I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 35: There hasn’t been a prodigal son in six consecutive generations!

Yuan Shu received this "gift" from his father in early February of the ninth year of Yan Xi.

Under the pretext of selling the property as a traveling merchant, they actually did not confiscate a single cent from Yuan Shu, and instead gave him a letter and three carts of valuables.

Lu Zhi and the Thirteen Guardians beside Yuan Shu stared blankly at the cartloads of farm tools and a hundred oxen being delivered, and they felt terrible.

Could it be... this is the strength of the Yuan family of Runan?
He delivered it as soon as he said it would. If these more than one hundred carts of farm tools were nothing, then these one hundred fat and strong oxen could really reflect Yuan Feng's power.

There is only one month left before the official spring plowing season. Many places have already started preparations and started turning the soil. The arrival of these oxen will definitely be of great help to Maoling County’s agriculture. Maybe Maoling County will not be able to use all of them and can even support neighboring counties.

Coupled with these high-quality iron farm tools, it can be said that the major obstacles to agricultural development in Maoling County have been cleared away.

As long as there is no major natural disaster, the grain output in Maoling County this autumn will be very good.

Unconsciously, the way Lu Zhi, the Thirteen Protectors and the others looked at Yuan Shu was different from before.

The problem that they couldn't solve after racking their brains was solved by Yuan Shu with just one letter.

This undoubtedly further established Yuan Shu's core position and leadership in normal operations, and even Lu Zhi would have no objection to this.

Because Lu Zhi couldn't do such a thing at all.

Ma Rong might be able to do it, but the Ma family is too big and has too many members. Ma Rong is not the kind of person who likes to have the final say. The face of Yuan Shu, a senior disciple, is not enough to leverage so many resources of the Ma family.

"Mr. Lu, please count these materials and store them in the warehouse and distribute them. Spring ploughing is about to begin, and there must be no mistakes this year."

Yuan Shu took a deep breath, turned around and gave instructions to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi reacted and immediately bowed.

"Don't worry, Yuan Jun. I will definitely do it."

Yuan Shu nodded and turned to the rest of the people.

"Please give me your help, I would like to thank you."

The Thirteen Guardians and everyone present also saluted Yuan Shu.

"How dare you disobey your orders!"

This feeling...

The core leadership position has been fully established, and no one will challenge Yuan Shu's leadership in the entire operation and among the big guys.

Even though he wasn't even eleven yet.

Yuan Shu keenly noticed this change, smiled slightly, and returned to his dormitory. He opened the letter Yuan Feng sent him, and after reading it, he was silent for a long time.

It must be said that it was not until this moment that he had a little understanding of the foundation and power of the Runan Yuan family.

Although the family valued him before, they would not show all the family's cards to him. Even now, Yuan Feng only told Yuan Shu a little bit about the political power of the Yuan family in Guanxi.

Our family is awesome, really awesome, really, really awesome.

Your grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather were all very awesome. All three of them served as high-ranking officials in succession, and they had many disciples and former officials.

Three generations promoted these disciples and former officials in succession, and their numbers grew so large that they were spread all over the place.

Even now, this number is still growing, in addition to those who have marriage relations, political transaction relations, and academic relations with us.

In the thirteen provinces of the Han Dynasty, not to mention that we have people in every province, at least eleven provinces have disciples and former officials of our Yuan family, even in Liangzhou.

Although these people will not go against the imperial court for us in a big way, and there is no hope of getting them to rebel, they can definitely help us in political struggles and handling government affairs, and there is no need to worry about them stabbing us in the back.

Anyone who dares to stab me in the back will be cut off from the world and will surely die.

Therefore, you can do what you want without any worries, even if it means doing something bad. What's more, you are doing good things now, great good things, and you have taken a brand new path. If you do well, you can even add another way out for our family.

Just go ahead!
As long as dad is alive, he will protect you!
That was all Yuan Feng meant. He wanted to show off how powerful the Yuan family was, and he was very confident in what he said, not worrying at all about anything going wrong.

This only shows that he is very confident, extremely, extremely confident.

Moreover, Ma Rong was not a member of the Yuan family after all, and he might not be particularly clear about the accumulation of several generations of the Yuan family. That's why he said that if Yuan Feng was gone, someone would secretly target him.

If there were Yuan's disciples and former officials in every place, wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wanted?
Against me?
Targeting me, the legitimate son of the Yuan family?
Thinking of this, Yuan Shu almost became swelled.

But he still controlled his emotions.

The reason why the three brothers Yuan Ji, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu suffered successive downfalls and became the famous three brothers who suffered downfalls in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was probably because their family foundation was too strong and they were too confident. They did not take other people seriously and ended up dying at the hands of people they looked down upon.

This kind of self-confidence and even arrogance is undesirable.

It is better to be safe than sorry. Yuan Shu did not want to become the most puzzling man in the late Han Dynasty. He did not want to be like him, who could not even have a glass of honey water until his death and was angered to death.

I am not Yuan Shu!
So he carefully put away the letter Yuan Feng wrote to him, and went to look at the three carts of valuables Yuan Feng had sent him.

They said that it was for him to use and operate by himself, and he could spend it boldly, but after Yuan Shu opened the box and checked it, he became very confused.

Does this cheap old man think that I want to buy real estate in Maoling County and become a big landlord?
Or do you think that I should start a rebellion in Maoling County, so you gave me a special sum of money as my starting capital?
This……

Isn’t that too much?

Yuan Shu's eyeballs were almost turning into the shape of golden ingots, and he almost fell into them and became a money-grubber.

This amount of money is enough to help not only one county's self-employed farmers, but also two, three, four, or even five.

Because farmers really don't need much.

But what Yuan Feng gave was really too much.

After closing the lid of the box, Yuan Shu took a breath, came to his senses, and suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of loss.

In my previous life, I did not have such a good background. Seeing others with good backgrounds become rich and powerful, I could only kneel down and feel very sad.

After digging into the reasons, I found out that it was not because I didn’t work hard, but because the previous generation, the generation before that, and the generation before that didn’t work hard and didn’t live up to expectations, and thus missed out on the development and dividends of the times.

This made him very angry, so he decided never to burn paper for them again.

And now, looking at his ancestors who were so ambitious and hardworking, he suddenly felt that he should burn lots of paper for them, so as to be worthy of the good start their hard work brought him.

Well, it’s decided!
That night, Yuan Shu took his concubine Xiuxiu to a secluded place to burn paper.

This time, he wanted to burn paper for his grandfather Yuan Tang, his second grandfather Yuan Chang, and the most important person who made his fortune - his great grandfather Yuan An, his great great grandfather Yuan Chang, and his great great great grandfather Yuan Liang. Xiuxiu thought this was a bit extravagant.

Because paper was really not cheap back then, many people were still using bamboo slips, and only a few people started writing on paper.

The price of paper is not cheap either. Ordinary quality paper is more expensive than bamboo paper. Good quality Qingzhou parchment paper is even more expensive. Only the wealthy can afford it. It is difficult for ordinary people to get one.

Yuan Shu actually cut a thick stack of precious paper into the shape of a large bag of five-zhu coins, saying that he wanted to burn it for his ancestors.

So Xiuxiu persuaded Yuan Shu.

"Yuan Lang, isn't this a bit too extravagant? This is Qingzhou parchment. If Ma Gong knew about this, would he blame us?"

Yuan Shu shook his head seriously.

"Xiu Xiu, you don't understand. You don't know how grateful I am to my ancestors. Without their hard work, how could I be able to get by without any trouble today? You should know that the Yuan family of Runan has not had a prodigal son for six consecutive generations since the earliest ancestor! Six generations! They deserve it!"

Xiuxiu was confused by what she heard and of course didn't understand how deeply Yuan Shu was moved.

Looking at the development of Chinese history, there are too many first- and second-generation rich people, very few third-generation rich people, and the fourth-generation rich people are a very rare species. Those after the fifth-generation rich people are even rarer.

There was an unwritten rule in ancient times that the blessings of a gentleman would be cut off after five generations. In other words, the ancients believed that no matter how powerful their ancestors were, the blessings they left behind would only protect five generations at most.

This means that most of the powerful people and powerful families can only pass on their family businesses for five generations at most, and then the family will be destroyed.

This situation has also been confirmed by real cases.

During the Qing Dynasty, someone did a special statistics and comprehensively recorded the inheritance of a large number of wealthy and powerful families from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. In the end, it was concluded that only 13% of these wealthy and powerful families successfully inherited and left descendants, and the others all played Candy Crush Saga happily.

If this is the case for wealthy and powerful families, what about other ordinary families?

The Chinese have always attached great importance to the inheritance of their family line, but the irony is that no matter how awesome a family is, most cannot pass on their family line stably for more than five generations. Those who can break this rule and pass on their family line for five generations are all super awesome families with their names recorded in history books.

This kind of family not only requires the accumulation of several generations, but also has extremely high requirements on the intelligence, emotional intelligence, and physical fitness of each generation's leader. The difficulty of inheritance is no less than that of an imperial dynasty, and there must not be a dissolute prodigal son.

The Yuan family is obviously such an awesome family with a heritage of more than five generations.

The road to success of the Runan Yuan family should be started with Yuan Liang, who studied and inherited the "Meng's Yi". His high IQ and EQ laid the spiritual and academic foundation for the development of the Runan Yuan family.

His son Yuan Chang moved from Chenjun to Runan, broke away from the Chenjun Yuan family and founded the Runan Yuan family. He became the ancestor of the Runan Yuan family, developed the family business, and laid the economic foundation for the development of the Runan Yuan family.

With two generations of diligent accumulation, the Runan Yuan family finally began to exert its strength in the third generation, Yuan An. Yuan An was good at studying, being an official, and being a good person. He held a high position and had a good reputation. He started as a minor official and finally ascended to the position of one of the Three Dukes. He was an extremely hardworking and awesome person.

Starting from Yuan An, the Yuan family of Runan began to gain status and became one of the three highest officials in the family.

The next two generations, Yuan Chang and Yuan Tang, were both brilliant in their own ways.

They inherited their father's legacy, each of them had their own strengths, and successively ascended to the positions of Three Dukes of the Han Dynasty. They made great strides in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, took in students and former officials as their wings, and spread the family influence throughout the world.

At this point, the Ru'nan Yuan family's five-generation business had been established.

Until now, although uncle Yuan Cheng passed away early, step-father Yuan Feng and third uncle Yuan Wei are not simple characters either. They are also very capable people who manage the officialdom and the family business at the same time, without any delay inside or outside.

As a result, the Yuan family became more prosperous.

This is the wonderful story of the sixth generation of the Yuan family in Runan.

Qin Shi Huang Zhao Zheng carried on the legacy of six previous emperors, conquered the world and unified the country, thus achieving the great cause of the First Emperor.

When the Runan Yuan family developed to the three brothers Yuan Ji, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, it was exactly the seventh generation. If they were also powerful enough, they could also "exert the remaining strength of six generations" to replace the Han Dynasty and achieve imperial career.

It should be said that the first six generations of the Yuan family basically did not go astray.

When the world was in chaos, Yuan Wei was careless and Yuan Ji died, but what was left to the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu was absolutely a super development resource that was unique in the world.

Therefore, Yuan Shao dominated Hebei, and Yuan Shu dared to prepare to proclaim himself emperor in Huainan. The two brothers' early paths were very smooth, far surpassing Cao, Sun and Liu in the early days.

It can only be said that the seventh generation inheritors of this family are rather useless. After six generations of strong men, they finally died in the seventh generation. After all, the three brothers Ji Shaoshu were not as fierce as Zhao Zheng.

But to be honest, the seventh generation of the Yuan family is relatively useless compared to the previous six generations.

If we really make a horizontal comparison with the group of apes at the end of the Han Dynasty whose behavior style was not very anthropomorphic and more regressive, the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu can barely be ranked in the first tier.

Yuan Shu mixed with the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Huainan. He was obsessed with attacking local tyrants and making money. He specifically targeted wealthy people and didn't even bother to attack the poor.

Yuan Shao's administration in Hebei can be called the light of the time, and was quite humane. Even though he died, he still caused considerable trouble for Cao Cao in his later pacification of Hebei.

After all, they lacked a little luck.

Perhaps it was because the ancestors were too awesome and used up all the luck of the Runan Yuan family...

The more he thought about it, the more Yuan Shu felt that his ancestors were awesome, and the more moved he was.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu drew five circles on the ground with a stone, wrote the names of his five ancestors on each circle, then lit a fire and threw pieces of five-zhu paper onto the five fires one by one.

While throwing, he asked Xiuxiu to shout with him.

“Ancestors, come and get the money!”

"Ancestors, please bless me and make me successful!"

"There shouldn't be many five-zhu coins out there now. The purchasing power of five-zhu coins should still be quite strong. Ancestors, don't be reluctant to spend the money you get. If you don't have enough, send me a dream and I'll continue to burn it for you!"

"Other families should only have tributes but no currency. You should make good use of the advantages of currency! Take this opportunity to buy all their things and complete the primitive accumulation of capital. Our Yuan family will also continue to be awesome!"

"Don't always buy cold pork. Buy more beef, mutton, or even dog meat. They taste better than pork and are more expensive."

"After you spend the money to buy the meat, don't forget your descendants. They must bless me!"

Yuan Shu was talking while burning paper. Xiuxiu was confused by what he said and didn't understand what Yuan Shu was shouting.

However, Xiuxiu already regarded Yuan Shu as her husband and her lifelong support. She would do whatever Yuan Shu wanted to do and support him 100%.

So she also prayed that the Yuan ancestors would bless Yuan Shu more and help him achieve great things.

With a grateful heart, Yuan Shu completed his own sacrifice and burned enough five-zhu coins for his awesome ancestors, which should be enough for them to spend for a while and do something big down there.

Since the ancestors have taken action, he, as a descendant, cannot fall behind. Only in this way can he live up to the perseverance of his ancestors from generation to generation.

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