Guo Peng's desire to train young people is not a whim.

About a year or two before that, Guo Peng had already begun to set up his core team for Guo Jin, and built a small power group for him as his basic plate for later use.

For example, Lu Yu, the youngest son of Lu Zhi, whom Guo Peng loves very much, was sent by Guo Peng to Guo Jin to eat and live with his classmates, and he was very affectionate, and he was Guo Jin's earliest cronies.

Later, Guo Peng gradually selected Zang Hong's son Zang Biao, Cao Ren's eldest son Cao Tai, Xiahou Yuan's eldest son Xiahou Heng, nephew Xiahou Shang, Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, adopted son Cao Zhen, Guan Yu's eldest son Guan Ping, and several outstanding Guo children as study companions, eating and living together, and cultivating feelings.

After their age gradually reached the standard, they were successively sent out to serve in official and military positions, starting from the grassroots level and tempering their abilities.

Guo Peng expects them to become important assistants that Guo Jin can rely on in the future, and gradually grow into excellent military and political leaders, the core of the next generation of leadership and ruling groups.

In the future, if he cannot continue to govern, Guo Jin's military and political team can take over power as quickly as possible, maintain the stability of the government, and smoothly complete the smooth transition of power, so that he can smoothly bring the Wei State into the next period.

It is necessary to take precautions for this kind of thing.

If you don't make good arrangements now, if you don't cultivate some useful talents for Guo Jin, if there is a shortage of green and yellow at that time, there will be no place to cry.

The huge foundation needs more outstanding talents to inherit and manage, no matter how energetic Guo Peng is, it is impossible for him to complete the governance of national affairs alone, and Guo Peng has never thought that suppressing the crown prince to death can do any good to the dynasty.

The lessons of the imbalance between the strong old emperor and the weak crown prince abound, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, all of whom made such mistakes, and Guo Peng wanted to learn from them and think carefully about some of the things that would inevitably happen in his future.

Then he came to a conclusion.

If Guo Jin is not given some power, and Guo Jin is not allowed to control his basic plate, after the old emperor dies, why should he govern?

On what basis did he hold the supreme authority so that the imperial power would not be sidelined?

Dependent on the matriarch?

Or a eunuch?

Both can certainly be helpers, but this is not the most reliable strategy.

Guo Peng had already begun to weaken the connection between the Cao family and the Xiahou family, using the means of marriage to separate the future interests of the Cao family and the Xiahou family.

There will be further moves in the future, but the existence of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan is necessary, and they can be regarded as one of the basic plates of the Guo clan.

Needless to say, Guo Jia, Guo Lie, Guo Dong, Guo Yi and others have been deliberately cultivated and promoted by Guo Peng, and the Guo family's legal talent team has gradually taken over the important responsibilities and occupied a very important position in the government.

The power of the Guo family was greatly enhanced by Guo Peng, which was very important for Guo Peng and the Guo Wei regime.

These are the basic plates that Guo Peng wants to leave to Guo Jin to stabilize the government and enhance his power.

In addition to this, he also needs to have his own cronies, people he can trust.

Guo Jin's age is here, if the situation is normal, Guo Peng will not leave the ministers of Tuogu, there is no need for that, each of those ministers is a representative of a force, and in the end, how many ministers can die well?

But whenever there is a period of Tuogu ministers, the new emperor always has to fight with the ministers arranged by the old emperor, and if he loses, he is a puppet.

The one who sits on the throne must be strong.

How can a person who is not strong sit on the throne and be amazed?

Li Shimin once lamented that it is better to have a son like a sheep than to have a son like a wolf, because to be an emperor is to have a wolf nature, to be strong, to be strong, a strong emperor is a good emperor, and that kind of emperor with a peaceful temperament is a mediocre monarch, useless.

The emperor must be strong, he must be strong, the throne and the emperor's name are not safe, and the strength in his hands is the greatest guarantee of power.

Stronger.

And you can't be strong alone, you also have to have a strong team as an arm, not everyone is so smart as Emperor Jiajing.

A good man needs three gangs.

Therefore, Guo Peng continues to discover and collect available talents for the future.

This time it is a big victory to win Lu Yi, and Guo Peng has reason to believe that Lu Wei has grown into a very good talent.

But this is not enough, there are not too many talents at any time, and it is certainly meaningful to cultivate them by yourself, but if Guo Peng can get the talents he knows with his own advantages, it will save a lot of things.

So before Guo Peng started the idea of Prime Minister Zhuge again.

When he was in Xuzhou, Langya Zhuge was also one of the scholars who responded to Chen Deng's call to rebel against Tao Qian, and was rewarded by Guo Peng after the war.

Guo Peng asked Zhuge Jin if he had any brothers and sisters at that time, and then asked Zhuge Liang's whereabouts.

Zhuge Jin's father died eight years ago, and the family could not afford to support five siblings, so the clan discussed that Zhuge Xuan, who was going to be the Taishou of Yuzhang at that time, should assume this responsibility.

Because Zhuge Jin was slightly older, he stayed in his hometown to serve his stepmother, Zhuge Liang Zhuge Jun and his two younger sisters were taken south by Zhuge Xuan to Yuzhang County, Yangzhou, because of their young age, so that they could raise them with their own money, and later went to Jingzhou.

At that time, it was the sixth year of Zhongping.

Since then, Zhuge Jin can only communicate with his brothers and sisters, and several years have passed, and he has not seen him.

Hearing that Zhuge Xuan is now serving under Liu Biao, and his brothers and sisters are also by Zhuge Xuan's side, Guo Peng asked Zhuge Jin if he wanted a family reunion.

If you want to, it is better to write to Zhuge Xuan, saying that the Central Plains has been stabilized, and Guo Peng, the Duke of Wei, is willing to recruit them as officials to facilitate their return to their hometowns.

Zhuge Jin was very excited at the time, and immediately wrote a letter to Zhuge Xuan, and several months have passed, and he has not heard from him, so he doesn't know what the situation is.

Guo Peng was also busy fighting and had no time to pay attention, but now he had a little time, so he began to pay attention to these things.

If you can try to win the big talent, you should fight for it a little, so why should the excellent talent be cheaper than others?

Guo Peng's abacus played very loudly.

And at this moment, in Hanzhong, Liu Zhang and Pang Xi's abacus is also being fiercely launched.

They had already learned that Guo Peng had entered and occupied the Sanfu area of Chang'an, and Ma Teng, Han Sui and others had left Sanfu and returned to Liangzhou, they were not surprised by this matter, but they felt that the time had come.

During this time, Liu Zhang supported Pang Xi, accumulated a large number of soldiers and materials in Hanzhong, and sent people to explore the roads, and repaired as soon as possible if there was anything that needed to be repaired, so as not to delay the march.

By this time, there was no longer any problem with the grand strategy of going north.

Most of those who were worried that the Yizhou Treasury would not be able to afford the grain and grass needed by the army were Yizhou natives, and they were squeezed out of the highest decision-making circle by the powerful Dongzhou people, and the current top decision-making circle of the Shu Kingdom was basically Dongzhou people.

If the Yizhou treasury is not enough, it will be forcibly requisitioned, and it doesn't matter what you Yizhou people think.

If the country is in trouble, shouldn't you contribute your strength?

Dongzhou people said very arrogantly.

The people of Yizhou were so angry that they almost vomited blood.

But to no avail, in this world, people with hard fists speak and count, at this time and that time, the people of Yizhou are weak, so they have to bow their heads temporarily, and all those who rise are killed.

So for now, logistical issues are not a problem at all.

The question now is what road to take to continue north, whether to take the Qishan Road, which is relatively flat but long, or the Meridian Valley Road, which is the closest but in the worst condition.