I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 78: Mr. Yuan, please accept Zhang’s greeting!
Liu Hong did trust the eunuchs and was willing to treat them as his most trusted ministers, but all this was based on a major premise.

The eunuch must be able to defend his throne and power, not shake his throne and power!

If you protect me, you are our people. If you don’t protect me, you are our enemies!
When Liu Hong learned the whole story, he was very angry and felt that Hou Lan had gone too far. It would have been fine if he had just made a fuss, but now he had made a big deal out of it, causing the ministers to force him to abdicate and even threatening his position as emperor!

Does Hou Lan want to make it so that he can't even be the emperor?

So he followed Yuan She's advice and ordered Hou Lan to be stopped from making trouble and to stop the current party building and not let the matter escalate further. In order to appease the court officials, he asked all the court officials to leave the palace and not continue to make trouble.

Everyone, stop fighting!
The emperor's decree had been issued, and the situation should have been calmed down. However, Hou Lan was already furious, and at the suggestion of his subordinates, he even wanted to mobilize the obedient palace guards at all costs to intimidate the court officials by force and make a comeback.

But he was too slow. The person sent out to deliver the message had not gone far before he was trapped by eunuchs including Cao Jie, who brought him Liu Hong's edict to force him to submit.

Eunuchs such as Cao Jie learned that the matter had become a big deal and that Yuan was extremely dissatisfied with it. He even mobilized forces in the court to fight back. They were worried that a real break-up would lead to unpredictable consequences.

At the same time, they were annoyed by Hou Lan's attempt to launch a mutiny, and felt that Hou Lan was too ignorant of the situation.

So, with the help of Yuan She, Cao Jie and others decided to compromise and eliminate Hou Lan, the main source of the trouble.

Anyway, Hou Lan is usually arrogant and domineering, and there are too many eunuchs who are dissatisfied with him. It would be a good thing to overthrow him and eat up his power this time.

In the end, this incident evolved into a mixed doubles situation where both internal and external forces attacked Hou Lan together.

In the mixed doubles attack, Hou Lan was beaten so badly that he had no power to fight back. He was placed under house arrest in the palace and was not allowed to go out. His cronies were eliminated one after another. From the eunuchs to the court, a storm against Hou Lan and his cronies had begun.

When Yuan Feng delivered the letter, the overall situation had already been decided. He quickly told Yuan Shu the news, asking Yuan Shu not to panic, to stay in Youfufeng, take care of himself, and manage his own business.

As for Luoyang, leave it to him.

If he, as a father, can't even protect his own son, what else can he protect?
After receiving Yuan Feng's letter, Yuan Shu felt relieved, knowing that all his worries were unnecessary. The political power of the Yuan family was fully revealed in this turmoil, fully demonstrating the powerful political energy of a family with three generations of officials.

Although there are some disadvantages to this matter, the advantages are equally obvious.

The bad thing is that the Yuan family was the first to stand out and confront the eunuch group. After the common enemy Hou Lan was eliminated, the relationship between the eunuch group and the Yuan family would inevitably become delicate.

Moreover, the Yuan family has never liked to be the first to stand out, but this time they unexpectedly became the first to stand out, demonstrating extremely strong political energy, and even being able to intimidate the emperor and make the eunuchs compromise. This also served as an invisible reminder to these forces.

Be careful of Yuan!
The attention of the people all over the world was immediately focused on the Yuan family. This was a great danger for the Yuan family, who wanted to continue to grow and develop. In the future, everything the Yuan family did, regardless of whether it had a real political purpose, was likely to be politicized.

But that doesn’t mean there are no benefits.

First, the Yuan family has always been widely criticized by scholars because of its ambiguous relationship with eunuchs. This time, the direct confrontation with the eunuchs has achieved a phased victory. The eunuchs must be unhappy, but it will inevitably improve the reputation of the Yuan family among scholars.

It is just like the saying goes, if the East is dark, the West will be bright.

Secondly, the Yuan family has demonstrated tremendous political energy and appeal, which will inevitably make people all over the world more intuitively aware of how powerful the Yuan family is, and will help the Yuan family continue to recruit talents and strengthen itself.

Potential enemies will increase and become more alert.

But the number of potential friends will also increase, which will be exciting.

For the Yuan family, it was like holding a double-edged sword and stabbing it into the enemy's chest, injuring the enemy, but they also had to be vigilant at all times to avoid being injured by the double-edged sword when it was taken back.

In Yuan Shu's memory, the first time the Yuan family had a serious falling out with the eunuchs was at the hands of the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, they jumped around and basically killed all the eunuchs.

Before this, the Yuan family seemed to have always been hiding behind the scenes and had no clear statement on the issue of eunuchs.

And now, because of my intervention, the course of history has undergone some small changes. The Yuan family has had a head-on conflict with the eunuch group so long in advance. Can the situation in the future really be stable?

Can my cheap dad and third uncle really steer the Yuan ship to continue sailing steadily in the next situation?

Yuan Shu cannot be predicted.

But he was not too worried.

Faced with the sudden rise of such a behemoth, the eunuchs have already experienced the danger. As long as they have normal IQ and do not do stupid things, they will definitely not try to continue to provoke the Yuan family in a short period of time to avoid the Yuan family really standing on the opposite side of the eunuchs.

Next, the eunuchs would certainly find a way to appease the Yuan family and take the initiative to repair their relationship with the Yuan family in front of the outside world, in order to eliminate outside speculation and the possibility that some scholars and officials who sympathize with the party members would try to overturn the verdict on the Party Persecution.

The Second Party and Faction Persecution had become the justification for the eunuchs to rule the country, and even the political basis for Liu Hong to rule the country and hold power. Overturning the verdict would mean overthrowing the foundation of Liu Hong's rule, which was unacceptable to both Liu Hong and the eunuchs.

At the same time, the eunuchs also wanted to prevent Yuan from taking this opportunity to transform himself into a new party leader or even a scholar leader. Therefore, they had to hold on to Yuan tightly and not let him leave their "pirate ship."

But in fact, when it comes to the Yuan family, they are the same. They don't want to stand openly with the party members to fight against the eunuchs now.

Firstly, the eunuchs had made great contributions in supporting Emperor Liu Hong and had won his trust. Now that Liu Hong was officially "in power", he still had the right to rule the country. Unless they took action to depose or enthrone the emperor again, it would be impossible to fundamentally overturn the reality of the eunuchs' rule.

At this time, if Yuan directly clashed with the eunuchs, he would most likely be overthrown by Liu Hong's righteous cause and be regarded as a party member, suffering a severe blow.

Secondly, the Yuan family knew exactly what kind of people the party members were. Their political means and political energy were not even as good as those of the eunuchs.

Once they were defeated, the party members were killed in pieces like stray dogs, without any ability to fight back. If they openly mixed with them... wouldn't that be poverty alleviation?
The Yuan family's awareness is not that high. They are not interested in poverty alleviation. They just want to gain fame in the name of poverty alleviation and thus obtain greater benefits.

Therefore, Yuan Shu believed that the best approach for the Yuan family was not to confront the eunuchs, but to seek the possibility of repairing relations with them.

Yuan Feng's letter also confirmed that Yuan Shu's guess was correct.

Yuan Feng clearly expressed that the next political move of the Yuan family was not to change its flag and stand with the party members, but to find a way to repair the relationship with the eunuchs, continue to seek power in the Luoyang central government, and strive to reach a higher position.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei found a great opportunity in the crisis, and they sharpened their knives and launched attacks on the Three Dukes and the Secretariat.

Yuan Shu naturally would not tell outsiders too much about the internal affairs of the Yuan family, so he did not say anything about the Yuan family's specific plans. He only focused on describing how the Yuan family led court officials to fight back against the eunuchs and eventually overthrow Hou Lan.

Yuan Shu was very handsome, with a dignified appearance. He was also good at speaking and giving speeches. He had a high ability in the art of language and was a number one talker. This skill was widely praised when Ma Rong was still alive and benefited him for a long time.

He is always able to attract people's attention through the art of language, making people involuntarily focus their eyes on him, listen to his speech wholeheartedly and temporarily forget other unpleasant things.

In the process of describing how Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei were united as brothers and their strength was invincible, Yuan Shu used all kinds of rhetorical techniques that others could think of and even unexpected, and also accompanied it with very appropriate body movements. He described the process of the struggle between the Yuan family and the eunuchs vividly, just like a martial arts novel, as if he had witnessed the whole process with his own eyes.

so so, so so...

The two brothers Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei worked together, used their double swords together, and finally defeated Hou Lan!

But in fact, he saw nothing.

Perhaps the entire process of political struggle was not as thrilling as he described, and the images of the brothers Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei were not as upright as he described.

But so what?
Zhang Jian wouldn't care, and neither would Liu Biao and Xia Fu.

It only took them one sentence to go from hell to heaven. The ups and downs of life were really too thrilling. The feeling of relief at surviving the calamity filled their hearts. How could they have the leisure to look for logical loopholes in the story compiled by Yuan Shu?

Even if they can find it, they won't investigate it further.

When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. This is a truth that everyone with normal IQ understands.

After Yuan Shu's exaggerated description, the three of them were immediately grateful to Yuan and had a good impression of Yuan Shu.

Zhang Jian's eyes were filled with tears. He straightened his clothes, stood up, and bowed deeply to Yuan Shu.

Liu Biao and Xia Fu also bowed deeply to Yuan Shu.

This made Yuan Shu a little confused, so he quickly stood up and dodged to the side.

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Xia, Mr. Liu, who are you?"

Zhang Jian did not straighten his back.

"Express your gratitude to Yuan."

"But I..."

"A son can accept the punishment on behalf of his father, and naturally he can also do other reasonable things on his father's behalf. If the father is not present, the son can accept the gift on his behalf and then convey it. This does not violate etiquette."

Zhang Jian raised his head and smiled at Yuan Shu: "So, Mr. Yuan, please accept my greetings!"

Liu Biao and Xia Fu also said the same words and performed the same ceremony.

Yuan Shu did not continue to hesitate. He calmly accepted the greetings from the three people without any hesitation.

"Shu accepts this gift on behalf of his father and uncle, and at the same time..."

Yuan Shu also bowed to the three of them.

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Xia, Mr. Liu, thank you for your hard work in fighting against such a brutal and cunning villain!"

Just a few simple words seemed to hit the hearts of these three people directly. Their eyes turned red and they were extremely moved.

Zhang Jian couldn't help shedding tears and sighing.

Specially brewed! How great would it be if this Yuan kid was really my grandson?
I can even wake up laughing when I fall asleep! This is really the case in my life!

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PS: After thinking about it, well, one thousand monthly tickets plus one update, one alliance leader plus two updates, this is the extra update for one thousand monthly tickets, let's leave it like this for now~
(End of this chapter)