When he suddenly heard Zhuge Liang mention the matter of saltwater bibimbap, Sima Yi was still a little surprised.

He didn't think anything like that could happen.

The food on the road construction site has always been uniform, and the Son of Heaven stipulates that three meals are given, two meals are thin, and one meal of meat is returned in five days, as the kindness of the Son of Heaven rewards the road builders.

In order to make them eat a little better.

What the hell is bibimbap?

"Is there really such a thing?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang with a nervous expression.

Zhuge Liang nodded with a heavy face.

"I never thought that such a thing would happen, but now it seems that it is true, the strong men recruited by Dunhuang County can only eat salted water mixed wheat rice when they build roads, and there are only two meals a day, one thin meal and one dry meal, and the meat or anything is not seen at all."

Zhuge Liang told Sima Yi what he had experienced during this time.

After the strong men of Dunhuang County under Zhuge Liang were collectively requisitioned and transferred to a road construction site in Dunhuang County to repair roads, some were injured and some were sick, and Zhuge Liang went to visit them to see what their specific situation was.

Something happened during this visit.

A cropper man in his thirties cautiously asked Zhuge Liang to see if Zhuge Liang could discuss with the officials who were eating at the construction site and ask them to give him a little more salt water.

He told Zhuge Liang that they felt that there was too little salt water on the construction site, and it couldn't mix the wheat rice, making the wheat rice dry and tasteless.

He hoped that the officials on the construction site would give them a little more salt water when they put their meals, otherwise they would not have enough salt in their stomachs, and they would occasionally feel dizzy and exhausted.

Zhuge Liang was shocked at that time.

When the crop man saw Zhuge Liang's expression, he thought that he had said too much, so he quickly said that he was not hungry.

The stomach is not too hungry, but if you can't eat any salt, you always feel that you lack the strength and can't do heavy physical work.

The crop man looked cowering, and Zhuge Liang's heart was a little tingling when he saw it.

Zhuge Liang settled down and asked the croppers what they ate when they built roads.

The crop man replied honestly, saying that two meals a day, one thin and one dry, was okay, and he wouldn't be hungry, but he felt that there was too little salt and there was no taste in his mouth.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and asked him what he was eating.

The crop man is a little unclear, so he says that there is a bit of salt in the porridge rice, and if the rice is dry, it is normal wheat rice, and when the rice is put in, a little salt water will be added to the rice, stirred and mixed and eaten.

"Actually, it's not bad, we won't be hungry, sometimes we can eat two dry meals, although there are not many days to eat two dry meals, but our big guys are also very satisfied.

It's actually not unpleasant to mix with salt water, but it's a little less salted, and the rice can't be mixed with it, so it doesn't taste good, but there is still food to eat, not no rice to eat, there is rice to eat. ”

The man showed a simple smile: "If we can give more salt water, we can eat more comfortably and do more work." ”

Seeing the man's innocent smile, Zhuge Liang suddenly felt that his throat was a little dry, and he couldn't say some things he wanted to say for some reason.

After a pause, Zhuge Liang spoke.

"Okay, leave it to me, I'll go and tell them, let them give you more salt water, don't worry."

Zhuge Liang appeased the crop man, and the man smiled innocently and thanked Zhuge Liang for a while.

After returning to the county office, Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought.

He clearly remembered that he had personally led a group of strong men to the road construction site near Yumen Pass, and happened to meet Cao Ren, the general of Zhenxi, who was assisting on the construction site at that time.

At that time, he remembered very well that Cao Ren left him for a meal, which was not bad, wheat rice, and pickles.

Cao Ren told him that Guo Peng's food standard for these road builders was three meals a day, and two meals were dry.

Usually eat salt vegetables and pickles, and then give a meal of meat every five days, which can be regarded as replenishing the oil and water in the stomach and growing strength.

Moreover, everyone who came to work was in charge of the food, as well as the strong women and children of a certain age, so as to reduce some of the burden on the local people during the slack season.

This is a special fund approved by the emperor to give some kindness to these strong men who build roads for the country.

Zhuge Liang also specially asked, asking if it was a national unified standard, and Cao Ren gave a positive answer, saying that this is a national unified standard.

Because the workers on the road construction site are physically active, they are given three meals and one meat meal every five days, which is required by the emperor himself.

At that time, Zhuge Liang also lamented that the light of the emperor's kindness had shone on the western border of the empire.

It turns out that this is not the case.

The emperor's will was very clear, but when it came time to implement it, something went wrong.

Why is it that Cao Ren's construction site can eat three meals according to the standard, and he can also get one meat for five days, while the strong men he sent to other construction sites can't eat it?

Bibimbap, what is this operation?

Is there enough salt water?

Not only that, but three meals turned into two meals?

How so?

The imperial court standards have changed?

When Zhuge Liang first found out, he thought about going to Cao Ren immediately to inquire about this matter, but he quickly calmed down.

First, he arranged for people to go to the county to inquire whether there had been any change in the food treatment of the road builders, and then sent people to go to the various sections of the road construction sites to inquire about their food conditions.

Roads are built in sections, generally in a county, the road in a county area is counted as a section, and each section of the road will be divided into several sections according to a certain length and terrain.

And in order to better take into account the interests of the road builders, the policy of the imperial court was that the local bureaucrats at the county level were only responsible for recruiting the people to send them to the construction site, and then when the rotation was completed, the old people were picked up, and the new ones were replaced to work again, and so on.

The rest is the responsibility of county and state officials.

For example, the arrangement of materials, the arrangement of food, the arrangement of the process of road construction projects, and so on.

These are all led by the central Ministry of Industry, and the local state and county governments are responsible for management and arrangement, and they also send people to watch the construction site, the army assists in managing law and order, and mobilizes the army to be responsible for cooking.

The government below the county level could not control the problem of material allocation, and Zhuge Liang could not touch the problem of material allocation at all, and was only responsible for recruiting people.

The imperial court means that there are fewer officials to deal with, there is less possibility of corruption, and in order to control the hands of officials, the imperial court is also painstaking.

But the situation does not seem to be so simple.

The people sent by Zhuge Liang to investigate and secretly visit soon returned.

The people who returned from the Dunhuang county government told him that the result of what he heard was that the policy had not changed, and that the food standard of three meals a day and one meat meal for five days was still the standard that the imperial court implemented according to this standard, and all supplies were also distributed according to this standard.

This surprised Zhuge Liang.

In other words, someone made a stumbling block, filled their own pockets, and embezzled the materials issued by the imperial court?

Then, the people who went to various construction sites to secretly investigate brought back things that surprised Zhuge Liang even more.

They went to the Qijie road construction site from Dunhuang to Guangzhi County to observe the situation on the construction site.

Then it was found that the situation was the same on the seven-section road construction site.

Two meals a day, bibimbap, not to mention meat, the skin of the meat is not visible, and the salt water is not much, just like the one discussed.

It is worth noting that in these places there is either no army to manage law and order, or it is not the firehead army who cooks, but the cooks who are found in an unknown place.