After observing this series of phenomena, Liu Bei realized that the situation in Luoyang might be about to change.

Previously, Liu Bei carefully analyzed the reason why the soldiers lost so badly in the second party disaster was because they did not believe that the emperor would completely fall to the eunuchs, rather than using the eunuchs as a balancing tool.

They didn't want to believe that the emperor seemed to really treat the eunuchs as family, so the scholars misjudged the enemy's strength and lost miserably.

Now the scholars seem to have come back to their senses, and seem to realize that the emperor's preference for eunuchs is beyond the scope of normal emperors, a bit abnormal, and may even be the main reason for their defeat in front of eunuchs.

So they began to have a strong resentment.

This was directly directed at the dissatisfaction and resentment of the emperor himself, and this resentment was very fatal in Liu Bei's view.

This was something that shook the foundation of the Eastern Han Empire's rule.

But neither Liu Hong nor the eunuch clique seem to realize the importance of this matter.

They are still trying to continue to expand their power and suppress the power of the scholars.

The goal is good, but the methods and means are really inadequate.

For example, relaxing or even not caring about the control of the spread of Taiping Road.

The Yellow Turban Uprising was based on the Taiping Dao, which was based on the official dominant ideology of the early Western Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's learning, and combined some of the remarks of the Yin and Yang Five Elements to synthesize the Taiping Dao with superstitious colors, thus setting off an uprising.

But at the end of the day, this is actually a social phenomenon in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Liu Bei was a street fighter in his early years, he knew that because Confucianism was monopolized by the scholars, it was impossible for ordinary people to learn it.

This group of people monopolized Confucianism and was not open to the outside world, but the foundation of the empire was not only scholars, but also local powers.

The scholars thought that Haoqiang was a local tyrant, very lowly, and unworthy of learning Confucianism, but after the Haoqiang had money to meet their survival needs, they would naturally pursue other things, naturally pursue cultural knowledge, and actively strive to get closer to the ruling class.

Except for a few of them, they were accepted by scholars because of their luck, such as Liu Bei himself, but most of them could not get the inheritance of Confucianism and could not transform into scholars.

In this context, many people in the powerful landlord class in the late Han Dynasty turned to learn Huang Laozhi and other hundreds of schools of thought that still have traces.

At that time, the Chu land south of the Yangtze River was very popular with Huang Lao's learning.

Even Liu Bei knew that Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty had publicly stated that he was studying the study of Huang Lao, and there were signs of reintroducing Huang Lao's learning into the court and political situation.

It can be said that Huang Laozhi's learning was a relatively popular doctrine in civil society outside the traditional circle of Confucian scholars after Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty, which has to be said to be due to the increasingly closed and self-contained Confucianism.

Zhang Jiao, as a powerful man in Jizhou, also belonged to the powerful landlord who could not transform into a scholar, and he could not learn Confucianism, so it was logical to come into contact with the study of Huang Lao and the five elements of yin and yang, and it was not surprising that he combined the Taiping Tao as a program for rebellion on this basis.

Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion also had the simple resistance of the peasants against land annexation, it was not the rich and poor of people from different backgrounds in Tiannanhaibei who were mixed with different backgrounds, but the Taiping Tao program.

Since the Taiping Dao decided to launch the uprising, it has never put forward slogans such as equalizing the rich and the poor and dividing the land, but has taken the Taiping Dao doctrine as a program of action.

The Taiping Taoist doctrine is a mixture of Huang Lao's learning and the five elements of yin and yang.

Therefore, in Liu Bei's view, the Yellow Turban Rebellion can be regarded as a counterattack by the remnants of the hundreds of schools of thought after the pre-Qin era against Confucianism, which controls the hegemony of social thought.

It is conceivable that if Zhang Jiao succeeds, he will naturally govern the country with Taiping Dao, instead of Confucianism.

Therefore, the audience of Taiping Dao is not only limited to the poor people, but also the audience of Taiping Dao is full of local tycoons, bureaucrats and even eunuchs in the palace.

In fact, Liu Bei even felt that Zhang Jiao's local development with Taiping Dao was not valued by the imperial court, and it may not have been without the promotion of Liu Hong and the eunuch group.

Liu Hong and the eunuchs were obviously happy to see an additional force in society that was not in line with the Confucian scholars, and Liu Hong was obviously aware that his predecessor, Liu Zhi, had openly studied the practice of Huang Laozhi.

This may be a kind of dissatisfaction of the imperial power with the Confucian scholars who have controlled the social upward channel.

Liu Hong inherited this practice and went even more extreme.

It's just that he may not have expected that after this force became bigger, it directly pointed the finger at him, directly at the rule of the Han Dynasty, and did not tactfully point at the Confucian scholars, and did not become the minions of the imperial power to fight against the Confucian scholars.

Presumably when he learned that Zhang Jiao was going to rebel and destroy the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong's mind should have been very complicated.

I raised a white-eyed wolf, yes.

However, for the current matter, Liu Hong is still not stupid.

Liu Bei handed him an olive branch, and he also decided to take it and see how capable Liu Bei was.

In mid-July of the fifth year of Guanghe, Liu Hong secretly summoned Liu Bei.

Through Zhang Rang's channels.

Liu Hong asked Zhang Rang to send a car to take Liu Bei to the side gate of the palace, and he personally led Liu Bei to Liu Hong's study to meet him, which would be safer.

Zhang Rang saw Liu Bei's expression at that time, which made Liu Bei feel if he had killed his son...... Oh, forgot, he can't have a son.

Hey, hey, hey.

Liu Bei's expression at that time and the inexplicable gaze at him may have made Zhang Rang have some very negative associations, so on the way to the palace, Zhang Rang was very annoyed and warned Liu Bei.

"Don't think that you are a member of the Han family and can be arrogant in front of us, Liu Xuande, you have to remember that our eunuchs are only the servants of His Majesty the Emperor, and in the whole world, there is His Majesty the Emperor who can make my generation bow down.

Don't think that you are a big man who can dictate to my generation, and even if you are a big person, you are also harmonious in front of your generation, and you don't dare to go beyond it in the slightest, the Yuan family of the fourth world and the third prince is big enough, right? The Yang family of the third world and the third prince is old enough, right? What can they do with us? ”

Obviously, Zhang Rang was very proud of the victory of the eunuch group in the second party disaster, and felt that he was very awesome, so that he was very unhappy and disdainful when he faced Liu Bei, a young man who had frustrated his face and political interests.

He wanted to take revenge on Liu Bei, but seeing that Liu Bei seemed to be a little valued by Liu Hong, and was afraid of his status as a relative of the Han family, he didn't dare to mess around.

This state of lust and inwardness made Liu Bei feel very funny.

"Why does Zhang Hou feel that he has the arrogance to behave under him? Zhang Hou really misunderstood, he didn't have such an idea in the next place, he was also doing things for His Majesty, why was he so hostile? ”

Liu Bei's contemptuous attitude instantly angered Zhang Rang.

Zhang Rang directly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Bei's collar.

"Don't think that Your Majesty looks like you can see no one in front of my generation, Liu Bei, let me tell you, I want you to die today, you won't live tomorrow!"