At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Peng nodded.

"My son understands that he will take it seriously."

There is no need for Guo Dan to make it clear, Guo Peng himself knows his situation. Now he is playing at home, and when Luoyang is on the road, he will be playing on the road. There are many dangers, and there is not much time left for himself to buffer.

A few days later, the marriage of Guo and Cao's two families was basically confirmed. Guo Dan and Cao Yin agreed that when Guo Peng was 15 years old and Cao Lan was 14 years old, they could get married.

Guo Dan will crown Guo Peng when he is 15 years old, and then he can get married. In the three years before that, Guo Peng still needs to go to Luoyang to "enhance his knowledge".

Cao Yin was very happy, and the members of the Cao clan who participated in the ceremony were also very happy.

And the happiest was Cao Song, who got the news four days later.

After Cao Song heard the news, he was having lunch, and immediately put down the tableware and chopsticks happily and went to find Cao Chi without even eating the rice.

"Your family has a royal family as a son-in-law, and my family has a family and a well-dressed son-in-law, how does it compare?"

What else can Cao Chi say?

envy chant.

"Then about Guo Peng Tongzilang, how are you preparing? You don't dare to ask Yuan for this matter. There are enough old officials of Yuan's disciples. Our family finally has a good son-in-law, but we can't do it for Yuan. wedding dress."

Cao Chi warned Cao Song very seriously that Cao Song should never ask Yuan Feng for help.

Of course, Cao Song knew this. If Guo Peng accepted Yuan's love, and with Yuan's help, he would have inexplicably added a layer of identity as a former official of Yuan's disciple, and Cao Song would have wasted so much thought.

"Don't worry, I won't let the Yuan intervene in this regard. We must protect Guo Peng. This is our own."

Cao Song is not stupid.

He clearly knew that Yuan Feng and him were flirting with each other just because the eunuchs were still very powerful at the moment, and the party was still in progress.

Once the eunuch falls, to Yuan Shi, the Cao Shi is a bamboo chip for shaving buttocks, and it will be thrown away when it is used up, and it will stink.

The Cao family needs people of their own, real people of their own.

So Cao Song decided to make some blood, bribe some people, and buy it with money.

There is nothing that money can't solve between people. If it can't be solved, it is because there is not enough money.

To be honest, for Mrs. Cao, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem. In this kind of matter, he would rather bleed a little than accept others' favors, otherwise it will be a big headache to return favors in the future.

A lot of money was spent to help Cao Cao settle Jian Shuo's anger before, but the Cao family began to develop from Cao Teng, and has accumulated thousands of family fortunes. The bigger it is, the more capital there is.

For the future of the family, this blood had to be shed.

He has no other hope or other way, he can only pin his hopes on his eldest son Cao Cao and his son-in-law Guo Peng, and he must not let them be contaminated with those things, so as not to become a stain on his life.

For the sake of the family's long-term plans, Cao Song has done his best.

So how can there be so many talented people who make a fortune in one generation, it is all the hard work and accumulation of unknown elders who can't see it.

There is no doubt that Cao Cao is the master of Cao's fortune.

As far away as Qiao County, the children of the Cao clan and the relatives of the Xiahou clan obviously did not understand the hardships of their predecessors, such as Cao Song and Cao Chi, in the court.

The family is watching closely, so they pretend to read, write, write and fight. If the family relaxes, they immediately drop the books and run to the fields to have fun, playing the game of marching and fighting. The fun, not to mention how enjoyable it is.

This is also the place where Cao's elders are helpless.

It really can't be cultivated.

They really want to let their children follow the path of the gentry, but firstly, they can't get educational resources, and secondly, even if there are educational resources, these little salted fish are perfunctory, and they don't care at all.

Dancing with guns, sticks, fighting, and fighting, all of them were full of energy and screamed, and when it was their turn to read the scriptures and answer questions, they became dumb.

In the past, the elders of the Cao clan were helpless. Now that Guo Peng has become their own family, they also want to understand.

Just let them develop in the direction of bravery and ruthlessness, practice martial arts, learn the art of battle formation, and in the future, rely on Cao Chi's relationship to send them to the army, become a general, and benefit future generations!

The scholars tried their best to attack the generals, lower the status of the generals, and protect their own interests, but it does not mean that there is really no way out for the generals. Unless the great Han is invincible, they still need generals, take the road of generals, and then seek transformation. .

He was naughty when he was young, but he will wake up eventually when he grows up. Isn't that what Cao Cao is like?

It is still doing well in the Dunqiuring position.

Guo Peng has become his own person, and Cao naturally pinned his hopes on Guo Peng. His attitude towards Guo Peng was respectful, but now he treats Guo Peng in the same way as a national treasure.

There are people to greet you when you enter the door, and people to show you off when you leave. When you come to play, you will be treated with delicious food and drink. Before you leave, there are people who will send you something. The carts and cars follow, and you can't push them away.

Silk cloth, grain, meat, oil, fish, pears, grapes, everything.

For some reason, every time I came to the Cao family and saw the smiling Cao family members, Guo Peng couldn't help but think of the word "licking the dog".

There are obviously many things they want from themselves.

But in the end, licking the dog will have everything or nothing. This really depends on luck.

However, Guo Peng has been tied to them. If he is good, it means that the Cao family is good, and if the Cao family is good, it means that he is good.

As for Cao Lan, she was often seen before the engagement, but out of courtesy, she couldn't see anyone after the engagement.

Guo Peng often said that he missed Cao Lan, wanted to see her, and gave her some gifts, but Cao always took the gifts with a smile on his face, saying that because of etiquette, men and women should avoid seeing each other after getting engaged. We will send each other on behalf of each other. If we miss each other, we can exchange letters.

Guo Peng thought it was funny, but it also made sense, and now that he was engaged, the relationship was confirmed, and he couldn't run away. Anyone who wanted to go back without a reason would be drowned by the spit of the villagers.

Probably a master of Cao's inner room realized the truth of "what you can't get is always in turmoil", so he wanted to use the law of "distance produces beauty" to increase Guo Peng's thoughts of Cao Lan and bind Guo Peng.

They were also afraid that Guo Peng would run away.

Chapter 11. Eleven Guo Peng who does not treat himself as an outsider

In order to make Cao feel at ease, Guo Peng also cooperated with them and started correspondence with Cao Lan.

Guo Peng is not worried about forgery. Guo Peng can recognize Cao Lan's handwriting, and the beautiful small characters are like Cao Lan's temperament, which is quite lovable.

Guo Peng started to practice calligraphy at the age of three. He practiced the official script, which is the mainstream of the Han Dynasty, and there are still many differences between him and the regular script he is most familiar with.

But Guo Peng also knew that regular script began to appear in the late Han and early Wei period. The most representative regular script master is Zhong Yao who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, his father Zhong Hui who destroyed Shu Han.

Guo Peng has practiced soft pen calligraphy for seven or eight years, mainly in regular script, and he has some experience in calligraphy.

Now, it is still the most orthodox practice method for scholars in the late Han Dynasty.

Bamboo slips are used to practice calligraphy these days, and the mainstream of writing carriers is bamboo slips.

He has indeed seen the so-called Cai Hou paper, but to be honest, it is not only expensive, but also of poor quality. It is far less economical and easy to use than bamboo slips.

It takes a long time for a society-wide habit to form, and it takes a long time to replace it.

It will take more than 100 years for paper to replace bamboo slips and silk cloth as the main writing material of Chinese literati, and the paper that can be mass-produced on a large scale will not be until the Song Dynasty.

The current paper is not enough to replace bamboo slips and silk cloth, either in terms of output or quality, although in some parts of Xuzhou, papermaking has become a large-scale industry.

Guo Peng likes to practice calligraphy quietly by himself, that is, when practicing calligraphy, he can devote himself to the things he likes to do, without thinking too much about the future.

In his spare time, Guo Peng would also practice the regular script he was most familiar with while practicing Han Li.

So he even used some thick bamboo slips to be divided into two and turned into four sides to practice calligraphy.

Later, because it was really expensive to do so, a large number of bamboo slips could not be reused after they were written.

So Guo Peng decided to bring his five confidants and followers to open a paper-making workshop in a different courtyard at home, using a large number of discarded bamboo slips as raw materials to make bamboo paper.

The manufacturing process of bamboo paper that Guo Peng chose was the paper-making process of the Ming Dynasty, which was recorded in "Tian Gong Kai Wu".

Since he was nine years old, after fiddling around for about half a year, he explored a set of effective procedures and came up with a batch of bamboo paper that can be used for writing.

The cost is very low, the raw materials are easy to get, and although the paper is yellowed, it is very comfortable to write, and there is no discomfort.

However, Guo Peng was very strict not allowing the five people from Jinmu, Water, Fire and Earth to reveal the news, and they were not allowed to say a word to the public.

Even Guo Dan is not aware of this matter. He is usually busy with official business and really has no time to care about Guo Peng's private life.

Guo Peng knows very well what kind of impact this technology will bring to the society after it is rolled out on a large scale.

At least until he has a certain power and status, this matter cannot be made public, and cannot be known to the seventh person other than himself and the five other people.

Not even Guo Dan could tell.

This secret must be kept in your hands and hidden in your heart, until you have enough power and status, and then you can do this in one breath, and directly bring China into the era of paper.

But if it is just to make people use paper, it is undoubtedly a very simple thing, as long as technical problems and mass production problems are solved, it is not difficult at all.

Now, high-profile disclosure that he can make paper on a large scale is purely courting death.

We must wait until we have enough power and status, and under the protection of a powerful military force, we must openly implement it with absolute force. Only then can it be effective and the original intention of this technology can be guaranteed.

Right now, Guo Peng only allows himself to use it privately, use a little bit, and treat it as waste.

Of course, ordinary letters are written on bamboo slips, rarely using silk or silk. The more than 20 letters to Cao Lan are all written on bamboo slips. missing.

To be fair, Guo Peng is quite skilled at writing love letters.

This is not to say that he wrote it himself, Guo Peng has long been out of such low-level fun.

Just because of his good writing and beautiful handwriting, when he was in school in his previous life, someone often asked him to help him write love letters. Not only did he earn pocket money, but he also exercised his ability to speak nonsense and lies.

Frequently a fake love letter article is completed in one go, and then it is easy to earn a small amount of money and snacks.

Then he continued to develop new customers and maintain old customers, and this experience made Guo Peng realize very early that reading changes fate and knowledge is wealth.

The ability of the ancients to tell love words is not low at all, and they are not weaker than modern people in a parallel comparison. Don't think that only today's people can play love letters and say love words.

But these skills are limited to the group of readers.

The literacy rate in ancient China did not exceed [-]% for a long time, and most of them were sharpening their heads when it was time to pursue love There are so few people that some good love letters and poems can still be passed down.

This shows that Guo Peng's ability to write love letters and speak love words is extraordinary.

Anyway, the love letters written by Guo Peng can always make Cao Xiaomei, who has just opened her eyes, have red cheeks and spring water, and she can't help but imagine how happy she will be three years later.

She really felt very happy, very happy, to be able to marry her sweetheart.

And what happened behind all this, she didn't know anything, maybe she didn't want to know at all, she just wanted to spend her life in the arms of her sweetheart, that's enough.

It's not easy though.

Troubled times are coming, people with vision have more or less detected some signs, and people without vision are still chattering about trivial things.

Guo Peng is a person who clearly knows that such a thing will happen, so he does more and more deliberately.

It wasn't easy to say anything if it wasn't for the Cao family before, but now that the relationship is confirmed, Guo Peng doesn't treat himself as an outsider anymore.

And the less he doesn't treat himself as an outsider, the happier the Cao family is.

Guo Peng was very angry when he saw Cao Ren and Cao Chun sneaking out to play but not reading and writing seriously.

So, with a stick, he beat Cao Ren and Cao Chun from the front yard to the back yard.

He angrily rebuked Cao Ren and Cao Chun with "unfilial piety", saying that their father Cao Chi worked hard to become an official in the capital in order to give them books to read, but they wasted time fighting cock-fighting lackeys and did not put everything their fathers created. In my eyes, this is unfilial behavior.

Because Guo Peng has prestige among the children, and Cao Ren and Cao Chun have always listened to Guo Peng's words, they did not dare to fight back when they were scolded, and they did not dare to fight back when they were beaten. They honestly followed Guo Peng to read and read together. .

If you can't read the scriptures, you will read the military books. Anyway, you have to read with Guo Peng.

Cao Yin found that Guo Peng's anger was more effective than his own anger, so he asked Guo Peng to pay attention to some other Cao children, such as Cao Hong and Cao De.

The elders of the Xiahou family also came to ask Guo Peng to ask if they could bring some of the children of the Xiahou family to study or something.

Guo Peng said that it is not easy to start with someone who is older than himself, and he can only persuade that Cao Ren and Cao Chun are younger than him to have such an effect, and he can only do his best.

He also did the same. Cao Hong and Cao De were younger than him, and they usually followed his ass, so his persuasion was more effective.

Although Xia Houyuan was relatively old, Xia Houyuan also admired Guo Peng's courage, so he listened to it somewhat.

As for Xiahou Dun, he was only one year younger than Cao Cao. Before his elders persuaded him to study hard, he packed his luggage and went to Dunqiu to find Cao Cao.

He was very close to Cao Cao.

He is a person who "loves learning" and "respects teachers and Taoism", or he is more loyal.

When he was 14 years old, because someone humiliated Xiahou Dun's teacher, he killed that person in a rage, committing the crime of homicide. Later, Cao Cao asked Cao Song to come forward to help him settle the matter and save him from prison , Since then he has been very friendly with Cao Cao.

Guo Peng didn't care either. He could do as much of this kind of thing as he could, and whether it was good or bad was not something the Cao family could force.

And in a few months, he will go to Luoyang. This time is the time to study honestly, and he does not want to stand out at this time.

It was also at this time that Cao Song heard in Luoyang that Guo Peng had chiseled ice and fished in his hometown as an offering to his stepmother. An excellent opportunity.

So he spent a lot of money to get through the relationship between Shang Shutai, reported Guo Peng's name, and through his relationship with Lu Qiang, the permanent attendant, he donated some money to clean up Guo Peng. Obstacles to eunuchs.