In the later stage of the previous political struggle, Cheng Yu and Tian Feng inevitably used their origins in Yanzhou and Jizhou to win alliances to fight each other.

So before Guo Peng attacked them, the contradiction between the Yanzhou scholars and the Jizhou scholars was already very acute, and it directly caused a bloody brawl.

The infighting between the first-echelon political bloc promoted by Guo has unfolded very smoothly.

And it was carried out very intensely.

Then Guo slapped the two sides together and broke their heads and bleeds.

It is not only attacking the first echelon, but also attacking the forces of the heroes and seizing part of the power held by the heroes.

Then, it was logical to introduce the weak group forces into the imperial court hub to seize power.

The first phase of Guo's plan has been successful, and the internal struggle of the Hero Group has already caused them heavy losses.

The next second stage is for the weak group scholars to fight against the strong group scholars.

It is a game between junior students and top students, and it is also a game within the scholar group.

Let them give full play to the dog-eat-dog spirit and trigger a new round of political struggle, so that they can continue to weaken the political power of the meritorious group and scholars.

In short, let them fight, let them quarrel, let them kill each other, and fight for supreme power.

Whether it's Yanzhou people, Jizhou people, or other states, anyway, let's fight.

Guo will watch them silently.

After Guo has turned most of the counties in the country into a poor family, everything will be a foregone conclusion.

Who says power has to come from the central government to get it?

Who said that you must have the support of the nobles to become the emperor?

Guo's power base comes from the lowest villages.

His basic plate is not a scholar or a hero, and his basic plate is also a village.

Whether it is a scholar or a strong man, they are all tool people in his eyes.

He is not far from becoming an emperor in the true sense of the word like Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

That's how he felt.

The punctuation revolution is not far off, and the real decisive battle is not far away.

After the decisive battle, it is difficult to say whether the Wei Empire will sink or radiate a new vitality.

But no matter which outcome it is, Guo will not really sit back and relax.

At the beginning of May of the fourth year of Yande, Guo received news from Liangzhou that the combined caravan he had sent out last year had entered Yumen Pass and returned to Wei.

Ma Yuan also gave Guo Peng a table, saying that he did not fail in his mission, not only completed the trade with the countries of the Western Regions, but also completed the exchange with the Kushan Empire.

He also brought back a group of Kushan merchants, including semi-official merchants, who were representatives in a sense.

Ma Yuan said that he was also entertained by the Kushan Emperor and met with the Guishan Emperor, who welcomed the Chinese caravans to do business and hoped to expand the scale of exchanges between the two sides.

Guo was overjoyed when he learned about it, knowing that the Silk Road had been initially opened.

According to the recital sheet sent by Cao Xiu, the five garrison points in the Western Regions have basically completed the stationing and initial foothold of the army, and they can already begin to play the effectiveness of the garrison points.

The Silk Road in the northern part of Shanbei can basically guarantee security, as for the countries in Shannan......

Cao Xiu did not think that the Shannan countries had the courage to intercept the Wei Empire's caravan halfway.

They are all small countries with no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and even many small city-states with thousands of people, so they dare to oppose the Wei Empire?

A cavalry of hundreds of men with their own dried meat and water, rushing through day and night, can wipe out a small country in one go.

Deterring the Shanbei countries can also deter the Shannan countries, and Guo Peng's idea of trying to set up garrison points in the Shannan countries may not be needed.

This is the answer given by Cao Xiu.

In this regard, Guo was noncommittal.

Although the countries of the Western Regions have surrendered, they have not been beaten by the Wei Empire.

The memory of the Han Empire's beating of them no longer exists in the minds of this generation, and they may still have in their minds the memories of the last time the Han Empire withdrew from the Western Regions.

In short, the reason why he didn't just give Cao Xiu thirty-six people and let Cao Xiu go to the Western Regions was also because he had this idea.

It is difficult for Cao Xiu to say that he can compare with Ban Chao.

The talents who are invincible in the land of the Western Regions and the white wolf with empty gloves are quite the style of a great man, and Cao Xiu is still too tender.

It is possible to send Guo Jia there.

With Guo Jia's black-bellied nature, if he is given 3,000 soldiers and horses, he will definitely be able to play the countries of the Western Regions to death, but Guo Jia has a more important mission at the moment.

As the leader of the ministers of the Guo royal family and the head of the five tigers of the Guo family, Guo Jia's importance to Guo Peng is self-evident.

The so-called Five Tigers of the Guo family is the name of the five people who held the most power in the Wei Empire for the Guo royal family.

First, Guo Jia, a staff officer and the general office of the Shouyang Mountain Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

Second, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Guo Rui.

Third, Shangshu Guo Yi of the Criminal Department of Shangshutai.

Fourth, General Zhenguo and General Guo Dong.

Fifth, Guo Lie, the general of Zhenguo and the deputy governor of the Jiangling battalion.

These five people are the five people with the highest official positions in the Guo clan, and they are also the best among the officials of the Guo clan who are engaged in the official position of law judge, among which the highest official position is the most powerful and the most important, naturally Guo Jia.

Guo Jia is also one of the most trusted people by Guo Peng, and when Guo Peng was still fighting on the battlefield earlier, Guo Jia often accompanied him.

Later, after Guo Peng retreated to the second line and no longer went to the battlefield in person, Guo Jia often went to the battlefield as an overseer and existed as Guo's special envoy.

And this time, Guo Jia was selected by Guo Peng to serve as the general office of the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, replacing Guo Someone, who was too busy with government affairs to teach in person, to manage the 500 elites of the entire Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

The Shouyangshan Lecture Hall was almost built at the beginning of the fourth year of Yande, and it was basically completed in February.

In March, the final admission list was also in hand, and Guo issued an order to open the school and let 500 carefully selected elite soldiers enroll.

They received training in the ability to command the army as officers in the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, strengthened training, imparted to them the knowledge of various marches and battles, and further imparted cultural knowledge to them.

There will be cultural classes every day in Guo Wei's army.

The military judges in the army will teach the soldiers in the army to learn to read and write while popularizing the law, and basically after two or three years, the living soldiers can recognize seven or eight hundred commonly used words, and the smart ones can recognize more than 1,000 words, and then they are considered literate people.

Not only can you recognize, but you must also be able to write.

As Guo became more and more wealthy, the amount of paper and pen and ink in the army gradually increased.

The army has gradually gotten rid of the dilemma of using stones to draw on the ground and has begun to become professional.

However, this is only of a literacy nature, and if you want to become a truly literate person, you must study.

So where can you go where you can make the big-headed soldiers from humble backgrounds study and make sense?

Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

How many people squeezed their heads to go to the martial arts hall, and after many rounds of cruel competition, the last five hundred people won thrillingly and became the final winner.

These 500 people don't know how many of their comrades-in-arms in the army have died.

Good luck, strong strength, and smart in itself.

Under the selection of the best of the best, the quality of these 500 people is quite high, each of them can know more than 1,000 words, can read and write, and already has the initial learning ability.

So Guo Jia took a group of elite staff officers in the staff station to start the battle, explained the art of war to them, and used sand tables and war games to assist education.

The 500 trainees are divided into 10 study classes, with 50 people in each class, and three staff officers in charge of one study class.

The sand table is set up, the war games are set up, and the war is simulated on a well-made sand table, and the essence of the art of war is explained in this close to practical method.

Tell the trainees how to march, how to choose the road, how to choose the terrain to set up camp.

This is a course in the art of war, and naturally military skills and long-distance training are indispensable.

In addition to the normal use of knives and spears, Guo copied some of the various modern exercise equipment he used to build his muscles in the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

Then let the carefully selected training instructors take them to do it, exercise their bodies in a scientific and reasonable way, and temper their will.

A high-protein diet for 500 people is affordable for Guo.

It doesn't have to be everyone's high standards, but they will be given meat and eggs every day, so that they can temper their strong flesh and strong will under good nutrition.

Then bring this spirit to the troops and make the Wei army more elite.

For such a high-standard treatment, the five hundred elite students are grateful.

Every morning, they face the stone carving in the lecture hall of Shouyang Mountain, and a statue of Guo immediately slashed and loudly expressed their loyalty and determination, and then started a new day.

This is Guo Jia's initiative, to let them know who they should be loyal to, who gave them such a high treatment, so that they can eat meat and eggs every day, and let them know gratitude.

So Guo someone patted his head and decided to let the stonemasons carve a mighty statue of Guo with a horizontal sword and put it in the center of the training ground of the lecture hall.

Every morning before the start of the training, the trainees were asked to show their loyalty to the mighty statue of Guo and let them know that their Emperor Majesty was watching them!

Of course, Guo didn't really go to see it in person.

On the first day of school, Guo went to give a speech, and when the five hundred students saw the emperor present in person, their faces were flushed with excitement, and they felt that their blood vessels were about to explode.

After that, Guo basically maintained the frequency of going to the martial arts hall once or twice a month to show his sense of existence, and every time he went, he would bring some delicious food to the students.

Earned loyalty.

Originally, Guo's prestige in the army was incomparable.

The current high-level and backbone of the Wei army were all brought up by Guo someone, and the Wei army was established by Guo someone, and he was born and died countless times, tempering the strength of the Wei army and the sense of belonging to Guo in the war.

It is only now necessary to further strengthen this ownership.

Because Guo will not stay in the barracks often, and he will not always personally command the troops, he is the Son of Heaven, and if he commands the troops to fight, he will be the emperor and the army.

The Son of Heaven can't just drive the expedition in person.

There are only two possibilities for the Son of Heaven to drive in person, one is forced to be forced by the helpless situation, and the other is to be sure of victory, so generally speaking, the Son of Heaven will win the battle, attack must be defeated, and cannot be defeated.

You can't always stay in the army, so you have to rely on some special means to maintain the influence and dominance of the army.

Lecture on martial arts is one of them.