I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 221 He Wants Power Too Much

As time slowly passed and dusk deepened, eighteen huge butter candles were lit in the hall, illuminating the hall and slightly driving away some of the coolness, adding a touch of warmth to people's hearts.

But in the next moment, two figures appeared in Liu Qi's sight. When the two men stood at the gate of the palace, it seemed as if an invisible cold wind blew into the palace, causing the flames of the eighteen giant butter candles to shake and almost go out.

Liu Kui's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu stood outside the hall, handed their swords to the guards outside the hall, took off their shoes, entered the Zhangde Hall with full courtesy, walked quickly to a place not far in front of Liu Kui, and bowed down.

"Your Majesty, I, Yuan Feng (Yuan Shu), pay my respects to you!"

"Prince Yuan, and Marquis Yang'an, please stand up quickly!"

Liu Kui immediately stood up and stretched out his hand to support himself. His voice echoed in the empty hall with a barely perceptible tremor.

So Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu stood up one after another.

"How was the coming-of-age ceremony today? Marquis Yang'an has officially come of age. What are your feelings?"

Liu Kui chatted with the two of them with a smile on his face. The smile on his face was not very natural, but Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu didn't care.

Yuan Shu's mind was as clear as a mirror, and he was not in a hurry. He responded to Liu Kui in the same way.

"I feel deeply touched. If I made any mistakes in the past, I could use my underage status as an excuse to ask my father to clean up the mess for me. But if I make mistakes again in the future, I won't be able to ask my father to clean up the mess for me. Thinking about this, I feel a little sad."

"Haha...hahaha..."

Liu Kui tried to stay calm, forced a few laughs, and then said, "That's right. If one could be a child who is loved by his parents forever, how many people would not want to do that? It's just a pity that people can't help but grow up! By the way, can you give me the courtesy name of Marquis Yang'an?"

"I have already chosen a courtesy name for my cousin. I will call him Zijia."

Yuan Shu smiled and said, "This is the suggestion of Ma Zhonghou and Cai Yilang. It is taken from the Zuo Zhuan, Zhaogong 2nd Year, a conversation between Han Xuanzi and Ji Wuzi. It has a profound and beautiful meaning. Both my father and I like it very much."

"Zijia..."

Liu Kui nodded slowly and turned his gaze to Yuan Feng.

"This courtesy name is indeed good. This way, Zijia will be an adult, and he will be able to take up an official position and help the emperor in the future... By the way, before, he was only given a title, but no official position was arranged. With Zijia's merits, Yuan Sikong, what do you think? What position can Zijia take?"

Yuan Feng, who was standing aside, took a quick look at Liu Kui's expression. His eyes were as sharp as a sword, which made Liu Kui feel very uncomfortable.

After a while, Yuan Feng looked away and shook his head slowly.

"I have not yet thought of a more suitable position for Zijia. He has made great contributions, but he is still young. If I rashly promote him to a high position, I am afraid that people will not accept it and he lacks experience. However, if I do not promote him, there will be suspicion of unclear rewards and punishments, which may damage your majesty's wisdom. This is also a headache for me."

Liu Kui breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down his nervous mood a little.

He felt that what Yuan Feng said made sense.

The seventeen-year-old boy was so capable that he brought a group of people and joined forces with his father to get rid of the eunuchs and depose and enthrone the emperor. This kind of achievement was really a bit inconsistent with his age.

If he was really a genius of Huo Qubing's level and had made indisputable military achievements, then he would be justified in being a General of Cavalry. However, the achievements made by Yuan Shu did not have the effect of shutting up everyone across ages.

And it is somewhat sensitive and should not be publicized in the open.

"Thinking about it this way, I feel a little embarrassed. Not rewarding meritorious service is not what the emperor of the Han Dynasty should do. However, this merit is too great, so how to reward him becomes a problem..."

After pacing back and forth for a while, Liu Kui didn't know what to do, so he simply threw the question back to Yuan Feng. Anyway, this question was not the purpose of him calling the father and son together, and it was not something he could decide.

He didn't want to have any unpleasantness with Yuan father and son over this issue.

All he wanted now was some trusted confidants of his own, to increase his power a little, so that he and his family could sleep well without being in panic all day and suffering from insomnia every night.

"I have just become the emperor, and I am not very clear about the appointment and dismissal of many officials in the court, so these matters should be handed over to Yuan Sikong. Everything will be based on Yuan Sikong's ideas, and I will not ask any questions."

Yuan Feng understood and bowed slowly.

"I obey your command. Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty."

After this topic came to an end, Liu Kui took a deep breath and his true intentions were revealed.

"By the way, I invited Yuan Sikong and Zijia here because I have another matter I want to discuss with you." Here they come.

Tuqiongdagger met.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu looked at each other inconspicuously, knowing that the good show was finally about to begin.

So Yuan Feng pretended that he had guessed nothing and bowed obediently.

"Your Majesty, please speak."

Liu Kui nodded, swallowed, and spoke carefully.

"Yuan Sikong, although there are only a few dozen people in my family in the palace now, we do not need too many servants to serve us, but it is not enough to have only palace maids in such a huge palace. There are many rough and miscellaneous jobs that palace maids cannot do well and are not convenient to do. So, when can we recruit some more eunuchs?"

There is indeed not a single eunuch in the palace at the moment, because they have all been killed.

The people who served Liu Kui's family were all palace maids. Although there were enough of them, there were always some heavy work that the palace maids could not do.

Initially, eunuchs were needed in the palace to do some rough and strenuous work. Objectively speaking, the emperor did need some strong people to help him with his work, so there was nothing inappropriate about Liu Kui raising this issue.

However, at this moment when the eunuchs were notorious and had just been eliminated, he could not wait to put forward this suggestion, which coincided with Yuan Shu's guess.

He is not a patient person, nor is he a scheming person.

Otherwise, I wouldn't state my purpose so directly.

At the very least, he should wait for three to five months until all the issues in Luoyang City are settled, or even until Yuan and his son take the initiative to propose it, rather than him proposing it himself.

On the one hand, Yuan Feng felt that this guy was a little too eager for power, but on the other hand, Yuan Feng felt that this guy was easy to control and was not a difficult opponent.

Based on the rise of the two Han emperors, Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han, it is not difficult to see that they both relied on the power of eunuchs to seize power from powerful ministers and purge the powerful ministers.

With this precedent, even if Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu agreed, other vested interests would not agree to let Liu Kui continue to have a considerable eunuch force. For example, Duan Xing would definitely strongly oppose it.

This is really too dangerous!

Who knows whether you want a force of eunuchs to better serve you or to better seize power for you?

However, Liu Kui did not think of this and was so eager to have a eunuch force to serve him that his risk factor dropped suddenly.

After Liu Kui asked this question, he looked very nervous. He seemed to be worried that Yuan Feng would not agree.

However, he found that neither Yuan Feng nor Yuan Shu showed any displeasure. On the contrary, both of them looked normal, which made him feel relieved and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He called Yuan father and son to raise this issue, but he had to go through a lot of psychological struggle and suppress the uneasiness in his heart.

He already knew that the father and son had no intention of really giving him real power, which made him feel strongly dissatisfied, unwilling, and insecure.

The safety of his wives, concubines and children was also a problem, and his entire family was in extreme danger.

His old illness had not yet been cured, and his mental illness had come back again. The combination of the two made his cough a little more serious.

He really couldn't hold it in any longer, so he suppressed his anxiety and fear and tested the Yuan father and son.

just in case……

Can it succeed?

Now it seems that he feels that his bet was right. After all, Yuan and his son did not intend to make things too difficult for him. They must still be concerned about his status as the Emperor of the Han Dynasty!

He was a little excited.

After a while, Yuan Feng glanced at Yuan Shu, then turned to face Liu Kui and bowed slightly.

"The palace does need some people who can do rough and heavy work, and Your Majesty does need eunuchs to serve you. This is natural, and I, as an old minister, will certainly not object. However, the court is in financial difficulty right now, and I am afraid..."

(End of this chapter)