"Lord, why don't you kill all of them?" It wasn't until after the group of Xianbei people left that Qiu Chi walked in, bowed to Ye Zhao and said, "In this way, wouldn't the grassland be even more chaotic?" ”

The grassland is chaotic, the tribes crusade against each other, the less affected Ma Cheng will be, especially in this battle, Ye Zhao has used his strength to explain to these grassland tribes that Ma Cheng is not easy to mess with, for a long time, Ma Cheng will have a fairly peaceful external environment.

"Chaos is a good thing, but chaos is not enough, because no matter how chaotic they are, it has nothing to do with us." Ye Zhao took a sip of wine, shook his head and smiled: "This trade has to continue, these people fight to the death, that's the internal matter of the grassland, we don't care, but we need them to give us cattle and horses, this trade can't stop, they fight each other, they need more weapons, food and medicinal materials, in order to grow the tribe, they will do everything possible to plunder resources, not only these tribes here today, there will be more and more tribes being involved, with war horses, with population in exchange for resources that are enough for them to survive." ”

"Use their flesh and blood to nourish my horse city?" Qiu Chi's eyes lit up, he had already understood Ye Zhao's true intentions.

Ye Zhao smiled, didn't answer, stood up and said: "Let's go, we should go back, and leave the rest of the matter to the dug bald, in this battle, his tribe has suffered a lot of losses, so it can be regarded as a reward." ”

"Whoa!"

As for who recruited Mo Han, although he didn't ask, but Ye Zhao knew the bottom in his heart, although there are many people in Youzhou, there are only a few people who have this ability and motivation, this account will have to be calculated sooner or later, right now, there is no trouble outside Macheng for the time being, and it is time to vigorously develop.

In three years, he wants to build this border city into the largest city in Youzhou.

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In the following time, Macheng ushered in a rare tranquility, Ye Zhao according to his previous customized plan, step by step began to make Macheng operation, a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed, planted with encouragement, animal husbandry also flourished according to Ye Zhao's meaning, and even a few small pastures appeared, specializing in grazing cattle, sheep, and war horses.

There is actually no binding force on the deal with the Xianbei people, but the sixteen Xianbei leaders who were invited by Mohan at the beginning, only five people were left when they returned, and these five people gradually started a melee in order to compete for the tribe and population, cattle and sheep left by the eleven leaders, and the scale spread from the beginning of Danhan Mountain to the area east of Yinshan Mountain.

Originally, according to the ideas of these people, they were not ready to trade with Ye Zhao, but with the continuous escalation of the melee, the strategic materials were constantly shrinking, armaments, food, salt, and winter materials, which could still be boiled when there was no war in previous years, but at this time they couldn't survive, even turning over the war, and also abandoned animal husbandry, and there was not enough food, so they had to trade with Ye Zhao, and exchanged war horses, cattle and sheep for necessary materials from Macheng, and even in order to make up for the shortage, they began to frantically rob the population on the grassland, women, The children and the Han people living on the grassland, as long as Ye Zhao needs it, they will do everything they can to get it, send it to Macheng, and return the resources.

And Ye Zhao didn't embarrass these people, as long as the things arrived, the resources they needed, whether it was weapons, food and clothing, Ye Zhao would send them out without hesitation.

At the same time, Ye Zhao sold the war horses sent by the Xianbei people to the Central Plains, the war horses are a sought-after commodity in the Central Plains, in addition, animal skins are also in demand in the north, especially in winter, the warmth effect of this thing is stronger than ordinary cloth.

Low taxes and huge profits have attracted a large number of traders to and from Macheng, and it has also made Macheng increasingly prosperous, but most of the business matters, Ye Zhao has handed over to Qiu Chi to do, as for himself, except for occasionally checking the accounts, most of the time, either practicing martial arts, reading books, or getting together with a group of craftsmen to study, many times a busy day is a whole day, and the life is quite fulfilling.

Two years, just like this, passed quietly, Han Guanghe in the spring of the sixth year, Ye Zhao built eighteen checkpoints in the revenge water, isolating all the passages from Macheng to Saiwai, although Macheng is still a small border city, but the coverage has expanded much more than before, north of Macheng, to the outside of Danhan Mountain, are the coverage of Macheng forces.

"Lord, my subordinates don't understand." Riding a horse and following Ye Zhao's side, Qiu Chi turned his head to look at the Xiongguan behind him, and looked at Ye Zhao suspiciously: "Now that Macheng is under the governance of the lord, it is already the hope of this side, and hundreds of tribes have trade contacts with my Macheng, this Saiwaihu people are not afraid of the majesty of our Macheng, why spend so much manpower and material resources to build these eighteen levels?" ”

In the past two years, in addition to the expansion of Macheng, Ye Zhao has spent almost half of his experience on the construction of these eighteen Guancheng, if there are not a large number of Hu slaves available, only with the population of Macheng, even if there are now ten thousand households in Macheng, it can be called a big city in the entire Youzhou, but to build these eighteen Guancheng, it is also not enough, in the past two years alone, there are thousands of Hu slaves who have died on these eighteen Guancheng, and there have been more than a dozen slave riots, all of which have been suppressed by Ye Zhao with iron-blooded means.

"If people have no long-term concerns, they must have near-term worries!" Ye Zhao looked at Xiongguan in front of him, and a heroic feeling arose in his heart, he turned his head to look at Qiu Chi and said with a smile: "Today, with me in this horse city, these Hu people naturally don't dare to die, but Mr. Qiu won't think that this official will always stay in this place, right?" ”

Looking at Qiu Chi, who suddenly realized, Ye Zhao said in a deep voice: "In the past two years, although a lot of profits have been made from the grassland, they have been squeezing their flesh and blood all the time. ”

"The lord cares about the people of Li, and he can't wait for a long time." Qiu Chi said with admiration.

"Haha, less sycophancy." Out of the revenge water, the scenery in front of him suddenly opened up, Ye Zhao took a deep breath, and sighed: "Count, this official has been here for almost three years, I don't know how long can I see this grassland scenery?" ”

Qiu Chi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Ye Zhao and said, "Lord, but there's news?" ”

Although Macheng has become the first city in this village under the development of Ye Zhao in the past two years, it is not as prosperous as the Central Plains after all, since Qiu Chi has entered the official career, he naturally does not want to nest in this Macheng for the rest of his life and be a small county, but he also knows that his fate has long been linked to Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao nodded, in the past two years, Ma Cheng's income is not expensive, Ye Zhao will secretly send a lot of property to Luoyang every month, and Uncle Liang will secretly send it to Zuo Feng, and at the same time, through Zuo Feng's relationship, he has a contact with the ten permanent servants, plus his political achievements in Ma Cheng, it is a sure thing to transfer him to the Central Plains.

"It's still a county order, but this time, it's in the Central Plains." Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"The Central Plains are good!" Qiu Chi's eyes flashed with excitement, don't look at Macheng in the past two years, the population has developed to 10,000 households, which can be regarded as a big county, but this is also in Youzhou, in the borderlands, but in the Central Plains, counties with more than 10,000 households abound, even if it is the same county order, but making a county order in the Central Plains and doing a county order in this place are completely different things, and with Ye Zhao's current political achievements, as long as nothing goes wrong, within three or five years, it is not impossible to move up from the county order, or even directly enter the court as an official.

"What a fart." Ye Zhao sneered: "If it weren't for someone secretly coveting this piece of fat in Macheng, how could it be so fast?" Do you know that the annual income of this horse city can catch up with the tax of the entire Youzhou for half a year. ”

"The lord wants to stay in Horse City?" Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao suspiciously.

"Of course not, although Macheng is good, it is by no means a place to live for a long time." Ye Zhao shook his head, the development of Macheng has reached the limit, if the world is in chaos in the future, whether it is Macheng or Youzhou, it is by no means a place of foundation, the land is thin, the people are bright, there is no danger to defend, even if the development of Macheng is good, it will not be able to reverse this disadvantage, the congenital defect is too great.

Looking at the place where heaven and earth met in the distance, Ye Zhao sneered: "But I want to see how the people who come after can sit firmly in the position of the lord of the horse city?" ”

Macheng is indeed prosperous and prosperous enough now, but that is because he Ye Zhao is here to deter, and when he leaves, the new county commander may not have the ability to strongly subdue those Hu people and let them trade obediently according to the rules.

What's more, with Ye Zhao's understanding of the virtues of those corpse vegetarians, I am afraid that after taking office, I am afraid that the tax will be directly re-established, and at that time, I am afraid that the current prosperity of Macheng can only exist in people's memories.

"Lord, there is blood!" Guan Hai, who had been silently following Ye Zhao's side, suddenly frowned, rode his horse and grabbed two steps to protect Ye Zhao's side.

When Ye Zhao heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, he stretched out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and after listening carefully for a while, he pointed to the left front and said, "Over there, there is a fight." ”

"Go!" With a wave of his hand, a knight rode forward quickly, galloped to a small hill, and looked into the distance.

After a while, the knight rushed back and arched his hand towards Ye Zhao: "Lord, it is the people of the Sanggan tribe who are chasing and killing a woman. ”

"Oh?" Ye Zhao said with great interest when he heard this: "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”