At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cannibalism.

The population is exhausted in such a desperate situation.

This era is really too bad.

Someone like Guo does not want to be such a warlord. Someone like Guo wants to be a warlord with sustainable development. Only when he can develop to the last warlord can he become an emperor, and everyone else is cannon fodder.

Many warlords are on their way to cannon fodder, and Guo is one of the most different.

His most important thing is production, and it has always been production, so Guo can afford to support a full-time professional army and an army with strong combat effectiveness, while other warlords cannot.

This will also become Guo's greatest confidence and the magic weapon for sweeping the world.

In addition, in order to protect the environment and ensure production, Mr. Guo has also implemented many laws and regulations.

He enforced some very effective agricultural production experience in the pre-Qin period, copied them on bamboo slips, organized officials to study collectively, and then went to the countryside collectively.

Strictly order the township heads and village heads of all villages to memorize the rules by themselves, and then even if they use the force-feeding method, they must fill the farmers' minds with these principles.

One by one, one by one, if the farmers cannot be informed, it is the dereliction of duty of the township head and village head, and they will be questioned.

For example, in February in spring, it is not allowed to cut wood in the mountains and forests, and it is not allowed to block waterways. Before summer, it is not allowed to burn grass as fertilizer, and it is not allowed to pick newly sprouted plants, or catch young animals and eggs, and it is not allowed to poison fish. Turtles, it is not allowed to set traps for catching birds and beasts, etc.

The ban was not lifted until July. Only those who need to cut wood to make coffins due to death are not subject to seasonal restrictions. Even so, they need to be reported to the village and township, and kept as a file in the county.

These laws and regulations were clearly written in the Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, but they were only passed down. The popularization was not good, and it failed to form a unified and effective restraint on farmers and protection of the environment.

The protection of the environment is directly related to the yield of agricultural production.

In this way, together with the implementation of the evening school policy to make farmers literacy, the agricultural production has become standardized and scientific, which is a good thing that will benefit the future.

Therefore, even if it is force-feeding, even if it is coercion, temptation, or intimidation, Guo Peng must let every farmer know these rules, keep them firmly in his mind, and pass them down from generation to generation, and dare not forget them.

The grassroots in Qingzhou were fully mobilized. The village chiefs and township chiefs at the grassroots hardly had a day of peace, and there were a lot of things to do every day.

The same policy has also been extended to Yanzhou. The newly established rural organizations focus on learning and preaching, and call on farmers to cultivate their fields in a more scientific way, intensive farming, in order to obtain higher grain production and better ability to deal with natural disasters .

And Guo Peng is also careful to prepare for production and promote policies, for fear that something will go wrong, which will affect the grain harvest, causing refugees and starvation.

Productivity is low, and grain output is low, but people have a lot to eat. Millions of shi grains seem like a lot, but when they are spread evenly over the heads of the people, it becomes not so much.

There are not a few years of good harvests, and there is no courage to dare to launch a foreign war. If the war lasts a little longer, people will starve to death. People will die in the front of the battle, and people in the rear will starve to death. After a battle, it is unknown how many people will die.

This is another headache.

After making such efforts at the grassroots level, formulating and implementing policies and maintaining them, Guo can breathe a sigh of relief and carefully look around to see if there are any advantages or advantages that can be taken advantage of.

As a result, before Mr. Guo found a bargain to take advantage of, a big news came.

The Zong member died.

Died suddenly.

The reason is that his marriage with Yuan Shao was harmed.

Guo Peng learned that in order to deal with Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao used a marriage method to impress the clan members, so he sided with Yuan Shao, intending to restrict Gongsun Zan and prevent Gongsun Zan from conflicting with Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zan deeply hated the clan members for helping Yuan Shao and not helping him, and out of anger, he directly dispatched troops to intercept Yuan Shao and the marriage team of the clan members.

He looted a large number of gifts, killed all the envoys, and intended to destroy the marriage between the two parties, but he did not act carefully, and Yuan Shao and the clan members soon found out.

Yuan Shao used this to put pressure on the clan members. The clan members were extremely annoyed and reprimanded Gongsun Zan for not being a minister, and then mobilized [-] troops to attack Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan didn't expect the clan members to be so angry. He was frightened and rushed to the battle. The army was defeated in two or three hits.

The Zongyuan army's morale was in turmoil, Gongsun Zan fought back desperately, defeated the Zongmember's army, then regained momentum, marched towards Jixian County in one fell swoop, captured Jixian County, overthrew the Zongmember's rule, and called himself Youzhou Mu, Jihou.

Chapter 270 The High Rhythm and Unscrupulous Manners of 260 Nine Troubled Times

Yuan Shao never expected that when the clan members had all the advantages, they would rush forward with light troops to pursue Gongsun Zan.

In the end, not to mention his own death, he reversed the situation of the battle, changed the owner of Youzhou, and made Gongsun Zan the master of Youzhou.

Gongsun Zan became the ruler of Youzhou, making Yuan Shao's situation even more dangerous.

To the north is Gongsun Zan, and to the south is Guo Peng. If the two join hands, there will be no place for him to die!

Yuan Shao felt a little desperate.

But at this moment, Xun Chen made Yuan Shao calm down.

"Gongsun Zan is only a county guard. Killing the governor appointed by the imperial court as a county guard is a dishonorable thing. He can be called a traitor. Now he calls himself Marquis Muji of Youzhou, which is even more dishonest. , the opposite is obvious.

Although the clan member did not make great achievements, he has been guarding Youzhou since Xiaoling. He has great power and great influence.

Now that Gongsun Zan suddenly defeated the strong with the weak, he seemed strong, like a rising sun, but there must be dissatisfaction among the people below. "

Upon hearing this, Yuan Shao felt that this was the reason, nodded his head, and felt relieved.

Then the counselors were called to discuss how to restrain Gongsun Zan by supporting the anti-Gongsun forces in Youzhou, so as to buy time for his own development.

The counselors made their own suggestions, racking their brains for Yuan Shao's safety, and came up with many bright or dark ideas.

The subsequent development of the matter did not exceed the expectations of Yuan Shao's advisers.

Before Gongsun Zan had time to become the Lord of Youzhou and enjoy the honor and status, the old tribes of the clan members rose up to rebel one after another.

Gongsun Zan had no choice but to mobilize troops to requisition and suppress the old clan members, and sent troops everywhere to escort the prefects he appointed to take office, take charge of the local area, and wipe out the power of the clan members' old clans.

In order to prevent the revival of the power of the clan members, Gongsun Zan actually killed the entire family of the clan members, thinking that by doing so, the political appeals of the old clan would become groundless duckweeds.

Well, not so long ago, Dong Zhuo thought so too.

So the conflict in Youzhou is still quite fierce.

Gongsun Zan was too tired to conquer local forces and was unable to attack Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao wanted to send troops to conquer Gongsun Zan, but sadly found that the army was exhausted and could not fight at all.

So they had no choice but to intensify their search for places, raise military rations, and prepare to cooperate with the old clan members to crusade against Gongsun Zan, attacking from both sides to abolish Gongsun Zan.

When the news reached Guo Peng, Guo Peng wasn't too surprised, because he had already thought of this possibility.

The Zong member once wrote to Guo Peng, saying that he was dissatisfied with Gongsun Zan, and wanted Guo Peng to write a letter to reprimand Gongsun Zan so that he would stop making troubles.

Guo Peng didn't dare to say that his letter would definitely make Gongsun Zan restrain himself.

Guo Peng got along with Gongsun Zan for a while during the election for Dong, and Guo Peng could see Gongsun Zan's extreme character.

No one could change his mind about the things he was looking for, it was extreme to a certain extent.

Moreover, even if it takes more than ten days to travel by sea from Youzhou to Qingzhou, it takes more than half a month to go back and forth. It is too late to let Guo Peng know and mediate everything.

Not to mention that Guo Peng didn't want to mediate at all.

A Youzhou without clan members and Gongsun Zan is a good Youzhou, a Youzhou that belongs to him completely.

How can a person like Guo, who has a strong desire for control, tolerate the existence of forces beyond his control on his own territory?

If he could use Yuan Shao's hand to kill them all, he would be able to give himself an excuse to fully control himself.

Although it is indeed a pity.

The death of Zong member, an old superior who had known him since the Yellow Turban War, was also very unpredictable.

The relationship can't be said to be very good, but after all, he still takes care of Guo Peng very much. He has never made things difficult for Guo Peng. He is an ideal superior.

And so he died.

Once the clan member died, the peaceful situation that Youzhou had maintained for several years before the chaos would no longer exist, and it would surely fall into a new chaos.

Several families were broken, and several families were destroyed.

Guo Peng sighed deeply.

Then grinned.

It's better to die at the hands of the enemy now than to die at my hands in the future, right?

It's better to die with a good initial impression of me than to die with a shattered view of the future, right?

I still can't bear to meet a colleague one time and ask me to do it myself.

Someone from Guo poured a glass of wine with a smile, and sprinkled it on the ground facing north, expressing his condolences to the clan members.

Then he pretended to write a letter, denouncing Gongsun Zan's killing of the clan members' family, expressing his strong dissatisfaction with him, laying the foundation for his future advances in Youzhou, and preventing Yuan Shao from being too good-for-nothing to kill Gongsun Zan, and needing to do it himself possible.

The death of the Zongyuan opened the prelude to the collective exit of the old bureaucrats of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the new troubled times.

The old bureaucrats in peacetime cannot adapt to the high-tempo and unscrupulous struggle for hegemony in troubled times, and they will inevitably retreat to the front line at a very fast speed.

And the new generation of warlords will soon take their place and accomplish something.

The era of the Eastern Han Dynasty will gradually fade away with the withdrawal of the old bureaucrats, and the new era will come with the growth of young people full of hegemony thinking.

As if to confirm Guo Peng's point of view.

In mid-May, when Guo Peng presided over the big military training in Lu County, he got a piece of unprecedented news.

Dong Zhuo is dead.

He was jointly killed by Situ Wangyun and Zhonglang General Lu Bu.

When Guo Peng got the news, Dong Zhuo should have been dead for more than half a month, so in reverse, Dong Zhuo should have died in April of the third year of Chuping.

If it is said that the death of the sect member just caused chaos in Youzhou, made the peaceful situation in Youzhou no longer exist, and made it difficult to affect the situation in the Central Plains, then the death of Dong Zhuo was the news that shook the world.

Ever since Dong Zhuo moved his capital to Chang'an and the League of Discussing Dong was disbanded, the world has entered a relatively stable period.

Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan fought for hegemony in Hebei, Yuan Shu's faction gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains, Liu Biao was in Jingzhou, Liu Yan was in Yizhou, and Dong Zhuo was in Kansai.

Mutual hegemony is maintained at the regional level and has not entered the national level.

But when Dong Zhuo died, the power in the world suddenly dissipated.

It was not a big deal at first, Dong Zhuo died as soon as he died, the key is that Dong Zhuo controlled the emperor.

Now everyone is free to fight for hegemony and ignore the court. The reason is that Dong Zhuo controls the court.

Now that Dong Zhuo is dead and the scholars are in power, once the emperor issues an edict, how can everyone continue to pretend to be confused, how can they continue to fight for hegemony?

The situation is disrupted, out of balance.

Once the emperor is free, it will not be good for all the ambitious princes in the world.

It is not a good thing for those who invest resources in the princes.

Everyone is already preparing for the troubled times, why did you, Dong Zhuo, die suddenly?

Can't you continue to be a traitor for everyone's convenience?

waste!

Chapter 271 .270 Death of Dong Zhuo

In the world, I don't know how many people scolded Dong Zhuo in their hearts as an incompetent waste.

Then a deep worry arose in my heart.

Worried that the emperor will regain his freedom, the state everyone has just entered will be forced to disrupt, and there is even worry about becoming a new Han thief.

While everyone was having various thoughts in their hearts, Guo Peng didn't panic at all.

Because he knew that the coup against Dong Zhuo was still initiated by Wang Yun and carried out by Lu Bu.

Then why panic?

As long as Wang Yun continues to perform steadily and Lu Bu continues to perform steadily, the emperor will have to struggle for more than two years.

There are still more than two years for everyone to buffer and operate.

Although Guo Peng also scolded Dong Zhuo as a waste in his heart, it would be good for him if he could live a few more years.

But thinking about it carefully, Dong Zhuo's death was actually a matter of course.

In the entire Chang'an court, many people wanted Dong Zhuo to die, but few wanted him to live.