At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Someone from Guo looked at Su Yuan: "Su Yuan, you are in charge of this matter from the beginning to the end, so I will entrust you with the matter of mining, and you will send people to work with Cao's caravan and Mi's caravan. People connect."

Su Yuan was obviously surprised.

"Your Majesty, this old slave... this old slave only wants to serve His Majesty, and I don't want to do such a thing."

Su Yuan immediately knelt down in front of Guo Peng.

"I didn't let you go. You are still waiting by my side. If you open the mine, you can just send someone to take care of it. Do you think I need you to go to the mine to pick a hoe?"

Guo Peng patted Su Yuan on the head: "I'm going to set up a new official office in the inner court to manage mining. It's just right. Aren't you nicknamed the head of Prison No. 11? Let him sit down." Now, what is the name of Prison No.11?"

Guo Peng walked up and down in front of Su Yuan, and suddenly smiled.

"Yes, let's call it Dongchang."

"East...East Factory?"

"Well, Dongchang."

Guo Peng said with a smile: "It doesn't have any other meaning. I suddenly found this name very interesting. This East Factory is just in charge of mining affairs. You are my personal senior internal officer. You take care of it. I don't worry. The internal officer supervises the money. The authority is very heavy, and the income from the mine cannot be handed over to the internal officials to manage."

Guo Peng patted Su Yuan on the shoulder.

"Get up, Mr. Factory."

"Your Majesty... old slave, old slave dare not be called such a title."

"I gave it to you, you just take it, why, don't you want it?"

"No, no, I don't dare, old slave... I thank Your Majesty Long En!"

Su Yuan knelt down again.

"Well, let's do it, run the mines everywhere, mine, smelt, and then make a profit, the more I earn, the more money I have in hand, the more I can do things, other things you Don’t care about it at all, the sky is falling, I will bear it, just give me all you can to mine.”

Su Yuan nodded immediately.

"Old slave understands."

Ever since, in the first month of the fourth year of Yande, Dongchang, a department headed by No. 11 eunuchs in the inner court, was born.

Different from the Ten Inspectors of the Inner Court, the headquarters of the East Factory was set up outside of Miyagi. For the convenience of mining, the members were not all eunuchs, but normal men as well.

Su Yuan, the factory owner who is in charge of the East Factory, is a great eunuch next to Guo Peng, so the East Factory is also one of Guo Peng's directly-administered departments, responsible for mining income, and then sending the income from mining to the internal treasury and handing it over to Emperor Guo Peng free reign.

By the time the courtiers heard the news, it was already February of the fourth year of Yande.

The news that Yu Jin led the army to pacify Fuyu came from the frontier of Liaodong, and the opening of Pingzhou was officially completed.

Then the courtiers heard the news that the emperor had set up the No. 11 department of the inner court, Dongchang, and then this Dongchang seemed to be a department to manage mining revenue.

Later, when the emperor officially announced that the Dongchang was responsible for mining revenue, the courtiers knew that the emperor quietly made another established fact for everyone to bear.

The emperor searched for mineral deposits across the country to mine, and all the income from mining was collected in the internal treasury, and the emperor spent it freely.

Although it is said that the mine was explored and mined by the emperor himself, isn't your emperor doing this in a blatant way to steal money from the treasury?

This time it is not a fight with the people for profit, but there are still courtiers who complain that the emperor did not do well in this matter, and there are suspicions that he looks ugly.

In response to this criticism, Guo Peng issued an edict, saying that the inner court leading the caravan operation and mining industry would pay taxes in full accordance with the court's laws and regulations, and the tax would not be less than a penny.

But the money, the emperor wants to set.

Everyone understands that this is the biggest concession the emperor can make, and if it is done again, the emperor will be angry.

No matter what you do, you can't make the emperor angry. This is something everyone agrees on.

Afterwards, Guo Peng opened the inner treasury and took out a large sum of property and sent it to Liaodong to reward the soldiers. The courtiers completely shut up and dared not say anything more.

Guo Peng did this to tell the courtiers that the internal treasury is his personal small treasury, but when necessary, he will also take it out for the court to cover.

If I am not allowed to mine, you will pay the money, I have no money.

This matter was settled for Guo Peng.

He has an extra source of income in his internal treasury, and his future income can be expected, so he doesn't have to be shy about many things. This time, he gave more rewards to Liaodong soldiers.

However, Yu Jin was able to destroy Fuyu Kingdom in such a short period of one month, which Guo Peng did not expect.

Later, after the joint performance table of Lu Su, the governor of Pingzhou, and Yu Jin, the general of Zhengbei, was sent to Luoyang, Guo Peng knew how Yu Jin managed to destroy Fuyu within a month.

To be precise, it was a simple beheading tactic.

Without telling anyone, Yu Jin personally led the cavalry to rush hundreds of miles straight to King Fuyu's city, wiped out King Fuyu and the royal family, and directly wiped out the country of Fuyu.

The reason is simple. Yu Jin received a secret report saying that King Fuyu was hiding Gongsundu's daughter with bad intentions, and that he might secretly help the remnants of the Gongsun family to occupy Liaodong.

After Yu Jin learned about it, he decided not to say anything, and then personally led troops to attack for hundreds of miles, unexpectedly raiding the capital of Fuyu country, and destroying Fuyu country in one fell swoop.

Afterwards, the army of the Wei army arrived quickly, and calmed down other forces in the Fuyu country that hadn't reacted yet, and the Fuyu country was wiped out in less than a month.

It eliminates the restless existence that may develop and grow in the future and threaten the safety of Pingzhou of the Wei Empire.

Chapter 967 .970 Seventh Majesty wants the entire Western Regions to become a state

King Fuyu was a bloody bad luck.

Before he could react, he was led by Yu Jin to play a beheading tactic. He was captured in one fell swoop, and then arranged by Yu Jin to send his family to Luoyang.

Of course Guo would not keep them and cut them off.

Hiding the daughter of the Gongsun family who was classified as rebellious by the Guowei Empire is of course also rebellious.

Rebellion must be cut off, of course.

To round it up, the nature of this matter became that Fuyu Country was going to rebel, and Yu Jin took the initiative to attack Fuyu Country after learning the news, and directly put down Fuyu Country.

Yu Jin made another contribution.

So far, the Liaodong War of the Wei Empire came to an end. Yu Jin led the army to continue to clean up some disobedient small tribes and small forces in the surrounding area, clearing away all threats to the establishment of Pingzhou, and Lu Su reported a new administrative plan for the entire Pingzhou——

It is an administrative division that includes the old place of Buyeo country.

Someone from Guo looked at the land survey reported by Lu Su and others, and found that the most eastward area where the Wei army advanced was the Heilongjiang River Basin, and it did not continue to extend eastward.

After thinking about it, Mr. Guo thinks it makes sense. If you continue to the east, you can find a lot of land, but right now, it cannot be developed.

The population of Liaodong is too small, the traffic is very bad, and it cannot be developed at all. What needs to be done now is to consolidate and develop.

Guo Peng ordered Yu Jin to lead [-] troops to sit in Xiangping City and assist Lu Su to complete the preliminary plan for Pingzhou.

Then the [-] battalion soldiers of Yuyang Camp were transferred back to Yuyang Camp to continue to garrison, and they were stationed in Hebei to guard against Xianbei's attack.

In this way, the war in Liaodong came to an end, and the Wei Empire's large-scale use of troops in Liaodong also came to an end.

On the major battlefields across the country, Jingzhou and Liaodong have ended one after another. The high energy consumption mode of the state of war has ended in Jingzhou and Liaodong, and a relatively stable development and reconstruction period has entered.

This period can be slowed down a bit, so that Guo can take a breather and devote more resources to other places.

The war between Yangzhou and Yizhou will not end for a while, and he will continue to fill the holes dug by the Han Dynasty.

However, Mr. Guo still has more resources in his hands, and he has more confidence to initiate the immigration of Liangzhou and control of the Western Regions. The plan to return to the Western Regions must be accelerated.

All the resources provided for the Liaodong march were transferred to Liangzhou immigrants, and the imperial court allocated funds to assist the local government in organizing more manpower and material resources to complete this large immigration operation from Kanto to Liangzhou.

Since the second half of the third year of Yande, Guo Peng asked the grassroots government in the Central Plains to announce this matter, and then recruited people from the villagers who were willing to go to Liangzhou to farm.

The preferential conditions given by the imperial court were larger land, less taxation, and a considerable degree of preferential treatment. With this, more than 3 households willing to relocate were recruited.

This number is obviously insufficient, but the number of people who have actively responded has exceeded Guo's expectations.

The remaining part will be filled by the transfer of grassroots officials and their family members, and then continue to recruit, and strive to recruit more people who are willing to go to Liangzhou in densely populated places.

In the first batch, almost 15 people were recruited to go to the four counties of Hexi, which is already a good ending.

For the four counties in Hexi, which are extremely underpopulated, filling 10,000+ population can be regarded as a remarkable population doubling.

The entire Yongzhou is responsible for supporting the construction of the four counties in Hexi and the construction of Wei Zhidao. Chen Gong needs to cooperate with Mao Jie to complete the task assigned to them by Guo Peng before the seventh year of Yande.

Get through the transportation link between the Protectorate of the Western Regions and Liangzhou.

Four years after the new year in Yande, at the end of the first month, with the return of the envoys from the Western Regions, Cao Xiu also welcomed the canonized envoy sent by Guo Peng.

The canonized envoy came to Liuzhong City with Cao Ren, and together with the envoy from Kucha Kingdom, witnessed the historical moment when Cao Xiu was appointed as the first Protector of the Western Regions Protectorate.

Cao Xiu was appointed by Guo Peng as the Protector of the Western Regions with a position of two thousand shi, and the position of the Protector of the Western Regions is the position of the Protector of the Western Regions of the Eastern Han Empire.

The location is Tagancheng in the Kingdom of Kucha.

According to Guo Peng's order, the Kucha Kingdom will clean up its dry city and hand it over to Cao Xiu, who will be stationed there.

According to the agreement, Cao Xiu can lead [-] soldiers and officials belonging to the Protectorate of the Western Regions to garrison in Gancheng, and begin to perform his duties.

For this sudden appointment, Cao Xiu felt that he was favored by heaven.

He just wanted to emulate the predecessors and martyrs to make a big splash in the Western Regions and do some business, but he was appointed as the Protector of the Western Regions.

Although the administrative level is only the county guard level, two thousand shi, but he can order the countries of the Western Regions in an upright manner, and he is the direct boss of the countries in the Western Regions. This kind of prestige is not something that the county guards in the interior can have.

Cao Xiu happily accepted the appointment and became the surrogate father of the countries in the Western Regions. He was in a good mood.

After the reading, Cao Ren dismissed the envoys of the Kucha Kingdom and took Cao Xiu to a secluded place.

"Wen Lie, this matter was entrusted to you by His Majesty. You should clearly realize how heavy the burden is on you. This is not a trivial matter. The eighteen countries in the Western Regions have become my vassal state of Wei Fan. Your duty is to maintain The stability of the Western Regions cannot allow conflicts among the countries to erupt, and things that His Majesty does not want to see happen."

Cao Xiu looked confident.

"Uncle, I have always admired Ban Dingyuan, so I must follow Ban Dingyuan's standards in everything, just don't worry!"

"Who told you to be Ban Dingyuan?"

Cao Ren looked around and said in a low voice, "If Your Majesty wants you to be Ban Dingyuan, why give you 1000 people, why not just give you 36 people, why go to war?"

"what?"

Cao Xiu looked confused.

Cao Ren slapped Cao Xiu on the head.

"You can't even tell? What does Your Majesty want, the Protectorate of the Western Regions? What Your Majesty wants is for the entire Western Regions to become a state!"

"what?!"

Cao Xiu was even more confused: "The Western Regions...become a state? Doesn't that mean...Your Majesty wants to crusade against the Western Regions? His Majesty's appointment has been made? Do you want us to send troops to the Western Regions to pacify the Western Regions?"

"You can say the same thing, but definitely not now."

Cao Ren said in a low voice, "If Your Majesty treats the Western Regions the same way the former Han Dynasty treated the Western Regions, why do we need my [-] troops to stay in the four counties of Hexi? The four counties of Hexi cannot produce enough food for the time being, so my [-] troops stay here. You don’t know how much money you have to eat a day when you eat horse chews?”

Cao Xiu suddenly felt that what Cao Ren said made sense.

"Then...what the hell is..."

"The mission His Majesty gave me is to lead my troops to assist Mr. Mao in building the road. Do you know where we are going to build the road?"

"Where?"

Cao Xiu was full of curiosity.

"Where you are, Kucha Kingdom, it can dry up the city."

"It dry city?!"

Cao Xiu was surprised.

Cao Ren nodded slowly.

"You still don't understand His Majesty's intentions? Before, His Majesty sent a large caravan to the Western Regions to explore the way. I heard that the purpose of the large caravan was not the countries of the Western Regions, but the Anxi Kingdom further west of the Western Regions. , and Guishuang Kingdom."

"Could it be possible that Your Majesty wants to conquer the Anxi Kingdom and the Guishuang Kingdom?"

Cao Xiu was full of doubts: "That's too far away, how much food will it take to send the army there?"

"Your Majesty doesn't seem to want to attack Anxi and Guishuang, but His Majesty wants to do business with these two big countries. I don't know exactly what that means.

But Wen Lie, you have to remember that you are not serving as the guardian of the Western Regions to make you domineering, nor to benefit the people of the Western Regions. What you have to do is to fully understand the national strength of the countries in the Western Regions. "

After Cao Ren said this, Cao Xiu gradually understood what he should do.

"So it turns out that His Majesty actually has such intentions, so...there are still battles to fight?"

Cao Xiu was a little excited.