I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 301 Tianxiong Army is officially established

The three of them looked at each other in silence for a long time.

Apart from Liu Biao who had already realized the situation, Xia Fu and Xun Shuang still found it difficult to be sure that what they speculated was the real situation.

Yuan Shu is only 18 years old this year, how come he has such amazing political ability?
There is no other explanation except that he is a genius.

Anyway, no matter what, Zhang Jian was doomed. His reputation completely collapsed and he became a victim of the social and cultural system. He also became a common sacrifice for the two political forces to reach a balance.

With such a sacrifice, the party group understood Yuan’s determination and means to govern, and knew that Yuan was definitely not an easy person to deal with. At the same time, it also gained stability for a period of time and avoided being targeted by Yuan’s dictatorship group.

Similarly, Yuan also achieved the goal of establishing his authority and maintained his dictatorship.

Both sides got what they wanted, and only Zhang Jian was hurt.

For Yuan Feng, after this matter is over, he can relax for a while. No one will jump out to question his actions for no reason, and he can devote himself wholeheartedly to what he is good at.

For example, he was good at handling government affairs, liquidating and sorting out the property of eunuchs across the country, and preparing some materials needed for Yuan Shu to establish an army.

From this perspective, Yuan Feng is a hard-working and practical person.

Not only was he able to do these things well, he was even able to find time to preside over and arrange Yuan Shu's wedding. Even though Yuan Shu was not involved in the wedding preparations at all, he still helped Yuan Shu take care of all aspects of the wedding.

By mid-May, Yuan Feng had completed all the etiquette and work required for a wedding. The next step was to choose an auspicious day and then decide on a formal wedding date based on Yuan Shu's specific needs.

In order to raise funds for the wedding, the Du family also sent a sufficiently professional team, and even spent a lot of money out of their own pockets on the expenses of the wedding ceremony, as if they were going to take charge of all the expenses. They only wanted Yuan Shu and nothing else.

Yuan Feng was very satisfied with their attitude.

From any angle, this marriage was an act of marrying above one's station for Du. Even before Yuan and his son launched a mutiny to seize power, Yuan's family background and social status were much higher than Du's. Not to mention that at this time, Yuan and his son had become the actual rulers of the empire. Once Du married into their family, she would have obtained a status similar to that of an "outside relative".

For the Du family, this was tantamount to a class leap, something their ancestors had been looking forward to for many years.

Now it’s finally come true!
The head of the entire Du family was extremely excited.

After Yuan successfully launched a mutiny, especially after he put down the rebellion, Du was very worried that Yuan would abandon the previous engagement, declare the engagement invalid with some compensation, and then look for other more powerful families for marriage. For this reason, many people lost their appetite and sleep, and tried to find out the news, feeling restless day and night.

They were really afraid that Yuan would do something like this.

If this really happened, the Du family would be unable to counter it. With the Yuan family holding all the power, the Du family could only swallow the bitter fruit and become a laughing stock.

Fortunately, Yuan unexpectedly kept her promise and maintained the engagement. After the rebellion was quelled, Yuan Feng took charge and sent a message to Du, asking them to prepare for the marriage and plan to hold the wedding for Yuan Shu and Du Ning around June.

In ecstasy, the Du family sent a large number of family members to Luoyang to assist in the preparations to show their sincerity and gratitude. They took the initiative to undertake a large amount of work. Considering that the Yuan family was "busy with state affairs", they even planned to take charge of the construction of Yuan Shu's mansion in Luoyang. Since Yuan Shu was getting married and had a special position, he certainly could not continue to live in Yuan Feng's mansion, but there was no need to rebuild the mansion. There was not much vacant land in Luoyang City, so they chose a former prince's mansion in the east of the city and renovated it as the "General's Mansion" after Yuan Shu got married.

Rebuilding is not necessary, but a little renovation is still necessary, so this job was taken over by Du, who put all his efforts into decorating the new house for Yuan Shu. He also asked around about Yuan Shu's preferences and made sure to decorate it according to his wishes.

Knowing that Yuan Shu liked to eat, he specially decorated a bigger kitchen. Knowing that Yuan Shu had the habit of getting up early to practice boxing, swordplay and archery, he immediately decorated a spacious martial arts training ground for Yuan Shu. Knowing that Yuan Shu often drank goat's milk, he opened a small courtyard in the backyard for Yuan Shu and raised more than a dozen sheep.

Yuan Shu knew all these things, but from the very beginning, he didn't pay too much attention to this wedding. The daughter of the Du family was indeed very outstanding and in line with his aesthetic standards, but love and romance were just embellishments in his spare time and to show off, and were not important.

Just as Yuan Feng said, if life between husband and wife is not going well, it is better for them to treat each other with respect. Anyway, the most important thing about marriage is to have offspring, as well as the strong union and interest integration of both families. The proportion of emotion in this is not worth mentioning.

Besides, the love between two people has a shelf life. It will be gone after the shelf life. After human development is completed, people may be attracted and feel love for any person of the opposite sex at any stage. They will not have a fixed object. The reason why some people seem to be very loyal is because they have stronger moral concepts and are more responsible.

From this perspective, Yuan Shu feels that humans, as members of the larger group of animals, are not detached from it. The estrus period of animals is similar to the love period of humans. Most animals do not have fixed mates, and most humans will not love only one person in their entire lives.

There are very few animals that have fixed mates, just as there are very few humans who are long-lasting and faithful.

all the same.

Yuan Shu never thought that love was something indispensable. For people in his social position, power was indispensable. Compared with power, everything else seemed insignificant.

So from the moment Yuan Feng and Du had been busy arranging his marriage, Yuan Shu had no expectations and continued to do his own things step by step. Except for the parts that required his participation, he didn't care about anything else and devoted most of his energy to building up the army.

By the time Yuan Feng and Du had prepared all the details of the wedding for him, Yuan Shu had finally recruited all the members of the Tianxiong Army and officially announced the establishment of the Tianxiong Army. This day was three days before his wedding.

A day later, Yuan Shu officially announced the top-down structure and leadership planning of the Tianxiong Army, and promulgated the "Tianxiong Army Management Regulations" which were derived from the rules of the Yi Xin Society. It stipulated for the first time that it was the responsibility of the military leadership group to pay soldiers, provide food, weapons and uniforms.

At the same time, the power to punish violations of military regulations was returned to the Military Court, and ordinary officers did not have the power to punish soldiers privately.

The distribution of military supplies will be organized by the Military Pay Office. The contents will be made public before distribution, and then distributed directly to individuals without going through the hands of officers.

No officer may withhold the soldiers' pay, food and various welfare rewards for any reason. Once discovered, he will be executed immediately according to military law.

All of these things were heavily influenced by the I-Shin Society and were rules that did not exist in normal armies. Many soldiers and officers were surprised and talked about it.

However, given Yuan Shu's status, position and prestige, people only talked about it and no one raised any objections. If someone really opposed it, they would not be able to gain a foothold in this army.

Yuan Shu also made it clear that everyone has the right to object and refuse to accept. If they do not want to accept, they can submit a request within one day and go through the procedures for leaving the army. If they do not leave after one day, it will be deemed that they have accepted everything and swear to abide by it.

If you break your oath in the future, military law will really kill you!
After a day like this, no one chose to leave. No matter whether they were officers or soldiers, no one was willing to leave this standing field corps led by Yuan Shu himself. They knew clearly what was more important.

(End of this chapter)