Li Jue and Guo Si completely broke up and began to attack each other. The blood flowed into rivers and corpses piled up in mountains near Chang'an City, and the remaining people who had not yet escaped were also slaughtered.

Although Liu Xie was only fourteen years old and felt afraid of worry, he did not intend to sit idly by, but immediately sent officials from the court to dissuade him.

However, Li and Guo and the other two had muscles and brains, and they didn't listen to Liu Xie's dissuasion at all.

Li Jue remembered that Jia Xu was smart, so he appointed Jia Xu as General Xuanyi to win over Jia Xu.

Guo Si united those younger brothers who had lost trust in Li Jue, such as General Anxi Yang Ding and others, and attacked Li Jue together.

Yang Ding hated Li Jue because of Li Jue's behavior, so he suggested to Guo Si to take the emperor from the palace to his military camp and attack Li Jue in the name of the emperor. Li Jue did not dare to resist, and Guo Si would definitely win.

Guo Si thought this was OK, so he started planning, but the news leaked and Li Jue found out, so Li Jue decided to take action first.

So Li Jue refused to listen to Jia Xu's dissuasion and sent his nephew Li Xian to lead thousands of troops to surround the Chang'an Palace and rob Liu Xie into the military camp.

The Grand Marshal Yang Biao and many other ministers tried to stop him with their integrity, but his integrity could not match the troops, so Liu Xie was still forced to enter Li Jue's military camp.

Then the Chang'an Palace was looted by Li Jue's troops and set fire to the fire. The still-preserved Chang'an City was completely destroyed.

From the end of August to the end of September, in a month, Li Guo and the other two fought against each other despite dissuasion, resulting in the deaths of more than 10,000 soldiers and countless deaths of others.

While the war in Guanzhong rekindled into a purgatory on earth, Guo Peng was enjoying the warm and fragrant soft jade in Puyang County.

Before attacking Bai Bo's army and Yu Fuluo, Guo Peng decided to take a concubine after he came back from victory, so he secretly ordered Cheng Yu to choose the right family and the right candidate for him.

After returning, Guo Peng granted a group of old Hebei officials, promoted them to increase their ranks to stabilize their hearts, and then began to arrange the matter of taking concubines.

When he reaches his level, if you want to go further, you cannot just follow your preferences, but must deeply follow the roots and determine the reason and purpose of taking a concubine, and ensure that this benefits are the greatest.

Guo Peng’s first determination was to take a woman from the Xiahou clan as his concubine.

Originally, Guo Peng had no idea, but after Cao Hong's crime happened, Guo Peng felt more and more that Xiahou and Cao's family should not be so closely combined.

The Cao family and Xiahou family have made you have me and I have you. The two families that are so reused under their command have such a close alliance, which obviously cannot meet their needs.

In the peace era, it is for the purpose of joining together to keep warm. Traditional ruined aristocrats and low-ranking upstarts gather together to keep warm and need each other.

In the war era, we are also united to keep warm and start a career and survive together.

However, from the war era, the close alliance between the Cao family and the Xiahou family made Guo Peng feel less at ease.

Many people are generals in the army, and many people are chief executives in the local area. If this continues, what else can happen?

No, no, you have to help them.

So Guo Peng decided to take a woman of appropriate age from the Xiahou clan as his concubine.

After learning about Guo Peng’s thoughts, Xiahou was first surprised and then surprised, feeling that Guo Peng was finally no longer just placing Cao’s strongly, but also noticed the Xiahou’s contributions silently.

The two leading figures of the Xiahou family, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan, have always guarded the rear for Guo Peng. Although their status is important, their military achievements are not obvious, which makes the Xiahou family seem to be a vassal of the Cao family.

Although the Xiahou family didn't say anything, they still had some thoughts in their hearts.

Guo Peng helped them amplify this idea.

Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan also received news later.

In addition to being happy, they wrote letters to the clan, saying that they were plagued by affairs and could not go home, so they asked the clan to do a good job of choosing and select the most beautiful, gentle and virtuous girl to send.

The Xiahou clan carefully selected, and chose left and right. Finally, she selected a clan girl of the same generation as the two Xiahous. She was only seventeen years old and had not yet betrothed by others. She sent her to Guo Peng's mansion to be a concubine for Guo Peng.

When Guo Peng heard that the old clan of Xiahou family praised Xiahou Lin for being so full of praise, he nodded happily and agreed to take Xiahou Lin as his concubine.

He also decided to give birth to a child with the Xiahou bloodline and to appoint some people from the Xiahou family in the future.

This is the first one.

Then there is the second one.

Guo Peng felt that he still had a lot of places in Jizhou in the future, and civil officials and military generals from Jizhou would naturally form a faction.

It’s like the three major factions of the Yanzhou faction under Guo Peng’s command, Qingzhou faction and Yuan Cong faction.

The Yuan Cong faction was mainly composed of the civil servants and military generals of the Qingzhou faction and the Yanzhou faction, as well as some very few people from Yuzhou, the Sili people from Youzhou and the Bingzhou people.

The subordinates of the Yuan Cong faction also have their own hometowns.

These subordinates from Yuzhou, Youzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou may become leaders of major factions in the future.

Among these groups, the Jizhou faction is undoubtedly the weakest and the most unfavorable, because except for Zhao Yun, they all surrendered.

Zhao Yun was also a member of the Yuan Cong faction. He followed Guo Peng to fight very early and was born into a personal army, which was not comparable to them.

The group of people who surrendered after the failure of the battle with Guo Peng were in a bad situation and were embarrassed by their identities. However, in the future, Guo Peng needed Jizhou to make great efforts.

So now it is important to appease the people of Jizhou and give the people of Jizhou and let them know that they don’t mind the past.

Guo Peng started by supporting Zhao Yun as the leader of military generals from Jizhou. In the early days, Guo Peng's army also participated in a group of heroes from Jizhou. Now several intermediate officers have emerged from this group, all of whom have a good relationship with Zhao Yun.

Originally, he wanted to make Zhao Yun go a step further, but there were no more women in the Zhao Yun family and he had no daughter. Zhao Yun also married a wife, so the marriage could not be completed.

So after thinking about it over and over again, Guo Peng decided to support Tian Feng, who was very obedient to him, as the leader of officials from Jizhou, and to take the Tian family as his concubine, and to slightly balance the power of various factions.

We cannot let the Jizhou faction be too weak. We must take care of the interests and power of the Jizhou people, so as to conquer the hearts of the Jizhou people and make the Jizhou people closer to themselves.

It is not possible to let several other factions humiliate the people of the Jizhou faction as a winner and suppress the people of Jizhou. It is not conducive to internal unity and is not in line with Guo Peng's interests.

The strong need to suppress and the weak need to support. The same means can achieve different goals. This balanced art is also very interesting.

As a person who has the initiative, he must make good use of this initiative.

Slightly suppressing the Yuan Cong factions such as the Cao family, splitting the Yuan Cong factions, and supporting the weak Jizhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou factions, these are the main themes for the next period of time.
Chapter completed!