Under such a guiding ideology, all the literate and hyphenated people under Guo Peng's command who had read a little bit of books were pulled up to work.

Guo Peng made Guan Yu a soldier Cao, Zhang Fei a lieutenant Cao, Zhao Yun a thief Cao, and Guo Lie as a subordinate Cao.

Then Guo Peng thought of Mi Zhu again, and wrote to Mi Zhu, who honestly helped him do business and make a lot of money.

Guo Peng asked him if he had any ideas for coming to Shanggu County to be his own county magistrate and take charge of the finances for himself, and if so, he would come to himself.

Then Guo Peng wrote a letter to his hometown and arranged for Guo Tu and Guo Jin to send a group of people in Guo's manor who had done a good job in farming, water conservancy, and short-term disputes between parents.

By the way, I want to call Cao Chun, who is already seventeen years old, to a colleague in Shanggu County and arrange a position for him, so as to alleviate the talent gap on his side.

By the way, Guo Peng planned to ask his father, who had been the prime minister of Pei Guo, if there was anyone he could recommend to him, so that the pressure on his side would be less.

He specifically said that he wanted civilian talents, and there was no shortage of military generals on his side.

There are literati in the Yingchuan area, and my father has been deeply involved in the surrounding area for more than ten years, and he has been the prime minister of Peiguo for several years, so he should have accumulated a considerable number of contacts.

After winning his crusade against the Yellow Turban Army and Guo Dan's promotion to 2,000 stones, Guo Hong's side had already chosen to take the initiative to repair relations with Guo Dan.

Guo Shan received Guo Peng's admonition, so he generously accepted Guo Hong's apology, and returned to the Guo ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, sad and weeping.

After repairing the relationship with the Guo clan, Guo Shan received help from the Guo family when he became the prime minister of Peiguo in Peiguo.

His subordinates gathered a group of talents from Peiguo and his hometown in Yingchuan County, pulled the team up, and did things well.

Guo Peng hopes that his father can recommend some reliable talents to him.

Then Guo Peng sent people to Youzhou and Jizhou to search for talents, hoping to find some famous talents, and then depending on the situation, he would personally go out to visit people and use the highest standard of treatment to make him an official.

Literati, talented people, are all good at this, and the children of scholars in this era are generally proud to be summoned by famous and high-ranking officials.

Guo Peng is a 2,000-stone official, and he has great military merits, and he has a prestige in the Northland all day long, and it should be a very face-saving thing to be visited by Guo Peng.

This psychology Guo Peng is clear.

Of course, Guo Peng is also very clear that in the era when the concept of clan and countryside is very important, the county officials are generally served by people from the county, which is convenient for governance, for officials, and for more convenient to go home, for various practical reasons.

Therefore, some people with high status, talent, and advanced rank will not respond to themselves.

A remote, impoverished, and sparsely populated border county like Shanggu County is really not attractive, unless the other party is optimistic about Guo Peng's future and invests.

So he still put more hope on Guo Dan, hoping that his father could give some strength.

Although there are not enough talents at the moment, relying on Guo Peng's reluctant arrangement and the small number of people in Shanggu County, the administration of Shanggu County is still in operation.

Guo Peng found that the agricultural production in Shanggu County had been greatly damaged, and the water conservancy facilities were also very old, so he arranged for the more literate soldiers in the army to follow the officers to settle the displaced people.

Calling on them to settle on the deserted land, build houses, and cultivate fields, he ordered farm tools, seeds, and cattle from Jizhou, and handed them over to the people to work in the designated area, and the grain cultivated was divided proportionally.

This is the earliest Tuntian system, Guo Peng thought of this system, and decided to implement it in Shanggu County, which he was in charge of, which was the fastest way to restore order and stability for Shanggu County, which had been repeatedly warned.

As a result, a large number of displaced people were resettled, arranged and escorted by literate soldiers, to settle in designated areas and to cultivate fields.

Four of the eight counties under Guo Peng's jurisdiction have no county orders or county magistrates, only a few officials are still in office, and the imperial court has not sent officials, probably because few people are willing to come to this kind of bitter cold and no oil and water to be officials.

Guo Peng's subordinates did not have any talents to serve as officials, so they simply regarded these four counties as their own direct jurisdictions, directly managed them, and regarded them as experimental areas for the Tuntian system, so as to accumulate experience for the future.

One of the quickest ways to restore agricultural production and social order after the war was the tuntian system.

Of course, although this would allow agricultural production to resume and allow the government to control a large amount of grain stocks, it was also a way of exploiting the peasants.

Because the fields are all owned by the government, and the seeds of the cattle are also owned by the government, these peasants are equivalent to tenant farmers of the government, and a large amount of income is handed over, and only a few are kept for their own rations.

But in troubled times, this is the absolutely right choice.

In order to maximize the resources and thus increase the power to defeat other warlords, and in order to reduce the time required for reunification as much as possible, what Guo Peng needed to do was to squeeze the local economic and demographic potential to the maximum.

Guo Peng's positioning of himself is very clear.

He will become a warlord.

A warlord in troubled times with the goal of unification.

Warlords do not exist for the sake of production, not for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, not for charity, but for the sake of unity.

A warlord in troubled times must have a unified determination and goal, not a corner of peace, nor a corner of peace.

For the sake of reunification, any price can be paid.

So what he has to do is exploit, that is, to exploit, to collect, that is, to squeeze the labor power of the peasants regardless of their blood and tears.

He wants to get the greatest benefit from it and enrich it into war materials, and he wants to build the area under his jurisdiction into a military chariot to the greatest extent, fill this chariot with fuel, and step on the accelerator, so as to crush other warlords, win the victory, and become the final chosen one.

Oppressing the common people, the peasants in the tuntian area were only allowed to obtain the most basic food rations so that they would not die, and let them cultivate and provide food for themselves.

Taxes are levied from the ruling area by various means, and all the resources in the ruling area are occupied for monopolistic commercial trade.

With the military force as the backing, the political and economic interests are used as bargaining chips to exchange resources in the hands of the noble and powerful, and so on.

There is no need for too much pity, there is no need for unnecessary love, these are all obstacles to unity.

No matter what, peace is better than the turbulent "Three Kingdoms", and the population will not be lost in millions.

As long as we can unify and seize peace, then sooner or later the price we have paid now will be recovered.

Therefore, the implementation of the tuntian system is a wartime policy, not to let people live and work in peace and contentment, but to squeeze their blood and sweat to serve the military war.

However, for civilians displaced during the war, having a safe and secure stomach is a happy life like heaven, what else do they dare to yearn for?

The tuntian system is the greatest common divisor that can simultaneously achieve the goals of the ruling class and the minimum subsistence needs of the peasants in times of war.

It is only during the war, after the war, after the reunification, that if this system is continued, it will lead to a peasant uprising.

Guo Peng led people to count the population of the entire Shanggu County, check the situation of the wasteland, and spent more than a month of research in various places, which can be regarded as determining the preliminary operation of the tuntian system.

It was also at this time, in the middle of August of the fourth year of Zhongping, that Guo Peng received a letter from Luoyang, which was written by Cao Song.