Dunhuang, Dunhuang.

The strong one is great, and the brilliant one is great.

Emperor Wu of Han used these two words to establish a county and state, which was enough to show the courage of this hero.

However, when Liu Xie truly set foot on this prosperous land, the only thing he saw was the scars.

Desolation was his deepest impression of this big county.

"I remember whether Gai Xun and his family were from Dunhuang too? Did their family participate in the rebellion of the Western Qiang?" Liu Xie suddenly remembered a name he had heard recently and asked curiously.

Han Sui replied: "Gaixun and his family claim to be loyal and encouraging, so how could they participate in rebellion? Naturally, they are Jiewubao to defend themselves and do not ask about political affairs. The fight between Wubao is not much easier than Yumen Pass. Don't say that they just pretend to rebel, but if they really rebel, why would they provoke local tyrants like them?"

Liu Xie smiled and glanced at Han Sui and said, "What this said... is a bit mysterious. I know that Gai Xun had fought with you back then. Is it because Wen Yue still has resentment towards him?"

"It is true that there is a grudge between me and Gai Xun, but I do have some other complaints about this so-called righteous gentleman who is loyal to the country. However, the death is gone, and I don't want to say anything else. I just talk about the matter. I have no radical words to them. After all, they are indeed loyal ministers."

Liu Xie didn't think anything was there yet, but this time, Han Sui really poked the hornet's nest. Except for Zhuge Liang who was going to take office as the Grand Protectorate with Han Sui next year, he sighed helplessly, but the rest of the people refuted Han Sui with dissatisfaction.

Especially in Liu Xie's impression, Li Dian, who had the best temper and was a good man, was the most angry and said directly: "It's ridiculous, ridiculous. When Gong was loyal to the country, the late emperor called him "Gao Gong, who hated him to see him late," he was already dead. However, he was asked by Wen, a rioter who made enemies with him because of rebellion and rebellion, and was judged by the king. Is there anything more ridiculous in the world than this?"

Liu Xie looked at Han Sui and waited for Han Sui to give an explanation.

Han Sui stopped talking, but kept looking at Zhuge Liang, saying, "I don't say anything, so I won't say anything."

After all, his identity is too embarrassing, and some things need Zhuge Liang to say for him.

After a while, Zhuge Liang sighed and spoke for Han Sui: "Brother Wen Yue said it well. Gai Xun's loyalty and encouragement and Gai family's loyalty are not inconsistent with their family. It is not a contradiction. You can't just be loyal and righteous, and once won the trust of the late emperor, their family can be treated differently, right?"

Li Dian simply pointed his finger at Zhuge Liang and said, "The powerful and powerful also have good families. When Liangzhou was famine, Gai Xun was the prefect of Hanyang at that time and did not hesitate to use his private money to help the victims. Isn't it a good deed of great benevolence and great virtue?"

Zhuge Liang replied: "If you can relieve the wealth of a family, you can relieve the hunger of a county. Isn't this the biggest unreasonable thing in itself? How could their family be so rich?"

Seeing this, Han Sui interrupted, "After the reason, after the disaster relief food of the court arrived, the general Gai Xun had spent a lot of money and money from his family, and returned it to him. The prefect Gai was very good at doing it. He not only bought the hearts of the people, but also showed his loyalty, and had not suffered any losses. If this matter is passed down to future generations, it is probably going to be remembered forever."

However, Liu Xie only grasped the fundamental lineage of the matter after Zhuge Liang spoke and interrupted Han Sui: "No matter what, no matter how he got the money, it is always a good deed to take out money and grain to provide disaster relief. Gai Xun himself is worthy of being a great minister. The late emperor has been unaware of people all his life, so he is not considered blind in this matter."

Han Sui whispered in a low voice, but in a voice that was enough for Liu Xie to hear clearly: "Their family has a billion yuan, and the late emperor didn't like him, so he saw the ghost."

Liu Xie's face twitched slightly, but he just pretended not to hear it and asked, "Besides, in my opinion, what the Gai family earned may not be ill-gotten wealth. Dunhuang is so barren and desolate, with Hu and Han living together, or there are not many Han people at all. How did their Gai family make so much money? Exploitation? Oppression? Who can they oppress, and where can they come from the Guizhou head for their exploitation?"

Zhuge Liang responded as if he was a double act when he heard this: "It is naturally impossible to make a fortune in a place like Dunhuang. This place has no other channels to make money except connecting the barbarians outside the Great Wall and small countries in the Western Regions."

Han Sui added another knife and said, "Your Majesty, you see this place desolate because you didn't look at the right place. The court has not been pursuing the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years. How could this county that was originally established for the Western Regions not be desolate? However, if you go to Guangzhi County where they are located, it will not be desolate at all. Whether it is the gems, spices, precious medicinal materials from the Western Regions, silk and porcelain from the Central Plains, you can see there."

"Oh~, it turns out to be a business family. So I think their family must have a very good understanding of the Western Regions? In this way, wouldn't it be very suitable to be one of the thirteen corporations in Liangzhou?"

However, Zhao Ang, who was always silent, suddenly joined in and said, "Your Majesty, we, the people of Dongliang, have no contributions and have worked hard in this battle. You have agreed to select the candidates of the Thirteen Corps based on the military merits in this battle. This family clearly has no achievements in this battle. If they are involved, I am afraid that someone will be dissatisfied."

Liu Xie smiled when he heard this.

After all, the root of this is not yet here.

So Liu Xie smiled again and said, "In this way, Wuwei Jia's family has nothing to do with this battle. Jia Xu himself did not come. Is Wuwei Jia's family not qualified to participate in this matter?"

Han Sui was anxious immediately and said, "How can this be confused? Didn't Jia Gong personally take charge of state affairs in Youzhou? Maybe he was still fighting against Suli, the leader of the Dongxianbei, at this time, so how can he be said to be incompetent and old?"

Liu Xie smiled even happier now and asked, "So, are you bullying the Gai family and no one in the court?"

Everyone was exhausted, including Zhuge Liang, and they were exhausted and stopped talking.

Of course, at this time, Liu Xie did not understand what Han Sui and Zhuge Liang really wanted. It was not just a matter of ownership of one of the thirteen corpses. After all, there was no matter between them in these thirteen corpses.

However, since the Gai family has been doing business for generations, they must be more familiar with the Western Regions than them. You must know that there must be sufficient competition among the Thirteen corporations. The key to the problem is actually: If the Gai family participates, who can compete with him?

Even in extreme cases, the Gai family may not be willing to be one of the thirteen ranks.

The reason why thirteen families were selected to form the thirteen groups of Liangzhou was to allow them to unite to a limited extent rather than to be truly monopolized. This local snake family, whether it is a cooperation or not, is enough to make the Western Region Protectorate's Defence very uncomfortable, especially their family is still a very famous family of loyalty and righteousness. To put it bluntly, this kind of family exists itself as the enemy of the Western Region Protectorate's Defence.

Fortunately, the court itself is now promoting a joint venture between salt and iron, so the business scale of the Gai family is obviously a big mistake. If it cannot be incorporated and recruited, it will definitely have to be dealt with. As for whether their family is loyal and loyal for generations, it doesn't matter.

To put it bluntly, it was nothing more than a family of a military man in the border county, or a local rich man, who was determined to rely on the party group under the banner of killing officials. Anyway, that's what Han Sui thought.

Zhuge Liang, his butt determines his head. Since he will take office in the Western Regions next year, he can only think so.

As for Liu Xie himself, to be honest, he still has an indifferent attitude so far. The Gai family is indeed not suitable to be one of the thirteen corporations in Liangzhou. At least the Western Regions Protectorate is just a first-time founder, which is not possible at this time.

But after all, they did nothing wrong. It’s not his fault that they are too rich, right? Besides, their family has really produced loyal ministers in the first few generations.

Of course, Liu Xie only had a rough understanding of Gai Xun's deeds, but he also felt that the person who could make his cheap father say "I hate to see you late" might not be a loyal minister. He even said that Zhang Rang was his father.

So if it is really necessary, it is not impossible to slaughter the Gai family.

"Since you all say that the Gai family is so important to Dunhuang and even to the development of the Western Regions, there is no need for us to wander around, so let's see if their family understands it first."

After saying that, Liu Xie smiled and asked Han Sui to lead the way, but he was suddenly frightened when he was halfway through.

I just seemed... I almost determined the fate of a big family with a population of at least 1,000?

In one thought, it is really in one thought. The emperor can give their descendants a wealth of 18 generations, and the get out of class will make at least 1,800 people rich enough to rival the country. Even the Gai family, who have produced several generations of loyal ministers, will all go to see the King of Hell.

What is the judging criteria? The answer is, let’s see if they understand or not.

Moreover, even Liu Xie himself doesn’t know what sensibility means, what standards should be.

If it rains a little later and you are in a bad mood, this standard may be a little stricter.

If you look at the words of the Gai family, this standard may be relaxed.

Is this the little willfulness of power?

And I didn't think there was anything wrong at all.

When Liu Xie realized this, his first reaction was to be vigilant and not to fall into the abyss of corruption.

But the second reaction was that I felt quite comfortable.

It's like this, it should have been like this.

As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, why should I not allow me to be willful as the Holy Lord Emperor named Zhongxing Zhentong? This kind of thing is already very difficult, so I don’t have so much precious time and energy to judge the specific treatment of their family.

Especially for this kind of thing, it is hard for anyone to do it directly except him.

With this precious time and energy, if I deal with other major affairs in the country, I might benefit more people.

Even if my time is not all about business, but about leisure and entertainment, isn’t this also for the purpose of combining work and rest to better deal with those things that benefit the country and the people?

How to say it, he himself knew that such an idea was a distortion, but his subconscious mind felt it was very reasonable.

Do the feudal dynasty really expect judicial litigation? What's more, the judiciary is not omnipotent, especially it is not suitable for the current world that is in a mess and has actually entered the era of great reform by oneself.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"

"Ah? Ah, ah, what's wrong with Zhongyu."

After being distracted for a while, Xun Yue called him out.

"Is Your Majesty worried that he doesn't know how to deal with this Gai family?"

"Yeah... let's do it."

What I'm so worried about is that I don't know how to deal with myself.

"Do you have any opinions?"

"I can't say anything. The most difficult thing to distinguish between the key to governing is loyalty and treason. As Your Majesty said, how to deal with it depends on whether they are respectful and whether the person in charge is smart enough. In fact, most of the rich and powerful families are the same, especially in places like Liangzhou. Whether doing good or evil, they may not be allowed to do anything. They are in the world of the world, and they are not allowed to do anything."

Liu Xie felt a little moved when he heard this, and he said, "Zhong Yu's words are interesting, it's a bit philosophical. Why did he feel it?"

"That's right. In the past, when Wen Ruo had not retreated, especially when Mr. Wei covered the sky with his hands, many things had a great difference with him, and he couldn't figure out why he had to do that. Now that he retreated, I came up, but I realized that sometimes he couldn't help himself."

When Liu Xie heard this, he couldn't help but agree: "The greater the power, the heavier the responsibility? It's true that sometimes he can't help himself."

"Your Majesty is joking. Everyone in the world can do nothing, but you can't do it. You are the ones who are like you, your Majesty?"

"How can I explain this?"

"The most difficult thing for civil and military officials in the court to distinguish is loyalty and treacherousness, but You Majesty, you are the founding king. Now the King of Wei is already weak. If you want to use loyal ministers, then the person you use will naturally be loyal. If you want to use treacherous ministers, this minister will naturally be treacherous. Whether it is loyal or treacherous, how can you decide by yourself? Gaixun, the same is true for the Gai family. Doesn't it depend on how you want to use it? If you want to develop the Silk Road and manage the Western Regions, if you still want to be used, you can only give up your family and make the country. Smart people will move with the times."

"Um."

Liu Xie nodded, but was surprised that he understood the implicit meaning of Xun Yue.

It seems that it is not only talking about the Gai family, but also about himself.

It’s just that Xun Yue excluded Zhuge Liang’s slightest thing. He had recently discussed the vested interest group with Zhuge Liang and never missed him. The one who is most likely to fall into a vested interest group in the world is him and the Yingchuan family represented by him.

This is showing loyalty to yourself.

This way of showing loyalty is much more clever than swearing to say beautiful words.

And it really played a role in persuasion, and even made myself, who was already quite entangled, feel suddenly enlightened.

The way to employ people lies in one's heart. In fact, there is no need to care whether the Gai family is loyal or traitor. To put it bluntly, whether they are loyal or traitor depends on how they want to use it.

The emperor's power is so great.

The little willfulness of imperial power itself is also an indispensable part of government power.
Chapter completed!