At present, Japan, if Guo is not mistaken, it seems to be a relatively primitive period.

In terms of countries, it is not yet possible to form a country, or there are multiple regional countries, and there is no unified country.

Guo vaguely remembered that there was a country called Yamatai, which didn't seem to have a large ruling range, and the king was still a queen, and it seemed that he had a relatively good relationship with Cao Wei.

The whole country is quite primitive, even if you send people to conquer it, it is not very difficult to think about it, and it is a matter of minutes to take it.

Therefore, in the partition plan planned by Guo someone, the Japanese archipelago is indeed within the scope of the future partition.

For the great quantity of gold and silver.

If you want to talk about the local understanding of Japan in China during this period, it is probably the story of the legendary Xu Fu's eastward crossing, and it seems that the official exchanges have not yet begun.

I remember that there seemed to be something like that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but Guo didn't care.

At present, Guo does not know that there is any news from Japan, and it is not certain whether Japan knows that China has changed its dynasty.

After thinking about it, Guo decided to engage in the Silk Road and earn gold and silver from Guishan, and at the same time send people to find the Japanese archipelago, and then look for gold and silver mines on the Japanese archipelago.

Although I don't know how long it will take, how long it will take to really use the silver, after all, Guo doesn't know where Iwami Silver Mountain is.

But even if you don't need it during your own reign, it's not bad to lay a foundation for Guo Jin's rule.

Find a few years, ten years, and you can find it after all.

If there is an opportunity to issue banknotes to carry out economic reform in the future, a sufficient amount of precious metals is definitely the first choice.

Although grain is also hard currency in this era, and it can also be linked to money to stabilize the economy and prices, food has a very important shortcoming.

Grain has an expiration date, beyond which it cannot be eaten.

Once it loses its edible value, at that time, grain loses its economic status as a hard currency.

Therefore, Guo will also store the newly harvested grain in time every year, take out the old grain in the warehouse, sell it in the shop, or release it to the army for the army to eat.

If you really want to engage in economy, you still need precious metals, which have absolute value in themselves.

Regardless of the existence of extreme circumstances, such as a complete failure of the grain harvest and the complete collapse of the country, gold and silver still have value.

It is true that the amount of precious metals in China cannot support the gold standard or the silver standard.

The price of copper is not very expensive, and the weight is large, the transshipment is inconvenient, in the era when there is no shadow of paper money, it is very unfavorable to the rapid development of the economy.

Even now, when transportation is many times more developed than in previous dynasties, there are still many people who complain that copper coins are too heavy and occupy too much space, which is not conducive to the use of long-distance merchants, while gold and silver are not so easy to obtain.

This will inevitably affect the further development of the economy.

For economic considerations, both the land and maritime Silk roads should be arranged, and both should be grasped, so as to maximize the acquisition of gold and silver, increase storage, and revitalize the economy.

Treating Guishan, don't mention military means for the time being, everyone has no strength to help each other.

Even if he can win a military confrontation on a certain battlefield, Guo doesn't think it's a victory.

War is not simply a battle between two armies, the essence of war is the occupation of land, population and resources, and it is the struggle between the two warring parties for the war potential of a piece of land.

It would be unwise to go to war without considering these or other necessary reasons.

Anyway, right now, Guo doesn't see any need to attack the Kushan Empire.

The demand for gold and silver can be obtained through trade, not only to obtain gold and silver, but also to transfer excess capacity and stimulate external demand.

At a time when the Western Regions are not fully under rule and mature transportation arteries are not fully built, any military action against countries outside the Western Regions is unnecessary.

Especially the Kushan and the rest.

Even if it is defeated, it will not be able to rule because it exceeds the limit of the extreme wall of the empire, and it will just cost money and food in vain.

Although they are very unhappy that they have eaten up the part of the profits that could have been eaten by the Wei Empire as second-class dealers, but this is also something that cannot be helped.

This is a limitation of the times, and it cannot be solved by any means.

Unless someone Guo is no longer a person.

Moreover, during this time, Guo remembered that the rise of the Persian Empire seemed to be indispensable to the Roman Empire's attack on the Resting Empire.

And the reason why the Rest Empire was attacked by the Roman Empire was that this guy was too unkind and greedy for money.

Seeing the Romans' fanatical desire for silk, after monopolizing the trade routes, they sold silk at a high price, so that the nobles of the Roman Empire could not bear it, so they raised troops to fight.

The Roman Empire failed to directly destroy the Sabbath Empire because of the long distance, and no one got any benefits from the Sabbath Empire, and was attacked by Rome again and again, and was dying.

The last to take advantage was Sassanid Persia.

After all, Rome didn't take much advantage, because it really couldn't be defeated.

Therefore, the second-way dealers should be kind and not too pitiful.

It's too pitiful, not only is the money gone, but even his own life is gone, and it's someone else who is cheaper.

The Roman Empire is not a simple wrongdoer, although fanatical likes, but if you don't let me get it normally, I will really beat you.

Under the military system, the Roman Empire was slightly weaker, the military conquest was still very rigid, and the political system was basically controlled by the military and immature.

In a fight, the Roman Empire was really not afraid of anyone.

It seems that the Sabbath and the Persian change are in this period, and it should not be far off.

However, these things have nothing to do with Guo at the moment.

Guo has not even bypassed the Guishan Kingdom now, and Guishan still has to compete with Anxi for the status of a second-way dealer, if you insist on talking about it, the Anshan Empire is still a third-way dealer.

Thinking about it this way, Guo is really unhappy.

The current situation is that the Western Regions is the first to change hands, Guishan is the second to change hands, and Rest is the third to change hands, and when it comes to Rome, it is already the fourth change of hands.

The price of a batch of high-grade Shu brocade sold in the Wei Empire was not cheap, and after four changes of hands, it was sold to Rome, and the price was ......

Tsk tsk.

It is no wonder that Rome did not hesitate to raise troops and fight to rest in peace.

The cost of successive wars is not as costly as being monopolized by Anxi.

It's not kind.

In other words, can the Maritime Silk Road be arranged?

If you can, how much middleman can be saved and how much profit can be eaten......

The nautical technology of this era......

When Guo thought of this, he felt a headache again.

In addition to navigation technology, shipbuilding technology is also a problem, and the technical requirements of long-distance navigation sea ships are very high, and all kinds of dangers are not small.

It is also a question whether the sea-making and seafaring technology mastered by the current Wei Empire can successfully reach the Arabian Peninsula region of the Middle East and come into contact with the Roman Empire.

Is it too late to start developing the ocean-going industry?

Forget it, no matter if it's too late or not, even if you can't see it when you're alive, you can leave it to Guo Jin or Guo Jin's son.

It's going to be done anyway.

Arrange it and send someone to try to explore.

But this part belongs to the profit that can be seen and eaten, so you can't spend a lot of energy to do it, and what you have to do now is to eat the part that you can see and eat.

Thinking about it this way, Guo wanted to annex the Eighteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions as soon as possible, occupy the entire Western Regions, and eliminate this group of first-stage middlemen.

It's a bit of a feeling of not waiting.

Guo felt that it was necessary for him to lay out in the Western Regions in advance and make some preparations in advance, so that in the future, Cao Ren would lead the Northwest Corps to wipe out the Eighteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions in the Western Regions.

Make them powerless to resist effectively.

As soon as he thought of this, Guo began to ask Ma Yuan about the situation of the countries in the Western Regions.

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