At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Swinging the owl's head with a knife, chopping vigorously, beheading their heads and cutting off their bodies.

The aborigines are poorly equipped, generally have no armor, no suitable defensive armor, and not many iron weapons, and their battles are similar to those of the early Yellow Turban rebels in China.

They are just a group of rabble, and they have no fighting power against the tight and orderly Wei army formation.

Guo Jun organized and commanded seven or eight small-scale battles, and gradually became familiar with the command method of 1000 people, accumulated his own combat experience, and produced a lot of military insights.

Then continue to lead the army forward.

The troops under personal command rose from 1000 to 2000, then to 500.

It didn't take long for Guo Jun to easily wipe out more than a dozen Yi tribes around this coastal stronghold, expanding the sphere of influence of the Wei people.

He also captured more than 50 captives and beheaded more than [-] Yi people with his own hands.

In a very short period of time, Guo Jun has grown from a rookie on the battlefield who has never killed anyone to a warrior on the battlefield who kills without blinking an eye, initially establishing his own prestige.

In order to further increase his prestige in the army, he would personally behead the tribal leaders who were defeated by him.

After those tribal lords were defeated, they were often captured instead of beheaded.

Guo Jun doesn't need them to live, they only have endless troubles to live, and death is enough.

So Guo Jun would kill them with his own hands in front of the whole army, cut off their heads, and show his courage in front of the army.

According to Guo Peng's teachings, Guo Jun also knew that if he wanted to completely conquer a tribal group, he had to eliminate all the upper strata of the tribal group and only keep the bottom class.

The upper class of the tribe has cultural knowledge and has a lot of ghosts. If they want to do some small tricks, it is impossible to guard against. In contrast, the small fish and shrimps below can not only contribute labor, but also have no will to resist. It is simply perfect Tool man.

Therefore, Guo Jin would kill all the dignified people in the tribe who were captured, leaving no one behind, and then build the Jingguan.

The ferocious Jingguan greatly frightened people's hearts and established Guo Jun's strong prestige.

After a wave of conquest, within a radius of a hundred miles of the entire coastal area, except for wild beasts, no Yi tribes could be found, no enemies could be found, and all Yi tribes were conquered.

So Guo Jun did not continue to launch military operations for the time being.

Exploitation is one aspect, while consolidation is the most important.

He came here not to rob, not to rob and leave, but to take root and survive, to have sufficient survival needs.

So he asked the army to monitor the more than 4 captives going back and forth in the Wei army camp to do things, such as building a stronger and defensive military camp.

They are also forced to repair roads in other places, cut down trees, use their bodies as bait to catch wild animals and kill them, or do chores such as washing clothes.

Anyone who tries to escape or resist will be killed on the spot.

Under his cruel oppressive methods, the barracks were quickly remodeled and became very compact, which was very suitable for a large army to station, and a preliminary human settlement developed in this way.

And the roads from the army station to the seaside stronghold and other places that have not been discovered are also being developed rapidly.

Constantly cut down trees to open up roads and fertile fields suitable for growing food from the dense forest.

As Guo Peng's son, Guo Jun cannot be said to be completely unlike his father. In other words, Guo Jun and Guo Peng are very similar in terms of pioneering and enterprising.

More than 4 captives were taken here to start construction, and people were sent deep into the inland areas to search for and discover those Yi tribes.

If you find one, mark it down, if you find one, mark it down, and then continue to expand the scope of exploration, and constantly mark the map to increase the exploration rate.

After exploring, launch a surprise attack or a frontal assault, conquer these tribes at a very small cost, completely destroy them, rob their property, food, and population, and make them slaves to serve themselves.

Just like playing adventure games and robbery games, Guo Jun found that she fell in love with this feeling, and seemed to enjoy it a little bit.

Those barbarians and natives were no match for him at all. When he led an elite army to crusade, the resistance of the barbarians always seemed very fragile, breaking through with a single poke.

At the same time, Guo Jun also has a considerable degree of understanding of the local climate.

Feeling the warm, humid, and high precipitation of the local climate, I found that it is indeed very suitable for the growth of crops that require a lot of precipitation and high temperature.

They can get a good growing environment here, and they can grow and harvest in large quantities. As long as the scale of farming increases, the harvest will be quite huge. At that time, they will be able to get rid of the blood transfusion dependence on the Wei Empire and establish their own independent system as soon as possible.

Therefore, Guo Jun is also constantly asking his subordinates to reclaim farmland as soon as possible, build farms, turn all these wastelands into good fields, and also turn the farmlands that have been reclaimed by the tribes into their own farmland, and connect them together.

Of course, the following Jiangnan epidemic prevention experts also warned Guo Jun many times, saying that epidemics are prone to occur here, so the epidemic prevention regulations in the army must be well done and perfected.

For example, it is not allowed to drink raw water, eat raw food, drink wormwood to repel mosquitoes at night, and isolate and treat patients immediately when they are found. These are things that must not be relaxed.

Guo Peng and Guo Jun talked about this issue, so Guo Jun is well aware of the epidemic problems that Wei Jun encountered when he pioneered Jiangnan, as well as Wei Jun's subsequent coping methods and so on.

When they set off, the epidemic prevention experts from Jiangnan Wei Junli followed them, thoroughly inspected some dangers that were difficult to detect with the naked eye in their living environment, and warned Guo Jun.

Once the plague breaks out here, it will be an absolute dead end, so you can't slack off any problems, especially pay attention to the disease from the mouth, and never eat unfamiliar things.

Under such precautions, Wei Jun maintained a considerable degree of health, and there was no large-scale acclimatization phenomenon, only a few sporadic cases of such situations occurred.

Overall, the construction of his base area was quite successful.

With this base, in just a month or so, Guo Jun built a decent small settlement, with [-] Wei soldiers enslaving [-] local aborigines, and they are constantly forging ahead and building.

At the beginning of March in the first year of Xingyuan, Guo Jun finally learned the news that Guo Peng had officially abdicated in the new stronghold he called "Donglai City". Now the emperor of the Wei Empire is Guo Jin, his elder brother.

The year name is no longer Yande, but Xingyuan. This year is the first year of Xingyuan.

Guo Jun didn't know how to express the complicated emotions in her heart for a while.

Chapter 1458 One thousand three hundred and sixty-eight found the big silver mine

Guo Jin sent Guo Jun a reward of a whole ship.

Rich, food, food, clothing and useful things, many things.

Even if Guo Jun doesn't want it herself, it's fine to give it to his subordinates as a reward.

If the subordinates who started a business with him want to keep them by his side, the necessary expenditure is very meaningful.

Everyone is from the wealthy Wei country, and their hometown is far away in the Central Plains. If they suddenly want to leave the Central Plains and settle in such a place, it is impossible for them to have no idea in their minds.

So it is very meaningful to treat the army and subordinates favorably.

Establish prestige and treat subordinates favorably, so that they will be embarrassed and reluctant to leave themselves in the end.

Guo Jin not only sent things to Guo Jun, but also wrote a letter to tell Guo Jun, saying that he would prepare the things he needed and deliver them later, and what he sent now was a little bit of love from his elder brother.

This meaning is very clear, how could Guo Jun, who was born in the emperor's family, not know?

He knew he couldn't change it, so he didn't think about changing anything, it's just... It's just that his mood is a little complicated.

With mixed feelings, Guo Jun wrote back to Guo Jin to congratulate him.

And formally profess his minister to him in the letter, congratulate the emperor as a minister, and wish him a long life without bounds.

Guo Jun felt that this might be what Guo Jin needed.

The age of fathers is over, and the age of brothers has begun.

There is no longer a father-son relationship between the Wei Empire and the Xishu Principality, but a special relationship between brothers.

Brothers are different from father and son, and the changes that should be made must be made.

Of course, at the same time, his era also opened.

My brother is the emperor now, he is a king no matter what, no matter what he is a person who can dominate the world.

While the brothers are flexing their muscles in the country, Guo Jun feels that it is necessary for him to show his strengths to show that he is also Guo Peng's son.

Ever since, Guo Jun also started the second round of colonial conquest.

Before encountering a strong enough local force with a large enough population, Guo Jun felt that military conquest was necessary.

Once encountering a local force with certain power, such as a large settlement with a population of more than [-], Guo Jun felt that it was necessary to take some special measures to deal with them.

The troops in his hands are not unlimited. Guo Peng invested 1 people in him, and it will take at least three years for the population that can increase the number of troops to reach here. It is impossible for him to get more troops.

Therefore, he needs to use some special means to avoid a direct confrontation with the big forces, but to take a corner and surpass the way to confront the big forces.

For example, Wang Haibo and his group figured it out before, using advanced weapons in exchange for trust and cooperation, and then instigating several forces to fight each other to benefit from it.

The force is limited, and military conquests cannot be won blindly. The means of the Warring States Strategists are king.

Guo Jun has been educated in the theory of strategists, and knows how to use this ability to change the world.

This land is an excellent stage for him to display his talents.

However, in the absence of a large political force, military conquest is still the main method. Right now, his goal is to attack the seven tribes with more or less people found after going deep into the interior.

It probably adds up to a population of [-] to [-].

This group of people will be captured and enslaved again, and the manpower for building a city should be gathered. Next, it is waiting for the professionals in the country of Wei to come to guide them.

After the domestic fortification experts arrive, Guo Jun can start to build the city he wants.

It's not a problem to live in a place like a military camp all the time.

In the short term, you can simply deal with it. In the long term, you must have a reliable city to shelter from wind and rain and avoid risks.

The city is the foundation of everything.

When Guo Jun started to flex his muscles, Guo Jin learned a great news in Luoyang City.

Guo Peng's exploration team, who had been stationed in Yande six years ago to explore gold and silver minerals, returned from Wa Island in a hurry.

They hurried back to Luoyang City and reported to the new emperor Guo Jin that they had found a huge silver mine on Wa Island.

It is not clear how big it is, but as far as the mineral veins that have been explored so far, it is already a huge mineral vein that cannot be mined cleanly in ten years.

They had never seen such a large vein, especially a precious metal mine such as silver mine.

According to the current estimates, it shouldn't be a big problem to collect several thousand or even tens of thousands of catties of silver every year. As long as the manpower, material resources and transportation capacity can keep up, they can continuously send the silver back to the Wei Empire.

Guo Jin was very excited when he heard the news, and immediately told the news to Guo Peng who was engaged in education reform. Guo Peng was stunned for a while and smiled.

"God treats you kindly, Ajin. After seven years of searching for my father, I couldn't find it. You found it as soon as you ascended the throne. In this way, when you are the emperor, you don't have to worry about running out of money."

Guo Peng then suggested that Guo Jin send more people to explore and mine silver mines, then transport more silver back as a reserve, and then make preparations for issuing silver coins to promote currency reform.

"Copper coins are bulky and low in price, and it is often extremely inconvenient for large transactions. Silk cloth and silk are expensive and can be used for large transactions, but they are fragile and fragile, and do not preserve their value. Once a large-scale disaster occurs, it is easy to lose everything, which is not conducive to Private business development.

If you want to better promote business development and collect more business taxes, promoting silver as currency circulation is a must. You need to reserve enough silver as soon as possible, make enough silver coins, and then combine silver with Grain hooks. "

"Why must it be food?"

Guo Jin asked.

"Because people can't live without food. In times of famine, a family's wealth is nothing compared to having food in hand. Food is the hardest currency. Ajin, remember, no matter what you use to make money, it must be linked to food. That's the root."

"So... my son understands."

Guo Jin said that he had understood what Guo Peng meant, and then ordered that enough professionals be dispatched from Neitingdong Factory to the Wadao Silver Mine to open mines and increase the mining volume of the silver mine.

He also ordered his confidant Lu Yu to go to Wodao to serve as a silver transshipment envoy, fully responsible for the mining and transshipment of silver mines, so as to ensure that the mined silver could be transported to Wei Guolai to the maximum extent.

With excitement, Guo Jin is looking forward to more good news from Wajima——

According to the people who came to report the news, not only silver mines, but also small-scale copper mines and gold mines, if they are properly mined, they can bring a huge amount of benefits to the Wei Empire every year.

The small archipelago, fragmented, turned out to find so many precious metals.

If mining continues in this way, it will take less than a year for Guo Peng to recover all the costs that Guo Peng paid for this in the past seven years, and start making profits.

This made Guo Jin very happy.

The Wei Empire, which was financially strained because of the two major projects of the Grand Canal and the Grand Chi Road, suddenly became rich because of this huge profit.

This increase in wealth gave Guo Jin a lot of confidence, and now he has ideas about things that he didn't dare to think about or do before.

The expenditure of the Grand Canal and the Grand Chi Road can be supported by the wealth that Guo Peng plundered from the world's powerful manors in the ten years of Yande, but it is not enough to do other things.

Now with the huge income from the silver mine, Guo Jin's bound hands and feet can be freed.

Of course, he can publicize the news of the discovery of a large silver mine as good news, and promote the legitimacy and destiny of his superiority.

But compared to these, he felt that real achievements were more meaningful.

The real achievements can make people feel his presence as an emperor even more.

He is the emperor, not a marionette, not a rubber stamp that Guo Peng pushed to the front of the stage.

He has his own will, and he can act according to his own will, instead of following Guo Peng's orders.

But Cheng Yu, who is still alive and serving as the captain of Sili, always makes people think like this, and he can't change people's thinking.

This made him feel helpless.