On the issue of distribution, Cao Xiu appeared to be very fair.

In principle, the greater the effort and the greater the loss, the more the spoils will be distributed, and the smaller the output and small losses, the less the spoils will be distributed.

Of course, as the arbiter, Cao Xiu once again promised that he would not want anything, and the Wei Empire, as their suzerain, would not want anything.

In the end, under Cao Xiu's distribution, Xin Limi still got the most share.

Then there is the country of Qiuzi, the two parts of the chariot division, and then the other countries.

The number of trophies was counted by Cao Xiu, accurate to single digits, such as the number of people, men, women, children and the elderly, as well as the number of tents, the number of jerky, the number of gold, silver, pearls and jade, the number of other sundries, etc., all accurate to single digits.

Then Cao Xiu gave them a math lesson in front of them.

Cao Xiu used arithmetic skills they had never seen before, and did some addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations, and then came up with the amount of loot that each part should get.

Cao Xiu didn't know these originally, and he was still taught by someone Guo.

Guo introduced numbers that were convenient for calculation, and taught his subordinates the concept and meaning of 12345, as well as the symbols and algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

What is especially important is that the ninety-nine multiplication table was also taught by Guo Peng to the earliest group of accountants.

This method was carried forward by Wang Cang, taught to his subordinates, developed and expanded the team of officials, and a large number of such mathematical methods were widely taught in the army, and such calculation training methods were also taught in the Linzi training camp.

For more than a decade, this simple method of arithmetic has been widely used in many ways, and in the military, it is obviously a very important skill.

Cao Xiu, as one of the relatives generals personally educated by Guo Peng, is naturally very proficient in the four algorithms.

He only used a pen and a piece of paper to write some strange symbols that people in the Western Regions could not understand.

And then there are words in the mouth.

What carry abdication plus one minus one or something, and then you get a fairly accurate number.

"This figure is calculated by me personally, I can use my identity to vouch for no problem, each of you will receive the spoils according to this amount, and I promise not to take a penny."

Cao Xiu used his identity and reputation to vouch for no problems.

People in various countries actually think that even if Cao Xiu wants to do something, they can't do anything.

But looking at Cao Xiu's appearance so brightly, I don't think it's okay to do this.

Although the total amount is not large, but distributed in this way, what each country gets is what Cao Xiu got through average calculation, and the countries had nothing to say about it.

So they no longer fought with each other, no longer fought infighting, but chose to say goodbye to Cao Xiu with their booty and withdraw their troops to leave.

The war ended, and the Wusun Civil War came to an end.

In the first international event in which the Western Regions Protectorate of the Wei Empire, which Cao Xiu was the protector of, participated in, Cao Xiu completed his mission very well, completed this matter, and maintained peace in the Western Regions.

This incident fully demonstrated the strength of the Wei Empire, which could well intervene in the wars of the Western Regions.

Cao Xiu also had enough leadership to lead the armies of the Western Regions countries.

This is the best response for those small countries that still have some doubts about the strength of the Wei Empire.

In this way, the Wei Empire's suzerainty over the Western Regions was finally confirmed and became unshakable.

Still, there are some discordant voices in it.

For example, the front and rear divisions of the driver are dissatisfied with the distribution of the spoils, and each side feels that they have taken less, and the other party has taken more, and they feel that the other party has taken advantage.

Xin Limi went back and counted what he had gained and lost, and found that although he occupied a lot of pastures, both the population and livestock were less than before the war.

He was resentful of this, feeling that he had been blackmailed by the Seven Kingdoms Alliance of the Western Regions, and felt that although they had come to help, it was more like they had taken advantage of the fire to rob and divide a large number of Atami's subordinates who could have belonged to him.

The rest of the kingdoms had nothing to say about Cao Xiu's distribution, and they were quite satisfied with the Wei Empire's attitude of not taking a penny from themselves, but they were very dissatisfied with the other countries that competed with them for the spoils of war.

It can be said that each other is not satisfied with each other.

The war is over, but the aftermath of the war is not over, it is brewing, fermenting, waiting to erupt again at some point in the future.

"If it weren't for the fact that the Western Regions Avenue hadn't been repaired, our grain wouldn't have been able to be transported, I really didn't want them to go back like this, if they all fought!"

On the way back to its Qiancheng, Cao Xiu kept complaining to Ma Yuan and Zhao Yan.

"What a good opportunity, if our food and supplies can keep up, I don't have to worry about anything at all, just let them all fight, and then let's kill them all in one go! Why do you need to be the protector of the Western Regions now! ”

Cao Xiu was extremely unhappy with the fact that he had taken nothing in order to maintain the transcendent situation of the Wei Empire.

He really wanted to turn into a wolf and fight them.

Zhao Yan couldn't cry or laugh because of this.

"Wen Lie, in this battle, our goal has been completely achieved, and it can even be said that the task has been overfulfilled, the national strength of Wusun has been cut in half, and it is impossible to recover in a short period of time, and the biggest stumbling block in the Western Regions no longer exists.

The armies of the Seven Kingdoms of Shanbei also have varying degrees of losses, and they can't recover in a short time, our prestige has greatly increased, and what we want to do in the future will become quite simple, what else do you have to be dissatisfied with, how good is this? ”

Ma Yuan laughed.

"Cao Duhu feels that he has to maintain order in the Western Regions, he is very dissatisfied, if we can clean up the Western Regions now, we can directly let the armies of the Seven Kingdoms of Shanbei fight chaotically, let the order of the Western Regions collapse, let's take advantage of the fire to rob.

But now that the Western Regions Avenue has not been repaired, the food and materials and the army cannot keep up, and if the Western Regions countries are rashly out of order, it will be unfavorable to me, for the time being, it is important to maintain peace and maintain the silk trade route, so I have to do it. ”

Zhao Yan shook his head helplessly.

"Wen Lie, you better stabilize first, don't be in such a hurry, the Western Regions Avenue is to be repaired, but how much manpower and material resources are needed? Your Majesty doesn't know how many people you have to move to fill the four counties of Hexi for this matter, it will take time, don't worry. ”

"I ...... I also know it's hard to build roads, and I just think it's going to take years to go on like this. ”

Cao Xiu shook his head.

"This is also something that can't be helped, if we can repair the Western Regions Avenue so quickly, the Western Regions will really be the state of our Wei Kingdom."

Zhao Yan actually hopes that this matter will become a reality as soon as possible.

The Western Regions are bitterly cold, far away from his hometown, and there are a lot of things, and the things he has to do with the countries of the Western Regions are very complicated, so that he has almost no family leave.

He also misses his family and hometown, if he can complete his mission as soon as possible, he can go home early, right?

Ma Yuan recalled the conversation he had with Cao Ren before he arrived in the Western Regions, as well as the construction site he had seen.

"Now General Zixiao is stepping up the construction of roads, and has opened up very good conditions for the local people in Hexi, so some strong women and boys have also gone to the construction site to do things, basically everything that can be used is used, day and night to rush to work, wait, it's soon."

Cao Xiu and Zhao Yan both sighed and nodded together.

They knew that it could be done, and it wasn't too late, but the wait wasn't easy.

After the first wave of population filling by Guo, the four counties of Hexi will have a population of 400,000.

On average, there are 100,000 people and 20,000 households in each county, which is less than the population of the large counties in the Central Plains, but it is vast and sparsely populated, so it is generally not conducive to development, and the degree of development lags far behind the counties and counties in the developed states of the Central Plains.

According to the report of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they agreed that the four counties of Hexi could host more than one million people.

With a population of one million, the four counties of Hexi can be quickly developed, and the four counties of Hexi will be built, so that the four counties of Hexi can assume the important responsibility of connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

Now there are 400,000, but 1 million are needed, where should the 600,000 population be deployed?

Where is there no shortage of people in the whole country?

Guo did the math himself, and suddenly felt very powerless.

There are only a few well-preserved populous states.

Jizhou is counted as one, but Jizhou has to be fixed-point to support Youzhou and Pingzhou, especially Pingzhou.

In the past ten years, because of the large population of Jizhou, Guo has continuously moved the population of Jizhou to Youzhou, to fill the population lost by the war in these two states and develop the border land.

Now that Pingzhou has been established, the entire territory of Pingzhou is so large, and the population inherited from the Gongsun regime is only 300,000.

Even if you add more than 400,000 Goguryi, Sanhan and Buyeo, the total is only 700,000, which is more extensive and sparsely populated than the four counties of Hexi, and it is even more difficult to develop them.

In the long run, the population of Jizhou still needs to support Pingzhou in large quantities to fill the population shortage in Pingzhou, so no matter how you look at it, the population of Jizhou is no longer able to support the four counties of Hexi.

Xuzhou is also a populous state, after the influence of Guo, Xuzhou was saved from the poison of Yuan Shu and Cao Cao without losing so many people, although Xuzhou still faced a turmoil after Tao Qian's death, but the number of casualties was greatly reduced.

Then the population of Xuzhou was moved out by Guo to fill the two counties of Jiujiang, Lujiang and Yangzhou, which was part of the south of the Yangtze River.

With the complete victory of Yangzhou's Shanyue crusade, Yangzhou was opened up a large amount of land that could be developed by the living population.

Therefore, the population of Xuzhou has to move south in large numbers to support the development of Yangzhou, and it is no longer able to support the four counties of Hexi.

Qingyan Erzhou is a populous state, and the population is relatively well preserved, so in the restoration and reconstruction of Yuzhou, Qingyan Erzhou has made great efforts.

Later, when the population of Kansai was restored, Qingyan Erzhou was the main force.

In these years, more than one million people have moved out of the two states to fill the Kansai region, and they are still migrating into the Kansai region to fill the population.

So there is simply no excess population to fill the four counties of Hexi.

As a result, Guo looked around the entire empire, but found that he could no longer transfer more people to fill the population gap in the four counties of Hexi in a short period of time.

It's a very frustrating thing.

Where else can the population be moved?

Jingzhou? Yizhou?

They themselves are representatives of the vast land and sparsely populated area, so it is better to stay in the local area and continue to develop the local area, and the development of Jiangnan still needs their efforts, and Guo will not cause trouble for them.

Guo conducted a wave of censuses in the second and third years of Yande.

Then he came up with a population of fifty-one three hundred and sixty thousand, which was the number of people he could now control, from whom he could squeeze tax revenues out of which he could run the country.

However, Guo is also well aware that this number does not represent the actual population of the entire Wei Empire.

There are also a large number of people in Haoqiang Manor who are not included in this statistic, and when the population is counted, this part of the population will not be recorded.

Although they were alive, they did not appear in the imperial household registration system.

This part of the population, according to Guo's estimates, will not be less than 10 million, but will only be more.

Don't underestimate the ability of Haoqiang Manor to hide its population.

They will only hide more, not less, and they will plunder the economy only more, and no less.

So this battle for the working population is far from over.