At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Of course, Cao Song was very happy, and Mi Zhu was also very happy.

Although Guo Peng felt that he had too many sons, he seemed to want a daughter...

However, having more sons means that inheritance is relatively safe, there are more choices, and there is no need to worry about dying halfway. For people at this time, it is a great joy.

So Guo Peng also held several banquets to have fun with the civil servants under his command.

As a result, it has been less than a month since the joy, and Guo Peng has not recovered his normal state of mind from the joy. Yu Fuluo and Bai Bojun are going to make trouble, which makes Guo Peng very annoyed.

To be honest, Guo Peng did plan to attack Bingzhou after rectifying Jizhou, abolishing the various forces in Bingzhou.

Turn Bingzhou, which has basically no gentry and no power, into its own territory, annex it, master a very strategic border state, and then build your own invincible cavalry army here.

But right now, it seems that Yu Fuluo and Bai Bojun don't intend to give him a chance to recuperate.

The Baibo Army does not have a leader with the same vision as Zhang Yan, so the Black Mountain Army can get a good end, but the Baibo Army does not.

This group of people is looking for death at all, and it is definitely looking for death to fight against a prince who occupies such a vast territory like himself!

Guo Peng is very sure.

This is even more so for Furo.

Before going south to Luoyang, Guo Peng still remembered the battle with a cavalry of the Southern Huns.

Different from Nanlou, who has cooperated with him for a long time, Yu Fuluo is not a simple guy. He has a large group of desperadoes. Zhang Yan, who has been with him, said that the cavalry under Yu Fuluo's command are very fierce.

Although Jizhou's rectification work has only been completed for more than one-third, the recruitment of the army has ended.

Guo Peng set up two military training camps in Jizhou, recruited [-] troops to conduct drills, and conducted drills in accordance with the compiled military training drills, with initial results.

However, it is obvious that this army is not yet ready for actual combat, and the training is insufficient. Even if it is to be recruited to fight, it is estimated that only the 3 people who surrendered to Guo Peng the first can join.

The 3 people did not return to the land after all, Guo Peng chose to break them up, throw them into the recruit camp, use the strict military laws and regulations in his army to restrain them, beat them hard, They can only be released after passing military regulations and disciplines.

He thinks this way, so the mobile force is not enough right now.

With all the calculations, he only has a mobile force of more than 4 people on hand. The other troops are stationed, or selected as officers, and entered the recruit training camp to become grassroots officers and lead recruits.

Later, Guo Peng got the information from Guanzhong, and learned that the Chang'an court was playing tricks again, and urged Yu Fuluo and Baibo army to attack him, disturbing Hebei, and didn't want to let himself develop safely.

They were still one step too late.

Guo Peng has been in control of Jizhou for half a year, nearly [-] days. Guo Peng has not slackened in the slightest, leading the grassroots officials to work hard to rectify Jizhou, and some results have been achieved to some extent.

Moreover, the joint battle between Youzhou army and Karasuma army to attack Qiu Li's residence ended three months ago. Youzhou and Karasuma have both rested for about three months, and they can use part of their strength to support Guo Peng.

In this battle, if Yu Fuluo really dared to fight, Guo Peng wouldn't mind tearing him up and eating him.

Anyway, I have to eat it sooner or later, and there is nothing wrong with eating it now.

This time, Guo Peng prepared to dispatch [-] soldiers and horses himself to fight against the Baibo Army and Yu Fuluo's coalition forces in Shangdang County and Hanoi County.

Moreover, Guo Peng is going to take Zhang Yun, Gao Lan, Yan Liang, Zhu Ling, Jiang Qi, Xia Zhao and many other surrendered generals, and Tian Feng will accompany the counselor military plane, ready to leave for Bingzhou at any time.

For this march, Guo Peng decided not to use old generals and meritorious generals, but to give a chance to Yuan Shao's surrendered generals who were eager to make contributions.

Let them display their talents, accumulate some credits, and gain a foothold in Guo Peng's camp with peace of mind.

Chapter 368

With Guo Peng's order, the army is ready and the roads are barely usable, but the problem of food is right in front of us.

Although the farmland has been arranged, and the spring plowing work has been completed in the whole Jizhou, the summer grain has not yet been harvested, and the grain used now is the reserve grain of Qingyan Erzhou in the past.

If you want to go to Bingzhou to fight, I am afraid that there will not be much food in the newly built granaries in Jizhou, and the food copied from the houses of the powerful landlords is almost used, so it is very embarrassing.

If Guo Peng wanted to go to Bingzhou, he would have to go all the way to collect grain and grass from the eastern part of Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

Faced with such a problem, Tian Feng stood up and suggested to Guo Peng that he could ask for grain and grass from the powerful landlords in Jizhou, and called on them to donate grain and grass for Guo Peng to use.

Tian Feng said that the powerful families in Jizhou really wanted to curry favor with Guo Peng.

"During the previous wars, although they never helped Yuan Benchu, they never helped Duke Ming either, so they felt anxious and didn't know how to deal with themselves. Duke Ming was magnanimous and didn't pursue it, so they felt uneasy. If they could give If they have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, they will definitely donate food and grass very enthusiastically."

Tian Feng's suggestion and Guo Peng really listened to it. This is a useless thing.

Every family of these powerful families has built a granary. The grain in their hands may not even match the grain stored in the granary built by Guo Peng in Qingyan Erzhou.

Years of accumulation, profound foundation, the larger the scale, the more storage, and now nearly half of the land in Jizhou is in the hands of these powerful landlords, and their financial, material and manpower are still not to be underestimated.

But for them, he is undoubtedly an unshakable behemoth, a fierce warlord, an object worthy of fear, and a powerful person who wants to curry favor with every means.

Recalling the grand occasion when Yuan Shao was able to pull [-] to [-] troops with a single call, Guo Peng wondered if he should also try how high his reputation is now.

Not counting Yuan Shu, only looking at himself, not playing Yuan Shu's banner, only playing his own Guo's banner.

So Guo Peng issued a grain requisition notice to the powerful landlords in Jizhou.

It is said that Yu Fuluo and Baibo Yellow Turban have evil intentions and may invade Jizhou, which is very dangerous.

Guo Peng is going to reorganize his army and horses to attack Yu Fuluo and Baibo Yellow Turban Army, but now there is a shortage of food, and he hopes to collect some food from the "people" in various places to fight against the bandit army.

This order was communicated to the governors and ministers of the counties and countries, and then to the counties to let the landlords and powerful people know.

After they knew it, their reaction did not exceed Tian Feng's expectations.

They scrambled to take out some of the family's accumulated grain, took the initiative to load it, and arranged for manpower and material resources to be transported to the major official granaries designated by Guo Peng for free.

For a while, the roads in Jizhou were full of grain trucks, and the grain bags were full of bulging grains.

The powerful families in Jizhou once again showed Guo Peng that they had enough human, material and financial resources to support the establishment of the Eastern Han Empire.

Although after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Guo Yuan War, they suffered heavy losses and were plowed over and over again from south to north and from north to south, the remaining people are still not to be underestimated.

In this vigorous food donation operation, the most outstanding one is undoubtedly the Zhen family in Wuji County, Zhongshan Country.

With the efforts of the Zhen family, the food provided by one county in Wuji County is enough for Guo Peng's army for more than a month, which is really rich and powerful.

Guo Peng didn't know much about the Zhen family at first, but after asking Tian Feng, he understood a lot of things.

The Zhen family has a long history. They settled in Zhongshan in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. They became small tyrants, and their power continued to grow. Later, they became officials step by step through means such as promoting filial piety and honesty. They transformed from a family of powerful landlords to a family of noble officials.

By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Wuji Zhen family had become a prominent official family in Zhongshan County.

At that time, Zhen Feng and Zhen Han, the important leaders of the Zhen family, were both important figures in the Wang Mang Group. They gained a high status through Wang Mang's usurpation, and Zhen Han himself was a disciple of Kong Guang, a descendant of Confucius.

However, because of the close relationship with Wang Mang, after Wang Mang's downfall, the Zhen family was silent for a while, and the official fortune in the Eastern Han Dynasty was not very good.

A failed investment forced them to retrace the path of their ancestors, continue to walk the path from the local to the central, quietly accumulate land and financial resources in the local area, survive as a powerful person, and constantly try to curry favor with the local county guards in an attempt to gain the status of being filial and honest. Opportunity to revive the family business.

Because of the early accumulation and the fact that Zhen Han was Kong Guang's disciple, the Zhen family is undoubtedly already a noble family.

The descendants of the Zhen family tried hard to find a chance to revive, and finally at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhen Yi, a son of the Zhen family, was promoted to Xiaolian and served as Shangcailing, and entered the officialdom again after more than a hundred years.

But soon, the Yellow Turbans were in chaos, the life of the Eastern Han Dynasty was coming to an end, the feudal lords were in chaos, the world was falling apart, and the battle between Guo and Yuan was imminent.

The Zhen family also faced a choice.

Before Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou, the Zhen family and Yuan Shao flirted with each other, and they gave Yuan Shao a lot of help both openly and secretly.

But because of the covetousness of the Yuan Shu forces in the south, they have never made up their minds to completely rely on Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao was in danger, the Zhen family held a family meeting. Seeing many people rushing to use their family savings to help Yuan Shao win the war, the Zhen family was arguing fiercely. After arguing and arguing, the Zhen family decided to remain neutral.

In the end, Guo Peng won, Yuan Shao died, and the power of the group collapsed.

The powerful landlord who helped Yuan Shao was bloody cleaned by Yuan Shu's faction, and the land of Jizhou was covered with mountains of corpses and blood. Zhen's heart was terrified, but he also felt very fortunate.

Since the first year of Xingping, the purge came to an end, and Guo Peng began to govern Jizhou and resume production.

Seeing that Guo Peng became a new rich man, became the lord of Hebei, his power and reputation increased greatly, Zhen's mind began to become active.

After Zhen Yi's death, only Zhen Yi's son, Zhen Yan, was the official of the Zhen family. .

Guo Peng issued a grain requisition order, and the Zhen family saw an opportunity.

So the Zhen family gave full play to their family background accumulated over a hundred years, and generously donated money and food to help Guo Peng. Because of the huge amount, it suddenly entered Guo Peng's eyes, and Guo Peng asked Tian Feng to ask about the origin of the Zhen family.

After Tian Feng's explanation, Guo Peng understood the reason.

First of all, it must be confirmed that the Zhen family is a member of the gentry family. Members of the family can study, can be filial and honest as officials, and can let Zhen's daughter be hired as a wife by Yuan Shao's son, which obviously has a certain status.

However, it was Yuan Shao's second son and concubine Yuan Xi who was used as a marriage tool, not the first son Yuan Shang, obviously Yuan Shao did not regard the Zhen family as indispensable.

Chapter 369 I'm still far from the time when I can sit back and relax

According to Guo Peng's guess, in the original history, the Zhen family was probably really rich and had a lot of land and food, which was very attractive to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao didn't engage in farming, and the source of money and food was unstable. At that time, there were frequent wars. Yuan Shao used troops for years, and the expenditure of money and food was huge.

But for Guo Peng now, the Zhen family is not attractive.

Guo Peng himself has a stable income of money and food to operate, and the Zhen family has everything Guo Peng can provide. This time, using their food is just a test of his fame and power, and it is not necessary.

For Guo Peng, the Zhen family is dispensable.

But since people took the initiative to throw out olive branches and paid so much money and food, Guo Peng also remembered the existence of the Zhen family.

The most famous of the Zhen family is probably the legendary Luoshen who is so beautiful that people will be fascinated.

Everyone pursues, everyone yearns for.

The legendary Luoshen is probably really beautiful, but so what?

No matter how beautiful she is, can she live the power of the supreme under heaven and the future she dreams of?

Can Mrs. Zhen provide Guo Peng with the help he urgently needs or needs for a long time?

If so, Guo Peng would not mind agreeing a marriage for his eldest son Guo Jin and Zhen's daughter. Anyway, they are about the same age, so it might be a good choice for Luoshen to be the wife of the eldest son Guo Jin.

Marriage is not that simple.

Especially Guo, who is the lord of the five states, is powerful and prestigious, with 20 armors. Could it be that his eldest son's wife and family will make a decision so hastily?

Did Mrs. Zhen give her life for me, or did she make some commendable contribution?

At most, you can give the county magistrate Dangdang, which can be regarded as a way of saving face. If you want to go further, just give me a good lick!Let's lick it for three to five years!

Marriage?

Don't even think about it.

Marriage is a very important thing, and it is also related to life for Xiaomin, and the higher the status, the more important marriage is.

For politicians and powerful figures, marriage is one of the necessary means to achieve political and economic goals.

For Guo Peng, including himself, his sons, and possible daughters in the future, all marriages must serve this purpose.

The wives of the sons and the husbands of the daughters must be chosen carefully. If there is no obvious benefit, then don't even think about it.

Rewarding heroes, recruiting talents, stabilizing the situation, etc., can all be achieved through marriage.

This is the normal state, the normal state of the upper class society of this era, everyone is like this, don't think about freedom, it is impossible to be free.

If anyone among the children dares to tell Guo Peng to choose a mate by himself in the future, and then choose a messy one, Guo Peng will definitely educate them gently.

very gentle.

Back then, Guo Peng exchanged his marriage for the first pot of gold in his fortune.

Without Cao's help, Guo Peng would not have been able to reach Luoyang smoothly, let alone get involved with Cai Yong and Lu Zhi, and the earliest team members would not have been able to pull together, so there would be no today.

Mizhen was accepted as a concubine, because the Mi family had strong manpower, material and financial resources in Xuzhou, and they were loyal to themselves, selling horses to the Central Plains and Jiangnan for years, earning high profits for military expenses.

Guo Peng is so rich, able to build so many armies, and able to establish his own independent financial system. Among them, the Mi family has made great contributions, not to mention that they can also provide help for Xuzhou in the future.

So get married.

Treat Cao Lan and Mi Zhen with love, give them children, make them smile, and make them happy.

This is what they deserve.

If the Zhen family had contributed money and effort or sold some information when Guo Peng attacked Jizhou, Guo Peng would have been gentler to them, but unfortunately not.

Jizhou was defeated by me under the banner of Yuan Gonglu and my own troops. What does it have to do with those powerful landlords in Hebei who did not take refuge in Guo Peng?