On the table, there was a burnt stone.
Han Feng said that after the stone was smashed, the water hardened overnight.
Ma Chao knew that this thing was the Han Dynasty version of crude cement.
Although there were book tutorials, the craftsmen in the brick kiln still tried hundreds of times before they found the standard mixing ratio of limestone, iron powder, and sand.
After this process was established, the kiln entrance has already entered the stage of large-scale firing.
However, the follow-up work is still complicated, and a certain amount of slag, fly coal, gray gypsum and other materials need to be added before entering the cement grinding process before cement can be made.
In other words, this stone at this time is just cement clinker.
But even so, Ma Chao was very satisfied.
Although the subsequent mixing ratio will take some time to explore, the early advent of cement has solved a major problem in Ma's construction.
The most short-term and significant performance is: saving food After Chang'an experienced the Huns' invasion and two earthquakes, the Ma family had stalled the repair work of Chang'an's city wall because they had no money.
One of the important reasons is that when building city walls in the Han Dynasty, glutinous rice was needed to solidify the stones.
But now in Sili territory, people don’t have enough to eat.
Where can there be extra good glutinous rice to use in repairing the city wall?
However, another piece of good news is that the city wall of Chang'an does not seem to need to be repaired until the cement is fully developed.
Now under the rule of the Ma family, the main enemy the Chang'an city wall defends is the Huns in the north.
However, when the Huns envoys came to Fufeng yesterday, Ma Chao guessed correctly: they came to show their goodwill.
Ma Chao has never ignored the role of the beauty trap.
But he didn't expect that Wang Huayu, the niece of Situ Wang Yun, the beauty who had experienced the turmoil of the turmoil, would actually achieve such results in just a few days that shocked Ma Chao.
According to the Xiongnu envoy, Wang Huayu achieved the dominance ambition of the Xiongnu king on the first day he arrived in the Xiongnu tribe.
Those other Han women, who had never even met the Xiongnu nobles, became Wang Huayu's stepping stone.
The next morning, the Xiongnu King issued an order for one hundred thousand Xiongnu warriors to retreat, and sent an envoy to express his desire to be on good terms with the Ma family.
Before the Xiongnu envoy went on his mission, he also heard the news that the Xiongnu king wanted to establish Wang Huayu as the Yan family.
Even when the envoy was on the way, he was caught up by the envoy who followed and added an additional number of cattle, sheep, and horses to the Ma family.
The Xiongnu, who wanted to rob the sky, could do such a thing.
Even if it was not the first time, it was definitely unheard of in a hundred years.
It can be seen that the old king of the Huns even obeyed Wang Huayu.
And thanks to Wang Huayu's decision to make the Xiongnu retreat, the Qiang people almost immediately took action after hearing the news.
Taking advantage of Ma Chao's remaining power, he quickly attacked the four counties of Liangzhou.
This time the Qiang tribe is obviously different from the past.
This time they seemed to be specifically targeting the rebels and bandits who were causing trouble in the four counties.
Except for those who stubbornly resisted, they hardly harassed any common people.
However, the 200,000 Qiang troops watching eagerly around them still made those shrewd superiors wake up.
Wuwei is the closest to the Qiang tribe, but the Qiang people have not committed any crime against Wuwei Qiu, and then think about Ma Chao's relationship with the Qiang people.
Qu Yan of Xiping County was the first to react and first proposed that several counties in Liangzhou submit to the Ma family.
The prefect of Zhangye County and Luan refused, and his subordinates Zhang Jin and Du Tong arrested the prefect and responded to Qu Yan; the prefect of Jiuquan County Xinji raised troops to resist the Qiang soldiers, but was besieged by 50,000 Qiang soldiers.
The owl showed his head to the public, and Jiuquan County fell.
However, Qiang and Hu people have always lived together in Wuwei County.
Before the Hu people from the three tribes in the county became restless, they received a notice from Yan Jun announcing his surrender to the Ma family.
It can be said that since Ma Chao returned to Fufeng, all he has received is good news.
The Yan family in Jincheng was completely razed, and Liangzhou would soon be returned to the Ma family; the people of Fufeng were prosperous and prosperous, and the benefits of the New Deal had gradually emerged; and now the Xiongnu's show of goodwill gave Ma Chao another glimmer of hope.
Yes, Ma Chao will not refuse friendship with the Huns.
However, it was not entirely because he saw that Wang Huayu had successfully confused the old king of the Xiongnu, but because he saw the huge market of millions of people in the Xiongnu.
With interests at the forefront, even if Ma Chao was asked to surrender, he would never frown.
Just because he knew that ancient wars were all about economy and population.
But now, with the Xiongnu's huge, yet completely untapped market right in front of him, how could he not once again use the Ma family's unique economic aggression tactics?
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As long as the pocket is bulging, the fist will naturally become stronger.
But once the fist is hardened, things like face, status, surrender, etc. are all easy to talk about.
If Ma Chao can cut flesh with a blunt knife, he will never punch when the Ma family's fist is still soft.
And this is the advantage that time-travelers have in seeing things further than the ancients.
As a result, the Huns envoys came to Fufeng County with great joy and returned happily.
Not only did he get a personally written letter of gratitude from Ma Chao, but he also brought with him Fufeng distilled liquor, tea, Fufeng paper, purified salt, coal and other Fufeng specialties.
Moreover, I still deeply remember the words Ma Chao said most before leaving: "The Wool Ma Family purchases wool in large quantities, no matter how much wool there is, the Ma Family will accept it without fail."
The envoy was surprised for a long time at Ma Chao's strange request.
Things like wool were almost thrown everywhere on the grassland, and Ma Chao, a majestic hussar general, mentioned that pickled thing again and again.
After the messenger thought hard and couldn't figure it out, he made his own decision and said: "General, don't worry, those are the things.
I will send the general hundreds of cars to express my feelings when I come."
"No."
Ma Chao shook his head seriously at that time and said extremely seriously: "I said that the Ma family buys wool for five yuan a pound, and it is a good thing.
But a few hundred cars are not enough for what I want.
Harvest as much wool as you can get from all the wool on the entire prairie.”
The messenger finally looked at Ma Chao as if he were looking at a fool and left.
But Ma Chao, who smiled and said nothing, sent the envoy a long way in the low wind.
His sincerity and hope made the envoy feel embarrassed to laugh at Ma Chao.
"Meng Qi, what is the use of wool?"
Guo Jia tightened his tight clothes, smiled casually, and said bluntly: "You are always ruthless in your attacks, making people hard to guard against.
But this time, for my brother, I really can’t imagine what the benefits of wool are.”
"Brother, I don't know, the Ma family arsenal has invented a textile machine, which can spin cotton and wool to make clothes.
But the Xiongnu still eat hair, drink blood, and wear fur."
When Ma Chao said this, his expression seemed to be hesitant.
It seems like he is weighing a very important event.
"Not only the Xiongnu, but also our Han Dynasty, when winter comes, they also wear furs to protect themselves from the cold."
Fazheng said, he has always been aware of some of Ma Chao's methods that are very different from this era, and this is the moment to get a glimpse of the secret.
"If we buy the Huns' wool and make it into clothing, which is light and warm, then do you think the Huns will wear those heavy and troublesome furs again?"
At this point, Ma Chao seemed to be relieved and sighed heavily.
After taking a breath, he continued: "Buy it for five cents, and sell it to the Huns for the white cents.
The Huns have a population of at least one million.
With only one piece per person, the Ma family can greatly speed up the recovery process."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately looked at Ma Chao.
At the same time, he thought of the special products of Fufeng that Ma Chao specially asked the Huns envoy to bring back: distilled wine to keep out the cold, coal for heating in winter, fine white purified salt, and tea that are indispensable to nomads.
The Huns had almost no such things. reason to refuse In this way, let alone ten or five years, it can even be said that as long as the trade goes smoothly this year, the wealth flowing in from the Xiongnu tribe can completely restore the Ma family's strength.
It was also because of these economic means that Ma Chao firmly controlled the Qiang people.
But now it seems that Ma Chao is going to repeat his same trick on the Huns again?
s: Nothing to say.
It’s too late to add an update.
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However, I still wish you a happy birthday at the end of summer
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