——Dongjun

Zhuge Liang and his group left Yingchuan and arrived in Dongjun through Chenliu.

This is where Cao Cao started his career in the past, so the topics of the group are naturally inseparable from Cao Cao.

"This is Dongjun?"

"Well, when we arrive in Puyang, we will rent another boat and we can go down the river and go to the plain."

"Speaking of this, this is where Cao Cao stayed before he entered Yanzhou."

"Yes, on that day, Liu Dai of Yanzhou raised an army to attack Qingzhou, but died in battle. Chenliu and Zhang Miao, Bao Xin of Jibei and others invited Cao Cao, who was still the county magistrate of Dongjun, to take over Yanzhou, which stabilized the situation in Yanzhou.

Speaking of Cao Cao, he is also a character. If it weren’t for Ma Ziyu, he might have been the one who unified Hebei.” Cui Jun said of Cao Cao with a lot of praise.

Speaking of which, he had met Cao Cao several times back then, and he was considered an old friend.

"Kong Ming, why don't you speak anymore?"

"Oh... nothing..."

Zhuge Liang broke free from his memories, shook his head and smiled, "I just remembered some past events."

The few people looked at each other, remembering that Zhuge Liang and others went south because of Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou. I think Zhuge Liang would not have any good impression of Cao Cao.

“Bee~”

At this time, a whistle sounded, and everyone looked at it, but saw a person in front of him waving a small flag to signal them to walk aside. After looking again, half of the road ahead was blocked, and I don’t know if it was building a road or doing something.

They have been accustomed to this kind of scene along the way, and they don’t know what’s going on. It seems that road construction is being built everywhere in the entire Central Plains.

"How much food does Ma Ziyu have? Why are road construction everywhere?" Pang Tong couldn't help but exclaim when he saw that the road was being built again.

"Will the agricultural tax be very heavy? Is it a slack?" Huang Yueying asked curiously.

Everyone looked at Zhuge Liang, where he was most familiar with various government orders in Hebei.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "Because of the previous Central Plains War, Yanzhou should be tax-free this year.

In fact, even if there is no tax exemption, Hebei's land tax is 30 taxes. However, the original control of Hebei's grain was not allowed to be traded at will, and it can only be traded by the government. Although it has been somewhat relaxed, it still seems to be controlled. Therefore, few people in Hebei can hoard grain, and it is almost allocated by the government.

In other words, although the food obtained from the people's farming was not paid according to taxes, most of the food was sold to the government,"

"Don't talk about the tax, the tax is so low, where can Hebei get so much money to do so many projects?" Cui Jun was wondering all the way, and now he finally couldn't help asking.

Zhuge Liang replied, "First, the large number of workshops in the government are very profitable, such as salt farms, steel factories, textile factories, wineries, porcelain factories, and glass factories. Most of the money earned by these workshops will be paid to the government.

Secondly, it is commercial tax, which is called business tax in Hebei. Didn’t we pay a lot of it?

But even so...there is indeed a little more food..."

As he was talking, a team of soldiers suddenly came, and Zhuge Liang and others became nervous.

Could it be that everyone's identity was discovered and Hebei came to get someone?

"Mr. Cao has arrived. Everyone has put the work at hand and gather together. The county magistrate has something to say to everyone!"

Fortunately, the sergeant's shouts made Zhuge Liang and others feel their hearts back in their stomachs.

It's not enough to catch people.

etc...

The governor of Cao County?

We were in Xingping for three years, right?

Why are Dongjun or Caojun magistrate?

The few people felt strange, but saw a young man getting out of the car. He looked around and met Zhuge Liang and others, but did not care about the ordinary caravan passing by. He just nodded and followed the construction site manager to the place where the workers gathered.

"So young~ I am so young and I am a county magistrate? I must be very talented, right?" Huang Yueying exclaimed.

Zhuge Liang suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

He had already guessed who the governor of Cao County was.

"Let's go and listen to what he is saying."

Cui Jun looked at Zhuge Liang in surprise.

Are you telling us to be cautious all the way?

But everyone was indeed very curious. This was the first time they had encountered a county magistrate-level official since they entered Ma Ziyu's territory.

"This road is the main road of our Dongjun. The good or bad construction will affect our entire Dongjun. Therefore, I, Cao Ang, please ask you all here!

I also know that you have worked hard. This time I brought the dried seafood goods that I just shipped from Qingzhou. I will give you fried rice later. I hope you can do it well after you have enough food!"

The young county magistrate who spoke was naturally Cao Ang.

But when he waved his hand, several boxes behind him were brought up. Once he opened it, there were cans of cans of clay cans, which removed the mud seal on it, and a smell of salted fish immediately floated out.

"Oh~oh~oh~~"

The road construction workers immediately cheered when they smelled salty fish.

Salted fish were a precious ingredient in the Han Dynasty. After all, salt itself was not cheap. These road construction workers sweat a lot and demanded salt very high, so salted fish was very popular among them.

After the condolences, Cao Ang took the initiative to move towards Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang frowned and wanted to avoid it, but Cao Ang took the lead and said, "A few gentlemen, don't you know if they are merchants or students?"

Seeing that he could not escape, Cui Jun walked up and said, "We are merchants from Nanyang who transported some Jingzhou land to Jizhou for sale."

Cao Ang smiled and said, "So that's it. You have been in my Dongjun for a while. I don't know what shortcomings there are in my Dongjun, or whether you have found any officials who are lazy and lazy. Please let me know!"

"We are rushing all the way, and we don't have much contact with officials along the way. Overall, we are all considered to be conscientious."

"That's good. Are you going to Puyang? If you don't mind, please go back to the city with me to prevent a slutty person on the road."

"Okay... Are there any bandits in Dongjun now?"

"Oh, it must have been cleared. Now all over Dongjun are recruiting workers. As long as you are willing to work, you can always eat enough, but you are not afraid of ten thousand, but you are always afraid of anything."

Cui Jun then responded.

"Everywhere is recruiting workers? Apart from road construction, is there any project in Dongjun going on?" Zhuge Liang thought suspiciously, and took a step back and whispered to Shi Tao in a low voice.

"I dare to ask the governor of Cao County, I don't know what projects are there in addition to building roads in Dong County, and what equipment and materials do I need to purchase? Maybe I can help?"

Cao Ang immediately said, "In addition to repairing roads, our Dongjun is also building water conservancy, building schools, hospitals, and factories.

There are enough supplies, but if you want to help, you really need help.
Chapter completed!