I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 124 The Great Reconciliation of the Century

The price of land in Luoyang area obviously cannot be confused with the price of land in Youfufeng, not to mention that some of the land is well-cultivated fertile land and is not wasteland at all, but it was still obtained by Yuan Shu.

In this way, Yuan Shu's plan to build the Yi Xin Hui headquarters and the new Liangzhuang in Luoyang can be carried out smoothly. In the foreseeable future, Yuan Shu feels that he can build a new Liangzhuang within three years that is as large and prosperous as Maoling Liangzhuang.

After all this was in place, the Yuan family officially announced the reconciliation between them and the opposition scholar group. Yuan Shu, as the main spokesperson, publicly stated that the root cause of the misunderstanding had been resolved and everyone had reconciled.

At the same time, the leaders of the major clans and doctors of the Imperial Academy who had been waiting for a long time also made public statements, saying that this incident was a complete misunderstanding. The consequences of this misunderstanding were very serious, but fortunately, the misunderstandings had been resolved.

Afterwards, they also followed the request and publicly praised Yuan Shu's academic ability and philosophy, praising Yuan Shu as a national-level child prodigy that is rare in a century and is different from other child prodigies.

As for the School of Mind, it was also publicly praised by these people as an exquisite doctrine. They believed that the School of Mind, which was derived from the teachings of Mencius, should be recognized as a type of Confucian doctrine. Although it does not belong to the Five Classics system, it is definitely not a unorthodox doctrine or heresy.

This is recognized by them.

This private settlement actually came quite suddenly. Except for a few well-informed people, most people did not know about it until the moment the news was announced, because Yuan Shu's lectures and oppression continued until the day before the news was announced.

How does this look like reconciliation?
Let alone reconciliation, everyone even thought that Yuan Shu, who had won a great victory with all his might, was going to fight to the death with these guys on the top of Luoyang.

But no, their reconciliation came suddenly.

Yuan Shu no longer gave large-scale lectures. Those who had previously claimed that Yuan Shu was a fraud and that the School of Mind was a heretical doctrine changed their tune and began to promote the benefits of the School of Mind, acknowledging that the School of Mind was part of orthodox Confucianism and not a heretical doctrine.

The sudden settlement surprised many people.

The fierce wave of criticism against the Yuan family in Luoyang City and Han Zong's miserable end made everyone think that the Yuan family and the opposition forces were going to fight to the death. But it has only been a short time and they have reconciled?
Some people were confused, some were relieved, some found it very funny, and some felt very sad.

But no matter what, the storm has apparently come to an end and has officially subsided.

The students and opposition politicians naturally had many puzzles, but this did not prevent them from immediately realizing another thing.

Through this turmoil and fierce debate battle, Yuan Shu has become the final winner, the uncrowned king of the public opinion field in Luoyang City, and the true Luoyang debate overlord.

He has a good family background, a high status, great power, and is hated by many people, but there is one thing that no one can deny.

Relying on his own strength, he defeated the disciples of many veteran celebrities and great scholars in Luoyang City and was hardly able to match them.

What's more, he single-handedly wiped out Han Zong, a doctor of the Imperial College, and his entire school, leaving Han Zong completely humiliated and socially dead, thus losing his academic and official prospects.

There was also a rumor circulating about this matter.

It is said that before Han Zong decided to go into battle himself, a disciple prepared a cup of his favorite hot wine for him to cheer him up. As a result, Yuan Shu defeated Han Zong in a very short time. When the news was passed back to Han Zong's mansion, the cup of wine was still warm.

As a result, a story about "Yuan Shu warming wine to refute Han Zong" became popular, and Han Zong was condemned to death for the second time.

On this basis, Yuan Shu's reputation in Luoyang City soared to an extremely high level, and in the eyes of those who were curious, he even had the tendency to surpass a number of veteran scholars and reach the top of Luoyang.

This is just like some modern countries that actually have no strength, but because they have very loud voices on social media, they are given the title of "YouTube Five Permanent Members".

Of course, Yuan Shu has the support of the Runan Yuan family and has strong strength of his own, so he will definitely not become a laughing stock. However, judging from his current popularity, he is not inferior to superstars.

Before the war breaks out, the public opinion trends in the imperial capital can often represent the public opinion trends of the entire empire. What happens in the capital is equivalent to what happens in the entire empire, and the victory or defeat on the battlefield in the capital means the victory or defeat on the battlefield across the country.

Yuan Shu, who won the battle in the capital, also won a significant victory on the battlefield of the entire Eastern Han Empire.

With a superior family background and strong abilities, he alone overwhelms the scholars in Luoyang. This kind of situation can't help but make people respect him and yearn for him, and directly believe that Yuan Shu will have an unlimited future.

The people of Luoyang then highly respected Yuan Shu and flocked to him. Those who wanted to visit Yuan Shu almost trampled down the threshold of Yuan's mansion.

The street directly opposite the gate of Yuan Mansion was blocked completely, and some crazy Dong Han illegitimate fans even tried to climb over the wall of Yuan Mansion to pay a visit to Yuan Shu.

People who applied to join the Yi Xin Hui surrounded the Yi Xin Hui registration office in three layers. There were so many people that it was impossible to tell where was where.

The students of the Imperial College looked for Yuan Shu everywhere, expressing their desire to listen to Yuan Shu's lectures, and even stopped attending the classes of the doctors of the Imperial College.

Representatives of the major forces in the city praised Yuan Shu's brilliant achievements while pointing at their children and scolding them, asking them to learn more from Yuan Shu, who was able to overpower Luoyang at such a young age. What about you? You actually still have the mind to fight cocks and run dogs?!

Look at people!

The second, third, and fourth generations in Luoyang City racked their brains to figure out why Yuan Shu was so awesome. What they couldn't understand even more was why Yuan Shu was so awesome, and they also had to be as awesome as Yuan Shu.

It seems that their father is not as awesome as Yuan Feng?

The second, third and fourth generations were extremely confused and distressed about this, and had no way to seek justice.

But compared to them, the ones who were even more confused and found it harder to accept the reality were the leading eunuchs in the eunuch group.

Without any preparation, they suddenly learned the news that Yuan had reached a reconciliation with the official academic forces. The two sides praised each other, resolved misunderstandings, reunited, eliminated conflicts, and declared that they would jointly promote the high-quality development of Han academic studies.

Did these guys get the wrong script?

Great eunuchs such as Duan Gui, Cao Jie, Wang Fu, Chunyu Deng, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong were extremely confused and a little panicked about this great reconciliation of the century.

How can there be reconciliation?

How can we reconcile?

Those guys cursed all the ancestors of the Yuan family, and the Yuan family also executed Han Zong. How could they reconcile?
This is clearly impossible to reconcile!
The Yang family who stabbed the Yuan family in the back, followed by the Zhang and Liu families, Xu Xu who was the first to submit a petition, the Imperial College doctor who was very loud in talking, and a large number of followers in Luoyang city.

None of these people seem like they can be forgiven by Yuan.

Can this be forgiven?

Can this all be reconciled?
Is the world a little too crazy?
The mouse is going to marry the cat?

The eunuchs were totally confused and immediately sent out a large number of people to gather information. They were determined to dig out the secret behind this matter and find out who was behind it.

However, after all their inquiries, they did not find any useful information. Instead, they learned that during the days when they were inquiring, there were frequent exchanges between many families and forces that had previously been in conflict with each other, such as the Yuan, Yang, Liu, Zhang, and Xun families.

Members of each clan frequently went in and out of their respective mansions, congratulated each other, gave gifts, held banquets, and celebrated all day long with constant laughter and joy.

Yuan Shu, as the main output person and spokesperson of the Yuan family at this stage, was even more active.

He could be seen at every banquet held by every family, and Yuan Shu would be placed at the front of the list of guests invited by every family. Yuan Shu would also be invited to give a public speech to explain the reason for the matter to the confused and uneasy people, and take the opportunity to promote his own Xinxue and Yi Xin Hui.

Such behavior made the eunuchs dumbfounded.

On the eighth day of June, they held another nonsense talk, during which they exchanged the information they had learned with each other. Finally, after summarizing the information, they determined that the most likely mastermind behind this incident was Yuan Shu.

It was his arrival that caused this public opinion storm, and through him, the eunuchs contributed to the intensity of this storm.

It was also from him that the Yuan family sounded the clarion call for a counterattack.

It was his verbal attacks that turned the initial disadvantageous situation around. He suppressed the group of scholars in Luoyang alone and turned an unfavorable situation into a favorable one. He also diverted the direction of public opinion in the entire Luoyang City and vigorously developed his so-called Yi Xin Society, greatly enhancing his own power.

According to reliable information, the eunuchs learned that Yuan Shu's Yi Xin Society had more than a thousand Luoyang natives or outsiders who came to Luoyang to study, including many people from well-off families.

In addition, nearly 10,000 people applied, making Yuan Shu extremely popular, as if he were a real superstar in Luoyang City.

In addition, based on some sporadic eyewitness intelligence, the eunuchs learned that Yuan Shu had appeared outside Yang Ci's mansion before the news of the reconciliation was announced, and entered the mansion. He did not come out until about an hour later, and Yang Ci personally escorted him out.

"It must be Yuan Shu! It must be that brat Yuan Shu! It must be him! He was the one who got involved and messed up this matter beyond all recognition! It must be him! Otherwise, how could they even reconcile with the Yang family? This is impossible! The Yang family betrayed their trust, Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei hate them to death! How could they easily reconcile with them?!"

Duan Gui spitted out his saliva angrily at the nonsense.

"I've already said it, I've already said it, just send someone to kill him! You didn't dare! You didn't let me kill him! Now, this little brat has turned the tide and reconciled! They reconciled! What should we do next? What should we do? They've reconciled, what will they do next? They must want to retaliate against us!"

(End of this chapter)