I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 230: The Yuan family is so great!
Seeing Liu Qi's collapsed look, Tang Zhen calmly shook his head.

"What I did was in accordance with the law of the country and did not violate it in any way. Even if Yuan Sikong and Master Yuan came, they would not affect the normal work of the Shaofu. Your Majesty, please do not get too excited to avoid damaging the holy body."

Liu Qi watched the servants he brought with him being dragged out of the palace crying and shouting, and he couldn't even keep them. He felt extremely angry, and then filled with deep sorrow.

When Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu came to him with the new rules, he realized that something was wrong. He didn't expect that Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu would come up with such a thing that directly eliminated the possibility of eunuchs interfering in politics.

In this way, there is almost no possibility for him to rely on eunuchs to slowly seize power and follow the path of Liu Zhi and Liu Hong.

He wanted to argue with Yuan father and son at that time, but Yuan father and son directly brought up the Party and Faction Persecution as evidence, which made him speechless and at a loss as to what to do.

And what they say does make sense.

During the Party and Factions Persecution, he, Liu Kui, was also a victim and was almost killed by the powerful eunuchs Wang Fu and Cao Jie. Now the Yuan father and son have decided to restrict the eunuchs to prevent tragedy from happening again. This is such a good thing. Why do you, Liu Kui, oppose it?
One of the legal bases for you, Liu Kui, to ascend the throne and become emperor was to oppose the eunuchs and redress the persecution of the Party and Factions. This is the path you took and you announced to the outside world that this was what you were doing. Now that specific measures have been put forward, you don't accept them. What are you trying to do?
Is he going to follow Liu Hong’s example and destroy his own legitimacy in governing?
At that time, Yuan Feng spoke very tactfully, simply saying that if these new regulations were not passed, it would be easy for people to question that you, the emperor, are under the banner of being anti-eunuch but not truly anti-eunuch, and that would make people all over the world dissatisfied.

What you mean is that if you don't do this, your throne will be unstable and your legitimacy to rule will no longer exist. As the emperor who came to power through a military coup, do you still want to continue doing this?
Liu Kui was frightened by Yuan Fengyi and did not dare to continue arguing.

He was really in the wrong and he had no way to refute it. In order not to fall into the same predicament as Liu Hong and to keep the throne, he could only grit his teeth, stamp his seal and allow the establishment of the new Shaofu and Tongzhengsi.

As a result, after the establishment of the new Shaofu, the first fire fell on his head.

He was angry, helpless, painful and sad. Finally, he punched Tang Zhen directly and hit her face several times, causing her nose to bleed.

Tang Zhen was also a bachelor. He just stood there and let Liu Kui beat him without fighting back. He waited until Liu Kui fell to the ground, gasping for breath, before he left.

After leaving the palace, Tang Zhen wiped his nose and took out a cloth from his bosom to plug his nostrils.

He suddenly felt that he was truly a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. He did not run away or fight back when being beaten by the emperor. He was truly a model of a minister.

This needs to be publicized to increase your reputation and help you gain weight in reaching a higher position in the future.

But to be honest, Liu Qi was really weak, his fists were soft and powerless. If he hadn't hit Tang Zhen in the nose, it would have been impossible for him to make her nose bleed. Moreover, he ran out of strength to fight after only five or six punches.

And he seems to cough from time to time. Is there really anything wrong with his health?

Don’t let the emperor die after only a few years on the throne!
That's such a loss.

Tang Zhen looked back with a little concern at the figure of Liu Kui sitting on the ground in Zhangde Hall, shook his head, and left quickly.

Of the more than 30 servants and palace maids around Liu Kui, only 18 were left. Five men were castrated and became eunuchs, and 13 illiterate women were reluctantly allowed to return to Liu Kui's concubines.

Then, three hundred selected illiterate palace maids and one hundred selected illiterate eunuchs officially entered the palace and began to serve Liu Kui's family.

There are more than eighty people, and four hundred people are needed to serve them, which means an average of five people serving one person. It is enough even if he is paralyzed on one side.

Then, in terms of the royal expenses, Tang Zhen "understood the intention of the superiors" and knew that Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu, father and son, did not want Liu Kui's family to be too extravagant, so he complied with the previous requirements and directly cut the royal expenses by another 50% on the basis of the 50% cut that had already been made. He planned to use the saved money to honor Yuan Feng in order to gain more appreciation.

Of course, this does not count as abuse of Liu Kui.

The remaining royal funds were used for Liu Kui's family, and they were still able to live an absolutely wealthy life. The best fish and meat, silk and satin were indispensable, but of course there were no rare flowers and plants, birds and animals.

In fact, except for Liu Kui himself, the empress and the crown prince, the rest of his family were not even allowed to leave the West Palace and the East Palace within the North Palace, and their range of activities was strictly restricted.

Yuan Feng plans to open some areas to them after further cleaning up the entire palace. Currently, they are limited to the West Palace and the East Palace in the North Palace, and are not allowed to go anywhere else.

In this way, Liu Kui's family is more like canaries in captivity.

But who can blame it?
It's all because of this shitty world that has no warmth, is full of murderous intent, and can lead to the destruction of families and lives if you're not careful.

It's all the world's fault!

Tang Zhen did an excellent job and was highly recognized by Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu. In particular, his ability to save royal funds while still allowing Liu Kui's family to live a wealthy life was highly praised by Yuan Feng.

It must be said that the money he saved really came at the right time when it was most needed. Because in early November of the first year of Zhengshi, the Luoyang court received an urgent report on military intelligence.

Someone is rebelling!

There's going to be a war!

And this matter has to start from the beginning.

When it comes to Liu Kui's ascension to the throne and Liu Hong's dethronement, although many people in the entire Han Dynasty were shocked, there were really few people who opposed it from the bottom of their hearts.

The main reason is that what Liu Hong has done since he ascended the throne has been extremely unpopular. Not only did he cause trouble in Luoyang, he also caused trouble all over the world, killing people, destroying families, exterminating clans, ruining counties, and allowing eunuchs to rob people's land and houses everywhere. How could the local people be happy with such a mess?
The gentry, the landlords, the ordinary self-cultivating farmers, who could like this kind of political situation?

The foundation for the establishment of the Eastern Han Empire was the delicate political balance between the central and local forces in Luoyang. Several generations of emperors after Liu Xiu reached a compromise with local forces through many means such as land measurement, local wars and the White Tiger Temple Conference, and jointly built a set of basic laws for the "Holy Eastern Han Empire."

Before the Second Party Persecution, it was true that Luoyang's political situation was chaotic, but the country was not in chaos. It was not until the Second Party Persecution that this set of basic laws was completely broken.

It can be said that Liu Hong and the eunuchs offended everyone in the world.

So when the news of Liu Kui's ascension to the throne and Liu Hong's dethronement spread in early October, starting from the Sanhe area, the locals were not in mourning, but at least they were excited, the only thing missing was the sound of gongs and drums and firecrackers.

The expressions on the faces of many local officials and prominent figures, the corners of their mouths, were so intense that they could not be suppressed no matter how hard they tried. All the efforts they had made in self-cultivation for so many years could not be controlled and were directly broken.

I am so happy!
That dog emperor is finally finished.

The group of dog eunuchs were finally all killed.

They are finally safe!
Hello, Yuan!

The Yuan family is great!
They finally did something humane!

Because the eunuchs' harm was so widespread, any place that had been harmed was almost ready to hang up lights and celebrate Liu Hong's resignation.

So you said that someone would oppose and raise an army to attack the Yuan family or something...

Wouldn't that just be a nuisance to yourself when you have nothing to do after having a full meal?

By then, you will be accused of sympathizing with the eunuchs, and your life will be over.

Not to mention that Yuan Feng and his son Yuan Shu soon announced to the public that they would lift the ban on the party, rehabilitate the party members, and restore their reputation.

At the party member level, Li Ying, Du Mi, Yin Xun, Liu Yu, Chen Fan, Liu Ru, Xun Yi, Fan Pang, Yu Fang and others were rehabilitated, their reputations were restored, their official titles were posthumously conferred, and their losses were compensated.

Those who still have families were found and given shelter by their families, while those who had no families were asked to be buried by their clansmen.

Then he announced that the persecuted party members would return to the court to participate in government affairs.

First of all, the party members who were hiding in Liangzhuang, Maoling, set up by Yuan Shu, such as Zhang Jian, Xia Fu, Liu Biao and others, were summoned to the court.

Then he called back all the party members who were imprisoned in other places, such as Xun Shuang, Chen Shi, Chen Xiang, Yang Zhi and others, creating a prosperous scene of "many righteous people in the court" and "prosperity in the world".

Wherever the news spread, people praised it and were excited. How could there be any opposition?

Therefore, Liu Kui's throne and the contributions of Yuan father and son in restoring order and punishing evil were easily recognized.

But everything has a good side, and naturally there is also a troublesome side.

How do you think the remaining eunuchs will view this situation?

(End of this chapter)