At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

When Guo Peng was stationed in Linzi, the families of generals, officials, regular troops, and many important craftsmen all lived in Linzi.

Subjectively, it is convenient for Guo Peng to control his own power group, and objectively, it also enriches the local population and expands the economic scale, just like the mausoleum system in the early Western Han Dynasty.

When Guo Peng decided to stay in Lu County, he did not hesitate to move 10,000+ people to live in Lu County.

Anyway, Guo Peng decided that, don't say that the old department will not betray, cronies will not betray, family members will not betray, etc., give your family to me, and I will let you go out and lead troops to become an official with peace of mind.

Otherwise it is impossible.

Not to mention surrendering generals, the Yuancong Group, which has been following him from the earliest days to now, also honestly left his family members by Guo Peng's side. To set an example, he went out alone to lead troops as an official.

Guo Peng worked so hard to get the other four prefectures in Yanzhou, but also because his system of appointment was not implemented here, and the family members of local officials were all around him. If they surrendered, they would surrender.

Guo Peng wanted to let them know that no matter who they were, they would have to pay a price for betraying me.

Chapter 296 .290 Five

Saying words of loyalty ten thousand times is not as real as handing over one's family members to live with Guo Peng.

Words of loyalty are like a sentence of "I love you" from the mouth of a veteran in love, meaningless.

Only by handing over your family members to me can I trust you, add officials to you, let you lead the army and manage the government, and make you rich and prosperous.

Everything has a premise. If you want to get something, you have to exchange something, especially power, that's it.

As far as Guo Peng knew, Yuan Shao seemed to be doing the same thing, and the family members of important generals under his command gathered in Yecheng.

Yuan Shu didn't seem to do this.

Yuan Shu didn't know what he was thinking, maybe he was too confident about his family background, and felt that no one in the world would betray him, so he didn't implement any political reforms to stabilize his own power group.

This kind of blind self-confidence also indirectly affected the Sun Wu regime, which later inherited Yuan Shu's political legacy on a considerable scale. The Sun Wu regime also did not implement the pledge system.

This situation made the Sun Wu regime always unstable. The succession system of soldiers and the trilogy system were very popular. The generals of each army had a large number of trilogy, which were passed on from generation to generation, and even officials and their families surrendered to Wei. Condition.

For example, Han Dang's son, Han Zong, surrendered to Wei State with his whole family after Han Dang's death, and thousands of people went there.

Thinking about it, if Han Zong had a proton in Sun Quan's hands, he wouldn't be so bold.

Mr. Guo learned from experience and did this from the very beginning, and he also paid special attention to the "single without appointment", that is, those who have no wives, children, old parents, and old parents are resolutely not appointed as generals and border officials.

Therefore, officials and generals who are more optimistic about their side always pay special attention to their personal life, and try their best to send women to them, let them marry and have children, and then they will be appointed outside with confidence.

Guo Peng was also a little helpless for Zhao Yun, who believed in the saying "Why is the Huns not destroyed?"

Huo Qubing was raised by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as his son, can he be the same as you?

So he also tried every means to send him a woman as a concubine, forcing him to have a child, and finally forced a daughter.

Guo Peng also did not allow his father to take his son to take office.

At this time, the generals in charge of the army and the magistrates of the prefectures, counties and counties must be included in the quality appointment system, and they can be relaxed a little when the world is stable in the future.

However, this kind of system has been running for a long time, and everyone will agree. If something is different, it will be widely questioned. At that point, there is no need to worry.

Guo Peng's army has strong combat effectiveness, and has never defected or bombed the camp. It is not only well-trained, but also because after Guo Peng took them into professional soldiers, he also took in their families.

Always be a little concerned, right?

So Guo Peng listened to Wanlian and others expressing their loyalty with a smile, and didn't take it seriously. He asked them to go back and rectify the army, put down their weapons and wait for surrender.

He also ordered these four people to jointly write a letter to Zhang Liao, who was still attacking Yan County, and ordered Zhang Liao to lead his army to surrender.

Zhang Liao's status is different from that of Cheng Lian, so the conditions for persuading surrender are not the same.

Those four people were so happy that they were given a school lieutenant. For Zhang Liao, he needed a better position and better treatment to win him over.

Zhang Liao deserves such treatment.

They immediately went back to report the matter, and they began accepting the surrender at four o'clock, until the afternoon when all the troops were finally surrendered, and then it was a very normal process to start dealing with these surrendered troops.

The gate of Changyuan County was also opened, and Cao Ren and Guan Yu came to see Guo Peng in person.

Guo Peng helped them up with satisfaction, praised them for their contribution to guarding the city so that Lv Bu could not get it, and rewarded them with money, goods, wine and meat, and then took them by the hand and went to the camp together.

Because Lu Bu's army collectively revolted anyway, none of them were guilty, and they didn't need to be questioned. Their family members were all returned, and everything was peaceful and stable.

The only problematic ones are Lu Bu himself, his wife Wei Shi, his daughter, and several concubines.

Guo Peng had already decided what to do with the family, so he wanted to hear everyone's opinions again, pretending to care about everyone's opinions.

Lu Bu and his family were tightly bound, kneeling on the ground, waiting to be dealt with.

Wei Shi didn't say a word, Lu Bu's daughter leaned against Wei Shi and wept silently, and the three or five concubines cried in a mess.

At this point, Lu Bu gradually calmed down, stopped arguing and insulting, and stopped talking. Afterwards, the rope was tied too tightly, and Lu Bu felt uncomfortable all over, so he said to Guo Peng: "I am already like this, why are you still talking?" You want to tie me up so tightly?"

"Yeah, you are already like this, what else do you want? Tie it tighter, lest you break free and hurt others."

Guo Peng laughed.

Lu Bu took a deep breath, stared at the surrendered four generals with hatred in his eyes, and said angrily: "I am not defeated, I was betrayed, and these four villains betrayed me, which brought me to where I am today! They are not thin, they actually want to treat me like this!"

Guo Peng looked at the four generals who surrendered and shook his head.

"You are having an affair with your subordinate's wife behind your back, violating human relations, and bullying others. I have never heard of a master general doing such a thing to his subordinates. Your subordinates have been dissatisfied with you for a long time.

The situation you have fallen into today is nothing more than a concentrated outburst of dissatisfaction among your subordinates. This is all your own fault, and you don’t even know it. When you reach this point, can you still blame your subordinates? "

Guo Peng scolded Lu Bu sharply.

The people around all pointed and pointed at Lu Bu, talking loudly, and looked at Cheng Lian and the others with a little more sympathy, instead of pure contempt.

In all fairness, if their wives were having an affair with their boss, they would probably explode too.

Lu Bu's face froze, and he looked at Wei Shi with a guilty conscience, seeing Wei Shi turned his face away and did not look at him, he was very ashamed and annoyed, knowing that he was wrong, he lowered his head and remained silent.

Therefore, the four captains who returned to the new title strongly advocated killing Lu Bu's family, cutting the grass and roots, so as not to leave any disaster.

"Lü Bu is a despicable villain. If you don't kill him, you will suffer endless troubles. Please be aware of it, General."

Cheng Lian led four people to forcefully demand that Lu Bu's family be killed.

From their point of view, of course, they betrayed Lu Bu. If Lu Bu could survive, wouldn't they be stunned?

Lu Bu was terrified when he saw Guo Peng nodding slowly.

"General! General! I was also bewitched by Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao lied to me, saying that Yanzhou's defenses were lax and that it would be easy to capture. I just came to Yanzhou, this is not my own idea!"

"Yuan Shao instructed you to attack Yanzhou?"

Guo Peng asked.

"Yes! It was Xu You, a counselor under Yuan Shao's command, who came to me and told me that Yanzhou's defenses were lax. He wanted me to learn from Yuan Gonglu and invite Zhang Miao to my barracks to capture him. Then he could easily capture Chen Liu and occupy Yanzhou. If I go well, they will send troops to help me occupy Yanzhou."

Lu Bu spoke out all the things in one brain, and the generals and officials around Guo Peng suddenly showed strong anger.

Guo Peng turned to look at the four generals.

"Is what he said true?"

"This……"

The four generals looked at each other, and finally Cheng Lian stood up and said, "It's true, it was indeed Yuan Shao's order, and I thought of attacking Yanzhou later."

The generals and officials were even more dissatisfied, and they all denounced Yuan Shao's wolfish ambitions, especially the officials from Yanzhou.

"I see."

Guo Peng took a few steps, looked up to the north, with strong anger on his face.

"Yuan Benchu, you are too deceitful!"

After speaking, Guo Peng turned to look at Lu Bu again.

Chapter 297 .290 Liu Bu's Family

Lu Bu's face was full of desire to survive.

This made someone Guo full of joy.

It feels really good to hold power and control the life and death of others.

So someone Guo spoke up.

"Although this was Yuan Shao's instruction, you still committed a serious crime, killing Chenliu prefect Zhang Miao, his younger brother Zhang Chao, Shanyang prefect Bian Rang, and countless officials and Li Shu.

You attacked Yanzhou for no reason, killed officials, massacred officials, Li Shu, and destroyed places. Such actions are tantamount to rebellion. Do you think I can forgive you for committing such crimes? "

Lü Bu was shocked, thought for a while, and said, "General, as long as the general is willing to forgive Bu, and Bu is willing to attack Yuan Shao's pawns for the general, then when Bu leads the cavalry and the general leads the infantry, what is Yuan Shao? It's just a corpse!"

When Guo Peng heard this, he immediately showed a thoughtful expression.

"What you said may not be unreasonable."

Hearing what Guo Peng said, Lu Bu's face showed joy, while Cheng Lian and other four generals turned pale with shock.

"General, you must not..."

"No need to say more."

Guo Peng raised his hand to stop the four generals from speaking: "I know what you want to say, so you don't need to say more."

The fourth general was dumbfounded, completely unaware of what Guo Peng was going to do.

Guo Peng looked at Lu Bu again.

"Lu Bu, you are indeed brave and good at fighting, and you can be regarded as handy in commanding the cavalry. If you join me, I will have another general."

Lu Bu was overjoyed.

"Thank you general for not killing me, I wish..."

"I haven't finished speaking yet."

Guo Peng interrupted Lv Bu's loyalty, and said, "But you are capricious and ignorant of loyalty. You follow Ding Jianyang to kill Ding Jianyang, and follow Dong Zhuo to kill Dong Zhuo. Your conscience has long since disappeared when you decided to kill Ding Jianyang. gone."

Seeing that Lu Bu was stunned, Guo Peng shook his head and sighed.

"The examples of Ding Jianyang and Dong Zhuo are right in front of us. How can I keep a man-eating tiger with no conscience by my side and raise it as my minion? Someone, behead Lu Bu and pass it on to the whole army!"

"General! General, you can't kill me! You can't kill me!"

Lu Bu roared loudly, struggling with all his strength, begging for mercy.

In the face of death, the famous flying general who ignores life and death is just an ordinary person.

Weeping weeping, Lu Bu's daughter leaned on Wei's shoulder and wept, not daring to look at Lu Bu. Several of the concubines fainted from fright, and the others were also trembling.

Cheng Lian and other four generals were overjoyed, congratulated Guo Peng repeatedly, and praised Guo Peng for his wisdom and martial arts.

Lu Bu's roar came to an abrupt end with the executioner's sword cutting down, and the life of a generation of flying generals came to an end.

The bloody head was sent to Guo Peng for confirmation, Guo Peng nodded, and someone circulated it to the whole army to demonstrate Guo Peng's martial arts and enhance his prestige.

Next, is the disposal of Lu Bu's family.

Generally speaking, it is not a heinous person, just kill himself, and the criminal law of killing female relatives is generally not used.

No one would apply the punishment of men to women. It is generally believed that it is good to kill men, and women can keep them and deal with them in other ways.

Of course, the so-called other methods are not necessarily better than being killed.

At least for women.

But no matter what, there is no possibility for them to express their opinions.

The woman of the vanquished belongs to the victor, and is the spoil of the victor, without the possibility of free choice of destination.

They can only accept the domination of the victor, and cannot resist.

Except for the wife and daughter-in-law, they are not even regarded as human beings, but just an item.

It's like in the original history, Liu Bei's concubine Mi Zhen and two daughters, after being captured by Cao Jun in the rebellious army, they never disappeared again. It is estimated that they either died or were taken as their own as playthings.

That's all luck.