At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

No matter who it is, no matter what his last name is.

must die.

So Guo Peng decided to choose one of Tian Feng's family as his concubine.

For this reason, Guo Peng also discussed the matter with Tian Feng in person, feeling that the women of their gentry family might feel sorry for them for being their concubines.

"It is Tian's honor that Duke Ming is willing to accept Tian's daughter, so why would Tian not want to?"

Tian Feng was very excited about this.

After experiencing the catastrophe of life and death, Tian Feng seemed to have taken a lot of things away, and he was no longer as stinky and tough as before. He became a lot more humble, and he was very obedient in front of Guo Peng.

Maybe this kind of him is what Yuan Shao wants to see the most, but unfortunately, Yuan Shao has already passed away on his own initiative.

He can no longer see Tian Feng who he wants to see most.

Tian Feng notified the Tian family to select an excellent educated and reasonable woman to be Guo Peng's concubine, and also specifically mentioned that Guo Peng is a disciple of the great Confucian Lu Zhi. This is Tian's glory, so don't try to fool him.

Guo Peng really likes Tian Feng like this.

The No.2 concubine's place fell on Tian's head.

After the quotas for the two concubines had been arranged, Guo Peng announced that he would go down and choose a date to do business.

Needless to say on Mi Zhen's side, Cao Lan's side still needs to explain.

"The higher your status, the greater your power, the more you can't help yourself. There are always too many things to consider. In the future, there will be no fewer such things. Alan, you have to forgive me."

Guo Peng put his arms around Cao Lan and said warmly.

"I know."

Cao Lan nodded docilely: "Peng Lang doesn't need to care about me, he can decide for himself."

"You are my only wife, the wife that Ming Media is marrying, you are my other half, how can I not care about you? We have been husband and wife for almost 15 years, how can I not care about you?"

Guo Peng held Cao Lan's face and looked directly into Cao Lan's eyes. Such an aggressive behavior made Cao Lan's face turn red.

"We've been married for so long, why do you still do this?"

"No matter how long the couple has been, they have to do it."

Guo Peng grinned, causing Cao Lan to blush and her heart beat endlessly.

This silly white sweet, was eaten to death by someone Guo, and he didn't think about anything else at all.

Maybe he has no feelings for other women Guo Peng, and more political use.

But for Cao Lan, who has been with Cao Lan since he was 15 years old, Guo Peng really has affection, and it is very deep.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had three children with her, and he wouldn't have thought about limiting Cao's power as soon as possible, so as to avoid losing balance in the end and having to kill him.

So at the end of September in the first year of Xingping, Guo Peng officially took Xia Houlin, the daughter of the Xiahou family, and Tian Rou, the daughter of the Tian family, as concubines.

Both of them are 17 years old, and they are the most outstanding women in their respective clans. With the expectations of the family members, they want to give birth to a son for Guo Peng no matter what, so as to stabilize their status.

Therefore, Guo Peng made up his mind to get them pregnant as quickly as possible, to complete his mission as the lord, to reassure Tian, ​​Xiahou, and countless subordinates who care about this, and then to do things honestly .

When they have children, the natal family will be more at ease and more loyal.

Being the master is actually very tiring.

Nervous, tired, boring, and the waist is easily sore.

The recent diet probably needs to be arranged carefully, and some good supplements should be arranged, such as the mutton that Guo Peng likes to eat very much.

As a man who is almost 30 years old, he can already be counted as middle-aged in this era, and he is an old reserve army. Indeed, youth is gone forever.

But still a little bit more pleasant.

Needless to say, Xia Houlin and Tian Rou's appearance, Guo Peng is very satisfied. Of course, the family behind them dare not dissatisfy Guo Peng.

But in those matters, even if you can call yourself an old man at the age of 40, you still have to talk to an old man and go crazy.

What's more, Guo is not an old man at all, but a 29-year-old promising young man, full of strong male hormones.

Get on the horse with a gun, sprint violently, and stab the enemy under the horse.

Xia Houlin and Tian Rou were not delivered on the same day, but a little later, in order of priority.

Anyway, within two or three days, they won one after another, and then kept tossing and tossing and tossing until Guo Peng was satisfied. Xia Houlin and Tian Rou also thoroughly appreciated Guo Peng's might and gentleness.

The disciple of Lu Zhi, known as the Great Confucian, thought he was a gentle and handsome man.

Of course, he is indeed a gentle and handsome man, but it's just a look.

The domineering and decisive arrogance cultivated by the long-term leadership of the army was still involuntarily revealed, making it difficult for Xia Houlin and Tian Rou to resist, and they were conquered without any surprises.

Here, Guo Peng enjoys the warm and fragrant nephrite, enjoys the honor, and lives a life that the current real emperor Liu Xie can't even dream of.

Liu Xie's life is really difficult.

Being robbed by Li Jue into the barracks, Liu Xie was forced to accept Li Jue's control. At Li Jue's request, Liu Xie asked Taiwei Yang Biao and Sikong Zhang Xi to lead more than a dozen senior court officials to Guo Si's barracks to ask for reconciliation.

Guo Bang was very annoyed because Li Jue got Liu Xie first. Not only refused to reconcile, but also detained everyone.

Yang Biao scolded Guo Si and called Guo Si a traitor. Guo Si was so angry that he drew a knife and wanted to kill Yang Biao. Fortunately, the officials around him tried to persuade him that Yang Biao had a high status and could not be killed, so Guo Si gave up.

But Guo Si still held the group of people and refused to let them go, and finally pissed Zhu Jun who was accompanying him to death.

Zhu Jun wanted to reproduce Wang Yun's achievements, set things right from the central government, and then smoothly stabilize the world, taking the road from the central to the local rather than from the local to the central, but he couldn't see the irreversible situation of the world after Wang Yun's death, so he was called He died angrily in Guo Si's barracks.

A generation of famous generals fell away.

During this period, the battle between Li Jue and Guo Si was going on every day, and they were fighting every day, and both sides suffered serious casualties.

After being "invited" into the barracks as a hostage for a month, at the end of October, Liu Xie chose to formally confer the title of empress on the honored person beside him, Fushou. Take a look at your majesty as an emperor.

But I have to say that this is indeed a bit sloppy, Fu Shou is probably also the most shabby and dangerous queen in the queen's canonization ceremony.

Fu Shou is the daughter of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Princess Yang'an, and the scholar Fu Wan.

That's what I said, but Fuwan didn't have any guards to lead to protect Liu Xie, and Li Jue didn't pay attention to these self-proclaimed people at all.

He continued to fight Guo Si.

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Li Jue fought very well here, but within a few days, his generals Zhang Bao and Zhang Chong betrayed him.

The two colluded with Guo Bang and opened the gate of the camp. Guo Bang's army rushed into it, and arrows rained down like rain.

During the fierce battle, Li Jue's ear was shot through, and the arrows even reached Liu Xie in the barracks.

This has to be said to be the aftermath of Li Jue's assassination of Fan Chou at the banquet. Since then, betrayers have continued to appear in Li Jue's army, and they have never been safe.

After the war, Li Jue moved Liu Xie and his officials to another place, and sent troops to guard them strictly to isolate the inside and outside. Liu Xie and his officials were very hungry, but Li Jue actually took a small amount of grain and rotten cattle bones to deal with it.

Liu Xie was very annoyed, but as an emperor with no real power in his hands, he was helpless.

The matter continued until mid-November, when the former general Zhang Ji rushed back from Hongnong County to persuade him to make peace.

Li and Guo fought for several months, and the lives around Chang'an were devastated. It was really impossible to fight, and because Zhang Ji rushed back, the two had the momentum to reconcile.

Liu Xie was finally liberated, and was sent back to the palace by Li Jue, finally able to have a place to sleep peacefully.

However, Chang'an City, which was severely damaged, could no longer exist as an imperial capital.

Liu Xie's desire to return to Luoyang in the east to get rid of the control of the two thieves Li and Guo became more and more intense.

Just at this time, Zhang Ji also had the idea of ​​taking Liu Xie to leave Chang'an for Hongnong, so with the assistance of Liu Xie, he acted as an intermediary and held a see-saw peace negotiation with Li Jue and Guo Si for more than two months.

The peace talks were not finally settled until the end of January of the second year of Xingping.

Because Chang'an is really dilapidated, most of the households fled, and most of those who did not escape died. The corpses piled up in mountains and blood flowed into rivers. There were many dead people around.

Zhang Ji told Li Jue and Guo Si that if they stayed in Chang'an, a great plague broke out and the emperor's safety was threatened, what would they do?

After thinking about it, Li Jue and Guo Si did not dare to take on such a responsibility, so under Zhang Ji's guarantee and Jia Xu's persuasion, Li Jue and Guo Si agreed to Liu Xie's return.

In exchange, Li Jue became the Great Sima above the Sangong, Zhang Ji was made the Hushi General, Pingyanghou, Jiajie, Guo Si was the Chariot General, Yang Ding was the Empress General, and Dong Cheng was the General Anji. .

At the beginning of February, Liu Xie, who was eager to return home, embarked on the return journey from Chang'an to Luoyang with great joy.

However, the journey to Chang'an was smooth, but leaving Chang'an and returning to Luoyang was not a smooth road, but an extremely rough and dangerous road.

This was reflected when Liu Xie's convoy had just left Chang'an City and had not yet crossed the moat.

The soldiers of Li Jue and Guo Si made trouble at the head of the bridge and prevented the convoy from crossing the bridge. It was Liu Xie who had the courage to stand up and show that he was the emperor, and angrily denounced the rebellious soldiers.

The rebels were afraid, and they all made way for the road and knelt on both sides, saying long live, so this difficult road back to the east officially began.

As a result, within a few days of walking on this road, something went wrong.

Guo Bang was probably worried about Li Jue holding the emperor to deal with him, so he also thought about taking revenge on Li Jue by taking the emperor's addiction, and began to obstruct Liu Xiedong's return.

This obstruction lasted for more than a month.

During this month, in mid-February, the news that Liu Xie's convoy left Chang'an and headed east quickly reached Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Peng was happy because Xia Houlin and Tian Rou were pregnant one after another, and was holding a family banquet.

Because the two concubines were both pregnant, Guo Peng was very happy, so he called the relatives of Cao and Xiahou, invited Mi Zhu and Tian Feng, and held a family banquet together.

At the banquet, Guo Peng and Cao Cao met to dance, sing and drink together, having a great time.

After the banquet, at night, Guo Peng asked Xia Houlin and Tian Rou about their physical condition from their room, and after comforting them, he was going to sleep with Cao Lan. On the way, he got a secret report from the secret agent of Linzi Camp.

Knowing the news that Liu Xie left Chang'an City and headed for Luoyang, Guo Peng attached great importance to it, and immediately sent someone to call Cheng Yu, and he returned to his study.

Long before Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, Guo Peng placed his first intelligence team in the Luoyang area.

After the establishment of the Linzi Camp, more than 100 spies were dispatched into the Luoyang and Chang'an areas more than a dozen times in succession. During this period, many of the spies died unexpectedly.

Or died of rebellion, or bandits, or other accidents, or died of illness.

After losing dozens of well-trained spies, Guo Peng established a relatively complete intelligence transmission route. After Dong Zhuo moved west to Chang'an, the intelligence troops also entered the Kansai area, and gradually gained a foothold in the Kansai area. The news can be sent to Guo Peng quickly.

This time it took half a month for the news to arrive from Chang'an, and Guo Peng was quite satisfied.

But since Liu Xie has come out from Chang'an, it means that the situation in the world is about to change.

The short-lived confrontation between the Chang'an court and the Guandong Group will end, and the real turmoil will come.

Since a long time ago, Guo Peng has been thinking about what he should do at such a historical juncture, and now it is time to make a decision.

This news cannot be leaked out, Guo Peng chose to discuss this matter only with his absolute confidant Cheng Yu.

"So that's how it is, the Son of Heaven is returning to the east..."

After reading the information, Cheng Yu stroked his beard and said, "My lord thinks, what should we do?"

Guo Peng was silent for a while.

"Zhongde, do you think it's good for me to hold the emperor to make the princes?"

Cheng Yu shook his head decisively.

"There is only harm, no benefit."

"Why do you say this way?"

Guo Peng looked at Cheng Yu.

"My lord's reputation for loyalty is well-known, and everyone in the world thinks that my lord is loyal to the Han Dynasty. Now, this is my lord's greatest advantage. Once the emperor is under my lord's control, it will become my lord's biggest weakness. Then I will be in trouble. "

Cheng Yu wasn't shy at all, and of course Guo Peng didn't care about it either. A few years ago, the two had had a heart-to-heart talk and knew about each other's ambitions.

Therefore, Guo Peng was quite happy when Cheng Yu said this.

"Zhongde is right. As far as I am concerned, I absolutely cannot tolerate the emperor coming to me. Otherwise, will I hand over power or become a traitor?"

Guo Peng shook his head: "Let's hand over the power. Doesn't it mean that I have turned my business for many years into someone else's. Even if I agree to this kind of thing, there are probably many people who will not agree. Who would do it if the good situation is ruined once?" Woolen cloth?

But if I don't hand over the power and become a traitor, not to mention that my reputation that I have painstakingly managed is ruined, the emperor will be willing to be a puppet?Today's emperor is not a simple person. He still did a lot of things in Chang'an. Putting these things on a Taiping emperor can be said to be a model of Mingjun. "

Guo Peng took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Yu.