Later generations mostly had the impression of Yuan Shu that welcoming the country was the rebels and the dry bones in the tomb. The rebels usurping the country was the influence of Yuan Shu's attempt to proclaim himself emperor.

And the "dry bones in the tomb" were not what Cao Cao said, but what Kong Rong said.

To be honest, Guo Peng felt that Kong Rong was not qualified to say that Yuan Shu.

Kong Rong's fate was not better than Yuan Shu. When Yuan Shu was powerful, his power spanned three states and was not weaker than Yuan Shao. The two brothers occupied the seven states, and the Han Dynasty was half the world, and they were all the elite areas of the population.

Kong Rong can't even defend Beihai well. What qualifications do he have to evaluate Yuan Shu?

A dry bone can occupy the three states and command 100,000 troops. Sun Jian, Sun Ce and his son are willing to drive them. Isn’t this a bit too much?

Yuan Shu is by no means an incompetent person, even if he does have many fatal shortcomings, well, many shortcomings.

However, when you look at the historical books, in the biographies of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty, there are many records that when they were young, they were heroic, loyal, generous, and wealthy, saving people from danger, and had a great reputation.

For these young men, money is not a problem, but it is meaningful to spend. Yuan Shao is good at raising scholars and made friends with heroes from all over the world during his seclusion in Luoyang.

There is no Internet in this era, and the spread of fame can only be passed down by word of mouth. These heroes come from all over the world and will leave Luoyang and return to all over the world. They will spread Yuan Shao's reputation all the way, and Yuan Shao will become so powerful.

Yuan Shu was similar, but Yuan Shu was not as quick as Yuan Shao, nor was he as respectful as Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao was young, he was treated coldly by the Yuan family and had been blunt in his eyes and suffered hardships. He knew human nature better than Yuan Shu, a legitimate son who was born with a golden spoon in his childhood.

Therefore, Yuan Shu always has a high aura of looking down on others and unable to let go of his figure. He is not as polite as Yuan Shao, and is not as polite as he is to be "equal" with others, making people feel respected.

People who come out to do things are all a little abilities and a little arrogant, and they are eager to be praised by a top-notch young man from a famous family like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

You have the same surname and the same money. One person eats with me and walks side by side. The other person is like giving me a gift. Who do I like more?

This is why Yuan Shao is more popular and famous than Yuan Shu.

Later, Yuan Shu himself realized this problem and began to self-correct some of his personality shortcomings to a certain extent, be loyal and generous, and use his heroic spirit to cover up his arrogance. He did more articles on the surface, and his fame immediately caught up.

After Guo Peng emerged, he gained the reputation of "Yingchuan Guo Lang" who values ​​friendship and kindness. Yuan Shao actually wanted to make friends with Guo Peng for a long time, but Guo Peng has been running around outside and has never had time.

Later, when Guo Peng got married, Cao Cao asked Yuan Shao if he wanted to come. How could Yuan Shao attend the wedding when he was mourning?

Only politely declined.

This made Yuan Shu cheap. Yuan Shu learned about this from a certain channel and contacted Cao Cao and said he was willing to go, so he seized the opportunity.

After returning to Luoyang, Yuan Shu mobilized his heroic friends to promote his words to praise Guo Peng, which caught Yuan Shao off guard.

Yuan Shao was annoyed, but he had no choice but to do anything. During the mourning period, he really couldn't do something, otherwise he would be rumored to be a big "unfilial" hat, would he still want to be a human being?

So in this round of brotherly competition, Yuan Shu gained the upper hand.

The situation is clear now and no accident will happen, so after Guo Peng settled Cao Lan, he came to visit Yuan Shu with some gifts.

Yuan Shu was very surprised when he heard that Guo Peng was visiting him. He went out to greet him in person, called a group of friends to host a banquet to entertain Guo Peng, and poured wine for Guo Peng himself, and pulled Guo Peng to dance together.

Everyone was very happy during the meal. Guo Peng gave Yuan Shu the calligraphy in regular script. Yuan Shu happily accepted it and showed it off to people he knew.

The incident of Guo Peng and Yuan Shu’s intercourse quickly spread throughout Luoyang. People in the world said that Guo Lang and Yuan Shu had sex with Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu must be a person who values ​​love and friendship.

So many heroes who had not previously interacted with Yuan Shu also interacted with Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was very happy and had a closer relationship with Guo Peng.

Yuan Shao was dissatisfied with this matter, but he was powerless to do anything. He could only secretly annoyed that Yuan Shu was quick to take action and seized the opportunity.

In fact, Guo Peng is not optimistic about Yuan Shu's future at all.

The closer he gets to Yuan Shu, the more sure that Yuan Shu has no future.

Yuan Shu is using his reputation, but it doesn't matter, he is also using Yuan Shu's platform.

What he was interested in was not Yuan Shu, but the platform owned by Yuan Shu and the connections with Yuan Shu.

Through Yuan Shu, Guo Peng was able to meet those whom he could not meet.

Platform is very important. Platform determines vision and seems illusory, but when it is really necessary to use it, the gap between the platform will create a gap in the height of life.

Guo Peng found that Yuan Shu was easily addicted to praise others for him. What’s more important is that his identity allowed him to accept these praises. He was the second son of Yuan’s family and a more orthodox heir candidate than Yuan Shao. He couldn’t afford it, who could afford it?

Guo Peng himself has a great reputation. Guo Peng praised him, which made him happier than ordinary rangers. Once he was happy, he would take Guo Peng to meet more people and meet more people.

So Guo Peng had an opportunity to stand on a higher stage to show himself and show everything about himself.

This opportunity is really important to Guo Peng. Many things in the future require such an opportunity to provide stepping stones, and Yuan Shu happened to provide such a stepping stone for Guo Peng.

Guo Peng stepped on him and stepped onto a more shining stage.

The wine is also afraid of the deep alley, and fame needs to be maintained and managed. With the platform of Yuan Shu, Guo Peng took the lead.

Not only that, the relationship between Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao determines that the two often meet. Through such a relationship, Guo Peng also met many people who had close contact with Yuan Shao.

He had known Xu You for a long time, Zhang Miao, one of the eight chefs, and later celebrity Zhong Yao, and some people who were not famous but had a very awesome.

Yuan Shu has the reputation of Guo Peng, and many heroes will come to make friends with him and Guo Peng.

With Yuan Shu's connection, Guo Peng also met a group of heroes who were famous in various places, including those from gentry, and those from landlords and tyrants.

Any hero who can enter the Yuan Shu Mansion has an extraordinary background. Those who are born in ordinary years do not have the capital to be a hero.

Guo Peng believes that making friends with these people can broaden their connections, let these heroes who have traveled all over the country help promote their reputation, let people from all over the world know that they value friendship, know their kindness, send Cai Yong thousands of miles away, and know the name of "Yingchuan Guolang", which will be of great benefit to the future.

Many things are accumulated from quantitative change to qualitative change, especially for Guo Peng’s innate deficiencies, they need to rely on acquired efforts to accumulate sufficient quantitative change, and turn them into qualitative change at critical moments, bringing a qualitative leap.

This is not a simple process, it requires Guo Peng to do a lot.

The second year of Guanghe passed soon. In the first month of the third year of Guanghe, Emperor Ling pardoned the world and Cai Yong was slandered by eunuchs.

At the end of the matter, Guo Peng informed Cai Yong. Cai Yong relied on Taishan County's friend Yang Xu to escape to Wu. Relying on life in the Gu family, one of the four surnames of Wu, he became an exiled scholar who had left the Central Plains.

During this period, Cao Jie, the eunuch who wanted to kill Cai Yong, got a high fever because of a rain. When he died, the eunuch group fell into civil strife and struggled for power and profit again, and they had no time to pay attention to Cai Yong.

Cai Yong was able to leave the Central Plains smoothly and lived in Wu since then. Guo Peng rushed to Taishan County to meet Cai Yong. Cai Yong gave him a large number of books and held Guo Peng's hand and said goodbye to him with tears in his eyes.

"In this life, you and I have no relationship with master and disciple. I just hope that Zifeng will work hard to learn, not forget his original aspirations, and one day realize his original aspirations."

After saying this, Cai Yong got into the car and left the Central Plains with his wife and daughter Cai Yan.

Afterwards, Guo Peng also returned to Luoyang with a little melancholy. The political situation in Luoyang City remained in chaos, but after Cai Yong left, all this had nothing to do with Guo Peng.

He read and studied peacefully, followed Lu Zhi to study scriptures, learned military tactics, and accepted Lu Zhi's physical tempering and herdsman's knowledge.

After some things were polished, Lu Zhi felt that Guo Peng had lost his youthfulness and became mature, so he gradually discussed more affairs in the court with Guo Peng.

Not only tell him, but also ask him for his opinions and opinions, treating him as his assistant, not just a student.

Since then, Guo Peng has not continued to make big news. He just made friends with Yuan Shu and became a hero from all over the world. While his reputation has become greater and greater, he has also become more and more popular.

During this period, Cao Cao returned to Luoyang.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Guanghe’s three-year-old Emperor Ling’s edict to choose five people who were proficient in Confucianism as the oracle, Cao Song, who had gained a foothold within the eunuch group after the reorganization, helped Cao Cao to get a position.

So Cao Cao became a congressman and returned to Luoyang to become an official.

As for other matters, Guo Peng was not involved in the alliance. Guo Peng didn't care about the matters such as the Ling Emperor's resistance to marry He's queen, promoting He's family, He Jin and He Miao as a high-ranking official, and the He family's family's family's family's assault on the heavens, etc.

What he cares about is nothing more than to increase his reputation, make friends with famous scholars and rangers, enhance his knowledge, and also to live a small life with Cao Lan.

In April of the fourth year of Guanghe, under the expectation of the Cao family, Cao Lan finally became pregnant. Ten months later, in February of the fifth year of Guanghe, Cao Lan successfully gave birth to Guo Peng's eldest son, and the mother and son were safe.

When he was a father, Guo Peng cried happily, gave the child a nickname Ping'an, consulted Lu Zhi, Guo Dan, and Cao Song and Cao Cao's opinions, and named his eldest son Jin, which means beautiful jade.
Chapter completed!