Guo Jin has not yet understood the purpose of Guo Peng doing this.

So Guo Peng planned to explain this matter to him clearly.

"War requires a lot of money. During the war, the army needs to give whatever it wants. Otherwise, the war cannot be won, which is a problem. But the problem comes again. If you let the army fight in a certain place for too long, it has a base and a familiar environment, it is easy to get into some kind of interests with the local area."

Guo Peng stood up and walked slowly: "Some things are not good to transport from Luoyang to the local area. They are too slow. Sometimes local warehousing may not be enough. At that time, military spending is required to purchase them from local private areas. This purchase will lead to interest relations.

When the army goes to buy things, the people sell things. After a long time, chains of interests will be formed. The local people will gradually rely on this relationship. The army will also have the opportunity to fill their pockets from military expenses. The people responsible for purchasing will know some local people.

There will be some kind of connection between them and form an interest group. The longer the time, the more stable the relationship, they will take root in the local area. The more they go back, the more contacts they have, the more military expenditure is not simply used for war. Many people will rely on this military expenditure to survive in all aspects of that area. What will happen at that time?"

Guo Peng walked up to Guo Jin and looked at him.

Guo Jin looked surprised.

"So that's the case... If this is the case, can't this battle be finished?"

Guo Peng showed a satisfied look.

"Maintain the enemy's own weight! In the end, the imperial court spent a lot of military expenditure, but the results were not seen. The more thieves fought, the more critical the situation was, and it would be too late to regret it at that time. The army may not be obedient and would not be willing to come back. They will find ways to expand the war."

"Is this... really possible?"

Guo Jin was still a little unbelievable.

"Of course, A Jin, what will they earn after the war is over?"

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder: "For us, it is a national crisis, but for those people, it is an opportunity to make money from the national crisis. Don't think too perfectly about anyone. The army will not be an army or a warlord when going out for too long."

Guo Jin fully understood everything.

"There is such a thing, if you say this... Father! Zhang Liao and Le Jin have been leading troops for a long time, especially Zhang Liao. The war in Yangzhou has been intermittent, and it has been more than four years since then. Will he have had strange thoughts?"

Seeing Guo Jin's vigilant look, Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right. Always be vigilant, but you don't have to worry for the moment, because as long as you live for one day, no one dares to do this. If you know the soldiers for your father, no one dares to fool him or her, nor can they fool him."

Guo Jin nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

But Guo Peng didn't finish his words.

"Don't be happy first, A Jin, the problem is not about being a father, but about not every emperor who knows military affairs as much as he is a father, so he does not hesitate to cause trouble and complete the military rotation and garrisoning system to form an iron rule, not for the father, but for you and the kings of future generations.

For you emperors who are not so wise, you will not be deceived by the army and some officials without knowing that the money in your pockets is not lost. If you are cheated, you will spend countless money and cannot do it, and you will raise a group of ungrateful wolves, that will be over."

Mr. Guo is well aware of how the situation in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty went towards corruption and collapse step by step.

To raise a bandit, one must also have the ability to respect oneself. If you can’t even pay attention to it, you will still raise a bandit, that is purely a fool and seeking death.

"Father is far-sighted."

Guo Jin was deeply impressed.

"Stop saying such things. There are things that you can't imagine and do for your father. You can't finish everything for you. You have to face many new problems yourself. When the father is gone, you will have to rely on yourself."

"Father... I don't need to say such words, my father will live for a hundred years."

"Even if you live a hundred years old, I will not always be an emperor. People's energy is limited. A Jin, I have enough energy now, but there will always be a day when I am weak, and there will always be a day when I can't handle the government. That day may come at any time.

So you have to start dealing with local government affairs now, observe the government affairs of the court, accumulate experience, and understand all aspects of the court and country. You have to know how to be an emperor before you become an emperor, and then you can become an emperor."

Guo Peng held Guo Jin's hand: "You need to inherit everything you did for your father. If you can't inherit well and cannot inherit, then no matter how good you do for your father, it will be meaningless. You understand."

"Father...son understand."

Guo Jin nodded.

"Well, go and see your younger brothers and sisters. The elder brother is like a father. If you are busy with government affairs, you cannot care for them. You should take care of them more for your father."

Guo Peng smiled: "You are not only your brother, but also their future lord, but also the future lord of the Guo family. The burden on you is very heavy."

"Son understand."

Guo Jin laughed too.

In early November of the third year of Yande, the envoys of Shanshan, the Western Regions led all the Western Regions countries to Luoyang as quickly as possible.

Guo Peng learned about this a while ago. According to the memorials of Cao Ren and Cao Xiu, Guo Peng also realized how prestige the Han Empire replaced by him had in the hearts of the countries in the Western Regions.

Or it may not be prestige, it can also be said to be a kind of identification, a yearning, and a pursuit.

No one will pursue things that are not beneficial to them for no reason. This pursuit naturally comes at a price. The price paid by the Han Dynasty and the Huns in the battle for the Western Regions is not small at all.

But after paying such a huge price, Guo got the best of the money, and made Guo successfully pick peaches and become the one who made the most profit.

Because of the four hundred years of deep cultivation in the Han Dynasty, the Wei Empire could gain the surrender of these Western Region countries without having to fight.

They will come to worship and offer tributes and letters of the country, hoping to become a vassal state of the Central Plains Empire and keep up with the development of the Central Plains Empire.

Because they knew that once the Central Plains Empire became strong, they would be unstoppable, so they also accepted this situation very honestly.

More importantly, the Han culture that passed on the past for four hundred years in the Han Dynasty has maintained the connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains to a considerable extent, causing government-level exchanges to be interrupted for a while, but economic and cultural exchanges have not been interrupted.

They will also live in the way of the Han people, wear silk, cook food in the way of the Han people, use bowls and chopsticks, and even try to read and write Chinese characters and learn Chinese culture to facilitate communication with China.

The output and dissemination of this high-level culture laid a solid foundation for the Wei Empire to return to the Western Regions and eliminated the most severe test for Guo Peng to completely control the Western Regions.

The night after I figured this out, Guo walked out of Qinzheng Hall with a glass of wine, looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky, and raised the wine glass in his hand.

Respect those ancestors.

Respect those martyrs who were not afraid of sacrifice in order to gain a foothold in the Western Regions for the Central Plains Empire.

Zhang Qian, Geng Gong, Ban Chao, Ban Yong.

There are also countless people with poor reputation, either have high status, official envoys, or have low status, but are just ordinary people who have been moved to the Western Regions to settle down with the trend of the times.

Because of the four hundred years of hard work, the Central Plains Empire has today's grand occasion where the Western Regions countries have come to worship.

This glass of wine, toast you.

On behalf of all the people of the Wei Empire, Guo, the Emperor of the Wei Empire, sprinkled a glass of wine on this land that had never changed its color.

As time goes by, the bright moon of that year has changed a group of people, but the people of that year are no different from the current Guo’s ambitions for the Western Regions.

I will take over your unfinished career.

Don't worry though.
Chapter completed!