At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"In that case, at least for 100 to 200 years, the children will not have any conflicts. They have no basis for conflicts. Even if there are conflicts, it will be one or two hundred years later. We are long gone. up.

At that time, no matter how worried we are, what can we do?As long as their ruling cores are far enough apart, and Luoyang cannot be reached within three months from their ruling cores, then they will not be able to carry out actual conflicts.

Even if each other grows stronger and has conflicts, they cannot truly kill each other. Terrain, transportation, productivity, population, army size, etc., etc., will effectively limit the possibility of conflict between them. "

Guo Peng smiled helplessly: "Alan, the world is so big that it is far from being covered by China's Shenzhou. The world is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. There is a Great Qin State as huge as ours.

Their country is also that big, so is there a bigger territory outside of them?If our children and their descendants can continue to forge ahead.

Continue to strive for more territory and population, to the west, north, east, and south. Hundreds of years later, there will be China besides China. "

Cao Lan was completely speechless in surprise.

After a while, Cao Lanzai looked at her husband carefully, and said slowly: "Peng Lang, why do you always think of things that others can't think of? No one has ever thought of such a thing, even the former The emperor didn't even think about it."

"I don't know, but it's a miracle that I can be the emperor, right?"

Guo Peng said with a smile: "It's not that the predecessors did not work hard and pioneered. Without the entrustment of King Wu, our descendants would not be able to occupy the entire Central Plains, Hebei, and Jiangnan. Without the unified weights and measures of Qin Shihuang's car, the same track and the same text, there would be no great unification today." basis.

Without the enfeoffment of the predecessors, we don't know what enfeoffment is. Without the enfeoffment of the predecessors, we don't know what a county is. Everything we use now, which one is not pioneered by the predecessors?What qualifications do we have to blame our predecessors for not working hard enough? "

Guo Peng hugged Cao Lan tightly: "What I am doing now is also what countless predecessors have done. It is all pioneering, and there is no distinction between high and low. I only hope that what I do can bring enlightenment to future generations. What I can't do, they continue to do."

Cao Lan also hugged Guo Peng tightly.

"I don't know that much, but I know that Peng Lang is really thinking about the children and Wei Guo, and that's enough."

"As a father, it's enough, but as an emperor, it's not enough. I can do more, and I want to do more."

Guo Peng took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said, "I don't have much time left, I have to do everything I need to do before my energy is exhausted, I can't leave too many things to Ah Jin, if I can't do some things, he can't do them either.

Before I die, I must do all these things, whether it is the imperial examination, the school, the popularization of paper, or the enfeoffment of the kingdoms, I must do it, and I must not leave these things to Ah Jin will do it. "

"Peng Lang, is the matter of paper and books really dangerous?"

Cao Lan asked in a low voice.

"Well, it's very dangerous, not an ordinary danger, but don't worry, even if we lose, Wei is still Wei, I'm still the emperor, no one can threaten us."

Guo Peng hugged Cao Lan even tighter: "With the army in hand, no one dares to fight me to the death."

Guo Peng absolutely didn't want to see the scene where the children hated each other and competed with each other happened in front of his eyes, not even after death.

Blood relatives fight each other, fight each other, and hate each other.

Although for Tianjia, such a situation is inevitable.

That's why the emperor should establish successors as soon as possible, protect the successors, educate the successors, make everyone give up their hearts, and maintain the stability of the country.

But this is only a method to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The essence of the competition among the princes has not changed. If this essence is to be changed, we need to start from other places.

It is necessary to find a way out for the princes other than being imprisoned in the capital.

A way out so that the emperor and his brothers would not threaten each other.

So he has been thinking about how to solve this problem.

Seeing that the children are growing up, the second son Guo Jun is already 17 years old, and he seems to be a lively, active and outgoing young man.

Quick thinking, very talented, good at mathematics and careful thinking, very sensitive to numbers, Guo Peng can even debate with him on mathematical issues.

The children cultivated with the elite education of the Guo family are at worst middle-aged, and it is impossible to abolish them.

Putting it outside, no matter how you can govern a county, you can manage hundreds of thousands of people.

He really couldn't bear to see such an outstanding child end up in depression because he only had one throne, unable to show his talent all his life.

And he can only be imprisoned in the Luoyang imperial city like a canary, covering up his pain with eating, drinking, having fun and indulging in mountains and rivers.

This is what Guo Peng doesn't want to see anyway.

But Guo Peng is a qualified emperor, and he would never shake the position of the crown prince Guo Jin for the talents of Guo Jun and other sons, that would be inappropriate.

Guo Jin is his heir, his crown prince, and this will never change.

He spent a lot of effort to determine Guo Jin's status, and spent a lot of effort to create a suitable situation for Guo Jin to govern. His future rested on Guo Jin.

So he couldn't tolerate anyone provoking Guo Jin's status no matter what.

Therefore, the future of Guo Jun and other children is doomed to be gloomy, with no hope in sight.

Compatriots with the emperor, the same as the prince, born with the right to inherit the throne, he and his younger brother Guo Qiong must be a thorn in Guo Jin's heart after becoming the emperor.

How would Guo Jin view this matter?

Can their brothers be like Tang Xuanzong brothers, always happy and happy brothers and friends?

Can Guo Jin and Guo Jun trust each other and rely on each other for a lifetime like Yongzheng and the Thirteen Kings?

There are so many unforeseen things.

Guo Peng cannot pin his hopes on survivor bias.

I can still protect them when I am alive, but what about after I die?

What unexpected things will happen?

Guo Peng can probably guess it.

Even if Guo Jin would not abuse her brothers due to her own reasons, she would definitely not give them a chance to display their talents.

Power, like love, is extremely exclusive.

Guo Yang is a waste, and Guo Peng didn't care about him at all, so he was named a king of idleness, just let him stay at home, eat, drink and have fun, and he can't afford any trouble.

In the future, if you just find any reason to abolish it, it will be abolished, and it will not cause any waves.

But Guo Jin's brothers are destined not to be useless like Guo Yang, and someone in Guo is very confident about this.

Future disputes and fratricidal situations seemed inevitable.

The prospects for his children after his own death were not good.

This doesn't work.

His love for children cannot tolerate this happening.

He has to do something.

After thinking about it, Guo Peng drew inspiration from the limitations of the extreme wall of the empire and the enfeoffment system of the Zhou royal family, and found an opportunity to solve the problem.

Imperial Wall is a concept.

It's about the limit of a centralized empire's rule as far as government orders or armies can go 100 days after they set off from the capital.

For a 100-day journey, after the imperial decree and army set off from the capital, they walked at a normal walking speed for 100 days, and the place they finally arrived at was the limit of the empire's rule.

Beyond this rule limit, the lag of government orders and the lag of military intervention will cause the empire's rule here to collapse and cannot be maintained.

This is the extreme wall of the empire.

It is the limit of the county system under a stable centralized system, and it is the limit of a super-strong autocratic monarchy system in which imperial power goes to the countryside.

The place beyond the extreme wall is something that the empire can't successfully occupy no matter how hard it tries, and the best ending is to stay.

It is not a good thing that the territory of the empire is too large.

With the current transportation conditions, it is difficult to change within hundreds of years. Before the transportation revolution occurs, the extreme wall of the empire will be realized in his own hands.

Therefore, enclosing the children outside the extreme wall of the empire is the best choice for Guo Jin and other children.

It can allow them to develop their talents, so that they will not die in depression, and they will not be able to meet the conditions of threatening each other.

It is difficult for the enfeoffed states and the suzerain Wei Empire to threaten each other.

Even if they threatened each other, it would not happen within a few hundred years.

Unless the industrial revolution really comes early, the train appears, and the steel age arrives, then it will be possible for the Wei Empire to break through the original extreme wall and step onto the stage of Xintiandi.

The industrial revolution cannot be brought about by Guo alone. The right time, place and people are indispensable, and many basic conditions are needed to jointly promote it.

Sufficient basic knowledge is required, sufficient ideological emancipation is required, and the collective wisdom and efforts of a society are needed.

A certain Guo thinks that he is not the overlord of the system flow, and he just knows a lot of things and doesn't know why.

Knowing the existence of gunpowder requires people to experiment for a long time to get the most basic thunder.

Only after observing the steel frying method and pouring steel method can we know how to make a mature piece of steel, what steps and how long it takes.

Knowing that papermaking and printing also requires a lot of manpower and material resources to pile up and experiment, from the initial failure to the subsequent mass production, it took several years of hard work and countless money to build a secret workshop.

Knowing the existence of artillery, but suffering from not being able to smelt enough durable steel to make it.

He doesn't know the detailed ratio, and he doesn't know how to remove impurities. He knows the finished product, but he doesn't know how to operate it.

I know the existence of flower bombs and I don't know how to operate them.

I don't know how to build it even if I know the existence of the musket.

Know the trains know the tracks know everything but not the details.

There are so many things he doesn't know.

It seems that he knows everything, but when he really implements it, he is completely blind.

How to do it?

What to do with it?

How to expand production to achieve mass production?

He came up with an idea, and the craftsmen looked at each other, asking him how to do it, and he didn't know.

Draw a cannon and ask the craftsmen to do it according to the drawings, but the craftsmen are also at a loss.

Your Majesty, what are the exact dimensions of each part?

What is the thickness of the barrel?

Someone Guo blinked, not knowing how to answer.

He is just an emperor, not a technological overlord, and he can't play with technology.

What he can do, the only thing more advanced than the current people, is that he knows what the final product is and where the final goal points to.

He can set a goal, let the craftsmen work hard towards this goal, without detours, directly experiment towards the established goal, repeatedly fail, record and accumulate experience, so that they can progress little by little.

He can show the process of progress, and the rest, the intermediate process, must be explored slowly by the current people.

Any progress is achieved with the accumulation of a large number of social needs and experience, as well as the failure of countless predecessors.

What can promote progress must also be the final mass production, spread to the common people, and shared by the whole people, rather than one or two exquisite handicrafts regardless of cost.

Mr. Guo had a showdown, and he couldn't do it.

Not possible in 300 years.

Therefore, he is not worried that the extreme wall of the empire he explored will be broken within 300 years, and his plan of enfeoffment is feasible.

Of course, if there are any particularly powerful and talented people among the descendants, and according to his vision, he really achieves a technological leap and breaks the extreme wall of his empire, then Guo must be in the spirit of the sky. will be very happy.

But now, he couldn't see any possibility that his plan would fluctuate.

So, he decided to work hard in this direction.

Get the kids out.

Along with some challenges and dangers, let them expand their territories and build their own country without shaking or threatening Guo Jin's status.

Guo Jin is the great suzerain, the great suzerain of the Guo family, owns the most fully developed land and the abundant capital that Guo Peng has accumulated for him, and is not afraid of external threats at all.

For Guo Jin, it is also reassuring to transfer the internal threat posed by the children to an external threat that is not a threat.

The brothers are fighting abroad. If they succeed, they will be able to usher in a new era of Chinese civilization beyond the extreme wall of the empire.

Outside of China, it is still China. The continuous expansion and continuous expansion of the living space of the nation let everyone know that there are heaven and man outside the sky and people outside the sky.

Perhaps after this idea of ​​mine is truly implemented, it will become a decisive step in changing the direction of history.

After having such an idea, Guo Peng began to secretly prepare for this matter.

For example, to what extent do you plan to expand, where to expand, and how to consolidate the extreme wall of the empire.

In the four general directions of east, west, south, east, and west, because of the difference in terrain and topography, the same person can reach different locations after walking for a hundred days after starting from Luoyang.

Even if some places can be reached, they cannot be governed due to the special environment, which is equivalent to waste.

The extreme wall of the empire is a theory, and enfeoffment beyond this is even more difficult.