Guo Peng gave the order and the army was ready and the road was barely available, but the food problem was right in front of him.

Although the military farming has been arranged and the entire Jizhou has completed the spring plowing work, the summer grain has not yet been harvested, and the grain used now is the reserved grain of Qingyan and the two prefectures in previous years.

If we were to go to Bingzhou to fight, we would probably not be able to get much grain from the newly built granaries in Jizhou. The grain collected from the homes of major powerful landlords was almost used, so it was very embarrassing.

If Guo Peng wanted to go to Bingzhou, he would have to mobilize grain and grass from eastern Yanzhou and Qingzhou from all over the world.

Faced with such a problem, Tian Feng stood up and suggested to Guo Peng that he could collect grain and grass from the powerful landlords' home in Jizhou, and called on them to give grain and grass for Guo Peng to use.

Tian Feng said that the major wealthy and powerful families in Jizhou actually wanted to curry favor with Guo Peng.

"In the previous war, although they did not help Yuan Benchu, they did not help Ming Gong. Therefore, they were worried and did not know how to deal with themselves. Ming Gong was generous and did not pursue the matter. Instead, they were uneasy. If they could give them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions at this time, they would definitely give out their food and grass very enthusiastically."

Guo Peng really listened to Tian Feng’s suggestion, this is a matter of no use.

Every household of these powerful families has built granaries, and the grain they have in their hands is probably not as good as the grain stored in the granaries built by Guo Peng in Qingyan and Yanzhou.

After years of accumulation, the deep foundation is deep, the larger the scale, the more storage it is. Now nearly half of Jizhou's land is in the hands of these landlords and powerful people, and their financial, material and manpower cannot be underestimated.

But for them, they were undoubtedly an unshakable behemoth, a fierce warlord, an object worthy of fear, and a powerhouse who tried every means to curry favor with them.

Thinking of the grand occasion of Yuan Shao's army being able to pull 70,000 to 80,000 troops with just one shout, Guo Peng wondered whether he would also try how high his current reputation was.

It’s not about Yuan Shu, it only looks at himself, not under the banner of Yuan Shu, but only under the banner of Guo.

So Guo Peng issued a grain collection notice to the powerful landlords in Jizhou.

It is said that Yu Fuluo and the Baibo Yellow Turban Thief have ill intentions and may invade Jizhou, which is very dangerous.

Guo Peng was preparing to rectify his troops and go to attack Yu Fuluo and Baibo Yellow Turban Army, but now he lacks food and hopes to collect some food from the "people" from all over the country to attack the bandit army.

This order was conveyed to the county magistrates and prime ministers of each county, and then to the county, and to the landlords and powerful people know.

After they knew, their reaction was not beyond Tian Feng's expectations.

They rushed to take out some of the family's accumulated grains, loaded them with the vehicle on their own initiative, and arranged manpower and material resources to be transported to the major official granaries designated by Guo Peng for free.

For a time, grain transport trucks were everywhere on all the avenues in Jizhou, and the grain bags were filled with bulging grains.

The powerful tribes in Jizhou once again showed Guo Peng the manpower, material resources and financial resources they had enough to support the establishment of the Eastern Han Empire.

Although they suffered heavy losses after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Battle of Guo and Yuan, they were plowed over and over again from south to north to south, the remaining people are still not something that can be underestimated.

And in this vigorous grain delivery operation, the most outstanding one is undoubtedly the Zhen family in Wuji County, Zhongshan Country.

With the efforts of the Zhen family, the food produced by Wuji County was enough for Guo Peng's army to use for more than a month, and it was really rich and powerful.

Guo Peng didn't know much about the Zhen family at first, but after asking Tian Feng, he understood a lot of things.

The Zhen family has a long history. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, they settled in Zhongshan and became a small powerful man. Their power continued to increase. Later, they became officials step by step by step by step by step by step by step by powerful landlords, transforming from a family of gentry officials.

By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Wuji Zhen family had become a prominent family of officials in Zhongshan County.

At that time, Zhen Feng and Zhen Han were important leaders of the Zhen family, and they were both important figures in the Wang Mang group and gained a high status through Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne. Zhen Han himself was a disciple of Kong Guang, a descendant of Confucius.

However, because of his close relationship with Wang Mang, after Wang Mang's fall, the Zhen family was once silent and his official career was not very good in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

A failed investment allowed them to re-take the path of their ancestors, continue to follow the path from the local area to the central government, silently accumulate land and financial resources in the local area, survive as a powerful person, and constantly try to curry favor with local county magistrates in order to gain the opportunity to be a filial and honest person and revitalize their family business.

Because of his early accumulation and Zhen Han became a disciple of Kong Guang, the Zhen family was undoubtedly a gentry.

The descendants of Zhen’s family worked hard to seek the opportunity to recover. Finally, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhen Yi, a son of Zhen’s family, was elected as a filial and honest man, and served as Shangcai Ling. After more than a hundred years, he entered the officialdom again.

But soon, the Yellow Turbans began to turbulently, and the lifespan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was about to come to an end. The princes fought in chaos and the world was falling apart. The battle between Guo and Yuan was about to begin, and everyone was in danger. I don’t know where tomorrow was.

The Zhen family is also facing a choice.

Previously, Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou, and the Zhen family and Yuan Shao met each other, and gave Yuan Shao a lot of help in both open and secretly.

However, because of the covetous eye of Yuan Shu's forces in the south, they had never made up their minds to completely surrender to Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao was in danger, the Zhen family held a family meeting. Seeing many people rushing to use their family accumulation to help Yuan Shao win the war, there was a fierce debate within the Zhen family, and the Zhen family decided to remain neutral.

In the end, Guo Peng won, Yuan Shao died, and the group's power collapsed.

The powerful landlord who helped Yuan Shao was bloodyly cleansed by the Yuan Shu faction, and the land of Jizhou was covered with corpses and blood. While Zhen was frightened, he felt very glad.

Since the first year of Xingping, the Great Purge has come to an end, and Guo Peng has begun to implement political governance in Jizhou and resume production.

Seeing Guo Peng becoming a new crown and the lord of Hebei, his power and fame increased greatly, Zhen's mind began to become active.

After Zhen Yi's death, Zhen's only Zhen Yi's son Zhen Yan was an official and served as the chief of Qu Liang. He only had a family background, but he was never able to have a corresponding position. Zhen really wanted to get the opportunity to revive the family business.

Guo Peng issued a grain collection order, and Zhen saw the opportunity.

So Zhen used his family background that he had accumulated for more than a hundred years and paid a lot of money and grain to help Guo Peng. Because of the huge amount, it suddenly entered Guo Peng's eyes and asked Guo Peng to find Tian Feng to ask about the origin of the Zhen family.

After Tian Feng's explanation, Guo Peng understood the reason.

First of all, it is certain that Zhen is a member of the gentry. The family members can study, be filial and honest as officials, and the Zhen daughter can also be hired as a wife by Yuan Shao for his son. It is obvious that she has a certain status.
Chapter completed!