Desheng Building, Qianzhongfang.

The bosses behind the two largest restaurants in Huangsha City are the two long-standing figures of the Huangsha City City Lord's Mansion. The long history of the City Lord's Mansion in Huangsha City is equivalent to the Deputy City Lord. It's just that in the past days, the power of the City Lord's Mansion in Huangsha City was in the hands of Ximen Xiong, the city lord, and the two long-standing figures basically did not interfere in the affairs of the City Lord's Mansion in order not to offend Ximen Xiong.

Of course, in order to compensate for the two long-history figures, Ximen Xiong also acquiesced to the existence of the two restaurants, so that the two long-history figures could have a way to get money. Of course, the two long-history figures are also very sensible, whether it is Desheng Building or Qianzhongfang, every year the profit will be given to the City Lord's Mansion.

Therefore, Deshenglou and Qianzhongfang have always been safe and sound, and they have jointly carved up the food market in Huangsha City.

However, after the cooperation agreement between Majia Distillery and Qianzhongfang, this situation was broken. With the assistance of the three high-level liquors of Qianren drunk, agar and fairy brewing, Qianzhongfang occupies almost ninety percent of the market in the Huangshacheng restaurant industry.

Cutting off people's financial routes is comparable to killing one's father's revenge.

In this case, how can Desheng Lou give up. If the light is not good, it will naturally be dark. However, Deshenglou didn't expect that he would have to deal with not only a Qianzhong Fang, but also a wine shop.

Fan Zeng's subordinates have a hidden guard. Qianzhongfang's little means didn't play much role at all, and he was sniped by the hidden guards from the shadows. In line with the idea of not doing anything, Fan Zeng simply took the opportunity to completely swallow up the power behind Desheng Building, and even the long-standing figure was secretly controlled by him.

Then, Fan Zeng naturally went to the hands of this long-history-level figure first, and went up step by step, and finally, with the cooperation of Mark, he completely replaced that long-history-level figure and became one of the two long-history-level existences in Huangsha City.

Not only that, because of Mark's existence, Fan Zeng, the long history, has more power than the two long history figures in the past, and even Ximen Xiong, the city lord, had to bow his head in front of Fan Zeng at this time.

Fan Zeng almost took control of the Huangsha City City Lord's Mansion, and in turn, provided convenience for Mark's army expansion, not only in terms of propaganda, but also in various materials.

All the material consumption of the men and horses under Mark's command needs to be provided by Huangsha City, which is the unanimous decision of the high-level of the barbarian army at the beginning, and the materials of the barbarian army can only ensure the needs of the regular border army, and cannot take into account these temporarily recruited men and horses.

Therefore, how many people can be recruited by a general like Mark actually depends on the individual's skills. In fact, some of the generals had to submit to the city lord's mansion they were in charge of the city in order to obtain supplies, and the actual control of the men and horses they recruited fell into the hands of the city lord's mansion.

Those city lords' mansions will grasp the important positions of the formed army by installing people, and once the border army generals are disobedient, they will even be deprived of the power to command the army.

In fact, there are very few anti-customer-oriented beings like Mark. It's the only one, but it's definitely one of the few.

The cavalry that Ma Shuo brought back was almost 8,000, and with the five infantry battalions on Mark's side, the total strength now exceeded 40,000. However, such a number is still not enough to cope with the next situation.

There are thirty-six counties in the entire Yumen County, and at present there are twenty counties that have completely fallen into the hands of the barbarians, which is more than half. If Bai Qi returns to Xianyang with his men and horses at that time, it is estimated that the thirty-six counties of Yumen County will still fall into the hands of the barbarians.

Originally, Zhenman Pass, Suoman Pass and Yumen Pass each had a large army to guard it. However, later, the lock barbarian army and the Yumen army were defeated by the barbarians successively and suffered heavy losses. Therefore, at present, these two armies actually control only six counties.

However, the town barbarian army, because it gave up on its own initiative, its own losses are not large, and so far it still controls ten county seats. Of course, this is also the nominal ten county seats. For example, Chishui City, which can only be said to be nominally under the control of the barbarian army. There is also Huangsha City, which is now actually in the hands of Ma Shuo. Of course, Ma Shuo still belongs to the sequence of the barbarian army in terms of sequence.

This is the current situation, once the accident in Xianyang affects Yumen County, the situation in Yumen County will change at that time, and even the nearby counties will be affected.

In this case, the most important thing is to increase the power in your hands.

For this reason, after Ma Shuo rested for a day in Xiaolongkou, he went to Huangsha City with Mark, and went straight to Fan Zeng to discuss the next layout.

The first step is to consolidate the sphere of influence of Huangsha City and ensure that the sphere of influence of Huangsha City is firmly grasped in hand.

The second step is to recover the county seat of Guyang, which is closest to Huangsha City. The county town of Guyang is currently occupied by barbarians, and once it can be recovered, it will be of great significance to Ma Shuo. This is not only an issue of influence, but also because Guyang County and Huangsha City are close to each other, and the sphere of influence can be completely cultivated.

The most important thing is that once Guyang County is taken, Ma Shuo's sphere of influence will change from the current three-sided contact with the barbarians to two-sided contact with the barbarians. Because the county seat on the other side of Guyang County is still in the hands of the Yumen Army.

The third step is to recover Qilian County, in the north of Huangsha City. Once the county seat of Qilian is recovered, Ma Shuo's sphere of influence will expand again, and while the internal depth will be greatly increased, it will be able to turn the situation into a barbarian one.

Of course, expanding the sphere of influence is not always better. After all, these counties in Yumen County are relatively barren, and various resources are not very rich. So, bigger is not always better.

Taking down the three county towns was a decision made by the three of them after discussion. Because the regions of these three county towns are connected, there is still a lot of wasteland in them that can be developed, as long as they are done well, they will first be able to solve the problem of food and military food supply in the entire region.

Then, the most important thing is that after this period of exploration, the hidden guards found that there are actually a lot of ore vein resources hidden in the range of these three counties, but they have not been discovered before.

Hidden guards, now the functions are getting more and more powerful.

It's just that the place where the discovered ore vein resources are located is not under Ma Shuo's control for the time being, so for the time being, he can only look at it but can't eat it.

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After the three-step plan was finalized, Ma Shuo decided to start working on the first and most critical thing immediately.