Guo Jin was deeply shocked by listening to Guo Peng retelling the dangerous and dangerous things he experienced to make a name for himself when he was not famous.

Anyway, he couldn't imagine how brave Guo Peng, who was fourteen years old, had to challenge Yang Qiu, who was more fierce than Cheng Yu, who was now.

As Guo Peng himself said, challenging Yangqiu head-on is life-threateningly.

Although Guo Hong and Cao Song and Lu Zhi as support, it is impossible to guarantee that they will not be harmed by Yang Qiu.

Who knows whether the crazy man who was so angry that Yangqiu was going to kill people directly in the street, and he would take Guo Peng away in one fell swoop.

But in order to make a name for Luoyang and to find a future, Guo Peng, who was only fourteen years old at the time, still did it.

Then he risked his life and really fought a bloody road in Luoyang. Later, the reason why he could rise in troubled times was that this heavy political capital definitely played a major role.

Guo Jin thought of himself, what was he doing when he was fourteen years old?

I studied safely in the school founded by Guo Peng, accepted the protection of Guo Peng's wings, and encountered no danger. I became the crown prince smoothly and became the heir to the Wei Empire.

It's really going well.

The process of Guo Peng establishing the Wei Empire, especially at the earliest, was really struggling at the risk of his life.

Compared with Guo Peng's uncertainty at that time, Guo Jin felt that the scene he and Guo Peng were acting in was so safe.

Guo Peng fought hard to get so much political capital, thus ascending the throne and becoming the number one person in the world.

And if I only rely on Guo Peng's son's identity and have no other political capital, how could I really hold the position of this emperor?

Guo Jin sighed deeply.

"My father suffered."

"What's the hardship?"

Guo Peng rubbed Guo Jin's head: "Compared with the suffering of being an emperor, these sufferings are not considered suffering. These sufferings have an end. After their status reaches a certain level, they will no longer suffer such low-level suffering.

But at the same time, higher-level suffering will accompany you throughout your life. Ah Jin, you will have many battles every day. Such suffering will never be able to get rid of it in your life after becoming an emperor.

Only when you abdicate or die can you finally get rid of it. You cannot rest because once you rest, your power will be unstable, your power will be unstable, and the political situation of the empire will be unstable."

Guo Jin pursed his lips and nodded slowly.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Guo Peng smiled again.

"But this time, it's pretty good. You did a good job and performed very well. Not only did you win 200,000 acres of Cao Hong's land, but you also asked him to be grateful to you. When you become emperor, if Cao Hong is not dead, you can use Cao Hong.

Not only Cao Hong, Cao family, Xiahou family, Cao Cao, Cao Chun, Cao Xiu, Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, these people are all capable. With this time, even your elders are older than you, you can use them."

"Father, can the things my son does now have the same effect as my father at that time?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"Not only can, but better. At that time, I was just a nameless villain, and you were the crown prince. Everything you did would be magnified thousands of times, and it would have a effect several times more than yourself.

You must know that if you don’t do this, you will not be kind to these relatives and ministers. They do things for you not because you are the emperor, but more because you have their bloodlines in you. They feel that cooperating with you can satisfy their own interests.

So they treat you as a junior and family and will not respect you. What do you really want to do? If it is in their interests, it is not good. If it is not in line with them, you will definitely be hindered by them. Then one day you will eradicate them for the sake of power."

Guo Jin nodded silently.

Guo Peng then spoke.

"And now, if you have favors to them, you still risk your life to do this. You have great kindness to them. When you become emperors in the future, if they do not respect and obey you, they will be ungrateful, have a bad reputation, and will be self-destructive.

They will certainly not do that, they will inevitably obey you, truly surrender to you, and then you will be able to control them and use them, not only them, this time, for the Father, make everyone afraid and despair.

And you are the only one who successfully persuaded you to be a father. You didn’t plead for many people, but just because you pleaded for Cao Hong, you were beaten. In the end, you succeeded. You had people’s expectations, or prestige, throughout the entire court."

Guo Jin's heart moved.

"Does your son have prestige?"

"You have prestige."

Guo Peng nodded with a smile, then said with a sigh: "Prestige is invisible or touched, but when it is used, it is the most deadly time. Whether a person has prestige can determine how much he can exert his power.

The same is true for emperors. For example, as a father, he can turn his hands and turn his hands into rain, hold the world in his hands, and play with the ministers in applause, but they have no ability to resist being a father.

The emperor without prestige, like the former Emperor Xiaoxian of the Han Dynasty and the current Duke of Shanyang, have become political tools and become puppets. Everyone is an emperor. Why are some puppet emperors and some are real power emperors?

It is because of the difference in prestige that even scholars kept sarcasticating and criticizing the two emperors Huan Ling. They also had prestige. When Xiaohuan ascended the throne, he used a group of eunuchs to defeat the general Liang Ji, abolished the Liang family's relatives, and gained prestige. He then implemented the first party and fining.

When Xiaoling ascended the throne, he also used eunuchs to eliminate Dou Wu and Chen Fan, abolished Dou's relatives, held power, and gained prestige, and then he could implement the second party corruption and suppress the world. Otherwise, he would not be Xiaohuan's son at all. Why could he implement the party corruption?"

Guo Jin nodded repeatedly.

"My son has fully understood the importance of prestige."

"So, you have already initially established prestige, but this prestige is not enough. At most, it is only enough for you to sit on the throne to issue orders, not to be overthrown or suppress Luoyang. It is hard to say how much your order can be implemented into the world."

"What else should my son do?"

"Don't worry, A Jin, I will tell you what to do."

Guo Peng held Guo Jin's hand: "The same thing, the bad guy, help you with your father, you can be a good guy."

"Father……"

Guo Jin didn't know what to say to express his emotions at this moment.

"Doing this for your father is not only for you, but also for the imperial career of the Guo family. Now for your father and you will do this for your heirs in the future."

Guo Peng said seriously: "If you let a heir without prestige come to power as an emperor, in order to exercise imperial power after he takes office, he must fight against powerful ministers, and use eunuchs, relatives or foreign ministers to kill powerful ministers.

In this way, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the government for a certain period of time. It is better to win, but it is hard to say if you lose. Moreover, doing so is not without future troubles. The two emperors Huan Ling both gained prestige by killing powerful ministers, but the heroes who helped them kill powerful ministers was also one of the disasters.

The five marquises of Emperor Xiaohuan and the ten eunuchs of Emperor Xiaoling are nothing more than good helpers who help them seize power to defeat powerful ministers. It will inevitably lead to a huge power of these heroes and affect the balance of the government. Then the struggles in the current government will be difficult to control by the emperor, and there is no way to talk about the word "balance".

Guo Jin nodded slowly.

"This is the case with the government. The military will use the martial arts lecture hall."

"Yes, martial arts lecture hall."

Guo Peng said: "In terms of government affairs, we can complete an action of killing two birds or even three birds and four birds through means similar to being a father, so that the prince can have the prestige among court officials, which will help to stabilize the court when the prince ascended the throne.

In terms of the army, veterans should pay more attention to those highly prestigious generals. The military system set up for their fathers can ensure that the army is in the hands of their fathers. On the one hand, it is because senior generals cannot cultivate their confidants in such a rotation system, and on the other hand, it is because they are too strong for their fathers.
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