The popularity of the world represented by the emperor alone is really terrifying, whether it is himself, Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu can master, it is a great thing.

So, what to do, Guo Peng has a rod scale in his heart.

Regarding Chen Gong's suggestion, Guo Peng showed a look of great joy, saying that he agreed with Chen Gong's idea very much and wanted to achieve this goal with Chen Gong.

Chen Gong was also quite happy, feeling that he had met the Ming Lord and could realize his political ideals.

Guo Peng's foothold in Yanzhou has become very stable, except for Chen Liujun, who has not yet reached out to intervene, Yanzhou has already recognized the master.

Bao Xin was very obedient to Guo Peng's orders and agreed with Guo Peng's policy of stabilizing the local area with the policy of tuntian.

His Yanzhou Assassin was actually appointed by Guo Peng, and the two had a master-slave relationship, so he vigorously promoted the Tuntian policy as the Yanzhou Assassin and helped Guo Peng control Yanzhou.

Despite this, it is that the four counties that Guo Peng directly sent his own people to control can push forward the Tuntian policy on a large scale, and the other four counties are just doing superficial engineering to deal with the decree of the assassination.

Still, Guo Peng's power and status in Yanzhou are unquestionable.

Therefore, by the end of March of the third year of Chuping, when the situation in Youzhou and Chang'an would undergo huge and far-reaching changes, Guo Peng was already a veritable lord of the two states.

As the status increases, so does the strength.

After mastering a large amount of resources, Guo Peng smoothly expanded the army, dismissed the old and weak soldiers in Yanzhou, and sent them back to their hometowns to farm, or to cultivate their own fields, or to participate in tuntian.

After that, select strong people to join the army, including the original Yanzhou soldiers and the original Yellow Turban Army, select the strong from them, and then integrate them into the original Qingzhou army.

After this work was completed, Guo Peng expanded the army to about 100,000 people, set up a new training camp in Lu County, and included the new recruits to step up training.

These 100,000 people are not all pure soldiers who fought in all directions.

There are about 30,000 local county security soldiers, who perform local garrison and law and order tasks, and are not responsible for fighting everywhere, but they also need to participate in military training and fight in case of war.

The remaining 70,000 or so are the real soldiers, completely out of production, specializing in conquest, and once there is a war, they immediately rush to the past to fight.

Guo Peng fed them with the grain he got from the tuntian, paid them money, and made them a professional army that was completely subordinate to his orders.

Now among the princes in the world, there is only Guo Peng who can support a professional army of this scale.

Because the scale of his tuntian is large enough, and it is getting bigger and bigger, more and more grain is harvested, and there are enough people who can control it to requisition and transport grain to ensure wartime logistics.

In ancient times, "100,000 soldiers, 100,000 expeditions, 700,000 people who can't do anything."

When an expedition was 1,000 miles away, 100,000 troops were dispatched, and 700,000 households were required to ensure soldiers and logistics, which was very small in terms of productivity and transportation at that time.

Guo Peng has personally experienced many battles, the army in front is fighting, and the people in the rear are tired and tired of transporting military rations and military supplies, all the way to transport, and some people fall to the ground and can't get up all the way.

The officers and soldiers were very ferocious in transporting grain and grass, because the demand for grain and grass at the front was almost harsh.

The farther the distance to the war, the greater the mobilization power of the people, and the greater the damage to production.

Leaving the border to fight a war of 100,000 people will take a long time and a large-scale and comprehensive mobilization.

In the battle of Weishui, the former Qin planned to mobilize 1.12 million troops, but it was only 110 days from the beginning of mobilization to the defeat, less than four months, Fu Jian still left a large army in Xiangcheng, and there were no million troops on the front line.

And if the one million troops really all pressed to the south of the Yangtze River, it is estimated that before the battle was fought, the whole country of Qianqin would go bankrupt.

Quite simply, if 1.1 million people eat without working, how much grain reserves and transportation capacity must be enough to ensure it.

Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu in the north, and the reason why they were able to form a strong army was because they had a strong control over the grassroots people.

Arrange the people together, and the imperial power goes to the countryside.

At the sound of an order, the whole people mobilized, and there was no hindrance.

Therefore, Qin Shi Huang mobilized more than 100,000 troops to fight several times, and there were no problems in grain and grass.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dispatched 100,000 iron cavalry to launch the decisive battle of Mobei in one go, and did not delay the grain and straw.

Being able to wage a war of this scale requires a high level of mobilization from the government, and it is very important to be able to control the local people and the means of production.

That's the difference between big government and small government.

The Qin government and the Han government during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were undoubtedly extremely powerful governments.

Since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there has been no atmosphere of big government, and Liu Xiu once launched Dutian to gain greater power, but under the "will of the people", he was defeated.

Since then, the government of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been shrinking, the imperial power has been weakening, it looks very strong, but in fact its control over the local area has been very weak, and by the time of Huan Ling, it was already a small government on the verge of collapse.

For Guo, if it weren't for the Yellow Turban Army's uprising and trouble, attacking the powerful and powerful households, and destroying the enemy's order, giving him the opportunity to exploit loopholes, it would be very difficult to re-establish order, so he would need to snatch the households and means of production from the hands of the powerful landlords.

That is undoubtedly against the "people" and will not please you.

Thanks to the Yellow Turban Army, as well as those rogue bandits who are wandering around, and even more thanks to the celebrities who have done nothing, they have given Guo Peng the opportunity to establish a strong and effective order.

It allowed him to control millions of households and yeoman farmers in his hands, without the need to exchange political power for households and means of production through the powerful and nobles.

However, it is only food and mobilization, these households are illiterate, uneducated, unable to master the knowledge of governance, and unable to become high-ranking officials.

Guo Peng can select grassroots officials from among them, but he can't select talents who can formulate strategies, so he still has to compromise with the wealthy families and exchange political power for their cooperation.

Some counties are directly controlled by Guo Peng, and some counties are ordered to be ordered, but in fact, Guo Peng is collecting agreed taxes, and other things are not easy to meddle in.

The county commanders of the Taishou have considerable autonomy, and they act according to orders, whether they are discounted, and it is not easy to manage whether they are in place after Guo Peng issued the order to raise grain resources.

Just like on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, many counties under Cao Cao's command wavered.

Cao Cao ordered to raise grain and grass resources to fight against Yuan Shao, but the nobles who actually controlled these resources were not optimistic about Cao Cao, did not support him, did not give him grain and grass resources, and he did not dare to grab them directly.

The taste of being stuck in the neck is not pleasant, it is really uncomfortable.

Therefore, Guo has attached great importance to local construction from the very beginning.

It is necessary to rebuild the areas that have been destroyed, reorganize them into new townships and villages, directly bring them under management, register them, and establish a sound civil administration and taxation system, so as to gain their own mobilization force.