Guo Peng gave an order, the army was ready, and the roads were barely usable, but the food problem was in front of him.

Although Tuntian has been arranged, and the spring plowing work has been completed in the entire Jizhou, the summer grain has not yet reached the time of harvest, and the grain used now is the reserve grain of Qingyan Erzhou in previous years.

If you want to go to Bingzhou to fight, I am afraid that there will not be much grain in the newly built major granaries in Jizhou, and the grain copied from the homes of the major powerful landlords will be almost used, so it will be very embarrassing.

If Guo Peng wants to go out to conquer the state, he has to go all the way to mobilize grain and grass from the eastern part of Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

Faced with such a problem, Tian Feng stood up and suggested to Guo Peng that he could requisition grain and grass from the powerful landlords' families in Jizhou, and called on them to donate grain and grass to Guo Peng.

Tian Feng said that the major powerful clans in Jizhou actually wanted to tie up Guo Peng very much.

"In the previous war, although they did not help Yuan Benchu, but they also did not help Ming Gong, so they were worried, they didn't know how to deal with themselves, Ming Gong was magnanimous and did not pursue it, their hearts were uneasy, if they could be given the opportunity to make meritorious contributions at this time, they would definitely be very enthusiastic to donate food and grass."

Tian Feng's suggestion Guo Peng really listened to it, this is a thing that does not need to be used in vain.

Every household of these powerful clans has built a granary, and the grain in their hands together is not even comparable to the grain stored in the granary built by Guo Peng in Qingyan Erzhou.

Years of accumulation, profound heritage, the larger the scale, the more storage, now there is still nearly half of the land in Jizhou in the hands of these landlords, their financial and material resources are still not to be underestimated.

But for them, there is no doubt that they are an unshakable behemoth, a fierce warlord, an object to fear, a power man who wants to do everything he can.

Thinking of the grand occasion when Yuan Shao could pull 70,000 or 80,000 troops with a single shout, Guo Peng thought about whether he should also try how famous he is now.

Don't count Yuan Shu, just look at yourself, don't play the banner of Yuan Shu, only play your own Guo banner.

So Guo Peng issued a grain requisition notice in the face of the powerful landlords in Jizhou.

It is said that Yu Fuluo and the Baibo Yellow Turban thieves have bad intentions and may invade Jizhou, which is very dangerous.

Guo Peng was ready to organize his troops and horses to fight against the Yufula and Baibo Yellow Turban Army, but now he was short of food, and hoped to collect some food from the "people" in various places to crusade against the thief army.

This order was conveyed to the county guards and ministers of each county, and then to the counties and to the landlords and magnates.

After they knew it, the reaction was not beyond Tian Feng's expectations.

rushed to take out some of the family's accumulated grain, took the initiative to load it, and arranged for manpower and material resources to be transported to the major official granaries designated by Guo Peng for free.

For a time, all the avenues in Jizhou were full of grain trucks, and the full grain bags were full of bulging grain.

The powerful clans of Jizhou once again showed Guo Peng that they had enough manpower, material and financial resources to support the establishment of the Eastern Han Empire.

Although after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Battle of Guo Yuan, they suffered heavy losses and were ploughed over and over again from south to north and from north to south, but the remaining people are still not an existence to be underestimated.

And in this vigorous food donation action, the most outstanding is undoubtedly the Zhen family in Wuji County, Zhongshan Kingdom.

With the efforts of the Zhen family, the food taken out of Wuji County is enough for Guo Peng's army to be used for more than a month, which is really wealthy.

Guo Peng didn't know much about the Zhen family at first, but after asking Tian Feng, he understood a lot of things.

The Zhen family has a long history, settled in Zhongshan in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, became a small haoqiang, and its power continued to increase, and then became an official step by step through means such as filial piety and honesty, and transformed from a powerful landlord's family to a family of scholars.

By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Wuji Zhen family had become the eunuch family of Zhongshan County.

At that time, Zhen Feng and Zhen Han, important leaders of the Zhen clan, were both important figures in Wang Mang's group, and obtained a high status through Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne, and Zhen Han himself was a disciple of Kong Guang, a descendant of Confucius.

However, because of the close relationship with Wang Mang, after the fall of Wang Mang, the Zhen family was silent for a while, and the official fortune in the Eastern Han Dynasty was not very good.

A failed investment allowed them to re-follow the path of their ancestors, continue to follow the road from the local to the central, silently accumulate land and financial resources in the local area, survive as a strong person, and constantly try to tie up with the local county guards, in order to get the opportunity to raise filial piety and reinvigorate the family business.

Because of the early accumulation and the fact that Zhen Han had been a disciple of Kong Guang, there is no doubt that the Zhen family is already a scholar.

The descendants of the Zhen family worked hard to find an opportunity to recover, and finally at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhen Yi, the son of the Zhen family, was promoted to filial piety and served as Shangcai Ling, and entered the officialdom again after more than 100 years.

But soon, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the life span of the Eastern Han Dynasty is also coming to an end, the princes are fighting, the world is falling apart, the battle of Guo Yuan is about to break out, everyone is in danger, I don't know where tomorrow is.

The Zhen family is also faced with a choice.

Previously, Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou, and the Zhen family and Yuan Shao looked at each other, and gave Yuan Shao a lot of help openly and secretly.

But because of the eyeing of Yuan Shu's forces in the south, he has never made up his mind to completely surrender to Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao was in danger, the Zhen family held a family meeting, watching many people take out the family accumulation to help Yuan Shao win the war, and the Zhen family was arguing fiercely, arguing and arguing, and the Zhen family decided to remain neutral.

In the end, Guo Peng won, Yuan Shao died, and the group's power collapsed.

The powerful landlord who helped Yuan Shao was bloodily purged by the Yuan Shu faction, and the land of Jizhou was a sea of corpses and blood, and the Zhen family was terrified at the same time, but also felt very happy.

Since the first year of Xingping, the Great Purge has come to an end, and Guo Peng has begun to implement political management in Jizhou and resume production.

Seeing that Guo Peng became an upstart and became the lord of Hebei, his power and fame increased greatly, Zhen's mind began to liven up.

After Zhen Yi's death, Zhen only had Zhen Yi's son Zhen Yan as an official, serving as the head of Qu Liang, with no family background, but he never had a corresponding status, and Zhen really wanted to get the opportunity to revive the family business.

Guo Peng's order to requisition grain was issued, and Zhen saw an opportunity.

So the Zhen family gave full play to the family heritage he had accumulated for more than 100 years, and made a large amount of money and food to help Guo Peng, because the amount was huge, and it suddenly entered Guo Peng's eyes, so that Guo Peng found Tian Feng to ask about the origin of the Zhen family.

After Tian Feng's explanation, Guo Peng understood the reason.

First of all, it is affirmed that the Zhen family is a member of the scholar family, and the members of the family can study, be filial and honest officials, and let the Zhen family be hired by Yuan Shao's son as his wife, obviously has a certain status.

However, as a tool for marriage, it is Yuan Shao's second son and concubine Yuan Xi, not his sister-in-law Yuan Shang, obviously Yuan Shao does not regard the Zhen family as indispensable.