After subduing more than 1,000 horse thieves, everyone went to Beiqu together.

Outside the city, the dense castles were gone, and what appeared in front of Yang Shuo was a scorched earth and a gray sky with green smoke.

Vice President Xu Huang reported that all the big families in the castle had moved to Beiqu City, and the castle outside the city was also burned to ashes, and the horse thieves in the mountains outside the city were not spared.

So far, across the east of the river, arrogant horse merchants, rampant horse thieves have become history, this battle, Yang Shuo net income of 6,000 elite cavalry, hundreds of thousands of money, can be described as a huge harvest.

All the efforts made these days have been realized on this day, the fierce general Zhao Yun, six thousand cavalry, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are enough for Yang Shuo's power to rise to a great level, and also for Yang Shuo's ambition to increase unprecedentedly.

The ownerless Henan, Jingzhao, Hanoi's Xiongnu, Shangdang Zhang Yang and other small forces were all targeted by Yang Shuo because of the growth of their power.

Beiqu City outside a scorched earth, the city did not suffer much disaster, Beiqu City horse merchants except for Yan Zhong is not interested, the others obediently accepted Jia Kui's request, the money to pay, the people to come out, the land to go out, in short, but there are demands, all are satisfied.

"Lord, the horse thieves have been exterminated and the castle has been destroyed, but the horse market in Beiqu City cannot be destroyed!" A few horse thieves, the big clan could not bring much casualties to Yang Shuo's army, and the results were very gratifying, everyone showed a happy smile and talked very happily, at this time Jia Kui on the side stood up and said in a deep voice.

Beiqu County is in the northernmost part of the east of the river, close to the Yellow River, but it is not mainly agriculture, but mostly sells horses for a living, so the destruction of the horse market is to destroy the foundation of the survival of the people in Beiqu City.

"Beiqu is close to the Yellow River and has plenty of water, so why not let them sell horses to grow corn?" Someone said.

"Although Beiqu is close to the Yellow River, the mountains here are high and steep, the Yellow River is high and the waves are fast, it is difficult to get water, and the climate is dry in all seasons, so it is impossible to cultivate crops." Jia Kui explained.

Unable to grow crops, the horse market was destroyed, this is to force the people of Beiqu City to rebel!

The more everyone thought about it, the more frightened they felt, they only wanted to be happy for a while, and almost caused a big chaos, if tens of thousands of people in Beiqu City spread out because of this rebellion, what kind of popular will Yang Shuo have.

This matter is imminent, firewood, rice, oil and salt three meals a day, which can be said to run through a person's life, a person's life is also for these three meals to struggle, if you can't solve the problem of eating, the people of Beiqu City will not look for him desperately.

The joy was suddenly replaced by melancholy, and Yang Shuo asked Jia Kui anxiously, "Does Liang Dao have a good plan?" ”

Jia Kui shook his head, "There are no good proposals from subordinates."

Yang Shuo looked at the Lord Father Yan again, the Lord Father Yan is the most intelligent person in Yang Shuo's army, in fact, his politics is higher than his intelligence, but Yang Shuo has always used him as an intellectual talent, "Can the military advisor have a good strategy?" ”

The master shook his head guiltily, and it was difficult for him to make any decent proposals for a while.

"Why doesn't the lord move the people in Beiqu City to other places?" Someone suggested.

Beiqu County was originally the only county seat of the generation on the east and west sides of the river, and now Beiqu County has been moved to other places, so the generation on the east and west sides of the river has become a vacuum zone, which is extremely unfavorable to management, secondly, the relocation and resettlement of tens of thousands of people This is definitely a big project, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars obtained by exterminating horse thieves are not worth mentioning at all for the resettlement of tens of thousands of people. This is also an unknown.

Since ancient times, immigration has been a big project, and leaving one's homeland is definitely the last thing immigrants want to do. Throughout the ages, how many people have abandoned their families and everything because of the needs of the country, but when they arrived at the resettlement site, they found that it was full of discrimination and injustice, and everything had to be started all over again.

If you can, you must not force the people of Beiqu City to relocate.

Without waiting for Yang Shuo to refuse, Jia Kui said: "Relocating the people is the next policy, it is best not to relocate the people until the last resort, whether it is people's hearts or financial and material resources, only the land of the two counties cannot afford it." ”

The atmosphere in the field fell into silence for a while, everyone was immersed in hard thinking, unable to solve the problem of eating for the people of Beiqu, and their actions in the past few days were a sad and lamentable joke.

"Horse market, move the people, plant crops" The others pondered, Yang Shuo was not idle, his mouth was chattering, his mind was spinning rapidly, and suddenly a word appeared in his mind, "Hushi!" ”

The mutual market refers to the historical trade between the Central Plains Dynasty and the surrounding ethnic groups, as well as between China and foreign countries. The mutual market originated in the early Han Dynasty, after the Sui and Tang dynasties, each dynasty had a special management agency, which prevailed in the Song and Ming dynasties, especially the highly prestigious tea and horse market, which played an important role in maintaining the security and stability of the Song Dynasty in the southwest region, and was a border policy of important strategic significance for the two Song dynasties. Secondly, through the tea and horse trade, it also met the needs of the feudal dynasty for war horses, and provided a huge amount of tea income for the imperial court to meet the needs of military expenses.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions and began trade with the countries of the Western Regions, and the Han Dynasty also set up customs markets at border passes as mutual markets with ethnic minorities. The name of "mutual market" began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the trade between the Wuhuan, Xianbei, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, and the rise and fall of the mutual market was closely related to political and military struggles.

The mutual market has existed since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but with the gradual decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the rise of foreign races in the border gates, the mutual market has gradually faded out of people's field of vision.

Thinking of this, Yang Shuo could no longer hide his excitement, looked around, and everyone's eyes were attracted by him, cleared his throat, and said, "Have you ever thought of setting up a mutual market here?" ”

"Mutual market?" Everyone was puzzled and turned their heads to ask each other.

At first, it was the master father Yan who reacted, thinking that he had communicated the trick, and said with a happy face: "From the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went out of the Hexi Corridor to connect with the Western Regions, and exchanged commercial markets with the countries of the Western Regions, and by the time of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, a large number of mutual markets were set up in Youzhou, Bingzhou and other places, and the border trade was unprecedentedly prosperous, but now few people remember this word. ”

After the explanation of the master's father, Jia Kui also understood, and said excitedly: "Beiqu Horse Market is just a miniature version of the mutual market that has not been affirmed by the government, if the lord supports the establishment of a mutual market in Beiqu in the name of the government, this move is not only feasible but also allows the people of Beiqu to worry free, and can provide us with a large number of horses at any time!" ”

Jia Kui said that the rise of the rise, directly stood up and continued: "The establishment of a regular horse market, and then equipped with a certain number of guards, to ensure the normal trade of the surrounding areas, can definitely achieve incredible results!" ”

The establishment of a mutual market in Beiqu is not only feasible, but also very suitable, not only to solve the livelihood problem of hundreds of thousands of people in Beiqu, but also to bring immeasurable horse wealth to Yang Shuo, killing two birds with one stone.

At the moment, Yang Shuo ordered Jia Kui to be responsible for the establishment of Beiqu Mutual City, two days later a huge plaque appeared on the gate tower of Beiqu West City, "Beiqu Mutual Market" four gilded characters shining, and the Beiqu City, which had been chaotic for several days, was gradually on the right path, and the people in the city were also happy, and since then a steady stream of war horses entered Yang Shuo's army through Beiqu.

Five days later, Zhao Yun, dressed in white, came to Beiqu, and a day later, Shi Jin's servants also rushed back.

With the fierce generals, cavalry, money and food, Yang Shuo left the city that had just received the baptism of blood and rain, and went to his base Hongnong!

Hedong ended, and a new world unfolded in front of Yang Shuo's eyes.