In the face of Ma Riyan's persuasion, Lu Zhi thought for a while and expressed his doubts.

"Yuan Gong is also a member of the ancient literature school, and has made great contributions to the victory of the ancient literature school over the modern literature school, and has always rushed to the front and placed on the battlefield, that is a fierce general, why do I need to be wary of him?"

"If he had no other ideas, why did he suddenly send the children of his family to the army?"

Ma Riyan shook his head and said: "Not to mention that he tried to transfer Dong Zhuo from Zuo Feng Yi back to Luoyang several times, but he failed before, and now he has succeeded, if Dong Zhuo wins in this battle, Yuan Kui will definitely profit."

At that time, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu will all be his people, and his prestige in the army will rise greatly, and his power will increase suddenly, and his prestige will also rise.

He is the third duke of Lu Shangshushi, and you have the same status, protégés and old officials are all over the world, and he has a lot of power, if the prestige in the army rises again, it is not something you can fight against, he is likely to take the lead and become the leader of the ancient literature school! ”

Lu Zhi was stunned.

"Why is Uncle Weng so speculative about Yuan Gong?"

"It's not that I'm speculating about him, it's that he's such a person."

Ma Riyan sighed and said: "Actually, Zigan, you just don't have a deep understanding of political disputes, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, with the prestige of the name of Zheng Gong, the Yuan family can barely obey orders, as soon as Zheng Gong leaves, only Ling remains, how can your family background be compared with the Yuan family?"

With Yuan's usual demeanor, do you think Yuan's will be willing to be under you? Zigan, it's not that I mean to belittle you, but the status of Yuan Kui and his family is too high, and ordinary people can be subdued, so you must be careful. ”

Lu Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and then was silent for a long time.

"Uncle Weng, I may not understand what you said, but this is not what I want, the ancient literature school got together to fight against the modern literature school, not for internal fighting.

Shouldn't our goal be to bring all the ancient classics into the official school? The Yuan family should also have such a long-cherished wish, why should there be internal disputes? I don't want to do this thing that relatives and enemies are happy. ”

In the face of Lu Zhi's high wind and bright festival, Ma Riyan smiled bitterly.

"Zigan, I don't want to do such a thing, but today, I feel that the situation in the world seems to have changed again, there are more and more wars, more and more chaos, there are always endless rebellions to be quelled, and there are endless difficulties to solve.

These things are one after another, and before these things are all dealt with, where can I have time to promote the classics of ancient literature into official schools? I feel that what happened before may not be sustainable. ”

"But if that's not the case, what is the ancient literature school living here for?"

Lu Zhi spread his hands and said loudly: "What my generation has done is to destroy the decadent modern literary school, reshape the more prosperous Han academics, make the Han academics prosperous again, and be worthy of the teachings of the sages. ”

"Isn't it?"

Ma Riyan shook his head and smiled: "Zigan, there are only you and me here, why bother?" ”

Lu Zhi was silent.

Leaning less, Lu Zhi sighed deeply.

"Uncle Weng, even if what you said is true, what can Yuan Kui really do if he really wants to seize the position of the leader of the ancient literature school? I don't have any idea about this position, I don't intend to fight for power, if he really wants it, I'll just give it to him, so what's the matter? ”

"You want to, we don't."

Ma Riyan's eyes widened: "Zigan, don't forget, the Yuan family is a wealthy family today, and they are just allies with our generation, not fellow travelers, don't you think it's strange to let a modern literary family become the leader of the ancient literature school?" Don't you think that's out of place? ”

When Lu Zhi heard this, he hesitated slightly.

"I ......"

"There are enough protégés of the Yuan family, the most powerful in the literary school today are the Yuan family and the Yang family, now that the Yang family is declining, the Yuan family is raising its head, and then let them become the leaders of the ancient literature school, isn't the Yuan family the first in the world?"

Ma Riyan was dissatisfied: "At that time, Yuan Kui, as one of the three dukes, will record Shang Shushi, his clansmen still have military power, and he is the leader of the ancient literature school, and his power is huge!"

If it really comes to that point, Zigan, how can you make me feel embarrassed? Do you want me to wait for me to bow down to Yuan's ministers? I absolutely can't accept such a thing! Yuan doesn't want to step on my head! ”

"Uncle Weng, you ......"

Lu Zhi sighed helplessly: "The literary school has just lost its leader, why can't our generation take advantage of the victory to pursue and take away the official school, why do we have to fight among ourselves at this moment?"

The reason why the modern literary school failed was because in the face of us, they were infighting, their hearts were not aligned, and they were directly defeated by our generation who were united as one, and now if we are also infighting, will we not fail? ”

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside!"

Ma Riyan said in a low voice: "If you can't get rid of the internal troubles, when you concentrate on the outside, the internal enemy will be stabbed in the back, how can you deal with yourself?"

The Yuan family is such a family, they interact with the scholars on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are eyebrow-to-eye with the eunuchs, and the attitude is ambiguous, such a family must not be trusted! ”

Lu Zhi was speechless.

"In the current situation, military power is very important."

Ma Riyan persuaded: "You are not in charge of the military now, but your disciple Xuande is in charge of the army, you should try to discuss this matter with Xuande, and use Xuande's power to counter the power of the Yuan clan, and not let the power of the Yuan clan expand too much!"

The power of the Yuan clan is now moving closer to Luoyang, what Yuan Kui wants to do, it can already be seen clearly, if you don't plan early, you can't regret it! ”

Lu Zhi sat down quietly and bowed his head in contemplation.

Ma Riyan didn't bother Lu Zhi and waited quietly for his decision.

After pondering for a while, Lu Zhi came up with his own thoughts.

"We are not only the enemy of the modern literary school, the eunuchs are not our allies, the infighting at this moment will only bring us great trouble, I can't do this, for the matter of Yuan Gong, you can talk about it, you can talk about it, be open and honest, there is no need to-for-tat, isn't it?"

Ma Riyan was very anxious.

"You don't want to go-for-tat, it's hard to guarantee that Yuan Kui doesn't want to, he is the kind of person who only has power and status in his eyes, and if you talk to him about the future of the ancient literature school, he will only laugh and won't say anything else!"

"Uncle Weng, you ...... Are you thinking too much? ”

"Zigan, it's because you don't think too much! If you are in a high position, how can you only think about doing things and not want political disputes? ”

Lu Zhi seemed to be moved, but in the end he still didn't do anything to reassure Ma Riyan, and the conversation between the two did not get a positive result, which made Ma Riyan very dissatisfied.

Lu Zhi felt that Ma Riyan was thinking too much.

Ma Riyan felt that Lu Zhi thought too little, and he was really not a leader who could take on great responsibilities, so Ma Riyan thought of Liu Bei.

Liu Bei, who secretly hid from everyone to do big things.

As a child of a wealthy family, Ma Riyan thinks that Liu Bei may be the one who can lead the ancient literature school to truly crush the modern literature school and reach the top.

So Ma Riyan decided to write to Liu Bei and tell him about Luoyang to see if Liu Bei had any high opinions about it.

Liu Bei has actually been paying attention to the situation in Luoyang, including the war in Hedong County, he actually knew about it relatively early, and he also knew something about Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's going to the battlefield.

But he didn't think it made much sense.

Because everything he built in Liangzhou has formed a dimensionality reduction blow to Yuan Kui's plan, he seeks the destruction and reconstruction of the entire system, and Yuan Kui is obsessed with making Yuan the ruler of the Eastern Han Empire.

They want to establish the dictatorship of scholars, and the Yuan family is the absolute leader, they may not have the ambition and courage to change the dynasty, but they think that what the eunuchs and relatives can do, they can also do.

From this, it is possible for scholars to also want to obtain institutional control of imperial power, and then abolish eunuchs and relatives, turn this comfort zone into a comfort zone for scholars, and then give all good things to scholars.

With this goal as the goal-oriented action, if you want to succeed, you must not only eliminate the eunuchs, but also eliminate your relatives, not to mention, if it wasn't for Dong Zhuo's miscalculation, Yuan Kui almost succeeded.

Relatives were killed, eunuchs were killed, and the troika of the Eastern Han Empire, in the second half of the sixth year of Zhongping, was left with the last one.

But this time, he didn't have that hope.