Guo Peng actively built a military camp near Ning County for soldiers and their families to live in.

Not only that, but he also led them to reclaim the surrounding wasteland, grow some food crops, and then use the captured cattle and sheep as the basis for them to graze at the foot of the Great Wall, etc., so that they can live a stable life in various ways.

In this way, we can win people's hearts and make the soldiers' hearts turn to themselves and become completely their own family soldiers.

From this moment on, Guo Peng began to deliberately ask himself to use various methods to win people's hearts and make the army loyal to him and not anyone else.

He didn't feel that there was anything bad about his change, all for survival.

In late March of the second year of Zhongping, the news of the great victory in northern Xinjiang reached Luoyang and became known.

Lu Zhi was the first to learn the news, and was overjoyed, and immediately reported the matter to heaven.

The eunuch did not dare to delay, and immediately reported the matter to Emperor Ling, who was very happy when he learned of the great joy, and felt that the excellent candidate he advocated did not disappoint him.

actually killed the leader of Xianbei, so that Xianbei will definitely fall into a new round of struggle for power and profit, and the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty can gain peace for a period of time!

Nothing made the Spirit Emperor happier than this.

The Northwest Rebellion happened before, and he was hurriedly dispatching troops to crusade against Beigong Boyu in the Northwest, and he was worried that if there was a mess in the North, it would be a bad thing, and now Guo Peng directly killed the Xianbei leader, and the Northern Xinjiang will inevitably settle down.

The Great Han can finally avoid a war on two fronts.

No matter how mediocre Emperor Ling is, he knows that fighting on two fronts is a taboo for soldiers, and being able to stabilize one side is the other, and concentrating on the crusade is the king.

Emperor Ling can finally rest assured that he will add troops to Huangfu Song, so that he can pacify the chaos faster.

And Guo Peng, who has made such a great contribution, also needs to be rewarded, so Emperor Ling asked Lu Zhi what is the best reward for his proud disciples?

The Spirit Emperor is very happy now, and if he doesn't ask too much, he will agree.

However, Lu Zhi considered that Guo Peng was not convenient to stand out too much, so he said that Guo Peng was young and needed more experience, and his promotion and promotion were not convenient for his growth, and he was willing to seek a reward for him.

Emperor Ling understood what Lu Zhi meant, and after thinking about it, he sent someone to find Guo Peng's information to understand Guo Peng's origin, and then announced his decision.

Jin Feng Guo Peng was the Marquis of Yang Zhai Pavilion, with five hundred food, money and rewards, and rewards for the list of meritorious policies one by one, but there was no promotion for the position.

So this news was known by more people in Luoyang, and the news spread, and Luoyang set off a new round of discussion on Guo Peng.

Since Guo Peng had lived in Luoyang for eight years before, he was famous in Luoyang and made friends with many people, so there were many people who were willing to take the initiative to brag about him.

For example, Yuan Shu is the No. 1 Guo Peng in the world, and he boasted that the credit of Guo Peng was known to everyone in Luoyang.

The news reached Cao Song's house, Cao Song excitedly told Cao Lan about it, Cao Lan cried with joy, and then was deeply afraid, and immediately wrote a letter to ask people to take it to Youzhou and hand it over to Guo Peng.

A few days later, Guo Dan, who was in his hometown in Qian County, learned the news and was immediately very excited.

Originally, Guo Peng's conquest of the Yellow Turban Army allowed him to be promoted to the prime minister of Pei Guo made him very excited, and now it is even more so.

Promoted to the prime minister, became two thousand stones, realized Guo Dan's long-cherished wish for many years, and made Guo Dan happy for several days without sleeping well, and now I know that his son was named the Marquis of Yangzhai Pavilion, and the marquis was sealed in Guo's ancestral land, and the meaning of glory is very strong, and Guo Dan has a sense of revenge.

After some time, the news reached the ears of Cao Cao, who was cracking down on the illegal behavior of local magnates and tyrants in Jinan.

Cao Cao was greatly impressed when he learned that Guo Peng had broken Xianbei and killed Helian and was able to seal the marquis, and immediately strengthened the efforts to rectify the lawbreakers in Jinan.

There are more than 10 state-owned counties in Jinan, and the county magistrates are mostly dependent on the nobles, corrupt and pervert the law, and have no scruples.

Cao Cao changed the attitude of his predecessor's inaction, vigorously rectified, and dismissed eight-tenths of the officials at once, Jinan was shaken, and corrupt officials fled one after another.

Subsequently, Cao Cao drastically rectified the chaos in Jinan, held the powerful people accountable, and personally led people to the door to kidnap people, which seriously violated the interests of the local magnates.

Of course, it also brought a short period of peace to the people of Jinan.

Cao Cao believes that Guo Peng's military achievements are dazzling, but if he can make political achievements, he can also become a star of tomorrow, so he must do what he can do now, rather than being ambitious.

Cao Cao began to forge ahead.

When Cao Cao was forging ahead, Guo Peng also began to plan for the future, and with the support of the sect members, he sent people to recruit Han knights from all over Youzhou to enrich the cavalry under his command.

Guo Peng's prestige became very loud with the spread of the head of Helian, and because he was Lu Zhi's disciple, a famous scholar in Luoyang, and Lu Zhi was the captain of the dynasty, they admired Guo Peng very much, so in a few months, nearly 1,000 people went to Ning County to join the army, wanting to follow Guo Peng to break into a career.

Guo Peng screened them for some purposes, and those who were suitable were included in the army for training, and those who were not suitable were given money and food to go home.

At that time, someone asked Guo Peng if someone came not to join the army, but to cheat money and food, then what should he do?

Guo Peng replied, if I was deceived for the purpose of recruiting strong men, then I was deceived willingly.

This matter spread, and everyone praised Guo Peng for being broad-minded and measured.

So after many strong men heard the news, they rushed to join Guo Peng, thinking that Guo Peng was a real hero and worthy of their follow.

Within a few months, Guo Peng recruited more than 1,000 high-quality and tall strong men into the army to enrich the troops, most of whom could ride horses, and even wield swords and shoot horses immediately.

Those who are included in the army are given horses, weapons and uniforms are prepared, and the monthly soldiers are also distributed directly to the soldiers, but no one's hand.

This is Guo Peng's own stipulation, there are rewards for fighting, and rewards for those who have excellent training, not only that, but the soldiers are directly received by themselves, but only by the hands of officers.

This matter has aroused widespread discussion in the army, and the soldiers feel that this practice is very innovative and very welcome, because it can ensure their interests to the greatest extent, so they are very supportive of it and very grateful.

Originally, the military salary issued by the Han court was transferred to himself by Guo Peng in this way.

This is just a small means, not worth mentioning, and in the eyes of many people, it is not at all on the table.

But in Cheng Li's opinion, this approach is quite meaningful, but for a while, Cheng Li did not carefully pursue the meaning behind it, he was busy registering the soldiers, and he had no time to do such a thing.

In the process of expanding the army, Guo Peng promoted the old Changshui troops and family soldiers who were the first to follow him as grassroots officers, leading the newly recruited soldiers to join the army, enhancing the strength of his own lineage and enhancing the army's obedience to himself.

In addition, he insisted on inspecting the barracks every day, mingling with the grassroots soldiers, letting his face and voice be remembered by every soldier, and insisted on eating with the soldiers, living in the barracks together, personally taking them out for morning exercises, supervising their training, and personally leading the cavalry to practice mounted archery and charging into battle.

In this way, the existence of his whole person is deeply engraved in the soldier's mind, so that the soldier knows his existence from the subconscious and knows whose orders he should obey.

In June of the second year of Zhongping, a letter of worship attracted Guo Peng's attention.

The person who handed over the post was Liu Bei, the word Xuande.

A native of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Lu Zhi's disciple.

Guo Peng was stunned for a while before he reacted.

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