When the ministers of the ancient literature school submitted this plan to Liu Hong to promote the entry of ancient classics into the official school system according to the predetermined plan, Liu Hong lightly handed it over to the Three Princes and Shangshutai for discussion.

Yuan Kui was forced to engage in a heated debate with Yang Ci, but in the end he failed to gain the upper hand.

After failing to make a plan, Yuan Kui tried to set off a new Taixue debate again, ready to repeat the previous tricks and humiliate the modern literary school again, but this time Yang Cixue was obedient.

He doesn't take it.

In addition to calling the sick is calling the sick, even the bigwigs of the modern literature school who took the previous vote all called the sick together, no matter how provocative the ancient literature school was, they just didn't come forward.

I can't argue, can't I hide?

You don't have a face, we don't have a face, I just don't accept it, what can you do with me?

What's wrong? Could it be that you still want to chase me to my house and lift me out of my hospital bed to argue with you?

Do you believe that my heart is lying straight into the coffin?

Under the passive response of the modern literary school to collectively hang up the anti-battle card, Yuan Kui's attempt to promote his strengths and avoid his weaknesses was unsuccessful, and the matter could not be resolved, which made Yuan Kui and the leadership of the ancient literature school very annoyed, very angry, and deeply powerless.

They began to realize that it was not easy for them to achieve a quick victory over the modern school.

In addition, on many government issues, Yang Ci also stood on the opposite side of Yuan Kui, paying attention to a [I must oppose everything that Yuan Kui supports, and I must support everything that Yuan Kui opposes].

Because there are two people who record Shangshushi, Shangshutai needs the joint approval of Yuan Kui and Yang Ci to implement major resolutions, and without the joint approval of the two, great things cannot be done.

And so the show began.

No matter what Yuan Kui supports, Yang Ci must contradict him, he must express his position from the opposite place, and resolutely do not hold the same opinion as Yuan Kui, unless Yuan Kui listens to his request, he will definitely not sign the order.

This is not the case in normal government affairs, not to mention Yuan Kui's attempt to promote the officials of the ancient literature school to gain an advantage in the political arena.

Nine out of ten are unsuccessful, Yang Ci has the momentum to uncover the coffin even if he is lying in the coffin, and he will fight with Yuan Kui to the end at any cost.

Yuan Kui's angry face was black and red, and his temper became more and more irritable day by day, and he almost robbed the characters of Guan Erye and Zhang Sanye.

It's just that many things can't follow Yang Ci's meaning, every time he sees Yang Ci's hateful old face, his teeth itch with anger.

Maybe Yang Ci just likes to see Yuan Kui's feeling of hating him but not being able to kill him.

Lu Zhi, as Shang Shuling, always wanted to cooperate with Yuan Kui to overwhelm Yang Ci and turn Yang Ci into an empty shelf, but Yang Ci installed a few of his own people in Shangshutai through recommendation, thus mastering some of the power in Shangshutai.

Liu Hong agreed to Yang Ci's recommendation and handed over some positions to the Jinwen School, so that Yang Ci regained the strength to fight against Yuan Kui.

This can be called a party struggle between the ancient literature school and the modern literature school, and it can also be called the Yuan Yang party struggle, but this party struggle was definitely promoted by Liu Hong.

Lu Zhi saw it very thoroughly, and complained to Liu Bei many times about Liu Hong's behavior, saying that Liu Hong used Yang Ci to restrict the ancient literature school, which was a distrust of the ancient literature school, and also seriously affected the political power of the ancient literature school, which had just begun to improve.

Lu Zhi felt that Liu Hong had changed, and he began to play with his ministers, and began to treat his courtiers as playthings, rather than talents who could govern the world, which was not the emperor's attitude towards his courtiers.

Liu Bei listened to Lu Zhi's complaints, echoing them on the surface, but disapproving them in his heart.

Liu Hong is using you, why aren't you using Liu Hong?

Everyone is one another, and who treats whom as playthings?

The routine is played deeply, and whoever takes it seriously.

Teacher, times have changed, and the future direction of history will be different.

Liu Bei didn't care about this, he just managed his own network and built his own political force.

In addition to daily work, Liu Bei helped Zhang Rang set up the shelves in the East Garden, and at the same time gathered with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others to drink and play, and also found time to play with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie.

He is like a master of time management in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and he lived a prosperous life.

After the last day of the fifth year of light and harmony, the sixth year of light and six years followed.

The first day of the first month of the sixth year of Guanghe is a very grand festival for the Han Dynasty, called Zhengdan.

On this day, regardless of the festival celebrations within ordinary people's homes, as an official of the imperial court, it is very important to enter the palace to congratulate the emperor on the joy of the New Year.

At about three o'clock in the morning of this day, the Luoyang Palace was about to ring the bell to gather the ministers and ministers to enter the palace, and then collectively congratulate the emperor on the New Year and give the Han Empire a good fortune.

So early in the morning, Liu Bei had to brave the cold to get out of the warm quilt, dress neatly, carry gifts, yawn to meet Lu Zhi, and prepare to march to the palace.

To be honest, it's not a pleasant thing to do.

It was still dark, and the icy cold wind was blowing, blowing like a pinprick on the body, uncomfortably tight.

At this time, leaving the bed and house to go to the palace to stand and blow the wind is definitely a severe test of willpower, and I don't know which immoral guy with smoke set up the etiquette.

But I have to say that this is also a serious national etiquette, and it is not allowed to be sloppy, so the emperor Liu Hong, who has always liked to sleep lazily, is not exempt from vulgarity, and even gets up earlier than the officials, and has to make a series of preparations in advance, which is also very uncomfortable to think about.

Liu Bei soon arrived at the gate of Lu Zhi's mansion, joined Lu Zhi, and advanced to the palace as an official of Shangshutai under Lu Zhi.

After arriving at the palace, the ministers and officials stood in line according to their respective ranks, and presented New Year's gifts to Emperor Liu Hong in the cold wind.

According to the etiquette law, on the day of the New Year's Day, the gifts presented to the emperor by the princes and nobles and high-ranking officials of the three princes were jade bi.

The gift given by officials who are more than 2,000 stone is a lamb.

The gift given by the officials from 1,000 to 600 stones is a wild goose.

The gift given by officials under 400 koku was chickens.

So as a thousand stone Shangshu order, the gift Lu Zhi carried was a wild goose.

And Liu Bei is a four-hundred-stone official, and the gift he carries is a chicken.

To put it bluntly, this is not an expensive thing, the main thing is etiquette, and it is a good idea.

Among all the officials of the court, only officials with more than 2,000 stones can enter the main hall to meet the emperor, worship the emperor, warm up in the palace, and enjoy the emperor's banquet, and those who are not high enough are not allowed to enter the main hall.

Although Lu Zhi is a scholar order, the power is very heavy, but the level is very low, generally only in the court meeting to deal with major affairs, Shang Shuling can sit in the court as three solitary seats, this kind of festival days, everything is in accordance with the rules of etiquette, no matter how big your power is, the level is not enough, still give me a cold wind outside.

Therefore, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei were forced to not enter the main hall together, and they had to blow a cold wind outside, and at the same time, they could only eat a mouthful of hot food after the emperor gave a banquet after the worship of the bigwigs inside.

Of course, not to mention Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, everyone is the same, Cao Cao, the six-hundred-stone speaker, and Han Rong, the old man, also have to wait in the cold wind, and they are not allowed to enter the main hall to worship the emperor.

It was easy to get to the end of the worship and the emperor gave a banquet, Liu Bei thought that he could eat a little hot to warm his body, but the efficiency of the staff in the palace was too low, or he didn't care about them at all.

It can be seen that for the people in the palace, no matter how high the academic status, it is of little significance.

Well.

If it was a hot summer, Liu Bei would happily drink this ice drink, and then take a comfortable breath.

But now, Liu Bei just wants to eat a hot bite to warm his body, but he can't even meet this request.

And this thing is still a banquet given by the emperor, and it must be eaten, and there must be no left, otherwise it will be a violation of etiquette and law, and it will be seen by the person in charge of supervising whether the official is out of honor in front of the palace, and he will be honestly questioned.

So Liu Bei watched Lu Zhi, who didn't have a good stomach, take a bowl and eat the summer ice drink cleanly, his face did not change, and his demeanor was upright.

Not to mention that Lu Zhi can be a teacher.

Sighing, Liu Bei could only helplessly pick up the bowl of summer ice drink in front of him, endure the discomfort, eat cleanly, and there was nothing left.

PUA, this is definitely PUA!

In the future, if I have the ability, I will definitely change this inhumane rule!

Liu Bei roared in his heart while eating.

It was easy to get through this fateful New Year's Day congratulation session, and Liu Bei could finally leave the palace and go home with the trend of officials, ready for a rare holiday.

The officials of the Han Dynasty had relatively few holidays, and the holiday system was far less superior than that of the Song Dynasty, and lacked flexibility.

Not to mention anything else, just an official who basically can't leave the official office during work has already made Liu Bei very uncomfortable.

Once you go to work in the official office, you can't leave the official office for five days, live with a group of old men all day long, eat and live together, and sleep at night and endure them grinding your teeth and farting, and sometimes Liu Bei even thinks that he has returned to the university dormitory in his previous life.

I finally went home and rested for a day or two, and in the blink of an eye, it was five days of hellish work.

Liu Bei only has four or five days of leisure during the New Year's Day holiday, excluding the activities of visiting relatives and friends to socialize, and the time that can really be left for himself is probably only one day.

So after returning from the palace, Liu Bei couldn't wait to go home and live with Han Ning and Han Xiaodie, for fear that there would not be enough time for husband and wife to get along in the next few days.

In fact, Liu Bei's decision was the right one.

In the next few days, he didn't really have much time to spend with his family, and basically spent all the daytime visiting each other and socializing.

Lu Zhi needs to be visited, Zheng Xuan needs to be visited, Yuan Shao needs to be visited, Cao Cao also invited Liu Bei to visit, and there are countless visitors to visit his own house, and there are so many social activities that a person like Liu Bei who is at the level of a social horror king feels overwhelmed.

After reaching a high position, it is really not easy.

(End of chapter)