Three Kingdoms: I am not Liu Bian

Chapter 72 The Crown Prince is also in collusion with the thief?! (Please subscribe and vote)

"Madman! This guy is simply a madman!"

In the residence of Guanglu Dafu, Ma Riti's eyes were wide open with anger, his chest heaving violently, completely losing his usual gentle and elegant image. He was so emotional that he kept cursing, and even blurted out such obscene and vulgar words as "dog".

After cursing for a while, Ma Riti gradually came to his senses. His chest heaved slightly. He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and looked anxiously at his good friend Fu Qian beside him, asking anxiously, "Zishen, what's the situation in the Imperial College?"

Fu Qian was a native of Yinxingyang, Henan Province. He came from a poor family and was determined to enter the Imperial College to study. During his time at the Imperial College, he devoted himself to the ancient literature school and studied ancient classics with great concentration. He was later recommended as a filial and honest official.

Although Fu Qian came from a poor family, he was a scholar in the ancient literature school whose level of study of classics was second only to Zheng Xuan.

He Xiu of the Modern Literature School was the greatest Gongyang Scholar after Hu Wusheng and Dong Zhongshu in the early Han Dynasty. However, Fu Qian refuted He Xiu's Sixty Issues in "Chunqiu Hanyi" with "Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan Gaohuang Shifu" and "Chunqiu Hanyi Refutation". He Xiu's death due to illness was partly due to his extreme depression caused by Fu Qian's refutation.

After this battle, the modern literature school also realized Fu Qian's terrifying strength in studying and debating the classics. So Yuan Wei used an excuse to send Fu Qian to Gaoping County, Shangdang County, Bingzhou, as the county magistrate, and drove him out of Luoyang, the main battlefield of the dispute between modern and ancient literature.

But Fu Qianren's heart did not leave, and he continued to work on writing "The Theory of Growth in the Spring and Autumn Period", "The Difficulties in the Spring and Autumn Period", as well as fu, steles, elegies, records, linked poems, "Nine Anger" and other works, which criticized the modern literary school from a distance of three hundred miles away so much that they could not even raise their heads.

After Lu Zhi and Cai Yong, two giants of the ancient literature school, were successively sent out to serve as provincial governors, Ma Riti was worried that the ancient literature school in Luoyang City would be short of manpower after their departure. Zheng Xuan was unable to serve as an official in the court due to illness recently, so he recommended his good friend Fu Qian to the prince. As a result, Fu Qian was recalled to the court to serve as a doctor.

Fu Qian sighed. He was also present yesterday and witnessed the entire process of He Yong's death by disembowelment. If he had not known Lu Zhi well, he would have been shaken.

"The students of the Imperial Academy have already started a quarrel. The two factions of students are no different from scholars of the past and present. No matter how close their friendships are, they have all taken their own standpoints and refuted each other."

Fu Qian smiled bitterly and rubbed his temples with his hands.

To be honest, he regretted returning to Luoyang.

His strengths lie in studying and debating classics, not in these power struggles, and he certainly doesn't like these power struggles.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that He Yong's attack on Lu Zhi was a despicable sneak attack by the modern literature school on the ancient literature school.

Did Lu Zhi really want to raise an army to support the Yellow Turban Army's rebellion?
To put it bluntly, you can tell it's impossible even if you use your ass to think about it. What is his purpose in raising an army to rebel?
The prince studied under him, so could Zhang Jiao study under Lu Zhi?
Could Zhang Jue give Lu Zhi the power and trust that the prince gave him?

Moreover, if Lu Zhi really was plotting a rebellion, unless he wanted to raise an army to overthrow the Han Dynasty and become emperor, the good reputation that the Lu family of Zhuo County had accumulated during Lu Zhi's generation would be destroyed. How could he afford such a heavy price?
If someone really wrote a letter to impeach Lu Zhi for rebellion, even the censors of Lanting would probably not bother to pay attention to it. But the person who impeached Lu Zhi was He Yong!

He Yong's network of contacts was extremely wide. Chen Fan and Li Ying were his close friends, and Yuan Shao also became his close ally.

After the second Party Persecution, He Yong was wanted by the eunuchs and fled to Runan County. He made friends with heroes, and even though he was on the eunuchs' wanted list, he often sneaked back to Luoyang to help other scholars who were implicated in the Party Persecution and fled, and he also offered advice on how to fight against the eunuchs.

Even within the School of Ancient Literature, countless scholars had received favors from He Yong, including Xun Shuang, the current leader of the School of Ancient Literature.

Otherwise, why was He Yong, who had no obvious talents and was not good at studying classics, appointed by Yuan Wei as the Chief Clerk of the Sikong Palace, and why did none of Yuan Wei's Sikong Palace officials have any objections and all wanted He Yong to be the leader?
At this time when the dispute between modern and ancient literature had not yet broken out completely, the two factions of scholars still maintained a certain degree of communication. Although He Yong had a close relationship with many famous scholars in the world, he resolutely chose to commit suicide by cutting open his stomach to impeach Lu Zhi.

He Yong used his life to silence the ancient literature scholars of various countries. Even though those scholars who had received favors from He Yong were well aware of He Yong's false accusations, they found it difficult to speak out to refute He Yong and speak for Lu Zhi.

Who made He Yong choose to commit suicide by disembowelment?
Ordinary death impeachment is just the same as death remonstration, which is used to show determination and avoid punishment. But this time He Yong is serious and risks his life to impeach Lu Zhi!
No girl would risk her innocence to falsely accuse others, and no scholar would risk his life to falsely accuse others!
It is not profitable for you, Lu Zhi, to rebel, but it is profitable for him to impeach He Yong?

It was precisely because of this irrefutable argument that even the scholars of the ancient literature school who had not received any favor from He Yong were refuted by the scholars of the modern literature school, which made Ma Riti so anxious and at a loss as to what to do.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd stood up and left the table. He walked calmly and looked at everyone with a smile: "Why are you all so worried?"

Upon hearing the voice, Ma Riti turned around and looked at the person who spoke. The person's name was Puyang Kai. He was also a party member who was imprisoned due to the Party Persecution in the past. He was also a learned scholar.

However, both the modern literature school and the ancient literature school disliked Puyang Kai. After all, no one likes a guy who plays both sides. Puyang Kai first studied the "Han Shi" and "Li Ji" in the modern literature classics, and then studied the "Zuo Zhuan" in the ancient literature classics. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this.

There are many scholars in both the modern and ancient schools who were inspired by the classics and "abandoned the dark and turned to the light", or there were great scholars on one side who studied the classics of the other school in detail in order to refute the other side, trying to find flaws in them for rebuttal.

However, Puyang Kai did not take sides. No matter who came to ask for advice, he taught all three classics together without keeping anything to himself. This made scholars from both the modern and ancient schools of literature dissatisfied.

If loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. How can a two-timing "villain" be worthy of being called a celebrity?

Therefore, under the joint attack of both sides, Puyang Kai's political career was directly cut off, and no one recommended him even after the party ban was lifted.

But who can blame him for having such a good disciple?
When he was young, Zhang Hong traveled to Kyoto to study and entered the Imperial College. He studied under Doctor Han Zong and worked on two modern text classics, "Jing's Book of Changes" and "Ouyang's Book of Documents". He also learned "Han Shi", "Book of Rites" and "Zuo Zhuan" from Puyang Kai. When he returned to his county, he was selected as an outstanding talent.

Not only was Zhang Hong appointed by the Crown Prince as the Crown Prince's Secretary, he was also given the position of Chief Architect, and was deeply trusted by the Crown Prince.

Moreover, unlike his teacher Puyang Kai, Zhang Hong firmly stood on the side of the ancient literature school and published many works refuting the modern text classics.

For the sake of the Crown Prince and Zhang Hong, the ancient literature school also accepted Puyang Kai, and Puyang Kai, who had been suppressed for most of his life, was also very sensible.

But Ma Riti still looked down on this kind of villain who was two-faced. Therefore, even though he summoned a group of scholars from the ancient literature school, he also listed Puyang Kai's seat at the last place. Unexpectedly, Puyang Kai seemed to have a plan to make suggestions.

"If Zikuan has a plan, please feel free to speak up."

Faced with such a situation, Ma Riti didn't care about his dislike for Puyang Kai. He took two quick steps forward, his eyes full of expectation, and stretched out his hand like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw.

"I don't have any plan."

Puyang Kai shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and replied calmly.

This immediately made Ma Riti angry and his face turned red instantly.

This guy was clearly making fun of him in public!
Just when Ma Riti was about to lose his temper, Puyang Kai leaned forward and bowed, "Uncle Weng, please don't worry. Although I have no plan, it doesn't mean that others don't have one."

"Gentlemen!" Puyang Kai straightened his back and looked around at this group of learned and famous scholars. He said slowly, "Don't forget that although we are not from an official school, we are supported by the crown prince."

"Lu Zigan is the Prince's tutor. He Yong certainly slapped our school of ancient literature in the face, but was this slap really meant to slap our school of ancient literature in the face?"

"This is clearly a slap in the face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Puyang Kai narrowed his eyes slightly and said grimly, "The Crown Prince's tutor is collaborating with the thieves. Doesn't that mean the Crown Prince is also collaborating with the thieves?"

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PS: The first order score is 1067, which does not meet the standard for additional updates, so there is no need for additional updates. I currently owe three updates, with no limit on the number of words.

The author also has his own life and work. Too many things happened at the same time some time ago, and all the manuscripts in his storage were used up. In addition, I have to check too much information as a researcher, so it is really difficult to update frequently. But even so, I still updated 5800 words yesterday, which is close to three updates.

All in all, what you owe will be repaid, so there is no need to worry.

(End of this chapter)