Chatting with the store, Guo Jin felt happy, and unconsciously chatted with the store about a lot of things.

"In the future, have you ever thought about making your business bigger and then opening more liquor stores in other places?"

"Of course I've thought about it, if this small shop can become bigger, we will definitely be willing to open a few more, make more money, and feed the little characters."

The shopkeeper sighed: "If you become big in the future, you will take your family to Dunhuang and open a store in Dunhuang, and you will definitely make a lot of money." ”

"Dunhuang County? Why Dunhuang County and not several other counties? ”

Guo Jin became interested.

"Because Dunhuang County has the most merchants in the Western Regions, many merchants from the Western Regions, it is said that there are merchants from the Guishan Kingdom further west, a large number of them have come over, and there are many merchants from Guanzhong who have gone to the Western Regions from Dunhuang, all of them have stopped in Dunhuang and are still doing business in Dunhuang, so there are a lot of merchants in Dunhuang."

"Then the other counties should be fine."

Guo Jin asked again.

"That's different."

The shopkeeper shook his head: "Merchants go to other counties on the way, even if they go through, they can't stop for a few days, but in Dunhuang, because there is a particularly big city there, many merchants from the Western Regions also trade in that city in Dunhuang County."

Some people can stay for a month, and there are those who settle in Dunhuang for this purpose, and other counties have the same example, but the effect is not as good as the first Dunhuang County to do so, the market of Dunhuang County is really big, and it is not far from the Taishou Mansion.

Zhuge Taishou set up a high platform in the Taishou Mansion, standing on the high platform, you can see the market, the merchants doing business in the market are honest, for fear of Zhuge Taishou to see, and then ask the guilt, there are also many officers and soldiers stationed in the market, so no one dares to make trouble. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Guo Jin remembered Guo Peng's instructions, and asked, "Could it be that this market was also set up by Zhuge Taishou?" ”

"Is this the first time the guest has come to Liangzhou?"

The shopkeeper asked.

"Yes, I am from Luoyang, and I came to Liangzhou for the first time."

"Oh, then it's no wonder, this market was originally not from Dunhuang County, it was from Dunhuang County, it was built by Zhuge Taishou when he was doing Dunhuang County Order, and later Zhuge Taishou became Dunhuang Taishou, and naturally it became Dunhuang County, which is particularly famous.

If the guests want to do business, then rest assured, there is basically nothing deceitful in the Dunhuang market, if there is one, it can be found out immediately, and the offender will be put in jail no matter who the offender is, and he will never be able to enter the Dunhuang market again. ”

After listening to the store's words, Guo Jin nodded slowly.

It seems that this Zhuge Liang really has some ability.

According to common sense, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce was the main theme of Wei's policy.

Guo Pengdu proposed in the central government that we should attach importance to agriculture and that officials in various localities should pay attention to agricultural production, and that we should not lose the big because of the small, and this Zhuge Liang did not focus on agriculture and suppress business, but instead supported commercial development, and did the opposite, the agricultural ...... of Dunhuang County

Isn't that a bit of a problem?

Dunhuang was not a big agricultural county, it is also a bitter cold land, agricultural development is certainly not as good as the Central Plains, and now it has to engage in commerce, once this agricultural production is pulled down, something really has to go wrong, first of all, there will be a famine.

Zhuge Liang got Guo Peng's attention so much, could he really make such a mistake?

Guo Jin felt that this matter needed to be really looked at to know what was going on.

After a long while, the rice buckets finally finished eating, and the men in the shop 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, and Guo Jin put up a shelf, saying that it was a reward because they had a good meal.

After that, Guo Jin went on the road with a relaxed and happy mood, and when he rode the horse leisurely, he couldn't help humming a small tune.

"Childe is very happy, look?"

"That's nature, I, Wei Zimin, live a healthy life, have food, clothing, and money, how can I not be happy? However, Dunhuang County is still a bit of a problem, and I want to take a good look at how Zhuge Liang governed Dunhuang County. ”

Guo Jin squinted his eyes and looked at the straight avenue ahead.

The place where they were at this time had just entered Liangzhou and arrived in Hanyang County, and they had not yet arrived at Wuwei County, where the current political center of Liangzhou was located, let alone Dunhuang County, which was in the far west.

Along the way, Guo Jin did not alarm any official forces, hid his identity, and pretended to be a real merchant in Guanzhong, which was quite a bit of a private visit.

Because of this, I can see a lot of things that I can't usually see during the official inspection.

Guo Jin felt that it was very meaningful to do this, and it was completely different to be able to look at the country from a different perspective, rather than just looking at the country from the perspective of the prince.

Because he cared too much about the affairs of Dunhuang County, and even in Zhangye County, he didn't care much about some details of Sima Yi's governance of the local area, and 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 tossed Dunhuang County into.

Subsequently, in mid-June, Guo Jin and his entourage arrived in Dunhuang County, the seat of Dunhuang County, as a business traveler, and stayed in a hotel in Dunhuang County.

This time it felt completely different.

If it weren't for the completely different sizes of the cities here, for a moment, Guo Jin thought that he had returned to Luoyang.

There are many people, the first feeling is that there are many people, there are very many people, and the feeling of Luoyang is the same, that is, there are many people, and it feels that people all over the world are crowded into a city.

Obviously, this is a border place, obviously a small city on the border, and their impression should be that it is low and dilapidated, sparsely populated, and there are only three or two kittens, but the population of Dunhuang County is completely beyond their imagination.

If they hadn't come all the way from the four counties of Hexi and saw the prosperity of local agricultural production, they would even think that all the people that Guo Peng had migrated over the years had come to Dunhuang County.

How can there be so many people?

The road in Dunhuang County is not narrow, and it can be seen that it has been widened, but despite this, there are still so many people that they are shoulder to shoulder.

The streets were crowded with people coming and going, and there were too many vendors on both sides of the street to count.

There seems to be no restrictions on streets and squares here, there is no clear division, it seems that except for the hawkers on both sides of the street, they are all connected together, such an internal style of the city, I have traveled so many cities, Guo Jin has really never seen it.

"Aren't there any neighborhoods here?"

Xiahou Shang looked at the distribution of buildings in this small city with some surprise, and unexpectedly found that he did not find the familiar distribution in his impression, and at a glance, the residential area and the commercial area were actually mixed together.

"yes, this city is a little strange, isn't this just a house? The vendors are connected to the homes, from the head of the city to the end of the city, is that okay? ”

Cao Zhen's face was full of surprise.

The rest of the group was also quite surprised.

They really haven't seen such a city, and they don't blame them for having such an idea.

Under the main tone of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, the basic construction principle of the city is the fang market system, where the fang is the residential area and the city is the trading area.

Within the city, residential areas and trading areas are strictly separated, and the time and place of transactions are controlled by laws and institutions.

Although Wei Lunei did not explicitly stipulate that the city must be planned according to the fang market system, this is because the fang market system is the consensus of everyone, and merchants can only trade in the city, and it is forbidden to do business in the residential area, which is customary.

This is how every city in the Central Plains was built.

As a result, Zhuge Liang actually took advantage of this loophole.