For a long time, Qingzhou has suffered repeated droughts, sea invasions, locust plagues, and the powerful encirclement of land by the great gentry, which has led to many refugees and bandits in Qingzhou. Not to mention the common people, small and medium-sized tyrants cannot survive.

Now that the Yellow Turban Army is coming, the fragile balance collapses instantly, and the great tyrants and powerful people have suffered heavy blows. Many people choose to go to Xuzhou or Liaodong to take refuge.

The local governments defended their territory and defended themselves. Those who could not defend were occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, which led to the special situation where counties were emperors, counties and counties were kings. For Guo Peng, the road to go is not short.

But this is good. If you don’t listen to me, I will do it and directly appoint your confidants to control the counties and counties.

It would be even better to have counties occupied by the Yellow Turban Army. Although it was a little messy, it was easier to control it by taking it back and directly doing farmland.

On the way forward, Zao Zhi couldn't wait to advise Guo Peng that he would farm in Qingzhou to deal with the disasters of the Yellow Turbans and bandits, rather than just using troops to conquer them.

Guo Peng was quite clear about this, so after arriving in Pingyang, he sent people to Qingzhou to investigate the actual situation and continued to reorganize the army, making the army more combat-effective.

During his army reorganization, some locals from Taishan came to seek a background, one of whom was named Yu Jinbiao and Wenze, who was recommended by Bao Xin.

Bao Xin said that Yu Jin was able to train troops and had the ability to command the army, so he recommended Yu Jin to Guo Peng.

What a good person.

Guo Peng was very moved by Bao Xin's selfless spirit. He happily accepted Yu Jin, and then handed over the recruits recruited from Mount Tai to Yu Jin for training and watched his training skills personally.

I have to say that Bao Xin is quite accurate in his view of people. Yu Jin is indeed a good soldier. To a certain extent, Guo Peng felt that Yu Jin's appearance filled his loss of not being able to get Gao Shun.

With the help of Bao Xin, Guo Peng recruited more than 3,000 new recruits. Although he was still a little different from his goal, this was his home court, and Guo Peng was embarrassed to recruit too many soldiers.

Moreover, I have been eating rations funded by Bao Xin these days, which has caused a lot of trouble to Bao Xin. Even Mr. Guo felt embarrassed even if he had this dough.

So on the first day of October, Guo Peng led his army to Linzi County, Qi State, intending to arrive at the core area of ​​his future rule.

Before this, Guo Peng learned about some situations in Qi State, including the original Prime Minister who abandoned his official position and fled because he was a member of the eunuch, and some county magistrates from various places and county magistrates from other places also fled.

Guo Peng had to sigh that General He was decisive in eliminating eunuchs, and at least he had to understand the situation that most eunuchs and party members had been appointed by eunuchs since the Party and the Corruption Disaster.

If you kill all the people in one breath, can't these people be scared to abandon their official positions and run away?

Okay, there is no need to say much, Guo Peng directly submitted a statement to Zao Zhi as the prime minister of Qi.

Guo Peng directly asked Zao Zhi to take up the position of Prime Minister of Qi, allowing him to take charge of the military farming strategies and the preparation of refugees in Qi.

First build Qi into its own base camp, and then other things.

Guo Peng started his Qingzhou strategy ambitiously, and Dong Zhuo also started his plan ambitiously.

To be honest, at the beginning, Dong Zhuo felt that being a Sikong, carrying a team of troops and being free and at ease in Luoyang City was the happiest thing, and it could satisfy his long-cherished wish for many years.

But unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo's wish failed, and Yuan Wei asked him to discuss the destruction and establishment, which scared him to the point of being stunned.

If Yuan Wei hadn't taught him how to do and say it step by step, he would have really been unable to handle it.

Subsequently, Yuan Wei suggested that he open the prefecture in the name of the Taiwei to recruit scholars as subordinates.

Yuan Wei probably wanted to control Dong Zhuo like He Jin, so that Dong Zhuo would be filled with scholars and no one else.

Dong Zhuo does not have anyone around him.

Dong Zhuo himself reads and reads, understands many principles, and believes that what is needed to govern the country is scholars, not rough people.

He thought that his subordinates were all rough, and it would be good to be a lieutenant and a soldier. He could not even know a lot of big words. He had no other ability except being able to fight and kill people.

Except for Duan Wei, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and a few people who read and read in Luoyang City, he really had no appointments for others. He only asked them to be lieutenants, led troops outside Luoyang, abide by their own responsibilities, and did not allow them to commit rash things.

Dong Zhuo's humble behavior naturally won the favor of some scholars. Because Dong Zhuo was an old official of the Yuan family, many scholars defected to Dong Zhuo for this title.

For example, Zhou Wei, Wu Qiong, former officials of the General's Office, He Yong, Zheng Tai, etc., all took the initiative or hesitated and became Dong Zhuo's aides and worked for him.

Under their suggestion, Dong Zhuo pretended to be a polite and polite person, and restrained his temper.

And according to their suggestions, he visited scholars and colleagues, talked with them, and told them some of the insights he had learned from his study, and he really received praise from some famous scholars.

So Dong Zhuo gradually gained virtuous reputation in Luoyang.

Later, at the end of September, under the suggestion of his staff and the recognition of Yuan Wei, Dong Zhuo and Situ Huang Wan and Sikong Yang Biao brought Jing and Dani to the court to write a letter, staged a political show.

Rehabilitate the victims of the Party and Prison Disaster.

Chen Fan, Dou Wu, who were originally classified as a traitor by politics, and many party members who were arrested and killed in the second party and fined the following year were all demanded to be rehabilitated.

Dong Zhuo said that they were not guilty, that they were good people who considered the country and the people and should be rehabilitated.

The young Liu Xie was unable to take power, so the Grand Tutor Yuan Wei replaced the young Liu Xie to report the titles to restore Chen Fan and others, and promote their descendants to officials.

Chen Yi, the son of Chen Fan, participated in Wang Fen's plot to depose Emperor Ling, and was promoted to an official.

Dou Fu, the grandson of Dou Wu, was elected as a filial and honest person by Guiyang County within the year and entered the court as an official.

The scholars' years of mercy wishes were fulfilled, and they felt that they had finally won a complete victory in fighting against the Emperor of Han and the eunuchs. This was the glory of all scholars.

So, the scholars began to enjoy the fruits of this political victory.

However, in the meantime, Dong Zhuo's fame and power gradually began to expand.

If Yuan Wei wants to support Dong Zhuo as his or her dictatorship, he must make Dong Zhuo gain a foothold in the capital and make everyone accept Dong Zhuo, so he will give advice from him to let Dong Zhuo use it.

Of course, Yuan Wei also kept a backup plan, allowing a group of scholars to surround Dong Zhuo to gain Dong Zhuo's trust and master Dong Zhuo's thoughts.

But Yuan Wei seemed to have forgotten that everyone is human. If you are human, you have desires and desire to climb up. You are not Yuan Wei's retainers, you can listen to him in life and death. They also have their own ambitions and political ideals.

Throughout September, Yuan Wei cooperated with Dong Zhuo to play political games many times.

He asked Liu Xie to give Dong Zhuo a reward, but Dong Zhuo refused all of it. The above statement transferred these rewards to other famous scholars and supporters, so Dong Zhuo became even more famous.

When Dong Zhuo became more and more famous in the court, it was not uncommon for anyone to think that doing so was not good.

Someone asked Yuan Wei to limit Dong Zhuo's interactions with his scholars and his power, saying that many officials from the Shangshutai have begun to be friends with Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Wei didn't care. He was immersed in the joy of holding huge power and the joy of a successful coup, and had not yet recovered.

Dong Zhuo seemed to have gradually developed some new ideas because of his huge sense of accomplishment, and he found that Yuan Wei was an obstacle to his realization of these new ideas.
Chapter completed!