Guo Jin first sent someone to find Cao Ren, reported Guo Peng's request to Cao Ren, and asked Cao Ren to arrange the creation of a pretext for war first.

I stayed in Dunhuang County for the time being and began to observe the daily life of Dunhuang County.

Guo Peng once said to Guo Jin that he didn't like the fang market system.

This system, which restricts the trading area and stipulates that transactions can only be carried out during certain periods of the day, severely restricts the vitality of commerce, curbs the situation in which commerce should develop more prosperously, and restricts the development of commerce.

However, from a global point of view, ancient industry and commerce could not support enough of the work-out population.

Everyone has to eat, and those who are engaged in industry and commerce also have to eat, and in the case of low productivity, there is no absolute majority of the agricultural population to ensure production, let alone business, and starvation can starve you to death.

Business can only be the icing on the cake, not the charcoal.

It was only after the ancients learned from the experience of commerce in influencing national stability that they introduced the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, ensuring that agricultural production came first and commerce was the last.

To this day, under the condition that the social productive forces are generally low, and when there is not much grain in the field, Guo Peng does not hesitate to promote the emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of business.

The market system restricts the scale of commercial transactions, and the curfew system restricts the time of commercial transactions, prohibiting the rapid development of commerce, and prohibiting businessmen from making too much money.

Of course, the curfew system was also due to the country's poverty in the early days of the founding of the country, and the fuel was too expensive to be used on a large scale and for a long time.

However, he himself used the royal caravan to make a lot of money outside, and suppressed the economic power of private merchants at home, and also set up policies to deal with the emergence of large merchants above the middle level, and was ready to kill the rising ones to fill the treasury, and the one-stop service was properly prepared.

Of course, this is in line with the interests of the Wei State, in line with the needs of the whole, and also in line with Guo's consistent double standard.

In the final analysis, commerce is an industry that only emerges after there is a surplus in agricultural production, and if agriculture collapses, where can merchants go to find goods to trade?

The twenty years of turmoil in the last two decades of the Han Dynasty caused serious damage to the social production order, and it took Guo a lot of time to restore the overall state of the country to before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Now that he is about to start resuming construction, he cannot let the untimely development of business interfere with his overall plan, so the restoration of agricultural production order is the most important rigid need, and it often takes three to five years to see a little improvement in agricultural production, which is absolutely not easy.

At a time when everyone was immersed in agriculture, Zhuge Liang gave priority to business in Dunhuang County.

Large-scale investment attraction, large-scale markets, and the abolition of the boundaries of the square market in Dunhuang County, allowing non-core areas to set up roadside stalls.

So the whole Dunhuang County revitalized him, not to mention, Dunhuang County also developed on a large scale, because of such prosperity, Dunhuang County attracted a large number of merchants to do business, rest and even stop, and the flow of people increased steadily.

That's why there is such a foot traffic.

Hotels and liquor stores can be found everywhere in the city, and almost the whole city is fragrant at every meal, and you can see people eating everywhere.

In the city, you can not only see the Han people, but also a large number of merchants from the Western Regions, and even merchants from Guishan and Anxi, there are a lot of people who come and go to trade, from the sun rises to the sun sets, the city has no time to rest.

During Guo Jin's stay in the city for several days, he sent Lu Yi, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, Cao Tai, and others to several other counties in Dunhuang County to observe the situation in Dunhuang County and to observe the agricultural production situation in Dunhuang County and the construction of grassroots political power in villages and townships.

As a result, several other counties in Dunhuang County are connected to Dunhuang County through Daguan Road, and they can reach Dunhuang County at a very fast speed.

A considerable number of people in all counties are engaged in agricultural production, the scale of land reclamation is not bad, and the whole of Liangzhou is not lagging behind, and the grassroots governments of villages and townships are also very well established.

It is not uncommon to see many horse caravans carrying agricultural products or handicrafts coming out of these county towns and going straight to the wine shops, inns and large bazaars in Dunhuang County to trade.

Several other counties of Dunhuang County became suppliers of Dunhuang County, and the two sides were connected by goods and roads.

They talked about Zhuge Liang privately with the locals, and the locals praised Zhuge Liang as a very capable Taishou, and the prosperity of Dunhuang County today depends on his single-handed operation.

So much so that they can do something with a small amount of money in their hands.

This made Guo Jin feel a little incredible.

After thinking about it, he decided to go to the Taishou Mansion to see Zhuge Liang in person, wanting to ask him what he thought and how he did it.

Zhuge Liang's Taishou Mansion was very busy.

The posture of people coming and going seems to be a microcosm of this county, and there are almost no idle people to be seen, and everyone seems to have something very important to do.

Guo Jin asked Lu Yi to visit Zhuge Liang and told Zhuge Liang that the crown prince was coming.

Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, and immediately dropped the matter in his hand 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, and pretending to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is purely tired."

Zhuge Liang had seen Guo Jin a lot when he was in the cabinet in the past.

At that time, Guo Peng had already begun to let Guo Jin show his face in the cabinet, show his presence, and help him announce some things and the like, so Zhuge Liang knew Guo Jin's appearance.

Guo Jin didn't deliberately pay attention to Zhuge Liang.

However, after the first imperial examination was held, Zhuge Liang, as the champion of the talent ceremony, once again aroused people's discussion, that is, he was far away in Dunhuang, and this discussion could 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 Sima Yi is in charge of, and is working hard to develop agricultural production, nothing special, but Dunhuang County, which you are in charge of, is very special."

Zhuge Liang was stunned again.

"Your Majesty, he ......"

"Father has never forgotten you, and he has mentioned you in front of me more than once, otherwise you were only twenty-seven years old when you became a taishou, how could ordinary people be?"

Guo Jin poured Zhuge Liang a glass of water, and Zhuge Liang hurriedly took it with both hands.

"The minister is far away in the west, Your Majesty is still so concerned, and the minister is deeply moved!"

Zhuge Liang immediately looked excited, and kowtowed three times in the direction of Luoyang.

Guo Jin didn't stop him and looked at him silently.

"Okay, don't feel it from the bottom of your heart, your father can't see or hear it when you do this, come and tell me, what do you think, tossing Dunhuang County like this?"

"Toss?"

Zhuge Liang was a little surprised: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the ministers are governing Dunhuang County, not tossing, and the people of Dunhuang are also producing and working, not doing their jobs." ”

"Don't toss, why can't you see Fang City in Dunhuang County, it's full of streets and vendors? Nowadays, the structure of this Dunhuang county town does not conform to my Wei convention. ”

Guo Jin squinted at Zhuge Liang with an unkind expression.

Zhuge Liang looked confused.

"Did Wei Lu say that the construction of the city must follow the rules of the city and not be exceeded? His Royal Highness the Prince, the ministers are not knowledgeable, and they don't know that there is such a thing! The minister is guilty! ”

"Hahahaha!"

Guo Jin laughed happily and stopped Lu Yi, who seemed to be about to reprimand Zhuge Liang.

"I knew you'd say that!"

After laughing, Guo Jin shook his head: "Wei Luli does not have such a rule, although you do this, although it is not in accordance with the rules, but it is indeed blameless, but you must also know that this matter is very dangerous, as long as your father says that you are fine, you are fine, your father said that you have a problem, Wei Luli does not say it, you also have a problem." ”