Standing on the makeshift wooden platform, the captured soldiers below this time were no longer trembling, and they were vaguely excited.

There is no him, just because the young master is holding a merit ceremony today.

Looking at the crowd of black pressure under the stage, Ma Chao, a decadent little technician in his previous life, did not have a trace of panic. Unhurriedly, he took out a round cake-shaped medal plaque - this was specially made by Ma Chao for the forging house, and the front was engraved with the four strong Chinese characters of "Ma Family Elite".

"Ma Jiajun Xiao Tian, this battle alone into the enemy, clever and good at work, deceived the candidates to attack and opened the three city gates with the inside and outside, and made great contributions to this campaign. And give a bronze 'Ma Family Elite' medal, the same level and even the chief, all of them must be saluted! Ma Chaolang's voice sounded, and finally said generously: "Xiao Tian, come to the stage to award the medal!" ”

As soon as Ma Chao's words fell, Xiao Tian, who was in a trance like a dream, trembled excitedly and walked on stage in a panic. Ma Chao stepped forward to support Xiao Tian's still somewhat shaky figure, straightened his clothes for Xiao Tian, and solemnly pinned the bronze medal of the "Ma Family Elite" to Xiao Tian's chest.

Seeing the shy appearance of the mighty and alert man in front of the handsome Ma Chao made the soldiers present feel a little funny, but then a feeling of loss arose from the bottom of his heart: Awarded by the young master himself, why doesn't this kind of glory belong to him?

Xiao Tian was at a loss and endured it blankly. Ma Chao pulled Xiao Tian to turn around and face the audience, and solemnly saluted Xiao Tian with a military salute.

But at this time, Xiao Tian, who had more than enough to deal with the enemy army, panicked, trembling with excitement, but he didn't know what to do. Finally, under the signal of Ma Chao's eyes, he returned the military salute excitedly.

After that, Ma Chao suddenly raised Xiao Tian's arm and shouted: "Xiao Tian, the elite of the Ma family!" ”

After a short period of tranquility, "Xiao Tian", "Ma Family Elite", "Young Master, Long live!" When the shouts came and went, the deafening shouts from the audience rang out.

After that, other soldiers who had made meritorious contributions came to the stage to receive the awards one by one, and they were all so excited that they couldn't find the north.

However, the person who presented the award this time was not Ma Chao, but Pang De and Ugly Brother. And the medals awarded are also made of black iron.

After listening to Han Feng's explanation, the soldiers knew that not all medals were made of bronze, and according to the size of the battle exploits, the young master specially formulated medals of different grades of gold, silver, copper and iron.

The soldiers with the medal show that the Ma family is grateful for the blood and exploits of the soldiers for the battle. And the soldiers who have medals are more noble in their peers and enjoy higher treatment!

As a result, the soldiers have a clear understanding of their combat exploits, which further motivates them to strive for higher combat exploits.

The strategists who attended as guests at the bottom couldn't help but admire Ma Chao when they saw that Ma Chao had only used such a small means to collect the military hearts of tens of thousands of tigers and wolves under his command, and couldn't help but admire Ma Chao.

In the days that followed, the wind and waves were calm, but there was something bad in Xinping County.

According to the information from the shadows, because the turmoil in Xinping County had just ended, but it was also in crisis by the Dongqiang soldiers Chen Jing, the war was imminent, and the people were panicking. All of a sudden, the price of grain in the county soared, and a stone of corn was sold for 4,000 yuan, and various daily necessities such as cloth, oil, salt, etc. also rose. This gave Ma Chao and others a big headache, and they had to fight an economic battle on an invisible battlefield of swords and guns, and spare their energy to deal with this economic crisis caused by panic.

In fact, according to Ma Chao's investigation, the situation is not as bad as imagined, there are not a few wealthy families in Xinping County, most of them have enough food, and Ma Chao also has the big granary of Fufeng County in hand. In addition to this, the end of summer has arrived, and the autumn harvest is just around the corner. In a short period of time, Xinping County did not have to worry about food shortage, and the current crisis is just a panic among the people, allowing those wealthy families to hoard food and fuel the fire.

Although Ma Chao has not nominally taken over Xinping County, he has behaved very tough in this crisis, which can be described as iron-blooded, in fact, Ma Chao and his subordinates are also quite angry about this: We people fight to the death to stabilize the situation in Xinping County, and these black-hearted bigwigs still want to drag their feet and seek huge profits, which is simply impatient!

Ma Chao wondered in his heart, did these people think that their heads would be tougher than machetes? Since you don't let the people get better, then don't think about being happy, after a period of deliberation, Zhang Ji and Meng Da respectively won over some wavering factions among the wealthy families, and then began martial law in the whole city.

After that, a large number of Xiliang Iron Cavalry immediately rushed into the various wealthy families to arrest the whole family of these guys, after some intimidation and threats, the price of rice slowly calmed down with the efforts of everyone, at the same time, under the overall planning of Yang Fu, the grain of Fufeng and Beidi was also transported into Xinping County in batches in a planned manner, which stabilized people's hearts to a certain extent. As a result, the Ma family's momentum in Xinping County has reached a higher level, and they are almost about to swear allegiance to the Ma family.

However, the imperial court still did not reply to the letter, and Ma Chao didn't know if he would disgust Dong Zhuo by doing so. However, the wood has been completed, and Ma Chao will let it go. It's a big deal, raise the banner of anti-Dong and unite the Dongqiang tribe to fight back, and I don't think Dong Zhuo can afford it in a hurry.

After this incident, Ma Chao's mind was all focused on the economic development of Fufeng County. On the one hand, they ran around in the Mars Arsenal more frequently, and on the other hand, they hurried to the Mars Farm to see the growth of new crops. During this period, Cai Yong and Yun'er have also been accompanied, but their relationship has improved a lot.

In addition, what Ma Chao is most concerned about is Han Sui's movements, according to reliable information, Han Sui will come to Fufeng County in three days to have talks with the Ma family.

For this meeting, Ma Chao actually has a bottom in his heart, which is nothing more than hello, hello, everyone, know each other, and secretly no longer reach out to make trouble. By the way, as well as your daughter and Aijun, you can also go back, but these two people have been eating and drinking here for nothing for so many days, you must mean something, right?

During this period, Hua Tuo's old guy looked for a Ma Chao once, saying that the establishment of the medical hall was almost complete, and the personnel were basically in place, so the first batch of students was missing.

However, Ma Chao did not strongly support the promotion of the students' enrollment, but asked Hua Tuo to establish a research institute first to help him research a drug, a drug that makes animals feel emotional: with the continuous growth of the Ma family's army, there are more and more skilled men with bows and horses, and it is too wasteful of resources to be used as infantry. But the farrowing rate of war horses in the Mars Ranch is too low. In desperation, Ma Chao had no choice but to make this decision.

But Ma Chao couldn't have imagined that his lifelong reputation would be ruined on a small bottle of medicine...... So much so that this incident had some small impact on the peace talks with Han Sui, the surrender of the two counties, and the future policies and strategies of Ma Jiajun.