This doesn't make sense, so let's say it another way.

Zhao Yun organized the language a little.

"You don't care about other things, you don't care about your sons? Two are in the Pingzhou army, and two are still in the Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall. You haven't met you for many years. Don't you want them? The swords and swords on the battlefield are silent. We are all fifty-year-olds, so are you not afraid of something happening to never see them again?"

"I'm afraid, why aren't I afraid? I haven't met these little kids for many years. It's really weird to think about it."

Zhang Fei smiled: "I won't talk about the two of Pingzhou anymore. They are already powerful generals. Now I think about the remaining two coming out of the martial arts hall and following me to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. My son will definitely be a powerful general in the future!"

Zhao Yun covered his face.

He was a little desperate.

"Yi De, stop reading. Really, no matter how much you read, it is useless. The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. I understand what the Supreme Emperor said to me back then."

"Hahahahahahaha! It's good if you know! Zilong, then you can arrange more tasks for me, I'm waiting for the war! Hahahaha!"

Zhang Fei smiled very arrogantly.

Zhao Yun shook his head helplessly. In a blink of an eye, he suddenly saw Zhuge Liang, the Protector of the Beiting Protectorate, with a strange expression beside him.

"Zhuge Dupu, you seem to have something to say?"

Zhuge Liang was stunned and shook his head repeatedly.

“Not.”

"real?"

"real."

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I still admire General Zhang very much. General Zhang is brave in fighting and has a strong combat power in the army. He is the one I admire."

"Hahahaha! Kong Ming, you said it well!"

Zhang Fei leaned over and patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder, slapped Zhuge Liang's teeth.

"Lao Zhang has also worked with many officials, but he just can't stand their soreness. Over the years, he has been getting along better with you. Lao Zhang recognizes you as a friend!"

Zhuge Liang smiled reluctantly.

"It is an honor to be appreciated by General Zhang."

"Hahahahahahaha!"

Zhang Fei is very happy.

Zhang Fei still likes Zhuge Liang very much because no matter what problems Zhuge Liang needs to solve, he can go to Zhuge Liang to solve them. Zhuge Liang is very capable and can always help him solve them.

Such good partners are rare.

"By the way, Kong Ming, do you have a mission in this battle?"

"Yes, we will transport the grain accumulated by the Beiting Protectorate to the Zhenxi Protectorate for the army at regular intervals and quantity. This is the task we are here to do."

"Well, I'll be relieved if you transport food and fodder. This battle will definitely be won!"

Zhang Fei patted Zhuge Liang's shoulders again, and Zhuge Liang endured the pain and wanted to put on a smile.

Zhao Yun had heard of Zhuge Liang.

That was an excellent talent that Guo Peng once mentioned to him quite a long time ago.

Guo Peng said at the time that he would inherit his ideas and continue to stabilize the empire in a hundred years. This was Zhuge Liang.

He has the ability to govern this huge empire and will surely become an indispensable and important support for future generations of emperors.

So in order to cultivate his abilities and exercise his skills, Guo Peng sent him to the Beiting Protectorate.

Guo Peng wanted him to start from scratch in this poor and abandoned place and build the Beiting Protectorate from scratch to better understand the operation of the entire empire.

As Zhao Yun saw along the way, he felt that it was not easy for Zhuge Liang to develop the Beiting land from a ruin to this level over the years.

Following the repairs of the imperial court, starting from Yumen Pass in the four Hexi counties to Beiting Dachi Road, where the Zhenxi Protectorate Mansion was located, Zhuge Liang built more than a dozen cities in the oasis along the route.

There are still five or six buildings under planning and construction.

Zhuge Liang's plan was to build a service-oriented city based on Beiting Dachi Road, and to build the city along Beiting Dachi Road into a city that serves the people and official business travel along the route.

The city is mainly engaged in commercial activities and supplemented by agricultural production. The city is full of taverns, restaurants, hotels, specialty stores, etc.

Outside the city, there are farmlands centered on oasis, specializing in producing grain, fruits and vegetables. After asking, you will know that the things grown in these farmlands are sent to the city for use in the city, except for eating them themselves.

Merchants in the city will use these things to make food and sell them to merchants.

Of course, the large number of these things is not enough. The Beiting Protectorate was just established a few years ago. The scale of military farmland is not large. The agricultural products produced by farmland can only be consumed by half of these cities, and the remaining ones must be transported from the four counties in Hexi.

Here we must show Zhuge Liang's ability, coordinate with the prefects of the four Hexi counties, make an agreement with them, and send people to purchase grain and other food, vegetables and meat on a large scale from them.

In recent years, the Beiting Protectorate has undertaken batches of immigrants, and Zhuge Liang has expanded the scale of military farms and has gradually become self-sufficient and can provide sufficient consumption to the city.

So Zhuge Liang focused on buying livestock such as cattle and sheep to provide meat, and the others were no longer needed to be purchased from the four Hexi counties.

It is said that the prefects of the four Hexi counties were not very happy about this and felt that the fiscal revenue had decreased.

Zhao Yun also visited the city. These cities are not large in size. According to the standards of the mainland, even the county towns are slightly inferior, but they are clean and tidy, quite well-organized, and the city is quite high, so their defense should be sufficient.

This fully demonstrates that the development of the Beiting Protectorate under Zhuge Liang's plan is very good.

Living along the road, all the population is under control, and the transportation is convenient, so there is no need to worry about not being able to react if something happens.

In order to better react, Zhuge Liang also set up multiple beacon towers in each city, using wolf smoke during the day and beacon at night. Once he encounters danger, he can use beacon to send messages immediately.

Then Zhuge Liang could quickly know what was going on.

So after Zhang Fei left, Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang had a separate conversation.

"I heard that you were originally a member of His Majesty's cabinet. He was released from the cabinet by His Majesty and went to the Beiting Protectorate to serve as a Protectorate, right?"

“That’s right.”

Zhuge Liang replied respectfully.

"You did a good job. I walked along the way and found that you built a city along the Beiting Dachi Road and Oasis. There were merchants in the city, and there were farmland outside the city. You used farmland outside the city to support merchants in the city and do business business of business travelers and officials along the way. Your idea was very good."

Zhao Yun nodded with praise: "Your Majesty released you out of the world, because he had deep expectations for you. The Beiting Protectorate was poor and the Western Regions who were destroyed had an unclear attitude towards the court. It is really not easy for you to build it to this point today."

"Apart from the princes and nobles of the Western Regions, the ordinary people in the Western Regions are no different from those in the Central Plains. They are just food and clothing. As long as they can ensure food and clothing, they will not cause trouble, and they will not care whether the country is destroyed."

Zhuge Liang's statement made Zhao Yun a little strange.

"How do you say this? How could anyone not care about the fall of the country?"

"After arriving at the Beiting Protectorate, I found that the people of the Western Regions were the same as those of the Central Plains. They lived a hard life and had no need to be fed or fed, but they only had food and clothing, and the countries of the Western Regions could not give them.

After our Wei returned to the Western Regions, the countries in the Western Regions became rich after relying on the taxes along the way and bought and displayed their financial resources in Luoyang City. However, despite their wealth, the lives of the people in the country have never been easy.

I have had some conversations with them, and learned that they don’t care about which country they are, and some people don’t even know which country they are from. I have deep feelings about it. The country does not know the people, and the people do not know the country. Whoever lets them eat enough will they be willing to pay taxes for."

Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and nodded with deep emotion.

"The country does not know that there are people, and the people does not know that there are countries. Isn't this the same thing in the late Han Dynasty? The collapse of the Western Regions is not unfair. Now I know the reason why the Supreme Emperor dared to expand the land for thousands of miles."

Zhao Yun patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder.

"No wonder Your Majesty values ​​you so much. Kong Ming, you have done a good job. In the future, you will definitely be able to return to Luoyang, enter the Nanshu, and use your talents to govern the entire Wei State. A mere Protectorate of Beiting, with a population of only 500,000, cannot fully demonstrate your talents."

"As an official position, he will benefit the people. This is what the Emperor taught me. I am just doing my own duties and I am worthy of the Emperor's trust in me."

"Why do you need to be humble?"

Zhao Yun sighed, remembering the things he had seen and heard in Luoyang City over the years, and shook his head: "If every official can remember what you remember, why should the Supreme Emperor kill the officials? But Kong Ming, like you, there are too few people.

Kong Ming, when you return to Luoyang, you must also remember the mistakes made by the officials before and never repeat them. I know some things are inevitable, but I hope you will never forget what you insist on now."

Zhuge Liang lowered his head.

"Remember it."

"That's good, okay, let's not mention these."

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Since Yide trusts you so much, then this time, I will hand over all the logistics work to the army. You will be the logistics manager and transport food and fodder to my army. There must be no mistakes. Do you think you can do it?"

Zhuge Liang raised his head and looked at Zhao Yun in surprise.

"I'm not an official of the Ministry of War..."

"I am the general of the Western Expedition. During the war, all the three prefectures in the Western Regions followed my orders. Whatever I said was what. This is the talisman given to me by Your Majesty. Look, there is no problem at all."

Zhao Yun showed the talismans given to him by Emperor Guo Jin to handle the war in Kangju.

Zhuge Liang looked at it, pursed his lips, and hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"A general must do his best whenever he needs it!"

"good."

Zhao Yun gently patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder.
Chapter completed!