Yuan Wei never expected that the wallflowers of the ancient literature school would be so adaptable to the wind, and their skills of repeated horizontal jumps would be so slippery and crisp.
These guys didn't say a few words, and went back to Liu Bei and Lu Zhi without any regard for his attempts to stay.
He originally thought that his pinning tactics were very successful, that he managed to force Lu Zhi to collapse, and successfully became the actual leader of the Ancient Literature School, but he seemed to have forgotten one thing.
Since it is so easy to pry it away, it is not strange for someone else to pry it away again, right?
Even though Yuan Wei had experienced the ups and downs of the party's imprisonment, his psychological quality was still good, but seeing this scene, he felt that he had underestimated the shamelessness of the scholars.
The people of the modern literature school are very shameless and shameless, but the ancient literature school can have the upper hand. It can only be said that they are even more shameless and shameless, and it is commonplace for them to jump around again and again!
In the end, only three families of the entire ancient literature school that had previously turned to Yuan Wei remained on Yuan Wei's side.
Everyone else ran back.
If Yuan Wei still has the Yuan family's disciples and old officials as his base, and his political power will not collapse instantly, then He Jin's side will be a bit miserable.
Because there is no such relationship as the classic inheritance family, the relationship between He Jin and his subordinates is far less close than that of Yuan Wei. It was originally accumulated through time and power, and the foundation is weak. Once there is
He Jin's political power can easily be targeted and exploded if there is any disturbance.
Liu Bei's two-pronged plan for the Insect Alliance, the first one was to bring back the wallflowers of the Ancient Literature School, directly cutting Yuan Wei's political power in half, weakening Yuan Wei's momentum and strength, and strengthening himself.
The second step is to blast He Jin's political base, strive to collapse He Jin's power, break He Jin's legs, and strive to make He Jin disabled.
Therefore, in terms of the specific action plan, Liu Bei first let Yuan Wei go, and then caught He Jin and pursued him fiercely.
Before the action, Liu Bei held an internal meeting and called Cao Cao, Gai Xun, Zhen Yan, Jia Xu, Xun You and others to the meeting. A group of people gathered together. Liu Bei conducted internal briefings and intelligence sharing, and then announced his plans.
Decide.
First, Liu Bei decided to blast the original owners of the foreign soldiers that He Jin had found.
Liu Bei found it difficult to blast the troops recruited by Yuan Wei, but Liu Bei felt that he could operate them well with the troops recruited by He Jin.
Even before the master-disciple alliance was established, Liu Bei began to take action against the armies of Yuan Wei and He Jin's group.
At the end of February, Liu Bei wrote a letter to Liu Yu, the current governor of Qingzhou. In the letter, he elaborated on his political stance and concept of concubine, placing himself in the same position as Liu Yu, and then analyzed Liu Hong's actions with Liu Yu.
reason.
Liu Bei told Liu Yu that Liu Hong did this not to abolish the eldest son and establish a younger son, but to stabilize the power and status of the emperor's eldest son Bian after he succeeded to the throne, and to prevent the He family's relatives from occupying the magpie's nest and threatening the Liu family's imperial power.
At that time, both Liu Hong and the late emperor spent a lot of effort to seize power from their relatives and generals. Now He Jin has great power. Liu Hong did not want his son to follow the same path, so he decided to take advantage of He Jin first.
The power is removed.
How similar is this to Emperor Xiaowu’s behavior of killing his mother and surviving his son?
Emperor Xiaowu had great talent and strategy. He took away Mrs. Gou Yi before his death to prevent his relatives from disrupting the government. The emperor's current approach is actually similar to that of Emperor Xiaowu.
As for how Liu Bian will govern without his relatives, isn't it also easy to understand?
Without the He family, wouldn’t there be our Liu family?
After getting rid of the He family, wouldn't his base be just us Han clan clan members and the Liu family?
Isn’t it a matter of course that the royal family helps the emperor to govern and stabilize the world? To put it bluntly, we are all a family. Since we are a family, what is the need for us to distinguish ourselves from each other?
So how can we Han clan clan members be together with He Jin?
We should resolutely and completely draw a clear line with He Jin, break with him, completely stand with the emperor, support the emperor, boycott He's relatives, and eliminate the influence of He's relatives. This is the correct approach.
In this way, after the emperor won the victory, Liu Yu, as a hero, had reason to be transferred back to Luoyang to take up the high position of the Three Dukes and become a pivotal official of the clan.
So, as the elder of the clan, do you know what to do?
This letter was rushed to Qingzhou by Liu Bei and was delivered to Liu Yu in Qingzhou in early March. After reading the letter, Liu Yu fell into deep thought.
He thought what Liu Bei said made sense.
With his current identity and status, if he wants to go further, he can only return to Luoyang. Returning to Luoyang to pursue the position of Three Dukes is his next goal. However, this goal is difficult to achieve. He needs someone in Luoyang City to help him.
Only then.
And now, a ready-made opportunity lies in front of you.
Moreover, the emperor did not intend to abolish the elder and establish the younger. He just wanted to abolish He Jin.
Previously, he thought that the emperor wanted to abolish the elders and establish the younger ones, which would mess up the ethics of the general code, so he helped He Jin out of anger. The essence was to protect Liu Bian's status and stop Liu Hong from messing around, not to oppose the emperor.
Now, he felt a bit like being deceived by the group formed by He Jin and Yuan Wei, and felt that his act of sending troops to Luoyang out of anger was somewhat ill-considered.
Liu Yu consulted with his confidants and made a decision after the discussion. He decided to call back the army he had sent out. If He Jin refused, he would declare the army to be disbanded on the spot. It would be up to He Jin to see how many of them could be left behind.
The problem - their families are all in Qingzhou anyway.
Liu Bei's persuasion to Liu Yu was the same, and it was the same to people other than Liu Yu.
For example, Zhang Miao.
Because of the relationship with the Yuan family, Zhang Miao sent troops to provide some help to He Jin for Yuan Shao's sake. Then Liu Bei wrote to him and sent Cao Cao as a lobbyist to lobby Zhang Miao.
In the letter, Liu Bei made his words very clear, saying that he was planning to repay Zhang Miao for his help and wanted to find some positions for Zhang Miao in Luoyang City. However, Zhang Miao sent troops to help He Jin and let the emperor know.
The emperor seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhang Miao.
Liu Bei wanted to repay Zhang Miao's help, but if the emperor was unhappy, no matter how much he persuaded or recommended, it would be useless, so Zhang Miao still needed to consider some things himself.
After Zhang Miao received Liu Bei's letter, he slapped his head and scolded He Jin to the sky in front of Cao Cao, saying that he had been deceived by He Jin and actually did such a wrong thing. He simply regretted it.
But there is still hesitation.
In the current situation, Liu Bei and He Jin are facing each other, and the two major military and political groups in Luoyang City are at war with each other. The situation is tense. If he recalls the army, he will be siding with Liu Bei. If Liu Bei loses, he will definitely be liquidated.
But if Liu Bei wins and he does not recall the army, then he will also be liquidated.
Who has a greater chance of winning?
Who should he help?
In this regard, Cao Cao played a role as a lobbyist.
"Meng Zhuo, we are all familiar with the Yuan family and He Jin. Yes, we are not strangers either. Putting everything aside, how do you feel about comparing with them?"
Zhang Miao smiled bitterly.
"There is no need to compare them. They are people who have established their careers. They are both household dogs, so how can they be compared? If they can't succeed, there won't be many people in the entire Han Dynasty who can succeed."
"In that case, what else do you have to worry about?"
Cao Cao smiled and said: "The talents are far superior to them, and they also have the support of the emperor. However, the Yuan family and the He family disobeyed military orders as ministers. If the emperor really wants to pursue them, they will be guilty of deceiving the emperor and rebellious.
Treason is going to be punished, how can Meng Zhuo be confused if he stands with Treason?"
Zhang Miao still smiled bitterly.
"Mengde, we have a close relationship. I won't hide some things from you. It's not that I don't understand what you said, but... the reality is still slightly different.
He Jin is a general, and he is also the uncle of Prince Bian. Without this relationship, how many people would follow He Jin? So in the future, when Prince Bian becomes the emperor, there will be consequences for those of us who oppose his uncle.
What’s your opinion?”
"It is precisely because of He Jin's uncle who defended the prince that the emperor today cannot tolerate He Jin!"
Cao Cao integrated the news he heard from Liu Bei and whispered: "What was the situation like when the emperor came to the throne?"
Zhang Miao was stunned.
"Today is the former general Dou Wu...ah..."
Zhang Miao reacted.
Cao Cao laughed when he saw him like this.
"What is most intolerable to the emperor today is the seizure of power by a relative. He Jin is a relative, and now he has such power. How similar is it to Dou Wu back then? Can the emperor tolerate him? The current situation is not against He Jin, but the emperor against He Jin. Meng
Zhuo, who do you think can win?"
Zhang Miao felt that there was nothing easy to answer to this question.
Because the emperor defeated Dou Wu back then, there is no reason why he is now in a different position and cannot defeat He Jin.
Zhang Miao began to sway violently and told Cao Cao that he needed some time to think about it. After Cao Cao went down to rest, Zhang Miao called his friend Chen Gong to discuss the matter with Chen Gong.