At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

So Guo Peng is more satisfied.

Of course, there are also some unsatisfactory places.

"It is indeed developing well. You have made achievements in these years. It is not easy for Hanzhong to develop from a war-torn land to what it is today... However, you should not just relocate people to reclaim wasteland. Reclaiming wasteland is not easy. It is hard work. You have worked so hard to reclaim the land, and you have to let people start from scratch, at least three years."

Deng Zhi smiled helplessly.

"This is not what the ministers advocated. The main reason is that the residents of Hanzhong have been losing money since the time of Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang. from different places.

Their living customs are very different from each other, their accents are different, and even those who cannot read can’t communicate with each other. There are many conflicts. At first, the imperial court broke them up and lived together again by means of farming. Under military control, they can suppress disputes. .

After the war ended, the conflicts between them became very serious. When I first took over as the governor of Hanzhong, I had to deal with group disputes three to five times a month. Later, I went directly to the countryside to investigate and found out the cause of the problem.

So after that, the earliest extensive division method was changed, and townships and villages were reorganized. Taking advantage of this opportunity, some people could also be relocated to sparsely populated places to live in sparsely populated areas, and some people were even willing to relocate voluntarily. . "

Guo Peng nodded slowly after listening.

"Specific situation, look at it in detail, you have done a good job."

Guo Peng reached out and patted Deng Zhi's shoulder, which made Deng Zhi very happy.

But the happiest person is Guo Peng himself.

What he looks forward to most is seeing that he can truly improve the daily life of the people at the lowest level and benefit them.

Although I don't know how long this situation can last, it would be good to have one more day.

You can't just stop doing it because you can't make substantial changes, even if it's just an inch forward, it's good to move forward every inch, after all, you are moving forward, not going backward.

If you don't accumulate steps, you can reach thousands of miles. Isn't that how you move forward inch by inch?

So even if only one person can improve his own life, Guo Peng is willing to do it, even if it is only a trivial improvement.

Just as a kind of compensation, a trivial compensation.

Out of Guo Peng's deep-seated compensation for not being able to really change their situation.

With such complicated emotions, Guo Peng left Hanzhong County, went out of Yangping Pass, followed the original Jinniu Road and now the newly built Dashu Road, all the way south, and walked directly in the direction of Chengdu.

Guo Peng stopped his conquest at Yangping Pass and did not continue to go south. At that time, the expansion capacity of Guo Wei's regime had reached its limit, which was not enough to support him to continue his conquest.

So coming to Yizhou this time is his first real visit to Yizhou.

After leaving Yangping Pass, it is the real [unexplored area].

Following the road that the Wei army took when they conquered Liu Zhang, Guo Peng went all the way south, visiting the scenery of Shu and feeling the difficulty of the road.

The Jinniu road that the Wei army walked when going south was also traveled by the Qin army when they conquered Shu and Ba. It is even more difficult to start from scratch.

There are many mountains and rivers in Xichuan, and it is very difficult to dig roads. Going from the Hanzhong Basin to Shuzhong is no less difficult than reaching the Hanzhong Basin from the Guanzhong Plain.

The ability to walk on relatively spacious and flat avenues is also the result of the Wei Empire's years of investment and the loss of a large number of road construction coolies.

It can be said that every inch of the road is buried with the flesh and blood of the road builders, how difficult it is.

Even so, this road can be regarded as repaired. On the side of the mountains, beside the rivers and lakes, the road is winding and winding, but it still points forward.

There are a lot of people coming and going on the Shu Road, basically local merchants who are doing business. They send the special products of central Sichuan to the north and send them to Guanzhong in exchange for money and other goods, and then bring them back to central Sichuan for sale. in order to prosper the economy.

As a result, Shu brocade was able to go northward on a large scale more quickly, and it was sold not only to the whole country, but also to Rome, Anxi and Guishuang.

Yizhou made great contributions to the foreign trade and foreign exchange creation of the Wei Empire. Guo Peng also paid more attention to Yizhou in his administration, and he favored officials who he believed to be very capable in Yizhou for several years, bringing Yizhou back from the war. peace.

Walking on Yizhou Avenue, Guo Peng always has some associations involuntarily.

He thought about another time and space, what kind of determination and executive power did Zhuge Liang's Shu Han regime use to mobilize for war in Shu, which was almost trapped to death, walking such a difficult road, and relying on such low material resources? Shooting rate, five active attacks on Northern Qiangwei.

He felt that Zhuge Liang and Liu Chan were actually born in the wrong era. They should not have appeared in the Shu Han who was trapped and died in the Sichuan Basin, but should have appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Shu Han was too weak, and its national power was too weak, and it was not enough for Zhuge Liang and Liu Chan, a pair of monarchs and ministers, to play their best.

Adjust Wanyan Gou and Liu Chan together, and give him Zhuge Liang. With Liu Chan's big heart and Zhuge Liang's mobilization and execution ability, the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to defeat Wanyan Yong's Jin Kingdom before he became emperor through strategic offensives, and regain the former homeland of the Northern Song Dynasty. not difficult.

In other words, it is safe to say that in terms of Zhuge Liang's execution ability, of course Liu Chan's big heart is also indispensable.

It is said that the upper limit of the emperor determines the upper limit of the country. Since ancient times, Liu Chan is a model who is willing to let the courtiers with high merits control all the power of the country and rarely act as a monster.

He really doesn't have much ability, he's just a mediocre person, but he doesn't act like a monster, except for the one time Li Yan encouraged him, he really didn't hold Zhuge Liang back much.

It is a truth to hand over the comprehensive national strength and war potential of the Southern Song Dynasty to this pair of monarchs and ministers.

Although Kong Ming won his master, it was not at the right time.

Guo Peng didn't know if Sima Shuijing had said this, but he would have regarded it that way.

The Shu Han was too small and did not have enough national power to create a stage for Zhuge Liang to display his talents. He could only use the poor national power of the Shu Han cautiously, although he did hold all the power and was the supreme ruler.

when?life?

Who can tell?

Fortunately, under Guo's command, Zhuge Liang already has a stage where he can display his talents.

And he is about to go to the central government to serve as a senior official of the central government.

How far Zhuge Liang can shine in the center, in fact, Guo Peng is still very much looking forward to it.

Although Zhuge Liang cannot escape the limitations of history just like him, Zhuge Liang is also like him in a sense, he is also a strong man who goes against the sky with the weak and the strong.

Kong Ming, what history owes you, I will help you pay it back, show your ability to the fullest.

Living in Shuzhong, Guo Peng sincerely hopes that there will never be a Wuhou Temple in this world, and there will be no heroic tears shed again.

On the New Year's Eve of the second year of Xingyuan, several women including Guo Peng and Cao Lan spent time in Yunzhou.

Guo Peng stayed in Chengdu for half a month, saw Jinguan City, and saw how the beautiful Shu brocade was woven bit by bit and then sold to the north.

The women liked such a beautiful and varied Shu brocade, so Guo Peng bought it for them with his own money.

It should be said that although Chengdu is located in Xichuan, the traffic is relatively inconvenient, but the population is not much compared to the giant city of the Central Plains. Walking in the streets and alleys of Chengdu, you can even feel the taste of walking in the Luoyang market.

However, Guo Peng's plan was to rush to Yunzhou years ago, meet Tian Feng, the governor of Yunzhou, and then meet the army who was performing daily tasks in Yunzhou, and celebrate the New Year with the soldiers in the barracks, so he only stayed in Chengdu for half a year. After one month, he got up and went to Yunzhou.

No more feeling the ancient rhyme of Chengdu.

The northern and middle sections of the main artery of the Shu Road have already been completed. The Yunzhou section in the south is the most difficult to repair, and it is also the latest to be repaired. The number of coolies lost is second only to the number of dead in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains.

When the army went south to conquer Yong Kai and others, a road was burned with kerosene, which guided the engineering team who built the road later, but the difficulty of walking with two feet is different from that of building roads with hands.

If a road can really be found, there won't be as many things as the road construction team.

Today, the southern section of the main artery is basically completed, leaving only the last section of the road from Yunzhou to Jiaozhi County, Jiaozhou.

The government of Wei intends to formally connect the avenues of Jiaozhou and Yunzhou to realize the true commonality of the two states.

In this way, the main artery of the Shu Road will be officially completed.

This unprecedented main artery channel running through the entire Sichuan region and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau region will be officially opened, which will be of immeasurable significance to the politics, economy and military of the Wei Empire.

And of course the cultural aspect too.

Almost, the agency in charge of Shu Road estimated to the imperial court that it would be officially completed in the middle of the third year of Xingyuan. If it had been earlier, it might have been completed in March and April, ending the Wei Empire’s history of repairing Shu Road. .

If we really want to say that the Wei Empire repaired the Shu Road, we have to count from the time when Guo Peng attacked Hanzhong and occupied Hanzhong. That was six years ago in Xingping of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the Wei Empire began to build roads in the Qinling Mountains, opened up the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, and repaired the northern section of the main artery of the Shu Road, so as to facilitate the subsequent war of destroying Shu.

Therefore, so far, the Wei Empire has spent 18 years in order to open up the main artery of the Shu Road, revitalize Xichuan's economy, and maintain the situation created by Guo Peng's painstaking efforts.

Chapter 1602 One thousand five hundred and twenty two Yunzhou law and order war

With 18 years of time, astronomical financial expenditures, and the lives of 11 people, the Wei Empire successfully opened the main artery of the Shu Road and completely rebuilt the Shu Road that has been difficult since ancient times.

It’s not that we are trying our best to repair the Shu road all the time, because there are other governance and economic work that have been carried out all the time, and the progress is not fast, so it took 18 years.

But it should not be said, the quality is also leveraged.

Now that the Shu Road project is nearing completion, it is definitely good news for the Ministry of Finance, which has been suffering from huge financial expenditures.

Since the construction of the Shu Road and the Grand Canal started at the same time, the Ministry of Finance has not complained for a year. Of course, it is indeed very hard. Without Guo Pengdangping the manor owner’s strong tax collection, the Wei Empire would not have such strong financial resources to support two giants at the same time. engineering.

Even so, it was really difficult, so the completion of the Shu Road project one day earlier was definitely a relief for the Ministry of Finance.

As soon as Lu Qian took over the Ministry of Finance, there was such good news and situation. If the economic work of the Wei Empire could not be rectified, he would be really disappointing.

Guo Peng led the team all the way south, passed through Yizhou, which he had never been to, and set foot on Yunzhou, which he had never been to.

The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with high mountains and dangerous roads, has always been a place far away from the emperor. At the beginning, Yong Kai arrogantly told Man Chong that he would meet him in Chengdu, relying on the difficult and dangerous mountain roads and miasma on the plateau. Color changing things.

Of course he didn't expect that he provoked such an evildoer as Guo.

It directly crushed the entire Nanzhong with a strong mobilization force and built it into a brand new Yunzhou.

However, the entire Nanzhong region has always been a place close to the control of the central government. Many places are only symbolically stationed officials, symbolically collecting taxes, and then symbolically governing.

In fact, they governed themselves, and the central government did not interfere with their administration.

Moreover, there are still many small countries attached to the land of Yongchang County during the Han Dynasty. They are foreigners themselves. They make their own decisions.

So when the Wei Empire wanted to directly manage these places, the further south they went, the greater the resistance.

The main reason is that there are too few Han people and too many foreigners. They are rebellious, and the leaders are unwilling to accept the control and tax payment requirements of the Wei Empire.

They have managed themselves and oppressed themselves for so many years, and suddenly a new oppressor wants to suck blood on the head of the original oppressor. Who would want it?

So the protracted war of extermination began.

The tribes unwilling to pay taxes relied on the dense forest and terrain of Yongchang County to resolutely resist the Wei army, and the Wei army continued to attack the rebel tribes with weapons such as incendiary cans and thunderbolts.

The fighting power and fighting methods of the Wei army have also improved during this process. In the Le Jin era, they can already suppress these rebel tribes. It is more and more successful to fight like a fish in water.

Moreover, following Man Chong's actions in Jiaozhou, he assisted the Wei army in Yunzhou to block the channels for some tribes to obtain supplies from Jiaozhou, so that the rebel tribes fell into a situation of insufficient supplies and suffered heavy losses, but they did not supplement them.

Although the output of Yongchang County itself is quite rich, it is only an uncivilized and wild land after all, and its productivity is far from keeping up with the needs of the war. The rebel tribes are getting weaker and weaker as they fight.

At its peak, more than 10,000 rebel tribes rebelled against the rule of the Wei government, and [-]+ combatants fought against the Wei army, and even dared to fight against the Wei army.

Now they are basically huddled in the edge of the forest area waiting to die.

Their spirit of preferring death to accept the rule of the Wei Empire is commendable, but it doesn't make much sense. Under the attack of the Wei army's fierce fire, oil tanks and shocking thunder, their chances of survival will only continue to decrease, and they will only continue to die .

Then he walked out of the dense forest with the old women and children crying to surrender to the Wei army, and was dispatched to the Shu Road construction site to accept the trial of fate.

In this way, the Wei Empire entered a virtuous circle.

The improvement of transportation is getting better and better, the ability to deliver materials is getting stronger and stronger, and the number of Wei troops who can launch attacks at the same time is also increasing, while the rebel tribe is caught in a long-term vicious circle and cannot extricate itself.

It won't be long before they become completely unviable.

The moment when the Shu Road project was completely completed was the moment when they finally failed.

The protracted Yunzhou security war will also come to an end.

Guo Peng came to Yunzhou this time to comfort the soldiers who have fought here for a long time in advance.

Accompanied by Li Gan and Tian Feng, Guo Peng brought Guo Chengzhi to the Yongchang Camp, where he met the soldiers of the garrison.

They come from different sources, there are Custodians, there are ordinary standing soldiers, and there are more conscripts.

During the security war in [-], countless waves of troops came to Yunzhou to participate in the security war. Many people died here, and many people made meritorious deeds here, gradually grew into strong fighters, and stayed in the army forever .

At present, the total number of troops stationed in Yongchang Daying in Yunzhou is [-]. Most of them are conscripts.

Suddenly learning that the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng was coming to personally ask them, the Yunzhou garrison immediately boiled.

Among them were soldiers of the Imperial Army who saw Guo Peng with their own eyes, and young conscripts who had not seen Guo Peng but lived under Guo Peng's rule since birth. There were many differences between them, but there were also many similarities.

The biggest similarity is the reverence for Guo Peng.

He is the founder of Wei Jun, the master of Wei Jun, the undefeated God of War, the strongest man in the world, no one can replace Guo Peng's position in the hearts of Wei Jun soldiers.

From the first day they entered Wei Junzhong, they had to learn cultural knowledge, read characters, and receive intensive training.

At the same time, we must learn how Guo Peng led the Wei army from scratch to build an army from weak to strong, and learn to understand every battle Guo Peng fought, and how Guo Peng created the Wei army with painstaking efforts.

A Bai Ding, after one or two years in the Wei Army, is definitely familiar with the battles Guo Peng fought, and has the most basic understanding that Guo Peng is the eternal master of the army and the eternal God of War.

Although they are now taught to be loyal to the emperor, to the man who sits on the throne, they still don't change the object of their reverence.

Guo Chengzhi had never been in the army with Guo Peng. He knew that his elder father was very powerful, but he didn't know how powerful he was.

Until he saw how the soldiers of the Wei army welcomed Guo Peng, he finally knew what the founding emperor was like in the army.