I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 137 Yuan Shu's Concealment

After this night, Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei began to follow the established strategy to gain a more advantageous position for the Yuan family.

They began to bargain with the eunuchs, gave up the position of Sikong, and asked the eunuchs for several central government positions, including the Zhijinwu.

They believed that this position of controlling the Luoyang Arsenal was very necessary. Although they did have some privately stored weapons and equipment, the quantity was far less than that of the Luoyang Arsenal.

If we can obtain the weapons and equipment from the Luoyang Arsenal, it will be like adding wings to a tiger in the true sense.

In addition, they also began to actively and proactively engage in emotional exchanges with their former students and officials who held certain powers and military power in Luoyang City, and focused on maintaining bilateral relations.

Secondly, for those officials with military power who did not have a clear affiliation, they also communicated with them while trying not to attract attention, slowly laying the groundwork for later winning them over.

Yuan Shu really wanted to help, but after all, he had no official position and was still a teenager, so it was not convenient for him to step in on such matters. Therefore, he could only focus his energy on lecturing in Luoyang City and building the Yi Xin Hui headquarters outside Luoyang City.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei simultaneously instructed Yuan Shu to build the Yi Xin Hui headquarters well, and especially to train the more than 1,000 armed forces well.

They felt that although Yuan Shu had few armed personnel under his command, they had war experience after all, which was relatively rare in the entire Yuan family system. At critical moments, this group of people under Yuan Shu would play a big role.

Of course Yuan Shu would not slack off on such matters.

He knew the importance of this matter better than anyone else.

So he arranged for Lu Zhi to take most of the elite members of the Security Department to Luoyang, and he also arranged for most of the old farmers in Maoling Liangzhuang who had received military training to come to Luoyang.

In order not to attract attention, except for the students who came to study for a just cause, most of the old farmers came in the name of commercial transportation, transporting goods from Liangzhou, such as wine.

The old farmers who had received military training followed the caravan and pretended to be members of the caravan. After the goods were delivered, they exchanged with the new farmers in Liangzhuang, Luoyang.

The new farmers followed the caravan to Maoling to settle down, and the old farmers stayed there to settle down and became Yuan Shu's most solid military guarantee.

Under the efficient operation of Yi Xin Hui, everything runs very smoothly.

With such an arrangement, three to five hundred farmers could follow the caravan on a round trip, concealing the truth and replacing one thing with another.

From July of the fourth year of Jianning to November of the fourth year of Jianning, in less than four months, Yuan Shu arranged 2,500 old farmers who had received military training to Luoyang, and sent a group of new ones to settle down in Liangzhuang, Maoling.

At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of Liangzhuang in Maoling, Yuan Shu arranged for Shao Yuan to lead a hundred elite security guards to Maoling to resume the military training mission in Maoling and continue to train the farmers there so as not to let the martial ethics of Liangzhuang decline.

It is much simpler to conduct military training in Maoling, and it is almost an open secret. With the cooperation and cover of Du Ze, they can get direct help from the regular army and train in the way of the regular army. It is completely the "reserve team" under Yuan Shu.

In this way, Yuan Shu gathered the strongest armed forces he could command in Liangzhuang, Luoyang, within four months. The old security department and the old farmers in Maoling totaled 3,200 people.

But this is not all the power that Yuan Shu can control.

In addition, after settling down in Luoyang, Yuan Shu added another 200 positions to the Security Department in nearly five months.

These newly joined members of the Security Department were all newcomers. They were local people from Sanhe who had participated in the main force of the "Three Rivers and Five Schools" of the Imperial Government. They all had experience in military fighting and were rumored to be from good families. Most of them were inspired by Yuan Shu and then joined the Yi Xin Society. Because of their special experiences, they were soon arranged by Yuan Shu to the Security Department.

As a result, the number of members of the Isshinkai's exclusive cadre group - the Security Department - increased to one thousand.

In addition, during the past few months, 6,500 Yi Xin members and Yuan's disciples from Maoling arrived at the Yi Xin headquarters in Luoyang through various means, leaving only about 1,000 people in the Maoling branch to manage and defend Liangzhuang.

Yuan Shu selected these people and regarded all the disciples and Yi Xin members from Liangzhou as forces he could rely on. They began military training in the name of "strengthening their bodies and defending their country", practicing horsemanship, swordsmanship, and archery.

These Liangzhou scholars and children of wealthy families all had a foundation in military skills. They could ride horses, shoot arrows, and use ring-handled swords and spears. Some of them also had a family military background and possessed certain military talents.

It saves a lot of effort to train.

In order to make them more capable of fighting against the Luoyang regular army, Yuan Shu once again took advantage of Dong Xuan's relationship and brought in ten of Dong Xuan's confidants from the Infantry Captain's Battalion for military training and taught them some regular army tactics.

So if you really want to calculate, if Yuan Shu really launched a general mobilization, he could pull out a combat force of 6,400 people who had received military training and had certain combat effectiveness to fight the eunuchs to the death.

After this wave of operations, in November of the fourth year of Jianning, Yuan Shu officially completed the restructuring of the Luoyang Yixinhui headquarters and the Maoling Yixinhui branch. Maoling had 1,000 permanent Yixin members, and the remaining members and disciples were all transferred to the Luoyang headquarters.

At the Luoyang headquarters, there are 4,000 old Yi Xin members, 3,000 old disciples, 1,800 new Yi Xin members, and more than 6,000 new disciples.

This means that at the end of the fourth year of Jianning, the Yi Xin Society had more than 7,800 official members.

There are more than 9,000 new and old disciples who have not yet joined the Yi Xin Society, and it is only a matter of time before the number exceeds 10,000.

To be honest, Yuan Shu was intentionally controlling the number of members. He didn't want the organization to expand too quickly. He wanted more time to train enough cadres and make the rules of the Yi Xin Society more perfect to facilitate the later expansion.

That is why the convenient door of Yi Xin Hui was not opened widely.

However, Luoyang does have unique conditions. There are more than 30,000 students in the Imperial Academy alone, not to mention those who are talking nonsense in the opposition. The number of potential people suitable for joining the Yi Xin Society is truly the highest in the world.

Most of these people were young people from aristocratic and powerful landlord families who had no worries about food and clothing. They had no basic survival problems and were driven by ideals and concepts. Inspired by Yuan Shu's passionate speech, they all rushed over, wishing that a beautiful world of great harmony of conscience could be realized tomorrow.

With this population base, the expansion of the number of members of the Yi Xin Society and the Yuan family’s School of Mind is a matter of course.

If Yuan Shu had not intentionally controlled the card process, it is estimated that within four months, more than half of the students would have been recruited by him to join the Zhixing Academy. By then, the number of people in the Yuan family's school of psychology would have exceeded 20,000 and would have reached 30,000 in a minute.

However, Yuan Shu did not get carried away and remained calm and maintained his standards. He first applied for membership in the Yi Xin Society and then, having no other choice, he applied for membership in the Xin Xue School.

I don't have any mechanism to prevent self-study. The method of learning is in the books, and the way to salvation is in them. So, you should study on your own first, and then you can join the sect after you reach a certain standard.

As for Yi Xin Hui, they must select the best from the best, and the first thing to do is to go to the fields and farm.

The land that Yuan Shu seized by trickery and bought with money is waiting for their hard work to cultivate!

Those who do not understand farming will not be able to harvest anything.

Despite this, in just four months, 1,800 of these Luoyang young men managed to break through the selection threshold, entered the Yi Xin Society with agricultural knowledge, and became a glorious Yi Xin member.

In addition, more than 6,000 people passed the threshold of the School of Mind, initially mastered the basic essentials of Mind Learning, and accelerated the learning of agricultural knowledge. They went to the fields in batches and joined the summer and autumn harvest work.

The first autumn harvest of the transferred land was quickly completed thanks to the efforts of these students.

It can only be said that the glory of ideals is spreading throughout Luoyang, and the power of conscience is urging them to grow and change. For young people, the speed of accepting new ideas and making new changes is much faster than that of the old people.

To be honest, it is probably difficult to expect this group of young people to carry out some practical reforms, such as investigating land issues and redistributing land.

For most people, knowing is easier said than done, and they only realize the seriousness of a problem when their own interests are infringed upon.

They have not yet attained that enlightenment, and have not yet been absorbed in the doctrines of pursuing conscience and integrating knowledge with action. It will take time. Some people may never truly achieve the three words "conscience" in their entire lives.

However, they are not without advantages and areas that can be utilized.

For example, if we expect them to gather together as a stormtrooper to seize power, that is absolutely possible, even more than enough. If we give the call right now, they can all rush forward with their swords and then swing them at the eunuchs' heads.

But this is not Yuan Shu's ultimate pursuit, it is just some nodes on the road of pursuit.

At present, Yuan Shu not only puts a lot of effort into the construction of the school and the Yi Xin Society, but also into economic construction.

Although Zhixing Academy charges tuition fees according to certain standards, and students have to pay for their own food and accommodation, Yixinhui members are exempt from these fees and receive a living allowance every quarter, which is a considerable expense.

Providing military training to your own people also requires a large amount of money and food, which are all expenses.

Yuan Shu cannot rely entirely on the transfer payments from Yuan Feng. He must have his own ability to generate income. That is why he simultaneously builds a good village and works hard on agricultural production.

(End of this chapter)