Chapter 503

"Wenyu, could it be that you are referring to...?"

Li Ru had joined Old Dong's camp for decades.

The pairing between the two could be described as extremely tacit.

As soon as Li Ru opened his mouth, Old Dong had already roughly guessed the meaning contained in Li Ru's words.

Looking at the world today.

Except for the three separatist forces of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Gongsun Zan.

Actually, there was one side that had never been watched, but it was very likely to become a potential hidden danger that would become an obstacle.

Yes, that hidden danger was Liu Xie, and the "Royalist Party" standing behind him.

Perhaps from our later generations' cognition.

We think that Liu Xie had no possibility of reorganizing the Han house's mountains and rivers at all.

This sentence is indeed correct.

Facing this form of separatism at the end of the Han dynasty, even if Liu Xie were more gifted, it would be very difficult for him to fight against the various separatist warlords of the world and the aristocratic groups behind the warlords.

But... this does not mean that there was no energy at all around Liu Xie.

For example, in original history, after Liu Xie was welcomed into Xu Chang by Cao Cao, no less than ten rebellions of various sizes broke out.

Some of these rebellions were known to Liu Xie.

Others were simply certain Royalists or ambitious people raising Liu Xie's banner to cause trouble.

Take the later Sima family replacing the Cao Wei regime, for example.

Just the rebellions that occurred in the land of Huainan already reached three.

Besides this, core cities such as Yecheng, Xu Chang, Luoyang, and Chang'an had even more countless Royalist movements.

These deeds, when put into the history books of later generations, were just a few words.

But according to the number of deaths and the scale.

At that time, it absolutely counted as causing a huge uproar!

Actually, this is also the helplessness of history.

In a feudal dynasty.

As long as the emperor is still alive, regardless of the emperor's age.

There will definitely be some ambitious people, as well as so-called "loyal and righteous people," who, under the slogan of winning back power for the emperor, wait for opportunities to carry out some things to overthrow the actual ruler.

Besides Liu Xie.

Including the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he also launched the Hundred Days' Reform.

Although the final result was declared a failure.

But this also proved one thing in disguise.

That is... no matter how much of a puppet and waste this emperor is, there will definitely be so-called Royalists appearing underneath.

Nowadays.

Although Gu Yi's expedition this time expanded a large piece of territory.

But while expanding, it also meant that Gu Yi needed to spend quite a lot of energy to integrate these lands.

For example, the development of the Jiangdong region and the Lingnan region.

Just these two things alone were by no means a small amount in terms of expenditure.

Furthermore.

Although in these territories, there was temporarily no armed force that could threaten Gu Yi's rule.

But this did not mean that those rebels lurking in the dark would disappear because of this.

This matter can actually be judged by referring to the example of Qin destroying the six states.

Although the six states perished.

But the remnants of the six states were like wild fire that could not be burned out, and they grew again with the spring breeze.

Even.

It was not until Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu.

That these remnants of the six states actually still existed!

And they launched a struggle with Liu Bang again.

The world today is exactly like this.

Although the power of the aristocratic families, under Gu Yi's repeated weakening, was already not as good as before.

But... in the Western and Eastern Han periods, how could the foundation accumulated by the aristocratic families for hundreds of years be completely eradicated so easily?

Except for the part of the aristocratic families that actively surrendered to Gu Yi.

The potential strength of the remaining aristocratic families was still not to be underestimated.

And this also reflected that it is easy to conquer the world, but difficult to guard it!

Many times.

The forces left over from the previous dynasty were not wiped out; they just temporarily disappeared.

We often admire the military prowess and bravery of the first-generation monarch.

But many times, the time of the first-generation monarch is limited, and many residual problems have not been solved.

If the next second-generation monarch is a "person good at guarding," good at handling various internal contradictions.

Then it is destined that this dynasty will become very great.

Like the prosperous Tang and the strong Ming.

But... if the second-generation monarch is a complete pit, or if he gets his own positioning wrong.

Then I'm afraid the future of this dynasty will become very miserable.

Like, Hu Hai of the pre-Qin period, and Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty.

Comparing these two people together might be somewhat inappropriate.

Because Yang Guang's ability was not in the same echelon as Hu Hai's at all.

However, Yang Guang got his own positioning wrong.

His own duty should have been to play the role of a "second-generation monarch" well.

But as a result, he wanted to be that "first-generation monarch" and wanted to surpass his father, Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian.

This matter made things very awkward.

Finally.

Yang Guang drew the anger of the world.

Because he failed to properly handle the relationship between various factions, coupled with taking too big a step externally, it led to the Sui Dynasty perishing in the second generation.

And Hu Hai?

This fellow actually shouldn't have ascended the throne at all!

If the person who succeeded the First Emperor was the eldest son, Fusu, I'm afraid the Qin Dynasty would absolutely not have ended up in that state.

And the current Dong Zhuo faction is actually facing this problem as well.

It is not that the Dong Zhuo faction is not powerful enough.

But the opponents in the dark are lurking in the wild, waiting for the time to act.

Especially this broken ship of the Han house.

Although it exists in name only.

But it truly still exists.

As long as this fellow Liu Xie is still alive.

There will be an endless stream of ambitious people who will raise his banner to do things.

With the unification of the south.

The "banner of justice" of the Han house has had very little effect on Gu Yi.

Now he can completely go and establish a new dynasty, instead of using this name of Prime Minister of the Han house.

At this moment.

The ruthlessness flashing in Li Ru's eyes was exactly the ruthlessness toward the Han house.

As everyone knows.

Before Gu Yi joined Old Dong's camp, Li Ru had once done a major thing that was recorded in history!