Migration is a must.

When Guo Peng marched into Kansai to capture the land of Sanfu, he had already decided to do so.

At that time, looking at the desolate and dilapidated appearance of Luoyang and Chang'an, Cao Ren still remembered how emotional Guo Peng was, saying how prosperous Guanzhong was and how large the population was, but he didn't expect to be turned into a ghost domain by the melee.

But now it seems that the situation in the four counties of Hexi is not much better than the ravaged land of Guanzhong.

There were already fewer people, but after a chaotic meal, there were fewer people.

Looking at this desolate scene, Cao Ren couldn't help but sigh.

"Before the capture of Liangzhou, His Majesty had mobilized millions of immigrants from the Central Plains to enter the land of Kansai to reclaim wasteland to fill the population, and it is said that there will be a million-level immigration plan to fill the lack of population in Kansai."

Speaking of this, Cao Ren couldn't help but sigh: "If it weren't for the rebellion of Dong Zhuo, Li and Guo Yan, the population of Kansai would have been lost, and the imperial court would not have to worry about immigrating to the real border every year, the population loss of Kansai was really heavy. ”

"Yes, what a prosperous land in Kansai back then, it actually reached the point where it needed immigrants from the Central Plains, but fortunately, the households in Hebei in the Central Plains were relatively intact and would not be greatly damaged, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable."

Zhao Yan sighed again and again.

"But in this situation, where should the population be relocated to the four counties of Hexi? The population of the Central Plains is large, but the Central Plains also has a lot of land, and it is necessary to cultivate and produce grain, and it is already very difficult to fill the Kansai, and it is not easy for Hebei to fill the state and Youzhou, let alone the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"Yes, I never thought that the tens of millions of people in my Wei would have a population of not enough on this day, I read and saw that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the four counties of Hexi before that year, and a total of 280,000 immigrants, and now the population of the four counties of Hexi together is less than 200,000, which is not as good as a county in the Central Plains, and it cannot support the needs of the army to enter the Western Regions."

Cao Ren was embarrassed: "It is estimated that after this war, you need to go to Your Majesty and ask for more people to be relocated to Liangzhou, especially the four counties of Hexi, no matter what, there must be at least 300,000 people, otherwise the grain needs to be transferred from Yongzhou, the distance is long, the cost is huge, and it is really not cost-effective." ”

Zhao Yan nodded in understanding.

"General Cao is right, if you want to control the Western Regions, you must control the four counties of Hexi, and if you want to control the four counties of Hexi, you must have enough people to settle down, after this war, the immigrants to the four counties of Hexi will be settled, otherwise you will not be able to return to the Western Regions."

"Speaking of which, in the land of the Western Regions, we haven't learned about it for decades, right?"

Cao Ren asked Zhao Yan.

"Well, since the former Han Xiaohuan Emperor, the communication between China and the Western Regions has been affected by the Qiang Rebellion and has become increasingly difficult, when the former Han Dynasty was declining and unable to change this phenomenon, and later, until the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was completely cut off."

Zhao Yan calculated: "If you want to count intermittently, there will be more than 30 years, and if you are completely isolated, there will be 20 years." ”

"Twenty years...... Long enough. ”

Cao Ren set his sights on the West: "I, Wei Tianzi, Wen Taowu, are powerful in all directions, and now that the great cause has been accomplished, how can there be no kingdoms to come to court?" Only when all countries come to the dynasty can they be worthy of the identity of my Wei Tianzi. ”

Before the four counties of Hexi were all pacified, Cao Ren had already begun to plan to make Guo Peng a Wanguo dynasty to make him happy.

So Cao Ren is still very caring.

The goal of this war was to take Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass, and to bring the entire Hexi Corridor back to the central government as an arm of the central government.

In this way, the central forces were able to directly contact the countries of the Western Regions and convey to them the news of the return of the Central Empire to the four counties of Hexi.

In this way, it will also establish Cao Ren's own prestige.

Cao Ren admired Ban Chao and Ban Yong who were capable people with great wisdom, almost galloping across the Western Regions in the way of empty gloves and white wolves, backed by the Eastern Han Empire, even coaxing and deceiving and threatening, and from time to time personally led troops to rush and kill, and brought the means of razing to the extreme, how brave and intelligent it was.

If only I could do that!

Cao Ren is looking forward to it.

In this anticipation, at the beginning of June of the third year of Yande, the Wei army pacified Jiuquan County and began to march towards Dunhuang County.

At the same time, Cao Ren ordered Zhang Fei to lead 10,000 troops to enter the Zhangye vassal state, pacify the foreign forces of the Zhangye vassal state, and eliminate future troubles.

Subsequently, Liangzhou Thorn Shi Mao Jue received Guo Peng's order.

Guo Peng ordered Mao Jue to move the state seat from Hanyang County to Guzang County in Wuwei County, and from then on Guzang County was the seat of Liangzhou Prefecture, and began to prepare a plan to rectify the four counties in Hexi.

Then he will also start the real border plan for immigrants in the four counties of Hexi at the same time.

Mao Jue was surprised, and immediately asked about the matter, thinking that the four counties of Hexi had not yet been pacified, and there was no number of acres of land.

Guo Peng replied to Mao Jue that military affairs cannot wait until they need to be anxious, that it is a good habit of behavior to take precautions, and that taking one step and seeing two steps is the foundation of a politician.

Mao Jue should let go of his pace and stride forward, in a dilapidated place like Liangzhou, it is not appropriate to follow the rules, and the chaos needs to be governed by great governance.

Rectify Liangzhou as soon as possible, welcome immigrants, build Liangzhou into a logistics base for advancing the Western Regions, and lay the foundation for reopening the Silk Road.

Guo couldn't wait to sell the goods of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions and even in those countries further west of the Western Regions.

Countries with a certain size and purchasing power are his targets, such as the Kushan Empire, which is a good trading partner.

Further west, there are the Empires of Sabbath, which are the great and powerful countries of Central Asia.

At that time, the Kushan Empire tried to get involved in the Western Regions in the name of seeking the daughter of the Han Emperor, but Ban Chao categorically refused, and the Guishan sent 70,000 troops to attack the Western Regions, and Ban Chao mobilized the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions to fight against the Guishan Empire, and finally defeated them.

When Guo Peng learned about these past events, he was full of interest in those Central Asian countries and wanted to have some normal contacts with them.

This is very much in need of the cooperation of the Western Regions.

Cao Ren's attack, ostensibly to advance into the Western Regions, but the ultimate goal was to open up the Silk Road and expand the influence of the Wei Empire to Central Asia, which was Guo Peng's ultimate plan.

Therefore, Guo Peng had such a request for Mao Jue, and soon arranged a plan to relocate 100,000 to 150,000 residents to settle in the four counties of Hexi, and began to attract people who were willing to move to the four counties of Hexi with a large amount of land and tax exemption.

Recruit first, and then use the administrative order to recruit if it is not enough, and move some of the Haoqiang and criminal official families that he has long been unhappy with into the four counties of Hexi.

So Cao Ren in front was moving troops to storm the counties of Dunhuang, and Mao Jue in the rear had already begun to measure the land and population of the four counties in Hexi.

At the end of June of the third year of Yande, Cao Ren's resistance to the local people in Dapo, Dunhuang County, swept away one of them, beheaded the local powerful figures, and seized the population.

At the same time, it violently destroyed all the buildings and military facilities that did not comply with the regulations in Dunhuang, destroyed the manor on a large scale, and forcibly relocated the residents to the designated place of residence.

Xiahou Yuan and Yan Liang led a cavalry team to arrive at Yangguan and Yumen Pass, which had been lost for more than 20 years, and planted the banner of the Wei Empire on the Guancheng, officially announcing the return of the Wei Empire to this land.

In June of the third year of Yande, Yangguan and Yumen Pass once again became the western gates of the Central Empire.

At this point, the four counties of Hexi completely returned to the control of the Central Empire.

And Guo, who controls the four counties of Hexi, has successfully controlled the key to returning to the Western Regions.

The initiative, he got it.