The army wants to fight against the Western Regions?

Going to fight?

Zhuge Liang was stunned.

It took a while to react.

"Are you right away?"

"It won't be long right now."

Guo Jin gave an accurate reply: "Once the Western Regions are pacified, Dunhuang County will become the mainland, and there will be no more people in the Western Regions to do business. More of our people go out and go further west of the Western Regions to do business with merchants from the Kushan Kingdom, the Anxu Kingdom and even the Great Qin Kingdom.

The transaction volume of small countries in the Western Regions is not in the eyes of His Majesty. The money earned by small countries in the Western Regions every year from the Silk Trade Road is much higher than what they paid. Pacifying the Western Regions will only make our business bigger and we will make higher profits. However, the situation in Dunhuang County will be difficult to maintain."

Zhuge Liang unconsciously pursed his lips.

Guo Jin continued: "In this way, the current restaurants and hotels in Dunhuang County cannot exist. There will be a considerable number of them without business and cannot continue to do it."

Zhuge Liang frowned.

"Your Highness, Dunhuang County..."

"For the sake of the entire Wei Kingdom, a Dunhuang county is not in the eyes of my father. My father is the emperor, focusing on the whole country and the future. It is impossible and should not focus on one county and one county, which is unfair to other people."

Zhuge Liang sighed slightly.

"But this is too cruel for Dunhuang County."

"There is no law on both sides of the world, and the two evils are the least of the right."

Guo Jin refuted Zhuge Liang's hesitation without hesitation: "The plan to pacify the Western Regions was formulated very early, but because the road was not repaired and the army was unable to move, it has been slow to this day.

Otherwise, according to Your Majesty’s idea, the small countries in the Western Regions will not be able to have their current glory. Their glory is unreasonable and the wealthy is unruly, and they will definitely not last long."

Guo Jin's determination is exactly the same as Guo Peng. Zhuge Liang can only sigh and has no other way.

What can he do if he is a small county magistrate in the face of national policies?

"In fact, it is not just Dunhuang County that has to pay losses, but the entire Liangzhou will face losses, including Yizhou and Guanzhong. Because the powerful and powerful Western Regions who are willing to buy goods in large quantities will be destroyed. These people are gone, and those orders are gone."

Guo Jin took a deep breath: "But these losses are not in my father's eyes. My father focused on a more distant future, took over the Western Regions, controlled the Western Regions, and promoted the further westward advance of the Silk Trade Road, which is a good thing for most people.

The bad influence is temporary, but the good influence is long-lasting. Ordinary people may only focus on the present, but Kong Ming, you are the person your father likes, you should know how many benefits there will be in the long run."

Of course, Zhuge Liang would not be unable to see how much benefit he had in taking over the Western Regions, but Dunhuang County has developed to this day, and how could he bear it if he had been abolished?

Guo Jin naturally understood Zhuge Liang's ambivalence, so he comforted Zhuge Liang.

"Kongming, I'll explain this to you clearly. Our goods go out from us, through small countries in the Western Regions, and then to the real buyer Kushan and the Sakura Kingdoms, the prices are actually different, because the Western Regions all have taxes.

This tariff was used by His Majesty to appease the countries in the Western Regions by obeying the orders. It is a benefit that must be transferred. Of course, it is okay not to give these benefits to the countries in the Western Regions, but the countries in the Western Regions will secretly make trouble on the trade route. For me, it is not enough to make ends meet.

Because of these tariffs, the price of goods will rise, and the price sold to the Kushans and the Shrines will increase, but the part of this increase is not what we get.

What gets this part is the countries in the Western Regions. This part of money is obtained by the countries in the Western Regions. It means that they don’t have to do anything. As long as they lie there and exist there, they can collect money."

What Guo Jin said was easy to understand, and Zhuge Liang could understand it quickly.

This is indeed very dissatisfied. It feels like the lifeline is being held by others in the hands, and there is also a strong sense of dissatisfaction, unwillingness, unhappiness, and quite angry.

The Silk Road I have worked hard to build, but you are lying here as a middleman, making money while lying, spending money while lying. Is there such a good thing in the world?

Not to mention that there are not risks on this journey.

Therefore, maintaining the security of the trade route is also one of the responsibilities of the Western Regions Protectorate. If any problem occurs, it is difficult for the Wei State to pursue the matter.

This kind of thing has happened. Over the past few years, some caravans have been very lucky and have encountered unknown robbers on the way. They have no idea how to hold them accountable after the incident.

Instead of being controlled by others by the root of the trade route, it is better to solve this problem once and for all, recover all the costs that need to be spent, and swallow up the countries in the Western Regions in one breath, and all the problems will be solved.

This is indeed a good thing for the Wei State and the merchants who come and go.

That is not a good thing for some people who make money from this business.

But their interests are destined to be unprotected and deprived.

Zhuge Liang soon knew that this matter could not be restored.

So he began to think about how to compensate the locals in Dunhuang County who had lost their business source.

"I think it's hard to compensate?"

Guo Jin saw Zhuge Liang's embarrassment.

"Of course, if you accidentally operate it at this time, the public will be resentful, and it will be difficult to end."

Zhuge Liang nodded.

"Well, that's true."

Guo Jin agreed with Zhuge Liang's view and thought for a while, Guo Jin suddenly had a bold idea.

"Kong Ming, when the war is over, are you willing to go to the Western Regions to be an official for a while?"

"Um?"

Zhuge Liang felt strange and involuntarily had questions.

Go to the Western Regions to be an official?

How could the prince have such an idea?

Afterwards, after Guo Peng told Zhuge Liang what he thought of, Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought.

"Because the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, my father planned to divide the Western Regions into two routes for governance after conquering the Western Regions. Shannan and Shanbei divided the two Protectorate Administrations. The Annan Protectorate Administration in Shannan and Shanbei were the Annan Protectorate Administration, and the Beiting Protectorate Administration in Shanbei, which commanded half of the Western Regions respectively, with a level of two thousand stones."

Guo Jin revealed Guo Peng's idea of ​​governing the Western Regions after the war.

This deepened Zhuge Liang's thinking.

After seeing Guo Jin off, he was still thinking. After thinking for several days, he finally realized that this was the best one and would most likely not cause turmoil in Dunhuang County.

Business can't be done in Dunhuang County, but it's not something that can't be done elsewhere.

The prince is right. If the tree is moved to death, people will live. Wherever they cannot survive, they must be moved away. Even if they go to other places, they may be able to bring new vitality.

As long as the prestige you have accumulated is still there, everything is possible.

Moreover, after the war, the Western Regions must have increased their population. They will first seize a position and take the lead, and they will be the first to enjoy the dividends of development.

After Guo Jin left Dunhuang County, he arrived at Cao Ren’s station in Dunhuang County, Yumen Pass.

Cao Ren had been guarding Yumen Pass for several years. While building roads and guarding the border, he planned the army's offensive route after the war started. After a few years, the offensive route was about to reappear in Cao Ren's head. Guo Peng finally decided to start the Western Regions.

To be honest, Cao Ren once believed that attacking the Western Regions would become something that could only be encountered in his lifetime.

Finally, in the eighth year of Yande, he received news that the war was about to begin.

According to Guo Peng's order, he sent the news to the Gancheng where Cao Xiu, the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and asked Cao Xiu to arrange a way to provoke the station and give the army an excuse to attack the Western Regions.
Chapter completed!