After disposing of the two greedy guys, Gao Qianqian sent two more guys to call the heads of the color silk shop and the spice shop over, and reprimanded them fiercely. She didn't attack randomly, but told the things about those fellow Hu businessmen who bullied the Ma family's shop one by one. Ma Lan also knew how much pressure Qi Bo had been under alone since Gao Xianzhi was defeated and returned to Anxi.

The left and right are just robbing while the fire is burning, which is a commonplace thing in Qiuzi City, without a little background, where can you be a businessman in this big city of Anxi. However, listening to Gao Qianqian say it one by one, Ma Lu's heart became more and more annoyed.

Seeing Ma Luan's face next to him, Cao Lushan, the head of the spice shop, couldn't bear the pressure and knelt on the ground first, kowtowed: "General, eldest lady, the small scum in the guild is really an unforgivable sin." Ask the eldest lady to give the little one a chance, and the little one must teach those bad guys a hard lesson. If the eldest lady has any other requirements, the little one must do it! ”

Seeing this, the head meter inspector of the Cai Silk Line also quickly knelt down and begged Miss Gao and the general to spare this time.

"The market is easy to do, each has its own rules, this is the decree of my metropolitan protectorate. Our Ma family is ordered to do business according to the law, and we don't want to bully others, but we can't be bullied by others! It's not the two of you who want to annex these two shops of my Ma family, but you are guilty of negligence after all. I'm not embarrassed for you, you know for yourself what to do, go back! Gao Qianqian waved her hand with a cold face, signaling the two to leave.

The two kowtowed again for a while, vowing to punish those who wanted to annex the Ma family's business, and then crawled away.

These two people can also be regarded as the leading figures among the Sogdian merchants, but they can only lower their eyebrows in front of Gao Qianqian, which shows Gao Qianqian's majesty on weekdays.

Seeing a satisfied smile on Ma Lan's face, Gao Qianqian wrinkled her little nose proudly at Ma Lan, as if she had completely forgotten the unhappiness just now.

"Uncle Qi, you go home and rest first. I'm going to deal with it at the spice shop, and I'll have Brother Ma Lan with me. Ma Yong, Ma Qiang, you accompany Qibo home! ”

Seeing that Gao Qianqian opened her mouth, Ma Lan also said with a smile: "Uncle Qi, I have gained a lot in the river this time, and there are a lot of things to be transported to the family later, and your old man will not look at it." ”

"Good, good!" Seeing the two of them like this, Uncle Qi actually had a bit of a husband singing with his wife, and he was already smiling from ear to ear, and nodded again and again, "Girl, don't be too tired." The young master has been tired of saddle horses all the way, and you will go home sooner later. ”

"Hey!" Gao Qianqian agreed with a smile.

Ma Lan instructed Ma Yong to find Du Huan and Duan Xiushi to start carrying things, while Ma Qiang accompanied Qibo to the carriage to the grange outside the city. He himself followed Gao Qianqian to the area of the spice shop, found his own spice shop, and watched Gao Qianqian show the majesty of the Ma family's housewife.

In the spice shop, Gao Qianqian fired three more guys in one go, without any delay. Since she had a certain handle, the three guys had nothing to say, and they all kowtowed and left with a face of shame.

Leaving the Ma Ji spice shop, Gao Qianqian said softly: "Brother Ma Lan, I will take care of our family's family business in the future, and I will definitely be able to have a few more shops next year." ”

Ma Lan smiled and nodded, and said, "It's my blessing that you are willing to marry me." ”

It's just an ordinary sentence, Gao Qianqian's eyes suddenly turned red, and she almost cried: "Then you still treat me like that today!" ”

Ma Lan didn't know what to say, so he gently patted Gao Qianqian's shoulder. This time it was even worse, Gao Qianqian's tears immediately flowed.

The last thing I could see in my previous life was a woman's tears, and it seems that this life has not changed much. Ma Ling said "I'm sorry" to the original owner of this body in his heart, and gently hugged Gao Qianqian into his arms.

In the land of Qiuzibian, the folk customs are the most bold, and it is not a big deal for young men and women to embrace each other on the street. When the pedestrians saw this, they all showed a kind smile, but when they saw who these two people were, people were busy retracting their eyes and staying away from these two people.

It's just that rumors have begun to breed in private, and no one can stop them.

……

Ma Lan did not buy a house in the city of Qiuzi, and spent most of his time in Anxi, except for the war, he stayed in the grange outside the city. When he returned to Anxi this time, those Anxi generals didn't seem to want to see him, and he didn't bother to pay attention to these people, so he took Gao Qianqian directly out of the city.

In the era when Ma Lan originally lived, the area around Qiuzi's hometown was called Aksu, which was a fertile oasis nourished by the snow of the Tianshan Mountains, and had the reputation of "Saiwai Jiangnan". The frost-free period here can reach up to 260 days in a year, and the shortest year for land freezing is only two months, which is a rare treasure land in Xinjiang.

As a person who likes history, Ma Lan has been here many times and left too many emotions in front of the remnants of the Han and Tang Dynasties. He really never imagined that one day, he would actually set foot on this land in this form.

This was a thousand years ago, but it didn't look much different from a thousand years later. The water of the Tarim River, which nourishes Aksu, is still clear, but at this time it is not called the Tarim River, but the Sihun River. Ma Lu's small grange is on the bank of the Sihun River, hidden in the poplar and red willow bushes outside Qiuzi City.

This age of Qiuzi is colder than a thousand years later, it is already February in the Han calendar, if it is placed in a thousand years later, the soil has already thawed, and now it is still quite cold, and the snow is everywhere as far as the eye can see.

In this era, although a large number of Han troops were stationed, the land development on both sides of the Sihun River was still extremely limited.

Anxi is a long way away from Guanzhong, and the garrison mainly relies on military cantonment for self-sufficiency. Qiuzi Town has 20 military tuns, each tun reclamation field is 50 hectares, that is, 5,000 acres, and 20 tuns is 100,000 acres. These 100,000 acres are the number of fields registered in the Dadu Protectorate, in addition, the border army generals also opened up large and small granges along the Sihun River, and the fields of these granges are not included in the field records of the Metropolitan Protectorate. According to rough estimates, there are about 100,000 acres of land in this part of the field.

Taken together, these fields are still far from the number of fields in the Qiuzi area in later generations. There is no shortage of fields to be cultivated in the Qiuzi area, but there is a shortage of manpower. No matter how fertile the fields here are, they can't be compared with the Central Plains, and the Han people pay attention to relocate, unless they really can't get by, no one will leave their homeland and move to such a place.

The land cultivated by the military tun was originally a soldier of the border government, and later the government military system collapsed, and after the Long March Jian'er was used to defend the border, it was cultivated by the soldiers and their families, and the land and houses were supplied by the Duhu Prefecture, and part of the output was paid into the government treasury.

The land on the private grange was cultivated by recruited Han Chinese migrants. Not all Han people have the courage to join the border army, and such exiles are not a minority in Anxi.

Ma Lan's grange is less than ten miles from Qiuzi City, and is built in a bay area of the Sihun River. The Grange has more than 1,000 acres of land, more than half of which is Sawada (paddy field).

This proportion is considered high in the surrounding granges, which is naturally the result of Qibo's hard work in the past few years, when he originally bought this land, but most of it was black salt fields, and it was impossible to cultivate at all.

For Hermes-Epitek, land is always the most important thing, and this concept is deeply ingrained in people's hearts, from the hectares of the Son of Heaven to the Baiding of Qianshou. Therefore, it is not surprising that the price of a field is hundreds of times the annual output of the land.

Because of this, the generals of the border army will try to get a grange, although these granges are extremely laborious to grow, and even cannot make ends meet, but only in this way can they feel at ease. And as a bonus, land is always the most popular.

Land is home.

Ma Ling and Gao Qianqian rode their horses, and soon caught up with Duan Xiushi and Du Huan's team. After Ma Yong went to convey Ma Lu's order, they immediately left the city. Because they were escorting a large number of war horses and camels and a large number of various wealth, they couldn't go fast at all, so they were easily caught up by the two.

Seeing so many things, knowing that they were all going to be sent to Majiazhuang, Gao Qianqian immediately cheered loudly.

Ma Yong is a fast-talker, and he has already told Duan Xiushi and Du Huan what happened between the two. Duan Xiushi saw that the two of them looked intimate, and knew that what Ma Yong said was true, so he couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Gao Qianqian. Gao Qianqian is also a strange woman, but she is married to Ma Lan, a prodigal son, you must know that Ma Lan's family still has dozens of concubines, most of whom are bearded girls. Such a person is not a good match at all.

Du Huan was extremely happy, he recognized Ma Lan as the general, and naturally hoped that his generals would start a family as soon as possible, and the wealth of the Ma family would be passed on forever.

Among the Anxi athletes brought back from Talas, those belonging to the town of Qiuzi have been dismissed on the spot. The remaining Yanqi garrison of nearly 1,000 people will return directly to Yanqi tomorrow, and now they will be temporarily brought in as coolies. According to the plan agreed upon by Ma Lan and the others, Duan Xiushi and Du Huan will do it by themselves to go to Yanqi to compensate the soldiers, and Ma Lan will no longer go. So in the future, Ma Lan doesn't have to continue to run, but finally has a period of leisure.

The establishment of another treasury outside the Anxi Mansion Treasury for the purpose of compensating the fallen soldiers in the future and paying military salaries to the Anxi soldiers was something that the three of them had decided long ago. The wealth taken from the river was placed in the grange, and the three of them agreed on the way. This time, Duan Xiushi and Du Huan went to Yanqi, and they were only going to bring a small part of the selder, which was enough to compensate the fallen soldiers in Yanqi Town after the auction. Among the four towns in Anxi, Yanqi Town has the least garrison, and the wealth that needs to be spent is naturally not much.

There are not many fields cultivated in the grange, but the area is large enough to accommodate thousands of horses and more than 2,000 camels. Gao Qianqian watched all kinds of things unloaded from the camel's back and moved into the grange, her eyes lit up with excitement, but she didn't know that most of these things had nothing to do with the Ma family.

This has all been registered by Duan Xiushi, with the style of Anxi Duan Junzi, how can it be so easy to make him spit it out again?