I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 99 Yuan Shu Attacks
Next, things developed exactly as Yuan Shu had expected.

For some things, not responding is the best response. For some people, not responding is more painful than killing them.

Facing the accusations of court officials and massive public attacks, the Yuan family remained silent and unexpressive. Important family members such as Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei all claimed to be sick and stayed at home, seldom going out and refusing to see guests.

The forces of the Yuan family in the court were like dumb people, not saying a word. They seemed to be completely unconcerned about the influx of complaints.

One day without response.

No response for two days.

No response for three days.

Four days of no response.

Five days of no response.

On the sixth day, the eunuchs finally lost their patience.

Are Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei both dead?

Is that kid Yuan Shu buried in the ground?

Even if they would not rush to the palace to discuss matters with the eunuchs, they should at least fight back and submit a memorial to pretend to explain, right?

No fight back, no explanation, what are you trying to do?
Not to mention the eunuchs, even those people in the opposition who were talking nonsense in the society were a bit strange and felt that something was not right with the Yuan family.

In the first three days, they cursed with great enthusiasm, vying with each other, and frequently came up with golden sentences, even wanting to describe Yuan as the number one traitor since the founding of the Han Dynasty. But starting from the fourth day, some people felt that something was not right.

Why didn’t the Yuan family fight back?

When we criticized the eunuchs before, they reacted very strongly. They were so ferocious and aggressive that if you didn't know them, you would think they were a hundred ghosts parading at night.

But something is wrong now.

The Yuan family was subjected to such criticism. Even if they had some manners and were not as bad as eunuchs, they should not have had no reaction at all.

On the fifth and sixth days, those folk joke tellers who frequently came up with golden sentences were a little afraid to continue criticizing. They always felt that Yuan was planning something big and there was a reason why he didn't respond before, and that something big might really be coming.

If you are insulted to this extent and still don't fight back, either your entire family will die, or your entire family will sharpen their knives and be ready to kill the entire family of the person who insulted you.

Is Yuan the former or the latter?
The eunuchs had no political literacy and could not keep their cool. Seeing that the Yuan family had not responded for several days, they began to doubt whether this plan could succeed and what the Yuan family was planning.

A group of eunuchs held meetings every few days, talking nonsense, and all kinds of skepticism and conspiracy theories were flying around. Duan Gui and Cao Jie, who proposed this plan and insisted on implementing it, also began to be collectively questioned by everyone.

As a result, before the Yuan family's counterattack came, conflicts among the eunuchs broke out first, and they accused and insulted each other.

"You said that if someone reported the incident, the Yuan family would be in chaos and Yuan Wei would come to see you! But where is the person? Where is the person?"

"Didn't you also say that even if knives were raining down from the sky, Yuan Feng would still come to ask for help with the knives at his head?"

"You're still blaming me? Who said at that time that Yuan Feng would definitely bring the knocked-out Yuan Shu over to ask for peace?"

"I didn't say that! You were the one who said that! I told you not to say that! I told you not to say that!"

"You hit me? You dare to hit me? I'll beat you to death!"

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Because the eunuchs had not received any quality education and their quality was very low, the nonsense talk soon turned into a nonsense war.

Duan Gui and Chunyu Deng were the first to start a fight, and Cao Jie and Wang Fu followed closely and started a real-life PK.

Duan Gui punched Chunyu Deng twice, turning him into a white bear, which is not an endangered species yet.

Wang Fu's scene of a monkey stealing peaches made Cao Jie feel that the world was not worth living. It was exactly what is meant by "a song that breaks one's heart, and one will never find the reason again in this world."

Zhang Rang originally did not want to join the battle, but his ear was accidentally injured by flying wine jars, and he almost became a classic character with one ear.

Just when they were fighting to their heart's content and in chaos, the little eunuch who broke in finally brought them the news they wanted to know.

The Yuan family finally took action!

They don't play dead anymore!
The eunuchs were overjoyed and quickly asked about the truth.

Then they came up with an answer that surprised them.

Yuan moved, but seemed not to move.

Because the person who moved was neither Yuan Feng nor Yuan Wei, but... Yuan Shu.

When the entire Luoyang City was feeling inexplicable panic due to the Yuan family's silence, Yuan Shu took action.

He arranged for Cheng Li and Wei Jia to bring people to the Imperial College, set up a stage inside the Imperial College, and then announced to the public that Ma Rong's successor Yuan Shu would give lectures in the Imperial College, and everyone who was interested was welcome to come and listen.

If Yuan Shu had come to the headquarters of the Jinwen School of Confucianism to give lectures in his personal capacity before the eunuchs took action, it is estimated that there would be many people who would be disgusted, wary, and ridiculed. It is hard to say whether the reputation of Guanxi would be effective in Guandong. Therefore, the lectures might not be carried out well.

It’s even hard to tell whether the people who come are here to listen to lectures or to cause trouble.

But after this turmoil, when Yuan Shu came forward again and said that he wanted to give lectures at the Imperial College, the situation was completely different.

In everyone's opinion, this was not Yuan Shu coming to spread his own philosophy of psychology, but Yuan Shu wanted to respond to previous events.

He remained silent during the criticism and insults for so long, and now Yuan Shu, who is at the center of the storm, has been arranged to respond, and in a place like Imperial College where there are many talented people and beautiful scenery.

What way?
Out of caution, curiosity and carefulness, everyone came to listen to Yuan Shu's lectures with the same desire to find answers. They did not come to laugh at him, to refute him, or to ruin the event.

They want an explanation.

And there are a lot of people coming.

More than 50,000 students from the Imperial College, scholars and students of the Modern Literature School, children of major families, lackeys of other court forces, and even lackeys of eunuchs gathered at the Imperial College. The college was packed with people, and the outside was also packed with people. There were three layers of people inside and three layers of people outside. It was pitch black. It was full of people at a glance.

At the peak of its popularity, the Imperial College had only about 30,000 students, but now, there are more than 50,000 people crowded here.

They are all middle- and upper-class people with culture, accomplishments, and family background.

When he learned of this approximate number, Yuan Shu was excited.

He knew that his initial goal had been achieved.

So many people, so much attention, it’s unique in the world!
What is this called?
This is called traffic!

Traffic is opportunity, traffic is money, traffic is everything!
Black and red are also red!
As the leader of a budding school of thought, what I fear most is not questioning, criticism, or ridicule, but...

No traffic!

Yuan Shu needs traffic, psychology needs traffic, and his ambitions need traffic.

The eunuchs did not understand how to play in the era of traffic, and did not know what it meant to be both black and red, so they pushed the Yuan family to the forefront and handed over the top traffic to Yuan Shu.

The tens of thousands of people gathered here came from all corners of the country, including almost all the local nobles in every state and county of the Han Empire. Anyone who had power and influence in the local area was basically here.

These days, information is transmitted slowly, and the rate of one-to-one or one-to-many transmission is very limited. However, one-to-tens of thousands of transmissions is completely different.

This is the scale of communication in the information age.

What kind of situation could gather so many people to listen attentively to one person's ideas?

In order to make the most of this opportunity, Yuan Shu installed the sound amplification device he used when lecturing in Maoling on the podium to maximize his voice. In addition, he also arranged for more "assistant lecturers".

An assistant lecturer is arranged at regular intervals on each side of the podium.

They also had loudspeakers and stood on a small platform, responsible for repeating what they had heard from Yuan Shu's lectures at their loudest voices, trying to make sure more people could hear them.

In response to so many people gathered, Yuan Shu mobilized more than 200 "assistant speakers" to create a dragnet, allowing the power of his thoughts and the surging force of his speech to sweep the entire venue, leaving no one anywhere to escape.

He started using this speaking method when he was giving lectures in Maoling. Together with a group of Yi Xin Hui cadres, he experimented with and researched a speaking method that would cover the entire venue, striving to ensure that everyone could hear Yuan Shu's most original meaning.

So as not to be misinterpreted.

All the things I am going to talk about were said by Yuan Shu when he was lecturing in Maoling. They have withstood the test of time and humanity, and have been proven to be very effective. This is how the Yi Xin Hui has grown to a size of nearly 6,000 people.

However, this time it may be a little more difficult, because after the previous public opinion fermentation, most people have a negative impression of Yuan Shu, unlike before in Maoling, when they were at most suspicious but not negative.

However, this was just a small challenge in Yuan Shu's eyes, and he was not afraid at all.

In full view of the public, Yuan Shu came to the Imperial College and squeezed directly into the crowd at the outermost part of the college. The onlookers spontaneously made way for him and did not stop his actions.

He walked with small square steps, held his head high and chest out, walked proudly through the long crowd and stepped onto the podium with ease.

In the first row closest to the podium, seventeen-year-old Zhang Hong from Guangling, Xuzhou, looked at Yuan Shu with great interest.

This extremely famous child prodigy was a well-known figure in half the world before his reputation took a sharp turn for the worse in the past few days.

Not only did he inherit Ma Rong's academic status at a young age, he also created his own school of thought, founded Yuan's School of Mind, and taught his disciples. It is said that he had more than 5,000 disciples, making it the most prestigious and largest school in Guanxi.

It is not entirely true to say that it is because of his good family background. There are countless people with good family backgrounds in the world, but there is really no one else who can establish a school through academic efforts.

As for his academic level, there is naturally a consensus on this.

Zhang Hong was in Luoyang, and had read "Mencius Interpretation" and "On Knowing and Doing" through various channels. He had some understanding of Yuan Shu's system of mind learning. He also heard that Yuan Shu had been undefeated in more than 400 debates in Guanxi, so he believed that Yuan Shu was a real talent.

It is also idealistic.

As a member of the young generation born in the 1950s, 17-year-old Zhang Hong was also inspired by Yuan Shu's ideals. He believed that although Yuan Shu's theory had not yet been recognized, it was still a meaningful theory for the future.

If we can really practice it and give it a try, maybe it will work?
(End of this chapter)