At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

In the original history, the reason why Zhang Miao betrayed Cao Cao was because Cao Cao belonged to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao and Zhang Miao had feuds and different political stances. They put pressure on Cao Cao several times to ask Cao Cao to kill Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao witnessed Han Fu's death with his own eyes, so he was afraid that Cao Cao would eventually be unable to withstand the pressure and harm him. It is not impossible for Zhang Miao to betray him after being fooled by Chen Gongyi.

Guo Peng's political stance is the same as Zhang Miao's, he recognizes Liu Xie's legal status, and like him, he also has an enmity with Yuan Shao, so he is a good refuge for him to rely on.

Zhang Miao had no motive or need to betray, and the mastermind, Chen Gong, was planning the strategy and tactics for Guo Peng to capture Jizhou, and doing tactical deduction.

Through the intelligence network covering several states and counties in the Central Plains, as well as Jizhou in Hebei and Luoyang in Guanzhong, the news and speed that Guo Peng can get will definitely not be too slow.

The intelligence unit that has been cultivated and trained since Shanggu County has blossomed for several years, and it is time to bear fruit.

These good seedlings who are personally cared for and educated by him are absolutely trustworthy and reliable.

From the time he met Yan Rou after the crusade against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, Guo Peng knew what he should do most.

For several years, I have been constantly searching for and raising orphans who have lost their parents and are helpless, placed them in a safe place around them, personally brought people to take care of them, gave them food and drink, taught them literacy, taught them martial arts and survival skills, and brainwashed them by the way.

After they grow to 15 years old, there are three places to go.

One was arranged by Guo Peng to enter the army and become a grassroots officer, such as a corps commander or a senior officer, to help Guo Peng control the army from the lowest level.

One is to go to a village at the grassroots level to be the village head, implement Guo Peng's will to the grassroots level, control the locality, and ensure that Guo Peng's foundation is stable.

The last one is to join the intelligence force that Guo Peng personally formed, headed by Yan Rou, with a scale of more than [-] intelligence forces, the Linzi Camp.

The name of Linziying is to deceive people.

Most people only know that there is such a battalion of troops, and they think it is a garrison army, but very few people really know its functions. Except for Guo Peng, only Cheng Li knows the specific content.

This force is directly responsible to Guo Peng, without any other person's control, and directly transfers all kinds of information collected to Guo Peng through various routes to let Guo Peng know.

Chapter 281. 280 Guo Peng Wants to Trouble Lu Bu to Be the Director of the Demolition Office (Revised)

After several years of development and layout, all states and counties in the Central Plains have spies in the Linzi Camp arranged by Guo Peng.

Their identities are very different, and they may not know each other's existence.

For example, there are eight spies sent by Guo Peng in the Yuan Shu army, and the one with the highest position has already become the head of the village.

Yuan Shao's Jizhou was also mixed with a lot of sand by Guo Peng in a planned and premeditated manner.

These spies were relatively immature at the beginning, but after a long time, they became sophisticated in their work, constantly summing up experience to the headquarters, and making corresponding improvements according to the actual situation.

For example, if someone dies, the cause of death will be sent back to the headquarters to Yan Rou.

Yan Rou will report to Guo Peng, and then make improvements based on Guo Peng's opinion, and tell the newcomers how to evade and avoid death to the greatest extent.

The cause of their death was basically not being found out to be spies.

During this chaotic war, the forces of all parties were not stable enough, so it was far from the time when the various forces played intelligence warfare.

Except for someone Guo who is ambitious to plan for a rainy day, the others have no time, no time, no resources to build an intelligence force, and they don't even have a firm foothold. Except Yuan Shu, who would dream?

The greatest danger to a spy is accidental death.

It is not uncommon to die from bandits, routs, refugees, or even wild animals.

So with the passage of time, Guo Peng has higher and higher requirements for the training of newcomers in the Linzi Camp.

In this way, the Linzi Camp has gradually matured from a relatively immature organization when it was just established, becoming more and more powerful, and will become more and more terrifying.

This kind of investment regardless of loss has trained a group of very capable and highly qualified spies. After they are dispersed, they often bring him very timely and very important information.

Yan Rou also faded away from the 14-year-old enthusiasm when she just followed Guo Peng. Now at the age of 20, he has become a capable and powerful intelligence officer, both internally and externally.

He only knows one rule.

Anyone who threatens Guo Peng is his enemy, no matter who he is.

This is also the highest standard of the entire Linzi camp.

Taking this as a guideline, the Linzi Camp launched intelligence espionage activities.

Then he provided Guo Peng with a series of whereabouts about Lu Bu, and based on this, Guo Peng got his own reasoning.

These days, time is victory, and whoever seizes the time will be able to win. Even if he gets the information an hour earlier than the enemy, it can greatly increase the chance of winning.

Don't say that this kind of enemy doesn't even know that you already know their existence.

Lu Bu didn't think that Guo Peng would get the news quickly, at least until he took Dongjun, Guo Peng couldn't mobilize the army to go out.

He still has plenty of time.

He himself thought so.

And when Guo Peng was flirting with Zhang Miao to sing the oboe, he had already figured out what he wanted to do and started to think.

This matter has nothing to do with Yuan Shao, and it may even be that Yuan Shao secretly instructed Lu Bu to do it. In order to restrain his attention and prevent himself from having the opportunity to join forces with Gongsun Zan to deal with him, the north and south attacked him and destroyed him.

Without Liu Dai and Cao Cao, he can only choose Lu Bu who has nowhere to go.

It just so happens that half of Yanzhou was not brought down by Guo Peng, and its foundation is weak and cannot be effectively controlled.

So this half of Yanzhou has naturally become a soft persimmon, easy to pinch, and Chenliu County is even more of a soft persimmon.

Lv Bu started from Chenliu County, and his goal must be Dongjun and Jiyin County, and then continued to deepen.

Attacking Dongjun can directly open up the connection with Yuan Shao. With Yuan Shao at his back, he can advance and attack, retreat, and flee directly to Jizhou. Basically, Lu Bu stands on the position that he will not die.

Attacking Jiyin County can invade the hinterland of Yanzhou and threaten Guo Peng's rule in Yanzhou.

Guo Peng guessed that compared with other places, Lu Bu would definitely pay more attention to Dongjun, and would definitely lead his army to attack Dongjun.

So Guo Peng made a plan.

But he doesn't plan to send troops too quickly, it's not in his own interest to predict the enemy in advance, he thinks that the image of turning the tide is more in his own interest.

The reason is very simple. For the few counties and states that he can't get involved for the time being, Guo doesn't plan to predict the enemy so quickly and prevent problems before they happen.

Chenliu County, Jiyin County, Rencheng State, and Shanyang County, these four counties, and half of Yanzhou, are temporarily out of reach of Guo.

Dongjun is not completely in control, but because of the critical terrain, Dongjun needs to arrange garrison defense, so the control is stronger, so Dongjun needs to arrange in advance.

Lu Bu cannot be allowed to open up the route to unite with Yuan Shao, and Dongjun cannot be lost, otherwise there is a danger of playing off.

So Guo Peng used other reasons to "coincidentally" send [-] troops to support Dongjun.

The other four prefectures are completely handed over to the local forces in Yanzhou. Guo can only collect some taxes and does not interfere with local administration in principle.

Just like other vassals, use fame and military strength to deter and rule, and then win their cooperation, appoint them as officials, and exchange some of their resources for their own use with political power.

Of course, it must be greatly limited by the local gentry.

This is the so-called "restriction of imperial power" that is said to have been pursued by Chinese scholars for a lifetime.

Whether it is the current gentry politics or the future bureaucratic politics, it is the same in the late dynasty, and it has never changed.

The imperial power declined, autocracy declined, and the dynasty perished.

Therefore, the reason for the demise of the dynasty was not because of autocracy, but precisely because it was not autocratic enough and could not be autocratic, so it perished.

Of course, the gentry bureaucrats have the power to write history books. Of course, they covered up this deep-seated law, and blamed the weak emperor, relatives, eunuchs, spies, natural disasters and peasant uprisings, making people think that literati are always just.

What about 200 years of foster care...

It can even represent advanced productivity and democracy.

That's how Mr. Guo got to where he is today, okay?

He knows it all too well.

A routine of fooling people that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Guo Peng needed to gain recognition from Yanzhou with his achievements in the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army, but without the Yellow Turban Army, the control of these four counties would be far away.

Mr. Guo would never engage in an agrarian revolution and beat up local tyrants to divide up the land.

So I need to find a backer to help him to do what he needs to do, so that his hand can smoothly extend into these four counties.

Lu Bruman is impulsive, aggressive, and has no brains. He is a good helper and a perfect backer. He doesn't know production and likes to rob. He is a typical rogue warlord thinking.

If the army wants to march, it will definitely plunder, smash, loot and burn, and there are not many other things in these places, except that there are more local manors and forts.

As the saying goes, the poor have no place to stand.

There is a great deal of food, ordnance, and money in the manor and the dock, which are the favorites of the army.

Guo Peng did not believe that Lu Bu could do nothing wrong.

So Guo Peng wanted to trouble Lu Bu to be the director of the demolition office.

Help him dismantle and kill these nail houses that are inconvenient for him to do, and help him make room for him to put his hand in and use the land in these places for his own use.

That's justified, isn't it?

It's not me who did it, it was Lu Bu who did it, it's all Lu Bu's fault, blame Lu Bu, don't blame me.

Oh, I forgot, you're all dead, it's not my fault.

When Lu Bu tidies up these places, he can send troops to attack, turn the tide and help the building to collapse. Not only will he gain fame, but he will also gain practical benefits.

So what about that old saying?

Opponents, the other hand to realize dreams.

After the decision was made, Guo Peng suddenly felt that many people would die because of this. After all, Lu Bu was not the real director of the demolition office, and more people would die.

My conscience is aching.

Guo, who wanted to move forward by any means, grinned.

Chapter 282 .280 One opened up a road to the sky called the exam

Guo Peng knew very well that the farming system was not a magic tool.

This is not such a great policy, and our ancestors have practiced it many times.

Then why did no other warlords conduct farming on a large scale except for Cao Cao who did it on such a large scale?

Don't they see the benefits of farming?

No, I'm not a fool, why can't I see it?

It's not that other warlords are unwilling to use it, it's not that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are unwilling to use it, but they can't do it.

First of all, their butts are sitting on the side of the gentry family, and they are class brothers with the gentry family, and they are the same thing, and it is impossible to harm the interests of the gentry family.

If you want to farm, you need land, you need to produce people, you need production materials, and who owns these things?

In the hands of the aristocracy, they control the population, land and means of production, and all the fertile land in the world belongs to them. They hide a large number of household registrations for their own use.

Facing the situation of lack of military rations, Yuan Shao wanted to farm like Guo Peng, but how did he do it?

Betray your own class?

Yuan Shao didn't have such an awareness, and he didn't understand these things, and neither did the powerful and noble families.

It's not like Guo, who deliberately used the Yellow Turban Army to wipe out local forces, and then took the initiative to occupy these lands and take them back to the government.

Yuan Shao didn't have the Yellow Turban Army to take advantage of. Even if there were, he wouldn't do it, he wouldn't want to do it, and he never thought of doing it.

In his education, in his world view, such an idea does not exist and will never appear.

He, and they, are destined to be unable to farm.

Enjoying the great political convenience of the four generations and the three princes, he must pay a huge price for it, and he must protect the interests of those who support him, otherwise, he will be overthrown.

Therefore, Yuan Shao's army had to pick wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. When Yuan Shu's army was short of food and fodder, they had to go down the river to catch fish and shrimp.

They had no stable source of food of their own, and had to rely on the help of their class brothers for everything except looting.

Cao Cao started the farming system because his family background was too low, and it was not accepted by the mainstream. If Cao Cao was born in a noble family and had a broad base of noble families, he would not do it.

Only the traitor Guo, who is full of scheming and scheming, would deliberately do this.

To do this in various ways, all kinds of borrowing swords to kill people and drive tigers and wolfs away, wiped out the place, and established a small sphere of influence based on the Qin and Western Han systems.