Li Dao and Guo Yan completely tore their faces and began to attack each other, killing rivers of blood near Chang'an City, and the corpses piled up into mountains, and the only remaining people who had not escaped were also slaughtered.

Although Liu Xie was only 14 years old, he also felt afraid and worried, but he did not intend to sit idly by, but immediately sent officials from the DPRK and China to dissuade him.

However, Li Guo and the others had their muscles and brains, and they didn't listen to Liu Xie's dissuasion at all.

Li Wei remembered that Jia Xu was smart, so he appointed Jia Xu as the general of Xuanyi to win over Jia Xu.

And Guo Yan united those younger brothers who had lost trust in Li Dao, such as Yang Ding, the general of Anxi, and others, to attack Li Dao together.

Yang Ding was disgusted with Li Dao because of Li Dao's behavior, so he suggested to Guo Yan that the emperor be taken hostage from the palace to his military camp and crusade against Li Dao in the name of the Son of Heaven, but Li Dao did not dare to resist, and Guo Bi would inevitably win.

Guo Yan felt that it was okay to do this, so he began to plan, but the news leaked and was known by Li Dao, so Li Dao decided to strike first.

So Li Wei did not listen to Jia Xu's dissuasion, and sent his nephew Li Xian to lead thousands of troops to surround the Chang'an Palace and rob Liu Xie into the military camp.

Taiwei Yang Biao and many other ministers tried to stop it with their own integrity, but their integrity could not withstand the soldiers and horses, and Liu Xie was still forced to enter Li Dao's military camp.

Subsequently, the Chang'an Imperial Palace was looted by Li Wei's soldiers, and it was also set on fire, and the Chang'an City, which was still intact, was completely destroyed.

For a month, from the end of August to the end of September, Li and Guo fought each other despite dissuasion, resulting in the deaths of more than 10,000 soldiers and countless others.

While the war in the land of Guanzhong was rekindled and turned into purgatory on earth, Guo Peng was enjoying the warm fragrance of nephrite in Puyang County.

Before the crusade against Bai Bojun and Yu Fuluo, Guo Peng decided that he would take a concubine after returning from the victory, so he secretly instructed Cheng Yu to choose the right family and the right person for him.

After returning, Guo Peng gave a group of former ministers from Hebei, gave them officials and knights to stabilize their hearts, and then began to arrange the matter of concubines.

At his level, if he wants to go further, he can't just follow his own preferences, but he must deeply investigate the roots, determine the reason and purpose of his concubine, and ensure that he benefits the most.

Guo Peng first decided to ask a woman from the Xiahou clan to be a concubine.

Originally, Guo Peng didn't have this idea, but after Cao Hong's crime, Guo Peng felt more and more that the Xiahou clan and the Cao clan should not be so closely combined.

The Cao family and the Xiahou clan have you and me, I have you, and the two families who have been so reused under their command have such a close alliance, which obviously cannot meet their own needs.

In times of peace, it is to huddle together for warmth, and the traditional dilapidated aristocracy and the lowly nouveau riche huddle together for warmth and need each other.

In the era of war, it is also a group to keep warm, and create a career together to survive.

But pushing back from the era of war, the close alliance between the Cao family and the Xiahou family made Guo Peng feel less at ease.

Many people are generals in the army, and many people are local administrators, if this goes on for a long time, how can they get it?

No, no, you have to help them.

So Guo Peng decided to take a school-age woman in the Naxiahou clan as a concubine.

After learning Guo Peng's thoughts, Xiahou was first stunned, and then surprised, feeling that Guo Peng finally no longer only vigorously appointed Cao, but also noticed Xiahou, who had silently contributed.

The two leaders of the Xiahou family, Xiahou Tang and Xiahou Yuan, have been guarding the rear for Guo Peng, although their status is important, but their military achievements are not obvious, making the Xiahou family seem to be a vassal of the Cao family.

Although the Xiahou family didn't say anything, they still had some ideas in their hearts.

Guo Peng helped them amplify this idea.

Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan also got the news later.

In addition to the joy, they wrote back to the clan, saying that they were too busy to go home, and asked the clan to do a good job of selection, and choose the most beautiful, gentle and virtuous girl to send to them.

The Xiahou clan carefully selected, picked left and right, and finally selected the clan sister of the same generation as the two Xiahous, who was seventeen years old and had not yet been married to Xiahou Lin, and sent her into Guo Peng's mansion to be Guo Peng's concubine.

Guo Peng heard that the old man of the Xiahou family's clan praised Xiahou Lin, so he nodded happily and promised to take Xiahou Lin as a concubine.

and decided to give birth to a child with the blood of the Xiahou family, and then appoint some people from the Xiahou family.

This is the first one.

And then the second.

Guo Peng felt that he still had a lot of places to use in Jizhou in the future, and the military generals from Jizhou would naturally form a faction.

It's like the Yanzhou faction, the Qingzhou faction and the Yuancong faction under Guo Peng's command.

It is mainly based on the Yuancong faction, supplemented by the Wenchen generals of the Qingzhou faction and the Yanzhou faction, and there are still a few Yuzhou people, Youzhou people, Sili and Bingzhou people.

The subordinates in the Yuancong faction also have their own origins.

Yuzhou, Youzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, these subordinates may become the leaders of the major factions in the future.

And among these groups, the Jizhou faction is undoubtedly the weakest and the most disadvantaged, because except for Zhao Yun, they all surrendered.

Zhao Yun is also a member of the Yuancong faction, he followed Guo Peng to fight very early, and he was still a soldier, which is not comparable to them.

The group of people who surrendered after the defeat of the battle with Guo Peng were in a bad situation and had an embarrassing identity, but in the future, Guo Peng needed Jizhou to make a big move.

So it's important to appease the people of the Jizhou faction now, and give some signals to the people of the Jizhou faction, so that they know that they don't mind what happened before.

Guo Pengda was supporting Zhao Yun to be the leader of the generals from Jizhou at the beginning, and in the early days, Guo Peng's army also had a group of Jizhou strong men to participate, and now several middle-level officers have emerged in this group of people, all of whom have a good relationship with Zhao Yun.

Originally, he wanted Zhao Yun to go further, but there were no more women in Zhao Yun's family, and he had no daughters, and Zhao Yun also married a wife, so the marriage couldn't be done.

So after thinking about it again and again, Guo Peng decided to support Tian Feng, who was very obedient to him, as the leader of the officials from Jizhou, and Natian as a concubine, so as to balance the power of the various factions a little.

We can't let the Jizhou faction be too weak, we must take care of the interests and power of the Jizhou people, so as to subdue the hearts of the Jizhou people and make the Jizhou people closer to themselves.

We must not allow several other factions to humiliate the people of the Jizhou faction and suppress the people of Jizhou with the attitude of victors, which is not conducive to internal unity and is not in the interests of Guo Peng.

The strong should be suppressed, the weak should be supported, the same means can achieve different goals, and this art of balance is also very interesting.

As for yourself who has the initiative, you must make good use of this initiative.

Slightly suppressing the Cao clan and other Yuancong factions, splitting the power of the Yuancong faction, and supporting the weak Jizhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou factions are the main themes of the next period of time.

Of course, in Guo Peng's view, this in itself is a kind of protection and a kind of favoritism.