Zhang Rang's sudden mention of the Eight Classics made Liu Bei speechless.

Because he found that what Zhang Rang said was right and reasonable.

It's fine if the Taiping Road incident breaks out on its own, but if it is artificially identified and punctured in advance, will those whose interests have been damaged by this really be grateful to Liu Bei?

Not necessarily.

Zhang Rang was close to Liu Bei, which was quite serious.

"You are so young now, you are already a high-status valve, it is time to rein in your edge to raise hope, you have won the admiration of thousands of people by relying on your edge, but you have also offended many people, making many people feel jealous.

Now that the ancient literature school and the modern literature school are fighting fiercely, you yourself will still be able to defend yourself, but if you continue to be so sharp, will there be people within you who are dissatisfied with you, then it is difficult to say, I am very worried about you. ”

Liu Bei was silent for a while, then suddenly felt that something was wrong, raised his head and looked at Zhang Rang strangely.

"Are you trying to remind me?"

"yes, can't you? I am not as knowledgeable as you, but the people I have seen and the things I have passed are not less than yours, you know knowledge, I understand people. ”

Zhang Rang was quite complacent: "Liu Xuande, you are a genius in the world, but you obviously have a lot of things that you don't think well, I kindly remind you, don't kill yourself, you are too young, and you don't have any deep foundation, even if you have Your Majesty's secret support, I am afraid that you will not be able to protect you." ”

Liu Bei seriously thought about the meaning of Zhang Rang's words, and did not rush to express his position.

Zhang Rang was not in a hurry.

Strangely, Zhang didn't realize that his tolerance for Liu Bei was getting higher and higher.

And recently, he inexplicably felt that Liu Bei looked a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Although Liu Bei still kept scolding him in daily contact, he didn't feel angry because of it.

When Liu Bei raised his buttocks and arched him, he swore that he really wanted to dismantle Liu Bei, but now, even if such an idea appears, it is more like a joke.

It's weird.

Obviously there is no need to mention him, obviously there is no need to catch him, and it is actually quite cool to watch him kill himself.

But when it came to the end, Zhang Rang still couldn't hold back, and mentioned Liu Bei to point out the benefits and disadvantages to him.

Is this something he will do?

Zhang made himself feel a little strange.

Liu Bei didn't know Zhang Rang's mental activity, but he realized an important point.

The reason why the leaders of the upper echelons of the Eastern Han Dynasty government ignored the development and growth of Taiping Dao so much may also be because they did not think it was a bad thing from the bottom of their hearts.

What the Taiping Daoists pay attention to is not Confucianism, but the learning of Huang Lao, but this is what Liu Hong's predecessor Liu Zhi admired.

Anyway, as long as the Confucian scholars were uncomfortable, the emperor was happy.

The emperor likes it, and of course the eunuchs in the palace have to do what they like, so almost all the eunuchs who have the conditions to learn know about it know a little bit about it, and they will learn a little bit of Huang Laozhi's learning, which in turn has caused the smooth flow of the upper route after the rise of Taiping Road.

And eunuchs, nothing more than asking for money, aside from the Taiping Taoist doctrine, as long as you give money, the eunuchs don't mind associating with you.

There are many exchanges, there are always a few eunuchs who will become believers, and one or two eunuchs with a bit of status will become believers, and those small eunuchs will naturally take the initiative to contact Taiping Dao in order to curry favor with the big eunuchs.

Just like a snowball, there will be more and more people in the court who believe in the way of peace.

The general favorability of the court eunuch group towards Taiping Dao and Huang Laozhixue seems to be one of the important reasons for Liu Hong's attitude.

At least at this time, Liu Hong and the great eunuchs who could speak were not Taiping Daoists, so they would not believe that Taiping Daoists would rebel at all.

They felt that there was no need for the Taiping Daoists to rebel at all.

This is determined by the environment of the times in which they live, and it will not be easily changed by a few words.

It seems that it is already difficult to go to the top line and directly attack the leadership of Taiping Dao.

This feeling made Liu Bei feel very unhappy.

Knowing that what to do was right, knowing that the leaders of the situation at that time were stupid, it seemed that it was not difficult to change the final outcome.

But when he puts himself in the situation, he realizes that the fools who make the decisions don't seem to be really fools.

Each of them has its own logic behind their behavior, forming their own closed loop, and this logic seems to be very much in line with the current situation, and seems to be the optimal solution in the current situation.

However, the real optimal solution from God's perspective is faced with many difficulties, and some of them are even unable to operate within the existing system, and there is no way to start it.

Liu Bei finally understood why there were so many parties who fought against each other from ancient times to the present, but still thought that they must be the right thing.

Because some things really can't be explained, human beings can't understand each other, in the face of crisis, everyone in a high position will have their own ideas, and for people who have different opinions with themselves, their views are also highly consistent-

[Let such guys continue to exist, the country will be finished sooner or later, and if you don't kill them, the country will be finished!] 】

Each of them thinks that they are right, that only they can save the country, and that each other thinks that the other is a worm, and they must find ways to kill each other, and then they will save the country by themselves.

Well, think about it well, don't think about it next time.

Seeing that Liu Bei fell into deep thought, Zhang Rang, who hadn't had time to finish thinking, didn't have the extra heart to continue thinking about why he didn't seem to hate Liu Bei anymore.

He still has a lot to do.

For example, manipulating the East Garden to fire at the scholars.

Under the pretext of investigating the emperor's assassination case, the secret agents of the East Garden had no scruples about taking people, and the disciples of the modern literature school and the ancient literature school in Luoyang City were taken away to assist in the investigation, and once they were taken away, few of them could escape with their whole body.

For this reason, all the bigwigs in Luoyang City are nervous.

They inexplicably feel that a wave of small party calamities is rushing towards them, not the calamity of the party contribution, but the calamity of the party calamity, whether this group of eunuchs is investigating the case or announcing personal vendettas?

It has to be the latter, right?

If it had been placed in the original, the ancient literature school and the modern literature school might have been able to meet the eunuchs as scholars, and dispatch the forces of Zhongcheng, Tingwei and Sili Xiaowei to fight together.

But now, they can't.

Because the judicial system has been attacked by the ancient literature school and the modern literature school respectively.

Before the emperor's assassination case, Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan and other bigwigs from both modern and ancient literature had at least seven or eight absurd or dangerous charges that needed to be investigated and verified.

On both sides, you come here, I will come here, all kinds of rumors are not drafted, and I can't wait to spread rumors about the relatives who have been buried in the other party, let alone the living people.

One of them is a filthy existence that needs humane destruction to purify the air, and everyone has a human sin on their backs, and not killing is not enough to anger the people.

And among them, Liu Bei made a great effort.

In order to promote the death fight between the two sides, Liu Bei jumped up and down to guide the young scholars who worshiped him to fabricate accusations against the old guys of the modern literary school, and almost made up an Eastern Han Dynasty version of "Luo Weaving Sutra" to open the eyes of the other party.

As a result, the judicial system controlled by the scholars fell into meaningless internal friction, and in the face of the strong rise of the Dongyuan forces under the control of the eunuch group, the judicial system controlled by the scholars could not give corresponding counterattacks and could not maintain their own power.

In addition, Dongyuan is investigating the emperor's assassination case, and has the highest priority and righteousness, and the scholars are powerless in the face of this peak, and they can't resist it at all.

Zhang Rang was happy, staying in the private prison in Dongyuan all day to guide the executioners in the private prison to perform various big memory recovery techniques on the soldiers, which was indeed perverted.

Liu Bei had no time to care about these.

During this period, he used the family relationship of Cao Cao's family to inquire about the situation of Taiping Dao believers within the eunuch group, and at the same time sent people to learn about some of the situation of Taiping Dao among the people in Luoyang City, and spent about a month collecting intelligence and data.

In September, Liu Bei came to conclusions based on a series of data, which did not make him optimistic.

(End of chapter)