At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Seeing Guo Peng's enthusiasm now, he was a little relaxed, but he didn't know what Guo Peng wanted to do.

Guo Peng asked Yuan Si to sit down, talked with him about some irrelevant things, and then got down to business.

"I never thought that the highway would do such a thing."

Guo Peng grieved and said: "He is still the most powerful prince in the world, holding half of the world in his hands. He can't do anything he wants. Why does he have to be called emperor?"

Yuan Si thought for a while, and echoed cautiously: "Actually, I also think so. Yuan Gonglu rashly declared himself emperor, which not only endangered one side, but also dragged the entire Runan Yuan family into the abyss. The Yuan family instantly became a rebel in the world. If something like this happens, how will the Yuan family gain a foothold in the world?"

He also looked distressed, watching Guo Peng's reaction carefully while being distressed.

Guo Peng nodded.

"That's what I thought too. If Gonglu hadn't done too much, I wouldn't have done such a thing. I didn't even have the chance to persuade him. Gaogong became the emperor. Do I still want to be a traitor to the big man? I Is it going to be a bad smell for thousands of years?"

"The righteousness of the country comes first, and personal feelings come second. For the righteousness of the country, what the general did could not be more correct."

Yuan Si quickly cooperated.

Guo Peng sighed helplessly, drank a few glasses of wine, and said: "I have known Gonglu since childhood, and he is like my elder brother. Now that we meet in battle, who can understand the pain in my heart?"

Yuan Si continued to cooperate.

"The Yuan family rebelled against the Han and exterminated themselves from the world. The reputation of the Yuan family in Runan has been ruined for more than a hundred years. The road is bound to die, and the people related to him will also die. This is not something I am willing to do, but I But had to do it."

Yuan Si stagnated for breath, anxiously waiting for Guo Peng's next words.

"It's just that, no matter what, the road has helped me. There are some things that others can do, but I can't do it. Therefore, Yuan Gong, I hope that you can be the one who can bring order to the Yuan family in Runan and bring Yuan's last The incense is passed on."

When Guo Peng said this, Yuan Si's eyes widened and his heart beat violently.

"General...the general means..."

"What I mean is that the main line of the Yuan family cannot be forgiven, but the side lines that set things right may still be forgiven by the people of the world. After all, the main family is determined to cause chaos, and the side lines are hard to stop, right?

As a collateral branch of the Yingchuan Guo family myself, I also have a deep understanding. How can the side branch control what the Patriarch wants to do?Everyone is called a family, but in fact they have their own thoughts. Isn't it normal to have some helpless actions? "

Guo Peng's change of subject made Yuan Si keenly aware of something.

"Does the general want you to do something? As long as the general says, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it."

Yuan Si looked at Guo Peng eagerly, like a drowning man grasping at straws, his eyes full of desire to survive.

"It's not difficult, as long as Yuan Gong writes a letter and sends it to Shouchun City, denouncing the road's behavior as disregarding the ethics of people and ministers, and ignoring the righteousness of the world. You are deeply ashamed, draw a line with the road, and never communicate with each other again. , In this way, I can help Yuan Gong get out of the predicament and get a chance of life."

Yuan Si was greatly moved.

This is how Guo Peng used his own prestige to leave a trace of incense for the Yuan family. It was Guo Peng who was grateful for the kindness of the Yuan family back then, and deliberately left a glimmer of life for Yuan Shu and his family who could not survive.

This is purely an act of gratitude.

Of course, it is also the time to turn against customers.

Of course, Yuan Si at this time had no intention of refusing or considering it, let alone having the qualifications.

Yuan Si immediately stood up and bowed deeply to Guo Peng.

"The general's kindness, the Yuan family will never forget. If the general needs to be subordinated, I will definitely not refuse."

"it is good."

Guo Peng stood up, walked to Yuan Si's side and helped Yuan Si up: "Since Mr. Yuan said so, I really need Mr. Yuan's help with one thing."

Yuan Si raised his head and said, "General, please tell me."

"I would like to invite Mr. Yuan to teach in the academy established under my command. Of course, it doesn't have to be so tiring. If you feel tired, you only need to be named."

Guo Peng held Yuan Si's hand with a smile on his face, and then clearly felt Yuan Si's hand tremble.

"General... I hope that I..."

"I hope that Mr. Yuan can teach in the school. It's not tiring at all. It's just a name. The sole heir of the Yuan family is teaching in the school. It's good to hear it spread."

Guo Peng's smile remained undiminished, but Yuan Si thought about it, but realized something.

"Mr. Yuan, teaching is a small matter, but family inheritance is a big matter. As long as the family inherits the incense, isn't it the greatest consolation to the ancestors? Although the Yuan family has people like Yuan Benchu ​​and Yuan Gonglu, there are also people like Yuan Gong. Reasonable people, I believe everyone will respect Yuan Gong."

Yuan Si understood what Guo Peng meant.

He has no choice.

Guo Peng made an exchange with him, an exchange that seemed to be beneficial to both him and Guo Peng, and even seemed to give Yuan a chance to make a comeback.

If one day a group of "Yuan family disciples" appeared under Guo Peng's command, wouldn't the Yuan family be revived?

Isn't he, Yuan Si, an important figure in Yuan's ZTE?

So Yuan Si bowed deeply again.

"Yuan Si will never forget the general's kindness! Yuan Si obeys the general's arrangements and never dares to think otherwise."

Guo Peng was overjoyed, and held Yuan Si's hand tightly again: "It is very fortunate for the Yuan family to have an heir like Yuan Gong! Very lucky for the Yuan family! Hahahahaha!"

Afterwards, Yuan Si wrote a letter with a strong tone to draw a clear line with Yuan's family and sent it to Yuan Shu in Shouchun City. The identity of Yuan's heir.

The world's largest prince Guo Peng personally certified, absolutely authentic!

Well, definitely genuine.

Afterwards, Guo Peng sent people to send Yuan Si to Puyang to resettle, and waited until Guo Peng finished crusade against Yuan Shu before personally asking about Yuan Si's affairs.

Looking at the back of Yuan Si leaving, Guo Peng knew that his ideas could be implemented, and the future could be controlled.

Are the real advantages of these families who master the inheritance of family law really in academic research?

Perhaps there is indeed an advantage in this regard, but it is not as great as imagined.

The scriptures can be opened to the outside world, as long as you have the heart, you can get the scriptures. At the beginning, Cai Yong carved the Yanping Stone Scriptures according to the requirements of Emperor Ling, and stood outside the gate of Taixue, so that scholars all over the world, to be precise, people who could read and write flocked to it. And to observe and copy.

It is not difficult to obtain books. It is not difficult for the children of powerful landlords to read those scriptures. The difficulty lies in the issue of title and recognition.

chapter 426 .420 five sinners

The fierce battle in Shouchun is in full swing, and the final decisive battle in Shenxian County between Cao Ren's army and the last Yellow Turban army led by Liu Pi has also begun.

Before that, Cao Ren defeated Liu Pi's defense three times in Gushi County, Xiyang County and Ruyin County.

Liu Pi lost his army and lost almost all his generals and trilogy. Only the last one and two thousand remnants remained and retreated to Shen County. Once Shen County was lost, Runan County would all fall under Cao Ren's control. There is no established system that can resist Cao Ren's power.

Cao Ren can directly lead his army through Shen County to Shouchun, and join Guo Peng.

Liu Pi already knew the news that Yuan Shu was defeated and retreated to Shouchun.

Because of this, the defense of Ruyin County failed, causing Huang Shao to die tragically, and Liu Pi lost a lot of troops. Now he is leading the defeated army and retreating to Shen County, with no hope in sight.

The reason why he didn't surrender was also because the Yellow Turban Army and Guo Peng had a deep blood feud. This demon with countless yellow scarves blood on his hands would never surrender or succumb.

Not to mention that now that I have lost all the generals and elite troops, there are only two thousand remnants, and the food is exhausted. There is no way to fight this battle. Even so, the whole army hates Guo Peng very much. To fight Guo Peng to the end.

Even Chen Gong was very moved by this.

"Although he is a Yellow Turban bandit, fighting to the death is not something everyone can do. Liu Pi has not surrendered yet, and has fought with our army one after another. Although he has lost consecutive battles, he is still dedicated to his duty."

Chen Gong, who always hated the Yellow Turban, also recognized Liu Pi's perseverance.

But no matter what, Liu Pi's defeat was already a fact, and the last small and dilapidated county town could not stop the army from advancing.

On December 23, the second year of Xingping, Liu Pi led the last Yellow Turban Army of more than [-] people to fight the final fierce battle with Cao Ren's army.

Liu Pi's army fought a bloody day, and Guo Peng's soldiers lost more than [-] soldiers, while Liu Pi's entire army was wiped out, and his own head was beheaded by Cao Ren himself.

From the sixth year of Guanghe to the second year of Xingping, the yellow scarves bloomed everywhere in China, and they fought and failed repeatedly for 11 years.

In the beginning, the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army was a conspiracy, a game between the upper class and the highest authority.

But after the initial conspiracy was shattered, many people staged a real peasant uprising under the banner of the Yellow Turban, resisting the rule of the Han Empire, and resisting this precarious era when people can’t eat enough.

pity.

They have no culture, no knowledge, no program, no strategy. They only know destruction and plunder, but not construction and development. Such a huge limitation doomed the Yellow Turban Uprising to its ultimate failure.

Guo Peng is the biggest enemy of the Yellow Turban Army, and also the biggest enemy. He defeated and wiped out most of the Yellow Turban Army by himself.

Guo Peng was the cruelest executioner. Except for the most ordinary congregants, he beheaded all the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army and the Taiping Taoists who held positions. He burned and destroyed all the preaching tools and teachings.

His hands were stained with the blood of countless innocent people, and his road to heaven was paved with the blood, tears and lives of innocent people.

He was unmistakably the mouthpiece of a brutal ruling class, a criminal who suppressed an uprising.

He personally ended the actions of the Yellow Turban Army, ended the spread and development of the Yellow Turban Army, and ushered in regional "peace" in the place he occupied.

Afterwards, Runan County will become an important farming base, and the captured people will become farming people, working hard on the land, and Guo Peng will extract the surplus value and turn it into a driving force to realize his ambitions.

They don't get any preferential treatment except food and peace. They have to keep farming, farming, farming, until they die, and they have to farm without any change.

Their lives may not have any waves.

Cao Ren defeated the last general of the Yellow Turban Army, destroyed the last Yellow Turban Army, ended an era, and the wind vane of the era has changed.

Then he rectified the army and marched towards Shouchun.

On December 29 of the second year of Xingping, Cao Ren led his army to Shouchun, successfully completed the mission, and returned to Guo Peng.

At this time, Guo Peng just announced that he would stop the siege for two days, and celebrate the New Year festival for everyone, siege without attack, and celebrate the New Year.

The custom of celebrating the New Year had already taken shape before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the customs of various festivals were integrated, a lot of red tape was eliminated, and some folk celebrations were added to enhance festival celebrations. Attributes, reducing the attributes of ghosts and gods.

There are many other names for the Spring Festival at this time, but the connotation is the same as today. It is to celebrate the new beginning of the year, say goodbye to the past, and pray for peace and happiness in the next year, etc.

Guo Peng has been on the march for many years, and many times he cannot spend the Spring Festival with his family at home. This year is the same, so he can only write to his family to express his regret that he cannot go home to celebrate the New Year.

He wants to celebrate the new year with the soldiers, spend this festival with the soldiers, and he wants to have a lot of fun and joy, eat and drink, and make a fuss, so that Yuan Shu in Shouchun City can see that he is here. What a morale boost!

So he ordered his subordinates to transfer some festive things to the barracks early on, and mobilized everyone to go fishing, transported pigs, ducks and sheep from the base camp, and mobilized the fire-headed troops to make various pasta and prepare for barbecues. Prepare enough spices and salt.

Cao Ren's arrival was considered timely, just in time for the preparations for the New Year's celebration.

So as soon as they came here, Cao Ren, Guan Yu, Chen Gong, Yan Liang, and Gao Lan were pulled by Guo Peng to go with him with bread and dumplings before they had time to report on their duties.

The pasta in the Han Dynasty was already very good, and there were also many cakes, such as soup cakes and sesame cakes, as well as Hubing, the favorite food of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong. Because Emperor Ling liked to eat Hubing, Luoyang City at that time Every family imitates the emperor and eats Hubing together.

Guo Peng also ate a lot of Hubing in Luoyang back then, and it was indeed crispy, which is true. Of course, compared with the wide variety of modern delicacies, the food of the Han Dynasty is indeed a bit simple.

In the early days, Guo Peng’s living environment was very poor, day and night calculating to survive, day and night running around for the future, running errands for others, working tirelessly as a dog, and having no time to think about food and drink.

At most, there is a simple beggar’s chicken and nothing else. People in the Han Dynasty eat whatever they eat, simple steaming, complicated roasting, soup and water, and it doesn’t feel like eating.

It wasn't until Yuan Shao was dealt with and the three provinces of Hebei were stabilized that Guo Peng came to Puyang, where he had some leisure time and thought of his own appetite.

So I instructed the mature blacksmiths of Shenjisi to successfully build iron pots and toss some stir-fried vegetables in their own kitchens.

Stir-fried mutton with salt and soy sauce, and then eat a bowl of barley rice, it is full of flavor.

However, in troubled times, his appetite should be at the bottom. After feeling nostalgic, Guo Peng began to think about improving food for the army.

The army is his lifeblood, and eating well is a must, so Guo Peng pondered how to improve food for the army under the current conditions.

During that period of time, because of his busy schedule, he often ate a convenient food called Laowan. A bowl of soup with meat and vegetables, it was convenient and delicious.

Because I have been eating since I was a child, I didn’t have much thought about it, but at that time I suddenly remembered that this thing is very similar to dumplings.

It is the predecessor of dumplings.

Chapter 427 .420 General Guo Peng

Dumplings and wontons have been mixed together for a long time without distinguishing each other. Lao Wan is their common name, which means a ball-shaped food that uses the dough to lock the inner filling firmly.

There were traces of Laowan in the Spring and Autumn Period. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Laowan had developed to the point that it was quite similar to modern dumplings.

Looking at this prison pill, Guo Peng suddenly had an idea and ordered the blacksmiths to build a large flat-bottomed iron pot, which was used to make potstickers and dumplings to improve food for the army. The army eats it quickly.

During a certain festival, Guo Peng asked Huotouying to make the first dumpling for the Tiger Guards. They used duck and mutton. The three thousand big men were quite satisfied with the fried dumplings.

So Guo Peng extended the way of eating fried dumplings to the whole army, and made it a food for the army to reward the army after winning battles during festivals and festivals. The soldiers liked it very much.

Now that the Spring Festival is just around the corner, it is necessary to improve the food and morale of the army. Guo Peng made preparations very early, and even went into battle by himself to make dumplings with the fire leaders of the Huotou Army, which seemed approachable.