"How?" Ma Chao asked this with a sad expression, he really didn't know how he walked through the official road of Chang'an.

After Yingchuan Academy, Ma Chao can be said to have returned with a full load, not only achieving the expected goal, but also catching Chen Qun, the future Sikong Lord of the Wei State. What's even more gratifying is that the Xun family and the Chen family seem to value the Ma family, especially Chen Ji, and they also introduced several of their disciples who have achieved success to Ma Chao.

And under Chen Ji's first statement, Xun's six dragons also recommended their proud protégés to Ma Chao. And Ma Chao is naturally so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut and accept all the orders. He also drafted a letter of intent to cooperate with Yingchuan University to cultivate talents, indicating that after the Ma family won the imperial examination in the future, those students who failed to make the list would want to further their studies. The Ma family can pay the tuition fee and come to Yingchuan Academy for further study. Until the title of the gold list, it was filled into the Ma family government agency.

With this proposal, those old foxes immediately saw how much of a fame it had for Yingchuan Academy! When sending Ma Chao away, the six dragons of the Xun family and the two elders of the Chen family were directly sent out for thirty miles, and when they went back, they were still in a mess.

But after leaving Yingchuan this time, Ma Chao did not return to Wancheng. Instead, along the line of Yiyang, Yongning, and Mianchi, the north entered the division. After passing through Caoyang, Hongnong and Tongguan, it went straight to Chang'an. And when passing through Hongnong County, Ma Chao also worshiped Linghu County, who was buried in the sea of fire with the locusts when the locust plague came.

And along the way, Ma Chao once again experienced the ruthlessness of natural disasters. In Ma Chao's imagination, the end of the world is nothing more than a miserable situation in which the fields are barren and overgrown with thorns and weeds, the mulberry forests are abandoned and covered with residual leaves and wild cocoons, and the cities and farmhouses are burned down and smoked. But the reality hit Ma Chao's fantasy directly, and he found that he thought too beautifully.

After the drought and locust disaster, Sili was dead and silent, and the people who stayed here were struggling to make a living, and they were starving for thousands of miles. Ten rooms and nine empty? There's still a room left! But Ma Chao's eyes were almost inhabited; Wild grass? After the locust drought, is there still a hint of green? Except for the cracked land and the barren ground, Ma Chao's eyes were covered with gray yellow.

Occasionally, there is a hint of rooster crowing and dog barking, all of which are weak. It seems that the only thing they have left is to cry out for their helplessness in the sky.........

Along the way, Ma Chao, Ma Chao's personal guards and those students all looked gloomy and bleak. Especially Ma Chao, his heart is like a knife.

It wasn't until after entering Chang'an that Ma Chao saw that there were occasional merchants selling furs and livestock on the street, as well as the porridge shop set up by the Ma family was steaming, and the victims left behind were in full swing to do the reconstruction of Chang'an. Even, I saw Cai Yan personally teaching those children to read aloud outside. Ma Chao's face softened a little. However, it is only a matter of easing up.

As soon as he entered Weiyang Palace, Ma Chao didn't have time to drink saliva, so he summoned Huangfu Li from the Ministry of Officials and instructed Huangfu Li to place these students first. Afterwards, he came to Shangshutai and summoned Zhong Xuan, Meng Da, Han Feng, and his own virtuous assistants Liu Yue, Diao Chan, Fu Shou, and Shadow Chief, and began to inquire about the relief work and the movements of the surrounding princes.

"Husband, Yue'er has to admit that you know people!" Liu Yue didn't have much decadence on her face, although she could see that she had been overworked recently, she was still in good spirits: "That Guan Shanxue, Li Zihao and Yu Pan, really are business masters, Guan Shanxue directly held auctions all over the Western Regions and sold them at a sky-high price; Although Li Zihao did not dare to hold an auction in Jizhou, he secretly contacted the big families in Jizhou, and after satisfying the appetite of those rich households, he sold the treasures in the palace at a high price. There is also that Yu Pan, who is worse than locusts, and in the rich family that Si Li has confiscated, nothing of value can escape his eyes. Even that guy can guess where the rich and noble families are burying their treasures! ”

"Oh?" After Liu Yue's strong shot, Ma Chao immediately felt a little refreshed, and asked, "Then how much money did you get back this time?" ”

"I have already got back as much as 900,000 guan, and there are still follow-up treasures that have not yet been sold, and the concubine estimates that at least another million guan or so can be returned!" When Liu Yue said this, his eyes lit up a little. Where is the resentment that she was unwilling to sell the treasures in the palace as the princess of the Han Dynasty? has already been as excited as a rich woman who suddenly made a fortune. And her dizzying and fascinated style can't help but make Ma Chao fall for it suddenly: the torment of not being close to women for more than a month makes Ma Chao almost forget that he is still a man........

"Two million?!" Ma Chao immediately wanted to jump up and hug Liu Yue fiercely and nibble twice! You must know that Yongzhou's annual tax revenue is only 22.7 billion yuan. And two million guan, that is, two billion dollars, is enough for 30,000 soldiers to spend a year! In other words, if it is this battle, the Ma family's 30,000 iron horsemen can fight for another month!!

"Husband!" Seeing that Ma Chao was so happy, Fu Shou couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and said coquettishly: "There is good news here for the concubine." ”

"Huh?" Ma Chao became more and more energetic, and said without hesitation: "Shou'er, how much did you sell?" ”

"Husband!" Fu Shou was a little angry, and after stomping his feet, he glanced at Ma Chao: "You just want to sell Shou'er so that you can exchange it for food?" ”

"The husband is wrong, the husband is wrong........ "Now Fu Shou is the gold master, Ma Chao doesn't dare to offend her." Regardless of whether it is not in front of his subordinates, this gesture must be done sufficiently.

And Fu Shou is also a person who understands the general situation, seeing that Zhong Xuan, Meng Da, Han Feng and others are all looking up at the sky, and gave Ma Chao a look of 'clean up after going home', he said: "Thanks to the fame of the husband who migrated the victims thousands of miles and saved the common people." My father and my eldest brother contacted various merchants and called on them to take from the people and use them for the people. In addition, the business planning in the husband's new policy did attract them to the company's trade. As a result, merchants from all walks of life donated more than one million yuan of money, and there were 300,000 stones of grain! ”

"So much?!" Ma Chao was already a little excited at this time: in this way, the 30,000 Ma family iron riders can fight for another month!

"And that's not all!" Seeing Ma Chao so happy at this time, Han Feng couldn't help but step forward and said: "Ma's farm's winter wheat, potatoes, black beans, soybeans, rape, sugar beet and other crops have been harvested, although the planting scope is still a little insufficient, but it is enough to supply the disaster victims of Sili. And when the autumn harvest is in September, Yongzhou is enough to feed Si Li!! ”

"Oh oh........" Ma Chao was overjoyed: Nanyang County and the western part of Yingchuan County can also harvest a lot of grain. And if the group of miners from the arsenal successfully find the coal mine in Luoyang, then the victims of the entire division can survive this winter smoothly and survive until tomorrow's spring planting!!

Although Luoyang does not have more coal than Taiyuan (that is, Jinyang in the Three Kingdoms period), it does have coal mines, and there are quite a few. Ma Chao still knows this bit of geographical knowledge. And with food in his stomach and coal mines for heating, Ma Chao's heart is indeed like putting down a big stone.

"Not only that, but the winner has made a contribution to the prevention, and there is no plague in the Si Li's area." Zhong Xuan couldn't help but come forward to report at this time, and also told Ma Chao a more gratifying news: "The locust plague in the Sili area has been effectively controlled, thanks to the example of Hua Shen Yi, many victims are fed on locusts........ The minister also tasted the fried locusts, and indeed as the lord said, it tasted like chicken and was not greasy, but it was the best food. ”

After Zhong Xuan finished speaking, he also showed his white teeth and smiled slightly. But when Diao Chan, Liu Yue, and Fu Shou heard this, the look of joy on their faces immediately became disgusted and depressed. When Ma Chao saw this, he couldn't help laughing, and his previous depression was swept away: In this way, the Ma family will not die! Even, it is possible for me to promote the big strategy of 'fighting to feed war' in my heart!

Not bad! Ma Chao will never let the Ma family suffer for two years in the midst of hardship, what he wants is to attack with all his strength, to kill, to rob! Let the iron rider of the Ma family step on the rich land of the Han Dynasty. Use someone else's granary to feed your own people!!

Slow digestion, Taoguang nourishing?

Could that be the work of the traversers?! Who knows, the people who travel here are here to break the routine and create miracles!