To put it bluntly, under the system of inheritance of the eldest son, not only the royal family, but also the large families with prominent ministers and nobles. It is also the system of inheritance of the eldest son.

Except for a few officials who particularly like a child who is not the eldest son, most senior officials at the head level still value the eldest son more.

The family will do its best to cultivate the eldest son to stabilize the family's survival. Sooner or later, the remaining children will separate their families and make their own way of living.

This is true of the laws of the Wei Empire, and the rules of many families are actually the same.

It is not ruled out that a small number like Yuan Shao's existence is the same as that of his younger son.

However, most senior officials and nobles are still clear-headed and know who to train to inherit the family business.

Only the eldest son can integrate the power of the father and mother tribe and push the family to a new peak.

So most of their children are actually like Guo Jun, who are spare tires of the family and abandoned children. Unless the eldest son dies early or is too incompetent and ruthless, there is no possibility of turning over.

There are actually not many lucky emperors like Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jiajing.

So these officials, especially those with more children, may also be worried about the life of the children after the separation of the family and do not know how to better arrange them.

After all, it is your own child. If you can make a name for yourself, the family will have more help, right?

There is no system for recommendation at present. Under the imperial examination system, if you fail to pass the imperial examination, you will not be able to enter the court and the army if you fail to pass the civil and military examinations, and you will have no way out.

The system of sealing can only sealing two sons, at most three sons. Many people have more than just a few children, and several children have no livelihood.

How should they spend the rest of their lives?

It’s okay if you have the ability, you can take the imperial examination yourself and live your own life. If you are a little useless, you can only live in vain.

In the end, do you still expect the owner to pay for a waste?

When Guo Peng said this, they understood.

This is the royal survival strategy, and it may not be their survival strategy.

While Guo Peng was looking for a way to survive for his son, he also gave other non-primaries from official families a special way of life, as long as they were willing to fight with their lives.

If you take a gamble and find a future, then there may be opportunities to continue to grow in the future. If you re-establish a sect in a foreign country, it may not be even more prominent.

These seven people were the first wave to know the news, but they were definitely not the last wave.

Making decisions early will also benefit the family and their descendants themselves.

"That's all I can do. Do you have any other opinions?"

The seven people are all smart people of the world, so of course they cannot have any opinions.

They began to think seriously about this possibility.

Perhaps they were not that smart at the beginning, but after years of ups and downs in the officialdom, they made a living under a fierce and powerful monarch like Guo Peng. It would be difficult for them to be smart if they were not smart. They had to be smart.

Under passive oppression and active struggle, their political wisdom is the best in this era.

But even so, when they heard the reason why Guo Peng enfeoffed his sons to open up land overseas, they were still moved.

People themselves may not be great, but hearing the great deeds of great people does not prevent these unparalleled people from being moved and reverence.

Mr. Guo is indeed a fierce king, killing countless people, his hands are covered with blood, and his throne can even be said to be made of flesh and blood.

He was extremely cruel and often used terrifying punishments such as beheading, car cracking, skinning and cramping on officials, which made the officials scared.

After this anti-corruption storm, more than 300 officials resigned directly - all of them were scared.

If it were not for the use of compulsory administrative orders, those vacant positions would have been insufficient to fill in the positions of officials.

Even the new official who just passed the imperial examination was afraid, because when doing something in a certain position, it was often not his own willingness, but he had no choice but to collect the money and was dragged into the water.

If something happens, they will definitely be killed in the first round.

With the guidance of their seniors, they didn't dare to think about certain key positions at all, especially the emperor was a terrifying person like Guo.

The eyes and ears are all over the sky, and no one knows if the colleague who was still talking to you in the morning changed his appearance and appeared in the interrogation room to torture you at night.

But on the other hand, he was extremely kind and caring about people's lives.

He used huge sums of money to build the Dachi Road, engage in transportation, and build the Grand Canal for the unpredictable crisis in more than ten years.

He is willing to do something for the crisis that he cannot see in three hundred years, and open up territory overseas, thinking of giving people who have no way out in the crisis of land annexation in the future.

The reason why people rebel is because there is no hope. If there is hope, they may not rebel.

Guo Peng gave them a way of survival. Although they didn't know whether this way of survival was very useful, it was indeed useful from the perspective of the situation they could see.

Emperor, is he a cruel murderous devil or a kind father?

Or maybe he is not anyone, he is just himself.

At this moment, Cao Cao, who had known Guo Peng for the first time among these people, suddenly felt that Guo Peng was so strange. He felt that he had never really known Guo Peng.

The little guy who dared to help him stand up at the age of eight and kicked Xu Shao hard in the ass seemed to have never been the kind of person he imagined.

That little guy and that little Douding seemed to have been looking at a place they could not see, looking at that place thinking about the future of himself and everyone in the Wei Empire.

Where did he see and what did he see?

Cao Cao didn't know.

Of course, others don't know.

In addition to shock and worries, they also have deeper thinking and choices.

Should I send the child out and which child to send?

Guo Peng asked them to leave collectively soon after, and waited for them to return to their respective mansions, and it was not until midnight that they gradually recovered.

Guo Peng is really going to abdicate.

The emperor who had been pressing on their heads for thirteen years and was breathless, was about to abdicate.

The era that belongs to Guo Peng is over, and a new era is about to begin.

Perhaps, they no longer need to be worried about this and that, and they can easily live in the new era.

Guo Peng is tired. He has been in charge of the world for a long time and is really tired. He is so tired that he is dying by the heavy government affairs, so he chose to retire and live a comfortable life.

If he was a little rational, he should know that as the Supreme Emperor, he should not continue to hold any power, and should not stir up trouble behind the new emperor and treat the new emperor as a puppet.

Therefore, Guo Peng's era can be considered to be over.

A new era will officially begin, and the things they worry most are gone.

They successfully survived to the next era, and under the fierce and cruel pressure of the old emperor, they finally survived to the new era.

So after the anxiety and worry faded, they shed tears of excitement first.

Similar to the happiness of a daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, they finally succeeded.

Then, they made an unanimous decision - to follow the royal family and send out their extra children.

What if he became famous and made a name for himself in the second prince’s title?

The branches and leaves have bloomed abroad.

That was a pretty wonderful thing.

After a while, the officials in the cabinet felt that Cao Cao's mental state was a little wrong, and felt that Cao Cao, who had always been low-key and cautious, seemed a little... cheerful?

After so many years as the prime minister of the cabinet, I have never seen Cao Cao laugh happily. As a result, Cao Cao often laughs and keeps laughing at people these days.

Even if you encounter some bad things, you would have to kill people in anger, but now you just laugh it off and let your scared subordinates correct it.

Is this Cao Cao?

This is fake Cao Cao, right?

Someone got Cao Cao out of his bag, right?

Right?

The subordinates were very surprised and thought that Cao Cao had a problem, but he couldn't tell what the problem was.

This is the case with Cao Cao's subordinates here, and the staff station over there also feels that Guo Jia's mood is a little bit wrong recently.

After the incident, everyone watched the haze on Guo Jia's face become stronger and stronger day by day, and Guo Jia, who was open-minded and cheerful in the past, seemed to be gone forever.

As a result, suddenly, the open-minded and cheerful Guo Jia seemed to be back.

What's the situation?

There is also Zhang Zhao, who has always been a mature and persevering person, and Xin Pi, who has always been low-key, seem to have some personality changes of different degrees, all of which are changing to the better rather than to the worse.

While the subordinates were happy, they didn't know what was going on.

The smart person vaguely feels that something big is about to happen.

And it's not a bad thing.

If it is a bad thing, those minds will be extremely nervous, rather than relaxing and happy like this now.

Until the cold wind blew, on the first day of November of the 13th year of Yande, Guo Peng, the current emperor of the Great Wei Empire, officially announced his preparatory abdication edict.

In the edict, Guo Peng summarized what he had done since he ascended the throne and became emperor for thirteen years.

He promoted his political achievements, reflected on his own mistakes, put forward his prospects for the future, and his expectations for the crown prince Guo Jin.

He decided to formally abdicate on December 30, 13th year of Yande, abdicate the throne to Crown Prince Guo Jin, and the Crown Prince Guo Jin succeeded to the throne and become the new emperor, and continue to lead everyone forward.

He will become the Supreme Emperor, retreat to the Taishan Palace, and never ask about worldly affairs and spend his old age in peace.

As Guo Peng was fifty years old, he could indeed be said to be [spend his old age in peace] in this era.

However, the ministers and the people of the world have long been accustomed to Guo Peng's rule. They only feel that Guo Peng is still the powerful emperor who was extremely fierce and fierce in the world. They don't feel that he is old at all.

So when Guo Peng issued an edict saying that he was old and wanted to abdicate and rest and spend his old age in peace, many people were shocked.

How could that powerful emperor grow old?
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