At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The public information is the result of Mao Jie's appreciation of Sima Yi's governance of the region.

But the private reason, as far as Guo Peng knew, was that Sima Yi disclosed an important news to Mao Jie, which allowed Mao Jie to protect himself when the Liangzhou corruption case broke out.

This is the secret information discovered by Linzi camp secret agents.

It is said that Sima Yi had secretly visited Mao Jie at that time, had a private discussion with Mao Jie, and gave Mao Jie a lot of help.

At that time, Guo Peng was very impressed, and felt that Sima Yi, apart from other things, was first-class in his ability to resist pressure and his political vision. Not to mention his political ability, he was first and foremost an excellent politician.

Using one's own advantages to make political deals with superiors is not something that ordinary people can do.

Afterwards, Mao Jie, who had survived the crisis, reciprocated, and Sima Yi's younger brother Sima Fu was appointed by Mao Jie as a subordinate official to work in Liangzhou Governor's Mansion.

So the content of the political transaction between Sima Yi and Mao Jie was exposed.

Sima Yi used this incident to seek political benefits for his family, and successfully recommended his younger brother Sima Fu to Mao Jie, becoming Mao Jie's former official, and bound him together.

The Sima family has a second way.

At that time, the inspection system and expropriation system were still in operation, and Mao Jie's right to call was still in existence, so Sima Fu went to Mao Jie's side to work and worked by his side for more than two years.

It is said that his work ability is relatively strong, and he has been trusted and reused by Mao Jie.

Mao Jie is a very politically credible person, and he will not be perfunctory casually. Obviously, Mao Jie believes that supporting the Sima family is good for his future, so he also takes care of Sima Fu.

In the seventh year of Yande, on the eve of the establishment of the imperial examination system, the world was turbulent, and the conflict between the emperor and the gentry intensified to the point of irreconcilability.

At that time, the county magistrate of Guzang County in Wuwei County openly opposed the imperial examination system, thinking that it was a disastrous move for the country and the people.

Mao Jie seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to recommend Sima Fu, who publicly supported the imperial examination system, as the magistrate of Guzang County.

He seized a good opportunity and took advantage of a big loophole to transform Sima Fu, who was an official, into an official.

As for whether Sima Fu really supported the imperial examination or for the purpose of becoming an official, it is unknown. Anyway, their Sima family, as a member of the gentry, betrayed the position of the gentry and became one of the very few gentry families who supported the imperial examination system.

Up to now, Sima Fu has been promoted from the county magistrate of Guzang County to the prefect of Wuwei County because of his outstanding political achievements, and has become an official of two thousand stones.

It can be said that it has successfully turned over from the point of being a salted fish.

Officials and officials are two different concepts, which are equivalent to the difference between regular workers and temporary workers. The benefits and power of the two are very different.

Before the imperial examination era, there was a watershed between clear streams and turbid streams, and after the imperial examination era, there was a gap between those who were born in examinations and those who were not born in examinations.

It is the difference between those who formulate policies at the top and those who run errands below, and the two did not even have conversion conditions before the imperial examination era.

Many officials are born officials, but officials cannot be born officials.

Even in the era of imperial examinations, there were many restrictions, such as not allowing officials to become officials and so on.

When Guo Peng first restricted the inspection and expropriation system, he also brought the power of appointing and dismissing officials to the central government and left the power of appointing officials to the local governments, thereby limiting the authority of local governors.

Since then, the local governor can only recruit officials, but cannot decide the candidates for the officials. This is a great blow to the local governor.

Talented and visionary people definitely want to be officials, and they are not willing to be mere officials. In the past, only poor and powerful people would become officials, and scholars were all official officials.

Under such circumstances, Guo Peng was able to suppress local forces in the era when the imperial examination had not yet been established, and ensure that talents flowed to Luoyang to gain the centripetal force of the central government.

But the choice of the scholar family is by no means the only one. It was the same when the Han Dynasty had not perished, and it was the same after entering the Wei Dynasty.

It was the norm at that time to have one hand in the center and one hand in the local area.

Chapter 1518 One thousand four hundred and fifty eight Zhuge Liang is a politician

Scholars' families existed widely at that time, and besides pursuing the status of officials in the central government, they would also let other children of the family seek other paths.

When the inspection system and expropriation system still existed, even if the local officials were only qualified to recruit officials, they still had the opportunity to enter the local area from the central government.

Moreover, in the 13 years since Guo Peng proclaimed himself emperor, there have been seven or eight political storms, large and small, and officials have been killed for various reasons every year.

In case the sons who follow the central line fall in the political struggle, the scholar family has other investments to stop the loss.

It is impossible for Sima Lang to return to the Central Committee, his reputation has been completely ruined with the death of Xun Yu, and no one will accept him.

It is said that he has settled down to study and work at home, and has lived a life of farming and studying as a traditional scholar. It seems that he has completely given up the idea of ​​making a comeback.

Sima Yi inherited Sima Lang's unfinished business. Through Cao Cao's relationship, he took the central route and became Guo Peng's old official. He was released from the cabinet to the local chief official. Once he was recalled, he would definitely be able to serve as a senior central official.

That is, the question of when he will be recalled still bothers him.

Logically speaking, Guo Peng felt that Sima Yi should not be so eager to find other backers, but after thinking about it carefully and comparing the backgrounds and living environments of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, Guo Peng realized where Sima Yi's uneasiness came from.

Zhuge Liang has an elder brother Zhuge Jin who is an important official in the Central Ministry of Civil Affairs.

And this elder brother Zhuge Jin was promoted by Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and both belong to Xuzhou.

Zhang Zhao's daughter, Zhang Muqing, was in Guo Jin's harem, and was related to her.

After all the calculations, in addition to the relationship with Guo Peng, Zhuge Liang also has a way of contacting the new emperor Guo Jin.

So even in the post-Guo Peng era, Zhuge Liang is still as stable as Mount Tai, relying on his extraordinary talent and courage to create political achievements, waiting to be recalled to the central government because of his outstanding achievements.

This is a typical example of the living environment being superior to yours but still competing hard with you. There is no way not to be excellent.

But Sima Yi has no such conditions, he has no one in the center.

After Guo Peng abdicated, he had no contact with the new emperor, and he had no guarantee that he could return to the central government. He was really not sure that he would be able to return to the central government unless he was hugged by his thigh.

Especially under the trend that local power is becoming more and more restricted and central power is becoming more and more concentrated, the future of local officials is really limited. If they cannot return to the central government, they will not be able to control the power of the world.

Do you spend your whole life in Annan Protectorate Mansion, a ghostly place far away from the central government?

Not to mention returning to the central government, can't you even go back to the Central Plains?

Sima Yi must be very anxious.

Zhuge Liang is 35 years old this year. He is already a senior official of two thousand shi, and his future is bright.

It is conceivable that as long as he can return to the central government, Zhuge Liang will definitely be able to take important powers before the age of 40, start calling the wind and rain, and become an indispensable member of the court.

And what about Sima Yi?

With such worries, it is not incomprehensible for him to act up and down.

Although Mao Jie is also an official in the local area, Mao Jie is a veteran-level official and has many connections in the central government. The possibility of returning to the central government is not small. Not impossible.

Guo Peng was thinking, back then Zhuge Liang proposed to go to the local area to study and experience, and then Sima Yi followed, Guo Peng himself did not have similar ideas.

He wondered if Sima Yi regretted leaving the Central Committee now.

He suspected that Sima Yi just left with Zhuge Liang just because his head was hot, and he didn't think about whether he could return to the Central Committee in the future, and this issue was very important and related to his official career.

It is really not a wise choice for a group of them to leave the central government unless they really have great political ambitions.

Xu Shu, who did not leave the central government at the beginning, was quickly transferred back to the central government because of his shrewdness and ability after serving a term as the prefect of the Shangdang.

This position is responsible for directly connecting with the eunuch Xian Yuyin, assisting in the management of horse administration, and connecting with the use of horses in society, which is a heavy responsibility.

Although Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are both high-ranking officials with two thousand shi, their actual power is really not as great as Xu Shu.

In this position, Xu Shu can manage all the registered official horses in the world, and he can intervene in any matter related to horses, and the operation of the empire is obviously inseparable from horses.

The Wei Empire was a country on horseback, so Xu Shu is also a typical lowly position.

No matter what organization wants to use horses, he can make decisions, what kind of horses to give, how many horses to give, and the living environment of the horses.

All departments are asking for horses to use, so it is up to Xu Shu to decide who will use them first.

Guo Peng didn't know if Sima Yi was envious after hearing the news, or if he regretted his original actions.

But Zhuge Liang will definitely not regret it, Guo Peng can be sure of this.

Through these years of observation and understanding, Guo Peng basically figured out the difference between Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang.

Sima Yi has the talent of a politician, and he could have improved to a higher level, but his heart is full of speculative psychology like a politician.

This kind of psychology limited the height he could have achieved, and restricted him from further becoming a great politician, but only stayed at the level of a conspirator and politician.

His pattern and mind are not enough.

Zhuge Liang is different, he has the talent of a politician, but also the mentality and mind of a politician.

His goal is very clear, and he is firmly moving forward for this goal without any confusion.

Not only can he become a politician, but he also has the ability to be a ruler, and he can restrain his selfish desires very well.

That's hard.

There are absolutely no such people who restrain their selfish desires and live for official duties wholeheartedly, but they must be very few.

The existence of such a person is like the sun. Wherever he goes, he shines and glows. It is really difficult to prevent him from shining and glowing.

With such an idea, Guo Peng left Yongzhou.

Guo Peng had never been to Liangzhou, and the whole territory of Liangzhou was captured and occupied by Cao Ren.

During that period of time, Guo Peng needed to step back from his position as a front-line commander and retreated to the second-line, so Guo Peng did not participate in the Liangzhou War, and his main energy was on national construction.

Of course, Guo Peng's policies are indispensable for Liangzhou to be able to develop to this point.

When Dong Zhuo was in trouble in Guanzhong, Liangzhou did not go anywhere well. Dong Zhuo’s petty money ravaged Guanzhong, and Liangzhou’s economy was also implicated and almost collapsed. There were really signs of cannibalism in Liangzhou during that time.

During that period of time, there was almost no normal social order in Liangzhou, and what was left was the law of the jungle where the weak preyed on the strong, and some places even sold human candied meat openly.

Even Guo Peng didn't dare to become king at that time, and someone in Liangzhou did it.

Of course, in the end, the torn society in Liangzhou was wiped out by Wei Jun.

Wei Jun reshaped Liangzhou's political ecology here, rebuilt Liangzhou, and restored it to the throat of the Silk Road.

After so many years, the ecology of Liangzhou has been restored very well. The immigrants who migrated here live and work in peace and contentment. They are engaged in agriculture and commerce here, enjoying the light of the Silk Road and earning a little money.

Because Liangzhou was built relatively late, and its social organizations are relatively simple, it is quite convenient to deal with many problems.

Therefore, when the central government has any policy, Liangzhou will also become a testing ground for the policy besides the Gyeonggi area, and it will be the first batch of practice.

When Guo Peng set up academies and schools extensively, Liangzhou was also the first batch to set up academies and schools and recruit students, and the whole process was relatively simple, with no accidents happening.

Therefore, the education level of the people in Liangzhou is better than that of some inland states and counties.

And with the continuous development of the Silk Road, Liangzhou's business will also develop very well, which will push the construction of Liangzhou to a new peak.

Liangzhou, which was separated from the central government due to the hundred-year Qiang rebellion, is returning to the big family of Huaxia Shenzhou with a new attitude.

The Liangzhou foundation created by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was finally preserved.

After that, Guo Peng led the team to Longxi County.

This is one of the places he must come to when he arrives in Liangzhou.

There is no other reason, Longxi County is the location of the Longyou Military Horse Farm, which has the largest and most important military horse farm in the entire Wei Kingdom so far.

From the capture of Longyou to the abdication of the throne, Guo Peng successively set up four state-owned military horse farms in the northern border of the empire.

Longyou Army Horse Farm was the first military horse farm established with the largest number of breeding horses and the most important one.

The remaining three army horse farms are respectively set up in Bingzhou, Youzhou and Mozhou. Taking advantage of the advantageous geographical locations of these three states, plus a Longyou army horse farm, a total of more than 200 million war horses have been raised.

The number of war horses raised by the Wei Empire is also unprecedented.

With the further development and immigration strategy of Mozhou in the future, the number of war horses raised in Mozhou will continue to increase, and it is expected that within ten years it will become a super army horse farm comparable to the Longyou Army horse farm.

These four major army horse farms can provide sufficient military horses for the Wei army to ensure that the Wei army's expedition team is fully mules and horses, and realize the high-speed maneuvering of any army.

At the same time, unqualified short, fat horses and old, weak and disabled horses retired from the army were continuously sent to the people.

They tend to become commercial horses and food horses, draining the last trace of use value.

This approach not only greatly increased the speed of commodity circulation in the Wei Empire, but also enriched people's table recipes and protein intake, which can be said to make the horses shine to the extreme.

The reason why the Wei Empire was able to achieve Guo Peng's high degree of centralization and achieve the minimum speed of rapid spread of the centralization system was also because of the roads extending in all directions and the extremely large number of horses.

Chapter 1519 One thousand four hundred and fifty nine The Wei Empire was a country on horseback

Without qualified roads with huge mileage, the maneuvering advantages of horses will be greatly weakened, and the necessary advantages cannot be fully exerted.

Without sufficient horses, the Wei Empire did not have a faster and more economical means of transportation that could replace horses, and the significance of the large-scale official roads would be greatly reduced.