Liu Yu shook his head: "No, you are wrong. What I mean is that if the Xie family intends to go to the Northern Expedition, of course I will still work for the Xie family, but if the Xie family is really like Huan Xuan said, they only want to protect themselves and don't think about it. If we are aggressive, then I cannot let my dream of restoring the Central Plains be shattered."
Murong Nan curled up his lips: "Do you think the Huan family can help you realize this dream?"
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "Yes, at least they have more motivation to achieve this than the Xie family."
Murong Nan softly said "Oh": "Why do you see it?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Xie Xianggong wants the real power of the virtual king. As long as he has the power of the prime minister, and then makes friends with major aristocratic families through marriage, so that the court is full of children of aristocratic families, then the emperor will have no power and can only obey his words. Therefore, even if there is no Northern Expedition, the Xie family can still maintain its power as long as it maintains its current territory."
"But the Huan family is different. They are a foreign vassal, too far away from the central government. If they want to seize power, the only way is to usurp the throne. To usurp the throne, in addition to being as powerful as Huan Wen, they must be able to lead the troops to control Jiankang City. In addition, as you said, we must effectively control the people and villages."
Murong Nan smiled and said, "Is there any necessary connection between this and the Northern Expedition?"
Liu Yu sighed: "I used to think that the Northern Expedition was just to accumulate popularity so that aristocratic families or nobles could support me. After hearing what you said just now, I feel that I didn't think comprehensively before. In addition to gaining fame, the Northern Expedition can In addition, you can also get the existing benefits and the capital to tamper with you."
Murong Nan's heart moved and he quickly said: "Where do we start talking about this?"
Liu Yu's eyes sparkled: "I have been traveling to the south for nearly a hundred years during the Jin Dynasty. In fact, at the beginning, the northern aristocratic families who traveled south were not very prosperous. Compared with the local wealthy families with local surnames, such as Zhou, Lu, Zhang, Chen, and Zhu, these families In comparison, apart from the power of the DPRK and the Central Government, it does not have much advantage. Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the power of the DPRK and the Central Government has belonged to the northern big families, while most of the private land and population are still owned by the indigenous families in Jiangdong."
Murong Nan nodded: "This is how the king and the horse share the world. The strong dragon and the local snake have found a balance. This makes us northern barbarians look up to us with admiration."
Liu Yu smiled and said: "But in the past hundred years, the descendants of powerful northern families have multiplied. They can rely on their power to let their descendants occupy fields and enclosures, and slowly erode the interests of the indigenous people. Don't you see? Is the land of the Three Wus and Lingnan of Fujian and Yue now filled with the territories of the nephews and nephews of these aristocratic families?"
Murong Nan raised his brows and looked at Liu Yu: "Yes, didn't I say it before? The nephews of Wang Xie and other high-ranking families control the rural people in Jiangnan and have a large number of manors and tenants. This is The reason why Huan Wen did not dare to tamper with us. But what does this have to do with the Northern Expedition?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "Our Dajin currently only has the Jingxiang land in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Sanwu land and the Lianghuai River, which are considered the core areas. The others, such as the Minyue land and Lingnan Jiaozhou, are all remote places. It can be ignored. The land and population in these core areas have basically been divided up by aristocratic families or vassal warlords. It can be said that it is very difficult to allocate new benefits from their hands to those who have contributed to the Northern Expedition. To let them Those sons of aristocratic families gave their property and tenants to these idiots in the Beifu Army. I think even Xie Xianggong would not be able to do it. This is the fundamental reason why the Northern Expedition has always failed to succeed over the years."
"But it will be different if the land is newly occupied and conquered in the north. These unclaimed lands can be used to reward new meritorious soldiers, and the obtained population can also be redistributed, and even new armies can be organized and trained among these populations. , so that their power will continue to grow. It is impossible for the Huan family to control the people of Sanwu with only Jingzhou, but if there are the power and military strength of the Central Plains, Qilu, and Guanzhong, it will be different."
Murong Nan nodded and murmured: "Yes, when our Murong clan came to dominate the Central Plains, we also relied on the powerful local Han landlords to maintain our rule. It is impossible to stabilize the north just by relying on the strength of our own clan. , Liu Yu, how did you come up with this?"
Liu Yu sighed: "Liu Muzhi and I often talked about this before. I didn't pay much attention at the time. Now I think about it, the principles are the same all over the world. The Huan family wants to expedition to the north. In the final analysis, it is for new land and population. They I want to be the emperor, I want to be the emperor of the whole world, not half of the south of the Yangtze River, so in this regard, it may be fundamentally different from the aristocratic families in the east of the Yangtze River, because the Huan family is more of a vassal town, rather than an ordinary of aristocratic families."
Murong Nan smiled and said: "The warlords want to conquer the world with strong soldiers and horses, rather than guarding their own one-third of an acre, so they are naturally more enterprising than the nobles of the aristocratic families. Is this what you want to say?"
Liu Yu sighed: "Yes, I always thought that Xie Xianggong had the world in mind and had the intention to regain the lost territory. But after hearing what Huan Xuan said, I am a little shaken now. After all, Xie Xianggong is a member of the Xie family. He has to consider, The first is to maintain the power of the Xie family, and the second is to restore the great cause of the Central Plains. As for the Huan family, it is true that they want to usurp the throne, but to achieve this, they must enter the Central Plains. Perhaps at this point, it is the Huan family who It’s closer to my goal.”
Murong Nan nodded: "Do you really have the intention to switch to the Huan family?"
Liu Yu shook his head: "How is that possible? No matter how much the Xie family says they are very kind to me, I will never abandon the Xie family. But if one day, the Xie family cannot do the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and the Huan family can do it, , maybe I will help the Huan family once, after all, I am a citizen of the Jin Dynasty first and a Han Chinese."
Murong Nan sighed: "But even if you think so, what will the Xie family think of you? What will the world think of you? Liu Yu, in the eyes of others now, you are already the future son-in-law of the Xie family, the person they need to control the Beifu The future general of the army."
Liu Yu smiled and waved his hand: "I don't want to be anyone's tool, Murong Nan. I won't be like your Murong family. Once my wings are hardened, I will bite back my old master. There will be a day when I can really wipe out the world. Maybe I will go into seclusion in Linquan."
Having said this, Liu Yu sighed and looked up at the sky. In this narrow alley, even the sky became only a thin line: "But it's useless to say this now. The Qin army's soldiers pressed forward and repelled the strong force in front of them first. You can only think of other things if you have an enemy. However, whether Xie Xianggong is really what Huan Xuan said, maybe we can get some clues about the handling of Huan Jiang's death this time."
