At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

After a long campaign in the Central Plains, Wei Jun gradually figured out the correct way to destroy a country and a regime.

Whenever the army of a country or regime is defeated, the Wei army will form a system to destroy their upper echelons.

Literate and educated upper class who are officials.

As long as their upper class is destroyed, and the literate and literate upper class is destroyed, the cultural heritage of this country can be destroyed together, leaving behind the illiterate low-level tool people, who can directly become the people of Wei State, which is convenient for governance.

Wei Jun is so cruel and terrifying, and Guo has such sinister intentions.

On the other side, Cao Xiu and Cao Chun, the two generals of the Cao family, commanded [-] cavalrymen to gallop on the Wusun prairie to confront the army of Wusun Da Kun Mi Xinlimi, and successfully defeated the soldiers who were not very motivated. The Wusun army was beaten to death.

Xinlimi couldn't figure out why this was so.

Obviously his regime was established under the protection of Cao Xiu, why did Cao Xiu personally destroy the regime he established by himself.

Since that battle, he has never taken any action against Cao Xiu or the State of Wei. All his actions are in line with the will of the State of Wei, and he acts under the protection and permission of the State of Wei. Hold Wei Guo's thigh down.

But who would have thought that such a beautiful dream would only pass for a few years.

After just a few years, his dream was over.

He was forced to face the fierce Wei cavalry on the grassland. He was beaten to death by them, and the whole army was wiped out by them. He couldn't escape even if he wanted to escape.

Cao Chun, who was chasing after him with red eyes, pierced his body with a spear, and bid farewell to this world he was infinitely attached to without even saying a word of begging for mercy.

This is a very tragic thing.

Cao Xiu and Cao Chun wiped out all Wusun's forces, further wiped out Wusun's participating soldiers and resistance forces, completed the task, and also acquired all of Wusun's remaining population of more than 30 after the last war.

This is of course a hearty victory.

Wei Jun's losses were not large, and compared with the results of the battle, the losses were nothing worth mentioning.

The three larger forces in the Western Regions, Wusun, Khotan, and Shule, collapsed under the swift and fierce front of the Wei army, the regime collapsed, and lost their cultural heritage. trace.

The troops were dispatched in September, and the three strongest Western Region forces were destroyed in November. The Wei Army won an all-round victory in the Western Region War.

Guo Jin got his wish and won the favor of middle and lower-level officers and grassroots soldiers.

Because they thought that all of this was written by Guo Jin, and the orders they received were all issued by Guo Jin. They fought the war according to the order of the crown prince, and then won.

In fact, Guo Peng's aura of victorious victories was too bright, and even Guo Jin also benefited from it.

The soldiers generally believed that the tiger father had no dogs and sons, and the son inherited his father's business. The son of such a powerful horse emperor as Guo Peng must also be a very good horse emperor.

So as soon as Guo Jin appeared on the stage, he would definitely be a god-level figure who was invincible in all battles.

Their Emperor His Majesty is so powerful and invincible.

It seems that Guo Jin's debut performance is also quite good.

The regime in the Western Regions was basically wiped out by the Wei army, and the next job was to integrate the forces of all parties in the Western Regions, and then to set up counties and counties for governance.

The last remaining target of the army is the Dawan Kingdom.

This small country that once fought arrogantly against the Western Han Empire, and was later taught a lesson by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty without any temper, was valued by Guo Peng because of its rich production of Dawan horses. The country that must pass through.

For this reason, they also made a lot of money. People come and go in caravans, the country's commerce is very prosperous, and various stores emerge in endlessly, and many people make a lot of money.

Guo Peng even took several translators from their country for his own use.

Of course, this did not prevent Guo Peng from ordering the destruction of Dawan, robbing all the breeding places of Dawan horses, turning Dawan horses into Chinese horse breeds, and importing a large number of them to the Central Plains to improve the blood of Chinese war horses.

Annihilating a country for the sake of improving the bloodline of war horses is not something that Guo Peng cannot understand and cannot do, and Guo's idea of ​​destroying the Dawan Kingdom is not that simple.

Guo has always been a person who is mine, and what is not mine, as long as I want it, I will take it and make it mine.

So in such a situation, there is no such dispute as whether the road is too far away or not to fight.

At the beginning of the discussion stage in the staff desk, someone once suggested whether to limit the attack distance a little, so that it would be better not to go to Dawan country.

Someone Guo directly vetoed such an idea.

The roads have been built to the hinterland of the Western Regions, isn't that enough?

Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could send tens of thousands of troops to teach Dawan Kingdom without this condition, let alone the current Wei Kingdom?

After hundreds of years of love, we have been going around in circles, haven't we?

Without any progress and growth?

no!You must call me!

Defeat Dawan, you can get Dawan horses, and even get a bridgehead to intervene in Central Asian affairs.

In this way, Wei Guo will be able to gain some benefits from various political turmoil in Central Asia in the future, and get some unexpected things and so on.

Moreover, the Fergana Basin where the Dawan Kingdom is located is one of the few areas in Central Asia that is suitable for the development of agricultural production. According to the information brought back by the business travelers, the Dawan Kingdom has a small territory, a large population, and a large army.

The small countries in the Western Regions are limited by the arid natural environment, and many of them can only rely on oases for development. If the oasis is large, the country will be large and powerful, and if the oasis is small, the country will be small and weak, but Dawan is not the case. It is located in the basin so that their land is suitable for agricultural production. , conducive to the development of civilization and political power.

Moreover, it also has some strengths against the Wei army that the countries in the Western Regions do not have.

For Wei State, the benefits of breaking Dawan State and building it into a bridgehead in Central Asia are self-evident.

In such a place suitable for the development of agricultural production, immigrants could survive well in the past, and they could well bring Han culture to the local area, and carry out cultural export, affecting the local Greek culture and other original ecological cultures, and completely assimilating the local area.

This is called seizing the commanding heights of historical development.

For Guo, who is good at seizing the moral high ground, it is equally important to be one step ahead of others.

Even if the future generations do not live up to it, they can still leave a legacy from ancient times to future generations.

Someone in Guo felt that this was the greatest legacy he could leave to future generations.

Establish prefectures and counties, rule, record in history books, and then since ancient times.

It is clear that since ancient times, it has always been much better and stronger than the rule of other dynasties that was so big that it actually just looked very big.

So Guo advocated the strategy of Dawan Kingdom and asked Cao Ren to further attack Dawan Kingdom after pacifying the Western Regions.

At the same time, when Cao Ren sent troops, Guo Peng had mobilized thousands of low-level officials from the Central Plains, Hebei, Luoyang and Guanzhong.

It is planned to send them along with the army to the hometown of a small country in the Western Regions, and establish a county-level ruling regime first.

Years of grassroots strategies have trained a large number of Lishu officials with relevant grassroots governance experience for the Wei Empire.

The number of these Li and Shu officials is so large that they are not easy to let go at the grassroots level, so every time the Wei Empire expands its territory, it is an opportunity to reduce the pressure on Guo.

However, with the birth of the imperial examination system and the opening of the upward channel, grassroots Lishu officials also have more choices.

It's just that at the moment of his order, many Li and Shu officials still need to drag their families and lead their families to serve as officials in the territory that the Wei army has just opened up, so as to contribute to the construction of the Wei Empire.

Chapter 1258 Three Guardians of the Western Regions

The Western Regions require a large number of officials to be stationed, as well as some immigrants.

The four counties in Hexi originally had great strategic value.

However, as the Western Regions became the real territory of the Wei Empire, the four Hexi counties did not need to be developed as key development areas.

Therefore, Mr. Guo decided to prioritize the development of the four counties in Hexi, and raise the Western Region area along Shannan Road and Shanbei Road to a key development, and build it into an important transportation hub on the Silk Road.

Cultivate the fields, grow food, and provide necessary food support to merchants and the army.

Especially the army, the garrison in the Western Regions also needs a lot of food, and the transportation from the inland is too slow and expensive, so the local production in the Western Regions is the best.

In addition, the construction of Shannan Road and Shanbei Road must be advanced again, and strive to connect Shannan Road and Shanbei Road to Dawan Kingdom, so that Shannan Road and Shanbei Road can be connected into a line, and the traffic in the entire Western Region will be revitalized.

Although the difficulty is great, under the mobilization force of the Wei Empire, it may not be a lifetime.

At the same time, Guo Peng also decided to start sending people into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for preliminary exploration to learn about the situation on the plateau.

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, although only a powerful regime like Tubo that could threaten the Central Plains Empire was born in history, it was also born.

With the prosperity of the warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the decline of the subsequent ice age, Tubo finally disappeared, and no powerful regime was born on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but despite this, Tubo was also a very threatening existence.

After Mr. Guo captured the Western Regions, all his energy would be devoted to the development of the Western Regions. In fact, he was powerless to deal with the ancient kingdom of Shangshung on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

But exploration can still be explored, do some intelligence and so on, draw a map to find mountain roads and the like, how much, to give future generations a reference.

Or we can also implement a detainment policy or something like that to rule in a symbolic sense.

At this time, occupying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a thankless task. Seeing that the Little Ice Age is coming, the climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can be said to be extremely harsh, and there is really no benefit to be gained by launching a military operation.

Occupying the Western Regions can also be said to open up the Silk Road, which can be pursued with benefits, occupying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau...

What's more, I'm telling others now [Don't look at this ancient Zhangshung country as a hot chicken, in a few hundred years there will be an extremely fierce Tubo who will make the Central Plains Empire eat well and sleep well].

This is really not a convincing reason.

Someone Guo sighed slightly.

In the current state, he has already opened up the Silk Road, and in every sense he has completed his merits and virtues. If he can manage and control the Western Regions, and then win the bridgehead of Dawan, and establish a front-line position of Han culture, then enough.

As for the ancient country of Zhang Zhung...

It's better to leave it as a vassal state to decorate the facade.

So someone Guo gave an order, and the team of officials began to move westward in October of the eighth year of Yande, and gradually spread to the Western Regions, and then sent envoys to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to find the government of the Zhang Shung Kingdom and establish a vassal state with it. relationship with the sovereign state.

At the same time, Guo Peng announced the plan for the future governance of the Western Regions in the court.

In the northern part of the mountain, there is the Beiting Duhufu, and in the southern part of the Shanxi area, there is the Annan Duhufu. Both Duhufu are two thousand stone positions.

The guardian is a civil servant, the same as the prefect.

There are also two Commanders of the Protectorate, commanding the Beiting Garrison and the Annan Garrison, who are in charge of non-wartime military tasks.

The Commander and Envoy of the Duhu Mansion needs to obey the orders of the Central Staff Headquarters instead of the orders of the Duhu, otherwise the Duhu is a Jiedushi.

Someone Guo would not accept this kind of thing.

And because of Dawan's special situation and special significance, the Zhenxi Dufu was specially set up in Dawan, and the Zhenxi Duhu and the Zhenxi Duhu Commander were set up. The same two thousand stones should be set up together with Annan and Beiting. The two guards are the same.

As a result, the three Protectorate Houses in the Western Regions were established.

After that, there will be candidates for the three guards and the commanders of the three guards.

The land of the Western Regions is of great significance and value to Wei. If he can't control it well, his plans for so many years will be in vain.

As an important source of open source, the land of the Western Regions and the Silk Road are one of the symbols that the Central Plains regime has come out of involution. This road cannot be broken, and foreign trade cannot be interrupted. The North-South Avenue of the Western Regions must always be in hand.

Only in this way can a steady stream of money come to China and be controlled by the emperor.

Only when the emperor has money in his hands can he promote big projects, big projects, big crusades, and big plans. If the emperor has no money in his hands, there will be problems.

The Imperial Merchant Brigade, as well as the Silk Road, are one of the important governing powers left to Guo Jin by someone from Guo.

Only by mastering this business route can one speak hard, and can constantly divert the attention of Wei Guo's elites, so that they don't always stare at the one-acre three-point land in their hands.

Instead go out.

It is best to take this opportunity to establish a relationship with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire has a strong purchasing power, and has an extraordinary obsession with Chinese products such as silk.

Getting in touch with the Roman Empire basically means opening your eyes to see the world in this era.

Knowing that there is a vast and powerful empire thousands of miles away, with a vast market, it can be used as the best place to dump products for the empire.

Neither Guishuang nor Anxi can replace the super purchasing power of the Roman Empire.

At that time, it may happen that Wei Jun and the Roman Legion will join forces to open up trade routes...

I don't know if I can see it.

Guo Peng suddenly became so interested.

This put forward higher requirements for the governance of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions.

It is not expected that the Western Regions will produce much economic output value or an astonishing GDP. Guo has never expected this at all. This land is indeed not suitable for large-scale economic production activities.

What he expects is that the Western Regions can be a good carrier of the Silk Road, providing places for merchants and people to rest, eat and sleep.

Then provide some food and grass support to the local garrison. Don't always let the food and military supplies start from the four counties in Hexi, otherwise the loss will be too great.

As long as the Western Regions can achieve these points, then everything will be easy to say, the Silk Road will be stable, and the major financial revenue items of the Wei Empire will be as stable as Mount Tai.

In terms of candidates, Guo Peng made some considerations.

Before, he specially asked Guo Jin to investigate, and then Guo Jin sent a letter to Guo Peng before going out with Cao Ren. The letter stated his views on this issue.

He thought that both Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi were excellent officials with the ability to govern civil affairs, but he believed that Zhuge Liang was better at governing civil affairs.