After the news that Guo Peng was going north to serve as the Captain of Huwuwan had spread, Yuan Shu was the first to congratulate him in a high-profile manner.

Adhering to the usual rich style of the children of top wealthy families and being generous, he brought a lot of gifts to Guo Peng, a lot of gold, silver, money, and a lot of military books.

Then Yuan Shu held a banquet for Guo Peng and invited many people, including some acquaintances from Yuan Shao, who also came to the meeting with Guo Peng and Cao Cao. Yuan Shu got up and danced with Guo Peng at the banquet, sang ancient poems together, and had the greatest joy.

Of course, Cao Cao was coming. He was appointed Prime Minister of Jinan for his military achievements. The two thousand stone officials will take office soon.

In addition to Cao Cao, Guo Peng also insisted on inviting Sun Jian.

Sun Jian did not have the same strong relationship as Guo Peng and Cao Cao. After the war, he was named Sima of another department and was only a Qianshi official, but he made great progress compared to before.

Sun Jian did not expect that Guo Peng invited him to the meeting, and held hands to introduce Sun Jian to everyone, introduced Sun Jian's courage, and then toasted him personally to express his admiration, etc., which gave Sun Jian a great face, which made Sun Jian a little flattered.

He, a child of the Han family in the south, could actually participate in such a grand event. He had no other ideas except to thank Guo Peng.

After the happy banquet, Guo Peng will officially make some plans.

Although he really wanted to work with Sun Jian, Sun Jian was Zhu Ye's subordinate. He was recommended and promoted by Zhu Ye, and was considered Zhu Ye's old official, so he still followed Zhu Ye's actions.

So Guo Peng gave up the idea of ​​inviting Sun Jian to work together in northern Xinjiang.

But Zang Hong did not let him go and went to the north to be the Captain of Huwuwan. He was not familiar with the place and needed the most was to have his own strong team as his basic foundation and give himself some confidence, so it is necessary to bring some trustworthy old subordinates as much as possible.

Zang Hong accepted Guo Peng's invitation without saying a word, so Guo Peng immediately appointed Zang Hong as his Sima.

Then Guo Peng took Cheng Li's attention and wrote to Cheng Li, hoping to recruit him as his chief official and go to the northern border with him to make contributions to the country, and ask him if he would like to do so.

The basic team of one literary and one martial arts was formed, and the next step was when Guo Peng accumulated over the years and took effect.

When he learned that Guo Peng was going to Youzhou to be the Captain of Huwuwan, he had an idea when he had fought with Guo Peng before, and the old subordinates who Lu Zhi later handed over to Guo Peng.

These old subordinates were mainly cavalrymen from the Changshui Captain, as well as the enlisted children around Luoyang, and the golfer who had to follow Guo Peng at the earliest.

Guo Peng won consecutive victories in the war and received a lot of spoils and rewards. Guo Peng generously gave his subordinates a lot of rewards, and many soldiers followed Guo Peng to get money.

Moreover, Guo Peng was polite to his soldiers and was one of the very few generals who were willing to save their lives, so he received the sincere service of many soldiers who recovered from the injury and returned to the team.

Many soldiers like this kind of boss very much, and they are worried that there will be no such boss to follow him in the future. So when they heard that Guo Peng was leaving Luoyang to be the captain of Huwuwan, the first ones who followed Guo Peng came to the door.

There were 107 goosemen who came back with Guo Peng, and they brought more than 200 goosemen who admired Guo Peng, hoping to go north with Guo Peng and follow him to fight.

Many people said that their parents had both died and had no family or family, and they were only one person. If Guo Peng wanted to, he would take him with him, and he would follow Guo Peng until he died.

Guo Peng did not object to accept all of them, and accepted the followers of 317 Rangers.

Then there were the Changshui Cavalry. Among the Changshui Cavalry who followed Guo Peng to fight and returned alive, 253 people asked to go to the frontier to serve with Guo Peng.

Among them, there were some Wuhuan people and some Xianbei people who admired Guo Peng's courage and were grateful for his kindness, and wanted to follow him to continue to serve him in the northern border.

This kind of thing happens a lot.

For example, because of his high prestige, Deng Xun was the captain of Huwuwan, his old subordinates of Liyang Camp were willing to follow him and could not help moving.

This is mostly due to the personal charm of the generals, and it also reflects the intensification of soldiers' personal dependence on the generals in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty and the inaction of the central government.

The central government often cannot gather the army due to financial problems, so it allows the private equity army to go out to fight against the unjust, and even uses the combat-capable private equity army as the main force of the country. Zhu Jun and Dong Zhuo are both examples in this regard.

This is not a strange thing at this time.

The attributes of these armies are naturally very vague, but the Han central government does not care much about this. Unless it is a general with a large family, most people will choose to disband the army after the war, because raising troops is not an easy task.

Guo Peng raised this team thanks to the help of his friends and the help of the Cao Xiahou family and the Guo family. Even so, the money was not so abundant. If it was to be maintained for a long time, the poor military pay for the court would not be enough.

So Guo Peng also had to consider how to use the power of the Captain Huwuhuan to obtain money as military funds after he gained power in the northern border.

In addition to them, there were some recruits who followed Guo Peng to fight and asked to follow Guo Peng to the northern border.

Their number was 271, and Guo Peng also allowed it, accepted them, and took them to the northern border.

In addition, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, more than 500 trained family soldiers placed in Guo Peng in his hometown were a little unnecessary. Now, he needs them more than his hometown.

So Guo Peng wrote to Guo Shan, asking Guo Shan to send Guo Jin and Guo Tu over, plus 300 soldiers from his family, to go north with him.

Cao Song said that he would write to the Cao family in Qiao County, asking the Cao family and Xiahou family to gather 200 soldiers to go north and follow Guo Peng to fight.

After all, there were 1,244 soldiers who could fight to go north with Guo Peng. For this reason, some people were willing to take their families and Guo Peng had initially had their own power team.

There are also many people who are close friends with him who give him some property, weapons or horses.

Lu Zhi called Guo Peng to his mansion, took out 30 kilograms of gold and handed it to Guo Peng. He also wrote a letter asking Guo Peng to go to the Ning County garrison in Shanggu County and then delivered it to his hometown.

In this way, Lu Zhi's hometown will find ways to raise a batch of war horses and money for him to make it easier for him to act.

Lu Zhi was very worried about Guo Peng and asked Guo Peng to ask the clan members for advice on the matter of the rank of the rank of Huwuwan, be familiar with the border affairs, and never act blindly and independently.

The Huwuwan Captain had considerable authority over the Wuwan Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu tribes, but it was difficult to exercise this authority well to make them obedient.

The clan was doing well. With him as the governor of Youzhou, Youzhou would not be in chaos, so Guo Peng could rely on him more.

Guo Peng was very moved. Lu Zhi’s love for him was sincere.

Then Yuan Shu gave Guo Peng twenty war horses and secretly gave him some crossbows, asking him to hide it and not be discovered.

Sun Jian also gave Guo Peng the twenty war horses seized by his subordinates to express his gratitude to Guo Peng.

Cao Song also prepared a sum of gold and handed it to Guo Peng, and said that he would purchase a batch of war horses from Bingzhou to send them to Shanggu County for Guo Peng to use, so that Guo Peng would be careful.

Cao Cao took out some of his private money and gave it to Guo Peng, so he also asked him to be careful.

Guo Hong took out a sum of money and gave it to Guo Peng, hoping that Guo Peng would achieve his achievements and not lose his reputation as his ancestors.

Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren were about to follow Guo Peng north without saying a word. Xiahou Dun hesitated for a moment and looked at Cao Cao. Cao Cao smiled and patted Xiahou Dun on the shoulder.

"Men should fight in all directions, establish meritorious service, and contribute to the country. I will be the prime minister of Jinan. Not to go to war, Yuan Rang should follow Zifeng to the north and make meritorious service!"

As he said that, Cao Cao also held Guo Peng's hand and said in a deep voice: "If I make achievements, I will apply to Your Majesty to strive for transfer to the northern border county, fight side by side with Zifeng, and fight against the barbarians together!"

Guo Peng nodded.
Chapter completed!