After arranging the surname Cao and Qin Yi, because no one was available, Ma Chao could only personally sit in Jinyang City to govern Taiyuan County and even the entire state. At the end of April, it was the time of spring ploughing, Taiyuan County experienced the rebellion of the White Wave Thieves, in addition to Jinyang City, more than a dozen subordinate counties were looted, local officials were killed, large households were plundered, and a lot of arable land was vacated.

In the next few days, Ma Chao, under the leadership of Qin Yi, personally inspected the surroundings of Jinyang City. Jinyang City is located in Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province in the later generations, there is Fenshui through the city, surrounded by mountains again, it is a rare piece of flat land between the mountains, there are hundreds of miles in a radius. At this time, Jinyang City is surrounded by large and small villages and county seats, far from reaching the point where the high-rise buildings in Taiyuan City are entrenched in later generations and the land is golden.

Ma Chao decided to vigorously develop this small plain, and if there was enough labor and the irrigation of Fenshui, the economic value of this place would be immeasurable. In addition, this area is rich in mineral deposits, especially coal, and is generally not deeply buried, so large-scale development is unrealistic, but small-scale mining does not require much effort.

Coal can be used to burn hard bricks and tiles, make better steel, and even make cement and glass more than a thousand years earlier. High-strength steel can be used not only for the military, but also for the mass production of tools, which has an immeasurable effect on the progress of productivity.

On the first day of the first month of May, Ma Chao promulgated the first batch of decrees since he took office and was the governor of the state: First, the local tun chiefs and pavilion chiefs should listen to the public opinion, and elect the county commanders, county officials, county lieutenants and other officials in each county in combination with the opinions of the local people.

Second, Xu Huang was appointed as the lieutenant of Taiyuan County, and led 10,000 Montenegrin troops to exterminate the robbers and bandits in and around Taiyuan County.

Third, all the people of the state can return to their hometowns for spring ploughing, the tax is reduced by 70% that year, the development of land is encouraged, and those who open up to 10 acres of land will be rewarded with a ploughing cow the next year.

Fourth, those who gather to settle the land can not hand over the land for the time being, but every year they will cut ten hundred grains per mu, and if the management is not good and the tax is not paid on time, the land will be recovered and directly operated by the government in the following year!

Fifth, all the landless and unproductive people in the territory of the prefecture, regardless of their origin or origin, can come to Jinyang to meet each other, and the government will set up ten benevolent camps, implement collective tuntian, and distribute food and daily necessities according to the labor force.

Sixth, set up a recruitment hall in Jinyang City, all the elders in the world who have a skill can come to serve the country, regardless of their background, regardless of their background, regardless of whether they are high or low, only those who have both ability and political integrity are preferred.

At the same time, Ma Chao also issued a series of personnel appointments, Ren Zhenggu as the Taishou of Yunzhong, Yang Feng as the Taishou of Shuofang, Tao Sheng Jiuyuan as the Taishou, Yang Yuan as the Sima of the Bingzhou Division, leading 15,000 elite soldiers, mainly responsible for the military tuntian near the royal court, and cooperating with the military of the three counties of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Subu Governor to maintain the stability of the three counties.

Fa Yan was the Taishou of Shangjun, and Ma Tie was the general, leading the post of captain of Shangjun, and taking 20,000 Xiliang veterans to guard Shangjun. Le Jin was the Taishou of Hexi, and Chen Zhi was the county lieutenant, leading 20,000 Montenegrin troops to sit in Hexi and be responsible for collecting the displaced people. Wen was hired as the party guard, and the place was changed to Jiguan City, and Yang Chou was the county lieutenant, leading 5,000 county soldiers to sit in Jiguan.

Li Yan was transferred back to Taiyuan County to serve as Taiyuan Taishou, and Xu Huang was appointed as the county lieutenant to govern Taiyuan County together. Ren Huang Zhong was engaged in the state soldier Cao, and led 5,000 troops to garrison Huguan.

Ren Zhang Liao was appointed as the Taishou of Yanmen, and at the same time merged Xinxing County into Yanmen County to govern together, led 5,000 soldiers and horses to take office, and recruited another 5,000 soldiers in the local area, responsible for exterminating horse thieves and robbers in the territory, forming an official government, and selecting talents. This move was to deter the Black Mountain bandits in the southern part of the Taihang Mountains, and secondly, to accept the livestock and prisoners captured by Pang De, Ma Dai, and Fa Zheng in the Xianbei War, and to organize troops to enslave these captives to graze their cattle in the local fields.

As soon as this order came out, the world shook, the Han Dynasty has been suffering from natural disasters and military disasters for a long time, and there are millions of displaced people? I don't know how many people died of starvation, slaughtered by thieves, and died at the hands of the rebels. Ma Chao's move undoubtedly gave these displaced people a chance to live, it can be said that as long as they have the strength and are willing to endure hardships and work, they will not have to worry about having nothing to eat when they arrive in Bingzhou.

When the news came out, the displaced people in Bingzhou rushed to Jinyang to meet each other when they heard the news, and the largest refugee flow was the Montenegrin refugees in the Taihang Mountains. There are three Montenegrin people of Zhenggu, Yang Feng and Tao Sheng as precedents, these people believe in Ma Chao's words, and most of them are refugees in Bingzhou, and their nostalgia for their hometown is extremely strong.

The opposite of the homeless people is the large and small families in the state, Ma Chao's strong order is too ruthless, and he pays ten hundredths of grain on one acre of land, which is no different from robbing. In ancient times, the grain production was low, and the first acre of fertile land in the year of wind and rain was only 20 to 25 hundreds, except for the ten hundreds, the rest was barely enough for them to feed the domestic slaves and maintain the wealth, and then wanted to develop but it was difficult, in case of catching up with the disaster year, I am afraid that they would have to pay for the old capital.

A few days later, Wei Kai and Cai Yong's family arrived as scheduled, and Li Yan also hurried to Jinyang to take office, responsible for appeasing the displaced people who came to meet each other. At the same time, Ma Chao set up a prison in Jinyang City, suppressed the local nobles with a coercive policy, collected mansions, expanded the military camp, and eliminated the local ruffians and bullies.

With a large number of refugees coming to vote, nearly 300,000 displaced people gathered in less than half a month, and Ma Chao had to take precautions. These homeless people lack food rations, and the daily consumption of food is extremely considerable, and he must exchange the gold and silver in his hand for food to last until the autumn harvest, but fortunately, with Wei Kai's help in this matter, he will not starve in the short term.

Of course, these refugees could not be idle, the able-bodied men repaired the city walls, widened and deepened the moats, opened up wasteland and dug canals, cultivated the land, built construction and built shelters on a large scale, and the women and the old and weak had to weave and weave cloth, tailor clothes and weave shoes, all in an orderly manner under the organization of Ma Chao and Li Yan, in full swing.

After more than three months of busy work, the affairs of the state were finally on the right track, and seventy percent of the arable land was planted with crops. At the same time, the recruitment hall has indeed recruited a lot of available talents, including civil, military and technical talents. Ma Chao personally checks the assessment, everyone must be carefully interrogated, inspect virtue and talent, although there is no famous talent in history to vote, but the talent in the world is not only those who have left a name in history?

After Ma Xiu came back, he was in charge of the military of the state, and Ma Chao handed over the command of 10,000 Xiliang soldiers and the 3,000 descendants battalion surnamed Cao and the 2,000 Shenwei battalion to him.

In May of the fifth year of Zhongping (188), Liu Hong's painstakingly formed Xiyuan Army was finally ready. The Xiyuan Army not only has newly recruited strong men, but also the left and right Yulin Army, with a total of 50,000 horses. The eight lieutenants of the West Garden are the eunuch Jian Shuo, the lieutenant of the upper military academy, Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the lower military academy, Bao Hong, the lieutenant of the military academy, Cao Ying, the captain of the auxiliary army, Zhao Rong, the left lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Feng Fang, the right lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Xia Mou, the left lieutenant, and Chun Yuqiong, the right lieutenant. Even He Jin had to listen to Jian Shuo's command, and Jian Shuo, the captain of the military academy, nominally became the supreme commander of the whole [***] team.

In June, Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, plotted to depose the emperor but failed, and committed suicide in fear of crime, and the rest fled for their lives. He Jin took the opportunity to recommend Han Fu of the rafters as the assassin of Jizhou, but Liu Hong did not respond, and sent the left general Huangfu Song to Jingzhou to exterminate the remaining party and temporarily serve as the assassin of Jizhou.

In July, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans of Runan County and Yingchuan rose again, Runan County was lost, Yingchuan was in turmoil, and at the same time, the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou and Xuzhou rose again, attacking the counties and robbing the official mansion, and the momentum was huge. Black mountain thieves Zhang Yan, Yu Poison and others took the opportunity to send troops to attack Jizhou, the county fell, and the army directly pressed Yecheng.

The imperial court sent Bao Hong, the military captain, to attack the most powerful Gepi Yellow Turban, and sent the famous Xiliang general Gai Xun to crusade against the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, praising the military captain Tao Qian as the assassin of Xuzhou, and organizing the county soldiers to destroy the thieves. Huangfu Song led the Jizhou county soldiers to defeat the Montenegrin army and keep Yecheng, but the successor was powerless and difficult to recover the fallen county. The people in many places in Jizhou were plundered, and it was July when they were not in charge, selling their sons and daughters, and there were countless exiles and beggars, and a large number of displaced people passed through the Taihang Mountains to take refuge in the relatively stable Bingzhou.

In August, the imperial court issued an edict to list Ma Chao as a hussar general, led the state pastor, and immediately raised troops to exterminate Zhang Yan and other Montenegrin thieves, and subdued the lost land in Jizhou.

Ma Chao has been busy with internal affairs for more than three months, and handed over the military to Ma Xiu's management, which is also deliberately cultivating Ma Xiu. In order to prevent someone from rebelling, Ma Chao put his three brothers Ma Dai, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu in three places, and everyone had heavy troops in their hands, even if someone had a different heart, they did not dare to betray him easily.

In addition, under the policy of coercion, Wang Qi and Wang Yun were afraid that Ma Chao would kill the chickens of their Taiyuan Wang family, so they finally agreed to let Wang Chen and Wang Ling serve as the secretary and chief of the state pastor's office. Ma Chao was overjoyed, and soon after the two took office, they proposed to borrow 1 million yuan of grain from the Wang family, and at the same time ordered the 20,000 strong domestic slaves of the Wang family to contribute to the construction of water canals and city walls during the slack time. How dare Wang Qi not agree, besides, this matter is not only his Wang family, but all the families who raise domestic slaves have been forced to borrow food, and domestic slaves also have to contribute for free. No matter how powerful his royal family is, he is just a local tyrant, how can he fight Ma Chao, who has more than 100,000 male soldiers.

Ma Chao has not visited Wangjiawu Fort since the last time he first saw Ren Hong, and naturally he has not seen little Lori Ren Hong. Wang Yun's invitation failed several times, and he knew that Ma Chao was not a womanizer, so he discussed with his brother Wang Qiyi and decided to bring part of his family wealth to bribe the general He Jin, as long as He Jin could punish the eunuchs, he would have the opportunity to go out. In order to keep abreast of the trends in the DPRK and China, Wang Yun took his family to buy a house in Hanoi County and lived there for the time being.

And Wang Shuangled the 3,000 Shenwei battalion to stop in Hedong County for two months, and fought many small-scale battles with Yu Fuluo. Yu Fuluo is like a rootless Ping, and the nest was taken care of by Dian Wei again, and he could only rely on plundering the local people to maintain the war, and after several heavy defeats, there were only more than 1,000 people left. wanted to return to Taihang Mountain to join Zhang Yan and was afraid that Ma Chao would raise troops to intercept him in Bingzhou, but at a critical moment, he actually got in touch with Yang Feng, a former ally who surrendered to Dong Zhuo, and was finally forced to lead a thousand remnants of the army to cross the river and defect to Dong Zhuo. (To be continued.) )