In the future, the entire administrative plan of the Wei Empire is to govern the Western Regions, Mozhou, Pingzhou, Yunzhou, and the construction of the Grand Canal.

Road construction cannot be stopped.

Since Guo Peng occupied Qingzhou, he has been constantly building roads, building roads, and vowed to connect the entire Wei Empire with official roads to achieve the final large interconnection, thereby expanding and consolidating the influence of the central government.

Canals should also be built in some areas to cope with the coming Little Ice Age.

The grain storage plan must be continuously promoted, and local governments must reserve enough emergency food so that famine will not occur in the northern region during the future Little Ice Age.

For this reason, Jiangnan’s development cannot be left behind.

The scale of grain farming in the warm areas of Jiangnan should continue to expand, and the overflowing population in the northern region should be continuously filled to the south of the Yangtze River, and the population size in the northern region should be continuously reduced and controlled, and migrated to the south of the Yangtze River to overcome difficulties.

At the same time, in the West, we must make every effort to maintain the operation of the Silk Road.

Commercial trade with the Kushan Kingdom, the Abnormal Kingdom, the Kangju Kingdom, and the Roman Empire cannot be cut off and must be maintained forever.

We must also continuously expand the scale of foreign trade and encourage people to go to the Western Regions to do business with these countries in order to obtain enough money to promote domestic construction.

The animal husbandry industry in the northern Mozhou area must be continuously promoted, maintain the Wei Empire's control over the grassland and understanding of the animal husbandry, continuously absorb more people to engage in animal husbandry, and maintain the scale of animal husbandry.

As for the Liaodong region, it is difficult to explore in the cold era, but its geographical location is very important. It can burst out with powerful power in the warm and warm era in the future, and now it can share a part of the population for the north, so it must not be ignored.

The maritime route from Liaodong to the coast of Jiangnan must also be built.

In the future, this maritime route will also play a great role. It will directly overcome the limitations of time and space, link Liaodong and Jiangnan. If necessary, the Wei Empire can directly coordinate and use Jiangnan's food to directly support Liaodong.

At the entire State Council meeting, Guo Peng showed the full map of the empire he sent to carefully draw, and marked his future plans one by one on the map.

The imperial elites looked at this unprecedentedly detailed map and felt a lot of emotion.

There were many marks on the map and many comments were made. Each mark and comment was the conclusion of the emperor's careful thinking.

The emperor really paid a lot for this country. He was really promoting the construction of this country, not just expanding his power and enjoying his glory and status.

Many people did not realize until this moment that the emperor they knew seemed to be different from the emperor in front of them.

Is this emperor a vicious and authoritarian power madman or a well-thought and far-reaching political master?

Maybe neither, or both, but not complete.

But they knew that the roads of the Wei Empire would be on this map in the next few decades, all on the annotations of this map and the emperor's notes.

Based on the present, he planned the development of the empire in the next few decades, and pointed out the way forward for future generations and descendants.

Not only that, Guo Peng also anticipated the external problems of the Little Ice Age that the empire may face in the future.

Guo Peng presupposes that the situation is that Hebei and the Central Plains areas have large-scale grain production cuts, and the imperial warehousing faces serious difficulties and needs to rely on large-scale blood transfusions in Jiangnan, which triggers military threats from the Northwest Plateau, the northern grassland and the northeast tundra.

For example, will the western border, which is full of variables, have a large-scale military friction with the Kushan Empire, the Sakura Empire, and the Roman Empire.

Although the northern grassland area has a lot of control, there are still places that cannot be controlled. Will new nomadic clans be born, and will the Northern Huns who have escaped for a long time make a comeback?

There are also some unconquered areas and barbarian tribes in Liaodong. If they do not conquer them, will the empire's rule in Liaodong in the future?

One by one, all are ideas and concerns about the future.

"Although the achievements we have achieved are unprecedented, we will encounter many unpredictable problems that we have never encountered in the previous dynasty. If we cannot deal with them well, the blood that the soldiers shed in order to expand their territory today will be in vain."

After Guo Peng finished speaking, he sat down in front of the map with a little tiredness, took a breath, and sighed without any worries.

"I can predict many things, but there are also many unpredictable things. But I know that some land cannot be given up. No matter how difficult it is, no matter how much it consumes national food and wages, the northwest, the grassland, and the Liaodong, they cannot be discarded.

Once discarded, the core area of ​​our Wei population will be immediately threatened by military threats. Once violated, the price to be paid for is dozens of times that of the territory of northwest Liaodong.

These territories seem to consume food and money very much, but they can provide important buffers that prevent the enemy from threatening my hinterland and indirectly reduce the losses caused by military conflicts."

Guo Peng pointed to these territories that he had taken one by one: "With these border territories, no enemy can easily attack our Wei hinterland. They must travel through layers of obstacles. If these territories are gone, the places where the population is crowded will be directly threatened.

It seems that every time the former Han Dynasty and the Xianbei of the Xiongnu could plunder a large number of people and food and fodder, the buildings would be destroyed. It would only take three days to destroy, but it would take three years to build. You all imagine whether it would be easier to defend the enemy outside the country's gates or to give up border defense?"

There are naturally standard answers to such questions.

It’s not that people don’t know, but that things have reached that point, and the empire has collapsed to the point where it cannot be done.

Just like the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not know the significance of Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the northern defense line, but since the Zhu Di period, the Ming government had a tendency to abandon the northern defense line established by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Di, the northern defense line of the Ming Empire retreated step by step and gave up step by step, and finally gave up to an unbearable level.

Even the Hetao area has given up.

By the Wanli period of Jiajing, the territory was basically retreating to the Qin Dynasty, which was only a little stronger than the Northern Song Dynasty, at least there was the Great Wall, and the others were really not worthy of praise.

The huge territory built by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di two generations was gradually abandoned because of the lack of proper governance and proper planning.

The officials shouted the slogan of taking a step back and spending less food and pay, and gradually demolished the defense line established by Zhu Yuanzhang, abandoned it, and directly exposed the essence of the mainland population to the attack range of the grassland cavalry.

The result is self-evident.

Not only did they save money, they spent more money, and they directly emptied the national treasury, and the capital of the empire was frequently exposed to the threat of nomadic cavalry. In the later period, they were directly threatened by the Qing Dynasty several times and were on the verge of collapse.

The Ming Dynasty was not without the kind-hearted and ambitious people who wanted to restore the territory of their ancestors and restore Hetao to gain strategic initiative, but not only did they not receive support, they also ended up dead.

Although the treasury expenditure of the Wei Empire was very large and the capital flow was very large, to this day, the treasury income and expenditure of the Wei Empire were basically balanced.

In the eight years since the Yande era name was used, the treasury was able to balance the income and expenditure for three years, and the remaining five years were also a slight deficit but not serious model.

Many new officials were amazed by this, but some old bureaucrats who came from the Han Dynasty knew it well and knew it clearly and did not think it was a miracle.

In the pre-Han period, the huge number of manors spread across the empire territory were destroyed a lot. Although not all, they were also destroyed a lot. The income was directly controlled by Guo Peng, and the treasury would certainly not be short of money.
Chapter completed!