At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

If Guo Jin has an idea, then Guo Jin must do it by himself.

Things like having real political influence around the Parthian Empire.

chapter 1570 one thousand 490 Guo Jin wants political influence

Guo Jin now feels that if he wants to restore the decline of the northwest business as soon as possible, the only way is to help Anxi to rectify the situation, so that the political influence of the Wei Empire can touch the internal affairs of the Anxi Empire.

In other words, at least let the Anxi people know that the military power of the Wei Empire can touch their sphere of influence, so that only people within the sphere of influence of the Anxi Empire will listen to the words of the Wei Empire.

Instead of not caring about it at all like now, and playing out of their own minds.

Guo Jin gradually realized that if he wanted to protect the interests of the Wei Empire, it was very passive to just sit and wait for the Anxi Empire to rectify its internal affairs.

If the Wei Empire had a strong influence and could do something about this war from the beginning, perhaps the Wei Empire would not have to suffer from this economic crisis, or at least the intensity of the crisis could be slightly reduced.

It won't be the situation where internal and external difficulties are like what it is now.

Anyway, Guo Jin felt that she was trapped internally and externally, and to solve this situation, she had to make great efforts.

And if the Wei Empire could do something from the beginning, right now, he wouldn't have to worry about it like this.

Guo Jin has read many books and realized the existence of political influence from the history of the game between the Western Han Empire and the Xiongnu Empire in the Western Regions.

Back then, when the Western Han Empire reversed its unfavorable situation against the Xiongnu after three major wars, but had not yet completely defeated the Xiongnu Empire, the countries in the Western Regions oscillated back and forth between the Western Han Empire and the Xiongnu Empire.

The Western Han Empire and the Xiongnu Empire desperately invested political influence in the Western Regions, using their respective political influence to influence the small countries in the Western Regions, fighting proxy wars, fighting for control of the Western Regions, and then attacking each other to gain an absolute advantage.

In this process, the battle of the Han Empire to clean up Dawan was a milestone war.

Through this war, although the Han Empire did not really control the Dawan Kingdom and gained any economic benefits, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty proved one thing to the small countries in the Western Regions.

As long as I think, I have the ability to make you beyond redemption.

My army can wipe out every single population settlement in your country, raze you to the ground, and send you all to heaven.

So the Han Empire had the political influence it could only dream of.

Before that, the Han Empire adopted a gold and yuan policy for the Western Regions, and the effect was not very good.

Countries in the Western Regions like money, but they are more afraid of actual military power.

Money can make them live better, and they will feel very uncomfortable without money, but they will not starve to death completely, but military power can take everything from them, make them irreparable, and starve to death.

Compared with the economy, the military threat is obviously more terrifying.

Therefore, the countries of the Western Regions made many prevarications to the Han Empire, and they flirted with the Hun Empire at that time.

Afterwards, after the Han Empire proved its strength, it realized the policy of adding gold and yuan to the stick, and sent troops to crusade against the small countries in the Western Regions at every turn, playing the Western Regions to death.

With the direct attack of the Han Empire on the Xiongnu forces, the power balance between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu Empire gradually reversed.

Then until more than 20 years after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the power of the Xiongnu Empire was finally completely expelled from the Western Regions by the Han Empire, and the Western Regions became the back garden of the Han Empire.

Guo Jin closed the history book, leaned on the back of the chair, and rubbed her temples. She felt that she had learned a lot, and felt that these two things could not be applied simply.

From Chang'an to the Western Regions is much, much closer than from Luoyang to Anxi.

Guo Jin sighed depressingly.

Zhang De, who had been standing aside, immediately came up and gently rubbed Guo Jin's shoulders, making Guo Jin very comfortable.

"Zhang De, your ability to rub shoulders is becoming more and more proficient, have you practiced it in private?"

"Hey, Your Majesty has learned a lot."

Zhang De had a flattering expression on his face: "If you don't practice your full skills on other people, how dare you make His Majesty feel uncomfortable on His Majesty?"

"Yes, I am very comfortable."

Guo Jin let out a long sigh of relief, smacked her lips, and said, "There is no taste in my mouth. I asked the imperial dining room to fry a steak for me. I want to eat some meat."

"According to the order."

Zhang De immediately asked his little servant to do it—and ran to do it.

The imperial dining room of the imperial palace operates [-]-hour shifts around the clock to ensure that His Majesty has someone to do whatever he wants to eat at any time, and to deliver the highest quality food to the Emperor at the fastest speed for the Emperor to enjoy.

And the whole process must be completed under the supervision of eleven servants, without any dead ends.

Eighteen generations of the ancestors of the chef who cooked for the emperor were clearly investigated, and the family members were also clearly arranged. The political examination was done over and over again without any omissions.

Chefs who are veterans of the army have strong psychological endurance, and they can contribute 120% of their abilities to the emperor under such a process. It can be said that they have dedicated themselves to death.

Therefore, Guo Jin can eat whatever he wants at any time.

In fact, this model has gradually formed in the later period of Guo Peng's rule, and now this model is also serving three people including Guo Jin and Cao Lan, including Guo Peng.

Whatever the three of them wanted to eat, the imperial dining room had to arrange it immediately without any mistakes.

Guo Peng likes to eat steak very much. He likes to eat meat very much.

Guo Jin inherited Guo Peng's hobby. She loves mutton, horse meat and pork very much.

For Guo Peng and Guo Jin, it was a very pleasant enjoyment for Guo Peng and Guo Jin to fry a piece of steak in an iron pan and then send it steaming hot to the emperor for him to enjoy.

When Guo Peng has a problem and can't think of a solution for a while, he will eat a piece of steak and think about it while eating. Usually he will think of a solution after eating.

Guo Jin learns from others. Whenever she has any problems, she wants to eat a piece of steak to enhance her thinking ability.

While enjoying Zhang De's superb massage skills, Guo Jin waited for the steak to arrive.

Half an hour later, a piece of steaming meat arrived on time under the escort of eleven servants, and it was delivered to Guo Jin. The aroma of the meat stimulated Guo Jin's taste buds, and immediately made him feel that the meal he had eaten before was no different from what he hadn't eaten before. I have eaten the same.

Guo Jin practiced martial arts like Guo Peng, and he did not let go of this habit after becoming emperor. No matter how busy he was every day, he had to take some time to play with his ring sword, so he had a lot of food. Three meals a day were not enough, so he had to eat an extra meal. Two meals.

As an emperor, how much he wants to eat is of course his own wish. The Wei Empire did not have the dietary regulations of the Qing Dynasty. The emperor himself was restricted in what he ate. Guo Peng just likes to eat meat, and Guo Jin also likes it.

He ate the fried lamb chops with a big mouthful.

While eating, I habitually use my brain to think about problems——

How to put political influence belonging to the Wei Empire on the Parthian Empire, so that the Parthian Empire can restore peace and stability as soon as possible, and restart trade with the Wei Empire.

The economic security of the empire should be in the hands of the empire itself. The overly unstable export-oriented economy needs a new control method to protect the empire's economy.

You can't really hand everything over to foreign countries, can you?

While munching on the meat, enjoying the pleasure of chewing meat comfortably, the prototype of a complete plan slowly took shape in Guo Jin's head.

Some things are still up to you.

Soon after eating a large piece of lamb chops, Guo Jin felt very comfortable and satisfied.

After taking a sip of tea and getting rid of the oil, Guo Jin patted her stomach and took a comfortable breath.

"Is His Majesty satisfied?"

"Satisfied, I can't be more satisfied if I am satisfied. The chef's meat frying skills are getting better and better. I am very happy, Zhang De. I will reward the chef with a piece of silver later."

"Hey, the old Zhao is not going to be overjoyed, His Majesty is just a piece of silver."

Zhang De was grinning, his hands kept moving, and he was still rubbing Guo Jin's shoulders.

"Being an emperor, you should give generous rewards to civil servants and military generals, and you should also give generous rewards to those who work below you. The work is so tiring and the requirements are so high. If the rewards are not in place, it will inevitably be resentful after a long time. With the heart of resentment and resentment together, the problem becomes bigger.”

Guo Jin sighed: "The emperor is not easy to do. The place where money is spent is far more than imagined. Every time I spend money like water, I am sighing. If it weren't for the gold and silver mines my father left me, the people below You can't help but mock me, the emperor, for being stingy."

"This... His Majesty Tianwei is here, how can anyone dare to have a heart of resentment? If there is, this servant will be the first to let him go!"

Zhang De's words are conclusive.

Guo Jin raised the corner of his mouth.

"really?"

"really!"

Zhang De immediately expressed his loyalty.

Guo Jin smiled and didn't say much.

After eating and drinking enough, Guo Jin asked Zhang De to call over Shen Yanghao, one of Yan Rou's capable subordinates.

After Guo Jin ascended the throne, Guo Jin put Yan Rou's office in the palace.

In the past, Yan Rou did not have a fixed office location, and always appeared in a certain place as needed to command all the local Linzi camp spies, and made great achievements in the establishment of the Wei Empire.

However, since the disgraceful role played by the Linzi Camp in several political storms after the establishment of the empire was exposed, Guo Peng became more and more dissatisfied with Yan Rou.

The purpose of the Linzi camp is not only to spy on military and political intelligence externally, to prepare for Guo Peng to wipe out the world's princes and foreign enemies, but also to spy internally, to collect evidence of violations of law and discipline by the group of ministers, so that he can accurately crack down on the bastards who violated the law and discipline.

However, in many political storms, the reason why some people were exposed was because of their own stupidity, not the report from the local Linzi camp, which means that the Linzi camp did not fulfill its duties.

The Linzi camp, which secretly supervises the local government, is no longer sharp and reliable, and even has the risk of betrayal.

For this reason, Guo Peng reprimanded Yan Rou many times, and gradually had the idea of ​​deposing Yan Rou, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while.

Before Guo Peng abdicated, he recalled Yan Rou back to the capital, and immediately put Yan Rou's office in the palace, and no longer let Yan Rou leave the capital at will.

After Guo Jin succeeded to the throne, he further restricted Yan Rou's power, gradually emptied Yan Rou, led the Linzi camp by himself, and carried out a moderate reform of Linziying.

Chapter 1571 One Thousand 490 One Guo Jin Reorganized Linzi Camp

Unlike Guo Peng's attitude towards Yan Rou, Yan Rou was raised by Guo Peng as a godson.

At first, I took him by my side as a soldier, taught him to read, and then let him be the head of the Linzi camp to cultivate his ability and handling skills.

Because of this relationship, although Guo Peng had a lot of dissatisfaction with Yan Rou, and once even planned to get rid of him, but every time he thought about the past, he couldn't bear to do it.

Guo Peng just transferred him back to the capital and asked him to do the same thing. He can also remotely command the actions of the Linzi camp in the capital.

But Guo Jin has no such worries.

He has nothing to do with Yan Rou, nor did he grow up together. Yan Rou is much older than him, and has been secretly engaged in intelligence work, and has single-line contact with Guo Peng. Not many people in the entire ruling class know him.

After Guo Jin ascended the throne, he paid more attention to taking over the two emperor's murderous blades, the inner court and Linziying, than the imperial court.

The imperial court can't become the emperor's own imperial court. Each court official is not a robot who obeys orders. As long as they reach a certain position, each of them has their own interests and followers.

As a result, the imperial court is always full of interest groups, large and small, as powerful as Guo Peng, and they have no way to completely control the trend of the imperial court.

He has no way to completely tame the interest groups, big and small, who have strong interest demands. Although he is strong enough, fierce enough, and has enough power, he can't do this either.

Therefore, Guo Peng's strength is more often reflected in the fact that he can bypass the imperial court and use the inner court and the inner treasury to handle affairs by himself. Stare instead of forcibly controlling the court.

The foundation of Guo Peng's strength lies in the fact that there are rich people and there are two systems, the internal and external courts. If the external court does not cooperate, he will let the inner court do it, and it can be done well.

Then he forced Waichao to cooperate with him continuously, making the ministers worry that their power would be emptied by Guo Peng, so they could only continue to compromise and give in, thus allowing Guo Peng to roughly control the movement of Waichao.

This is the reason why Guo Peng trained inner court cadres on a large scale and opened mines to run inner court enterprises to make money everywhere.

You have to convince those court officials outside the court that you have the power to overturn the table, so they will be worried, and then they will compromise and give in to help you.

The power of a court official comes more from the position itself, the power that comes with the position that must be set up by the court, rather than the power given to him by the emperor.

Therefore, once an official awakens the will of the bureaucracy, he will habitually resist the emperor's encroachment and oppression of his own power. If the emperor has no means and strength, he can only sit back and watch the official use the power of the position to do what he wants to do.

This is the so-called one hundred battles every day.

Guo Jin also understands this truth, so he knows that only by mastering the inner court can he have enough money to bypass the court and force the officials to cooperate with him.

And only by mastering the Linzi camp, can we have enough confidence not to be deceived by others, and to ensure that this system does not collapse itself from within.

The inner court is easy to deal with. Replace a group of leaders and replace them with your own people. Not only can you make a fortune, but you can also quickly control the inner court.

As long as the eunuchs do not hold military power, they are pitiful creatures attached to the imperial power, and they have no power to resist the emperor.

Linzi camp is different.

The organization of the Linzi camp is huge. Apart from the fact that the training camp has a fixed base and the supplies are well controlled by Guo Jin, the internal and external organizations of the Linzi camp are very large and have a complicated system, which cannot be mastered casually.

Guo Peng had very high requirements for the Linzi Camp. In addition to asking the Linzi Camp to spy on the enemy, he also asked the Linzi Camp to monitor his own people, find evidence of their crimes, and then attack them.

This caused the Linzi Camp to be divided into two systems.

Guo Peng trusted Yan Rou, and let Yan Rou have an overview of the dirty work such as spying on the inside and outside, even killing and stealing goods, and let Yan Rou know too many dirty things.