Guanqiu Jian sat in the seat of honor, with Pei Hui beside him.
Cao Qi, Shu Jinen, Liu Hong, and even He Qiao and the others knelt beside them.
Indeed, the great famous scholar Pei Hui had mentioned earlier.
Was none other than Guanqiu Jian.
Guanqiu Jian had defeated the Xianbei and Goguryeo in succession. Beyond Ping Province and Youzhou, there were practically no enemies left capable of threatening Great Wei.
Places such as Sushen were too far away and far too weak, lands of barren mountains and treacherous waters with not the slightest value in attacking them.
The imperial court had established Yun Province to administer the former territories of the Tuoba, Goguryeo, and other powers.
The Yun Province Inspectorate was actually rather empty. It had virtually no cities under its jurisdiction, only sentry posts, post stations, and the like, making it little more than an office in name.
Only Shengle could serve as its administrative base.
There were practically no common people under its jurisdiction.
Of course, the purpose of the Yun Province Inspectorate was not to govern any common people. Its main task was to monitor this territory and ensure that no emerging power occupied it.
If some power too blind to know better intended to take over the Tuoba Tribe's pastures and migrate here to graze its livestock, the Inspector Department would promptly inform the Army of the General Who Guards the North, and a counteroffensive would follow.
Once Youzhou and Ping Province had grown strong under good governance, perhaps the imperial court could extend its hand into Yun Province.
With all this done, Guanqiu Jian had no other major matters left to attend to.
He brought some of Ping Province's people to Ji Province.
The proportion of Hu people in Ping Province was far too