At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"you……"

Gongsun Zan was very angry and clenched his fists to beat him, but he raised his fists and let them down again.

"Forget it, everyone is dead, so don't worry about what to do... Even if you come to save me, I may not live to the end. It is better to die in Yuan Shao's hands than in yours."

After speaking, Gongsun Zan turned around and started walking.

"But that doesn't mean I don't hate you, Guo Zifeng, if we meet again in the next life, you have to pay me!"

"Definitely pay!"

Guo Peng watched Gongsun Zan until his figure completely disappeared.

Then he turned to look at Dong Zhuo.

"Don't get out yet? Wait for me to send you off? Although some of them are hostile to me, they are not without merit. Only you, killing innocents and bloodthirsty cruelty, is purely a disaster, get out!"

Guo Peng told Dong Zhuo to get out with disgust on his face.

Dong Zhuo was not as furious as Guo Peng had imagined, but sneered.

"Of course I can roll, but Guo Zifeng, I won't roll far, I'll be waiting for you in front, waiting for you to be with me, hahahahahaha!"

"Then I still advise you to leave quickly. You can't beat me when I'm alive. When I'm dead, summon my old minions. You can't even beat me as a ghost!"

Guo Peng laughed: "Are you sure you want to wait for me?"

Dong Zhuo's complexion changed, he snorted coldly, twisted his fat body and walked straight forward, walking faster and faster, and soon disappeared.

Now there is only the last Lu Bu, who was still on the ground and has not gotten up.

"What? Are you still relying on it? You still want to be beheaded by me?"

Guo Peng looked at Lu Bu, who was the first to show up to look for him, but he stayed until the end.

"I just can't figure it out."

Lu Bu sat up from the ground and stared at Guo Peng: "You will be emperor in four years of Zhongping. How old were you then? What did you think?"

Guo Peng sneered.

"If I tell you, can you figure it out? Lu Fengxian, if you have an afterlife, you need to read more, learn more knowledge, and enrich your empty head. Literacy is not enough. Forget it, if there is a chance, I will teach you to read in the next life."

"I!"

Lu Bu jumped up from the ground, pointed at Guo Peng and shouted angrily, "I want you to teach me? You are also worthy of teaching me? If there is an afterlife, I will kill you first!"

"Okay, okay, it's not sure who kills who, let's go, let's go!"

Guo Peng waved his hand impatiently, and Lu Bu made fun of himself, spat and walked away cursing.

His figure disappeared in front of Guo Peng's eyes.

So again, only Guo Peng was left in this world.

The cool breeze on the top of the mountain was blowing, and Guo Peng tightened his clothes.

"Zifeng, you are so old..."

A familiar and somewhat unfamiliar voice sounded behind Guo Peng.

Guo Peng looked back suddenly and saw Zang Hong standing behind him with a smile.

"Zi...Ziyuan, you're here."

"I came early. Seeing that you were chatting so happily, I didn't bother you. Wen Ruo also came and didn't bother you."

Zang Hong looked around, Xun Yu's figure suddenly appeared beside Zang Hong.

Guo Peng was taken aback.

"Ming Gong, it's been a long time."

With a smile on his face, Xun Yu bowed to Guo Peng, as always, without changing.

Guo Peng was trembling all over, and he stepped forward tremblingly, holding Zang Hong's hand with one hand and Xun Yu's hand with the other, and the tears could not stop falling.

"Ziyuan...Wenruo...you...you came to see me?"

"Yeah, seeing you being so emotional, I thought of coming to see you, Zifeng, you are really old, a lot older."

Zang Hong pointed at himself with a smile: "I'm still young, so is Wen Ruo, right?"

Xun Yu smiled.

"Yu, like Ziyuan, will never grow old no matter what."

Guo Peng's heart trembled, and tears fell like beads with a broken thread.

"I'm sorry, Ziyuan, Wen Ruo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you, really, I'm sorry for you..."

He cried while talking, and he cried miserably and thoroughly in front of the two of them.

Zang Hong and Xun Yu looked at Guo Peng with pity in their eyes.

"Zifeng..."

Zang Hong stretched out his hand and held Guo Peng's shoulder: "I didn't blame you, really, I never blamed you, I just never understood what changed you."

Xun Yu also nodded and said yes.

"Yu has never blamed Duke Ming, and Yu also has doubts. When did Duke Ming start, and why did he decide to replace the Han family? Yu thought hard and couldn't figure it out."

Guo Peng raised his head, looked at the two, and sighed deeply.

"This matter is a long story."

Guo Peng told Zang Hong and Xun Yu what he had said to his father Guo Dan and Cai Yong.

The more Zang Hong and Xun Yu listened, the more surprised they became.

"Zifeng, I thought you did all this for your own position. I thought you were so ambitious that you couldn't restrain yourself, so you made such crazy actions. I think it is necessary for me to stop you and let you recover. wide awake."

Zang Hong said.

Xun Yu also nodded.

"Yu also thinks that Duke Ming can't contain his ambitions, so he made such an act of usurpation. Yu believes that Duke Ming's doing this is tantamount to suicide and violates the ethics of monarchs and ministers, so Yu will do whatever it takes to do so. I want to stop Duke Ming, but Yu never imagined that Duke Ming actually did it for... those peasants."

Zang Hong sighed very much.

"I can't think of it, I can't think of it at all, you who came from a noble family would actually destroy the entire noble family for a group of peasants, Zifeng, I can't believe this is true."

Guo Peng nodded and wiped his tears.

"The world will not understand me, nor will they believe that I really think and act like this. In their opinion, as a member of the nobility, I am born with the ability to read and have the opportunity to become an official. It's time to settle down and uphold this set of rules.

But I betrayed the gentry, smashed this set of rules, and changed a set of rules to select talents. They couldn't figure out what I did, just because they saw the suffering of the peasants. I don't want them to continue like this. bitter. "

Xun Yu frowned and sighed deeply.

"Who would have thought of it? Duke Ming's thoughts are so shocking."

Zang Hong nodded and shook his head again.

"Zifeng, I thought you should at least tell us what you think. You may not be sure that we will not help you, right?"

"Will you?"

Guo Peng looked at Zang Hong and Xun Yu.

The two looked at each other, and then lowered their heads together, without answering the question.

"Right? You don't even think about it, because you, like Duke Cai, don't really see those peasants as people, but I'm different. I really see them as people. You never really understood me."

Guo Peng sighed lonely: "Of course, although I expect someone to understand me, but I also know that no one will understand me after all."

"Zifeng..."

"Ming Gong..."

Xun Yu and Zang Hong looked at Guo Peng with complicated expressions.

"But it doesn't matter, because I have successfully done it. The imperial examination was successful, and the children of farmers can study. I have set up county schools in 320 counties in the whole Wei State. They can all learn culture. No more ants."

Guo Peng smiled.

"really?"

Xun Yu suddenly asked Guo Peng such a question.

Guo Peng put away his smile.

"how?"

"Ming Gong, just as you said, except for you, there are no dignitaries who would treat those peasants as human beings, so how can you guarantee that after your death, those peasants will not become inhuman beings again? ? You're 70 years old, aren't you?"

Xun Yu spoke earnestly.

Zang Hong also nodded.

"Zifeng, you have tossed and tossed, and one day you will die. Can everything you do really be inherited and executed forever? I don't think so."

The two stared at Guo Peng together.

Guo Peng was silent for a while, and finally he nodded.

"I can't guarantee it. I think that after I die, the Wei Kingdom will eventually become like the former Han, and it will eventually collapse."

"Then why are you doing this? After paying such a huge price, hard work, and painstaking efforts for decades, everything returned to the original point in the end. Why is this?"

Zang Hong held Guo Peng's hand, and Xun Yu also held Guo Peng's hand.

"You destroy the warlords, destroy the gentry, kill the corrupt officials, and offend everyone who can offend you. Everyone fears you, but also hates you. They dare not speak when you are alive, and when you die, they will definitely try their best to slander you. You, slandering you, and ruining your reputation, why bother?"

"You could have stood tall, turned your hands into clouds and covered your hands into rain, and enjoyed all the glory and wealth in the world, happy to the point of death, why do you need to work so hard? Never rested for a day?"

"You could have fun with the ministers, sing and dance every day, get drunk, dream and die, and act recklessly. You have someone to cover up for you. Why do you need to break with the ministers and leave the name of a tyrant?"

"After all, it's not you who can write history books, nor the peasants who have been favored by you, but the historians, and the historians are also officials. If you are against the officials, how can the history books written by the officials say good things about you?"

Zang Hong and Xun Yu looked at Guo Peng and said in unison——

"Being with the light and keeping a good name, isn't it good?"

This question is very sharp, and it goes straight to the depths of people's hearts. It's like stripping people of all their defenses and putting them under the spotlight, exposing everything about themselves to the public's scrutiny.

However, Guo Peng did not shrink back or bewildered.

The more they asked, the clearer the answer in Guo Peng's heart.

Or that the answer has never been changed, always the same.

He abandoned all sorrow, let go of Xun Yu and Zang Hong's hands, and shook his head firmly.

"not good."

He took a few steps back and looked at Zang Hong and Xun Yu.

"I used to think that the Three Kingdoms were romantic, beautiful, and turbulent. When I first came here, I had unlimited dreams and wanted to dance on the same stage with the heroes who led the times, and leave a legacy in The good name of later generations will take all the beauty of the country."

"But I finally found out that this stage does not belong to everyone. The stage only belongs to the powerful, the nobility and the powerful, and romance belongs to them. What is left to the general public is only endless suffering, and a stomach that has never been full a few times a year."

"Because of their suffering, there is the romance of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms, but is the romance based on suffering really romantic? Is the romance based on thousands of corpses really worthy of praise? I don't think it should be, that kind of Romance is not to be celebrated, suffering is to be remembered."

"No one should be born with all the glory and wealth, and no one should be born with all the suffering in the world. If there is, there must be a problem in this world. If there is a problem, it must be corrected. If no one is going to change it, then I Come."

"I know, I'm the only one who thinks this way, and I'm the only one who does this, and all the people who follow me are just trying to benefit, but so what? They're doing this, they're changing the world. "

"I also know that after I die, the world will eventually become what it used to be, and the collapse of Wei is inevitable, but so what? Those in the dark see the light."

"This kind of light, as long as it is lit once, will remain in people's hearts forever. Those who have seen it will never forget it and pass it on to future generations. Even if the light is subsequently covered up, it will not change the fact that it exists. ."

"I lit this light and let everyone see this light, so even if the light in the eyes goes out, the light in the heart will not go out, it is like a seed, it will always stay in people's heart, waiting for the opportunity Break through the ground, and then thrive.”

"My kingdom of Wei will eventually fall, and everything I have built will eventually collapse, but Ziyuan, Wenruo, the seed is left, and that seed will one day break out of the ground and grow vigorously, to realize what I failed to achieve. dream."

"A hundred years or a thousand years, maybe I've been forgotten long ago, but that seed will break out of the ground again and grow vigorously, definitely! Definitely!"

Saying that, Guo Peng's face showed the very familiar smile of victory that Zang Hong and Xun Yu had seen, exactly the same as when he defeated the Yellow Turbans, Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shao Yuan Shu.

"So, how can you say what I did was pointless? I'll do it again."

Zang Hong looked at Xun Yu, and Xun Yu also looked at Zang Hong.

The two looked at each other and laughed together.

"That being the case, Duke Ming, Yu will sincerely look forward to the day when that seed will break out of the ground and grow vigorously."