At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This is not a rare thing, Guo Peng often asked Guo Chengzhi to accompany him to feed the fish, Guo Chengzhi didn't care, walked over and sat next to Guo Peng, and took a piece of fish food from Guo Peng.

Looking at Guo Chengzhi, who lost his youthful innocence and became more stable, Guo Peng smiled.

After returning to Luoyang, Guo Chengzhi was first canonized as the crown prince, and then followed Guo Jin to observe politics and received Guo Jin's personal guidance on politics.

A few months ago, Guo Jin felt that Guo Chengzhi had almost mastered the general principles of politics, so according to Guo Peng's method of training him, he threw Guo Chengzhi into the cabinet, and asked Man Chong to take Guo Chengzhi to run errands, and let him start from scratch. Begin to familiarize yourself with the rules of the imperial court's administrative operations.

From here, first understand the work process from the emperor to the cabinet and then to the various ministers, feel the process and difficulty of uploading and issuing government orders, and then do other things after you are fully familiar with it.

Before becoming an emperor, one must have a clear understanding of the procedures of the entire imperial court and even the local government. Only after succeeding to the throne can one be targeted and not be easily fooled.

Over the past few years, Guo Chengzhi has lost his youthful ignorance and has begun to become a little calm.

This change is of course welcome.

"I heard that you were sent to the cabinet by your father recently, and Man Shoufu asked you to run errands. How are you doing? Are you tired?"

Guo Chengzhi shook his head.

"It's true that you are tired, but compared to the 20 days in Yunzhou, although the cabinet's errands are tired, they are not so stressful."

"Well, the cabinet does have a lot of government affairs. It needs to be contacted and contacted with various departments. It is very tiring to run errands from morning to night, but here is a good understanding of how the government affairs of the court are issued from the emperor to the specific execution of orders. , is a very important learning process.”

Guo Peng nodded: "At the beginning, I put your father in the cabinet for a while, studied for a while, ran errands well, and knew the government affairs well, so I put him in another post , after you have learned something here, you will go to other positions."

Guo Chengzhi nodded slowly.

"The grandson will definitely live up to the expectations of the eldest father and father."

"That's good."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "Experience more, hold more positions, and learn more things, which will definitely be useful in the future. Each department has its own twists and turns, and there are unspoken rules hidden deep under the surface. If you If you understand these things clearly, you will be able to deal with the officials relatively easily as the emperor."

Patting Guo Chengzhi on the shoulder, Guo Peng sighed.

"These days, as long as I stay in the palace, besides writing and writing, most of what I do is sit here and feed the fish, thinking about the past. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, more and more nostalgic, and it's getting easier to think of the past. things.

This was not the case more than ten years ago. At that time, all I could think about was the future, how to bring better changes to Wei Guo, make Wei Guo stronger, and make the country last longer. I was busy all day , no time for nostalgia at all.

When I really did everything I could, and let Wei Guoyuan surpass Qin and Han, I had free time to sit here, and then unconsciously began to think about the past, when I was young, and when I was young, it was How did you get to where you are today. "

Guo Peng broke off a small piece of fish food and threw it into the pond, causing a small splash of water.

Guo Chengzhi blinked.

"What my father has done since he raised his army, my grandson thinks that no one can reproduce it."

"I feel the same way."

Guo Peng smiled and said: "Even if I go back to 40 years ago and do it again, I don't think I can completely reproduce my way of raising troops according to everything in the past. Too many coincidences, luck, too much incredible.

Your great-grandfather was just a county magistrate of the former Han Dynasty, and I was just the son of a county magistrate. Guo’s family was poor and settled without a family as a backing. How could he defeat the son of the fourth generation and three princes and get to the current position? "

"Father Wencheng has martial virtues, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are stern and ruthless, so there is this defeat."

Guo Chengzhi, who has learned enough history, replied naturally.

"Wencheng Wude? Hahahaha, Chengzhi, there are only the two of us here. Some words come out of my mouth and into your ears. Do you want to know why I can defeat Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu?"

Guo Peng looked at Guo Chengzhi.

"why?"

"Chengzhi, the most fundamental reason why I was able to defeat Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu and establish a foundation is that I regard the people of the world as human beings."

Guo Chengzhi frowned.

"Father means..."

"It literally means that I treat them as human beings. The more than 8000 million people in the entire Wei Kingdom are all human beings. They are exactly the same, and there is no difference."

Guo Chengzhi seemed to be a little enlightened, but also a little confused.

"Father, did you mean that all living beings in the world are the same?"

"Well, that's what it means. I think the common people in the world are no different from us. They are all the same people."

Guo Peng looked at Guo Chengzhi and asked, "What do you think? Is there any difference between Limin people and us?"

Guo Chengzhi thought for a moment, and felt that Guo Peng's question had other meanings.

"If you talk about differences, there are naturally, but if you say that we are completely different, it may not be necessary. The teacher in the Taixue once said that we are all born and raised by our parents, and we all have the same body. In life, if it is exactly the same, it is not necessarily the case, the people of Li are just producing, and we need to govern and be on top of it."

Guo Peng smiled.

"That's right, that's the difference, but Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu don't view this matter the same way you do."

"what?"

"Chengzhi, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and the group of scholars represented by them, did not regard the people of Li as the same people at all. To be precise, they did not regard the people of Li as human beings. Like cows and horses.

Even because of the large number, the status of the Li people is not as good as that of cattle and horses. The cattle and horses can do more work and are more productive. Therefore, in their view, the Li people are not as valuable and useful as cattle and horses, and the treatment of Li people is not as good as that of cattle and horses. . "

"This...is there such a thing?"

"is not that right."

Guo Peng sighed: "So, whether it is Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu, or the group of scholars like them, no one has ever really cared about the people of Limin, they think they are human beings, and the people of Limin are similar to cattle and horses .

I can't figure out what it is, and I haven't asked about it. Anyway, I'm not human, and I don't deserve to be in the same room with them. If the people of the Li people are in the same room with them, they will feel very uncomfortable, because they feel that these common people are very uncomfortable. dirty. "

Chapter 1633 One thousand 550 three Guo Chengzhi doesn't understand Guo Peng's loneliness

After Guo Peng finished speaking, Guo Chengzhi showed dissatisfaction.

"Dirty? Why do they think others are dirty? The ugly things they do themselves are the dirtiest!"

Guo Peng was very satisfied with Guo Chengzhi's reaction.

After eliminating the gentry, he completely controlled education and had considerable authority over education, so he mixed a lot of things he liked into education.

For example, take away Confucianism's thoughts of strange skills and obscenity, Taoism's cunning thoughts, and Mohist political thoughts.

Then the fig leaf of the scholars was removed.

He ruthlessly exposed the things that people did in the procuratorate era to gain fame and integrity, and he also transferred the things he had done to others and told them together.

Therefore, students in the new era know that there used to be a group of people who did not hesitate to perform on the issue of filial piety in order to become officials.

This is where the contempt for the probation system and people in the probation era began.

It can be said that Mr. Guo did another thing of crossing a river and demolishing a bridge. He walked this road by himself and blocked this road. It can be described as shameless to the extreme.

But what's the problem with that, anyway, he is the biggest one, he can do whatever he wants, and others can't help him.

So he nodded.

"That's right, they think that only they are clean and everyone else is dirty, so in the former Han Dynasty, all the princes and generals treated the Li people like this, only I was not, so they are not my opponents gone."

Guo Chengzhi didn't want to understand Guo Peng's super leap.

So Guo Peng said it more bluntly.

"Scholars who study are used to being superior, and ordinary people are used to plowing the land with their heads bowed. They have forgotten that it is not us who can affect the general situation of the world, but the people of Limin in the world."

Guo Chengzhi frowned, a little puzzled.

"Father, my father told me that the leader of the world is the emperor. Besides the emperor, who else can influence the general situation of the world?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"That's right, the leader of the world is indeed the emperor, but he is only the emperor of our Wei country. The former Han Dynasty is not like this. Chengzhi, you read the history books, and you tell me that Emperor Guangwu won the world by relying on What?"

"Naturally, it is Emperor Guangwu's Wentao and Wushu strategy..."

"Do not."

Guo Peng interrupted Guo Chengzhi: "I mean, who helped him?"

"Help...Emperor Guangwu marries Yin Lihua of Nanyang and Guo Shengtong of Hebei, so he wins the hearts of the world and takes over the world."

"Yes, Nanyang Yin Lihua, Hebei Guo Shengtong, what is behind these two women?"

Guo Peng looked at Guo Chengzhi.

"Nanyang Haoqiang, and Hebei Haoqiang."

Guo Chengzhi seemed to understand: "The meaning of the father is that Emperor Guangwu took over the world because of the help of Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang, not because of any other reason."

"Naturally, without the help of Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang, he would be helpless even if his brother was killed by Emperor Gengshi."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Guangwu stood out and became the final winner because of the help from Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang, but why did he win with the help of Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang? Have you thought about it?" ?"

Guo Chengzhi nodded.

"Because Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang have money, food, weapons, and horses, they belong to Guangwu, and Guangwu has all of these. Money, food, soldiers and horses are not lacking, so Guangwu can pull thousands of troops to compete in the world."

"Where did Nanyang Haoqiang and Hebei Haoqiang get their money and food from?"

Guo Peng continued to ask.

"Naturally, they obtained it from their land and manor. They merged the land, bankrupted the self-cultivated farmers, collected the self-cultivated farmers who paid taxes to the state, and continued to let them cultivate and produce. They annexed the production income alone and never handed it over to the court.

So the powerful became stronger and stronger, and the imperial court became weaker and weaker. This was the case in the last years of the former Han Dynasty and the Xinmang period. It is also for this reason that the powerful have great power. Then he proclaimed himself emperor. "

In the past few years, Guo Chengzhi seems to have been arranged by Guo Jin for a famous teacher to interpret a part of history in depth, so he has understood some fundamental social problems.

"Yes, you have learned a lot."

Guo Peng praised Guo Chengzhi, and Guo Chengzhi was very happy.

As a result, Guo Peng changed the subject.

"But Chengzhi, you didn't answer my question."

"what?"

Guo Chengzhi was taken aback.

"I asked you where the money and food for the powerful soldiers and horses come from, and you have to answer my question."

"Yes, the grandson has already answered that he came from the manor."

"Where did it come from?"

"The manor."

"No, answer again."

"Ah? Isn't it the manor?"

"No, think again."

Guo Peng shook his head again and again, Guo Chengzhi was extremely shaken when he asked.

That's obviously the case...

Guo Chengzhi thought about it, and suddenly clapped his hands.

"Father, what do you mean... the common people in the manor?"

"Yep."

Guo Peng smiled: "What is the use of an empty manor? It is the people in the manor who work hard to produce food and other things, and then the food and other items are circulated in the market and exchanged for money. This is the source of money and food." source.

Weapons are naturally made by craftsmen, and soldiers and horses are naturally composed of strong men in the manor. Everything is not because of the manor, but because of the people in the manor. Emperor Wu's confidence. "

"I see."

Guo Chengzhi frowned and nodded repeatedly.

"Actually, many people are used to being superior, and they always easily forget why they are superior. When they get used to being superior, they feel that they are born superior, but in fact they are not.

Because the people below produced things, and even went to the battlefield to fight in person, which earned them the supremacy, but they mistakenly thought that it was what they should have got, which is not the case, and it is not they who can dominate the general trend of the world, but It is the people of Limin.

They always think that the people of the Li people are easy to control. As long as the force is strong enough to defeat the enemy, the people of the Li people will naturally obey their rule and give birth obediently, so that they can take over the world. This is not the case. "

Guo Peng lowered his voice, hugged Guo Chengzhi in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Chengzhi, the father only told you this. Remember, whoever they help will win the world!"

After speaking, Guo Peng straightened up, patted Guo Chengzhi on the back, and smiled.

Guo Chengzhi was astonished.