Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1522 The family needs to change in order to survive!
Aristocratic families in troubled times are actually different businessmen. They are also investing, but what they invest is not money, but people. However, investment will have rewards and risks, and sometimes the risks will be very high.

Therefore, aristocratic families often choose to disperse their bets.

The Kuai family used to invest intensively. They invested in Liu Biao, but Liu Biao lost rapidly. After his fall, the Kuai family faced difficulties. Under such circumstances, the two brothers of the Kuai family, Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, parted ways. up.

Kuai Liang chose to surrender to King Mujing of the Ming Dynasty, while Kuai Yue traveled far to Jiangdong and began to gain a foothold in Jiangdong. Moreover, according to recent news, Kuai Yue began to be reused by Sun Ce, the new lord of Jiangdong.

In this case, even if you know that their families are investing separately, you can't say anything. After all, each person's choice is their own business and cannot be forced.

But when Kuailiang entered the cabinet, it was different, it was like putting him directly on the table, so that all officials, civil and military, would attack him in every possible way.

So Mujing needs him to handle his family's affairs well, at least not to let anyone attack him in this regard, otherwise his joining the cabinet will be very troublesome.

After Mujing has set up the stage, it is not certain who will sing the opera. Even if he is a king, it is impossible for him to have the final say on everything. He is not a man of his own.

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Kuai Liang left the Ming Palace and asked someone to drive back to Kuai Mansion.

Kuaifu, the capital of Yu, is magnificent and simple.

The so-called grandeur means that it occupies a lot of land. The Kuai family is a big family in Jingzhou. The wealth accumulated over a century is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Naturally, they will not be stingy when buying land and building a mansion in Yudu.

And simplicity, that is, in order to avoid suspicion and forbearance, Kuailiang chose a relatively simple style in the construction of the mansion, which did not reveal the arrogance of the aristocratic family.

It is more like the mansion of an ordinary official.

The Ming Dynasty itself was better for merchants. There was a limit for housing construction in the previous dynasty, but there is no such limit in the Ming Dynasty. Whoever has money can build a big house.

Yudu is a very free capital city. As long as you get your own land in the plan, you can build your own compound at will.

This is good news for countless merchants, and there will be a period of merchants fighting for money to see who can build their mansions more magnificently.

On the side, this matter has also promoted the economic development of Yudu. Of course, in essence, the imperial court does not allow such a fight for wealth.

Compared with the rich and magnificent courtyards of those big merchants, Kuai Mansion is just a mansion that is extremely simple, but full of scholarly heritage.

After Kuai Liang returned to the mansion, he avoided seeing anyone, walked into the study by himself, and wrote a letter, sealed it with wax, and asked him to send it out with the housekeeper: "Let someone hand it over to the second master, and no one is allowed to change hands!"

"Yes!"

The housekeeper nodded solemnly.

He recruited another clan elder, whose ancestral home was in Xiangyang, but in order to reassure the Ming court, some members of the Kuai family also established themselves in Yudu.

This clan is always the older Kuai clan, with a cane, and slowly appeared in front of Kuai Liang.

"The Patriarch is so anxious to get the old man to come, did something happen?"

"Seventh Uncle, I originally wanted you to have a good life!"

Kuai Liang brought a cup of tea to the clan elder himself, and then said: "But I have to trouble Uncle Seven to do something, otherwise our Kuai family will not be able to pass this test!"

"It's about the life and death of my Kuai family. Naturally, the old man will not shirk!" Although this old man is not one of those great sages, he is also a relatively well-known scholar. He is currently a teacher at the Kuai Clan School in Yudu. Family matters.

"I want to expel Kuai Yue from the Kuai family tree!" Kuai Liang said in a low voice.

"Patriarch, why is this?"

The elder of the clan didn't understand: "Yue'er has done a good job in Jiangdong, and he can leave a way for our Kuai clan in the future!"

"Clan elder, do you know Zhaoming Pavilion?" Kuai Liang asked.

"Is it the Zhaoming Pavilion that can decide the size of the Ming Kingdom, and even if King Ming Mujing is not around, he can issue policies in the name of the Ming Kingdom, manage the region, and rule the army?"

The elder of the clan is not an old man who only reads books but does not know the affairs of the world. In Yudu, under the foot of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he naturally pays more attention to the court of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the media of the Ming Dynasty is doing very well. Growing things has gradually become a habit of the common people, and now many scholars have the habit of reading newspapers.

He was no stranger to Zhaoming Pavilion, the supreme hall of the court of the Ming Dynasty, the ultimate dream of civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty, all officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty aimed to join the cabinet.

"Your Majesty is about to ascend the throne. Once he ascends the throne, our Ming Kingdom will no longer be the Great Han Ming Dynasty, but the Great Ming Dynasty. He will be the emperor!" Kuai Liang said: "After the enthronement ceremony, the first thing to be held is the Ming Dynasty. The theory of entering the cabinet and participating in politics will select ministers to enter the cabinet and participate in politics. I have been pushed up by the king, and I will enter the cabinet soon. The victory or defeat depends on one action, and there should be no weakness left around me!"

"It is!"

The elder clan is a sensible person. Kuai Liang has made it this far with difficulty. Once he is attacked, his future will be directly ruined and he will not be able to join the cabinet. Zhong Nan became the decision maker of the Ming Dynasty.

"But..." The clan elder still hesitated: "Isn't it a little too much to expel Xiaoyue from the family and delete the family tree? After all, Xiaoyue didn't do anything to offend the family!"

"Seventh Uncle, do you know that since ancient times, it is not allowed to stand at both ends of the team. Kuaiyue chose Jiangdong, that was his choice, but our Kuai clan is based on Jingxiang, we can only be Ming countrymen!"

Kuai Liang said: "And no matter what you do, it's just a nominal matter. One day, when the Ming Dynasty is defeated, Kuai Yue will still have a chance to regain the family. There is a chance to keep him!"

As he said that, he sighed: "It's not that I want to do everything right, nor that I want to drive him out of the family, but since our positions are different, we have to be more ruthless, at least So that no one can find fault with this!"

"I understand!"

The clan elder smiled wryly, this is how it is in troubled times, these aristocratic families seem to be prosperous, but who knows how many dangers they hide.

Enjoying the glory and wealth, naturally you have to bear the risks in it. The greater the influence of the aristocratic family, the more jealous the princes will be, and the more the common people will hate it.

This is also unavoidable.

"I'll write a letter to those old guys in Xiangyang and let them open the ancestral hall!"

The clan elder still obeyed Kuai Liang's words, and said: "Kick Kuai Yue out of the family and let everyone in the world know that Kuai Yue is no longer a child of our Kuai clan. No matter what he does, it has nothing to do with our Kuai clan!"

"Thank you Uncle Seven for your support!"

Kuai Liang heaved a sigh of relief, and with Uncle Seven's support, those clan elders basically wouldn't react too much, and the matter was considered settled.

This is a bit cruel to Kuai Yue, if this knife goes on, Kuai Yue will become a rootless duckweed, and all descendants of Yan and Huang will return to their roots. Without roots, they will be lonely souls without owners.

But in troubled times, there is no way to give them the best of both worlds, they can only accept this cruel choice.

"Patriarch, you are in charge of the family affairs. We old guys have always been at ease, but..." The clan elder suddenly said: "Ming Wang has always been not friendly to the family, even if the Ming Dynasty can be established and can dominate the country, are you sure? Have you ever thought that one day he will cross the river and tear down the bridge, and wipe out all the family members of our family?"

"Think about it!"

Kuai Liang smiled and said: "I was worried too, but Uncle Seven, you still don't know our great king well enough, he never targets the powerful family, but the world!"

"The world?"

The clan elders didn't understand.

"The inheritance of the family, in fact, has already been defeated by him. He was able to improve Cai Lun's papermaking technology, so that the papermaking technology not only improved in quality, but also in output. There are more and more papers, and the learning and copying of books is getting better and better. It's getting easier, and it's much easier for the children of poor families to study, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the moveable type printing that shocked the world back then!"

Kuai Liang said softly: "As soon as this thing comes out, the so-called aristocratic family is just a paper tiger. We can gain a foothold in the world, relying on the inheritance, the inheritance of knowledge, but the inheritance of knowledge is no longer unique to us. There are so many people in the world, and there are countless people who are smarter than the children of our aristocratic family. When the time comes, scholars from poor families will run rampant. Will the children of our aristocratic family still have an advantage? We cannot have an advantage by relying on the aristocratic family. Serve your life!"

Kuai Liang's words, the elders of the clan didn't know that when movable type printing came out, he had already predicted that the road of the aristocratic family would become narrower and narrower.

This is why so many aristocratic clans are in awe of Mujing like tigers and wolves, and hate it so much. This person, relying on his own strength, has passed on the inheritance of the clan clan for a hundred years, directly breaking the spine, how terrible it is.

"Our Kuai family has been passed down for many years. Do we want to decline here? How can we meet our ancestors!" the clan elder lamented.

"The world will change, and so will our family!"

Kuai Liang laughed: "There is no need for the elders of the clan to be like this. We can't go to a place where the mountains and rivers are exhausted. After all, a poor family is a poor family. We have also benefited greatly from movable type printing and papermaking. Therefore, I established an ethnology in Yudu. Our children Under the influence of more knowledge, there will still be a chance to stand on the court in the future. If you are lucky, it will be passed down from generation to generation. The Kuai family will not fall down. We are out of balance, we have other ways!"

"Land?"

The clan elder gritted his teeth and said, "The new policy of the Ming Dynasty is to revolutionize our land. Their wolfish ambitions are so arrogant!"

"It's not the land, the land can't be kept!" Kuai Liang said with gloomy eyes, "Seventh Uncle, in the Ming Dynasty, scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce will be completely destroyed. Our Kuai family has already established our own business name, as long as the business name can be passed on. If we go down, the Kuai family will not be out of balance no matter in terms of money or power!"

He has long been aware of the consequences of the promotion of the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, which will bring about the consequences of the aristocratic family, so he has already prepared for it.

Now that the business of the Ming country is booming, the prosperity of the Ming country today has a lot to do with the prosperity of business, so he has already made arrangements in this regard.

Otherwise, he would not dare to be a vanguard for the New Deal. Once he becomes a vanguard, he must first stand upright, so many annexed lands will be spit out.

At that time, Kuai's family will make a low-key transformation, which is his strategy.

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September passed in chaos, and the weather gradually turned cooler, but the war in the world was still in full swing.

Hebei was caught in a two-front battle, and the main force was dragged to Guandu. They wanted a decisive battle, but the Wei army was fighting guerrillas, dragging them, and the north was repeatedly breached.

In Bingzhou, the Zhou army also suffered repeated defeats, and the Yan army in Youzhou has begun to fully occupy the entire Bingzhou territory.

Yuan Shao was furious, but insisted on going his own way.

At this time, he had actually reacted, but he was also very smart and knew that he had no choice. Unless he forcibly ate the Central Plains, otherwise Hebei would not be able to be preserved at all.

So he began to move the troops of Bingzhou to Guandu.

Of course, the decisive battle is not so easy to start. After all, whether it is Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, or Cao Cao, they all worry about one person, and that is Mu Jing.

The territory of the Ming Kingdom and the territory of the princes of the world are all connected, and they dare not fight easily, for fear that Mujing will suddenly send troops to attack their lair at this time.

At that time, the snipe and the clam will compete and the fisherman will benefit.

But it won't be long, they are at most waiting for Mu Jing to ascend the throne as the emperor, once Mu Jing chooses to ascend the throne, they can only gather their troops instead of sending troops, so they are completely at ease.

October came quietly.

Yudu City.

The weather is getting cooler and cooler, and the time for winter may be early, but the crisp autumn can also give people a chilly feeling.

There are not a few days left until the enthronement ceremony, and Mu Jing has been caught measuring his clothes these days.

For the enthronement ceremony, the required dragon robes, flat crowns, belts, accessories to wear...everything needs to be finalized continuously.

He regretted it a bit, why did he make such a grand enthronement ceremony, and made himself look like he couldn't eat well, and couldn't sleep.

But at this point, it's not his turn to retreat, so he can only bite the bullet and do all these things well.

I finally got lazy for a long time.

He hid in a departmental office on the flank of the Ming Palace, which was a ministerial-level official office.

The Ming Palace has nine floors, but it can't accommodate so many government offices. The central government office is in the Ming Palace, and the other department offices are all about three floors next to it.

This ministerial-level government office is the government office of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Ministry of Agriculture is also the Ministry of Agriculture.

Mujing's emphasis on agriculture is one of the most rigorous among the princes in the world. He has his own set of thoughts on agricultural development.

(End of this chapter)