At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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At the same time, I don’t know what rumors were heard. Some family caravans behind the officials of the DPRK and China also used their connections to find contacts, hoping to bring their own caravans to join this joint business operation. get permission.

Many people are looking for this possibility, although not all, some people still have doubts about it, but there are also many people who request to participate, so this question was put in front of Guo Peng.

Guo Peng thought about it, and thought it would be good to attract the attention of these people to the outside world, and reduce their obsession with domestic land a little bit.

If you look outward, you can relatively reduce your attachment to the country, which is also an alternative benefit to the domestic Li Shu.

So Mr. Guo selected 56 families with good performance from the list, and allowed their caravans to join the joint caravan.

But the premise is that you must fully obey Ma Yuan's orders and follow Ma Yuan's rules, otherwise you can't be wronged if Ma Yuan kills you if you have any problems during the journey.

All families agreed.

As a result, the caravans of these families also joined the joint caravan one after another, paid deposits, prepared manpower, and prepared goods. For a while, there was a lot of traffic inside and outside Luoyang City.

In this way, the number of people in the joint caravan quickly expanded from four thousand to seven thousand, and the scale became even larger, which made Ma Yuan stare.

"Your Majesty, the caravan is too large to manage. Will you send some generals or officials with you?"

Ma Yuan put forward such an idea, trying to manage the caravan with a bureaucratic or military model, otherwise there would be problems if there were too many people and if they traveled further.

Guo Peng thought for a while and felt that what Ma Yuan said made sense.

Faced with such a situation, in order to facilitate unified management, Guo Peng specially awarded Ma Yuan the rank of Colonel Lieutenant, and also awarded him a talisman to confirm his leadership position over the entire caravan.

And basically use the rules in the army to manage and restrain the team. In order to help Ma Yuan manage, Guo Peng also specially selected five senior military judges to join the caravan, who are responsible for trying illegal matters and executing illegal people.

Make sure that the joint caravan will have a unified order during the journey so that it will not fall apart.

Guo Peng asked Ma Yuan to announce all the rules in advance. If you are willing to accept it, you can join it. If you don’t want to accept it, don’t follow it. If you follow it, you will make trouble.

Let's talk about the ugliness first, and everyone knows in their hearts that when something happens, they will deal with it according to the rules, and the rest of the people will not panic.

Chapter 947 .950 The end of the seventh exploration road is endless treasures

Because of the increase in the number of people joining the joint caravan, Guo Peng dispatched four teams of 200 people from the guard to join the joint caravan, expanding the military force to 700 people.

With the prestige of Wei Jun, the elite military force of 700 people is enough to support this joint large caravan of 7000 people.

Whether it is internal or external troubles, this military force is sufficient to stabilize the situation.

After all preparations were completed, the time had come to the end of August in the third year of Yande.

Guo Peng personally gave this joint caravan a strong trip, wishing them a successful completion of the mission entrusted to them by the emperor, and then returning to their homeland safely.

On August 29th of the third year of Yande, Guo Peng bid farewell to Ma Yuan and the joint caravan in Luoyang.

Before leaving, Guo Peng held Ma Yuan's hand and told him not to forget to record the complete road map when he was heading west, and Ma Yuan expressed his understanding.

Guo Peng gave Ma Yuan another warrant, asking him to show it to Cao Ren and Cao Xiu when he went to Dunhuang and Liuzhong City, and they would give Ma Yuan some help appropriately.

Such as military and intelligence.

At least within the military radiation range of Liu Zhongcheng, Cao Xiu must have sent people to explore, and tried to contact Che Shi and Shanshan to get some information. When the caravan arrives, Cao Ren and Cao Xiu should already have some clues.

Watching this huge semi-official team slowly embark on the journey, Guo Peng sincerely hopes that they will successfully fulfill their expectations, open up business routes as soon as possible, and return to the Central Plains.

This unprecedented and complex joint caravan journey westward will have a profound impact on this era.

But at this moment, no one knew about all this, and some even suggested that the emperor was too eager for quick success and wanted to open up the Western Regions.

There is a suspicion of wasting money.

The country is still fighting endlessly, and the war in the south of the Yangtze River has not yet subsided, and a large amount of food and supplies as well as money must be provided to the army.

The imperial court's finances are still difficult, and various projects have been launched one after another, spending money like water. Although the imperial court's fiscal revenue is high, isn't it too eager to open up the Western Regions at this time?

It's too late.

So they sigh.

Guo Peng didn't care about this statement at all. He just wanted to open people's horizons and let people in Huaxia Shenzhou know that there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people.

This world is really too big, and the land of China under their feet is only a part of it.

Outside of Shenzhou, there are bigger and bigger worlds worthy of attention and attention. We can't limit our vision here. Of course, we can't open it up now, but we must know it.

People's vision is opened, knowing where there are many benefits, knowing how to obtain benefits, then they will naturally be guided to see the world with eyes open.

In this era, in this period, Guo can do very little, but he knows better that expansion without economic benefits is not real expansion.

Only by expanding for economic benefits, when the economic benefits gained from expansion become an inseparable part of national interests, the country's colonial heart will be detonated.

The tradition of emphasizing righteousness over profit and emphasizing agriculture and restraining business makes the Chinese lack this part of the point. The colonial heart has not been successfully illuminated. It is not enough to rely on the broad vision and talents of some emperors themselves.

This land of China cannot provide more resources to allow more people to live a good life. If we want to let more people live a good life, we must, must open up to the outside world.

Jiangnan is one aspect, isn't it the other places?

Let's open up the trade routes.

Let people be jealous of the rolling gold and silver.

Enough financial benefits are enough to motivate once-compassionate people to embark on the road of adventure.

At the end of the road of exploration, there are endless treasures.

Go explore.

Guo hoped that even after his death, people in this country would not stop exploring.

At this moment, as an outpost of explorers, the army led by Cao Xiu has established a firm foothold in Liuzhong City, and has begun to try to build a military settlement, using part of the land that has been developed in Liuzhong City for redevelopment, and farming together with the residents of Liuzhong City develop.

Then, Cao Xiu sent people to the direction of Che Shiguo and Shanshanguo, and with the help of people in Liuzhong City who knew more about these two countries, they went to contact them.

Tell them that the Han Empire is gone, but the Wei Empire has inherited everything from the Han Empire and is back.

Surprise?

According to what Cao Xiu knew, most of the countries in the Western Regions should have known the end of the Han Empire and the birth of the Wei Empire.

When Guo Peng sealed off the border and only opened the Hanyang market to do business with merchants from the Western Regions, he focused on telling the story of the fall of the Han Empire and the birth of the Wei Empire.

So along the way, from the four counties in Hexi to Liuzhong City, it was known more than a year ago that the Wei Empire had replaced the Han Empire to establish a state in Luoyang.

As for how the countries in the Western Regions viewed this matter, the people in Liuzhong City did not know, and neither did Ma Ai, but since then, the countries in the Western Regions have not attacked Liuzhong City so many times.

It is estimated that it is also a kind of fear.

Worried that the Wei Empire will come back instead of the Han Empire that withdrew earlier.

Sure enough, the Wei Empire, the replacement of the Han Empire, is back, and the Northern Huns, who were once able to check and balance the Han Empire, have moved westward to unknown places.

In the entire Western Regions, apart from Wusun, which was divided into two parts by the Han Empire, the Big Kunmi and the Little Kunmi, which is barely considered a big country, there is no large-scale big country anymore.

Once the Wei Empire makes a comeback and demonstrates its powerful strength, the countries in the Western Regions will inevitably become the vassal states of the Wei Empire since ancient times.

He lost his freedom again, became a vassal of the Central Plains Empire, and was controlled by the Central Plains Empire.

The current Wusun is unable to fight against the Wei Empire. Even if the big Kunmi and the small Kunmi have internal conflicts and disunity, how can they deal with the Wei Empire?

Unless all other small countries in the Western Regions unite to have the power to fight, there is no need to mention the power to fight.

Even if the Wei Empire now distributes its troops in the four counties of Hexi for post-war consolidation, Cao Xiu's thousand elite cavalry are not something they can handle at will.

Back then, Ban Chao could gallop across the Western Regions with 36 people, but now Cao Xiu can't afford it with a thousand elites?

joke!

Cao Xiu, who has read relevant historical materials, is very confident about this.

The same is true.

When Cao Xiu's envoy went to Shanshan with the flag of Wei and a hundred cavalry, the king of Shanshan was shocked and left the capital to greet him.

Seeing the excellent equipment and fierce momentum of the cavalry of the Wei army, the king of Shanshan was worried. He was extremely humble in front of the Wei envoy, and immediately sent someone to follow the Wei envoy to Liuzhong City to meet Cao Xiu.

Another group of envoys came to Cheshi to meet the king of Cheshi Houguo.

During the process of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu vying for the Western Regions, the Cheshi Kingdom was tragically split. At most, it was divided into six small tribes. They were hostile to each other. They either followed the Han Dynasty or the Huns. Get off the two parts of Cheshi Qianguo and Cheshihouguo.

Cheshi Houguo is large in scale and powerful, able to overwhelm Cheshiqianguo, and the two followed the Han Dynasty together.

After the civil strife in the Eastern Han Dynasty withdrew from the Western Regions, Xianbei Tanshihuai was powerful and was divided into several tribes. The Western Xianbei not only replaced the Xiongnu, but also attacked Wusun, Cheshi and other Western Region countries several times, and beat them very badly. Surrender.

Later, Tan Shihuai died, and Helian was also killed by Guo Peng, Xianbei civil strife, and then the Guo Wei regime rose to the Central Plains, and after taking Hebei, he personally led an army to attack the grasslands to slaughter Xianbei people, killing countless famous Xianbei commanders, which was a heavy blow The power of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people from the east to the west were all terrified and disturbed by this, not knowing whether to flee or stay, and whether the Wei army would come after them.

At this time, Wusun, Che Shi and other countries discovered the decline of Xianbei.

Although they don't know the reason, it doesn't prevent them from connecting secretly and joining forces to fight back.

In the end, the countries of the Western Regions in the northern part of the mountain united to fight back and drove out the remaining Xianbei forces. The Xianbei people were panicked and did not dare to stay for long.

Wusun and Che Shi took advantage of the Guowei regime's counterattack to expel the Xianbei people who enslaved them, but their own strength was also severely damaged by Xianbei, and they were still licking their wounds.

Then the Guo Wei regime realized the unification of the world, and began to re-establish its status as a celestial kingdom to the outside world. No, it returned to the Western Regions.

Chapter 948 .950 Eight fears spanning hundreds of years

The rear of the Che Shi and the front of the Che Shi heard that the Wei envoy was coming, and hurriedly came to see him, and carefully accepted the Wei envoy's announcement.

Knowing that the Wei people were not here to attack them, he was relieved, and then decided to send someone to follow the Wei envoy back to visit Cao Xiu and find out the specific situation.

The army of the emperor of China returned to the Western Regions. Apart from their fear and uneasiness, they also had some hopes.

Although the Eastern Han Dynasty lost its prestige in the later period of its rule in the Western Regions, the influence that that huge empire brought to the countries in the Western Regions has not disappeared from the Western Regions.

The countries in the Western Regions have been influenced by Han culture for hundreds of years, and they have been sinicized for hundreds of years. They are full of fear of Han, and at the same time they have more yearning and respect.

Han rule was far better for them than Xiongnu or Xianbei.

Now, Han's replacement is back, and they take it for granted that Wei is as powerful as Han.

Yes, not right.

Because the Guowei Empire is far stronger than the Eastern Han Empire.

Che Shiren and Shanshan people made the right choice. They sent envoys to Liuzhong City to meet Cao Xiu with some gifts. Cao Xiu received them and conveyed the order of Emperor Wei to them.

Order Che Shi, Shanshan and other countries in the Western Regions to send envoys to Luoyang to meet the emperor and re-establish the status of the vassal state and suzerain state. Duhufu.

Anyone who resists or harbors evil intentions will be severely punished.

Those who are obedient are naturally the vassals of Wei, and they should be protected by the Wei Empire.

Cao Xiu also deliberately told Che Shi and Shanshan's envoys the words of the former Han general Chen Tang.

"Although the Han is gone, the Wei Dynasty and the Han are orthodox, and they are also China. What the Han has done, Wei can do the same. Those who are obedient will be rescued in all difficulties, and those who commit crimes will be punished even if they are far away."

After conveying Guo Peng's basic core ideas to the envoys of the two countries, the envoys of the two countries returned to their respective countries with trepidation, and then organized larger missions to go to Luoyang to meet Wei Tianzi Guo Peng and establish a status.

Not only that, they also took the initiative to send people all the way west along the oasis route to inform the rest of the Western Regions of the news, telling them that the Wei Empire is coming, and everyone is ready.

It's best to pay homage to the boss first, otherwise it's hard to say what will happen once Wei Guo gets angry and raises troops.

The 400 years of influence brought by the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions is not trivial. In a sense, the Wei Empire can open up the situation in the Western Regions so easily.

They have promoted the bravery of the Han Dynasty in this land one after another, and spread the Han culture. Although the Han State is gone, the spirit of the Han culture is still there, and the deterrence that the Han State once brought them is still there.

Han is gone, but its soul is still there.

So when the successors of the Han returned to the Western Regions, they instinctively believed that this was a powerful and irresistible regime, and they could only stand obediently to accept the rule of the Wei Empire and become his vassal state, otherwise, they would welcome Come to his Thunder Strike.

Cao Xiu originally thought that he needed to show his strength, show off his muscles, attack one or two small countries that didn't know what to do to establish prestige, and then establish the Wei Empire's undisputed position in the Western Regions.

In the end, I didn't expect them to be so bachelors, so they took the initiative to post over to become a vassal state.

A little too enthusiastic and too simple, but made Cao Xiu feel uneasy, so he discussed with Cao Ren whether he should be more careful, and Cao Ren also felt that he could be more careful.

Cao Xiu was preparing for the battle in Liuzhong City, and sent people to investigate the movements of Che Shi and Shanshan. The results proved that the two countries were really cowardly.

Not fake.

They quickly sent a delegation represented by the prince of the country to visit Cao Xiu in Liuzhong City, hoping to get Cao Xiu's introduction. Cao Xiu sent people to lead them to Dunhuang to meet Cao Ren, and then went to Luoyang under Cao Ren's guidance.