Three days after the article was published, Cao Hong, who was almost devastated, was released from the small black room and cried bitterly in front of Guo Peng.

Guo Peng invited Cao Song, and Cao Song reprimanded Cao Hong as the head of the Cao family, which made Cao Hong cry even louder, and he was unwilling to let go of Guo Peng's legs.

He shouted again and again, "Big brother, I was wrong", "Big brother, I don't dare anymore" and so on.

Guo Peng, on the other hand, forgave Cao Hong's sins in a tolerant manner, did not punish him further, and made him return to the mansion to think about it seriously, so he was grounded and allowed to move around freely after a month.

Cao Hong knelt on the ground and confessed his mistake, and then was taken away.

Presumably he will seriously reflect on his mistakes and never make mistakes again.

Guo smiled.

In the troubled times of hegemony, for the sake of victory and people's hearts, the overlords will turn a blind eye to things that are unbearable in peacetime, even if they challenge their own authority and threaten their own status, they can just ignore it and laugh it off.

Wait until you win in the end and secure your position as a person in the world, and then go to the general account.

This is a helpless thing, but it will inevitably give people a feeling of unloading and killing a donkey.

Guo didn't want to do this, and he didn't want to do it.

He felt that some overlords did not have the level of posture at home, their cultivation was not in place, they did not know how to use the moral high ground to degrade and attack their disobedient subordinates, and they did not know how to use morality as a weapon to achieve their own goals.

Of course, not every overlord has practiced for more than 20 years like Guo someone, and the times are different, and morality is not so useful.

Morality, if it is not used well, it can play itself to death, and if it is used well, it can become a sharp blade that kills people without seeing blood, and kills people without a trace.

Just as Lu Xun caught a glimpse of the word "cannibalism" from the cracks of benevolence, righteousness and morality, morality is very terrifying.

Guo Peng is more and more fond of this weapon.

If this weapon is used well, the means of domination can be called clever, and if it is not used well, then the ability to rule is very worrying.

For example, the group of muscular men of the Liangzhou Group, who have been immersed in the Shura field of the Hanqiang War since childhood, have been deeply rooted in the law of the jungle in their minds, and they don't know how to embellish, they don't know how to use morality as a fig leaf, and they directly present everything naked in front of the world, of course, it will not be accepted by the mainstream society.

As rulers, everyone is a face-saving person, wearing gorgeous costumes and dancing on the stage of history, creating the illusion of singing and dancing to whitewash the peace and cover up the dirty dealings behind the scenes.

As a result, as soon as you came, you stripped everyone of their clothes, and the ugly truth was revealed to the world.

Fortunately, the world is illiterate and can't write history books, otherwise I don't know what trouble will happen.

That's why they have been planning for a long time, taking advantage of Ma Teng and Han Sui, who are tired of being anti-thieves and eager to wash their white, urging Ma Teng and Han Sui's soldiers and horses and Li Dao Group to eat dogs, so as to achieve their goals.

As a result, I didn't think that Li Dao Group was very livestock, Han Sui and Ma Teng were still a little worse, they were defeated, and they fled back to their hometown in embarrassment.

The Li Dao group was furious, killed a group of ministers who contacted Ma Teng and Han Sui, and decisively seized power, seizing more than half of the power of the Chang'an court.

As a result, the Chang'an court really became a puppet, and everything was subject to the opinions of the Liangzhou group.

However, this is not a good thing for Liangzhou Group.

It turned out that there were still some people in the court who could compete with the Liangzhou Group and discuss things, but now suddenly these people have fallen, and the Liangzhou Group has real power, but this real power is not in the hands of one person, but in the hands of three people.

At the earliest, after killing Wang Yun, the leader of the Liangzhou Group was Li Dao, and Li Dao was the supreme leader, representing the Liangzhou Group and the Chang'an Imperial Court.

In this war, Guo Yan and Fan Chou made great contributions, and they followed Li Dao and seized a lot of Li Dao's prestige.

The Liangzhou soldiers take prestige as the source of power, whoever has great prestige will have great power, Fan Chou has the greatest meritorious service, and Guo Yan's meritorious service is not small, and they have caught up with Li Dao in terms of power.

Li Wei seems to be happy to share power with them, but he doesn't necessarily think like this in his heart.

With authority in hand, who wants to share it with others?

As a result, the contradictions between Li Dao, Guo Yan and Fan Chou became very great.

The three of them fought for power and profit, fought openly and secretly, each controlled the court to add officials to his cronies, and often quarreled for the sake of priority, making the court a miasma, and almost broke out into a fight, which made Jia Xu exhausted and worried.

However, a timely news came to temporarily curb this trend, which made Jia Xu breathe a heavy sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but worry.

Yuan Shu instructed Guo Peng to go on a northern expedition and wiped out Yuan Shao's group, Yuan Shao was captured and died alive, and now Yuan Shao's power is wiped out, and Hebei is occupied by Guo Peng.

This is good, Hebei, the Central Plains, including Huaibei and Huainan, the essence of the Han Dynasty is all under the control of the Yuan Shu Group.

The Liangzhou Group, which was scared enough, quickly stopped thinking about martial arts and hugged each other to discuss this matter.

Li Wei, Guo Yan and Fan Chou invited Jia Xu over together, wanting to listen to his analysis.

"The situation is really tense at the moment, but it may not be that time, things will still turn around."

When Jia Xu saw that they had ceased hostility, he was immediately relieved and began to state the benefits and disadvantages to them.

"Guo Zifeng defeated Yuan Benchu, then Yuan Highway occupied the Kanto region and became the overlord of the Kanto region, directly possessing the power to deter us, and the prestige was very terrifying all day long, at first glance it seems like this, but if you take a closer look, it may not be so.

It was Guo Zifeng who defeated Yuan Benchu, Guo Zifeng originally occupied Qingyan Erzhou, and now he occupies Jizhou, looking at Hebei, the whole Hebei can almost be said to be Guo Zifeng's bag, occupying the land of five states, will Guo Zifeng obey Yuan Highway so simply?

Speaking of Yuan Highway himself, after killing Ma Riyan, Yuan Highway's reputation has dropped very much, and now it is all supported by military might, and there was news before that Yuan Highway Department defeated Sun Ce of Lujiang Taishou Lu Kang, beheaded Lu Kang, occupied Lujiang, looked at Jiangdong, and threatened Liu Xuan.

It looks terrible, but Yuan Highway also offended the Jiangdong Shi clan, Jiangdong's four surnames are very famous, and killing Lu Kang is equivalent to being an enemy of the Jiangdong Shi clan, and the Jiangdong Shi clan will definitely fight against Yuan Shu, and the south of Yuan Shu will not be stable.

On the other hand, Liu Biao in Jingzhou has always had a good contact with the imperial court, and has a great grudge with Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu's strength has increased greatly, and it is not only us who are panicking, but also Liu Biao, at this time we sent an envoy to Jingzhou to add an official to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao will definitely agree to unite with us. ”

After talking about the domestic situation, Jia Xu began to talk about the external situation again, focusing on the matter of Yu Fuluo, the son of Shan Yu, the former Southern Xiongnu.

"Yu Fuluo was originally recruited for the imperial court, and afterwards the imperial court did not allow him to return to his country, his father was killed in the civil strife, Yu Fuluo wanted to return to China, but was refused, and was not allowed to inherit the position of Shan Yu, and now he commands tens of thousands of troops to merge with Baibo and Black Mountain thieves.

We can send an envoy to contact Yu Fuluo, in return for him to return to the Southern Xiongnu to inherit Shan Yu's position, and urge Yu Fuluo to use troops against Guo Zifeng, at this time, we will contact Liu Biao to send troops to the eastern part of the country, and the north and south will clamp down, isn't it the best countermeasure? ”

Jia Xu's analysis of the situation was very decent, which made Li Wei, Guo Yan and Fan Chou very happy, and they had no worries for a while, and then they manipulated the imperial court to make arrangements that met Jia Xu's expectations.

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