At the end of the second year of this year, Liangzhou and Sizhou set up recruitment lists again, and recruited troops to make ordnance with great fanfare.

In the land of three auxiliaries, the people are full of complaints.

Chang'an County, Auxiliary General's Mansion.

Ma Yue sat quietly in front of the desk, concentrating on drawing a large map covering the four prefectures of Liang, Bing, Yi, Si and Xiaobu Xianbei, and on the other side, he drew a rough pattern for the blank space west of Liangzhou according to the map of the Western Regions drawn by the ancients in the west of Liangzhou.

The map of Liangzhou was divided into several parts by him, including horses and Han, as well as the names of generals who formed divisions in various places, and one by one the well-known figures controlled the land and people of Liangzhou, and he gathered together with a strong army to form the powerful Ma clan power today.

The state is divided into three departments, and the three names of Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, and Liu Bao represent the three forces.

Sanfu, who is half of Sizhou, is really his Ma Yue's territory.

When the states of the world were controlled by a few forces, the territory that symbolized the rule of the Ma clan had occupied a quarter of the world's territory. Whenever Ma Yue thought of this, he felt pride and worry in his heart.

Shouldn't he be proud? Coming out of the small Zhangshan Mountain, his power has expanded dramatically in ten years like a wild horse, so that the whole world knows his name. He has been looked down upon by countless people, and even ignored and ignored. But now, who in this world can ignore the behemoth that dominates the northwest?

But whenever he was full of pride and ambition in his chest, Han Sui, Pang De, Zhi Wudai, Dong Zhuo ...... These names made him feel a thorn in his back.

"Tuk tuk" A series of knocks interrupted his thoughts, he threw his pen on the shelf, looked up and said, "Come in." ”

The door opened, Cheng Li walked in, holding a stack of leather scrolls and putting them on the next few cases, then sat aside and said: "General, this is the map of the Western Regions that you want, some of which are found from people in ancient books, and there are also oral records of past business travelers, which are not only detailed but can only be seen. ”

"Sit." Ma Yue waved his hand and asked Cheng Li to sit down, and then he put his hands on a few cases and asked, "Zhongde, have you heard the war-weariness of the people?" ”

Ma Yue hadn't walked in the market for a long time to listen to what kind of life the people lived, and he had gone too far from the word "people". But the recruitment at the end of the year made him feel great resistance, and Fufeng had a mother who lost her four sons and cried blindly, tearing up the recruitment list. Sanfu has only recruited more than 3,000 soldiers this year, which is not enough for him to start a war.

Liangzhou is even more unbearable, the war for many years has made the livelihood of the people of Liangzhou wither, even the construction of seven ditches and the order to close the position can not curb the hunger of the people.

The more vigorously the war burns, the larger the territory of the horses, but the war does not feed the people.

Cheng Li arched his hand, still with a serious eyebrow on his face, and said: "Envoy, now that you have collected all the Liangerzhou and sat in Kansai, do you want to fight again?" The expedition to Yizhou is a long way, and the mountains are crossed. The land of the Western Regions is full of desert and yellow sand. It's good that you want to make meritorious deeds again, this is a world of great contention, men must fight, but if the people do not recuperate, all parts of the country will fall apart from the inside, and how can we talk about competing with tigers and wolves? ”

"I understand what you say, but if you don't fight, will the people be rich enough?" Ma Yue tapped his fingers lightly on a few cases and said: "Sanfu is rich, but every year there are still people fleeing to the south, and Hanzhong is even richer, so I want Hanzhong." ”

More worries in his heart came from those names he was familiar with in the world, he was worried that if he stopped moving forward like this, but others kept marching and fighting in the east and west, when the decisive battle came, would he still be able to sit firmly in the high hall?

Cheng Li got up and walked in front of Ma Yue, looked at the map on several cases, stretched out his hand and said: "Look, Liangzhou is sparsely populated, and the people are full of things and do not teach farming, so there is a shortage of food, which is also the reason why Liangzhou has been fighting." Although his subordinates are not from Liangzhou, they also have some understanding of Liangzhou, and the war in Liangzhou is ostensibly because of land, but in fact it is a war between pasture and grain. ”

The reason why the people fled now is that the war has burned their hometowns for many years, and they can no longer continue to make a living, so they can only find a stable land to live again. They are not like the people of Liangzhou, who do not need land, and take cattle, sheep and horses all over the world as their home, and a place with pasture can make them live a better life. The land of the people of Sanfu cannot be taken away, and once it is destroyed in the war, there will be nothing. ”

"Since the general is a lieutenant of the division and should perform the duties of the imperial court, since the war-weariness of the people has made the general hear, it must be because this sentiment has been suppressed beyond words." Cheng Li said unceremoniously: "If the people are unwilling to fight and are not ready to continue fighting, it means that the general is wrong, and the general cannot continue to fight." ”

The room where the copper furnace was burned was warm, and the incense was wafting up, Ma Yue raised his head a little weakly, took a deep breath and said: "Since this is the case, then don't fight, order all places to withdraw the recruitment list, and at the same time send the warrant to all places, and the people of Sanfu will be exempted from paying taxes this year, and tell the elder brother and the second brother Dong that there will be no more wars, continue to train soldiers and horses, and teach the people to farm." ”

Cheng Li nodded, said goodbye, put on a robe for himself and was about to leave, but heard Ma Yue say: "Zhongde wait, don't leave yet." ”

"No." Cheng Li didn't speak, sat back opposite Ma Yue again, and looked at Ma Yue quietly.

"You can do the matter of measuring the land in the land of Sanfu. In addition, the envoy called the Splitting Wood Institute visited various places, although I was not in Liangzhou, but the affairs of Liangzhou must be made clear to me. ”

……

Ma Qing will call his mother, and it will be winter again. Ma Yue was in the middle of the war for a whole year, and he didn't have time to stay with Cai Yan and Xiao Qing'er until the end of the year.

It was as if all his struggles had come to a good end at this time. His son got everything he had never enjoyed at that time.

In April of the first three years, Ma Yue was in Shanglin Yuan.

Shanglin Garden was once the most glorious royal garden of the Han Dynasty, there were 36 gardens, 12 palaces, and 35 views in the heyday, and it was also the martial place of Emperor Xiaowu, which can accommodate thousands of rides. But destroyed in the war between Wang Mang's destruction of the temple and the Red Mei Army, all the magnificent scenes are difficult to see today. Today's Shanglin Garden is almost a ruin, and can only be found in its former glory by the occasional ruins in the countryside.

Ma Yue did not have the courage to rebuild Shanglin Yuan, nor did he have the ability to rebuild. Today's Shanglin Yuan is used as a large military camp by Ma Yue, although the land used by his Shanglin Iron Supervisor and more than 10,000 Xiliang army troops here is only one percent of what used to be Shanglin Yuan.

Shanglin Tiejian gathered the skilled craftsmen of the entire northwest, and after Liu Bad's instruction, built a Fuguo Mansion in line with the etiquette system in the center of Shanglin Yuan, covering an area of only one mile, and the surrounding fifty miles of location was built horse farms, barracks, pavilions and buildings, planting exotic flowers and plants, placing rare boulders, and the spirit was not weaker than any princely mansion in the world.

Outside the scope of the Fuguo Mansion, a house market where craftsmen gather and three Shanglin warehouses were built, and the Shanglin Academy was built. The periphery is the camp of the armored army, and the perimeter of the forest is planted as a fence, and more than 10,000 Xiliang troops practice and train here.

Shanglin Cang hoarded three auxiliary grain and grass, Shanglin Shuyuan was inhabited by Cai Yong, Liang Hu, Gu Yong, Pei Qian, Zhao Ang and other talented people, Guan Yu, Yan Xing and other generals, here to teach apprentices, the scholars are mostly generals under Ma Yue, but for the three auxiliary and Liangzhou people to study also never turned away, Cai Yong's views on Confucianism became famous at that time, for a time there were many young talents to come, but also became a grand occasion.

More often than not, the drills of the outer armored army are full of shouts and killings, no matter how cold or hot it is, as long as they do not join the war, they are in never-ending drills.

Although the war had stopped, the temporary peace did not belong to them. They are the war machines under Ma Yue, and the armored army was born out of the flames of war, and will be famous in the flames of war.

The 5,500 armor-covered veterans have all been covered with armor, and the newly recruited 5,500 new armor-covered troops are also in endless training, and the armor-covered army has truly deserved the title of the world's strongest soldiers. This great armor alone is enough to dominate the world. What's more, the equipment of the soldiers is all the best, in this era of two meals a day, his soldiers all eat three meals a day, and the war horses are also ** milde.

Just eating food, the whole army is ten thousand gold in half a year.

But this will not make Ma Yue feel too much pressure, since the beginning of the cotton clothes, Zhang Shiping has delivered cotton clothes to the world, almost every day into the gold fight, removing the consumption of the armored army can also give Ma Yue some of the remaining money.

But everyone knows that cotton clothes cannot remain high forever, therefore, under the instruction of Ma Yue, a series of government-run workshops appeared in the land of Sanfu.

Zhang Shiping was responsible for setting up silk weaving workshops, blacksmith workshops, wine shops and inns in various counties and counties, and hired people to buy raw materials in the form of salary payment, and then made them in the form of assembly line operations, and then sold them. All the goods and goods received shall be returned to the treasury except for wages.

In addition, Ma Yue also ordered farmers to be requisitioned to open up land south of Chang'an, where it used to be the land of Shanglinyuan, and hundreds of hectares of land were cleared out as Ma Yue's private land to cultivate, and all grain was used as a liquidation, and when the price of Sanfu grain rose, it was pushed into the market to control the price of grain.

The construction of Sanfu is much easier for Ma Yue than Liangzhou.

The war-weary grievances of the people have subsided a lot in the past six months, and Ma Yue has realized the benefits of a truce.

It is difficult for the people of Sanfu to love him as much as the people of Liangzhou, but as long as the people do not dislike him, he is not worried about anything.

Moreover, during this period of time, Ma Yue was not idle, and the envoys of the Splitting Wood Courtyard infiltrated Yizhou and the Western Regions to listen to the news and buy officials for him. Although all this had little effect in a place where proselytizing was prevalent in Hanzhong. Jia Xu also went to Hanzhong as a lobbyist, hoping to persuade Zhang Lu to surrender to Mayue, no matter what the method, he was willing to try.

Just when everything was developing for the better, an order came from the imperial court...... The emperor ordered Ma Yue, the lieutenant of the division, to lead 5,000 troops into the king of Luoyang!

The Montenegrin army besieged Luoyang.