After experiencing that kind of thing, Chen Gong felt that he was also out of sight.

There are benefits to the central government, but there are many crises. There are disadvantages in the local area, but at least the first wave will not be impacted. There is still room for reversal and you can still wait and see the situation.

In addition, after the imperial examinations were held, the scholars of Jingzhou entered the court to become officials in large numbers, which was quite popular. Chen Gong had already realized the changes in the times.

So he no longer deliberately pursues returning to the central government to hold any position. As long as he can protect his position, that is enough.

He does not seek merit, but seeks no mistakes. He just needs to do what the emperor has assigned to him. He doesn't want to do anything else.

Ensuring the abundant and complete grain warehouses and arsenals under its jurisdiction is one of the responsibilities and obligations of local officials. Although these treasuries belong to the central government office, if there is a problem, local officials will not be able to escape.

Just like what happened in Jizhou before, many officials fell to the ground because they did not properly control the integrity of the grain warehouse and arsenal.

Chen Gong learned from his experience and took up this work himself. The rest can be placed a little bit. The integrity of the treasury must be guaranteed, otherwise his life will be difficult to say.

This time, the Crown Prince's surprise inspection was obviously prepared.

But Chen Gong was not worried.

Because more than a month ago, he also conducted a surprise inspection to check the reserve levels of important grain warehouses and arsenals around Chang'an to ensure integrity.

Therefore, when Guo Jin asked his entourage officials and his subordinates to inspect the reserves of grain storage in various places, he found no problems, and he felt very satisfied.

"Along the way, I saw that Guanzhong is developing well, the people live and work in peace and production, and work hard. This is what my father hopes to see. Chen Envoy is worthy of being a good minister praised by his father. With Chen Envoy in charge of Yongzhou, my father will never be worried."

Chen Gong smelled some different scent for such praise.

"It is my blessing to be able to receive praise from Your Majesty. These are things that I should do and are my duty. I really dare not accept this praise."

Guo Jin smiled.

"Chen's envoy is also an old minister who follows his father. He has been working diligently in Yongzhou for several years without any slackness, turning Yongzhou from this poor and deserted land into a prosperous place today. How could he not have the credit of Chen's envoy?

The wars that happened before and are about to be carried out also rely on the large amount of food, fodder and weapons provided by Yongzhou. Aren’t these all the contributions of Chen Envoy? Chen Envoy made a contribution to our Wei, which is well known."

An upcoming war?

Chen Gong immediately reacted.

What the Crown Prince said was the war in the Western Regions?

It's really possible!

"Dare you ask His Highness the Crown Prince, is the upcoming war in the Western Regions?"

"Oh? How did Envoy Chen know?"

Guo Jin looked at Chen Gong with a smile.

"The only wars that Yongzhou may support are besides the Yizhou war, the only war in the Western Regions. The war in Yizhou is already underway and has not yet been completed. The only thing that Yongzhou needs to do is the war in the Western Regions. I wonder which country in the Western Regions violated the rules and regulations of our Wei?"

Chen Gong didn't know the inside story, he just vaguely knew something.

Guo Jin shook his head.

"It's not that country that violated the majesty of our Wei, but that their existence made my father feel unhappy."

Chen Gong's eyes widened immediately.

This...can't it be...

"Envoy Chen, do you know that when our dynasty reopened the Silk Trade Road, how much profit has the goods along the way earned for the Western Regions countries?"

Chen Gong was not very clear about this, but judging from the attitudes of the Western Regions merchants and the powerful Western Regions spending money in Chang'an City, they must have made a lot of money.

If you don’t make enough money, how could you order Shujin hundreds or thousands of units at one’s turn?

Shu brocade is a real luxury. Chen Gong himself often buys Shu brocade and gives it to his family and friends, or makes a new outfit for himself. His salary is rich and he can afford it. People from small countries in the Western Regions can afford it, and they still consume so much. It can only be said that they are really rich.

The favorite thing for merchants in Chang'an City is to do business with these Western Regions people. They spend money and buy goods on a large scale. Sometimes they even buy goods to the point where goods are short of goods.

What a big dog.

Originally, Chen Gong didn't know why they were so rich, but now when Guo Jin said that, he realized that all of this was the credit of the Silk Trade Road.

But thinking about it, how much money can the Silk Trade Road earn for the Wei Kingdom every year is a real astronomical number. Many people don’t know the specific number. Chen Gong has also inquired about it from some special channels and knew this terrible number.

That's why the imperial court had so much money to immigrate to the four counties of Hexi for several years, constantly building roads and building construction, and constantly doing this and that, which did not cause a financial crisis.

Guo Peng really has a lot of money. If you want to spend money with big money, the powerful and powerful Western Regions are not as good as Guo Peng anyway, but Guo Peng spends money in a planned manner, spending money to make more money and to activate the local economy.

The powerful and wealthy people in the Western Regions spent money purely, and greatly stimulated the external demand of the Wei Empire.

But in fact, how much do these guys have?

The small-scale markets of the countries in the Western Regions cannot be compared with the Kushan Kingdom and the Roman Empire further west. The tolls they earned are far from what they deserved.

This is why Guo Peng decided to destroy them from the beginning.

They earn too much, but they don't pay that much.

The business travelers in the Wei Kingdom worked hard to prepare goods, and Mr. Guo worked hard to build roads. Then the business travelers worked hard to travel for a long distance. The small countries in the Western Regions enjoyed the dividends of silk business travel while lying down, and enjoyed the dividends of the commercial reform of the Wei Empire while lying down. Don't be too happy.

There was no way before, so I had to let them enjoy it in order to gain enough time to build roads and buy more things by the way. The wool came out on the sheep, and then I would just stew it in a spoonful.

Now, it's the time to stew a spoonful of stew.

So Chen Gong also understood that Guo Peng wanted to calculate the economic accounts with the countries in the Western Regions. After calculating, he found that the Wei Empire had lost money. So Guo Peng felt dissatisfied and decided to kill these middlemen and make the difference by himself.

Anyway, Chen Gong really didn't expect that Guo Peng had such a strong desire to expand and territorial ambitions, and he was unwilling to let go of the Western Regions and wanted to occupy them all.

But speaking of this, if you really want to occupy and manage these places, it is not that difficult.

The old places of those small countries were directly transformed into counties, the largest was counties, and the smallest was counties. The county magistrates and county magistrates were sent to be responsible for governance, serve the Silk Road wholeheartedly and develop agriculture.

In this way, the road is directly extended to the Kushan Kingdom and the Sakura Kingdom, and directly do business with these two major countries and directly earn that part of the profit.

"I understand what Your Majesty means."

After Chen Gong figured it out, he felt that this was also a routine operation of the Wei Empire.

Anyway, even the Xianbei was destroyed, let alone the countries in the Western Regions?

Seeing Chen Gong understand, Guo Jin was very happy.

"I am very clear about the righteousness. Once our Wei expands our territory to the Western Regions, we can directly do business with the Kushan Kingdom and the Abnormal Kingdom, and even do business with the farther Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom is a real great country, and it is said that its territory is a radius of thousands of miles.

It is said that during the pre-Han period, the Great Qin State came to communicate with the former Han Dynasty, saying that he liked the silk and fired pottery and porcelain from the Central Plains. The former Han Dynasty also sent envoys to visit the Great Qin State, but unfortunately it failed. Otherwise, how much profit would be if this business could be done."

Seeing Guo Jin's eyes with the word "making money", Chen Gong suddenly felt that even if Guo Peng was gone, the Wei Empire would continue to maintain this vigorous policy of pioneering and enterprising foreign policy.
Chapter completed!