rhythm.

They soon mobilized their forces in the imperial court, and used Xu Yu, Sikong Zhang Ji, and their minions, who were attached to the eunuchs, to launch another wave of surprise attacks on the forces of the non-eunuch group.

They did not launch a blow against the county guards who were corrupt and perverted the law and attached to the eunuchs in the local area, but launched a blow against the 26 officials of the border prefectures and counties who were considered to have no problem after the assessment last year, slandered them as corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and played Liu Hong to demand that they be deposed.

It is conceivable that after these 26 local officials who are not attached to the eunuchs are deposed, they will be immediately assigned to the eunuchs to take up these positions, and the power of the eunuch group will be further strengthened, and the power of the scholars will be further weakened.

Originally, it was not Liu Bei's turn to express any opinion on this matter, because even Lu Zhi had no ability to intervene in this matter, let alone Liu Bei who was just Shangshutai Lingshi, so Liu Bei didn't plan to participate in this matter at first.

But Liu Bei was still passively involved in this political turmoil.

Because among the twenty-six county-level officials who were framed by the eunuch group to participate in the performance, there was the name of his father-in-law, Han Taishou, Han Rong.

He was promoted by Han Rong as filial piety, so that he could arrive in Luoyang as an official, not to mention that Han Rong was still his father-in-law, it was reasonable that he had to participate in this matter and serve his old father-in-law, otherwise he was still a person?

What's more, as far as he knows, Han Rong doesn't have any big political achievements, and his hands and feet as an official are not too clean.

But he is still lenient and benevolent for politics, he doesn't like to toss the people, he doesn't do much pomp and political performance projects, he belongs to the generals who pick generals among the dwarfs, and the people have lived a peaceful life for a while during his tenure, and they have eaten a few more bites of rice bran.

Therefore, Han Rong has no great merit, he is not a clean official, but he is definitely not a corrupt official who hurts nature and reason.

The eunuchs did this purely to replace these disobedient county guards with their own people, so that they could grasp more political resources and economic interests, which was a struggle for power in the world.

In fact, the struggle between the scholars and the eunuchs has failed, and the appearance of the disaster of the party is a sign of the defeat of the scholars.

The reason why the eunuchs did not exterminate the scholars was mainly because the scholars had the knowledge of governance, and the children of the eunuchs and the educated people attached to the eunuchs were not enough to completely replace the scholars.

The establishment of Hongdu Gate School was an attempt by the new forces to break the monopoly of scholars on official positions.

This attempt seems to be relatively successful at present, and many local tyrants and other people who have not advanced in the past have been cared for by eunuchs through the relationship of Hongdu Menxue, so that they can serve as county commanders, county guards, and assassins, and become eunuch minions, and compete for power with scholars in the locality.

The reason for the current situation is actually that the scholars have gone too far before.

Through the White Tiger View Conference, the first-mover family monopolized almost all the political power, and even the late-mover family had to rely on the ancient scriptures and the first-mover to compete for political interests, not to mention the local powerhouses that did not even master the Confucian classics.

However, the local tycoons own land, population, and money, and naturally pursue political power upward, and merely being a local official cannot satisfy their political needs.

Now that the eunuchs are in control of the Hongdu Gate School, and Liu Hong, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, is engaged in the Hongdu Gate Election, they have opened up a road for them from top to bottom, and there must be ambitious people among them who have taken refuge in the eunuchs and changed their lives against the sky.

If Liu Bei knew that he was not Liu Bei, maybe he would also follow the path of a eunuch, enter the Hongdu Gate School, and mix with a county order or a county guard.

When the time comes, the world will be in chaos anyway, and you will pull up an army, who cares if you are from Hongdumen?

Everyone had to rely on knives to eat.

But now that Liu Bei has become the lucky one in a thousand and has successfully changed his social class, he naturally has to make good use of this social identity to seek more advantages for his goals.

Moreover, although the eunuchs objectively broke the strong control of the scholars over political power and increased the mobility of social classes, subjectively they were only for their own selfish interests.

Most of the people they selected are the children of their own families and people who attach themselves to them, and even those who buy officials, and what they do after taking office as officials is mostly to fish the people and harm the township, which does not have much positive significance.

They are just a bunch of opportunists, whoever wins and has great power, they will follow, and if the scholars are really willing to accept them, they will definitely not cling to the eunuchs' thighs.

The eunuchs and scholars are half a pound and eight taels, and the two bastards are more bastards than anyone, so there is no need for Liu Bei to change his position as a scholar, and even if he wants to change, it is not now.

In the current situation, the eunuch is undoubtedly his enemy.