"The good times are always too short, and happiness leaves in the blink of an eye."
Ma Chao stood in the imperial garden, feeling the vigorous vitality at the bottom of the earth working hard, and he was filled with emotion.
The auction was over.
Thanks to Pan's wonderful performance, Ma Chao made millions of dollars in one go, which was not far behind the stars of later generations.
However, although one million guan sounds like a lot, when converted into food and grass, it is only a few hundred thousand dan.
Even though Ma Chao Qian and Wan asked the Li family and the Guan family to try their best to buy and transport cheap food that was enough to save their lives, it was just another month and a half of food rations in the Sili area.
The Ma family's food collection work is almost done now.
According to Mengda's estimate, the Ma family has stored enough food and grass for all the victims in Sili for four months.
If the disaster is particularly severe or lasts for a particularly long time, the Ma family will need to find another way to make a living: die with the victims, or simply abandon the victims in the Sili area.
However, it seems that the Ma family's administrative structure is very reasonable and the work efficiency is very fast.
The emergency response to critical incidents is also in place: barrel trucks and rollover trucks have been placed.
Outside Chang'an City, many places with abundant water bodies have been selected and many new wells have been drilled; shacks and simple shelters have been built next to the military camp. , if an earthquake really comes, it can temporarily accommodate hundreds of thousands of victims; finally, if the Ma family survives until the locust plague comes and does not consume much food and grass, then the Ma family can survive a peaceful year.
Although it was a bit more difficult, with the support of Yongzhou, Sili could recover quickly.
Ma Chao prays that history can let go of the Ma family.
He also hoped that the people of Sili, who were suffering from many disasters, could suffer less.
And so far, everything seems to be going well.
Feeling the warmth gradually brought by the wind, Ma Chao rarely had such a relaxing moment.
He watched the gentle breeze blowing the green seedlings on the earth slowly growing to the top, watching the sycamore and willow trees in the imperial garden sprout again, and watching the sugar water drawn from the moat being blown into ripples.
His mood became more and more peaceful, like a philosopher.
Feeling the mystery of life.
However, when his keen eyes saw the small creatures jumping like ants on the ground, his face suddenly turned white and the color faded: the locusts appeared too early and there were too many.
The subsequent series of events left Ma Chao with almost no time to react.
The entire Ma family seemed to have entered an emergency disaster relief stage in an instant.
In spring, the first month of the year, Jiayin Shuo, there will be an eclipse on the sun.
The Chang'an Hussar General issued a pardon to pardon those prisoners who had been imprisoned due to the war, in order to offset the fear of the solar eclipse among the people of Sili.
In February, Ding Chou, there was an earthquake in Chang'an.
Countless houses collapsed, thousands of people were killed or injured, and they were displaced.
Fortunately, the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites of the Majia family publicized earthquake knowledge and avoidance of rescue in advance, and the Majia army rushed to the rescue scene as soon as possible, which prevented the people in the capital from causing greater riots.
However, since then, some rumors have gradually spread in the streets of Chang'an.
In April, there was heavy rain and hail.
It is as big as a chicken and affects both humans and animals, greatly affecting the harvest.
Although the losses from this disaster were within the tolerance of the Ma family, and the Fufeng area was extremely loyal and trusting to the Ma family, strangely, rumors began to surge again in the capital area.
In May, Wuyin, Chang'an was shaken again.
This earthquake was more severe than the earthquake in February.
There were almost no buildings standing in the capital area.
Tens of thousands of civilians had no choice but to take refuge in the emergency shelter next to the Majia military camp to receive relief.
Since then, rumors that the Ma family had stolen treasures because of their immorality began to spread to the military.
What's more serious is that the earthquake collapsed the outer wall of Weiyang Palace.
The people of Chang'an were shocked to find that the once grand and majestic palace that they were proud of was now only a vast and desolate open space.
This discovery caused rumors to spread in Chang'an.
All the victims no longer felt any gratitude towards the Ma family, and began to criticize the Ma family verbally and writingly.
Many scholars even committed suicide in front of Weiyang Palace to show their loyalty to the Han Dynasty.
After that, he gradually evolved into a disaster victim, preferring to starve to death rather than accept any relief from the Ma family.
The entire Ma family seemed to have fallen into the vast tide of the People's War in the blink of an eye, and was so submerged that they didn't even have the strength to breathe.
Ma Chao didn't expect this.
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Although he has also used rumors to confuse the enemy, he always believes that rumors are only for the wise, especially when faced with powerful government and military organizations, they are even more vulnerable.
But he never expected that those rumors, which were both false and true, and even some nonsense, would make the Ma family so passive.
"These are all bullshit rumors."
Ma Chao's eyes were red.
When the situation in Chang'an was already dire, he no longer had any dignity at all.
He was like a mad dog roaring manically: "What kind of three-eyed god has come down to earth?
Oh my God."
There's a life tax to be collected, that boy from so-and-so has seven strange red moles on his soles, that butcher in Zhangjiabao chopped up a big snake, and so on, the Ma family established the Shadow just to give them.
I'll check these out."
At this time, Ma Chao realized the horror of rumors.
The scary thing about it is that the person involved is clearly innocent but cannot refute it at all.
Moreover, the so-called three-man city tiger, rumors often go wrong as they spread.
In the end, not to mention the person involved, even the originator of the rumor is likely to believe it, not to mention those common people in Li who cannot read a single Chinese character.
"Husband" Diao Chan combed her black hair on her temples, and her formerly mellow voice became hoarse due to these days of hard work.
But facing the furious Ma Chao, she still tried her best to show a calm and charming smile, and said: "The situation is still under control, and the shadow of the Ma family is by no means just an organization that eats dry food."
"Chan'er, I know how much you feel for Shadow.
However, the matter is over."
Ma Chao sat slumped on the edge of the bed and covered his head in pain: "I'm not blaming Shadow for not doing things well, but..." said Here, Ma Chao didn't know what to say.
I thought I was completely prepared.
But now Ma Chao sadly discovered that he was wrong.
What he faces is not only the hard rescue when disaster strikes, but also the overwhelming and unbreakable rumor offensive.
To be honest, although Shadow has had anti-reconnaissance training since its establishment, those training courses were only half-baked outlines listed by Ma Chao and then abandoned them.
Shadow has performed well enough in terms of intelligence, assassination, etc., but now he is caught in this smokeless battlefield and seems to have been beaten without the ability to fight back.
The fault is not with Shadow, but with himself or in other words, with the situation.
The Ma family was unable to fight back.
"Husband" Diao Chan saw Ma Chao's decadent look and for a moment seemed to have forgotten her humility as the Ma family's daughter-in-law.
Facing Ma Chao, the all-powerful God of War on the battlefield, she rushed forward, grabbed Ma Chao's collar, and also roared, "I said that the situation is still under control.
The shadow of the Ma family, and the cicada." , it’s not as useless as you think.”
Ma Chao was instantly conquered by Diao Chan's supreme domineering queen.
Amid Diao Chan's scolding and scolding, Ma Chao felt dizzy.
He vaguely saw that behind Diao Chan, there seemed to be a shining light, as indestructible as Athena.
After Diao Chan lost her composure at this moment, she saw Ma Chao's expression of shock and disbelief, and immediately realized how shocking her behavior was.
She couldn't help but hurriedly smoothed Ma Chao's collar, retreated slowly, and said in panic: "Husband, It’s unbecoming of a woman to be a cheap concubine.”
"No, Chan'er, I suddenly feel that you look like a person."
Ma Chao suddenly laughed.
After this episode, his mood suddenly turned around and he regained his fighting spirit.
"Who?"
Diao Chan asked subconsciously, still blaming herself.
"My mother" s: On my birthday, the late summer master rewarded me with 99,999 panda coins, and I promised to update it ten times.
But my body is really weak, so I only updated eight chapters.
I’m going to finish it today.
It’s not too late in the summer.
Well, there will be another update tonight
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