After further understanding, Zhuge Liang learned that the reason why this matter went wrong was because the road construction project was too big and there were too many people involved.

According to the original plan of the imperial court, the army was to participate in the construction of roads, be responsible for law and order, assist in management, and manage food with the fire head army, so as to reduce the possibility of corruption.

However, although the policy is good, there are some problems in its implementation.

The imperial court had high requirements for the progress of road construction, and the original plan of repairing a section by section was denied, and the new plan was to roll out in an all-round way, and many construction sites were started together to speed up the progress.

But as a result, the army is under a lot of pressure.

The 55,000-strong troops of the Northwest Corps have garrison tasks, barbarian sweeping tasks, and training tasks, and they cannot all be engaged in road construction projects, and that is too much pressure on the army.

Therefore, although the imperial court nominally stipulated that every road construction site must have an army responsible for managing law and order, and the fire army must also be responsible for cooking.

However, in practice, more than half of the road construction sites in the four counties of Hexi did not have the military to participate in the management.

This was stipulated in the initial plan for the construction of the road in sections, and in the plan of building in sections, the manpower involved in the army was absolutely sufficient.

However, after the change of plan, the number of road construction sites and the number of civilians increased greatly, and the army was indeed understaffed to take care of it.

Cao Ren also understands this situation, so he can only arrange manpower in key road sections or high-risk road sections, and other places will be arranged by officials from the state and county governments.

They didn't think there was anything wrong with it, because the situation was indeed real, and the army couldn't control it.

Officials in the state and county governments do not have the power to mobilize the army, nor do they have the army to mobilize, so they can only mobilize the security personnel at their disposal to participate in the management of road construction sites.

However, it was found that this was not enough, and there was still a shortage of management personnel, so they had to pull people from other places to take charge of management.

Who are these people?

Many of them are relatives, family and friends of officials, and so on.

This is the problem.

These people come from a complex environment, and the growth environment is also very complex, and it is difficult to say what they will do.

After Zhuge Liang learned about such a fact, he realized that this matter involved a lot.

The road construction sites are mainly concentrated in the four counties of Hexi, and the roads in other parts of Liangzhou except the four counties of Hexi have been repaired and connected to Guanzhong.

Therefore, the road construction project is in the four counties of Hexi, and it will be extended to the Western Regions in the future.

Not long after the four counties of Hexi were conquered, local production was seriously damaged, and the materials produced by themselves were extremely low, not even enough to eat, and a large number of road construction materials had to be transferred from other counties in Liangzhou and Yongzhou.

Yongzhou has a big head, and Liangzhou has a small head.

This is the holy decree of Emperor Guo Peng to Yongzhou Assassin Chen Palace under the joint discussion led by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry.

It must not be wrong to ask Chen Gong to open the treasury of Yongzhou and support the road construction projects of the four counties of Hexi in large quantities.

Grain, raw materials for road construction, transportation costs, etc., all have to be borne by Yongzhou a considerable part.

Chen Gong is said to have raised objections.

He felt that Yongzhou itself also had a lot of things that needed to be used, and the treasury was not abundant, and he had supported the Liangzhou part outside the four counties of Hexi earlier, supported the construction of Shu Road, and rebuilt Hanzhong County and Shangyong County, and the accumulation of materials was not much.

He asked to transfer some from the Kanto region to fill the gap, but Guo Peng rejected it.

Guo Peng investigated the inventory in Yongzhou and blamed Chen Gong, saying that the things in the warehouse had to be taken out and used in addition to the necessary storage quota, and these things would not give birth to new things by themselves when they were placed in the warehouse.

If you don't, you're going to die in the warehouse, what's the use?

How to be responsible for the transfer from Kanto, a large number of transportation costs?

Can the materials be transported directly with long legs and not transported by manpower?

Chen Gong did not dare to have any objections, opened the Yongzhou treasury, and used a large number of materials to support the production and construction of the four counties in Hexi.

Yongzhou provided about 80 percent of the road construction materials, and Liangzhou could only provide 20 percent.

Yongzhou organized manpower and material resources to transport materials to Wuwei County, Liangzhou through the state government, and Liangzhou Thorn Shi Mao Jue received materials in Wuwei County, and then allocated them to the four counties of Hexi in turn, and then the four county guards arranged to use them on the road construction sites in each section.

During the whole process, governments below the county level are not eligible to participate, and officials at this level cannot participate in the county magistrate and county order.

Only the officials of the state and county governments and the people they arranged could participate in it, so Zhuge Liang never knew how this place was actually run.

Of course, Sima Yi didn't know.

The two are only responsible for contacting the township chief below and the village chief to count the strong men of each village, and then send people to the construction site of each section according to the standard number, which is considered their task, and it will be over when it is completed.

They have no other responsibilities and obligations.

Therefore, as for the treatment of road builders, it is obvious that they are not in charge.

Sima Yi didn't care about this matter, and the matter naturally appeared on several construction sites under the jurisdiction of Guangzhi County.

So Sima Yi was also a little worried.

"The matter...... Could it be that someone is greedy for ink? Embezzled the materials allocated by the imperial court? ”

"Judging from the current situation, there must be someone who is obstructing it, otherwise it is impossible for the dietary standards set by the imperial court to be artificially changed, and some places remain the same, and some places have such changes."

Zhuge Liang frowned: "As far as I know so far, there is an army to take care of law and order, and there is a place where the Huotou army is responsible for food, everything is as usual and has not changed, and where the state government and the county government are responsible for management, such a thing has happened, no matter how you look at it, it is problematic." ”

Sima Yi took a deep breath, thought for a moment, and said, "Kong Ming, what are you going to do?" ”

"This matter must be brought to the fore, and it cannot be treated as if you didn't see it."

Zhuge Liang said resolutely: "These people are all residents of the county under your and my jurisdiction, and they are recruited and arranged by you and me to be sent to various construction sites to work, and now they can't even eat salt water, if something happens in the future, who can afford it?" ”

"But these things are not within our jurisdiction."

Sima Yi hesitated: "You and I are only responsible for recruiting people to send them to various places, and everything after that has nothing to do with you and me, no matter how you look at it, you and I are not qualified to get involved." ”

"You can't just watch something like this happen."

Zhuge Liang pursed his lips: "I will continue to send someone to investigate this matter, find some physical evidence, collect some information, and then make plans, and since it may be something that happened in the state capital or the county government, then the law of the state government and the county government is meaningless."

If possible, I will report this matter directly to the Third Division of Luoyang, and let them directly send someone to intervene in this matter, and the people from Luoyang are far more effective than the state or county government, and they can investigate to the end in one go! ”

"Kong Ming!"

As soon as he heard Zhuge Liang say this, Sima Yi immediately grabbed Zhuge Liang's hand: "You carefully brush the joints in it." ”

"What joint?"

Zhuge Liang looked at Sima Yi.

"This matter, excluding the influence of the army, the allocation of materials, the whole process is Yongzhou Thorn Mansion and Liangzhou Thorn Mansion, as well as the four counties and county governments of Hexi are involved, Yongzhou Thorn Mansion allocates materials, and Liangzhou Thorn Mansion distributes materials.

Then the four counties of the four counties of Hexi further distributed the materials and arranged them directly to the construction site, do you know which link went wrong? Whose hand went wrong? You don't know that you're going to make a secret visit? ”