When Guo Peng met Cao Ang again, Cao Ang was already a middle-aged man.

Looking back at the beginning, he was a handsome and energetic young man. Now he has become mature and restrained.

The wind and sand in Central Asia left traces of time on his face, but also made him more tenacious and tenacious.

He is like a beaten desert rock. He can't see the handsomeness of the wind and god back then, but he can see the strength after being sharpened.

He likes Cao Ang very much now. He likes Cao Ang more than Cao Cao.

"Zi Xiu, it's been five years. I told you that you have been here for five years and I asked you to go back to Luoyang to see your father. Now, five years have passed, and you can go back."

Standing at the head of the city of Xicheng, the capital of the Xidu Prefecture, Guo Peng and Cao Ang watched the sunset that was about to sink into the sky.

"The Supreme Emperor can still remember me, and I am very grateful."

"How can you not care about you? You are also a family with me. You are here because you believe in you and think that together with Wen Lie, you can build the Xidu Protectorate in the West and become the real Ximen of our Wei Kingdom. Now it seems that you are doing a good job."

Guo Peng patted Cao Ang on the shoulder, then held his hand: "I have lived here for five years, Zixiu has suffered you."

"Even if you can get the praise of the Supreme Emperor, even if you work hard in the past five years, your heart will be sweet."

"Hahahaha, you've said one good thing in a row."

Guo Peng laughed for a while, but did not continue to laugh.

"It is also beneficial for you to stay here and stay away from the center of the court for five years. In the past five years, the court has been in chaos. Can you stay away from the court and accumulate merit here? For you, Cao, it is a good thing.

Sometimes, it is a lucky thing to stay away from the court? Many people can’t do it if they want to stay away? But from now on, you will not have such a chance. The emperor needs your help, so you have to go back."

Cao Ang bowed and bowed.

"Where will the Supreme Emperor ask me to go? Where will I go? This is my duty."

"It's great to know the duty of being a minister, but now I'm not an emperor? I can't let you go wherever you go? Everything is what the emperor means."

Guo Peng waved his hand? He smiled and said, "I am now? I am just an ordinary old man with half a body buried in the soil? I will lose one day after another? I don't know when I kicked my legs and left."

Cao Ang blinked, looked at the "old man" with black hair in front of him with high spirits and strong postures, and was silent for a while.

"The Supreme Emperor is too modest, you can live a long life."

"Is that so? Hahahahaha!"

Guo Peng couldn't help it? Haha burst into laughter.

Just chatting like this? The two talked about the current situation in the Rest Empire.

"According to the statistics over the past few months, indeed, the number of merchants coming to Anxue has been smaller. Many people look panicked even when they come, and they don't seem to be doing business? They seem to be coming to take refuge, and rumors are gradually spreading in the Protectorate's Mansion."

Cao Ang said with a serious expression: "They brought their families and soft people, instead of goods, to buy houses in Zhenxi Protectorate's Mansion. Some people even report to the government, hoping to stay in Zhenxi Protectorate's Mansion forever, become a citizen of Wei, pay taxes to us, and never go back.

Some people seem to think that the Protectorate of Zhenxi is not safe enough. After passing the Protectorate of Zhenxi to Beiting and Annan, it seems that the troubles of Anxi Kingdom this time are really big."

"It's very big. This time, Lou Mo defeated Anxi Kingdom so miserably. It is said that the main army of Anxi was wiped out. Emperor Anxi was injured on his shoulder and fled in a panic. The guards suffered heavy losses."

Guo Peng nodded: "If the country of Rest cannot survive this time, I would not find it strange. As for those who come to take refuge... they are allowed to take refuge, allow them to live, let them pay taxes, and after the situation in the country of Rest is clear, they can leave if they are willing to leave."

"The Supreme Emperor isn't worried that there may be people with ulterior motives among them?"

"No matter how ulterior motives are, how can we go? They are just people who have lost their country and their families. And at this time, the one who escaped by the energy-saving energy is also a merchant and has assets. Isn't it a good thing for us to let them come?"

After Guo Peng said this, Cao Ang immediately understood what Guo Peng meant.

"I understand."

Guo Peng didn't say anything else, but mentioned another thing.

"By the way, when it comes to this matter, Zixie, your younger brother Cang Shu is now living a very good life in Loumo Kingdom. He is now an important think tank around the Emperor of Loumo Kingdom and is very trusted. It is said that this time, Loumo Kingdom defeated the Sabre Country, and his efforts were in it."

Guo Peng suddenly mentioned Cao Chongzhi's incident, Cao Ang was slightly stunned, and then was greatly surprised.

"ah?"

"I didn't expect it? I didn't expect that Cang Shu was only twenty years old this year and was already a think tank around Emperor Lou Mo. He went to the battlefield with him and commanded the army to fight. I really didn't expect that he had such talent."

Guo Peng felt a little moved.

"This... I absolutely never imagined that my brother has such talent."

Cao Ang thought that the Roman Empire was a superpower with a scale similar to that of the Wei Empire. The emperor should be surrounded by talents. It was no longer the turn of his younger brother, a 20-year-old young man, who was successful.

As a result, his younger brother not only made the mark, but also made a big splash with the emperor, and even commanded the Roman army to fight and win.

"Looking back to the beginning, when I first followed Master Lu to the battlefield, I was twenty years old, but I didn't have the height of Cang Shu."

Guo Peng smiled: "Cang Shu made great contributions this time. I don't know how Emperor Lou Mo plans to reward Cang Shu. Should he be allowed to be an official, right? I'm really looking forward to it."

"This... the Supreme Emperor, Cang Shu is from Wei, how can he become an official in Lou Mo?"

Cao Ang was shocked.

"It's okay. With Cang Shu's age, if you want to achieve his current status in the Kingdom of Lou Mo in Wei, you can't even think about it for ten or twenty years. But now there is an Emperor Lou Mo who is willing to provide him with this opportunity to get training opportunities that ordinary people can't wait for. Why not do it?"

Guo Peng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Zi Huo, don't worry that Cang Shu will stay in Lou Mo and will not come back. You are all in Wei, and his relatives are all in Wei, and he will come back."

"But the Supreme Emperor, this is too..."

"Zi Hui, the defeat of the Anxi Kingdom will have such a huge impact on us. Have you ever thought about what impact will the Silk Road on the Southeast Maritime Road in Loumo Kingdom have on what kind of civil unrest will it have on my Southeast Maritime Silk Road?"

Guo Peng put away his smile and looked at Cao Ang.

Cao Ang was shocked.

"Your Majesty means, Lou Mo Country..."

"According to the analysis of previous letters from ambassadors Wang Wei and Cang Shu, the current Emperor Lou Mo is not a sloppy person. He suddenly won such a big victory and his prestige rose. What would he do?

I'm not sure yet, but even if I can be sure, I'm out of reach and can't intervene. If Lou Mo gets into chaos, it's not a good thing for me, but Cang Shu might be able to do something."

For some reason, Guo Peng always felt that Cao Chongzhi could do something in Rome.

He was helpless, thousands of miles away, and it was beyond reach, but Cao Chongzhi was right next to Karakara, and he might be able to do what Guo Peng could not do.

Guo Peng can only look forward to it so much.

After listening to Guo Peng’s story, Cao Ang was deeply shocked.

He had never realized as he had today that the internal affairs of the Roman Empire, which was thousands of miles apart, would have a huge impact on the interests of the Wei Empire.

Is this the meaning of world connectivity?

Cao Ang's heart was filled with strange emotions.

The military and political chiefs of the Protectorate of Zhenxi are all Cao and are all relatives. They have a close relationship with Guo Peng, so there is no need for too much constraints for the dinner.

Guo Peng took his family to participate. As an elder, Cao Lan also prepared gifts for Cao Ang and Cao Xiu.

The dinner was so happy, and everyone got together to talk about a lot of things from the past.

In the next few days, Guo Peng stopped at the Xidu Protectorate in Zhenxi, while taking his family to visit the scenery of Central Asia, while walking around and taking materials for his "Book of Profits and Diseases in the World".

The western gate of the empire must be well controlled and the Silk Trade Road is not threatened. Otherwise, the Silk Trade Road will be threatened and the situation in the entire northwest will be corrupt.

Just before Guo Peng was about to leave, the economic crisis was accumulated and finally broke out in Xicheng, the capital of the Xidu Prefecture, which delayed Guo Peng's departure.

Therefore, Guo Peng was able to personally experience the first economic crisis encountered by the Wei Empire.

Earlier, in order to encourage the development of the private economy, Guo Peng once allocated funds to the local branches of the Ministry of Finance to allow private self-employed businesses to borrow money from them to do small businesses.

Loans are issued in an interest-free or low-interest manner, and they will return them to the government after they make money.

Guo Peng tried to stimulate the development of the private economy through this.

This model was maintained and never abolished, but later, with the occurrence of many problems and Guo Peng gradually tightened the restrictions on business development, the application threshold was gradually raised.

To this day, there are not many people who can still borrow like government loans, but the number has been greatly reduced, and there is almost no possibility of applying for loans with just a slap in your head.

The court stipulated that there must be clear reasons and detailed plans, and that someone must be willing to guarantee them to ensure that there will be no accidents, and then you can get a loan to avoid large-scale bad debts and bad debts.

In the past, when the loan operation was immature, the application conditions were very low, and relatively large-scale bad debts and bad debts could not be disposed of in the Yuzhou area of ​​Yanzhou.

Many people just take advantage of loopholes to get loans, thinking that the court is paying money for free. Of course, they have to keep up with such good things. They use the money to eat, drink, and have fun, and spend money on their own, and do not manage them at all.

Some people used loans to operate, but they were not good at management and soon went bankrupt, losing all the money and nothing left.

The imperial court's execution also simply pursues quantity due to the pressure from superiors, and there is no strict review at all. As long as someone applies and looks decent, he will allocate loans and will not check them at all.

So the bubble burst and the repayment period came, and the court could not collect the loan at all, causing heavy losses.

At that time, Guo Peng made a fierce attack on the Ministry of Finance for this matter, dismissed a large number of mediocre officials who had failed to do so, and fined all the chief officials of the Ministry of Finance for three years of salary, but the financial losses had been caused and could not be recovered.

Guo Peng could not deprive the farmers of their land and turn them into refugees. Although this was indeed the last resort to punish these people, Guo Peng couldn't bear to use it.

Guo Peng's policies are always relatively gentle when it comes to matters involving ordinary people, and he is also very tolerant and restrained, which is completely different from the fact that he often calls for fighting and killing officials.

He thought carefully and reflected carefully, feeling that the matter was not handled well and his own problems were involved. He was because he failed to increase the supervision and the regulations were not detailed, so that the officials operated simply and roughly, causing this wave of credit crisis.

This wave has caused losses to the public.

So in the end, Guo Peng used the money from the inner treasury to make the Ministry of Finance, ending the credit crisis. He was the one who swallowed the bitter fruit and did not transfer the losses to the public.

From then on, Guo Peng became very cautious about issuing loans.

He carefully stipulated that lenders must meet a series of conditions before they can get the loan issued.

For example, many guarantors, such as detailed business plans, such as tracking and direct responsibility system of local finance department officials.

Tighten loan policies through a series of means to prevent the emergence of inferior loans and avoid the occurrence of large-scale bad debts and bad debts again.

There are many things to be used in Mr. Guo’s internal treasury. At the moment of financial tension, we cannot use this money equivalent to national reserves to provide policy support.

The inner treasury has never been Guo’s own small treasury, but Guo’s confidence in bypassing the court and forcibly promoting certain policies.
Chapter completed!