Guo is an emperor who likes to pay attention to practicality, but under the composition of the tributary system, he also has to suffer this dumb loss.

In order to show the strong economic strength of the Central Plains Empire and the generosity of the Celestial Empire, the return gifts to these countries were basically doubled, or several times.

It does seem to be a loss, they brought some ordinary things, and then returned with a full load, which is a loss.

However, the relationship between countries cannot be analysed simply from the economic perspective of a single exchange.

These things are exchanged for the status of the monarch and the minister, the name between the suzerainty and the vassal state, and the name of righteousness.

Guo gave an order, and they had to obey the righteous name.

From then on, all the rulers of their country were to be equipped with the official seal of the Wei Empire, and they were the subjects of the Wei Empire.

More importantly, they were no longer independent in terms of national character, and from now on they had to follow the political call of the Wei Empire and follow in the footsteps of the Wei Empire.

The bureaucracy appointed the Wei Empire, nor did the Wei Empire, which governed the people, but their succession of thrones had to be approved by the Wei Emperor.

They can't decide on the succession of the throne privately, even if it's just a procedure, they have to get the official canonization of the Emperor of the Wei Empire, and then they can be justified.

If they can't get the canonization of the emperor of the Wei Empire, they are the unjustifiable tabula rasa kings, they can't convince the public, and anyone can question and oppose them.

Once their king had a conflict with the Son of Heaven of the Wei Empire, and the Son of Heaven issued an order to express his disapproval of his throne, the legal basis of his rule was shaken.

His country will be internally unstable, and he himself will lose the legitimacy and legitimacy of his rule.

At that time, if anyone jumped up against him and killed him to seize the throne of king, as long as he continued to respect Wei Tianzi as the suzerain, it would be reasonable and legitimate.

That's what it sounds like, that's what suzerainty means.

In order to justify the four words, Guo has struggled for 20 years.

After 20 years of hard work, Guo has made himself stand on the pinnacle of justification, and no one knows the power of the word justification better than Guo.

After all of them became vassal states of the Wei Empire, it was not so simple to make money.

The Wei Empire set up the Western Regions Protectorate to govern them, which was usually nothing, but if there was anything important, they had to obey the order.

For example, if a small country is disobedient and makes Wei's father unhappy, then Guo will give an order and let the Western Regions Protector lead the troops to fight against it, and the vassal countries will send troops one after another and hand it over to the Western Regions Protector to attack the disobedient small country.

Under the suppression of the righteous name of the monarch and the minister, Guo has the legitimate power to crusade against disobedient small countries.

Even if the countries of the Western Regions are afraid of dissatisfaction, they must follow, and they must send troops to follow the Wei Empire to crusade against this country, otherwise it will be a real deal.

Then Guo has ample excuses and reasons to launch a "counterinsurgency war".

Do you dare to listen to the orders of the emperor of the suzerain?

This is a rebellion!

We should immediately send troops to fight and pacify in order to maintain the majesty of the Heavenly Empire!

This is not aggression, but a counterinsurgency war, a justifiably internal war to quell a rebellion.

This was an internal contradiction within the Wei imperial system, not a war of aggression and conquest between states.

This is important, and this will determine whether the Wei Empire is a royal country or a hegemonic country.

Obviously, the reputation of the kingdom of kings sounds good.

Regardless of whether he is actually like this or not, it can be written like this in the history books anyway, it is irrefutable.

And then smoothly turned the Western Regions into a place since ancient times.

If this thing can be bought with money, Guo will die of happiness.

Then he can be the emperor at least five years in advance, and he will be able to establish the Wei Empire before the age of thirty, which is easier than Liu Xiu, and he doesn't need to work so hard at all.

It is to fight the warlords and destroy the central Han Dynasty, all kinds of insidious and vicious tactics have been used, and then they have to cheat the throne from under Liu Jian's ass, and they will also carry out a big purge to purge the courtiers loyal to the Han family, and kill some people to establish their authority.

How difficult.

If everything in the world could be bought with money, Guo would have been able to establish a Datong Empire, complete the second academic downward movement, and start the imperial examination system.

Unfortunately, not everything can be bought with money, especially the name of righteousness.

But now that the countries of the Western Regions took the initiative to step forward, Tian shamelessly came up and sold his righteous name to Guo someone, Guo was too late to be happy, where would he refuse?

With the title of this suzerain, if any small country is disobedient in the future, Guo will send troops to fight after dividing it by two, and there is no need to worry about any impact at all.

In order to show that they follow the orthodox attitude, the remaining countries also sent troops to follow, attacked together, and provided food and straw, saving me an unknown number of things.

Of course, this should be based on the premise that the Wei Empire was strong and could control the Western Regions, and if it was the same as the civil strife in the Eastern Han Dynasty before, it should not be discussed.

Guo someone will not do things that cost money to buy face, but if there are deeper benefits to be obtained and long-term development, it will be good.

Guo has never spent money in vain.

And in this way, it is equivalent to opening up an external market for mainland business travelers, although this market is not too big, and the consumption level is not high, but it is also a market after all.

One more market means more income, and in this way, we can open up a broader market in Central Asia and do business with large Central Asian countries with a larger population.

Although there were many rewards for accepting these vassal states, the benefits after that were far from being comparable to those of the present ones.

What they received once in tribute would be quickly returned to Guo through the trade route.

So when some officials thought that the opening of the Western Regions was not a good thing and would have a lot of unnecessary expenditures, Guo Peng ignored them.

One by one, they thought that Guo was standing on the first floor, and they were standing on the second floor, but they didn't know that Guo someone's mind was already standing on the ninety-ninth floor.

I want the entire Western Regions, I want them all!

After the list of gifts was read, Guo pretended to be satisfied and accepted their tribute, and then asked the officials to read out his holy decree.

It is polite to say that the Emperor of Wei allowed Shanshan to become a vassal state of the Wei Empire, and from then on to form a relationship between the monarch and the minister, the country will be forever, and the monarch and the minister will never be separated.

Then they were given the official seals of the Wei Empire and the golden seal of the king, and then announced a large number of rewards, three times the amount and value of the tribute of Shanshan.

Sure enough, the eyes of the two envoys of Shanshanguo were straight.

Oh, the rat's eyes are bright.

Guo secretly ridiculed these guys who saw money.

Later, the envoys of Shanshan State announced their gratitude, and used the courtier's etiquette to worship Guo someone, and after paying a big salute, he slowly withdrew.

Then the envoys of the Houche Shiguo came to visit, bringing twice as much tribute as Shanshanguo, and naturally received three times the reward, and the Houcheshi State also became one of the vassal states of the Wei Empire, officially forming the status of a monarch and a minister.

Then, according to the standard procedure, the seal ribbon given to the officials of the Wei Empire was given to the Cheshi Wang, and the golden seal was given to the Cheshi King, symbolizing that the Emperor of Wei allowed the Cheshi King to exercise the power to rule on his behalf in the Cheshi Kingdom.

Then all the countries of the Western Regions announced their audience one after another, worshiped the Son of Heaven, became vassal states, received rewards and Wei official seals, as well as the king's golden seal, and formed a relationship with Wei Tianzi.

Finally, the envoys of the eighteen feudal states of the Western Regions knelt down and saluted to Guo Someone, the son of Wei, on behalf of their kings in the Qinzheng Palace, saying long live, and officially establishing the status of suzerains and vassals.

"Long live my emperor."

They learned from the ministers of the Wei court to express their submission and loyalty to Guo Peng, knelt in front of Guo and swore an oath that they would follow the Wei Empire from now on and embark on a win-win path of harmonious development.

In this way, the big picture is decided.

Guo suddenly has many filial sons and grandchildren.

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