This day full of harvest passed quickly, with Gai Xun, Yang Biao, Yang Fu, Jia Xu, Yan Zhong, Ma Jun and others in place, Ma Teng's establishment and improvement of the six Cao system, Liangzhou's government affairs were soon on the right track. The "five things" proposed by Ma Chao were the reduction of troops, household registration, equalization of fields, preparation for war, and assimilation, and Liu Cao began to gradually implement its detailed rules.

Ma Chao's soldiers are mainly responsible for the reduction of troops, as well as the daily management of the Xiliang Army. It is not a simple matter to cut out four-fifths of the more than 200,000 Xiliang troops in a short period of time. Ma Chao was almost exhausted to death. It is a complicated task to formulate the criteria for reducing troops in the early stage, such as military merit, height, strength, technical combat, horsemanship, archery, discipline, and so on.

Moreover, when the army was cut, the soldiers who had been laid off should be handed over to Hu Cao, and Yan Zhong would be responsible for distributing the land equally to the soldiers who had been cut out of the army, which would be combined with the equalization system. And from time to time, Yang Biao will interfere with Ma Chao's layoffs in the name of "assistance", which is not satisfied, that is not satisfied. Ma Chao not only had to maintain the normal operation of Bingcao, but also had to fight wits and courage with Yang Biao, which made Ma Chao physically and mentally exhausted.

Hu Cao is actually the busiest department of the six Cao, because the three things of Juntian, household registration and assimilation must be handled by Hu Cao, these days Yan Zhong has not even touched the ground, he has been sitting at his post to write official documents, and even eating is in the office. Although Jia Xu wanted Cao to transfer all the capable officials to Hu Cao as much as possible, so that the number of Hu Cao's officials exceeded the sum of the other five Cao, Hu Cao was still busy with three things.

Jia Xu's officials Cao was not easy, and the officials of all Liangzhou had to go through his hands to reach various positions. Moreover, Jia Xu also had to measure the quality and characteristics of officials according to various indicators, and judge which officials were suitable for which Cao work. Even if Jia Xu is good at judging and using people's hearts, but the workload is too large, it still makes a few white hairs pop out of Jia Xu's head.

Gai Xun's etiquette is relatively leisurely, because Liangzhou is not guilty of holding any large-scale celebrations. However, the construction of schools still has to be done, and after discussing with Ma Chao, Gai Xun plans to establish a state school in Liangzhou, a county school in each county, and a county school in each county. Yan Zhong was the sacrificial wine in the state school, because he was the leading Confucian celebrity in Liangzhou, and Yang Biao also served as the sacrificial wine in Jincheng County School. Licao also had to cooperate with Hu Cao to carry out assimilation matters, such as sending Qiang's children to the county school to study; Scholars were sent to the countryside to carry out literacy eradication activities, such as giving Qiang Chinese surnames and names, and popularizing some commonly used characters among the people.

Gong Cao was busier than the former, because Gong Cao was responsible for part of the preparation for war, that is, building weapons. Because Ma Teng didn't want Yang Biao to affect the big war a month later, Ma Teng instructed Ma Jun to be in charge of weapons, as for the construction of water conservancy, widening official roads, repairing the city, building the treasury, and strengthening the fortress, etc., all of which were handled by Yang Biao. Yang Biao's reputation was ruined because of his scruples, and he was also very concerned about political affairs. Gong Cao's affairs were also handled handily in Yang Biao's hands, especially the water conservancy was built very quickly, and more and more fields were watered by the Huangshui, the Yellow River, Weishui, Yuanchuan, and Qilian Mountains, and became fertile fields.

The most leisurely of the six Cao is the Xing Cao. Because of the early peace in Liangzhou, the people were determined, and the Western Liang Army eliminated the vast majority of the bandits, the public security in Liangzhou was unprecedentedly good, and there were only a handful of cases handled every day, most of which were about petty theft, and it was not worth Yang Fu's worry at all. Yang Fu was more worried about dealing with the transaction between the Assassin Mansion and the family. Because most of the families in Liangzhou are in Longxi and Tianshui, Ma Chao can't see Yang Fu in Jincheng at all. Sometimes after struggling to deal with government affairs, Ma Chao will also be a little worried about whether Yang Fu can complete the task, and even more afraid that those families will kill Yang Fu in order to protect their real estate.

However, Ma Chao still focuses more on dealing with government affairs. With Ma Teng in charge, he and Yang Biao, Yan Zhong, Jia Xu, Gai Xun and others are each responsible for a Cao, although the government affairs are busy, but they are always solved, and everything is completed very smoothly.

In this way, after twenty days of busy work in the Assassin's Mansion, the number of government affairs gradually declined. Ma Chao rarely had time to rest with Ma Teng.

Taking advantage of the rest, Ma Teng and Ma Chao sat together drinking and chatting.

Ma Teng took half a sip of hot wine and said, "Chao'er, we haven't been so free for a long time, and we can still sit here and drink." ”

Ma Chao said: "Indeed, the government affairs were busy for the past 20 days, and I didn't even have the leisure to practice martial arts every day. But now, everything is on track, and Liangzhou is starting to recover. ”

Ma Teng said: "Yes, I can finally rest." Recently, even the affairs of Hu Cao have gradually decreased a lot, and some officials who have nothing to do for their father have nothing to do, and some people have been arranged to be sent to the torture Cao. ”

Ma Chao nodded.

Ma Teng said: "But when it comes to Xing Cao, although Xing Cao is the most leisurely, there is no Cao Peng after all, is this appropriate?" ”

Ma Chao said: "There has already been a candidate: it is Yang Fu." ”

"Yang Fu? Is that the Yang Fu you sent to negotiate with the family? ”

Ma Chao said: "Exactly, as long as he succeeds in convincing the Liangzhou family to trade with us, then why not give him Cao Peng?" ”

Ma Teng was puzzled and said, "But why are you doing this?" In order to snatch the land of the family? We have used the uniform field system and mastered the vast majority of the fields in Liangzhou.

Although the family's real estate is relatively fertile, Yang Biao has recently built a large water conservancy, and eighty percent of our fields have been irrigated, and it will definitely become fertile land in less than three years, without fallow. Liangzhou has too few hukou, although it has been according to your set of 30 acres of land per person, but there are still seventy percent of the fields that are uncultivated. We can't use up our fields, so why bother asking for the family's land? ”

Ma Chao said calmly: "I don't know that there is still a lot of land, not just for the land, but to weaken the family. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Ma Chao said: "The reason why Liangzhou is in turmoil is because the family relies on the trilogy to do mischief and collude with Qiang, such as the eight generals of Han Sui before. Why can the family afford to raise a trilogy? Because they wantonly annexed land, they had enough strength and foundation. He also bought slaves and maids on a large scale, and had a sufficient supply of soldiers. So it seems that they are big landlords, but in fact they are small princes. In order to eliminate the threat of the family, and not to meet with the sword, the son can only use transactions to reduce the family's land. The families don't have too much land, so they can't afford to raise too many tribal soldiers, so it's naturally difficult to resist us. If we try to deal with them in the future, they will not be able to resist. ”

Ma Teng suddenly realized and said: "For my father, I understand, this is the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle." ”