At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Naturally, the Cao family would not object, so Guo Peng took the five people of Jinmu, Water, Fire and Earth to learn martial arts and battle formations together.

I have to say that some things are written in the book, and the veterans who don't know a single big character have never seen it, and they don't know it when they see it, but they know how to do it.

This is the simplest accumulation of experience, and the experience gained with life is very precious.

Therefore, Guo Peng respects this veteran leader, and there is no contempt for him in his words, which makes the veteran leader very grateful to Guo Peng.

The veteran leader often opened a small kitchen for Guo Peng, and taught Guo Peng some life-saving techniques on the battlefield that he "didn't easily teach outsiders", and Guo Peng didn't mean to look down on him at all.

Being able to survive on the battlefield is a skill. To be able to survive in the army for decades and get out of your body is even more remarkable. This kind of skill is really impossible for ordinary people to learn.

In the Book of War, Guo Peng asked Cao Ren and Xia Houyuan to read it. Skills must be learned in a real way. Some skills can be matched with certain chapters in the Book of War, while others are contrary to each other.

So Guo Peng understood what it means to die studying, and what it means to talk about soldiers on paper.

On the battlefield, soldiers are indeed only a part of the larger whole of the army, but soldiers are not machines, but living flesh and blood.

Except for the very few Iron Divisions who can be trained to become Iron Men, most armies are just rabble.

How to control the rabble who are greedy for life and fear of death and easily flee from the wind is actually a skill.

From this veteran leader, Guo Peng has an insight into the mental state and thoughts of the grassroots top soldiers in this era.

There is no family and country feelings, no ideals and beliefs, all he does is eat enough food, wear warm clothes, a little pitiful military salaries, and carefully think about how to survive in the next battle and loot more property .

A true rabble.

Defend the country?

nonexistent.

I don’t even know the words, I can’t even get enough to eat, where can I get the feeling of home and country?

There is no doubt that if Guo Peng wants to live a good life in the future, he will probably come into contact with these rabble.

In the process of contacting the veteran leader, I also heard him tell some tragic stories that happened to him.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he was recruited to fight against the Qiang people in Liangzhou at a young age. The war between the Eastern Han Empire and the Qiang people lasted for a hundred years, and he participated in it for a full 35 years.

During this period, he experienced countless situations of life and death. The people he knew died and died again. The comrades in arms who were still eating together just now were stabbed in the forehead by the arrows of the Qiang people and died without life, and never got up again.

It is not that he is no longer afraid, but that he has long been numb and has no feeling.

But the most unacceptable thing for him was that when he left home, his family was still alive. When he finally got rid of military service and was able to go home, his hometown had been deserted because of the war.

He searched for his hometown, but only a few households remained. A villager who was lucky enough to survive told him that everyone in his family had starved to death.

Speaking of this, the veteran leader, who was pessimistic about life and death, often burst into tears, and Guo Peng also felt pain in his heart-breaking appearance.

But apart from sighing, Guo Peng also knew that he couldn't do anything.

Caomin, life is as cheap as grass, never in the eyes of those big men.

The veteran leader is at least alive, but in the tragic and troubled world to come, how many people can continue to live?

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Chapter 9. Nine Cao Family Young Sisters

Guo Peng's diligence and inquisitiveness coupled with his willingness to work hard in martial arts, all fell into the eyes of the Cao family.

He has read a lot, and his connection with martial arts is not lazy or lazy at all, and his diligent and hard-working appearance is better than the group of salted fish boys from Cao's Xiahou's clan.

Those little salted fishes knew that they had to play tricks in the crowd, but they had no aggressive thoughts and will in their studies, which caused a headache for the Cao family.

But it should be said that Cao's family can't invite famous teachers to teach family children to study scriptures. Although they can copy scriptures from the collection of Taixue through channels and bring them home, whether they learn or not is another matter. thing.

Famous teachers are all gentry figures, famous all over the world and have high status. They run their own private schools. Who will teach you?

Or a family that has mastered the right to interpret the classics, and the family members personally set up family studies to teach family children, who cares about your Cao family?

Ordinary tyrannical people ask for a book and it is still not available, where can there be a famous teacher to teach it?

With the status of Cao's family, he can only invite some relatively low-level children of the single family, commonly known as the underprivileged children, to come to teach the children's knowledge. impart knowledge to their children.

But in this way, it is difficult to control whether they learn well or badly, and the knowledge acquired by the poor children of the single family cannot be compared with that of the excellent children of the noble family.

This is also the dilemma faced by most powerful families. It is not an easy way to transform from a powerful family to a noble family. Even if you are a high-ranking official in the court, but you can’t learn the classics, you can’t master the knowledge, and you can’t transform into a noble family. This power is fleeting. .

The Cao clan tried their best to transform into a nobility, but this path is indeed very difficult. It is extremely difficult to master a family scripture, let alone establish a sect.

There are many losers and few winners.

The Sima family in Hanoi is a successful case of a military general who made a fortune and then transformed his family, but such cases are too few and too few, which have extremely high requirements for the right time, place and people.

The Cao clan could not have enough educational resources, smart clansmen and enough time to complete this self-revolution, so they put their hope on the option of introducing foreign talents.

Academically, the Cao family is not qualified to judge Guo Peng's level, but in martial arts, Guo Peng is stronger than Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, so the peers simply admire him, while the older generation has other plans.

All these things about Guo Peng fell into Cao Song's ears, and Cao Song's idea of ​​marrying Guo became even stronger.

Also last year, when Cao Song went home to visit relatives, Guo Dan came to Cao's house to "visit" Shangguan Cao Song. Later, Cao Song proposed to Guo Dan the proposal to marry the two families on a certain occasion.

Logically speaking, when Shangguan and Xiaguan propose marriage, Xiaguan should be very happy, but this time is different.

Shangguan came from a humble background, but Xiaguan came from a century-old noble family, so in fact the initiative still rests with Guo Dan. In order not to embarrass himself, Cao Song left some leeway, and actually mentioned this matter to Guo Dan in private.

He learned Cao Teng's philosophy of life thoroughly, which made Guo Dan feel very comfortable and did not feel that Cao Song was aggressive.

It has been a while since Cao Song mentioned this matter. Cao Song went back after saving his relatives for a while, while Guo Dan was undecided until Guo Peng knew about this matter and expressed his willingness to Guo Dan.

The reason for Guo Dan's hesitation is, of course, that Cao's family made a fortune through eunuchs. The turbidity in the turbulent current, the status and status are really too poor. Although the efforts of two generations have made Cao's social status rise, compared with Guo's. Get up, it's still too far.

However, because of the cases of Tang Heng and Xun, many people will use this case as an example to endorse their actions.

Guo Peng took advantage of this loophole and made Guo Dan make up his mind.

Empty and famous, without reality, will starve to death sooner or later, and now some people are willing to change their name with reality, why does Guo Dan not do it with an ethereal "name"?

The Guo family really has nothing else to bring to the table.

The Guo family wanted the power of the Cao family, and the Cao family needed the identity of the Guo family, so one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer.

Guo Shan sent a matchmaker to the Cao family to invite the marriage. The Cao clan was overjoyed when they learned that, and immediately sent someone to Luoyang to inform Cao Song.

After Cao Song learned that Guo Shan sent someone to invite him for marriage, he was relieved and very happy. He immediately sent someone to reply, asking his cousin Cao Yin, who was recuperating in his hometown, as the representative of Cao's family, to discuss the engagement with Guo Dan.

The two families communicated with each other as messengers, and they had a great time discussing issues. Mrs. Cao not only promised the Guo family an extremely generous dowry in the size of several manors, but also expressed their willingness to bear most of the expenses for future weddings. Guaranteed to satisfy the Guo family.

Guo Dan expressed his gratitude for this, but still said that the Guo family was responsible for the wedding, which was related to the appearance of the Guo family.

Cao Yin expressed his understanding, accepted Guo's request, and then discussed with Guo Shan that the ceremony could be ready to start the engagement, so that the process could be completed as soon as possible, so that the "lovers" could finally be married.

After receiving Cao Yin's request, Guo Dan called Guo Peng to his study again.

"Xiaoyi, this is the last confirmation. Once the engagement is negotiated, there is no possibility of going back. Do you like Cao's daughter? In the next few decades, you will all stand together through thick and thin. Can you do it?"

Originally, this kind of thing was something Guo Dan didn't need to think about. He would just say it as soon as he said his family affairs. Guo Peng couldn't tolerate any opinions.

However, Guo Dan hopes that Guo Peng will not act purely for the sake of profit. In the next few decades, the person next to him, his wife, cannot be treated like a servant.

Guo Peng is early-witted, assertive, and smart. Like him, he will act for the overall situation of the Guo family, but Guo Dan is worried that Guo Peng is only using the Cao family's daughter as a tool, not his own wife.

A man can't be with a tool for a long time, and the Cao family's daughter is not a tool that can be thrown away simply after use.

Guo Peng knew Guo Dan's concerns and just smiled.

"Why should father worry? The Cao family's daughter has a gentle temperament. I like it very much. If I really don't like it, I would not have contact with her if the Cao family asked her to come out to see me earlier."

Guo Peng didn't lie. In fact, at the beginning, he never thought about marrying Cao.

He didn't think that the Cao family would take him and his father in the eye, because the two father and son had the name of the Yingchuan Guo family, but they had no actual power.

However, one day after Guo Peng kicked Xu Shao's ass in Runan and became famous, he came down to Cao's family to play at the invitation of Cao Cao, but "accidentally" bumped into Cao Cao's younger sister, Guo Peng knew it.

Mr. Cao, I'm afraid he has an idea.

At that time, he diverged his thinking and thought of certain things in the future, so he realized that marrying Cao's family might not be a good way.

When everything is still uncertain, and I don't know how far I can go, it is beneficial to me to bind Cao's family, which will be rich and noble in the future.

Guo Dan was worried that the stigma of Cao's eunuchs would tarnish Guo's worth and name, but how should Guo Peng explain to Guo Dan to make him understand that this is the future royal family?

Moreover, if you really don't like it, Guo Peng will not accept the "accident" arranged by Cao, and will not cooperate with them to sing the play. If a man really doesn't like a woman's appearance, At first glance, it will be ruled out, and there will be no idea of ​​getting along deeply.

Cao's younger sister, Cao Cao's younger sister, named Cao Lan.

Women's names are generally not revealed to men with foreign surnames, but Guo Peng knew Cao Lan's name through Cao Ren's relationship, so Guo Peng knew Cao's thoughts.

Does he like Cao Lan?

I can't talk about it, I really can't talk about it, a little girl of eleven or twelve years old is indeed not too young in this era. There are really many ordinary peasant daughters who get married and have children at the age of eleven or twelve. Daughter's rules.

But in Guo Peng's eyes, she is a little sister, a little sister who is well-behaved, shy, and afraid of life.

Does he not like Cao Lan?

Nor can it be said.

From the point of view of interests, Cao Lan is the best choice to tie herself and Cao's family together, and benefits endlessly.

From the perspective of her own heart, this shy little sister is indeed likable.

Her voice is very nice, and she seems to think Guo Peng is very amazing, very powerful, with a look of admiration, Guo Peng always feels very happy when he talks to her.

From the point of view of appearance, Cao Lan is not a national beauty, but it is not the type that he does not plan to continue getting along with after seeing him.

These days, it is absolutely rare for people in the upper class to look ugly, and even when they are officials, they have to look at their appearance.

The ugly-looking Pang Tong can even be recorded in the history books. It can be seen that it is quite incredible in this era to be ugly and to be able to enter the upper class.

Food sex is also, rich people will naturally marry beautiful women or handsome men to improve their genes, not to mention that all the offspring are handsome and beautiful, at least their appearance is quite satisfactory.

Cao Lan is better-looking than the norm, with neat features, handsome, and the most beautiful thing is a pair of big eyes.

She is indeed not a woman of national beauty and beauty. Of course, she is not as good as those famous beauties in the world, but Guo Peng is absolutely willing to accept it.

Chapter 10. Ten dog licks to the end

In fact, a large part of Guo Dan's worries were not true, and a large part of this came from Guo Peng's understanding of a series of things that happened in the future.

After all, at this time, how many people would believe that in eight years' time, Zhang Jiao, the great virtuous teacher, will gather a crowd to rebel and sound the death knell of the Han Empire?

How many people will believe that Dong Zhuo will enter Luoyang in another 14 years, completely pull the emperor of Han from the altar, and start a real troubled world?

In 14 years, and in another 14 years, the world will change color, the chaos will start, and the situation of great unification will no longer exist. The next great unification will have to wait for a hundred years, and the next time will be the Sui Dynasty.

Guo Peng knew that he would never be able to wait for the next unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, let alone the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Who believes this time?

Who wants to believe?

Anyway, Guo Dan, who is still thinking of letting Guo Peng learn excellent knowledge and then setting up another sect to look good in Yingchuan's family, is absolutely unbelievable and impossible to believe.

That's why Guo Dan felt that Guo Peng's early wisdom was terrifying, and his intelligence was terrifying.

Only then did he worry that Guo Peng just used Cao Lan as a tool and would throw it away after use.

Although it is said that a man must be ruthless when he is a big man, and he cannot have the kindness of a woman when doing certain things, he also taught Guo Peng this way.

But after all, the wife is someone close to her. When she gets married, she is called "Guo Cao's family", and her husband's surname should be added before her name.

Blindly being ruthless and domineering has no future. If those who achieve great things want to be long-term, they must take the road of kingship, and the relationship between the Cao family must be well maintained. Among them, the existence of Cao Lan is very important.

"Do you really see the Cao family's daughter this way?"

Guo Dan finally confirmed it.

"I will take her seriously, please rest assured father."

Guo Peng gave the final confirmation,

Guo Dan looked at Guo Peng and nodded, indicating that he understood.

"The engagement will take place soon. My father estimates that Cao Song has already started to arrange for you to move around in Luoyang, and my father is also sending people to spread the reputation of filial piety for you. When the reputation reaches Luoyang, this matter will be It can be confirmed, Xiaoyi, every step in the future must be cautious."