Zhang Fei is a guy who can't be idle without a fight, it just so happens that Guan Yu is in Yizhou to assist Lejin in his crusade against the Yizhou barbarians, and he can't get away for a while, so let Zhang Fei go to Liangzhou to replace Guan Yu.

Anyway, at the moment, Guo Peng does not plan to launch a blow to Mobei Xianbei.

The blow to Mobei Xianbei will be completed by Guo Peng's future imperial expedition, and at least 100,000 cavalry will be mobilized to go deep into Mobei to wipe out Xianbei and consolidate the grassland animal husbandry economic zone.

Completely eliminate the threat of Xianbei, fight until there is no seed left, completely annex it, and make it follow in the footsteps of the Huns.

That's not something that Zhang Fei can accomplish with more than 10,000 people.

By the way, maybe I'll have to trouble Nanlou and his Karasuma cavalry at that time.

Hehe.

So for now, it is better to send Zhang Fei to Liangzhou to the four counties of Hexi, and harm the local Qiang and Han people.

Anyway, at present, the relocation of the Hanyang camp in Liangzhou has already been completed, and Cao Ren is also stationed in the Hanyang camp, and he can launch an attack at any time and take back the four counties of Hexi.

With the rise of the Wei Empire's national strength and the growth of Guo's power, Guo became more and more hungry for the Western Regions.

And to return to the Western Regions, the four counties of Hexi are an indispensable strategic artery.

Before and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, because of the Liangzhou Qiang Rebellion, the Eastern Han government gradually lost its influence on the Western Regions.

The Ban clan's efforts to maintain influence and dominance over the Western Regions were ultimately in vain, and were not maintained by the Eastern Han government, which is a pity.

This is true for the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is also true for someone Guo.

Because of the weakness of the Eastern Han government, the information about the Western Regions in Guo's hands was decades ago, and he still doesn't know what happened in the Western Regions now.

However, it is very important that the Eastern Han Empire defeated the Northern Xiongnu and controlled the Western Regions for decades.

The Western Regions cannot be integrated, unable to unite against foreign enemies, which gives Guo someone an opportunity to take advantage of.

The Southern Xiongnu were wiped out by Guo Peng's regiment, and the whole was incorporated into the Han nationality, and the Northern Xiongnu were beaten away and disappeared from then on, so the Xiongnu forces no longer existed.

The vast empire that once threatened the life and death of the Han Empire no longer exists.

The powerful enemies who could threaten Guo to seize and manage the Western Regions were gone, and the Eastern Han Empire had wiped them out in a hundred years.

This is also one of the few contributions made by the Eastern Han Empire to Guo.

To run the Western Regions and become the father of the countries of the Western Regions, Guo no longer needs to fight and die with the Huns.

You only need to talk to the small countries in the Western Regions, give sugar to the obedient ones, do business together, rub the disobedient ones on the ground, and then destroy them casually.

In the face of large countries, small countries are sad.

It is fortunate to be born in a big country, but it is miserable to be born in a small country.

So it was, it is now, and it will still be so in the future.

Therefore, Guo wants a Greater China, not a chaotic era of division.

The number and energy of the Linzi camp are limited, and Guo Peng first needs to be unified, and then he can develop externally.

Obviously, the Western Regions cannot be counted in the unified war merits, so naturally the news is lagging behind.

Later, with the progress of Zhang Fei and Cao Ren in Liangzhou, Guo Peng also needed to further infiltrate the Western Regions, and sent Linzi camp agents to the Western Regions to investigate the situation of the countries in the Western Regions.

It's important to hit or soothe first.

Open up the countries of the Western Regions, sell some overcapacity products of the Wei Empire to the Western Regions, and earn some foreign exchange, and introduce some local products from Central Asia, maybe there will be some windfalls.

For this trade route, this Silk Road that solves the involution, Guo has really been greedy for a long time.

As the emperor, he not only has to clean up those cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, but also is responsible for making the cake bigger, increasing the total amount of wealth in society, and carrying out proper redistribution.

In this way, we can leave more room for future generations.

Therefore, the Western Regions must be explored.

The strategy of returning to the Western Regions must be implemented.

After this decision was decided, Guo began to write the edict.

He ordered Zhang Fei to set off from Liaodong and go to the northwest, where he served as Cao Ren's deputy, and under Cao Ren's leadership, he gradually infiltrated Wuwei County and began to attack Wuwei County.

At the same time, Guo Peng also ordered Cao Ren to prepare for the substantial occupation of the four counties of Hexi.

Now you can start moving.

It's almost time.

Before, Guo Peng asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sort out a lot of information about the operation of the Western Regions by the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Since Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, the Eastern Han government's business attitude towards the Western Regions has always been negative and passive.

Basically, if there is a slight setback, he will give up the Western Regions, and only think about protecting the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and he doesn't care about the rest, and he doesn't take the Western Regions in his eyes at all, and regards it as an economic road that must be occupied.

That's why there will be three links and three absolutes and eventually lose the Western Regions.

The weakness and powerlessness of small government and the disadvantage of controlling resources are laid clear.

During Liu Xiu's period, Liu Xiu was busy stabilizing the country, because he became the emperor because of the unification of the world too quickly, and after succeeding to the throne, he faced great problems, internal and external troubles, and was more than willing to do enough for the Western Regions.

At that time, more than a dozen countries in the Western Regions sent protons into Han to ask Liu Xiu to go to the capital of the Western Regions to protect the mansion, but Liu Xiu refused.

Indeed, during Liu Xiu's period, he really didn't have much time and energy to run the Western Regions, and it was not easy for him to manage his one-third of an acre of land well.

There are heroes inside and Huns outside, Liu Xiu is really difficult.

Liu Xiu and Haoqiang fought wits and courage for more than 30 years, and died rightly, leaving a relatively stable and relatively abundant country to his son Liu Zhuang, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.

After Liu Zhuang inherited the throne, because the country was stable, he did not need to look forward and backward like Liu Xiu, so he learned from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and began to operate the Western Regions.

In this way, the Eastern Han Empire's historical curtain on the Western Regions was opened.

From Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty to Emperor An of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Empire waged a century-long struggle against the Northern Xiongnu in the Western Regions, during which it failed three times, abandoned the Western Regions three times, and made a comeback three times.

During this period, the contributions of Ban Chao and Ban Yong's father and son can even be said to have played a decisive role.

If it weren't for the personal charm and strong personal ability of Ban Chao and Ban Yong, who stabilized the Western Regions in an almost empty glove white wolf way, there would be more than three links and three uniques between the Eastern Han Empire and the Western Regions.

Since Emperor Ming, the Eastern Han Empire has had a dispensable attitude towards the Western Regions, and has not attached much importance to the Western Regions at all, and does not think that there are many benefits to be gained from operating the Western Regions.

Giving up three times and starting over three times can easily drain the credibility of the Central Empire in the hearts of the small countries in the Western Regions.

This is really dangerous, and the game of wolf is not fun at all, unless all these small countries are really wiped out and the Western Regions are officially controlled.

But the idea of the Eastern Han government, Guo is not incomprehensible.

According to the rules of tribute, after the small countries in the Western Regions paid tribute, the Central Plains Empire needed to reward them with more things, and sometimes even if they came empty-handed, they could return with a full load.

For some small and shameless countries, tribute is like a white wolf with empty gloves, a little broken copper and iron can earn real money.

Fools don't come to pay tribute.

However, as far as Guo is concerned, operating the Western Regions to open up trade routes is an excellent means to make the cake bigger, and the importance of the land Silk Road is self-evident in this era when the sea routes are not smooth and difficult to sail.

It's really fun to do business with faraway countries and earn foreign exchange.

Transferring the excess domestic production capacity and exchanging it for real money, as long as the scale is increased, it is far from being comparable to the things that are rewarded.

Unfortunately, not many people see this.