After the discussion in Deyang Palace, the entire Ma family was busy, and the barracks became slaughterhouses.

After Ma Chao finished the discussion, he ran to the Saiwai Qiang tribe on the same day and asked for 200,000 cattle and sheep from the Qiang leader. After the order, the fate of the dairy sheep was better, and other animals such as goats and beef cattle were all slaughtered and made into jerky. Ma Chao also instructed everyone to make the internal organs into sausages, smoke them, and dry them for storage. The whole Chang'an was frantically storing grain, and the sergeants didn't understand why, thinking that they were going to fight again to make military achievements, and they were all very excited.

Later, however, after the slaughter of the animals, and the order of the hussar general to hunt game in the mountains, all the sergeants felt that something was wrong. Later, when they saw the carts of grain and grass being purchased and hoarded into the barracks, everyone suddenly woke up: something big was going to happen!

However, during those days of panic, no rumors were allowed to spread in the military. With the passage of time, after everyone got used to the crazy hoarding of grain by the entire Ma family, they also neglected to settle down: Perhaps, it is almost the New Year, and the general may want to speculate on the price of grain? .......

Yes, during this time, the Ma family's crazy grain stockpiling behavior caused the grain prices in the Sili area to rise sharply. According to insiders, when the general started from scratch and occupied Fufeng, there were wealthy families who were not satisfied with Fufeng and secretly did something. As a result, the general was forced to fight an 'economic war', and those speculative guys went bankrupt........

The human heart is such a strange thing. When you don't know something, you want to know why. And after calming down for a while, I was no longer interested in that matter, but the news that came out was so believable.......

"Sergeant of the Ma family, do you think that you just want to bring down those rich families in Chang'an?" Ma Chao sat tiredly on the top of Shangshutai, facing the nightmare that had not come for a long time, and his mental pressure seemed to be almost extreme.

"That's right," Diao Chan gently rubbed Ma Chao's shoulders and said, "The shadow has been sent, and the nails in Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao are also time to play a role." ”

"It's so good......." After listening to Diao Chan's report, Ma Chao rubbed his temples, patted Diao Chan's soft twing, and said: "These days, you have also bothered ......."

However, before the words were finished, Liu Yue and Fu Shou came together, and when they saw the deep love between Ma Chao and Diao Chan, they couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. And Ma Chao was embarrassed, and quickly added: "You are all bothered, especially Shou'er, who doesn't even have a luminous ornament on his body......."

For this natural disaster, the Ma family can be said to have searched and fished out, even their daughters-in-law and children did not let go at all. And after Cai Yan took the initiative to hand over her few jewelry to Ma Chao, the other daughters-in-law of the Ma family no longer had any expensive decorations on them. Even, even a sterling silver spear built by Han Ying earlier did not escape Ma Chao's clutches.

When Liu Yue and Fu Shou heard this, their originally angry faces eased slightly: Liu Yue is better, after all, he has a lot more experience than Fu Shou, so he doesn't need Ma Chao to deliberately appease him. But Fu Shou is young and the proud daughter of the sky, and at this time, it is the time when Ma Chao is using the Fu family, Ma Chao can't easily make Fu Shou unhappy.

Fortunately, Fu Shou is not as willful as the Ma family imagined, I saw that after she was praised by the Ma family, she smiled and said: "Sister Cicada and Sister Yue are the hardest, Shou'er is just a blessing from her mother's family, and she can contact her husband........ By the way, husband, the Guan family in the Western Regions and the Li family in Jinyang will arrive in Chang'an in the afternoon, do you really want to meet them? ”

"That's right," Ma Chao waved his hand to signal Liu Yue and Fu Shou to speak closely, and said thoughtfully: "If these two families are really as Shou'er said, with abundant grain and straw, and the means are all over the world, then the husband must go to see them in person." Not only for this relief, but also for the future development of the Ma family's shop......."

"The husband is reasonable, the Ma family's goods, even though they have been marketed at this time, have never been associated with those merchants. And these two, not far from the Sili area, and there are no behind-the-scenes forces to intervene, are exactly what we need to fight for. Liu Yue heard what Ma Chao said, and immediately guessed Ma Chao's intentions, and after saying this sentence for him, he added: "It's just that Yue'er is worried about ....... to discuss such a huge and important matter rashly this time."

"Don't worry." Ma Chao pursed his lips and smiled, the kind of black smoke in his bones, and said sinisterly: "Anyway, I won't pay them real money, but they will bring a full ten grains over." Either way, we can't afford to lose ........."

And at this time, in the desert from Jinyang to Chang'an. The yellow sand stretched from one side of the horizon like a dry sea, silent in the light of the winter sun. The wind was few and weak, like pebbles thrown into a lake, which could only stir up faint ripples in the desert sea, and then disappeared without a trace.

Drop by drop, sweat seeped from his forehead, slid down his cheeks and neck, and finally fell on the cold gravel, shattering into countless petals. Even in winter, the sweat of their servants has never stopped.

The heavy grain and grass, bound firmly, were piled up like a mountain, and rose and fell with the spine of the horse, and looked crumbling, and the servant who led the horse was also hunched over, and his body was greatly packaged, and he was struggling.

There was no laughter, just heavy gasps and the crisp sound of horse bells to the rhythm of the march.

The leader of the team was a young man with a serious face and a well-dressed person. He rode at the head of the procession, stopping from time to time to supervise those behind him, and only when he saw that everyone was showing signs of exhaustion did he give a few words of encouragement to the crowd to speed up. And next to him, a person dressed as a shopkeeper, with a heavy fatigue on his face, was worried about something.

"Young Master?" The shopkeeper finally couldn't help but speak, and asked the leader, "Although you have persuaded the elders of the clan in the family meeting....... But tying the whole family to the Ma family's boat, such a risky thing, you really don't think about it anymore? ”

"Lao Pan, if you stay up late to take care of business, I will definitely not be able to compare to you. But speaking of ......." The leader glanced at Chang'an in the distance again, turned around and smiled at the shopkeeper named 'Lao Pan', and continued: "The situation in Jinyang, you also know, there is a Montenegrin army in the north to plunder from time to time, and the Yuan family is seconded in the east....... And we can't compare to the prestige of the Sima family, can we have any other choice than to take refuge in the Ma family? ”

"However, the power of the Ma family, after all, has not yet extended to the state......." Lao Pan also admitted that his young master was right, but he was still a little worried.

"When the power of the Ma family reaches out to Bingzhou, even if we lick other people's toes on our stomachs, we can't compare to one ten-thousandth of what we run like now........" Speaking of this, the eyes of the leader suddenly flashed with a gleam, as if he was talking to himself, and also seemed to be talking to Lao Pan: "Along the way, I didn't expect that under the banner of the Ma family, I didn't meet a ....... of alien races or thieves."

At the same time, the head of the family who had seen Fufeng prosperous and prosperous more than the Western Regions along the way, his deep eyes couldn't help but be a little surprised, and he muttered: "Yongzhou desolate land, there is still such a grand scene?" In this way, the Ma Chao introduced by Fu Wan must also be a business wizard, right?! I hope he understands some of the charms of business better than Han Sui......."

And when he looked back at his endless caravan, the head of the family smiled, and his confidence showed on his face: "No matter what, the sincerity I brought is still enough." If Ma Chao is really a wonderful person, wouldn't it be even better if he abandoned Han Sui and cooperated with him directly? ”