At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

chapter 1540 one thousand 460 when Chang'an City welcomes the next February with peach blossoms

To be able to collect enough materials for the compilation of "Book of Diseases of the World, Commanderies and Countries" is the most important purpose of his tour.

Guo Peng has always wanted to leave something that can really help the future emperors. After thinking about it, he felt that it was necessary to write a book for them.

This trip, as well as the subsequent travel plan, is to combine my 13 years of experience as an emperor, and the down-to-earth knowledge along the way, to combine the two into one, and complete this book on diseases of the world, counties, and countries.

How should a place be governed, what special geographical and cultural conditions exist in a place, how should it be governed, and how should things be handled.

What policies can be used in Hebei can't be used in Xiliang, what policies can be used in Guanzhong but can't be used in Shuzhong.

What is the difference between Yangzhou and Jingzhou, what are the disputes between Xuzhou and Qingzhou, what are the differences in customs and habits between them, and what are the obstacles to the implementation of central government orders in the local area.

The development prospect and development dilemma of Liangzhou, the development prospect and development dilemma of Yizhou, what should be done in the Western Regions so that they can be firmly grasped and not lost, and how can Mozhou and Pingzhou be controlled so that they will not be lost.

The problems of all the states, counties and counties in the world, and everything covered by the imperial power within the extreme wall of the empire, all of these, Guo Peng has to go down-to-earth, see it with his own eyes, and then record it, compile it into a book, and pass it on. To Guo Jin.

With this book on diseases of the world, counties and countries, Guo Jin can almost be regarded as "a scholar who does not go out and knows everything about the world", and will not be easily deceived.

As long as the emperors of the past dynasties can properly use this book, they will not be easily deceived.

And in this process, Guo Peng can also discover some mistakes he made when he was in charge of the government in the past, some consequences of simple and rude implementation of policies, and so on.

He can reflect on all these, record them in the book, and tell Guo Jin, and even future generations, that they must be careful in governing the country and adapt to local conditions.

When Guo Chengzhi was writing letters to Guo Jin, and when Cao Lan and other women were talking about what they had seen on the road, Guo Peng sat on the desk in the carriage, lit a lamp, and wrote vigorously.

[The emperor lives in the world, so he should not move lightly. All the information from the four directions comes from other people. He did not see it with his own eyes, nor did he hear it with his own ears. It is also inevitable.

Traffickers and pawns being deceived is harmless, it is nothing more than the livelihood of a family, the emperor, who depends on the livelihood of a country, does it recklessly, and if deceived, tens of thousands of people will be affected, so we must pay attention to it and think about it alone. Pretend to make this world county and country benefit disease book to pass on to future generations...]

[The land of Yongzhou in Guanzhong, with thousands of miles of fertile soil, in the early Han Dynasty, Chang'an was surrounded by eight waters. In February, peach blossoms bloomed, and the climate was warm and humid. Therefore, agriculture flourished. However, as time passed, since the later Han Dynasty, the climate has become increasingly cold and dry. also gradually withered.

I visited the farmers around Chang'an and asked the old farmers. The old farmers said that although there was no disaster, the amount of grain produced by the land was slightly lower than in the past. The words of the family should not be trusted. I visited the surrounding old farmers and thought that the amount of grain produced was not as good as before... 】

Writing while walking, and walking while writing, Guo Peng recorded everything he saw, and also recorded the local reaction and situation after his policy was implemented.

Good, bad, right, wrong.

He is not a god, and he also makes mistakes. When he holds a lot of power, the mistakes he makes are often magnified infinitely.

But sometimes these mistakes are not a problem with the policy itself, but a problem with the implementation of the people below. If there is a problem with the implementation, it becomes a problem with the policy itself.

Of course, this is the problem. If there is no problem with the policy, it is generally not easy to find a loophole to get in. If a loophole is found and drilled for a while, it itself shows a problem with the policy.

Guo Peng made few mistakes, but it doesn't mean he won't make mistakes, so he should record all the mistakes he made, so that future generations can see them, so as not to repeat the same mistakes.

He can also tell future generations how to build roads, how to reclaim land, how to control locusts, how to repair and maintain the Grand Canal, how to deal with small glaciers, how to fight, and how to lead more and more people through hundreds of years of severe cold , usher in the next warm period.

Sometimes, Guo Peng felt that perhaps the mission of the Wei Empire was to protect the unity of the land of China and the continuation of Chinese civilization during the Little Ice Age of more than three hundred years.

Even if the Wei Empire could not last until the next warm period, but could maintain the unification of China during this period, Guo Peng felt that his purpose of building this empire with all his painstaking efforts would be achieved.

Regardless of whether his Wei Empire is still there when the next warm period comes, as long as the Chinese civilization can survive this wave of storms and prevent it from falling into the era of great division between the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, that's enough.

As for the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song and Ming Dynasties, or other unpredictable existences, it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that the torch of civilization always exists and never goes out.

While writing vigorously, Guo Peng occasionally imagined.

When Chang'an City ushers in the next peach blossom February, will the Wei Empire still be there?

Is everything he worked so hard to build still there?

Do farmers still have land to cultivate?

Are soldiers still obeying military regulations to protect this country?

Has imperial education completed progressive graded education?

Can children from poor families still study and become officials?

Has science developed?

Has mathematics improved?

Stopping his pen and looking at the vast world outside the car window, Guo Peng felt that after more than 300 years, the Wei Empire is probably still there, right?

But he also felt that the Wei Empire at that time should have been decayed almost like the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with land annexation, corrupt officials, many problems, and crumbling.

There is no point in the existence of such a country.

Instead of continuing to bring people pain, it is better to quickly send a strong man from the sky and take away the decaying Wei Empire.

Then, who can stand out in the troubled times of the late Wei Dynasty, replace his Wei Empire, and become the next waver leading the era?

By that time, how far will Chinese civilization go?

Is the plan of overseas colonization really successful, and have the Chinese who went overseas already built the torch of Chinese civilization from scratch all over the world?

Can everything he does bring even a little, just a little change to future generations?

I hope there will be.

Even if it's just a little bit different.

With this feeling of melancholy, Guo Peng came to the westernmost point of his trip, which was also the westernmost point of the territory of the Wei Empire - Zhenxi Protectorate.

The main body of the Zhenxi Dufu is located in the Fergana Basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only one side is open to traffic.

As long as a checkpoint is set up and a small amount of troops is spent to control the way of outward communication, the west gate of the empire can be closed.

Once the gate is closed, anyone who wants to enter the west gate of the empire and invade the territory of the empire will be resolutely counterattacked by the empire. The iron hooves of the Central Asian cavalry can only stop at the west gate of the empire.

The Wei Empire can attack and defend, and relying on the grain of the Zhenxi Duhufu, it can expand the combat radius to extend to the borders of the Guishuang Empire and the Anxi Empire.

On this basis, the Silk Road trade to Central Asia will be carried out, and the trade route will be preserved.

Not only that, because it is located in a basin, although Zhenxi Duhufu belongs to the Central Asian region with aridity and little rain in a broad sense, it has a unique foundation for the development of intensive agriculture.

Therefore, after Guo Peng conquered Dawan in the ninth year of Yande and established the Zhenxi Protectorate, he successively moved more than [-] Wei households into the Western Region Protectorate, and recruited Dawan descendants to supplement the population and labor force. Vigorously develop the agricultural production of Zhenxi Duhufu.

And in the future, it is planned to continue to move in more Wei people's households, so that the Wei people in this area will multiply and become an important ethnic group, in fact injecting Chinese genes into this land.

Whether it can hold this place is really very important to the entire Northwest strategy of the Wei Empire.

Compared with the disadvantages of Beiting Duhufu and Annan Duhufu relying on broken oases to develop agriculture, Zhenxi Duhufu's unique conditions make it the highest proportion of agricultural taxes among the three prefectures of the Western Regions.

The person Guo Peng arranged to serve as the guardian of the Zhenxi Protectorate was Cao Ang.

Cao Ang used to be an official in Xuantu County, Liaodong. He is famous for his good at farming and developing agriculture in the county. He is very good at agriculture and has developed the local agriculture in a few years.

Afterwards, out of various considerations, Guo Peng transferred him from the northeast to the northwest, across the entire Wei Empire.

He did not live up to Guo Peng's expectations. He made use of limited manpower and material resources to make agriculture impressive and impressive.

Just talking about food, now there is no need to mobilize support from the Western Regions and Liangzhou, self-sufficiency is no problem.

Before the Wei army crusade against the Kangju state, the Zhenxi Duhufu served as a rear area and provided a considerable amount of food and fodder for the army.

Facts have proved that they have done a good job in this big rear.

Cao Ang is very good at civil affairs. Since he first became a county magistrate, he has been a competent and competent official. He is very shrewd in his work. Guo Peng admires him very much.

So he was constantly given various important tasks, let him serve as an official in the frigid border area, and sharpened his will and administrative means in the harsh environment.

This time when he came to the Zhenxi Protectorate, Guo Peng also came to fulfill his promise, transferred Cao Ang to the central government to take up an official position, and asked him to return to Luoyang, return to his father, and reunite his family.

Speaking of which, Cao Ang hasn't seen Cao Cao for seven or eight years.

Although the communication is constant, it feels really hard not to meet each other.

Occasionally, Cao Cao would bring up this matter with Guo Peng, saying that he hadn't seen Zixiu for a long time, and he didn't know how he was doing now, implying that he blamed Guo Peng for keeping him from seeing his son for many years.

Of course, Guo Peng couldn't refute this kind of thing. He also wrote to Cao Ang in private, asking him if he wanted to come back.

Out of a strong sense of responsibility, Cao Ang insisted on completing his five-year term, and assumed great responsibilities here without complaint or regret.

This commitment is a full five years.

Chapter 1541 One thousand 460 one Cao Ang's heart is full of strange emotions

When Guo Peng saw Cao Ang again, Cao Ang was already a middle-aged man.

Back then, he was a handsome and vigorous young man, but now he has become mature and restrained.

The wind and sand in Central Asia left traces of time on his face, but it also made him more tenacious and tenacious.

He is like a desert rock that has been blown and beaten. He can't see the handsome Fengshen back then, but he can see the strength after tempering.

He likes Cao Ang very much now, and he likes Cao Ang more than Cao Cao.

"Zixiu, it's been five years. At the beginning, I told you that you came here to be an official for five years, and I asked you to go back to Luoyang to meet your father. Now that the five years are up, you can go back."

Standing at the head of Zhenxi City, the capital of the Zhenxi Protectorate, Guo Peng and Cao Ang looked at the setting sun that was about to sink into the sky.

"The Supreme Emperor still remembers the subject, and the subject is very grateful."

"How can I not remember you? After all, you and I are a family. I put you here because I believe in you and think that together with Wen Lie, you can build the Zhenxi Protectorate and become our Wei Kingdom The real West Gate, now it seems that you are doing very well."

Guo Peng patted Cao Ang on the shoulder, and then held his hand: "It's thousands of miles away from my hometown, and I've lived here for five years, Zixiu, I'm sorry for you."

"To be praised by the Supreme Emperor, in the past five years, even if the body has worked hard, the heart is still sweet."

"Hahahaha, you've always said good things like this."

Guo Peng laughed for a while, but stopped laughing.

"It's also good for you to stay here and stay away from the center of the court for five years. In the past five years, there have been constant turmoil in the court. You can stay away from the court and accumulate merits here. For you, for your Cao family, it is important. is a good thing.

Sometimes, staying away from the court is a lucky thing. Many people can't do it if they want to stay away, but from now on, you won't have such an opportunity. The emperor needs your help, so you have to go back. "

Cao Ang bowed and saluted.

"Wherever the Supreme Emperor asks the minister to go, the minister will go there. This is the duty of the minister."

"It's good to understand the duty of a minister, but now I'm not the emperor, I can't let you go anywhere, everything is the emperor's will."

Guo Peng waved his hand and said with a smile: "The me now is just an ordinary old man whose body is half buried in the ground. Every day is less and less, and I don't know when I will kick my legs and leave."

Cao Ang blinked his eyes, looked at the "old man" in front of him with black hair, high spirits and strong figure, and was silent for a while.

"The Supreme Emperor is too modest, you will surely live a long life."

"Really? Hahahahahaha!"

Guo Peng didn't hold back either, and burst out laughing.

Chatting like this, the two talked about the current situation of the Parthian Empire.

"According to the statistics of the past few months, it is true that the number of merchants coming from Anxi is much smaller. Even if many people come, they still look panic-stricken, and they don't seem to be here for business, but rather for refuge. Rumors are gradually spreading in the Duhu Mansion."

Cao Ang said with a serious face: "They dragged their families with them, and brought goods instead of goods, to buy houses in Zhenxi Protector's Mansion, and what's more, they reported to the government, hoping to stay in Zhenxi Protector's Mansion forever and become The people of Wei State, pay taxes to us, and never go back.

There are also some people who seem to think that the Zhenxi Protectorate is not safe enough. After passing the Zhenxi Protectorate, they go to Beiting and Annan Prefecture. It seems that Anxi is really in big trouble this time. "

"It's very big. The Loumo Kingdom has beaten the Anxi Kingdom so badly this time. It is said that the main army of Anxi was wiped out. The Emperor Anxi was injured in his shoulder and fled in embarrassment. The guards suffered heavy losses."

Guo Peng nodded: "I won't be surprised if Anxi country can't survive this time. As for those who come to take refuge... allow them to take refuge, allow them to live, let them pay taxes, and wait for the situation in Anxi country to become clearer." After that, they can go if they want to."

"The Supreme Emperor is not worried that there may be people with ulterior motives among them?"

"No matter how much you have ulterior motives, where can you go with ulterior motives? After all, they are people who have ruined their country and their families. Moreover, those who escaped at this time are also merchants and have assets. Wouldn't it be a good thing for us to let them come? ?”

When Guo Peng said this, Cao Ang immediately understood what Guo Peng meant.

"I understand."

Guo Peng didn't say anything more, but mentioned another matter.

"By the way, speaking of this matter, Zixiu, your younger brother Cang Shu is doing very well in the Lomo Kingdom now. He is now an important think tank around the emperor of the Lomo Kingdom and is very trusted. Rest of the country, there are his efforts in it."

When Guo Peng suddenly mentioned Cao Chongzhi's matter, Cao Ang was taken aback for a moment, and then was greatly surprised.

"what?"

"I didn't expect it? I didn't expect that Cang Shu just turned 20 years old this year. He is already the brain truster next to Emperor Loumo. He went to the battlefield with him and commanded the army to fight. I really didn't expect that he has such a talent. .”

Guo Peng was a little emotional.