The difference between realists and idealists is not as great as one might think, and every realist is a former idealist.

Of course, there are differences between people, some people easily become realists, and some people spend their whole lives striving for their ideals, even if they are doing things with realistic means.

Guo Peng felt that Cao Cao was a person who had never changed his innermost hope and used realistic means to carry out idealistic deeds.

Killing ministers, killing queens, overthrowing emperors, calling princes, calling kings, step by step, it seems that they have been walking towards the usurpation of the dynasty.

However, is there a person in the world who has wanted to be an emperor and the supreme person in the world from the beginning?

Didn't they all follow the trend step by step to get to that point?

Cao Cao wanted to use his way to save the Han family and maintain the dignity of the Han family, but under the countless blows of reality, he gradually realized something.

He became more and more ruthless, more ruthless, more domineering, and more arbitrary.

But all this was not achieved overnight, but the Cao Cao who was forged after countless political turmoil and military disputes.

The despicable saint is perhaps the best explanation to describe Cao Cao.

The closer I got to him, the more I felt that Cao Cao was a living flesh-and-blood person, with advantages and disadvantages, sometimes broad-minded and sometimes small-bellied, rather than a face-painted emperor.

The closer he gets to this era, the more he integrates into this society, and the more he gets used to all this, the more Guo Peng understands Cao Cao, the pain and despair in his heart and the persistence that he doesn't want to give up until he dies but has to watch it gradually collapse.

But ah, Cao Mengde, you are wrong.

Guo Peng can say to Cao Cao with great certainty.

You're wrong.

I would be mean, but I would never be a saint, the word meanness should never be used in conjunction with saints, you have tried, failed, and that is enough, the world no longer needs a second despicable saint.

I'm just a vile wicked person, and I'll follow through.

That's how Guo Peng decided.

Being despicable and being a saint is the reason why Cao Cao was unable to dominate the world until his death.

The only stable year in the Zhongping years, the three years of Zhongping, passed quickly.

At the beginning of February of the fourth year of Zhongping, Guo Peng received a recruitment order from the imperial court, ordering Guo Peng to raise 3,000 Karasuma elite cavalry, hand them over to the commander of Gongsun Zhan, the county commander of Zhuoxian County, and lead the army to Guanzhong.

The reason is the resurgence of the rebels in Liangzhou.

Han Sui killed his accomplices Beigong Boyu and Bian Zhang in the first month, annexed their subordinate army, gathered more than 100,000 people, and once again approached the land of Sanfu to threaten the mausoleums of the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Ling was shocked, and immediately ordered the current Tai Lieutenant Zhang Wen to take command again, and led Dong Zhuo and other old troops to quell the rebellion again.

At the same time, Emperor Ling remembered the small number of troops in the imperial court, and remembered Guo Peng, who had made great contributions in northern Xinjiang, and wanted to transfer Guo Peng to lead his troops to defeat the Xianbei people to help Zhang Wen put down the rebellion.

After Lu Zhi learned about it, he said that he couldn't.

Lu Zhi said that Guo Peng was the captain of the Karasuma Captain and had his own job, and although the Xianbei leader was killed, the Xianbei power was still huge.

Guo Peng is the head of the military generals in Youzhou, he can shock the barbarians in northern Xinjiang, Xianbei people dare not move, if Guo Peng is transferred to quell the rebellion, once Han Sui learns, send someone to contact Xianbei to attack northern Xinjiang, then the general trend will go.

Emperor Ling felt that what Lu Zhi said made sense, so he asked Lu Zhi to come up with a way, Lu Zhi said that he could let Guo Peng raise 3,000 Karasuma Essence Cavalry and hand it over to another brave Youzhou military general to help Zhang Wen, Emperor Ling felt that it was okay, and then asked the courtiers to recommend suitable candidates.

So the courtiers elected Gongsun Zhan, the current county magistrate of Zhuo County, who was also a disciple of Lu Zhi, and said that Gongsun Zhan had fought bravely to kill the enemy when he was a small official in Liaodong, and he was very famous among the Hu people in Youzhou, although he was not as good as Guo Peng, he was also a brave general.

Emperor Ling asked Lu Zhi about this, and Lu Zhi said that Gongsun Chan was indeed brave, but he was worried, that is, Gongsun Chan hated the Hu people deeply, and treated the Hu people extremely fiercely, mean and unkind, and let him command Karasuma Hu Qi, I am afraid it is not good.

However, the situation was urgent, and although Lu Zhi raised concerns, Emperor Ling still appointed Gongsun Chan as the commander, and then ordered Guo Peng to raise 3,000 Karasuma elite cavalry and hand them over to Gongsun Chan to command, and let Gongsun Chan lead the army to support Zhang Wen and crusade against Han Sui.

After Guo Peng received the order, he immediately got up and went to Qiu Liju's tribe, and after seeing Qiu Liju, he proposed a recruitment order to him, Qiu Liju did not dare to disobey, and immediately acted and ordered to mobilize 3,000 cavalry from his tribe and hand it over to Guo Peng.

After that, Qiu Liju invited Guo Peng to drink wine and eat meat.

"Isn't the general involved in this march?"

Qiu Liju was a little surprised to learn that it was not Guo Peng who commanded the troops this time, but Gongsun Zhan.

"Yes, I want to stay and guard the northern frontier to prevent Han Sui and Xianbei from colluding and attacking the Han on both sides, then it will be bad."

Guo Peng drank a glass of wine and said, "Gongsun Chan is also famous in Liaodong, you won't be unfamiliar with it, right?" ”

"Not really."

Qiu Liju's face was a little more hesitant: "It's just that this Gongsun general has always been very unfriendly to our people, and if he commands the troops, I don't know ......."

Qiu Liju raised his doubts, and Guo Peng also understood what Qiu Liju meant.

Gongsun Zhan is notoriously fierce in treating the Hu people in Liaodong, he is not like Liu Yu, who has done the assassination of Youzhou before, treats the Hu people and advocates tolerance and friendliness, nor is he like Guo Peng, who deters with military merits and rules with fairness and strictness, he is simply fierce.

Either way, just kill.

This can certainly make the Hu people afraid, but when it is necessary to cooperate, it will naturally produce the factor of distrust, which is a big taboo for marching and fighting, and once it appears, it will inevitably be defeated.

In today's terms, Gongsun Chan can be said to be a hardcore radical nationalist.

This has something to do with his background.

Gongsun Zhan's hometown, Liaoxi County, has always been the only way for the Hu people living in the northeast to go south to the interior, and whenever the Hu people invade the south, Liaoxi County is always easy to be poisoned by war.

Gongsun Chan grew up in such an area where ethnic contradictions and conflicts were extremely fierce, and he saw countless relatives and friends die at the hands of the Hu people, so he naturally hated the Hu people to the bone.

This is something that people like Liu Yu, who grew up in the peaceful mainland, cannot feel.

Therefore, it is not unimaginable that the contradiction between Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan will intensify to the point of later.

This is tantamount to a contradiction between the pacifist Virgin and the radical nationalists, and it will also be fought in modern times, let alone ancient times.

Liu Yu couldn't understand such a thing, Gongsun Chan naturally hated Liu Yu for being pedantic, and for Liu Yu's weak behavior of ignoring the blood and tears of the people of Youzhou and using people's fat and ointment to give peace to foreigners, Gongsun Chan naturally couldn't bear it.

So he killed Liu Yu.

In Liu Yu's view, Gongsun Zhan's endless behavior of killing and killing cannot solve the problem at all, this is just Gongsun Chan venting his personal anger by using public power.

The more ruthless the killing, the more it will intensify everyone's contradictions, cause mutual distrust, and the killing is endless, and only when one party is completely killed can it be stopped.

But can thousands of people really be killed?

When you kill someone, don't you die?

Liu Yu knew that Gongsun Zhan's method was not a solution to the problem, so he objected, he wanted to stop Gongsun Zhan, but unfortunately he didn't have any military talent himself, and he was killed by Gongsun Zhan's surprise attack when he had the advantage.

These two people represent two extremes, are completely incompatible, and neither is desirable.

Therefore, Guo Peng is not optimistic about Gongsun Zhan's command of the Karasuma cavalry this time.