At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

I just feel that the years since I took refuge in Guo Peng until now have been like a dream.

Guo Peng chuckled.

"Outsiders will think that I reject you. In fact, it is precisely because I trust you. Yunzhou is located in the frontier and is an important line of defense to defend southern Xinjiang. Moreover, Yunzhou is connected to Jiaozhou. If there is any change, the army can still come from Yunzhou. State directly to Jiaozhou.

Yuan Hao, let me tell you that the area around Jiaozhou is not very stable recently. I heard a secret report that Zhang Jin, the governor of Jiaozhou, was ill and some of his subordinates were restless. won.

You go to Yunzhou to rectify the local administration, appease the people, resume production, and build roads. In case of accidents in Jiaozhou, I need you to provide logistical support to the local garrison so that they can enter Jiaozhou to calm the incident. "

Guo Peng seems to have assigned tasks to Tian Feng in a targeted manner, so that Tian Feng can look forward to it a little bit, and feel that Guo Peng really values ​​Yunzhou and him.

Of course Guo Peng attaches great importance to Yunzhou, but Tian Feng is not necessarily the case. Tian Feng is already a past tense in his eyes, and he is a person who is no longer needed in the new future. Really important things, such as mining and the like, will also be handed over. Do it for Dongchang instead of Tianfeng.

It is enough for Tian Feng to be the governor of Yunzhou honestly and establish the basic order of Yunzhou.

At the end of November, Guo Peng announced the candidates for the governor of Yunzhou and the basic structure of Yunzhou.

On the first day of February in the ninth year of Yande, after Guo Jin's report from Dawan arrived in Luoyang, Guo Peng was overjoyed and announced that all the land in the Western Regions from Dawan to Yumen Pass had become Wei soil.

The territory of the Wei Empire expanded again.

For this battle, no one dared to say anything against it, and some people raised doubts, but Guo ignored it.

The fact that there is no reason to add guilt has already happened countless times in Guo, who has always had double standards, and everyone is not surprised.

It is hard to say whether the country of the Western Regions is really guilty, whether it is necessary to send a large army to suppress and suppress the occupation, but the matter has reached this point, and when the news reached Luoyang, the Wei army had already set out, and everyone had nothing to say.

Because this is the power of imperial power.

Someone from Guo can bypass the staff desk and directly order the army to act.

It is also possible to bypass Shangshutai and directly order to the local government, strictly ordering them to raise military supplies and arrange civilian husbands to assist in transporting food and grass and preparing logistics.

The gold content of the emperor's decree has never been so high.

Now, all the dust has settled, the countries of the Western Regions have become history, and even the Dawan Kingdom has been wiped out.

The envoys from various countries in the Western Regions in the embassy area of ​​​​Luoyang City have also been captured and beheaded in the name of "There is no excuse for lying to the king", and now only the envoys of the Guishuang Kingdom and the Anxi Kingdom are left in the entire embassy area. Envoy.

Other than that, there is no one left.

The envoys of the two countries also looked terrified when the Wei people cleaned the embassy area, thinking that something terrible had happened and they would also face the end of death.

Of course, they will not play tricks, because the country behind them is a big country, not a small country.

The small country is all over, it is really a deserted, miserable place.

Of course it doesn't matter, no one pays attention, and there is no international influence - the international is gone.

Guo Peng announced that he would set up three protective offices directly under the central government in the old places of the Western Regions. The nature is the same as that of the four counties of Hedong, Henan, Hanoi, and Hongnong in the Sili area. They are all directly under the central government.

The Sili area is not a state-level administrative unit, at least not yet. The four counties in the Sili area are directly managed by the central government, and there are no governor-level figures.

Right now, the three Protectorate Houses in the Western Regions are also directly under the central government, not under the jurisdiction of local state-level administrative units.

The three Protectorate Houses are Beiting Protectorate, Annan Protectorate, and Zhenxi Protectorate.

The Beiting Duhufu governs the former lands of the countries in the north of the mountain, the Annan Duhufu governs the former lands of the Shannan kingdoms, and the Zhenxi Duhufu governs the former lands of the Dawan Kingdom.

The three capital guards are set up to guard the civil affairs, and the commanders of the guards are set up to control the military.

In terms of candidates for the governor, Guo Peng appointed Zhuge Liang, the former governor of Dunhuang County, as the governor of Beiting, Sima Yi, the former governor of Zhangye County, as the governor of Annan, and Cao Ang, the former governor of Xuantu County, as the governor of Zhenxi. The governor of the government.

In terms of candidates for the commander of the Protectorate, Guo Peng decided to appoint Cao Xiu, the former protector of the Western Regions, as the commander of the Protectorate of Zhenxi, General Guan Yu as the commander of the Protectorate of Annan, and General Zhang Fei as the commander of the Protectorate of Beiting. make.

After the appointment of the main military and political leaders is completed, the appointment will take effect immediately, and the relevant people will leave for their posts immediately.

In such a situation, the Wei Empire completed the last land expansion under normal circumstances.

This is also the entire content of the final territory of the Wei Empire in Guo's blueprint.

It reaches Dawan State in the west, Lake Baikal in the north, Jiaozhou in the south, and Wai Xing'an Mountains in the east.

On such a scale, the final territory of the Wei Empire was completed, as was the plan for the extreme wall of the empire.

The territory under the direct control of the Wei Empire ended here, and it would not continue to expand. If it continued to expand, the administrative capabilities of the Wei Empire would collapse.

Further outside, the enfeoffment system will be implemented. In the future, Guo Peng will arrange enfeoffment for the children of the royal family, and he is still thinking about the scale and location of this entrustment.

But in any case, the Empire's extreme wall plan has been completed, and the next step is to consolidate, govern, and cultivate internal strength.

He no longer has much energy to lead the war to continue to expand the territory, this mode can be stopped.

The Wei Empire needs to spend the next ten or even 20 years to digest all these newly acquired territories, assimilate all the population on the land, turn them all into usable productive forces, and collect taxes from them.

In response to this, Guo Peng convened a state affairs meeting before the imperial court, involving the entire core decision-making team.

At the meeting, he stipulated the entire future administrative planning.

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In the future, the entire administrative plan of the Wei Empire is to govern the Western Regions, govern Mozhou, govern Pingzhou, govern Yunzhou, and build the Grand Canal and other very important things.

Road construction can never stop.

Ever since Guo Peng occupied Qingzhou, he has been building roads, building roads, building roads, and vowed to connect the entire Wei Empire with official roads to achieve the final big interconnection, thereby expanding and consolidating the central government unprecedentedly. Influence.

Canals will also be built in some areas to deal with the coming Little Ice Age.

The grain storage plan must be continuously promoted, and all local governments must stockpile enough emergency food so that famine will not occur in the northern regions during the future Little Ice Age.

For this reason, the great development of the south of the Yangtze River cannot be left behind.

The scale of grain cultivation in the warm regions of the south of the Yangtze River must continue to expand, and the overflowing population in the northern regions must continue to fill in the south of the Yangtze River, and the population size in the northern regions must be continuously reduced and controlled, and migrate to the south of the Yangtze River to tide over the difficulties.

At the same time, in the West, efforts must be made to maintain the operation of the Silk Road.

Commercial trade with countries such as Guishuang, Anxi, Kangju, and the Roman Empire cannot be cut off and must be maintained.

It is also necessary to continuously expand the scale of foreign trade and encourage people to go to the Western Regions to do business with these countries in order to obtain enough money to promote domestic construction.

The animal husbandry industry in the northern Mozhou region must continue to advance, maintain the Wei Empire's control over the grassland and understanding of animal husbandry, and continue to absorb more people to engage in animal husbandry to maintain the scale of animal husbandry.

As for the Liaodong area, it is difficult to open up in the severe cold era, but its geographical location is very important. It can burst out a strong force in the future warm period, and now it can also share part of the population in the north, so it must not be ignored.

Shipping routes from Liaodong to the south of the Yangtze River will also be built.

In the future, this shipping route can also play a big role. It will directly connect Liaodong and Jiangnan across the constraints of time and space. If necessary, the Wei Empire can directly coordinate and directly support Liaodong with grain from Jiangnan.

During the entire state affairs meeting, Guo Peng showed the whole map of the empire carefully drawn by his own people, and marked out his plans for the future one by one on the map.

Looking at this unprecedentedly detailed map, the elites of the empire were filled with emotion.

There are many marks and notes on the map, and every mark and note is the conclusion of the emperor's careful thinking.

The emperor has really paid a lot for this country, he is really promoting the construction of this country, not just expanding his power and enjoying his glory and status.

Many people didn't realize until this moment that the emperor they knew seemed to be different from the emperor in front of them.

Is the emperor a vicious autocratic power fanatic, or a thoughtful and far-reaching political master?

Maybe neither, or both, but not quite.

But they knew that the roads of the Wei Empire in the next few decades were all on this map, and they were all marked on this map and the emperor's notes.

Based on the present, he planned the development of the empire in the next few decades, and pointed out the way forward for future generations.

Not only that, Guo Peng also envisioned the external problems of the Little Ice Age that the empire might face in the future.

Guo Peng’s presupposed situation is that grain production in Hebei and the Central Plains will be reduced on a large scale, and the empire’s storage will face serious difficulties. It will need to rely on large-scale blood transfusions from the south of the Yangtze River. This will cause military threats to the northwest plateau, northern grasslands, and northeast tundra.

For example, whether the western frontier, which is full of variables, will have large-scale military frictions with the Guishuang Empire, the Parthian Empire, the Kangju Kingdom, and the Roman Empire.

Although the northern grassland area has been controlled a lot, there are still places that cannot be controlled, such as whether there will be new nomadic clans born, whether the long-running Northern Huns will make a comeback, and so on.

There are also some unconquered areas and barbaric tribes in the land of Liaodong. If they are not conquered, will they threaten the empire's rule in Liaodong in the future?

Every pile of piles is a vision and worry about the future.

"Although the achievements we have achieved at the moment are unprecedented, we will also encounter many unpredictable problems that have never been encountered in the previous dynasty. If we cannot deal with them well, the blood shed by the soldiers today in order to expand the territory will be lost." In vain."

After Guo Peng finished speaking, he sat down in front of the map a little tiredly, took a breath, and sighed worryingly.

"I can predict many things, but there are also many unpredictable things, but I know that some land cannot be abandoned, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how much it costs the country. The northwest, grasslands, and Liaodong cannot be discarded.

Once discarded, the core population area of ​​our Wei Dynasty will be immediately threatened by the military. Once it is violated, the price to be paid for this is dozens of times that of maintaining these territories in Northwest Liaodong.

These territories seem to consume food, fodder and money, but they can provide an important buffer, so that the enemy cannot threaten our hinterland, and can indirectly reduce the losses caused by military conflicts. "

Guo Peng pointed to these territories that he had taken one by one: "With the existence of these frontier territories, no enemy can easily attack the hinterland of Wei Wei, and must pass through layers of obstacles. If these territories are gone, the populated places will be directly threatened.

Just like in the former Han Dynasty, every time the Xiongnu Xianbei plundered land, they could plunder a large number of people and food, and the buildings would be destroyed. It only took three days to destroy, but it took three years to build. You imagine, what is the purpose of keeping the enemy out of the country? Easy, or give up border defense? "

Such a question naturally has a standard answer.

It's not that people don't know, it's just that things have reached that point, and the interior of the empire has collapsed to the point where it cannot be done.

Just like the Ming Dynasty, the people of Ming Dynasty did not know the significance of Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the northern defense line, but since Zhu Di's time, the Ming government had a tendency to abandon the northern defense line established by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Di, the northern line of defense of the Ming Empire retreated step by step, giving up step by step, and finally gave up to an unbearable point.

Even the Hetao area has given up.

By the time of Jiajing and Wanli, basically the land had regressed to the point of the Qin Dynasty, and it was a little stronger than the Northern Song Dynasty. At least there was the Great Wall, and the others were really not worthy of praise.

The huge territory that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di two generations of emperors laid down for the Ming Dynasty was gradually abandoned because of lack of proper governance and planning.

The officials chanted the slogan of taking a step back and spending less money, step by step to dismantle the defense line established by Zhu Yuanzhang, give up, and directly expose the most populated areas in the interior to the attack range of the grassland cavalry.

The results speak for themselves.

Not only did it fail to save money, it also spent more money, directly emptied the treasury, and the capital of the empire was frequently exposed to the threat of nomadic cavalry.

The Ming Dynasty was not without people with lofty ideals who wanted to restore the territory of their ancestors and restore Hetao to take the strategic initiative, but not only did they not receive support, they also ended up dead.

Although the treasury expenditure of the Wei Empire was huge and the flow of funds was very large, but today, the treasury revenue and expenditure of the Wei Empire are basically balanced.

In the eight years since the use of the Yande Year Name, the national treasury has been able to balance the balance of payments for three years, and the remaining five years are also slightly in deficit but not serious.

Many new officials were amazed by this, but some old bureaucrats from the pre-Han era knew it well, and they didn't think it was a miracle.

The huge number of manors spread all over the territory of the empire in the former Han Dynasty were destroyed. Although not all of them were destroyed, many of them were destroyed. That part of the income was directly controlled by Guo Peng, and of course the treasury would not be short of money.

Of course, this definitely harmed the interests of the powerful landlord class.

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The interests of powerful landlords do not seem to exist in the eyes of today's emperor.

While spending money lavishly, he is also earning money lavishly.

By collecting taxes and doing business by various means, the treasury of the Wei Empire was full, and he was going to leave enough money for Guo Jin so that he could act and promote his policies.

At this level of expansion of the Wei Empire, the treasury was still able to maintain a balance of payments and reserves.

It is conceivable that the corrupt administration of officials and the high degree of land centralization in the middle and late stages of the empire would eat up much of the tax revenue that the empire should have received.

If these taxes continue to be maintained, the existence of the northern frontier region of the empire can be maintained no matter what, and it will definitely not be to the point where the use of the treasury cannot continue.

A country with a population of tens of millions cannot afford to support hundreds of thousands of troops.

It can only be said that this money is exploited layer by layer, and everyone gets some benefits. In the end, it may be very little, or even not enough, to be used on the ground.

The end result is that the emperor is poor, the people of the Li people are miserable, and the bureaucrats and landlords are filthy rich and penniless.

That is to say, the people are precious, the monarch is light, and Li Shu is directly cold.

The stable triangular structure turned into a rhombus, the empire's governance system completely failed and collapsed, and the collapse of the empire was reasonable, and then entered the next cycle.

Guo, who is well versed in the way of reincarnation, knows very well that what he has to do for the rest of his life is to consolidate the existing achievements of the Wei Empire, continue to promote policies, and then continue to fight against corruption, fight against corruption, fight against corruption, and constantly promote the administration of officials.

Take what is clear and discard what is turbid, and constantly replace the water in this tank to ensure that the water in this tank does not hide dirt and evil people. It looks clear, but in fact it is overgrown with insect eggs and rotten.

They want the Wei Empire to reincarnate, so someone Guo must let them reincarnate first, and see who can reincarnate whom.

So at the end of the imperial meeting, Guo Peng made a summary.