Outside the city of Runan, a man and a woman stand on a horse, the man is handsome and martial, the woman is delicate and delicate, and the horse around the two is extremely miraculous, which attracts the people who enter and leave the city to keep slanting, and can't help but admire a pair of fairy people.

It's a pity that these two immortal characters who don't seem to know other people's fireworks were stopped by a small city gate order.

"The Ma family has been governed by your sister Yue'er and sister Fushou for more than a year, and the Ma family firm in charge of Zhang Yupan, Li Zihao in Jinyang, and Zhen Yan in Wei County have all recovered to six or seven percent of what they were two years ago, and Guan Shanxue has done business outside the Western Regions, and you don't even have four copper plates to enter the city?"

Faced with Diao Chan's accusation, Ma Chao was ashamed. Indeed, as Diao Chan said, after being crowned King Yong, agriculture under Ma Chaozhi will not improve much in the short term. As a result, he focused entirely on business in his first year. Although fighting a war is a very money-burning and loss-making business, fortunately it only burns strategic materials, such as tea, cement, bricks, glass, silk and other non-strategic materials, and the impact is not great.

As soon as the war stopped, several businesses in the south, south, and northwest of the Ma family were in full operation. Even in order to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, Ma Chao also put forward the idea of establishing a logistics station and vigorously promoted it. This post station has various functions such as postal and highway service areas, cargo transfer stations, logistics centers, espionage and so on, and uses a huge network of commercial tentacles to closely link the vast Ma family into a whole. Later, this new thing that broke away from the system of the Han Dynasty gradually extended its tentacles to the political field, and regularly reported to Ma Chao from the bottom up on the progress of the implementation of the new policies under the rule of various places, the people's customs and people's feelings, the weather and rainy weather, the assessment of officials, and other all-encompassing information. Especially in the two places of Merge and Hebei, because of the existence of the post station, the entire shadow system began to gain a firm foothold, and began to pull out Jing'an Cao's stronghold spies layer by layer.

After the economic revitalization of the entire rule, Ma Chao began to be dissatisfied with the exchange with those nomads in the north. Under the leadership of Guan Shanxue, who has full experience, the Ma family started another 'hollowing' activity since Zhang Qian. When he returned at the end of the year, Guan Shanxue informed Ma Chao that this westward march would lead to the large countries in the Western Regions such as Qiuzi, Yuning, Kangju, Wusun, Shule, Yueshi, Shanshan, and Cheshi, and brought back a large amount of property with silk and ceramics, and everyone in the caravan was smiling and happy.

Since then, the east and west markets of Chang'an City have been prosperous, and the wines of the Western Regions, Dawan horses, various gems, and beautiful jades that have not been seen for many years have reappeared on the market. Of course, tax revenues in the business sector have also begun to increase significantly. Lede Ma Chao immediately rewarded Guan Shan Xue, and at the same time, after a fat year in Zhun Guan Shan Snow, he sent another envoy to the Western Regions.

Therefore, although the Ma family didn't seem to have made much moves this year, it was quite impressive in terms of making a lot of money in a muffled voice. Compared with Cao Cao, who had to organize a professional tomb robbery team and make a fortune in order to raise military funds to send troops to Qingzhou, the Ma family played a decent game, and the result can be said to be very rich.

But although the entire Ma family is rich, Ma Chao never brings money when he goes out. sneaked out this time, and didn't bring an entourage of guards, so naturally he didn't even have a copper coin on his body that could ring. And Diao Chan is obviously not a good daughter-in-law who is diligent in running the house, and she still has no entanglement on her body.

Each person who enters the city has to pay two copper plates, poor Ma Chao and Diao Chan, both of whom have left a great reputation in history, this time I am afraid that I will have to direct a tragedy of Qin Qiong selling horses.

"Cicada, do you say it's selling elephant dragons or red rabbits?" Ma Chao cried with a face, he entered Runan this time to secretly visit and explore the development of Runan County under Liu Bei in the year. Therefore, for the time being, he doesn't want to reveal his identity - of course, if Liu Bei knows that he can't enter the city because he has no money at hand, then he, the king of Yong, is too cold.

Without waiting for Diao Chan to answer, the elephant dragon on the side sneezed fiercely and glanced at it very dissatisfied-it was not stupid, knowing that even if Ma Chao had ten guts, he would not dare to touch a single hair of Chitu......

But this sneeze attracted the attention of one person. Ma Chao was comforting Xianglong, and coldly heard someone speak: "This horse is a famous horse, traveling thousands of miles a day, with pure blood, Your Excellency really wants to endure the pain of love?" ”

Ma Chao looked up and saw that the man was also dressed as a general, followed by twenty or thirty guards, and knew that his identity might be exposed. And looking at the man who was a general, Ma Chao saw that the man who opened his mouth was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, about seven feet seven inches tall, with a white face and a majestic face. Especially his arms are very long, Ma Chao took a closer look at his index finger and saw that there were calluses on the two-inch knuckles, so he judged that this person was a good shooter with ape arms.

"In the joke just now, this horse and I live and die together, and share weal and woe, how can we really give up?" Although it could be seen that this was a general, when Pingshui met and wore Liu Beijun's standard armor, Ma Chao never wanted to talk to him.

But Ma Chao wanted to hide, but the man suddenly turned over and dismounted, immediately knelt on the ground, hugged his fists and said: "Uncle Huang's tent begged for the thief captain Chen Dao, meet King Yong Chitose!" ”

Chen's approach to this style immediately caused a sensation in front of the city gate. Especially the city gate order that didn't look at Ma Chao before, he was even more frightened, and as the soldiers behind Chen Zhi knelt down, he even said the words 'King Yong's life'.

As soon as the soldiers knelt, the people who didn't know what was happening also knelt down. Seeing this, Ma Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Chen Zhi, Uncle Chen Zhi, ......"

Chen to Chen Shuzhi, Yu Liu Bei became Liu Bei's subordinate when Liu Bei was in Yuzhou, and followed Liu Bei to fight in the Quartet, and his name was often inferior to Zhao Yun, and he was known for his loyalty and bravery. During the reign of the Emperor of Shu, Chen Zhiguan went to the general of Zhengxi, was named the Marquis of Ting, succeeded Li Yan to guard Yong'an, and died of illness in office. Later generations praised Chen Zhi as "conquering the West Zhongke, selecting soldiers at the time of unification, and fierce generals!" ”

Ma Chao didn't expect that on his first stop in Runan, he would meet such a brave and resourceful character. It's a pity that Chen Zhi has already joined Liu Bei, which makes Ma Chao feel a little disappointed in his heart. However, he still let everyone be exempt from courtesy, and personally helped Chen to get up.

As for Chen Zhi's ability to recognize his identity, Ma Chao was not at all relieved. After all, the red rabbit behind Diao Chan is too eye-catching. And in the whole world, the only person who can have Chitu and is not the age of Lu Bu's uncle is himself. But when he thought that he would have to explain why he crossed the city and didn't enter later, Ma Chao could only smile bitterly.

"The subordinates were ordered to come to the city gate to welcome Lord Zirou into the mansion, but they didn't want to meet His Royal Highness King Yong, which was really an unexpected joy." Seeing that Ma Chao didn't have the slightest frame to help him get up, Chen Zhi couldn't help but tell the purpose of his coming to the city gate.

Ma Chao only found out at this time that the soldiers behind Chen Zhi were all honor guards. Then his eyes flashed, and the corners of his mouth curled up in an arc: "Since Lord Kuai is coming, then King Ben will wait with General Chen." After saying this, Ma Chao deliberately glanced at Diao Chan.

Diao Chan naturally knows what Ma Chao means, although it is undeniable that Ma Chao definitely wanted to see the heroine of his previous life when he came to Runan, but at the same time, Diao Chan also knew that the general trend of the world in the future should be in Jingzhou. Ma Chao came to Runan in person, and it cannot be said that he did not have this consideration. However, forgiveness is forgiveness, but since he came with him this time, he naturally had a plan in his heart, so he directly glanced at Ma Chao and ignored his little cleverness.

And just when Ma Chao's bitter face was about to be bitter gourd, a burst of smoke and dust suddenly appeared outside the city gate. Then came an exclamation. Looking closely, Ma Chao faced a one-wheeled carriage rushing towards him, and dozens of cavalry were chasing closely behind him. And the war horse was already frightened, and saw that Chen Zhi had already put on a battle formation. The coachman was frightened, and he couldn't help shaking the reins to stop the horses, but he didn't know that he had committed a taboo in driving the chariot again. I only heard the neighing of the horses, the wheels slid across the bluestone ground, and the whole carriage rumbled and rolled to the ground. Ma Chao grabbed Diao Chan's waist and flew by, and his body could be avoided, but the hem of his robe was pressed by the overturned carriage. The driver was also thrown out of the car and hit the wall next to him, and remained motionless.

As soon as the change stopped, Ma Chao couldn't help but look back at Chen Dao: "This Jingzhou Kuailiang, why did you like such a bombardment of appearance?" …… I remember, two years ago, he didn't have this stinky problem. ”