Chapter 306 Welcome to the triumphal return of the king!
In the face of major crises, some members of the Xun family are willing to accept the facts, but there are also others who are unwilling to accept the facts no matter what. No matter how much Xun Yu persuades them, it is useless.
They also have their own opinions and thinking logic.
"I, Mr. Xun, have done so many things for the Han Dynasty. Countless ancestors have worked hard for the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty, and even died in office. Is the imperial court so ruthless to Mr. Xun now?"
"The late emperor never mentioned things that had 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 we have, the more taxes we pay. So my family has so much land, the whole family needs to eat and drink, and there are so many employees who need to be paid and take care of the food. How many bites will fall into my mouth? I might as well just give them all."
Just sell it!"
"Before, we didn't have slaves for us, so we had to spend money to hire people to farm the fields. Now we have to collect so much agricultural tax. Do we still need to eat at home?"
"Wen Ruo, if you want to be a high-ranking official, I don't care about you, but don't try to meddle with me. I can't reach you, so why don't I hide from you? Don't tell me that we are the same race. I don't have you.
Same race!"
Xun Yu was rejected many times, but he had no choice but to force his family members to do so. He felt that doing so would hurt people's hearts and hurt the cohesion of the family, so he could only try to seek help from Xun You.
But Xun You closed the door to thank guests, and Xun Yu was definitely not seen.
Xun Yu felt helpless, and finally had no choice but to tell Liu Bei, saying that most of the Xun clan members understood the righteousness and were willing to accept Liu Bei's request, but there were still some Xun clan members who were ignorant and unwilling to accept Liu Bei's request.
Require.
Xun Yu hoped that he could take the lead and organize part of the money to purchase excess land from those tribesmen to meet the requirements of the land transfer order, but it might take some time to raise money, and he hoped that Liu Bei could give him this time.
He will definitely 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. Since there are so many difficulties, then forget it. If Mr. Xun is willing to cooperate, he will cooperate. If he is not willing to cooperate, forget it. Although I am the emperor
, 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. He should have felt relieved, but in his heart he felt an almost instinctive feeling of something bad. This emotion gradually dominated his mood.
Then he felt he should say something.
"After my uncle passed away, the Xun family had no clan leader, and the clan was in chaos. The family affairs had just been sorted out recently, so the chaos in the family was an important reason. But now that the clan affairs have been sorted out, it only needs a little more time.
I can solve this matter.
Xun has been following His Majesty for several years and is loyal to His Majesty. No matter whether he is a minister or Xun’s secret envoy, he has the utmost devotion to Your Majesty. The same is true for Xun. I hope your Majesty will give Xun some time!"
Xun Yu knelt on the ground and made a request to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei sighed, stepped forward and helped Xun Yu up, smiled at him and shook his head.
"Wen Ruo, I understand your intentions, I also understand Gongda's intentions, and I also know Xun's difficulties, so I said that this matter should end here. People who are unwilling will never be willing.
, Doing it by force is not beautiful. I am not a person who likes to force others. Let this matter end here."
I don't know why, Xun Yu always felt uneasy, even after leaving the palace, he still felt uneasy. He always felt that Liu Bei might not mean what he said.
The Cao family, the Xiahou family and the Zhen family have all made their decisions. Liu Bei was very happy and praised them. When it was the Xun family's turn, why did Liu Bei suddenly become so tolerant?
If this matter spreads, how will the Cao family, Xiahou family and Zhen family treat it?
Xun Yu thought about it and felt that it couldn't be like this. What should be done should be done, and the Xun family could not become a special family - the specialization now may be an important reason for marginalization in the future.
So Xun Yu quickly left the palace, preparing to go back to further fight for and talk to the family.
On the other side, after Xun Yu left, Liu Bei shook his head.
Xun Yu was a very capable person. He admitted this. He was very capable. Whether he was a governor or a governor, he was very handy in administration and could use various political means to accomplish tasks.
At the same time, he is very honest and has a good character. He will never take corruption or bribery. He is very disgusted with corruption and bribery. He leads by example and encourages people around him to abide by the laws and regulations of the court.
The officials in the place he governed were clean enough and efficient, so Liu Bei even thought that he was a very good candidate for prime minister. If he were in the Western Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty, or the Warring States Period, Xun Yu would definitely be able to 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 for the authority of his subordinates to pursue or surpass himself. This is also one of the reasons why emperors have not appointed prime ministers since the Eastern Han Dynasty.
And this is also the reason why Xun Yu and Cao Cao finally broke up in the original timeline.
Compared with Cao Cao, Xun Yu may be more of a political alliance than a subordinate. He can be regarded as an early partner of Cao Wei. He laid the foundation for Cao Cao's rule and thus became a crucial Yingchuan member of Cao Cao's ruling group.
The leader of the scholar group.
Cao Cao was able to overthrow Yuan Shao, and Xun Yu played the most important role.
But after Cao Cao overthrew the Yuan family, he no longer planned to maintain this situation of "the Xun family's mansion, the lord of the Cao family".
The reason is simple. In Xuchang, Xun Yu gained the actual power to preside over the government as a minister. With Cao Cao's military victory over Yuan Shao, Xun Yu's political influence further expanded, and the power of Yingchuan scholars 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 the scholars in Hebei to check and balance the scholars in Yingchuan in order to gain more power.
This was a huge blow to the Yingchuan scholars and had a great impact on Xun Yu's political influence and power.
The two began to have political differences during this process, and as Cao Cao took over as Prime Minister and transferred the power of the Han Empire from the Shangshu Ling in the inner dynasty to the Prime Minister's Office in the outer dynasty, these differences became completely irreconcilable.
Cao Cao could not tolerate Xun Yu's authority and power exceeding his own, and Xun Yu was unwilling to accept that his partner's identity and achievements were wiped out by Cao Cao, and he was unwilling to accept this situation.
The relationship between the two completely collapsed, and finally came to a tragic end.
Liu Bei is willing to believe that there is a deep personal relationship between the two people. During the entrepreneurial stage, the two people must have admired each other, been friendly to each other, and had many good memories.
But what does personal friendship mean in the face of power?
When there is a dispute between power and core interests and someone is unwilling to back down, no matter how beautiful the memories are, they are meaningless.
In Liu Bei's view, there is nothing to regret about this kind of tragedy. It can only be said that both of them have core interests that they are unwilling to give up. However, in the meantime, it is hard to say where they put the survival of the Han Dynasty.
Already.
Or maybe 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. At that time, none of them were ministers of the Han Dynasty, and no one was a saint.
Wang Zuozhi is not a saint either.
Therefore, watching Xun Yu's back disappear, Liu Bei sighed slightly and turned his attention behind the screen on one side of the room.
"Gongda, you have seen Wenruo's choice. It's not that I didn't give Xunshi a chance. I gave Xunshi opportunities again and again, and even gave them a little too much. But Xunshi couldn't grasp it himself.
These opportunities, is this my problem?”
After Liu Bei finished speaking, Xun You turned out from behind the screen and looked at Xun Yu's leaving figure in the distance with a very complicated expression.
After a long time, Xun You sighed.
"I already understand what your Majesty said. Your Majesty has been extremely benevolent to the Xun family. I am also deeply grateful for your majesty's kindness. However, 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.
Sir... I have nothing to say."
Three days ago, Xun You found Liu Bei and talked with Liu Bei privately, hoping that Liu Bei could give Xun a last chance.
He felt that Xun Su and Xun Yu might be able to bring a new future to the Xun family. If they could do this, he asked Liu Bei to forgive Xun family.
He said that this was his last helping hand to the Xun family as a descendant of the Yingchuan Xun family. If it failed this time, he would never do anything for the Yingchuan Xun family again, and he would become a person who thought wholeheartedly for Liu Bei.
Pure minister.
Liu Bei nodded in agreement.
Xun You obviously never truly cut off his feelings for Xun. He still had Xun in his heart, but he never showed it outwardly. At this critical moment, he felt that he had to do something.
Just think of it as the last chance to give Xun a helping hand, and fulfill your final responsibility as a member of the Xun clan. Even if you just extend a hand, if Xun is really still saved, then just give it a try.
He heard that Xun Yu was running around and working hard on this matter, so he felt that Xun Yu still had some hope.
But it turned out that he was wrong.
The Cao family, the Xiahou family and the Zhen family all had the strong will and unshakable determination to follow Liu Bei and continue to improve. Therefore, they eliminated all difficulties, proved that they had the strength and will to lead the family, and gave good results to
After Liu Bei died, Liu Bei was happy, and these three families also had a future.
But this is not the case with Xunshi.
There are also opponents within the other three families, some of whom are quite powerful, such as the Cao family, but the Cao family still managed it.
Cao Cao used big sticks and carrots, almost threatening methods, fighting and wooing at the same time. At least Liu Bei saw Cao Cao's loyalty and determination to him, and Cao Cao also proved that he could lead the Cao family on the right path.
Even if it is mandatory.
In this way, Cao Cao himself and the Cao family gained Liu Bei's trust, proving their worth of being trusted and appointed by Liu Bei.
He can force the family to obey his forced loyalty, which is very important.
What about Xun?
Xun's family has not fully reflected the important factor of loyalty from top to bottom. This is true from top to bottom.
If this is not the most fatal factor, then the most fatal factor is that Xun Yu himself did not show the coercive power to lead Xun to be loyal to Liu Bei.
This became Xun's Achilles' heel.
If there are differences within your family, and some are righteous and some 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, and
This leader is loyal enough to Liu Bei.
For example, Zhen Yan.
The Zhen family has a lot of sleazy manipulations. It is rumored that Liu Bei is also very dissatisfied with some people in the Zhen family. But the problem is that the Zhen family has a Zhen Yan who absolutely obeys Liu Bei's will and has great influence in the family.
Although Zhen Yan is not the head of the Zhen family, he holds a high position in the court and is a close confidant of Liu Bei. For the sake of their own future, many people in the Zhen family are willing to obey 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 led people who were willing to follow him to forcefully suppress the opposition of the Zhen family and force them to obey him.
Then he actually became the leader of the Zhen family.
Around this time, the Zhen family completely became Zhen Yan's Zhen family. All opposition forces within the family were suppressed by Zhen Yan, and two clan elders even hanged themselves for this reason.
Zhen Yan showed no sign of this, as if all this was a matter of course. Anyone in the family who did not follow him would be suppressed and eliminated by him without mercy. 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, and he showed signs of being loyal to Liu Bei and his actual ability, but Xun did not.
Both Xun Su and Xun Yu 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 strong enough power.
But it is very inappropriate for this time.
Liu Bei is not Liu Hong, he is too strong.
Xun You saw this and knew that Xun had little time, so he hoped that Liu Bei could give Xun more opportunities and time. Liu Bei also responded to Xun You's request and gave Xun his last time to let Xun
Show your loyalty.
It's a pity that if you give them a chance, they will fail.
Xun You had nothing to say.
Liu Bei looked at Xun You's disappointed expression and stepped forward to pat Xun You on the shoulder.
"Gongda, I know how you feel, but I still want to say that for people who are not worthy of help at all, you should not feel too guilty or think that it is your own fault. I heard a saying in my hometown in Youzhou,
It's hard to persuade someone who deserves to die with good words.
Some people are not worth helping at all. No matter how hard you try, some people will seek death or seek death and refuse to repent. For such people, you have no need to help. You don’t need to have so much concern for your family.
Responsibility, leave it to the big man."
Xun You seemed to have some feelings after being persuaded by Liu Bei. After being silent for a while, he saluted Liu Bei to express his gratitude.
"Your Majesty, I am very touched by what I said. I have indeed tried my best for the Xun family. Since the next thing is no longer something I can do alone, I don't want to get involved in any more matters about the Xun family.
Whether they live or die, from now on, it has nothing to do with me.”
"Don't worry, as long as they don't rebel, I certainly won't kill them. I'll send them to Liaodong or Jiaozhou at most."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Besides, since the old Xun family is hopeless, Gongda, why don't you create a new Xun family? Aren't you also surnamed Xun? Aren't you also a descendant of our ancestors? Why are there only main lines?
You can inherit, but you can't?
Think about it, I am not a member of the royal family. It is even said that the inheritance of the throne of the Han Dynasty was no longer the inheritance of the royal family after Emperor Xiaohui. The throne can be transferred from a small sect to a large sect, so why can't the head of the family not do it?"
Liu Bei held Xun You's hand with one hand, patted his shoulder with the other, and gave him a warm smile.