After the negotiations with Mao Jie ended, Guo Peng ended his journey in Chang'an.

He gave Mao Jie a blank check, allowing him to slowly wait for the opportunity to return to Luoyang.

As for when to cash this short political check, it is Guo Jin's business, and Guo Peng is only responsible for giving it.

After Guo Peng left, Mrs. Mao complained to Mao Jie that Guo Peng came too suddenly and that she was not prepared. She was really nervous when she was entertaining Cao Lan and the others.

Mao Jie laughed and cried about this.

"Nervous? You're also called nervous. Madam, if you're nervous, what's my name?"

"It's just that the Supreme Emperor is visiting. The Supreme Emperor is not the Emperor anymore. It's just that the old man is coming out to relax. What are you afraid of?"

"Say you have no knowledge."

Mao Jie shook his head: "The Supreme Emperor abdicates and abdicates. Do you believe it? If he says he wants to remove my post, we can pack it back to our hometown in a month!"

"Not it?"

“Not it?”

Mao Jie sneered: "It was the Supreme Emperor who established the Wei Kingdom, not the current Emperor Majesty who established the Wei Kingdom, and have you seen the emperor and grandson he brought with him?"

"See it."

"That's the next emperor."

“…………”

Mrs. Mao found it difficult to understand Mao Jie's jumping thinking.

Why is that young man the next emperor?

His Majesty has been in the throne for less than a year, so why has he become the next emperor?

Will this be too fast?

If Mrs. Mao couldn't understand, no one would help her further answer, and Mao Jie would naturally not.

Of course, there is no need for Mrs. Mao to figure it out, as long as Mao Jie figures out it out.

Mao Jie has figured it out now, so he knows that the most important thing he needs to do now is to speed up the rectification of the Yongzhou economy, take the overall market of the Yongzhou economy in hand, and firmly control it to deal with the upcoming impact.

Will an extraterritorial war, thousands of miles away, actually affect my economy?

Mao Jie deeply felt the wonder of the world.

Then he turned around and returned to the Yongzhou Governor's Office, and while writing a memorial to Emperor Guo Jin, he issued a government order and no longer approved the establishment of any wine shops, hotels and foreign trade shops from now on.

Any applications that have been submitted will be rejected, and any applications submitted in the future will be rejected.

Not to mention anything else, we will first rectify from the source to curb the external torrent, and then find ways to deal with the flood that has begun to rage internally.

If you don’t check it, you won’t know it. If you check it, you will be shocked? Mao Jie felt that his steps were too big for the first time.

The number of shops and restaurants in Yongzhou that are half-run and related to foreign trade, as well as those restaurants and hotels is really surprisingly large.

And a considerable number of them are very small in scale and not high in quality. Once they encounter an impact, they will inevitably fall.

These were all private small shops that were established in the prosperous period of the economy. They were just to make small money. When the economy was prosperous, large shops ate meat, and small shops could also drink some soup. In this case, let alone soup, there was no need to drink water.

While wiping cold sweat, Mao Jie began to prepare for the upcoming economic and political storm that would come soon.

Can you cross the past? It is the opportunity to go to the next level.

Has it been passed? A Shangshu is expected.

If you can't get through, then just quit your job voluntarily. The conservative old bureaucrats will be chasing and beaten to death.

Mao Jie thought so.

After leaving Chang'an City, Guo Peng thought that he would stay in the Beiting Protectorate for a while no matter what.

He wanted to see how far Zhuge Liang, who was sent out to grow and train, grew up to what extent.

A business change should not be enough to reflect Zhuge Liang's talent and growth.

As he said, in the future, after he dies, the one who can truly inherit his will and govern the Wei State? It is Zhuge Liang.

Currently, Guo Jin has his own talent pool? Lu Yi is considered top-notch? Lu Yi is indeed smart. However, he does not have much administrative experience at present, and he is still not a pillar of the country, and he is hard to support himself. He needs help.

In terms of military affairs, there are countless military professionals in the Wei Empire at present, and there are also many military talents in the main force of the Mesozoic generation, so it is not the turn of Zhuge Liang to dominate.

However, when it comes to administration, among the Middle Ages administrative officials, when it comes to administrative abilities, Zhuge Liang is definitely the most deserving first-choice talent.

Zhuge Liang should stay by Guo Jin's side and help him handle national affairs. Guo Jin needs to give him full power to show his talents and implement his ideas.

Whether it is economics, administration, or strengthening centralization, Zhuge Liang, who has been trained, should be a good player.

Moreover, judging from his courage to break the boundaries of the market and to develop business openly, he is also a politician who dares to act.

Deserving of his status in history.

With a mere state of the land against the strong Wei ten states, the strength of one million residents was used to fight against the strength of five million residents, and the initiative launched five attacks, and even two very large strategic attacks were launched, which made the Wei Kingdom dangerous.

Not to mention the results of the battle, being able to launch five attacks with the power of a state can itself reflect Zhuge Liang's strong political ability.

Without this kind of political ability to coordinate planning and enforce enforcement, it is impossible to launch an effective strategic offensive. Before discussing military capabilities, the first thing to do is to give a full mark on Zhuge Liang's political ability.

On this level, Zhuge Liang was even stronger than Xiao He around Liu Bang.

In terms of military and strategic aspects, Zhuge Liang may not be as good as Han Xin and Zhang Liang, but isn’t Zhuge Liang doing all the things of the three heroes of the Han Dynasty enough to call him great?

As the second generation emperor, Guo Jin needed people who dared to act and assist him, and being able to promote Zhuge Liang to Guo Jin was an important prerequisite for Guo Peng to think that there would be no chaos in the Wei Empire during the Guo Jin Dynasty and even in the future Guo Chengzhi era.

Guo Jin needs help, and a single mainland discussion is not enough, and Zhuge Liang must be added to be considered safe.

In this way, we can ensure that the overall situation is stabilized, and the slight fluctuations under the overall situation will not shake the true foundation of the Wei Empire.

Speaking of Zhuge Liang, Guo Peng thought of Sima Yi again.

According to what he knew, Sima Yi and Mao Jie had a close relationship.

It seems that before and after the outbreak of the corruption case in Liangzhou, the two of them had some interaction, and then Sima Yi was appreciated by Mao Jie.

The public information is that Mao Jie appreciates Sima Yi's achievements in governing the local area.

However, the private reason, as far as Guo Peng knows, was that Sima Yi revealed an important news to Mao Jie, which allowed Mao Jie to protect himself when the corruption case in Liangzhou broke out.

This is a secret information found by the Linzi Camp.

It is said that Sima Yi had secretly visited Mao Jie at that time and had private discussions with Mao Jie, which gave Mao Jie great help.

At that time, Guo Peng sighed very much, thinking that Sima Yi had no other words, his ability to withstand pressure and political vision were first-class, and he was not only an excellent politician.

Using your own advantages to do political transactions with superiors is something that ordinary people can do.

Afterwards, Mao Jie, who had survived the crisis, repaid his favor, and Sima Yi's younger brother Sima Fu was appointed as a subordinate by Mao Jie and worked in the Liangzhou Governor's Office.

So the content of the political transaction between Sima Yi and Mao Jie was exposed.

Sima Yi used this matter to seek political benefits for his family and successfully recommended his younger brother Sima Fu to Mao Jie, becoming Mao Jie's former official and bound to Mao Jie.

The Sima family has a second path.

At that time, the system of recommendation and recruitment were still in operation, and Mao Jie's power to call for a summoning existed. Sima Fu went to Mao Jie to do business and worked with him for more than two years.

It is said that he has a strong working ability and has been trusted and valued by Mao Jie.

Mao Jie is a very politically credible person and will not just do whatever he wants. Obviously, Mao Jie believes that supporting the Sima family is very beneficial to his future, so he also takes good care of Sima Fu.

In the seventh year of Yande, on the eve of the establishment of the imperial examination system, the world was in turmoil, and the contradiction between the emperor and the gentry intensified to an irreconcilable level.

At that time, the magistrate of Guzang County, Wuwei County, publicly opposed the imperial examination system, believing that it was a disaster to the country and the people. He was dismissed from office and held accountable and dismissed from office as the people.

Mao Jie seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to recommend Sima Fu, who publicly supported the imperial examination system, to be appointed as the magistrate of Guzang County.

He seized a good opportunity and took advantage of a big loophole to transform Sima Fu, an official, into a gorgeous transformation and become an official.

As for whether Sima Fu sincerely supports the imperial examination or is an official, it is unknown. Anyway, as a member of the gentry, their Sima family betrayed the gentry's position and became one of the very few gentry families who support the imperial examination system.

At present, Sima Fu has been promoted from Guzang County to Wuwei County Magistrate and became an official of two thousand stones due to outstanding political achievements.

It can be said that it was a successful turnaround from the level of a salted fish.

Officials and officials are two different concepts, which are equivalent to the difference between formal workers and temporary workers. The benefits and power of the two are very different.

Before the Imperial Examination era, it was a watershed between clear and turbid flow, and after the Imperial Examination era, it was a gap between exam origin and non-examination origin.

It is the difference between the kind of people who make policies above and the people who run errands hard at the bottom, and there was no change before the imperial examination era.

Many officials are born as officials, but officials are born as impossible to become officials.

Even in the imperial examination era, there are many restrictions, such as not allowing officials to become officials, etc.

When Guo Peng first restricted the system of recommendation and recruitment, he also took the power of appointment and removal of officials to the central government, and left the power of officials to the local government to restrict the authority of local officials.

From then on, the local chief could only call out officials, but not decide on the candidates for officials. This would be a huge blow to the local chief.

People with talent and vision must want to become officials but are unwilling to be mere officials. In the past, only poor families would become officials, and scholars would become official officials.

Under such circumstances, Guo Peng can suppress local forces in an era when the imperial examination was not yet established, and ensure that talents flow to Luoyang with central centripetal force.

However, the choice of scholars' families was by no means the only one, it was the case when the Han Dynasty had not yet perished, and it was also the case after entering Wei.
Chapter completed!