In mid-to-late October of the fourth year of Yande, Qiao Rui and his entourage did not submit any note to the Qingzhou official, and arrived in Qingzhou in the name of ordinary clerks.

On October 21, he lived in Linzi City.

According to the regulations of the Wei Empire, the movement of people required an official road guide, and without an official road guide, they could not move freely and stay in a local hotel.

Guo Peng didn't let Qiao Rui and others reveal their true purpose in advance, so they came to Qingzhou under the banner of ordinary central clerks.

Qingzhou is the starting base of Guo someone, an important basic plate, an important logistics supply base, and a production and planting base.

At the same time, Qingzhou is also a place where various natural disasters occur frequently, there are many floods and droughts, locust plagues, land salinization, seawater inflow and other things, which are also relatively serious problems in Qingzhou.

Therefore, over the years, Qingzhou has invested a lot of money and materials to deal with these disasters.

In order to deal with these disasters that endangered agricultural production, Qingzhou also had a large number of grassroots officials fighting on the front line, in order to ensure the continuous output of Qingzhou, and constantly fought for the major battlefields of the Wei Empire.

It can be said that Qingzhou has made great contributions to Guo to establish an empire, pacify the world, and conquer foreign countries over the years.

Without Qingzhou's sustained and stable high output, there would be no stable territory of the Wei Empire today.

Similarly, without Guo's continuous contribution to Qingzhou's disaster prevention and control, Qingzhou would not have been able to maintain such a situation.

The central officials have long had close ties with the grassroots officials in Qingzhou, and they have had frequent contacts with each other, so there will be no problem in arriving in Qingzhou in this way.

But in the final analysis, the relationship between Qingzhou's problem and Mi Zhu is really not very big.

Mi Zhu certainly made great contributions during his reign in Qingzhou.

He took over Guo's position to govern Qingzhou for several years, and during his tenure, he completed the water conservancy project of Qingzhou to control the Yellow River, the response mechanism for locust plague control, and the construction of Qingzhou water division, and it was not in vain that Guo cultivated him.

During the years when Mi Zhu was in charge of Qingzhou, Qingzhou's output also continued to grow, the economy continued to prosper, and it occupied an important position in the proportion of tax revenue every year, which is difficult for other states to surpass.

In terms of the administration of officials, there are many officials in Qingzhou, but there are not many cases of corruption involving corrupt officials.

In the four years since the establishment of the Wei Empire, Qingzhou has voluntarily reported only six corruption cases, an average of less than two cases a year.

Of course, this is only on the surface, the information about Qingzhou that Linziying has sorted out over the years Guo has never had time to read, and some time ago I took the time to look at it and saw a lot of shocking things that were not reported to the imperial court through normal channels.

Guo Peng raised the rank of the state assassin, but in order to ensure that there would not be a situation where the warlords in the late Eastern Han Dynasty would not be divided, he greatly limited the power of the state assassin.

The state assassin is responsible for administration, not for the management of officials, and only has the right to make suggestions and no decisions in terms of personnel, which is specially stipulated by Guo someone.

From promotion to demotion, personnel authority is not under the jurisdiction of the state.

The Wei Empire's officials were mainly managed by the three divisions in the central government, and the criminal department was mainly responsible for punishment for the economic problems of officials.

The main problem for local officials is, of course, also economic, which is managed by the restructured Fa Cao within the three levels of government, the county guard, and the prefectural government.

Fa Cao is nominally subordinate to a local magistrate, but he is not interfered with by the magistrate in dealing with corruption, but has a close relationship with the Central Criminal Department, and has the qualifications to directly report cases to the Central Criminal Department.

Over the past few years, Guo has continued to expand the scale of the central government, and has successfully expanded the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Finance to the whole country.

Next, there are also plans to make the connection between the Central Criminal Department and the local law and Cao even closer.

However, the main reason is that there is not enough time and energy, and there is no time to optimize the local punishment system for corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

There is always a priority in what needs to be done, and the inevitable event of official corruption cannot be regarded as the first heavyweight event in the imperial system.

Only when the emperor attaches importance to or needs to even trigger a popular uprising will it be regarded as a top priority.

Of course, when that happens, it's often too late.

When people couldn't eat and starved to death, anything could be done, and the things that came up were not new since the end of the Qin Dynasty, which the rulers of the two Han Dynasty deeply felt.

Guo is very aware of this, so it is very necessary to prevent problems before they happen, and to deal with problems at regular and quantitative points.

The storm action began in earnest and began to ripple into the region.

At this time, the local officials of the empire did not know how much this matter would affect them.

Zhuge Liang didn't know, so Sima Yi wouldn't know either.

After the two were released, after more than a month of trekking, they arrived at the western part of the empire - Dunhuang County, Liangzhou.

Dunhuang County is the westernmost county of Liangzhou, the real border, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the environment is harsh and primitive, compared with the fully developed Central Plains, it is simply 108,000 miles behind.

But Zhuge Liang was happy, and Zhuge Liang felt that his value could be realized here.

There is a lack of houses here.

Then build.

There is a lack of water here.

Then build.

There is a lack of land to cultivate.

Then reclaim.

There is a lack of population here.

Then go to the county and grab it.

Zhuge Liang was the first magistrate of Dunhuang in the Wei Empire.

In the same way, Sima Yi was also the first Guangzhi county magistrate of the Wei Empire.

The reason is very simple, before they arrived, there was only the Dunhuang county guard here, and there was no county-level government, and there was no need for the county-level government to exist at all.

After the Wei army conquered Dunhuang County, it destroyed the local Haoqiang, collected the local population, and found that there were only tens of thousands of people, and the county guard was completely manageable, and there were not so many officials who could be allocated to Dunhuang County at that time.

It was not until Guo Peng decided to implement the strategy of developing the western region and began to build the Hetao that it was necessary to restore the county-level government because of the introduction of a large number of people.

After Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi arrived in Dunhuang County hand in hand, they immediately began the heavy work.

They are all mature bureaucrats who have undergone administrative training in the cabinet, know how to handle government affairs, and have certain basic administrative skills.

However, for the first time, I went deep into the local area, directly contacted the families of the people of Lishu, and had to personally arrange their life and production, which really brought them a great challenge.

Zhuge Liang was in Dunhuang, Sima Yi was in Guangzhi, and the two young officials were busy in their respective jurisdictions.

With the help of some officials of the Dunhuang County Government, they were able to make arrangements for the basic housing problems in the two counties of Dunhuang County and Guangzhi County.

If you live well, you still have to produce and live, and you can't let these people live on relief food, but you have to reclaim the land to produce food, so that they can be self-sufficient.

Fortunately, Dunhuang County is not a completely barbaric land, and there was mature land that was cultivated before, but no one cultivated it and it was deserted.

Now that we have reclaimed the land and worked hard, we can still resume production soon.

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both experts, and their own talents are also very high, after the initial chaos, they quickly settled down and gradually became able to deal with things in the county.

In the cabinet, they rarely need to make their own decisions, and they all follow the arrangements of the officials.

Now you have to make your own decisions and make decisions about the livelihood of millions of people, and this feeling is completely different.

So at first, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi felt at a loss.

However, in the end, they are still mature officials who have received large-scale governance training, and their skills are excellent, but their proficiency is not enough.

Especially Zhuge Liang.