I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 97 Exploding Public Opinion

After that night passed, the next morning, Yuan Shu saw Cheng Li coming to him with a gloomy face and told Yuan Shu about the situation outside.

"Jia Wenhe's guess has come true. Now the outside world has begun to spread that the emperor had a very pleasant conversation with you yesterday. He didn't want to let you leave for several hours and said that he would summon you later. It seems that the eunuchs will not give up until they achieve their goal this time."

"Okay, okay, a good way to deceive the world."

Yuan Shu took a sip of the honey water in the cup and said slowly, "It won't be long before there are more comments against me. On the streets and in the Imperial Academy, there will probably be all kinds of criticisms and ridicules against me. The Yuan family will also be ridiculed. Then, a large number of officials will submit memorials, firmly refusing to approve me as the emperor's tutor."

"This……"

Cheng Li frowned and said hatefully: "These eunuchs are so vicious!"

“They don’t read, but they can hold power, which shows that they understand people’s hearts.”

Yuan Shu smiled and said, "The human heart is hard to predict. The better you can guess it, the better you can use it. But the human heart is also hard to predict. The human heart is the hardest thing to guess. This kind of thing has happened many times in history. Eunuchs don't read books, so they have no way of knowing these lessons.

You may be able to drive fast on the road by guessing people's minds, but if you can't read history books and learn lessons, you won't be able to last long. Although the road is easy to drive, the speed is too fast, and it is inevitable that the car will be destroyed and people will die. The eunuchs only know how to speed up, not slow down, and the car will be destroyed and people will die. It is imminent!"

After a while, Wei Jia, who had also gone out to gather information, came back with a grim face and told Yuan Shu what he had seen and heard, which was basically the same as what Cheng Li had learned.

Outside there were voices of questioning, ridicule and even criticism, all directed towards Yuan Shu and the Yuan family.

So Yuan Shu has the same attitude.

Wei Jia felt somewhat relieved when he saw Yuan Shu's confident look, but he was still troubled by the current situation and worried about the next course of action.

"Next, pressure from the public and the government will come simultaneously. You and the Yuan family... No, the Yuan family is fine. The Yuan family will definitely be able to withstand it, but you... Young Master, are you really okay?"

"If I had a problem, I wouldn't have come to Luoyang. Wouldn't it be easier to pretend to be sick?"

Yuan Shu shook his head, his eyes became deep, and he said: "But I just don't like to retreat and dodge, I just like to face challenges head-on, I just like to confront those who are plotting and scheming head-on.

They can plot and scheme, but I can fight back openly. They have their own strategies, and I have my own tactics! He fights his, and I fight mine. I want to see who is better at scheming, or who is better at debate! "

Yuan Shu put the cup in his hand on the table with a thump, and began to prepare for the explosion of the Imperial Academy.

The eunuchs launched attacks on him in both the court and the streets, but Yuan Shu refused to take the fight.

No matter how you come, I will go my own way!

The clear and stupid students are his strategic target! They are also the breaking point for him to change the situation!

On May 9, the fourth year of Jianning, just as Yuan Shu and Jia Xu had speculated, public opinion in Luoyang City had exploded.

The news that the emperor summoned Yuan Shu to discuss Confucianism was spread from the palace by eunuchs, who exaggerated and added many convincing details to this non-existent story.

Things like Yuan Shuda talked about appealing to conscience and the emperor was very fond of his theories, all of which struck at the hearts of the representatives of official learning.

The Modern Literature School, which dominated the official education, was furious about this. They felt that the Yuan family was truly greedy and wanted to swallow an elephant. They could no longer suppress their anger and settled all the new and old grudges together, finally launching a wave of public opinion attacks on the Yuan family and Yuan Shu's School of Mind.

And it is a mixed doubles between official and private parties.

The official reaction to this incident was huge, and the person who took the lead in the charge was also quite powerful.

Si Tu Xu Xu was the first to present a memorial, saying that it was good for the emperor to study Confucianism, but he must study orthodox Confucianism and not learn any doctrines that had not been officially certified. That would be too dangerous for the king of a country.

He felt that Yuan Shu must not be appointed as the emperor's tutor.

Xu Xu's wording was relatively mild, but his report was like a charge horn. When the horn sounded, everyone started to charge.

Yang Ci, Liu Kuan and Zhang Ji, the imperial tutors who were in charge of teaching Liu Hong Confucianism, jointly submitted a petition to the court, stating that Yuan Shu was too young, and his so-called philosophy of mind had not been widely recognized and was not credible at all. How could he be allowed to come into contact with the emperor?

The emperor is young. If he believes Yuan Shu’s lies and becomes interested in this so-called psychology, thus delaying the study of orthodox academic disciplines, it will bring disaster to the world!

They strongly demanded that Yuan Shu be expelled from Luoyang, and that Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei be held accountable, forcing them to explain their actions. Otherwise, they would be severely punished in order to discourage those villains who tried to deceive the emperor with their fallacies and heresies!

With these four people taking the lead, other officials at all levels who were not Yuan's disciples or former officials began to take sides.

That is to say, the Yuan family has been of great help to the party members during this period of time, so many officials and scholars who are grateful for this do not want to get involved in this matter, but they dare not express their support publicly, so their attitude is to remain silent.

The group of people who were neutral and sympathetic to the Yuan family fell into silence, and the students and former officials of the Yuan family did not take any action, so the noise in Luoyang City was particularly harsh. Those who had grudges against the Yuan family in the past, those who disliked the Yuan family, those who were jealous of the Yuan family, and other factions followed this wave and submitted petitions to criticize Yuan Shu and the Yuan family.

Of course, they did not forget to criticize the eunuchs. They all agreed that it was the eunuchs and the Yuan family who had joined hands to cause trouble. After scolding Xinxue, they scolded Yuan Shu, then scolded Yuan Shu, then scolded the Yuan family, then scolded the eunuchs, and then did it all over again, mixing the scolding together and continuing.

In any case, the ancestors of the Yuan family almost couldn't escape this wave of scolding.

It has to be said that the official was still relatively cautious. After all, the Yuan family was powerful, and the Yuan family had considerable political influence both in the government and the country. Although they were inexplicably criticized, many people were still worried. Considering their own future, they dared not say anything too absolutely.

But the public does not have similar concerns.

In the streets, high-end businesses and Imperial College, a large number of opposition mouthpieces and pure and stupid Imperial College students have been bored out of their minds due to the peace that has lasted for more than half a year. They have a lot of bad feelings accumulated but have no place to vent them, and they are feeling very frustrated.

As a result, this kid Yuan Shu brought his Yuan family philosophy as a target.

When the group of people saw this, they thought, hey! This guy has a high status, noble identity, great reputation, and a big target. He is a rare target for verbal attacks!
So they rushed.

In the mouths of these people, Yuan Shu and his Yuan's philosophy of mind were directly turned into heresies that brought disaster to the country and the people. Yuan Shu himself became a fraud and a name-stealer, and the Yuan family became a corrupt family that attempted to manipulate the future of the country.

After the disaster happened to Yuan and Yuan Shu, the entire academic community in Guanxi was also implicated and suffered a regional blow.

In their mouths, the deceased Ma Rong and the famous scholar Fa Zhen from Guanxi became running dogs of the Yuan family. In order to curry favor with the wealthy, they even abandoned their scholarly character.

Ma Rong's past deeds were also dug up and mentioned again. A group of people said that Ma Rong had never repented. In order to save his life, he wrote flattering articles for General Liang Ji. Now, in order to curry favor with the Yuan family, he even passed on his academic heritage to his son Yuan Shu.

This is absolutely ridiculous!

The entire Kansai academic community is rotten! It's emitting a foul stench!
Only the Guandong warriors like us are the future of the country! Only we can control the power... Pah! Only we can assist the emperor in managing the government and make the Han Dynasty strong again!

People like the Yuan family should all be deposed, kept away from government affairs, and asked to reflect on themselves!

Of course, the opposition politicians in the society could say as harsh words as they could, and the ancestors of the Yuan family were no exception, and they suffered one after another.

The main reason is that they themselves have no opportunities to advance, and when they finally hit the right vantage point, of course they will desperately make noise and try to become famous and gain important reputation.

If they could become an official because of this, it would be worth their risk in criticizing the Yuan family.

Moreover, the risk of scolding the Yuan family is smaller than the risk of scolding the eunuchs, so scolding them more is a good thing.

According to Yuan Shu, those who led the charge and those who followed were all idiots.

They have no idea who is the driving force behind this matter and who is the party that benefits the most. It would be best if they could react and keep silent about it.

Because the eunuchs are the ones who benefit the most!

Could it be a Kanto samurai?

They fantasized that they could step on the corpses of the Yuan family to move up and snatch meat from the Yuan family's mouths, but they never thought that as long as the Yuan family fully approached the eunuchs and was deeply integrated with the eunuchs, the "Hook Party" could wipe out this group of people in one fell swoop.

Will the eunuchs not allow the Yuan family to vent their anger because of this group of opposition politicians?

Therefore, all those who led the charge were recorded in Yuan Shu's little notebook. Even if he did not want to seek revenge in the future, he could not get too close to them, so as to avoid being contaminated by their stupidity.

Especially Yang Ci, this old guy actually took the lead in the charge. Yuan Shu really didn't expect that Yang Biao's father was so stupid. He was used as cannon fodder by the eunuchs but still kept rushing forward.

"The Xu family of Yingchuan, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Liu family of Hongnong, and the Zhang family of Runan, these four families were easily deceived by the eunuchs. How unwise they are!"

Yuan Shu, who was quietly collecting intelligence in the Yuan Mansion, had a very low opinion of the four families that led the charge.

Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei also learned about this. When they learned that Yang Ci had actually taken the lead in attacking the Yuan family, they were immediately furious.

After all, you are in-laws. It would be fine if you didn't help when the Yuan family was in trouble, but now you are leading the charge. What are you thinking, old man?

Cheng Li and Jia Xu, who gathered around Yuan Shu to give him advice, also shook their heads at these families, lamenting their stupidity and impulsiveness.

Isn’t this the situation that the eunuchs want to see most?

(End of this chapter)