Leaving Yi Jixuan to build a city in Juyan and set up the Juyan Governor's Mansion, Huo Guang continued to take the remaining 20,000 troops towards the west.

"Dadu, in front of you is Dunhuang, the westernmost city under our control. A hundred miles past is the land of the Western Regions, to the northwest is the Pu country, due west is the white dragon pile, and to the southwest is the Shanshan territory. Huo Guang and the army appeared on a sand dune, and Zhao Ponu pointed to a small city in the distance and said.

Huo Guang also saw this small city towering in the desert, and on the road outside the city, groups of merchants traveled in and out of Dunhuang City. As the last stop of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions, and the first stop for merchants from the Western Regions to enter the Han Dynasty, whether it is a Han merchant or a Hu merchant in the Western Regions, they will stay here.

"There is still a moat in Dunhuang? Where does the river originate? Where does it go? Huo Guang didn't expect that there was a clear river in the desert for dozens of miles, thus forming such a desert oasis and the city of Dunhuang.

"The river doesn't have a name yet, but it seems to have flowed down from the Qilian Mountains. Finally, it flows to the north, forming a lake a hundred miles north of Dunhuang. Zhao Ponu explained in detail that it has not been a few years since the big man took over here, and many places have no names yet, and they have not paid too much attention.

Huo Guang looked at Dunhuang City and nodded with satisfaction, it is not as famous as in later generations, it is just a transportation hub, and it has just begun to play its role.

"Hey, why are there two roads to the west of Dunhuang?" Huo Guang suddenly noticed that no matter whether it was entering or leaving Dunhuang City, the two roads from the northwest and southwest finally converged under Dunhuang City.

"That's right, the west of Dunhuang is a place called Bailongdui, where is not only hundreds of miles of Gobi, but also often blows strong winds in it, as if there are ghosts crying gods, making it difficult to distinguish the direction. Even the most experienced caravans don't make it through Bailongdui, and usually they either take the Northwest Passage to Pu and then take the charioters to Qiuzi or Wusun. Or take the southwest passage to Shanshan, Xiaowan, Jingjue, Khotan, and finally Dawan. Zhao Ponu already knew about this, so he explained the reason for Huo Guang in detail.

"Oh? It turns out that the trade routes in the Western Regions are like this, in fact, after Dunhuang, they have become two trade routes, right? Huo Guang naturally drew a simple map in his mind, and he also had a vague idea of the Western Regions trade routes.

"That's true." Zhao Ponu replied affirmatively that although he had never been to the Western Regions west of Dunhuang, these two trade routes were not a secret.

"Let's set up camp in Dunhuang for the time being." Huo Guang looked at the roads outside Dunhuang that separated the two directions, and ordered, his eyes were thoughtful, as if the two trade roads reminded him of something.

Huo Guang did not enter Dunhuang City, and lived with the soldiers in the temporary barracks tent, the temperature here at night is really much lower than during the day, Huo Guang and others are still dressed in single clothes during the day, and they have to put on cotton clothes at night.

"Governor Dadu, according to the existing map and the situation that our army knows, this sand table in front of me is the detailed situation of the entire two counties of Hexi." Dongfang Shuo marked the last place name on the sand table, looked up and said to Huo Guang.

At this moment, there were only Huo Guang, Dongfang Shuo and Du Yannian in the big tent, and all three of them looked at the sand table, all of them looked thoughtful.

"What do you guys think?" Huo Guang stared at the sand table for a long time, and had to admit that this kind of intuitive sand table was indeed more real than a simple map.

"The distance between east and west on this narrow strip has reached nearly 2,000 miles, and this Dunhuang is more than 500 miles away from Jiuquan County Zhilufu, and it takes two days to come and go at the earliest, not to mention Juyan to Guzang, a one-way trip to two days may not be able to run down. This is not conducive to the transmission of military information and government orders. "Du Yannian has been Jing Zhaoyin for more than a year, and his vision is already extraordinary, and they have traveled all over Hexi in the past half a month, and some problems have been discovered by them.

"I also have this intention, and then I wrote to the emperor, let's divide the western part of Jiuquan from here, and then set up a Dunhuang County, and then demarcate Wuwei from Juyan to the narrow strip of land in Zhangde, and set up a Zhangye County, which will be governed by the county. In this way, the two counties of Hexi were changed to the four counties of Hexi. Huo Guang's fingers drew a few lines on the sand table, and the original two counties of Hexi became four counties.

"Is Dunhuang County set in Dunhuang?" Dongfang Shuo asked.

"Dunhuang is not only the county of Dunhuang, but also the seat of the metropolitan governor's mansion." Huo Guang looked at Dunhuang on the sand table, and determined the governor's office of the Western Regions Metropolitan Governor's Office, which had not been determined.

"Wouldn't it be too close to the Western Regions? As soon as the war broke out, most of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion bore the brunt, and there was no room for buffer at all! Du Yannian said with some anxiety.

"This is it, if we can't even keep the land west of the river, how can we talk about the Western Regions?" Huo Guang said conclusively.

"Now that the Metropolitan Governor's Office has been determined, there are several problems that have to be faced." Dongfang Shuo went on to say that when they first came to Hexi, they were really in ruins, and there were too many problems to face.

"Sir, you're talking about the officials, right?" Huo Guang understood what Dongfang Shuo was going to say. Now that the Metropolitan Governor has been determined, then all subordinate officials must be equipped, but there are only two civil officials around Huo Guang, Dongfang Shuo and Du Yannian, and there are originally few officials in Hexi, and the people have been surrendered to other races, and the talent problem is almost unsolvable in a short period of time.

Even the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is like this, not to mention the official configuration of the newly established Dunhuang Zhangye County!

"Yes, not only the problem of officials, the population of Hexi is too small, this is the root of restricting our development!" Dongfang Shuo said with a sigh.

The power of the Metropolitan Governor's Office in the Western Regions is large enough, but the current Hexi is still only a sparsely populated and harsh barren land. The people of the Central Plains did not want to come here at all, let alone those literati who had mastered knowledge.

"So I'm going to build two passes here, and here." Huo Guang's fingers landed in the northwest and southwest directions of Dunhuang, a hundred miles away, where the two trade routes leading to the Western Regions were located.

"Build a pass? The Metropolitan Governor wants to attract displaced people by building a large number of buildings? Dongfang Shuo looked at the place where Huo Guang's finger fell, the construction of the pass can not only build two fortresses west of Dunhuang to defend the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the construction process must require a large number of people, with the opportunity to work, many people in the Western Regions are actually not doing well, there will be a large number of people flowing into Hexi, not only can Dunhuang become prosperous in recent years, but also the population can be significantly increased.

"It's also a good way to go, but I'm afraid the emperor won't give us money and craftsmen......" Du Yannian said with some concern, most of the displaced people are ordinary people who don't have skills, and it's okay to sell coolies, but the people who really belong to craftsmen are too short here in Hexi.

"The emperor naturally can't count on it, but you forget, we still have a marquis of Wanguan, although even if all of our family assets together are not enough to build the land of Hexi, but only two passes are not a big problem, let's leverage the economy of the entire Hexi Corridor from these two passes." Huo Guang said with a look of wisdom bead in his hand, as if two passes were enough to make the entire Hexi land prosperous.

Dongfang Shuo and Du Yannian both looked at Huo Guang with puzzled expressions, it was indeed not difficult to build the pass with Lu Shu's financial resources, but how the two passes could leverage the economy of the entire Hexi Corridor was puzzling to the two of them.

"The construction of this pass can not be completed overnight, and Lu Shu should also arrive in a few days, so let's discuss it then." Huo Guang did not directly say the plan behind him. When he began to inspect the land of Hexi, Lu Shu had already set off for Hexi with a large number of servants.

Now Lu Shu's every move has long been concerned, and when he left Chang'an City, his whereabouts had already been known by the big farmer Ling Sang Hongyang.

Since the Jin case, 160 marquis were deprived of their titles and removed from the country, and the Han court not only directly recovered the land and population of dozens of counties, but also directly made the titles of liehous more and more weighty.

And Sang Hong Yang is now the Marquis of Anping, after Huo Guang left, he has become the hottest figure in the court, when there is no war around the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will also focus on the development of people's livelihood and economy, Sang Hong Yang is more and more reused.

A few days later, when Lü Shu had already arrived in Hexi, Emperor Wu of Han also summoned Sang Hongyang to Weiyang Palace.

"The Metropolitan Governor wants to build two passes west of Dunhuang at his own expense, what do you think about this matter?" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Sang Hongyang directly to the point. It is no secret that Huo Guang built the two passes west of Dunhuang.

Sang Hongyang stood on the side, thought for a moment and bowed down and said: "The minister thinks this is a good thing, Huo Dadu Governor is willing to pay his own money, which saves the court a lot of trouble, and now the imperial court's finances have just eased, and it is indeed impossible to support other uses, Hexi is the Hexi of the Han Dynasty after all, and the prosperity of Hexi is also beneficial and harmless to the Han Dynasty." ”

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also felt that Sang Hongyang's words were reasonable, even if Huo Guang, Lu Shu and others scattered their family wealth, the effect on Hexi would not be too great, and no matter the population or geographical reasons, the development of Hexi was restricted, even if Huo Guang had the ability to reach the sky, it would be difficult to make earth-shaking changes in Hexi within ten years.

"By the way, the equalization law you mentioned last time, I have thought about it carefully, and I will issue a decree to make you fully responsible." Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty temporarily put aside the matter of Hexi and turned to another matter.

This equalization method is the solution that Sang Hongyang found for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because of the emergence of a big businessman like Lu Shu. The most direct manifestation of this was to increase the revenue of the central government and at the same time restrain the monopoly of merchants on the market. And this is only half of this bill, and the other half is to use the money from the sale of materials to buy goods in the main areas when they are cheap, and sell them again when they are expensive. The most direct effect of this is that prices always exist in a reasonable range, and they are always controlled by the imperial court.

This is Sang Hongyang's real big plan, a plan to make the imperial court the biggest businessman ()

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