Faced with Zhang Rang's abrupt words, Liu Bei did not feel strange.

"Oh?"

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Rang's calm expression and said with a smile: "What's unusual?" ”

"Such a poor background can make you a scholar in the end."

Zhang Rang sighed and said: "Your Majesty grew up in the Hou Mansion, although you are not rich and rich, but you also did not suffer hardships, so Your Majesty does not understand, how much effort does it take you to become a scholar today, not to mention, you are only twenty-one years old, a person like you, it is rare to see in fifty years." ”

"You know me?"

Liu Bei put away his smile.

"You think I don't understand? If I have such talent, forbearance, and opportunity, why should I give up this ****, turn my back on my family, and become a eunuch who is despised? ”

Zhang Rang suddenly smiled, and his smile was a little desolate.

"I am from the same background as you, I don't have a rich family, I need to struggle to barely get filled, but I don't have your tenacity, you don't have your ruthlessness, I don't have your ingenuity, I don't have your chance, so I can't be you.

The only thing I have in common with you is that I am also unwilling to freeze and starve to death for the rest of my life, I am not reconciled! Why can they be rich and rich, but I can only starve and starve? Why is God so unjust? I'm not reconciled! I will not be reconciled!

In order not to starve to death, in order not to be bullied, I had no other way, I had no other way but to castrate into the palace and become a eunuch, despite this, when I first entered the court, I was still an ant, and I was bullied, serving feces and urine for people, cleaning the toilet, and even sleeping in the toilet.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, as long as I can't die, as long as I'm alive, I'm going to climb up desperately! I did it! I've climbed up now! I enjoy a wealth and prosperity that many people never dreamed of! ”

Zhang Rang shed tears as he spoke, as if he wanted to pour out the bitter tears he had accumulated for many years.

However, Liu Bei didn't feel anything about it.

There are too many people suffering in this world, so this is not the reason why you indulge yourself in a lot of wealth and do all kinds of evil after you have attained your will.

And, are we acquainted?

Why are you spitting bitterness on me?

Could it be that you expect me to give you a warm hug?

So Liu Bei shook his head.

"So, you're just for the glory and riches?"

Zhang Rang seemed to be stimulated by Liu Bei's contemptuous expression and was furious.

"Or else? What else can I do for it? I climbed up desperately, not for glory, what else can I do for wealth? What about you? Aren't you here for glory and riches? ”

"Glory and wealth are just incidental, and the root of what I seek is not here."

"Where is the one you are seeking? Tell me! ”

Zhang Rang walked up to Liu Bei angrily and glared at him angrily: "You are noble? Are you amazing? Have you suffered what I have suffered? Have you ever taken poop and pee? Have you ever slept in a filthy toilet? Have you eaten there? Have you ever had one? ”

"I sympathize with your personal experience, I applaud your spirit of perseverance, and I have nothing to say about what you are doing now."

Liu Bei glanced at Zhang Rang and walked directly past him.

"Don't think that you are the only one who suffers the most in the world, there are many people in the world who have suffered and suffered for a lifetime and cannot turn over, I have seen more miserable than you abound, not worse than you."

"But at the end of the day, if I were you, I don't seem to have a better way to change my situation, so I'm no more noble than you, and I don't blame you."

"But at this moment, I hope you can have a clear understanding, we are allies, allies against the scholars together, with me, you can have a target, more efficient, without me, you are blind, you can't hit the right place, you can't threaten the root of the scholars."

"In the same way, for me, with you, my methods can better threaten the scholars, and without you, even if I have the ability to reach the heavens, I will not be able to exert any strength."

"Which is right and which is wrong, Zhang Changshi, as a senior official, should be able to distinguish clearly, everything in the past, let it pass, the future is what we need to grasp."

"Finally, I wish us a happy cooperation, Chang Zhang."

Dropping these words, Liu Bei left the palace without looking back, nor did he look at the expression on Zhang Rang's face at this moment.

He and Zhang Rang have a similar bad family background, a similar bad childhood, and a similar bad situation.

But I have to say that he has a grandfather who is an official, a father who is a small official, and a clan as the last support, and when he grows up, he also gets the opportunity to worship Lu Zhi as a teacher.

He is an ordinary person, but his ordinary person may be much better than Zhang Rang's situation of entering the palace as a eunuch.

Where there is a little choice, where there is a way to rise, as long as the ruling class is a little gentle with the ruled class, not so ruthless, and gives them a little respite, who is willing to give up their descendants and enter the court to be light?

It's not Zhang Rang who is wrong.

So who's wrong?

Walking out of the palace and looking up at the gray sky, Liu Bei's mood was extremely gloomy.

However, no amount of gloomy mood could stop him from moving forward.

Because if we don't move forward, the modern literary school and the ancient literary school will really have to converge in a certain sense.

Originally, the appearance of Zheng Xuan and the popularity of Zheng Xue had greatly accelerated this trend, if they didn't seize this last opportunity to split them, once the troubled times began, not only would Liu Bei himself have no future, but the path he envisioned would not be able to go on.

When the war begins, the central government collapses, and the last chance to rely on the imperial power to split the scholars and severely damage the power of the scholars will also be lost, and after the pure chaos comes, the tormented people will pursue order, not struggle.

This kind of thing, Liu Bei will not let it go anyway and miss the opportunity.

Now that the opportunity is in front of you, why not give it a try?

There is no turning back when the bow is opened, since he hugged Liu Hong's thigh, there are some things that must be tried.

Beginning in August of the fifth year of Guanghe, some changes took place within the Han court.

The incident originated from Liu Hong's riotous operation.

Twenty-six of the falsely accused county guards were rewarded, and they would become councillors and come to serve in the central government.

Then, the twenty-six vacancies they had left in the posts of county guards had to be replaced.

It was only at this time that some of the latecomers realized how disgusting the emperor's strategy of retreating was to advance.

Liu Hong personally presided over the selection of twenty-six new candidates for the county guard, and then selected twenty-six scholars.

None of them have anything to do with Hongdu Sectology, all of them are the most orthodox scholars.

Then Liu Hong asked them to pay the money.

20 million yuan per person, come to the West Garden to pay the money, pay the money with one hand, deliver the goods with the other hand, and do not bargain, Tong Suo is not bullied.

Then you can go to office.

How disgusting is this?

The more noble the scholars, the more they can't bear this kind of blatant insult, they want to be officials, it is a matter of course, the Holy Son of Heaven rules by the arch, and they can be responsible for specific things.

When they become officials, they should be given money by the imperial court, when do they need to spend money to become officials?

What a shame!

To pay or not to pay?

If you pay money, you can become an official, but your reputation is not good.

If you don't pay the money, your reputation will be saved, but your power will be gone.

What should we do with this dilemma?

Just when the scholars were entangled and secretly hated Liu Hong's policy, they didn't know what was going on, Liu Hong suddenly changed his attitude again, and let the county guards of six of the counties go, and gave the officials the ribbons without letting them pay the money, and let them take office.