In mid-March, Zheng Tai found out that Du Ji was preparing to go south to Nanjun to perform his duties. He immediately couldn't sit still. He summoned his trusted followers and announced to them that the operation had begun.
These people are mainly outstanding disciples and disciples of the Zheng family. They are the group of people closest to the master's family. They are also the most promising group of people under Zheng Tai. It can be said that everyone will be prosperous and everyone will suffer. They have been marked with
Having been deeply marked by the Zheng family, they cannot escape and are unwilling to escape.
Therefore, they can only obey Zheng Tai and cannot oppose him.
Even if Zheng Tai rebels, they can only sit back and watch the success or failure. They should not take any actions against Zheng Tai, otherwise their character and integrity will be doubted.
In the Han Dynasty, once one's character and integrity are doubted, it is tantamount to social death. The price of social death is the loss of all futures, which no one can bear.
This time is not an act of rebellion. They have no reason to sit back and watch the success or failure. As long as Zheng Tai needs them to act, they must use all their strength to deal with it.
Zheng Tai was very concerned about this operation and personally summoned these people to assign tasks.
"Liu Bei's power is expanding too fast. We can no longer wait. Otherwise, even the road going south will be cut off by him, and everyone will be captured and killed by him. Now is the last chance. If we lose this time
Opportunity, there will be no more opportunities.”
"This is the only chance, the only chance to save the big man from Liu Bei's clutches. For this reason, even I will do whatever it takes. I will stand with you. If there is danger, I will be the first to do so."
One stands up against Liu Bei!"
Zheng Tai showed his righteousness and dared to die, which deeply inspired his disciples and disciples.
These people have been following Zheng Tai for a long time. Although there are times when they express approval of Liu Bei's actions, because their interests are highly bound to Zheng Tai, they still sit on Zheng Tai's side.
It is said that the butt determines the head. They each have their own ideas, and there are many admirers of Liu Bei. However, when interests conflict, they will give up the head and choose the butt.
"The most important point of this operation is to spread the story of Liu Bei's conspiracy to usurp the throne throughout Luoyang, to revive the public opinion that he had suppressed before, and to greatly stimulate people's doubts about him in the world.
Make him speechless and put him together with Wang Mang."
Zheng Tai revealed his plan to use tactical nuclear bombs to deal with Liu Bei.
He has no other weapons. All conventional weapons are controlled by Liu Bei. The few owners of conventional weapons who are no longer under Liu Bei's control are also very weak and are no match for Liu Bei.
Therefore, he has only one tactical nuclear bomb.
His disciples and disciples had some doubts about the use of this tactical nuclear bomb.
"General, is he...really planning to usurp the throne?"
"It seems that the General has never acted like this, right? I heard that the relationship between the General and the royal family is very harmonious, and the Queen Mother trusts the General very much."
"Furthermore, the general himself is a member of the Han family, his surname is Liu, and Wang Mang is not a member of the Han family. Does such remarks have any effect?"
"Teacher, isn't this a bit too..."
In response to the doubts of his disciples, Zheng Tai waved his hand.
"No matter how much he is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, no matter how much he is a general, no matter how much he assists the government, he should not think that the whole world belongs to him! How can any general in the world have such power? He said
Whatever he decides is what he decides?
No one in the government or the public can stand up to him, even in the local area. When was the last time such a person appeared in the Han Dynasty? That was during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu! Liu Bei is very ambitious, and he is afraid that he wants to restore Xiaowu.
The emperor was so majestic back then!"
These words were somewhat shocking. The disciples looked at Zheng Tai with their mouths wide open, feeling extremely shocked by this.
But really speaking, there is nothing easy to clean up about this matter.
Liu Bei was indeed more ruthless and decisive in seizing power. He took back power in many places, and he even had to station troops in local areas.
In the view of Zheng Tai and others, this is just surveillance, intimidation, and coercion, and is an unfair behavior.
Nowadays, they are still arranging their cronies to serve as local officials and gain power. This approach is similar to that of the eunuch group in the past. They seize power in the same way and do the same evil things.
He just hasn't taken action to seize local interests now. If he really does, everyone will become his slaves!
By the way, at this point, Zheng Tai did not forget to attack Liu Bei for colluding with the evil eunuch.
"Eunuchs don't do evil every day or two. People in the world have hated eunuchs for a long time. If Liu Bei hadn't deliberately protected them, how could the eunuchs be as carefree as they are now? In the past few years, people said that Liu Bei and the eunuchs were colluding together, and many people still didn't believe it.
, but what about now?”
"He is a hypocritical villain, a wicked man who desires power and is full of ambition! He actually associates with eunuchs! If he cannot be stopped in time, everyone will be harmed by him and become his slaves!"
All the disciples and disciples were speechless.
In the end, only one person asked Zheng Tai cautiously.
"Does Liu... really have the intention of treason and usurping the throne?"
Zheng Tai thought for a while.
"This matter is unnecessary."
Zheng Tai spoke to the extreme, so his disciples didn't have many good things to say.
Zheng Tai has made up his mind, and those of them who have no political independence can only follow and fight for him. There is no other way.
As for the consequences of such rumors spreading, what kind of emergencies there will be, including whether they can survive safely, all of this is unknown.
It can be said that Zheng Tai's tactical nuclear bomb is indeed Liu Bei's only weakness.
With his current state of dominating the world and continuing to seize power, few people have conducted in-depth discussions on this matter. If someone really wanted to discuss this matter and want to talk about it, it would really bring some trouble to Liu Bei.
He was an agent of imperial power and the de facto ruler of the Han Empire, but he was not the head of state in the true sense, not the most justifiable person.
Judging from his character, if the real emperor was dissatisfied with him and wanted to take away his power, theoretically, he would not be able to resist.
The young emperor Liu Xie is getting older and is still learning, but it is hard to say when he will awaken the consciousness of imperial power.
The Empress Dowager Dong is indeed a woman with some knowledge, but at the level of imperial power, she definitely favors her good grandson Liu Xie instead of Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was a transitional "emperor", a standing deputy emperor who appeared to buy Liu Xie time to grow up. Once Liu Xie grew up, Liu Bei would inevitably face the problem of returning power.
Although he is constantly pushing the emperor away from the actual operation level in the current political structure, after all, this system has not yet been fully formed, and the legitimate master of the Han Empire is not Liu Bei.
This is the only tactical nuclear weapon that can fundamentally threaten Liu Bei. It is a tactical nuclear weapon that few people dare to use. Once used, it will inevitably cause a bloody storm.
However, Zheng Tai doesn't care because after using it, he will feel moisturized.
After the tactical nuclear weapon is completely detonated, and before it completely affects him, he will moisten it. As long as there is any reaction from Liu Bei, as long as everyone in Luoyang City starts talking about this matter, he will moisturize it.
As for what will happen next, the remaining conservative members, as well as the disciples and disciples who fought for him, including their families...
He couldn't care anymore.
Even if they all die, there is nothing we can do about it. It is a sacrifice that must be made in order to oppose Liu Bei.
In order to oppose Liu Bei, he no longer cared about anything.