Meng Huaiyu frowned: "So, Brother Ji Nu, what you mean is that only when Huan Xuan really usurped the throne and became a traitor can he attack him? Will he have the right to be righteous at this time?"
Liu Yu nodded, pointed to the city wall opposite, and said, "Yes, let alone me. Even these demon thieves were floating on the sea, leading the brothers of the Northern Palace to capture the sea. At that time, the Jin Dynasty and Sima Dezong were still in power. We captured them as the official army of the Jin Dynasty. This was to suppress the rebellion and suppress the thieves. However, when these demon thieves reached an agreement with us and went into the sea far away and no longer harmed the people, they were actually half pardoned and no longer sinners. But after Huan Xuan usurped the throne, his Guangzhou governor Wu Yinzhi was also equivalent to a rebel. At this time, they were attacked by the demon thieves floating on the sea and occupied Guangzhou. Although this was just the demon thieves taking advantage of the chaos to make a piece of land for themselves, in terms of reputation, they did attack the rebels and made contributions. In the end, we had to admit Lu Xun and Xu Daofu's rule in Guangzhou and gave them official positions."
Xiang Mi grinned and said, "To be honest, I Tien Niu doesn't understand these great principles very clearly. I only know that following Brother Jinu is correct. I will do whatever Brother Jinu told me to do."
Liu Yu said seriously: "Tie Niu, this is blind obedience, which is wrong. If I suddenly had an unjust one day, or because of anger, some wrong decisions, your blind obedience will help the evil, just like when I was in Nanyan, because the attack on Guanggu was too much, and later because of Murong Lan's death, I was angry and issued an order to slaughter the whole city. If it weren't for the bitter advice of Han Fan and Liu Mu, I would have been a big mistake and would have lost all the hearts of Qingzhou and would not be able to effectively rule now.
It is a human being, and other people in power are also human beings. People will make mistakes. People may also have desires. After being in power, they may have unfaithful intentions. Just like Huan Wen, maybe when he first went to Jingzhou, or when he first entered the black hand, he was also a passionate man with ideals and wanted to serve the country wholeheartedly. However, after being exposed to power for a long time, he did not want to give up and wanted to possess it forever. The same is true for other families who want their descendants to inherit their power. We must guard against it and oppose it, aren’t that all of them?”
Xiang Mi's face turned slightly red: "Brother Jinu taught me that I have to read more books and learn more principles, but we really don't believe that Brother Jinu, you will become a person like Huan Wen, which will bring disaster to the world."
Liu Yu sighed, looking at Liu Fan who had been listening but not speaking, and said, "Although Huan Wen had the intention to usurp the throne, he had never taken that step. However, he had long been separating Jingzhou and cultivated his own power. In the name of relocating his subordinates, he gave all those who followed him privately to allocate official positions and placed them in various places in Jingzhou, and refused the officials sent by the court to take office according to normal procedures, turning Jingzhou into a place of his family's surname. The officials of Jingzhou, from Chang'an, to the military academy, to the grassroots village chiefs, and the village chiefs, all of them knew that there was General Huan, not the court, and the emperor."
Liu Fan said coldly: "Although this is incorrect in terms of law, isn't Huan Wen's power thousands of times better than those officials of the aristocratic families in power? He can use the manpower and material resources of Jingzhou, build a powerful army, and launch a northern expedition. Isn't this what Brother Jinu has always wanted to do? Although his son usurped the throne and became a rebel, let alone the position of loyalty or traitor, you think it's better for Brother Jinu to be sent by the imperial court to be corrupt, or should Huan Wen appoint his old subordinates and aides?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Afan, the question you asked is very good, but if you ask me to answer, it is that no matter what, loyalty is the first priority of being a person, an official, and a general, just like why we worship General Zuti and why we set up temples for him? Is it just because he can fight, and just because he has established the achievements of regaining the land of Yuzhou for a while?"
Meng Huaiyu said seriously: "What we Jingkou people respect most is that in that troubled era, he did not just want to rely on the troops in his hands to settle the other side, but he did not forget the ambition of the Northern Expedition in the most difficult times, and wanted to fight with the Hulu, and led all his subordinates to fight the Central Plains. In the end, he did not raise troops to rebel against the court like Su Jun and Wang Dun, who had made great contributions. It can be said that he was unparalleled in loyalty and righteousness, and was the integrity of his ministers."
Liu Yu nodded and said, "That's it. The biggest difference between General Zuti and Huan Wen is this. Even if the emperor and the ministers of the aristocratic families sent me to seize his army and occupy the territory he captured, he did not resist and handed over these things. But think about it on the other hand, what if the person who came to take over the famous ministers and generals, what if the loyal ministers such as Tao Kan were sent to take over the Yuzhou army at that time and continue the Northern Expedition, would they succeed?"
Liu Fan said coldly: "Who is the one sent to take over? No one can say what skills are there. Before Dai took over General Zu Shi, he was also a so-called famous man. However, no one can say whether the famous man will fight and whether he can cure the newly recovered land. Do you have to place these talents who have been confirmed to be able to govern and fight on the hope of changing an unknown court official and general?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Who sent to take over and who will take office is the court's business. The ability of this person and whether to replace people is at the central government, at the court level, and to argue. This is a requirement for the superiors. But if the person who makes these decisions is out of public interest and has enough ability to judge the candidates, how can he send a bunch of mediocre waste to replace the confident talents?"
"In other words, if the people in power in the central government at that time were General Zuti, and the emperor could not randomly consider the issue from the perspective of his closeness and distantness and the most beneficial to the country, he would not have replaced Zuti with Dai Yuan, or in other words, he would have sent people like Tao Kan to take his troops to rotate Zuti, and he could control the entire Yuzhou Legion."
Chapter completed!