Xuande

Chapter 786 It's up to you to create a new Xun Family

In the face of a major crisis, some members of the Xun family were willing to accept the fact, but there were also those who were unwilling to accept the fact no matter what, no matter how much Xun Yu tried to persuade him, it was useless.

They also have their own views and thinking logic.

"My Xun family has done so many things for the great man. Countless ancestors have worked hard for the long-term stability of the great man, and even died in office. Is the court so ruthless to the Xun family now?"

"The first emperor never mentioned something that never happened in the past. Why did the new emperor bring it up? Is he going to violate the ancestral system? He is still the emperor of the Han Dynasty! The world is still the world of the Han Dynasty!"

"The more fields there are, the more taxes are paid. Then my family has so much land, the whole family needs to eat and drink, and there are so many hired workers who need to be paid and take care of the food. How many mouthfuls can I have if it falls into my mouth? Just sell it!"

"Before we didn't raise slaves for us, we could only spend money to hire people to farm, and now we have to collect so much agricultural tax, do I still have to eat at home?"

"Wen Ruo, if you want to be a high-ranking official, I don't care about you, but don't set my mind on it. I can't climb high, so I can hide from you, can't you? Don't tell me that you are of the same family, I am not like you Same race!"

Xun Yu had been turned away many times, but he had no choice but to ask the people of his family to force him. He felt that this would hurt people's hearts and the cohesion of the family, so he could only try to seek help from Xun You.

But Xun You thanked the guests behind closed doors, and Xun Yu would never be seen.

Xun Yu just felt helpless, and finally had no choice but to bite the bullet and express to Liu Bei, saying that most of the Xun clan understood the righteousness and were willing to accept Liu Bei's request, but there were still some members of the Xun clan who were ignorant and unwilling to accept Liu Bei's request. Require.

Xun Yu hoped that he could take the lead in organizing a part of the money to purchase excess land from those clansmen to meet the requirements of the Land Duling Order, but it might take some time to raise funds, and he hoped that Liu Bei could give him this time.

He must be able to meet Liu Bei's needs.

After Liu Bei received Xun Yu's performance, he summoned Xun Yu and handed the performance back to Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, I have seen your intentions, and I have also seen your difficulties. If there are so many difficulties, then forget it. If the Xun family is willing to cooperate, it will be fine. If you are not willing to cooperate, then forget it. , but you can’t do things that are difficult for others, what do you think?”

Liu Bei looked at Xun Yu with a smile.

Xun Yu looked at the warm smile on Liu Bei's face, and should have been relieved, but there was an almost instinctive feeling of something bad in his heart, which gradually dominated his mood.

Then he felt that he should say something.

"After my uncle passed away, the Xun clan had no patriarch, and the clan was in chaos. The clan affairs have just been rectified recently, so the chaos in the clan is an important reason. But now that the clan affairs have been rectified, it only takes a little more time. Minister can solve this matter.

Mrs. Xun has been following His Majesty for several years, and is loyal to His Majesty. No matter whether it is a minister or a secret envoy of Xunshu, they have no second thoughts towards His Majesty. The same is true for Mrs. Xun. I hope Your Majesty will give Mrs. Xun some time! "

Xun Yu knelt down and made a request to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei sighed, stepped forward to help Xun Yu up, smiled and shook his head at him.

"Wen Ruo, I understand your intentions, I also understand Gongda's intentions, and I also understand the difficulties of the Xun family, so I say let's stop here. Those who are unwilling will never be willing. , Doing it by force is not beautiful, I am not a person who likes to force people, this matter, let's stop here."

For some reason, Xun Yu always felt uneasy, even after leaving the palace, he still felt uneasy. He always felt that what Liu Bei said might be a little insincere.

The Cao family, the Xiahou family and the Zhen family have already made a decision. Liu Bei was very happy and praised them. When it was the Xun family's turn, how could Liu Bei be so tolerant all of a sudden?
If this matter gets out, what will the Cao family, Xiahou family and Zhen family think of it?
After thinking about it, Xun Yu felt that this could not be the case. What should be done was still to be done, and the Xun family could not become a specialized family—the current specialization may be an important reason for marginalization in the future.

So Xun Yu quickly left the palace, ready to go back to further fight and talk with the family.

On the other side, after Xun Yu left, Liu Bei shook his head.

Xun Yu is a very capable person. He admits this. He is very capable. Whether he is a prefect or a governor, he is very handy in administration and can use various political means to accomplish tasks.

At the same time, he is very clean and has a good character. He never takes bribes. He is very disgusted with such things as corruption and bribery. He leads by example and drives people around him to abide by the laws and regulations of the court.

In the place he governs, the officials are clean and efficient, so Liu Bei even thinks that he is a very good candidate for prime minister. If it was in the Western Han Dynasty, or the Qin Dynasty, or the Warring States Period, Xun Yu would definitely shine.

He admired Xun Yu.

However, this does not mean that he fully approves of Xun Yu.

It is certain that no one is without shortcomings, and the same is true for Xun Yu.

For a ruler, the most unacceptable thing is that the authority of his subordinates directly catches up with or surpasses himself. This is also one of the reasons why emperors have not set up prime ministers since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And this is also the reason why Xun Yu and Cao Cao finally broke up on the original timeline.

Compared with Cao Cao, Xun Yu may be more of a political alliance than a subject. He can be regarded as Cao Wei's early partner. He laid the foundation for Cao Cao's rule and thus became a crucial Yingchuan in Cao Cao's ruling group. The leader of the scholar group.

Cao Cao was able to overthrow Yuan Shao, and Xun Yu contributed the most to it.

But after Cao Cao destroyed the Yuan family, he did not intend to continue to maintain the situation of "Xun's family, the master of the Cao family".

The reason is very simple. In Xuchang, Xun Yu gained the actual power to be in charge of the government as a minister. With Cao Cao's military victory over Yuan Shao, Xun Yu's political influence was further expanded, and the power of the scholars in Yingchuan became more and more powerful. big.

Therefore, Cao Cao decided to move his capital to Yecheng, transfer his political core to the Hebei area that was pacified by force, and support Hebei scholars to check and balance Yingchuan scholars in order to gain more power.

This was a great blow to Yingchuan scholars, and had a great impact on Xun Yu's political influence and power.

During this process, the two began to have political differences, and after Cao Cao took the prime minister himself and transferred the power of the Han Empire from the Minister of the Inner Dynasty to the Prime Minister's Office in the Outer Dynasty, this difference was completely irreconcilable.

Cao Cao couldn't tolerate Xun Yu's authority and power surpassing him, and Xun Yu was unwilling to accept that his partner's identity and credit were wiped out by Cao Cao, and he was unwilling to accept this situation.

The relationship between the two then completely broke down, and finally ushered in the end of tragedy.

Liu Bei is willing to believe that these two people have a deep personal relationship. During the entrepreneurial stage, these two people must have appreciated each other, were friendly to each other, and had many good memories.

But what is personal friendship in the face of power?

When there is a dispute between power and core interests and some people are unwilling to back down, even the best memories are meaningless.

In Liu Bei's view, this kind of tragedy is nothing to regret. It can only be said that these two people have core interests that they are unwilling to give up, but in the meantime, it is hard to say where they put the survival of the Han Dynasty. up.

Or the survival of the Han Dynasty is just a pawn in their political struggle.

The survival of the Han Dynasty is not important, their existence is the most important thing. At that time, none of them were courtiers of the Han Dynasty, and no one was a saint.

Wang Zuozhi is not a saint either.

So, watching Xun Yu's back disappear, Liu Bei sighed slightly, and turned his gaze to the screen behind the side of the room.

"Gongda, you have seen Wen Ruo's choice. It's not that I don't give the Xun family a chance. I give the Xun family time and time again, even a bit too much. However, the Xun family can't grasp it by itself. These opportunities, is this my problem?"

After Liu Bei finished speaking, Xun You turned around from behind the screen, looking at the distant figure Xun You left with a very complicated expression.

After a long time, Xun You sighed.

"What Your Majesty said, I have already understood, Your Majesty has done the utmost to the Xun family, and I am deeply grateful for His Majesty's kindness, but the Xun family is incompetent and does not appreciate Your Majesty's kindness. They are too arrogant. This is not your Majesty's problem at all. I...have nothing to say."

Three days ago, Xun You found Liu Bei and talked with Liu Bei in private, hoping that Liu Bei could give the Xun family one last chance.

He felt that Xun Su and Xun Yu might be able to bring a brand new future to the Xun family. If they could do it, he would ask Liu Bei to forgive the Xun family.

He said that this is his last helping hand to the Xun family as a child of the Xun family in Yingchuan. If this time fails, he will never do anything for the Xun family in Yingchuan again, and he will completely become a person who thinks wholeheartedly for Liu Bei Pure minister.

Liu Bei nodded in agreement.

Xun You obviously never really cut off his feelings for the Xun family. He still has the Xun family in his heart, but he never showed it outwardly. At this critical moment, he felt that he had to do something.

Just treat it as the last push to the Xun family, and fulfill your final responsibility as a member of the Xun family, even if you just extend a hand, if the Xun family is really saved, then you can do it.

He heard that Xun Yu had worked so hard for this matter, so he felt that there was still some hope for the Xun family.

But it turns out he was wrong.

The Cao family, Xiahou family and Zhen family all have the strong will and unshakable determination to follow Liu Bei and continue to improve. Therefore, they have eliminated all the difficulties and proved that they have the strength and will to lead the family, and give good results to the family. After leaving Liu Bei, Liu Bei is happy, and these three families also have a future.

But Xun's is not like this.

There were also opponents within the other three families, and some opponents were quite powerful, such as the Cao family, but the Cao family did the same.

Cao Cao used a big stick and a carrot, which was almost a threatening method, while fighting and wooing, at least let Liu Bei see Cao Cao's loyalty and determination to him, and Cao Cao also proved that he can lead the Cao family on the right path.

Even if it is mandatory.

In this way, Cao Cao himself and the Cao family gained the trust of Liu Bei, which proved that they were worthy of being trusted and appointed by Liu Bei.

He can force the family to listen to his enforced loyalty, which is very important.

What about the Xun family?

The Xun family did not fully reflect the important element of loyalty from top to bottom, and it was the same from top to bottom.

If this is not the most deadly factor, then the most deadly factor is that Xun Yu himself has not shown the coercive power to lead Xun's loyalty to Liu Bei.

This became Xun's Achilles' heel.

If there are disagreements within your family, including those who understand righteousness and those who are greedy, that is normal, and there is nothing wrong with it. But the problem is that other families can have a strong leader who can unify the will of the family and suppress dissatisfied opposition. This leader is loyal enough to Liu Bei.

For example Zhen Yan.

The Zhen family has a lot of showmanship. It is rumored that Liu Bei is also very dissatisfied with some members of the Zhen family, but the problem is that the Zhen family has a Zhen Yan who absolutely obeys Liu Bei's will and has a great influence in the family.

Although Zhen Yan is not the patriarch of the Zhen family, he holds a high position in the court and is Liu Bei's confidant. For the sake of their own future, many members of the Zhen family are willing to follow Zhen Yan's will in exchange for his favor.

So in order to preserve this bright future, Zhen Yan relied on his own authority and brought people who were willing to follow him to suppress the opposition of the Zhen family forcefully, forcing them to follow him.

Then he actually became the leader of the Zhen family.

Before and after this time, the Zhen family completely became Zhen Yan's Zhen family. All opposition forces in the family were suppressed by Zhen Yan, and two clan elders even hanged themselves for this.

Zhen Yan said nothing about this, as if all this was taken for granted, and those in the family who did not follow him would be suppressed and eliminated by him in this way, without mercy, and no one would want to hinder his loyalty and following Liu Bei.

This is the correct way to follow Liu Bei.

Zhen Yan was loyal to Liu Bei. He showed signs and actual abilities of being loyal to Liu Bei, but the Xun family did not.

Whether it is Xun Su or Xun Yu, they all chose the family instead of Liu Bei.

This choice was nothing in the past, because the imperial power was not strong in the past, regardless of whether it was Emperor Huan or Liu Hong, they did not have that kind of power that was strong enough.

But for this moment, it is very inappropriate.

Liu Bei is not Liu Hong, he is too strong.

Xun You just saw this and knew that the Xun family had no time, so he hoped that Liu Bei would give the Xun family more opportunities and time, and Liu Bei also responded to Xun You's request and gave the Xun family the last time to let Xun Showed his loyalty.

It's a pity that if you give them a chance, they are useless.

So Xun You had nothing to say.

Seeing Xun You's disappointed expression, Liu Bei stepped forward and patted Xun You on the shoulder.

"Gongda, I know what you mean, but I still want to say, don't feel too much guilt for those who don't deserve help at all, and don't think it's your fault. I heard a saying in my hometown in Youzhou, It's hard to persuade a damned person with good words.

Some people are not worthy of help at all, some people no matter how hard you try, he should seek death, or seek death, and die without repentance, such a person, you don’t need to help, you don’t need so much for your family Responsibility, give the responsibility to the big man. "

After being persuaded by Liu Bei, Xun You seemed to have some feelings. After being silent for a while, he saluted Liu Bei to express his gratitude.

"Your Majesty said that I am quite touched. I have indeed done my best for the Xun family. Since the next thing is not something I can do alone, then I don't want to get involved in more things about the Xun family. Whether they live or die, from now on, has nothing to do with me."

"Don't worry, as long as they don't rebel, I certainly won't kill them. At most, I'll send them to Liaodong or Jiaozhou."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Besides, since the old Xun family is hopeless, Gongda, why don't you create a new Xun family? Isn't your surname also Xun? Aren't you also a descendant of your ancestors? Why is there only the main line?" If you can inherit, you can't inherit?
Think about it, I am not the great clan of the royal family, and I even said that the succession of the throne of the Han Dynasty is no longer the succession of the great clan of the royal family since Emperor Xiaohui. "

Liu Bei held Xun You's hand with one hand, patted his shoulder with the other, and smiled warmly at him.

(End of this chapter)