These grassroots officials, who have contact with the people and rule the people directly, are generally two sources.

One is the children of the Hanmen Group who helped Guo Peng start his business.

Most of them are the children of the families of the generals under Guo Peng, the Cao family, the Xiahou family, needless to say, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yunlejin, Li Dian, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Chudianwei, the children of their families, and a few children of civil officials, such as the Cheng Yu family.

The children of these families will enter the school palace to study with the children of the Guo family, and then they will be placed by Guo Peng's side for a period of internship, and then personally arranged to be sent to a certain village.

Guo Peng asked them to start as village heads, such as Cao Ang, who was transferred to the house to run errands for a period of time by Guo Peng, and was sent by Guo Peng to a village in Chenliu County as the village head.

The second is Li Shu.

Guo Peng was born in the scholar clan and combined the power of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan for his own use, pulled up a team, and became a rare warlord of the scholar clan, so it was the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan that helped him the most.

There were not many scholars involved in the starting forces, and most of the Yuancong group were from poor landlords, so under Guo Peng, the civil and military generals from poor landlords were stronger than the power of the Shi bureaucrats.

The generals will not talk about it, they are all poor landlords or Li Shu.

And the candidates for the assassination history of the five major states under Guo Peng's command, except for Guo Peng's own Qingzhou pastor, three of the four are not from the scholar family.

Yanzhou Assassin Shi Bao Xin, Jizhou Assassin Shi Cao Cao, Bingzhou Assassin Shi Zang Hong, Youzhou Assassin Shi Xian Yufu, except for Guo Peng's die-hard supporter Bao Xin, none of the four were from the Shi clan.

After Cao Cao was a eunuch, Zang Hong was the son of a defeated general, and Xian Yufu was a powerful man in Youzhou, and the backgrounds of the three were very discriminated against by the children of the scholar clan.

Therefore, for a long time, there have been some people among the scholars in the palace who have privately ridiculed Guo Peng for surrendering his identity, lowering his own compulsion to be with those poor families and mud legs, and there is no nobility at all, and he can't see the nobility of Yingchuan Guo's "family lineage" at all.

I think it's the reality that his branch was exiled by the lord's family and could only be embarrassed after being the county order, right?

The children of the scholars secretly exchanged such opinions, and snickered.

Of course, this is not the majority, at least now that the high ground of public opinion is completely controlled by Guo Peng, his black spots are so pitiful that some opponents can only mock him in this way.

The forces of the scholar clan under Guo Peng's command were mainly concentrated in the general's mansion, the prefecture and the county, and these middle and high-ranking civil officials were all children of the scholar clan.

And down to the countryside, it is mainly the literate Li Shu elite, supplemented by the children of the poor landlords, and there is no child of the scholar family.

Guo Peng not only used the children of the poor family within the core group around him to be the village head and township head at the grassroots level, but also taught Li Shu to read and write, selected smart people to enter the People's Affairs Agency for training, and then came out to serve as the village head and township head of each village, which is also a well-known thing.

Guo Peng said that it was a practical need, and the officials were nervous, and there were not enough officials to go down to the grassroots level to manage hundreds of households, so he had to choose literate elites from among the Li Shu to manage the village institutions.

And up in the countryside, it is the scholars who are in charge.

Official tensions are not fabricated and are factual, so this aspect has not caused disagreements within the ruling circles.

Guo Peng suppressed the Li Shu elite at the village level, and did not use anyone to serve as the county administrator, at most he was well trained, and he was transferred to the county level administrator's office as a clerk, running errands for the chief executive, and maintaining the identity advantage of the chief executive.

So that's something that everybody tacitly assumes.

In everyone's opinion, there is nothing wrong with this.

At least when the village system is already widespread, people of noble birth do not have to be tired and dirty official positions such as village chiefs and township heads, and people of low birth cannot become high officials, which does not touch the operation of the fundamental rules and is not met with any resistance.

Besides, Li Shu, who can only do errands and errands, is not worth caring about at all, and it is not worth caring about knowing a few words at all, what is worth caring about is the power of the powerful landlords of the Han family around Guo Peng.

The main competitor of the Shi clan is the Han Haoqiang, and the Shi Clan's vigilance against the Han Hao and the powerful landlords has never relaxed, and Guo Peng's vigorous appointment of the Han Hao Qiang is what they are most worried about.

The best of these people will even be appointed as the local county guard of 2,000 stone and even the state assassin because of the war, and usurp the power of the scholars, which makes the scholars feel unhappy.

In troubled times, force is very important, Guo Peng has proved through the war against Yuan Shao that the fourth and third dukes cannot withstand the powerful force, and announced the advent of troubled times, so who knows what these martial artists will do in the future?

The nobles generally do not have the power of force, and in times of peace, they do not need to master the use of force.

Despite this, the relationship between Guo Peng's Shi clan and Haoqiang is relatively harmonious, at least in the context of troubled times, under the premise of a strong common enemy, they can still work together.

But what about after that?

This is a problem that Guo Peng will consider, something that Guo Peng will care about and prepare for silently, not something that his subordinates who are currently fully engaged in fighting Yuan's war are concerned about.

The struggle between Guo Peng's corporal clan and the Hanmen has not yet broken out and has not become the mainstream, but it seems that this day will not be far away.

Yes, that's right, once people who don't have money have power, it's hard not to think about making money, because they are afraid of poverty and want money.

Because I want money too much, I just want money.

For example, Li Shen, who wrote poems about the peasants.

The people who get into the eyes of money are not terrible at all, and the nouveau riche are not terrible at all, they are easy to control.

But what do rich people want when they have power?

That's something scarier than money, like some kind of monopoly.

The lesser of two evils, Guo chooses the former, which is easy to control and easy to manipulate, while the latter is difficult to say.

No matter from which point of view, Guo Peng prefers people who are greedy for money.

So for Cao Hong, he really likes it, although he should still fight, but as his power grows, Guo Peng really likes Cao Hong more and more, and he trusts Cao Hong very much.

So although Cao Hong is still being made a lieutenant, Cao Hong will soon be promoted and become his lieutenant general.

At the beginning of December of the second year of Xingping, Guo Peng ordered Guo Jia to lead Yu Ban and Le Jin to lead 10,000 troops to the south to meet Xiahou Yuan in Longkang County, and prepare to cross the Huai River to fight.

Guo Peng wanted to make sure that the army's grain route was opened and running smoothly here in Qi County, and then led the army south to Longkang County, resolutely not following the mistakes of Yuan Shu.

This battle is won, and there is no suspense about the victory.

However, Guo Peng felt that an excited emotion was scurrying in his body, and it was difficult for him to suppress this excited emotion, and then by the way, he suppressed the excited and fluttering emotions of the generals.

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