These grassroots officials who contact the people directly rule the people generally have two sources.

One is to help the children of a poor group that helped Guo Peng start his own business.

Most of them are the children of the families of the generals under Guo Peng. There is no need to say much about the Xiahou family of Cao. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yunle and Li Dian, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Chu and Dianwei, and the children of a few civil servants, such as the Cheng Yu family.

The children of these families will enter the palace to study with the children of the Guo family, and will be placed by Guo Peng to intern for a period of time, and then personally arrange and send it to a certain village.

Guo Peng asked them to start with the village chief. For example, Cao Ang was transferred to the mansion by Guo Peng for a while and then sent by Guo Peng to a village in Chenliu County to serve as the village chief.

The second is the common people.

Guo Peng was born in a gentry and used the power of the Cao family's Xiahou clan for himself, and formed a team and became a rare warlord of the gentry. Therefore, the Cao family and Xiahou clan who helped him the greatest help were the Cao family.

There were not many gentry members involved in the starting lineup. Most of the Yuan Cong group were from poor landlords, so under Guo Peng's command, the civil servants and generals from poor landlords were even stronger than those of gentry bureaucrats.

I won’t talk about military generals, all of them are poor landlords or civil servants.

The candidates for the governors of the five major prefectures under Guo Peng, except for the governors of Qingzhou whom Guo Peng himself served as the governor of Qingzhou, three of them were not from gentry.

The governor of Yanzhou Bao Xin, the governor of Jizhou Cao Cao, the governor of Bingzhou Zang Hong, and the governor of Youzhou Xian Yu Fu, among the four, they were not from a gentry, except for Guo Peng's die-hard supporter Bao Xin.

Cao Cao was a descendant of eunuchs, Zang Hong was the son of the defeated general of the border, and Xian Yufu was a powerful man in Youzhou. The three of them were all discriminated against by the children of the gentry.

Therefore, for a long time, the children of the gentry in the school have some people who privately mocked Guo Peng for his own status and lowered his own personality and had a companionship with those poor families and muddy families. They had no noble spirit at all, and they could not see the nobleness of the "family and clothing" of the Guo family in Yingchuan.

I think it is the reality that his group was exiled by the master's family and could only be the county magistrate after being embarrassed?

The children of the gentry secretly exchanged such views and laughed loudly.

Of course, this is not the majority. At least now that the high ground of public opinion is completely controlled by Guo Peng, his black spots are so few that some opposition parties can only use this method to mock him.

The gentry forces under Guo Peng's command were mainly concentrated in the General's Mansion, the Prefectures and the County, and these middle and senior civil officials were all children of the gentry.

When it comes to the countryside, there are mainly literate elites, supplemented by poor landlords, and none of them are children of gentry.

Guo Peng not only used the poor children in the core group around him as grassroots village chiefs and township heads, but also taught the common people to learn literacy, selected smart people to enter the People's Living Office for training, and then came out to serve as village chiefs and township heads in each village. This is also well-known.

Guo Peng said it was a practical need, and the officials were nervous. There were not enough officials to go to the grassroots level to manage hundreds of families, so he had to choose literate elites from the common people to manage rural institutions.

And when the countryside goes up, scholars are in charge of the way.

The nervousness of officials is not a fabrication, it is also a fact, so this aspect has not caused any disagreement within the ruling group.

Guo Peng suppressed the civil elites at the rural level, and did not use anyone to serve as the chief executive of the county and county government. At most, he had good experience and transferred them to the county and county government government to act as a clerk, running errands for the chief executive and maintaining the chief executive's identity advantage.

So this is what everyone defaults on.

In everyone's opinion, there is nothing wrong with this.

At least when the rural system is already common, people with noble backgrounds do not need to be tired and dirty official positions such as village chiefs and township chiefs, and people with low backgrounds cannot be high-ranking officials. This does not touch the operation of fundamental rules and does not encounter any resistance.

Besides, Li Shu, who can only do odd jobs, is not worth caring about, and it is not worth caring about a few words. What is worth caring about is the power of the powerful poor landlords around Guo Peng.

The main competitor of the gentry is the poor and powerful powerful people. The gentry has never relaxed its guard against the poor and powerful landlords. Guo Peng's strong appointment of the poor and powerful people is what they most worried about.

Among these people, the outstanding ones would even be appointed as the county magistrates of the local 2,000 stones or even the state governors due to the war, and invaded the power of the gentry, which made the scholars feel unhappy.

In troubled times, force is very important. Guo Peng has proved through the war to attack Yuan Shao that the three kings of the four generations cannot resist powerful force, and declared the arrival of troubled times. So who knows what these martial artists will do in the future?

The gentry generally did not master force, and in peacetime, they did not need to master force.

Despite this, the relationship between the gentry and the powerful under Guo Peng was relatively harmonious. At least under the background of troubled times and with a strong common enemy, they could still work together.

But what after?

This is a question that Guo Peng would consider, something that Guo Peng would care about and silently prepare for, rather than what his subordinates who are fully devoted to the concerns of the war against Yuan.

The struggle between the gentry and poor families under Guo Peng's command has not yet broken out and has not become mainstream, but it seems that this day will not be far away.

Yes, yes, once a person without money has power, it is difficult not to think about making money because he is afraid of being poor and wants money.

Because I want money too much, I just want money.

For example, Li Shen, who wrote the poem about compassion for farmers.

People who get into money are not scary at all, and nouveau riche are not scary at all, and they are easy to control.

But what do rich people want when they have power?

That's something more terrifying than money, such as some kind of monopoly.

The two evils are the least. Guo chooses the former, which is easy to control and manipulate, while the latter is hard to say.

From any perspective, Guo Peng likes people who are greedy for money more.

So he really likes Cao Hong. Although he still needs to fight, as his power grows stronger, Guo Peng really likes Cao Hong more and more, and trusts Cao Hong very much.

So although Cao Hong is still making him the chief lieutenant, he will soon be promoted to become his general.

In early December of the second year of Xingping, Guo Peng ordered Guo Jia to lead Yu Jin and Le Jin to lead an army of 10,000 to Longkang County to meet Xiahou Yuan and prepare to cross the Huai River to fight.

Guo Peng wanted to determine that the army's grain channels were opened and operated smoothly in Qi County, and then led the army south to Longkang County and refused to follow Yuan Shu's mistakes.

If you win this battle, there is no suspense to win.
Chapter completed!