Zhang Meng thought of this and felt difficult. Not only did I feel the difficulty, but I also felt that the difficulty was really not light.

Let's be honest. At this time, Zhang Meng wanted to see Zhuge Liang, just like the ordinary village chief of a small mountain village in the Republic of China era in later generations, and suddenly his brain was in water, and it was as difficult as rushing to meet the prime minister in the capital.

Thinking about meeting is extremely difficult, not counting, and also, Zhang Meng not only wants to meet, but also wants to change himself into the prime minister's military adviser or staff with his own identity, and use his own strategy to adjust the general direction of the prime minister's governing strategy. How hard is it to do that? It's as if there are thousands of mountains in front of you, each of which is towering into the clouds and insurmountable.

So at this time, Zhang Meng felt the difficulty of realizing his ideals, which was really full of ideals and skinny reality.

However, since Zhang Meng crossed over to the Three Kingdoms era, he has completely changed his original character, at this time Zhang Meng's heart is harder than iron, and his will is like steel, as long as he approves of things, he is dead, and he must strive for success.

Hehe, Prime Minister Zhuge was determined to devote the whole country to the northern expedition to Cao Wei; Zhang Meng, at this time, he was determined to help Prime Minister Zhuge adjust his strategic layout - to end the war as soon as possible and realize the ideal of reviving the Han family.

Although Zhang Meng knows that there are insurmountable difficulties in realizing his ideals, he thinks that if he is afraid of difficulties, he will not do anything, and honestly do his nest chief here; However, in this case, he really can't bear it! Said to himself: "After a lot of hard work, I have crossed over, if I am the chief of the nest pavilion in this life, it is better to die Lisuo!" No way! Since you have crossed over, you must dare to act boldly, and you must achieve a career! I, Zhang Meng, crossed over, not to enjoy the scenery, but to do something big!"

The idea has been decided, Zhang Meng stroked his face with both hands, turned over and got out of bed, and shouted: "Zhou Baozhong, come here!" ”

After a while, Zhou Baozhong shrank in, stood there at the door and asked, "Master, what are your orders?" ”

"Let me ask you, every year when the military rations are collected, there are peasant households who can't pay them?"

"Yes."

"How did you deal with it?"

"These people are really difficult to deal with. forced them to go out to borrow, and if they didn't work, they would confiscate their property and deal with it at a discount······ I've used everything. Master! ”

Hearing this, the dark fire in Zhang Meng's heart slowly rose again, and asked, "Can you collect it after exhausting all means?" ”

"The harvest is not even, but fortunately, we secretly exert hands and feet - for example, the above ordered each person to collect 100 catties, and we announced the actual collection of 110 catties, so that every time we collect military rations, we can basically collect them all, and there will be a certain surplus, which will be kept for us to deal with privately, as the expenses in our pavilion - this point also knows that this extra ten catties of grain is called a deficit, which is allowed. However, sometimes when the year is good, we will add some more losses, and when we charge an extra ten catties, twenty catties and thirty catties, there are also some, so that our life in this post pavilion will be better - in addition to public expenses, each person can also get a lot of secret income! ”

Zhou Baozhong said this, with a flattering smile on his face, and said: "Master, you have just come to our post pavilion, you may not be familiar with the situation, to tell you the truth, as far as I know, post pavilions everywhere operate like this, otherwise, who of us is here to do the drudgery without oil and water?" ”

When Zhang Meng heard this, he clenched his fists vigorously, and scolded in his heart: "Bastard, it's really 'tight in front, tight in rear'!" Zhuge Liang gritted his teeth in the front to lead the troops to fight, but you gritted your teeth in the rear and calculated the belly of the people! He paused here and asked, "Can farmers who really can't pay it beat?" ”

"Master, whether you fight or not, there is no rule for this. However, it is not easy to work poorly, no one is so good-tempered, besides, to deal with the people of Diao, if the people are good-tempered, nothing can be done, so if you should be beaten, you have to scold! ”

Zhang Meng stopped squeaking when he heard this, and scolded in his heart: "You bastards! When he scolded this, he commanded: "Check my gift list, return all the congratulatory gifts of the rich to them, and order them to pay another military ration at once!" Well, that is, they must hand over two military rations this time, and they are limited to pay them all tomorrow afternoon, and early the day after tomorrow, we will transfer and deliver them to Mianxian County! Well, I can't pay for the family property at a discount!"

Zhou Baozhong listened, agreed suspiciously, and went out to handle it.

This week, Baozhong is an old scribe, and the work is done properly, no, on the morning of the third day, not only did the rich families pay the second part of the military rations, but also gathered the sixty strong men who were going to transfer the military rations to Mian County today.

It is said that it is a strong man, but it is just a title, among these sixty or so strong men, how many strong men are there? The strong men were all recruited by Zhuge Liang to fight on the front line, and these people were basically some old, weak, sick and disabled farmers, and there were a few children and women among them, all of whom were dressed in tatters, and they all looked hungry and miserable.

When Zhang Meng saw it, he couldn't bear to look at them, so he turned his face and asked Zhou Baozhong: "Can these people transfer military rations to Mian County?" ”

"Yes, master. There is no one else. ”

"How many roads are there to Mian County, which one is the closest?"

"Oh, that's right, master. There are two roads to Mianxian County, one is to go up the Danqu River to Hanzhong and then turn to the direction of Mianxian County, this is an official road avenue, easy to walk, but too far, it generally takes a month to walk back and forth; The other is a mountain road, the carriages, horses and livestock can not walk, so they have to walk through, this path is close, and it can be used back and forth for ten days. This, in the next suggestion, this time to Mianxian to transfer military rations, or take a small road, we were all transferred from this small road before. However, the path is too difficult to walk, the mountain is high and the road is slippery, and there are places to climb up and down manually. ”

Zhang Meng listened, looked at these "elite soldiers" in front of him, frowned and thought, "Isn't this a human life?" These people ······" I thought again: "Since I don't want to be the head of this nest pavilion, I want to go to Zhuge Liang to do big things, so I can't care so much." Thinking of this, he ordered: "These people are not needed today, you arrange for them to go home with forty catties of military rations each, which is distributed to them in our pavilion, free of charge, no money." In addition, let them inform them that there were 13 peasant households that had not paid military rations, and each family would come over and go home with 100 catties of grain for white-collar workers. The rest of the grain is stored in the pavilion. Get it now! ”

Zhou Baozhong, Ma San'er and the two servants looked at Zhang Meng dumbfounded, not daring to act.