A butterfly flapping its wings in the western Pacific can cause a storm in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Over the past few years, Ma Chao, a butterfly, has been tossing around, making the originally orderly Three Kingdoms era a mess, except for Liu Zhang in Yizhou, who is still running safely on the established track, the situation of almost all the giants of the Three Kingdoms has changed.

For example, there is no longer the war between the two Yuan hostile powers, the Allied countries and the evil axis powers, and in the ordinary and unusual year of the fifth year of Xingping, these two princely powers, which were once well-deserved masters of the Three Kingdoms, were uprooted by the two young and strong rising forces, one south and one north; Cao Cao also achieved similar feats in this year, but in the end he hated the Yellow River and his strength was greatly weakened; And Liu Bei, who was struggling in Runan, although he got an opportunity that he had never had in history, he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse......

The Ma family, led by Ma Chao, has achieved remarkable results on the north bank of the Yellow River, and finally became the most powerful strategic force in the Han family.

In this case, history is no longer credible, so Ma Chao rarely thinks about what happened today in history and what will happen tomorrow in history. What he is currently doing is to complete everything that can be done without conflicting with Cao Cao's promise to flee Jizhou without conflicting with the actual situation of the Ma family.

For himself, for Cai Yan, Ma Qiu and the entire Ma family, and for Li Shu in the whole world.

After getting the inner responsibility from Cai Yan and the vague plan of the world from Sima Yi, Ma Chao gave up his plan to try government affairs three days later. As soon as possible, he rushed to the Guanzhong Plain, eight hundred miles outside Chang'an. Now this season of golden autumn has passed, the cool breeze is cool, the crops in the fields have been harvested, God should take care of it, this year is another bumper harvest, because there is a large area of new high-yield crops, as well as the Ma family's new policy to divide the people's land, the harvest of the entire Guanzhong Plain is still very considerable. In addition, the use of overturned cars, curved ploughs, and building cars, the improvement of water conservancy, and the popularization of scientific planting methods have effectively promoted agricultural production.

According to the reports sent by various prefectures and counties, the grain from the three grain-producing areas of Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Nanyang has been harvested, and the number of children per mu has reached the highest year in the Han Dynasty. Although there were natural Hun soldiers invading the Kwantung grain collection season, the grain income of the three places did surprise all the officials of the Ma family.

It's a pity that these grains, after being evenly distributed under the rule of the Ma family, are still far from making ends meet. This made Ma Chao's brows furrow a little tighter - although this kind of thing was expected, he couldn't let go of hearing Meng Da say such a huge gap with his own ears.

Since self-sufficiency is no longer possible, there is only import. If you want to buy grain, you have to find a way to buy all the grain around you, and ask where there is a surplus of grain in the harvest, what? There is no surplus grain in the states of the Han Dynasty turmoil, so what about Yizhou and Jingzhou? These two of them have been doing very well this year. No matter what method is used, we must get the surplus grain from these two states, save it, and have food in our hands, so that we can not panic in our hearts.

In addition to buying grain, we also need to grow grain, and we must not ignore future development and growth after this year. Fortunately, although Meng Da, the head of the Ma family, roared again and again, he gritted his teeth and resisted the strong pressure of the military department, so that the officials in all counties in various places had enough seeds to be sown next year. However, for cattle farming tools or something, you can only rely on Ma Chao and the central government here to find a way.

In the face of this situation, Ma Chao, a clever woman, is also difficult to cook without rice. Although he pointed out in his statement that the most important thing for the Ma family at present is grain production, both military and civilian officials must go down to the fields and do a good job in autumn sowing and winter reclamation of new fields. He also put forward a lot of slogans for this reason, such as returning the grain to the warehouse, taking food from the rat's mouth....... and even taking the lead in the past two days, working in the fields, but all this is just ideological mobilization, and there is no very in-depth and feasible plan to solve this urgent need.

Because, in the final analysis, the Ma family has no money - the gold-swallowing beast of the war was only used for half a year, and it swallowed all the old books that the Ma family had accumulated for three years. What's more, the Ma family, since its rise, has always been a family with high income and high consumption, and has always taken a big step forward.

Therefore, in the past two days, the last thing Ma Chao dared to see when he went home was Liu Yue and Fu Shou, and what he didn't want to see when he opened the hall was Meng Da, Han Feng, Li Zihao, Zhang Yupan, and Guan Shanyue, the five members of the Ma family's financial gods, Meng Da looked at the Ma family's financial deficit, and the whole person was a little stunned; Han Feng is similar, pestering Ma Chao to cry poor like a shrew; Zhang Yupan is no longer like a businessman, pouring all the items that can be poured up, seeing Ma Chao's eyes glowing, he can't wait to step into the Qinglou as a man; And Guan Shanyue brought at least fifty guards when he went out during this time, afraid that those mercenaries in the foreign land would slaughter him with a knife.

The most terrible thing is Li Zihao in Jinyang, Bingzhou, because of his proximity to the beacon fire area, he was simply hit by a catastrophe. In his own words, that is, 'Since following the Ma family, my Lao Li has not enjoyed a single blessing!' ’

Ma Chao, the heavy hussar general, is now embarrassed to pant when he sees the small household member Li Zihao, in fact, when the Ma family is attacking the area north of the Yellow River, it does treat the Li family like a hen that lays golden eggs...... As a result, Li Zihao has now moved his luggage, and plans to eat and live in Chang'an for the rest of his life.

Pacifying the backyard and his own officials is not the most troublesome, the most sleepless thing is that without money, he can't buy grain and winter farming tools; Without money, all the people of the Ma family can only tighten their belts for the New Year; Without money, it will be impossible to integrate the armed forces, implement the new policy, deepen the adjustment of the organizational structure and the transformation of the style, and carry out the outline of the strategy for the great unification in the next few years......

In general, without money, the recovery and development of the Ma family will lag behind for at least two years; And this question made Ma Chao deeply aware of a truth that existed in both previous lives and ancient times, and remained unchanged for eternity: money is a bastard, and you really can't play without money!

This night, Ma Chao shed tears and sweated to repay Liu Yue, and after the first break of the clouds and rain, Ma Chao gently moved the white lotus-like jade arm and pink leg pressed on his body, and kissed Liu Yue's cheek with love before revealing the look of Ai Ai: "Yue'er, you see...... Isn't our deal a deal? ……”

Liu Yue turned over slightly, looked at Ma Chao with affection, stroked Ma Chao's handsome face sultryly, and smiled in a hoarse and charming tone: "Husband, does it have to be like this between our husband and wife?" What do you think of your concubine? ”

"Yue'er, you can't do this. We have words first, and the ...... who pays the money with one hand and delivers the goods with the other" Ma Chao was so aggrieved that he was about to cry.

"Well, concubines are not merciful people......"

Ma Chao was overjoyed when he heard this, but after seeing Liu Yue groping and only taking out two copper coins from the bedside, Ma Chao's face became like a bitter gourd: "Yue'er, you won't tell me, this is all your belongings, right?" ”

"That's true," Liu Yue smiled and nodded seriously and sincerely: "Husband, you are actually very capable, you can squeeze a dignified Han princess to such an embarrassment, this little white face deserves it, it is already unparalleled in the world......."

"Well, I know......" Ma Chao took the two coins with tears, and deeply felt the sadness of a man's special profession in another time and space: "I will do my best to do this work to the extreme in the future!" ”

This night, one party snickered and was satisfied; The other party turned around a thousand times, and couldn't shed tears....... and it wasn't until the Tianming guards came to report that Ma Chao became as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and no longer thought about going to Mrs. Fang tonight to sacrifice his hue to earn money.

What the guard said was: Cao Tai, the nephew of the Han Sikong clan, came to Chang'an to negotiate the aftermath!