I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 104: Eunuch Enters the Bridal Chamber, Tears in Silence

In just a few days, after Yuan Shu began to promote the significance of the Yi Xin Society and the necessity of its existence, people began to run to the Yuan mansion, shouting that they wanted to join the Yi Xin Society and asking Yuan Shu to take them in.

They said they really wanted to join such a group to find their own salvation.

Yuan Shu initially expected that it would be difficult to recruit members of the Yi Xin Society in Luoyang. It would take some time for the young people in Luoyang City to change their views and re-recognize the Yi Xin Society and himself, Yuan.

As a result, within just three to five days, the negative impact brought by the initial wave of public opinion disappeared, and Yuan Shu transformed himself from a fraud to a superstar, becoming extremely popular.

So in order to prevent his door from being blocked, Yuan Shu directly arranged for Cheng Li, Wei Jia and others to open a registration office near the Imperial College to register the names of those who wanted to join the Yi Xin Society.

These people need to report their name, age, and place of origin. The rest of the information is not important. However, it is not easy to join Yi Xin Hui, and they have to go through a round of interviews.

Although an interview was set up, people who wanted to join still came to the registration office to register in an endless stream. Students from the Imperial Academy and opposition figures in Luoyang City all came to register.

There is no other reason.

Yuan Shu’s speech was so attractive and exciting, and the beautiful future he mentioned was truly fascinating.

No one wants to degenerate into a treacherous villain, and no one wants to fight alone. Even if it is just for an additional path to enter the officialdom or more connections, there are many people who want to join the Yi Xin Society.

Because there were so many scholars in Luoyang City, even though the proportion of people who were interested in the idea at the beginning was not high, the specific number still exceeded Yuan Shu's imagination.

In just three days, we received applications from more than 3,000 people.

If it continues to develop at this rate, I estimate that tens of thousands will not be a problem.

Cheng Li was very happy.

Wei Jia was also very happy.

Everyone reported the good news to Yuan Shu and admired him so much, especially Cheng Li, who wanted to worship Yuan Shu directly, make him a saint on the spot, and enjoy the offerings of incense.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei were also dumbfounded by Yuan Shu's series of actions.

After being stunned for a while, he came to his senses. Yuan Feng really woke up laughing while he was dreaming. Then he kept showing off to Yuan Wei, saying that my child Qilin will achieve great things in the future and has a bright future.

On the one hand, Yuan Wei was happy, but on the other hand, he was also jealous.

So sour as hell.

The matter that they all felt was a difficult one was actually overturned by Yuan Shu with just his words.

With just one mouthful, he completely swallowed up the scheme that the eunuchs had offered to the Yuan family, leaving not even a trace.

Yuan Wei didn't even dare to think about how incompetent and furious the eunuchs were, nor did he dare to think about how panicked those evil-minded Modern Literature School forces who followed suit and criticized the Yuan family were.

However, Yuan Shu himself was still relatively sober.

"Gentlemen, now is not the time to be happy. A staged victory is indeed worth cheering, but there is no need to celebrate it. We have just taken the first step and made the first move. The enemy has not yet made the second move. It is too early to be happy now!"

Yuan Shu's words poured cold water on the ecstatic team members, allowing them to calm down in time.

Because now is definitely not the time to pop the champagne.

Judging from the current situation, Yuan Shu believes that he has only made a preliminary breakthrough and has not yet completely broken through.

Whether it was the eunuchs or the modern literature school, would they watch Yuan Shu develop his power in Luoyang? Would they watch Yi Xin recruit troops and poach their people?
Not to mention that Yuan Shu also noticed one thing.

"Most of those who applied to join the Yi Xin Society this time are scholars from humble backgrounds. Those scholars from wealthy families have no intention of joining yet! When they start to join, it means that we have indeed established a firm foothold!"

Yuan Shu's words gave the entire team a shot of prevention.

Indeed, when they were reviewing the application list, they did not see any children from wealthy and powerful families applying to join. Those who apply to join at this stage are those who have no connections and no scruples.

Precisely because they have no connections, they have nothing to worry about and are more likely to choose to join Yi Xin Hui, because Yi Xin Hui is a connection for them.

In fact, seven or eight days of high-intensity speeches were indeed shocking and shook the cognition of many people, but this alone was not enough and could not shake the will of those who were knowledgeable and had self-awareness and concepts.

Therefore, Yuan Shu expects that in the future, while delivering speeches, he will also face a larger-scale challenge - debate.

But that was exactly his purpose.

Because he has diverted the focus of public opinion in Luoyang, the mainstream public opinion in Luoyang City has begun to recognize the existence and basic essence of Xinxue.

Neither the official school of modern literature nor the eunuchs could simply describe Yuan's philosophy of mind as "heresy".

Next, anyone who wants to deny him or suppress him will definitely have to choose to suppress him academically. If they cannot defeat him academically, then simply using political power...

Not to mention whether the Yuan family behind him is easy to bully, just talking about the public opinion, he can't get the support of the public, and can't form the previous public opinion frenzy to bombard and isolate the Yuan family. It is not Yuan Shu's main goal to encourage more than 3,000 people to apply to join the Yi Xin Society.

His main purpose was to spread the basic essence of Yuan's philosophy of mind throughout Luoyang, to make Yuan's philosophy of mind shine from a cognitive level, and to build an emergency barrier for himself on the front line.

With such a prerequisite, Yuan Shu's best skill, debate, can come in handy.

Anyone who wants to defeat him and attack Yuan must overcome this barrier, completely destroy him at the level of debate, and label his doctrine as heresy.

As for those rotten tomatoes and stinky bird eggs in Luoyang, can they do it?
Yuan Shu expressed doubts about this.

In fact, the eunuchs had been squeezed out of the center of the vortex from this moment on. Lacking academic ability and debating skills, they were no longer qualified to participate in this game seriously.

They only knew how to play conspiracies and tactics, but the second battlefield opened up by Yuan Shu did not play conspiracies and tactics with them at all, but played with academics.

If eunuchs understood academic matters, they would not have entered the palace to become eunuchs.

Faced with this situation, the eunuchs were really like eunuchs entering the bridal chamber, speechless and shedding tears.

It seemed as if overnight, the public opinion trend in Luoyang had completely changed.

Criticizing Yuan Shu, the School of Mind and Yuan became the content of Yuan Shu's lectures, it became the pursuit of conscience and the unity of knowledge and action, it became a question of whether the sages were exaggerating.

Everyone's attention was diverted by Yuan Shu alone!

What’s more crucial is that they have been led astray, and the eunuchs have no way of getting involved at all!

Now they didn't even have the interest to have a real offline PK. A group of bruised eunuchs gathered together, not knowing what to do next.

"I just can't figure it out! I can't understand it! How did things get to this point? What is going on?"

Duan Gui angrily slammed the table in front of him and said angrily: "We had agreed to encourage the Yuan family and force them to get closer to us. Why is it that it is completely different now? Why are everyone paying attention to that bullshit Xinxue? Why is no one continuing to attack the Yuan family? Is it just like that?"

Cao Jie glanced at Duan Gui coldly.

"There are still people who continue to file petitions to impeach the Yuan family, but I guess they are more confused than we are. They don't know how the situation has become like this."

"Did we not act ruthlessly enough? Did we let the Yuan family recover?"

Duan Gui asked doubtfully, "Or should we continue to be ruthless?"

"What cruel thing to do? How to do it?"

Cao Jie sneered, "What else do you want to do? You came up with the idea, and now we have come to this point and we don't know how to proceed. What else do you want to do?"

"If you don't do it, you won't stop!"

Duan Gui placed his finger on his neck and stroked it, whispering, "Send someone to kill Yuan Shu!"

Duan Gui thought he could get some support, but he didn't expect that what he got was a flying wine jar.

The wine jar hit Duan Gui right on the forehead, breaking his head instantly and blood gushed out.

Wang Fu, who smashed the wine jar, stood up and started cursing.

"Kill who? Who do you want to kill? Kill Yuan Shu? Did I hear you right? You want to die! Go and die by yourself! Don't drag me into this! I have never agreed with this! You! And you! Cao Jie! You two are the ones who did this! Now that the situation has become like this, how do you plan to end it? Ah?"

Duan Gui was hit so hard that he saw stars and was unable to react for a while, but Cao Jie became furious.

He grabbed the wine bottle in front of him and threw it at Wang Fu, but Wang Fu dodged it nimbly.

Seeing this, Cao Ji became even angrier.

"What are you talking about? You didn't participate in this, did you? You didn't agree to it, did you? Who sent Chun Yu Deng? It was you! You! Do you still want to stay out of it? The situation has changed, and you are afraid? You can't escape! You can't escape! The Yuan family is going to take revenge, and you will be the first one to be attacked!"

Wang Fu felt guilty but also even angrier. He rushed up and started fighting with Cao Ji.

Duan Gui, who had reacted quickly, also rushed forward with a roar, pulled Wang Fu away, and joined forces with Cao Jie to beat Wang Fu up.

Chunyu Deng couldn't stand it anymore. Feeling guilty and scared, he rushed forward and pushed Duan Gui away. The two rolled to the side and continued to wrestle.

This time, the nonsense talk ended in another nonsense war. The eunuchs who participated in the meeting did not get anything they wanted, but everyone was slightly injured.

So they still did nothing and didn't know what to do.

(End of this chapter)