After further understanding, Zhuge Liang learned that the reason for the problem was that the road construction project was too large and there were too many people involved.

According to the original plan of the court, the army must participate in road construction sites, be responsible for public security, assist in management, and use the Huotou Army to manage food to reduce the possibility of corruption.

However, although the policy is good, some problems have occurred after implementation.

The imperial court had high requirements for the progress of road construction. The original plan of repairs was denied. The new plan was to fully unfold, and many construction sites started construction together to speed up the progress.

But in this way, the army faces great pressure.

The Northwest Corps has 55,000 troops with garrison tasks, tasks of sweeping barbarians and training tasks, and cannot all be devoted to road construction projects, which will be too much pressure on the army.

Therefore, although the court nominally stipulates that every road construction site must have an army to manage public security, and the Huotou Army must also be responsible for the food.

However, after actual operation, most of the road construction sites in the four counties in Hexi are not involved in the management of the army.

This is the provision in the initial sectional road construction plan. In the sectional construction plan, the personnel involved in the army are absolutely sufficient.

However, after the plan changed, the number of road construction sites and the number of civilians increased greatly, and the army was indeed not enough to take care of it.

Cao Ren also understood this situation, so he could only arrange personnel on key sections or high-risk sections, and other places were left to officials from the prefecture and county government for arrangements.

They didn't think there was anything wrong with it, because this situation really existed and the army could not control it.

Officials from the prefecture and county governments did not mobilize the army, nor did they have the army to mobilize them. They could only mobilize security personnel that they could control to participate in the management of road construction sites.

But I found that this was not enough and there was still a shortage of managers, so I had to recruit people from other places to be responsible for management.

Who are the people who are brought here?

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

This will lead to the problem.

These people come from a complex environment and grow in a complex environment. It is hard to say what they can do. If they make a little move, it will be difficult for others to discover. Once they reach the scale, they will inevitably cover each other.

After Zhuge Liang learned about this fact, he realized that this matter was very involved.

The road construction site is mainly concentrated in the four counties of Hexi. Roads in other places in Liangzhou, except for the four counties of Hexi, have been repaired and connected to Guanzhong.

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

Not long after the four counties in Hexi were conquered, local production was severely damaged. The materials produced themselves were extremely low, and they were not even enough to eat. A large amount of road construction materials had to be mobilized from other counties in Liangzhou, including Yongzhou.

A big head has emerged in Yongzhou, and a small head has emerged in Liangzhou.

This is the imperial edict issued by Emperor Guo Peng to the Yongzhou Governor Chen Gong under the joint discussion of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Works.

Chen Gong must open the Yongzhou treasury and support a large number of road construction projects in the four counties in Hexi, without any mistakes.

Yongzhou has to bear a considerable proportion of grain, road construction materials, transportation costs, etc.

Chen Gong is said to have raised objections.

He felt that Yongzhou also had a lot of things to use, and the treasury was not sufficient. He had previously supported the Liangzhou part outside the four counties of Hexi, supported the construction of Shu Road, and rebuilt Hanzhong County and Shangyong County, and accumulated a lot of materials.

He asked to recruit some from Kanto to fill it, but was rejected by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng investigated Yongzhou inventory and blamed Chen Gong for saying that the things in the warehouse should be taken out in addition to the necessary storage quota, and that these things will not produce new things on their own even if they are placed in the warehouse.

No, you have to die in the warehouse, so what's the use?

How to be responsible for the large transportation costs when mobilizing from Kanto?

Can supplies be directly sent over without manpower without transporting them?

Chen Gong did not dare to object, so he opened the Yongzhou treasury and used a large amount of materials to support the production and construction of the four counties in Hexi.

About 80% of road construction supplies were issued in Yongzhou, and only 20% were provided in Liangzhou.

Yongzhou organized manpower and material resources to transport the materials to Wuwei County, Liangzhou. Mao Jie, the governor of Liangzhou, received materials in Wuwei County, and then allocated them to the four counties in Hexi in turn. The county magistrates of the four counties arranged them to be used on the road construction sites of each section.

During the entire process, governments at or below the county level are not qualified to participate, and officials of the county magistrate and county magistrate cannot participate.

Only officials from the state and county governments and the people they arranged can participate, so Zhuge Liang never knew how this place was working.

Of course, Sima Yi didn't know either.

The two were only responsible for contacting the township chiefs below and village chiefs to count the number of strong men in each village, and then sending people to the construction sites of each festival according to the standard number. This is their task and it will be completed.

They have no other responsibilities or obligations.

Therefore, it is obviously not something they can take care of when it comes to the treatment of road construction workers.

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

So Sima Yi was also a little worried.

"This matter...is someone greedy for ink? He embezzled the materials allocated by the court?"

"As far as the current situation is concerned, there must be someone who interferes with it, otherwise it would be impossible for the dietary standards set by the court to be artificially changed, and some places remain the same, so there will be such changes in some places."

Zhuge Liang frowned: "As far as I know, there are troops who take care of public order and fire-tou army who take care of food. Everything is the same as before and has not changed. However, such a thing happened in the prefecture and county governments who take care of management. No matter how you look at it, there is a problem."

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

"This matter must be revealed, and you cannot be regarded as not seeing it."

Zhuge Liang said firmly: "These civil servants are residents of the counties under your jurisdiction. They are arranged by you and I to collect and arrange to send them to various construction sites for work. Now they can't even eat salt water. If something happens in the future, who can afford to take care of it?"

"But these things are not within our jurisdiction."

Sima Yi hesitated and said, "You and I are only responsible for collecting civilians and sending them to various places. Everything that follows has nothing to do with you and me. No matter how you and I look at it, you and I are not qualified to intervene."

"Then you can't 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 or county government, the state and county government law courts are meaningless.

If possible, I will report this matter directly to the three departments of Luoyang and ask them to send people to interfere in the matter directly. People from Luoyang will do such things more effectively than those in the prefecture or county government. You can do everything in one go and investigate it to the end!"

"Kong Ming!"

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

"What joint?"

Zhuge Liang looked at Sima Yi.

"In this matter, excluding the influence of the army and the allocation of materials, the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion and the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, as well as the four Hexi counties and counties, the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion allocated materials and the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion distributed materials.
Chapter completed!