The Western Regions needed a large number of officials to be stationed, and some immigrants were also needed.

Originally, the four counties of Hexi had great strategic value.

However, with the Western Regions becoming the real territory of the Wei Empire, the four counties of Hexi did not need to be developed as key development areas.

Therefore, Guo decided to prioritize the development of the four counties in Hexi, raise the western regions along Shannan Road and Shanbei Road to a key development, and build it into an important transportation hub on the silk trade road.

Plough the land, grow grain, and provide necessary food support to merchants and troops.

Especially for the army, the garrison in the Western Regions also needs a lot of food, and it is too slow and expensive to transport it from the mainland, so the local production in the Western Regions is the best.

In addition, the construction of Shannan Province and Shanbei Province should also be re-promoted, and strive to connect Shannan Province and Shanbei Province to Dawan Kingdom, so that Shannan Province and Shanbei Province can be connected into a line, and the entire Western Regions traffic will be revitalized.

Although the difficulty is very great, under the mobilization power of the Wei Empire, it may not be a lifetime.

At the same time, Guo Peng also decided to start sending people into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to conduct preliminary explorations and learn about the situation on the plateau.

Although the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has only ever given birth to such a powerful regime as Tibet, which can threaten the Central Plains Empire, it was also born.

With the prosperity of the Sui and Tang dynasties and the subsequent ice age, Tibet eventually disappeared, and no strong regime was born on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but despite this, Tibet was also a very threatening existence.

After Guo captured the Western Regions, all the next energy had to be spent on the development of the Western Regions, and in fact, he was already powerless for the ancient country of Zhangxiong on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

But exploration can still be explored, do some intelligence and the like, draw a map to find a mountain road and the like, how much, to give future generations a reference.

Or also engage in a policy of restraint or something, to rule in a symbolic sense.

At this time, occupying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is purely thankless, seeing that the Xiaoice Age is coming, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can be said to have an extremely harsh climate, and there is really no benefit to be gained by launching military operations.

Occupying the Western Regions can also be said to open up the silk trade route, there are interests to pursue, and occupy the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau......

Besides, now tell others [Don't look at the current Xiangxiong Ancient Kingdom is a spicy chicken, and in a few hundred years, there will be an extremely fierce Tubo who will make the Central Plains Empire eat and sleep badly].

This is really not a reason to convince the public.

Guo sighed slightly.

In the current state, he has opened up the Silk Road, and he has made merits in all senses, and it is enough to govern and control the Western Regions along the route, and then take the bridgehead of Dawan and establish the frontline position of Han culture.

As for the ancient kingdom of Zhangxiong......

Let's leave it as a vassal state to decorate the façade.

So Guo ordered a certain person, and the official team began to move westward in October of the eighth year of Yande, gradually spreading to the Western Regions, and then sent envoys to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to find the government of Zhangxiong and establish a relationship between the vassal state and the suzerain.

At the same time, Guo Peng announced plans for the future governance of the Western Regions in the DPRK.

In the northern part of the mountain, there is a Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and in the southern part of the mountain, there is an Annan Imperial Protectorate, and both of them are 2,000 stone positions.

All of them are civilian, and they are the same as Taishou.

In addition, there are two commanders of the Metropolitan Protectorate, who command the Beiting garrison and the Annam garrison, and are in charge of non-wartime military tasks.

The commander of the Metropolitan Protectorate commanded the troops, and he needed to obey the orders of the Central Staff rather than the orders of the Metropolitan Protector, otherwise the Metropolitan Protector would be a Jiedu Envoy.

This kind of thing Guo will not accept.

And because of the special situation and special significance of Dawan, he set up the town of the West Protectorate in Dawan, and set up the town of the West Protector and the commander of the Town West Protectorate, which is also 2,000 stones, and should be set up in the same way as the two major protectors of Annan and Beiting.

As a result, the three prefectures of the Western Regions were established.

After that, it was the candidate for the three metropolitan protectors and the three metropolitan protectors.

The land of the Western Regions has a very important significance and value for the Wei State, and if it can't be well controlled, his plan for so many years will be in vain.

As an important place of open source, the land of the Western Regions and the Silk Road is one of the symbols of the Central Plains regime out of the involution, this road can not be broken, foreign trade can not be broken, and the north-south road of the Western Regions must always be controlled.

In this way, a steady stream of money can come to China and be controlled by the emperor.

The emperor has money in his hands to promote big projects, big projects, big crusades, big plans, if the emperor has no money in his hands, then there will be problems.

The Imperial Merchant Brigade, as well as the Silk Road, was one of the important governing powers left by Guo to Guo Jin.

Only by mastering this trade route can he speak hard, and only then can he constantly shift the attention of the elites of the Wei State outward, so that they do not always stare at the one acre and three points of land in their hands.

It's about getting out there.

It is best to take this opportunity to get in touch with the Roman Empire, whose purchasing power is quite strong, and has an extraordinary attachment to Chinese products such as silk, and silk is highly sought after from top to bottom.

Connecting with the Roman Empire is basically opening your eyes to the world in this era.

Knowing that thousands of miles away there is a vast and powerful empire with a vast market, which can be used as the best place to dump products for the empire.

Both Kushan and Sabbath could hardly replace the super-purchasing power of the Roman Empire.

At that time, maybe there will be a situation where the Wei army and the Roman legions will join forces to open up trade routes......

I don't know if I can see it.

Guo Peng suddenly became so interested.

This put forward higher requirements for the governance of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions.

I don't expect the Western Regions to toss out much economic output value and produce any amazing GDP, which Guo has never expected, this land is indeed not suitable for large-scale economic production actions.

All he looked forward to was that the Western Regions would be a carrier of the Silk Road, providing a place for merchants and people to rest, eat and sleep.

Then provide some grain and grass support to the local garrison, and don't always let the food and military needs start from the four counties of Hexi, then the loss will be too great.

As long as the Western Regions can achieve these points, then everything will be easy to say, the Silk Road will be stable, and the major financial revenue items of the Wei Empire will be as stable as Mount Tai.

In terms of candidates, Guo Peng made some considerations.

Before, he specially asked Guo Jin to inspect it, and then Guo Jin sent a letter to Guo Peng before following Cao Ren to fight, and the letter stated his views on this issue.

He thinks that Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both very good officials and have the ability to govern civil affairs, but he thinks that Zhuge Liang is better in the ability to govern civil affairs.

Because Zhuge Liang is good at breaking through the convention, adapting measures to local conditions, putting himself in the local shoes, and giving full play to local advantages, rather than blindly following the instructions of the imperial court.

Guo Jin said in the letter that Zhuge Liang considered that no matter how to develop agriculture in Dunhuang County, it would not be better than the development of Guanzhong in the Central Plains, so in order to let the local people live a good life, he planned to rely on the strong national strength of the Wei Empire, give full play to the geographical advantages of Dunhuang County, and engage in commercial development.

It is said that Zhuge Liang canceled the fang market system in Dunhuang County, and small stalls can also be placed along the streets, and the time limit for market transactions is relaxed, and transactions can be carried from sunrise to sunset.

He also specially placed the big market not far from the Taishou Mansion, and built a high platform in the Taishou Mansion to facilitate him to watch from time to time and deter lawbreakers.

Then the roads of Dunhuang County and several other counties were connected together, and several counties of Dunhuang County were connected with these roads, thus revitalizing the entire Dunhuang County and making Dunhuang County a large service county that provided rest and trading places for merchants to come and go.

In this way, he made the people of Dunhuang County rich, everyone had a little money in their pockets, and some people who made more money had joined forces to do business with merchants in the Western Regions.

It's just that after this wave of attacks on the Western Regions, the soil on which Dunhuang County relied for development was gone.

Therefore, Guo Jin suggested that Zhuge Liang should be given an official position in the Western Regions, and with his appeal and credibility among the people, he would mobilize immigrants to the Western Regions to continue their unfinished business.

Guo Peng finished reading Guo Jin's letter and fell into deep thought.