Why Yuan Yao chose to go to Cai Yong's mansion was naturally to be able to find some books in Cai Yong's mansion. In the era that Yuan Yao is in now, mastering books can be said to have mastered knowledge, as long as Yuan Yao lets out the news that he is willing to share these books, but those who want these books must join him, then even if there is no influence of the Runan Yuan clan, there will be a large number of scholars following Yuan Yao.

And Yuan Yao also had the idea of fighting, Yuan Shu's subordinates are now not short of generals, although Ji Ling, Yu Shi and others cannot be compared with generals of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's level, but they are also good generals, and they can still do a good job in leading troops to fight. And now what Yuan Shu lacks most under his hands is the civil servants and capable officials.

Yuan Yao knew that as Yuan Shu's son-in-law of the Runan Yuan family, as long as he let out the words, those protégés of the Runan Yuan clan would rush to Yuan Shu's hands, but those people were not what Yuan Yao wanted. Yuan Yao did not deny that many of these protégés of the Runan Yuan clan were capable, but Yuan Yao knew that if the people under Yuan Shu were all these people who were either from a family or related to a family, then Yuan Shu's foundation would be very unstable.

When the interests of the family and the interests of the country conflict, most of the children of the family choose the family. Nowhere was this more evident than after the Three Kingdoms period, especially during the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Yuan Yao admitted that once these protégés of the Runan Yuan clan joined Yuan Shu's command, there was no shortage of middle-level and low-level officials under Yuan Shu's command, and these people were also loyal to Yuan Shu, and Yuan Yao did not dislike these people joining Yuan Shu's command.

Yuan Yao was disgusted and disliked because these people colluded with each other, protected each other, and formed parties for personal gain, which was very unfavorable to Yuan Shu's rule over the people under his command.

It is precisely because he saw this drawback of the family that Yuan Yao did not want Yuan Shu to have too many children of the family with various thoughts to join, but Yuan Yao also knew that this was impossible, not to mention that the Runan Yuan family from Yuan Shu was the first family in the world, that is, if Yuan Shu wants to govern one side well, he must deal well with these families.

Although the power of the family in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period was not as great as that of the later Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and even the Sui and Tang dynasties, it is undeniable that if you want to govern a place well, the local family power is very important.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, transportation was not very convenient, and it was difficult for the imperial court to make decisions down to the township level, so how to manage these towns? It is necessary for the local people to elect respected village elders to help the court manage the place, and even in some places, the prestige of the village elders is greater than that of the imperial court.

And this is just a place, to some important cities, the family is even more crowded, these families have a good reputation in the local area, secretly operate a lot of industries, it can be said that once these families exert their strength, they can completely cut off the control of the princes under their own command.

As the son of Yuan Shu, Yuan Yao naturally knows these things, so in order to prevent the territory he will fight in the future from being completely controlled by these families, and in order to strengthen Yuan Shu's control over the sphere of influence under his command, Yuan Yao plans to get some poor scholars under Yuan Shu to confront the children of the family, so that Yuan Shu can have a better control over his own forces.

And how can we attract the children of the Han family to come to Yuan Shu's command? Yuan Yao's method is the books he is searching for now, as long as Yuan Yao is willing to share these books, then there will be a lot of scholars from the poor sect who will come to Yuan Shu's command.

Although Yuan Shu was born in the Yuan clan in Runan, he doesn't look down on these poor children, but Yuan Shu has a good advantage, that is, he loves talents. If a person has real talent and learning, then Yuan Shucai will not reuse this person regardless of whether he is from a family or a poor family.

The reason why the family gate valve looks down on the children of the poor family is because in their opinion, there are no talents among the children of the poor family, and they cannot compare with them in all aspects, so they will despise the children of the poor family. But if a great talent really comes out of the poor family and can crush these families in all aspects, no one will care about the origin of this great talent.

Of course, this is the current family, if the family develops to the peak in a few hundred years, to the level of five surnames and seven hopes, then they are desperately trying to suppress the cold family, and at that time, even if there is any talent in the cold family, they will be suppressed by them, and it will be difficult to get ahead.

However, the current family has not yet developed to that point, which is also one of the reasons why Yuan Yao now dislikes the family, but also recognizes the family.

On the way to Cai Yong's mansion from Dongguan, Yuan Yao has been worried that Cai Yong's mansion was also burned by the fire, so that Cai Yong's collection is not a single book left, and now it is good to find more than 1,000 volumes of Cai Yong's collection.

However, what made Yuan Yao a little curious was that when they searched for Cai Yong's collection of books in Cai Yong's mansion, the fire encountered in Cai Yong's mansion was not very serious, as if someone had resisted the fire in Cai Yong's mansion, but when Yuan Yao and his party stepped into Cai Yong's mansion, they did not find any figures, which made Yuan Yao curious.

And at this time, Yuan Yao couldn't help but think of the people who had just passed by with him, and thought of those eyes full of spiritual aura, Yuan Yao's heart suddenly beat even more violently for some reason.

Could it be them?

After collecting nearly a thousand volumes of books in Cai Yong's mansion, Yuan Yao and Yu Shi and several guards carefully returned to the Yuan Shujun camp with the four or five thousand volumes of books they obtained this time.

However, when Yuan Yao saw Yuan Shu, he found that Yuan Shu had an angry face, as if someone had provoked him.

Yuan Yao was puzzled, and after asking Ji Ling beside Yuan Shu, he learned that Cao Cao had just come to invite the princes to pursue Dong Zhuo's army with him, but at that time, several princes asked by Cao Cao were unwilling to pursue Dong Zhuo, which made Cao Cao very angry, and scolded Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other princes with insulting words, and then took his own soldiers and horses to pursue Dong Zhuo.

And Yuan Shu was scolded by Cao Cao for no reason, how could he be in a good mood, and after Cao Cao left, Yuan Shu also returned to his military camp angrily.

(End of chapter)