In fact, all this went so smoothly, and Yuan Shu was able to be so prodigal, thanks to a big tree like the Yuan family leaning on him.

The world is about to be in chaos. Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao have been chosen as the spokespersons of the Yuan family. Naturally, the old Yuan family in Yuzhou will gradually disappear.

Except for most of the Yuan family's scholars and elite talents who went into hiding and defected to the subordinates of their younger brother Sima's family in Hanoi, other forces were slowly divided between Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.

The two separated their families very harmoniously.

Yuan Shu wanted to take away most of the Yuan family's wealth and almost all the tenants and slaves under his command.

Yuan Shao, on the other hand, brought with him a small portion of his wealth and almost all the officials and other backbone talents under the Yuan family.

Yuan Shao was in Hebei and had no shortage of money, food, or population, but only management talent.

But Yuan Shu was in the south of the Yangtze River and had his own plans. He gave up these disciples and former officials of the Yuan family and chose wealth and population.

It can be said that the two of them have what they need.

I have to say that the Yuan family's family background is really strong. They are indeed a top family. Hundreds of years of plunder and accumulation are not lies. No wonder they were able to support a Hebei overlord and a Central Plains overlord.

The total amount of money and food is more than one billion yuan, and the population under his control is one million, including more than 20,000 skilled craftsmen.

Historically, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao could easily pull out an army of two to three hundred thousand men, which must have nothing to do with the Yuan family's wealth and population.

Most of the money and food had just arrived a month ago, and except for the craftsmen, Yuan Shu did not recruit all the others. After all, there was still some time, so Yuan Shu asked them to continue to help him find talents outside to attract people to buy food.

Let’s do another harvest while the world is still in chaos.

With so much money, food and craftsmen, and all of them belonged to Yuan Shu himself, Yuan Shu naturally had to make good use of them.

The first thing Yuan Shu did was what Tian Feng said before, which was to use money and food to destroy the stagnant water of Yangzhou.

If the aristocratic family has money but doesn't spend it, it will only exploit it, right?

Now I have more money than you all put together, so I use my own money to hurt others. Anyway, my family is rich.

What conditions do you impose on the tenant farmers and illegal households under your command? I will pay three times as much.

It depends on whether you are in a hurry or not. Even if I lose money, you still have to follow the small losses, and it is the people who benefit.

The people have become rich, but I, as the ruler, have the most power.

Moreover, I also occupy the name of righteousness and government, and I completely crush you in terms of strength.

If you are not convinced, rebel!

Without the support of the common people, I will leave the 80,000 elite soldiers under my command to fight you!

All in all, after having the capital, Yuan Shu's plan was finally on the right track.

These families in Yangzhou, a very backward place now, are all low-class people.

Relying on the Yuan family's wealth, Yuan Shu was able to crush Yangzhou tyrannically and quickly turn Yangzhou into a monolith.

Would you try it in the North and Central Plains?

There are aristocratic families all over the place, if two of the top aristocratic families come together, you will be doomed.

It was in a remote and underdeveloped place like Yangzhou that Yuan Shu could do such nonsense.

Relying on this unreasonable method of throwing money, Yuan Shu successfully revitalized the situation in Yangzhou.

It makes no sense to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth and have a profound foundation.

This is also the reason why when Yuan Shu was in Luoyang, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao rated Liu Bei very highly, but still felt that it was difficult for him to succeed.

The foundation is too different.

If a poor guy like Liu Bei were in Yuan Shu's position, he would have no choice but to compromise with the Yangzhou family and start an endless tug-of-war with them.

A good start is half the success. Yuan Shu's start was perfect. Just like a building, Yuan Shu could lay a solid foundation that could support a skyscraper.

As for Liu Bei, he could only make do with tinkering and build a foundation first.

Because there is no capital, it is difficult to build a small villa, let alone a skyscraper.

And after you have money, it will be even more difficult to lay a solid foundation.

Destruction is much easier than creation, and creation is much easier than transformation.

When the foundation of the ruling land is corroded, the moths entrenched in it will continue to grow stronger as it grows stronger, and in the end it will become increasingly difficult to deal with.

Just like the Wei State in later generations, its national power was enough to crush Shu and Wu several times, but it could not destroy each other.

Because there were too many internal worms, and under the pull of all parties, the Wei State was never able to accumulate the strength to unify the world.

Until the aristocratic family felt that they were almost strong, they decisively attacked the Wei State and established the Jin State, and then quickly unified the world.

The lessons of history are many and very painful.

Yuan Shu deeply understood that a powerful country can have different voices, but its ruler must have absolute dominance.

When the ruler makes a decision, no one in the entire country can hold back.

Even if you don't respond, you can't secretly hold back.

Therefore, Yuan Shu gave up Yuzhou and the north, where he could easily rise, and chose Yangzhou.

Relying on the foundation of the Yuan family, Yuan Shu can easily crush the entire Yangzhou family and form absolute rule.

In the end, various means can be used to transform the forces and families under his command and form a common interest group. However, Yuan Shu, or the royal family represented by Yuan Shu, is dominant and has absolute control and dominance.

Of course, this is also one of the situations that the Yuan family longs for.

After all, the royal family is also the largest family. The rise of Yuan Shu, a descendant of the Yuan family, also represents the rise of the Yuan family.

Otherwise, if there is no benefit, how could the Yuan family support Yuan Shu, who in their eyes has a somewhat rebellious mentality?

No matter what Yuan Shu does, as long as Yuan Shu succeeds, the Yuan family will definitely benefit. The meat will eventually rot in his own pot.

In fact, every ruler had the same idea and had to rely on the power of aristocratic families to rise.

After unifying the world, he became the largest aristocratic family. Naturally, his thoughts changed and he began to weaken other aristocratic families. This is normal.

The other aristocratic families naturally understand this and will not sit still and wait for death. When the ruler rises, they take the opportunity to crazily corrode the ruler's internal affairs, thus ultimately forming a situation where the leader cannot be defeated.

Isn’t this what Li Tang was like in later generations?

Even the niece of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was not as attractive as a woman with the fifth surname Qiwang.

Countless high-ranking officials and aristocrats have always hated the thought of marrying a girl with the fifth surname.

Yuan Shu didn't want to be eager to dominate the world and compromise with other aristocratic families in the future. In the end, these goods would be left behind, but he had nothing to do.

Although Yuan Shu acted so radically, the Yuan family did not object, but were very interested in it.

If we follow Yuan Shu's path, what may happen in the end is that the Yuan family is the strongest aristocratic family, but the top aristocratic family class has disappeared and been replaced by countless poor families and small aristocratic families.

Then the Yuan family is really a unique family and extremely noble!

Therefore, although other aristocratic families are very resistant to Yuan Shu, the Yuan family is also so on the surface, but secretly they are very supportive.

Otherwise, Yuan Shu would not have subdued many aristocratic families in Jiangdong so easily.

If these aristocratic families really want to fight to the death, I am afraid that the old Yuan family will really fight them secretly.

These things cannot be put on the table, but everyone knows it and understands it tacitly.

Yuan Shu took advantage of the power of the old Yuan family and successfully forced the Jiangnan families to compromise.

When they were desperate, he gave them the only hope and way of survival, and killed some of them, forcing them to transform according to Yuan Shu's wishes.
Chapter completed!