Such a plot was staged at the same time in Fufeng County and Jingzhao County. Many big families that have developed for hundreds of years, have deep roots and profound heritage, have disappeared in an instant. Dock forts were burned down, and manors disappeared. On the vast Guanzhong Plain, the smoke from the Wubao was as much as a forest. Even in Chang'an City, Yixian, and Huaili City, you can see it clearly.

At the same time, truckloads of materials and wealth were transported to the Xiliang Army camp one after another, making the originally very empty Xiliang Army camp immediately become impassable. forced Ma Chao to have no choice but to expand the area of the camp again.

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry moved quickly, and only at noon the next day, they completed the search for Fufeng County and Jingzhao County. According to statistics, more than 6.7 million grains, 25.8 billion yuan, 200,000 cattle, 30,000 good horses, tens of millions of sheep and pigs, and a mountain of gold, silver, and silk brocade were piled up, and the total value could not be calculated in a short period of time.

Ma Chao laughed so hard that the corners of his mouth were almost at the root of his ears. These materials are more abundant than Liangzhou's family background. Getting so much material is enough to take his strength to the next level. In the face of the military threat of the imperial court, he no longer has to confront in the way of "barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes", but can deal with it with ease and leeway.

However, it is a big problem for so many materials to be transported back to Liangzhou, thousands of miles away. But with the successful experience of the last grain shipment, Ma Chao was not confused for too long.

Ma Chao then summoned Cheng Gongying and ordered him to recruit the displaced people from Fufeng County and Jingzhao County, and transport them back to Liangzhou with the servants and slaves of the family.

After listening to Ma Chao's order, Cheng Gongying shook his head and objected.

Ma Chao was surprised and said, "Why? Haven't you successfully organized 160,000 displaced people to transport military rations back to Liangzhou? Why don't you want to do so this time? ”

Cheng Gongying said: "The young master does not know anything, and his subordinates do not disagree with recruiting a large number of people again, transporting grain, and enriching the Liangzhou household registration at the same time. Rather, it is against the recruitment of such a large population. ”

"What? I didn't understand you. ”

Cheng Gongying explained indifferently: "According to the statistics of Jia Saijiu, there are still 180,000 displaced people in Jingzhao County. After our army had plundered all the families of the two counties, it was calculated that the number of servants of all the families should be slightly more than the number of homeless, and there should be 200,000. ”

When Ma Chao heard this, his eyes immediately lit up and said, "380,000 people, so much!" ”

Cheng Gongying said: "More is more, but after careful consideration, the subordinates think that the Liangzhou Thorn History Mansion, which has just been established, has imperfect institutions, and does not have enough officials, can eat a population of 200,000 at most." The last time the lord migrated the 160,000 displaced people who were displaced in Fufeng County back to Liangzhou, it had already made the entire Liangzhou overstretched. Not to mention, even the officials who manage these displaced people have to cobble together in various counties.

This time, if Liangzhou eats 380,000 people at a time, then the Liangzhou Thorn Mansion and the county orders of the counties and counties will not be able to deal with it. When the time comes, due to the inability to govern and the lack of relief, many problems will be highlighted, and even trigger civil unrest and civil strife.

Then the stable situation that the lord and the young lord have worked hard to change will collapse, and Liangzhou is likely to fall back into civil strife. The risk is so great that his subordinates dare not be cautious. The subordinates suggested that the young master could not ask for all the migrants this time, and could only recruit 200,000 people. ”

Ma Chao also knew that what Cheng Gongying said made sense. After all, the father and son took Liangzhou, but they only ruled for more than two months. If it weren't for the implementation of the Liucao system, which made it easier to handle government affairs, Liangzhou would not have been able to implement the equalization system so quickly and restore agricultural production; Under the leadership of Yang Biao, a large number of construction projects were carried out.

The selection, appointment, and promotion of officials takes a long time. The ruling framework of Liangzhou has not yet been constructed, and at this time, it is necessary to squeeze out this framework by stuffing an excessive number of people into this framework.

Realizing this, Ma Chao no longer insisted on swallowing 380,000 servants and homeless people in the two counties in one go.

Ma Chao said: "Since Liangzhou can accommodate a maximum of 200,000 people, then select all the displaced people, and then simply select 20,000 family slaves to make up 200,000." ”

Unexpectedly, Cheng Gongying shook his head again.

Ma Chao was even more puzzled and said, "Didn't you say that Liangzhou can eat 200,000 people?" ”

Cheng Gongying said: "My subordinates are not opposed to admitting another 200,000 people, but they believe that the composition of this 200,000 population is still to be discussed. ”

"Discuss what?"

Cheng Gongying said: "Since Liangzhou can only accommodate 200,000 people, it is better not to recruit displaced people. ”

Ma Chao was even more puzzled: "What? Why? The homeless are hungrier than the slaves of the family, and are on the verge of starvation at any moment, so why not choose them first? ”

Cheng Gongying said with a smile: "It is precisely because the homeless people are more likely to starve to death that they should give priority to the relocation of slaves from the family. Because the homeless people suffered from hunger and cold for a long time, they were more likely to take risks than the slaves of the family who had more food and clothing. Once the Liangzhou Assassin's Mansion is mismanaged and the policies are improper, even if it is just a small mistake, it is easy to provoke the rebellion of these people.

On the other hand, the slaves of the family have lived in the shadow of the family all their lives, and their temperament is docile and docile. If I had done something wrong with some of the policies and harmed their interests, they would not have rebelled. Therefore, in order to maintain the stable situation in Liangzhou, it is necessary to give priority to the relocation of the slaves of the family. ”

Since traveling to this era of starvation, Ma Chao has become more and more sympathetic to those displaced and precarious. Settling the displaced people and ending the war was also the oath he made at the beginning, and everything he did was actually to enable the displaced people to survive.

Seeing that Cheng Gongying was reluctant to relocate the displaced people, Ma Chao was furious when he heard this, and said: "Could it be that in the eyes of your Cheng Gongbo Ying, the displaced people are so terrible, and they may cause trouble in Liangzhou at any time?" ”

Cheng Gongying said stubbornly: "I'm afraid the young master also knows in his heart that only the slaves of the family who migrate and tame are the best choice for maintaining the stability of Liangzhou!" Migrants are a public matter, so why should the young master be emotional? ”

Ma Chao said angrily: "If you don't comply, I can choose someone else to organize the migrants." Jia Xu, Yang Fu, Yan Zhong, which one is not as good as you? ”

Cheng Gongying also said angrily: "Even so, the subordinates will persuade the lord." With the wisdom of the lord, he will never agree with the opinion of the young master. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the lord agrees with the young master's opinion, his subordinates will never agree because of this! ”