Sima Yi was still a little surprised when he suddenly heard Zhuge Liang mention the salted rice.

He felt that such a thing could not happen.

The food on the road construction site is always unified. The emperor stipulates that three meals are given, one meal is given, and one meal is given five days. As the emperor's kindness, the road construction people are given the kindness of the emperor.

In order to make them eat a little better.

What the hell is salted bibimbap?

"Is there really such a thing?"

Sima Yi looked at Zhuge Liang nervously.

Zhuge Liang nodded with a heavy expression.

"I never thought that such a thing would happen, but now it seems that this is true. The strong men recruited in Dunhuang County can only eat salted rice when building roads, and there are only two meals a day, one meal is thin and the other is dry, and there are no meat or other things at all."

Zhuge Liang told Sima Yi what he had experienced during this period.

After Zhuge Liang's strong men in Dunhuang County were collectively recruited to return to a road construction site in Dunhuang County, some were injured and some were sick. Zhuge Liang went to visit them to see what their specific situation was.

This visit happened.

A farmer in his thirties asked Zhuge Liang carefully to see if Zhuge Liang could discuss with the officials who managed the food on the construction site and let them give them more salt water.

He told Zhuge Liang that they felt that the salt water given on the construction site was too little and that they could not mix wheat rice, making the rice dry and tasteless.

He hopes that the officials on the construction site will give them more salt water when they are ready, otherwise they will not eat enough salt in their stomachs and occasionally feel dizzy and exhausted.

Zhuge Liang was shocked at that time.

The farmer saw Zhuge Liang's expression and thought he had said too much, so he quickly said that he was not hungry.

I am not too hungry, but if I can't eat any salt, I always feel that I lack strength and can't do heavy physical work. If this continues, I won't it be better to build roads for the court?

The farmer looked timid, and Zhuge Liang felt a little stinging.

Zhuge Liang calmed down and asked the farmers what they ate when they built the road.

The farmer honestly replied, saying that two meals a day, one meal was dry, it was OK, and he wouldn't go hungry, but he felt that there was too little salt and there was no smell in his mouth.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and asked him what he had to eat for food.

The farmer is a little confused, so he said that the porridge rice has a bit of salty flavor, and dry rice is normal wheat rice. When putting it in, you will add a little salt water to the rice, stir it and eat it.

"Actually, it's not bad. We won't go hungry either. Sometimes we can eat two meals. Although it's not too much for two meals, we are all very satisfied.

It is actually not difficult to mix wheat rice with salt water, but the salt water is a little bit too small, and the rice is not wet, and it has no taste. But there is still food to eat, not that there is no food, but food to eat.”

The man showed a silly smile: "If we could give more salt water, we would taste more comfortable and do more work."

Seeing the man's silly smile, Zhuge Liang suddenly felt that his throat was a little dry, and some things he wanted to say were not spoken for some reason.

After pausing for a while, Zhuge Liang spoke.

"Okay, leave it to me. I'll tell them to let them give you more salt water, don't worry."

Zhuge Liang comforted the farmer. The man smiled foolishly and thanked Zhuge Liang for a long time.

After returning to the county government office, Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought.

He clearly remembered that he had personally led a group of strong men to send them to the road construction site near Yumen Pass, and happened to meet Cao Ren, the general of the West of the Town who was assisting in the construction site at the time.

He remembered it very clearly at that time that Cao Ren kept him for a meal, and the food was pretty good, including wheat rice and pickles.

Cao Ren told him that Guo Peng’s standard meal for these road-building men was three meals a day, one meal was two meals a day.

I usually eat salt and pickles, and then give me a meal of meat every five days to replenish the oil and water in my stomach and have a long strength.

Moreover, everyone who comes to work will take care of food, and strong women and children of certain age will take care of it, so that it can reduce some burden on the local people during the slack season.

This is the emperor's special funding to give some kindness to these strong men who built roads for the country.

Zhuge Liang also asked specifically whether it was a national unified standard. Cao Ren gave a positive answer, saying that this was a national unified standard.

Because the workers on the road construction site are physically working, they give three meals and a meal of meat every five days. The emperor personally stipulates that the local government requires it to be implemented.

At that time, Zhuge Liang also lamented that the emperor's light of kindness had already shone on the western border of the empire.

As a result, I suddenly realized that this seemed to be the case.

The emperor's will was very clear, but when it was executed, some problems occurred.

Why can Cao Ren be able to eat three meals according to the standard and eat meat every five days, but the strong men who he sent to other construction sites cannot eat it?

Binosamic rice, what is this?

Can you give enough salt water?

Not only that, three meals have become two meals?

how so?

Have the court's standards changed?

When Zhuge Liang first found out, he thought of going to Cao Ren to ask about this matter immediately, but he quickly calmed down.

First, they arranged for people to go to the county to inquire whether the food and benefits of road construction workers had changed, and they also sent people to go to various road construction sites to inquire about their food.

Roads are built in sections, generally based on one county, and roads within a county area are counted as sections. Each section of roads will be divided into sections according to a certain length and terrain.

In order to better take into account the interests of road building residents, the court's policy was that local bureaucrats at county levels were only responsible for soliciting civilian residents to send them to the construction site, and then picking up old people when the completion of the rotation, changing into new people and then working, which was a cycle.

The other matters are responsible for county and state officials.

For example, material arrangements, food arrangements, road construction process arrangements, etc.

These are all led by the Central Ministry of Work, local governments and county levels are responsible for management and arrangements, and they also send people to watch at the construction site, the army assists in managing public security and mobilizes the military torch to be responsible for cooking.

If the county-level and below governments cannot manage the allocation of materials, Zhuge Liang will not be able to touch the allocation of materials at all and are only responsible for soliciting civil servants.

The court means that fewer officials are involved in the work, less likely to be corruption. In order to control the officials, the court also took great pains to deal with them.

But the situation doesn't seem that simple.

The people sent by Zhuge Liang to conduct open and secret investigations came back soon.

The people who came back from Dunhuang County told him that the result he had found was that the policy had not changed, or the food standard for three meals a day and one meat every five days was implemented according to this standard, and all the supplies were issued according to this standard.

This surprised Zhuge Liang.

In other words, some people make a mistake, make a living, and embezzle the materials issued by the court?

Then, the people who went to various construction sites to investigate secretly brought back something that surprised Zhuge Liang even more.

They went to the Qijie Road Construction Site from Dunhuang to Guangzhi County to observe the situation on the construction site.

Then I found that the same situation was found on the Qijie road construction site.

Two meals a day, bibimbap with salted water. Not to mention eating meat, there is no trace of the skin. I don’t have much salted water, just like the ones that have been negotiated.
Chapter completed!