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

With the prestige of the Wei army, the elite military force of 700 people was enough to support this united caravan of 7,000 people.

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

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

Guo Peng personally gave this combined caravan a grand march, wishing them a successful completion of the mission entrusted to them by the Son of Heaven, and then return to their homeland safely.

On August 29 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 went west, and Ma Yuan said that he understood.

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

For example, military and intelligence.

At least within the military radiation range of Liuzhong City, Cao Xiu must have sent people to explore, and tried to contact Cheshi Guo and Shanshan Guo, contact, and get some information, and when the caravan arrived, Cao Ren and Cao Xiu should already have some eyebrows.

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

The westward march of this unprecedented, complex joint caravan would have far-reaching implications for this era.

But at this moment, no one knows all this, and some people even suggest that the emperor is too eager for quick success and wants to open up the Western Regions.

There is a suspicion of labor and money.

The country is still fighting endlessly, and the war in Jiangnan has not yet subsided, and a large amount of food, materials and money must be provided to the army.

Although the financial income of the imperial court is high, but at this time, it is too eager to open up the Western Regions?

It's too much.

They sighed so much.

Guo Peng doesn't care about this statement at all, he just wants to open people's horizons and let the people of Huaxia Shenzhou know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world.

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

Outside of China, there are bigger and bigger worlds worth paying attention to, which is worth caring about, and you can't limit your vision to here, although you can't open up it now, but you always have to know.

When people's horizons are opened, they know where there are many benefits, and they know how to obtain benefits, then they will naturally be guided to open their eyes to the world.

In this era, in this period, there are very few things that Guo can do, but he knows better that if you don't expand for economic gain, it is not real expansion.

Only expansion for the sake of economic interests, when the economic benefits obtained from expansion become an inseparable part of the national interests, the colonial heart of the country is detonated.

The tradition of valuing righteousness over profit and valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce has made the Chinese lack this part of the point, and the colonial heart has not succeeded in lighting up, and it is not enough to rely on the broad vision and eloquence of some emperors themselves.

This land of China cannot provide more resources for more people to live a good life, and if we want more people to live a good life, we must develop externally.

Jiangnan is one thing, isn't it elsewhere?

Let's open up the trade routes.

Let people be blushing for the gold and silver that are rolling in.

There are enough financial benefits to spur people who once rested on their laurels to embark on the path of adventure.

At the end of the road of discovery, there is no end to the treasures.

Go explore.

Guo hopes that even after he dies, the people of this country will not stop exploring.

At this moment, as the outpost of the explorers, the army led by Cao Xiu has gained a firm foothold in Liuzhong City, and has begun to try to carry out military cantonments, using part of the land that has been developed in Liuzhong City for redevelopment, and cultivating and developing together with the residents of Liuzhong City.

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

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 about the end of the Han Empire and the birth of the Wei Empire.

When Guo Peng blocked the border and only opened the Hanyang market to do business with merchants from the Western Regions, he paid great attention to 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 of Hexi to Liuzhongcheng, I knew more than a year ago that the Wei Empire had replaced the Han Empire and established a state in Luoyang.

As for what the countries of the Western Regions thought of this matter, the people of Liuzhong City didn't know, and Ma Ai didn't know either, but since then, the countries of the Western Regions have not come to attack Liuzhong City so often.

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

It was feared that the Wei Empire would make a comeback in place of the Han Empire, which had withdrawn earlier.

Sure enough, now the Wei Empire, the replacement of the Han Empire, has returned, and the Northern Xiongnu, who were once able to balance the Han Empire, have moved west and don't know where they went.

Except for Wusun, which was divided into two parts by the Han Empire, the Great Kunmi and the Little Kunmi, was barely considered a big country, there was no large-scale power in the entire Western Regions.

Once the Wei Empire makes a comeback and shows its great strength, then the Western Regions will inevitably become vassal states of the Wei Empire since ancient times.

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, and the big Kunmi and the small Kunmi still have internal contradictions and disunity, so how can they deal with the Wei Empire?

The other small countries in the Western Regions will have the power to fight a war unless they all join forces, otherwise there is no power to mention a war at all.

Even if the Wei Empire now scattered its troops in the four counties of Hexi for post-war sorting, Cao Xiu's 1,000 elite cavalry would not be something they could handle at will.

Back then, Ban Chao was able to gallop in the Western Regions with thirty-six people, but now Cao Xiu can't eat it with a thousand elites?

Joke!

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

And so it is.

When Cao Xiu's envoy went to Shanshan with the banner of Wei and a hundred cavalry, King Shanshan was shocked and personally left the royal capital to meet him.

Seeing the sophisticated equipment and fierce momentum of the Wei cavalry, King Shanshan was apprehensive, and was extremely humble in the face of the Wei envoy, and immediately sent people to follow the Wei envoy to Liuzhong City to meet Cao Xiu.

Another group of envoys came to the Cheshi and went to see the king of the kingdom after the Cheshi.

The Cheshi Kingdom was divided in the process of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu fighting for the Western Regions, and at most was divided into six small tribes, hostile to each other, either following the Han Dynasty or following the Xiongnu.

The rear kingdom of the Cheshi is large in scale and powerful, and it can suppress the former kingdom of the Cheshi, and the two parts follow the Han Dynasty together.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty withdrew from the Western Regions in civil strife, Xianbei Tanshihuai was strong, divided into several Xianbei departments, and the Western Xianbei not only replaced the position of the Xiongnu, but also attacked Wusun, Cheshi and other Western Regions countries several times, beating them very badly, and once made them surrender.

Later, Tan Shihuai died, and Lian was also killed by Guo Peng, Xianbei civil strife, and then Guo Wei's regime rose in the Central Plains, after obtaining Hebei, he personally led a large army to attack the grassland to slaughter the Xianbei people, killing countless Xianbei famous marshals, and dealt a heavy blow to the power of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people from east to west did not feel frightened by this, not knowing whether to flee or stay, and not knowing whether the Wei army would chase and kill.

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

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

In the end, the countries of the Western Regions in Shanbei united to fight back together, expelling the remnants of the Xianbei forces, and the Xianbei people were panicked, did not dare to stay for a long time, and had no intention of fighting, and were forced to fully escape into Mobei, and did not go south for a long time.

Wusun and Cheshi took advantage of the counterattack of the Guo Wei regime to expel the Xianbei people who enslaved them, but their own strength was also hit hard by Xianbei, and they were still licking their wounds.

Then the Guo Wei regime achieved the unification of the world and began to re-establish its status as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire to the outside world.