It cannot be said that there are really no "people with lofty ideals" in the ruling area of the Guo Wei Empire.

Even Guo himself would not guarantee this.

These ill-intentioned people, these people who are not satisfied with Guo Peng's rule, that must exist, because Guo did suppress Haoqiang to a certain extent.

For example, Guo Peng's confiscation of iron-smelting tools and the prohibition of iron-smelting and coinage in Haoqiang's manor made some Haoqiang very dissatisfied, and they felt that Guo Peng had infringed on their interests.

Not only did they reclaim the coinage rights, so that they could not engage in the manor economy, but they also had to engage in salt and iron official camps, compressing their profit margins.

But the policy continued.

Officials took the lead in complying, such as Li Dian, Cao Hong, and Han Hao, and they all took the lead in complying, handing over the iron-smelting tools and blacksmith households in their estates, so as to play an exemplary role.

For Guo Peng, who honestly handed over these things, he adopted a soft policy, and for those who resisted, he gave an order, ordering the local county to order the township head or something to directly cooperate with the local garrison to search the manor, and then forcibly buy it.

All iron-smelting equipment and blacksmiths must be bought, and private iron-smelting must never be allowed, and the control is very thorough and strict.

If there is armed resistance, there will be no mercy.

In the context of the establishment of the new dynasty, Guo did not allow anyone to go against his will!

These heroes were not satisfied, but they had no strength to fight, and after killing a few chickens, the monkeys were honest.

Guo Peng's grassroots village power is even greater, and the village chiefs and township chiefs in the villages are not dry meals.

Under the deliberate manipulation of Guo, a Haoqiang manor is often surrounded by several Tuntian villages, and they cannot communicate with each other.

You let them rebel?

A small-scale village chief can take the young people in the village to fight, and a slightly larger village chief can press you down.

And now Guo has implemented the old pawn going to the countryside as a policy.

Through the successful pilot projects in Qingyan Erzhou and Jizhou in the early years, Guo officially enacted this policy as a law after ascending the throne, and promulgated it for implementation.

Most of the veterans who had physical problems and could not adapt to the high-intensity combat needs of the Wei army, except for some who were left in the army as recruit instructors, were sent to local townships and villages, and as the leaders of the local young people, they were specially responsible for leading the local young men to practice tactical combat skills during the agricultural slack.

The Central Plains and Hebei have spread this kind of state of Tuntian farms surrounding Haoqiang Manor on a large scale, and the remote areas have not had time to spread out, but it is only a matter of the past few years.

The heroes thought that there were still some variables happening, but Guo directly grabbed the emperor's seat and did it himself, and became the emperor's old man, the biggest person in the world.

It's good now, and I don't know when he's going to do it.

However, for the time being, Guo Peng has not reformulated a new tax policy, except for the promotion of salt and iron official camps, and the prohibition of private iron smelting and private possession of weapons.

Guo Peng did not collect taxes on the properties of the Haoqiang and Shi clans, nor did he collect taxes on their estates with large populations and land, and still continued the tax policy of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

He only oppressed the people of Tuntian within the scope of his control, and then demanded that the two official caravans of the Mi clan and the Cao clan pay heavy taxes, but did not affect others, nor did he collect taxes on the private caravans of the major wealthy families.

Guo Peng not only did not expand the scope of taxation, but also canceled the tariffs that were once revived by warlords in various places, so as to open up the transportation in various places, so that the commerce that had withered due to the war began to revivenation.

For these private merchants, he does not collect much tax, most of the current financial revenue comes from the people of Tuntian, only a small part comes from commercial taxes, so the private commercial trade is gradually developing towards the prosperity of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

On the various transportation arteries within the territory of the Wei State, trade caravans came and went, and merchants from all over the country poured into the trading centers of various cities, happily carrying out commercial trade with very low tax rates, and making a lot of money.

Guo Peng did not infringe on the industrial and commercial interests of Haoqiang and the scholars, but turned a blind eye and fooled the past, so in the eyes of the scholars, this was a way for Guo Peng to compromise.

If the core interests are not damaged, then some leftovers will be left to him.

And he is the emperor immediately, the throne that he snatched by force, if you want to talk about righteousness, if you want to talk about force, the world's heroes and strong are not his opponents, why bother to fight against him?

Wait, when Guo Peng dies, the Guo Wei royal family has weakened, and the imperial force has also weakened, then the world will still be the same as before, and the land of the surrounding Tuntian people will still be theirs.

Don't look at the current strict management of the government, the powerful people are very clear about how their ancestors took advantage of natural disasters and man-made disasters to take advantage of loopholes to embezzle land and make a fortune.

According to their words, the real powerful family cares most about inheritance, not temporary wealth.

Their children know how to become Haoqiang, even if they are deprived of poverty by Guo for a while, as long as they don't die, as long as the control is loosened, and they seize the opportunity to come back for another ten or twenty years, he is still Haoqiang.

This is something that Li Shu can't learn, and it is impossible to learn it, and it is not Li Shu who learns this hand, but the people.

They generally believe that Guo's policy is temporary, and the possibility of people dying is extremely great, as long as his future generations of kings cannot adhere to his policies and control, unlike him, who is strict with land management, and measures the land at every turn and inspects the granary, then what are they afraid of?

As long as Guo Peng doesn't touch their core interests, don't spread wild on the self-reserved land of the powerful, how he loves to toss on his own territory is his business, can he still turn the sky upside down?

Thirty or forty years at most, but the work of one or two generations, the world is still that world.

Therefore, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang's empty appeal without any practical meaning is very boring in their opinion.

It's really boring.

Shouting a slogan, spreading some rumors, and letting us attack in groups?

What about the benefits?

What about the hope of victory?

Guo Peng's livestock, the son of the county order, started as a result, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu of the fourth and third princes were able to turn over, and they turned over and became emperors, such a character, you let us fight with him?

Don't, don't, don't, don't, I still want to keep my head for a few more bowls of rice, and keep my lower body for a few more years.

These are the words of those who are not convinced by the hearts of those whose interests have been offended.

Guo Peng's son of the county order started and became the emperor all the way, and he didn't know how many people were overturned along the way, and the bones of these people have not been cold for a few years, and everyone remembers it vividly, and they are full of awe of the new emperor in Luoyang City.

Do you go against Guo Peng at this time?

I'm sorry, I haven't lived enough.

So such incendiary statements have no market in the land of Wei, and no one cares about such statements, or attacks in groups, which is a complete joke.

What is Guo Peng worried about?

His prestige and means have made his ruling foundation extremely solid, and this feeling of spending eighteen years on the ground all the way up is really good, and once it is successful, it feels really good.

The prestige of the Han family?

Since the time when Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor, the prestige of the Han family no longer existed.

The hearts of the Han family?

From the moment Xun Yu and Zang Hong were executed, the Han family had no hearts.

In March of the first year of Yande, Guo Peng was dispatching troops in Luoyang to assign tasks, while Liu Biao and Liu Zhang were impotent and furious in the south.

And, where Liu Biao and Liu Zhang can't see, a new conspiracy is brewing.

Since the end of March, when the weather is getting warmer and everything is growing, Liu Biao's condition has further worsened.

He was coughing almost all day long, his trachea was painful, and coughing up blood was not uncommon, and it became more and more frequent, which made Liu Biao very frightened.

Obviously they are taking their medicine on time, how can this be?

Hasn't it started to get better before?

Liu Biao didn't know why this happened, but his body was indeed weakening day by day.

Finally, by mid-April, Liu Biao's illness worsened, and he could no longer handle government affairs, lying in bed every day and couldn't get up, coughing and fever, dizziness and brain swelling, falling into a long coma, and rarely waking up.