At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Let these four garrisons respectively guard the north and south Silk Roads, protect the safety of the merchants of the Wei Empire, echo with the Governor's Mansion, and accept Cao Ren's orders.

Before the Eastern Han Dynasty set up three garrison points, which were not enough, Guo Peng set up five.

It doesn’t make much sense if there are too many military supplies and supplies can’t keep up, and the countries in the Western Regions may not be able to provide too much, so the main thing is to rely on transportation.

Maintain five garrison points and stabilize the Silk Road. After the road from the Hexi Corridor to the Protectorate of the Western Regions is almost completed, preparations can be made to completely control the entire Western Regions.

Before that, let them be happy for a while, let them earn some money and live a luxurious life.

However, this is also an appropriate increase in their purchasing power, allowing them to have more money to buy luxury goods produced in the Central Plains.

The products and commercial strength of the countries in the Western Regions cannot compete with the vast land and resources of the Wei Empire. Their market will inevitably be occupied by a large number of Wei State merchants, so the money they get should be used to consume the general or luxury goods.

From the left hand to the right hand, the two hands are exchanged, the wool comes from the sheep, and the money belongs to the Wei Empire.

The countries in the Western Regions not only have to return the money they earned to the Wei Empire, but they will also have to pay back their own capital in the future.

What Mr. Guo does is a big business with huge profits.

In Guo's opinion, paying tribute is just a way to open up the market.

By opening their market, the products of the Wei Empire can enter their market naturally, control their business, transform their life, and go through the path of dealing with Liaodong again.

It might not be necessary to mobilize troops at all in the end, and they can be easily abolished and annexed directly.

It is not without reason that the Song Empire is called the Great Empire.

The victory rate of 70.00% in foreign wars is only a necessary level to maintain the existence of the country, and the victory is basically a defensive counterattack, not a strategic offensive.

This is not to be commended.

According to the defense of the city, if you can't win the defense and counterattack, isn't it the loss of teachers, land, country and species?

In the end, the Song Empire was indeed unable to win a defensive battle.

The number of troops facing the frontal battle far exceeded that of the Golden Empire, and the military collapsed completely.

Organizing a strategic offensive and winning is the sign of a strong country.

Strategic offensives can reflect all aspects of a country, from the mobilization ability of the emperor down to the common people. After Zhao Guangyi, the Northern Song Dynasty lost this mobilization ability and was no longer able to organize large-scale national strategic offensives.

Beishang Youyan in Song Huizong's era was simply a joke.

From this point of view, the military strength of the Song Empire is really weak.

Of course, although the combat power of the Song Empire's army is indeed not very high, but except for the wars, they always lose. If you really want to say that in the era of peaceful exchanges, they really didn't suffer much.

The old coins are sent out, but they can earn them back through commercial means. It is true that they give out a lot every year, but through the trade between the two sides, the Song Empire can obtain economic benefits that far exceed the old coins.

From this point of view, the Chanyuan Alliance does not suffer.

The commercial strength of Liao and Xixia is far from comparable to that of Song.

The prosperous commodity economy of the Song Empire made the copper coins of the Song Empire widely accepted in the entire Greater China region. In these countries, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty are common.

Such a good economic advantage is enough to show that Song's products and economic strength are above Liao and Xixia.

However, such a huge economic advantage was not used by the rulers of the Song Empire to fight a trade war with Liao and Xixia.

Although the Song army could not win an offensive war, it could at least fight a defensive war. Therefore, there was a military basis for a trade war.

The use of trade wars plunged Xixia and Liao into economic panic, destroyed their economies, and greatly weakened their ability to mobilize for war.

It would be a miracle if the Song army could not achieve results under such circumstances.

If someone Guo is in charge of the overall situation, he will definitely take advantage of Song's business advantages, decisively organize the national team, stir up trouble in their market, cause economic panic, and weaken their national strength.

Song does not have an advantage in the military, so naturally he has to find a breakthrough from the dominant economy, let such a good opportunity go, and really play a harmonious coexistence with the deadly enemy.

Facing the mortal enemy that threatens his life and death, of course he must try his best to weaken him and destroy him in various ways, instead of playing harmonious coexistence with them.

Although the countries in the Western Regions are not capable of threatening the Wei Empire, for the sake of the Wei Empire's open source plan, Guo and others will not really coexist harmoniously with them.

Anyway, now that the righteousness is in hand, Guo can do whatever he wants with Wei Tianzi's edict, if he is not obedient...

What?disobedient?

beat him!

The [-] troops left in the Hexi Corridor and Cao Ren are not vegetarians.

Chapter 960 .970 Guo Shi who cheated

After a heated discussion, the envoys of the countries in the Western Regions chose their representative envoys who could stay, and stayed in the Lifan Yuan to represent their countries and communicate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Then the rest of the people drove the carts and carts and embarked on the road back, and went back to report their results to their respective kings.

There is also news that the Wei Empire is about to reset the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

At this point, the Wei Empire's strategic plan to return to the Western Regions has been preliminarily completed. When the Protectorate of the Western Regions is really established in the Kucha Kingdom, it will represent that the power of the Wei Empire has completely entered the Western Regions.

That's when it all begins.

Give me more time.

On a cold and windy night, Guo walked out of the Hall of Qinzheng wearing a fur robe, looked at the bright moon, and made his wish.

Just give me a little more time, really, that's the plea of ​​my life.

Give me a little more time, and I will be able to complete the structure of the empire for at least 300 years. I can’t guarantee that it will last longer than 300 years.

I still have a lot of things to do.

Time, give me more time!

In the cold wind, Yande's three years came to an end, and Yande's four years came.

The beginning of the new year is of course a five-day long holiday. This time, like before, Guo Peng took his whole family to the Royal Hot Spring to soak in the hot spring and enjoy a rare relaxing holiday.

Mr. Guo not only likes to soak in hot springs by himself, but sometimes he is also happy to soak in hot springs with his sons.

As time went by, the children gradually grew up, and Mr. Guo also gradually increased the time spent with the children, thinking about giving them some care and preventing them from going astray.

So far, Mr. Guo has ten children, six sons and four daughters.

Among the group of emperors, Mr. Guo doesn't have many children. Compared with those powerful emperors who often have thirty or fifty children, Mr. Guo is really nothing.

However, Mr. Guo himself did not feel that this amount was not enough.

When he was still young, he was busy fighting in the war, and giving birth to Guo Jin early was regarded as an explanation to the family. After saving it, the family could rest assured that he would go to the battlefield to fight. At that time, there was only one Cao Lan by his side.

Because of spending many years on the battlefield, Guo Jin had her second son, Guo Jun, five years after her birth, and Guo Jun had her third and fourth sons seven years later.

To put it simply, it means fighting everywhere. Once fighting, it takes half a year or even more than a year. I don't have much leisure time, and I don't spend much time with my wife. It is difficult to stay in the base camp for a long time.

And at that time, I didn't have the conditions to have children frequently.

In order to increase the number of offspring, Guo even deliberately squeezed out time to stay in the base area, just to have more children.

Later, there were a few more concubines, spreading the net and broadcasting seeds, so Mr. Guo happily welcomed his sons and daughters into this world.

By the sixth year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty, Mr. Guo had ten children, six sons and four daughters. After that, Mr. Guo did not focus on sowing seeds and deliberately pursue the number of children.

He felt almost enough.

Six sons, four daughters, isn't that enough?

He was already very tired from fighting all day, he just wanted to control the number of intercourse a little bit, save more energy for the government, and save more energy for disciplining the born child.

The eldest son, Guo Jin, was born in the fifth year of Han Guanghe and is 22 years old this year. He is the only adult son of Guo Peng.

The second son, Guo Jun, was born four years ago in Han Zhongping. He is 17 years old this year. He has not yet been crowned, and he is not yet an adult. However, at the age of 17, he understands everything that should be understood. Guo Peng did not treat him like a child. Discipline is quite severe.

The third son Guo Qiong and the fourth son Guo Hu were both born in the first year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty, and both were ten years old.

Guo Heng, the fifth son of the concubine, was born in the fourth year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty and is seven years old this year.

Guo Yu, the sixth son of the concubine, was born in the sixth year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty and is five years old this year.

The three sons were all born to Cao Lan, and they were compatriots. This was also the result of Guo Peng's deliberate care, so that the sons born to Cao Lan had an absolute advantage, so that the family behind the sons would die of that heart, and ensure that Guo Jin's crown prince's future will be better. The stability of the position.

Among the three concubines, the fourth son Guo Hu is the son of Mi Zhen, the fifth son Guo Heng is the son of Xiao Qiao, and the sixth son Guo Yu is the son of Xia Houlin.

Cao Lan did not have a daughter, so Guo Peng's four daughters were all concubines.

The eldest daughter, Guo Ying, was born in the third year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty. She is Tian Rou's daughter and is eight years old this year.

Guo Luo, the second daughter of the concubine, was also born in the third year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty. She was Xia Houlin's daughter and was also eight years old.

Guo Jue, the third concubine, was born in the fourth year of Xingping in the former Han Dynasty. She is Mi Zhen's daughter and is seven years old this year.

The fourth daughter of the concubine, Guo Huan, was also born in Xingping four years, and she is the daughter of Daqiao, who is also seven years old this year.

Every child is healthy.

This made someone Guo very satisfied.

In fact, there has always been a saying in the court that the reason why Guo Peng can be emperor is because he is really destined by destiny.

He only had ten children, but none of the ten children died early, and they all survived. After going through the cruel and turbulent war era, all of them survived and grew up healthily. Isn't this destiny?

During the war years, Guo Peng's strong fertility and the strong vitality of his children made many civil servants and generals think that this is the reason why the Guo family is destined to be prosperous and destined to become a royal family.

It is destiny.

What is the most important thing in the royal family?

Isn't it just a stable bloodline inheritance?

The old emperor is dead, and the new emperor hastened to catch up. Ensuring the inheritance of the royal blood is the emperor's greatest achievement.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with saying this, because the mortality rate of young children is really high these days.

It's the same from princes and generals down to ordinary Li Shu. No one can guarantee that their children will survive smoothly.

The emperor's children are the same as the children of Li Shu people's families, they will die young, and the probability of premature death is still high, so widows with childbearing experience are favored by dignitaries.

This is also the reason why people are desperate to have children, because they don't know which children will grow up smoothly, so they have more children, hoping that the incense can be preserved.

The higher the death rate, the more people who desire to inherit the incense will have children.

In an era when colds can kill you, it is really not easy for fragile creatures like human cubs to grow up smoothly.

Be it the emperor, ministers, warlords, or careerists, no one can guarantee that their cubs will grow up to adulthood and leave offspring to complete the inheritance of incense.

So just live, keep living, no matter how many people die, it is good if even one of them survives.

But Guo Peng was different. The ten children grew up healthy and healthy all the way as if they were on the hook, and they got better after some minor illnesses and disasters.

The number of wives and concubines of Guo Peng is not many, and the number of children he has is not top-notch, but the survival rate is definitely the first.

Cao Cao was a fertility maniac. He had more than ten wives and concubines, and gave birth to ten children. As a result, three died, and only seven are still alive.

The same is true of Cao Ren, who gave birth to eight children, three died, and only five survived.

The same is true for Xiahouyuan and Xiahoudun in recent years. Xiahouyuan lost one child, and Xiahoudun lost two children.

No matter how high or low your status is, you can't avoid this kind of thing.

But Guo is a different kind of firework.

During the war years, a certain Guo also experienced ups and downs, and the Guo family had to constantly move their residences and travel back and forth. However, none of the children died, and all of them survived the most dangerous childhood. growing up healthily.

In addition, among the civil servants and military generals under Guo Peng, there are very few such lucky ones.

So how can Guo stand out and become the final winner!

God destined...

Many people hold this view.

Chapter 961, 970-someone Guo is indeed working hard to change this era

In Guo's opinion, this kind of thing is nothing more than hygiene management in place, letting the children keep their mouths shut and move their legs.

Many living habits of this era are full of threats from bacteria and viruses, and Guo has banned all these living habits from a modern perspective.