Liu Hong was planning to spend this cold winter in Wenrou Township, but he was forced by the chaos in Liangzhou to leave Wenrou Township to deal with the emergency military situation, which made him very annoyed.

He was very fierce to Zuo Chang at the military meeting, directly seized his post, was imprisoned and put to death, and then asked the courtiers to nominate more excellent officials to serve as the assassin of Liangzhou to stabilize the situation.

At that time, only Liu Bei, as a councilor, suggested that the imperial court should send a good general to lead the army into Liangzhou to quell the rebellion, because he believed that the rebels were in a general situation, and the connection between Qiang and Hu was probably not something that the local government forces in Liangzhou could solve.

After Liu Bei made this suggestion, Cao Cao, the speaker of the council, also agreed with Liu Bei's suggestion and kept pace with Liu Bei.

But except for the two of them, almost everyone thought that the chaos in Liangzhou was only more serious in Jincheng County, and not so serious in other places, and it was not an unmanageable situation.

Taiwei Yang Ci's body recovered a little, and he criticized Liu Bei in the court, and even sneered at his suggestion, accusing Liu Bei on the spot of not knowing the high cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and not knowing how much it would cost to send generals to lead the army into Liangzhou.

At that time, the Hanqiang War dragged on for a long time, almost emptying the treasury of the imperial court, having to levy a large amount of taxes, and almost impoverishing the people, so that the Liangzhou rebellion was barely suppressed.

If we start fighting again now, will we bankrupt the imperial court?

What's more, the imperial court had just quelled the Taiping Dao Rebellion at the beginning of the year, and now was the time to use the money.

"Among the rebels were not only Qianghu, but also locals who were disloyal to the imperial court, and if they did not immediately win a decisive victory in Jincheng County with a thunderous force, it would make the local disgruntled people feel that the imperial court was weak and could not put down the rebellion.

Once the locals think so, they will inevitably be more and more biased towards the rebels, and more and more will join the rebels, and the rebels will become more and more powerful, and at that time, the situation will be even worse. ”

Liu Bei ignored Yang Ci and just suggested Liu Hong like this.

Liu Hong hesitated again and again, originally wanted to support Liu Bei's opinion, but after thinking about it, he felt that there were too many things to send troops into Liangzhou, and he spent too much money, so he was a little reluctant.

Although he felt that what Liu Bei said made sense, laziness prevailed, so he chose to adopt Yang Ci's suggestion.

Send a more excellent Liangzhou assassin to oversee the situation in Liangzhou, use the local power of Liangzhou to extinguish the rebels, end this rebellion, and try not to use the power of Luoyang.

Liu Bei felt helpless.

Afterwards, Liu Hong was worried that Liu Bei was dissatisfied in his heart, and specially summoned Liu Bei to appease him, and said that if it didn't work this time, he would definitely listen to Liu Bei next time.

Liu Bei couldn't laugh or cry about this.

"Your Majesty, the major affairs of the military state, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored, how can there be a next time?"

"Xuande, I know that you are dedicated to the country, and I also know that you are dedicated to me, but the current situation, I am very satisfied, the situation in Liangzhou may not be worse, let's take it slowly."

Liu Hong patted Liu Bei on the shoulder: "I plan to promote you to be a scholar in the future, and further control the affairs of the entire Shangshutai for me, even if Ling's teacher comes back, you will still be the chief officer of Shangshutai, and when the time comes, your teacher will control military affairs for me, and you will control government affairs for me, so I can sit back and relax, right?" ”

Liu Bei was speechless about this.

After thinking about it, he gave up continuing to persuade, but complimented Liu Hong and said what he liked to hear.

Liu Hong was overjoyed, and gave Liu Bei a bunch of antique books with a flick of his hand.

Liu Bei is becoming more and more aware that Liu Hong is not stupid, nor stupid, nor is he without a desire for power and the pursuit of status, but he also has a very important feature.

Lazy!

There are many things that he knows how to do the right thing, and even tries to do it and sees good results, but it won't be long before he stops doing it.

He did it for a while to get in touch with students and strive to become an academic opinion leader, and then he didn't do it.

Paying close attention to the struggle between the modern and ancient schools and doing something to fine-tune to maintain a balance, he also achieved good results, and then he was not very willing to do it.

It's not that he thinks it's bad, but he feels that he's done enough, he doesn't want to pursue more, he feels that he's satisfied, and the country has become good.

He's going to start enjoying it.

He prefers to leave the rest to the person he thinks is right, and then he can sit back and enjoy it.

He believes that this country does not belong to him alone, so it is not just him who should work hard, but everyone needs to work together, and one person's diligence is not enough.

So he decided to enjoy it first and then leave the important things to the people who believe in them.

He believed in Zhang Rang, so he gave Zhang Rang a lot of power.

He also believed in Liu Bei, so he decided to hand over the affairs of Shang Shutai to Liu Bei.

During Yuan Kui and Yang Ci's illness, Liu Bei worked in Shangshutai in addition to accompanying his family, and some important things that he couldn't touch in the past also began to be handled.

After he dealt with it, he felt that he needed to ask Liu Hong for instructions, but Liu Hong said that he believed that Liu Bei could handle it well, and he could make a decision directly, and there was no need to discuss it with him if it was not an urgent matter.

I believe you.

Liu Bei was a little speechless about this.

Can I really decide on national affairs?

I'm only twenty-four years old.

Even if I could, would an official of my level be held accountable for this?

Liu Hong felt very relieved about this, he believed in Liu Bei, so he lent his name to Liu Bei to use with confidence, and let Liu Bei handle national affairs on his behalf.

To be honest, it's exciting, tiring, fulfilling, and refreshing.

But......

Can it really be?

No matter what Liu Bei thinks in his heart, Liu Hong feels that there is nothing wrong with it anyway.

So that month, until Yuan Kui was the first to recover from illness and return to the imperial court, the person who actually held power in the Luoyang Imperial Court was actually Liu Bei, a small scholar, who shot Zuo Cheng.

Whenever Liu Bei wanted to report government affairs to Liu Hong, Liu Hong did not refuse, but leaned on the cushion and asked the maid to massage him, feed him fruits, squint his eyes to recuperate, and looked careless.

When Liu Bei finished reporting, he nodded, umh a few times, and he didn't know if he heard the matter in his heart.

"Xuande, you are responsible for the next thing, I know everything, you look at it, I believe you."

And then he was gone.

treats the country with such a frivolous attitude, Liu Bei has no choice but to say - worthy of you.

The development of things after that did not surprise Liu Bei.

Under the struggle between Yang Ci and Yuan Kui, Yang Ci still took advantage of the advantages of the modern literary school in high-level politics to gain the upper hand.

He recommended an upright Confucian named Song Xiao to be the assassin of Liangzhou, hoping to solve the Liangzhou rebellion in a more straightforward way and quickly solve all this.

But this old fellow is not so much upright as pious.

That kind of devotion like a believer.

After he arrived in Liangzhou, in the face of the chaos in Liangzhou, he said something to Gai Xun, who was in urgent need of financial and military support from the Luoyang side, which almost made Gai Xun faint.

"As far as I know, the people of Liangzhou rarely study the Confucian classics, so they always launch rebellions, and now I want every family in Liangzhou to copy the "Book of Filial Piety", maybe this can make everyone understand the principles of morality, and the rebellion will naturally disappear."

Good guy, this devout Confucian believer actually directly crossed the process of "Cang Lishi", trying to use the "Book of Filial Piety" to directly make all the people of Liangzhou, including the Qiang people who don't know Chinese characters, understand the meaning of "filial piety" in an instant, and all of them immediately incarnate into filial piety.

Then the rebellion naturally disappeared.

When Liu Bei learned about this, he was deeply shocked.

He originally thought that after Wang Mang died, there should be no such primitive idealistic Confucianism, Wang Mang died so miserably, everyone should have seen the success of primitive idealistic Confucianism.

As a result, there are still such people, who don't know what's going on, and they actually mixed up with the history of a state assassin!

The Eastern Han Dynasty is not dead, and heaven is intolerable......

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PS: I ate a very good tasty half-tendon and half-meat braised beef ramen this morning, so I'll add a more chapter.

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