I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 63 Yuan Jun, please let me be yours!
In that instant, Shen Ke thought a lot, figured out all the reasonable and unreasonable situations, and then came to his own reasonable conclusion.

He understood certain things and further confirmed the correctness of his decision to rely on the Yuan family.

As long as Yuan Shu didn't die early and could live safely to the age of 40 or 50, he would have taken off.

Wuhu, flying very high!

He looked at Yuan Shu with eyes as sharp as lightning.

On the evening of Shen Ke's arrival in Maoling County, he held a banquet at the county government to entertain the heroes who had contributed to the crisis.

A group of Yi Xin Hui cadres headed by Yuan Shu and county officials headed by Han Jin were all present. Shen Ke held a grand banquet and everyone drank happily.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the only person Shen Ke really wanted to invite to a banquet was Yuan Shu.

However, Yuan Shu had not yet come of age and was still in mourning, so it was an exception for him to attend the banquet. He was not allowed to drink alcohol, so he only used honey water instead of wine and drank happily with Shen Ke.

After three rounds of drinks, Shen Ke seemed a little tipsy, so he very cordially invited Yuan Shu to sit next to him and eat at the same table with him to show his closeness.

"Mr. Yuan has accomplished such a great feat at such a young age, saving the lives of the entire city. He is truly a natural talent. With such talent, once he enters the government, he will surely rise to the top. In the future, he will become a general or a prime minister, and he will definitely be the one to stabilize the country!"

Shen Ke toasted Yuan Shu with another glass of wine, treating him completely as a peer, with flattery and fawning expressions on his face.

Yuan Shu smiled and gave her honey water in return.

“Your Excellency is too kind. Shu is just a child. The reason why we were able to successfully save Maoling County from disaster is because of the joint efforts of County Magistrate Han, Senior Brother Lu and others. They all gave the credit to Shu, which was really modest. If you want to commend them, please put them before Shu.

Secondly, the greater credit should belong to you, my lord, and Captain Dong. If you two had not led your troops to come to our aid in time, how many Qiang invasions could we have stopped with just the small Maoling County and more than 400 warriors?

In the final analysis, I am just following the trend. Without the trust of the county people and the support of Lord Shen and Commandant Dong, how can I sit here? Thinking of this, I am really ashamed! Ashamed! Lord Shen, Commandant Dong, and everyone else, please accept my greetings! "

Having said this, Yuan Shu stood up, straightened his clothes, and bowed to Shen Ke.

He bowed to Dong Xuan again.

He then bowed deeply to Lu Zhi, Han Jin and everyone else at the table.

Lu Zhi, Han Jin and dozens of others quickly stood up, saluted Yuan Shu and said they dared not.

As eyewitnesses, they knew very well how much credit Yuan Shu had contributed to the fact that they were able to get through the crisis without any injuries.

Without Yuan Shu's overclocked brain working at high intensity to lead the entire county to take off, even if the Qiang people were just bluffing, Maoling County would have no chance of passing the level unscathed.

This is a no-damage clearance!

No one died!
Even the old farmers are living well!
Shen Ke was also stunned for a moment, and then looked at Dong Xuan who was also a little dazed. The two looked at each other, with surprise in their eyes.

There are indeed quite a few smart young people.

The Han people also have a bit of a complex about child prodigies, so there are quite a few people in the world who can be called child prodigies, whether they are real or fake.

Of course, Yuan Shu is indeed the first person to break the record for the youngest Confucian teacher, but he can still be classified into the big group of "intelligence" and does not involve other levels.

But Yuan Shu's words and the three gifts just now made Shen Ke fully realize that this kid has unlimited potential in the future.

Such a naturally gifted person often tends to be arrogant and conceited.

This kind of person relies on his intelligence and talent to look down on others, which is annoying but understandable.

It is even more common for people of noble birth to despise those of lower birth.

Given Yuan Shu's background, there are few noblemen in the entire Han Dynasty who dare to say that their background is higher and more impressive than Yuan Shu's.

Even in recent years, some people have used "the second most powerful family in the world" to describe the Yuan family of Runan, meaning the second most powerful family in the world after the royal Liu family.

People who come from this kind of family are considered to be well-educated if they are not arrogant and defiant.

The contemporary Yuan family represented by Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei are already considered to be very good people. They are usually polite and courteous in their dealings with others, but their arrogance can often be seen in the eyes of ordinary people.

Yuan Feng corresponded with Shen Ke, asking him to do things and rescue the child. Although the content was polite, the pride in his heart between the words and sentences could not be concealed by just words.

For Yuan Shu, being born in such a family, being influenced by it since childhood, having such talent, having accomplished so many practical things, and having so many followers, it was already a courtesy for him not to look down on others.

As a result, he actually knows how to be humble?

Do you know how to lower yourself and elevate others?

Do you know how to share the credit and be kind to others?

For a moment, Shen Ke really thought that all the humility and understanding of the entire Yuan family was concentrated on Yuan Shu alone, and that all the others were arrogant and looked down on others by the Tianlong people.

Surprising, it's really surprising.

But after the surprise, there came a kind of uncontrollable secret joy.

The corners of his mouth curled up wildly and he couldn't suppress it at all.

Yuan Shu had a high birth, strong ability, and amazing talent. All these buffs had already made Shen Ke, a high-ranking official with a salary of 2,000 stones and the ruler of a prefecture, feel the oppression from Yuan Shu. However, he did not oppress Shen Ke. Instead, he welcomed Shen Ke respectfully.

Honestly, who wouldn't be happy?

Who wouldn't be happy to receive compliments from someone who is no weaker than you now and will definitely be more awesome than you in the future?
If you can say something to this kind of person, make him look at you, and get a nod in response, that is enough to make most people happy.

If you can have a further conversation with them and get a response, even if it is just a polite conversation, it will be enough to make you ecstatic, and you can even show off in public.

The reason why Yuan Shu was able to establish the Yi Xin Hui and build such a large organization was due to this. His humble style had spread throughout the Wuling area. This was the innate advantage brought to him by his strong background, which could not be easily replaced.

Shen Ke, who had lost his support in the court, felt even more psychologically comforted and satisfied by this attitude at this moment.

If you don’t hug your thighs now, when will you wait?
Shen Ke had such an insight, and Fufeng Commander Dong Xuan had a similar feeling.

He was from Jizhou. His family was not very powerful, but they had been in the army for generations and had many connections in the army. He had been in the army for twenty years and had experienced more than eighty battles of varying sizes. Not only did he survive, he also made some military achievements. With his connections in the army, he was now the Fufeng Duwei, a rank higher than 2,000 stones, and could be considered a senior officer in the Eastern Han army during peacetime.

However, the Fufeng Duwei in the Eastern Han Dynasty cannot be compared with the Fufeng Duwei in the Western Han Dynasty.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Fufeng Duwei was responsible for guarding the capital and the imperial mausoleum. The Sanfu Duwei had a prominent status and great military power.

It was later abolished for a while and was not re-established until the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor An of Han.

After the re-establishment, there was no longer any Three Auxiliary Commandants. There was no Commandant in Zuo Fengyi, and only Jingzhao and Youfufeng had Commandants, and they were called two camps. Their main responsibility was to guard the imperial mausoleum.

Strictly speaking, they are in the same industry as the gravekeepers.

Far away from the capital Luoyang, with the imperial mausoleum at his back and the Qiang rebellion in front of him, he has only more than 2,000 men under his command. If the imperial mausoleum is damaged by thieves by mistake, the first people to be punished will definitely be the captains of the two battalions. If things go wrong, they may even lose their heads. So this is really not a good job.

Just because he had no connections in the capital, couldn't get any good jobs, and was good at fighting, he was thrown into Youfufeng to be a miserable gravekeeper, and his prospects were very bleak.

This time, the Qiang people bypassed Youfufeng and went straight to Zuofengyi, broke Anyang, went south across the Jing River and harassed the Five Tombs. If they had not lacked troops and were just harassing, if something really happened and the imperial tombs were destroyed, he might have died here.

This time he was really scared!

After finally surviving the disaster, he became more determined to lobby for transfer out of this position. Even if he couldn't be transferred for a while, he would find a reliable backer to support him in the court.

At least you can't become a scapegoat or a victim so easily and end up here.

He was thinking about where to find a breakthrough, and when he saw that Yuan Shu was so awesome and sensible, he immediately started thinking about it.

Before this, he had heard vaguely that Shen Ke's backer in the court had fallen, and he wanted to change allegiance and join the Yuan family. It happened that Yuan Shu, the eldest son of the Yuan family, was studying in Youfufeng. Shen Ke took this as an opportunity to do him a favor and got the attention of Yuan Feng.

Now that's great, he saved Yuan Shu and got Yuan Shu's compliments. This obviously caught the attention of the Yuan family.

Dong Xuan was so envious when he saw that Shen Ke would rise rapidly to the top with the cooperation of the Yuan family!
However, he scratched his head and could not think of any reason to get close to Yuan Shu, thereby opening the Qingyun Gate and embarking on the Qingyun Road.

He was a military man without many ulterior motives. Seeing Yuan Shu's radiant talent, he wanted to join the Yuan family even more, but he couldn't think of how to approach Yuan Shu openly.

You can’t just run up to someone and say, “Mr. Yuan, please let me be yours!”

This is definitely not possible!

With the power and reputation of the Yuan family, let alone being a human, there would be so many people kneeling on the ground and lining up to be a dog, which could stretch from Youfufeng to Chang'an. He could not even get a number.

Even Shen Ke, a 2,000-stone official, had to actively curry favor, let alone Shen Ke, a pure warrior who was even more powerful than the 2,000-stone official.

How can this be good?

Dong Xuan looked at Yuan Shu like a secluded girl looking at her untouchable lover, full of affection and yet very resentful.

Of course Yuan Shu noticed Dong Xuan's eyes.

This complicated look gave Yuan Shu goose bumps all over his body. He didn't know when he had an affair with this rough man, and when he abandoned and let him down.

For him, it was all very simple.

He has always done this, and he knew that doing so would bring some benefits, but he didn't expect the benefits to be so great.

After all, until now, he still hasn't fully understood how powerful the Yuan family is, and what attitude the Yuan family members should have towards other people in order to be considered normal.

He had been reading books and learning by himself since he was young. The teachings of the Yuan family elders went in one ear and out the other. Also, due to the inertia from his previous life, he was not used to looking down on others.

But none of this matters. What matters is that after the banquet, Yuan Shu had new worries.

This time, the Qiang people's surprise attack gave him a great shock, made him alert, and created a strong sense of crisis.

Against the backdrop of a colder climate, not only are the Han people short of food, the Qiang people are even more short of food. The Xiongnu and Xianbei people on the northern grasslands are probably also having a hard time. As a result, they will surely move southward to invade Han territory more frequently.

The background of the Five Barbarians' migration to the interior and their rebellion in China was actually closely related to the colder climate.

in this case……

The Qiang people's robbery is probably just the beginning, and this situation will continue to occur.

He had previously lived in safer inland counties and had never experienced such an imminent threat of death, so his living environment was relatively safe.

But he forgot that the areas around Liangzhou and Guanzhong were not safe.

The aftermath of the century-long Qiang Rebellion has not yet subsided, and threats from the Northern Xiongnu and Xianbei people have followed one after another. The nearby Liangzhou can be said to be the fuse of the great catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty. This once land of abundance is no longer safe.

The safety factor is greatly reduced!
For the next three years, he will guard Ma Rong's tomb here.

If you want to survive here for a long time, this kind of situation is bound to happen from time to time.

Although he lived in the Wuling area, it was not uncommon for the Qiang rebellion to spread to the Wuling area and even invade the imperial tombs.

After all, it is the imperial tomb of the Western Han Dynasty. The emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty would not really care that much, otherwise he would not have arranged only two battalions of more than 4,000 soldiers to guard it.

The imperial court is definitely unreliable, but my father can be relied upon. However, he is also responsible for the Jingzhao area and may not be able to come to the rescue in time. Just in case, I still have to rely on myself.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu couldn't help but begin to expand his thinking towards the military level.

He needs to seriously build up his own military force and establish his own private army to serve him.

Although he has not yet reached the point where he needs to go to the battlefield to fight, nor does he have that responsibility, but in the end times, having no sword in hand and having a sword but not using it are two different things.

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PS: I would like to recommend my friend Bai Haozhe’s book “Unbridled! I am a Cultivator!”, which is also a new book. It is quite interesting. If you are interested, you can go and have a look.

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