Guo Peng waved his army north, and quickly occupied the two counties that had been ravaged by the Yufula and Baibo armies for a long time, recovered them, and expanded his territory in Bingzhou.

In the middle of July of the first year of Xingping, Guo Peng and Zhang Yan were reappointed from Shangdang Taishou to Xihe Taishou, and Biao Lu Qian was reappointed as Shangdang County Shou, and took the opportunity to serve as Shangtaiyuan's county guard.

In the case of Cao Hong's crimes, Guo Peng felt that the current Cao clan and the Xiahou clan were relatively powerful in the government and the army, which had made many subordinates feel troubled and felt that this was a hidden danger.

Although the Cao family and the Xiahou family had a close relationship with him, for long-term consideration, Guo Peng still began to vigorously promote the children of the Guo family into the officialdom and the army.

In addition to Guo Rui, who has already served as the minister of Zhao Guo, there are also Guo Jia, who plans military affairs by his side, and Guo Lie, who serves as the garrison of Lu State on Xiahoudun's side, and Guo Yi, a child of his own family who has been training by Zaoyi's side for a long time, to be promoted to Shangdang County as a taishou.

Then, Guo Dong, who had been serving as a lieutenant in the Tiger Guard Army, was promoted to Taiyuan County to serve as the Taiyuan garrison, commanding the soldiers and horses to face the Southern Xiongnu.

Guo Peng began to take the initiative to cultivate the strength of the Guo family.

He used the Cao family and the Xiahou clan as his important forces, and has always vigorously promoted and appointed them, but he also knew that it was too much, his own family may not always be reliable, and they also represented the interests of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and the necessary restraint was necessary.

Guo's children are on the one hand, and on the other hand, Guo Peng has not forgotten to vigorously promote the grassroots talents from Li Shu to a higher level.

For example, many times he sent out the children of Li Shu who served as personal guards around him to become officers, starting from the grassroots level, and sending some outstanding talents trained among the village chiefs and township chiefs to serve as auxiliary positions in the county or to the school palace for further study, in order to reach a higher level.

These Li Shu children who have no background and rely on Guo Peng's promotion are their most reliable subordinates, and their loyalty will not be lower than that of their own families.

Guo Peng mainly relied on them to control the grassroots, whether it was the army or the political power, to ensure that the tuntian system was not destroyed and eroded, which was the economic foundation for Guo Peng to pacify the world.

Once this economic foundation is destroyed, the pacification of the world will turn sour.

Cao Hong did that, he was touching Guo Peng's bottom line, if he wasn't surnamed Cao, if it wasn't for his natural greed, but for other purposes, he would have been killed by Guo Peng a long time ago, and Guo Peng wouldn't have spent so much effort to flaunt his personality.

Dare to move my foundation, dare to move me It took so much effort to build a foundation, that is, I am looking for death, and whoever touches it will die.

The process of pacifying the world is also a process of shuffling, if the cards are not shuffled, then the pacification of the world must be very fast, that is, the so-called transmission of the decide, but the establishment of that is also an Eastern Han Empire.

Guo Peng didn't want the Eastern Han Empire.

This method can be used to save some time that does not need to be wasted when necessary, but accidental injuries during war are always more upright than political turmoil after war.

Do as much as you can.

Guo Peng can't be like Gongsun Du in Liaodong.

Liaodong is far away from the Central Plains, the transportation is inconvenient, and the bitter cold, basically no one wants to go, which is the main premise.

Therefore, Gongsun Du was able to calmly claim the king and hegemony in Liaodong County, kill more than 100 wealthy families in Liaodong County, completely control the entire Liaodong County, and then go south to conquer part of Korea and establish his own independent kingdom.

This guy is really just.

In one go, he killed more than 100 wealthy families in Liaodong who did not deal with him, killed corpses all over the field, seized all power and the right to speak, and laid the foundation for nearly half a century of secession of the Gongsun clan in Liaodong.

did what Guo Peng dreamed of but didn't dare to do.

Therefore, in order to pacify the Gongsun clan, Sima Yi also led the army to run thousands of miles and use military means to eliminate the Gongsun clan's regime.

Guo Peng did not have this condition, so he could not do so, so he could only use war as an excuse to make a black hand.

Just like in Xihe County and Taiyuan County, Guo Peng swept away the remnants of the powerful sects in the two counties in the name of colluding with the Yellow Turban Thieves and the Southern Xiongnu, forcibly eliminated their armed forces, razed their fortresses, and seized everything from them.

It was more straightforward and thorough than Liu Biao's elimination of the thieves in Jingzhou, and he controlled everything in the two counties.

Then he re-established his rule safely, used Zhang Yan's prestige in this area to let Zhang Yan go out, recruited the fleeing families in the mountains to return to the land to cultivate the land, join the sequence of tuntian, resume production, provide food, and prepare for the further northern expedition to the Southern Xiongnu.

Guo Peng killed Yu Fuluo, and also killed his younger brother Hu Chuquan and son Liu Bao, wiped out his clan, and cut off a major disaster, and then set his sights on Shan Yuting, the Southern Xiongnu in Meiji.

Now is not the time for the Northern Expedition and the Southern Huns to completely tear their faces.

Guo Peng asked Zang Hong to concurrently serve as the general of the Xiongnu, trying to repair relations with the Southern Xiongnu, explaining the reasons why Yu Fuluo was killed for his crimes, and then stating that the actual manager of the Southern Xiongnu, Lao Wang, was the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu to appease his heart.

In this way, he can buy some time for Guo Peng to gain a firm foothold on the front line of Xihe County and Taiyuan County, establish his own forces, train cavalry, and build a base for the Northern Expedition.

Jia Xu wanted to make Yu Fuluo a trouble for Guo Peng, but Guo Peng was really resolute in the trouble, and he also solved the bigger trouble in the future.

Yu Fuluo's grandson, that is an emperor.

Although he is not an orthodox emperor, in that dark and chaotic era, it is not an ordinary person who can be an emperor.

To tell the truth, it is easier and smoother for the Hu people to be emperors than for the Han people, and there is no moral baggage when killing people.

Those who are afraid of being killed are also really cheap, people don't do it, they have to be dogs, but there is no way, most people are like this, they don't cry when they don't see the coffin.

Of course, Guo Peng feels that he has no position to comment on others, after all, he is not a moral model, and he does all kinds of dirty things.

After this insignificant war subsided, Guo Peng's class returned to Puyang.

At the same time that the Chang'an Imperial Court asked the Chang'an Imperial Court to give the Southern Xiongnu Lao Wang a title, Guo Peng also asked Yang Feng, Li Le, Hu Cai, Han Xianam, Yu Fuluo, Hu Chuquan and Liu Bao to pack and send the seven heads to the Chang'an Imperial Court, so that Li Guofan and Jia Wenhe could take a look together.

Don't mess with me.

Guo Peng only wanted to convey these three words.

If the three thieves and Jia Wenhe still had a little desire to survive, they would definitely not do anything that made Guo Peng unhappy.

These seven human heads should be able to make them understand something.

And Guo Peng feels that they should pay more attention to themselves than they are now.

Lack of food and clothing, the army is about to collapse, the situation is difficult to maintain, and there is an emperor to control.

Are they really not afraid of a total collapse?

Guo Peng felt that a certain moment might be coming, that crucial moment.

And his preparations are well underway.