Xun Yu was not bent on Han, he was only opposed to Cao Cao's seizure of power. Because for a family like him, if Cao Cao's usurpation of the throne is successful, then the strengthening of imperial power is inevitable, and this is what Xun Yu is most opposed to. In fact, the struggle between the clan and the imperial power has been going on for a long time, in the form of a struggle between scholars and eunuchs, who are ostensibly an independent power group, but in fact only dependent on the existence of imperial power. However, the repeated failures of the scholar in the struggle against the imperial power are fundamentally that the imperial power has always maintained a relatively strong posture, and is in a dominant position over the family clan, and the family clan has no choice, and eventually leads to the disaster of the party, and even He Jin conspires against the ten permanent attendants.
Imagine if He Jin's plan to kill the Ten Constant Attendants succeeded, what would have happened? In fact, it was very simple to kill the Ten Constant Attendants, as long as He Jin's sister Empress He said a word, there was no need to go to such great lengths at all. Empress He was the same at the beginning, and after the Ten Constant Attendants knelt down and cried, Empress He suddenly changed her mind. Then Empress He, of course, was not only soft-hearted, but because she understood that the existence of the eunuch clique was the need of imperial power against the scholars. If there were no eunuch clique, imperial power would have been hollowed out by the scholars.
After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the imperial power has declined, and the clans in various places have also joined the military division forces of the strong and strong, that is, choosing the lord. At this time, Emperor Xian of Han and the imperial court were still in Chang'an, and if Xun Yu was really devoted to Han, then he should know the wind and grass, see the pure subjects, run to Chang'an to defect to Emperor Xian of Han, give advice to Emperor Xian of Han, and help Emperor Xian of Han regain power and stabilize the situation. Since Xun Yu did not do this, and chose to defect to warlord forces such as Cao Cao, it also meant that he was not sincere with Han.
After Xun Yu defected to Cao Cao, he urged Cao Cao to serve the Son of Heaven and not to submit to him, not because he was loyal to the Han dynasty and devoted himself to Han, but because he believed that doing so would help Cao Cao to establish the cause of hegemony. And what does it mean to be the karma of the king? It is like the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, dominating but not replacing the co-lord of the world, Zhou Tianzi. Zhou Tianzi still has to keep it, but he can act in the name of Zhou Tianzi. In this way, the Son of Heaven and the Overlord are separated, and the Overlord can be constantly transformed, but the Son of Heaven does not need to be changed, as long as he stays as a mascot.
Therefore, according to Xun Yu's idea, Cao Cao should take these clans with them, follow the orders of the Son of Heaven, gradually eliminate other separatist forces, unify the whole country, and restore order, but Cao Cao should not replace Emperor Xian of Han and could not become emperor himself. Because if Cao Cao is only the overlord, then the power after Cao Cao's death can be replaced by others, and it is not necessary for Cao Cao's descendants to inherit, if Cao Cao replaces the Han Xiandi, the overlord and the imperial power are unified, it means that the imperial power has been strengthened, the family clan regards the emperor as a mascot, and the opportunity to take turns to be the overlord is gone.
In other words, the most desired result of the family clan represented by Xun Yu at that time was not that Cao Wei replaced the Han Dynasty, but a shogunate system similar to that of Japan, where the emperor still retained and was of the same lineage, but did not hold real power, but one family clan took turns to hold power. Understanding this, it is not difficult to understand why Cao Cao absorbed so many clans in the process of starting his family, but he had to repeatedly ask for meritocracy, or be eclectic, and select talents from the cold door. Because Cao Cao wanted to use the cold door to contain the Shijia clan and mix sand with the shijia clan as the main body.
This difference between Cao Cao and Xun Yu can actually be compared to the struggle between Cao Shuang and Sima Yi. What Cao Shuang did at the beginning of his reign was actually to constantly suppress those Cao Wei elders who were still built at that time, such as Sima Yi, Wang Ling, Gao Rou, and Jiang Ji, and these people were all family families. And those elders said that Cao Shuang respected the imperial power and did not override the imperial power, and the real purpose was not to elevate the imperial power, but to resist Cao Shuang's continuous suppression with the great righteousness of the imperial power. What Sima Yi did in the Gaopingling Rebellion was similar to xun Yu's coup d'état in Xuchang during Cao Cao's expedition. It is precisely because Sima Yi and Xun Yu both represent the family clan that Sima Yi will have such a high evaluation of Xun Yu.
It's just that after Sima Yi used this kind of power of Cao Wei to overthrow Cao Shuang, he did not share power with them as the elders expected, but became Cao Shuang himself and did what Cao Shuang wanted to do but did not do. This is what Tian Yuqing said, the imperial power of the Western Jin Dynasty is embellished with door valves, it seems that the Western Jin Dynasty also has the support of such a family family as the Langya Wang clan, but it is only an embellishment of the imperial power, and the real power is in the hands of the Sima royal family, which is why the Western Jin Dynasty should go against the tide and divide so many clans to go to various places to guard the town. Because from the perspective of imperial power, the bureaucratic group dominated by the door valve family has become unreliable, and only its own relatives can be relied on, but it has finally led to the rebellion of the eight kings.
After the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty collapsed in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Wang Dao brothers took Sima Rui, the king of Langya, who was not at all inconspicuous in the imperial family before, to cross the river and establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, this time finally established the political pattern of the dictatorship of the Gate Valve family, that is, Tian Yuqing said that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was embellished by the Imperial Power, although the Emperor was still sima clan, but the power was held by several large families in turn, and the Emperor was only a mascot. Therefore, every time there was a crisis in the Eastern Jin Dynasty when the emperor was in danger of being replaced, others began to talk about honoring the king, in fact, they were only opposed to the re-emergence of cao wei replacing the Han dynasty and Sima shi replacing cao wei.