In October of the first year of Xingping, the fourth year of Liu He's arrival in the Han Dynasty, a cold wind suddenly rose and swept through Youyan.

In the second year of Chuping, Liu He was in Chang'an, his heart was in Youzhou, and finally after some thrills and hardships, he returned safely to his father Liu Yu's side. In this year, he recruited Li Yan, Zhao Yun, Xiahou Lan and Sun Li, defeated the Xianbei leader Kebineng who invaded the south, and began to emerge in Jicheng and Youzhou.

In the third year of the first peace, Liu He first garrisoned the border in Macheng, and later returned to Jicheng to repel Gongsun Zhan, and then sent reinforcements to save Han Fu, and then resolutely led the army south into Chang'an, disturbing the troubled waters of the two capitals. In this year, Liu He recruited Liu Fang, Han Heng, Tai Shici, Murong Ping, Liu Hui and Xu Miao to set up training regiments in border cities, resettle a large number of displaced people in Daijun and Shanggu, and thwart the ambitions of Li Dao and Guo Yan in Chang'an.

In the fourth year of the first peace, Liu Heren in Luoyang, in order to fight the famine and did his best, not afraid of fighting with the ministers of the central government and the wealthy families around Luoyang, and finally reaped a double harvest, not only to solve the problem of food for hundreds of thousands of people in Luoyang, but also to solve the problem of their own lack of talents.

In the first year of Xingping, the situation in Youzhou suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, and Yuan Shao secretly colluded with Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao, Gongsun Du, Liu Biao, Yuan Shu and Lu Bu and other forces, intending to attack Liu Yu in Youzhou and Liu He in Luoyang at the same time, and solve their father and son together......

Liu He then resolutely returned north, chose a route that no one expected, returned to Youzhou without danger, and then destroyed the two brothers Gongsun Zhan and Gongsun Yue and the Liaodong cavalry sent by Gongsun Du in just one month. When Liu He brought it back to Youzhou, he only brought back nearly 10,000 cavalry, how could it be so powerful? Could it be that the group of people who stayed in Youzhou couldn't eat dry food?

In fact, none of the Liu Yu, Zhao Gai, Xian Yuyin, Liu Hui, Li Ru, Xu Rong, Xiahoulan, Liu Fang, Han Heng, Sun Li, Xu Miao and others who stayed in Youzhou were mediocre people, if it weren't for their best to defend and delay, no matter how powerful Liu He was, it would be impossible to achieve a big reversal so quickly, not only to turn Youzhou into safety. It has also further strengthened its military strength.

On the Western Front, Xu Rong commanded 20,000 soldiers to defend the three cities of Gaoliu, Banshi and Beipingyi, and kept the 50,000 invading enemies from Bingzhou out of the Great Wall for two months, which created an opportunity for Liu He's soldiers to force back Yan Liang and Wenchou in Jinyang.

If generals such as Xu Rong and Xiahoulan did not resist the siege of Yan Liang and Wen Chou and let them attack Daijun and Shanggu, then Liu He chose to return to Youzhou from the direction of Bingzhou, and he would fall into the counterattack of Yan Liang and Wen Chou's army relying on the defense line of the Great Wall, and no matter how powerful the cavalry was, they would not be able to grow wings in the face of the strong city wall.

Although Xian Yuyin on the eastern front did not hold Luxian, it held back the pace of Gongsun Yue's westward invasion, making his army completely disconnected from Gongsun Zhan's army who ventured westward. This gave Liu He the opportunity to divide and annihilate. If Xian Yuyin had lost Lu County without waiting for Liu He to return to Youzhou, so that Gongsun Yue and the Liaodong cavalry would have invaded Yuyang County very early, then Gongsun Chan would not have rushed to the western front to join Yuan Shao's army, but would have turned to besiege Jicheng with Gongsun Yue.

Therefore, the credit does not belong to Liu He and the soldiers and soldiers he brought back from Luoyang, but to all the people who worked hard and fought bloodily for the safety of Youzhou.

Of course, because Liu He's return was timely, after defeating the three Gongsun clan's troops, the heroic halo on his head was even more dazzling. faintly overshadowed Liu Yu, who is usually relatively low-key.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

Liu He's status in the minds of the people of Youzhou surpasses Liu Yu, which is naturally more beneficial for him to control Youzhou in the future, but if there is no Liu Yu in front. In the future, Liu He must take responsibility and consequences for everything he does.

Guo Jia was very keenly aware of this, so he suggested that Liu He have a good heart-to-heart talk with Liu Yu, tell Liu Yu his future plans, and strive to reach a consensus and tacit understanding between father and son. This way you can avoid a lot of man-made troubles and problems.

Liu He pondered it for a while and found that this was indeed the case.

Liu Yu has just passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, which is the golden age of unlimited power in officialdom. Wang Yun, Ma Riyan, Zhao Wen, Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song, these old guys are all working hard now, if Liu He is doing everything for his father now, what do you make Liu Yu think?

No one is content to be mediocre and lonely, especially for those in office.

In the evening of this day, when the weather was getting colder, Liu He asked the guards around him to warm the small hall of the West Courtyard, carefully prepared a few snacks and a copper hot pot, as well as two pots of fine wine, and then went to Liu Yu's study in person and invited his father over.

For his son to come and invite him for a drink, Liu Yu readily agreed, put down the case and came to the West Courtyard with Liu He.

In order to enhance the relationship between father and son, Liu He also asked Shi A to go to the East Courtyard and brought his younger brother Liu An over.

The three of them, young and old, sat around a special round dining table, looking intimate and casual. Liu He helped the little brother next to him to sliced mutton, and quipped: "When I accompanied the late Abolished Emperor in Luoyang Palace, I occasionally saw him and the current Young Emperor Xie brothers catching birds in the back garden. Unexpectedly, my father is fierce and fierce, and he really added a smart and lively little brother to me, if I can add a naughty and clever little sister, then our Liu family will be even more complete! ”

Liu Yu glanced at his son, took a sip of wine, and then said leisurely: "The most ruthless emperor family, people in children and teenagers, the heart of a child is not lost, so family affection is more important than anything else, and when he gets married, he is more and more bewitched, and his heart becomes hard, and he forgets some things that should be cherished." ”

"Father, rest assured, the child will definitely treat the younger brother and the two ladies well, and never let the brother be on the wall This kind of thing happens to our Liu family!"

"The Father has never doubted your heart and character. I'm afraid that when you are in a high position in the future, some people around you will be eager to make decisions for you and do something out of the ordinary. ”

When Liu Yu said this, his expression was very calm, as if he had already seen that Liu He had the ambition to win the world.

Liu He has always been worried about his father's foolishness, and he never dared to show his disobedience in front of Liu Yu. Now when I hear this, I always feel strange in my heart. Since he was opening his heart and telling the truth tonight, he no longer cared about these, but asked half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Father is not afraid of the notoriety of usurpation in the future?" ”

Liu Yu told Liu He with a proud face: "Do you know who the ancestor of our Liu family in Yancheng in the East China Sea is?" He is the eldest son of Emperor Guangwu and the former prince of the Han Dynasty! Even if you ascend to the Ninety-Five Venerable in the future, it will only be to take back what belongs to you for the ancestors! ”

Liu He only knew that he was the descendant of King Gong of the East China Sea, but he didn't know that his ancestor was the eldest son of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and he didn't know that his ancestor had been a prince. So he asked curiously: "Since the old ancestor is already the crown prince, why was he relegated to a place far away from the capital in the East China Sea?" ”

Liu Yu said: "It's not a derogation, it's that he asked Emperor Guangwu to change his title as the vassal king." At the beginning, the ancestor's mother Guo was made the queen, and our ancestor became the crown prince, and after fifteen years, the queen Guo was deposed, and the ancestor was uneasy, so he asked Emperor Guangwu to change his title to the vassal king. Emperor Guangwu couldn't bear to do this at first, but he couldn't withstand the persuasion of the ministers around him. Finally, two years later, our ancestors were crowned as the kings of the East China Sea, and nine years later, they went to the kingdom. Because our ancestors were not deposed because they made mistakes, they were courteous, so Emperor Guangwu specially increased his fiefdom. After death, he will be respected. ”

"Hmph, I don't believe that the ancestor is really willing to give up the position of the prince, someone must have secretly reminded him that if he covets the position of the prince again. There will be a catastrophe of killing, so the ancestors will take the initiative to surrender to Emperor Guangwu. "In my previous life, Liu He watched a lot of palace fighting scenes, and naturally made up this period of royal secret history more than a hundred years ago. Then he said it in front of his father.

Liu Yu did not defend the ancestor Liu Qiang, but said thoughtfully: "Our ancestor is the first son of Emperor Guangwu, and he left the country to avoid disaster, so I can't be happy to see you doing so much now." ”

Liu He understood the meaning of his father's words, and he said sincerely: "The child thinks that his father's worries are not exaggerated, the world is changeable, and people's hearts are the most difficult to guess, even if the child's pure heart does not change, but I always have to go around to fight, it is inevitable that I can't estimate the family, at that time, if my subordinates speculate on my thoughts, and even be tempted by outsiders to do some excessive things, when the child returns, even if these people are punished, the damage caused to the family is irreparable." ”

"Well, that's why my father worries."

"The child has been pondering this matter occasionally lately, and has some immature thoughts to talk to his father. Looking at the lessons of father and son cannibalism and brother frying each other in the past, it always boils down to fame and fortune, power and desire, if our Liu family wants to avoid such a family misfortune, cultivating a good and orderly family style is one thing, and more importantly, it is necessary for the family to break some rotten and outdated concepts. ”

"What rotten ideas need to be dismantled?" Liu Yu put down the wine bottle in his hand and asked very seriously.

"The first concept is the official standard. In a family, the order of the young and the old is naturally divided, and the younger generations should respect and be filial to the elders, and it is not wrong for the elder brother to teach the younger brother a lesson, but he can't bring home the set of things that are inferior and inferior in the officialdom, and he can't use the size of the official hat to measure the status of the family. ”

"For example, now that I am in power and the eldest son in my family, it is natural for the people in the house to regard me as the successor patriarch, and they treat me in a fundamentally different way of thinking than their younger brother. When the younger brother grows up in the future, if someone often tells him that if you don't want to be looked down upon at home, you must find a way to be an official who is older than your brother, so that you will have a status in the family. Under the influence of the little brother, he will gradually have the idea of comparing with me, so the suspicion is planted from here. ”

"If the younger brother is capable in the future, or even comes from behind, his official son will become bigger and bigger, even surpassing me as an elder brother, and at this time someone will say in my ear that you have to beware of your younger brother plotting to seize the family property, and you have to secretly make some stumbling blocks to prevent him from continuing to be promoted, and I really listened to it because of the desire for power, vanity, jealousy, etc., and a family infighting is inevitable, and at the end it will even be a tragedy of fratricide."

"How to solve this problem? There are only two ways. One is that I will always be the biggest official, pressing my younger brother, so that I don't have to worry that his status in the family will surpass mine. But what is the biggest official in the world? It is estimated that it should be the emperor. But this question arises again, even if he becomes an emperor, he has many sons, and when the sons grow up and compete for the throne, who should sit on this throne? ”

Obviously, the first way can solve the problems that are in sight, but in fact, the root problem still exists. Today I want to focus on the second method, that is, how to break the idea of official position at home. ”

"'Official-oriented' is a word that I have figured out by myself, and its main meaning is the interest privilege of taking the will of 'official' as the will, the system setting of 'only subordination', the value orientation of 'official', and the measure of people's social status by whether they are officials and the size of their official position."

"If our family really breaks the idea of 'official position' from the bottom of our hearts, and thinks that being an official is just a way to do things, then we don't have to force our younger brother to become an official like me. If he likes to practice martial arts, then let him be a brave general in the future; If he likes to dance and write, then let him be a literary writer; If he likes tricks, then let him be an inventor and create everyone; If he likes business, let him be a wealthy businessman...... In short, we can't instill in him the fallacy of 'everything is inferior, only being an official is high' from a young age. ”

"In the same way, if I have children in the future, I will also teach them this, telling them that the level of power is not a measure of ability and family status, and that being an official is just one of many ways of doing things, and over time, the people in the family will no longer be enthusiastic about being a big official, but do what they like according to their own preferences, so that they can avoid the family from falling into deceit and intrigue."

Speaking of which, Liu He remembered the enviable family surnamed Zeng in later generations, there has not been a single loser in more than a hundred years, and the descendants of the surname Zeng have made remarkable achievements in various fields. If their descendants all want to be big officials and corrupt officials, how can there be so many outstanding talents?

It is said that the rich can not be more than three generations, what can the Zeng family be able to prosper forever? The feudal system in the West can cultivate real gentlemen and aristocrats, why is the feudal system in the East full of corrupt officials and traitors who are oblivious to profit and lustful?

In the final analysis, it is still the deep-rooted "official-oriented" mentality that is at work. (To be continued......)