Let Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu go?

What are they going to do? I want you to go!

Liu Hongcai did not agree to He Jin's alternative, and issued an order again, asking He Jin to go out in person, if he didn't move, it would be to resist the decree, it would be to disobey the king's order, and he would be punished!

He Jin was very annoyed, but there was no way, he was the Son of Heaven, and he couldn't get him in terms of righteousness, and he didn't want to give someone a handle, so he discussed a delaying plan with Yuan Kui.

He Jin can take over the appointment, but he has to show that the army under his command is too much to use, most of them are old and weak, and he needs to go to other places to recruit troops, and then go out after the recruitment is over.

On the other side, He Jin and Yuan Kui were ready to spend money to buy Liu Yan and let Liu Yan exert more efforts to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, or to tell the court that he could solve the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou himself and did not need the court to send reinforcements, so as to cut off the possibility of Liu Hong transferring the tiger away from the mountain.

In short, the two-pronged approach, seeing the moves, can't leave Luoyang no matter what, and can't give Liu Hong a chance to do things.

Liu Hong saw that his tricks did not work, he was very anxious, and spent the last day of the fifth year of Zhongping in depression, and ushered in the sixth year of Zhongping in an even more depressed mood.

At the beginning of this year, Liu Hong was drunk because of a lot of drinking, and because he was hot and having fun with his favorite concubine, he went out naked in the cold night to "enjoy the coolness".

Such a death, of course, is to get a hammer, Liu Hong was infected with a cold, and he fell ill for a while, and he lay in bed for more than half a month before he recovered.

After being infected with wind and cold this time, Liu Hong felt that his body was not as good as before, even if the symptoms disappeared, he often felt tired, not sleeping enough, and his body was weak.

The doctor told him not to drink alcohol, not to be close to women, to rest more, to eat more light diet, so as to recuperate his body, and after a year and a half, his body can recover as before.

But where can Liu Hong's body, which is accustomed to wine, withstand the "devastation" of quitting alcohol and sex?

He went his own way, but the result was that he had many physical problems and was forced to drink medicine every day, but he was unwilling to follow the doctor's instructions to quit drinking, sex, and taboos, so his condition went back and forth, but he didn't get better.

In fact, Liu Hong also has a big emotional problem.

Because of the anxiety and sense of urgency, his psychological pressure is very high, and he needs to indulge to relieve the pressure, otherwise he feels that sooner or later he will be driven crazy by the pressure of He and Yuan.

Since the beginning of the year, Queen He has tried to meet Liu Hong many times, and occasionally Liu Hong has relented and asked her to see her, but as soon as she met Queen He, she said how difficult it was for He's family, how to make great contributions, and asked Liu Hong how he was willing to do something to He's, and there were many complaints in his words.

Liu Hong was furious, he no longer saw Queen He, and his emotions gradually got out of control, and he became more and more irritable.

He's also quite difficult.

At the end of the first month of the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Hong asked Jian Shuo to ask Liu Bei again how he was preparing and whether it was time to go, and then finally got the news that Liu Bei's side was almost prepared and would be able to set off in a few days.

Liu Hong was overjoyed and drank a meal of wine to celebrate, but as a result, he lay on the hospital bed and couldn't get up, and his body became weaker and weaker.

When he was sick, Jian Shuo reported to him many times the news that He Jin and Yuan Kui were doing things in private.

For example, they connected with the officials of the court and China everywhere, befriended them, gave gifts, and tried to win them over, and most of the officials in the entire court did not refuse He Jin and Yuan Kui's court, and even some officials of the modern literary school accepted He Jin's kindness in private.

Only a few ministers such as Lu Zhi, Xun Shuang, Fu Qian, Cai Yong, and Ma Riyan clearly rejected He Jin's solicitation.

But they are also against abolishing Chang Liyou, and they don't want to stand with Liu Hong, they just don't want to get too close to He Jin, Yuan Kui and others.

Liu Hong was worried on the sickbed.

"As a lieutenant, Lu Zhi has the right to open the mansion, but he can't fight against Yuan Kui and He Jin, so that He Jin and Yuan Kui are too powerful to be contained, they are really incompetent, I knew this was the case, I might as well recall Xuande as soon as possible and let him be a captain!"

Liu Hong's words were not angry, he was really dissatisfied with Lu Zhi.

As a lieutenant with the right to open a mansion, or a person who inherits the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period", Lu Zhi himself also has a strong attraction to scholars all over the world, and many scholars want to join Lu Zhi's disciples, become his protégés, and work for him.

But Lu Zhi doesn't like too many people to take refuge in him, and is worried that after too many people take refuge in him, his subordinates will be mixed, and some people will rely on his reputation to do bad things and ruin his reputation.

Lu Zhi believed that since he wanted to become the leader of the ancient literature school, he must have an unassailable reputation, so he regarded fame as more important than anything else, and adopted an attitude of preferring lack to abuse of protégés and disciples, and the selection was extremely strict.

It is necessary to have talent and morality, and the selection criteria are directly close to Liu Bei, and it is necessary to have ability and morality, and it is necessary to have both ability and political integrity.

But are there many such people?

At the beginning, many people wanted to defect to Lu Zhi's disciples with strong enthusiasm, but soon, this enthusiasm was stopped by Lu Zhi's high demands.

From the time Lu Zhi began to recruit protégés, until the internal split of the ancient literature school and Lu Zhi's loss of power, Lu Zhi recruited a total of more than ten protégés, and there was no disciple, and it was not easy for anyone to recommend him, and finally he simply stopped accepting anyone to visit him.

There are some officials who are valued and promoted by him, but most of them are county magistrates in other places, because Lu Zhi believes that talents who are useful to the country should go to the local area to experience and exercise their administrative ability, and then return to Luoyang to share the worries of the monarch.

Therefore, on the whole, the number of officials in Lu Zhitaiwei's Mansion is far inferior to Yuan Kui's Situ Mansion.

Therefore, Lu Zhi cannot compete with Yuan Kui in terms of political power, although he belongs to the same three princes, Yuan Kui can mobilize a lot more manpower and material resources than Lu Zhi.

And in Liu Hong's opinion, you have such an identity and status, why can't you further expand your power and then fight against Yuan Kui?

But if Lu Zhi has a bit of personal power, Liu Hong doesn't need to trouble Liu Bei running around so much.

"In the final analysis, I can trust only Xuande, the others are either too selfish, or have a strange style, can be trusted, but lack ability......"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, Liu Xuande is coming back soon."

Jian Shuo could only persuade Liu Hong, comfort Liu Hong, and make Liu Hong feel a little relieved.

Liu Hong was silent for a while, and suddenly thought of something.

"Although I recalled Xuande, but Xuande can only compete with the He family and the Yuan family in the army, in the court, Xuande does not have too strong forces, the Yuan family and the He family can open a mansion, but Xuande does not have this qualification, how to fight against the He family and the Yuan family?"

Liu Hong planned to appoint Liu Bei as a representative of the Liu family's forces.

He felt that as long as Liu Bei managed his power in the court, then no matter what happened, even if Liu Wei became the emperor, he would not be easily swayed by the He family and the Yuan family.

The Han clan has representatives, the clan has power, and relatives and scholars cannot bully the emperor, and the emperor has helpers.

However, Liu Bei only held the position of Shangshu and servant in Luoyang City before, with power, no status, and could not win over and build his own political power, and now Liu Bei's power is mainly concentrated in Liangzhou and Yizhou, and this kind of power is lacking in Luoyang.

On the contrary, the Yuan family and the He family have a wide range of power in Luoyang, and there are many minions, and Liu Bei has just arrived, if he is not prepared, he is afraid that he will suffer.

Jian Shuo didn't know much about these things, and he couldn't give Liu Hong a good adviser, and Liu Hong had no one to discuss.

In the midst of depression, Liu Hong finally remembered the ten permanent servants who had been neglected by him for several months, and remembered Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

(End of chapter)