In the interior of the Wei Empire, this plan was implemented quite well.

But after leaving the land of Shenzhou and going to the Western Regions so far away, the garrison rotation time has become longer, so this problem is obviously not a simple holiday that can be solved.

Guo Peng investigated the information of the former Han Dynasty for this reason, and learned that during the Han and Han dynasties, faced with the same problem, the governments of the two Han Dynasty also allowed the families of the soldiers of the Western Regions to follow the army.

Of course, it is estimated that there is also a logical idea of immigration, increasing the population and occupying the local area.

At first, it may be more expensive, but with the increase in the number of people and the reclamation of tuntian land, the local population carrying capacity will definitely increase.

No matter how barren the land is, it has a certain population carrying capacity.

So Guo decided to do it.

Moreover, the strategy of reclaiming land nearby for military cantonment is already a strategy that Guo Peng has decided to implement, before pushing the Western Regions, there must always be a few tenable strongholds in the Western Regions, otherwise how to push it?

It doesn't take too long to build roads, and it will be within a few years to push the Western Regions, and if you don't step up investment now, if there is a problem with the westward movement of the army at that time, who will be responsible?

So Dong Zhao and Zao had nothing to say, and expressed their agreement with Cao Xiu's request, and were willing to send someone to do this matter and send the families of the soldiers and soldiers of the Western Regions garrison to them for reunion.

This is how the matter was finalized.

Soon, Guo Peng issued a holy decree to report this matter, and all departments worked together to complete the matter.

Then he sent the news to Yongzhou and Liangzhou, so that Chen Gong and Mao Jue could pay attention to it, and give special care when transporting logistics materials.

At the same time, Guo Peng once again issued a holy decree, asking the countries where the garrisons in the Western Regions are located to allow the garrisons in the Western Regions to reclaim wasteland and fields near the garrisons and increase crop production, so as to reduce the burden of logistics and transportation in the interior, and also required the countries stationed in the Western Regions to bear some of the corresponding costs in this regard.

He summoned the envoys in Beijing from the front and rear divisions, as well as the envoys from Qiuzi, Gumo and Yanqi, and summoned them to discuss the matter.

Guo Peng asked each of them to bear part of the living expenses of the troops stationed in a place, provide some food and daily necessities, and discuss the specific content and share with the military department.

More or less, it must be provided, and it is not allowed not to be provided.

Not long after the status of the vassal state was established, Guo Peng began to exercise the power of the Son of Heaven of the suzerain, requiring them to facilitate the garrison of Wei, or a mandatory edict of the Son of Heaven, which must not be opposed, otherwise it will be regarded as rebellion.

The envoys of several countries agreed reluctantly, and then each went back to sort out the news, and sent someone back to hand it over to their own kings, so that their respective kings could be upset.

They didn't expect it anyway, the benefits haven't been enjoyed much, and the business travelers have not yet entered the Wei Empire on a large scale to do business, and as a result, they will face the tasks assigned to them by the Great Wei Emperor.

How dare they refuse such a thing?

Seeing that a better day is coming, if Wei Tianzi is unhappy for this kind of thing, who knows what Wei Tianzi can do?

They don't dare take any chances.

After the status of the vassal state and the suzerainty was determined, Guo Peng naturally opened the border, allowing merchants from various countries in the Western Regions to bring their own goods to the Central Plains to do business, and gave them certain tariff preferences.

The countries of the Western Regions were very happy, and almost immediately organized a large caravan and began to do business with the Wei Empire, with the main targets being the two giant cities of Chang'an and Luoyang.

The population is large, there are many rich people, and the business must be done on a large scale, which is very beneficial to them.

Small countries and widows, those who can do business generally have an official background, and making a single business is enough for them to be happy and luxurious for a while, and if the business is bigger, the more benefits there will be.

However, even if they make a lot of money, they have to have a place to spend it, and they don't have so many goods to spend in that small place.

So at this time, the combined caravan of the Wei Empire came in handy.

Carry a huge amount of goods to the countries of the Western Regions as a traveling businessman, go around a large circle in the entire Western Regions, and include all the countries in the Western Regions, so that they have things to buy, places to spend, and a luxurious life.

In addition to this huge combined caravan, there were also civilian caravans that were very frustrated that they did not catch up with the departure of the first wave of caravans.

At first, they were worried, not believing that the emperor would take them to do anything meaningful, and suspecting that the emperor would trap them, but when the Wei Empire successfully returned to the Western Regions and established a comprehensive suzerain-vassal relationship with the Western Regions, they regretted it.

But this is not Guo someone's fault, Guo really didn't cheat them, all the news is transparent and open, everyone knows, although there are some selections, but many of those who have not participated are qualified, and they can't keep up, who is to blame?

It must be meaningless to regret it, so they paid a deposit to the imperial court one after another, in exchange for a customs token, and got the opportunity to go to the Western Regions to do business.

At the same time that Cao Xiu led 3,000 troops into the five cities, more private caravans also set out from Yumen Pass.

They entered the land of the Western Regions, followed their respective guides to the countries of the Western Regions, and set up a big business to not only sell, but also buy themselves.

Buy some goods that are not common in the Central Plains, and then ship them back to Wei to sell, the farther away the better, the more remote the better, if you can go to Jiangdong, Jingzhou, and those places, then you will really make a profit.

The general trend of the Central Plains caravan entering the Western Regions has been formed, and over time, this news will spread to Hebei, the Qingxu coast, and Jiangnan.

And as the vanguard of this wave of trends, the huge combined caravan led by Ma Yuan has completed half of their mission.

From November of the third year of Yande to February of the fourth year of Yande, in three months, they had already arrived in the country of Shule.

After seven days of free trade in Shule, they began to move on, and this time the target was Dawan.

Dawan did not join the Western Regions states in throwing themselves into the Wei Empire as a vassal state, because at this moment, Dawan was not an independent state at all, it was subject to the Shache Kingdom, and the Shache Kingdom joined the Western Regions states in the Wei Empire and became a vassal state.

Therefore, Dawan is a vassal state of a vassal country, and it feels very wonderful.

Ma Yuan was also surprised when he first learned about it, it is said that the Dawan Kingdom is bigger than the Shache Kingdom, but the Dawan Kingdom actually surrendered to the Shache Kingdom, which shows how weak the Dawan Kingdom is.

Dawan Kingdom is not so weak at the beginning, and it is certainly not so strong.

Once, before the Kushan Empire was founded, Central Asia was ruled by a Greek-style state known as Bactria .

The country was founded by a group of troops who had not been able to return to their homeland for various reasons during Alexander's crusade, and after Alexander's death, they established the Greek-style state of Bactria here.

At that time, Dawan had been influenced by this country.

After the Han Dynasty began to weaken in Chinese history, the Hellenistic state was attacked by the Yueshi who were oppressed by the Xiongnu and had to move westward.

The Yueshi people built the current Kushan Empire on the ruins of Great Xia.

The establishment of the Kushan Empire allowed the Great Wan Kingdom to get rid of the influence of the Great Xia Kingdom and gain independence, and at this time, Chinese history entered the period when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty counterattacked the Xiongnu.

In order to contact the Kushan Empire established by the Yueshi people to fight back against the Xiongnu together, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions, and discovered the existence of the Dawan Kingdom on the way.

With the increasingly frequent exchanges with Dawan, the fact that Dawan produced good horses was officially known by the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty needed better horse breeds in order to fight back against the Xiongnu, and the sweat and blood horses of Dawan were valued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent envoys to Dawan to buy sweat and blood horses, so as to get good horse breeds and improve the Central Plains horse breeds.

As a result, the king of Dawan at that time, Tou Tie, thought that the sweat and blood BMW was the national treasure of Dawan and could not be given casually, and refused the request of the Han envoy, and the Han envoy was furious, angrily scolding the king of Dawan, and the king of Dawan was also furious, relying on the emperor of Tiangao to kill the Han envoy and seize all the property.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious, and in order to deter the people and establish the prestige of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent the general Li Guangli to attack Dawan twice across the entire Xinjiang.

The first time because of insufficient preparation, the small countries in the middle of the road did not accept the Han army, did not provide food, Li Guangli fought while walking, the army suffered a lot of losses, after arriving in Dawan, he was exhausted, had to retreat, and asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to stop fighting.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was even more angry, imprisoned Li Guangli's troops in Dunhuang and refused to retreat, and then prepared an army to destroy the country, handed it over to Li Guangli's commander, and strictly ordered him to clean up Dawan and establish prestige.

Li Guangli had no choice but to lead this well-prepared army to advance again.

This time, because of the full preparation and the large number of troops, no one dared to stop them along the way, Li Guangli successfully marched and hit Dawan, beating Dawan miserably.

The Dawan nobles were unwilling to lose the country, so they collectively killed the king of Dawan, who angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and begged Li Guangli for mercy with his head.

Li Guangli accepted, and then selected dozens of high-grade horses and more than 3,000 middle-class and low-grade war horses from Dawan Country as trophies.

Guo Peng didn't know about this matter at first, but he saw it in the history books later.

From this, he felt that his Wei Empire's current smooth development and rule in the Western Regions was really inseparable from the blood shed by the Han army in the Western Regions for four hundred years.

These small states have never been so honest, and it is only because the Central Plains Empire is too strong that they have to submit and have to reap the benefits as vassal states.

Because they knew that once they angered the Central Plains Empire, the Central Plains Empire really had the strength to destroy them.

The former Han Dynasty did not regard the Western Regions as a real territory, apparently believing that the entire Xinjiang region was vast and sparsely populated, and that it was not suitable for agricultural use, with only a few scattered and fragmented oases that could be used for agriculture, with limited carrying capacity and unfavorable terrain.

But Guo is completely different here.

Like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Guo had a strong sense of initiative and revenge, and was also very interested in the excellent horse breeds owned by the Great Wan Kingdom.

He completed the cavalry revolution here, enhanced the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and raised horses in the country, and also carried out the cultivation of the best of the best horse breeds, selected excellent stallions, and strived to breed more excellent high-headed horses.

However, the results were limited, and no change was noticeable in the short term.

Therefore, Xian Yuyin once sent a table to Guo Peng, suggesting that Guo Peng follow the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and ask for excellent horse breeds from Dawan Kingdom, which has excellent horse breeds, to improve the bloodline of the Central Plains war horses, so as to increase the impact of the Wei cavalry.

Guo Peng thought so.

Due to the custom of captive horses in the Central Plains and the disadvantaged geographical environment, if the horse breed is not improved, it will gradually degenerate over time, from a high-headed horse that is good at running and patience to a horse that can only pull a cart.

The people of the Song Dynasty should understand this best.

In the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, a certain genius made up a joke that he saw a war horse feel very painful because of mating with the mare that gave birth to it, and finally committed suicide, which set off public opinion.

He said that this is an act of exterminating ethics, and it should be stopped immediately, people have personality, horses also have mag, people cannot insult horses, and horses cannot be allowed to do such ethical behavior.

Therefore, the imperial court was forced to stop the independent maintenance of the bloodline of war horses in the Song army at that time.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the cavalry of the Song army generally looked down on the Liao war horses, thinking that the Liao war horses were low, weak in explosiveness, and inferior in blood, and they were used as horses after capture.

There was no such statement again.

Guo deeply felt the importance of improving the bloodline of war horses.

So when Ma Yuan led the joint caravan to set off, he told him not only to find the Kushan Empire and the Kushan Empire to trade, but also to find Dawan, get excellent horse breeds from Dawan and bring them back to Wei.

Guo deeply felt the importance of improving the bloodline of war horses, so when Ma Yuan led the combined caravan to set off, he told him not only to find the Kushan Empire and the Kushan Empire to trade, but also to find Dawan, get excellent horse breeds from Dawan and bring them back to Wei.