In the face of a major crisis, some people in the Xun family are willing to accept the facts, but there are also those who are unwilling to accept this fact no matter what, and no matter how much Xun Yu persuades, it is useless.

They also have their own opinions and thinking logic.

"I, the Xun family, have done so many things for the Han Dynasty, and countless ancestors have worked hard for the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty, and even died in office, is the court so ruthless to the Xun family now?"

"Something that has never happened in the past, the first emperor didn't mention it, why did the new monarch bring it up? Is he going to go against his ancestors? He is still a great man! The world is still the world of the great man! ”

"The more land I have, the more taxes I pay, so much land for my family, so much food and drink for my family, and so many hired workers to pay wages and take care of food, how many mouthfuls can I have in my mouth? I'm going to sell it all! ”

"Before, we didn't feed slaves, we could only spend money to hire people to farm, and now we have to collect so many agricultural taxes, do I still have to eat at home?"

"Wen Ruo, if you want to be a high-ranking official and dignitary, I don't care about you, but don't you beat my idea, I can't climb high, can't I hide from you? Don't tell me that you're of the same race, I don't have a race like you! ”

Xun Yu has been closed many times, helpless, and unwilling to force the clansmen, feeling that this will hurt people's hearts and hurt the cohesion of the family, so he can only try to ask Xun You for help.

But Xun Yu closed the door and thanked the guests, and Xun Yu was definitely not seen.

Xun Yu only felt helpless, and finally could only put his head on the table to Liu Bei, saying that most of the Xun clan people were well aware of the righteousness and were willing to accept Liu Bei's request, but there were still some Xun clan people who were ignorant and unwilling to accept Liu Bei's request.

Xun Yu hoped that he could take the lead and organize a part of the money to purchase excess land from that part of the clan to meet the requirements of the Dutian Order, but it might take some time to raise funds, and he hoped that Liu Bei could give him this time.

He will definitely be able to meet Liu Bei's needs.

After Liu Bei received Xun Yu's performance, he summoned Xun Yu and handed the performance back to Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, I have seen your intentions, and I have also seen your difficulties, since there are so many difficulties, then forget it, if the Xun family is willing to cooperate, it will be forgotten if you are not willing to cooperate, although I am the emperor, I can't do things that are difficult for strong people, what do you say?"

Liu Bei looked at Xun Yu with a smile.

Xun Yu looked at the warm smile on Liu Bei's face, he should have been relieved, but there was an almost instinctive feeling of bad emotion in his heart, and this emotion gradually dominated his mood.

Then, he felt he should say something.

"After my uncle passed away, the Xun clan did not have a patriarch, and the clan was in chaos, and the clan affairs had just been rectified recently, so the chaos in the family was an important reason, but now that the clan affairs have been rectified, it only takes a little more time for the minister to solve this matter.

The Xun family has been following His Majesty for several years, and is loyal to His Majesty, whether it is a minister or a secret envoy of Xun, they have no second heart for His Majesty, and the same is true for the Xun family, and I hope that Your Majesty will give the Xun family a little time! ”

Xun Yu knelt on the ground and made a request to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei sighed, stepped forward to help Xun Yu, smiled at him and shook his head.

"Wen Ruo, I understand your intentions, I also understand Gongda's intentions, and I also know Xun's difficulties, so I said that this matter will end here, people who are unwilling will always be unwilling, and forcibly acting will not be beautiful, I am not a person who likes to force people, this matter, let's end here."

I don't know why, Xun Yu always feels uneasy, even after leaving the palace, he is still uneasy, he always feels that Liu Bei may be a little insincere when he says this.

The Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the Zhen family have already made a decision, Liu Bei is very happy, and praises them, it is the turn of the Xun family, why is Liu Bei suddenly so tolerant?

If this matter spreads, what should the Cao family, the Xiahou family and the Zhen family think?

Xun Yu thought about it and felt that it couldn't be like this, what should be done still had to be done, and the Xun family couldn't be made a special family - the current specialization may be an important reason for marginalization in the future.

So Xun Yu left the palace quickly, ready to go back to make further efforts and conversations with the family.

On the other side, after Xun Yu left, Liu Bei shook his head.

Xun Yu is a very capable person, which he admits, he is very capable, whether it is to be a Taishou or a assassin, in terms of administration, he is handy, and can use various political means to achieve the task.

At the same time, he is very honest, has a good character, never embezzles and accepts bribes, and is very disgusted with corruption and bribery, and leads by example, driving the people around him to abide by the laws and regulations of the imperial court.

In the places he governs, the officials are honest enough and the work efficiency is also very high, so Liu Bei even thinks that he is a very good candidate for prime minister, if in the Western Han Dynasty, or the Qin Dynasty, or the Warring States Period, Xun Yu will definitely be able to shine.

He admired Xun Yu.

However, this does not mean that he fully approves of Xun Yu as a person.

No one is without shortcomings, that's for sure, and the same is true for Xun Yu.

For a ruler, the most unacceptable thing is that the authority of his subordinates directly pursues himself or surpasses him, which is also one of the reasons why the emperor has not been a prime minister since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And this is also the reason why Xun Yu and Cao Cao finally broke up in the original timeline.

Xun Yu was probably more of a political ally than Cao Cao's subordinates, and he was Cao Wei's early partner, who laid the foundation for Cao Cao's rule, and thus became the leader of the Yingchuan Shiren group, which was crucial in Cao Cao's ruling group.

Cao Cao was able to overturn Yuan Shao, and Xun Yu played a great role in it.

But since Cao Cao destroyed the Yuan family, he did not plan to continue to maintain this situation of "the Cao family's lord Xun's house".

The reason is simple, in Xuchang, Xun Yu gained the actual power to preside over the government as Shang Shuling, and with Cao Cao's military victory over Yuan Shao, Xun Yu's political influence was further expanded, and the power of the Yingchuan scholars increased.

As a result, Cao Cao decided to move the capital to Yecheng, transfer his political core to the Hebei region that was pacified by force, and support the Hebei scholars to balance the Yingchuan scholars in order to gain more power.

This was a great blow to the Yingchuan scholars, and it also had a great impact on Xun Yu's political influence and power.

The two began to have political differences in the process, and after Cao Cao took the lead of the prime minister and transferred the power of the Han Empire from the inner dynasty to the outer court prime minister's office, this disagreement became completely irreconcilable.

Cao Cao could not tolerate Xun Yu's authority and power surpassing his own, and Xun Yu was unwilling to accept that his partner's identity and merits were erased by Cao Cao, and he was unwilling to accept this situation.

The relationship between the two then completely collapsed, and finally ushered in the end of tragedy.

Liu Bei is willing to believe that there is a deep personal relationship between these two people, and these two people must appreciate each other and be friendly to each other in the entrepreneurial stage, and have had many good memories.

But what can a personal relationship count as in the face of power?

When there is a dispute between power and core interests and there are people who are unwilling to back down, no amount of good memories are meaningless.

And this kind of tragedy has nothing to regret in Liu Bei's opinion, it can only be said that these two people have core interests that they are unwilling to give up, but in between, it is difficult to say where they put the survival of the Han family.

Or maybe the survival of the Han family is just a pawn in their political struggle.

The survival of the Han family is not important, their existence or not is the most important, at that time, none of them were courtiers of the Han family, and no one was a saint.

Wang Zuozhicai is not a saint either.

Therefore, watching Xun Yu's back disappear, Liu Bei sighed slightly, and turned his gaze to the screen on the side of the room.

"Gongda, you have also seen Wen Ruo's choice, it's not that I don't give Xun a chance, I have given Xun a chance again and again, and even given a little too much, but Xun himself can't grasp these opportunities, is this my problem?"

When Liu Bei's voice fell, Xun Yu turned out from behind the screen, looking at the figure in the distance where Xun Yu left, his expression was very complicated.

After a long time, Xun You sighed.

"What Your Majesty said, the minister has already understood, His Majesty has done his best to the Xun family, and the minister also deeply misses His Majesty's kindness, but Xun himself is incompetent, and he does not miss His Majesty's kindness, they are too arrogant, this is not Your Majesty's problem at all, the minister...... There is nothing more to say. ”

Three days ago, Xun You found Liu Bei and talked to Liu Bei in private, hoping that Liu Bei could give Xun one last chance.

He felt that Xun Su and Xun Yu might be able to bring a new future to the Xun family, and if they could do it, he asked Liu Bei to forgive the Xun family.

He said that this was his last help to the Xun clan as a child of the Yingchuan Xun clan, and if it didn't work out this time, he would never do anything for the Yingchuan Xun clan again, and he would completely become a pure minister who thought about Liu Bei wholeheartedly.

Liu Bei nodded and agreed.

Xun You obviously never really cut off his feelings for Xun, he still has Xun in his heart, but he has never shown it outwardly, at this critical moment, he feels that he needs to do something.

Just as the last to pull the Xun clan, do your last responsibility as a member of the Xun clan, even if it is just to stretch out a hand, if the Xun clan is really saved, then pull a hand, you can also.

He heard that Xun Yu was running around for this matter and was working very hard, so he felt that Xun still had some hope.

But as it turned out, he was wrong.

The Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the Zhen family all have a strong will and unshakable determination to follow Liu Bei and continue to move forward, so they eliminated all the problems, proved that they have the strength and will to dominate the family, and gave good results to Liu Bei, Liu Bei was happy, and the three families also had a future.

But this is not the case with Xun.

There are also opponents within the other three families, and some opponents are still very powerful, such as the Cao family, but the Cao family has done the same.

Cao Cao's use of a big stick and carrots, almost a means of threat, while fighting and co-opting, at least let Liu Bei see Cao Cao's own loyalty and determination to him, and Cao Cao also proved that he could lead the Cao clan on the right path.

Even if it's mandatory.

In this way, Cao Cao himself and the Cao family were trusted by Liu Bei, proving that they had the value of being trusted and appointed by Liu Bei.

It is important that he can force his family to listen to his compulsive loyalty.

What about Xun's?

The Xun clan did not fully embody the important element of loyalty from top to bottom, from top to bottom.

If this is not the most lethal factor, then the most fatal factor is that Xun Yu himself did not show the coercive power to take Xun to Liu Bei.

This became Xun's death hole.

If there are differences within your family, there are those who understand righteousness and those who are greedy, it is normal, there is nothing wrong with it, but the problem is that other families can have a strong leader who can unify the will of the family and suppress the disgruntled opposition, and this leader is loyal enough to Liu Bei.

For example, Zhen Yan.

The Zhen family has a lot of troubles, and it is rumored that Liu Bei is also very dissatisfied with some people in the Zhen family, but the problem is that the Zhen family has a Zhen Yan who absolutely obeys Liu Bei's will and has a lot of influence in the family.

Although Zhen Yan is not the patriarch of the Zhen family, he holds a high position in the court and is Liu Bei's confidant, and many people in the Zhen family are willing to follow Zhen Yan's will in exchange for his favor for the sake of their own future.

So in order to preserve this bright future, Zhen Yan relied on his authority and led people who were willing to follow him to forcefully suppress the opposition of the Zhen family and force them to obey him.

And then de facto became the leader of the Zhen family.

The Zhen family has completely become Zhen Yan's Zhen family before and after this time, and all opposition forces in the family have been suppressed by Zhen Yan, and even two clan elders hanged themselves for this.

Zhen Yan didn't say anything about it, as if all this was taken for granted, and those who didn't follow him in the family would be suppressed and eliminated by him like this, without mercy, and no one wanted to hinder his loyalty and followers to Liu Bei.

This is the correct way to follow Liu Bei.

Zhen Yan was loyal to Liu Bei, and he showed signs and actual ability to be loyal to Liu Bei, but Xun did not.

Whether it is Xun Su or Xun Yu, they all chose the family, but did not choose Liu Bei.

This choice was nothing in the past, because in the past, the imperial power was not strong, regardless of whether it was Emperor Huan or Liu Hong, they did not have that kind of power that was strong enough.

But for this time of the day, it's not appropriate.

Liu Bei is not Liu Hong, he is too strong.

Xun You saw this and knew that Xun had little time, so he hoped that Liu Bei could give Xun more opportunities and time, and Liu Bei also responded to Xun You's request and gave Xun the last time to show his loyalty.

It's a pity that if you give them a chance, they won't be useful.

Xun Yu had nothing to say.

Liu Bei looked at Xun You's lost expression, stepped forward and patted Xun You's shoulder.

"Gongda, I know your intentions, but I still have to say, for people who are not worth helping at all, you don't have too much apology, and don't feel that it is your own mistake, I heard a saying in my hometown in Youzhou, good words are difficult to persuade the damned.

Some people are not worth helping at all, some people don't care how hard you try, he should seek death, or seek death, and die without repentance, such people, you have no need to help, you don't need to have so much responsibility for your family, give the sense of responsibility to the big man. ”

Xun You was persuaded by Liu Bei like this, and seemed to have some feelings, and after being silent for a while, he saluted Liu Bei and expressed his gratitude.

"Your Majesty's words, the minister is quite touched, the minister has indeed done his best for the Xun family, since the next thing is no longer something that the minister can do alone, then the minister does not want to involve more things about the Xun family, they are life or death, from now on, it has nothing to do with the minister."

"Don't worry, as long as they don't rebel, of course I won't kill them, at most send them to Liaodong or Jiaozhou."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Moreover, since the old Xun clan is hopeless, Gongda, it is better for you to create a new Xun clan, don't you also have the surname Xun?" Aren't you also a descendant of your ancestors? Why can't you inherit only the main lineage?

Do you think, I'm not a big royal family, and I even said that the inheritance of the Han imperial throne is no longer the inheritance of the royal family after Emperor Xiaohui, and the throne can still be a small sect into a large sect, so why can't the head of the family? ”

Liu Bei held one of Xun You's hands with one hand, patted him on the shoulder with the other, and smiled kindly at him.

(End of chapter)