At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Not to mention returning to the central government, can't you even go back to the Central Plains?

Sima Yi must be very anxious.

Zhuge Liang is 35 years old this year. He is already a senior official of two thousand shi, and his future is bright.

It is conceivable that as long as he can return to the central government, Zhuge Liang will definitely be able to take important powers before the age of 40, start calling the wind and rain, and become an indispensable member of the court.

And what about Sima Yi?

With such worries, it is not incomprehensible for him to act up and down.

Although Mao Jie is also an official in the local area, Mao Jie is a veteran-level official and has many connections in the central government. The possibility of returning to the central government is not small. Not impossible.

Guo Peng was thinking, back then Zhuge Liang proposed to go to the local area to study and experience, and then Sima Yi followed, Guo Peng himself did not have similar ideas.

He wondered if Sima Yi regretted leaving the Central Committee now.

He suspected that Sima Yi just left with Zhuge Liang just because his head was hot, and he didn't think about whether he could return to the Central Committee in the future, and this issue was very important and related to his official career.

It is really not a wise choice for a group of them to leave the central government unless they really have great political ambitions.

Xu Shu, who did not leave the central government at the beginning, was quickly transferred back to the central government because of his shrewdness and ability after serving a term as the prefect of the Shangdang.

This position is responsible for directly connecting with the eunuch Xian Yuyin, assisting in the management of horse administration, and connecting with the use of horses in society, which is a heavy responsibility.

Although Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are both high-ranking officials with two thousand shi, their actual power is really not as great as Xu Shu.

In this position, Xu Shu can manage all the registered official horses in the world, and he can intervene in any matter related to horses, and the operation of the empire is obviously inseparable from horses.

The Wei Empire was a country on horseback, so Xu Shu is also a typical lowly position.

No matter what organization wants to use horses, he can make decisions, what kind of horses to give, how many horses to give, and the living environment of the horses.

All departments are asking for horses to use, so it is up to Xu Shu to decide who will use them first.

Guo Peng didn't know if Sima Yi was envious after hearing the news, or if he regretted his original actions.

But Zhuge Liang will definitely not regret it, Guo Peng can be sure of this.

Through these years of observation and understanding, Guo Peng basically figured out the difference between Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang.

Sima Yi has the talent of a politician, and he could have improved to a higher level, but his heart is full of speculative psychology like a politician.

This kind of psychology limited the height he could have achieved, and restricted him from further becoming a great politician, but only stayed at the level of a conspirator and politician.

His pattern and mind are not enough.

Zhuge Liang is different, he has the talent of a politician, but also the mentality and mind of a politician.

His goal is very clear, and he is firmly moving forward for this goal without any confusion.

Not only can he become a politician, but he also has the ability to be a ruler, and he can restrain his selfish desires very well.

That's hard.

There are absolutely no such people who restrain their selfish desires and live for official duties wholeheartedly, but they must be very few.

The existence of such a person is like the sun. Wherever he goes, he shines and glows. It is really difficult to prevent him from shining and glowing.

With such an idea, Guo Peng left Yongzhou.

Guo Peng had never been to Liangzhou, and the whole territory of Liangzhou was captured and occupied by Cao Ren.

During that period of time, Guo Peng needed to step back from his position as a front-line commander and retreated to the second-line, so Guo Peng did not participate in the Liangzhou War, and his main energy was on national construction.

Of course, Guo Peng's policies are indispensable for Liangzhou to be able to develop to this point.

When Dong Zhuo was in trouble in Guanzhong, Liangzhou did not go anywhere well. Dong Zhuo’s petty money ravaged Guanzhong, and Liangzhou’s economy was also implicated and almost collapsed. There were really signs of cannibalism in Liangzhou during that time.

During that period of time, there was almost no normal social order in Liangzhou, and what was left was the law of the jungle where the weak preyed on the strong, and some places even sold human candied meat openly.

Even Guo Peng didn't dare to become king at that time, and someone in Liangzhou did it.

Of course, in the end, the torn society in Liangzhou was wiped out by Wei Jun.

Wei Jun reshaped Liangzhou's political ecology here, rebuilt Liangzhou, and restored it to the throat of the Silk Road.

After so many years, the ecology of Liangzhou has been restored very well. The immigrants who migrated here live and work in peace and contentment. They are engaged in agriculture and commerce here, enjoying the light of the Silk Road and earning a little money.

Because Liangzhou was built relatively late, and its social organizations are relatively simple, it is quite convenient to deal with many problems.

Therefore, when the central government has any policy, Liangzhou will also become a testing ground for the policy besides the Gyeonggi area, and it will be the first batch of practice.

When Guo Peng set up academies and schools extensively, Liangzhou was also the first batch to set up academies and schools and recruit students, and the whole process was relatively simple, with no accidents happening.

Therefore, the education level of the people in Liangzhou is better than that of some inland states and counties.

And with the continuous development of the Silk Road, Liangzhou's business will also develop very well, which will push the construction of Liangzhou to a new peak.

Liangzhou, which was separated from the central government due to the hundred-year Qiang rebellion, is returning to the big family of Huaxia Shenzhou with a new attitude.

The Liangzhou foundation created by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was finally preserved.

After that, Guo Peng led the team to Longxi County.

This is one of the places he must come to when he arrives in Liangzhou.

There is no other reason, Longxi County is the location of the Longyou Military Horse Farm, which has the largest and most important military horse farm in the entire Wei Kingdom so far.

From the capture of Longyou to the abdication of the throne, Guo Peng successively set up four state-owned military horse farms in the northern border of the empire.

Longyou Army Horse Farm was the first military horse farm established with the largest number of breeding horses and the most important one.

The remaining three army horse farms are respectively set up in Bingzhou, Youzhou and Mozhou. Taking advantage of the advantageous geographical locations of these three states, plus a Longyou army horse farm, a total of more than 200 million war horses have been raised.

The number of war horses raised by the Wei Empire is also unprecedented.

With the further development and immigration strategy of Mozhou in the future, the number of war horses raised in Mozhou will continue to increase, and it is expected that within ten years it will become a super army horse farm comparable to the Longyou Army horse farm.

These four major army horse farms can provide sufficient military horses for the Wei army to ensure that the Wei army's expedition team is fully mules and horses, and realize the high-speed maneuvering of any army.

At the same time, unqualified short, fat horses and old, weak and disabled horses retired from the army were continuously sent to the people.

They tend to become commercial horses and food horses, draining the last trace of use value.

This approach not only greatly increased the speed of commodity circulation in the Wei Empire, but also enriched people's table recipes and protein intake, which can be said to make the horses shine to the extreme.

The reason why the Wei Empire was able to achieve Guo Peng's high degree of centralization and achieve the minimum speed of rapid spread of the centralization system was also because of the roads extending in all directions and the extremely large number of horses.

Chapter 1519 One thousand four hundred and fifty nine The Wei Empire was a country on horseback

Without qualified roads with huge mileage, the maneuvering advantages of horses will be greatly weakened, and the necessary advantages cannot be fully exerted.

Without sufficient horses, the Wei Empire did not have a faster and more economical means of transportation that could replace horses, and the significance of the large-scale official roads would be greatly reduced.

It can only be said that the two complement each other and have achieved unprecedented centralization of power in the Wei Empire style.

And if the Guowei Empire wants to continue to maintain centralized power, one must maintain the roads all over the country and the existence of toll stations, and the other must ensure that the military horse farm does not decline and everything is under control.

Roads and horses are indispensable and important assistants of centralization. Without one, the centralization of the Wei Empire will be on the verge of collapse in a short period of time and enter a period of decline in the dynasty.

Many powerful centralized dynasties began to decline after the horse administration and road administration were corrupted, but few people paid attention to this rule.

As the first military horse farm set up by the Wei Empire, the Longyou Army Horse Farm was also the residence of the Wei State's only official official of the Nine Ministers with real power, so it must have received great attention from Guo Peng.

Moreover, the Longyou Army Horse Farm is not only the largest army horse farm, but also the location of the only military horse lineage optimization research center in the Wei Empire.

In the seventh year of Yande, Guo Peng received a report from Xian Yuyin before and after the Northern Expedition to Xianbei, saying that according to his observation, he felt that the war horses of the Wei Empire had gradually weakened in recent years, and hoped that Guo Peng would pay more attention.

He said that based on his many years of experience, measures should be taken immediately to increase financial expenditure and recruit more people to work on the military horse farm to ensure that the breeding of military horses is under the control of the military horse farm.

Excellent war horses must be mated with equally excellent war horses to reproduce offspring, and they cannot be left alone. Otherwise, in a few years, the Wei Empire would not see [strong limbs, described as tall] war horses.

At that time, Guo Peng was slightly taken aback.

Then he immediately realized that what Xian Yuyin meant was that the unrestrained interbreeding of military horses caused the bloodlines of excellent military horses to become mixed and degenerate their offspring. This trend must be curbed.

At that time, the Longyou Army horse farm was short of manpower and lacked enough manpower to organize the mating and reproduction of horses.

Horses with excellent bloodlines cannot be mated with equally excellent horses, but with inferior horses, which affects the inheritance of excellent bloodline horses.

This made the tall and handsome war horses with strong limbs not have the same excellent offspring, which made the war horses of the Wei Empire inferior to each other.

Guo Peng realized at that time that the situation was serious.

If this continues, the lineage of war horses cannot be artificially optimized, so that the reproduction of Wei Jun's army and horses will develop in a benign direction. Sooner or later, Wei Jun will lose excellent war horses just like the Northern Song Dynasty.

Guo Peng always kept in mind the funny story of the Northern Song Dynasty losing its excellent war horse, and this situation cannot be allowed to happen to the Wei Empire.

So he allocated a large amount of funds to recruit experts to enter the Longyou Army's horse farm to assist Xian Yuyin in breeding horses, while planning to attack the Western Regions.

At the end of the eighth year of Yande, the Wei army conquered the Dawan Kingdom and captured a hundred Dawan hard-blooded horses, nearly a thousand first-class horses, and no middle-class horses.

Except for a small number of these war horses that were sent to Luoyang for the enjoyment of the rich and powerful, most of them were brought into the Longyou Army horse farm.

Guo Peng ordered the optimization of the bloodlines of war horses to be carried out at the Longyou Army Horse Farm. The army selected excellent war horses and captured Dawan horses to mate in large numbers to breed more excellent second-generation war horses, and then selected the best from them to breed even better offspring.

In this way, the excellent war horses were combined and mated generation by generation, and finally the breeding work of the Wei army's war horses was brought into a virtuous circle. The war horse genes with short limbs and not strong enough were eliminated within the range of the army horse farm, so as to make the Wei army cavalry stronger.

The more tall and strong horses there are, the better the military horse blood of the Wei Empire, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry can be maintained and strengthened.

This is a lot of work and more costly, but what is gratifying is that the quality of Wei Jun's war horses has indeed gotten better and better in the past few years.

Later, Xian Yuyin also presented seven sturdy sweat horses bred by the Longyou Army's horse farm, all of which were very handsome and strong.

When Guo Peng rode one of the most handsome horses to inspect the army, he attracted the eyes of the soldiers firmly.

Later, Guo Peng rewarded Zhao Yun with a blood-sweat horse, which made Zhao Yun so happy that he didn't sleep well for several days, and even wished he could sleep with the horse-sweat horse in the stable at night.

Then Guo Dong was rewarded with a sweat-blooded BMW. From then on, Guo Dong would ride this sweat-blooded BMW wherever he went, with his head held high, as if he was defiant.

At this time, having a hard-earned BMW as a mount may be as meaningful to a soldier as a fake criminal who actually got a luxury car. Riding it out and dangling in front of others is a great pride.

Xian Yuyin's work is very good, and he is considered a responsible person. When Xian Yufu was recommended to take care of the horse, Guo Peng originally planned to let him be in charge of the transition.

But in the end, even Xian Yufu himself was punished, but he still worked steadily as his servant. He could be called the driving force and hero behind the rapid development of the Wei Empire.

For the Wei Empire to become the [country on horseback], in addition to Guo Peng's policies and achievements, the success of the horse administration under the leadership of Xian Yuyin is also one of the necessary conditions.

Without his hard work, it would be difficult for Wei Empire's horse administration to scale up and get on track. I don't know how long it will take. His contribution to horse administration is definitely no less than those generals fighting on the battlefield.

So Guo Peng made him a marquis and gave him two thousand households to eat. Even if Xian Yufu made a mistake, Xian Yuyin was not implicated.

Speaking of which, Guo Peng hadn't seen Xian Yuyin for four or five years, and the last time he was summoned was before the Wei army entered the Western Regions.

Cao Lan and the others were not as healthy as Guo Peng, and the journey was tiring, so Guo Peng left Cao Lan and a few other women to rest in Longxi County, and only took Guo Chengzhi and some personal guards to the Longyou army horse farm in light clothes.

Xian Yuyin got the news that Guo Peng was coming an hour before Guo Peng arrived at the Longyou Army Racecourse.

Time is running out, and there is no time to make preparations, so we can only bite the bullet and use our normal state to meet it.

Since he usually stays in the herd of war horses, it is inconvenient to wear formal official uniforms, which are easy to be damaged and dirty, so he wears a coarse cloth bunt, durable short leather boots, a leather cap, and the general uniform. The officials and officials of the military horse farm are the same.

It was the same when I saw Guo Peng, there was no time to go back and change clothes, and my face was full of shame.

"I didn't know that the Supreme Emperor was coming, and I lost my way to greet you, and I lost my dignity. I'm guilty!"

Guo Peng couldn't help laughing when he saw Xian Yuyin's appearance in a coarse cloth bunt.

"I deliberately didn't let you know in advance. I just wanted to see how you look like in your daily work. Seeing that you can do it yourself and come to the front line in person, you will know that you are a professional, and you can rest assured that the military horse farm will be handed over to you."

Guo Peng stepped forward and held Xian Yuyin's hand, encouraging him in a gentle voice.

Only then did Xian Yuyin feel relieved, and led Guo Peng forward.

When Guo Peng introduced Guo Chengzhi to him, Xian Yuyin was as shocked as Mao Jie.

"I don't know the identity of the young master, so I have been rude. I hope the young master will not blame him."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Guo Chengzhi looked at Guo Peng, remembered how many times Guo Peng had praised Xian Yuyin, and said with a smile: "Father told me many times about the merits of Xianyu's eunuch, and said that if Xianyu's eunuch did not try his best to maintain the horse administration, Wei The country will not be where it is today."

"The overlord praises it, the young master praises it!"

Xian Yu Yin is sincere and fearful.

Xian Yufu was dismissed from the post of governor of Youzhou because of his lack of work. He was not implicated, he was still a servant, but he became more cautious in handling things, for fear of being criticized by someone who cared about him. Xianyu's family would be really in danger.

Therefore, Xian Yuyin was conscientious, cautious, serious, and did not dare to slack in the slightest, thus the prosperity of the Wei State Horse Administration.

In fact, because Xian Yuyin has done a good job, Guo Peng is worried about who can succeed him and continue to be in charge of horse affairs when Xian Yuyin retires.