After a few days, Guo Peng's team finally walked out of the Qinling Mountain Road and arrived in Hanzhong County.

Along the way, the Qinling Mountains are still relatively difficult, but compared with the past, it has greatly improved. It is not meaningless to lose the lives of tens of thousands of people here.

It can maximize the widening of Qinling mountain roads, ensure access, and reduce the obstacles to mountain roads caused by natural disasters such as landslides and mudslides. This is the greatest existence significance of Shudao Engineering Bureau.

The total amount of funds invested in the Shu Road project has been second only to the investment in the Grand Canal so far, and is ranked second in the Wei Empire's major money-burning project.

All this is hard to come by.

Fortunately, they had already walked out of the Qinling Mountains and entered the relatively flat Hanzhong Basin, and saw human settlements and cities.

This was Guo Peng's second time to come to Hanzhong. The last time was when he led his troops to fight. He walked to Hanzhong on the Ziwu Valley Mountain Road.

At that time, the road was full of difficulties and dangers. The 18,000-man army went south and almost dragged down the logistics personnel in Yongzhou at that time. It was not that they were poor, but that the road conditions were too poor and the efficiency of material delivery was too low.

It was fine when the army first set off. The deeper it went into the Qinling Mountains, the lower the efficiency of material delivery. When it was about to arrive in Hanzhong, only 70% of the food was left to the army.

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Now, their relatively large team can carry supplies to maintain the supply.

After the roads were connected, there were endless people coming and going on the road, and the entire Xichuan area was completely revitalized.

Guo Peng was still very happy about everything like this.

He retraceed the path he took when he conquered Hanzhong and took time to meet with Deng Zhi, the current prefect of Hanzhong.

This young man who helped Pang Xi run errands and went to Chang'an to invite Guo Peng to Hanzhong has now become the prefect of a county, two thousand stone officials, in charge of Hanzhong, a transportation hub, and took the opportunity to develop Hanzhong's business.

Relying on business trips between Yongzhou and Yizhou, Hanzhong's business development is relatively healthy and safe, and its foundation does not rely much on foreign trade, but on the internal political situation.

As long as the political situation of the Wei Empire is stable, Hanzhong County can continue to develop. Relying on the booming national power of the Wei Empire, Hanzhong County will never decline.

So the Hanzhong County that Guo Peng saw at this moment was completely different from Hanzhong, which was beaten into white when he came here.

Deng Zhi guided Guo Peng, who suddenly came to Hanzhong, to visit the military farms around Nanzheng County.

"Hanzhong County was affected by the war and was very dilapidated and had a very small population. Initially, Hanzhong existed as a military logistics base, so it was mainly military farming. At that time, it was military farming centered on Nanzheng.

Except for the areas from Nanzheng to Yangpingguan, the farmers in the rest of Hanzhong were moved from Guandong and Shu after Yizhou was pacified. The court disrupted and reorganized them and spread them in places suitable for farming to build new villages.

Then, based on this, the township, counties, and Hanzhong County became normal counties on this basis, and gradually developed to what they are today. The Nanzheng area has the largest population and the densest villages. Later, after I became the county magistrate, some of the people here moved to places with few people and many lands."

Guo Peng nodded slowly, walked slowly, and walked on the country road.

Although the country roads are also dirt roads, they are obviously compacted and are not naturally formed dirt roads.

The road that people walk out is muddy on rainy days, dust is flying on sunny days, and a strong wind blows over and brings out gusts of dust, which can make you feel bothered from ten meters away and from five meters away and from hermaphrodite.

The solid dirt road has the function of a basic road.

You can walk, walk, and walk with a cattle and horse, and you can walk with a cart, and you won’t be funny because of rain or wind.

The roads with a large number of traffic demands between cities should be more professional. The road construction team should use more professional methods to consolidate the foundation and then use special composite materials to build the road. The process is very cumbersome.

However, this kind of country road does not have such a large traffic demand, and simply solidifying the dirt road can meet daily needs.

From this point we can see that the local governments in Hanzhong do not have a place to eat, but truly implement the requirements of the court into the village.

When Guo Peng goes to some counties and townships in Yongzhou and Liangzhou, he will find that some villages do not have solid dirt roads, and they are still muddy and rotten roads, which are very typical for officials to dereliction of duty.

There is no Hanzhong County.

Looking up, in addition to the mature arable land, there are also farmhouses located around the arable land. Although they are as low as the surface, they do not appear dilapidated and simple in decoration, but they do not seem to be overwhelmed.

As Guo Peng remembers, the scenes you could see around the rural roads in Qiao County more than 40 years ago were not the case.

He couldn't remember the earlier things, and the earliest memory he could remember was when he was six years old. Guo Shan once took him to the countryside to do an image project to welcome the inspection of the Prime Minister.

So he saw with his own eyes the most real rural area of ​​that era.

At that time, what he saw was the dilapidated thatched huts that could almost fall down when the wind blew, and the simple thatched doors were broken. There was no difference between closing and not closing.

When they opened the door, the room was dark and there was no light. The farmhouses generally had poor lighting. Of course, they didn’t understand any lighting at all, and they didn’t understand any architectural art that faced north and south.

Architectural art belongs to the powerful and not to the farmers.

A male farmer standing at the door of the dilapidated thatched hut stood a ragged man or had no pants at all and just wrapped in rags.

Men have no clothes and can stand outside with bare hands. Women are even more miserable. They simply stay in a dark house because they have no clothes or pants. They dare not come out.

The peasant women who could walk outside back then were considered middle-aged peasants with a little bit of family background.

Only farmers above the middle peasant family have a little money to go to the city to pull a piece of cloth to make a piece of clothes or pants for themselves during festivals, which is considered as the New Year.

It is not easy for the entire farmer family to get a set of outfits for going out in a truly poor family.

The whole family takes turns wearing a piece of clothing or pants, and it is necessary to wear it with the strong labor at home. Women try not to wear it and show their faces, and they live worse than a mouse - the mouse dares to cross the street.

If there are girls at home, they will stay at home all day and never let them out. They don’t know how many times they can wear clothes and go out all year round.

When Guo Peng went to the countryside, he had a car frame with him. The children who had no clothes to wear and could not go out would lie on the window and showed their heads, looking at him dressed in bright clothes with a longing look.

Guo Peng has never forgotten that look so far. Whenever he thinks about it, he feels a tingling pain in his heart.

Even those who can wear clothes and walk outside have their eyes dull.

Looking at him wearing thick and relatively gorgeous clothes and the frame he was riding in, he saw a complex emotion that he wanted to envy but did not dare to envy.

They often look at the distance for a few times. When the frame is close, they will slowly lower their heads like thieves, pretending that they don’t see it. When the car passes, they dare to turn their heads and continue looking at the frames. Then they will talk in a low voice, but their heads are still lowered, and their backs seem to be unstable forever.

The farmers didn't even dare to look at him openly, for fear of causing him to be unhappy on the frame, so they rewarded them with a few whips.

In Guo Peng's memory, the peasant family members at that time were all haggard, ugly, and had vegetables. Their skin showed a yellow and black caused by long-term malnutrition, and they lived in their twenties and were like those in their forties or fifties.

Most of them are low-shaped, with a hunched back and bony back, and look like a piece of skin wrapped in a pile of bones, forcing them to hold up.

Because he was too thin, his face had no flesh, and his eyes looked very big, with big heads and big eyes, and suddenly he was a little bit cunning at first glance.

Because of his adequate nutrition, he left home at the age of twelve, he was taller and stronger than some adult farm men. Later, he grew into an eight-foot-long battlefield champion. His physical fitness can crush most normal people in modern times.

To be honest, his six-year-old trip to the countryside gave him a huge psychological impact, which made him realize for the first time what kind of miserable humanity was hidden under the turmoil of the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

This is something that has not been written in books, and it is not reflected in TV series, movies and computer games.

The romantic filters of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms faded away in his eyes from then on, and a cold and harsh world gradually took shape.

The seeds of rebellion were rooted in the heart at that time, waiting for the opportunity to break through the ground and grow vigorously.

So forty years later, he changed into the world.

After changing the world once, he almost never saw such a scene again along the way.

Although I don’t know if there is such a situation in the places he has not been able to see, at least it is no longer the same situation that can be seen from the eyes.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, except him, everyone around him felt that the poverty and misery of the farmers was justified, and even thought that they could be even worse.

Occasionally, one or two slightly richer villages can even become great achievements of local officials. It doesn’t matter if they don’t.

And now it’s not the case. If such a situation occurs now, local officials will lose their heads.

This shows that his years of hard work was not meaningless, and the lives of the lower classes have been improved to the naked eye.

At least the Hanzhong peasants he saw now were cheerful farm men. He could at least look at the meat on his body, instead of a piece of skin wrapped around his bones. His face was not so dull, and his expression became much more vivid.

In the farm yard, you can see a farmer wearing decent clothes and carrying a basin to feed chickens and ducks, walking around very busy.

The peasant woman could still see children running around the ground, wearing old but not dirty clothes - well, it was obvious that the remaining clothes were cut and modified by adults.

At least some wear.

Boys and girls are the same. Some wear it, so the whole family doesn’t need to take turns wearing a piece of clothing.

There was no longer the look that could hurt him at the window of the farmhouse.

Looking from afar, he could see smoke from the chimneys of the houses in the village, the fragrance of food floating on the country roads, and the barking of dogs.

Very vibrant village.
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