Chapter Seventy-Four: The Internal Enemy

What Yuan Shu feared most was not an external enemy, but an internal enemy, that is, the Jiangdong family.

These families are now very well-behaved on the surface, but Yuan Shu knows that this is just an appearance, they are still a group of wolves in sheep's clothing, once they grasp Yuan Shu's weakness, they will not hesitate to pounce.

Yuan Shu is going to look at the Lu family now, if the Lu family doesn't jump, it won't be a big problem for other families to dance no matter how happy they are.

But the Gu family and the Zhu family Yuan Shu are not too worried, these two families have now broken with the Jiangdong family, if Yuan Shu falls, they will be the first to be unlucky, which is even more unacceptable to them. Therefore, at least they will not participate in the rebellion, and at most they will become a force to ride the wall, and the two will not help each other.

The old fox of the Lu family is not sure what Yuan Shu thinks, so I can only hope that this old thing will get to know each other a little, and don't make trouble with the ending of the fish dying and the net being broken.

If Yuan Shu can't survive, he will definitely pull the Jiangdong family to accompany him to the funeral in the end. And the Lu family will bear the brunt of it at that time, with Yuan Shu's understanding of this old fox, he should not be involved in it and do such an unwise thing.

However, none of this can be guaranteed, and Yuan Shu can only leave more backhands and be prepared.

"As for the discussion of Dong, it may be uncertain whether the northern heroes will have the strength to take care of us. When the troubled times opened, but when they were the most chaotic, even with the ability of the family, I am afraid that they would not be able to force all these heroes to come to gnaw on the hard bone of my Yangzhou, right? ”

"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, if they want to move me again, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult. ”

After appeasing Tian Feng, Yuan Shu was also relieved.

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

However, on the issue of land, Yuan Shu still did not give in at all, which is the foundation of the country. Why dynasties have risen and changed so frequently in Chinese history is, in the final analysis, a matter of land.

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

It's not that Yuan Shu doesn't want to unite the family, but the current 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, he can maintain this balance. But once there are a few goods like Emperor Ling of Han, the balance will be broken, the family will be strong to the point where the people will not survive, and all kinds of uprisings will continue to break out.

If we do not fundamentally solve the problem of land ownership, this world will still be divided for a long time, and the situation will be divided for a long time.

What Yuan Shu wanted was to transform the fundamental interests of the family from land to wealth. It's easy to say that the people don't have money, it's nothing more than a poor life, but as long as they have land and enough food, they can live.

After the family controls the wealth, it is still the same as before, and it is still respected as before, but it has lost the right to control the life and death of the people at will. If the people of the family are wise, they don't 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 fundamental interests? The Chinese people's obsession with land is engraved in their bones! Look at the house prices of later generations and you will understand.

To put it bluntly, they don't really need the land itself, they need the security and high status that the land brings.

No family is willing to give up land in favor of a business that is more profitable, but in their eyes it is a lowly business that may be suppressed at any time.

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

The reforms that Yuan Shu wanted to carry out were beneficial to the country, the family, and even everyone in the long run. After all, if the cake is bigger, even if someone's share of the shares decreases, the profits still increase relatively speaking.

But in a short period of time, when the family can't see the benefits, they will think that Yuan Shu is blindly encroaching on their own interests. In other words, they can see the benefits in the future, but they still pretend to turn a blind eye.

They certainly benefit when the cake becomes bigger, but compared to the whole world, they are not weaker? How can we maintain our current status of calling for wind and rain?

Yuan Shu is engaged in the east and west in Yangzhou, and those families who did not oppose Yuan Shu openly suffered?

No, the family property has risen by 20%, the land has increased a lot, and the officials have not decreased. You must know that the family property of these families has been exploited for decades or even hundreds of years, and now it has increased by 20% in half a year!

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

The only damage Yuan Shu did to these families was to raise the cost of hiring tenants and take away a lot of their population.

With the increase in their wealth, they can hire many servants for a little money casually, but they can't completely control the life and death of these people.

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

Because now that the people of Yangzhou are rich, they can no longer do whatever they want, let them live and die. lost the right to determine the life and death of all people with one word, and lost the casual trampling on the people.

It is in this contrast that they have this sense of dissatisfaction.

Because although most of the people in the family are talented, there are also many moths with poor conduct. The pleasure and pride of these people is basically based on these people who can do whatever they want.

Although the people of Jiangdong are still far inferior to the family, they are no longer the walking dead who had to rely on their noses and let them fiddle with them before!

Even if you offend these families a little, you won't be unable to live, at most you will have a worse life. It's a big deal to stay away from these families and move to other places, anyway, you can't starve to death in Yangzhou.

How can these families be accommodated?

Are they still not a respected family that governs all the people of the world?

That's why Yuan Shucai said that the family of this era is a little lost. Most people have forgotten why they are respected by all nations. It is not because he determines life and death with his own words, nor because he is powerful, but because his ancestors once led the people to overcome obstacles and open up a world for these people to survive, but because he can correctly lead them and let them live a richer life.

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

Yuan Shu, who understands history, understands that the two most fundamental resources in the world are people and land, and the others are floating clouds. That's why Yuan Shucai is so eager to hold these two firmly in his hands, because this is the real foundation of a regime.

No matter how strong the current family is, what can it do? They exploit the common people and plunder the land, and they are very useful for internal wars and political struggles, but how useful are these means for foreign wars? Will they be able to sacrifice their interests for the country? It's no wonder if you don't hold back.

If Yuan Shu did not transform the family and untie the shackles on the people, it would be basically impossible to fight abroad or even Europe in his lifetime. It takes a lot of time and effort to deal with these families.

As a time-traveler, don't have a big dream, is it worthy of your identity?