Guo Jun's sphere of influence is about as big as Yangzhou.

With years of expansion, he ruled over six million indigenous people and about seven hundred thousand Wei people, and had a standing army of about 40,000.

Not only that, he also established a system while exploring.

A set of evil systems that facilitate the minority to become a ruling group and rule the majority.

First, let the Wei people become first-class citizens with various privileges, such as the right to education, the right to examination, and economic benefits.

Therefore, the Wei people had the strongest centripetal force and loyalty to him, and they were closely united around him, and his main officials and army came from this.

Secondly, the indigenous people who took the initiative to surrender and cooperate in the early days became second-class citizens of Western Shu Kingdom.

This part of the indigenous people included Zhunian and Zheluo countries in the countries that were in contact with Guo Jun in the early days, and the original powerful people.

When Guo Jun destroyed the country of Zheluo and Zhunian, they took the initiative to surrender, led the way, and even fought back, causing the collapse of their mother country.

Because of their cooperation, Guo Jun successfully annexed their motherland, thus gaining such a status.

In addition to the Wei people, they were the noblest class and they also had a series of privileges.

For example, middle and low-level officials can join the ruling class, children can join the army, enjoy the same treatment as those of Wei soldiers, and even intermarry with the Wei people, and can also exploit and oppress the lower levels with the Wei people.

It can be said that they are the most welcome and willing to accept the rule of the Wei people. They have worked hard for Guo Jun's rule and the Western Shu regime.

Next were the local natives who surrendered one after another during the subsequent annexation war and did not take the initiative to confront each other.

After the defeat of the resisters, these people saw the strength of the Wei army. They were afraid and dared not fight, so they took the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender, which was a credit.

However, because the surrender was relatively late and the craze for second-class citizens to lead the way, they could only surrender to third-class citizens.

This group of people has the largest number and as third-class citizens, they also have certain personal rights.

They are basically farmers, who bear taxes and important corvee labor. They can also go on expedition as servants and auxiliary troops of the Wei army, make certain contributions and enjoy certain rights.

However, they cannot intermarry with first- and second-class citizens, receive education, and cannot become officials. They have no way to rise and can only produce, work, and be tool people for life.

Nevertheless, their status is still higher than the level below.

The rest is basically the untouchables.

They resisted in Guo Jun's war of conquest, fought hard and did not surrender, causing a certain degree of damage to the Wei army, so there was no possibility of being forgiven.

After the failure of resistance, this group of people, their descendants and followers were all beaten to untouchables and became the lowest group.

These people are deprived of all their personal rights, live like pigs and dogs, work hard, be cruelly exploited and oppressed, confused, and do not know where their tomorrow is.

It is exactly the same as the ordinary farmers under the rule of the Eastern Han Empire forty years ago.

However, even among this group of people, Guo Jun artificially divided them into levels according to the intensity of resistance, and divided them into three levels among the fourth-class untouchables.

Different levels of labor responsibilities are different.

A relatively high level can engage in some more relaxed tasks, such as serving higher levels, entering powerful and wealthy homes to do housekeeping, etc.

The inferior ones are doing dirty, tiring, hard and hard work everywhere, mining, coolies, etc. They are the main labor force.

In order to further supervise and exploit them, Guo Jun also specially selected personnel from the first two levels of the untouchables to supervise and manage them. If there are any problems, they will also be pushed into the lowest level of inferior people.

This set of rules is quite cunning, cruel, despicable and dirty.

But I have to say that this is very effective.

The Wei people were very small. If they were not included in the locals to assist in the rule, it might be possible that the regime would be overthrown at any time.

In order not to unite and carry out riots to affect the stability of Western Shu Kingdom, Guo Jun established such a ruling order through exploration.

By learning about Guo Peng's method of fighting against the surrendered people, ensuring that the ruling status of the Wei people was unshakable. Guo Jun thought for a long time, observed the people's sentiments personally, and even referred to the original lifestyle of these people to set this ruling order.

Guo Jun established a school for 700,000 Wei people, absorbed all people of the right age to enter the school to study, and also accepted the children of second-class citizens to enter the school and study with the Wei people.

Let them speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, wear Hanfu, intermarry, eat the same food, use the same tableware, and fully Chinese living habits.

A series of privileged treatments made them feel arrogant and soon became spiritual Wei people, instead assisting Guo Jun's ruling group, helping them rule and oppressing the indigenous people.

This not only reduced the ruling cost that Guo Jun had to pay, but also increased his ruling benefits.

In order to eliminate the possible resistance of the indigenous people, once a riot occurs somewhere, troops will be sent to suppress it immediately.

Then kill the main organizers, and all the remaining participants were loaded and sold to Wei for digestion.

Not only can the conflict be alleviated, but it can also make money - the number of labor force needed by the Wei Empire is really large.

After the ruling order was settled, Guo Jun also wrote a letter to ask his brother and father what loopholes there were in his rules.

After reading it, Guo Jin was amazed and believed that in this way, the stability and expansion of Western Shu Kingdom would be relatively easy, and the status of the Wei people would be well guaranteed.

Through contact and learning of the mother country, we ensure the advantages of first- and second-class citizens in terms of force and intelligence, cut off the possibility of lower classes to be promoted through education, seal off the educational channels, adopt the strategies of fooling the people and weak the people, and turn them into simple tools of production.

In this way, layer by layer, if you want to do something, you can only target the previous layer, but not the top rulers because they cannot touch it.

Guo Jin took Guo Jun's letter to Guo Peng, and Guo Peng was a little surprised after reading it.

He did not specifically teach Guo Jun this method of rule. It seems that this is the art of rule that Guo Jun himself spontaneously understands.

Ruling is also an art. Some people master it well, while others do not master it well.

It is obvious that at least Mr. Guo's son has understood the effective way of ruling the majority by the minority. Before the sun never sets, the empire collapsed, injected the Chinese gene into the local area. After hundreds of years, this place has been deeply imprinted with the Chinese mark.

Guo Jun's method is worth learning from, so Guo Peng asked Guo Jin to write a letter to Guo Qiong, who was struggling to explore at the time, to inform him of the art of ruling and intend to let him learn this kind of art as well.

Guo Jin was very touched by this.

"My father asked my younger brothers to go out to seal the country and establish a foundation. I am really worried that Wei will have problems with the former Han Dynasty, so that the people will have no way to survive, so that they can take a boat to sea to survive?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"Of course, maybe it's certain."

Guo Jin was a little unhappy.

"Did my father think it was a mistake to hand Wei over to his son?"

"It's the same to anyone's hands, and it's better to give it to you. Ah Jin, this is not something that manpower can change. Doing what you can do and passing on power to the next generation is enough."

Guo Peng's face was calm and there was no emotional fluctuation.

"All the father prepared for Wei State, his son was trying his best to consolidate and maintain it. His father did not allow powerful forces to appear in the area. His son tried to suppress it and never tolerate it. His father hated corruption, and his son tried to punish corruption and never showed mercy. Only then did the Wei State have its current prosperity.

Why can my father say such despairing words when he saw the prosperous times? This is the foundation you established by your father. The Wei Kingdom you founded. Don’t you want the foundation of Wei Kingdom to be passed on forever forever? Father, my son doesn’t understand.”

Guo Jin asked his father loudly and expressed his dissatisfaction.

Guo Peng sighed.

"Where is a country of all ages? Emperor, the last country of all ages has been destroyed in two lifetimes. Do you want the second generation of Wei to die in two lifetimes?"

Guo Peng asked Guo Jin back with Guo Jin's own question, and Guo Jin was speechless.

"Will the State of Wei be destroyed by his son doing his best?"

"You do your best, Chengzhi does your best, Chengzhi's son does your best, where is Chengzhi's grandson? Where is the grandson? I, the Emperor of Wei, will always be wise and powerful for generations?"

Guo Peng shook his head and said, "Emperor, if you go this road, don't think about the future. Do what you should do well and send out what you should give out. My only hope is that the next time the peach blossoms bloom in February in Chang'an City will be there."

Next time when the peach blossoms bloom in February in Chang'an City?

Guo Jin didn't understand what Guo Peng meant. He only knew when the February peach blossoms in Chang'an City would bloom?

But after he went back, he thought carefully for a while, and then found Guo Heng, discussed with him for a while, and then issued an order to send Guo Heng away and to his Western Qin State.

The other Guo family members did not have much risk in establishing the country, but Guo Heng had a considerable risk in establishing the Western Qin State.

Guo Jin took him to see the map and pointed out the behemoth gradually taking shape in Central Asia.

"This is the Persian state. The Absassin has been destroyed and the last monarch has been dead. A general took advantage of the troubled times to kill the last monarch of the Absinian state and replace it. The general situation has been established in Persia. Judging from its power, it is no less than that of the Absinian state.

A few years ago, I sent people to Persia to contact it and establish exchanges with Persia. Persia promised to trade with me. Over the years, some merchants have come to the Western Regions to resume trade. When you go out to seal the country, you should be careful and try not to have any conflicts with Persia."

Guo Heng looked at the map and frowned.

"Brother, if I go out to seal the country, will the Persian Congress think we want to attack them in two ways?"

Guo Jin shook his head.

"You go west and try not to go south. Just go west. I have sent someone to investigate the local area. There are vast plains for you to develop. There will be no conflicts with Persia in a short period of time. Persia itself still has many problems to be solved.

When the country was first established, I knew how much of the things we had to deal with. They dared not be enemies of me rashly, otherwise I would definitely ask him to suffer a little. You can go there and leave the rest to me and I will deal with it. You don’t have to worry.”

Guo Heng didn't say anything else, nodded silently and agreed, and then began to prepare to go out to seal the country.

Guo Peng met Guo Heng before he left, and didn't say much, but just told him to pay attention to his health. If there is any war, don't be greedy for merit and advance recklessly, and don't be discouraged if there is a failure.

Guo Heng's disappointed expression seemed to have not heard the words he wanted to hear from Guo Peng's mouth, but Guo Peng didn't say much.

Guo Peng no longer wants to say anything more.

As time passes slowly, there is not completely no good thing. Some people leave, and some people are born in this world.

In the first month of the ninth year of Xingyuan, Guo Chengzhi's eldest son was born.

Guo Peng was very happy. He went to visit his great-grandson in person, gave him the piece of jade he wore most often, and gave him a nickname [Little Tiger], hoping that he could grow up like a little tiger with mighty and strong power.

The arrival of a new life made Guo Peng and Cao Lan very happy. They went to Guo Chengzhi's palace to visit their great-grandson every few days, and were overjoyed.
To be continued...