No matter what, no matter how poor or deserted these three counties are, they are not undeveloped.

According to Guo Peng, it will be easy to grow food in a warm and humid south.

These places are ripe three times a year, and it is much easier to accumulate grain than in the Central Plains.

Moreover, the imperial court obviously had no time to take care of these three counties for a long time.

In order to manage the five counties of Jiaozhou a little further north, these three counties in the south were powerless.

It's okay to do this now, but in a few decades, will the Scholars know whether the Shi family will become the dominant power of the South again, thus threatening the security of southern Xinjiang?

Will they lie on firewood and taste gall, redevelop their strength, rely on the power of the Han people to enslave the barbarians in the three counties to reclaim land and develop agricultural production, thereby accumulating strength?

These are all unknowns.

According to Guo Peng's statement that the northern grain production will be greatly reduced in the next few decades and it will be necessary to rely on the southern supply of grain to overcome difficulties, southern Xinjiang is really important to the Wei Empire.

Guo Jia didn't know if what Guo Peng said was true, but since Guo Peng had this idea, he also needed to consider it according to this idea.

After considering this, I feel that the threat from the Shi family is really great.

In a few decades, it is hard to say that it will not develop into a dominant power in the south, or even develop further south, learn from Zhao Tuo, and create a second Nanyue regime.

So Guo Jia began to think about how to completely destroy the power of the Shi family and stabilize the southern border.

There is no doubt that the most important issue is to separate Shi Xie, a clear-minded hero, from the Shi family.

If you lose Shi Xie, a guy who is old and can bend and stretch, the threat from the Shi family must be eliminated at least half of it.

It is not easy for the remaining half to manage the three counties well and to maintain the existence of the scholarly power and thus achieve the career of a powerful landlord.

As for the dominance of southern Xinjiang, you can't even think about it.

So Guo Jia thought about it.

"Your Majesty, I have a suggestion."

“What suggestions?”

"Let Shi Xie go north to Luoyang to be an official, and other tribesmen of the Shi family continue to stay in Jiaozhou as the prefect, and Shi Xie goes to Luoyang to be a high-ranking official. In this way, it is actually a grace to the Shi family. Can the Shi family say rejection?"

Guo Jia looked at Guo Peng with a happy face.

"Oh? What position do you want him to do? All central officials are important. Could it be that you want him to really have real power?"

Guo Peng looked at Guo Jia with interest.

"Your Majesty's words are inaccurate. Your Majesty, Shi Xie is 75 years old this year and is already a long-lived old man. He has been the prefect of Jiaozhi for decades and has made great contributions to guarding the southern border. Can't the position of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers be accepted? Isn't it beautiful to take Shi Xie to take his whole family to Luoyang to be a high-ranking official and enjoy a high position?"

Guo Jia spread his hands and looked contented.

Guo Peng thought about it and laughed.

"Hahahaha! I'm filial to me, I'm filial to me. So many years have passed, and you're still so bad, so bad to the core! Hahahahahaha!"

In the official system of the Wei Empire, there are still three dukes and nine ministers.

Although the entire political structure has been completely separated from the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers have completely become soy sauce vases, which is meaningless, but the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers already exist in name and still respect it.

In a sense, Guo Peng will keep these positions for some meritorious officials in the future, so that they can enjoy high positions and reputations, but they will lose their real power and enjoy their old age.

The Three Dukes and Nine Ministers are symbols of honor, not real power.

Now such positions can also be prepared for local tyrants who do not obey orders in the local area, so that they can come to the central government and experience the majesty of the Celestial Kingdom up close.

Shi Xie is the local tyrant who doesn't obey orders very much.

Let him be the position of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, that is, let him be the elderly, and at the same time, he is also a hostage in a sense.

Shi Xie came to be hostages in person, while the court released the scholars' family in the southernmost territory of the empire. This was the last kindness the court gave to the scholars' family.

Nine days later, the news was quickly sent to the headquarters of Taishici, Longbian County, Jiaozhi County.

At this time, it was less than twenty days before Taishi Ci's request for instructions was sent out, which was so fast.

After receiving the emperor's orders and various hints, Taishici knew what he should do.

So Taishici read out the emperor's order to Shixie in front of everyone.

Although the Shi family did not make a mistake in the subjective sense, it still caused turmoil in Jiaozhou. This was a small mistake and there was no need to be severe punishment, but the Shi family made a big mistake again.

The big mistake is that Shiwu and Shiyi are ruthless and do not know how to fight against the army of the Central Emperor, causing damage to the royal army and causing actual rebellion.

Originally, the emperor should have ordered the Shi family to be executed to maintain the majesty of the emperor, but considering that Shi Xie was really respectful and timely disconnected from the thief, he reluctantly allowed the Shi Xie family to escape from the crime and not be implicated.

However, the two branches of Shi Yi and Shi Wu must be wiped out to maintain the majesty of the court.

The Shiwu family is already done, so that's another matter. The Shiyi family will be executed, and no one will be left behind.

Afterwards, the emperor thought that Shi Xie had made contributions and worked diligently in the southern border for many years. He was diligent in the face of the king's army and did not neglect it. Therefore, he was very compassionate and appointed Shi Xie as Guanglu Xun, and set off as soon as possible to go north to the court to become an official, and promoted to the nine ministers.

In addition, the Shi family members appointed Wen as the prefect of Jiuzhen County, and Shibin as the prefect of Rinan County. Then, Zhuyazhou, south of Hepu County, was added to Zhuya County, and Shizhong as the prefect of Zhuya County, so as to understand this sudden upheaval in Jiaozhou.

The order was announced. Taishici looked at Shi Xie, who was kneeling in front of him and changed his expression. He smiled with some fun, "Mr. Shifu, don't you accept this emperor's edict?"

Shi Xie shook all over and looked up at Taishici's playful smile.

After a little more rank, Shi Xie became frightened.

He knew he did not have the freedom or qualification to refuse.

If you don't answer, you will die.

Swallowed with difficulty, Shi Xie knelt on the ground and raised his hands forward, receiving the emperor's edict.

"My me, Shi Xie, thank the emperor for his kindness!"

Looking at Shi Xie's "touched" appearance, Tai Shi Ci couldn't see his current entanglement and pain.

Give him some time to react, but the preparations that must be done at the moment must not be missed.

Leaving the county town, Taishici returned to the military camp. With an order, the army entered a first-level combat readiness state, ready to suppress the rebellion at any time, pacify the rebellion, and use force to execute Guo Peng's orders.

The army is the fundamental driving force for the emperor's order to convey the implementation of the four directions to the end.

The deterrent attitude was very strong, and he was ready both internally and externally.

For Shi Xie and the entire Shi family, this is a choice that concerns fate.

So the fierce debate meeting was held in Longbiao County.

Overall, the number of people supported and the number of people not supported is half open.

Because the central army has a large number of people, strong strength and sufficient logistics, it has shown strong military discipline, military rules and deterrence, which makes the scholars feel scared and scared.

They realized that even if they gathered all the power of Jiaozhou, they could not defeat the central government, and could not achieve the great achievements of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, that year. The consequence of forced confrontation was death.

So almost half of the people were scared and felt that they should accept the orders of the court, and called it [to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens], advocating moving south and establishing a new home.

However, this time the central government wanted to uproot the ancestral property of the Shi family and not even keep the ancestral land, forcibly driving the Shi family to the southernmost end of the country, seriously violating the traditional custom of relocation.

Some elderly people in the scholar family were so angry that their hair and beards were wide open and their faces turned red, saying that they would rather die than hand over the ownership of Cangwu's hometown.
Chapter completed!