At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Every time Jiang Wei thought of his father who was crying alone on a rainy day, his heart would feel blocked.

These years in Longxi County, he studied hard, made friends extensively, and tried his best to make himself forget that rainy day, and his hard work was quite effective.

He became a well-known top student in the school, ranked first in his studies, was praised and loved by his teachers, and had many good friends. He lived a carefree life and gradually forgot the haze of the past.

In the end, when the political giant whom his father feared so much appeared in front of him, he realized that some things were not so easy to forget.

Jiang Wei's cautious appearance in front of him made Guo Peng feel a little interesting.

Thinking of Jiang's past problems, he knew that Jiang Wei's attitude was not without reason.

Chapter 1522 One thousand four hundred and sixty two Guo Peng is very interested in Jiang Wei

Guo Peng believes that Jiang Wei may be a white lotus, but his family is definitely not a silly white sweet, but a very cunning and powerful local snake.

In the early years, the four major families in Hanyang County were also well-known in Liangzhou.

At that time, Hanyang County was the seat of the state government of Liangzhou, and the first-class family in Hanyang County had influence in the whole Liangzhou, such as the Jiang family.

When Guo Peng was a Tai student in Luoyang, there were frequent motions in the court to abandon Liangzhou. People from the Kanto and Kansai argued endlessly about this. struggle and resolutely safeguard the status of Liangzhou.

Nonsense, if Liangzhou is gone, their basic base will be gone too. Once they are moved inland, won't they still be flattened and rounded by the people of Kanto?

At that time, Guo Peng heard rumors about the four major surnames in Liangzhou, saying that they had fierce confrontations with the Kwantung scholar families, and they refused to give in to each other.

The Jiang surname was one of the four major surnames in Liangzhou at that time.

Because of this, Jiang Wei is knowledgeable and tolerant of both literature and martial arts. He has learned Zheng Xuan's knowledge since he was a child, and he also masters military skills. He can lead troops and is called "Liangzhou Sergeant" by Zhuge Liang.

The Jiang family has whatever they want.

It requires culture to have culture, private soldiers to have private soldiers, and economy to have economy. The entire military-industrial complex is a primitive version.

Obtaining Jiang Wei is equivalent to obtaining the key to open the closed door of the Jiang family, which is of great benefit to Zhuge Liang's grand strategy of attacking Liangzhou and occupying Liangzhou, and then further plotting Guanzhong.

Once Zhuge Liang can gain an advantage on the battlefield and demonstrate the ability to expel the forces of Cao Wei in Liangzhou, the Jiang family will inevitably choose to stand in line. At that time, relying on Jiang's prestige in Liangzhou, they can achieve the goal of defeating others without fighting. Effect.

When governing Liangzhou after the war, the Jiang family's influence in Liangzhou can also be used to get cooperation and quickly stabilize the situation in Liangzhou, which has many benefits.

After Liu Bei's defeat in Yiling, Zhuge Liang's two-pronged plan to send troops suffered serious setbacks and could not be carried out, and he was about to be trapped to death in Yizhou.

After comprehensively judging the situation, Zhuge Liang decided to change Jingzhou to Liangzhou, seize Liangzhou, which had a weak foundation under Cao Wei's rule, and then continue the Longzhong confrontation to revitalize the situation in Shuhan, hoping to attack Guanzhong from two routes and retake the road of Liu Bang.

However, it is true that Cao Wei's ruling foundation in Liangzhou was weak, while the Shu Han regime had no foundation at all.

In order to capture Liangzhou, a person who is very familiar with the situation and geography of Liangzhou and even has prestige is needed.

Originally there was, Ma Chao.

But Ma Chao died early, Ma Dai's prestige in Liangzhou couldn't be compared with Ma Chao's, and the Ma family had long since collapsed. Without Ma Chao as the leader, Ma Dai's existence was meaningless and useless.

Therefore, the Shu Han has always lacked someone who can help the Shu Han regime in the process of entering Liangzhou.

Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition failed and he lost a great opportunity, but he got Jiang Wei, a key figure who could reach a compromise with the local forces in Liangzhou, which made up for the shortcomings of the Shu Han regime's aggressiveness in Liangzhou.

This is not necessarily a big failure for Zhuge Liang's grand strategy.

Jiang Wei's joining actually gave Zhuge Liang an extra weight in his hands in a sense.

The fact that Jiang Wei was forced to surrender to Zhuge Liang was very funny to Guo Peng.

This is clearly the act of the central forces of Cao Wei pretending to be clever and creating a big trouble for themselves for no reason.

Of course, this is not without reason.

That is to say, Guo Peng leveled the local forces in Liangzhou. If not, he would also face such a crisis.

It is not accidental that this kind of thing happened. It can only be said that the root cause is that Liangzhou and the central government have been in harmony for nearly a hundred years.

The Kwantung scholars who occupied the mainstream power of the Eastern Han court had always disliked Liangzhou. They had always suggested that the imperial court abandon Liangzhou and move the people of Liangzhou inland, which made the Liangzhou people and the Eastern Han court alienated.

After Cao Wei was established, Liangzhou belonged to Cao Wei, but the gap between them did not improve much.

There are still not many Liangzhou people serving as officials in the central government, and they cannot dominate the court policy. The ruling foundation of the Cao Wei government is still the Kanto scholar group, and they still look down on and resist the participation of Kansai warriors.

The government has been changed, the emperor has been changed, but the essence has not changed.

Therefore, before and after Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, the local forces in Liangzhou were still in harmony with the central forces of Cao Wei.

Jiang Wei is one of the representative figures of the local forces in Liangzhou. Naturally, he has conflicts and distances with the Central Committee of Cao Wei.

And Jiang Wei's surrender to Zhuge Liang was also helpless, and it was by no means active.

He went out on a tour with Ma Zun, the prefect, and Guo Huai, the governor of Yongzhou. He suddenly learned that Zhuge Liang was leading an army to attack. Ma Zun suspected Jiang Wei, so he abandoned him and did not take him away. He didn't open the city gate either, and refused to accept Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei had no choice but to surrender to Zhuge Liang.

This is not a normal thing.

Jiang Wei, as one of the representatives of local forces, was actually abandoned by the prefect and the governor. The enemy is so mistrusted that he is not allowed to enter the city, and even his hometown is unwilling to open the door to accept him. Door.

Guo Peng didn't think it was an accident, it was clearly a murder with a borrowed knife.

From his point of view, Zhuge Liang sent troops too quickly, and the counties in Liangzhou were unable to resist and turned back one after another. This made the central forces of Cao Wei, who did not believe in local forces, even more suspicious of local forces, and wanted to keep Jiang Wei out.

They felt that Jiang Wei still had his mother in the city, and in the hands of Cao Wei, if he wanted to keep his mother, according to common sense, the right way would be to fight to the death and become a martyr.

Just like his father who died fighting to protect the sheriff.

He will definitely fight Zhuge Liang obediently, and then be killed, begging Cao Wei forces to protect his mother.

Killing people with a knife in this way can keep the city, weaken the local forces, weaken the cooperation with Zhuge Liang, and kill two birds with one stone.

This group of people made good calculations, but they never expected that Zhuge Liang had a long-term vision and saw infinite possibilities from Jiang Wei.

Zhuge Liang used Jiang Weixiao's advantages and disadvantages, analyzed the situation for him, and persuaded him to surrender, so that Jiang Wei realized that surrendering to the Shu Han and staying alive was the best solution to keep his mother and family.

This kind of thing was unexpected, and those people naturally did not expect that this incident would have a wonderful chain reaction in the war between the two countries.

Jiang Wei was reused by Zhuge Liang, and he could directly command troops to fight.

With his familiarity with Liangzhou, it is no surprise that he became a sharp edge of the Shu Han regime, so that the Shu Han regime built a bridge connecting Yizhou and Liangzhou.

And they also found that they wanted to weaken the power of local forces, but they couldn't do it at all.

The Jiang family itself is very powerful in Liangzhou. Forcing Jiang Wei away has made them extremely annoyed and vigilant. If they continue to attack or threaten Jiang Wei's mother or something, the Jiang family will only go completely against Cao Wei.

At that time, Jiang's heart was broken, and he sent someone to contact Zhuge Liang, and asked Jiang Wei to lead troops to attack. They responded, and cooperated internally and externally. If nothing else, Cao Wei in this county would not want it.

The Shu Han's first Northern Expedition greatly shocked Cao Wei, and made them discover that the Shu Han regime, which they regarded as SpongeBob SquarePants, was actually rejuvenated by Zhuge Liang and became a Popeye with a hundred thousand armor.

They have no doubt that as long as someone cooperates, Zhuge Liang will definitely be able to occupy Liangzhou.

Jiang Wei was forced to leave his hometown and be separated from his mother. He was alone with grief and indignation, and his heart was full of hatred for Cao Wei.

He was always thinking about going back to his hometown in Liangzhou and driving out the forces of Cao Wei. If the Jiang family decided to rebel, Jiang Wei would definitely lead the Shu Han army to attack.

The Jiang family and Jiang Wei, who was outside, reached a wonderful tacit understanding across the boundaries of time and space. It made Cao Wei's central government either advance or retreat, and he lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

This big trouble was not willing to give up causing trouble for Cao Wei until the end of the Shu Han Dynasty. He made more than a dozen northern expeditions to Cao Wei, and he had to pull a few backs when he was dying.

The four masters of Hanyang County headed by the Jiang family are not that simple.

Wei Lueli recorded such an inconspicuous incident.

Xue Xia from Hanyang offended Jiang, Yan, Ren, and Zhao, and couldn't resist the persecution of the four in his hometown, so he had to hide in Luoyang.

Later, he was appreciated by Cao Cao and lived in Luoyang.

But the four masters didn't want to let Xue Xia go, and cleverly tricked Xue Xia to Yingchuan, where they questioned Xue Xia, imprisoned him, and planned to kill him.

In the end, it was Cao Cao who intervened in person, forced Yingchuan to release them, and warned the four great masters, which allowed Xue Xia to escape.

From this incident, we can see how long the hands of these four great masters are, how deep their influence in Liangzhou is, and how broad their acquaintances are.

He was even able to extend his hand from Liangzhou to Yingchuan in the Central Plains, forcing Cao Cao to intervene in person to save Xue Xia.

As one of the four great masters, Jiang obviously contributed a lot to this matter.

It can be seen that Jiang's power is strong.

When Guo Peng sent Cao Ren to wipe out the five counties of Liangzhou, he heard about the Jiang family and the character Jiang Jiong. At that time, he thought of Jiang Wei, but Jiang Wei was not born yet.

When he decided to deal with the world's tyrants in the tenth year of Yande, there was nothing worthy of his attention.

No matter who he is, anyone who stands in front of him will die.

After the Qingzhang operation was over, Guo Peng reviewed the Liangzhou files and learned that only Jiang Jiong of the Jiang family was preserved.

As a result, when I came here this time, I happened to meet the 14-year-old little Jiang Wei.

Can't this be fate?

Guo Peng thought it was very interesting, so he decided to tease Jiang Wei, but Jiang Wei was scared.

"Emperor Taishang, Jiang Jiong worked hard as an official, fulfilled his duties, and did not make any mistakes or omissions in official affairs for several years. He also handled matters related to the military horse farm properly. He is a minister of merit."

Seeing Guo Peng telling Jiang's past, Xian Yuyin thought that Guo Peng was holding on to Jiang's rebellion against his Qingzhang policy, and felt annoyed and wanted to punish the people here, so he quickly explained and helped Jiang Jiong spoke.

Guo Penglue looked at Xian Yuyin strangely.

"Xian Yuqing, what do you mean by saying this? Gu didn't say anything, you don't think that Gu will punish Jiang Jiong and Jiang Wei, do you? Is Gu the kind of person who wants to punish his courtiers without distinction?"

"what?"

Xian Yuyin was taken aback.

"Gu is just talking. The Jiang family used to be a famous family in Liangzhou, but they perished because of their arrogance. Gu just expressed his feelings. Is Gu the kind of person who doesn't distinguish between public and private?"

Xian Yuyin hurriedly said no and apologized repeatedly.

Guo Peng waved his hand and continued to look at little Jiang Wei.

"Jiang Wei, do you know where this is?"

Little Jiang Wei stared blankly at Guo Peng for a while, then said as if he had just realized, "Military horse farm, Longyou military horse farm."

"What are the horses here used for?"

"Military horses are supplied to the army."

"Well, you know that too."

Guo Peng nodded: "So, do you know how much a horse costs from birth to military service?"

Jiang Wei blinked his eyes and shook his head.

"This is a terrifying figure, and the money comes from the taxation of the whole people. Farmers work hard to cultivate the land and pay taxes, and the treasury has money to raise horses. The feed you feed these war horses, the harness on the war horses, you use All the tools are bought with this money.”

Guo Peng looked serious: "Are you sure that you can train the horse successfully without any problems? Do you know how much Wei State will suffer if there is a problem with a war horse? Can you bear it?"

Jiang Wei became more and more nervous, and his breathing became short of breath.

"The Supreme Emperor, he..."

Xian Yuyin couldn't stand it anymore, and wanted to help Jiang Wei say something.

Guo Peng raised his hand to stop what Xian Yuyin wanted to say.

He just stared at Jiang Wei, wanting to hear what Jiang Wei could say.

Jiang Wei was not overwhelmed by Guo Peng's huge oppressive force. He took a short breath for a while and adjusted his state.

Then he bowed to Guo Peng.

"Your Majesty, the student is not messing around. The student really understands horses, likes horses, and is willing to get along with horses. Moreover, the student thinks that only by treating a horse with heart can the horse understand and follow orders. , to become an excellent war horse.”

"is it?"

Guo Peng raised the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Then tell me how you treat these war horses and how you train them. Let Gu listen."

"Yes."

Jiang Wei took the order, and then expressed some of his feelings and thoughts in front of Guo Peng.

Regarding horse customs, how to distinguish a good horse from a bad one, how to take care of a horse at different stages of the horse, feed them different foods, how to deal with a horse when it gets sick, how to understand a horse’s emotions, etc. What he said made sense.

It seems that he really knows horses very well, not just playing with tickets casually for children, but has begun to become an expert.

Xian Yuyin stroked his beard and nodded in satisfaction.

After he finished speaking, Guo Peng looked at Xian Yuyin.