From a relatively high point of view, it can be found that Taiping Dao did not really unite a social class that could be relied on as its basic plate.

For Taiping Dao, it is impossible for the upper-class scholar group to unite in place.

They have a vested interest, they have too many, they think very highly of themselves, and if they want to get their support, they can't afford to open that price.

So it's clear who they want to fight for.

Either unite the low-level Li Shu, or unite the landlords and the powerful, these are the people who are dissatisfied with the current system, grasp their needs, claim to be able to meet their needs, mobilize their forces, and perhaps achieve success.

The low-level Li Shu needs land, and the landlords need official positions, knowledge, and more land wealth, these are all visible things, and they can be given if they grit their teeth.

But there is no Taiping Dao, and the Taiping Dao only unites themselves - the Taiping Dao people.

The composition of the Taiping Dao is complex, from the beggars who are so poor that they are about to starve to death, and the eunuchs who are rich and flowing with oil around the emperor are all-encompassing, and what is used to unite these people is the Taiping Dao's own philosophy.

It's not that it's impossible, but to be successful, Taipingdao needs more followers and more people to accept their ideas.

There were more than 50 million people in the Eastern Han Empire, not to mention that most people can accept it, at least it can't be just a few hundred thousand people who believe it, which not only does not have sufficient manpower, but also cannot form a wide range of cognition.

This is very dangerous for a new regime.

Therefore, in order to succeed in the rebellion, it is necessary to unite a certain social class with sufficient strength.

The bottom Li Shu has a numerical advantage, the landlord has a strong financial advantage, and uniting any one has the possibility of success.

Zhang Jiao didn't realize this, and only relied on more than 400,000 Taiping Taoists, so he felt that Lao Tzu was the first in the world and could rebel, although the members were all over the upper and lower classes, but they were not completely accepted by any strata of society.

While uniting the believers, Taiping Dao also pushed the vast majority of people in society who did not think so for the time being to themselves against themselves through the slogan that the sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand.

Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that the Yellow Turban Army has become synonymous with robbers and robbers from the beginning of the Taiping Road uprising to the later stage, and it is not incomprehensible that it will carry out indiscriminate stabbing against the whole society.

The defeat of the Taiping Dao was already doomed from the time they started the incident.

An uprising that was doomed to failure, a vague uprising without a clear political and economic program, and an uprising that did not mention the division of land and wealth equally, but inexplicably became the beginning of an epoch-making drama.

Liu Bei and Zhang Jiao have no personal grudges, they can't talk about hatred, they just regret it.

If it weren't for Zhang Jiao, if it wasn't for Taiping Dao, wouldn't the result be better?

History has no ifs, Liu Bei has no power and does not want to stop an oppressed person from resisting those who oppress him, if he does not know the result of the Taiping Dao incident, he will not have any special actions, and he will not have any feelings.

But as a person who knows everything, he doesn't want too many people to die in this inconclusive war, the input-output ratio is too low and too cost-effective.

The chaotic era at the end of the Han Dynasty began, and the collapse of war and order led to the death of more than half of the population in this chaotic era with no end in sight.

No matter how dilapidated the order is, it is more suitable for a person to survive than the chaotic times without order, and it is the so-called good death that is better than life.

Wouldn't it be better if we could take a different path?

Liu Bei has his own ideas.

And before this idea is realized, he has only one goal - to let more people survive before he has the ability to change the world.

Wouldn't it be better if the scale of the Yellow Turban Army was not that large, the scope and duration of the impact were not so long, and more people would have survived because of this, even if it was just to survive?

He doesn't have the ability to change everything now, but despite this, he also wants more people to survive, so that those who would have died because of it can survive as much as possible.

After crossing the hurdle of death, will those hard-working people survive?

Even if you live for one more year, half a year, even if it's only three months.

He wants people to live, and he wants more people to live.

Just survive!

With such a wish, Liu Bei spent the last month of the fifth year of Guanghe, and his stability was opposed to the violent turmoil of the entire imperial court.

Liu Hong appointed Taiwei Yang Cilu Shangshu to jointly take charge of Shangshutai with Situ Yuan Kui, this decision stirred up a thousand waves, and at first, not only the ancient literature school felt inexplicably frightened, but also the modern literature school felt inexplicable.

Originally, they all felt that they were going to send it, and they were going to be all finished, but as a result, the peaks and loops turned around, and the willows and flowers were bright and bright, and Yang Ci, the defeater, was actually in charge of Shangshu with Yuan Kui, the victor, and they both had the power to make final decisions on national affairs.

Both of them are the three dukes, both of them are recorded in Shangshushi, and their status is equal, regardless of whether they are up or down, so the impact on the political situation is naturally divided into courts.

After a brief period of panic, the school of antiquity gradually came back to its senses and realized that it was part of the imperial power technique, and that the emperor had never really been on their side, just as they had never really been on the emperor's side.

There are hundreds of battles in one day, how can there be any real friendship between monarchs and ministers?

After a short period of confusion, the modern literary school also realized something, and what followed was ecstasy.

Liu Bei's guess was right, the modern literary school was almost out of breath by the wave of the ancient literature school, and finally took a breath, and he didn't care if this was a deliberate act of the imperial power.

They have only one idea -

Live and make the betrayer pay.

They decided to give the antiquarians and the traitors a little color, so that they could know what was going on for bullying them.

The ancient literature school and the Yuan and Xun families were unprepared to face such a situation.

They had never expected all this in advance, and they had never expected that the emperor's political level would suddenly improve so much, and a wave of operations actually succeeded in creating a situation where the two tigers were fighting, and he himself sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, being the indifferent bystander.

And as the struggle deepens, he will inevitably become the crucial arbiter, and once he becomes the arbiter, it means the revival and return of imperial power, which is a very dangerous situation for them.

The ancient literature school tried their best to prevent the emperor from appointing Yang Ci and wanted the emperor to retract his fate, but they could not even see the emperor's face again - Liu Hong claimed to be ill.

And it is very strange that the Ming Emperor still maintains the party policy of the modern literary school, but he has inexplicably lifted the confinement of several local families, which are all good friends with the Yang family, which is equivalent to enhancing the political power of the Yang family.

This incident essentially announced that the party's policy was no longer a map cannon for large-scale and all-round strikes, but had become a tool.

A political tool for the realization of the emperor's personal political ambitions.

There is no doubt that although the modern literary school is completely inferior in academics and politically constrained everywhere, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and they still maintain a certain scale of political power and appeal.

Yang Ci, as a highly respected boss of the modern literary school, even if he was defeated for a time, the residual prestige still exists, and now he is recording Shangshushi, which is equivalent to becoming the leader of the modern literary school again, the political core, and the object of high hopes from everyone.

Under his call, the modern literary school was able to temporarily unify all the thoughts, and as long as he was alive, the modern literary school would definitely not fall, and would definitely start a fierce struggle with the ancient literary school.

In particular, the Yuan and Xun families, who were backstabbed, have become thorns in the eyes of the modern literary school.

It doesn't matter whether the emperor is manipulating the situation or not, the modern literary school and the ancient literary school can no longer reunite against the imperial power, and the two sides have completely torn their faces.

Now the modern school of literature only wants revenge.

Great revenge!

The emperor and the eunuch clique completely disrupted the future political and academic layout of the ancient literary school, and many of the things they had previously met to discuss were facing uncertainty.

For example, their plan to push the second batch of "Fei Shi Yi" and "Gu Wen Shangshu" into the status of official education was fiercely blocked.

(End of chapter)