At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Xun Yu was very excited when he saw it, and said, "Duke Ming is indeed the virtuous master I am looking for."

Guo Jia and Xi Zhong watched it, and immediately felt that their choice was not wrong, so they drank a few more glasses of wine excitedly.

Cheng Yu looked at it, and was very happy in his heart. He found that Guo Peng had completed his own evolution, and his governance methods became more and more proficient and superb.

Integrate morality with his own purpose, condescending, and relegating to anyone who tries to defy him.

Standing on the high ground of morality, controlling the position of public opinion, and being almost invincible, this move is so beautiful!

Moreover, these few words were said so well that Cheng Yu couldn't say it himself anyway.

Many people will be deceived by telling their ambitions in this way. Even those who still have doubts in their hearts cannot refute it, because the moral high ground has been seized and political correctness has been established.

He really deserves to be the direct disciple of Lu Zhi, a great Confucian in China!

As Cheng Yu thought, once this article was spread, it caused a shock among scholars.

Cai Yong recited this passage in the school hall, and delivered a speech to his disciples who followed him, saying that this passage must be the criterion for lifelong conduct. This is the truth that a true sage must pursue, and it is the most important. noble sentiments.

The person who can say this must be a great man with the world in mind and the ambition to stabilize the world!

Cai Yong started to blow for Guo Peng again for free, blowing big and special, blowing in the academy every day, blowing to everyone, and writing letters to his friends, blowing thousands of miles away.

Standing on the peak of morality, Guo Peng looks down on all living beings with the attitude of an ancient sage, talking and laughing, and instantly disappears the political crisis that has yet to come.

Almost everyone felt that they followed a great person, and this great person would definitely do a great career and leave a name in history.

And if they follow this great person, they will definitely be able to create a great career and leave their names in history with them.

The cohesion of Guo Peng's civil and martial arts group has once again been improved, and Guo Peng's attractiveness to them has been improved again.

Therefore, in addition to his great reputation, Guo Peng greatly improved his moral image and gradually built himself into an invincible golden body.

Military power, morality, grasping with both hands, one cannot be missing, otherwise you will not be able to become a king teacher.

At least not one can be missing now.

Chapter 364 .360 Three Fortunately, the world is illiterate

Three days after this article was published, Cao Hong, who was on the verge of collapse, was released from the small dark room and cried bitterly in front of Guo Peng.

Guo Peng invited Cao Song, and Cao Song reprimanded Cao Hong as the head of the Cao family, making Cao Hong cry even louder, holding Guo Peng's legs and unwilling to let go.

He kept yelling "Brother, I was wrong", "Brother, I dare not do it again" and so on.

Guo Peng, on the other hand, forgave Cao Hong's crimes with a tolerant attitude, and did not punish him further. He was ordered to return to the mansion to think about his mistakes seriously, and he was grounded for a month before he was allowed to walk freely.

Cao Hong knelt on the ground to admit his mistake, and was taken away.

Presumably he will seriously reflect on his mistakes and never make mistakes again.

Someone Guo laughed.

When fighting for hegemony in troubled times, for the sake of victory and for the sake of people's hearts, the overlords will turn a blind eye to unbearable things in peacetime, even if they challenge their authority and threaten their status, they can take it lightly and smile And pass.

After winning in the end and securing his position as a man in the world, he will settle the ledger.

This is a helpless thing, but it will inevitably give people a feeling of killing a donkey.

Someone Guo didn't want to do this, and he didn't want to do it.

He felt that some overlords' postures were not up to par, their cultivation was not in place, they didn't know how to use the moral high ground to degrade disobedient subordinates, and they didn't know how to use morality as a weapon to achieve their goals.

Of course, not every overlord has practiced for more than 20 years like Guo, and the times are different, and morality is not so useful.

Morality is a thing, if you don't use it well, you can play yourself to death, but if you use it well, it can become a sharp blade that kills people without blood, killing people without a trace.

Just as Lu Xun glimpsed the word "cannibalism" from the gap between benevolence, justice and morality, morality is terrifying.

Guo Peng liked this weapon more and more.

If this weapon is used well, the means of ruling can be called clever, if it is not used well, then the ability to rule is worthy of concern.

For example, the muscular men of the Liangzhou Group have been immersed in the Shura field of the Han and Qiang wars since childhood. The law of the jungle of the jungle is deeply ingrained in their minds. They don't know how to make up or use morality as a fig leaf, and they directly present everything In front of the eyes of the world, of course it will not be accepted by the mainstream society.

As rulers, everyone is a shameless person, wearing gorgeous costumes and dancing on the stage of history, creating the illusion of singing and dancing to whitewash the peace and cover up the dirty transactions behind the scenes.

As a result, you stripped off everyone's clothes as soon as you came, and the ugly truth was presented to the world.

Fortunately, people in the world are illiterate and unable to write history books, otherwise we don't know what troubles will happen.

That's why they planned for a long time. They took advantage of Ma Teng and Han Sui, who were tired of being rebels and eager to clean up their crimes, and mobilized Ma Teng's and Han Sui's soldiers and Li Jue's group to bite dogs, so as to achieve their goals.

In the end, it turned out that Li Jue Group was a beast, and Han Sui and Ma Teng were still a little bit behind. They were defeated and fled back to their hometown in embarrassment.

The Li Jue group was furious, and killed a group of ministers who were in contact with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and decisively seized power, taking more than half of the power of the Chang'an court.

As a result, the Chang'an court really became a puppet, and everything was based on the opinions of the Liangzhou Group.

However, this is not a good thing for Liangzhou Group.

It turned out that there were still some people in the court who could compete with the Liangzhou Group and discuss matters, but now suddenly these people have fallen, and the Liangzhou Group has real power, but this real power is not in the hands of one person, but in the hands of three people hand.

At first, after Wang Yun was killed, the leader of the Liangzhou Group was Li Jue, who was the supreme leader, fighting openly and secretly on behalf of the Liangzhou Group and the Chang'an court.

In this war, Guo Si and Fan Chou made great contributions, followed Li Jue, and seized a lot of Li Jue's prestige.

Liangzhou soldiers used prestige as the source of power. Whoever had the most prestige had the most power. Fan Chou made the most contributions, and Guo Si did not do little. They both caught up with Li Jue in terms of power.

Li Jue seems to be happy to share power with them, but he doesn't necessarily think so in his heart.

With authority in hand, who is willing to share it with others?

So the conflict between Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou became very serious.

The three fought for power and profit, fought openly and secretly, each manipulated the court to add officials to their cronies, and often quarreled for the sake of order, making the court a mess, and almost broke out in a fight, which made Jia Xu exhausted and worried.

However, a piece of news came in time, which temporarily curbed this trend, and Jia Xu was relieved, and then he couldn't help worrying.

Yuan Shu ordered Guo Peng to make a northern expedition and wiped out Yuan Shao's group. Yuan Shao was captured and died alive. Now Yuan Shao's power has been wiped out, and Hebei is occupied by Guo Peng.

This is great, Hebei, the Central Plains, including Huaibei and Huainan areas, the essence of the Han Dynasty is all under the control of the Yuan Shu Group.

Terrified enough, the Liangzhou Group quickly stopped thinking about fighting, and hugged together to discuss this matter.

Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou invited Jia Xu over to listen to his analysis.

"The current situation is indeed very tense, but it may not be that time, and things will turn around."

Seeing that they stopped being hostile, Jia Xu was immediately relieved, and began to state their interests to them.

"When Guo Zifeng defeated Yuan Benchu, Yuan Gonglu occupied the Kanto region and became the overlord of the Kanto region. He directly possessed the power to deter us. His prestige is all day long. It is very scary. At first glance, it looks like this, but when you look closely, it may not be so.

It was Guo Zifeng who defeated Yuan Benchu. Guo Zifeng originally occupied the two prefectures of Qingyan and Yanzhou, and now he even occupies Jizhou. The tiger looks at Hebei. Yuan Gonglu's dispatch?

Besides, Yuan Gonggong himself, after killing Ma Rizun, Yuan Gonggong's reputation has declined greatly, and now it is all supported by military power. There was news before that Yuan Gonggong's department defeated Sun Ce, the prefect of Lujiang, Lu Kang, and beheaded Lu Kang. , Occupying Lujiang River, watching Jiangdong as a tiger, threatening Liu Yao.

It looks terrible, but Yuan Gonglu offended the Jiangdong gentry, and the Lu family among the four surnames in Jiangdong is very famous. Killing Lu Kang is tantamount to making an enemy of the Jiangdong gentry. The Jiangdong gentry will definitely oppose Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu The south side of the country will not be safe.

On the other hand, Liu Biao in Jingzhou has always been in good contact with the imperial court, and has a great enmity with Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu's strength has increased greatly. It is not only us who are panicking, but also Liu Biao. At this time, we are sending envoys to Jingzhou to add officials to Liu Biao. , Liu Biao will definitely agree to unite with us. "

After talking about the domestic situation, Jia Xu began to talk about the external situation, focusing on Yu Fuluo, the son of the former Southern Huns Shanyu.

"Yu Fuluo recruited soldiers for the court at the beginning, but the court refused to allow him to return to his country afterwards. His father was killed in the civil strife. Yu Fuluo wanted to return to the country, but he was rejected. Wan joined forces with Baibo and Heishan bandits.

We can send envoys to contact Yu Fuluo, in return for him to return to the southern Xiongnu to inherit the position of Shan Yu, and encourage Yu Fuluo to use troops against Guo Zifeng. At this time, we can contact Liu Biao to send troops to the Guandong, and the north and the south will clamp down. Isn't it the best Countermeasures? "

Jia Xu's analysis of the situation was very decent, which made Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou very happy, and they were relieved of worries, and then manipulated the court to make arrangements that met Jia Xu's expectations.

Chapter 365 .360 Four Tao Qian who can't keep up with the times

According to Jia Xu's suggestion, Li Guofan and Li Guofan controlled the imperial court and united Liu Biao, Liu Yao and Yu Fuluo in the name of the imperial court.

Add officials to them, give them the support of righteousness, and try to divide and disintegrate the Yuan Shu Group from within.

The previous time when he failed to steal the chicken, he lost the rice. This time, Jia Xu was much more careful and used a trick again.

He ordered Guo Peng to be the governor of the three prefectures of Hebei, and the governor of the three prefectures of Hebei, and Tao Qian was appointed the governor of Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou, and the governor of the three prefectures of Henan. After that, Yuan Shu was still not given any local positions.

Prepare with both hands, strike from the outside while splitting from the inside, can you still bear it?

After making the following arrangements, Jia Xu sat proudly waiting to see what kind of situation the Yuan Shu Group would set off a Kwantung War.

Once the Kanto War rises, it will definitely give them a chance.

As long as the Kanto is in chaos again, they will have a chance to continue to control the government, survive the troubled times, and even become the final victors.

In order to survive, Jia Wenhe will do whatever it takes.

Although it is very tricky to play tricks, there are things Jia Wenhe can't do.

Agricultural production is not his specialty, and all his energy is used to calculate and save his life. He does not lack food and drink, so he does not pay attention, but it is not enough for him to have food and drink.

In the spring of the first year of Xingping, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong. Because of the foreseeable failure of the autumn harvest and the lack of food, the price of grain in Guanzhong soared, and the powerful families hoarded it in an attempt to make a fortune.

It doesn't matter to the powerful landlords, but the people of Li and common people don't get much food, so they starve to death everywhere, and even the tragedy of cannibalism happened.

Faced with such a situation, although the three of Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou were not starving, the soldiers under them had nothing to eat. , can only intensify the killing and rush to eat.

As a result, a large number of people in Guanzhong with a household registration of one million were exodus. A large number of people fled from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, Yizhou, and Jingzhou in order to escape the famine. The population of Guanzhong was lost, production stagnated, and people's livelihood declined.

It was only then that Jia Xu noticed something very bad, but the matter had come to an end, he was powerless to recover by himself, and his expertise was not in civil affairs.

Because hunger is not something that can be reversed by manpower, the subordinates of Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou even went to grab Liu Xie's Taicang food because they were hungry.

Liu Xie released food from Taicang in order to relieve the victims in Chang'an City. As a result, the army of Li Guofan's three thieves even wanted to snatch the food, which made Liu Xie very annoyed.

The conflict between the Liangzhou Group and the imperial court further deepened, and fierce conflicts erupted within the Liangzhou Group over food. Jia Xu could not stop it, exhausted physically and mentally.

He didn't even have time to pay attention to the effectiveness of the strategies he used.

There are results, there is no doubt about it.

In Puyang, Guo Peng learned that the Chang'an court appointed him the governor of the three prefectures of Hebei, and that the Chang'an court named Tao Qian the governor of Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and was furious.

He denounced Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou as the "three thieves" who occupied Chang'an to humiliate the emperor, and coerced the emperor to order the princes.

He absolutely cannot bear this kind of thing.

How could he accept the edict of the three thieves?

Guo Peng expelled the envoys of the three thieves, destroyed the edict of the three thieves, and claimed to attack the three thieves Li Guofan and rescue Shengjia.

Then, he set his sights on Xuzhou.

Soon, he knew that Tao Qian didn't do anything on the surface, but he had actually accepted the edict, and he probably had the idea of ​​going down the mountain to pick peaches in his heart.

Hmph, the ability is not very good, but the courage is really great.

Guo Peng ordered Xia Houyuan and Yu Jin to enter a state of first-level combat readiness, ready to attack Xuzhou at any time.

If you don't give Tao Qian a little color, he won't know why he can defeat Yuan Shao!

Tao Qian is really ignorant of numbers, good and bad.

According to the information Guo Peng got, when he went north to attack Yuan Shao, Tao Qian was ready to make a move. He sent the two soldiers and horses under his control to guard against Xia Houyuan and Yu Jin, and he also raised food and grass in Xuzhou to prepare for the war.

As a result, he hadn't finished raising food and grass, and Yuan Shao, who had been forced by his own side, died on his own initiative. The three prefectures in Hebei fell into Guo Peng's control. Guo Peng's strength and prestige increased greatly, and Tao Qian was frightened for several nights Did not sleep well.

But after being frightened, Tao Qian did not give up his original plan, but planned to continue his efforts and continue to spread his plan. After all, he had to pull out the thorn in his heart, otherwise he would be very uneasy.

How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch?

Unfortunately, Guo Peng also had the same idea.

He also felt that Tao Qian was very unpleasant.

Such a rich and rich place like Xuzhou not only has fertile land, but also has the advantage of being close to the sea. It can be said that Guo Peng planned to take Xuzhou a long time ago.

But compared to Yuan Shu's side, Guo Peng has no reason to attack Xuzhou.

This time, if Tao Qian took the lead, Guo Peng would never give him a chance to survive.

However, Tao Qian seemed to still not be able to see clearly the strength comparison between the two sides. After receiving the edict from the Chang'an court, he was overjoyed for a while, and then found a group of people around him to discuss this matter.

His confidant Cao Hong believes that Guo Peng will not do anything to Xuzhou, and Xuzhou is safe.