At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

If it is a bad event, those heads should be infinitely tense, not relaxed and happy like they are now.

Until the howling wind blew, on the first day of November in the 13th year of Yande, His Majesty Guo Peng, the current emperor of the Great Wei Empire, officially announced his edict of preparing to abdicate.

In the edict, Guo Peng summarized what he had done since he became emperor for 13 years.

He publicized his political achievements, reflected on his mistakes, and raised his vision for the future, as well as his expectations for Crown Prince Guo Jin.

He decided to abdicate officially on December 13th, [-]th year of Yande, and hand over the throne to Crown Prince Guo Jin, who will succeed him as the new emperor and continue to lead everyone forward.

He will become the Supreme Emperor, retreat to the Taishan Palace, and spend his old age peacefully without asking about world affairs.

Taking Guo Peng's 50-year-old age as an example, in this era it can indeed be said to be "spending his old age peacefully".

But the ministers and the people of the world have long been accustomed to Guo Peng's rule, and they only feel that Guo Peng is still the powerful emperor who overwhelmed the world and unparalleled in the past, and they don't feel that he is old at all.

So when Guo Peng issued an edict saying that he was old and wanted to abdicate to rest and spend his old age, many people were surprised.

How could that mighty Emperor His Majesty grow old?

There must be a mistake somewhere, right?

Chapter 1438 One thousand three hundred and forty-eight principalities of Xishu

People are at a loss and cannot reverse the impression that the emperor is too powerful as if he is immortal in a short period of time.

Ordinary people received Guo Peng's favor, and many places spontaneously built shrines for him, hoping that he would be emperor forever and rule the Wei Empire forever.

They really hope that Guo Peng can protect them forever.

The ministers are far worse, because Guo Peng is always energetic to toss the ministers, making the ministers feel that he will always be so energetic and immortal, and he is almost out of Stockholm Syndrome.

Suffering and enjoying at the same time, Guo Pengzheng almost split his mind.

But he actually said that he was going to spend his old age in peace.

Many people only reacted when they knew this.

Oh, it turns out that His Majesty the Emperor is also a human being and will feel tired.

This news was widely publicized by Guo Peng, and it was posted on the bulletin board in the main square, in the newspaper reading column in the city, and also published in newspapers.

So the news spread quickly.

The news quickly spread to the outside of Luoyang City at a speed many, many times faster than usual, and continued to spread to the surrounding counties and counties, stimulating the nerves of everyone who heard the news.

Before the people of the world responded, all the ministers asked the emperor why he did this, and they didn't know whether they were sincere or false and asked the emperor not to abdicate.

They said that they were used to the rule of His Majesty the Emperor, they were used to doing things for His Majesty, and His Majesty was in the prime of his life, why did he abdicate early?

Some of them actually think that this is Guo Peng's ultimate fishing tactic, using this method to clean up a group of "traitors" who want him to abdicate early.

So even though I was desperately longing for it, I tried my best to express my [loyalty].

Beg the emperor not to abdicate.

But this time, Guo Peng was no longer interested in playing fishing tactics with them, he was tired.

In response to the doubts and objections of the ministers, Guo Peng issued a second edict.

Feudal edict.

The edict declared that in order to cooperate with his great voyage policy and open up the territory and living space belonging to Wei State outside China, Emperor Guo Peng decided to entrust his son to establish a state overseas.

He wants his son to be the No.1 pioneer in opening up overseas territories, to set an example for all Wei people, to be the first in the world, to open up a larger living space for the whole nation, and to let people have more opportunities to live happily. Better and more refined.

This is his last gift as emperor to the people of the world.

Subsequently, Guo Peng announced that his second son Guo Jun would lead troops to sea to open up new territories.

The territory is located in the Indian mainland. Guo Jin was granted the title of duke.

The emperor will always stimulate the nerves of his courtiers in ways they cannot imagine.

This side just announced his abdication, and the other side chose not to seal his sons overseas to open up new territories, establish some kind of Xishu Principality, and go to be the king.

Looks pretty good, but listen to the place.

overseas?

There is also a Western Shu Kingdom overseas?

Then Guo Peng explained that he wanted to enshrine the country to his sons, and the name of the country was basically arranged according to the name of the country in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

But it cannot be a one-character country, it must be a two-character country, so as to highlight the difference between the Wei Empire and the feudal state as the suzerain state.

The specific rules are arranged according to the location and the name of the small country in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Guo Peng named Guo Jun to establish the country in the southern part of the Indian mainland, and that location belonged to the land of Shu. In order to separate it from the land of Shu in China, he added the character [西] and established it as the country of Xi Shu.

The ministers understood.

That is to say that there is no place yet, and Guo Jun needs to lead his own troops to fight and build the Principality of Xishu from scratch, so that he can be that monarch.

This country was not given to him for no reason, but he wanted to fight it himself. If there are aboriginals in the local area, he should fight the aborigines. If the aborigines established a country, he would abolish their country and build his own country.

This……

Of course, more people didn't know where the continent Guo Peng mentioned was, and they asked people around them where the Xishu Kingdom was, but few people around them knew.

In fact, most people don't know it, only a few people know it. Guo Peng's world map is still a secret of the inner circle so far, and outsiders don't know it at all.

Some things can be made public, and some things can't.

Especially when there are foreign envoys in Luoyang City at the moment, Guo Peng doesn't want the specific information of the world map to be leaked out.

People don't need to know where the Xishu Kingdom is, they just need to know that there is such a place.

Afterwards, Guo Jun, who returned from Guanzhong to Luoyang to resume his status as the second prince, made a public appearance and met with Guo Peng. At the public court meeting, he accepted Guo Peng's conferment, and the soon-to-be emperor Guo Jin handed it to him personally. His proof of Duke and Monarch.

Yes, Guo Peng organized a grand court meeting, at which Guo Jun was formally canonized as the Duke of Xishu, and he was appointed as the monarch of the Duke of Xishu.

On behalf of Emperor Guo Peng, Crown Prince Guo Jin bestowed a court token to Guo Jun, representing Xishu Principality as a principality under the Wei Empire.

Afterwards, Guo Jun thanked Guo Peng and swore that the Principality of Xishu would always be a principality under the jurisdiction of the Wei Empire, with the Wei Empire as the suzerain and the Wei Emperor as the suzerain, always obeying orders and never disobeying.

Under such circumstances, the Wei Empire's first overseas feudal state was first born at the Great Court Meeting in Luoyang City of the Wei Empire.

As for when the Principality of Xishu was born as a whole, that still needs to be followed by Guo Jun's development and conquest.

With luck, a large-scale Xishu Principality might be established within ten years.

If you're unlucky, that's not necessarily the case.

Guo Peng decided to send Guo Jun out to open up the territory before he officially abdicated, to set the policy, and then hand over the next few sons to Guo Jin to arrange as the new emperor.

Anyway, this policy was promulgated by Guo Peng, and Guo Peng has already taken the blame. Guo Jin does not have the political burden of [expelling brothers], and is just acting on the orders of his father.

Some time ago, Guo Peng had been preparing the necessary military supplies for Guo Jun. First of all, he had to prepare a combat force for him, so that this combat force would set sail first, land in India, first open up settlements in South India, and gradually Expand the range of settlements.

Make the settlement bigger step by step, and build the first decent city within three years, then you can formally establish the country and establish the Principality of Xishu.

How to fight after that is Guo Jun's business.

Now that the army is almost ready, Guo Peng decided to transfer 1000 elite regular troops of the Wei Army as the backbone, with 9000 recruits who have completed training, and a total of 1 troops will be handed over to Guo Jun.

They set off first to seize the territory, and later sent the families of these [-] soldiers to India in batches as Guo Jun's earliest subjects.

First establish a city-state, open up fertile farmland around the city-state, have the most basic food production capacity, and then increase the scale of the city-state.

After this step is completed, after Guo Jun's country has the ability to carry more people, it will continue to move the population to India by administrative order to open up new territories and expand the power of the Xishu Principality to ensure the survival of the Xishu Principality .

Let them produce by themselves, recruit troops by themselves, train by themselves, develop by themselves, and multiply by themselves, so as to move towards a virtuous circle.

After the arrangements are made properly, this grand court meeting is equivalent to seeing Guo Jun off.

So after the court meeting, Guo Jun went to the inner palace to meet her mother Cao Lan, whom she had not seen for a long time, and a group of brothers and sisters.

Cao Lan hugged Guo Jun and kept crying, very unwilling to let go of him, and kept telling him to be careful, be careful, never try to be brave and lead the way, and be good at protecting yourself no matter what, so that no accidents will happen.

The Principality of Xishu is not the most important thing, the most important thing is his life.

Guo Jun also shed tears and cried, expressing her reluctance to her mother, and then bid farewell to her brothers and sisters one by one.

I don’t know when I will be able to come back after this trip. Although according to the tradition of the vassal states, it is necessary for the monarchs of the vassal states to report to the emperor, but because of the distance, it is still a very serious problem whether they can come back.

Drifting at sea for several months and experiencing the threat of storms, it is not certain whether they will succeed. Of course, they still hope that they can return successfully, even if it is only once or twice.

So this farewell, for some people, may be a farewell forever.

When the matter came to an end, Cao Lan complained that Guo Peng was too cruel to his sons, but at this point, Cao Lan had nothing to do.

He could only cook a table of dishes for Guo Jun himself, and let Guo Jun eat the dishes made by his mother for the last time.

Guo Jun had a great appetite and ate all the dishes on the table, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Cao Lan.

Saying goodbye to the most familiar heating and the place where she grew up, Guo Jun reluctantly took away a handful of soil dug from the back garden of the palace.

In the years to come, he can only express his nostalgia for his hometown through this handful of soil.

In the end, it was Guo Jin who saw Guo Jun off from Luoyang City.

As the elder brother, Guo Jin felt that it was necessary for her to prepare a special farewell gift for Guo Jun.

"Ah Jun, I don't know when I'll be back to meet you after I'm gone. I have nothing to give you as a present, so I can only give you this set of iron armor."

Guo Jin asked someone around her to carry a big box and opened it.

Guo Jun saw a pair of heavy and fine iron armor shining coldly inside.

"Casted with refined iron, neither the ring-shouldered sword nor the spear can penetrate, and it can also block arrows. As long as you wear it, it will surely keep you safe on the battlefield."

Guo Jin introduced the purpose of this excellent armor.

"Thank you brother."

Guo Jun smiled: "However, I heard from my father that the place I'm going to is hot, rainy, and humid all the year round, and it is prone to waterlogging disasters. If this kind of iron armor goes through it, it may rust and corrode if it is not carefully maintained. Maybe leather armor is better."

Chapter 1439 One thousand 340 nine Father, is this also the ending you have expected?

After hearing what Guo Jun said, Guo Jin blinked and smiled awkwardly.

He has never understood what the so-called Xishu Principality is like, the climate, geography, and products. He has never understood, so it is unfortunate that he made a joke.

He just built a pair of excellent iron armor for Guo Jun according to his own ideas, thinking that such an iron armor would definitely protect Guo Jun's life, and Guo Jun would definitely be excited about this and feel his brother's love.

It turned out to be a joke, which is funny.

"Brother Wei didn't know about it before, so it's ridiculous. How about it, Brother Wei will have someone make a pair of fine leather armor right away, and then I will send it to Qingzhou port for you quickly, and I will definitely catch up."

Guo Jun looked at Guo Jin, smiled and nodded.

"Then thank you, brother."

"Between brothers, there is no need to be so polite."

Guo Jin smiled politely.

"really?"

Guo Jun suddenly asked such a question, which made Guo Jin a little unresponsive.

"When... naturally, it is true."

"Then, brother, I will tell you the truth."

Guo Jun put away the smile on her face: "I don't know if I can come back this time. It's dangerous when I go, it's dangerous to stay there, and it's dangerous when I come back. There are many crises, so this trip, I went with the idea that I would never come back.”

"Why do you have to say that?"

Guo Jin showed a look of impatience.

"Brother, going overseas is a desperate act. When General Zhang and Xin Butang went to sea, they encountered a big storm at sea. They said they seemed to be dead.

If they were not lucky enough to land in an emergency, they would really be buried in the bottom of the sea and become food for sea fish. Brother, I can't guarantee that my luck will be better than his.

When I go, if I am unlucky and encounter a storm at sea, I will be ruined. I really do not plan to come back when I go to sea, so I am not afraid that you will not be happy if you hear something. "