The Kushan Kingdom, the Rest Kingdom, and the Great Qin Kingdom are all great powers that existed in the former Han Dynasty.

Naturally, the consumption power and markets possessed by these large countries are not comparable to those of the small countries in the Western Regions.

Chen Gong also knew that the emperor had previously sent official caravans to visit the Kushan Kingdom, and reached an agreement with the Kushan Emperor to trade with each other.

Over the years, the Kushan sent envoys in Luoyang, and the Wei State also sent envoys to the capital of the Kushan State to reside, and the two sides maintained a certain economic and trade cooperative relationship.

This relationship allowed the Wei Empire to make a lot of money, and I heard that Guishan also made more money from other countries by becoming a second-hand dealer.

Therefore, Chen Gong suddenly thought that the Guishan Kingdom was afraid that he would not want other countries to get the opportunity to do business with the Wei Empire, and he would try to monopolize this opportunity, which should not be in the interests of the empire.

I don't know if the emperor advocated the annexation of the Western Regions, and whether he also had concerns about this.

Guo Jing stayed in Chang'an City for five or six days, checked everything that should be checked, and then set off for Liangzhou.

After crossing the Chang'an and Sanfu regions, you will enter the legendary desolate and dilapidated Liangzhou.

But in the eyes of Guo Jin and others, the Liangzhou they saw was not as desolate and dilapidated as they imagined.

Straight roads, merchants coming and going, lush vegetation, and endless verdant as far as the eye can see.

The city is not as terrible as the Central Plains Giant City, so tall, wide and deep, but although the sparrows are small, they are all clean, and they don't smell feces and urine.

When you enter the city, you can see the locals coming and going, the officials patrolling, and the low, but not dilapidated, buildings belonging to the town.

In terms of city construction alone, Guo Jin feels that these Liangzhou cities are no worse than the Central Plains.

Some small cities in the Central Plains are also low, and they do not need to be as tall and wide as Luoyang, covering an extremely wide area and accommodating the lives of millions of people.

It is enough to accommodate the lives of tens of thousands of people.

"In the past, I thought that Liangzhou was still the same desolate and dilapidated appearance as before, but now it seems that Liangzhou is not desolate at all, on the contrary, it looks quite prosperous."

Cao Zhen rode on Guo Jin's side, and said with some emotion.

Cao Tai, who was on the other side, also nodded.

"As far as we know over the years, the imperial court has also sent a lot of things to Liangzhou, and also relocated a large number of people, so that Liangzhou can build roads and cities, develop production, and if there is no appearance until now, the history of Liangzhou is really a crime that deserves death."

"Liangzhou Thorn Shi is a close confidant of His Majesty, and he is also an old minister, he won't do that kind of thing, let's not think too much, but this small city in Liangzhou really has a different feeling than the city in the Central Plains...... Yo! There are also sake shops here! Why don't we eat here? ”

Xiahou Shang laughed and teased Cao Tai, and then probably hungry, and saw a small wine shop in a small town, smelled the aroma of food, and felt interested, so he made a suggestion.

The group also thought it would be a good choice to have a meal now.

This liquor shop is run by locals and sells some ordinary drinks and local food, and it has a simple look.

When the shopkeeper saw such a large group of people eating, the folds on his face smiled like chrysanthemums happily, and he hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the customers.

"Shopkeeper, bring up all the delicious and delicious food you have here, as many as you want, we are all people who can eat, and this money is definitely indispensable to you."

Cao Zhen pulled his voice and asked the store to open its belly to serve them food, and the shopkeeper saw that these twenty or thirty people were all good guys, and the amount of food was estimated to be very large, so he nodded quickly.

"Guests can go into the shop to rest for a while, the shop here is immediately ready, the shop has mutton, horse meat, as well as cooking cakes, soup cakes, Hu cakes, and hot stir-fried vegetables, guests to see if there is anything taboo, if there is anything you don't like to eat?"

Everyone looked at Guo Jin, meaning that he was the decider.

Guo Jin smiled.

"Shopkeeper, our gang of people are all rough people, with a big appetite, you can serve whatever you have here, we are still afraid that our thirty-odd people will not have mixed tastes? Hahahaha, although it is up, all up, but do you have enough ingredients here? Our appetite is really big. ”

Guo Jin really didn't lie, in order to protect him, in addition to his friends who came out with him, there were also the most elite thirty forbidden army masters, the kind that can be ten with one.

The daily training of the forbidden army is very large, except for those who have garrison tasks and special tasks, all the soldiers of the forbidden army must train a lot to maintain elite combat effectiveness.

Protecting the emperor and important people requires strong force, and it requires foolproof.

There are many training items of various kinds, and Xu Chu and Dian Wei, two muscular hunks, are training them to death.

I am practicing here, and I have to serve with good food and drink there, and the meat tube is enough, and the food tube is full, so after training in the forbidden army, I will eat on the bucket.

Three or five people around a big steamed rice bucket worked hard, that guy, not to mention how fierce the food is, after eating, then on and after eating, then again, and then again, there is no stop.

When the training task is heavy, there is a bucket of rice per person, and the imperial chef in the palace not only prepares meals for the royal family, but also prepares meals for the forbidden army, and the workload is also quite large.

Therefore, there are also their own people within the forbidden army, who laughingly call the forbidden army a 5,000 rice bucket.

Literally.

The money for raising these 5,000 rice buckets can support a standing army of about 30,000 people, and the strength of the forbidden army is like this.

So now these thirty elite men are really a little asymmetrical in strength against the small wine shop in this remote place.

The shopkeeper felt that he was being questioned and that he was being insulted.

"Guest, let's open the door to do business, pay attention to a sincerity, you paid, although the shop is small, and will never let you leave without food, you can rest assured, we don't have enough ingredients here, I immediately let my family go to other stores to buy, make sure that dozens of you eat happy!"

The ambition of the store is very high, and Guo Jin is very satisfied.

But I just don't know if the store will really hold out until all of them have their stomachs full.

Along the way, many small shops boasted about Haikou in this way, but in the end, the store's reserves were emptied, and the men in the forbidden army were not full.

So Guo Jin asked Cao Zhen and Cao Tai to bring four long strings of five-baht coins, and the eyes of the store were straight.

"See? Shops, these estimates are not enough, if you can take us, the money is yours. ”

Guo Jin is really generous in spending money along the way, and he is also willing to spend money in these small shops to make some money for these locals.

"Okay! Wait a while, the shop will let you eat and drink to your heart's content! ”

The shopkeeper rolled up his sleeves and worked hard, Guo Jin also beckoned everyone to sit down in the store, and more than 30 people filled the small shop and waited there to eat.

After a while, the stewed mutton and horse meat came up, and the color was seen inside, and the soy sauce was also put on the table, which was full of taste, but I didn't expect that the border shop also had this kind of seasoning.

Then all kinds of belly-filling cakes and foods followed, Hu cakes from the Western Regions, local pancakes, and mutton soup from the cauldron and cauldron were also served, and a group of people took a bite of the bread and ate the meat and poured the soup, not to mention how pleasant.

Guo Jin is also a strong young man, and he is also hungry, so it is rare to go on a business trip outside the palace, and he eats like a wolf.

The eating appearance of the group was quite exciting, and the food was quite a lot.

Watching these people eat meat piece by piece, eat cakes piece by piece, and drink soup in large gulps, the store was very frightened.

Almost half an hour had passed, and the food in the store was almost running out, but the eating performance of the thirty big men was far from over.