Regarding the existence of such a person, Cao Xiu naturally felt that the majesty of Wei was challenged.

So he asked Ma Yuan, who was helping around him and in charge of the entire Linzi camp in the Western Regions, to instigate the compromise faction in Yanqi and launch a proxy war under a false pretext.

With Wei State behind, the original king of Yanqi State was defeated and killed.

Then Cao Xiu held the festival and conferred the winner as the new king. The new king abolished all policies that were unfavorable to the business and travel of Wei, and promoted cooperation with Wei in all aspects.

The other countries such as Qiemo and Weixu have also experienced such trends, and they were all motivated by Ma Yuan to unite the vested interest classes within it to subvert the opposition one by one and establish a government closer to the Wei Empire.

Of course, its national policies turned on a large scale, and they moved closer to the Wei Empire in an all-round way, becoming the de facto economic colony of the Wei Empire.

The country's economy is controlled by the State of Wei, and its domestic senior management can also enjoy generous profits of selling the country, which is actually a wonderful thing to some shameless people.

If someone objected to him, he would immediately drive the man to the city and hand it over to Cao Xiufa.

As a result, over the years, the countries in the Western Regions no longer had any opposition, and all of them became economic colonies or semi-colonies of the Wei State.

The more developed and convenient the transportation is, the more people in the Wei State, the more serious it will be to become an economic colony.

Today, in the eighth year of Yande, with the completion of the two major Western Regions main roads of the Wei Empire, Shanbei Road and Shannan Road were fully accessible. Wherever the road could reach was already highly dependent on the political and economic aspects of the Wei State.

Under such circumstances, the Western Regions countries had actually lost their ability to resist the Wei State, and puppet governments that were completely controlled appeared, from economic to political to military.

During the past four or five years, the Wei Empire had not deployed many troops, but it had a strong influence on most countries in the Western Regions.

The remaining few countries with relatively strong resistance, such as Wusun and Kucha, are not within the scope of Guo's concerns.

It would be better to win it directly. If you can't take it down, you can't fight it, and they can't resist it.

The 60,000 Northwest Corps, plus 20,000 guard cavalry, totaling 80,000 cavalry. If such a powerful force cannot defeat these Western Region countries, Cao Ren will have been in vain in the past few years, and he will be severely punished or even beaten to the end.

The Northwest Corps had sufficient food and strong generals. Although the Southern Central War has not yet ended and it will take some time to finish it, it will no longer affect the overall situation.

Yizhou is enough to provide sufficient military supplies to the Southern Central Investigation Army, and the Southern Central Investigation Army is not short of supplies.

After more than four years of development, the four counties of Hexi and Guanzhong areas have long been different from the past.

Guo Peng has increased immigration to the four Hexi counties for several consecutive years. The population of the four Hexi counties has reached 800,000 by the beginning of the eighth year of Yande. The construction situation is completely different from the past. It can provide some military supplies, and the remaining part is provided by Yongzhou.

The two states jointly support the Northwest Corps' military operations, and the Northwest Corps can be said to have no worries.

What is lacking is the military route and the emperor's orders.

Now that the military route is already in place, it is only the emperor's order.

So after the military meeting of the Staff Station ended, Guo Peng made up his mind to start a war, and the next step was to get the excuse of war.

It is not difficult to find excuses for war. As the saying goes, there is no reason to be a crime. Just find an excuse for disappearance and start a war. Once a war starts, it is easy to expand.

The melon is just ripe.

On the sixth day of the fifth day of the eighth year of Yande, Guo Peng called Guo Jin and asked Guo Jin to set out to Liangzhou to find Cao Ren, tell Cao Ren about the specific situation, and asked Cao Ren to secretly prepare an excuse to start a war, and then stay there and follow Cao Ren to complete the entire war.

"When you go to Liangzhou, pay attention to Dunhuang County and Zhangye County, Dunhuang County Magistrate Zhuge Liang and Zhangye County Magistrate Sima Yi. These two people were released from the cabinet and tried outside for their father. They were just county magistrates, but now they have become county magistrates."

Before leaving, Guo Peng told Guo Jin to pay attention to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

"My father cares about these two people very much?"

"Well, they were released from the cabinet. I care more about their development. I still have great expectations for them. To be precise, these two people were released for your experience. Both of them are still young now, but with a little experience, the future is immeasurable."

Guo Jin suddenly became interested.

"Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi... My son understands, and he will go and see how they govern the place."

"Well, I just happened to see the development of Zhangye County and Dunhuang County. Both counties started to build when they were poor and deserted. They were each adjacent to each other. They were also the second local county magistrates. Let's see who better manage the local area."

"Son understand."

Guo Jin nodded.

A few days later, Guo Jin took his core team around him to step down as the county magistrate, handed over the county affairs to the next county magistrate team, and then embarked on the journey.

The formal military edict needs to be released after the war starts. Guo Jin passed the message in the past, and the mission was completed when he passed it to his mission. Next, he saw how the people from the Northwest Corps and the Western Regions Protectorate operated this asymmetric battle.

I don’t know if this group of people realizes that they are engaged in an asymmetric war…

After years of careful governance of Guanzhong and the four counties in Hexi, they have basically returned to the state of the Han Dynasty. Whether it is the number of household registrations, land reclamation or economic data, they have almost recovered, so the accumulation of treasury has begun to increase.

Guo Peng cut the burden on farmers bit by bit, but it did not cut it in one go. Under the current state, the amount of taxes farmers have to pay is still quite large, so the Yongzhou treasury is very abundant.

After arriving in Yongzhou, Guo Jin entered Chang'an City and took Guo Peng's emperor's order to ask Chen Gong, the governor of Yongzhou, to inspect the important granaries and arsenals of Yongzhou.

Chen Gong did not expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would suddenly come to Chang'an City.

In panic, I felt a sense of joy, and I felt that I had finally had the opportunity to contact the crown prince, which would definitely be beneficial to the future.

Since the previous anti-corruption campaign, Chen Gong has felt that it is unlikely that he will return to the central government, but now it seems that it is really not great.

But this is not without benefits. For example, he survived the previous Luoyang catastrophe and did not get any impact on this matter. He was still the governor of Yongzhou.

Compared to other people who lost their official positions, lost their lives and lost their family, they were undoubtedly extremely lucky.

Let’s see what the people who used to share power with the emperor in the central government, such as Cheng Yu and Tian Feng, have become now?
Chapter completed!