At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Guo Jin nodded and bowed to Guo Peng.

"Father."

"What are you doing here?"

Guo Peng turned his head to look at the respectful Guo Jin.

"Father, the history of Xuzhou's assassination shows that the Huaihe River is frozen."

Guo Peng was stunned, then frowned.

The craftsmen listened, looked at each other, and were surprised in each other's eyes.

"It's freezing on the Huai River..."

Guo Peng stood up, walked a few steps, and said slowly: "It's earlier than I expected, it seems that the situation is not optimistic, Emperor, it's time to test you, I have repaired the Grand Canal for you, how to use it, It's up to you."

"My son has taken Nanshufang as the official office to deal with this problem, and asked Duke Feng Xiao to lead all Nanshufang to read and take charge of the matter."

Guo Jin said respectfully: "Thanks to my father who repaired the Grand Canal in advance, my son has ordered the transportation of grain from the south to the north as a national policy, and we must not neglect it. With the Grand Canal transporting grain, even if there is a large-scale reduction in grain production, the situation can be stabilized. ."

"Ah."

Guo Peng nodded and said, "This is not enough. Next, we have to relocate the population to Jiangnan and Lingnan, coordinate food in various aspects, develop Jiangnan and Lingnan on a larger scale, and..."

Speaking of which, Guo Peng suddenly thought that he was no longer the emperor.

"Father? What else?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng who suddenly fell silent.

Guo Peng looked at the unshaven Guo Jin.

"I'm not the emperor anymore. You know what to do next, don't ask me, go and be your emperor."

After Guo Peng finished speaking, he turned around and returned to his original seat and sat down, letting the craftsmen continue to express their views on the anti-corrosion issue.

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng in plain clothes from a distance, and suddenly his nose was a little sore.

So he bowed to Guo Peng, turned and walked quickly away from the Ministry of Agriculture's office.

The two turned their backs to each other and never looked back at each other.

Guo Peng is no longer the emperor, and he doesn't want to get involved again in anything the emperor needs to do.

After jumping out of that circle, he gradually found that he was out of tune with that circle of power, and even a little bit excluded from that circle of power.

He began to deeply feel why Cai Yong said Luoyang was a very dirty place.

Now he himself feels that Luoyang is very dirty, many places are terribly dirty, and there is a stench of power everywhere.

Only when discussing some technical issues with this group of relatively simple craftsmen can he breathe relatively pure air and feel that he lives in the world, not in the toilet.

Those power struggles in the court are simply ugly and disgusting to him now. Obviously, more than ten years ago, he was always happy to fight with the ministers to seize power and enjoy power, but now he can't avoid it, and he doesn't want to be contaminated at all.

What he is thinking about now is how to increase the yield of grain per mu, how to improve agricultural productivity, and how to reduce the burden on farmers, so that they can produce more food faster and better, and eat more full.

Productivity is the foundation of ideals. If productivity is not improved, how can ideals be realized?

An ideal without productivity as a support is just a dream-like utopia. The technology that can improve productivity is the most fundamental existence.

Just one Ministry of Agriculture is not enough, it needs more and more people to participate.

To this end, he asked Guo Jin to issue an edict to Gewutang, and the Gewutang collected inventions and creations that were helpful to production activities from all over the country.

Once it is verified that it is really useful, a generous reward will be given immediately. If it is of great use, the reward will not be limited to money.

Guo Jin has no objection. This is also good for improving productivity. If there is a genius of invention, what about the reward of the title?

The idea that technological creation is a strange skill and ingenious skill has declined under the vigorous attack of the two generations of emperors Guo Peng and Guo Jin. Technological creation has been officially defined as a necessary existence that can improve agricultural productivity, and its status has been greatly improved.

The old pedants cried and felt that this was an omen of the country's subjugation, but driven by interests, this trend had inevitably begun to move, and they refused to return to the original state.

The eccentric and ingenious ideas and Taoist ideas have been completely deleted from the textbook by Guo Jin, and no one is allowed to mention them. Any inventions and creations that are helpful to agricultural production or military affairs are really useful, and the imperial court will definitely reward them. .

I can't see much effect for a while, but after a long-term accumulation process, one day, the Wei Empire can taste this luscious scientific and technological fruit.

Guo Peng is happy to see such a situation.

The official guiding political ideology of the Wei Empire is no longer just the Confucian hegemony advocated by Dong Zhongshu, but a new ruling ideology that was changed from left to right and integrated into part of Mohist thought.

The foundation of the Three Cards and Five Constants has not been changed, but in this, part of the Mohist thought was mixed, and the link of science and technology was mixed into the official ruling thought.

Such a change is already a great victory for Guo Peng.

In this place, Guo Peng actually lied to Guo Jin.

He also felt a little embarrassed because he had planted a mine.

This part of the content of restraining the development of science and technology, represented by the idea of ​​strange skills, ingenious thinking and mechanical thinking, is actually an important part of maintaining the super-stable social structure of ancient China.

Because there is no substantial scientific and technological progress and changes in productivity, and without the support of productive forces and science and technology for progressive ideas, there is no possibility of development.

This ultra-stable social structure is very suitable for rule, and the impact of a collapse is at most the change of the dynasty such as the change of the city head and the king's flag.

Therefore, in the past 2000 years, the social structure of ancient China has not undergone substantial changes and is extremely stable.

Guo Peng fooled Guo Jin to remove this kind of thinking from the official thinking, and encouraged the development of science and technology and inventions.

Guo Peng once tried to ideologically guide people to change themselves, but this attempt was stopped by Guo Jin.

Guo Peng also realized that it is too dangerous to reform his mind in the short term. At least the ecological environment does not support him to do so, and Guo Jin will not allow it. Forcing it to do it is a tragedy.

Then it's better to switch to a roundabout way.

Delete important repressive ideas, unravel the hands and feet of technological development, and transform the cognition of the ruling class from the textbook level, so that the new generation of rulers believe that the development of technology is not wrong.

Just like the idea that Guo Peng instilled in Guo Jin that technological development is not wrong since he was a child.

People's thoughts are not innately formed. As long as we hold on to education, it will take two to thirty years to change a concept.

Anyway, stick to it as long as you can at the moment, first technology, and when technology develops to a certain level, people will naturally have strange thoughts.

At that time, Xiao Binghe might have survived.

At that time, what kind of changes will there be?

When future feudal emperors find that technology will impact the stability of imperial power, what kind of coping strategies will they make?

At that time, is it time for change?

Can the ultra-stable social structure that bound ancient China for 2000 years undergo self-reform without waiting for it to be broken by Western strong ships and guns?

Guo Peng couldn't see it anyway.

Whether it's bloodshed or forced repression, whether it's accepting change to change the world, he can't see it.

Maybe technology can win and put an end to the super-stable social structure of ancient China, or maybe the imperial power is still huge, suppressing technology and bringing China back to the circle of circulation.

It doesn't matter, it can happen, only in this matter, he will uphold the idea of ​​"even if the flood is huge after I die".

Besides, Guo Peng doesn't want to be involved in anything anymore.

He spent more time with Cao Lan and a few other women, with other underage grandchildren and great-grandchildren who were born soon, living more and more like a normal old man instead of the once all-powerful iron-blooded emperor .

He called Cao Lan, Tian Rou, Xia Houlin, and the two sisters, Da Xiaoqiao, to live in Taishan Hall, and arranged accommodation for them in Taishan Hall. He took turns to rest with them, and made them as close as possible to him.

Get up in the morning and work out for a while, then have breakfast with the family at a table, and after breakfast the women do women's things, chat, take the grandkids, go to the garden, etc.

Then he first went to the school to inspect the work, and then soaked in the agriculture department to watch the craftsmen discuss technical problems and do various technical challenges.

At noon, I return to the palace to have lunch with my family, take a lunch break in the afternoon, read books, and write if there is anything I want to write.

If the women wanted something, he would disguise himself and go out of the palace to buy it. Wherever the women wanted to go, as long as it was within the range of Luoyang, he would disguise himself and go out for a walk together. A complete set of outfits were prepared.

There was really nothing to do, so he went to the agriculture department to hang out with the craftsmen.

Go back to the palace in the evening, have dinner with the family, and chat together after dinner. If it is still early, they will go out to the palace to go to the dim market together.

Guo Peng has completely let go of the issues of government and military affairs, he doesn't care at all, and he doesn't want to touch it at all.

He just wants to give more of the time he has left to his family, make up for the mistakes he made at the beginning, and return to the life that a normal human should have.

At the same time, instead of Guo Jin, he gave Guo Chengzhi more love, and instead of the increasingly busy Guo Chengzhi, he took care of his son and his great-grandson.

In short, Guo Peng brought Cao Lan and other women to take over the things that Guo Jin and Guo Chengzhi had no time to do in a normal family that needed people to do.

Guo Jin took some more concubines into the palace, and Guo Chengzhi also took two concubines.

There are more women in the inner palace and more conflicts, and from time to time there will be unhappiness between several women.

Guo Jin was busy with government affairs, and Guo Chengzhi was also busy with the affairs at hand.

At this time, Guo Peng, as the supreme ruler of the Guo royal family, helped his son and grandson to take up the responsibility of running the family.

If he can mediate, he will mediate, and if he can handle it gently, he will handle it gently. When a concubine is pregnant, he personally instructs a group of people who are serving him to serve and protect the pregnant concubine.

He used his remaining energy to make this cold and harsh heavenly home a little more like a normal family, and it also reduced countless contradictions.

Guo Peng's actions indeed greatly relieved Guo Jin and Guo Chengzhi, allowing them to devote themselves to government affairs and avoid worries.

Guo Peng is no longer tainted with power, but his influence is still everywhere.

As long as he is still alive, as big as the entire Wei Kingdom, and as small as the Luoyang Palace, he will be as stable as Mount Tai, and no one dares to have a strange mind.

By the way, Guo Peng also likes cooking.

Sometimes he would also go to the imperial kitchen to watch the chefs make dishes, chat and laugh with them, and talk about the fact that he personally cooked big bone soup in the military camp.

After staring at it for a while and learning for a while, I set up a small kitchen in the Taishan Temple, and I paid for my personal servant to go to Luoyang Market to buy ingredients. I have nothing to do in the small kitchen. Build fire.

In the beginning, all the tossed out were dark dishes that could compete with those looking up at the starry sky. Those who heard it were sad and those who saw it wept, and couldn't bear to say anything.

In the future, things have changed. The things made are getting more and more decent, and the taste is getting better and better. The sea cucumber with spring onions that he specializes in has become Cao Lan's favorite dish.

Guo Jin or Guo Chengzhi are sometimes too busy to eat, and Cai Wan and Zhuge will come to complain to Guo Peng.

So Guo Peng personally made a bowl of convenient rice bowls, and let the personal waiter deliver it, watching them eat.

Guo Peng made it himself, and they didn't dare not to eat it. No matter what they were doing, they could only put down what they were doing and eat honestly.

When Cao Lan or a few other women celebrated their birthdays later, Guo Peng didn't want the chef to do anything.

Sometimes when he is free, when Guo Peng is leaning on the reclining chair to bask in the sun, he will also wonder if his old rivals and old friends will see his current appearance, will his three views explode.

The fierce man who once turned his hands into clouds and turned his hands into rain, the man who once fought invincible all over the world, and the man who once killed mountains of corpses covered in blood, but now, there is no trace of murderous aura on his body.

The general who used to be able to command [-] troops with a single look was horrified and sweaty, but now he can chat and laugh with the cooks in the kitchen, and his eyes are not as sharp as they used to be.

He used to be able to let countless people fall to the ground with the move of his fingers, but now he is holding the kitchen knife with his murderous hand and dabbling on the chopping board.

The old rivals and old friends Izumi know, how do you think about him now?

Guo Peng felt that this question could only be known after he died and met those old enemies and old friends in that world.

Speaking of it, perhaps because of inexplicable nostalgia, Guo Peng felt a little touched when Liu Zhang died of illness in the early 12th year of Xingyuan.

So he secretly had a stele erected on Shouyang Mountain in the northeast of the city.

Then on the back of the stele, he personally wrote down the names, characters, birth and death years, and places of origin of the heroes of the late Han Dynasty who were worthy of his records.

He wrote Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Sun Jian, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Tao Qian, Gongsun Zan, Lü Bu, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Sun Ce.

After thinking about it, he had an additional small monument erected, with the six characters [Dong Zhuo, the Thief of the Country] written on it.

Later, after pondering for a long time, he decided to erect a monument for Xun Yu and Zang Hong, and write their names, characters, birth and death years, and places of origin.

So the final pattern is a stele of heroes of the late Han Dynasty standing high, and there is a small stele of Dong Zhuo, the thief of the country.

After these two steles, the steles of Xun Yu and Zang Hong stand.

The significance of Dong Zhuo's existence is to completely open up the era of competition for hegemony at the end of the Han Dynasty, tear off the majestic disguise of the Han Dynasty, smash the statue, and let everyone realize that the supreme position can be contested.

Then he died.

The significance of the existence of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty is to completely disrupt the order of the world, to inherit Dong Zhuo's unfinished business, to make the world out of order, to completely enter a chaotic world, and to make it impossible to restore the world by purely political means.

The military must be used as coercive force.

Then they all died too.

Both Liu Cong and Liu Qi died in the eighth year of Xingyuan. In the 12th year of Xingyuan, Liu Zhang, the last warlord in troubled times, died of illness.

The complete end of an era made Guo Peng think about what to leave behind for this era.

As for the monuments of Xun Yu and Zang Hong, it is to commemorate them as the last guardians of the Han Dynasty, and they sacrificed their lives to prevent Guo Peng from usurping the throne.

Their last effort was unsuccessful, and they were completely defeated in the face of Guo Peng's absolute strength. The royalists were completely buried. From then on, it was only a matter of time before Guo Peng replaced Liu Jian as emperor.