Among the five projects that Ma Chao wants to vigorously develop, the most important is business.

Only when commerce is up, can the city prosper, can gather more people, and with the floating population, can various economic indicators be developed.

To fight a war is to fight the economy, to consume the economy, in exchange for more territory and population.

Infrastructure is the construction of cities, horse politics is related to the establishment of cavalry, metallurgy is related to weapons, armor, horse harness, siege equipment, straight roads are related to the speed of the army's march, the scale of commercial trade.

Think back then, Qin Shi Huang built the Qin Straight Road, as a passage for transporting troops, traffic and transportation, with a total length of more than 700 kilometers, which was built by the general Meng Tian, and since then all dynasties have been using this straight road until the Qing Dynasty gradually abandoned.

Qinzhidao is the same design idea as the current transportation network, which is to be faster and more efficient.

Therefore, the construction of a straight road is one of the core factors for Ma Chao to lead the army on an expedition.

But in order to achieve the above mentioned projects, it is even necessary to go hand in hand, in the final analysis, Ma Chao must have enough money, so Qiu Jun is the top priority for Ma Chao to realize his business development.

Qiu Jun's ideas and concepts of commercial trade were very advanced, and Ma Chao had a long discussion with him and studied them together for 10 days.

In order to facilitate Qiu Jun's cheap actions, Ma Chao specially worshiped Qiu Jun as the Taishou of the five counties of Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Shuofang, Shangjun, and Xihe County, and concurrently served as the county of Wuyuan County.

At present, Wuyuan County is Ma Chao's base camp, and the post of county taishou is held by Jia Xu, Qiu Jun has the great talent of Jingguo Weiluo, and the internal affairs value is the first place in all the civil and military affairs under Ma Chao's account, so he boldly let go and let Qiu Jun go to do a big job.

As the saying goes, "use people without suspicion, and suspect people without suspicion." ”

What's more, Ma Chao is different from other characters, from the future to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he has a huge advantage that ordinary people can't reach.

That is, he has mastered the success of all the famous people in history.

With the grasp of the historical merits of every celebrity, he will naturally be able to prescribe the right medicine, no matter who they are, they can be arranged to the most suitable position, make the best use of things, and make the best use of their talents.

Affected by talents, stunts, bonds, etc., Qiu Jun's internal affairs are 113, and Jia Xu's internal affairs are 89, so it is also a good story for the two of them to cooperate with each other.

Qiu Jun learned that Ma Chao appointed him as the county governor of the five counties of Bingzhou, and even let him concurrently serve as the county governor of Wuyuan County, so he was flattered by his trust in him and bowed his head.

He has learned some things, in the Ma Chao Group, there are many fierce generals, and each of them is a meritorious person.

Only in terms of Wenchen, there is only one Jia Xu supporting the table, and Jia Xu is Ma Chao's master and military advisor, and he is more inclined to march and fight.

Therefore, Qiu Jun is actually the first minister appointed by Ma Chao, but now, he is still young, and he can't give him the most important position of Wuyuan County Taishou just like that.

At the same time, he also served as the Taishou of the other 5 counties, which was a test for him, if he could develop results, then the position of Wenchen in the first place would become extremely solid.

Qiu Jun himself is also a person with great ambitions, ambitious and selfish, if you want to show your ambitions, you must make enough dazzling achievements.

During the 10 days of research with Ma Chao, they ate at the same table and slept together, discussing the development of the county town and the rise and fall of the country all day long.

The two of them quickly implemented a general economic policy, and Qiu Jun immediately implemented it according to the plan.

Ma Chao wrote a letter, asked Qiu Jun to take it with him, went to Wuyuan County with Lu Bu, and handed the letter to Jia Xu, after Jia Xu saw the letter, he knew what to do.

At this time, it was already a crisp autumn season, and Ma Chaojun had been stationed near Longxian County, and he did not go to Luoyang to report on his work because he was waiting for an opportunity.

Zhang Wen, Zhou Shen, Dong Zhuo and others have all returned to Luoyang to report on their work, but Ma Chao did not return, and in a few months, rumors spread in Luoyang.

Among the scattered rumors, the most vicious one is that Ma Chao surrendered more than 40,000 prisoners, plus his own 40,000 soldiers and horses, a full 80,000 people, and the army is huge.

For a while, there was a lot of rumors in the court, and it was rumored that Ma Chao was self-respecting and ready to follow the example of Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and others, and was about to rebel.

Ma Chao knew very well in his heart that this kind of vicious rumor must have been spread by Dong Zhuo, but he was not afraid of Dong Zhuo, anyway, the two sides had turned against each other, and there was only one fuse left from completely tearing his face.

During this time, Li Cunxiao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Teng, Liu Bei, Zhou Cang and others subdued more than 30,000 people in various counties of Liangzhou, and the total strength of the Northern Army of Bingzhou was as much as 120,000, which caused panic within the imperial court.

Ma Chao took 80,000 captives and soldiers as the population of the 6 counties of Bingzhou, and all of them were filled into it, and these people all dragged their families and mouths, and provided more than 200,000 people to the 6 counties of Bingzhou at once.

Qiu Jun counted the total population of the six counties in the northern part of the state, which has been as high as 500,000, and it has only been one year in total, expanding from 117,000 to 500,000, and the changes in the northern part of the state are really visible to the naked eye, one day at a time, without repetition.

The remaining three most prosperous counties in Bingzhou, under Dong Zhuo's rule, have a total population of only 570,000, and Dong Zhuo deeply feels the threat from Ma Chao.

Qiu Jun, together with Jia Xu, Zhao Yun, Pang De, Lu Bu, Tian Yu, Xian Zhao, and Xian Yufu, strengthened the construction of the northern part of Bingzhou, cut the old, weak, sick and disabled in the garrison, and left 50,000 young and strong county soldiers.

And these 50,000 county soldiers were divided into 50 legions by Jia Xu, and 1 legion of 1,000 people, who took turns to garrison the border.

The regiments that did not have the task of garrisoning, united with the peasants who reclaimed the wasteland, all went to reclaim the wasteland, plant grain, build the Tuntian Corps, and appoint the corps commander and the corps.

Then recruit a large number of blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters and other people with a skill, join the government establishment, and introduce them as in-service talents in various counties and counties.

Blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters, etc., each performed their duties, built workshops in counties, counties and towns, started construction of houses, set up a hundred work supervisors, selected skilled craftsmen among them, and appointed them as supervisors and supervisors.

At the same time, the construction of horse farms, the establishment of horse breeding supervisors, from the six counties of Hexi Xianbei people, Qiang people such nomadic people, selected horse breeders, appointed as the chief supervisor, supervisor.

And because the Eastern Han scholars monopolized the inheritance of knowledge, they selected scholars from among the scholars from all over the country, trained them as business talents, and set up merchant supervisors, who were directly controlled by Qiu Jun.

Although in the feudal era, there were four classes of scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants, and merchants were the fourth class, but after a long period of war, those who stayed here were small families, and even more were poor families in the middle of the road, and these poor scholars needed a name.

As early as the era of the tribal system, there was the patriarch of the Shang tribe, Wang Hai, who used animal husbandry to develop production in Shangqiu, invented the ox cart, and then used the ox cart to pull goods, and traded with other tribes, which promoted the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Wang Hai created a precedent for commercial trade, and for a long time, people called the "Shang" tribesmen engaged in commercial trade "merchants".

And Wang Hai himself, was also later established by the Shang Dynasty posthumously honored as "Shang Gaozu", Yin Ruins unearthed oracle bone inscriptions mentioned Wang Hai many times, he is now the "ancestor of Chinese merchants" "Zhongbin God of Wealth", China's commercial originator.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was the collection of commercial taxes, as well as the purchase and sale of currency, usury, land, people, and labor.

Moreover, the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period all attached great importance to the development of commerce, which shows that since ancient times, people have known that the economy determines how large a war you can wag.

In the past few months, Qiu Jun has successively issued several official documents, and a total of Tuntian Corps, Hundred Workers Supervisor, Horse Breeding Supervisor, and Shangjia Supervisor have been set up, covering many aspects.

On this side, Qiu Jun is in the 6 counties in the north of the state, and he is in full swing; And Ma Chao on the other side finally survived until November.