What Yuan Shu fears most is not external enemies, but internal enemies, that is, the Jiangdong family.

These aristocratic families now appear to be extremely well-behaved, but Yuan Shu knows that this is just an appearance. They are still a group of wolves in sheep's clothing. Once they catch Yuan Shu's weakness, they will pounce on him without hesitation.

Yuan Shu now has to look at the Lu family. If the Lu family doesn't dance, it won't be a big problem no matter how happy other families dance.

However, the Gu family and Zhu family Yuan Shu are not too worried. These two families have now broken up with the Jiangdong family. If Yuan Shu falls, they will be the first to suffer. This is even more unacceptable to them. Therefore, at least they will not participate in the rebellion.

Among them, the most likely situation is that they are sitting on the fence, and the two sides do not help each other.

Yuan Shu, the old fox in the Lu family, is not sure what he is thinking. I can only hope that this old guy will be wiser and not end up in a mess.

If Yuan Shu cannot survive, the Jiangdong family will definitely be buried with him in the end. And the Lu family will bear the brunt of it. Based on Yuan Shu's understanding of this old fox, he should not be involved and do such unwise things.

However, none of this is guaranteed, and Yuan Shu can only leave more backup options to be prepared.

"As for whether the heroes in the north have the time to take care of us after the war against Dong. The beginning of the troubled times is the most chaotic time. Even with the power of the family, I'm afraid I can't force all these heroes to come and bite the hard nut of Yangzhou.

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"When these heroes return to their respective positions, I am afraid that Jingzhou and Jiaozhou will already be under my control. With the power of the three states, it will be difficult for them to touch me again."

After comforting Tian Feng, Yuan Shu also breathed a sigh of relief.

If it weren't for his own persistence, Yuan Shu wouldn't want to be so hostile to the aristocratic family. After all, the world still needs aristocratic families to manage, and the aristocratic family is also the most powerful force in this era. Yuan Shu provoking the aristocratic family can be said to have caused a lot of trouble.

However, Yuan Shu still refused to give in at all on the issue of land. This is the foundation of the country. Why dynasties have changed so frequently in Chinese history, in the final analysis, it is still an issue of land.

As long as the people have land and can survive, how can there be so many uprisings? How did the dignified man get to this point?

It's not that Yuan Shu doesn't want to unite the aristocratic family, but the current aristocratic family is completely opposed to the ruler in terms of fundamental interests.

One side wants to maintain stability, and the other side wants to exploit and grow. If the ruler is wise, it will be fine and can maintain this balance. But once there are a few people like Han Ling Emperor, the balance will be broken, and the family will be powerful.

In the current situation, the people cannot survive, and various uprisings will continue to break out.

If the issue of land ownership is not fundamentally resolved, the world will still be in a situation where division will inevitably unite over time, and unity will inevitably divide over time.

What Yuan Shu wanted to do was to transform the family's fundamental interests from land into wealth. It was okay for the people to have no money, just to have a poor life, but as long as they had land and enough food, they could survive.

After the aristocratic family took control of the wealth, they were still as aloof and respected as before, but they lost the right to control the lives and deaths of the people at will. If the people of the aristocratic family were wise, they would not care about this at all.

It’s not that no one in the family sees the problem, but who is willing to give up their own fundamental interests? The Chinese people’s obsession with land is engraved in their bones! Just look at the housing prices in later generations and you will understand.

To put it bluntly, they don’t really need the land itself; what they need is the sense of security and superior status that the land brings.

No aristocratic family is willing to give up their land and choose a business that is more profitable, but in their opinion, it is a cheap business and may be suppressed at any time.

After all, land is real, and money may one day not be able to buy anything.

Although the reforms Yuan Shu wants to carry out will be beneficial to the country, the family and even everyone in the long run. After all, by making the cake bigger, even if some people's shares are reduced, the profits gained will still increase relatively speaking.

However, in a short period of time, when the aristocratic family cannot see the benefits, they will think that Yuan Shu is blindly stealing their own interests. In other words, even if they can see the benefits in the future, they will still pretend to turn a blind eye.

They benefit from the bigger cake, but haven't they become weaker compared to the entire world? How can they maintain their current position of power and supremacy?

Yuan Shu was doing things in Yangzhou. Did those aristocratic families who did not openly oppose Yuan Shu suffer?

No, the family property has increased by 20%, there is a lot more land, and there are no fewer officials. You must know that the family property of these aristocratic families has been exploited for decades or even centuries, and now it has increased by 20% in half a year!

Moreover, these family properties are real and can be exchanged for supplies, except that they cannot be taken out of Yangzhou in large quantities.

The only damage Yuan Shu did to these aristocratic families was to increase their cost of hiring tenants, and also took away a lot of their population.

With how much their wealth has increased, they can hire just as many servants as before with just a little money, but they just can't fully control the life and death of these people.

Yuan Shu did not harm the interests of these aristocratic families, but the benefits provided to them did not meet their expectations.

Because now that the people in Yangzhou are rich, they can no longer do whatever they want, let them live as they please, and die as they let them die. They have lost the right to life and death that they once had for thousands of people, and they have lost the ability to trample on the people at will.

It was in this contrast that they felt dissatisfied.

Because although most of the aristocratic families are talented, there are also a lot of bad actors with poor conduct. The fun and pride of these people are basically based on the common people who can let them do whatever they want.

Although the people of Jiangdong are still far behind the aristocratic families, they are no longer the walking zombies who had to listen to them and let them manipulate them!

Even if you offend these aristocratic families a little, you won't be able to survive. At most, your life will be a little worse. The worst is to stay away from these aristocratic families and move to other places. Anyway, you won't starve to death in Yangzhou.

How can these aristocratic families tolerate this?

Are they still a respected family that manages all the people in the world?

That's why Yuan Shucai said that the aristocratic families of this era are somewhat lost. Most people have forgotten why they are respected by all people. It is not because of their own words that determine life and death, nor because of their strong power, but because their ancestors once

He led the people to overcome obstacles and opened up a world for these people to survive. It was because he could lead them correctly and let them live a more prosperous life.

Does Yuan Shu really care about these people? In fact, this is not the case. In Yuan Shu's eyes, these people are more like an important resource and witness. Yuan Shu only thinks of these people when his sympathy is overflowing occasionally.

Yuan Shu, who understands history, understands that the two most fundamental resources in the world are people and land, and everything else is just floating clouds. That's why Yuan Shu is so eager to grasp these two firmly in his hands, because this is

The true foundation of a political power.

No matter how strong the current aristocratic families are, what can they do? They exploit the people and plunder the land. Civil wars and political struggles are powerful, but how useful are these means of foreign wars? Can they sacrifice their own interests to contribute to the country? They do not hold back.

Strange.

If Yuan Shu did not reform the aristocratic families and untie the shackles of the people, there would be little resistance to unifying the world, but it would be basically impossible to conquer foreign countries or even Europe in his lifetime. It would take a lot of time and energy to deal with these aristocratic families.
Chapter completed!