A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

The King of Loulan said that he represented the various countries of the Western Regions in expressing their longing for the culture of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the right to mint coins was relinquished.

Do you think other countries will give up? If they don't, does that mean they don't admire Han Dynasty culture?

Do you admire the culture of the Xiongnu?

Would the countries of the Western Regions dare to say such a thing? Certainly not.

Then they could only obediently follow the King of Loulan's lead and request the Han army to build a mint in their country as well.

Wei Qi nodded with satisfaction; this new King of Loulan possessed great wisdom.

Fu Jiezi did choose a good candidate; I'll have to recommend him for credit later.

"Since the King of Loulan has extended such a sincere invitation, this general naturally grants it."

"However, there are many countries in the Western Regions, so it is not necessary to establish a mint in every country."

"It can be built directly in the Protectorate of the Western Regions."

Seeing that the matter was already settled, the kings of the various countries had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Then they looked at their traitor, the King of Loulan, with murderous intent.

King Loulan handled things so well; Wei Qi should think carefully about how to reward him.

Otherwise, how will anyone be willing to stand up for us in the future?!

After recalling it, it seems that the Hundred Schools of Thought that went to Loulan were the Guliang School of Confucianism.

Alas, the Loulan Kingdom seems to be in some bad luck.

Surprisingly, it was Gu Liangjun who went there.

Gee tut.

After thinking it over, Wei Qi decided to establish a Wuzhu coin exchange in the Loulan Kingdom.

With this exchange point, the Loulan Kingdom was able to exchange large quantities of Wuzhu coins first.

By leveraging this first-mover advantage, the Loulan Kingdom could gain tremendous benefits in trade.

This will also attract more Han Chinese merchants to trade in Loulan.

Goods from the Han Dynasty were very popular in the Western Regions, allowing the Loulan Kingdom to earn substantial profits.

After the Western Regions kingdoms left, the contents of this meeting were also spread.

Countries that had never witnessed a cultural war before could not understand the significance of the Han Dynasty's actions.

It can't possibly be really what Wei Qi said on the surface, can it?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

The Han Dynasty must have had a deeper purpose.

With these questions in mind, the various countries of the Western Regions began to change the names of their items.

In this campaign, the various schools of thought and their disciples in the Western Regions played a significant role.

These individuals greatly facilitated the progress of naming things after each other.

This time, it only took five months to get all the official departments to change the names of the items.

With changes in official departments, the public can only follow suit.

With the king setting an example, nobles and ministers also took pride in wearing clothing with Han Dynasty elements.

As for ordinary people, they don't have that many choices.

Some of the clothes are quite nice to wear.

Ultimately, it was the people of the Hundred Schools of Thought who discovered the problem and reported it to Wei Qi.

Wei Qi then transported a batch of linen clothes from within the country, and the Han Dynasty had now completely escaped poverty.

Ordinary linen clothing was not lacking.

After sending these Han Dynasty linen clothes to the Western Regions, Wei Qi distributed them among his various households.

The task required a comprehensive assessment of the general public's familiarity with Chinese characters.

Anyone who can recognize 1000 Chinese characters can receive a free set of linen clothes.

When the people of the Western Regions saw that they could receive clothes for free, their enthusiasm for learning increased even more.

Learning Chinese characters can lead to becoming an official if you learn a lot, and you can still get a new set of clothes even if you learn little.

Chinese characters are truly a wonderful thing!

Or they would give away ordinary linen clothes for free, planting the concept that the Han Dynasty and Chinese characters were good in the minds of ordinary people in the Western Regions.

Especially for ordinary children, who are at the peak of their learning ability, they work incredibly hard and diligently for new clothes.

Unlike later generations, this era did not offer them opportunities to learn, which were extremely precious to them.

Therefore, forcing them to study will not provoke their resistance; it will only plant the idea in their hearts that the Han Dynasty was truly wonderful.

In the Han Dynasty, the various schools of thought actually did the same thing, repeating the process in the Western Regions with ease.

The nobles of the Western Regions and the nobles of the Han Dynasty had one thing in common: they all disregarded the common people.

They turned a blind eye to these actions by the Han Dynasty.

They even secretly ridiculed the Han Dynasty, thinking it was just burning money.

They're foolish and have too much money.

In the second year after Wei Qi arrived in the Western Regions, several mints were built.

And a large number of Wuzhu coins were produced.

They used these Wuzhu coins to exchange for a large number of precious treasures and gold and silver with various countries in the Western Regions.

After adopting the same names for goods and currency, exchanges between the various countries in the Western Regions became more prosperous.

They also experienced the benefits of doing so.

However, the loss of the right to mint coins has still caused some countries to harbor ill intentions.

Because of the Han Dynasty's victory over the Xiongnu and the destruction of the Wusun, they dared not openly collude with the Xiongnu.

However, some dared to secretly send messages to the Xiongnu without revealing their identities.

They did it extremely discreetly, and even the Han Dynasty's spies in the Western Regions and the various schools of thought failed to detect it.

In that year, a major event occurred in the far west.

After annexing the Kingdom of Macedon and the Kingdom of Greece, the Roman Empire further annexed the Seleucid Kingdom and other Greek-influenced states in Asia Minor.

This resulted in the Roman Empire's eastern border directly bordering the Parthian Empire.

The contact between the two powerful empires was naturally not peaceful. Both countries, confident in their strength, tried their best to restrain themselves from the outbreak of a full-scale war.

However, minor border skirmishes continue.

Especially after the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, exchanges between the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire began to increase.

After seeing the silk and porcelain of the Han Dynasty, the Roman Empire became enamored with them.

Silk, in particular, was considered a symbol of nobility.

They wished they could buy back all the silk from the Han Dynasty every year.

However, the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were separated by the Parthian Empire and the Western Regions.

The exorbitant tolls charged by the Western Regions and the Parthian Empire resulted in silk being sold in the Roman Empire for several times its weight in gold.

Now that the middleman in the Western Regions has been eliminated by the Han Dynasty, more silk and porcelain have come into contact with the Roman Empire.

The prices they can buy have also decreased.

However, due to the vast territory of the Parthian Empire in between, the price of silk remained high.

Most importantly, Roman envoys had visited the Western Regions and made contact with the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

They came into contact with the Roman delegation of the Protectorate of the Western Regions and saw what truly high-quality silk looked like.

The exquisite texture, the vibrant colors, and the price that wasn't outrageously expensive.

This filled the Roman mission with resentment towards the Parthian Empire.

That damned Parthian Empire has raised the price of silk by so much.

What's worse, they didn't sell them the best silk, but instead gave them inferior goods.

What an insult!