I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 160: Repaying the Favor

On every night like this, Yuan Shu would read books with these outstanding members, discuss hobbies and past experiences, wash feet together, think about life together, eat midnight snacks and drink goat milk together, and then fall asleep together.

In the bedroom and in bed, he lacked the airs and demeanor of a leader.

In this small space, behind closed doors, he is just a gentle and elegant nobleman, a knowledgeable scripture teacher, a quick-thinking debater, and a historian pursuing the truth.

He would chat with Lu Zhi about academic matters, about pursuing conscience and integrating knowledge with action, about farming and fighting for conscience, and about the new look of the country after the comprehensive implementation of the theory of mind learning to govern the country.

He would discuss his development goals with Cheng Li and talk about how he would definitely go to war with the official school of modern literature in the future.

He would discuss with Jia Xu the future development of Liangzhou and the plan to develop the economy by utilizing Liangzhou's unique location advantages.

He would discuss with Wei Jia, Dou Yun and others how to reform the recommendation system and plan for promotion opportunities for talents with less privileged backgrounds.

He would also discuss with Zhao Jun, Luo Yi and others how to use existing conditions to develop business and make the pie bigger, as well as his in-depth thinking on the national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

He knew exactly what he was talking about with whom.

In addition, he would not forget to talk about their personal ideals in life, pay attention to the needs of these subordinates as individuals, talk about their class and background, and also talk about them personally.

Childhood experiences, interests and hobbies, happy things, sad things, private life, views on certain social issues, etc.

It covers everything.

His rich knowledge and broad vision became his greatest reliance in this link, and the crystallization of his knowledge system two thousand years later also became his trump card.

All his subordinates who slept side by side with him were admired and awed by his rich reserves of knowledge.

Among them was even Xun You, the young military strategist.

Because of his active participation and outstanding achievements, Xun You, as a later member of the Yi Xin Society, was named an advanced individual twice in a row and had the opportunity to sleep side by side with Yuan Shu three times.

For the first time, Xun You was relatively calm.

The second time, Xun You was not so calm.

The third time, Xun You became Yuan Shu's die-hard fan and expressed his desire to pass down the green salt that Yuan Shu gave him for brushing his teeth as a family heirloom, to be passed down from generation to generation.

Sleeping with their feet touching each other three times made Yuan Shu completely open up Xun You's heart. He went deep into his heart and listened to him talk about his childhood growth experience and how he became so precocious and taciturn.

Then Yuan Shu would tell Xun You about his childhood experiences and how he broke away from vulgar interests and found higher goals in life.

There were many people who had similar experiences as Xun You. They all slept side by side with Yuan Shu, and in a small space, they had private conversations with such a brilliant figure as Yuan Shu, and even confided their innermost thoughts to him.

This was a dream-like experience for them.

The supreme leader who was so admired on weekdays took off all his weapons at night and turned into an ordinary person with flesh and blood. He lay with them and talked calmly about some seemingly meaningless topics.

The next day, I saw the leader standing on the podium again, radiant with charm and brilliance.

Before they knew it, they had been completely captured by Yuan Shu's tender offensive, and were intoxicated in the emotional cocoon that Yuan Shu had woven for them, unable to extricate themselves.

In this era that is overly concerned with family, only Yuan Shu gave them such deep personal care.

But Yuan Shu did not realize that his starting level was equivalent to Lao Liu's late stage level. He unconsciously compared himself with Lao Liu in the early stage.

As for the consequences of doing this...

This was probably the collective excitement, fanaticism and outburst of more than 300 outstanding core members of Yi Xin Hui who had slept side by side with him.

After the 14 people who initially attended the meeting dispersed to notify trustworthy and outstanding Yi Xin Hui leaders, 329 people were quickly gathered.

As luck would have it, each of these 329 people had slept side by side with Yuan Shu, had supper with him, drank goat milk with him, talked about life and ideals with him, and each of them had different expectations for the future. Now, these subordinates gathered here.

Including the original fourteen people, there are a total of three hundred and forty-three people.

These 343 people became the core command team for Yuan Shu to launch the coup.

When they learned the news, the emotions they expressed were no different from those of the dozen or so people before them, even the process was the same.

First I was confused, then I was terrified, and finally when I finally reacted I became excited, fanatical, and ecstatic.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Yuan Shu always feels that they are like a group of locusts.

Before reaching a certain critical point, each locust is very docile and lazy, and does not fly. It seems harmless to humans and animals. It can be caught and fried to make a delicious protein delicacy.

It has a chickeny flavor, is crunchy, and has six times the protein of beef.

However, once the number of locusts reaches a certain level or a critical point, their temperament changes drastically. They become extremely violent and crazy, secreting toxins all over their bodies, turning them into terrible grain harvesters that will not stop until they die.

And this group of subordinates are usually made up of about five or six people, and each of them looks very rational and excellent.

But after they gathered together and heard Yuan Shu's instructions, they all went crazy.

Perhaps it was just as Cheng Li said, having been treated so well by Yuan Shu, they had long felt that there was an emotion in their hearts that was difficult to contain and was about to burst out, but Yuan Shu had never given them this channel, and they felt very uncomfortable holding it back.

Now that Yuan Shu finally gave them this channel, they all burst out collectively.

In front of Yuan Shu, they swore collectively, swore blood oaths and poisonous oaths, that they would never leak even a single punctuation mark before the action began, otherwise they would die on the spot.

Yuan Shu’s goal is their goal, Yuan Shu’s pursuit is their pursuit, and Yuan Shu’s orders are their mission.

At Yuan Shu's command, they were willing to go through fire and water without hesitation. If they even blinked an eye, they would be ungrateful for Yuan Shu's kindness, so they would just commit suicide without even letting Yuan Shu open his mouth.

What's more, some of them began to entrust their families to Yuan Shu on the spot, saying that if they unfortunately died in the battle, they would like to take care of their elderly parents, wife and children. They had nothing to worry about and were only willing to fight to the death for Yuan Shu and sacrifice their lives to repay Yuan Shu's kindness.

It is a happy thing to die fighting for Yuan Shu!

It’s worth dying for Yuan Shu!

Yuan Shu didn't know why his kindness was so great. Could it be that he had tried too hard, causing his subordinates to collectively turn into berserkers eager to repay their gratitude?

Is the effect of sleeping with feet touching so severe?

Yuan Shu never had an accurate understanding of the advantages brought by his identity and background, or he simply didn't want to deeply understand how much advantage his status as a superior person could bring.

His foresight into history gave him a unique advantage in the overall environment, but it also made him relatively ignore the real influence of his family background at a higher level.

What does he think that three generations of officials are nothing?
If you don't operate it properly, you will end up as a dead end in a grave.

He looked at everything in the start-up period from a late-stage perspective, doing what he wanted to do, doing what was worthy of his conscience, and that was it.

More than 300 people were excited and violent, and each of them shouted that they wanted to die for Yuan Shu, as if not fighting to the death for Yuan Shu would be an ungrateful act to Yuan Shu.

Some people even choose their own way of death, saying that killing one person would be a big loss, killing two would break even, killing three would be a small profit, and killing four or five would be a huge profit.

Yuan Shu looked at the angry scene and was somewhat confused, but this situation was obviously good for him, so he gladly accepted it. At the same time, he secretly made up his mind to carry forward this strategy of sleeping with the feet touching the ground.

As a man, you should use your body to create enough value for yourself.

After the meeting of the core circle ended, Yuan Shu began to devote himself to the preparations, but what he did not expect was that the situation changed again the next day.

(End of this chapter)