At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This was a treatment that was difficult for all emperors to obtain later.

The soldiers blushed and shouted the Wei Jun battle horn to welcome Guo Peng who was wearing military uniform and armor.

Guo Peng didn't wear armor or military uniform again for many years, and Guo Peng felt as if he had returned to the time many, many years ago.

Wearing armor and riding a horse, fighting on the battlefield surrounded by thousands of armies, smashing the heroes of the world, and establishing indomitable achievements.

In order to become the emperor, he gradually faded out of the military circle, but the welcome of the soldiers today and the battle cry for him made him feel as if he had returned to the era when he led the army.

Sure enough, he was an emperor on horseback, a man who reached the peak by fighting.

He had close contact with the soldiers, talked cordially, walked through one barracks after another, and met vivid faces one after another.

The young, the prime, the wounded, the intact.

Every face is so fresh, so alive.

Just looking at it like this, he suddenly missed those dead soldiers who would never appear in front of him again.

At noon that day, Guo Peng chose a barracks at random, and ate normal meals with the soldiers in the barracks.

Guo Peng didn't let Li Gan and Tian Feng get special, he just said that his favorite food is the big pot rice cooked by the veterans in the army.

"When you were the first cavalry, you didn't follow me at that time. I led a group of soldiers to suffer, eat sand and drink wind, and couldn't even eat normal food. Yuan Hao, I was already rich when you followed me. You I don’t know what happened when I was suffering.”

Guo Peng patted Li Gan on the shoulder while eating the thick oil pancakes: "You spent a hard time with me. At that time, we just went to Qingzhou, and Qingzhou was in chaos, and there were yellow scarves everywhere. Yes. Bar?"

Li Gan, with white temples, bit a pancake and smiled.

"At that time, Qingzhou was in chaos, and several counties in the east were occupied by the Yellow Turbans. The Supreme Emperor brought tens of thousands of subordinates to Linzi County. It took two or three years to reorganize Qingzhou and set up a great cause of farming. The army rations were collected.

After the crusade against Dong Zhuo, we gradually had enough military rations. Before that, the military rations had to be saved and eaten carefully. The Supreme Emperor sometimes had to spend money to buy food for us, so that we could eat enough. "

Li Gan is a very experienced general. He arrived in Qingzhou with Guo Peng. He is only a little less senior than Yuan Cong's relatives. He has basically experienced the whole process of the rise of the Wei Empire, and he has fought so far.

After Guo Jin ascended the throne, his military rank was raised to the level of General Wei, and he seemed to be one of the veterans of the Wei Empire's military circle.

Since taking over Le Jin's command position, Li Qian has done a good job. Guo Peng and Guo Jin have praised and rewarded him many times, and he has always been cautious and made no mistakes, so he has been serving until now.

He has experienced Wei Jun's events in various time periods.

Tian Feng didn't know much about it.

Tian Feng followed Guo Peng until after Guo Peng eliminated Yuan Shao, and his identity was still a surrender, with natural defects. If Guo Peng hadn't taken Tian Rou as his concubine in order to win over scholars from Hebei, it would be difficult for Tian Feng to stand up.

Tian Feng didn't feel any regrets back then, but now, he really feels regrets.

Why did I follow Yuan Shao at that time?

Tian Feng gradually couldn't remember the reason why he was willing to follow Yuan Shao back then.

Chapter 1603 Happy New Year

Sometimes Tian Feng would also think in private, how much did he have to do with his being Yuan Shao's old department when he was relegated from the central government to the local government and became an official in Yunzhou, a dangerous place.

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think of a reason.

Zhang Liao was still Dong Zhuo's old unit, Lv Bu's ally, had fought against Guo Peng's army before surrendering, he was similar to himself, how could he be so protected and trusted by Guo Peng?

Many old troops who fought with Guo Peng were also killed by Guo Peng mercilessly because they committed crimes.

So that's not the reason.

After thinking about it, there is no result. I can only think that it depends on the person, and I am unlucky.

Tian Feng was very depressed.

But thinking about the arrogant appearance of Cheng Yu, an old thief, he would definitely die in the future, so he became a little happier.

At least the real power is in Yunzhou, not the kind of crappy shrimp in the inland states and counties who have to bow their heads and pretend to be grandsons in front of central officials. Thinking about it this way, it’s not bad, isn’t it?

So Tian Feng gradually felt relieved, thinking that as long as he made meritorious deeds, he would not ask for anything else in the future, at least it is not impossible to return to Luoyang for the elderly.

In this situation, he just sighed.

"It's a pity that I didn't get to go through the hardships with the Supreme Emperor."

Guo Peng laughed loudly and patted Tian Feng on the shoulder.

"At that time, I was not in Jizhou, and you were in Jizhou. What's wrong with taking refuge in Yuan Benchu? I won't mention the past. The past is like smoke, and all the princes of the world have gone with the wind. Now, it will be Peace and prosperity."

Guo Peng smiled and ate the big pancakes, and sighed: "But all of this is hard-won. Just this big pancake, I can only eat it after six or seven years since I set up the army. Before that, we also Eat porridge and swallow vegetables twice a day to survive."

Li Qian was deeply moved.

"That's why I often say to these young people, you were born in a good time, and you didn't go through the days we had when you ate every day and lost your head at any time."

Li Gan pointed to the young soldiers sitting around them and said loudly: "All this was brought to us by the Supreme Emperor, do you remember?"

"remember!"

The soldiers echoed with a smile.

Guo Peng took a sip of the hot soup and swallowed the pancake in his throat, then waved his hands.

"Where is my credit? I can eat this big pancake. Don't forget those hard-working farmers. Without them, where would the food come from? You are basically from farmers. Army, after studying and gaining knowledge, don’t forget that you are the son of peasants.”

"Follow the Holy Order!"

The soldiers took this as Guo Peng's order.

Guo Peng didn't want the soldiers to take this as his order, but to take it as what he should do.

Of course, in any case, after they are literate, read, educated, and develop a preliminary concept of family and country, they have actually broken away from the scope of the traditional feudal army.

The traditional feudal army never thought of teaching soldiers to read and write. They had no awareness of this at all, and they had no idea what changes would be brought about by letting soldiers read and write.

And because the expenses are too high, the imperial dynasty has no incentive to do so.

Only when a person is literate and reads can he form the most basic world view, and from then on, the concept of being a human being arises, which is different from a mere tool man.

They will not continue to exist in the military as tool men driven only by instinct.

The Wei army has long been different from any traditional army in the entire Chinese history.

Because almost all of them can read and write.

Except that military technology has not yet evolved to that extent, in other places, the Wei army has far surpassed an ordinary traditional feudal army. What Guo Peng brought to the Wei army is by no means a simple three words [combat power] can describe.

His investment in the army is far greater than that of any imperial dynasty.

I don't know if there will be such a willing imperial dynasty in the future.

There is a high probability that there will be none. After all, not every ruler of an imperial dynasty has the same skills as him, who can kill all middlemen, collect taxes directly, and strengthen the national treasury.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Guo Peng did not leave the barracks, but brought his family to the barracks to celebrate the New Year with the whole army.

There are no taboos about the New Year's Eve dinner, and there will be no such thing as special treatment, because the New Year's Eve can be a special treatment for anyone.

The old firemen started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner a few days ago. They stewed mutton, pork, horse meat and so on from the north in a large pot over high heat. The stew was fragrant and rotten.

All the remaining meat and bones are used to cook the soup. It has been boiled for a few days. The Laohuo bone soup is now thick and white, and the aroma is enough to make the mouth water.

When Guo Peng went to the Huotou army camp to watch the preparations of the Huotou army in the afternoon, the old Huotou shouted Guo Peng to the side of the big soup pot with excited faces, and let Guo Peng look at the old fire soup stewed there.

Then let Guo Peng look at the piles of meat, the pickles that are easy to store, and the noodles for pancakes.

The New Year's Eve dinner is a major event for the whole army to celebrate. All the old fire heads gather together for a joint battle, and hundreds of stoves are activated at the same time.

When the time comes, hundreds of stoves will be ignited together, and hundreds of fire heads will be used together to cook vegetables in a large pot. The cooking shovel is almost as long as a person, and the action is like shoveling the ground. With a strong aroma.

I don’t know, I thought Huotou Camp was doing some super big move, and the whole camp was warmed up during the severe cold season.

Guo Peng took Cao Lan and a few women to stand in the Huotou army camp together wearing thick jackets, watching this extremely festive scene, with brilliant eyes.

Guo Chengzhi had long been made dancing by this spectacular scene and couldn't help himself, running around, staring at this spectacular scene from multiple angles, as if he wanted to remember all of it.

This scene is indeed rare to see.

Hundreds of stoves are ignited at the same time, and the fire heads gather together to perform Jianglong Eighteen Stir-fry. The sounds of harmony, shouting and the collision of pots and shovels are intertwined. The fire heads running back and forth are full of passion, as if a It was as if all the passion of the year had been exhausted in one day.

Guo Peng's eyes were full of this fiery scene, and his pupils reflected the flames in the stove.

He suddenly wanted to know if on this day, every household in the entire Wei Empire would be able to light up the stove and hold the spoon to reunite with their relatives.

Can the good cooks at home work together to cook a delicious meal for the family?

I don’t know if every household can have more oil, more meat, and more rice, so that everyone can eat well, eat enough, eat enough, and reward themselves and their families who have worked hard all year round.

Maybe there are many people who can do it, and maybe there are some people who can only watch other people's homes stir up cooking and stir fry and reunite with their families and feel sorry for themselves.

People's sorrows and joys are not the same.

The Wei Empire is on the road of development, some people are rich and some are poor.

But after all, there are many people who can get together with their families, eat something good, drink something good, no matter how poor they are, at least they have land, and at least they should feel that there is still hope for living.

They can see the hope of the future, and they can see that there is an opportunity to change their destiny in the not-too-distant future waiting for them to grasp and realize it.

And at the moment, you can have a full stomach, and with a sense of happiness of eating and drinking, you can sleep soundly and soundly on this New Year's Eve.

Then usher in the new year.

So he suddenly felt that what he had worked so hard for for nearly 40 years was actually not for some unworldly success or immortality, but for this day, this night, and this meal.

He hopes that ordinary families can get together, and the old people can sit together and chat, talk about the bitter past, and lament the beautiful life now.

The adults were busy walking around, tossing and tossing around the stove for the family's dinner, and there was a burst of laughter as they walked.

The ignorant children can run around the house, play and fight with the children of relatives who don't always see each other, carefree, and imagine what to eat in the evening.

He thought, perhaps at this very moment, there are really countless families in China who are reuniting to celebrate the New Year.

Not only the soldiers in front of us, but also these great guys, even an ordinary farmer who can no longer be ordinary, can celebrate the New Year.

That means his life is very meaningful.

wish you a happy new year.

Guo Peng wished so sincerely.

But right now, the theme of the New Year's Eve dinner in the army is just two words-enough and tough.

Enough, hard.

Although everyone is not very rich, but this night, you can eat whatever you want. You can't get enough.

After preparing for so long, if you still can't get enough, all the firefighters apologize to you!

That's what the old fireheads promise.

Meals in the army pay attention to a simple, fast, economical and affordable meal that can also fight hunger. The meat is a big piece, the soup is a big bowl, and the cake is a big sheet. It's the same as when I was leading the army.

Big mouthfuls of meat, big pieces of pie, big bowls of soup, the soldiers were full of oil, and the old firemen were also happy.

Of course, for the veterans, this is also a rare opportunity to perform - they also have promotion channels.

Giving them a promotion channel is better than letting them eat and wait to die. This can also indirectly improve the army's food treatment. This is Guo Peng's reform to the Wei army.

Now it seems that the effect of the reform is still good.

Chapter 1604 One thousand five hundred and twenty four Yunzhou's final battle

Wei Guo is different from the former Han Dynasty. There is an institution that serves the emperor's meals called Yushanfang.

The chef who cooks for the emperor is called the imperial chef. There is usually only one source of the imperial chef, and that is the old Huotou who has served in the army for more than seven years.

Those who have served in the army for more than seven years and have cooked big pot meals for soldiers for more than seven years can participate in the cooking competition, and the winners will be sent to the capital to serve as the emperor's royal chef and serve the emperor's meals.

Even if there is not much work in the imperial dining room, they will be sent to cook in the various royal shareholding restaurants in the capital, but that is better than suffering in the frontier army, isn't it?

Like soldiers, many special military units in the Wei army have the opportunity to enter the central government to work with the emperor. This is another promotion path for the Wei army besides the normal promotion within the military system.

Such as the Firehead Army.

It is because of the existence of this channel that Wei Jun's overall mental outlook is high-spirited rather than lifeless.