Chapter 41: Separation

In fact, all this can go so smoothly, and Yuan Shu can be such a loser, thanks to such a big tree as the Yuan family leaning against him.

The world is about to be in chaos, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao have been selected as the spokesperson of the Yuan family, and the old Yuan family in Yuzhou will naturally disappear slowly.

Except for most of the Yuan family's family education and elite talents, who went into hiding and defected to Hanoi's younger brother Sima's family, the other forces were slowly divided by Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.

The two separated in harmony.

Yuan Shu is leaving, most of the wealth of the Yuan family and almost all the tenants, black households and domestic slaves under his command.

And Yuan Shao brought a small part of the wealth and almost all the officials and other backbone talents under the command of the Yuan family.

Yuan Shao is in Hebei, there is no shortage of money and food, no shortage of population, only lack of management talents.

And Yuan Shu was in Jiangnan, and he had his own plans, giving up these protégés of the Yuan family, and choosing wealth and population.

The two can be said to take what they need.

I have to say that the Yuan family's family background is really thick, it really deserves to be a top family, hundreds of years of looting and accumulation are not blown, no wonder it was able to support a Hebei overlord and a Central Plains overlord later.

The total amount of money and grain is more than one billion, and the population under his control is one million, of which there are more than 20,000 skilled craftsmen.

In history, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao were able to pull out an army of two or three hundred thousand casually, which must have nothing to do with the wealth and population of the Yuan family.

Most of the money and grain had just arrived a month ago, and the people, except for those craftsmen, had all arrived, and Yuan Shu had not recruited all the others, after all, there was still some time, and Yuan Shu asked them to continue to help them find people to buy food outside. Take advantage of the fact that the world is not in chaos to harvest another wave.

So much money, food, and craftsmen, and all of them belong to Yuan Shu's own, so Yuan Shu naturally has to make good use of it.

The first thing Yuan Shu did was what Tian Feng said before, to smash the money and grain and smash the stagnant water in Yangzhou to life.

The family has money and doesn't spend it, but only exploits, right?

Now Lao Tzu has more money than you combined, and Lao Tzu hurts people with his roots, anyway, Lao Tzu's family is thick.

What conditions do you offer to the tenants and black households under your command, Lao Tzu will pay three times.

See if you are in a hurry, even if Lao Tzu loses, but you also have to follow a small loss, and it is the people who benefit.

The people are rich, but it is I, as the ruler, who are the most powerful.

Moreover, Lao Tzu also occupies the name of righteousness and the government, and his strength is also comprehensively crushing you.

I'm not convinced, you rebel!

Without the support of the people, the 80,000 elite soldiers under Lao Tzu will fight you!

All in all, with the capital, Yuan Shu's plan was finally on the right track.

These families in Yangzhou, a very backward place now, are all unpopular goods.

Relying on the Yuan family's background, Yuan Shu can be completely domineering and crushed, and soon make Yangzhou a monolith.

If you put it in the north and the Central Plains, will you try it?

There are families everywhere, and if you come to two top families side by side, you will be finished.

That is, in a remote and underdeveloped place like Yangzhou, Yuan Shu can come so nonsense.

Relying on this unreasonable method of throwing money, Yuan Shu successfully revitalized Yangzhou's situation.

Born with a golden soup spoon in his mouth, it makes so much sense to have a deep heritage.

This is also the reason why when Yuan Shu was in Luoyang, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao commented on Liu Bei very highly, but they still felt that it was difficult for him to succeed.

The background is too bad.

If Liu Bei, a poor and white man like Liu Bei, was in Yuan Shu's position, there would definitely be no way but to compromise with the Yangzhou family and start an endless tug-of-war with them.

A good start is half the battle, and Yuan Shu's start is perfect, like a building, Yuan Shu can lay the foundation very strong, enough to support a skyscraper.

And Xiang Liu Bei can only build a foundation first by tinkering.

Because there is no capital, let alone building a skyscraper, it is a little difficult to build a small villa.

And then when you have money, it is even more difficult to lay a solid foundation.

It is much easier to destroy than to create, and it is much easier to create than to transform.

When the foundations of the ruling land are corroded, the moths that entrench themselves will grow stronger and stronger as they become stronger, and in the end, they will become more and more difficult to contain.

Just like the Wei State in later generations, the national strength is enough to crush the Shu State and the Wu State several times, but it just can't destroy each other.

Because there were too many moths inside, under the pull of all parties, Wei was never able to accumulate strength to dominate the world.

Until the family felt that they were almost strong, they decisively counterattacked the Wei State, established the Jin State, and then quickly dominated the world.

There are many lessons from history, and they are also very painful.

Yuan Shu profoundly understands that a strong country can have different voices, but the ruler must have absolute dominance.

When the ruler makes a decision, the whole country cannot afford to be held back by anyone.

Even if you don't respond, you can't secretly drag your feet.

Therefore, Yuan Shu gave up Yuzhou and the north, which could easily rise, and chose Yangzhou.

Relying on the background of the Yuan family, Yuan Shu can easily crush the entire Yangzhou family and form an absolute rule.

In the end, various means can be used to transform the forces and families under his command to form a common interest group, but Yuan Shu, or the royal family represented by Yuan Shu, has absolute control and dominance.

Of course, this is also one of the situations that the Yuan family longs for.

After all, the royal family is also the largest family, and the rise of Yuan Shu, who is a child of the Yuan family, also represents the rise of the Yuan family.

Otherwise, if there is no benefit, how can the Yuan family support this somewhat rebellious Yuan Shu in their eyes?

No matter what Yuan Shu does, as long as Yuan Shu succeeds, it must be the Yuan family who benefits. The meat finally rotted in its own pot.

In fact, every ruler has the same idea, and at first he had to rise with the help of the power of the family.

After unifying the world, he became the largest family, and it was normal for his thinking to change and begin to weaken other families.

The other families naturally understand this and will not sit idly by. At the same time as the rise of the ruler, he took the opportunity to frantically corrode the inside of the ruler, thus finally forming a situation where the tail could not be broken.

Isn't that the case with Li Tang in later generations?

Even Tang Taizong's niece is not as attractive as a woman with the fifth surname Qiwang.

Countless high-ranking officials and nobles hated that they couldn't marry five surnamed women.

Yuan Shu didn't want to be in a hurry to dominate the world and compromise with other families in the future, and in the end, he couldn't do anything about it.

Although Yuan Shu was so aggressive, the Yuan family did not object, but was very interested in it.

If you follow the path of Yuan Shu, in the end, what may be formed is that the Yuan family is the strongest family, but the class of top families has disappeared, and it has been replaced by countless poor families and small families.

Then the Yuan family is really a dominant, extremely noble!

Therefore, although other families are very resistant to Yuan Shu, the Yuan family is also the same on the surface, but secretly they are very supportive.

Otherwise, Yuan Shu would not have subdued many families in Jiangdong so easily.

If these families really want to fight to the death, I'm afraid that the old Yuan family will really fight with them secretly.

These things can't be put on the table, but everyone knows it and tacitly understands it.

Yuan Shu took advantage of the power of the old Yuan family and succeeded in making the family in Jiangnan have to compromise.

When they were desperate, they gave their only hope and way to live, and by the way, they pulled a group to destroy a group, prompting them to have to transform according to Yuan Shu's wishes.

People can't be enemies of the world, but they can use their strength to slowly change the general trend.