Having said this, Yuan Shu looked at the gray-faced Tian Feng, paused for a moment and then continued: "I think Yuan Hao also knows this truth, but he just doesn't dare to face it, right?"

Tian Feng nodded with a pale face.

Facing the silent Tian Feng, Yuan Shu continued.

"The chaos of the Han Dynasty began in aristocratic families. I am afraid that all knowledgeable people know this."

"How could the aristocratic family not know that their existence is already a problem? It's just that they are in the midst of it, riding a tiger with difficulty."

"People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and aristocratic families are not a pure whole. Although most people realize that there is a problem with the entire aristocratic family class and that the aristocratic family should be weakened, who is willing to give in?"

"Just like my Yuan family, what if I give up most of the family property despite knowing the righteousness? Are other aristocratic families willing to do this? Don't they want to take advantage of my Yuan family's vitality to fill in the vacancy?

The location of the top aristocratic family?”

"People are selfish! The aristocratic family class, which seems to be a whole, is actually composed of a large number of small groups."

"These small groups are also full of contradictions and have their own selfish motives. How can they reach a tacit understanding and retreat together for the sake of the entire class and the entire country?"

"Troubled times are a reshuffle, a reshuffle of the aristocratic family itself."

"Because this country can no longer accommodate so many aristocratic families, the aristocratic families have promoted all of this in order to eliminate the less outstanding and weaker aristocratic families among them and weaken the entire aristocratic family as a large group."

"But all this is just drinking poison to quench thirst. But until the family can find a better way, they can only continue this cycle. If we divide for a long time, we will unite, and if we unite for a long time, we will divide."

Speaking of this, Yuan Shu was filled with emotion.

"In troubled times, each family relies on its own ability to support one force. The winner will naturally grow stronger, while the loser will be weakened or even destroyed."

"Aristocratic families are also divided into three, six or nine levels. The weak can only support one force, while the strong have more choices. Some, like the Yang family, choose to avoid the troubled times and only rely on the government to protect themselves. Some, like the Xun family,

With a big family and a big business, we can cast a net all over the place and split it to support multiple forces. As the strongest family besides the royal family, my Yuan family chooses outstanding children to become princes and directly participate in the troubled times."

Hearing this, Tian Feng said in a low tone: "Is the lord the Yuan family's choice?"

Hearing this, Yuan Shu said bitterly: "I am only one of the Yuan family's choices, and I am also the second choice."

Seeing the doubt on Tian Feng's face, Yuan Shu explained: "I know what you want to say. But my Yuan family is too strong. No matter which princes we support, when the world is unified, we will become a thorn in the ruler's side and a thorn in the flesh. In the end,

The good ending is probably to be weakened to the extreme and hit the bottom of the family."

"There is no way forward, no way back. Instead of waiting for a slow death, we, the Yuan family, can only choose to fight to the death. We will directly turn around and become princes to participate in the troubled times."

"However, our Yuan family is still too strong. If we fully support one person, that person's power will become much stronger than others. This will never be allowed by other families. If my Yuan family does this

, after the matter is completed, it will occupy too much benefit, so it will inevitably become the target of public criticism and cause groups of other aristocratic families to besieged."

"It is meaningless to separate some parts to support other princes. Therefore, my Yuan family can only choose to split and support Yuan Shao and me respectively."

"In this way, the strength of the two of us will not be too strong. Then we will recruit other aristocratic families again to form a new aristocratic family interest group. This will be more secure and more in line with the interests of the aristocratic family and all parties."

At the end, Yuan Shu sighed again: "All of this is about balance and compromise after all!"

This country, this world is like a pond, and the aristocratic families are like the fish in the pond, the poor families are like the shrimps, and the common people are like the water in the pond.

It's okay if there's too much water, and it's no problem if some of it overflows.

But the current situation is that there are too many fish and shrimps in this fish pond, so much that the entire fish pond cannot support it.

If this continues, the water in the fish pond will continue to overflow, and there will be no room for the fish to survive. By then, no one will be able to survive.

What to do at this time?

There is only one way, reduce the number of fish and shrimp.

Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps.

When the number of fish and shrimps decreases to a certain level, the pond will become calm again.

As a result, these fish and shrimps divide into multiple groups and attack each other.

Among them, there are too many fish represented by the Yuan family, occupying nearly a quarter of the fish population in the fish pond.

The four generations and three princes, disciples and old officials all over the world are not just for boasting.

If they fight each other, the Yuan family will definitely have the absolute advantage.

Therefore, all the fish will first think about destroying the Yuan family.

The Yuan family's goal is too big to be accepted by other fish schools, but if they go out alone and face attacks from all other fish schools, they can only choose to compromise and come up with a way.

Divide yourself into three parts.

Some of them stayed anonymous, disguised their identities, and joined another fish as a way out.

The other two groups stand up and fight on their own, and recruit other fish and shrimp schools to join them.

When the other fish schools saw that the Yuan family's fish school split into two parts, and although each part was stronger than the fish school to which it belonged, it was only limited in strength, so they naturally felt better and reluctantly accepted it.

However, the two fish schools of the Yuan family were still separated, allowing them to fight independently in places far apart.

Unless one party is about to perish, it is impossible for the two to come together.

This is the reason why the two Yuan families have always been at odds and were unable to defect to Yuan Shao's influence until Yuan Shu's death.

Forced by the situation, it is impossible for the two Yuans to unite, because after uniting, they will be attacked by a group of people and eventually destroyed, and it will never be possible to unify the world.

Otherwise, if the two combine to unify the world, the outcome will be that the unification will be too fast and too easy. In the end, there will still be sixty-seven tenths of the remaining aristocratic families, which will not solve the problem at all, and will only usher in a chaotic world soon.

Either there are too few aristocratic families left, not even one out of ten, and the Yuan family's power will account for more than half of them.

These two situations cannot be accepted by other aristocratic families, or the entire aristocratic family class.

Therefore, the two Yuans were unable to unite from beginning to end, and there was always a great enemy, Cao Mengde, between them.

In the end, Yuan Shao watched helplessly as Yuan Shu was eliminated by the surrounding forces but did not dare to move at all.

Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor for a superficial reason, because he knew that his time had come, otherwise he would not have done such a stupid thing.

Because Yuan Shao was too powerful at that time and was about to defeat Gongsun Zan and occupy the entire Hebei Province, which would basically be one-third of the world.

If Yuan Shu is not dead, the family will be in trouble.
Chapter completed!