C347 (2/2)
”Tell him to come into the study.” He had sent someone to call Yuan Shao, and he had already told the servants that no one would come today, so he was waiting for Yuan Shao to come in. All this while, Yuan Zhong had raised Yuan Shao up as the Clan Master of the next generation of the Yuan Family.
”Uncle and Uncle, what's the matter?” Yuan Shao walked in quickly, and when he entered the door, he asked anxiously.
Yuan Yuan waved his hands, and waited for Yuan Shao to sit down before slowly saying: ”Grand General Ho Jin refuses to hand over the authority of the West Garden, and even requested to expand the northern troop, the eunuchs did his best to reject, and the Empress Dowager He also did not agree, but gave me the Great General's Recital, so I could gather the ministers to discuss, and I was having a headache about this matter!”
”What are the opinions of the other ministers?” Yuan Shao thought about it, and asked.
”What can they say? Of course not. ” Yuan Yuan impatiently waved his hand and said angrily, ”Now that the situation is so tense in Luoyang, and the Great General wants to expand, everyone can see why. Do you think the ministers will agree?”
”Uncle and Uncle, what is there to worry about? Since the ministers do not agree, you can just reject it!” As one of the two assistant ministers personally appointed by the emperor and the empress dowager, Yuan Yuan and the Grand General Ho Jin had the right to reject He Jin's Recital. The current Luoyang has forty thousand West Garden Army s and twenty thousand northern troops. It is more than enough to guard the Luoyang, do you still need to expand the northern army? ”
”Of course there is no need to expand the northern army! And the empress dowager will not agree to the expansion of the northern army! ” Yuan Yuan stopped in his tracks and looked at Yuan Shao, then used a lecturing tone and said, ”But have you thought about it yet? The empress dowager gave us the Recital, if we don't agree, the Grand General Ho Jin will definitely vent his anger on us. This is a method that the Eunuch use to borrow their weapons to kill us, don't you see? ”
Yuan Shao immediately understood the situation and couldn't help but curse those eunuchs in his heart for being too vicious. Yuan Yuan called for the ministers to discuss, all of them jumped up to curse He Jin. As a result, the alliance that the Grand General Ho Jin and the scholars had painstakingly built would be destroyed.
”Uncle and Uncle, Grand General Ho Jin is already holding a heavy weapon and no one around him dares to walk towards his back. If we were to expand the northern troop by tens of thousands of troops, perhaps no one in the world would dare to make a sound. Great General would really do as he pleases, and would very likely become the second despotic general, Liang Zhi. ”
”In He Jin's eyes, other than the power, where would the safety of the nation come from? If this person holds sole authority, he will definitely bring about a great calamity to the Darky Court. The intensity of the harm will definitely be on par with the adulterous castration s in the imperial palace and will not be inferior to the domineering General Liang Yi in the past. ”
Yuan Wu had never had a good impression of this Great General, who was born with a different background to him, but who told his sister to be so beautiful! Now that He Jin was in control, on one hand, Yuan Wu was trying to welcome him and on the other hand, prevented him from becoming another source of trouble.
”A butcher is still a butcher. No matter how much he reads, he is still a despicable, desperate man.” Yuan Shao shook his head and said with regret: ”If I knew earlier, he would be this crazy, we wouldn't have helped him to kill Jian Shuo back then, to the point that we can't stop him now.”
”The reason why we helped Jian Shuo to death was not to help him, but to stabilize the imperial government. Now, He Jin did not care about the safety of his country, ignored the scolding of the people of the world, refused to hand over the authority of the West Garden, and even extended his army to the north. His intention is very clear, he wants to turn the tables on the Luoyang in one go, and then gradually seize control of the country. ”
Yuan Xi nodded and said worriedly. Now that the Luoyang was stable and the powers of the eunuchs, outsiders and scholars were in a balanced state, He Jin wanted to break this balance and expand his northern army and increase his own strength, forming a situation where he was the strongest.
”Uncle and Uncle, we have underestimated He Jin.” Yuan Shao laughed bitterly and said helplessly: ”The first emperor has already gone, the First Prince can inherit the throne and He Jin can do whatever he wants now that he is free. As long as he didn't shake the foundations of the Darkhan Kingdom, he would be able to survive and do whatever he wanted. No matter what, he is the son of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager's brother. No matter what he did, he will find a reason to get rid of his crimes. ”
”This is precisely what is making things difficult for me …” If we do not agree to an expansion, the Great General will hate us and will fight against us in the future. If we agree to an expansion, Her Majesty will assume that we are in cahoots with the Great General and will never trust us again. ”
The reason why Yuan Yuan was so difficult to make a decision, was because he wanted to use the Great General's sword to get rid of his eunuchs, to avenge his swordsman. At this crucial moment, he would never offend the Grand General Ho Jin and push He Jin to the side. However, he didn't want to offend the empress dowager either. After all, the empress dowager was in charge right now!
”Why are we the only ones injured when these siblings are fighting?” Yuan Shao was angry, and said angrily: ”The root of all these problems is that we warriors have no military power! In the capital, those who held military power were either eunuchs or outsiders. The people outside of the capital are all wannabe. Who can speak up for us? ”