Speaking of this, Yuan Shu looked at Tian Feng, whose face was pale, and after a pause, continued: "Presumably Yuan Hao also knows this truth, but he doesn't dare to face it, right!" ”

Tian Feng nodded with a pale face.

Facing Tian Feng, who was silent, Yuan Shu continued.

"The rebellion of the Han Dynasty began in the family, and people with knowledge of this truth may know it."

"How could the Maison not know that their existence was already a problem? It's just that it's hard to ride a tiger in the middle of it. ”

"People are all interested in profit and avoid disadvantage, and the family is not a pure whole. Although most of them are aware that there is a problem with the entire family class and that the family should be weakened, who will give in? ”

"Just like my Yuan family, even if I understand the righteousness and give up most of the family business? Are other Maisons willing to do this? Don't they want to take advantage of the fact that my Yuan family's vitality is greatly injured to fill the position of the vacated top family? ”

"People are selfish! The seemingly monolithic class of the family is made up of a large number of small groups. ”

"These small groups are also full of contradictions and have their own selfish motives, how can they reach a tacit understanding for the sake of the whole class and the whole country, and retreat together?"

"Troubled times are a reshuffle, a family's own shuffle."

"Because this country can no longer accommodate so many families, the family has promoted all this, in order to eliminate those who are not good and weak among themselves, and weaken the whole family as a large group."

"But all this is just drinking to quench thirst, but the family can only continue this cycle until they can't find a better way. If you divide for a long time, you must be together for a long time. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Shu's heart was also full of emotion.

"In troubled times, each family relies on its own ability to support one side of the force. The victor grows naturally, and the loser is weakened or even perished. ”

"The family is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the weak can only support one force, and the strong have more choices. Some, like the Yang family, chose to avoid the troubled times and only based on the intention of protecting themselves in the court. Some are like the Xun family, which has a big family and a big business, and can cast a net everywhere and split to support multiple forces. And my Yuan family, as the strongest family other than the royal family, chose excellent children to become princes and directly participate in the troubled times. ”

Hearing this, Tian Feng said in a low tone: "Is the lord the choice of the Yuan family?" ”

Hearing this, Yuan Shu said with some bitterness: "I am just one of the choices of the Yuan family, and it is also the second choice. ”

Seeing the question on Tian Feng's face, Yuan Shu explained again: "I know what you want to say. But my Yuan family is too strong, so strong that no matter which way the princes are supported, when the world is unified, it will become a thorn in the ruler's side and a thorn in the flesh. The best ending is probably to be weakened to the extreme and hit the bottom of the family. ”

"There is no way to advance, there is no way to retreat, instead of waiting for chronic death, my Yuan family can only choose to fight to the death. Directly turn into a prince and participate in the troubled times. ”

"However, my Yuan family is still too strong. If you fully support a person, that person's power will become much stronger than the others, which will never be allowed by other families. If my Yuan family does this, it will occupy too much interest after the matter is completed, so it will inevitably become the target of public criticism and cause groups from other families to besiege it. ”

"There is no point in dividing some of them to support other princes. Therefore, my Yuan family can only choose to split up and support me and Yuan Shao respectively. ”

"In this way, the strength of the two of us will not be too strong. Then the two of us will recruit other Maisons again to form a new Maison interest group. In this way, it is more secure and more in line with the interests of the family as a class and all parties. ”

In the end, Yuan Shu sighed again: "All this, after all, is still balance and compromise!" ”

This country and this world are like a pond, and the family is like a fish in a pond, the cold door is shrimp, and the people are the water in the pond.

It's okay to say that there is too much water, and it's okay to overflow part of it.

But the current situation is that there are too many fish and shrimp in this fish pond, so many that the whole fish pond cannot support it.

If it continues, the water in the fish pond will continue to overflow, and the fish will have no room to live, and it is estimated that no one will survive.

What to do at this time?

There is only one way, to reduce the number of fish and shrimp.

Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimp.

When the number of fish and shrimp is reduced to a certain extent, the pond will be calm again.

As a result, these fish and shrimp divide into groups and attack each other.

Among them, the fish represented by the Yuan family are too many, accounting for nearly a quarter of the fish population in the fish pond.

The fourth world and the third duke, the protégé and the old officials are all over the world, but it is not blown.

If they fight with each other, the Yuan family has an absolute advantage.

Therefore, all the fish will think about eliminating the Yuan family first.

The Yuan family's goal is too big to be accepted by other fish, but if they fight alone, they will face the attacks of all the other fish, so they can only choose to compromise and come up with a way.

Separate yourself and divide into three parts.

Some of them are incognito, disguised their identities and cast themselves under the command of another fish, as a way back.

The other two groups are to stand up and fight on their own, and gather other schools of fish and shrimp to join them.

The other fish groups saw that the Yuan family's fish group was split into two parts, and although each part was stronger than the fish group they belonged to, it was also limited, so they naturally felt better and reluctantly accepted it.

However, it still separated the two schools of fish of the Yuan family, so that they fought separately in a place far apart.

Unless one is on the verge of extinction, it is impossible to bring the two together.

This is also the reason why the two Yuan families have been at odds, and they have not been able to defect to Yuan Shao's forces until Yuan Shu perished.

Eryuan was forced by the situation, and it was impossible to unite, because after the combination, it would be attacked by the masses and eventually destroyed, and it would never be possible to unify the world.

Otherwise, if the two are combined to unify the world, the end will either be too fast and too easy to unify, and the last remaining family will still be six or seven out of ten, which will not solve the problem at all, and can only usher in another chaotic era soon.

Either there are too few remaining families, and there is not one out of ten, and the Yuan family's power will occupy more than half of them.

These two situations are simply not acceptable to other families, or to the entire family class.

Therefore, the two Yuan could not be combined from beginning to end, and there was always a great enemy Cao Mengde in between.

Yuan Shao finally watched Yuan Shu being wiped out by the surrounding forces, but he didn't dare to move at all.

Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor was only a superficial reason, because he knew that his limit had come, otherwise he would not have done such a stupid thing.

Because Yuan Shao was too strong at that time, he was about to defeat Gongsun Zan and occupy the entire Hebei, which was basically one-third of the world.

Yuan Shu is not dead, and the family is not safe.

Yuan Shu became cannon fodder abandoned by the entire Yuan family, and became the so-called dry bones in the grave.