At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Peng turned his head and looked at the seven people present.

"Since I can do it, I can think of a way, even if it can't be done, it should be possible to just relax a little bit and leave room for everyone to buffer.

Doing this is at least better than doing nothing, and more importantly, sending them overseas to establish their own country can get us more land. "

Having said that, Guo Peng sighed.

"I know, I can manage it for a while, but not forever, I can control you, but not your descendants, so what I can do is to find more land for emergencies.

In the future, if many people have no land to cultivate, their land is deprived of everything, they have no food to eat, and no way to survive, then at least they can go to sea.

They can also go overseas to try their luck in feudal countries to see if there is still land there and whether they can accommodate them, so that they will not rise up and rebel in groups. "

Guo Peng walked back to his seat and sat down, looking at the courtiers with different faces.

"That's it, this matter is settled like this, I think, you can each choose some outstanding children in your family, and go to sea with the second prince."

The seven of them froze in unison.

"Don't be dazed, I'm helping you too. My family has an heir dispute, and your family may not have it. Send some children you don't want to see, or don't plan to train to the second prince. Anyway, his side Shortage."

Guo Peng smiled: "Your family may not have children who have no way out in Wei State, but have great potential to leave Wei State, don't think about it, send them out, and come to a rich and precious adventure together with the second prince. ?"

Guo Peng is very familiar with the survival methods of these big families, because his family used to be like this.

In troubled times, many regimes stand at the same time. In order to ensure that the family is safe and can continue, the most common thing they do is to divide the children in the family into several shares and take refuge in different regimes.

In this way, the family can be preserved to the greatest extent, ensuring that the final victor can also continue the family, and the family will not become extinct.

For example, the Zhuge family, a family of three votes, has achieved the position of high-ranking officials and dignitaries. Unfortunately, the end is not very good. In the end, Zhuge Liang's descendants continued.

Many families did this, as did the Xun family where Xun You belonged. When Xun Yu took refuge in him, Xun Chen took refuge in Yuan Shao, and Xun You tried to go to Yizhou but failed.

It's normal to shoot three shots and four shots a game. This is true in troubled times, and it is also true in prosperous times.

If there are too many family members, there will be those who want to disperse and spread out. Gathering together is easy to be wiped out, but dispersing each has its own splendor.

For example, if you are in Hebei, I will go to Jiangnan; if you are in Sichuan, I will go to Lingnan.

All in all, we spread out and multiplied separately. If a house is destroyed by a disaster, it won't take away all the blood of our ancestors.

If you really want to implicate the nine clans, then run for your life as soon as possible and hide your name in a place far away from the sky high emperor. After all, there is a way to survive, and there is a chance to survive.

Whichever one can survive will be able to continue the bloodline, cultivate scholars, and pass on knowledge. When the world is settled one day, and then become an official, there will always be a good way out, and it will be able to glorify the ancestors.

Guo Peng's advice to them is nothing more than another sense of family separation.

Of course, this wave went a little far.

Guo Peng suggested that they assign to Guo Jun those children who had no hope of inheriting the family business, entrust them out, and let them follow Guo Jun to develop their careers.

If it is real gold, then follow Guo Jun to set up another sect, spread branches and leaves, and continue the family blood in another piece of land, and it is unknown when he will become a famous minister and general of the feudal country.

If it is useless and dead, there is no way to do it, and many things are hard to say.

Guo Peng himself did not dare to say that Guo Jun would be able to survive and start a foundation, and of course he would not promise them that he would be able to spread his branches and leaves. That would be risky, very risky.

But this is an opportunity after all.

Anyway, everyone is under the eldest son inheritance system. As long as the eldest son stays with him and inherits the family business, everything else is actually easy to talk about.

Guo Peng handed over the power of choice to them.

Chapter 1437 One thousand 340 seven Cao Cao suddenly felt that Guo Peng was so strange

To put it bluntly, under the eldest son inheritance system, not only the royal family is like this, but also the big families of the officials and dignitaries, which is also the eldest son inheritance system.

Except for a very few officials who are particularly fond of a child who is not the eldest son, most senior officials at the patriarchal level still value the eldest son more.

The family will try their best to cultivate the eldest son to stabilize the family, and the rest of the children will be separated sooner or later to make a living on their own.

The laws of the Wei Empire were like this, and so were the rules of many families.

It does not rule out the existence of a small number of people who like the younger son as much as Yuan Shao.

But most high-ranking officials and dignitaries are still clear-headed and know who should be trained to inherit the family business.

Only the eldest son can integrate the power of the father's and mother's families and push the family to a new peak.

Therefore, most of their children are actually the same as Guo Jun, they are the spare tires and abandoned children of the family. Unless the eldest son dies early or is too incompetent and rebellious, there is no possibility of turning over.

There are not many lucky emperors like Emperor Hanwen and Emperor Jiajing.

So these officials, especially those with many children, may also worry about the livelihood of those children after the separation, and don't know how to better arrange them.

After all, he is his own child, if he can stand out, the family will also have more help, right?

Right now there is no examination system. Under the imperial examination system, if you cannot pass the imperial examination, if you fail the civil examination and military examination, you will have no way to enter the imperial court and the army. There is no way out.

The Yinfeng system can only secretly seal the second son, at most the third son, but many people have more than just a few children, and several children have no livelihood.

How should they spend the rest of their lives?

It's okay for those who are capable, take the imperial examination by themselves, and live their own lives. If they are a little waste, they can only sit and eat.

In the end, do you still expect the master's family to pay for a waste?

When Guo Peng talked about this, they understood.

This is the royal survival strategy, not necessarily their survival strategy.

While Guo Peng was looking for a way of life for his son, he also gave a special way of life for the non-eldest sons of other official families, as long as they were willing to fight with their lives.

Give it a go, fight for a future, then there may be opportunities to continue to grow in the future, and it may not be more noble to seal the country and re-establish the sect overseas.

These seven people were the first wave to know the news, but definitely not the last wave.

Making a decision early will benefit the family and their descendants a lot.

"This is all I can do, everyone, do you have any ideas?"

The seven people are all smart people in the world, so of course it is impossible to have any opinions.

They began to seriously consider such a possibility.

Maybe they weren't that smart at the beginning, but after years of ups and downs in the officialdom, and making a living under a fierce and powerful monarch like Guo Peng, it's hard for them not to be smart, and they have to be smart.

Under passive oppression and active resistance, their political wisdom is at the top of this era.

But this is so, when they heard the reason why Guo Peng entrusted the princes to open up wasteland and establish a country overseas, they were still moved by it.

People themselves may not be great, but after hearing the great deeds of great people, it does not prevent those who are not great from being moved and revered.

Mr. Guo is indeed a violent king. He has killed countless people and his hands are covered with blood. His throne can even be said to be made of flesh and blood.

He was extremely cruel, and he often used terrifying punishments such as beheading, car cracking, skinning and cramping on officials, and those officials who were killed were terrified.

After this wave of anti-corruption storms, the number of officials who directly resigned exceeded 300—all of them were frightened.

If it were not for the use of mandatory administrative orders, there would not be enough officials to fill the vacant positions of those officials.

Even a new official who has just passed the imperial examination is afraid, because when he does something in a certain position, he is often not willing to do it himself, but he has no choice but to collect money and be dragged into the water.

When something happens, they will definitely be killed in the first round.

With the guidance of their seniors, they didn't dare to think about certain key positions, especially if the emperor was a terrifying person like Guo.

Eyes and ears are all over the sky, eyeliner is everywhere, and no one knows whether the colleague who was joking with you in the morning will appear in a different form in the interrogation room to torture you at night.

But on the other hand, he is extremely kind and cares about people's lives.

Huge sums of money have been spent to build roads, traffic, and the Grand Canal, all for the sake of the unpredictable crisis that will happen more than ten years later.

He is willing to do something for the crisis that he can't see 300 years later, go overseas to open up territories, thinking about giving a way to survive for people who have nowhere to go in the crisis of land annexation in the future.

The reason why people rebel is because there is no hope. If there is hope, maybe they will not rebel.

Guo Peng gave them a way to survive. Although I don't know if this way of survival is very useful, but as far as they can see from the situation, it is indeed useful.

Emperor, is he a cruel murderer, or a benevolent father?

Or maybe he is nobody but himself.

At this moment, Cao Cao, who had known Guo Peng the longest among the group of people, suddenly felt that Guo Peng was very strange. He felt as if he had never really known Guo Peng before.

That little guy who dared to help him out at the age of eight and kicked Xu Shao's ass hard, never seemed to be the kind of person he imagined.

That little guy back then, that little Douding, seemed to be looking at a place they couldn't see all the time, looking at that place and thinking about the future of himself and everyone in the Wei Empire.

Where and what did he see?

Cao Cao didn't know.

Others certainly don't know either.

Apart from shock and worry, they also had deeper thoughts and choices.

Whether to send the child out, and which child to send out.

Guo Peng asked them to leave together soon after, and when they returned to their respective homes, it was not until midnight that they gradually came back to it.

Guo Peng is really going to abdicate.

The emperor who had oppressed them for 13 years and made them breathless is about to abdicate.

The era belonging to Guo Peng is over, and a new era is about to begin.

Perhaps, they no longer need to worry about this and that, and they can easily live in the new era.

Guo Peng was tired. He was really tired after being in charge of the world for a long time. He was exhausted by the heavy government affairs, so he chose to retire and live a comfortable life.

If he was still a little sensible, he should know that as the Supreme Emperor, he should not continue to hold any power, and should not stir up the situation behind the new emperor and treat the new emperor as a puppet.

Therefore, the era of Guo Peng can be regarded as over.

A new era will officially begin, and their worst worries are gone.

They survived successfully to the next era, and finally survived to the new era under the ferocious and brutal coercion of the old emperor.

So after the uneasiness and worries receded, they shed tears of excitement first.

Similar to the joy of a daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, they finally survived.

Then, they all made a unanimous decision—to follow the royal family and send out the redundant children.

What if Liwan became famous and became famous in the second prince's kingdom?

It spread its branches and leaves and went to foreign countries.

That's a pretty wonderful thing.

After a period of time, the officials in the cabinet felt that Cao Cao's mental state was a little bit wrong. It seemed that Cao Cao, who had always been low-key and cautious, seemed a little... cheerful?

For so many years as the chief assistant of the cabinet, I have never seen Cao Cao laugh happily. In the past few days, Cao Cao actually laughed a lot, and kept laughing at people.

Even if you encounter some bad things, you used to be angry and kill people, but now you just laugh it off and let the frightened subordinates go to correct it.

This is Cao Cao?

This is fake Cao Cao, right?

Someone dropped Cao Cao, right?

Right?

The subordinates were very surprised and thought that there was something wrong with Cao Cao, but they couldn't tell what the problem was.

Cao Cao's subordinates here are like this, and the staff desk over there also feels that Guo Jia's mood is a little bit wrong recently.

After Le Jin's incident, everyone saw that the gloom on Guo Jia's face became heavier day by day, and Guo Jia, who used to be open-minded and cheerful, seemed to be gone forever.

Suddenly, the open-minded Guo Jia seemed to be back.

What's happening here?

Zhang Zhao, who has always been mature and prudent, and Sim Pi, who has always been low-key in dealing with people, seem to have some personality changes to varying degrees, and they are all changing to a better place rather than a worse place.

While the subordinates were happy, they didn't know what was going on.

The wise man faintly felt as if something big was about to happen.

And it's not a big deal.