Guo Peng painted a magnificent picture for the children of the future and the Wei Empire.

And Cao Lan was shocked by the situation depicted by Guo Peng.

The 800-year-old division of the Zhou royal family has been a great change unseen in the ages, if Guo Peng's plan is successfully implemented, what will the future look like?

Nobody knows.

Anyway, Cao Lan definitely can't see that kind of future.

"In that case......"

Guo Peng held Cao Lan's hand.

"In that case, at least in a hundred to two hundred years, there will be no conflict among the children, they don't have the foundation to have conflict, and even if there is conflict, it will be a hundred or two hundred years later, and we will be gone for a long time.

At that time, no matter how worried we were, what could we do? As long as their ruling core is far enough away that Luoyang cannot be reached within three months of their ruling core, then they will not be able to engage in an actual conflict.

Even if they grow and contradict each other, they can't really kill each other, and the terrain, transportation, productivity, population, army size, and so on will effectively limit the possibility of conflict between them. ”

Guo Peng smiled helplessly: "Alan, this world is very big, far from being covered by this place of Huaxia Shenzhou, the world is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is, now we know that thousands of miles away, there is a huge Great Qin State as big as us."

Their territory is so big, so is there a bigger territory outside of them? If our children and their descendants can continue to forge ahead.

Continue to fight for more territory and population, to the west, to the north, to the east, to the south, hundreds of years later, beyond China, there is China. ”

Cao Lan was completely speechless in surprise.

After a while, Cao Lanzai looked at her husband carefully and said slowly: "Penglang, why do you always think of things that others can't think of?" No one had ever thought of such a thing, not even the previous emperors. ”

"I don't know, but it's a miracle that I can be an emperor in itself, right?"

Guo Peng said with a smile: "The predecessors are not without efforts and pioneering, without the division of King Wu, our descendants will not be able to occupy the entire Central Plains, Hebei and Jiangnan, without Qin Shi Huang's car with the same track book and unified weights and measures, there will be no foundation for today's unification."

There is no former pedestrian sub-envelope, we don't know what sub-envelope is, there is no former pedestrian county, we don't know what a county is, everything we use now, which one, is not the predecessor pioneering and enterprising? Who are we to blame our predecessors for not working hard enough? ”

Guo Peng hugged Cao Lan tightly: "What I am doing now is also what countless predecessors have done, it is all pioneering, there is no distinction between high and low, I only hope that what I do can bring enlightenment to future generations, and what I can't do, they will continue to do." ”

Cao Lan also hugged Guo Peng tightly.

"I don't know that much, but I know that Peng Lang is really thinking about the children and the Wei State, and that's enough."

"As a father, it's enough, but as an emperor, it's not enough, I can do more, I have to do more."

Guo Peng took a deep breath, spit out slowly, and said: "There won't be a lot of time left for me, I have to do everything I need to do before I run out of energy, I can't leave too many things to Ah Jin, if I can't do some things, he can't do it."

Before I die, I must do all these things, whether it is the imperial examination, the school, the popularization of paper, or the division of the countries, I must do it, and I must not leave these things to Ah Jin to do. ”

"Penglang, is the matter of paper and books really dangerous?"

Cao Lan asked in a low voice.

"Well, it's dangerous, not an ordinary danger, but don't worry, even if we lose, Wei is still Wei, I am still the emperor, and no one can threaten us."

Guo Peng hugged Cao Lan tighter: "The army is in hand, and no one dares to break the net with me." ”

Guo Peng absolutely does not want to see the scene where the children hate each other, compete with each other, fight each other openly and secretly, and not after death.

Blood relatives cannibalize each other, fight each other, and hate each other.

Although for the Heavenly Family, such a situation is unavoidable.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven must establish the successor as soon as possible, protect the successor, educate the successor, let everyone die, and maintain the stability of the country.

But this is only a palliative method, and the nature of the competition between princes has not changed, and if you want to change this essence, you need to start from other places.

It is necessary to find a way out for the princes other than to be imprisoned in the capital.

So that the Son of Heaven and his brothers will not threaten each other.

So he's been thinking about how to solve this problem.

Seeing the children growing up, the second son Guo Jun is already seventeen years old, like a lively and outgoing boy.

Quick thinking, very talented, good at mathematics and careful thinking, quite sensitive to numbers, Guo Peng can even debate with him on mathematical issues.

The children cultivated with the elite education of the Guo family are the worst and middle-class, and it is impossible to abolish them.

If you put it outside, no matter how you can govern a county, you can manage hundreds of thousands of living beings.

He really couldn't bear to see such an excellent child die depressed because he only had one throne, and he couldn't show his talent in his life.

And he can only be imprisoned in the imperial city of Luoyang like a canary, covering up his pain with eating, drinking, and indulging in landscapes, and if his ambition is slightly leaked, he will be liquidated by the emperor's brother.

This is something that Guo Peng doesn't want to see anyway.

But Guo Peng is a qualified emperor, and he will never shake the position of the crown prince Guo Jin for the talents of Guo Jun and other sons, which is inappropriate.

Guo Jin is his heir and his crown prince, and this will definitely not change.

He spent a lot of effort to determine Guo Jin's status, and spent a lot of effort to create a situation suitable for Guo Jin to govern, and his future was pinned on Guo Jin.

So he can't tolerate anyone provoking Guo Jin's position no matter what.

So the future of Guo Jun and other children is destined to be bleak and hopeless.

He and his younger brother Guo Qiong must be a thorn in Guo Jin's heart after becoming the emperor.

What will Guo Jin think about this matter?

Can their brothers be the same as Tang Xuanzong's brothers, always happy and happy?

Can Guo Jin and Guo Jun trust each other and rely on each other for a lifetime, just like Yongzheng and the Thirteen Kings?

There are so many things that cannot be predicted.

Guo Peng can't pin his hopes on survivor bias.

I can protect them when I am alive, but what about when I die?

What unforeseen things can happen?

Guo Peng can probably guess.

Even if Guo Jin will not abuse his brothers for his own reasons, he will never give them the opportunity to display their talents.

Power, like love, has a strong sense of exclusivity.

Guo Yang is a waste, Guo Peng doesn't care about him at all, so he is named an idle king, and directly let him be idle at home, just eat, drink and have fun, and he can't make any waves.

In the future, if you find a reason, it will be abolished, and it will not make any waves.

But Guo Jin's brothers are not destined to waste firewood like Guo Yang, which Guo is very confident in.

Future disputes and fratricidal strife are inevitable.

The future of the children after his own death is not good.

It's not okay.

His love for children could not tolerate such a situation.

He had to do something.

After thinking about it, Guo Peng drew inspiration from the limitations of the imperial wall and the feudal system of the Zhou royal family, and found an opportunity to solve the problem.

The Imperial Pole Wall is a concept.

It is about the limit of a centralized empire that can be reached 100 days after a decree or army leaves the capital.

After a 100-day journey, the Imperial Decree and the army set out from the capital, and walked at a normal pace for 100 days, and the last place they reached was the limit of the Empire's rule.

Beyond this limit, the lag of government decrees and the lag of military intervention will make the empire's rule here collapse and unsustainable.

This is the extreme wall of the empire.

It is the limit of the county system under the stable centralized system, and the limit of the super-strong absolute monarchy system under the imperial power to the countryside.

The place beyond the extreme wall is something that the empire cannot successfully occupy no matter how hard it tries, and bondage is the best ending.

It's not a good thing that the empire is too big.

With the current transportation conditions, it is difficult to change for hundreds of years, and before the transportation revolution takes place, the imperial wall will be realized in its own hands.

Therefore, sealing the country for children outside the extreme wall of the empire is the best choice for Guo Jin and other children.

It can allow them to develop their talents, so that they will not end up depressed, and they will not be able to meet the conditions of mutual threat.

It was difficult for the divided states and the suzerain, the Wei Empire, to threaten each other.

Even if they threaten each other, they won't happen in a few hundred years.

Unless the Industrial Revolution really comes early, the train appears, and the Iron Age arrives, then it will be possible for the Wei Empire to break through the original extreme wall and walk onto the stage of Xintiandi.

The industrial revolution is not something that Guo can bring alone, the right time and place are indispensable, and many basic conditions are needed to jointly spawn.

We need sufficient basic knowledge, sufficient emancipation of the mind, and the collective wisdom and strength of a society.

Guo believes that he is not a system flow overlord, and he only knows many things but does not know why.

Knowing the existence of gunpowder also requires people to experiment for a long time to come up with the most basic earth-shaking thunder.

Only after observing the frying method and the filling method did we know how to make a mature piece of steel, what steps are needed and how long.

Knowing that papermaking and printing also required a lot of manpower and material resources to pile up and experiment, it took several years of hard work and countless money to build a secret workshop from the initial failure to the later molding and mass production.

Knowing the existence of artillery, he couldn't make it because he couldn't make steel that was durable enough.

He doesn't know the detailed proportioning, he doesn't know how to remove impurities, he knows how the finished product is, but he doesn't know how to do it.

I don't know how to operate it when I know the existence of the flowering bomb.

I knew that the musket existed, and I didn't know how to build it.

Knowing the trains, knowing the tracks, knowing everything, but not knowing the details.

There were so many things he didn't know.

It seems that he knows everything, but when he really implements it, he is blind.

How?

What to do with?

How to expand production and achieve mass production?

He came up with an idea, and the craftsmen looked at each other and asked him what to do, which he didn't know.

Draw a cannon and let the craftsmen follow the drawings, and the craftsmen are also confused.

Your Majesty, what are the specific dimensions of each part?

What is the barrel thickness?

Guo blinked, not knowing how to answer.

He's just an emperor, not a technology stream overlord, and he can't play with technology.

The only thing he can do, which is more advanced than the current people, is that he knows what the final product is and where the ultimate goal is pointed.

He can set a goal, so that the craftsmen can work towards this goal, without taking detours, directly towards the set goal to experiment, to repeatedly fail, to repeatedly record and accumulate experience, so that little by little forward.

He can give out the process of progress, and the rest, the process in between, depends on the people of the moment to explore slowly.

Any progress is achieved with a great deal of social needs and experience, as well as the failures of countless predecessors.

What can contribute to progress must also be the final mass production, popularized to the people, shared by the whole people, not one or two exquisite handmade crafts regardless of cost.

Guo has a showdown, and he can't do it.

Not for three hundred years.

Therefore, he is not worried that the extreme wall of the empire he has explored will be broken within three hundred years, and his plan of dividing the feudal is feasible.

Of course, if there is any particularly strong capable person among the descendants, such as a genius in the sky, according to his vision, he really achieved a technological leap and broke the extreme wall of his empire, then Guo someone will be very happy in the spirit of the sky.

But now, he doesn't see any possibility of losing it, and his plans will fluctuate.

So, he decided to work in this direction.

Let the kids out.

With some challenges and dangers, let them expand their territory and build their own country, and at the same time, they will not shake and threaten Guo Jin's position.

Guo Jin is the great suzerain, the great suzerain of the Guo royal family, with the most complete land for development and construction and the abundant capital accumulated by Guo Peng for him, and he is not afraid of external threats at all.

Transferring the internal threat caused by the children to him into an external threat that is not a threat is also reassuring for Guo Jin.

The brothers are fighting abroad, and if they succeed, they can open up a new era of Chinese civilization beyond the extreme walls of the empire.

Outside of China, it is still China, so constantly expanding, constantly expanding the living space of the nation, so that everyone knows that there are people outside the sky.

Perhaps, after this idea is truly implemented, it will become a decisive step in changing the direction of history.

After having such an idea, Guo Peng began to secretly prepare for this matter.

For example, to what extent he plans to expand, to what position, and how to consolidate the extreme wall of the empire.

In the four major directions of southeast, northwest and northwest, because of the difference in topography and terrain, the location that the same person can reach after walking for a hundred days from Luoyang is different.

Even if some places can be reached, they cannot be managed because of the special environment, which is equivalent to waste.

The extreme wall of the empire is a theory, and it is even more difficult to divide the external feud above it.

Falling into reality requires careful exploration and thought, and requires extremely standard mapping and argumentation, which was not possible before the great geographical discoveries.

Until humans have a concept of the whole world, it will not be possible.

And Guo knows exactly the final result of thousands of years of human exploration.

He knows the earth, he knows Asia, Europe, Africa, America, Oceania and even Antarctica, how big these places are, how rich they are, and how much population they carry are.

He has a general understanding in his heart, can make a decision for him, and can override public opinion.

This is the fundamental reason why his vision is enough to surpass all emperors and pursue this policy.

Therefore, Guo Peng set the limit of the future expansion of the Wei Empire to the east on Sakhalin Island, immigrating, and striving to develop the black soil and rich mineral deposits there.

The limit of expansion to the north was set in the area of Outer Mongolia, ending at Beihai, where Suwu was a sheep herd, and vigorously developing grassland animal husbandry to provide meat and dairy products for the people of the Central Plains.

The limit of westward expansion was set in the Pamirs, to gain enough strategic depth for the Chinese interior to grasp the first phase of the Silk Road and eliminate the middlemen who occupied it.

The limit of expansion to the south was set to the entire territory of Jiaozhou, including the Red River Plain, as well as Hainan Island and Taiwan Island, and efforts were made to resettle and develop the grain to make it possible to double or triple cropping grain a year, and to operate the maritime industry.

If this plan is to be fully realized, it will take a hundred years to say the least, and Guo can only lay a foundation to make a plan, and then it will be completed, and it is estimated that it will wait for Guo Jin's sons and even grandchildren.

Beyond this territorial limit, without a revolutionary leap in transportation, the county system will collapse, and the central government will not be able to govern, and the gains will outweigh the losses, which is not something that a qualified ruler should hope for.

In addition to this, Guo will send the children to the land outside of here.

or eastward, or south, or north, or west.

Help them lay a piece of land, give them population, resources, wealth, as their capital to start a business.

Then let's go for self-development.

Let them build their own homes, build their own countries, develop themselves, fight on their own, expand on their own, and fight for their own living space.

Beyond the periphery of the empire, create a new era of their own, build their own country, continue to explore, and realize their ambitions without being confined to the struggle for the throne.

The love of parents for their children is far-reaching.

As a father, Guo has done his best.

As the emperor of the Wei Empire and the father of tens of millions of people, in order to prevent civil strife in the country after him, the people will not fall against each other, and Guo is also exhausted.

He has done all he can, and he will leave a path of development for future generations, setting a precedent for future generations.

When will the Wei Empire fall, how far these satellite states can develop, what will happen in the future, and how far the fire of Chinese civilization can spread, that is not something he can influence.

Based on the classical era, Guo was unable to take the whole country into the colonial era with great strides, and he believed that what he had done was already the limit.

He will not know where the children can go, what kind of country they can build in the future, how much change they can bring to the world, and what kind of world political pattern they can transform.

Enough is enough, really enough.

Human beings have limits, and Guo also has limits, and he is no longer able to do things that go beyond the limits.

Lying on the bed with Cao Lan in his arms, listening to the quiet breathing of his beloved wife, Guo Peng also slowly closed his eyes.

Tomorrow is another new day, another day of fighting.