Under such a guiding ideology, all those who knew the words and who had read a little bit of the book were brought up to work.

Guo Peng appointed Guan Yu as the military commander, Zhang Fei as the lieutenant, Zhao Yun as the thief, and Guo Lie as the subordinate Cao.

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

Guo Peng asked him if he had any idea to come to Shanggu County to be his own county junior government and take charge of his finances. If so, come to him.

Then Guo Peng wrote a letter to his hometown and arranged for Guo Tu and Guo Jin to send a group of people in the Guo Manor who have done a good job in agriculture, water conservancy, family disputes, etc.

By the way, I wanted to call Cao Chun, who was already seventeen years old, to a colleague of Shanggu County and arrange a position for him to alleviate the talent gap on his side.

Guo Peng also planned to ask himself if there are any talents to recommend to him, so that he could reduce the pressure on him.

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

A literati was born in Yingchuan. My father worked hard in the surrounding area for more than ten years and served as the Prime Minister of Pei for several years. He should have accumulated a considerable number of connections.

After he won the battle against the Yellow Turban Army and Guo Shan was promoted to 2,000 stones, Guo Hong had already chosen to take the initiative to repair his relationship with Guo Shan.

After receiving Guo Peng's advice, Guo Shan accepted Guo Hong's apology openly and returned to the Guo Clan Ancestral Hall to worship his ancestors, crying sadly.

After repairing the relationship with the Guo clan, Guo Shan was helped by the Guo clan as the prime minister of Pei in Pei.

His men gathered a group of talents from their hometowns in Peiguo and Yingchuan County to pull up the team and do things in a good manner.

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

Then Guo Peng sent people to Youzhou Bingzhou and Jizhou to search for talents, hoping to find some famous talents. Then, depending on the situation, he would go out to visit others in person and use the highest standard treatment to become an official.

Literary and talented people are all good at this. In this era, the children of the gentry were generally honored to be summoned by famous scholars and high-ranking officials.

Guo Peng is an official of two thousand stones and has great military achievements. He has been famous all day in the northern area. It should be very respectful to be visited by Guo Peng to recruit officials.

Guo Peng is very clear about this.

Of course, Guo Peng also knew very well that in the era when the clan and local concepts were very important, county officials were generally held by people from the county, which was convenient for governance, officials, and more convenient for going home. There were various practical reasons.

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

A remote, poor 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 put more hope on Guo Dan, hoping that his father could give him some strength.

Although there are not enough talents at the moment, thanks to Guo Peng's reluctant arrangements and the few people in Shanggu County, the administration of Shanggu County was still started to be operated.

Guo Peng discovered that the agricultural production in Shanggu County had been greatly damaged and the water conservancy facilities were also very outdated, so he arranged for soldiers with more literacy in the army to follow the officers to stabilize the refugees.

He called on them to settle down on abandoned land, build houses, and reclaim fields. He ordered farm tools, seeds and oxen from Jizhou and handed them over to the people to farm in the prescribed area, and the grain cultivated was divided according to proportion.

This was the earliest military farming system. When Guo Peng thought of this system, he decided to implement it in Shanggu County, which he was in charge. For Shanggu County, which was repeatedly war-torn, it was the fastest way to restore order and stability.

A large number of refugees were therefore resettled, and under the arrangement and escort of literate soldiers, they went to the prescribed area to settle down and reclaim the land.

There are four of the eight counties under Guo Peng's jurisdiction that have no county magistrates or county magistrates, and only a few officials are still in office. The court has not sent officials. Perhaps no one is willing to be an official in such a bitter, cold and unhealthy place.

Guo Peng had no talent under his command to serve as an official, so he simply treated these four counties as their own direct-level areas and directly managed them as experimental areas of the military farming system to accumulate experience for the future.

One of the fastest ways to restore agricultural production and social order after the war is the military farming system.

Of course, although agricultural production can be restored and the government can control a large amount of grain storage, this is also a way to exploit farmers.

Because the fields are all from the government, and the farm tools and ox seeds are also from the government, these farmers are equivalent to tenant farmers from the government. The income is handed over, and only a few of them are left to their own food. In fact, they have no enthusiasm for production and are just making a living.

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

In order to maximize the control of resources and increase the strength to defeat other warlords, and to do its best to reduce the time required for unification, what Guo Peng needs to do is to maximize the local economic and population potential.

Guo Peng has a very clear positioning of himself.

He will become a warlord.

Warlords in troubled times with the goal of unification.

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

A warlord in troubled times must have a unified determination and goal, rather than being in a place of peace or in a place of peace.

For unity, any price can be paid.

So what he has to do is exploitation, exploitation, taxation, and squeeze out their labor regardless of the blood and tears of farmers.

He wanted to obtain the greatest benefits from it to enrich the combat preparation materials, and to build the area under his jurisdiction into a military combat chariot to the greatest extent, fill the chariot with fuel, step on the accelerator, and crush the other warlords, win, and become the last chosen son of the God.

To squeeze the people, farmers can only obtain the most basic food rations in the military farming area and avoid dying, so that they can farm and provide food for themselves.

Taxes are collected from the ruling area through various means, occupying all resources in the ruling area for monopoly commercial trade.

With the military force as a backing, political and economic interests as bargaining chips, exchange resources in the hands of the gentry and powerful, etc.

There is no need to have too much compassion, no need to have a meaningless heart of love, these are obstacles to unity.

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

As long as we can unify and seize peace, the price we pay will sooner or later be recovered.

Therefore, the implementation of the military farming system is a wartime policy, not to allow people to live and work in peace, but to squeeze their blood and sweat to serve military wars.

However, for displaced civilians during the war, having security guarantees and a full stomach is a happy life like heaven. What else do they dare to desire?

The military farming system is the greatest common divisor that can achieve the goals of the ruling class and the minimum survival needs of the peasants during war times.

It is only during wartime, after war, after unification, if this system continues to be implemented, it will lead to peasant uprisings.

Guo Peng led his men to count the population in the entire Shanggu County and check the wasteland situation. He spent more than a month in researching in various places, which determined the initial operation of the military farming system.
Chapter completed!