The nobles and high-ranking of the Western Regions are now very much enjoying it.

All of their enjoyment must be compared to the standard of the Wei magnates, and even if a Wei nobleman comes to their house, he can feel as if he is returning to his own home.

That's their pursuit, and they don't hesitate to pay a lot of money for it - anyway, they have a lot of money and have nowhere to spend it, and they won't use it to improve people's livelihood, so of course they are thinking of ways to show off their wealth and enjoy it.

And the best place to spend is naturally Wei.

Therefore, the things they consumed in Wei over the years, as well as the consumption within the business scope of the two imperial merchant teams, were enough for Guo Peng to organize a small and medium-sized war of about 10,000 people.

It can be seen that the silk trade road has brought them huge wealth income after the opening of these years.

They can do a lot of things that they haven't thought about before.

Or spend a lot of money to travel to Wei with your family.

Go to Chang'an and Luoyang in Guanzhong, go to major cities in the Kanto region, and even travel to Jiangnan.

For these people who have a lot of money and have nowhere to spend, Guo Peng doesn't mind opening a special channel for them, allowing them to spend lavistly along the way to show their financial strength.

The more you spend, the better.

In some small countries, there is even a situation of fighting for wealth.

In the second quarter of the sixth year of Yande, when Guo Peng reviewed the quota of foreign trade transactions, he suddenly found that the sales of Shu brocade and tea bricks had risen sharply in this quarter, and he was quite puzzled.

Shu brocade is also counted, this tea brick is a new product of Yande for four years, the luxury is still above Shu brocade, when it was still tea, it was not resistant to storage and long-distance transportation, and there was corruption from time to time.

After the birth of tea bricks, the storage resistance has been greatly improved, and the sales volume has also improved, more powerful and rich people are willing to buy tea bricks, and the domestic sales are hot, and the export sales are also good, but the sales volume in that quarter is particularly large.

Guo Peng felt curious, so he sent someone to investigate, and the results made him speechless.

It turned out that it was the Western Regions big country Qiuzi that had a wealth fighting incident.

The main participants were the two uncles of King Qiuzi, and the two didn't know what was going on, so they began to fight for wealth.

The uncle took the imported Shu brocade as firewood to burn, used to cook rice and boil water, so the people of Qiuzi said that he was more generous.

The uncle was very unhappy, so he chose to take imported tea bricks to boil tea water, and then use the tea to brush the pot and wash the dishes.

Not to be outdone, the uncle took the precious luxury [frosting] imported from the Jiangnan of the Central Plains to make sugar water, which was used to reward the subordinates to drink, and let the subordinates go out to preach, so the people of Qiuzi said that he was more generous.

The uncle was even more unhappy, took out the high-end luxury seafood [pearl] imported from Qingzhou in the Central Plains, ground it into powder, gave it to the next person, and let the next person go out to publicize, so the people of Qiuzi said that he was more generous.

After going back and forth, they didn't know how much luxury goods they had imported from the Central Plains to fight for wealth, which gradually attracted the attention of King Qiuzi and the upper-class nobles of several surrounding Western Regions countries.

Then they also went out to fight for riches, showing their strong financial resources, in order to prove that they are more generous.

In this way, a wave of fighting for wealth arose in the entire Western Regions.

That's okay.

This battle for wealth has lasted for a long time and has not ended, which shows that the magnates of the Western Regions countries are really full of food and drink.

However, in contrast to the drastic changes that have taken place in the upper class of society in the Western Regions, the lives of the people at the bottom of the Western Regions have not improved.

How to live or how to live, and in some places it is even worse -

Because the Wei merchants came to the place where they lived on a large scale to do business, and even bought land.

The Wei merchant was willing to spend a lot of money to build his own manor in order to buy land, and when the money was enough, the local ruler saw the money and agreed.

The few who disagreed were also branded as heretics and soon lost their right to speak.

As a result, the Wei State Business Brigade was squeezed together with local agriculture and commerce, and local farmers and small traders went bankrupt one after another, and were acquired by the Wei State Business Travel and incorporated into their own estates.

In the territory of Wei, Guo Peng drove them all away, and the dying manor became a sharp blade in the Western Regions.

The imperial merchants bought land to build estates, squeezed out local farmers and small traders, and incorporated them into their estates after they went bankrupt, producing vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products on the spot, not producing staple grains, and all grain was transported and sold from the land west of the river.

It didn't take long for the small countries in the Western Regions, which didn't know how to play the economic war, to be played in the clouds.

But the rulers themselves don't care.

As long as there was enough money for them to spend and enjoy, it was enough, and a small number of people who worried about the country and the people repeatedly protested and repeatedly raised objections to the supreme ruler, feeling that by doing so, they were completely handing over the country to the Wei people, and no longer belonged to them.

For such a voice, the kings of these small countries heard, but not worried, but more afraid.

I am afraid that the Wei people will not do business with them if they know that there are such people in their own country, so that they have no money to spend.

Then this kind of person is generally resolved internally by them, and this kind of person is not allowed to continue to speak out, so as to enjoy it better.

They didn't want to offend the Wei people.

The upper class pursued the goods of the Wei State on a large scale, and the middle and lower classes naturally followed suit, forming a trend, and the local fragile and narrow primitive ecological commerce could not compete with the high-quality products of the Wei State.

So in just three or four years, the imperial merchant team organized by Guo has basically controlled all aspects of commerce in these countries, from daily necessities, to agricultural products, to luxury goods, and even military products, all of which are controlled by Wei State Business Travel.

Seventy percent of them were controlled by the imperial merchants under Guo Peng's control, and the remaining thirty percent were controlled by private merchants.

The commercial power of the small countries in the Western Regions has been squeezed and there is almost no room for survival, and all those who survive are using their status and power to cooperate with the Wei business travelers, becoming compradors and other figures, eating inside and out.

Due to their weak strength, they did not even have the size of the Liaodong Gongsun clan, and they had no resistance at all in the face of the all-round commercial invasion of the Wei State.

So basically, as long as Guo Peng orders to cut off their supplies, they will fall into a panic for a short time.

Even if Guo ordered the destruction of their country, it would not cause any social unrest.

Naturally, it is not without dissatisfaction and concern about this, and then openly oppose it.

At some point a few years ago, there was even a group of people.

For example, in the Yanqi Kingdom, the king of the Yanqi Kingdom was very dissatisfied.

He was very dissatisfied with the large-scale entry of Wei merchants into Yanqi to do business, and the large-scale run on bankruptcy, the country's peasants and small traders who relied on capital and technological superiority.

After a period of patience, he protested to Cao Xiu and rallied the domestic opposition to try to introduce a bill to restrict the movement of Wei merchants in order to protect the country's agricultural production and traders.