"Zi...Ziyuan, you are here."

"I've been here early. Seeing that you were chatting so happily, I didn't bother you. Wen Ruo has also come, and I didn't bother you."

Zang Hong looked around him, and Xun Yu's figure suddenly appeared beside Zang Hong.

Guo Peng was stunned.

"Ming Gong, it's been a long time since I was gone."

Xun Yu smiled and bowed to Guo Peng, as always, without changing.

Guo Peng trembled all over and walked forward tremblingly, holding Zang Hong's hand with one hand and Xun Yu's hand with the other, tears falling down unstoppable.

"Ziyuan...Wenruo...you...you come to see me?"

"Yes, seeing you feeling so much, I thought of coming to see you, Zifeng, you are really old, a lot older."

Zang Hong pointed at himself with a smile: "I am still as young as Wen Ruo, so is it?"

Xun Yu smiled.

"Yu, like Ziyuan, will not grow old no matter what."

Guo Peng's heart trembled, and tears fell like beads with broken threads.

"I'm sorry, Ziyuan, Wenruo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you, really, I'm sorry for you..."

He cried while talking, and cried miserably in front of the two of them.

Zang Hong and Xun Yu looked at Guo Peng with pity in their eyes.

"Zi Feng..."

Zang Hong reached out and pressed Guo Peng's shoulder: "I didn't blame you, really, I have never blamed you. I just didn't understand what changed you."

Xun Yu also nodded and said yes.

"Yu has never blamed Ming Gong, and Yu is also puzzled. When did Ming Gong start and why did he decide to replace the Han Dynasty? Yu thought hard and couldn't figure it out."

Guo Peng raised his head, looked at the two of them, and sighed deeply.

"This matter is a long story."

Guo Peng told Zang Hong and Xun Yu everything he had said to his father Guo Shan and Cai Yong.

The more Zang Hong and Xun Yu heard it, the more surprised they became.

"Zifeng, I thought you did all this for your own status. I thought you were inflated and unable to suppress yourself, so I did such crazy actions. I think I need to stop you and restore you to your sanity."

Zang Hong said so.

Xun Yu nodded too.

"Yu also believes that it was because Duke Ming could not control his ambitions, so he made such a usurpation. Yu believes that Duke Ming did this to be like self-destructive and violated the ethics of the monarch and ministers. Therefore, Yu tried to stop Duke Ming at all costs, but Yu never expected that Duke Ming was actually for... those farmers."

Zang Hong sighed very much.

"I never thought, I never thought that you, who were born in a gentry, would actually destroy the entire gentry for a group of peasants. Zifeng, I can't believe this is true."

Guo Peng nodded and wiped his tears.

"People in the world will not understand me, nor will they believe that I really think this way, and do it this way. In their opinion, as a member of the gentry, I am born to study and have the opportunity to become an official. I should have been content with this and uphold this set of rules.

But I betrayed the gentry, smashed this set of rules, and changed another set of rules to select talents. They couldn't figure out what I did, just because I saw the suffering of farmers, and I didn't want them to continue to suffer so much."

Xun Yu frowned and sighed deeply.

"Who could have thought of it? Ming Gong's idea was so shocking."

Zang Hong nodded and shook his head again.

"Zifeng, I think you should at least tell us your thoughts. You may not be sure that we will not help you, right?"

"Do you do?"

Guo Peng looked at Zang Hong and Xun Yu.

The two looked at each other, then lowered their heads together, without replying to the question.

"Right? You won't even think about it, because like Mr. Cai, you don't really treat those farmers as one person, but I'm different. I really treat them as human beings, and you have never really understood me."

Guo Peng sighed lonelyly: "Of course, although I hope someone can understand me, I also know that no one will understand me in the end."

"Zi Feng..."

"Ming Gong..."

Xun Yu and Zang Hong looked at Guo Peng with complicated expressions.

"But it doesn't matter, because I have done it successfully. After the imperial examination was successful, the peasant children can also study. I have set up county schools in all 1,327 counties in Wei State. They can all learn culture and are no longer just ants."

Guo Peng smiled.

"Really?"

Xun Yu suddenly asked Guo Peng this question.

Guo Peng put away his smile.

"how?"

"Ming Gong, as you said, except you, no powerful people will regard those farmers as humans. So how do you ensure that after your death, those farmers will not become non-human beings again? You are already seventy years old, aren't you?"

Xun Yu's words were sincere.

Zang Hong nodded as well.

"Zifeng, you have been tossing and struggling. One day you pass away. Can everything you do be inherited and be executed forever? I don't think it is necessary."

The two stared at Guo Peng together.

Guo Peng was silent for a while, and finally he nodded.

"I can't guarantee that I think after I die, Wei will eventually become like the former Han Dynasty and eventually collapse."

"Then why are you doing this? Why is this? At such a great price, hard work, and hard work for decades, and everything will return to its origin in the end?"

Zang Hong held Guo Peng's hand, and Xun Yu also held Guo Peng's hand.

"You destroy warlords, destroy gentry, kill corrupt officials, offend all those who can offend. Everyone fears you, but they hate you. They dare not speak when you are alive. When you die, they will definitely slander you and slander you, and ruin you. Why is that trouble?"

"You could have been above you, turn your hands up and turn your hands up and make rain, enjoy all the glory and wealth in the world, and be happy until you die, why do you have to work so hard? Haven't you rested for a day?"

"You could have had fun with the ministers, singing and dancing every day, living drunk and dreaming, and doing things freely. If someone hides you, why do you need to break with the ministers and leave the name of a tyrant?"

"After all, the one who can write history books is not you, nor the peasants who receive your kindness, but historians. Historians are also officials. If you are against the officials, how can the historical books written by the officials say good things about you?"

Zang Hong and Xun Yu looked at Guo Peng and spoke in unison—

"With the light and dust, Isn't it good to keep a good name?"

This question is very sharp and points to the depths of people's hearts. It's like stripping off all your defenses and putting them in the spotlight, exposing everything about yourself openly and being scrutinized by everyone.

But Guo Peng did not retreat or be confused at all.

The more they asked, the clearer the answer in Guo Peng's mind was.

Or that answer has never been changed and has always been consistent.

He abandoned all his sorrow, let go of Xun Yu and Zang Hong's hands, and shook his head resolutely.

"not good."

He took a few steps back and looked at Zang Hong and Xun Yu.

"I once thought the Three Kingdoms were romantic, beautiful, and full of ambitions. When I first came here, I had infinite dreams and wanted to dance with the heroes who led the times, leave a good reputation passed down from later generations, and capture the beautiful scenery of the country."

"But I finally found that this stage does not belong to everyone, the stage only belongs to the powerful, the gentry and the powerful, and romance belongs to them. All that is left to the general public is endless suffering and a belly that has never been full a few times a year."

"Because of their suffering, there is the romance of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms. But is the romance built on suffering really romantic? Is the romance built on millions of corpses really worthy of praise? I think it should not be. That kind of romance should not be praised, but suffering is worth remembering."

"No one is born to enjoy all the glory and wealth, and no one is born to suffer all the sufferings of the world. If there is, it must be something wrong with the world. Since there is a problem, it must be changed. No one will change it, so I will do it."

"I know, I am the only one who thinks this way, and I am the only one who does this. All those who follow me just want to gain benefits, but so what? They are doing something like this, they are changing the world."

"I also know that after I die, the world will eventually become what it is, and the destruction of Wei State is inevitable, but so what? I have been here, I have changed, and I have allowed many people who could only sink into the dark to see the light."

"This kind of light, once it is lit, will remain in people's hearts forever. Those who have seen it will never forget it and pass it on to future generations. Even if the light is then covered, it will not change the fact of its existence."

"I light up this light and let everyone see this light, so even if the light in their eyes is gone, the light in their heart will not be gone. It is like a seed, always staying in people's hearts, waiting for the opportunity to break through the ground and germinate, and then thrive."

However, the great-grandson Xiaohu came every day, and Guo Peng was happy to play with his grandson, and helped Chengzhi's child take the exam to teach Xiaohu's homework.

Xiaohu is still young, but his homework is already quite heavy. At home, Zhuge disciplines him very strictly, which makes Xiaohu feel very stressed, so he especially wants to come to Guo Peng because his great-grandfather will not treat him so severely.

So every time Xiaohu came to Taishan Palace, he would complain to Guo Peng about his mother.

This time, the same goes for the same.

On the afternoon of the third day of May of the 20th year of Xingyuan, the weather was a little hot, but it was not stuffy. Occasionally, a breeze blew, which made me feel quite cool.

Xiaohu found another opportunity to sneak to Taishan Palace to find Guo Peng to complain about his mother.

Guo Peng was very happy.

"Hahahaha, your mother is also for your own good, so that you can study hard and inherit the throne in the future."

Xiaohu was very unhappy.

"I don't want to inherit the throne. I just want to play with Zeng's father... Zeng's father, I still want to sleep here tonight."

"Can't it be because your mother is going to check your astronomy lessons tonight and you have not memorized them well, so she thinks to hide in Zeng's father, right?"

Guo Peng leaned on the recliner and smiled and winked at Xiaohu.

"No, Xiaohu really likes to sleep with Zeng's father and mother."

Xiaohu had two dimples on his face, and he smiled sweetly, especially like his mother.

"real?"
To be continued...