After the first battle of Longxi, Ma Chao immediately collected his troops and returned to Chang'an. In the four counties of Xiping, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Xihai, Ma Chao did not enter the army again.

First, Ma Chao knew that with the current financial resources of the Ma family, it could no longer support the army under Ma Chao to go deep into the bitter cold land of Liangzhou alone. Forcibly forging ahead, not only can take the work of size, but the gains outweigh the losses; Second, the Ma family's plan to attack the heart has been a great success, as long as they wait for time, the remaining four counties of Liangzhou will naturally take the initiative to join the Ma family.

On this expedition, Ma Chao occupied the two counties of Jincheng and Wuwei in Liangzhou with an army of 60,000 and defeated more than 100,000 troops of all the old departments of Han Sui. The forces of the civil strife in the entire Liangzhou were swept away by the Ma family. Even if there are still small groups of gangsters making trouble, as long as the other four counties are not too incompetent, it is impossible to cause another heinous disaster.

As a result, the name of Yongliang Jinma Chao once again resounded in the land of the Han Dynasty. The people of the two states are all proud of Ma Chao's birth in Yongzhou and Liangzhou, and countless Yongzhou children, when they play and frolic, they also put a white cloth on their backs, competing to imitate Ma Chao.

However, the real Jinma Chao did not have much joy. After ten consecutive days of traveling, Ma Chao hardly said anything. And because of his greed for merit, Ma Chao stripped the history of Shi Shilang in Zhongshu Province, and he was even more silent along the way. When he finally arrived at Fufeng County, Ma Chao gave the order to enter Fufeng to rest for two days.

Fufeng is the hometown of Ma Chao and Fa Zheng, although the two of them do not have the mustard between the generals and ministers in their hearts, but they can rest in their hometown for two days, which can always make their mood calm and relieve a little. After all, the grief of the death of the 5,000 horse family iron riders in a foreign land cannot be eliminated by ten days of travel - although there are clouds in "Sun Bin The Art of War": a child, love is like a cunning child, respect is like a strict teacher, and use it is like a mustard. But the 5,000 Ma family iron horses were really like mustard and were not cherished and destroyed, which really made Ma Chao and Fa Zheng difficult to let go.

But another more important reason for joining Fufeng is because both Ma's Arsenal and Ma's Farm are still Fufeng. And these two ongoing researches, Ma Chao can't help but don't want to take a look: Liu Yue took Ma Chao out of Liu Xie's secret grid, "Iron and Steel Smelting Encyclopedia", "Crop Hybridization Handbook" and "Construction Engineering Materials Manufacturing Technology" three books across time and space. And Ma Chao copied the content that could be promoted in this era as much as possible within three months and handed it to Han Feng.

After Han Feng got these three books, the first thing he did was to follow Ma Chao's instructions to study movable type printing with all his might, and printed several copies of these three books. After being listed as the top secret book of the Ma family, he invited the technical backbone of the arsenal and the farm to him to study.

In order to keep it secret, Han Feng also tried his best to do this. For the research direction of each technical backbone, let them read different content. However, the Ma family has to stumble a lot on the road of exploring these new technologies. But Ma Chao feels that these three scientific and technological achievements definitely have the significance of changing this era.

As a result, Han Feng's actions, although a little absurd, are forgivable. After all, no matter what, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

After re-entering Fufeng, Ma Chao suddenly found that Fufeng at this time, after three years of governance by the Ma family, was no longer the desolate and boundless ancient city it was at the beginning. On the contrary, in the midst of peace and prosperity, there are faint signs of new socialist towns.

Along the way, Ma Chao naturally experienced the outer city of Longxi. Most of the people living here are victims who have moved from Sili. The wealthy Fufu County has long built a uniform style of wooden houses for them. At this time, the newly planted winter wheat in the field has just sprouted, and it looks tender green from a distance.

The sadness on the faces of the victims gradually receded, and there was no longer the sad look on their faces, and the children were running like calves in the fields. Scolded and driven away by the old men who took care of these winter wheat, which was more expensive than their lives, the women hid in their homes and sewed leather robes with stitches and threads—these clothes, as long as they were handed over to the Ma family with a uniform logo, were the casual clothes of the Ma family, in exchange for five baht money that allowed them to buy rice and noodles.

Naturally, there is a barracks for Ma Jiajun to be stationed in the outer city, and Zhang Ji, who learned that Ma Chao would be in Fufeng for two days, naturally prepared to meet Ma Chao at the barracks early. But when Ma Chao saw such a scene in Fufeng today, he couldn't help but give up the 'official reception' prepared by Zhang Ji, but asked Pang De to bring the soldiers and horses into the barracks, and then brought Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Xun You, Fa Zheng, Guo Jia and others and went straight to Fufeng City.

In the inner city of Fufeng, the avenue is bustling, the houses on both sides are connected, and people and dogs bark everywhere, a peaceful scene. Ma Chao has been away from Fufeng for a year, and the prosperity of Fufeng at this time really amazed him. At this time, he was like an ordinary hillbilly who had just entered Fufeng, and he was suddenly dazzled, and he was attracted by this lively scene.

Since Ma Chao vigorously promoted commerce, the conventional restrictions of Dahan's implementation of "opening the market at noon and dispersing at sunset" have long been broken, and Fufeng County, in addition to the lunch market, there are also night markets and morning markets, which are almost no different from Ma Chao's previous life. With the completion of the new city business district, the location of Fufeng Center is more prosperous, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as an inch of land.

Ma Chaoxin walked into the market, only to see that in the market, wine, vinegar sauce, honey syrup, grain, cooked food, bamboo and wood, lacquerware, dyes, gold, silver, copper and iron, cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, tendon horn dansha, silk wool fine cloth, Wencai couch cloth, leather medicinal materials, books, calligraphy and paintings........ There is everything in all walks of life, and the goods are dazzling and lively.

Walking and walking, Ma Chaoyue blended into it, and the more he suddenly felt that he had returned to his previous life. Except for the somewhat quaint dress, the warmth of the merchants, the variety of shops, and the happiness of the people here are almost the same as in the past.

This is the change that this has brought about by my crossing, Ma Chao said to himself.

A great sense of pride arises,

After marching again, Ma Chao and the others had already walked to the residential area of Fufeng Inner City. Standing in place, looking at the Fufeng villagers from afar, it was time for the people of Fufeng to cook dinner, the cooking smoke was filled, and the entire residential area seemed to be shrouded in a mist, and the bright green bricks and green tiles were gilded with a layer of almost flame-like light by the setting sun.

"Lord, this may be the most beautiful place in Dahan, right?" After Yang Xiu was the famous family of the fourth and fourth dukes, he had seen Chang'an, which was more brilliant than Fufeng. But he had to admit that even if it was Chang'an, it was not like Fufeng, and it was a scene of prosperity and prosperity for three hours.

In the past, the prosperity of Chang'an was only in the Xicheng, where there were many scholars, but it only took less than two hours to travel by carriage out of the Xicheng, and you would see another world: a miserable, dirty and messy slum of Dongcheng, where the inhabitants had no other expression on their faces except for sorrow and fatigue.

Therefore, everything in Fufeng City is Ma Chao's pride, and he should be proud of it. And at this time, Zhang Ji, who had a big face, found Ma Chao pitifully, and got off the horse and said, "Lord, why are you fooling Weichen like this........."

"De Jong is the pillar of the Ma family, and through the hands of De Jong, he has become so rich and prosperous, and he is overjoyed." Speaking of this, Ma Chao's stomach screamed out of place, causing everyone to purse their lips and laugh. And Ma Chao continued embarrassedly: "Since we have come here, then we might as well let De Jong lead the way, let's go to Fufeng and the people to ask for a bowl of rice, okay?" ”

Zhang Ji seemed to have great confidence in the safety work and the living standards of the people under his rule, and after listening to Ma Chao's suggestion, he smiled: "Since the lord has such leisure and elegance, then it is better for Weichen to be respectful than to obey ........his fate."

A group of people, under the sunset, walked indifferently into this paradise-like place. It seems that the expedition some time ago, like Nanke's dream, can't tell whether this is a troubled era or a peaceful and prosperous era.