Yu Yue murmured: "Listening to what you said, Liu Muzhi seems to be the one who controls everything behind the scenes, and Liu Yu is just his front-stage puppet. Is it really so powerful? Liu Yu is Lu Bu, and this Liu Muzhi
Is it Chen Gong?"
Tao Yuanming shook his head: "It's not such an exaggeration. Liu Yu is not a brave, greedy and lustful person like Lu Bu, nor will he listen to Liu Muzhi in everything. He is very independent, especially knowing his own general direction.
One is the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the expulsion of the barbarians, and the other is the realization of equality for everyone in the world. At least ordinary people have the opportunity to get education and be able to become officials and gain titles through their own efforts. In this regard, Liu Muzhi and
His ideas are similar, but I think they will have differences after they gain power."
Yu Yue murmured to himself: "Differences? What differences can there be? Both of them are lower-class nobles, from grassroots backgrounds. In the end, they joined forces to gain power by relying on a civil and military partnership. The current military merit system is their success.
Can there be differences on the path to superiority?"
Tao Yuanming shook his head: "Liu Yu didn't think much about what happened after his death. In the past, he didn't want a large number of wives and concubines, and he didn't want to have many sons. He even had only one daughter, Liu Xingdi, for many years. This is a typical example of not thinking about family inheritance. Not only he
, even Liu Daogui is still childless, and is focused on state affairs. You and I are both nobles, and this situation is unbelievable for a big family."
Yu Yue nodded: "Yes, this is too strange. Succession and succession are not considered at all. At first we thought Liu Yu was just showing off, but in the past ten years, he has still been like this after he made his debut, so I just
It can be said that he really thought so and did so."
Tao Yuanming smiled slightly: "But now the situation has changed. After Murong Lan died, Liu Yu had already started to take concubines. Although the title of the wife of the main wife has always been empty, some women who had given birth to sons have been taken in by him as concubines.
As for concubines, he did not marry a noble daughter from a noble family, but he married these women just to give birth to heirs and to inherit the family."
Yu Yue was a little surprised: "I moved behind enemy lines this year and didn't know about it. Liu Yu's approach is completely different from before. Did he change so much after Murong Lan died? Or is he just like him?
Does Murong Lan really have such deep feelings that he would not look for another woman while she is still alive?"
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "I think Liu Yu became more and more pragmatic after the Battle of Nanyan. He destroyed a Huru country, but found that it was easy to destroy the country through war, but it was very difficult to maintain long-term stability after the war, even if it was
This year's campaign in Nanyan also required a large amount of supplies of food, grass and manpower from the rear in order to persevere. He originally thought that he could gather enough troops for the Northern Expedition by relying on the land entrusted by the generals of the Beifu Army.
resources, but this year's war made him discover that the world's manors, manpower, and material resources are still controlled by the noble families and nobles, because these subordinates of his can only fight but not govern, and knowledge, culture,
This is the biggest advantage of us nobles, far more than the land, official titles and so on."
Yu Yue laughed: "That's right. Later, I secretly negotiated many conditions with Liu Muzhi and asked him to agree to how much credit and title our Yu family's nephew would receive after joining the army.
Some of the nephews of our Yu family brought provisions and men from Wudi to support us. It was not just our Yu family, but almost all the aristocratic families who participated in the Northern Expedition. Later, during the year of siege of Guanggu, they all followed Liu Mu.
It’s about bargaining.”
Tao Yuanming sneered and said: "This is a serious mistake of Liu Yu. He thought that the world belonged to these Beifu soldiers who were given titles and assigned land according to military merit, but he never thought that these people could not even farm their own land.
How can you manage a township or a village well? In the end, you just have to put these manors and fields under your own name and hand them over to the noble families, who will send dedicated personnel to manage them. The business that your Duke Yu and Liu Tingyun cooperated at that time
, isn’t it just to act as an agent to manage the fields under the names of these Beifu generals?”
Yu Yue smiled slightly: "Yes, Liu Tingyun did not lie to me about this. It is true that these military men do not know how to take care of the manor. In the end, they could not even pay the taxes that should be paid to the court and the government, so they could only ask us for help.
And our children later followed the army in the expedition, and they also had enough titles. They could divide the land according to the title, and spent some money to let these Beifu Army officers and soldiers directly transfer the fields to us, so they went around in a big circle, and this world
The tenants of the manor have become members of our noble family again. Liu Muzhi seems to be on our side in this matter, and even Liu Yu doesn't know the inside story."
Tao Yuanming nodded: "This is why I said that Liu Muzhi and Liu Yu are not necessarily of the same mind. After all, he is also a nobleman. Although he is a lower-class nobleman, he relied on his talent to have a big family like the Jiang family when he was in decline.
He is willing to marry his daughter to him, and now he has finally climbed to where he is today. Is he like Liu Yu, who does not consider future generations at all? As a soldier, he is in danger when he fights every day. Today, he doesn’t know whether he will be alive tomorrow, so
It is normal to have this kind of thinking, but as a prime minister and a great scholar, how can Liu Muzhi think so? So I said that he has many things to do and will make compromises between Liu Yu's requirements and the interests of the family.
He would even make his own decisions and not carry out Liu Yu's orders."
Yu Yue nodded with satisfaction: "So, Liu Muzhi will still be on our side? Then can we win over him to restrain Liu Yu and the Beijing Eighth Party?"
Tao Yuanming shook his head: "As long as Liu Yu is still alive, this kind of thing will not happen. Liu Muzhi can make some small adjustments within Liu Yu's general policy to protect the fundamental interests of some noble families, but he will never say
In order for us to directly turn against Liu Yu, Yu Gong needs to have a clear understanding of this."
"Liu Yi used to speak ill of Liu Muzhi to Liu Yu all day long for his own status, saying that Liu Muzhi, a fat guy, was not of the same mind as their fellow soldiers, but this made Liu Yu trust Liu Muzhi more and alienate Liu Yi.
Therefore, we don’t have to ask for trouble. Instead, we need to think of ways to make a deal with Liu Muzhi so that we can get what we want from him."
Yu Yue curled up her lips: "Didn't you just say that you wanted to defeat Liu Muzhi, saying that he is the most dangerous opponent to us?"
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "If you want to defeat him, you must have the power to compete with him. Just like you and me, a naked general and a white scholar, how can we fight with others?" ()
