At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Thank you, Mr. Ming, for fulfilling everything. I will live up to Mr. Ming's expectations!"

"Very good!"

Guo Peng watched Zaoyi leave, and then asked Cao Chun to be his guard.

Cao Chun cheerfully led dozens of cavaliers of the Cao family to undertake the task of protecting Guo Peng. Then Guo Peng and Guo Dan prepared to go to Yangzhai to worship their ancestors, and then went to Luoyang.

Yangdi, Guo Peng has never been to Yangdi since he was born, so he doesn't know what it's like and what customs there are.

In fact, he didn't have too many thoughts about Guo Shi, but because of the existence of a person, he wanted to go through this experience.

Guo Jia, Guo Fengxiao.

For some reason, some people always regard Guo Jia as a child from a poor family, the kind of poor scholar from a poor family, the kind who lives a hard life and eats chaff and vegetables.

Before the Song Dynasty, there were no real poor ghosts among scholars.

There is no one who is really unable to eat, no one who is impoverished, no one who lives a hard life every day, no one like Fan Zhongyan who eats porridge and only pickles, even if there is, it is a means of "raising hope".

For example, Mr. Guo obviously has servants in his family, but he wants to show his filial piety and dig ice in the river to fish, asking for trouble.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system flourished, the printing technology flourished, and the elites of the gentry were wiped out successively by Huang Chao, Zhu Wen, and others. After the wars of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, they were completely swept into the garbage dump of history, and education went down again.

After the Song Dynasty stabilized, the imperial court built local schools on a large scale to absorb and promote children from really poor backgrounds to enter the school, take exams, and become officials, directly to the court.

It is precisely because of the unprecedented opening of such a channel, so that children from poor backgrounds have the qualifications to become high-ranking imperial officials and even prime ministers, so the cultural economy of the Song Dynasty was so prosperous.

From then on, reading can change your destiny, and it really favors ordinary people. Before that, do you want to change your destiny?Are you a commoner who wants to become a prime minister?

It is easier to rebel and become the emperor.

Before the Song Dynasty, those who could study were not officials and eunuchs, or at least powerful landlords. In comparison, all of them are above the middle class today, and there are tenants and servants at home.

If you insist on talking about the poor family, the current Cheng Li and the future Cheng Yu are the real representatives of the poor family in this era and for a long time to come.

People in their 40s can't be officials and have no connections. Apart from being able to read and write, they don't have much advantage.

He is not a gentry, but an ordinary landlord tycoon. Like all small and medium-sized landlords with low background, he is literate, can read and write, and has talents, but he has no connections and a low background. .

Note that ordinary landlords are powerful.

The landlord is powerful.

A family with surplus money and tenants who can study wholeheartedly without production, rich but without status, able to read and write, and without a higher level of advancement, this is the true meaning of the children of poor families in that era, or called the single family, and today The so-called poor family of the family is very different.

And Guo Jia, who was born in Yingchuan Guo family, Yingchuan Guo family is also a second-rate gentry, a formal and regular gentry, and Guo Jia is also a well-deserved child of a gentry.

At the age of 21, Guo Jia went north to Jizhou to find Yuan Shao, and received Yuan Shao's courtesy, but he didn't like Yuan Shao, so he chose to go south to join Cao Cao.

Runan Yuan family, he doesn't like it, try another ordinary person, how dare you look down on Yuan family?

Let's see who recommended Guo Jia to Cao Cao?

Xun Yu.

Who is Xun Yu?

Born in the Xun family of Yingchuan, he is a son of the top gentry of the Han Dynasty.

You let this kind of person make friends with Mudlegs?

Are you kidding me?

Guo Jia is not poor, he eats meat and drinks a lot, he is not from a poor family, let alone a spokesperson for the interests of ordinary people.

He is a son of a serious family with eight classics. He had a foresight when he was young. He saw that the world would be in chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why he gives people the impression of a loafer from a poor family is that his personal life style is different from that of ordinary gentry children. Therefore, together with Xi Zhicai, he is called "the ridicule of the vulgar", which means that he is not in harmony with the vulgar, and is in harmony with the vulgar. Ordinary people are different, in reverse, a bit rebellious.

Guo Peng really wanted to know more about the real Guo Jia.

Chapter 159 Nine prodigal son Guo Jia

Guo Peng has no illusions about recruiting these talents from the top gentry in Yingchuan now.

For example, the Xun family, the Chen family and so on.

They run to the central government wholeheartedly. They have their own channels to become officials, so they don't need to go through Guo Peng's way.

Guo Peng just wanted to know if Guo Jia, his fellow clan, foresaw the chaos at the end of Han Dynasty when he was a teenager, and whether he really had a superior view on the art of war and the military.

Guo Peng feels that returning to the Guo clan with his current status is enough to make the Guo clan feel happy and honorable, and all prominent figures in the clan should come out to welcome them.

In fact, this is also the case. Huwuwan Zhonglang sent Shanggu Taishou Guo Peng back to his hometown to visit his relatives. The Guo clan was very happy about this, and they went all the way to welcome Guo Peng's frame, and brought Guo Peng and his son to the clan. , Officially recognize the ancestors and return to the clan.

Under Guo Dan's introduction, Guo Peng also met a large number of relatives whose surname was Guo.

Naturally, Guo Peng didn't expect them to give him any amiable smiles.

In addition to the elders, there is also a group of younger ones. It is estimated that they also saw Guo Peng's promising future, so they deliberately brought out all the children in the family, hoping to win Guo Peng's favor.

The Guo family’s path to becoming an official is not as smooth as the Xun’s children. The Guo family’s main family is mainly a career as a grammatical official, and the starting point is relatively low.

In the past, Guo Hong was alone in the capital, and he could not promote many people. There were too many monks, but now there was one more Guo Peng, and one more Guo Dan.

Then Guo Peng met Guo Jia, a 17-year-old Guo Jia who was underage.

In terms of seniority and kinship, Guo Jia's father and Guo Peng's father were cousins, and the previous generation, Guo Jia's grandfather and Guo Peng's grandfather were brothers.

So in the generation of Guo Jia and Guo Peng, the relationship between them has not been out of five clothes, and the kinship is unexpectedly very close.

Moreover, Guo Jia's appearance is very good, his appearance is dignified, and his height can be regarded as standard, but his figure looks a little thin and unhealthy.

He behaves well, speaks clearly, looks normal, and is not different from anyone else, and seems to be not very popular with the tribe, standing alone at the very edge, looking like he is being excluded.

The father of the bully died early, this kind of thing is really funny.

Guo Peng didn't pay too much attention. He met the elders in the family, saluted, and then worshiped the ancestors under the witness of the tribe, wept and confessed his sins, kowtowed three times, and recognized the ancestors and returned to the clan.

Everyone tacitly ignored how the children of Guo Peng were exiled before, and how they came back now.

As long as you are willing to come back and bring benefits to the whole clan, everything else is not a problem.

Guo Peng sees this clearly, but should he say it or not, Guo's children have learned "Little Du Lv" since childhood and are very proficient in the law.

However, there were no officials under Guo Peng's command who were proficient in the law, and there was no one to take the post of law officer. Guo Peng returned to his hometown this time, thinking of taking away one of the Guo's children as his law officer.

After some worship, there was a grand banquet. The family banquet was held from afternoon to evening, and many people were slightly drunk.

After drinking for three rounds, when the excitement was high, suddenly, Guo Jia, who was sitting at the end, stood up and said that he would present a dance for everyone to help the wine.

Guo Jia's face was flushed from drinking, and he was obviously drunk.

The scene suddenly became a little embarrassing, and Guo Peng obviously saw that the complexions of several clan elders became unsightly.

"The libertine!"

"I really don't understand the rules!"

"Ask someone to pull him down!"

Just as several clan elders were about to act, Guo Peng stood up directly.

"Dancing alone is so boring! Why don't I dance with you! It's interesting to dance in pairs! Hahahahaha!"

Guo Peng said that he got up and came to Guo Jia to dance with him. Seeing that Guo Jia looked a little unexpected, he took the lead and danced first. Guo Jia was led by Guo Peng and danced with him.

Seeing this scene, the musicians hurriedly played music, and the clansmen immediately cheered, and the scene became lively again.

After the dance, Guo Jia looked drunk and fell on Guo Peng. Guo Peng couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to ask someone to carry Guo Jia away.

Most of the clansmen showed dissatisfaction with Guo Jia.

"Zifeng, don't worry about it, that prodigal son behaves like this, don't take it to heart."

The elders in the clan seemed to be worried that Guo Peng would be unhappy about this, so they immediately explained. Guo Peng smiled and shook his head, expressing that he would not be unhappy.

Then after the banquet, I went to find Guo Jia.

Guo Jia finally took advantage of the rare opportunity to escape from the banquet.

He didn't have any interest in this kind of banquet at all, anyway, it's just a few powerful figures who came back, and asking everyone to join in the party together is the most boring thing.

Guo Jia also inquired about the situation and relationship between the father and son in this family, and he knew everything about it. That's why he felt that this kind of thing was particularly false and shameful. Guo Jia didn't bother to attend such a gathering.

As a result, Guo Jia never expected that when he was about to rest comfortably, Guo Peng came.

Lu Zhi's disciple, Guo Peng, who has been in the limelight in recent years, has become a widely discussed figure.

Guo Jia knew about his and Guo Peng's kinship. Their grandfathers were blood brothers, so they were relatively close in terms of kinship. They hadn't been released for five times, so if they insisted on counting, they could still count as cousins.

But Guo Jia would definitely not be so naive and so cheeky to go up to him and call him his brother.

He is Tinghou at a young age, with two thousand stones, and has Sangong as a teacher, with a bright future, but what about him?

The unknown sons of the gentry still don't know when they will be able to rise to the top.

Although he thinks he is very talented, in front of those who have made achievements, he knows what to do and what not to do, when to be arrogant and when not to be arrogant.

He wanted to avoid it directly, but he couldn't, so he should leave as soon as possible.

In the end, it was a success to leave the field as soon as possible, but Guo Peng followed.

"Why, didn't expect me to come? How much do you dislike such a banquet and run back in such a hurry?"

As soon as Guo Peng came up, he punctured Guo Jia's intention with one sentence.

Guo Jia looked at Guo Peng a little depressed, and smiled awkwardly.

"Your Majesty knows?"

"You can also make it more obvious, so everyone knows."

Guo Peng laughed and joked.

"I'm sorry Jia..."

Guo Jia was very embarrassed.

"It's okay to be rude, and I don't care, but if you do this, you won't be able to please your clansmen."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "They will reject you more and more, and will not associate with you."

"Jia doesn't want to associate with mediocre people. Jia only wants to associate with Yingjie. Jia doesn't care what mediocre people think of Jia."

Guo Jia looked disdainful.

Chapter 160 Guo Jia had a bold idea

Hearing what Guo Jia said, Guo Peng nodded.

"Well, I have ambition, so I don't know who is a hero in your eyes, and who is a mediocre person?"

When Guo Peng asked this question, Guo Jia said: "If you can gain insight into the world, look at the world, and don't focus on the gains and losses of small profits, then you are a hero. Those who care about everything are mediocre."

"Well, very to the point."

Guo Peng nodded and said with a smile: "I heard that you don't like reading law books, but you like reading military books?"

Before Guo Peng came, he heard some elders in the clan criticize Guo Jia, saying that Guo Jia didn't like to read the law and didn't fit in with the clan, but he liked to study the art of war and military affairs.

This is completely irresponsible. Could it be that Guo's law school can still send him to the army?

Guo Peng felt curious, so he came to ask Guo Jia.

Guo Jia replied: "There have been wars all over the world. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, rebellions of all sizes continued. First, there was the rebellion in Liangzhou, and then the rebellion in Youzhou. Go ahead, look at it from Jiajia, this is a sign of instability in the world, learn some art of war, it may be useful in the future."

Guo Jia certainly didn't say what he really thought in his heart, but Guo Peng had already guessed it.

People all over the world have changed their minds to a certain extent.

Before the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, the scholars of the Han Dynasty had already begun to try to change the world.

Emperor Lingling of the Han Dynasty's ten-year party policy has exhausted the tolerance of the aristocratic family for him.

The aristocratic family did not want to tolerate an emperor sitting on the throne who could attack them at any time.