I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 128 Zhixing Academy
On the one hand, letting them come here will make it easier for Yuanshu to develop and manage nearby.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu also considered that if it really came to the critical moment of deposing and enthroning the monarch, these people would be the most reliable and loyal warriors and could all be used as death squads.

Over the years, except for the Security Department who are professionally dedicated to building up strength and practicing the art of battle, the other formal members of Yi Xin Hui have more or less participated in military training and have more or less mastered some military skills.

The Confucian scholars of this time were not the same as those of the Song Dynasty after the complete ban on martial arts. The Confucian scholars of this time were not averse to practicing martial arts or military skills. Even members of the Law Department were very fond of training in horse riding and archery.

During the period of mourning, Yuan Shu also arranged equestrian competitions, archery competitions and sword-fighting competitions for the members of Yi Xin Hui. He also organized fencing competitions and driving competitions for some ancient culture enthusiasts. The winners all received tangible rewards.

Therefore, serious Yi Xin members are not only good at verbal debates, but their physical debate abilities are also quite good. If someone really wants to engage in a physical debate with them instead of a verbal debate, they can also show off their martial arts skills.

As for the more than 3,000 disciples Yuan Shu accepted in Maoling, most of them were from Liangzhou. In a place like Liangzhou, even women and children would be trained in archery and spear, let alone young men.

Everyone is full of martial virtues.

So it’s true that the five thousand Yi Xin members and three thousand disciples, added together, really have the posture and confidence of an army of eight thousand.

In Luoyang, more than a thousand people have become official Yi Xin members, and the number of disciples is being counted. According to the trend of more than ten thousand people signing up, the number of people who will eventually join this large group will not be less than five thousand.

That’s more than 13,000 people.

The central army of the Eastern Han Empire stationed in Luoyang City included the palace guards, the city gate guards of the city gate captain system, and five army camps including the Yueqi Camp and the Changshui Camp. The total number of these troops was only about twelve to three thousand.

The combat effectiveness of Yuan Shu's side may not be as good as those of these battle-hardened professional armies, but in terms of numbers, at least they are not inferior.

Yuan Shu did some calculations and realized that he had built up a considerable career foundation.

If he continues like this, within a few years, even if nothing happens, he will be able to launch a mutiny.

But when it comes to strength, you can never have too much.

After the disturbance in Luoyang City subsided, Yuan Shu took advantage of the rare free time to personally take charge of the development affairs of Yixin Club in Luoyang. He was surprised when he started.

The number of people who meet the standards of Yi Xin Hui has exceeded 1,500, and the number of people willing to join Yuan's school of mind learning has exceeded 4,000. This means that at this time, the number of Yuan Shu's followers in Luoyang has exceeded 5,000.

This is much faster than the speed at which he gathered the troops in Maoling.

Otherwise, why is it said that the imperial capital, the best place in the world, is an amplifier of achievements and sins?

People with ability can get huge bonuses here regardless of whether they are making achievements or committing crimes.

So Yuan Shu didn't hesitate any more and just did it.

He personally went to the Shouyang Mountain headquarters to supervise the work and urged them to build the Yi Xin Hui headquarters and the school for imparting knowledge as soon as possible to facilitate future Yi Xin Hui activities and the imparting of Yuan's philosophy of mind.

Because he had no shortage of money or land, and considering the shortcomings of the academic teaching system in the Middle Ages, Yuan Shu planned to introduce a formal school system. He formally established a school with Xinxue as the main content of instruction next to the Yixinhui headquarters, and arranged for all those who needed to and were willing to learn to study there.

He named the school Zhixing Academy.

At first, he just wanted to facilitate the teaching of psychology, but during the construction process, seeing the abundant land and financial budget, Yuan Shu's mind became active, and he planned to make this school the first truly comprehensive school in this era and this world.

Not only Yuan's philosophy of mind and ancient classics will be taught, but also agronomy, military affairs, astronomy and geography, steelmaking, and mathematics. All these things can be taught in this institution, allowing students to learn and master them freely, just like the education system that Yuan Shu had previously established in the Yi Xin Hui relying on various departments.

Now that there is a more professional school, Yuan Shu plans to transplant the entire education system of Yixinhui into Zhixing Academy, so that Yixinhui can become a simpler political and military organization, and Zhixing Academy can assume the educational functions it needs. At that time, all those who want to join Yuan Shu can enter Zhixing Academy to study and take exams, and those who pass the exams will be unified into Yixinhui, so that Yixinhui can obtain a stable and high-quality source of fresh blood, and at the same time make the organization of Yixinhui more refined.

Taking this aspect into consideration, Yuan Shu paid special attention to the construction progress and scale of Zhixing Academy.

He said that although Zhixing Academy was not bigger and more magnificent than Taixue, it should at least look like an academy. All facilities should be able to accommodate up to 30,000 people. It should not only have teaching facilities, but also living facilities and even sports facilities.

In addition, considering the necessity of military training, Yuan Shu privately arranged for Cheng Li to be directly responsible for secretly building a training ground dedicated to the Security Department outside the Yi Xin Hui headquarters.

A formal military training place.

In this way, all of Yuan Shu's requirements were met in the entire Yi Xin Hui headquarters complex. The entire complex covered a large area and had so many houses that it looked like a small city.

But this is just institutional construction. Yuan Shu is more concerned about the construction of Conscience Farm.

When the official school forces surrendered, they handed over a lot of political and economic benefits to the Yuan family. Then Yuan Feng "rewarded according to merit" and rewarded Yuan Shu heavily. In terms of political benefits, Yuan Shu got a small part, and in terms of economic benefits, Yuan Shu got a large part.

Yuan Shu not only got the land, but also got many tenants attached to the land. The lease contracts of these tenants were transferred to Yuan Shu together with the land contracts. Yuan Shu obtained a large farm of 52 hectares in the northeast of Luoyang without any effort.

And the 863 existing tenant households.

Compared with Liangzhuang in Maoling, the scale of this Liangzhuang is a little smaller, but this is just the beginning. Next, Yuan Shu plans to continue to use the power of the Yuan family to acquire more land - it is said that it is nice to sit under a big tree and enjoy the shade. Of course, I, Yuan, will sit under a big tree and enjoy the shade!

And although Yuan is not a positive character, it is definitely better for these tenants to follow him than to follow other landlords. They can eat more and get more. It doesn't matter who they farm for, right?

It’s better to follow Master Yuan!

So Yuan Shu started planning.

The Yixinhui headquarters and Zhixing Academy are inside, and Luoyang Liangzhuang surrounds it. Some fences and walls should be built around Luoyang Liangzhuang. It doesn't matter how high they are, but they must have minimum defensive capabilities.

Then, a small country within a country was established.

The next step is expansion. They will pay attention to which lands around the Yixinhui headquarters are good, which lands have been almost cultivated, and which soft persimmons are easier to squeeze. Then they will squeeze the soft persimmons one by one and grab the land... and take it away.

While expanding the scale of Luoyang Liangzhuang, they also carried out large-scale agricultural production and construction in Liangzhuang, developed water conservancy projects, provided high-quality agricultural tools, and provided sufficient oxen to increase agricultural production and the quality of agricultural products.

The income from agricultural production can be directly provided to the Yixinhui headquarters and Zhixing Academy for use, achieving a certain degree of internal circulation.

The rest can rely on the relationship with the Yuan family to grab agricultural product orders in Luoyang City, snatch part of the orders for agricultural products from the major families, and make a lot of money from these rich people!
After getting the money, he would use it to acquire more land and farmers, to expand reproduction, to continue to expand the scale of Liangzhuang, to have more population and more potential excellent soldiers.

Using the masters' money to do your own things, using the masters' money to train soldiers and strengthen yourself, what do you call this?
This is called sustainable development.

By then, the armed forces that Yuan Shu personally possesses will be enough to shake the political landscape of Luoyang.

Killing the eunuchs was no longer something unthinkable.

Anyway, these eunuchs are doomed to die. As he said, even the emperor can’t stop them.

How dare you make him sit there all day without food or honey water? This is such a great humiliation that I would not be a human being if I don’t take revenge!

(End of this chapter)