At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Zhongde, don't you think it's a bit strange for the general to do this?"

Guo Peng asked with a smile.

"It's a bit strange. The queen mother has a high status, but she is only a woman after all. If the general wants to eradicate eunuchs, he can just lead troops to do it. Why do he need to recruit foreign soldiers?"

Cheng Li didn't think about it.

"The general doesn't recruit foreign soldiers into Beijing. How can foreign soldiers have a reason to go to Luoyang? There is no reason for foreign soldiers to go to Luoyang. How can the Yuan family have soldiers and horses to back them up to win the final victory?"

"what?"

Cheng Li asked doubtfully, "Yuan Shi?"

"Who wrote this letter to me?"

"Yuan Gonglu."

"Who recruited me to Beijing?"

"General...Yuan Gonglu?!"

Cheng Li's eyes widened, and he suddenly realized: "This is Yuan Gonglu... No! Is it Yuan's idea?"

"Yes."

Guo Peng put away his smiling face and said coldly: "The one who wants to recruit me to Beijing is not the general, but Yuan Gonglu and the Yuan family behind him. They want to use my soldiers and horses as their backing. to be the last victor."

Chapter 179 Nine everything is ready, only the east wind is owed (repair)

What Guo Peng said was quite shocking to Cheng Li.

"This……"

Cheng Li was obviously confused.

"Zhongde, I have a close relationship with Yuan Shu and have a very good relationship. The outside world thinks that I am Yuan Shu's confidant. Dong Zhuo is an old official of the Yuan family. Now the great general of the court He Jin and the Taifu Yuan Kai are in charge of the government. You say Dong Zhuo Is it more likely to listen to Yuan Kui, or is it more likely to listen to He Jin?"

Cheng Li hesitated for a while.

"Yuan Kai is Dong Zhuo's leader, and Dong Zhuo should obey Yuan Kai's orders."

"Everyone knows."

Guo Peng said: "I listen to Yuan Shu, and Dong Zhuo listens to Yuan Kui. Both Dong Zhuo and I are supported by the Yuan family, and only Ding Yuan is supported by He Jin. Then, after killing the eunuchs, He Jin is more powerful. , or is the Yuan family more powerful?"

"Of course it's the Yuan family."

Speaking of this, Cheng Li finally understood: "So it turns out that the Yuan family wanted to kill the eunuchs and recruit foreign soldiers into Luoyang in order to seize control of the government and even overpower the general?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"The Yuan family is four generations and three princes, with disciples and old officials all over the world. There is nothing they can't do that they want to do. The status of the general is high, but his background is too low. How can he convince the people?

Now the Yuan family just doesn't want to cause turmoil in their own name, so they resort to the name of the general, and the general is the main one. Once the matter is over, can the general compete with Yuan? "

Cheng Li then nodded.

"So that's the case. Then, isn't Luo Yang very dangerous? My lord, are you going?"

"Of course I want to go, why not? Not only do I want to go, but I also need to speed up to get there, the sooner the better."

"My lord wants to..."

"I have a hunch that the turmoil that will occur in Luoyang this time is not simple. It is related to the overall situation. We must leave Shanggu as soon as possible. This is not a place where we can stay for a long time."

Cheng Li was even more surprised.

"Will there be greater unrest soon?"

Cheng Li knew that Guo Peng had started to transport a lot of things and craftsmen from Shanggu County to Qiao County, but he felt that this was just a normal behavior, just to get some benefits.

Including armaments, food, war horses, etc., are all for sale. The craftsmen are to enrich the strength of Guo's manor. This is Guo Peng's own selfishness.

Cheng Li did not expect that this was Guo Peng's preparation for future turmoil.

"I don't know, I just have this feeling that it is definitely not a good thing for foreign soldiers guarding the frontier to enter the capital since ancient times."

Guo Peng shook his head: "We can't take all of this army away, otherwise it will be exposed. We took away three thousand, and the remaining two thousand were disguised and went to Qiao County Manor in batches to hide in case of emergencies."

Cheng Li forced himself to calm down and took Guo Peng's order.

Subsequently, Guo Peng held an enlarged meeting of the civil and military under his command and notified the matter to the civil and military under his command.

"The situation is like this. Although the imperial edict has not yet come, I have already decided to lead troops to Luoyang to kill the eunuchs. After this is done, the harvest will definitely not be small.

If you are willing to go south with me, you can go south with me. I will not treat you badly. If you don’t want to go south with me, you can leave on your own and work together. The friendship will always be in my heart. "

Guo Peng wants to let the civil and military under his command make a choice.

He will not stay in Shanggu anymore. After participating in the grand event of killing eunuchs, he will definitely get a higher status and higher official position. At that time, what is a Shanggu County?

Guo Peng's words were not mainly for the generals, they were already Guo Peng's personal generals.

The relatives of the Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the two generals who joined later, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, had no objection to following Guo Peng.

So they all showed excited expressions on their faces, thinking that Guo Peng's status would improve, and his status would also increase accordingly, including Zang Hong.

Guo Peng's words were for the civil servants under his command, Gu Yong, Zaozhi, Guo Rui, and Mi Zhu who just arrived in Shanggu County.

Mi Zhu didn't hesitate at all, he had already bet his treasure on Guo Peng, and as Guo Peng's status improved, he believed that he would get more things.

Although the horse trade is not as easy as before.

So Mi Zhu decided to continue to follow Guo Peng without hesitation.

"Where Duke Ming is, where Zhu is going."

Gu Yong felt that this was a very good opportunity, an opportunity to go from the local to the central, which was what he had expected from Guo Peng.

He will not always stay in this bitter cold place. After the experience, he feels that he has grown and can follow Guo Peng to a higher stage.

"Yong is willing to go with Minggong, go through fire and water, and do not hesitate!"

Although Zaozhi is reluctant to part with the unfinished business of Shanggu County, Guo Peng's status has improved, and he may be in charge of more places in the future, and he will also be brought into a higher level of government. Then, he can do even more things. too much.

At such a time, it is impossible for him to make a decision that is worth a lot of money.

So Zaoyi also expressed his position accordingly.

"I just want to listen to Minggong's arrangement."

Guo Rui will not talk about it, Guo Peng's family members, wherever Guo Peng is, he will be there, everyone in the family says so.

After all, Guo Peng didn't recruit any talents in Youzhou, and he didn't have any nostalgia for leaving here. The only pity is that he won't be able to get enough horses so smoothly in the future.

Objectively speaking, the background of Youzhou and the background of Hebei Central Plains are really very different.

Even if we put all these aside, in the era of family background, a hundred Guo Pengs can't keep up with one Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and there is no simple route.

This is not a game, everything can be solved by conquering a city, and everything belongs to the protagonist of the game.

No, there are people in the city, people, that's everything.

Fame, official position, origin, native place and so on.

There are too many limiting factors.

It was okay when the central government of the Han Dynasty was unified. The central edict was righteous and righteous, and local resistance was not so strong.

When the central government is in turmoil, and the localities are in charge of their own affairs and make their own way of life, are people from the same region more reliable, or are outsiders who are separated by great rivers or Xiongguan more reliable?

Henan, Hebei, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, Kanto and Kansai, Dongzhou and Yizhou, all major regions can draw a standard. Everyone within the standard may fight openly and secretly, but when encountering outside the standard, they will unite and point their guns outward.

Looking at the development routes of the major warlord forces, it is not difficult to find signs of rampant local protectionism.

The battle between the Hebei local gentry group under Yuan Shao's command and the Henan Yingchuan Runan gentry group.

The conflict between the Jiangnan Danyang Group under Tao Qian's command and the local gentry group in Xuzhou, Jiangbei.

The conflict between the Dongzhou Group under Liu Yan's command and the local gentry group in Yizhou.

These contradictions have had a great negative impact on the major forces.

The struggle between Guo Tufengji, Tian Feng and others under Yuan Shao's command directly affected Yuan Shao's strategic decision.

Liu Bei didn't have any concept of a basic market at all. He couldn't stay in Pingyuan, Xuzhou couldn't stay in it, and Runan couldn't stay in Runan, let alone Xinye.

Even after occupying Yizhou, the conflict between Dongzhou people and Yizhou people that continued from the Liu Yan era runs through the entire history of the Shuhan regime. From the beginning to the end, the tossing Shuhan regime did not end well.

Cao Cao ruled Yanzhou with the help of Yanzhou native Chen Gong and others. Because he could not accept the slander of the local celebrity Bian Rang, he killed him, which directly aroused the resentment of the local people in Yanzhou. Chen Gong and others welcomed Lu Bu to attack Cao Cao. Overturned.

If foreign rulers want to gain a firm foothold in the local area, they must have their own reliable basic power, otherwise they will not be able to compete with the huge and deep-rooted local powerful forces.

And such a confrontation will inevitably bring about conflicts and disputes, and lead to internal struggles. It is good for the ruler to be smart, but once the ruler makes a mistake, it will be hard to say.

Compared to them, Yuan Shu took the basic route, and there were few internal struggles. The main reason was that others were more innocent and cute, so he lost.

The Sun Wu regime was born in Wu County and is considered a native of Jiangdong, so it was able to maintain its rule under huge external pressure, and Cao Cao had nothing to do with them.

Guo Peng has carefully considered these issues.

He has personally experienced the importance that the scholars of the late Han Dynasty attached to the place of origin and the behavior of holding together with each other based on the place of origin.

His background is not as good as Yuan Shao's, his identity is not as good as Liu Yan's, his preparation time and official qualifications are not as good as Tao Qian's, and he is deficient in all aspects. It is better not to step on the thunder.

That's why Guo Peng determined his basic line.

Not in Jiangnan, not in Hebei, not in Kansai, not in Yizhou.

You can only find a reliable place to make your fortune in the Central Plains.

Now that everything is ready, we only owe a shareholder wind. Guo Peng wants to rush to Luoyang himself, and spread his wings to soar against the east wind blowing.

Chapter 180 .180 The eunuchs decided to carry out the last extreme operation

On July [-]th of the first year of Guangxi, the imperial edict arrived. General He Jin recruited Guo Peng to lead the army south to Luoyang to assist the general in eradicating the country's traitors.

Guo Peng immediately ordered three thousand soldiers and horses to prepare for departure.

Before setting off, Guo Peng wrote a letter to the clan members, asking the clan members to arrange for others to help defend Shanggu.

He said that he might not be able to come back in a short time, so please follow his basic route to farm in Shanggu, so as to give the refugees a glimmer of hope.

Then, Guo Peng abandoned the Shanggu refugees who were unwilling to go with him, and resolutely ended his career as a frontier guard.

Before that, all the valuable things in Shanggu County were transferred by him, and transferred to his hometown through various methods.

The brilliant and extremely cruel world of great struggle is about to begin.

On the same day that Guo Peng led his troops to gallop, Ding Yuan, the captain of cavalry, led his troops from Bingzhou to Luoyang.

Ding Yuan entered Luoyang City with the permission of General He Jin, and was appointed by He Jin as Zhijinwu to command the forbidden soldiers.

Ding Yuan was the first soldier to rush to Luoyang, and his arrival indicated that the "remonstrance" suggested by Yuan Shao had begun.

However, the whole process was not smooth. For example, after Ding Yuan arrived, He Jin suddenly became suspicious of Dong Zhuo's advance and rejected Dong Zhuo's request to enter Luoyang.

He sent officials to prevent Dong Zhuo from entering Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo was very surprised by this, and quickly asked Yuan Shao, who advocated recruiting him to Luoyang, what was going on through his younger brother Dong Min who was the captain of Fengche in the court.

Yuan Shao also found it strange, and when he asked, he found out that it was Shaofu Shangshu who ordered Lu Zhi to meet He Jin and told He Jin not to invite Dong Zhuo to Luoyang.

Lu Zhi's meaning was very clear.

He Jin can recruit Ding Yuan, because Ding Yuan was promoted by He Jin, and he can also recruit Guo Peng, who is Lu Zhi's disciple, and Lu Zhi can guarantee Guo Peng with his life.

But Dong Zhuo is an old official of the Yuan family.

Regardless of this relationship, Dong Zhuo has always been fierce and ignorant of etiquette, very violent, and his soldiers from Liangzhou wantonly mutilated the local area. Lu Zhi saw all this when he was conquering the Yellow Turban Army.

He Jin trusted Lu Zhi very much. Although Lu Zhi said this, although He Jin did not dispel the idea of ​​killing the eunuch, it succeeded in causing He Jin to have doubts.

He Jin thought of the fierce Liangzhou soldiers under Dong Zhuo's command, and Dong Zhuo himself who was tough and rough, so he had some thoughts in his mind.

Then, He Jin gave Dong Zhuo an order to return to Hedong County to crusade against the rampant Yellow Turbans and the Southern Huns who took the opportunity to plunder the place.