After saying goodbye, Guo Peng boarded the carriage and headed towards the western front of the empire under the escort of a thousand elite imperial cavalry.

This time it was different from the previous Northern Expedition.

During that Northern Expedition, even if it was fought, it still had to deal with government affairs, and there were still many things to deal with.

This time, even if it was a school department, Guo Peng wrote a plan to Yuan Si, asking Yuan Si to do what he said and report it regularly. If it was not done well, he asked the emperor to severely punish the school department officials in every minute without any mercy.

Don't think I can handle errands if I'm not in Beijing!

Yuan Si was looking at Guo Peng's royal chariot with a bitter face, thinking about how to deal with the many tasks left by Guo Peng to him.

The Supreme Emperor said he had traveled far away, but Yuan Si believed that his ears and ears were everywhere. Once he slacked off, he would definitely know, and then remotely control the new emperor to severely punish the school...

How can you live this day!

Yuan Si's face turned into bitter gourd in the morning.

He didn't know how to complete so many tasks and so many indicators that Guo Peng had assigned him when he was away.

How many new institutions have been built, how many children of appropriate age have entered school, how to compile courses for studying physics, etc.

It is bitter, it is bitter!

But what to do...

Guo Peng didn't know about Yuan Si's suffering, but he didn't want to pay attention to Yuan Si at all.

He just wanted to assign him many tasks, so that he could not even have time to eat, so that he could not make any trouble.

The last time Guo Peng left Luoyang was the same as when he was the emperor before, in order to inspect the Grand Canal project.

After becoming emperor, he ran around less and less, not only to handle government affairs, but also to take charge of the central government, control the central army, suppress the world, and stabilize the situation.

Taking charge of the central government and controlling the situation is what an emperor should do the most. Running around the world not only wastes money but also causes a crisis of imperial power and unnecessary risks.

So what the ministers most look forward to is that the emperor will not come out even if he stays in the palace for the rest of his life. It is safe and reliable, and he will not find that they are messing around in the local area.

As time goes by, centralization becomes weaker and weaker, and local elements take over the central government in large numbers, which eventually leads to the collapse of imperial power.

It is actually quite necessary for the emperor to go out for inspection. No matter from any perspective, just like a lion patrolling his own territory and leaving marks, appearing in the place from time to time can allow the common people to more directly understand who they are ruled by.

The emperor lived in the capital, and was a distance of 108,000 miles from all over the country. As the distance became farther and the dominance of the empire gradually weakened, and the saying that the emperor was far away appeared in the border areas.

Moreover, during the two thousand years of feudal imperial era, China's imperial power did not go to the countryside for most of the time, and did not directly rule the lower-class farmers. People who directly ruled the lower-class farmers were often [country sages].

So it’s not unreasonable for others to not be a bird’s emperor. Who told you not to care about others at all?

In history, the few emperors who reached out to the homes of the lower peasants, without exception, were all [Rampant Kings], and were all characters who were scolded to the point of being completely cursed in history books.

It is true that such an emperor may not be kind to the common people, but such an emperor is absolutely unkind to the bureaucrats. The bureaucrats do not care about how the emperor treats the common people, they only care about how the emperor treats himself.

An emperor who treats the people and bureaucrats equally is definitely not a good emperor - so what they think.

Fortunately, there are very few such emperors, so the bureaucrats are always happy.

As a member of this very minority group, Guo has always wanted to inspect his country and travel every inch of his territory.

But for him, during the thirteen years he ruled the empire, he really didn't have more time to do such things.

Fortunately, he is still alive.

After Guo Jin inherited the throne and showed Guo Peng that he had the ability to solve problems and the ability to grasp power, Guo Peng could finally leave Luoyang with confidence and do what he had always wanted to do but had no time to do.

Yu Gong can inspect various places, enhance their centripetal force over the empire center, and check the implementation of policies in various places, the results of education construction, and whether there are any unfair things in the local area, etc. This can be done.

For private purposes, he really wants to spend the rest of his life to compensate the women who have been with him for a long time.

Now that he is not the emperor, he can treat the women around him with a little normal method.

Whether it is Cao Lan, Tian Rou, Xiahou Lin, or the sisters of Big and Big Bridge.

After so many years, the youngest ones in their thirties are almost 40 years old, and they are no longer young.

In this era when the average life expectancy is very short, no one dares to say that they can live to the age of seventy and eighty, and that they can live to the age of forty or fifty is worth their life.

They don’t know when they can live, so when they are alive, they must at least do what they want to do.

This inspection can actually be called a trip that can go wherever you go, and it belongs to a trip that can go wherever you go.

As he walked and stopped, Guo Peng was in a very happy mood, just like an eagle leaving the bird cage where he was imprisoned, he was able to fly high and return to nature. The feeling of transcending everything was very pleasant.

Not to mention Guo Peng, Guo Peng has the freedom to go out at least. If you really want to go out, no one can stop him. It is his own freedom.

The concubines were bound in the palace and had to report and approve them when going out. It was difficult to get out of the palace once.

It is obvious that you live in the same city with your family, and it is very rare to meet once. Meeting once may not last long. Usually, someone must watch it, so as not to reveal anything they should not reveal to their families.

Guo Peng is busy with government affairs and devotes his energy to fighting wits and courage with his ministers. The remaining energy is very limited. Even if he is in good health, he can never keep up with his body in spirit.

When I get older, I won’t think about doing things in bed all the time, and I won’t accompany them a few times a month. I occasionally go there and eat and sleep, so I basically don’t care about their needs.

Whether it is physical or psychological, they don’t care much. They can only entertain themselves and hold together in the cold palace walls to keep warm.

It can be said that putting them in the palace is very inhumane.

Now I can finally leave Luoyang, the center of the power vortex, and return to a place where I can indulge in freedom. For a moment, everyone has let go of the little girl-like mentality. I look here and there, and I don’t know how happy or happy it is.

Guo Chengzhi was also in charge of Guo Jin in Luoyang and was asked to carry out high-intensity learning tasks, and he did not take any delay in learning literature and martial arts.

Even if Guo Peng took over his education task later, he did not give him any chance to relax.

It's really hard.

This time, he left Luoyang, stayed away from his parents' rigorous education, and enjoyed the long-lost feeling of freedom by his grandmother who loved him.

So I was riding around happily on horseback, and I didn’t know how happy it was.

They were all very happy.

Seeing their happiness, Guo Peng was also very happy.

The nerves that have been tense for decades have slowly relaxed in this process, and I just feel like I am ushering in the second spring in my life.

They traveled westward and when they were having dinner, if they could meet a city, they would change their clothes and go into the city to find a place to eat.

If you can't encounter it, the hotels and restaurants along the way are OK. If you haven't, then just solve it on the spot.

Whenever he passes by a city, Guo Peng will ask his entourage to go and buy some supplies.

They carried a lot of things with them, but the food did not have that long shelf life. So in addition to providing military rations in the warehouses along the way, Guo Peng also asked the eunuchs who accompanied the inner court to enter the city to buy supplies and buy some things that were not in the warehouse.

Sometimes when he encounters beautiful fields, he will be interested and personally show off a barbecue technique that he has not shown for a long time.

He still remembers the last time he was barbecuing in the wild, which happened nearly forty years ago.

At that time, he was a teenage boy. When he protected Cai Yong to the exile land north of Bingzhou, he showed his barbecue skills, but he ended up meeting an assassin who wanted to kill Cai Yong.

After that, he had no chance to show his barbecue skills. After becoming a general, he always had no shortage of craftsmen who could barbecue and barbecue, and it was not his turn to take action himself.

This time, it was a complete relaxation. It was rare to have fun, so the eunuchs in the inner court set up a good storefront, set up a barbecue, and simplify coal, and then start barbecuing themselves.

In the former Han Dynasty, there were no iron pots and no stir-frying, barbecue was an important cooking skill other than steaming and cooking. People in the country who had the conditions would do barbecue.

In addition to the traditional fire barbecue, you will also personally mix delicious seasonings to make barbecue similar to modern teppanyaki.

This model is particularly popular among the gentry and literati, who have a good life.

They always eat steamed food, and the soup is a bit uncomfortable, so they get some heavy-tasting barbecue adjustments to improve their lives.

To this day, the popularity of iron pots and the emergence of soy sauce have allowed stir-frying to enter the homes of ordinary people. Ordinary people can also use a pan to cook and cook to moisturize the dry stomach and intestines every now and then.

The increase and improvement of seasonings also add more companions to the pure salt flavor, allowing the delicious taste to enter the homes of ordinary people.

People have long passed the era when they can't eat salt. Now even soy sauce can be tasted every now and then. It's good to have a braised dish and smack your lips together.

Looking back on the era when eating salt became a problem, it was really sad.

The salt and iron monopoly is actually not a very friendly policy to the common people.

Emperor Wu of Han engaged in a salt and iron monopoly to collect people's wealth across the country and use it to support the huge military expenditure of the Huns. It almost consumed the civil savings of the Wenjing era and brought about that great victory.
Chapter completed!