Hearing this, Ma Yun didn't say anything, and Zhang Wenbiao next to him said angrily: "Zhou Xingfeng, there is a kind of you who came out to fight with your grandfather, why are you hiding behind your back like a woman." ”

I saw a rather sturdy man walking out, the man didn't pay attention to Zhang Wenbiao, just bowed to Ma Yun, and said: "The prince regards the reckless man as a strong man, isn't he afraid of chilling the heart of the world's heroes?" ”

Ma Yun said with a smile: "If the general is good, how can Xiao Wang be stingy." ”

Zhou Xingfeng didn't speak, looked up, and just as a wild goose flew through the air, he took off the longbow behind him and shot an arrow, and the wild goose fell to the ground in response. Ma Yun couldn't help but shout, turned his head to Li Xiang and said, "Go to twenty strings of iron coins and reward two strong men." Then he ordered the three armies to march towards Yuezhou.

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Sitting in the marching carriage, Ma Yun said to Li and Wu: "The third uncle really sent 3,000 soldiers to Yuezhou, what do the two gentlemen think we should do with these 3,000 people?"

Li Xiang shook his fan and said, "Lord Wang, don't worry, these three thousand people are easy to handle." Now that there is a big chaos today, and the battles are continuous in various places, how many people think about raising more soldiers and horses, how can the prince worry about the more soldiers and horses. ”

Ma Yunqi's nose was a little crooked, and he thought: This 3,000 sounds good to be stationed, and if it doesn't sound good, it is to spy on me.

Wu Ban said: "Master Ma really still wants to reach out to Yuezhou." ”

Li Xiang shook his head and said with a smile: "Master Ma sent troops to Yuezhou, I think the meaning of testing the King of Chu is much greater than the meaning of controlling Yuezhou." If it was to control Yuezhou, would he only send 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled? Master Ma has been in the army for a long time, and he should know very well what 3,000 soldiers can do. ”

Ma Yun understood: In the past few years, the king of Chu first sent a Wang Yun and then a Shi Wende, which made the relationship between Yuezhou and the Wuping Jiedu envoy a little stiff.

Li Xiao continued: "If these 3,000 are elite soldiers, it will be really difficult for us to arrange them. Since they are old and weak soldiers, after arriving in Yuezhou, it will be a matter of turning them into soldiers. Anyway, there is a lot of barren land now. How does the prince feel about this? ”

Before Ma Yun could speak, Wu Ban said: "Wonderful, really wonderful." In this way, Master Ma's plan to meddle in Yuezhou was completely frustrated; Second, it can also increase the working population in Yuezhou; If we are giving them some preferential policies and letting them live better, then the soldiers in Langzhou will envy them, and slowly, the prince will win over the military and people's hearts under the Wuping Festival. ”

Ma Yun said: "It's good to turn soldiers into people, but it's a good way." I think that since Yuezhou is a battleground for soldiers, will there be fewer 7,000 soldiers? ”

Li Xiang said: "If you want to forge ahead, 7,000 soldiers are naturally too few. However, Yuezhou can't raise too many soldiers, otherwise Changsha is suspicious, even Yuezhou itself can't raise too many soldiers. ”

Ma Yun suddenly thought of Zhuge Liang in Tuntian, Hanzhong, and said: "Since there is a large area of barren land in Yuezhou, can we implement the policy of Tuntian?" ”

Li Xiang said: "The policy of tuntian should be implemented, and if only the army is used to tuntian, this will affect the fighting quality of the army, and second, there will be a suspicion of competing for profits from the people." In my opinion, we should still implement the policy of hiding troops from the people. ”

Wu Ban said: "What Mr. Li means, but does he mean that the people of Yuezhou should be divided into ten households, and each one person should be sent as a soldier, and the farmers will be busy farming, and the farmers will be idle and train the soldiers?" ”

Li Xiang shook his head and said: "The government still has to give a certain amount of subsidies to this method of hiding troops from the people. What I mean is that after the prince arrives in Yuezhou, he can pawn the soldiers first, test the skills such as fighting and archery, and choose the best ones to give heavy rewards, so that the soldiers will be diligent in training. If the prince is posting an announcement, if the people have those who can compete with the samurai in the army, they will also be rewarded as appropriate, then Yuezhou will definitely be martial, and after a while, isn't it easy to recruit and train new soldiers? ”

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Two days later, Jack Ma finally arrived in Yuezhou. After announcing the will of the king of Chu, Ma Yun invited the Yuezhou civil and military officials headed by the deputy envoy Shi Wende and the commander Ding Sijing, at the banquet, Ma Yun appointed Li Xiang as Li Xiang as the Sima of the Yuezhou march, and Ding Sijin was in charge of military affairs, and at the same time appointed Wu Ban as the secretary of the Assassin's Mansion, and Shi Wende was in charge of Yuezhou's economic affairs.

At the strong request of Li Xiang and Wu Ban, after the banquet, Ma Yun left Tuoba Heng and Shi Wende behind to carefully discuss the development plan of Yuezhou. He pointed out that Yuezhou's economic development is in a critical period, and Yuezhou's economic development should be carried out simultaneously by agriculture and commerce, and he stressed that it is necessary to put the people first, adapt measures to local conditions, strengthen the economic ties between Yuezhou and its neighbors through multiple channels, strive for production, and maintain the excellent situation of stability and unity. Rory said these words for forty or fifty minutes, and let others listen to them just in generalities, empty words. But after Tuoba Heng heard this, they actually looked at Ma Yun with an admiring expression, which made Ma Yun very proud for a while.

However, Ma Yun soon became depressed: this meeting was completely different from the meeting held by his father, and it was not the nonsense that everyone quoted from the classics. After listening to Ma Yun's words, Tuoba Heng and the four of them may have thought that Ma Yun was inspecting his own talents, and they all used the spirit of his conversation as a blueprint to propose specific implementation measures. As the conversation deepened, Jack Ma became more and more unable to interject, because these people have now talked about how to formulate taxes and other technical aspects. Seeing that these people were more and more happy, Ma Yun said in his heart: Dele, these people really think that they are unparalleled national soldiers, and they all have the talent of Wang Zuozhi. Anyway, in a few years, the world will be unified, let's be happy and happy.

In the end, the meeting formulated a policy of focusing on raising the people and relieving the people, mainly including rewarding agriculture, developing tea, advocating textiles, and attaching importance to commercial trade. Ma Yun has always had a headache about iron money, you think, who would be a normal person who would conceive a pile of iron for himself. With this file, Ma Yun proposed that silver and iron money could be exchanged for each other, but unexpectedly attracted unanimous opposition from the other four. Shi Wende also carefully explained to Ma Yun the origin and importance of iron money.

During the Five Dynasties period, the monetary policy of the Chu State was different from that of other feudal towns and the Central Plains Dynasty, and silver was a common currency in other places, but the Chu State used self-made iron money and did not circulate silver. During the period of King Ma Yin of Wumu, the economy of Chu was not very developed, and after merchants sold goods to Hunan, they often did not buy local products in Hunan, but directly took the silver and left. At that time, in view of this, Ma Yin adopted the suggestion of the minister Gao Yu and minted lead and iron coins to circulate in the territory. Due to the bulky weight of lead-iron coins, it is inconvenient to carry; Moreover, except for the Chu country, other places do not use iron money, so these merchants often buy a large number of products on the spot and sell them to various places.

After listening to Shi Wende's explanation, Ma Yun immediately understood that the trick of iron money is really bad, but it is indeed very applicable.

Yesterday, when discussing economic policy, Jack Ma did not intervene too much, and was not very interested in the specifics. Today is different, today is a military parade. Early in the morning, Ma Yun rushed to the school yard to prepare to review the three armies. Sitting on the high point of the general's platform, he picked up the general order and said to Ding Siji, "Order all armies to start drills." ”

Ding Sijin received the general's order, ran to the general's platform, and shouted: "The horse army is entered." There are a few small schools that keep spreading this sentence out of the school. Immediately after, dust and smoke rose outside the school yard, and the sound of horses' hooves was heard. Ma Yun turned around and looked to the left, a Puma army entered the school field, the number of this team is not much, a row of ten horses, about twenty or thirty cards, after these people came in, they did not perform the kung fu of riding and archery, but just slipped around the school field a few times, Ma Yun was wondering: Is this a circus, or a cavalry unit, are you useful?

Ma Yun was puzzled, the horse team under the stage changed the phalanx again, a row of eight Qi brushes rushed to the point of the platform, when the distance from the point of the platform was about a stone's throw away, the two or three hundred horses neighed in unison, the eight horses in front of the head actually stood up, the front hooves of each horse were slightly closed, I don't know when they actually held a jar of wine. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Ma Army shouted in unison: "Your Excellency is mighty. ”

Seeing this performance, Ma Yun almost died of joy at that time, and Li Xiang's face next to him was a little heavy, and Ma Guangmeng looked east and west, and thought it was very funny. Compared with this horse's hooves offering wine, the performance of the infantry army next was a bit bland.

The military parade finally ended, and according to the prior arrangement, Ma Yun gave a cordial lecture to the Yuezhou soldiers. He said loudly: "Brothers, everyone has worked hard. Today's military parade was very successful, and it fully demonstrated that everyone's usual training was serious, hard, and successful. What do we do as soldiers? In terms of grandeur, it is to protect the family and the country, and to ensure the safety of one party; Since I was a child, when there is chaos today and the people are displaced, being a soldier is also a means to support my family. However, since you are a soldier, you can't be a bad soldier, a ruffian soldier, a bandit soldier, and if you want to be a good soldier, you must be an upright and good soldier. What makes a good soldier? I think everyone knows that it is to be diligent in training and to enforce orders. Everyone performed well today, so I want to reward each person with 100 pieces of iron money. In order to encourage everyone, I have decided to hold an all-army competition every three months. Today, let's compare archery, whoever can shoot the target from a hundred steps away will be rewarded with 500 Wen, and those who can shoot the heart will be rewarded with 1000 Wen. Which of you is going to give it a try? ”

As soon as Ma Yun's words fell, he heard someone shouting in the ranks below: "Jianzhou Chen Xue is willing to come to test the arrow." ”