When Su Wu left Rome and embarked on the road back to the Han Dynasty, it was already two years after he left Dunhuang. At this moment, he didn't know that in the two years since he left, there had been nine feudal lords in the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and just when he was about to return, Bai Zheng's Western Regions Alliance had already arrived in Dawan, and was about to hit Guishan City, the capital of Dawan Kingdom.

Ctesiphon, a city that has been the capital of the Resting Empire for less than a decade, is home to a huge palace where the elite of the entire empire gather.

Mithridates II, the King of Kings, and the kings of the eighteen vassal states, along with Mithridates II's most trusted advisor, the Imperial Prime Minister Olobazo, are deliberating on a major matter that will determine the fate of the Empire.

"Dear King of kings, our old enemy Sulla has returned to Rome with his legions and forcibly seized the supreme power of Rome by force. Now that the war on the western front of the empire has stabilized, Sulla will not go east again for two or three years, and in our east, the dynasty named Han has also sent a young commander to start the westward expedition, and the army of this young commander has now conquered the kingdom of Dawan. "The Prime Minister of the Empire, Olobazo, known as the First Wise Man of Rest, sat in his chair and told Mithridates II and the other eighteen kings about the situation around the Rest Empire.

Although the name of the Rest is an empire, their supreme ruler is not called an emperor. The rulers of this empire, which is composed of large and small kingdoms, are only the most powerful monarchs, and the other monarchs, in addition to being called by the King of kings, usually practice a high degree of autonomy in their own kingdoms, and even each kingdom has different religious and cultural beliefs, as well as independent currencies and laws.

"Does the Prime Minister have any new plans?" The monarch of Kordone had a beard, and his country was not the most powerful in the Sabbath, but his archers were among the most powerful in the entire Sabbath Empire.

Instead of answering the monarch of Cordone, Olobazo looked at Mithridates II. Then the resting king of kings slowly stood up with his hands on the armrests of the throne, looked at the more than ten kings in the palace and said: "The commander of the Han Dynasty named Anyang Hou Huoguang is a person who is not inferior to Sula, we must take advantage of the fact that he has not captured Dawan before he waives his army to the east, and takes the Dayue clan and other countries first, just now that Sura is unable to go east, we must first solve this person named Anyang Hou Huoguang!" ”

Mithridati II also thought that Huo Guang's full name was Huo Guang, Hou of Anyang, and it seemed that such a name was more in line with their understanding. And this resting king of kings, from the moment Sulla returned to Rome, he set his sights on the east, on the rapidly rising governor of the Western Regions.

The resting monarchs began to talk in groups, a Roman Republic of Sulla had already allowed them to transfer almost two-thirds of the empire's army to the western front, and if the Han Empire's Anyang Hou Huoguang went westward again, it would indeed bring great pressure to the rest. Now that Sulla has left the province of Asia Minor, and the war on the western front of the Rest Empire is basically over, this is indeed the best time to move eastward.

Just when the resting kings were discussing how to move eastward, Huo Guang, who was far away in Dunhuang, stepped out of the Dadu Governor's Mansion and went to Juyanze, the northernmost part of Hexi.

It has been two years since Wu Ya, a former Xiongnu royal woman, came to Juyanze. In the past two years, not only Hexi and the Western Regions have been developing rapidly, the three major oases have all completed the transformation of fertile land, the nine feudal lords have also completed the construction of their own territories, and Ju Yanze under the leadership of Wu Ya has also completely changed his appearance in two years.

Huo Guang's delegation of power to Wuya has been done to the extreme, although Huo Guang has often come to live in Yanze for a few days in the past two years, but he has never asked a word about the government affairs here. And now the Juyan Governor has been revoked, whether it is an official document or a private title, the entire Juyan area is called the Western Regions Governor's Mansion Juyan Department, or directly referred to as the Juyan Department.

And Wu Ya did not disappoint Huo Guang in the past two years, she not only integrated many scattered Xiongnu tribes on the grassland north of Juyan, piled up the population of Juyan to about 70,000, but also transformed Juyanze into a half-herding and half-farming civilization cradle, and the tens of thousands of Xiongnu remnants also changed from nomads to half-herding and half-farming in two years. All kinds of iron tools and water conservancy facilities and other things were gradually mastered by the Juyanbu, and a completely different development model appeared in Juyanze, which seemed to be becoming a branch of the Xiongnu, a new civilization that was different from the Han civilization and the Xiongnu civilization.

"I heard that your tribe has changed its faith now, and your people have begun to believe in the moon god? And legend has it that this moon god is still a woman of beauty and wisdom? Huo Guang looked at Wu Ya, who was wearing brocade and a gorgeous crown, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"All of this is taught by the Metropolitan Governor, and they are not my people, they are all your people of the Metropolitan Governor!" Wu Yawan smiled, the so-called moon god was naturally made up by her, and the purpose was just to pave the way for becoming a queen one day in the future. Of course, all this is more about Huo Guang's advice.

"And what's next for you?" Huo Guang knew that the Xiongnu were actually a threat to the Han for a long time in the original history, and he once thought of driving the Xiongnu to the Siberian wasteland and even the North Pole further north like he did with the Qiang people. However, the grassland was too vast, and the Xiongnu were highly mobile, so this method did not necessarily work, and in the end Huo Guang found a more challenging and interesting plan, which was to support a Xiongnu ruler who was inclined to the Han Dynasty, so as to achieve the effect of subjugating slaves with slaves.

However, when Huo Guang got along with Wu Ya for a few months, he came up with a bolder and more exciting idea, that is, to support Wu Ya as an unprecedented Hun queen, which seemed to Huo Guang to be a crazier and more interesting thing.

"I have ordered my soldiers to disguise themselves as the armies of King Youxian and Shan Yu to create friction between the two sides, and it seems that it has worked well now. Now, even if I don't stir up trouble in the middle, there will already be small-scale friction between Shan Yu and Youxian Wang's department. Uya said happily that she loved the feeling of playing with her opponents in applause, especially her brother who used to be high.

"It's a good thing for you to win in this chaos, presumably as the situation between the two Xiongnu continues to deteriorate, there will be more and more Xiongnu people who fall to you, right? When the time comes, you Huns will be three-legged! Huo Guang nodded lightly, Wu Ya's strategy of sowing discord was still very effective.

With the continuous decline of the Xiongnu in the past ten years, the space for survival is getting smaller and smaller, and the right Xianwang has not been hit much in recent years, and gradually there is a situation where the gap between the headquarters and the right Xianwang is getting smaller and smaller, and the conflict between the grasslands is like the land problem of the Han Dynasty, which is enough to start the fuse of the civil war.

"I heard that the emperor wants to set up a ministry to supervise the world, will he also set up a department of assassination in Hexi? That would be extremely disadvantageous to the Grand Duro! Wu Ya is also always concerned about the situation of the Han Dynasty, and she is also very concerned about the fact that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has set up a state assassin history in the world in the past few months, and more of it is out of concern for Huo Guang, as for whether this concern is public or private, no one knows?

"Hehe, Hexi has the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, so there is no need to assassinate the history. Your Majesty is a man of understanding, and will not do such a futile thing! Huo Guang said with a smile. Huo Guang does have this kind of confidence now, even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appoints an assassin Shi to come to Hexi, it is just a decoration, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a person who understands, so he naturally will not do such a thankless thing.

In the spring of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty slowly came out of the grief of the death of Princess Wei Qing and Pingyang. At this time, two full years had passed since the flooding of the Yellow River, and during these two years, the entire Han Empire was engaged in the management of the Yellow River floods. Two years past the governance has also begun to bear fruit, at this time Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty a piece of edict, began from Chang'an along the river eastward, then through the Jianghuai land, and then take the southeast nine counties, and finally along the river to Bashu, and finally reached the Longxi inspection trip. As for whether to go to Hexi or not, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not make it clear.

During this inspection along the way, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appreciated the scenery of the Han Dynasty under his rule for the first time in such a complete and detailed manner, but along the way, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not just look at the scenery, he split many large counties again along the way, making the county-level administrative units of the Han Dynasty increase a lot again.

At first, everyone thought that Emperor Wu of Han was just adding a few counties on a whim. However, as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty split more and more counties, everyone in the world knew that this was definitely not the temporary intention of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. I don't know when the news that it is said to be a close minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to circulate in the world.

It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt that some counties of the Han Dynasty were too large, such as Shu County, Longxi, Beidi and other counties, with a population of four or five hundred thousand in one county, and some large counties could easily recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. It was in this way that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had the move to split the large counties, and after that, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came up with a method that was more conducive to centralized rule.

That is to divide the world into thirteen major states, each state has a person in the history of the assassin, the history of the assassin is directly responsible to the emperor, responsible for supervising the officials of the counties and counties under the ministry of states, but the history of the assassin has no administrative and judicial power, and the administrative and judicial power is still owned by the counties.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to the river crossing, he looked at the land west of the river across the river, and his eyes showed many indescribable looks. The accompanying ministers were three zhang away from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and no one could guess the mind of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and dozens of boats at the ferry port had been prepared, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had not ordered to cross the river for a long time.

"The herald is bounded by the river, including Zuli, Yuezhidao, Jingyang, Anwu, Anding, Yinpan, Pengyang, Sanshui and other counties to set up Anding County. Let's go back to Chang'an...... "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a new county called Anding on the banks of the Yellow River, with most of the area that originally belonged to Beidi County, and then turned around and returned to Chang'an.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty returned to Chang'an, the edict of the establishment of the Sili Captain and the Thirteen Prefecture Assassins was finally promulgated in the world. In addition to the establishment of the division and school captain department in the land of Sanfu, in addition to the nine counties in the southeast into the Jiaozhi Thorn History Department, close to the Xiongnu Shuofang Thorn History Department, followed by Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, and finally Yongzhou established next to the four counties of Hexi.

In addition to the Division's Lieutenant Department, there are exactly thirteen ministries and states!

And in the end, as Huo Guang expected, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not set up another department of assassination in the four counties of Hexi, where there was still only one Western Regions Governor's Mansion.