On the slope of the mountain, Ma Chao's entourage used the curtain he carried to pull up a boxy tent about twelve or thirteen steps long, in which Ma Chao removed his armor and heated the dry food.

At present, the supply of military food comes from the Tianshui region, and without the cooperation of Tianshui Haoqiang, the army in Ma Chao's hands will run out of food.

In addition, Su Ze mediated in the middle, and only then did Ma Chao not enter Ji County and go straight to Longxi, and Tianshui Hao forcibly raised military rations, and the two sides maintained a state of temporary harmony and mutual non-aggression.

After all, it was more than ten years ago, and those who are alive should think about the present and think about the people of the future.

Tianshui Haoqiang didn't want to continue to be an enemy with Ma Chao's family, and Ma Chao didn't want to provoke strong enemies for his children and grandchildren.

As an important grain-producing area in Longshang, Tianshui is not only economically rich, but also has a long history of natural and cultural heritage; It is also close to Zhuhu, and if it wants to survive and reproduce, it naturally advocates force.

Under the staggered internal and external factors, Tianshui's Haoqiang is actually very capable of fighting.

Holding the grain-producing area, and there is always danger and persecution, Tianshui Haoqiang from generation to generation cannot relax and live a comfortable life.

Therefore, just like the military officials who exercise their bodies all day long and hone their martial arts, Tianshui is very capable of fighting; It is different from those military officials who have achieved fame, are comfortable, have continuously declined in physical fitness, and their mentality has been corrupted by a rich life.

The only thing that restricts the development of Tianshui is geography, and the plain here in Tianshui is still a little small...... There is also a larger Guanzhong Plain on the edge.

Sandwiched between nomadism and farming, no matter how strong Tianshui is, it is not enough; It can't compete with the nomadic Zhuhu in the northwest, and it can't compete with the Guanzhong farming area.

Therefore, the economic productivity determines the embarrassing position of Tianshui Haoqiang, which is very capable of fighting, but cannot expand outward.

As the former overlord of Longshang, Ma Chao is very aware of the weaknesses and shortcomings of Tianshui Haoqiang; And Longxi County is Tianshui's brother, Tianshui is close to Guanzhong Longshang's rare grain production area, that Longxi is close to Zhuhu, the force is stronger than Tianshui, and the background is a little worse than Tianshui.

As for the western counties of Liangzhou west of Longxi, Han and Hu live together, and the atmosphere is integrated...... It is very good to be able to fight, but it can only fight with the wind and fight in waves...... It's just too much affected by logistics.

In a tailwind battle, you can grab supplies and eat the enemy, so you can fight very well, and in order to grab a bite to eat, such an army can quickly swell.

If the war enters the stage of stalemate, when it comes to fighting logistics and fighting for the foundation, the huge army set off in the Xiliang area will ...... will quickly disintegrate.

Therefore, the integration of Guan and Long can cooperate with each other, complement each other's shortcomings, and form the largest, strongest, and most comprehensive force.

Obviously, in the big plan of Guan Longyi, Ma Chao is very eye-catching because of his long-cherished hatred, and there is almost no place for him.

There is also a lack of motivation to promote the integration of Guanlong, Ma Chao just wants to stay in Tianshui with the army, continue to eat the military rations raised by Tianshui, and eat until the dust settles in the DPRK and China, and then make plans.

Everything else...... I don't want to care, if I can manage it, it's best to hope that Longxi Bing can deceive You Chu and put Yang Fu under house arrest...... Kill it.

It's best to do it quickly, it's best not to intervene yourself, and it's best to let the innocent Yang Fu die in the process of guiding the Longxi soldiers to kill You Chu.

Otherwise, if you delay for a while, you will get the report from Tianshui, and Tian Xin will send someone to deal with the problem of Longxi...... It has nothing to do with him, but if Yang Fu is still alive, and even has to dine with Yang Fu in the future, he can't imagine this kind of scene.

Ma Chao chewed a piece of heated barbecue jerky, his expression was very calm, and he killed several important people...... Obviously not a big deal, not worth getting emotional.

"Publicly, there is Dong Ji from Minyang, Longxi, who wants to see him at the bottom of the mountain."

The curtain was pulled up four or five feet, and Ma Chao's personal guards bowed in and asked, and said, "This person is walking with the handsome brothers Fu Jian and Fu Qiang, who are handsome people in Wudu. ”

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, turned his head and asked, "Are you sure it's the Minyang Dong family?" ”

"It's Minyang Dong's, not Dongting Dong's."

The guards will know what Ma Chao is emphasizing: "The ministers have repeatedly asked, and it is indeed Dong Taishi's ethnicity. ”

Dong Taishi's Taishi Mansion Master Tian Yi has been whitewashed, who dares to call Taishi Dong a thief?

Dong Ting's Dong family is the Dong family of Ma Chao's wife, that is, the uncle's family of his son Ma Cheng. It's just that this Dong clan is even more miserable, there is a person who was beheaded by Pang De and the military discipline of Diansu, the only Dong Chong who followed Ma Chao to the south and the north, was also killed by Ding Feng in the chaotic army when Guanping Hanyang was defeated.

It's just that in the troubled times so far, many things can't be taken seriously, otherwise few people can live happily.

For example, Pang De's cousin Pang Rou worked in Yizhou, and Pang De's younger brother Pang Yan fled from Longshang after Pang De's death in the war and went to Hanzhong to serve and follow the first emperor.

Ma Chao has nothing to do at the moment, and he doesn't respond to whether he can see these people in the end...... With the personal guard's understanding of his own master, if he doesn't object, he can see it, anyway, it's just a meal and entertainment after dinner, and it doesn't affect anything.

Now give the Longxi soldiers and the western counties of Liangzhou a big fighter...... This group of people may not dare to do it.

Really do it, wait for the main force of Beifu to recuperate in Guanzhong for two or three years, save enough military food, and turn around to fight Xiliang...... How many of these people can carry it?

In a sense, there is no shortage of technology and executors in the large-scale development of Guanzhong, but there is a shortage of a group of hard-working slaves.

Slaves and prisoners of war often produce higher economic benefits.

In the two world-famous institutions of Maicheng Wood Mill and Danyang Iron Mill, many people only know the importance of craftsmen, but they do not know the importance of silent dedication.

Judging from Ma Chao's vision, experience and understanding of Beifu: there are still many slaves in Guanzhong.

Sooner or later, the 30,000 Hebei Wei troops will have to be repatriated, and after the repatriation, the gap in coolie labor will need to be filled.

The common people and the government soldiers had more important things to do, so some of the work with great resentment needed prisoners of war and slaves to do.

A new round of foreign war will definitely break out within two or three years, and the target of the war will be either Hexi Zhuhu or Hetao Zhuhu.

This Hulu is like an inexhaustible weed, this year to catch a batch of Hetao Hulu, next year, maybe some tribes in Mobei will migrate to the Hetao with abundant water and grass, and there will be new tribes in the cold areas further north to Mobei, and even tribes in the far west to the east.

In the western pole of the Western Regions, there will also be tribes migrating to the Western Regions.

After a lifetime of dealing with Qiang, Zahu, and Southern Xiongnu, Ma Chao always felt that the nomadic Zahu had a very strong ability to reproduce, and the manpower seemed to be endless, and he could fool, deceive, and pull a servant army out at any time.

If he can pull the servant army, Tian Xin can naturally hunt and plunder many slaves.

Even this year, Tian Xin will hold three large-scale hunts in Shanglin Yuan...... It feels like Ma Chao is a drill to hunt more slaves in the future.

How dark Tian Xin's heart is, Ma Chao still boasts that he still knows a little.

Thinking about these things, it didn't take long for the curtain to be picked up again, and several purple-clothed guards wearing two-crotch armor entered the curtain to act as honor guards and guards, and Dong Ji, Fu Jian, and Fu Qiang rushed in.

Seeing Dong Ji, Ma Chao remembered Yang Qian, Yang Wan also has a name, which is called Yang Ji, taking the meaning of Maxima; The other name is called Ten Million, which is full of simple wishes: to have thousands of thousands of horses.

In terms of the cultural literacy of the Di people, Yang Ji doesn't understand anything, and it is not as smooth and simple as the meaning of tens of thousands.

Dong Ji turned back three times in one step, thinking that he would be able to take the lead, but he didn't expect that this usually stupid Diren chief would dare to do this kind of business of seeking wealth and nobility in death.

Fu Jian's face was worried, and his younger brother Fu Qiang was eager to try, very excited.