During this period, Ma Chao was busy with all issues such as the deployment of officials in Liangzhou, the promotion of new policies, the integration of Qiang and Han people, and the reopening of trade routes, striving to integrate Liangzhou into the Ma family as soon as possible.
As for Sili, Ma Chao was busy summoning local officials, surveying the public sentiment, calling on the people of Sili to participate in the post-disaster reconstruction work in Chang'an, and vigorously arranged for Yongzhou agricultural personnel to popularize the planting and irrigation of new crops, as well as new methods for the people of Sili.
Promote agricultural tools, increase the number of drum trucks and rollovers, design and develop water conservancy facilities for the rivers flowing through Sili In terms of diplomacy, Ma Chao is also busy reading battle reports from the front line, studying the movements of various princes, mediating disputes under local governance, suppressing secret rebellions, arranging personnel, implementing logistics, etc., especially the Hanzhong Zhanglu and Bingzhou Xiongnu who are most concerned about at the moment. , Yanzhou Cao Cao, although these three families were entangled by Ma Chao's tricks, Ma Chao did not dare to relax at all.
Who knows when these three people will get out and give the Ma family a slap in the face?
Or, what should they do if they fight to the death with the Ma family before they die?
Therefore, from time to time, Ma Chao, in addition to continuing to cause obstacles for these three families and making small harassment rumors, also pays attention to the Ma family's soldier recruitment, training and reorganization, equipment building and other matters.
Just in case the enemy attacks, the Ma family's fists can respond to their blows severely.
Therefore, this period of time is extremely busy and exhausting for Ma Chao.
If he does not consolidate and digest the acquired territory in advance, he will lose it later.
Even if they can barely hold on, the Ma family will be constrained everywhere.
Just like when they sent troops to Jingzhou and Liangzhou, they had few soldiers and lacked food, and they only tried to stop it.
The entire expedition process was like an old bachelor in bed worrying about whether he can do it or not. , there is no sense of enjoyment at all In the world, the most important thing is what is a human being, a human being, and a human being With people, we can produce food, build good weapons, save enough money, and fight for our lives.
In this way, only those who win the hearts of the people will win the world.
Although Ma Chao's understanding is so crude, the whole world is wiped out and Kyushu is leveled, and so on, it depends on such a simple and extremely practical person and heart.
In the second half of the first year of Xingping, the Ma family seemed to be living a prosperous life.
But in fact, the Ma family has reached its end.
Atop the fourteen states of the Han Dynasty, which were in constant turmoil, and under the watchful eyes of princes from all directions, the Ma family has been wandering in the cracks of war.
If Ma Chao does not seize this rare period of peace to recuperate, the Ma family will continue to slowly die in the flames of war like a chronic disease.
The branches and leaves are rooted in the roots.
In the same way, the Ma family can only bloom with a new and powerful posture and shine with compelling brilliance only after overcoming the pain of taking too big steps in the early stage.
But at the same time, because the early steps were too big, there were many remaining hidden dangers that needed to be adjusted and resolved as soon as possible.
In Ma Chao's view, although the Ma family has mobilized all its strength to deal with internal affairs, the Ma family now occupies so many counties that it is hard to say what needs to be done.
"Zi Hao, are you sure the Ma family can eat the Huns' one million kilograms of wool this time?"
Ma Chao asked, pinching his painful temples and frowning at Li Zihao's proposal.
Unlike other princes, Ma Chao invited merchants, civil servants and generals to discuss matters at the Shangshutai.
Regarding this point, although some civil servants who adhered to the ancient system were aggrieved, but as evidenced by Meng Da's generous business tax revenue account, they all had a hard time saying anything.
At this time, Ma Chao was discussing the wool trade between the Ma family and the Xiongnu.
At present, the Ma family's business model has been basically finalized: Li Zihao is responsible for the actual trade of the Ma family's states and counties; Guan Shanxue is responsible for the reopening of trade routes in the Western Regions; Yu Pan is responsible for the production, supply and regular auctions of the Ma family.
Above the three people are Fu Shou, who controls the entire Ma family's business, and Liu Yue, who is responsible for timely adjustments between the business plan and the Ma family's development plan.
By this time, it was already the third time that the Xiongnu had traded wool with the Ma family.
For the first time, the Xiongnu king just shipped tens of thousands of kilograms of wool for free in the hope of establishing diplomatic relations with the Ma family.
But when the Ma family's first batch of sweaters were sent to the Xiongnu as a return gift, Wang Huayu seemed to understand Ma Chao's thoughts and took the lead in wearing the Ma family's sweaters.
In that desolate place with bitter cold in winter, the advent of the Ma family sweater immediately alleviated the situation of the Xiongnu tribe who were as covered as bears in winter but still shivering from the cold.
Moreover, the first batch of sweaters sent by the Ma family were carefully designed by the Ma family's high-end tailors and made with reference to the traditional Xiongnu drapes.
Wang Huayu wore a sweater to the banquet for the first time and almost caused a commotion at the banquet.
While cursing the vixen Wang Huayu, the noble ladies of the Huns also put on sweaters.
Almost overnight, sweaters became a unique symbol of the Huns' nobles.
Some small tribal leaders were too embarrassed to go out of their tents to meet people because they did not have the Ma family's sweaters.
With Wang Huayu's help, the second time the Xiongnu king no longer provided wool for free.
Instead, he listened to Wang Huayu's advice, increased the selling price of wool, and traded with the Ma family.
This was done because Lao Wang thought it was too wise to exchange wool for the Ma family's coal, refined salt, tea and other necessities as Wang Huayu said.
But the Hun King didn't expect that the Ma family would sell back the sweater and secretly increase the price, making a lot of money.
Of course, this does not include the Ma family's past wealth plundered from the Huns' economy using coal, refined salt, tea and other necessities.
This time, what Ma Chao asked about was the third wool trade: Although the Ma family had initially opened the Xiongnu market, money begets money because money is always alive.
This time, the Hun Lao Wang shipped one million kilograms of wool at a time, and at the same time he doubled the original price.
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Ma Chao was worried about whether the Ma family would be able to afford it this time.
"Lord, I don't know much about this.
After all, I am just a passing god of wealth and don't care about money."
Seeing Ma Chao's sadness, Li Zihao hesitated in his tone.
He spread his hands and continued: "However, I know that Ma Chao's arsenal is in trouble for the second time."
At the time of the wool trade, textile technology had been improved with the promotion of hand-operated spinning wheels, which increased the speed of weft winding and yarn doubling, and increased the spinning efficiency several times.
Many women in Sili have begun to make profits from this. ” After saying this, Li Zihao's eyes began to shine with money.
After swallowing his saliva, he continued: "The arsenal has made improvements and innovations in the pedal loom, and has successively produced single-skirt single-heald skew looms, double-skid looms, and so on."
Advanced textile machines such as single-heddle bias looms and multi-heddle jacquard looms, especially the use of shuttles, greatly speed up the weaving speed and improve the weaving efficiency, and the jacquard machines can weave products with a variety of exquisite patterns. " At this point, Li Zihao's natural business talent made him unable to stop, and continued: "The sweater has just opened the Xiongnu market at this time, and now that winter is coming, the sweater is very important to the northern territory of the Han Dynasty and the frontier areas of the Western Regions.
But it is worth a lot of money.
There are endless business opportunities beckoning to the Ma family."
At this time, Li Zihao could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, his face flushed and he said excitedly: "My lord, the sweater trade route must not stagnate due to lack of funds."
After Ma Chao listened silently, he couldn't help but admire Li Zihao's business vision: I think back then, the Han Dynasty relied on the mulberry, linen and silk industry to spread workshops in Chang'an and Luoyang, with thousands of workers each, and tens of thousands of dollars a year.
There may be more than a thousand people in a family, and every family is richer than the official.
But now, listening to Li Zihao's wishes, the Ma family's profit from wool has actually vaguely opened up the beginning of the prosperity of that year.
Even, it is very likely to surpass that of the past
"Okay."
Ma Chao clenched his fist, turned to Fu Shou and said: "Shou'er, this time I'm trying to sell iron, but I also want to eat this batch of wool.
Remember, this is not just wool, but the Ma family's impact on the Xiongnu and the entire textile industry.
A war started” Then, after seeing Fu Shou's affirmative nod, Ma Chao turned to Guan Shanxue's proposal, and his brows that had just relaxed were deeply wrinkled again: "I originally thought that Li Zihao's proposal request was enough to make things difficult for the Ma family.
I didn’t expect you, Guan Shanxue, to be more whimsical.” s: Because Yinqiu’s family is disconnected from the Internet, tomorrow’s update may be delayed.
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