I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 291 has been organized!

Hearing Yuan Shu's angry words, Yuan Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"That's not entirely true. When we rescued him, we were in great danger, but we also gained a lot. It did bring us a lot of reputation and help. It's just that times have changed and the situation is different now. But we can't say that what we did was wrong."

"I know, I know everything, I'm just mad!"

Yuan Shu was unhappy and said bitterly: "We spent so much money to feed him and send people to protect him. It would have been much better if we used all this money to raise soldiers! But this is what we got in return!"

"Shu, now that things have come to this, please stop saying these angry words."

Yuan Feng patted Yuan Shu on the shoulder and said slowly: "Now that things have come to this, it can only mean that your worries are completely correct. There will definitely be a group of people among these party members who are dissatisfied with the fact that we father and son are in power.

I am now very worried that they will try every possible means to get close to the emperor, and then stand with the emperor, gain the emperor's name, and use the emperor's name to suppress me. This will be quite tricky!"

Yuan Shu nodded.

“It’s indeed tricky, but it’s actually good that they’re exposed now. The earlier they’re exposed, the more time we’ll have to prepare, so we won’t be caught off guard when the time comes.

Father, they are not yet firmly established and cannot do anything big. Later, their promotion must be strictly controlled. Then, if you keep the military power in your hands, you can be safe in the short term."

"That's true for a short period of time, but what about after that?"

Yuan Feng looked at Yuan Shu with concern and asked, "Do you have any way to deal with this group of people?"

Yuan Shu shook his head.

"Not yet, but I am not worried. As long as I have the military power in my hands, I will be invincible and have enough time to think of a solution. Although this group of people are famous, they do not have much strength. The eunuchs can suppress them, so the Yuan family must be able to do it too."

Yuan Feng nodded slowly.

Yuan Shu was right. If this group of party members could really overthrow Yuan’s dictatorship, they would not have been pinned to the ground by the eunuchs.

In fact, over the years, Yuan Feng has seen through what kind of people these so-called party members and celebrities are.

Most of them came from second- or third-rate aristocratic families. They had been living a life of luxury since childhood, with everything provided for them. They only knew how to eat, but had no idea where the food came from.

His life experience has been smooth sailing. Relying on his background, he received education since childhood, read a lot of books, and has a high level of cultural literacy, but not high political literacy.

Having high expectations but poor skills is a major characteristic of this group. They think they can accomplish great things, but when the time comes, they often go wrong due to lack of practical experience. They make stupid mistakes that seem incomprehensible to others, and the result is naturally failure.

Faced with the upcoming reckoning, this group of people will either tremble in fear or just watch themselves die.

Those who tremble directly defect and become the enemy's running dogs, a typical example being the eunuch party who depend on the eunuchs.

Those who are willing to die are brave, but they can accomplish nothing except dying. They only have fame, which is of no use to the country as a whole.

Thinking of this, Yuan Feng felt relieved.

He felt that his son Yuan Shu was worth ten thousand such trash, and even if all of them died, it would have no impact on the country.

But if Yuan Shu was gone, Yuan Feng believed that he would not be able to do many things, and many things would not be able to be implemented as they are now.

So, how can we let this group of trash stop Yuan Shu's progress?
Yuan Feng had no intention of continuing to engage in boring arguments with this group of useless party members.

He went straight to Liu Kui and without saying any nonsense, he asked Liu Kui to stamp the imperial edict allowing the formation of a new army.

Although Liu Que was extremely unwilling, he could not refuse Yuan Feng's request and could only stamp it with shame, which was regarded as implementing the procedural justice of the Han Empire. Then Yuan Feng sent the imperial edict to the Minister of Agriculture and the Secretariat, so that they could follow the edict when doing things and avoid gossip from others.

Of course, after this matter was made public, Zhang Jian was still dissatisfied. He submitted a petition to ask what was going on with this matter? Was it really agreed by the emperor? Why didn't the emperor convene a court meeting with ministers for public discussion?

Yuan Feng simply ignored his questions.

Yuan Feng threw his memorial aside, pretending he hadn't seen it, and then quickly approved all the supplies Yuan Shu needed.

After Yuan Shu received the official summons, he immediately took action.

He directly issued a recruitment order in the Sanfu and Sanhe regions, recruiting brave warriors from the Sanfu and Sanhe regions to join the newly formed standing field corps of the court.

Yuan Shu specifically pointed out that this field corps was a standing army, and that its treatment was exactly the same as that of the Luoyang Central Army. It was not some wild mercenary force that would be disbanded after being used.

It's compiled!

When this news spread, Sanfu and Sanhe were shocked.

Whenever the news of recruiting soldiers reached a place, it would cause widespread discussion among the local people and soon aroused the interest of many people.

The people in Sanhe knew about Yuan Shu's public recruitment earlier than those in Sanfu. Due to their closer distance and more developed local bureaucratic system, the news of Yuan Shu's recruitment spread throughout Sanhe in less than seven days.

As for the reaction of the people in Sanhe to this matter, if they did not turn a deaf ear to it, they could be said to have acted promptly and vigorously. As soon as the news reached a certain county, the professional mercenaries who had served in the army in that county would immediately pack their bags and prepare to go to Luoyang to join Yuan Shu's army.

Their families were somewhat puzzled by this.

Because they had just returned from the battlefield not long ago, and had just brought back a large amount of money, enough for them to live comfortably for several years. Why would they just leave now?
Their explanation for this is also very simple.

You may not meet a leader like Yuan Shu once in your lifetime. Now that you finally meet one, of course you must hold on to his thighs tightly and not let go!

There are officers who care for their soldiers, there are generous officers, there are officers who are willing to take care of their soldiers, and there are even more officers who keep their words. But as for the four-in-one officers, they asked all their peers and seniors around them, and no one had ever heard of them, not even in legends.

And now, there is!

Yuan Shu!

And now, this order is not an order to go to war, but an order to recruit soldiers, and even an order to form a standing regular army!
This means that everyone needs to have a system!

It’s time for everyone to eat the emperor’s food!
And our superior is still Yuan Shu!
There are only 30,000 places available, if you go too late you will miss them all!

Things have come to this point, how can they not be anxious?

Everyone was very worried that they might be too late. By the time they finally got there, Yuan Shu's troops would have been fully recruited, and then they would have no long-term meal tickets!

In addition to this group of mercenaries, there were also many good families in Sanhe who had rarely been on the battlefield. They heard the news, packed their luggage, and rushed to Luoyang day and night, hoping to get ahead of others.

Although they did not follow Yuan Shu into the war, Yuan Shu's legend had spread far and wide with the return of the previous batch of mercenaries. All the good families in Sanhe who wanted to make a name for themselves in military merit turned their attention to Yuan Shu.

There were many generals in the Han Dynasty who were capable of fighting and many who had made great contributions, but there were very few who could bring all their soldiers back home alive. Yuan Shu not only took care of the wounded and helped them treat their injuries, but was also willing to spend a lot of money to save the lives of a group of people he was not familiar with at all.

Since Yuan Shu can do this, everyone has reason to believe that he will not take the lives of the soldiers fighting for him lightly.

Going to the battlefield, getting money is one thing, but having the life to spend it is another. They don't want to be the unlucky guy who makes money but has no life to spend it.

(End of this chapter)