Guo Jin still hasn't understood Guo Peng's purpose for doing this.

So Guo Peng planned to explain this matter to him clearly.

"It takes a lot of money to fight a war, and during the war, the army must give whatever it wants, otherwise the war will not be won, and it will be a problem, but the problem is again, if you let the army fight in a certain place for too long, it has a base area, and it has a familiar environment, and it is easy to have some kind of entanglement of interests with the local area."

Guo Peng stood up and paced slowly: "Some things are not good to transport from Luoyang to the local area, it is too slow, and local warehousing may not be enough sometimes.

The army goes to buy things, and the people sell things, and after a long time, a chain of interests will be formed, and the local people will gradually rely on this relationship, and the army will also have the opportunity to enrich their own pockets from the military spending, and the people in charge of purchasing will know certain local people.

There will be some kind of connection between them, forming an interest group, the longer the time, the more stable the relationship, they are equivalent to taking root in the place, the further back, the more contacts, this military expenditure is not simply used to fight wars, all aspects of that area, many people, will rely on this military expenditure to survive, at that time, what will happen? ”

Guo Peng walked up to Guo Jin and looked at him.

Guo Jin looked surprised.

"I see...... In this case, this battle will not be over? ”

Guo Peng showed a satisfied look.

"Raise your own self! In the end, the military expenses of the imperial court were not spent, but the results of the battle could not be seen, the more thieves fought, the more critical the battle situation became, and then regretted it, but it was too late, the army was not necessarily obedient, and did not want to come back, and would try to expand the war. ”

"This ...... Really? ”

Guo Jin still couldn't believe it.

"Of course, Ah Jin, after the battle, what do they earn?"

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder: "For us, it's a national disaster, and for those people, it's an opportunity to make a fortune, don't think too perfectly about anyone, if the army goes out to fight for too long, it's not an army, it's a warlord." ”

Guo Jin completely understood everything.

"There is such a thing, if you say this...... Father! Zhang Liao and Le Jin have been leading the army for a long time, especially Zhang Liao, the war in Yangzhou has been intermittent, and it has been more than four years now, will he already have a strange mind? ”

Seeing Guo Jin's vigilant look, Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right, you must always be vigilant, but you don't have to worry for the time being, because as long as the father lives for one day, no one will dare to do this, and no one dares to fool the father, and they can't fool the father."

Guo Jin nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

But Guo Peng's words were not finished.

"Don't be happy yet, Ah Jin, the problem is not for the father, but that not every emperor can know the army like the father, so the father will not hesitate to cause trouble to complete the army rotation and garrison system, so that it will form an iron law, not for the father, but for you and the kings of the future.

For you, the emperors who don't know so much about soldiers, don't be cheated out of the money in your pockets by the army and some officials, and you don't know it, if you are deceived, the money will be spent countless times, things can't be done, and a group of white-eyed wolves will be raised, then it will be over. ”

Guo is well aware of how the situation in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty gradually went to erosion and collapse.

Raising Kou is self-respecting, and you must also have the ability to have self-respect, you can't be heavy, and you still raise Kou, that is pure stupidity, looking for death.

"My father was very thoughtful."

Guo Jin was deeply impressed.

"Don't say this kind of thing, there are things that you can't think of for your father, you can't do everything for you, you always have to face a lot of new problems, and when your father is gone, you will have to rely on yourself."

"Father...... Please don't say this kind of thing to my father, my father will live a long life. ”

"Even if you live a long life, your father will not always be the emperor, people's energy is limited, Ah Jin, your father still has enough energy, but there will always be a day when you don't have enough energy, there will always be a day when you can't cope with the government, and that day may come at any time.

So you have to start dealing with local government affairs now, observe the government affairs of the court by the way, accumulate experience, understand all aspects of this court and this country, you have to know how to be an emperor before you become an emperor, and then you can be an emperor. ”

Guo Peng held Guo Jin's hand: "Everything you do for your father needs you to inherit after all, if you don't inherit well, you can't inherit it, then no matter how good you do for your father, it is meaningless, you understand." ”

"Father...... The son understood. ”

Guo Jin nodded.

"Well, go ahead, go and see your younger brothers and sisters, the eldest brother is like a father, and your father is too busy with government affairs to care for them, so you have to take care of them more instead of your father."

Guo Peng smiled: "You are not only the elder brother, but also their future king, and the future lord of the Guo family, and the burden on your shoulders is very heavy." ”

"My son understands."

Guo Jin also smiled.

At the beginning of November of the third year of Yande, the envoys of the Shanshan State of the Western Regions rushed to Luoyang as quickly as possible ahead of all the countries in the Western Regions.

Guo Peng knew about this matter some time in advance, and according to Cao Ren and Cao Xiu's recitals, Guo Peng also realized to what extent the prestige of the Han Empire replaced by him in the hearts of the Western Regions countries.

Or this is not necessarily prestige, but it can also be said to be a kind of identity, a yearning, and a pursuit.

No one would pursue something that is not beneficial to them for no reason, and this pursuit naturally has a price, and the price paid by the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu in the process of fighting for the Western Regions is not small at all.

But after paying such a big price, Guo was cheaper, and Guo successfully picked peaches and became the one who made the most profits.

Because of the deep cultivation of the two Han Dynasty and four hundred years, the Wei Empire could obtain the submission of these Western Regions countries without using troops to fight.

They will take the initiative to come to worship, come to offer tribute and national letters, and aspire to become vassal states of the Central Plains Empire and keep up with the pace of the development of the Central Plains Empire.

Because they knew that the Central Plains Empire would be unstoppable once it became strong, they also accepted this situation very honestly.

More importantly, the Han culture passed down from the Han Dynasty to a considerable extent has maintained the connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains, so that the exchanges at the government level have been interrupted for a while, but the economic and cultural exchanges have not been interrupted.

They also live in the Han way, wearing silk, cooking food the way they cook, using dishes and chopsticks, and even trying to read and write Chinese characters and learn Han culture so that they can communicate with China.

The export and spread of this high-level culture laid a solid foundation for the Wei Empire to return to the Western Regions, and spared the most severe test for Guo Peng's complete control of the Western Regions.

The night after figuring this out, Guo walked out of the Qinzheng Hall with a glass of wine, looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky, and raised the wine glass in his hand.

Respect for those who came before us.

Respect for those martyrs who are not afraid of sacrifice for the Central Plains Empire to gain a foothold in the Western Regions.

Zhang Qian, Geng Gong, Ban Chao, Ban Yong.

There are also countless people with little reputation, either with a higher status, who are official envoys, or who have a lower status, just an ordinary Li Shu who has been relocated to the Western Regions with the trend of the times.

Because of the 400 years of dedication of this group of people, there is a grand occasion when the Central Plains Empire returns to the Western Regions and the countries of the Western Regions come to the court one after another.

This glass of wine, toast you.

On behalf of all the people of the Wei Empire, Guo Mou, the Emperor of the Wei Empire, spilled a glass of wine on this land that had never changed color.

Time has passed, and the bright moon of the year has changed to a group of people, but the people of that year are no different from the current Guo someone's ambition for the Western Regions.

I'll take over your unfinished business.

Don't worry.

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