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"Is there such a thing?"
Guo Jin remembered Guo Peng's instructions, and asked again: "Could it be that this market was also set up by Zhuge Taishou?"
"Is the guest coming to Liangzhou for the first time?"
the shopkeeper asked.
"Yes, I'm from Luoyang, and it's my first time in Liangzhou."
"Oh, that's no wonder. This market was originally not in Dunhuang County, but in Dunhuang County. It was built by Zhuge Taishou when he was the county magistrate of Dunhuang. Later, Zhuge Taishou became the Dunhuang prefect, and it naturally became Dunhuang. County, especially famous.
If the guests want to do business, don’t worry, there are basically no deceitful things in the Dunhuang market. If there are any, they can be found out immediately. Enter the Dunhuang Bazaar again. "
After hearing what the shopkeeper said, Guo Jin nodded slowly.
It seems that this Zhuge Liang is really capable.
Normally speaking, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is the main theme of Wei's policy.
Guo Peng has proposed in the central government to pay attention to agriculture, and officials from all over the country should pay attention to agricultural production, so that they should not lose too much because of small things. However, this Zhuge Liang does not emphasize agriculture and suppress business, but instead supports the development of business. Doing the opposite, the agriculture in Dunhuang County ...
Isn't there a problem?
Dunhuang was not originally a large agricultural county, and it was also a place of bitter cold. The agricultural development must not be as good as that of the Central Plains, and now it has to engage in business. Once the agricultural production is pulled down, something will go wrong. First, there will be famine.
Zhuge Liang got Guo Peng's attention so much, could he really make such a mistake?
Guo Jin felt that it was necessary to take a real look at this matter to know what was going on.
After a while, the rice buckets finally finished their eating, and the men in the store were so tired that they collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up.
Guo Jin paid the store an extra five baht, but the store said no, Guo Jin put on airs and said it was a reward because they had a good meal.
Afterwards, Guo Jin set off on the road with a relaxed and happy mood. While riding leisurely on the horse, she couldn't help humming a little tune.
"Young master is very happy?"
"That's natural. I, the people of Wei, live in a healthy life. I have food, clothes, and money. How can I not be happy? But there are still some problems in Dunhuang County. I'm going to take a good look at how Zhuge Liang governs. From Dunhuang County."
Guo Jin squinted his eyes and looked at the straight road ahead.
The place where they are at this time has just entered Liangzhou and arrived in Hanyang County, but has not yet arrived in Wuwei County, where the current political center of Liangzhou is located, let alone Dunhuang County in the west.
Along the way, Guo Jin didn't disturb any official forces, and concealed her identity, just pretending to be a real merchant from Guanzhong, which seemed a bit like a private visit.
It is also because of this that we can see many things that we cannot see during official inspections.
Guo Jin felt that it was very meaningful to do so. It was a completely different feeling to look at the country from a different perspective, instead of just looking at the country from the perspective of the prince.
Because he paid too much attention to the affairs of Dunhuang County, even in Zhangye County, he didn't pay much attention to the details of Sima Yi's governance of the local area. After a cursory look, he felt that the people were stable, the roads were open, and the agricultural development was improving, so he felt very satisfied.
He still wanted to go to Dunhuang County as soon as possible to see what Zhuge Liang had done to Dunhuang County.
Then, in mid-June, Guo Jin and his party arrived at Dunhuang County, the seat of Dunhuang County, as a business traveler, and stayed at a hotel in Dunhuang County.
This time it feels completely different.
If it weren't for the completely different size of the city here, for a moment, Guo Jin thought she had returned to Luoyang.
There are many people, the first feeling is that there are many people, very many people, the same feeling as Luoyang, that is, there are many people, it feels like people from all over the world are crowded in one city.
Obviously this is a borderland, obviously a small border city, they should have the impression that it is low, dilapidated and sparsely populated, with only three or two kittens, but the population of Dunhuang County is completely beyond their expectations. imagine.
If they hadn't come all the way from the four counties in Hexi and saw the prosperity of local agricultural production, they would even think that all the people Guo Peng migrated over the years had come to Dunhuang County.
How can there be so many people?
The roads in Dunhuang County are not narrow, and it can be seen that they have been widened. Even so, there are still so many people that they are crowded with each other.
People coming and going crowded the streets, and there were too many hawkers on both sides of the street to count.
There seems to be no restriction of streets and workshops here, and there is no clear division. It seems that on both sides of the street, except for hawkers and houses, they are all connected together. Guo Jin has never seen such an interior style of the city. He has visited so many cities.
"Are there no neighbors here?"
Xia Houshang looked at the distribution of buildings in this small city with some surprise, and unexpectedly found that he didn't find the familiar distribution in his impression. At a glance, the residential area and the commercial area were actually mixed together.
"Yeah, this city is a bit strange. Isn't this the residence? The merchants are connected to the residence, from the beginning to the end of the city. Is that okay?"
Cao Zhen was surprised.
The rest of the team were also quite surprised.
For such a city, they have never seen it before, and it is no wonder that they have such an idea.
Under the main tone of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, the basic construction principle of the city is the square city system, where the square is the residential area and the city is the trading area.
In the city, the residential area and the trading area are strictly separated, and laws and systems are used to control the time and place of the transaction.
Although Wei Law has not clearly stipulated that the city must be planned according to the Fangshi system, this is because the Fangshi system is the consensus of everyone. Merchants can only conduct transactions in the city, and business is prohibited in residential areas. This is a convention. .
Any city in the Central Plains was built in this way.
As a result, Zhuge Liang took advantage of this loophole.
Chapter 1244 One thousand and one hundred and fifty
Guo Jin first sent someone to find Cao Ren, report Guo Peng's request to Cao Ren, and asked Cao Ren to first arrange to create an excuse for war.
I stayed in Dunhuang County for the time being, and began to observe the daily life of Dunhuang County.
Guo Peng once told Guo Jin that he didn't like the Fangshi system.
This system of restricting trading areas and stipulating that transactions can only be carried out during a certain period of time during the day severely restricts the vitality of commerce, curbs the more prosperous situation that commerce should have developed, and restricts the development of commerce.
But from an overall point of view, ancient industry and commerce could not support enough full-time population.
Everyone needs to eat, and people engaged in industry and commerce also need to eat. In the case of low productivity, there is no absolute majority of the agricultural population to guarantee production, let alone business, you can starve to death.
Business can only be icing on the cake, not a timely gift.
The ancients learned from the experience that commerce affects the stability of the country, so they introduced the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, ensuring that agricultural production is the first and commerce is the last.
Even today, when the overall social productivity is low, and when there is not much food from the ground, Guo Peng does not hesitate to promote agriculture and suppress business.
Use the square market system to limit the scale of commercial transactions, use the curfew system to limit the time of commercial transactions, prohibit excessive commercial development, and prohibit businessmen from making too much money.
Of course, the curfew system also had reasons for the country's poverty in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the fuel was expensive and could not be used on a large scale for a long time.
However, he himself used the royal caravan to make a lot of money outside, and suppressed the economic strength of private merchants inside. He also set up policies to deal with the emergence of medium-sized and above large merchants, and was ready to kill the leading ones at any time to fill the treasury. One-stop service preparation It's all right.
This is of course in line with Wei's interests, in line with the needs of the whole, and also in line with Guo's consistent double standards.
In the final analysis, commerce is an industry that emerged after the surplus of agricultural production. If agriculture collapses, where can merchants go to find goods for trading?
The troubled times in the last 20 years of the Han Dynasty severely damaged the order of social production. It took Guo a lot of time to restore the overall state of the country to that before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Now that he is about to start to resume construction, he can't let the untimely development of business interfere with his overall plan, so restoring the order of agricultural production is the most important just need, and the restoration of agricultural production often takes three to five years to see It's definitely not easy to get better.
When everyone was immersed in agriculture, Zhuge Liang started business first in Dunhuang County.
Large-scale investment was attracted, large-scale bazaars were opened, and the boundaries of squares and cities were canceled in Dunhuang County, allowing roadside stalls to be set up in streets in non-core areas.
So the whole Dunhuang County was rejuvenated for him, not to mention, Dunhuang County also developed on a large scale because of this prosperity, Dunhuang County attracted a large number of businessmen to do business, rest or even stop, and the flow of people increased steadily.
So there is such a flow of people.
Hotels and restaurants can be seen everywhere in the city, almost the whole city smells fragrant at meal time, and people eating can be seen everywhere.
Not only Han people can be seen in the city, but also a large number of merchants from the Western Regions, and even merchants from Guishuang and Anxi.
During Guo Jin's stay in this city for a few days, he sent Lu Yi, Cao Zhen, Xia Houshang, Cao Tai and others around him to several other counties in Dunhuang County to see the situation, to observe the agricultural production status and conditions of Dunhuang County. Construction of grassroots political power in villages and villages.
As a result, several other counties in Dunhuang County have achieved Unicom through Daguan Road and Dunhuang County, and can reach Dunhuang County at a very fast speed.
Each county has a considerable number of people engaged in agricultural production, and the scale of land reclamation is not bad. It is not inferior in the whole Liangzhou, and the village and township grassroots governments are also well established.
It is often seen that many horse teams carrying agricultural products or handicrafts come out of these county towns and go directly to the wine shops, hotels and big markets in Dunhuang county town for trading.
Several other counties in Dunhuang County became the suppliers of Dunhuang County, and the two sides were connected by goods and roads.
They talked about Zhuge Liang with the locals in private, and the locals all praised Zhuge Liang as a very capable prefect. The current prosperity of Dunhuang County is all due to his single-handed operation.
So much so that they can take out a small sum of money to do something.
This made Guo Jin feel a little unbelievable.
After thinking about it, he decided to go to the prefect's mansion to meet Zhuge Liang himself, and wanted to ask him what he thought and how he did it.
Zhuge Liang's prefect's mansion was very busy.
The posture of people coming and going seems to be the epitome of this county. There are almost no idle people. Everyone seems to have important things to do.
Guo Jin asked Lu Yi to visit Zhuge Liang and told Zhuge Liang that the crown prince was here.
Zhuge Liang was taken aback for a moment, and immediately dropped what he was doing and came to see Guo Jin.
"I thought you would suspect someone impersonating me."
Guo Jin looked at Zhuge Liang with a smile.
"It's still possible to pretend to be someone else, but pretending to be His Royal Highness is simply boring."
Zhuge Liang often met Guo Jin when he was in the cabinet.
At that time, Guo Peng had already started to let Guo Jin show his face in the cabinet, to show his presence, to help him announce some things, so Zhuge Liang knew Guo Jin's appearance.
Guo Jin didn't pay attention to Zhuge Liang deliberately.
But after the first imperial examination was held, Zhuge Liang, as the number one scholar in the Talent Discussion Ceremony, once again aroused people's discussion, that is, he was far away in Dunhuang, and this kind of discussion did not affect him for the time being.
"Kong Ming, before I set off to Liangzhou, my father asked me to pay special attention to you and Sima Yi. I went to see Zhangye County, which was governed by Sima Yi. County, but it is very special."
Zhuge Liang was stunned again.
"Your Majesty he..."
"Father has never forgotten you. He mentioned you more than once in front of me. Otherwise, you were only 27 years old when you became the prefect. How could ordinary people do that?"
Guo Jin poured Zhuge Liang a glass of water, and Zhuge Liang quickly took it with both hands.
"Your Majesty is so far away in the western region, and I am deeply moved!"
Zhuge Liang immediately looked excited, and kowtowed three times in the direction of Luoyang.
Guo Jin didn't stop him, but looked at him silently.
"Okay, don't be so heartbroken. If you do this, your father can't see or hear you. Come and tell me, what do you think, to toss Dunhuang County like this?"
"toss?"
Zhuge Liang was a little surprised: "His Royal Highness, the minister is governing Dunhuang County, not tossing about. The people of Dunhuang are also producing and working, and they are not doing nothing."
"Don't bother, why can't you see the city in Dunhuang County, it's full of streets, and there are vendors? The structure of this Dunhuang County is not in line with our Wei practice."
Guo Jin stared at Zhuge Liang with squinted eyes, with a bad look on his face.
Zhuge Liang looked confused.
"In the Wei Law, there is a saying that the construction of a city must follow the rules of the city and not exceed it? Your Royal Highness, I don't know such a thing! You are guilty!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
Guo Jin laughed happily, and stopped Lu Yi who seemed to be reprimanding Zhuge Liang.
"I knew you would say that!"
After laughing, Guo Jin shook her head: "There is indeed no such regulation in Wei Luli. Although it is against the rules for you to do so, it is indeed beyond reproach, but you must also know that this matter is very dangerous. As long as your father says you are fine, you It’s okay, my father said you have a problem, but if Wei Luli doesn’t say it, you have a problem too.”
Chapter 1245 One thousand 150 five Guo Jin likes Zhuge Liang very much
Guo Jin told Zhuge Liang the naked reality that the imperial power was above Wei Lu without hesitation.
Zhuge Liang didn't seem surprised at all.
"His Royal Highness, I did not have any selfish intentions in doing this. I did this only for the development and construction of Dunhuang, so that the people of Dunhuang would have enough food and clothing to live up to His Majesty's trust in entrusting Dunhuang County to me."