Liu Yu shook his head: "No, you're wrong, I mean, if the Xie family intends to go on a northern expedition, of course I will still work for the Xie family, but if the Xie family is really as Huan Xuan said, only trying to protect themselves and not thinking of making progress, then it is impossible for me to let the dream of restoring the Central Plains be shattered." ”

Murong Nan hooked the corners of his mouth: "Do you think the Huan family can help you realize this dream?" ”

Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "That's right, at least, they are more motivated than the Xie family to achieve this." ”

Murong Nan said softly, "Oh": "How can you see it?" ”

Liu Yu Zhengse said: "What Xie Xianggong wants is the real power of the virtual monarch, as long as he holds the power of the prime minister, and then befriends the major families through marriage, so that the court is full of children of the family, then the emperor has no power, and can only obey his words, so even if he does not go on a northern expedition, as long as he keeps the existing territory, the Xie family can still keep his power." ”

"But the Huan family is different, they are foreign vassals, too far away from the central government, if they want to seize power, there is only one way to usurp the throne, and to do usurpation, in addition to being as strong as Huan Wen, enough to lead troops to control Jiankang City, but also as you said, you have to effectively control the people and the countryside."

Murong Nan smiled: "Is this necessarily related to the Northern Expedition?" ”

Liu Yu sighed: "I always thought that the Northern Expedition was just to accumulate popularity, so that the family or the scholars could support me. In addition to gaining fame, the Northern Expedition can also get the existing benefits and the capital of usurpation. ”

Murong Nan's heart moved, and he hurriedly said, "Where does this start?" ”

Liu Yu's eyes sparkled: "I have been in the south for nearly a hundred years, in fact, at the beginning, the northern families of Nandu were not very prosperous, and compared with the local native families, such as Zhoulu, Zhang, Shen and Zhu, in addition to the power of the DPRK, there is not much advantage, so since the founding of the country, the power of the DPRK and China belongs to the northern clans, and the civil land population is mostly owned by the indigenous families of Jiangdong. ”

Murong Nan nodded: "This is how the king and the horse share the world, and the strong dragon and the earth snake can be regarded as having found a balance, which makes the Hu people in the north also impressed." ”

Liu Yu said with a smile: "But in the past hundred years, the descendants of the powerful northern clans have multiplied, and they can rely on the power in their hands to let the descendants occupy the fields and enclosures, and slowly encroach on the interests of those natives. ”

Murong Nan's eyebrows raised and looked at Liu Yu: "Yes, didn't I say it before, Wang Xie, the sons and nephews of the high-ranking families, control the rural people in the south of the Yangtze River, and have a large number of manors and tenants, which is the reason why Huan Wen does not dare to usurp things." But what does this have to do with the Northern Expedition? ”

Liu Yu Zhengse said: "My Dajin is now only the land of Jingxiang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as the land of Sanwu and Lianghuai, which can be regarded as the core area. Others, such as Minyue and Lingnan Jiaozhou, are all remote places and can be ignored. The land and population of these core areas have basically been divided among the clans or the warlords of the feudal towns, so it can be said that it is difficult to divide new benefits from their hands to the meritorious people of the Northern Expedition. To let those children of the family distribute their own land and tenants to the Beifu Army, I think even Xie Xianggong is difficult to do, this is the fundamental reason why the Northern Expedition has always failed to succeed over the years. ”

"But the land newly conquered and conquered in the north is different, and with these borderless lands, it can be used to reward new meritorious soldiers, and the population can be redistributed, and even new armies can be formed from these people, so that their power will continue to grow. The Huan family only relied on Jingzhou alone, and it was impossible to control the people of Sanwu, but if there were forces and troops in the Central Plains, Qilu, and Guanzhong, it would be different. ”

Murong Nan nodded and muttered: "Yes, our Murong clan has become the ruler of the Central Plains, and we also rely on the local Han powerful landlords to maintain the rule, relying on the strength of our own clan alone, it is impossible to stabilize the north, Liu Yu, how did you think of this?" ”

Liu Yu sighed: "Liu Muzhi and I often talked about this before, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now I think about it, the truth of the world is the same, the Huan family wants to go on a northern expedition, in the final analysis, for the new land, population, they want to be the emperor, want to be the whole world, not half of the emperor in the south of the Yangtze River, so in this regard, it may be fundamentally different from the families in Jiangdong, because the Huan family is more of a feudal town, rather than an ordinary family gate." ”

Murong Nan said with a smile: "What the warlords want is to rely on strong soldiers and horses to win the world, not to guard their own one-third of an acre, so they are naturally more enterprising than the family gate lords, do you want to say this?" ”

Liu Yu sighed: "Yes, I used to think that Xie Xianggong had the world in mind and had the heart to regain the lost land, but listening to Huan Xuan's words, I am a little shaken now, Xie Xianggong is the Xie family after all, what he has to consider is to maintain the power of the Xie family, and then to restore the great cause of the Central Plains, and the Huan family, they are bent on usurping the throne, but to achieve this, they must enter the Central Plains, maybe in this regard, the Huan family is closer to my goal." ”

Murong Nan nodded: "Do you really have the intention of changing to the Huan family?" ”

Liu Yu shook his head: "How is that possible?" No matter how the Xie family says that they have a great favor to me, I will not turn my back on the Xie family, but if one day, the Xie family can't do the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and the Huan family can do it, maybe I will help the Huan family once, after all, I am first and foremost a child of the Great Jin Dynasty and a Han person. ”

Murong Nan sighed: "But even if you think so, what will the Xie family think of you?" What will the world think of you? Liu Yu, now in the eyes of others, you are already the future son-in-law of the Xie family, and the future general they need to use to control the Beifu Army. ”

Liu Yu smiled and waved his hand: "I don't want to be anyone's tool, Murong Nan, I won't be like your Murong family, once the wings are stiff, I will eat the old master, there is really a day when the world is cleared, maybe I will return to Lin Quan." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yu sighed and looked up at the sky, in this narrow alley, even the sky has become only one line of width and narrowness: "But it's useless to say these things now, the Qin army is pressed and repelled the strong enemy in front of you first, and then you can think of anything else." However, whether Xie Xianggong will really be as Huan Xuan said, maybe the handling of Huan Jiang's death this time can be seen to some extent. ”