Fufu County Middle School,

The white silk of the whole city has been removed, and it has been replaced with a joyful red. What has changed along with this is the mood and style of the people of Fufeng County.

Zhang Ji looked at the results of his hard stay up late in the past few days - under the instruction of Ma Chao, Zhang Ji mobilized all the county soldiers and people in Fufeng County to thoroughly clean up the sanitation of the entire road, and resolutely implemented the high-standard grade of 'loess paving the road and sprinkling the street with clear water' - there was indescribable relief and a trace of sadness in his heart.

And Meng Da, who was standing beside him, looked like a gloomy mess: the people who were dispatched this time were not voluntary labor! Moreover, the time is tight and the task is heavy, and nearly 200 overflowing gold from the Fufeng Ministry of Finance was spent at once! This makes Meng Da, who is now very sensitive and fragile to numbers, gold, and copper coins, not feel heartache!

Under Ma Chao's new policy, the government can no longer force the transfer of people to serve in forced labor. Although the feudal exploitation regulations of 'two battles a year' left by the imperial court were still retained in Fufeng County, after Ma Chao's reform, it became a short-term work benefit that was extremely beneficial to the general public.

For example, in this clean-up campaign, Mengda's approach was to put up notices widely to mobilize the people of the whole city to serve in the service and clean up. On the afternoon of the day the notice was posted, the county guard of Fufeng County was surrounded by 5,000 people, if Zhang Ji didn't know about this in advance, he thought that something big happened in Fufeng County, which caused the people to storm the county guard's house: to work for the government, that is a salary! And, take care of the rice! This is really a temptation that cannot be refused by those strong laborers who can only do a small business after planting the land.

Of course, there are also a lot of grumbling guys in the city. Then the guy is naturally a big family in the city, fortunately, the Ma family launched a conscription, and he can take out a sum of money to offset the number of people who serve in the city. In addition, Fufeng County has never had any bad behavior of forcible expropriation and extortion of large households, so those large households are still relatively happy and convinced of the rule of the Ma family - of course, the dispute over the ownership of the wasteland in Fufeng, Xinping, and Beidi County a year ago caused the Ma family to secretly eradicate the big families of the wang family, so that these surviving big families did not dare not be convinced......

Although there is this entry and the voluntary labor of the county soldiers, there is still a cost of two hundred gold shortfalls, which makes Meng Da's mood and face always not good today.

"This is such a great lord!" These days, every late at night, Meng Da always comes up with this word in his head, and he can't be willing to fall asleep after biting his teeth twice.

Of course, the title of "the lord of great joy" can only be buried deep in the heart of the Minister of Finance of Fufeng, no, now it is the heart of Meng Da, the Minister of Finance of Yongzhou, very deep, very deep......

Therefore, after Zhang Ji and Meng Da glanced at each other, the two quickly changed into a joyful and excited expression, waiting for Ma Jiajun's victorious return.

And just a hundred paces outside the city gate, the anxious county soldiers had already used all their strength to feed. Many of them had their clothes torn, their shiny metal armor scratched, their hats scratched off, and even their boots trampled off.

To the helplessness of the 1,000 county soldiers who were ordered to maintain order outside the city gates, they were faced with more than 50,000 enthusiastic people who were onlookers.

Enthusiastic onlookers were greeted with flowers, cheers, applause - and of course, many girls were even ready for their own life's happiness. They can't be sure, after seeing the handsome and masculine soldiers of the Ma Family, will they faint, or frantically break through the obstruction of the county soldiers and give the guy they like a hot kiss?

Under such emotional turmoil, a thousand county soldiers felt like a broken ship in the ocean, which could be overturned at any time.

At the moment, they were very envious of the county guard brothers who stood within the cordon, because they could leisurely line up in a square line, showing off the brightest armor and weapons they had just issued, and at the same time not worrying about being scratched in the face by some fanatical citizen in the next second.

Seeing such a scene, Meng Da and Zhang Ji looked at each other helplessly, and the pretended expression on their faces immediately turned into a wry smile: they naturally knew the reason for such a situation!

With Ma's super tough military reform, now the military has become the preferred occupation of young people under the rule of the Ma family, although this profession is very risky, but the profits in it are too great to resist - after the unification of Yongzhou, the Ma family confiscated a large number of "nameless" arable land, and in the Ma family's new policy, soldiers can distribute land by virtue of military merits! The rest of the people can only accept the seeds, cattle, and technology provided by the government, and work for the government according to the 37 percent.

Of course, such a policy is much stronger than those tenants who cultivate for the powerful landlords, and at least ensure that after they are fed, they can still leave some grain in exchange for some necessities of life. But in this agrarian-based feudal society, who wouldn't want to own the land outright? Moreover, the higher the rank of a soldier's military merits, the less taxes he had to pay: even the lowest third-class soldier paid half the taxes of the average citizen!

In addition, Ma Jiajun's fixed salary every quarter is also considerable, although it can't make a fortune, it is an out-and-out iron rice bowl, carefree of drought and flood to ensure harvest, which is completely reflected from the arrogant faces of military families.

Of course, the craftsmen in the Ma Arsenal, the tenants in the Ma Farm, the herdsmen in the Ma Ranch, and the men in the Ma shop also belong to this ranks. Anyway, the whole Fufeng, which can have a little relationship with the Ma family, is a thriving, proud and proud virtue. And among all these professions, it is natural that the soldier is more promising. Other professions are safe, but there are not many channels for promotion. Especially in the past six months or so, the Ma family's industry has not recruited any more people.

Only war can give those young people who are full of impulses and dreams a stage to show their ability and loyalty. It is true that some of them, relying on their bravery and fearlessness, have gained a bright future of success and fame and a wife.

Therefore, when the first sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance and Ma Jiajun began to show its silhouette, the crowd had already begun to cheer uncontrollably.

As the mighty and majestic figure of the Ma Jiajun slowly approached the city gate, the temperament of this mighty army completely shocked all the Fufeng people who came to watch.

Under Ma Chao's special strict order, the Ma Jiajun troops marching on the official road were full of spirit, and the whole army exuded a taste of unusually arrogant, indifferent, rude, unrepentant and sworn obedience to orders, and the guards on both sides of the scouts were even more high-spirited, cordial and majestic: on the night of returning to the city, Ma Chao ordered them to be sure to practice a smile that showed eight teeth! Otherwise, drive out Ma Chao's personal guards!

Infected by this, whenever the young people of Fufeng County saluted enviously and the enthusiasm of the girls cheered straight to their eardrums, all the soldiers of the Ma Jiajun seemed to be peacocks in estrus one by one, shouting the password triumphantly, and posing with a sense of superiority in disdain.

Of course, there were no hoplites, and there were no well-equipped combat weapons. This return, according to Ma Chao, is a show.

However, even so, the iron-blooded style of Ma Jiajun, who came down from the battlefield, has made the frenzy of the people of Fufeng County who watched it up close for the first time to the extreme!

When the Ma family army slowly entered the city with skillful skills, tens of thousands of people were already boiling, countless hats were thrown into the sky, countless people stepped on their shoes, and countless people injured their legs. And the poor county soldiers who maintain law and order can only narrow the cordon and then shrink it to the limit of their ability......

And when General Zhenxi of the Han Dynasty, the head of the Ma family, the general of the Saiwai Tianweishen, and Ma Chao Ma Mengqi, who has a series of great achievements such as the reputation of 'Yongzhou Brocade', appeared in the eyes of the people, and when his charming and kind and modest smile appeared and floated to the people of Fufeng County, the cheers of the entire Fufeng County almost dispersed the clouds in the sky......