Zhang Jiao's death, for the treasury or caused a great impact, the original treasury, by the local taxes, Liangzhou foreign trade, Yangzhou sea trade, the three most important parts of the three most important parts, Zhang Jiao died, Yangzhou no longer has the strength to prevent large-scale shipping, which makes the treasury another vacancy, Yuan Feng is also helpless, can only continue to increase the expenditure on Liangzhou's foreign trade, to now, Liangzhou's foreign trade, countless cars and horses, mighty.

Such a large-scale business trip naturally attracted the prying eyes of others, such as Kangju, Dawan, Liule, and other slightly stronger countries, and they were also very interested in foreign trade, of course, as a small country under the name of the Western Regions Protectorate, they did not want to plunder the business travel, but hoped to participate in these merchants and conduct foreign trade together.

At that time, the Western Regions Protectorate was set up in Luntai, with a garrison of 2,000 troops, headed by Cao Kuan, the captain of Wusi, and Zhang Yan, the chief of the Western Regions, Cao Kuan was generous, and could treat the soldiers well, and governed the army in the Western Regions for ten years, the military law was very strict, and he was deeply respected by everyone, and Zhang Yan was a rare talent, he was in the Western Regions for many years, proficient in Yanqi, Cheshi, Shule, and the language of the last place, even his staff and subordinates did not know how much the long history knew.

In short, as long as in the Western Regions, no matter which country has an accident, he will first come to find Zhang Yan, he is also a warm hospitality, he can skillfully communicate with visitors, he is not like Wang Fu can only say a word, he is really proficient, the Western Regions have the two of them in charge, but there is little turmoil, before, the minister of Lule killed the Han Dynasty canonized King Lule, set himself up as the king, Prince Lule came to find Zhang Yan.

After Zhang Yan said that he wanted to use force against Liule, he immediately responded to the six countries, formed a coalition of more than 30,000 people, broke through Liule, and made the prince of Liule the king, here, the relationship between the local small country and the Han court is extremely close, they are all canonized by the temple, when the prince inherits the throne, it is also necessary to have a long history present, holding an edict, canonizing him, and when they rushed to meet the Son of Heaven, the temple also adopted the etiquette used by the princes and kings to visit.

And when the Han Dynasty crusaded against Buchen and fought against Qiang, these small countries would also send troops to help.

When the ministers of the countries came to meet Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan was in the study to appreciate some of the paintings and calligraphy he bought today, Zhang Yan was erudite, he only had two hobbies in his life, one was good calligraphy and painting, and the other was good clothes, when Cai Yong created the flying white body, the long history sent six officials to Luoyang, to ask Cai Yong's documents, Cai Yong and he had never known each other, and initially rejected him, but after he repeatedly sent people to ask for a meeting, Cai Yong also reluctantly wrote a letter to him.

The letter is to persuade him, the study is the avenue, calligraphy and painting is just a small ear, to ask him not to miss the state affairs for these small arts, did not think, Zhang Yan received the other party's letter, extremely happy, Cai Yong's letter preservation, as a calligraphy and painting to appreciate, this is his first hobby, the second is good clothes, he has loved to wear some gorgeous clothes since he was a child, and has been criticized for this, but he still doesn't care.

The ministers were taken to the study by the soldiers, and after seeing Zhang Yan, they immediately visited, Zhang Yan was also enthusiastically communicating with them, and the soldiers couldn't understand what they were saying, but looking at Zhang Yan's proud appearance, he guessed in his heart that Zhang Jun was probably going to show them his treasured paintings and calligraphy again, and sure enough, as soon as he thought, Zhang Yan led them to see his collection of paintings and calligraphy.

Although Zhang Yan is not as good as Cao Kuan in terms of status, Cao Kuan concentrates on governing the army, and many important things in the Western Regions still fall into the hands of Zhang Yan, and Zhang Yan has been in the Western Regions for nearly ten years, in order to be able to get close to Zhang Yan and communicate, the ministers of the Western Regions have also spent a lot of effort to study, and every time they go to visit Zhang Yan, they will wear gorgeous clothes, and at the same time spend many years of energy to study calligraphy and painting.

Later, this simply became the latest trend in the culture of the Western Regions at that time, and even a lot of interesting things happened.

It is said that Zheng Xuan used to visit Ma Rong, a Confucian scholar in Xiliang, worshiped him as a teacher, studied economics, studied for three years, and asked Ma Rong about calligraphy and painting, Ma Rong was very angry at the time, he thought that Zheng Xuan was too proud, and after studying the scriptures for three years, he wanted to contact the rest of the miscellaneous things, so he let Zheng Xuan make a pair of calligraphy and painting, and refuted Zheng Xuan's calligraphy and painting for a penny, Zheng Xuanshi was still angry, and he was not convinced.

Kong Rong took him to the city in the county, grabbed a Hu man from the Western Regions wearing gorgeous clothes, asked him to make a pair of calligraphy and painting, and said that there was an honorarium, the Hu man held a pen and ink, wrote on the spot, the beauty of the style, the neatness of the battle, so that Zheng Xuan was dumbfounded, he didn't believe it in his heart, and found a few Hu people in the Western Regions, the results were average, and the calligraphy and painting he made were far beyond what he had made, and he woke up and spent all his energy on the scriptures.

In the end, he became Ma Rong's most proud disciple.

In the study, after visiting the calligraphy and paintings, everyone sat down, and began to discuss, these ministers came to be able to participate in the next foreign trade affairs, and there are many commodities in the Western Regions that can be sold, they said, if they can go with Yizhou merchants, it will definitely be of great benefit to us, and after listening carefully to their descriptions, Zhang Yan thought for a long time, the land of the Western Regions is different from Yizhou.

There are many small countries here, if you want to participate in foreign trade, there must be countries involved, and there are countries that will not respond, and there are contradictions between countries, if you want foreign trade, you have to pass through each other's land, he really doesn't want to see the Western Regions that he has spent a lot of experience to stabilize fall into chaos and turmoil again, but it is not without a solution, now, the temple is stationed in the Western Regions as high as 10,000, led by the captain Cao Kuan.

With such a force, it has been able to quickly quell any chaos, and as for the issue of crossing the border, you can modify the route of Shang Jia Xijin, and let the Han merchant brigade directly hide them and bring them together, so that there is no big problem, but this matter still needs to be discussed with the princes of the temple and listen to the orders of the Son of Heaven.

When the guests left, Zhang Yan also hurriedly played to express the affairs of the Western Regions.

In addition, he also wrote a letter to Zheng Xuan in Liangzhou, as well as the new captain of the infantry battalion of the Northern Army Yuan Shu, Zheng Xuan is responsible for convening the business brigade, and Yuan Shu is because of his meritorious service, moved to the captain of the infantry battalion, and now he is also one of the famous generals in Liangzhou, and he is deeply trusted by Zheng Xuan, responsible for the safety of the business brigade, if he wants to participate in foreign trade in the Western Regions, he must ask for help from the two of them, the two of them, as long as one of them is not allowed, go to the temple, the temple will directly rebuke his play, this point, he is very clear.

Over the years, Yuan Shu has been in the border for six or seven years, after a long period of tempering, but also gradually become a brave and good general, there are Hua Xiong, Guan Yu and other warriors, but also like a tiger wings, these years, Yuan Shu has many military exploits, there has never been any defeat, the people often call Yuan Jiming, Ji Ming, is the world's famous general Duan Cheng, to call it, it can be seen that Yuan Shu's bravery, just this year, Tai Lieutenant Zhang Wen personally on the table, with Yuan Shu as the captain of the Northern Military Academy.