At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Guo also nodded in a pretentious manner, and ordered them to be allowed to meet.

I don't know if there are too many powerful people sitting in the hall, and the aura of having been in a high position for a long time filled the entire Fengtian Hall with coercion.

When the Shanshan envoy who was the first to be summoned entered the Fengtian Hall, he suddenly felt that it was difficult to even breathe.

Every time he took a step forward, he seemed to be able to feel the disdainful eyes of the senior officials of the Wei Empire on the left and right. The coercion brought by the official aura that came to his face was hard for the dignitaries of these small countries to resist.

Every step becomes very difficult, and the original brisk steps now always feel as heavy as lead.

However, the long-term training allowed him to complete the process of meeting with etiquette. He conveyed the request of the king of Shanshan Kingdom to become a vassal state of the Wei Empire in relatively proficient Chinese, and then presented the list of gifts he brought. The deputy envoy read the contents on the list aloud.

The tribute system has never been profitable, or even money-losing, on the surface.

Because the gifts that these small countries can bring are really nothing.

Some camels, some horses, some gold and silver treasures, some local products, and their pious souls.

The quantity is small, and the price is not expensive, although it may have been very good for them.

Perhaps the most valuable is their devout souls.

Chapter 958. 960 Baguo suddenly has many filial sons and grandsons

Guo is a practical emperor, but under the structure of the tributary system, he has to suffer from this dumbness.

In order to show the strong economic strength of the Central Plains Empire and the magnanimity of the celestial kingdoms, the gifts given to these countries are basically doubled, or several times.

It does seem to be a loss. They brought some ordinary things and then returned with a full load. This is a loss.

However, the relationship between countries cannot be simply analyzed from the economic point of view of a transaction.

These things are exchanged for the status of the monarch and his ministers, the status between the suzerain state and the vassal state, and the righteous name.

Someone Guo ordered them to obey the righteousness.

From then on, all the rulers of their country will be equipped with the official seal of the Wei Empire, and they are the subjects of the Wei Empire.

More importantly, they are no longer independent in terms of national character. From then on, they must obey the political call of the Wei Empire and follow in the footsteps of the Wei Empire.

The bureaucrats don't care about the appointment of the Wei Empire, and they don't care about governing the Wei Empire, but their handover of the throne must be approved by the Emperor of the Wei Empire.

They can't decide on the succession of the throne privately, even if it's just a procedure, they have to be officially canonized by the emperor of the Wei Empire, and then they can be justified.

If they don't get the canonization of the emperor of the Wei Empire, they will be the kings who are not right and wrong, and they will not be able to convince the public. Anyone can question and oppose it.

Once their king had a conflict with the emperor of the Wei Empire, and the emperor issued an order to express his disapproval of his kingship, the legal basis of his rule was shaken immediately.

His country will be unstable internally, and he himself will lose the legitimacy and legitimacy of his rule.

At that time, if anyone jumped up against him and killed him to seize the throne, as long as he continued to honor Emperor Wei as the suzerain, that would be reasonable and legal.

This is justified, this is the meaning of suzerainty.

Guo has been fighting for 20 years in order to be just and sound.

After 20 years of hard work, Mr. Guo made himself stand on the pinnacle of righteousness. No one knows the power of the word "righteousness" better than Guo.

After they all became vassal states of the Wei Empire, it was not so easy to make money.

The Wei Empire set up the Protectorate of the Western Regions to govern them. It is usually nothing, but if there is any important matter, they must obey orders.

For example, if a small country is disobedient and makes Wei Guo's father unhappy, then someone from Guo will order the Western Regions Governor to lead troops to attack it, and the vassal states will send troops to the Western Regions Governor to attack that country. Disobedient small country.

Under the suppression of the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, Guo has the legitimate power to crusade against the disobedient small country.

Even if the countries in the Western Regions are afraid and dissatisfied, they must follow. They must send troops to follow the Wei Empire to crusade against this country, otherwise they will follow the truth.

Then someone Guo has sufficient excuses and reasons to launch a "counter-insurgency war."

Do you dare to disobey the emperor's order?

This is rebellion!

Troops should be dispatched immediately to suppress and pacify the kingdom in order to maintain the majesty of the heavenly kingdom!

This is not an aggression, but a counter-insurgency war, a legitimate internal war to quell the insurgency.

This is an internal contradiction within the Wei imperial system, not a war of aggression and conquest between countries.

This is very important, it will determine whether the Wei Empire is a kingly country or a domineering country.

Apparently, Kingdom of the Kingdom of Kings' reputation sounds good.

Regardless of whether he is actually like this or not, anyway, it can be written like this in history books, which is irrefutable.

Then the Western Regions were successfully transformed into ancient times.

If righteousness and fame can be bought with money, Mr. Guo would be overjoyed.

Then he can become emperor at least five years in advance, and before the age of 30, he can add a yellow robe and establish the Wei Empire, which is easier than Liu Xiu, without such a hard work.

It was fighting the warlords and destroying the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty. All kinds of insidious and vicious tactics were used, and then they had to cheat the throne from under Liu Jian's ass, and they had to carry out a big cleansing to cleanse the officials loyal to the Han Dynasty and kill some of them. People establish prestige.

How difficult.

If everything in the world could be bought with money, Mr. Guo would have established a Datong Empire long ago, completed the second academic downward move, and established the imperial examination system.

Unfortunately, not everything can be bought with money, especially fame.

But now the countries of the Western Regions took the initiative to come forward and shamelessly sold their righteousness and fame to someone Guo. It was too late for someone Guo to be happy, how could he refuse?

With the status of suzerain, in the future, which small country will be disobedient, Guo will send troops to fight three times, five times and two times, and there is no need to worry about the impact.

In order to show that they follow the orthodox attitude, the remaining countries have to send troops to follow, attack together, and provide food and fodder, which saves a lot of things.

Of course, this must be based on the premise that the Wei Empire is powerful and can control the Western Regions. If it is the same as the civil strife in the Eastern Han Dynasty before, then don't talk about it.

Some people in Guo will not do things like spending money to save face, but if there are deeper benefits that can be obtained and long-term development, that would be great.

Mr. Guo never spends money wrongly.

And in this way, it is equivalent to opening up an external market for mainland business travelers. Although this market is not too large and the consumption level is not high, it is still a market after all.

With one more market, one more income can be obtained, and a broader Central Asian market can be opened up, and the benefits of doing business with a large Central Asian country with a larger population are self-evident.

Accepting these vassal states requires paying a lot of rewards for a while, but the subsequent benefits are far from comparable to the present rewards.

What they get in one tribute will be quickly returned to someone Guo through the trade route.

So when some officials expressed their opinion that the opening of the Western Regions was not a good thing and would cause a lot of unnecessary expenses, Guo Peng ignored them.

Everyone thought that Mr. Guo was on the first floor and they were on the second floor, but they didn't know that Mr. Guo was already on the ninth floor of No.90.

What I want is the entire Western Regions, I want them all!

After the gift list was read out, Guo pretended to accept their tribute with satisfaction, and then asked the officials to read out his imperial edict.

It is polite to say that the Emperor Wei allowed Shanshan to become a vassal state of the Wei Empire, and since then the relationship between the monarch and the ministers has been formed, the country will last forever, and the monarch and the ministers will never be separated.

Then they were given the official seals of the Wei Empire and the golden seal of the king, and then announced a large number of rewards, the amount and value of which were three times that of Shanshan's tribute.

Sure enough, the eyes of the two envoys of Shanshan State were straightened.

Oh, short-sighted.

Someone Guo secretly ridiculed these guys who are blind to money.

Afterwards, the envoy of the Shanshan Kingdom declared his thanks, and paid homage to someone Guo with the etiquette of a courtier. After paying respects, he left slowly.

Then the envoys of the Hou Cheshi Kingdom came to see them, and they brought twice as much tribute as Shanshan Kingdom, and naturally received three times the rewards. Under the title of monarch and minister.

Then, according to the standard procedure, the official seals and ribbons of the Wei Empire were given, and the golden seal was given to King Cheshi, which symbolized that Emperor Wei allowed King Cheshi to exercise the power of ruling in Cheshi Kingdom on his behalf.

Then all the countries in the Western Regions announced their audience one after another, worshiped the emperor, became a vassal state, received rewards, the official seal of Wei, and the golden seal of the king, and formed a monarch-subject relationship with the emperor of Wei.

In the end, the envoys of the eighteen vassal states in the Western Regions knelt down and saluted Wei Tianzi Guo on behalf of their kings in the Hall of Qinzheng.

"Long live my emperor."

They learned from the ministers in the court of Wei State that they expressed their submission and loyalty to Guo Peng, knelt in front of a certain Guo and swore that they would follow the Wei Empire and embark on a win-win road of harmonious development.

In this way, the overall situation is settled.

Guo suddenly had many filial sons and grandchildren.

Chapter 959 .960 Nine Resetting the Protectorate of the Western Regions

After this ceremony, Wei Tianzi Guo successfully became the co-lord of the eighteen countries in the Western Regions and the common emperor of the eighteen countries in the Western Regions.

Therefore, the people of all the countries in the Western Regions are also the people of Emperor Wei from a legal point of view.

Since then, Guo has a clear legal basis for meddling in the political and military issues of the Western Regions. It is reasonable and legal, and no one can question it, and no one can resist it openly.

If you resist, it will give me the opportunity to fight against rebellion and disobedience.

It is reasonable and legal for me to do something to you, and no one can say no.

So someone Guo laughed triumphantly, and the arrogant laughter spread throughout the Qinzheng Hall.

The envoys of the eighteen countries also laughed together.

They gave Guo Peng enough face, and thought that Guo Peng would be happy because of this enough face, and gave them more rewards so that they could get more benefits.

There won't be any more rewards, but someone Guo announced the decision to establish the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

A certain Guo decided to build a new Protectorate of the Western Regions belonging to the Wei Empire at the former site of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in the former Han Dynasty within the territory of Kucha.

Then he ordered Cao Xiu, the Wei general currently guarding Liuzhong City, to serve as the first Western Region Governor of the Wei Empire, and command all countries in the entire Western Region with a position of two thousand shi.

All countries in the Western Regions must obey the orders of Cao Xiu, the governor of the Western Regions, and must not violate his orders.

Cao Xiu needs to treat all countries in the Western Regions equally, and handle problems impartially when encountering problems, without personal affair.

Pay attention to "maintaining" the peace of the countries in the Western Regions.

For all these, many rules have been established.

Does not interfere with daily administration, but Cao Xiu has a lot of power to intervene and make decisions regarding the exchanges between the countries in the Western Regions, and the core part of these rules can be summed up as "if you don't accept it, fuck him".

It's very simple and rude, but someone Guo likes it very much.

The countries in the Western Regions may not have realized this at all at this time, and they have never realized what changes will be brought to them after the Wei Empire rebuilds the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

They were all immersed in the joy of having completed their mission and received many rewards.

According to the information obtained by someone from Guo, some of these guys even took a little profit from the rewards and went shopping in Luoyang to satisfy their selfish desires.

It is conceivable that these guys are not good people. Although the country is small, it has all internal organs and five poisons. The bureaucrats are generally black. This is a class issue.

After the audience, Simpi summoned the envoys of the eighteen countries again.

Simpi told them that the Li Fan Yuan was their residence in Luoyang City from now on, and they were allowed to leave their own officials in the Li Fan Yuan of Luoyang City. After encountering any friction problems, they could consult with the Wei Empire in time to solve the problem as soon as possible .

The envoys were inexplicably surprised, they looked at me and you, and immediately wanted to go back to show off to their families and want to stay in Luoyang City and continue to spend their days and drinks, which made them very entangled.

These are not the matters that Mr. Guo has to take care of. There are only so many things that Mr. Guo has to take care of. The next step is for the officials to connect with the countries in the Western Regions, especially the docking with the Kucha Kingdom.

The Kucha Kingdom is considered a big country in the Western Regions, and the life span of the country is also very long. It existed until the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and it was one of the last surviving countries in the Western Regions.

The residence of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in the former Han Dynasty was located in the territory of Qiuci, and the location was almost the center of the entire Western Regions, which was convenient for guarding the Silk Road and providing convenience and protection for business travelers.

The administrative level of the Protector of the Western Regions does not need to be very high, two thousand stones are enough.

However, simple civil servants can't control the place, and military officers are needed to sit in charge, and they also need to lead troops to sit in charge, so that they can better carry out the mission of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions.

Therefore, Guo Peng simply let the military officer command the garrison as the guardian of the Western Regions, which can achieve better deterrence to a certain extent.

After thinking about it, it is a bit overqualified to let Cao Ren take this position, and I am worried that their personalities are not suitable for other generals to take this position.

So after thinking about it for a certain Guo, this position naturally belongs to Cao Xiu, who is currently guarding Liuzhong City.

Bringing it out by himself, he is capable of writing and martial arts, has a meticulous personality, is good at thinking, and is not easy to be impulsive.

Most of the time, Cao Xiu is very reliable.

In addition to Cao Xiu sitting in the Protectorate of the Western Regions, Guo Peng will also set up at least four garrisons in the Western Regions.