After this ceremony, Wei Tianzi Guo successfully became the co-ruler of the Eighteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions and became the co-emperor of the Eighteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions.

As a result, the people of all the countries of the Western Regions are also the people of Wei Tianzi from a legal point of view.

From now on, Guo has a clear legal basis for interfering in the political and military issues of the Western Regions, which is reasonable and legal, no one can question it, and no one can resist it openly.

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

I'm doing it to you, it's reasonable and legal, and no one can say no.

So Guo laughed proudly, and the arrogant laughter spread throughout the Qinzheng Palace.

The envoys of the Eighteen Kingdoms also laughed along.

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

There will be no more rewards, but Guo has announced the decision to establish the Western Regions Protectorate.

Guo decided to establish a new Western Regions Protectorate belonging to the Wei Empire on the site of the former Western Regions Protectorate in the territory of Qiuzi Kingdom.

Then he ordered Cao Xiu, the Wei general who was currently guarding Liuzhong City, to be the first protector of the Western Regions of the Wei Empire, and to rule all the countries in the entire Western Regions with a position of 2,000 stones.

All the countries of the Western Regions must obey the orders of Cao Xiu, the capital of the Western Regions, and must not disobey his orders.

Cao Xiu needs to treat all the countries in the Western Regions equally, handle problems impartially, and not mix personal feelings.

It is necessary to pay attention to "maintaining" the peace of the countries of the Western Regions.

All of this has led to a lot of rules.

does not interfere in the daily administration, but for the exchanges between the countries of the Western Regions, Cao Xiu has a lot of power to intervene and decide, and the core part of these rules is summarized as [disobedience to other people].

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

The countries of the Western Regions may not have realized this at all, and they were completely unaware of what kind of changes the Wei Empire would bring to them after rebuilding the Western Regions Protectorate.

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

According to the information obtained by Guo, some of these guys even took a little oil and water out of the reward and spent 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 kinds of internal organs, all kinds of poisons, and the bureaucrats in the world are generally black, this is a class problem.

After the audience, Simbi summoned the envoys of the eighteen kingdoms again.

Xin Bi told them that the Li Fan Yuan was their station in Luoyang City from now on, and they were allowed to leave their own officials in the Luoyang City Li Fan Yuan, and they could negotiate with the Wei Empire in time to solve the problem as soon as possible after encountering any friction problems.

The envoys were pleasantly surprised, you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly they wanted to go back to show off to their families and the ambivalence of wanting to stay in Luoyang City and continue to spend time drinking made them very entangled.

These are not the things that Guo has to take care of, there are so many things that Guo has to take care of, and the next thing is that the officials have docked with the countries of the Western Regions, especially the docking with the Qiuzi country.

Qiuci is a big country in the Western Regions, and the life span of the country is also very long, until the Mengyuan Dynasty, there is still the existence of Qiuci Kingdom, and it is one of the countries in the Western Regions that survived to the end.

The former Han Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate was located in the territory of Qiuci Kingdom, which 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 Western Regions Protector does not need to be very high, two thousand stones are enough.

However, a simple civilian official could not control the field, and he needed military attachés to sit in the town, and he also had to lead troops to sit in the town, so that he could better implement the mission of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions.

Therefore, Guo Peng simply let the military attache lead the garrison to serve as the protector of the Western Regions, which can achieve better deterrence to a certain extent.

After thinking about it, it was a bit overkill to let Cao Ren do this position, and other generals were worried that their personalities were not suitable for this position.

So Guo thought about it, and this position naturally belonged to Cao Xiu, who was currently guarding Liuzhong City.

Brought it out by himself, he can be literate and martial, 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 Western Regions Protectorate, Guo Peng will also set up at least four garrison points in the Western Regions.

Let these four garrison points guard the Silk Road in the north and south respectively, protect the safety of the Wei Empire's merchants, echo with the Protectorate, and accept Cao Ren's orders.

Previously, the Eastern Han Dynasty set up three garrison points, which were not enough, so Guo Peng set up five.

It doesn't make much sense to set up too much military supplies and supplies, and it may not be able to provide too much for the countries of the Western Regions to provide, so it mainly depends on transportation.

Maintain five garrison points, stabilize the Silk Road, and wait until the road from the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions is almost completed, and then you can start preparing to completely control the entire Western Regions.

Before that, let them be happy for a while, let them earn some money and live a luxurious life.

However, this is also to increase their purchasing power appropriately, so that they have more money to buy luxury goods produced in the Central Plains.

The products and commercial strength of the Western Regions countries could not compete with the vast Wei Empire, and their markets would inevitably be occupied by a large number of Wei merchants, so the money they obtained still had to be used to consume the general or luxury goods provided by the Wei Empire's merchants.

The left hand is reversed to the right hand, the two hands are exchanged with each other, and the wool is out of the sheep, and this money is still from the Wei Empire.

The countries of the Western Regions not only had to return the money they earned to the Wei Empire, but also had to pay their own capital in the future.

Guo is doing a big business with a lot of profits.

In Guo's view, tribute is just a way to open up the market.

By opening their markets, the goods of the Wei Empire will naturally enter their markets, control their commerce, transform their lives, and go through the road of dealing with Liaodong again.

In the end, there was no need to move troops at all, and it was easy to abolish them all and annex them directly.

It is not for nothing that the Song Empire is called the Great Empire.

The 70 percent victory rate in foreign wars is only a necessary level to maintain the existence of a country, and the victory is basically a defensive counterattack, not a strategic offensive.

This is not commendable.

According to the defense of the city, if you can't win the counterattack, isn't it the loss of the division and the loss of the country?

In the end, the Song Empire was indeed unable to win the defensive war.

The number of troops in the head-to-head battle far surpassed that of the Jin Empire was defeated, and the military completely collapsed.

Organizing a strategic offensive and winning the war is the sign of a strong country.

Strategic offensives can bring out all aspects of a country, from the emperor to the mobilization ability of the small people in the market, but after Zhao Guangyi, the Northern Song Dynasty lost this mobilization ability and was no longer able to organize large-scale strategic offensives of a national nature.

In the era of Song Huizong, the northbound Youyan was a joke at all.

From this point of view, the military power of the Song Empire was really weak.

Of course, although the combat effectiveness of the Song Empire's army is indeed not very high-ranked, but in addition to the fact that wars are always lost, if you really want to talk about the era of peace and mutual markets, they really did not suffer much.

The New Year's coins were sent, but they could earn them back through commercial means, and they did give out a lot every year, but through the trade between the two sides, the Song Empire could obtain economic benefits far beyond the New Year's coins.

From this point of view, the alliance of the abyss does not suffer.

The commercial strength of the Liao and Western Xia was far from comparable to that of the Song.

The Song Empire's thriving commodity economy made the Song Empire's copper coins widely accepted throughout Greater China, where Song copper coins were universal.

Such a good economic advantage is enough to show that the products and economic strength of the Song Dynasty are above that of the Liao State and also above that of the Western Xia.

However, such a great economic advantage was not taken advantage of by the rulers of the Song Empire to fight a trade war with the Liao State and the Western Xia.

Although the Song army could not win the offensive war, it could at least fight a defensive war, so there was a military basis for a trade war.

The trade war plunged the Western Xia and Liao into an economic panic, crushing their economies and greatly weakening their ability to mobilize for war.

If the Song army could not achieve results under such circumstances, it would be a great miracle.

If Guo were in charge of the overall situation, he would definitely take advantage of Song's commercial advantages to decisively organize a national team to stir up trouble in their market, set off economic panic, and weaken their national strength.

The Song Dynasty did not have an advantage militarily, so it was natural to find a breakthrough from the advantageous economy, let such a good opportunity drain away, and really play harmonious coexistence with the sworn enemy.

In the face of mortal enemies who threaten his life and death, of course, he must find ways to weaken him and destroy him in various ways, instead of playing harmonious coexistence with them.

Although the countries of the Western Regions do not have the ability to threaten the Wei Empire, for the sake of the Wei Empire's plan to open the source, Guo will not really coexist in harmony with them.

Anyway, now that the righteous name is in hand, Guo can do whatever he wants to do with Wei Tianzi's edict, if he is disobedient......

What the? Disobedient?

Hit him!

The 50,000 troops left in the Hexi Corridor and Cao Ren are not vegetarians.