At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Peng stood aside and sighed.

He gave the children a good elite education, taught them arts and martial arts, let them learn cultural knowledge, and also learned military skills, so that they could master the necessary knowledge reserves for survival one by one.

There are also people who help them, advise them, and fight for them on the battlefield. Coupled with the continuous assistance from their mother country for at least three years, it is not difficult for them to gain a foothold outside.

But the only thing that this plan did not take into account was their own will.

Guo Jun is a strong kid, Guo Peng saw it, so he was the first to send him away and let him create his own future. Apart from his reluctance, he also has a little freedom like the sea and the sky.

But Guo Qiong is just an idle child.

Guo Peng doesn't pay much attention to the children other than Guo Jin. This is his serious dereliction of duty as a father, and it is simply the scum of the world.

Among the few he knows about the other children, Guo Qiong is the one who has the least desire to win or lose and the one who doesn't like to stand out.

Guo Jin and Guo Qiong were relatively close. Through Guo Jin's descriptions, Guo Peng knew indirectly that his third son did not fight or grab since he was a child.

Maybe it's because he never pays attention to other children, and has no understanding of their growth process, let alone their mental journey, so he can't understand Guo Qiong's thoughts.

I don't even bother to get to know each child.

Whether it is marriage or the future, such major life events are all arbitrary decisions made by him out of national security and stability and the future of the nation, and he has never considered the children's independent wishes at all.

The authoritarian style of a feudal patriarch.

Of course, this is not important to him at all. Young people only care about their own wishes, and don't pay attention to the future and interests. They insist on some kind of love, but after decades, how many couples will grow old together?

So instead of dying for love, it is better to let him act arbitrarily, which is good for the royal family anyway.

When this policy was announced to the public, as far as he knew, except for Guo Jun, who was the first to know, the other children seemed to have raised objections, expressing that they were not willing to leave Wei State to create their own country at all.

How comfortable is it to live in Luoyang?

How comfortable is it to live in the imperial palace with luxurious clothes and fine food?

Why do you have to leave?

Several children expressed their reluctance through their mothers, and Guo Qiong seemed to have the strongest reaction among them. She mentioned to Cao Lan several times that she did not want to leave, and seemed to have approached Guo Jin in private, but to no avail. .

Because this is the basic national policy set by Guo Peng, his father.

His son will become the pioneer of the nation's outward exploration, leading the entire nation to look outward, go out, and embark on an unimagined path.

As for their own will, it is completely unimportant and can be ignored.

You have to go, you can't go.

If you want to blame, blame you for being my son, and I became the emperor again.

Why, you can enjoy rich clothes and fine food, but you can't afford to go to sea and build a country?

If you want to go, you go, if you don't go, you go!

After Guo Jun went to sea, everything became settled. The children were forced by Guo Peng to learn the knowledge necessary to build a country, and began to cram duck-style imperial pedagogy.

Anyway, there are still several years to go, learn more, and use it in the future.

Guo Jun has developed well in India. She has continuously expanded her territory and expanded her influence, gradually revealing Guo's demeanor back then, which made Guo very proud for a time.

But watching the scene of Guo Qiong and his mother hugging and crying, Guo Peng suddenly felt that he seemed too arbitrary.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this strategy, and there is definitely nothing wrong with the guiding ideology. There is absolutely nothing wrong with going out. This is an absolutely feasible strategy. For the entire country and nation, there is nothing wrong with it.

Under the national policy, the individual's independent will is actually insignificant.

If the children of the Chinese royal family could decide their own future, if the children of princes, nobles, high officials and dignitaries could decide their own future, there would not be so many stories about marrying princesses and gifted scholars and beautiful ladies.

Not only in China, but in any political system in the whole world, most of the children of this group of ruling classes will sacrifice freedom.

Therefore, Guo Peng did not take the variable of whether the children are willing to take into account from the very beginning.

The child didn't dare to resist, and accepted it submissively. At most, his eyes were red in front of him, and he hugged his mother and cried for a while.

Guo Peng sighed for a while, feeling that as a failed father, he also strengthened his belief in sending them all out.

I'm sorry to all of you, I can't be sorry to other people anymore, there is always one person who has to be forgiven, if I give up halfway, it will really be a waste of so many years of hard work.

Guo cannot afford to lose this game of national destiny.

So Guo Peng turned his back and didn't watch the scene where mother and child parted.

After all, Guo Qiong failed to change anything with tears. The moment his father turned his back on him, he gave up.

His mother's reluctance didn't change anything, so now, he can only go all the way south to the country of a thousand islands that he has never been to but is destined to spend the rest of his life there.

Guo Peng knew the resentment in his heart, so before he set off, Guo Peng called him to his favorite sunny beach to meet and talk with him alone.

"For so many years, this seems to be the first time that our father and son have been alone together? Do you blame me?"

Guo Peng sat on the soft sand, wearing unlined clothes, blowing the sea breeze, feeling like returning to his previous life in a trance, which was very strange.

Guo Qiong didn't feel this way. He knelt on the beach with his knees together, with a posture of sitting upright.

"Father is busy with military affairs and has no time to care about his son. This is normal. The son never blames his father."

"I hope you really don't, because I am not only the father of you guys, but also the father of more than 8000 million people in the entire Wei Kingdom. I have limited energy and can't take care of the overall situation. I hope you can understand this." I."

Guo Peng sighed.

"Of course the son understands the father."

Guo Qiong didn't change his expression, his voice was flat.

Guo Peng nodded, wanting to get closer to his son, and wanted to talk about some daily topics.

"Arjun, you are... 26 this year, right?"

"24."

"Oh."

Guo Peng was silent for a while.

The ups and downs of the waves hit the beach, rising several times and falling several times.

Chapter 1615 One thousand five hundred and thirty five Guo Peng is speechless

To be honest, at this moment, Guo Peng felt quite embarrassed.

As a father, I can't even remember the age of my son.

This... is indeed too much.

It shouldn't hurt too much, right?

Guo Peng looked at Guo Qiong's face and found that there was no strange change in him. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to say something to restore the embarrassing atmosphere at the scene.

It can't be so embarrassing to the end, can it?

"I seem to have celebrated your birthday a few times, right? Your birthday is April [-], I remember correctly, right?"

Guo Peng looked at Guo Qiong with a smile on his face.

Guo Qiong still didn't change his face, staring directly at the vast sea ahead.

"The son was born on March 24th, the first year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty. In the past [-] years, the father celebrated his son's birthday once, in the son's year."

"…………"

Guo Peng lowered his head, looking at the fine sand in front of him, feeling complicated in his heart, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Fortunately, Guo Qiong never seemed to expect Guo Peng to remember these things, and never had any expectations for him.

Not only can he not remember his son's age, but he can't even remember his birthday.

Indeed, among the ten children, he didn't remember the birthdays of each of them one by one. Cao Lan was in charge of all these things. That's all.

He really paid very little attention to the children other than Guo Jin.

Guo Qiong seemed to be aware of this too.

"Father is always busy with military and state affairs. Except for the eldest brother, the rest of the brothers and sisters seldom see father. Everyone is used to it. Father is the emperor. The most important thing for the emperor is military and state affairs, not family affairs. Our affairs are It's a family matter, it's not important, there's no need to disturb father."

After hearing Guo Qiong's words, Guo Peng pursed his lips and let out a long sigh.

"I know that what I say now is useless to you and your brothers and sisters. Indeed, I am not a good father. I have neglected you too much. Arjun, I am sorry for you. "

Guo Qiong laughed lightly and shook his head.

"At least my father still cares about my elder brother. My elder brother is cared by my father, and my brothers and sisters can feel the same way. At least, my father is still my father."

Guo Peng was silent for a while.

He turned to look at Guo Qiong.

"Because he is the crown prince and I will inherit the throne in the future. No matter how busy I am, I will not neglect the education and attention to the crown prince. Similarly, as long as the crown prince can meet my wishes, it is enough, not because he is Your eldest brother, just because he is the prince."

Guo Qiong turned her head, looking directly at Guo Peng with neither happiness nor sadness on her face.

"In my father's eyes, there is only Wei Guo, not the Guo family, right?"

"Yes."

Guo Peng does not deny: "My weight as an emperor is far more important than my weight as your father, because I am an emperor and I have 8000 million subjects. I am destined not to give you more like a normal father." Caring, because I don't have the energy and time, you have to understand me."

Guo Qiong's eyes moved, he sniffed, and turned his head.

"On the eighteenth day of March in the second year of Yande, my tenth birthday, my mother told me that my father would come to celebrate me. I was very happy. I waited and waited. From Youshi to Haishi, my father didn't come. He didn't come all night. The dishes on the table are cold.

I asked my mother, where is my father?Why don't you come?My mother touched my head and said that my father was discussing government affairs with the courtiers overnight. The country was just established, and a lot of waste was waiting to be rebuilt, and there were still enemies in the south. My father was very busy and could not come to celebrate my birthday. "

Guo Peng was silent.

The stall in the second year of Yande was indeed very busy.

Busy with the crusade against Liu Cong and Liu Zhang in the south, as well as internal construction and power struggles, he really didn't have much time.

but……

Guo Qiong didn't stop talking, and continued to talk.

"Five days later, Hudi's tenth birthday, my father didn't come. I remember Hudi showing off to me at the time, saying that my father liked him more and would definitely go to his birthday. As a result, he also waited from Youshi to Haishi, but his father didn't come. , When the child arrived, he cried.

That day, he cried very hard, I wanted to mock him, but seeing him cry so hard, I stopped mocking him, I think we are all the same, why do we have to mock each other?What's the point of mocking each other?Could it be that father can come and celebrate our birthday for us? "

Guo Peng remained silent, speechless.

A sense of guilt slowly spread in my heart.

Guo Qiong then continued.

"In May of the third year of Yande, Yingmei was seriously ill. Everyone went to see her, and our brothers and sisters also went to see her. I remember her face was very red, and she was panting quickly. Aunt Tian was very anxious. Weeping straight away, my mother scolded several doctors in the big medical center very fiercely.

In the end, Huada doctor cured Yingmei. Yingmei lay on the bed for three months, and her father only visited her once, and it was in the middle of the night. She told me once that she missed her father, but she didn't know where he was.

The last time I saw my father, my father promised her to celebrate her birthday, and he would take her to go horseback riding and barbecue in the wild. She didn't know when my father would take her there. She asked me if I knew, and of course I would do not know either. "

Guo Peng moved his gaze to the other side, breathing heavily.

It's not that he doesn't want to explain, but he feels that there is no room for explanation.

Guo Qiong didn't seem to want to give Guo Peng a chance to explain, so he said everything he wanted to say like a cannonball, and said a lot in one breath.

"In July of the fourth year of Yande, Mei Luo was also seriously ill. For a month, her father never visited her. I asked Mei Luo if she missed her father. She said yes, and she said that her father would hug her every time he saw her. Watch her and play with her, but why isn't father there when she's sick?"

"Yande five years, I don't remember how many months, sister Huan suffered a cold, fell ill in bed, Aunt Xiaoqiao's eyes were swollen from crying, when I went to visit her, I heard Aunt Xiaoqiao crying to Aunt Daqiao Said, doesn’t father like Huanmei very much? He also said that she is the apple of his eye, why doesn’t he even have time to visit her once?”

"In the sixth year of Yande, my father went to Xianbei in the north, and he was not in Luoyang for half a year. During this period, several aunts and mothers were sick, and brother Hu's illness was particularly serious. People from the big medical center went to and from the palace every day for a month. In a hurry.

At the most dangerous time, I overheard Physician Hua saying that Hu Di might not be well, so I told my mother to be prepared, and it was better to tell my father. Father is on the Northern Expedition and cannot be distracted. "

"In the eighth year of Yande, my father suddenly told us that we had arranged marriages for our brothers and sisters. We didn't know what would happen, but the aunts still cried in private, saying that after the younger sisters got married, they didn't know See you a few more times in the future."

"For ten years in Yande, my father was concentrating on the rebellion and did not come to the inner palace every day. At that time, I was ill for a month, and my mother was crying while holding my hand by my bed. I had never seen my father, but I did not Waiting for my father to show up.

Because I know that my father is doing big things. Compared with my father's big things, my illness is just a very, very small thing, insignificant, and it is not worth distracting my father at all, and my father will not be distracted at all. "

"Every time I see my father, it takes a long time to see my father again, so sometimes I can't even remember what my father looks like, whether his beard grows long, and I always ask my elder brother where my father's beard grows. , so as not to misremember.”

Guo Qiong said a lot of words in one breath, her voice was very steady, without any emotional fluctuations.

But Guo Peng was becoming less and less afraid to look directly at Guo Qiong, and even felt that the eyes Guo Qiong looked at him were a bit harsh.