I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 234 Let’s go to Luoyang together!

Liu He made up his mind.

Either don’t participate, or if you do, you must be the leader!
He, Liu He, must be the leader of the punitive army and the leader of this massive action.

Liu He said in his reply:

If great things are accomplished, you will all receive rich rewards and share the supreme glory.

If the great plan fails, I, Liu He, will be the first to die and will never live in disgrace.

All Wang Ji had to do was agree to this condition, and Liu He would immediately reorganize his army and send at least 10,000 people to go north to Dongjun with them, gathering the strength of the entire Jiyin County and uniting with them.

This will surely shock the world and make the Yuan family tremble with fear!
After the message was sent out, Liu He was sure that Wang Ji would agree with his idea, so without any delay, he immediately ordered the Jiyin County Government to take action.

The county governor still has a very strong appeal for a county, especially since Liu He is the eunuch's son-in-law. During the eunuch's dictatorship, he was like the king of Jiyin County and his word was final.

Originally, local tyrants and county governors shared power, but under the terrifying pressure of the eunuchs, even dragons had to coil and tigers had to crouch. The long-standing political balance of the Eastern Han Empire was severely destroyed by the eunuchs.

Liu He took drastic measures to eliminate more than a dozen disobedient and powerful landlords and firmly grasped the power of Jiyin County.

Although the era of eunuch dictatorship has ended, Liu He's power has not disappeared. Under the influence of strong political inertia, Jiyin County has involuntarily become the fuel for Liu He's ambitions.

Liu He first gathered all the 3,000 existing county soldiers, and then announced a recruitment drive, recruiting soldiers from across the county to serve in the army, requiring the more the better.

If no one comes, then just conscript able-bodied men. We have to have enough people anyway!
At the same time, he also posted notices and launched public opinion propaganda.

He said that the Yuan family was rebellious and supported a puppet. On the surface, they were supporting the Han Dynasty, but in fact they were usurping the Han Dynasty. They wanted to usurp the state power and overthrow the Han Dynasty. As a relative of the Han Dynasty, Liu He vowed to restore the Han Dynasty and attack the Yuan family. He was willing to lead loyal and brave people in the world to counterattack Luoyang, wipe out the Yuan family, so as to restore the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty.

The Yuan family wiped out all the eunuchs, which was indeed a great reputation. However, Liu He, as a relative of the Han royal family, the son-in-law of a eunuch, and the brother of a party member, was not necessarily weak.

Jiyin County began to become turbulent.

And in Dongjun, it was even more lively.

As Cao Jie's nephew, Cao Shao knew very well that he would be held accountable once Cao Jie died and fell. The experience of harming scholars and strangling party members for so many years made him shudder. He immediately realized that his death star was shining brightly.

However, he is not a defeatist governor who would rather surrender.

He knew that he had an arsenal at his disposal. As long as he recruited soldiers, he would be able to quickly arm a well-equipped army to protect himself. At least he would not be easily killed by the Yuan family.

Therefore, after receiving the news, he immediately summoned 3,000 county soldiers in the name of the governor of Dongjun for preliminary arming, and then recruited soldiers and forcibly conscripted farmers, trying to form a sufficient number of troops to protect himself.

Even if he had to capture able-bodied men, he would capture enough of them and would never surrender.

When Cao Shao received Wang Ji's letter, he was overjoyed. He immediately realized that he was not alone and that he was not fighting alone. There were friends in the same situation as him who were fighting alongside him.

He was extremely happy and immediately sent a message back to Wang Ji, telling him that he was waiting for him there. As soon as Wang Ji's army arrived, the armory would be open to him and he could get as much equipment as he wanted.

Then, let’s go to Luoyang together!

Go and cause trouble for the Yuan family!
People with the surname Yuan, don’t think that you are invincible just because you have been officials for four generations!
In addition to these people, Yuzhou Governor Jiong Fei, Jizhou Governor Li Shao, Bohai Prime Minister Gao Cheng and Pengcheng Prime Minister Wen Mu also received news sent by Wang Ji one after another.

When they received the news, they were all in a state of panic, not knowing whether to escape or where to escape to. They were also thinking about whether they had any connections they could use to plead for mercy with the Yuan family and see if they could avoid being held accountable.

As soon as Wang Ji's message came, they all had different feelings.

Knowing that there were other people in the same situation as them and planning to fight, they felt strangely calm.

On second thought, what Wang Ji said makes sense. Considering the Yuan family's worrying moral integrity, can we believe what they say?

I'm afraid he says one thing and does another. He will first say nice things to reassure us, and then settle the score with us in the end, leaving us without a burial place.

In this case, running away means death, fighting means death, and since we're all going to die anyway, why not try to take that one in ten chance of winning? If we win, it will be a great joy!

Then the whole world will be theirs!
No?
With such an idea in mind, these powerful and high-ranking officials did not hesitate or delay too much.

They know very well that this is not just a contest of power, but also a life-and-death struggle concerning their own lives and property. If they win, everything will be fine. If they lose, they will die and their family will be destroyed, and they will be infamous for eternity.

They didn't want to take such a gamble, but they had no choice. The initiative was not in their hands, but in the Yuan family.

Will the Yuan family let them go?

Obviously not.

So they sent messages to Wang Ji, the prime minister of Pei State, saying that they had decided to join the action, to prepare their own troops to attack Luoyang, and to vow to fight the Yuan family. They also immediately discussed the route of action and tactics with Wang Ji.

As for Luoyang, it is of course impossible to get so much different information at the same time.

The first news to reach the Luoyang court was from Pei State.

Wang Ji, the adopted son of the eunuch Wang Fu, became the first person to officially raise the banner of rebellion and announce his intention to attack the Luoyang court and the Yuan family.

He even announced that he was going to do something before Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu formally discussed a liquidation list.

So when Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu compiled the liquidation list and submitted it to Liu Kui for his seal of approval, and were holding a meeting to discuss the execution order and possible situations, they received news that Wang Ji, the prime minister of Pei State, announced that he would attack Luoyang.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu were both a little surprised when they received the news.

Yuan Feng was surprised that someone dared to rebel under such circumstances. This was undoubtedly a blatant challenge to his Yuan family's authority.

What surprised Yuan Shu was that someone reacted so quickly and wanted to rebel.

The execution order of this liquidation list is currently being discussed and it has not been released yet, so there is no possibility of leakage. The only news they announced to the public was the dethronement of Liu Hong and the enthronement of Liu Kui, and there was no other news.

Just this stimulated the remaining eunuchs and caused them to start a rebellion, which can only prove one thing.

"It seems that these eunuchs know better than us how they will be dealt with, and they are more decisive."

Yuan Shu expressed such emotion in front of all the officials participating in the liquidation meeting.

Although his voice was calm, it revealed an undisguised chill.

At the liquidation meeting, more than one official from Yuan Feng's faction suggested that they should proceed step by step and take it step by step.

They believed that announcing all the news at once would undoubtedly stimulate the eunuchs' followers in the local areas and cause them to unite in resistance. This would bring greater pressure to the Luoyang court, which was not in the interests of the Luoyang court.

They suggested that they could first announce that only the eunuchs' relatives would be punished and let the rest go, so as to reduce the number of rebels and leave the eunuchs' relatives without any help. After all the eunuchs' relatives were dealt with, they could then deal with the others.

In this way, the goal of eliminating the eunuchs' power can be achieved while avoiding excessive losses and chaos.

However, Yuan Shu disagrees with this view.

He believed that everyone had made their cards clear: all the eunuchs had been killed and the emperor had been replaced. This was clearly a situation of a fight to the death. This political situation made it difficult for the remaining eunuchs not to doubt whether the Yuan regime had the intention of being tolerant towards the remaining eunuchs.

Anyway, Yuan Shu attacked the eunuchs with the mentality of a wild beast and had no intention of compromising.

He had already taken all the eunuchs' property, let alone his other subordinates?

If that’s the case, why hide it?
The remaining eunuchs are not stupid either. Do they really think they can survive?
If it was the first Party Persecution, it would be fine, but considering the severity of the Second Party Persecution, they would not be so naive, right?

(End of this chapter)