According to Guo's judgment, relying on the foundation laid by the Han Empire in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, as long as the transportation problem is improved, he can completely control the Western Regions at a relatively small cost.

Counties were then established to rule, and the Silk Road was completely controlled.

The profits from trade with the Kushan Empire and the Roman Empire were to be obtained by Guo himself.

Since ancient times, it is necessary to sit on the ground, and not to tell the truth, so as not to cause trouble to future generations.

Forget about the two countries of Anxi and Kushan, he doesn't want to have any disputes with these two countries in his lifetime.

It is too far from the core of the empire, and it is unrealistic to engage in confrontation with the two Central Asian powers until the construction of mature and smooth roads is completed, and before the scope of the empire's extreme wall is expanded.

As long as they can cooperate to make money, it doesn't matter if they are middlemen, what they gain from killing them may be much less than what they can gain from doing business together, and they will have to pay a lot more to operate and manage.

Separated by a large area of desert and the Pamir Plateau, in this era, if you want to really manage the Central Asian region, it is a superhuman level of difficulty for Guo someone, and it is simply unrealistic.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Guo had no intention of expanding into Central Asia.

But these little people in the Western Regions really need to be cleaned up, and this part of the profits Guo wants to monopolize it, and he is definitely not willing to share it with the small countries in the Western Regions.

The countries of the Western Regions would not have known that this Wei Tianzi was so ill-intentioned.

The purpose of admitting them is nothing more than a complete and thorough understanding and mastery of the internal intelligence of their countries, and of their combat readiness and reserve forces, with a view to completing the overthrow of the wave at some point in the future.

They will never know.

They will only know that the Wei State is really strong, very rich, and is a father country worthy of their following.

This was discovered after they left Liangzhou and entered Guanzhong.

The construction of the Wei Empire in Liangzhou lagged behind that of Guanzhong, especially in the Chang'an area, and Chang'an, as the capital of Yongzhou, the "Xijing" of the Wei Empire, and the location of the strategic general logistics base in the northwest region, received special attention from Guo.

When Chang'an City was built, it was completely benchmarked against New Luoyang.

The architectural indicators of Chang'an City are only slightly one grade behind that of New Luoyang City, and the cities of the same level are quite limited in the Wei State.

In addition to Chang'an, only Yecheng and Linzi have the same architectural treatment as Chang'an, and the other state capitals are slightly inferior.

So Chang'an is one of the best giant cities in this era.

The population of Chang'an City has exceeded 400,000, and the population of the Wei Empire that migrated to the Guanxi area to reclaim wasteland for restoration and construction was mainly spread out around Chang'an.

A single city can surpass the population of most of the Western Regions, and a city of this scale has never been seen by the envoys of the Western Regions of this generation.

Perhaps their predecessors have seen and seen Chang'an and Luoyang, which were still brilliant decades ago.

However, since the Qiang Rebellion and the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the political communication between the Central Plains and the Western Regions has been cut off, and official envoys have never set foot in the Central Plains again.

Decades have passed, and the group of envoys who had seen the prosperity of the Central Plains have died, and the current generation of newcomers has obviously never seen it with their own eyes.

At most, I've heard that kind of description from my predecessors or business travelers.

Knowing that the Central Plains Empire in the east was so huge that it was boundless, knowing that they had a huge population and huge wealth, they had built a huge scale of cities that they didn't dare to imagine.

I felt like I was living in a fairyland, I had never seen so many people walk past me, so many shops, so many hawkers, and there were many shops, residential areas, and elite soldiers patrolling the streets.

They had heard of it, but they had never seen it, so when they arrived in Chang'an, they asked to go to Chang'an City to see it, to see it, to find out what kind of country their suzerainty was.

The entourage sent by Cao Ren agreed to their request.

took them to walk around Chang'an City for three days, finished visiting Chang'an City, and then took them to the road to the core of the Wei Empire.

How can the gap between a large country, hundreds of millions of living beings, and a small country and a small country with widows be seen in just three days?

Luckily, they had plenty of time to take their time.

From Chang'an to Luoyang, there is a well-developed transportation network that has been repaired and repaired, and it is a straight road built in accordance with the road repair technology of the Qin Straight Road.

The completion of these straight roads greatly increased the speed from Luoyang to Chang'an, and was an important measure for the Wei Empire to rebuild Guanxi and rejuvenate Guanxi.

From the opening of the gates of the major cities in the morning, until the sunset, you can see an endless stream of people coming and going on this road.

Because of the huge population flow of Wei Zhidao, in addition to the official post station for pedestrians, there are also private merchants set up near the post station, private hotels, to provide rest and food services for a large number of pedestrians, as well as forage services for livestock.

These well-developed transportation networks can often also lead to some development in the surrounding areas, and gradually take shape, very prosperous, when this group of envoys of Shanshan country walked on the straight road, looking at such a prosperous scene of people coming and going, it was also constantly refreshing their world view.

They passed through Tongguan, entered the Gyeonggi region, then passed through Hongnong-gun, and finally came to Luoyang.

When they saw the extremely majestic Luoyang City, which was the only one in the entire Wei Empire, they were completely speechless with shock.

Luoyang City is more majestic than Chang'an City, taller, and the moat is wider, looking from afar, it is like a giant beast entrenched in this land, constantly swallowing the people living in this world, deciding everything for them.

It's a city that can surpass their imagination.

Of course, it's not just them, the people of the Wei Empire who saw Luoyang City for the first time will also have such thoughts.

Because the newly built Luoyang City is indeed very large, so big that it has not been completely completed so far, some parts of the city walls of Luoyang City are still being repaired, because Guo Peng has high requirements for the defensive function of the outer city of Luoyang.

It was impossible to see the whole picture of Luoyang City only from the outside, and when they decided to go further, they encountered the team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Xin Bi.

The envoy of Shanshanguo was the younger brother of the king of Shanshanguo, and he could speak Chinese, so he could communicate with Xinbi without an interpreter, which saved a lot of trouble.

Xin Bi was intrigued by these Chinese-speaking people who had come from outside the Wei territory, so he had a conversation with him.

The conversation is naturally about some news about Shanshanguo, such as how big the country is, how many people, how many soldiers and horses, how many products and so on.

The envoy of Shanshan State rolled his eyes and slightly overreported the population of his country.

Simbi also asked him how many people and property he knew of other countries in the Western Regions, and he also replied, of course, with a corresponding reduction.

Perhaps he thought that Xin Bi asked this question to determine whether their country was qualified to become a vassal state or a commercial trade object of the Wei Empire, so he had a selfish heart when he answered.

Simbi found that the figures told to him by the envoy were not much different from the figures he had obtained from the old Han sources.

After all these years, their population doesn't seem to have changed much.

The population of the Wei Empire has entered a period of steady and rapid growth, and the growth rate and number are gratifying, compared with the Wei Empire, these small countries are as if they did not exist.

That's right, Guo Peng once said to Xinbi that these small countries should not be regarded as formal diplomatic objects, their population and development potential are not good, fool them, and after figuring out their details, they can prepare to enter the Western Regions.

Anyway, now it is justifiable to return to the Western Regions to establish rule.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to deal with the Empire of Sabbatio, the Kushan Empire, and the Roman Empire, only the big countries are worthy of playing games with the big countries, and the small countries are just vassals.

Xin Bi learned Guo Peng's true purpose, so when he talked, he was more concerned about their national strength.

For the yearning and respect for the Wei Empire they expressed, Xin Bi also listened to it as a joke and politely echoed it.