This wave of attacks on the Western Regions and occupation of the Western Regions, the Wei Empire obviously paid a great short-term price.

For example, the people of Dunhuang County who relied on the merchants of the Western Regions to make money, and some industries in the mainland that received orders from those extravagant nobles in the Western Regions, such as Shu brocade and tea.

The Lishu peasant households, who made up the largest part of the Wei Empire's population, simply could not afford to consume these luxuries.

These luxuries were consumed by the ruling class, the magnates, merchants, and the royal elites of the Western Regions.

This wave of Guo someone attacked the outside world and pacified the Western Regions, which is equivalent to this part of the important luxury consumers have been killed by Guo someone.

Foreign consumer customers have been devastated, the trade volume of luxury goods is difficult to recover in the short term, and the entire luxury industry of the Wei Empire will be affected in the short term.

Because the big dog family is gone, it has been killed by Guo someone.

However, Guo killed them just to prevent them from being middlemen to make the difference, and this part of the difference originally belonged to him, but it was taken away by the magnates of the Western Regions.

Of course, they don't have a place to spend it, they still have to spend it back, or buy things in the mainland.

But this is like the magnates of the Western Regions using Guo someone's money to buy things under Guo someone's rule, how unpleasant they think.

He wants to kill the countries of the Western Regions, and there are also some such unpleasant factors in it.

But more importantly, the small market of hundreds of thousands of people in the Western Regions is simply not enough to withstand the increasing productivity of the Wei Empire's interior, and they can't bear it, but they still have to curb the Wei Empire's foreign exports by making the difference, which is disgusting.

The Wei Empire is thriving, and when more land is developed and more people are born, the productivity will inevitably be greatly improved, and then it will not be able to digest internally, the external trade industry will not be able to pull up, and the increase in the value of money will cause deflation, which is also a bad thing.

So it is necessary to get rid of them, to seek a wider market for these rich products, and to open up all restrictions on foreign trade.

The internal demand of the Wei Empire was seriously insufficient, and if the domestic demand was insufficient, it was necessary to expand the external market outward.

The market in the Western Regions is not enough, so they will directly grab it and return it to themselves, and then use greater strength to expand the markets of Kushan, Anxi, and the Roman Empire.

Aren't these countries, with their vast territories, large populations, large number of powerful people, large number of wealthy people, and abundant gold, the best dumping grounds for commodities?

Therefore, it is a matter of course to abandon the Western Regions and welcome a broader market.

These things cannot be changed by the livelihood of the people of a county, whose interests at the present stage are destined to be abandoned.

However, as an emperor with temperature, it is impossible for Guo to really watch these people lose their livelihood like this, that will lose people's hearts.

He was thinking about a way, and Guo Jin gave him a good idea.

Sure enough, he did not appreciate Zhuge Liang in vain, and did not leave the emperor's attention to Zhuge Liang in vain.

Zhuge Liang is a character who can really share the worries of the king.

Using Zhuge Liang's appeal to transfer part of the population to the Western Regions and open up the situation in the Western Regions is undoubtedly a good idea.

It's just that in this way, Zhuge Liang has to be thrown to the west, which is really a big challenge for Guo who misses Zhuge Liang.

So he decided to transfer Zhuge Liang from the post of Dunhuang Taishou and transfer him to the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate to serve as the Beiting Metropolitan Protector, run the Shanbei Road, and revitalize the economy of the county-level administrative regions along the way.

Shanbei Province was handed over to Zhuge Liang, that ......

Shannan Road will be handed over to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi is not inferior to Zhuge Liang, but he cares more about the instructions of the imperial court, does not dare to go against the spirit of the instructions of the imperial court, and never manipulates the spirit of the instructions of the imperial court.

When we talk about developing agriculture, we will develop agriculture, and if we say that we should emphasize agriculture and suppress business, we will emphasize agriculture and suppress business.

These two are really interesting, and they both seem to be appreciated by Mao Jue.

Relying on his own arbitrariness and prejudice, Guo identified the two rulers of the Western Regions, and next, he was the candidate for the protector of the Zhenxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

After taking Dawan, the geographical location of the Zhenxi Protectorate has of course become the most important in the Western Regions, and it needs shrewd and capable officials to be responsible for governance, and also shrewd and capable generals to be responsible for guarding the town.

Who should you choose?

Looking at the list of candidates in front of him, Guo Peng suddenly remembered Cao Ang, who was still a taishou in Liaodong.

Not long after Cao Ang married Cai Yan, he was transferred to the land of Liaodong as a taishou.

Guo Peng admired Cao Ang's temperament and wanted to reuse Cao Ang, so he served as the Xuansu Taishou in Xuansu County on the border, governing the border people, experiencing the hardships and hardships, and exercising a strong will.

Now it seems that this kind of exercise is very effective, Xuansu County is well governed, the population growth rate is the highest in the whole of Pingzhou, and he is very much relied on and appreciated by Lu Su.

At present, Pingzhou has long been settled, everything that should be done is being done step by step, everything is on the right track, and there is no longer a need for an official with pioneering experience like Cao Ang to sit in charge.

On the Western Regions side, Guo Peng urgently needs a shrewd, capable, young and strong person with enough experience and determination to go to the Western Regions.

Cao Ang has served as the village head, the township head, and the county magistrate, Taishou, and he has done everything that the magistrate can do, his resume is very beautiful, his ability is also very beautiful, and he basically did not make mistakes.

even lost the opportunity to see the last side of his first wife for national events, which can be described as a model of loyalty to the monarch and the country, and has long been praised by Guo Peng as a typical example of the second generation of officials.

Now that such an important strategic place as Dawan's hometown needs a shrewd and capable person to be the protector of Zhenxi and the face of the country, Guo Peng thought of Cao Ang.

At the same time, Guo Peng also needed Cao Ang to act as a buffer between him and Cao's ministers.

So he called Cao Cao over.

"Big brother, I know this matter may be very bad for you, if...... If you want to refuse, you can, I can transfer Ziyu back to Luoyang and reunite your father and son. ”

As soon as Cao Cao heard this, he immediately said no.

"Zi Yu has grown up, he is a state official, a subordinate of His Majesty, and a colleague with his ministers, His Majesty is in need, of course he should go to the place where His Majesty needs him to go, so as to reflect his value, so as to live up to His Majesty's expectations of him."

Guo Peng is very satisfied.

"The eldest brother's family are all loyal cadres who have paid for my Wei, these things, I have always kept them in my heart and will not forget, so the eldest brother does not have to worry, this time let Ziyu go to the Zhenxi Capital Protectorate, and after he has been in office for five years, he can return to Luoyang as an official."

Cao Cao was worried about nothing more than that Cao Ang had been working outside as an official and could not return to the central government, and Guo Peng's promise to him was to reassure Cao Cao and let Cao Cao know that Cao Ang could return to the central government after all.

Guo Peng held Cao Cao's hand and walked around the court with him, further explaining his philosophy of governing the country to Cao Cao.

"The way I train the children is to throw them outside, whether it is Ah Jin or Ah Jun, let them exercise themselves in places where the environment and public conditions are very bad, exercise their administrative ability and ability to deal with civil affairs, and let them know what ordinary people need.

They are different from us, we were born and raised in the land, and we have dealt with many people from birth since we were children, whether it is the tenants in the manor, the families of other powerful landlords, or the scholars, we have all been in contact with and clashed.

It is because we have been in contact with them, so we know what they want, and when we implement the policy of governing the country, we will not be biased, but children are different, when they grow up, we have already laid a ground, and they grow up in a different environment than us. ”