In short, the martial arts hall is doing well under Guo Jia's management, and Guo is very satisfied.

Occasionally, I took some time to lecture on the martial arts hall to inspect, give lectures, and even personally explain to the students the classic battles that he personally commanded.

For example, the battle to clean up the Yellow Turban Army, the battle to clean up Lu Yi, the battle to counterattack Yuan Shao, the battle to advance Yanzhou, and the battle against Lu Bu.

These are all dangerous wars that Guo is fighting in order to survive and grow in the process of starting a business, and they are wars that he cannot afford to lose, and once he loses, it will bring him very serious consequences.

In the early days, Guo had a thin foundation, no capital to make a comeback, and in the face of a group of jackals, tigers and leopards, it was possible to overturn if he lost once, so he didn't dare to take it lightly, and every battle had to be carefully planned.

The wonderful planning and strategic conception made the students who had just come into contact with the theory of the art of war fascinated.

Nonsense, the emperor personally lectured, who would dare not be serious?

Therefore, Guo Peng's lectures always make the students excited themselves.

I can actually hear the emperor's lecture in person, this is ......

We are all real protégés of the Son of Heaven!

Tell it to the robes in the army, or tell it to future generations, what a face-saving thing!

The founding emperor of the Great Wei Empire personally gave me a lecture, and I was his student.

What a feeling!

What does that taste like...... I'm going to get drunk just thinking about it.

In mid-May, after Guo returned from going to Shouyang Mountain to lecture on martial arts again, he learned that the combined caravan had crossed Tongguan and began to march towards Luoyang, and would arrive in Luoyang in a few days.

Because the person who came had the semi-official business team of the Kushan Empire, and his own caravan was also treated with hospitality and courtesy by the Kushan Emperor, Guo felt that it was necessary for him to give courtesy to the semi-official caravan of the Kushan in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.

Anyway, everyone's relationship must be good.

This relationship is not good, and there will be no way to do business in the future, since Emperor Guishan welcomes the Wei caravan to do business, then of course Guo someone can't live up to his [kindness].

So Guo issued an order to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ordering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare carefully.

After a long time, Xinbi, who is in the Lifan Yuan every day and those envoys from the Western Regions, has a job to do again.

He was very happy, so he took the large and small salted fish in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into battle to prepare for the return of the combined caravan and the arrival of the Kushan envoys.

Soon, not many days later, Ma Yuan led the joint caravan back to Luoyang, and on the outskirts of Luoyang, Shangshu Xinbi of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially greeted the joint caravan on behalf of the emperor who had been ordered to explore westward.

Ma Yuan, as the representative of the joint caravan, held a cordial meeting with Simbi.

During the meeting, Xin Bi, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire, spoke highly of the achievements of Ma Yuan and his entourage's westward expansion.

Xin Bi said that Ma Yuan led a joint caravan to the Kushan Kingdom to conduct business, and it was of great significance for the Wei Empire to reopen the silk trade route that had been lost for decades.

The actions of Ma Yuan and his entourage were of great significance to the Wei Empire's opening up of commercial and trade exchanges with countries along the Silk Power.

Ma Yuan said that his actions were completely out of the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and he acted on orders, and everything he did was what His Majesty the Emperor wanted him to do.

He was only responsible for carrying out His Majesty's orders, which was a matter of course for a courtier, and was not worthy of praise.

Xin Bi also said that Ma Yuan dared to take responsibility and make a difference, and was a representative of the new generation of young people in the Great Wei Empire.

He will call on young people to work together to learn from Ma Yuan, learn from Ma Yuan's spirit of courage to pioneer and not be afraid of hardships and dangers, and learn from Ma Yuan's courage to brave thousands of miles of journey.

Ma Yuan shed tears and said that he could be so evaluated by the motherland, and his life was worth it.

After some business blowing, the welcome ceremony also came to an end.

The official and unofficial caravans were disbanded on the spot, and each went to deal with its own aftermath, while Ma Yuan took Xin Bi to meet with the semi-official team of the Kushan Kingdom.

Like Ma Yuan's identity, the identity of the leader of the Guishan business team is not ordinary.

Although he was not an official merchant of the Kushan Empire, he was a member of the Kushan Emperor's favored vassals, and was temporarily appointed by the Kushan Emperor as the manager of this caravan, and had a semi-official status.

In a sense, like Ma Yuan, they will go on an ice-breaking trip to see if the Wei Empire welcomes them, and whether they are really willing to carry out peaceful, friendly, equal and mutually beneficial commercial and trade cooperation with them as Ma Yuan said.

As it turns out, that's right.

Ma Yuan introduced Xin Bi, a high-ranking official of the Wei Empire, to meet with the envoys of the Kushan Empire.

Long Lihe, the leader of the Kushan Empire's caravan and the special representative appointed by the emperor, heard that this was a great official of the Wei State, and immediately stepped forward to pay a visit.

In order to better promote exchanges between the two sides, when Ma Yuan passed through Dawan on his return trip, he said that he wanted to ask Dawan to borrow Thatch, and it would be better to treat Saatchi as the official envoy of Dawan.

King Dawan did not object, so he gave this task to Thatch, who was also interested in Wei, so he accepted this task and followed the combined caravan to Wei to serve as a translator.

Under Thatch's translation, a more formal exchange took place between the Wei Empire and the Kushan Empire.

Longlihe asked Xin Bi whether their arrival was presumptuous, whether the great Wei Empire welcomed them, whether they could achieve their mission of mutual trade, and so on.

Xin Biyi gave a positive and positive response, saying that the Wei Empire was also looking forward to trading with the Kushan Empire, and welcomed their arrival very much, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Wei Empire had even decided to receive them, although it still needed some preparation time.

Longlihe is very pleased.

To be honest, after he entered the territory of the Wei Empire, he was still quite apprehensive.

Along the way, he saw the scene of the Wei Empire's large-scale construction, and he was surprised by the strength of the Wei Empire's manpower and material resources.

And after seeing the county city of Hanyang, I was also surprised, because the city of the Wei Empire was so tall, it was still made of bricks and stones, and it was guarded by an army with distinct armor, and it was quite elite at first glance.

People come and go, and he feels that the population of the Wei Empire must not be less than that of Guishan.

Then he left Liangzhou and entered Yongzhou, the cities he saw were bigger and bigger, there were more and more people, and the roads were getting bigger and bigger, and when he saw Chang'an City, he almost lost the ability to think.

This city is larger than Lan City, the capital of Kushan.

It's as simple as that, it's so easy to understand.

After really seeing the Chang'an City rebuilt by the Guo Wei Empire, the feeling of shock could not subside for a long time, and after entering, Longlihe was even more amazed after seeing the brick and stone pavement, neat streets and the scene of the city where human beings frequented.

The people here are not gorgeously dressed and very simple, but compared to those untouchable slaves in Lan City, they are at least clean and tidy.

He didn't know why these civilians seemed to be cleaner and tidy, and the roads were also business travelers coming and going, and more importantly, he was surprised that he couldn't smell the stench that should be normal in this city.

When passing through some small towns and villages, you can smell that kind of smell, but in some large-scale cities, you can't smell such a smell, and even more so in Chang'an City.

The air is fresh, clean, and you don't smell the stench.

Longlihe felt incomprehensible, so he asked Thatch, who had also asked Ma Yuan because he couldn't understand, and Ma Yuan gave him an affirmative answer.

Because there are large-scale public toilets in the upper scale of the city, and the small scale or the city under construction has not yet been spread, or there is a rural area near the mountain and wilderness that passes through, there will be that kind of foul smell.

What is a public toilet?

Thatch was as strange as Longlihe is now.

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