I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 211 Yuan Shao is not worth his attention

The old tree couldn't make a sound, and Yuan Shao didn't intend to listen to the old tree's explanation.

He wanted to vent all his dissatisfaction and anger on the tree. Ignoring his wife's worried look and dissuasion, he chopped and roared with all his might. His voice echoed in the yard, sounding particularly unwilling and sad.

In addition to the unfortunate old tree, he also smashed more than a dozen bowls and plates and kicked over an entire stone table, as if he wanted to destroy everything he saw.

He doesn't understand!

He doesn't understand at all!

Why has he been suppressed by Yuan Shu since he was a child?

Why has he never been able to surpass Yuan Shu since he was a child?

Not as good as him in background, not as good as him in talent, not as good as him in luck, not as good as him in fame!
Apart from being older than him, it seems that she has no other advantages.

When he was young, he was not as smart as Yuan Shu. When he was a teenager, he was still not as talented as Yuan Shu. When he finally grew up and Yuan Shu was still a minor, he was planning to make a name for himself in his career and strive to surpass Yuan Shu. However, one night, he was completely defeated by Yuan Shu.

It's over, it's over!

He can never compare to Yuan Shu again!
What’s more important is that he has lost all his status in the Yuan family.

Apart from other things, when Yuan Feng raised an army to fight against the eunuchs, he did not call him, but only brought Yuan Shu. The father and son killed all the eunuchs and did everything, but Yuan Shao became an outsider...

Yuan Ji did not attend because he was an official in another place and was not in Luoyang.

Yuan Wei did not attend because he was away on business and was not in Luoyang.

He, Yuan Shao, is in Luoyang!

It’s in Luoyang!
He is such a big man and he is standing right here in Luoyang. He is not air, so how could he have no sense of existence?
He even began to doubt whether he had been abandoned by the entire family and whether he had offended his elders in some way.

He is also a strong man!

Even if he doesn't have much power, calling on him will at least provide a fighting force, right?
Why didn't you even call him for this kind of thing?
This suspicion made him a little mentally unstable these days. He was in a daze all day and didn't even care about eating, drinking, defecating or urinating.
Li was very worried about this. Looking at Yuan Shao's distraught appearance, her heart was filled with pity and helplessness.

So, early in the morning on October 6th, Li sent someone to the palace to find Yuan Feng and told him about Yuan Shao. She hoped that Yuan Feng could care about Yuan Shao and give him some comfort and encouragement.

However, Yuan Feng did not pay attention to this.

He was busy dealing with various affairs after the coup and had no time to pay attention to Yuan Shao's little emotions.

He has already sat in the position of the actual ruler of the Han Empire. As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. His current status does not support him to pay too much attention to trivial matters at home and the love affairs of his children.

If it was the Yuan family, he could still take it into consideration a little, but it was just a small problem with Yuan Shao that required him to devote his precious energy to deal with it.

Forget it then.

Yuan Feng just sent someone back to tell Yuan Shao that he would arrange a suitable position for Yuan Shao and give him a chance to show himself, but now, he had no time to think about Yuan Shao's affairs, so he asked Yuan Shao to stay at home honestly and not cause trouble.

After Yuan Shao learned of this reply, his already broken heart was shattered into pieces.

He was hit hard again by his biological father's indifference and cruelty towards him.

He had originally run out of strength, but now, he had strength again, and rushed out of the house with a three-foot sword in hand. The two hundred year old tree once again suffered an unexpected disaster.

But for Yuan Feng, Yuan Shao at this moment really had no weight and was not enough to arouse Yuan Feng's interest.

A son in his early twenties, whose official position is just a Langguan, with no achievements or reputation, is not worth his energy to deal with the little emotions in his heart?

All his precious energy and time had to be spent on the two matters of liquidation and reward, and even that was not enough, so he left many things to Yuan Shu to handle.

For example, the placement of Liu Hong and other members of the royal family, as well as a series of daily life issues for the new emperor Liu Kui and even how to choose a new reign title. For this reason, Yuan Shu summoned Tang Zhen, the Minister of Rites, Yang Ci, the Minister of Imperial Clan, Liu Zu and their subordinate officials to discuss.

The first issue is the resettlement of Liu Hong and other former royal family members.

Liu Hong himself had been dealt with on the spot by Liu Kui. He was now a commoner. After guarding Empress Dowager Dou's tomb for three years and confessing his guilt, he would be expelled and would never be able to return to Luoyang.

This kind of treatment is obviously a bit crude and rough. It does not follow the procedures, does not convict, and does not implement procedural justice. After all, he has been the emperor for several years, so it is difficult to convince the people.

But considering that this was the first and perhaps the only independent decision made by Liu Kui, Yuan Shu decided to respect it.

At least give them some face, right?
So Yuan Shu called in a group of experts and officials, and they brainstormed together and pooled their wisdom to find a relatively reasonable disposal process that would maximize the value of the dead.

Sometimes, the dead are more useful than the living.

Because the dead cannot speak for themselves.

Dou Wu and Dou Miao were both dead, and they would not and could not defend themselves, so Yuan Shu directly proposed to revise the matter of Liu Hong's accession to the throne and come up with a conspiracy theory.

To put it simply, before his death, Emperor Huan of Han, Liu Zhi, was concerned that he had no son, so in terms of the successor to the throne, he decided to pass his throne to Liu Kui.

Because Liu Kui was an adult and had a son, he could ensure the stable succession of the throne. He was also his biological brother, and no one was more suitable than him.

But this decision was known to Dou Miao and Dou Wu, and they were dissatisfied.

The reason why Dou Miao was dissatisfied was that once Liu Kui ascended the throne as an adult emperor, she would have no reason to rule and would become an empress dowager in an awkward position. Moreover, Dou Miao was not favored and had a bad relationship with Liu Zhi. She was worried that once Liu Kui became emperor, her second half of life would be very depressing.

So she can't accept it.

Besides, Dou Wu didn't want to accept it either.

Although Dou Wu was a relative by marriage, he had close relations with scholars, especially with party members. After the first Party Ban broke out, Dou Wu was very opposed to this and repeatedly submitted petitions to Liu Zhi requesting him to lift the Party Ban.

Once Liu Zhi passed the throne to Liu Kui, first of all, Dou Wu would inevitably be excluded from the core circle of power together with Dou Miao, and become a relative in law with a very embarrassing status. Moreover, he could not be sure whether Liu Kui would inherit his brother's policies and continue the party imprisonment.

Dou Miao and Dou Wu could not accept this future, so they decided to tamper with Liu Zhi's will, exclude Liu Kui, and choose a twelve-year-old junior from Liu Zhi's clan to succeed him so that they could continue to stay in the core circle of power.

This statement is actually not without popularity. For some time before Liu Zhi died of illness and Liu Hong ascended the throne, this statement had already spread in a small circle in Luoyang.

And there is evidence to support this claim.

When Liu Zhi was critically ill, he ordered that Liu Kui, who had been demoted and lost the throne for disrespect, be restored to the title of King of Bohai. This could be seen as compensation from an elder brother to his younger brother, but it could also be seen as a precursor to his being named heir to the throne.

After a series of struggles in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, by the later years of Liu Xiu, the rule that only princes could be made kings was basically established. All the princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were descendants of Liu Xiu, and were basically descendants of Liu Xiu's sons or nephews.

If we infer from this, we can barely come to a conclusion similar to a conspiracy theory, and use Liu Kui's identity as the King to support it.

In this way, it would be possible to successfully define Liu Hong's enthronement as a disaster caused by the Dou family's foreign relatives, eliminate the legitimacy of Liu Hong's enthronement, and directly pass the throne from Liu Zhi to Liu Kui, thus achieving "rectification" of the event of Liu Hong's enthronement.

In this way, there was a relatively reasonable and legal explanation for deposing Liu Hong as a commoner, which could silence the gossips of people all over the world.

As for Liu Hong's biological mother, Queen Song, and Song's relatives, the same treatment can be applied to them. They can all be demoted to commoners, all their property will be confiscated, and they will be sent to live with Liu Hong. At that time, they will be driven away together and not allowed to return to Luoyang.

As for the concubines, palace maids, etc. selected into the imperial palace during Liu Hong's reign, it is not convenient to deal with them publicly.

Those who had not been favored by Liu Hong could be kept as reserves, and those who had been favored by Liu Hong would be selected for observation. Those who were not pregnant could be sent back to their hometowns, while those who were already pregnant would be kept under close surveillance and have the children aborted to eliminate the root of the problem.

The disposal plan for Liu Hong and his group was basically determined in this way.

(End of this chapter)