Guo Peng was naturally happy that Zhuge Liang was so modest and cautious.

But the situation is not that simple.

The court naturally has special treatment for special talents.

"This is true for ordinary officials. If officials over 2,000 stones are transferred to Luoyang, there will be some special preferential treatment and arrangements. Those who have made outstanding achievements will also be given preferential treatment. Those who take the initiative to ask for officials to go to desolate border areas will be given priority promotion."

"Can this still happen?"

Zhuge Liang was a little surprised.

"Of course, everyone knows that Luoyang is good, and they all run to Luoyang. Do you don't need officials in the bitter and cold areas on the border? They all like prosperous places and hate bitter and cold areas. Of course, the court should treat them differently.

You are the first team to be promoted first, with important positions with high salaries, and you are the ones who are willing to go to the bitter and cold areas to manage local areas and make political achievements. You are the ones who are willing to choose from, and then it is the other person's turn."

"I have never heard of it..."

"Well, I plan to tell the emperor immediately and let the emperor announce this rule to the public. This rule has always been there, but it has not been officially announced to the public. So some people don't know, it's not their fault."

Guo Peng smiled slightly.

Zhuge Liang's heart was suddenly filled with strange emotions.

Is this... true?

It's true.

But Zhuge Liang was thin-skinned and was always embarrassed to choose the position he wanted, so in the end he refused to say it. Guo Peng could only let Guo Jin consider it for himself.

Who should move and who can keep it is something Guo Jin should consider.

After talking about these things, Guo Peng talked to Zhuge Liang about the war between the Sabre Kingdom and the Roman Empire.

What surprised him was that Zhuge Liang also understood this matter.

"I often go to cities and markets in various places to inspect, watch the trade situation, and randomly adjust the governance. About two months ago, I found that the number of merchants in the trade had dropped significantly, which was abnormal in previous years.

So I arranged for the translator to contact those merchants who were still trading? When I learned that the war between Anxi and Loumo had occurred, the country of Loumo was victorious and the country of Loumo was defeated. I expected that this would happen? The merchants of Anxi would inevitably decrease? It would be greatly reduced, and even not come at all."

Guo Chengzhi, who was listening on the side, was surprised.

Guo Peng walked along the way to arrange what the bureaucrats in the western empire were doing to prepare for the occurrence of this matter? Other bureaucrats didn't know whether to pay attention to this matter? Zhuge Liang actually paid attention to it and understood something.

Sure enough, this person is very unusual.

Guo Chengzhi had such an idea.

Guo Peng was also a little surprised, but not surprised? With Zhuge Liang's meticulous style, it is not difficult to learn about such a thing and make predictions.

"After learning about this, I kept collecting information? I was preparing to write a memorial to your Majesty? Let your Majesty know about this and prepare early? I never thought that the Supreme Emperor already knew about it, so your Majesty..."

"Well, the emperor also knows it. I should know it earlier than you. I also know that the Kingdom of the Silence Kingdom has been conquered by the Loumo people? The Emperor of the Silence Kingdom was injured and fled? The Kingdom of the Silence Kingdom was as dangerous as it was? So what you are worried about? It is happening."

Guo Peng's words made Zhuge Liang frown and he was very worried.

"In this way, the three prefectures in the Western Regions? And Liangzhou and Yongzhou will have problems. Emperor Taishang, you... should have already had a countermeasure, right?"

Zhuge Liang was very worried at first, but suddenly he thought that since Guo Peng had already known about this, it was impossible not to react to it. If he could say it, it means that he had already had a solution to it.

Guo Peng nodded.

"The response is not considered a solution. Just doing some things to make up for the loss can reduce the losses, but there will be losses. So Kong Ming, if you go back this time, you may be criticized by some court officials."

"My... Emperor, do you think it is a problem for me to propose such a strategy?"

Zhuge Liang hesitated for a moment and asked such a question, and he asked: "Do you think that doing so will bring greater danger to the three prefectures of the Western Regions and the two prefectures of Yongliang?"

Guo Peng picked up the tea bowl and drank a sip of tea, then shook his head.

"Kong Ming, I have never been a person who gave up on the choke. If I don't agree with this matter, you, and Mao Jie, it is impossible for you to do such things in the two prefectures of Yongliang and the Western Regions. If you can do it, it means that I agree."

Zhuge Liang was not confused about this, of course it was true.

"Not for Yongzhou, there are millions of people living in Liangzhou and the Western Regions. No matter how hard they work to cultivate the land, they cannot live better than those in the Central Plains. They are all from the people of Wei State, and I don't want to see them live a hard life.

Farming cannot make them full, so they must let them do business. They cannot make them hungry just because of the national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. National policy is national policy, but Wei is a big country, with the differences between the east and the south and the north and the south so big that it is amazing that it cannot be generalized.

Therefore, Kongming, adapting to local conditions is the most suitable development method for a big country like Wei. The Central Plains is suitable for growing real estate and grain, so that is suitable for growing real estate and grain. The Western Regions and Yongliang are suitable for doing business, so that they can go to do business and divide the labor and cooperate with each other."

Guo Peng looked at Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was.

"But the problem still exists."

"Of course there is a problem. There is no possibility that there are only benefits but no harm. The disadvantage of this matter is that it depends too much on countries outside the territory and needs to rely on them to buy our goods. Once there is a problem with them, we will have a problem."

Guo Peng shook his head: "This is inevitable and will exist for a long time. It is an inevitable danger for the development of business. Without measures to deal with this problem, don't think about developing business safely. Kong Ming, you have to remember."

"I remember."

Zhuge Liang nodded like a conditioned reflex, and then he was a little confused, not knowing why Guo Peng asked him to remember this kind of thing.

He will remember this matter firmly and will not forget it.

Afterwards, Guo Peng asked Zhuge Liang to follow up on what Mao Jie needed to do in Yongzhou and Lu Qian in Liangzhou, limiting the development of private commerce, strictly controlling the scale, recovering funds, and then waiting for the central government's support.

Guo Peng actually felt a little helpless about this matter.

Officials of the Wei Empire, who first responded to the impact of the economic depression, still seemed quite immature.

They are generally not good at dealing with economic crises outside the smallholder crisis, and they are not very comfortable with crises in purely commodity economy.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on them. The economy is a very complex thing. It requires a very extensive intelligence network and high-speed information transmission to be developed. Moreover, the concept is relatively abstract and not so easy to figure out.

It is difficult for a person who does not turn his mind fast enough to understand the principles of economics.

In contrast, agriculture with rich experience left behind by our predecessors is much easier to do, and responding to the agricultural crisis is also the old task of Chinese bureaucrats.

Although it cannot be said that success is always the case and will also cause peasant uprisings and other things, we can always use formulas to produce agricultural books one after another.

Finally, it achieved the peak of the small peasant economy - intensive farming, and researched the fields of farming and reached the extreme.

In contrast, ancient economic books that study business are extremely rare.

Except for a few well-known business geniuses like Guan Zhong who have raised some research on economic issues, most of the time, Chinese people were more willing to study agriculture than commerce.

This is of course a force of reality. The limitations of productivity are limited, and the development of business cannot be unlimited. However, this is a difficult thing to grasp. It is difficult to find a balance between restrictions and non-restrictions.

Therefore, our ancestors simply chose a comfortable one-size-fits-all approach - focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce.

The long-term limitation of productivity and land mergers have gradually become dogmatic in emphasis on agriculture and suppressed commerce, which has prevented the Chinese from opening their horizons in time and keep up with the first wave of globalization.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Chinese defeated the first group of Western colonists and drove them away, but failed to truly notice the threat from the sea and opened their hearts to face it directly.

The introduction of high-yield crops, the increase in productivity and the explosive population growth should have allowed China to accumulate enough primitive capital facing the sea, break out of the vicious circle of intensive cultivation, absorb European technology, catch up, and begin the era of great navigation.

The Qing government, which could replace the Ming government with ruling power, did not change the rigid means of rule of the Ming government. It was limited by its own limitations and rigid Confucianism and could not and was unwilling to do it.

In order to gain ruling power as soon as possible and consolidate their dominance, they vigorously suppressed the resistance of landlords and gentry in Jiangnan, and also reached a compromise with more landlords and gentry.

The way of establishing the country by the snake swallowing elephant made their rule always tremble and extremely nervous. Except for Emperor Yongzheng, there were almost no emperor who dared to make any innovation.

This has caused the Chinese to lose a valuable window to keep up with the West and avoid sinking.

The Wei Empire is currently unable to break through the limitations of productivity, but Guo Peng feels this is an opportunity.

A chance to let officials and the people, and people from all over the Wei Empire, feel a general feeling of other crises besides the agricultural crisis.

Not only do we have to feel it, but we have to face it, but we also have to record it and pass it on to future generations, so that future generations can know how the Wei Empire responded to this extremely special economic crisis.

The empire not only has an agricultural crisis, but also a commercial crisis.

As long as you develop business and economy, you will definitely encounter various economic problems, and these problems should be studied and answered like agricultural problems, so that future generations can learn from the experiences of their predecessors.

Imperial officials and people should not only be familiar with the agricultural crisis, but also with the business crisis, so as to conduct research, study, and give birth to the first group of real economists in the true sense.
Chapter completed!