Chapter 459 Extra 8 (3)
What is it like to have your name suddenly called out in a place where you are unfamiliar with the place and face the risk of being exposed at any time?
If Zhuge Liang had not been thinking about something and walking too slowly, his first reaction would have been to pretend that he did not hear the voice and continue walking forward. It would be best if he could get rid of the people behind him.
But he just can't.
He turned around and glanced at Guo Jia, and breathed a sigh of relief that the person who came to look for him was carved on the Xuanyuan Pavilion by Qiao Yan.
"I wonder what Guo Yanzhou wants to talk to me about?"
Guo Jia's eyes fell on Zhuge Liang's quickening pace for a moment, and he became more and more certain that he had not made a wrong judgment. He replied, "I just happen to have something or two to ask Kong Ming. Can we go upstairs and talk?"
Guo Jia's seat at the public seat in the restaurant had not been removed yet, and now he had moved to a private room.
Zhuge Liang had just sat down with a vigilant heart when he heard Guo Jia speak directly: "I wonder - what does Kong Ming think of Liu Gong Xuande?"
Zhuge Liang's eyes changed slightly.
What a question!
This didn't seem like a topic to directly reveal his origins, at least... if he was not an unexpected visitor, this would be just a casual conversation at most. With Guo Jia's ability, there were at least a hundred ways to get the topic back on track if he failed to get the answer he wanted.
But this is the best question to ask to recognize Zhuge Liang, who is in the same situation.
For Zhuge Liang, this world truly illustrates what it means to have a mixture of sorrow and joy.
On his timeline, after Liu Bei invited him out of Longzhong in the 12th year of Jian'an, he was appointed as the General of Military Affairs after pacifying the four counties in southern Jing in the 13th year of Jian'an. He was in charge of governing counties and raising military funds. Then came the long-lasting cause of entering Shu.
In the 19th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei officially took control of Yizhou. Zhuge Liang guarded Chengdu and provided Liu Bei with the means to dispatch troops. Just like the Battle of Hanzhong in the 23rd year of Jian'an, Liu Bei personally went north to Yangping Pass to confront Xiahou Yuan, while Zhuge Liang stayed in the rear.
However, at the same time point as before Cao Cao came here, Zhuge Liang somehow appeared in the body of Zhuge Kongming in this world.
What was like bad news for him was that in this world without the three kingdoms of Cao, Liu and Sun, Liu Bei had been sentenced to death for conspiring with Wang Yun to place Liu Yu under house arrest and assassinate Qiao Yan long before the year name Yuanzhao Yuanyuan appeared.
It has been eleven and a half years since then!
For Zhuge Liang, who had regarded Liu Bei as a wise leader and made it his mission to restore the Han Dynasty, this news was truly a bolt from the blue.
But when he flipped through the documents and maps of the Secretariat in his mansion one by one, and saw the prosperous atmosphere in the people's clothing, food, housing, transportation, and faces on the streets of Luoyang, he could no longer make a hasty judgment on the palace coup that year.
Various measures for recruiting talents through imperial examinations and broadening people's knowledge can be seen in every street and alley of Luoyang. It is obvious that these measures are not limited to Luoyang, but a net spread across all provinces in the world to catch talents.
The efficient operation of the three provinces and six ministries and the almost terrifying per-acre yield of fields made him wonder whether he was dreaming when he read the various documents and notes he left behind.
New crops were brought back along the Silk Road and transoceanic voyages, digested and utilized in the Central Plains, and gave rise to more possibilities.
When he climbed to the top of the Xuanyuan Pavilion and saw the scenes of those who risked their lives to cross the snow-capped mountains and sail across the oceans being recorded on the Monument to the People's Heroes, a kind of public sentiment that was no less than the centripetal force of the Han Dynasty was presented to him in the most straightforward way.
In this world, his friends - Cui Zhouping, Xu Yuanzhi, Pang Shiyuan and others - are all shining in their respective positions. Even his wife Huang Yueying is valued by His Majesty for her talent in mechanical manufacturing. After Ma Jun transferred to the Academy of Sciences, she successfully took over the position of Minister of Industry, standing upright in the court with a status equivalent to the nine ministers in the past. Because of her improvements in cotton textile machines, she is respected and admired by those who make a living from cotton cloth and cotton clothes.
Does the Han Dynasty still exist in this era? Is it really something that needs people's continued attention?
At least not for the people of Dayong who are already self-sufficient and can fill their stomachs.
This transfer of power also gave the Han Dynasty its final dignity, and ended with Liu Yu and Liu Xie being properly settled.
What surprised Zhuge Liang even more was that before he left home, the document placed on his desk was a decision that had just been proposed and approved by the Secretariat and the Ministry of Personnel to issue paper currency on a small scale.
This is very different from the situation of Dong Zhuo's small coins in another world, nor is it the gold-inlaid knife coins issued by Wang Mang. This is because the official did not have sufficient resources to issue copper coins, so he used this currency to replace copper coins in order to defraud more resources and concentrate them in his hands.
Instead, when the yield per mu of field increases and productivity improves, monetary transactions in the market can no longer meet the needs of large transactions. So instead of restricting the occurrence of such trade, it is better to complete the transaction in the form of a "token".
The proposal of this thing really requires that the Yong Dynasty has absolute persuasiveness and strong economic strength to support its operation.
This is also a scene that would never appear in a year of war!
On the one hand, he was worried that if he could not return to the starting point from this strange dislocation, Yizhou would fall into chaos in his absence. On the other hand, he could not help but try his best to observe every detail of this world in order to find out how it had evolved to its current state.
It's no mistake to say that this is a mixture of sadness and joy.
Of course, he also has to face the problem of being discovered as an alien by this world.
Fortunately, Huang Yueying went to work overtime because a new batch of Western cotton arrived, otherwise Zhuge Liang couldn't imagine whether he would be discovered to be abnormal at the first time. But he didn't expect that he was not the only one who had such an experience, and he happened to meet him directly on the street.
He had never met Guo Jia before, so when he looked at Guo Jia as a complete outsider, it was not difficult to see this similar incompatibility from the other's expression.
He replied: "No need to beat around the bush, just tell me, what should we do now?"
This kind of completely supernatural event...how can I put it? To the people of the late Han Dynasty, who believed in the necromancy of gods and ghosts at the peak of their belief in gods and ghosts, it was something they could not even think about.
It is probably impossible to make them return to their original world by human power alone.
Some people may say that it is still us, and we have been brought to a more developed and peaceful era, so what does it matter?
But Zhuge Liang realized that he had no right to occupy this world and his life, and to monopolize all his efforts. This is not only irresponsible to the people in the world he lives in, but also unfair to those in this world who are related to him.
So what they should do now is to find a way to get everything back on track while ensuring that no one will find out that there is anything wrong with them.
Coincidentally, Guo Jia thought so too.
He slammed the document he was carrying on the table in front of him and said, "I am a very open-minded person. People died. Although I didn't see the war end, I talked a lot and drank a lot. I was healthy and successful in my career, but suddenly I was taken over by a lonely ghost. No matter how you look at it, it's not a big deal."
"Please, Kong Ming, help me with some advice on this memorial to the emperor. Let's deal with the current situation first. Then we can see which expert to find to solve the problem."
Zhuge Liang really wanted to tell Guo Jia that there might not be any more experts than him.
From the information he had seen, Buddhist missionaries represented by Zuo Rong had long been exposed as scammers, with grass over their graves ten feet high. The city of Fulusha, one of the centers of Buddhist origin, even mistook the soldiers and civilians of Dayong as gods who had come to punish lawbreakers when its walls were blasted open by gunpowder.
The ghost way and the heavenly master way preached by Zhang Lu and others in Hanzhong became the means used by His Majesty the Great Yong to naturalize the people of Yizhou.
As for Zuo Ci, Yu Ji and others who belong to the same Taoist branch, they have gone to the Western Regions to preach at the instruction of Your Majesty.
Faced with the current situation where all these religious sects have surrendered, the native people of Dayong are more willing to believe that they can change the future with their own hands, and believe that their Majesty can lead them on the road to prosperity.
If that's the case, they might have to ask Qiao Yan to solve the problem.
However, what they need to do most is to delay revealing their identities in front of Qiao Yan.
This is really... a big trouble.
When Zhuge Liang saw the various unfamiliar properties on the document in Guo Jia's hand, he felt even more overwhelmed.
With the structure of three provinces and six ministries, Zhuge Liang's current position is still mainly responsible for practical operations, and with the Secretariat and the Ministry of Personnel in control of the direction, the possibility of problems arising is very small.
In addition, he already had experience in economic and political affairs, so if he wanted to participate in the negotiations on the issuance of banknotes, as long as he did not use his historical experience as a case, it would not be so easy for him to be exposed.
If worst comes to worst, he still has Xun Yu as his boss.
But Guo Jia’s situation is completely different!
And don’t think that he didn’t see it. The guy opposite was able to “dig” someone like him out of the crowd, and he could definitely drag him down with him when his own identity was about to be exposed.
"I'll go back and look for some information."
Fortunately, the Secretariat is the place with the most complete practical information.
He could also study these things again on the grounds of wanting to ensure that there were no people trying to take advantage of the situation.
But in this case, it is still not safe to keep it in the restaurant.
Guo Jia rolled his eyes and replied, "I'll go to the city to find an inn to stay in. I'll tell them that if I stay in the mansion, Xi Zhicai will come to visit me. He will be provoked by this guy who retired early, and I'll want to resign by then. I might as well live outside first. Find a way to send the information to me."
This reason...if His Majesty really knew it, it would barely make sense.
Zhuge Liang never thought that there would be a day when he would have to steal information like this.
He also used his learning and memory abilities to disassemble this Yanzhou development document.
But when the day dawned, he had to admit that this kind of rush work allowed him to get a glimpse of the world from the perspective of one state, and he had a more profound experience of this era.
Guo Jia, who had finally managed to get some sleep in the early morning, also adapted himself to the many new words here. He tried to muster up his energy and rushed back to his residence to change into his official uniform. He then entered the Luoyang Palace holding the document that he had memorized from beginning to end.
When Guo Jia thought that today was not a court meeting but a special one-on-one meeting, he felt a huge pressure.
But thinking about it, there was nothing unusual happening in Yanzhou, and this once-in-three-month performance review was more of a formality. He had already done all the preparations he could for this, so he should...
Nothing should go wrong.
However, just as he thought of this, he saw a small figure in his sight also heading towards Lantai.
After discovering him, the small figure suddenly turned and walked towards where he was.
When he got closer, Guo Jia realized that this was an exceptionally beautiful girl dressed in royal robes.
She put her hands behind her back and walked out, trying to imitate the aura of a big shot. No matter how you looked at her, she looked a little too cute.
this……
Guo Jia searched through the various pieces of information he had heard and immediately confirmed the other party's identity.
This is the only daughter of His Majesty the Great Yong!
When he saw the other party walking towards him, he immediately saluted him.
The person was not mistaken, but the future Emperor Yong Taizong, who was now five years old, looked up at Guo Jia for a long time and suddenly said, "Governor Guo, you are so strange today."
As soon as these words were spoken, a crisis signal instantly sounded in Guo Jia's head.
Children's intuition has always been extremely sharp. There is no need to doubt the mind of this only second-generation royal child who was allowed by His Majesty to wander into the former dynasty area at this age.
Guo Jia had even thought about how to deal with Qiao Yan's questions, but he never expected that before he could meet the emperor who had accomplished the feat of unifying the world, he would be stopped by this little princess and asked her how strange he was today.
He suspected that he had some little secret with her, such as not carrying out the promise to bring her a gift from Yanzhou, but he never expected that -
The next thing that came out of Qiao Huan's mouth was, "From what I saw last year, you always come to report on your work on time, but why did you come so early today?"
Guo Jia: “…”
It's over. I was careless.
The author has something to say:
Guo Jia: Refuse to be the King of Rolls and cannot be on par with Jia Xu.
Time-traveling version of Guo Jia: It would be great if I could deal with it sooner rather than later.
Huai Xu: A crazy person who likes to check points will never become a hard-working worker (I am sure)
See you at nine o'clock in the evening.
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