The Gongsun regime in Liaodong, as far as the information Guo Peng has now possessed, can be regarded as a regional hegemony regime that dominates Liaodong, rejects Goguryeo in the east, pacify Fuyu in the north, and subjugates Han in the south.

This regime has a high status and certain appeal among the Liaodong alien races, and in a sense it replaced the central government's status in the Liaodong alien races.

What Gongsun Du did is indeed not simple. It is not easy to be able to do a regional overlord through hard work and unique geographical location.

If you should say it, Gongsun Du is not a simple person, but also a heroic person.

The Gongsun family in Liaodong is a big family with a family background of 2,000 stones. It is the most famous wealthy family in Liaodong. It has been rooted in Liaodong for many years and has many children in its family. It has many children all over Liaodong, and many hold official positions.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Gongsun family gradually divided into two groups of forces, one belonged to Gongsun Zan and the other belonged to Gongsun Du.

The two major warlords of the Gongsun family shared the Youzhou, and Gongsun Du established his career early, earlier than Gongsun Zan's success. When Guo Peng became the General of Huwuhuan, Gongsun Du had already served as the prefect of Liaodong and began to establish his foundation.

But I don’t know if he wants to stay in Liaodong but not elsewhere. For nearly twenty years, he still manages his one-acre and three-point land in Liaodong.

Gongsun Zan had long been defeated by Yuan Shao, and his Gongsun clan was also liquidated by Yuan Shao and local tyrants. He died miserably, and the remaining Gongsun clans were all under Gongsun Du.

This person has the ability, talent, ambition and vision, but he lacks some pattern and is not very big.

He failed to compete with Yuan Shao for Youzhou after Gongsun Zan's death and tried to develop towards Hebei. His greatest effort was to try to develop across the sea and towards Qingzhou.

Of course, this is probably due to the inconvenient transportation in Liaodong that restricted his development.

During his time in Liaodong, he obtained the population who came to Liaodong for refuge due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, established an army and bureaucratic team, and developed and grew.

Later, he fought against Goguli, married Fuyu to the north, and won over Fuyu to the south to fight Goguli, and then gradually expanded his sphere of influence, stabilized Lelang County, and dominated the Liaodong region.

If we talk about military capabilities, Gongsun Du really has the combat power of the army, and Gongsun Du also has the combat power of the army.

When fighting against Gogurye and Jeong and Sanhan, Gongsun Du showed strong military capabilities. He beat these places until they did not dare to covet Liaodong, and made contributions to stabilizing Liaodong's borders and strengthened his own strength.

But this seemed to have caused him an illusion that he felt that he could dominate Liaodong forever.

He may not have thought that his comprehensive strength is completely incomparable to the Central Plains, whether it is population, economy or military.

Perhaps he felt that Guo Peng would not come to attack Liaodong because Liaodong was too bitter and cold and the road was inconvenient.

After Guo Peng's attack on the Xianbei and shocked Youzhou, he asked Tian Yu to station in Liaoxi County, building the Great Wall and roads to prepare for the expedition to Gongsun Du.

Gongsun Du's movement to station troops east of Liaoze for many years was that he had few troops and horses, and he did not seem to have prepared for a war with Guo Peng.

Before attacking Jingzhou Yizhou, when he was emperor, Guo Peng surrendered Gongsun Du. Gongsun Du did not respond and just pretended not to know about this matter. It was obviously to wait and see the situation, and then he was too impatient and felt that Guo Peng would not make a big move to attack Liaodong.

No wonder, he has been accustomed to being free for almost twenty years. Now he wants to admit defeat and surrender, and even Liu Zhang has to resist. How could a Liaodong overlord like Gongsun Du be willing to surrender?

But if you don't give up on resistance, I'll beat you up.

Mr. Guo has been unhappy with Gongsun Du for a long time.

He wanted all of them, including Gongsun Du, the land of the Three Hans, the land of Fengfeng, Gogurye and Fuyu, and he wanted all of them to destroy them.

This battle is to destroy all the Northeast power groups in one breath, incorporate all the Northeast into the territory of the Guo and Wei Empire, and complete their own territory expansion.

He wanted to expand the empire's territory to a point that the Han Empire had never reached, so as to prove that he wanted to be better and more orthodox.

So no matter what, this battle will start.

Now, political and military means have been used, but in order to deal with Liaodong, Guo has more than these two means.

There is a third one.

Economic means.

When dealing with the three major regimes in Jiangnan, Guo's economic methods came in handy.

In front of the station, he terminated his trade with the three major regimes in Jiangnan in advance, preventing them from obtaining various materials in urgent need, thereby striking their potential for war and limiting their mobilization and combat effectiveness.

However, for the size of these three major regimes, the Liaodong regime is undoubtedly even weaker, and Guo Peng was the first to plan economic means for the Liaodong regime.

The battle against Liaodong actually started very early.

Before the Northern Expedition of Yuan Shao, Guo Peng began to use the Mi caravans and some caravans in Qingzhou to trade with Liaodong, which also allowed Liaodong to develop on Central Plains materials.

After occupying Hebei, Guo Peng's power further developed, and the formed Cao's caravan was also included in this system, manipulating the Cao's caravan and some powerful caravans in Youzhou to enter Liaodong, and began to do business with Liaodong, creating trade deals.

Therefore, the standard Wuzhu coins minted by Mr. Guo were also circulated within the jurisdiction of the Gongsun regime and were very popular.

The standard Wuzhu coins minted by Mr. Guo are sufficient and have excellent minting skills. The coins are also exquisite. They completely replaced those privately minted bad coins in Liaodong because the Central Plains business travel only recognizes standard Wuzhu coins, does not recognize privately minted coins, and refuses to barter.

Gongsun Du also tried to imitate the standard Wuzhu coins, making it short and short, and tried to use bad money to drive out good money, so as to harm the Central Plains business travelers and make profits.

However, the craftsmen in Liaodong expressed their surprise at the casting method of the standard Wuzhu coins and found that no matter how they cast it, they could not be exactly the same as the standard Wuzhu coins. There are always some mistakes.

The coins minted are naturally of no value, and they look very different from the standard Wuzhu coins. They are seen by Zhongyuan Business Travel at a glance, and they don’t even need to weigh them.

After a few times, many business travelers solemnly warned Liaodong merchants, saying that if you use these privately cast Wuzhu coins to fool us, we will not come. At worst, we will not do business.

After one beat, we still have many places to do business, but you don’t have one!

Be careful that we unite to resist you, so that you can't leave Liaodong.

Gongsun Du was very angry when he was threatened like this, but because of the forces of the Wei Empire behind these large caravans, he did not dare to take action blatantly, worried that it would trigger a war and would be detrimental to him.

So Gongsun Du still gave up the idea of ​​driving out good coins by bad coins and turned to the full use of standard Wuzhu coins.

Later, he used his status and power in Liaodong to make money, sent special personnel to trade with Central Plains business travelers, excluded private caravans, and allowed himself to gain abundant material enjoyment.

After winning the economic war, the standard Wuzhu coins also gained a foothold in Liaodong.

After learning the news, Guo Peng instructed the business travel team to purchase some non-grain crops in Liaodong, such as medicinal materials, as well as a large number of fur, horses, cattle and sheep and other livestock.

Because of the large number of acquisitions and the number of acquisitions, Gongsun Du quickly realized the huge profit margin here.

He realized that this would allow him to get more Wuzhu coins, buy more luxury goods he liked and even some Wei army's weapons, making himself stronger.

Driven by interests, he began to widely use more land to grow non-food crops.

Especially various traditional Chinese medicine and medicinal materials, as well as ginseng and other medicinal materials that do not have a very marketable medicinal materials in the Central Plains.

He also sent special people to engage in animal husbandry, breeding cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock, and doing business with Central Plains merchants.

After this type of trade increased, Gongsun Du could not help but watch his income rise and he became richer.

He began to use his power to require more households to use more land to plant more medicinal materials, make unified planting arrangements, increase yields, and sell them to Zhongyuan Business Travel and obtain high profits, and in turn trade other things with Zhongyuan Business Travel.
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