Due to the increase in the number of people joining the joint caravan, Guo Peng dispatched four teams of 200 people from the guards to join the joint caravan, expanding his military strength to a scale of 700 people.

With the reputation of the Wei army, the elite military strength of 700 people was enough to support this joint caravan of 700 people.

Whether it is internal or external troubles, this military force is enough to stabilize the situation.

After all preparations were completed, the time had arrived at the end of August in the third year of Yande.

Guo Peng personally promoted this joint caravan, wishing them a successful completion of the mission entrusted to them by the emperor and then safely return to their homeland.

On August 29, the third year of Yande, Guo Peng bid farewell to Ma Yuan in Luoyang and bid farewell to the United Caravan.

Before leaving, Guo Peng held Ma Yuan's hand and told him not to forget to record the complete road map when heading west. Ma Yuan expressed his understanding.

Guo Peng gave Ma Yuan another warrant, asking him to show him when he went to Dunhuang and Liuzhongcheng, and they would give Ma Yuan some help appropriately.

For example, military and intelligence.

At least within the military radiation range of Liuzhongcheng, Cao Xiu must have sent people to explore and try to contact Che Shiguo and Shanshan Kingdom, contact, inquire about some information, and wait until the caravan arrives, Cao Ren and Cao Xiu should have some insight.

Seeing this huge semi-official team slowly embarking on the journey, Guo Peng sincerely hopes that they will successfully fulfill their expectations, open up the trade route as soon as possible, and return to the Central Plains.

This unprecedented and complex joint caravan tour to the west will have a profound impact on this era.

But at this moment, no one knew all of this, and some even suggested that the emperor was too eager for quick success and instant benefits to open up the Western Regions.

It is suspected of being a waste of money.

The country is still fighting endlessly, and the war in Jiangnan has not yet subsided. A large amount of food, materials and money must be provided to the army.

The court's finances are still difficult, and various projects are launched one after another, spending money like flowing water. Although the court's fiscal revenue is high, isn't it too urgent to rush to explore the Western Regions at this time?

Too much is too little.

They sighed so much.

Guo Peng didn't care about this statement at all. He just wanted to open people's horizons and let people in China know that there is heaven beyond the sky and there is someone beyond the sky.

This world is really too big. The land of China under their feet is just a part of it.

Beyond China, there is a larger and larger world worth paying attention to and care about. We cannot limit our horizons here. Although we cannot explore it now, we must always know.

When a person's vision is opened, he knows where there are so many benefits and how to obtain them, he will naturally be guided to see the world.

In this era, during this period, Guo was very few things, but he knew better that not expanding for economic benefits would not be real expansion.

Only when the economic benefits obtained by expansion become an inseparable part of national interests, the country's colonial spirit is ignited.

The tradition of valuing righteousness over profit and valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce made the Chinese lack this part of the highlights. The colonial spirit was not successfully illuminated, and it was not enough to rely solely on the broad vision and grand strategy of some emperors themselves.

This land of China cannot provide more resources to allow more people to live a good life. If more people want to live a good life, they must be developed and developed from the outside world.

Jiangnan is one aspect, but isn’t it in other places?

Open up the trade route.

Let people be jealous of the rolling gold and silver.

Enough economic benefits are enough to stimulate the once self-confidenced people to embark on the road of adventure.

At the end of the road to exploration is endless treasures.

Go and explore.

Mr. Guo hopes that even after he dies, people in this country will not stop exploring.

At this moment, as the outpost of the explorer, the army led by Cao Xiu had already gained a foothold in Liuzhongcheng and began to try to conduct military camps, using part of the land that has been opened up in Liuzhongcheng for redevelopment, and farming and development with the residents of Liuzhongcheng.

Then, Cao Xiu sent people to the direction of Cheshi Kingdom and Shanshan Kingdom, and with the help of people who are more familiar with these two countries in Liuzhong City, they went to contact us.

Tell them that the Han Empire is gone, but the Wei Empire inherited everything from the Han Empire and is back.

Surprise?

According to what Cao Xiu knew, most of the countries in the Western Regions should have known about the end of the Han Empire and the birth of the Wei Empire.

When Guo Peng blocked the border and opened only the Hanyang market to do business with the merchants in the Western Regions, he paid great attention to telling the fall of the Han Empire and the birth of the Wei Empire.

So along the way, from the four counties of Hexi to Liuzhongcheng, I knew more than a year ago that the Wei Empire replaced the Han Empire and established a country in Luoyang.

As for how the countries in the Western Regions view this matter, the people in Liuzhongcheng do not know, nor do Ma Ai knows it, but since then, the countries in the Western Regions have not come to attack Liuzhongcheng so many times.

It's probably a kind of fear.

I was worried that the Wei Empire would make a comeback instead of the Han Empire that had withdrawn earlier.

As expected, the Wei Empire, the replacement of the Han Empire, has returned, and the Northern Xiongnu, who once could check and balance the Han Empire, have moved westward and I don’t know where they have gone.

Except for Wusun, which was divided into two parts by the Han Empire, which was barely considered a big country, there was no big country with a large scale.

Once the Wei Empire makes a comeback and shows its strong strength, the countries in the Western Regions will inevitably become vassal states of the Wei Empire since ancient times.

He lost his freedom again and became a vassal of the Central Plains Empire and was controlled by the Central Plains Empire.

The Wusun is unable to fight against the Wei Empire now. Even if there are internal conflicts and inconsistent, how can we deal with the Wei Empire?

Unless all other small countries in the Western Regions unite, they will have the power of a battle, otherwise they will not mention the power of a battle at all.

Even if the Wei Empire now spread its troops in the four counties of Hexi for post-war sorting, Cao Xiu's 1,000 elite cavalry were not something they could handle at will.

Back then, Ban Chao was able to gallop across the Western Regions with 36 people, but now Cao Xiu is unable to survive with a thousand elites?

joke!

Cao Xiu, who has read relevant historical materials, is very confident about this.

The same is true.

When Cao Xiu's envoy went to Shanshan with the flags of Wei and a hundred cavalry, King Shanshan was shocked and left the capital in person to greet him.

Seeing the excellent equipment and fierce momentum of the Wei cavalry, King Shanshan was worried. Facing the Wei envoy was extremely humble and immediately sent someone to follow the Wei envoy to Liuzhongcheng to pay homage to Cao Xiu.

Another team of envoys came to Cheshi and went to see the king of Cheshi's descendant kingdom.

The Cheshi Kingdom was tragically divided during the Han Dynasty and the Huns' battle for the Western Regions. At most, it was divided into six small tribes, which were hostile to each other. They either followed the Han Dynasty or the Huns. After a long period of chaos and continuous integration, they finally left behind two parts: the Cheshi Front and Cheshi Back.

The Cheshihou Kingdom was large in scale and powerful, and could suppress the Cheshi's former country, and the two parts followed the Han Dynasty together.

After the civil strife in the Eastern Han Dynasty withdrew from the Western Regions, the Xianbei Tanshihuai was powerful and divided into several Xianbei. The Xianbei in the Western Regions not only replaced the status of the Xiongnu, but also attacked the Western Region countries such as Wusun and Cheshi several times, and defeated them very badly, which once made them surrender.

Later, Tan Shihuai died and Helian was also killed by Guo Peng. Xianbei was in civil turmoil. Later, the Guowei regime rose to the Central Plains and acquired Hebei. After he personally led a large army to attack the grassland and slaughtered the Xianbei people, killing countless famous Xianbei generals, and severely attacked the forces of the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people from east to west were not frightened and uneasy about this. They didn't know whether to escape or stay, nor did they know whether the Wei army would chase after him.

At this time, Wusun, Cheshi and other countries discovered the decline of the Xianbei.

Although they didn't know the reason, it didn't prevent them from secretly connecting and joining forces to fight back.

In the end, the Western Regions countries in the north of the mountain united to fight back and expelled the remaining Xianbei forces. The Xianbei people were panicked and dared not stay for a long time. They were unwilling to fight and were forced to escape into the northern part of the desert and did not go south for a long time.

Wusun and Cheshi took advantage of the counterattack of the Guo and Wei regime to expel the Xianbei people who enslaved them, but their own strength was also severely damaged by the Xianbei people and were still licking their wounds.
Chapter completed!