Ma Zhong shook his head, "It's impossible to pay back the money, but I will reduce their taxes for ten years." ”

"What?" Ma Jian was a little surprised by this answer.

Ma Zhong had the intention to add political points to Ma Yan, and by the way, he also let the surrounding elders know a little bit about how to govern the people, so he continued to explain.

In that case, within ten years the people will be obedient to me, and will do their best to maintain my rule. After all, if a new force comes, they will have to pay taxes again. Power and responsibility are always one. ”

Ma Zhong's words to these big bosses are enough for them to improve their politics a few points, but they can't fool Sun Shangxiang.

Sun Shangxiang relied on taxes and smuggling to support Mrs. Sun City independently, and she was naturally perfect for these little tricks.

She smiled faintly and sneered, "Hehe, even if you never levy Liyang's field endowment, so what? Do you still want a poll tax? ”

Ma Zhong laughed when he heard this, "I won't ask for the poll tax." This chaotic era has caused great trauma to this era, and it is the time when the people need to breed more.

Our Han poll tax is too harsh, and many people are poor, and they dare not have children, and even only willing to give birth to men who can serve as laborers, and drown newborn girls. With these exploits, how can one side be governed well? ”

Sun Shangxiang suddenly wondered, "Then what are you going to do?" This calendar ...... Hehe, not to mention whether you can take it or not. After these reductions and exemptions, you have almost no income, what do you use to support such a huge Liyang army of yours? ”

Ma Zhong smiled slightly when he heard this, "Learn from you." ”

Sun Shangxiang was stunned for a moment, then his face became serious, and he asked seriously, "Are you going to smuggle forbidden objects to the imperial court?" No wonder, you fell in love with this place in Liyang! ”

Ma Zhong didn't answer, and changed the topic and said, "I heard that during the Chaisang Rebellion that day, the generals of the Jiangdong Army made bets one after another. At that time, it was Lu Fan who was the banker, and when Gan Ning was making a bet, he put the bet on me, and the bet was a big bead. ”

Ma Zhong looked at Sun Shangxiang and said seriously, "Later, Gan Ning naturally won the bet. Just when many people were guessing what Boss Lu would come up with to convert it to Gan Ning, Boss Lu took out half a bucket of big beads! It is said that the color of the big bead, Gan Ning was speechless when he saw it. ”

At this point in Ma Zhong's words, Sun Shangxiang was also silent.

Even Lu Fan, who guarded Chaisang and controlled nearly half of the Jiangfang, had amassed a large number of forbidden items, so what about the other Jiangdong warlords?

These rules, to put it bluntly, are only for those powerless businessmen.

Seeing that Sun Shangxiang stopped talking, Ma Zhong arranged for Gong Qiuhu to take his soldiers to look for food.

At this time, it is the season when the barnyard grass is ripe, and thatched huts can be found in the wilderness not far away, often with one or two panicked farmers and bags of grass seeds.

Gong Qiuhu ordered his subordinates to remove all the grass seeds, and swore that they would return it when Liyang was recovered.

Gong Qiuhu's subordinates went out for a few laps, and they got a heavy harvest.

He has horses under his command, and he doesn't have to follow Ma Zhong to drill into the forest, so speed is not a problem at all.

And in their reconnaissance, they found a strange phenomenon, these wolf riders seem to be chasing and killing Ma Zhong are infantry!

After those scouts confirmed it repeatedly, they quickly reported this important information to the public enemy.

Gong Qiu Hu didn't dare to be careless, so he went to talk to Ma Zhong again.

Ma Zhong was stunned for a moment, and repeatedly confirmed, "Infantry? Are you sure it's all infantry? ”

Gong Qiuhu hurriedly called Zhang Junlang, who reported the matter.

Zhang Junlang heard Ma Zhong ask about this matter and explained, "Back to my lord, when my brothers and I broke off, we found that there was no cavalry chasing after us, just some infantry battalion heads. Moreover, the leaders of these infantry battalions came in a hurry, and it seemed that there were not many baggage belts. ”

"Hmm......" Ma Zhong listened and pondered slightly.

Ma Tan frowned beside him and said, "It's really a little strange, if you want to say that Zhang Liao doesn't care, these infantry won't give up their baggage and return to Zhaoguan." If you want to say that Zhang Liao is in a hurry, why didn't he send cavalry? ”

When Ma Zhong heard this, he also narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Interesting, it seems that Zhang Liao has found a more valuable target than me, could it be Ding Feng?"

As soon as they heard this, Cen Wolf and the others didn't feel anything, and they even secretly rejoiced.

With such a small number of infantry, it would be a pipe dream to hunt down and kill the troublesome soldiers.

And Ding Feng and Peng A are awesome on weekdays, just let them fight a tough battle!

Ma Zhong ignored the frowning of those military candidates, and had a rough guess in his heart.

Then he asked Gong Qiuhu again, "How is the matter of requisitioning grain?" ”

Gong Qiuhu replied, "The subordinates have lived up to their trust, and the food collected should be enough for the whole army for two days." ”

Ma Zhong reminded, "There are also horses!" It is useless for a war horse to just eat grass. ”

The public enemy replied, "The humble position has been counted as a war horse." ”

Ma Zhong relieved his heart at this time, and he said loudly, "Okay, since the other party's cavalry has not come, what else do we have to worry about now on the main road, and hurry up to seize Shaoguan." ”

Knowing that the wolf cavalry was not there, the Xie Fu soldiers immediately came out of the forest in vigour, relying on the four hundred or so war horses to take turns, and the speed of the march far pulled the Bingzhou soldiers down.

Ma Zhong and his soldiers finally arrived at Zhaoguan before evening, and then made non-stop arrangements for his soldiers to start camping and resting.

This Zhaoguan has fallen into decay, and as Gong Qiuhu said, it has no strategic value.

However, when Ma Zhong set up the camp in the open area in the middle, the position was unremarkable and very uncomfortable.

Even if the soldiers were able to force their way through the nearby undefended places, then the baggage troops would be exposed to the soldiers guarding the Zhao Pass. And it's also very easy to be chased by the Ouroboros.

As soon as the spies of the state soldiers determined that Ma Zhong occupied Zhaoguan, they quickly sent a report to the rear.

Zhang De and his infantry battalion rushed directly from the avenue to intercept Ma Zhong, and the speed was much faster than that of these trouble-relieving soldiers who had been drilling in the mountains and forests for a while.

Almost as soon as the annoyance soldiers dug the trench and made some defenses, the soldiers arrived at the state.

At this time, the two sides were tired, and they tacitly failed to fight for the time being.

In order to prevent being attacked at night, Zhang De hastily built a camp a little further away from the annoying soldiers.

Ma Zhong seemed to be about to make some moves, and then he quieted down.

On the second day, when Zhang De wanted to lead his troops to attack Zhaoguan, he found that except for a small number of Fengzi battalion scouts patrolling nearby, the camp that had just been built had been abandoned.

Zhang De's scalp tightened, he originally thought that these guys were going to stick around here, cut off the way back of the state soldiers, and prepared to attack the village with all their might.

(End of chapter)