After listening to Ma Lan's detailed explanation, Feng Changqing nodded, quite satisfied with Ma Lan's treatment.

After the last battle to defeat the Persian soldiers in the north of Shule City, Feng Changqing regained confidence and loosened his attitude towards the Tang army setting foot in the river again.

The Umayya gold coins worth 500,000 yuan, Feng Changqing actually didn't want one this time, and let Duan Xiushi transport them back to Majia Grange and enrich them into the treasury of another mansion. Coupled with the contracts of those iron mines, if all the benefits were not touched by him, he would leave them all to Ma Lan to deal with.

Gao Qianqian originally wanted to use the iron ore as the property of the Ma Family Commercial Bank, but Duan Xiushi insisted that the iron ore belonged to the Anxi Army, and it was only handed over to the Ma Family Commercial Bank to operate on behalf of the Ma Family Commercial Bank to offset the money owed by the Anxi Army to the Ma Family Commercial Bank.

If this is the harvest of one million yuan, not a single piece of money belongs to the Ma family firm, and all of it is counted as a separate treasury. Gao Qianqian was extremely dissatisfied, but Ma Lan was naturally on Duan Xiushi's side for this kind of thing, and Gao Qianqian was also very helpless.

"Junzi Duan, every copper coin you have accumulated in the treasury, Miss Ben has to earn it!" Gao Qianqian crossed Xiao Man's waist and looked at Duan Xiu and snorted angrily.

Suddenly with an input of one million yuan, this moral gentleman was also a lot more accommodating, and said with a smile: "Then it depends on your ability." But this time is different, these iron ores can't be dug up for hundreds of years, as long as the iron ore is not dug dry, my treasury will not be empty, haha. ”

"Then I will increase the number of things I sell to you by 30% in the future, and I will see if you can sell the iron ore to my family when the time comes!" Gao Qianqian said ruthlessly.

Everyone laughed when they all knew what she was saying. Feng Changqing said with emotion: "Renjie, now this girl's value to our Anxi Army is even higher than yours." In the future, if you can really open a military town in the river, we all owe this girl, and the entire Tang Dynasty owes this girl. ”

"Uncle, don't talk like this, I won't ask for a copper coin if you say this." Gao Qianqian snorted angrily.

The crowd laughed again. Feng Changqing patted Gao Qianqian's head and sighed: "My niece is good at everything, but this life is ...... Alas! Renjie, this girl is stubborn, there are some things you have to persuade her, let her not drill the horns. ”

Ma Ling naturally understood what Feng Changqing meant, and when he looked at Gao Qianqian, they both smiled.

Where can the two of them be separated? Even a holy decree will not do.

However, there are some things that must not be told to Feng Changqing, although Feng Changqing is a man of fame and fortune, he will never tolerate the evil things that Ma Lan has done.

The black-clad corpse was hung at the head of the city, and no one sympathized with it at all. The Anxi army has just eliminated 20,000 black-clothed thieves in the north of Shule City, and now the Anxi Huhan army and civilians regard the black-clothed food as an enemy.

Several black-clothed thieves' shops in the Iron Bank were all sold to the Ma Family Trading House by Duan Xiushi at a price, so that the Ma Family Trading House naturally became the head of the Iron Bank in Qiuzi City. When the Hu merchants who sold the shop and the iron ore heard that the buyer was a spy, they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran to the Ma family trading house to make amends, and sent a large sum of money to ask for the general's forgiveness.

Those who don't know are not guilty, Gao Qianqian comforted these Hu merchants, and did not ask for their gifts, but just asked them to deliver the iron ore immediately, and the stewards and men in charge of the iron ore they hired were also transferred to the Ma Family Commercial Bank, and the Ma Family Commercial Bank will increase the treatment of these people by three percent.

How dare these Hu businessmen not allow it, they will immediately comply. In this way, these open-pit iron mines were running smoothly, and with these original stewards and men in charge, a truckload of ore was transported to the Majia Grange every day.

The iron ore mined in this era was an open-pit bonanza, and the technology of smelting had long been available. With these iron ores, the Anxi army has a stable source of steel, and in the future, it will no longer have to rely too much on Chang'an, but build and forge all kinds of weapons it needs.

Anxi is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and it is extremely difficult to transport, and many important ministers in the DPRK and China want to pull out the four towns, all because of this reason. If the Anxi Army could be self-sufficient, naturally there would be no such discussions.

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After the iron ore was found, the scale of Majia Grange had to be expanded again, and the courtyard wall stretched out more than a mile directly. Black smoke billowed from the Grange all day, and smoke and fire were everywhere. The nearby Sihun River has also suffered from the seedlings, and the clear water has become muddy, and if you want to get water, you have to travel miles to transport it by water truck.

The leaves of the poplar and red willow were blackened, and dust was everywhere inside and outside the grange. Ma Lan looked at this scene, and secretly created evil in his heart. Because of his coming, this place will become like this.

Where will the dealers care about these, although they are full of the smell of fireworks all day long, they are all elated. Now it's time to be busy with farming, but no one wants to go to the field to farm, and help in the workshop of their own grange, even if they have no skills, as long as they have a lot of strength, they will have a few dollars a month, and there is no problem in supporting their wives and children.

Uncle Qi looked at Sawada, who was abandoned, and couldn't help sighing. However, he also knew that these fields would obviously not be able to be planted, and even if they were irrigated by river water, they would not be able to grow good crops.

Without arable land, where can it be considered a grange? In desperation, Qibo had no choice but to buy a large area of land around the new Majia Zhuangzi at a high price. For this, he also glared at Gao Qianqian, Gao Qianqian didn't look down on the output in the field at all, plus she continued to expand the scale of the Ma family firm, and the money she earned was spent like a stream, and she didn't have much spare money in her hand, so she didn't want to buy the land at all. But the old man insisted, she still couldn't resist after all, and in the end she could only pay honestly, so she didn't give Ma Lan a good look for three days.

After having the fields, the seventh uncle moved to the new Majia Zhuangzi and concentrated on serving those fields, saying that he would change all these fields into Sawada before he died. The original Majia Grange was guarded by a large number of Anxi soldiers, and he was naturally extremely relieved.

Uncle Fang relied on a pair of skillful hands to successfully make various winch molds of Tang crossbows. With enough steel sources, Gao Qianqian went all out to produce, and it took two months to finally complete the transformation of all the large crossbow arrows of the Anxi New Army.

These bolts are now extremely easy to string, and the winch can be easily and quickly replaced even if it is broken. This is a great level for the attack power of the Anxi New Army's crossbow array, and the ability to continuously fire is even stronger.

The hand-held crossbows used by the scouts have also been modified to be wound with one hand, and fired effortlessly.

The next step for Ma Lan is to produce his own hard crossbows. For this reason, he has already explained to Du Huan, this time he can't just think about glorifying his ancestors when he goes to Chang'an, but he has to find a few available skilled craftsmen from Chang'an to come back. Uncle Fang is good at mold making, but not good at design, if you want to make a crossbow or even design a stronger crossbow arrow, you need more talents.

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In August of the eleventh year of Tianbao, a special caravan came from Anyuan Gate in Chang'an City.

On the bodies of a hundred or so camels, the goods were tightly tied. Dozens of guards were tall and strong, and they looked extremely strong. The most peculiar thing was that the caravan was followed by more than a dozen carriages, each of which had several beautiful faces behind the curtains, looking out with curiosity and excitement.

After passing the Tulun moraine, Du Huan bought these carriages and let the general's concubines sit in them. Let these beauties show their heads, which is Ma Lan's plan. Seeing the curious eyes of the people on the side of the road, Du Huan smiled, pulled away his natural loud voice and said: "This is the concubine of the newly promoted Fufeng Hou Ma Xuan, and now she has come all the way from Anxi to return to the Fufeng Hou Mansion." The idlers and others should get out of the way quickly, don't disturb the Hou Ye's family. ”

A marquis in Chang'an City is nothing, but the name General Ma Lan is like thunder. Li Juan had already brought people back to Chang'an before, boasting about Ma Lan's exploits in Shilin, I don't know how many poets splashed ink and wrote poems in praise of General Ma Lan, and the children in the market also knew this name, and were regarded as Ban Chao and Chen Tang-like characters. I heard that these women were all concubines of Fufeng Hou, and instead of walking away, the onlookers became more and more.

Du Huan grew up in Chang'an since he was a child, everything is familiar, and after surveying and entering the city, he took the caravan and went straight to the former residence of the Ma family in Yankangfang.

Ma Luan's father and ancestors were all eunuchs, and the former residence of the Ma family was also very famous in Chang'an City. This time, one of Du Huan's tasks was to send these concubines to the Ma family's old mansion safely. Originally, the old mansion of the Ma family had been defeated by Ma Lan, and now it was bought by the Yang family for the Ma family as Ma Lan's Hou Mansion.

The family of Fufeng Hou entered Chang'an City, and soon the news spread, and many idlers on the street ran out to see the women in the carriage. Most of Ma Lu's concubines are Hu girls, and the only few daughters of the Han family are also from small families, where do they know what rules, and they don't feel anything when they are looked at by so many people, but they are chattering outside.

Du Huan rode a camel and walked in front, watching this scene with great satisfaction. As a close confidant of Ma Lan, he is the only one who knows about Ma Lan's plan.

Ma Lan will never give up Gao Qianqian, which Du Huan knows very well. And the marriage of the Son of Heaven cannot be disobeyed, if the Yang family can take the initiative to repent of the marriage, it will be the best thing.

Fufeng Hou Ma Lan was given by the Son of Heaven to marry the daughter of the Yang family, which is a well-known thing in Chang'an City. And now dozens of beautiful concubines of Fufeng Hou swaggered into Chang'an City, and I don't know if the Yang family can endure this breath.

If the Yang family repents, then it is best not to hurt the life of an innocent woman. If the Yang family endures this breath, it is the will of heaven and there is no other choice.