I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 10 Raising troops to investigate crimes
It was also during this period that Yuan Shu's reputation began to spread from the Ma family mansion.

Ma's disciples were a large group, and they were not always concentrated in Maoling County. There was also population mobility.

They traveled back and forth to many places around Maoling County, and naturally the reputation of the ten-year-old prodigy who was undefeated in debates spread.

As a result, Yuan Shu's reputation spread throughout the "Five Tombs City" area, and finally the news of Yuan Shu's child prodigy reached the Jingzhao Yin residence. Everyone in the residence was talking about it and was very surprised by the incident.

After seeing so many fancy sedan chairs being carried by people, it is really a surprise to see someone with real talent and skills suddenly appear.

Yuan Feng felt so happy.

The joyful feeling of having your own child become what others call “someone else’s child” is something that only parents can understand.

Earlier in Runan, the Yuan family also paid great attention to building up Yuan Shu's reputation, preparing him for his future career, and publicizing Yuan Shu's various merits.

What about intelligence, filial piety, and the fact that he will definitely become a "pillar of the country" in the future.

But that is all routine operation. All the major families have similar channels to spread the reputation of their younger generations, as if every family has a child prodigy.

But what is really going on inside is something that only the person who drinks the water knows whether it is hot or cold. Yuan Shu is indeed smart, but Yuan Feng has no idea how smart he is and whether he can really carry forward the Yuan family's foundation.

And now, he has a little more confidence.

Because this fame event had nothing to do with him and he was completely unaware of it, this only proved that Yuan Shu had made a name for himself in that academic group with his own abilities.

His son is capable!
In fact, this was originally part of Yuan Shu's plan.

Debating with Ma's disciples or senior students is of course very effective and meaningful, but it can only gain fame but not popularity.

In Yuan Shu's view, reputation is heard, but popularity is seen.

You can’t gain people’s support unless you see it with your own eyes and get in close contact with it.

Ma's disciples are only a small part of the entire group of disciples. If you want to take the elite route, it is enough to deal with this small group of people.

But Yuan Shu knew very well that if he wanted to complete his great reform plan and overturn this messed up world, the limitations of taking the elite route were too great, and he had to take the mass route.

The word "masses" itself has its limitations. At least in Yuan Shu's current opinion, the entire group of Ma's disciples can be considered the masses.

If you gain popularity from this group of people, in the future you will be able to gain fame from them that is dozens or even hundreds of times greater than their number.

So he decided to go deep into this group of disciples, and debate with them in the capacity of a disciple of Yuan and Ma, and achieved successive victories.

In this way, he can naturally establish a lofty status in the hearts of most of his disciples.

On the other hand, targeting the group of disciples who depend on him is both a blow and an opportunity for them to get close to him, so that he can select those who are truly talented and observe them closely.

Although it is shameful to use bribery to obtain things that do not belong to you, when it comes to knowledge, Yuan Shu can understand these people.

In this society where academic cliques are everywhere, there are very few people like Yuan Shu who have almost complete knowledge and access from birth. Most people have never seen a bamboo slip in their entire life.

So whenever there is a possibility, whether it is spending money or begging, it is a means to acquire knowledge. At this time, if you insist on comparing the two, it is like comparing which of two pieces of gold is more noble.

It really cannot be said that they committed unforgivable mistakes. Compared with them, those disciples who made profits from it and those senior students who neglected their duties are the real culprits.

Yuan Shu did not point the finger at his disciples, but at the Ma family mansion.

The real worries of the disciples are not outside the mansion, but inside it!

If there is a rotten gate inside the mansion, all the gates outside will be rotten!
After more than a month of complete victory in the debate battle, in which everyone had lost their temper, Yuan Shu launched a second wave of attack.

He wanted to rip open the stomachs of those bastards in this mansion, take out their internal organs, wash them, and see how much filth was inside.

At the beginning of this wave of attack, Yuan Shu entrusted Dou Yun, Wei Jia, Su Chu, Ma Ran and other disciples who had close relationships with him to find those disciples who had close relationships with his disciples, and gathered them to Yuan Shu, and let Yuan Shu deceive them... no, he persuaded them step by step, explained things to them, and moved them with emotion.

"I know that the original intention of what you did was to gain knowledge. Knowledge is difficult to obtain. No one can teach you. If you know, you know. If you don't know, you don't know. It cannot be changed. I know that this is your difficulty, so I don't think your mistake is that big."

"But what you are doing is aiding and abetting the evil, and helping to push this unreasonable thing to become even more unreasonable."

"The disciples can receive serious instruction from the master, and the master has also stipulated that the disciples need to regularly impart knowledge to you on behalf of the master. If the disciples encounter students seeking advice, they should not refuse and should answer their questions." "But they did not do so. If they were officials, this would be a serious dereliction of duty. Not only that, but there are also evil people who ask you for money and gifts so that they can live a very luxurious life."

"These things are what you deserve, but now, you can't get them. Instead, you have to pay more extra to get them. Don't you think there is something wrong here?"

"Being targeted by bad guys is not scary. What is scary is becoming an accomplice, or even thinking that it is right and natural to do so, normalizing this bad thing and making it a chain that binds everyone."

"I know that your power is not enough to shake all this, but you don't have to participate. If you can't do that, at least don't help the evil and don't mock those who stick to their own conscience."

"Ask yourselves, have you done it? Studying is not a problem, and paying something for studying is not a problem either. But hurting others for studying is a problem."

"I hope you can seriously reflect on your actions. If you can reflect on them, then there is still hope. If you don't think you are wrong, and even feel complacent about it, then you are really a slave with deep servility and are beyond redemption."

"I know that you may not be happy with what I am saying here, so I promise you that I will handle this matter and make those people pay the price."

"And you just need to watch me do it. When I'm done, you can tell me the results of your reflections."

After saying a lot of things, Yuan Shu asked these people to tell him the amount of money they had given to the disciples over the years, and to hand over the account books to him if they had any.

He swore in the name of the descendants of the Yuan family of Runan that he would solve this problem. Even if he could not solve it, he would make these disciples disappear even if he had to use the power of his father, the Jingzhao Yin.

They don’t have to worry about retaliation.

Seeing Yuan Shu swearing to the sky, these disciples looked at each other, and finally basically chose to hand over the account books they had kept to Yuan Shu, and some were even willing to serve as witnesses.

Of course, there were also some disciples who did not speak or express their opinions. It was obvious that they still had many doubts about Yuan Shu, the "child prodigy", and believed that Yuan Shu could not solve this problem.

Yuan Shu did not force it. He took the things he had collected and went straight into the mansion. He went straight into the inner hall where Ma Rong was, as if he was in an empty place.

At that time, it was already late in the evening. Ma Rong had already finished his dinner and was receiving a massage from three maids. He was about to rest after the massage, but Yuan Shu rushed in without being informed, with anger on his face, as if he had come to call him to task.

Ma Rong felt a little surprised.

"Spell? Why did you barge in without permission? Did your master not knock on your head three times this time?"

"The teacher did not knock on the disciple's head three times, but the teacher made a serious mistake this time, so the disciple was very angry and came to ask for punishment, so he did not pass on the message."

Yuan Shu's words were shocking, which not only shocked Ma Rong, but also frightened the three maids who were giving him massages.

For a moment, the inner hall was very quiet.

It took Ma Rong a while to react and he looked at Yuan Shu in extreme surprise.

"The master made a mistake? You... come to ask for punishment?"

"Yes."

"how do I say this?"

"The teacher kept silent when faced with evil deeds, pretending that he did not see anything, which led to the corruption of the Ma family school and the humiliation of students. As a teacher of everyone, is the teacher not wrong?"

Yuan Shu directly raised the bamboo slips and papers in his hands.

"These are all evidences of some of Ma's disciples collecting gifts and money from students outside the house! These disciples use knowledge as goods and trade with students in exchange for wealth, so as to live a luxurious life. Teacher, do you know about these things?"

Ma Rong paused and asked the maid beside him to bring the things in Yuan Shu's hand to him. After looking through them for a while, Ma Rong casually put them aside.

"I don't know the exact number, but I have heard about these things. Zheng Sheng, Lu Sheng, and several other top disciples all told me about them."

"The teacher really knows."

Yuan Shu nodded: "Then why don't you make rules to deal with these evil deeds? I heard that Senior Brother Lu once spoke up for justice, but nothing happened. I wonder what you think about this, Master?"

"Zi Gan has a straight character and hates evil. I admire him very much."

Ma Rong chuckled and said, "Shu, what about you? Why do you want to do such a thing? With your background and qualifications, you don't need to be concerned about these things, right?"

(End of this chapter)