Mu\Can\Wenxue: Outside Runan City, a man and a woman are standing on horses.
The man is handsome and powerful, the woman is delicate and graceful, and the horses beside them are extremely handsome.
The people who are going in and out of the city can't help but look sideways and can't help but look at them.
I can't help but admire what a wonderful couple they are.
It's a pity that these two immortal figures who seemed to be ignorant of other people's fireworks were stopped by a small city gate order.
"The Ma family has been under the control of your sister Yue'er and Fu Shou for more than a year.
The Ma family business under Zhang Yupan's supervision, Li Zihao in Jinyang, and Zhen Yan in Weijun have all recovered to 60-70% of what they were two years ago, while Guan Shanxue You even expanded your business outside the Western Region, and you didn’t even have four coins to enter the city.”
Faced with Diao Chan's accusation, Ma Chao felt ashamed.
Indeed, as Diao Chan said, after being granted the title of King Yong, agriculture under Ma Chaozhi will not improve much in the short term.
As a result, he focused his development entirely on business in the first year.
Although war is a very expensive and loss-making business, fortunately it only burns strategic materials.
Other non-strategic materials such as tea, cement, bricks, glass, silk, etc. have not been greatly affected.
As soon as the war stopped, several businesses and carriages in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the Ma family began to operate at full capacity.
In order to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, Ma Chao even proposed the idea of establishing a logistics station and vigorously promoted it.
This inn has various functions such as postal service, highway service area, cargo transfer station, logistics center, espionage, etc.
It uses a huge network of commercial tentacles to closely connect the vast Ma family into a whole.
Later, this emerging thing that broke away from the Han Dynasty system gradually extended its tentacles to the political field.
From bottom to top, Ma Chao was regularly reported to Ma Chao on the progress of the implementation of the New Deal under the rule, folk customs, fair and rainy weather, official assessment, and other all-encompassing matters. intelligence.
Especially in Bing and Hebei, because of the existence of the inn, the entire shadow system began to gain a firm foothold, and began to pull out Jing'an Cao's stronghold agents layer by layer.
After the entire economy under his rule was revitalized, Ma Chao began to be dissatisfied with the exchange of goods with the nomadic people in northern Saibei.
Under the leadership of the experienced butler Guan Shanxue, the Ma family started another hollowing out activity since Zhang Qian.
When he returned at the end of the year, Guan Shanxue told Ma Chao that this time his westward march would reach the great countries in the Western Regions such as Qiuci, Yuzhi, Kangju, Wusun, Shule, Yuezhi, Shanshan, Cheshi, etc., using silk and ceramic belts.
After returning a large amount of property, everyone in the caravan was beaming with joy and grinning from ear to ear.
Since then, the east and west markets of Chang'an City have been prosperous, and wines from the Western Regions, Dawan horses, various gemstones, and jade that have not been seen for many years have reappeared in the market.
Of course, business taxes have also begun to increase significantly.
Ma Chao was so happy that he immediately rewarded Guanshan Snow.
At the same time, after a good year of Guanshan Snow, he went on an envoy to the Western Regions again.
Therefore, although the Ma family does not seem to have done much this year, it has made quite a splash in making a fortune.
Compared to Cao Cao, who had to organize a professional team of tomb robbers to make money from dead people in order to raise military expenses to send troops to Qingzhou, the Ma family played it openly and the result was that they were extremely rich.
But although the entire Ma family is rich, Ma Chao never takes money with him when he goes out.
This time I sneaked out without any bodyguards, so naturally I didn't even have a ringing copper coin with me.
And Diao Chan is obviously not a good wife who is diligent in running the house, and she still doesn't have a single burden on her body.
Each person has to pay two copper coins to enter the city.
Poor Ma Chao and Diao Chan, two big figures who have left a great reputation in history.
This time I am afraid they will direct a tragedy of Qin Qiong selling his horse.
"Cicada, do you want to sell elephant dragons or red rabbits?"
Ma Chao said with a crying face.
He came to Runan this time just to secretly investigate the development of Runan County in the past year under Liu Bei.
Therefore, he does not want to reveal his identity for the time being.
Of course, if Liu Bei knows that he cannot enter the city because he has no money, then he, King Yong, will be too shabby.
Before Diao Chan could reply, the elephant dragon on the side sneezed hard and looked at it with dissatisfaction.
It was not stupid.
He knew that even if Ma Chao had ten courages, he would not dare to touch a hair of the red rabbit.
But just this sneeze attracted one person's attention.
Ma Chao was comforting the elephant dragon when suddenly he heard someone say: "This horse is a famous horse from Dawan.
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It travels thousands of miles and has a pure bloodline.
You must bear the pain and part with me."
Ma Chao looked up and saw that the man was also dressed as a general, with twenty or thirty guards behind him, and he knew that his identity might be exposed.
When Ma Chao took a closer look at the general, he saw that the man who spoke was in his mid-twenties, about seven feet seven inches tall, with a fair face and a dignified appearance.
In particular, his arms were very long.
Ma Chao took a closer look at his index finger and saw that there were calluses on the two-inch knuckles, so he concluded that this person was a good shooter with ape-arms.
"I just made a joke.
This horse lives and dies with me, and we share adversity, how can we really let go of him?"
Although he could tell that he was a member of the same team, but when they met by chance and he was wearing Liu Beijun's standard armor, Ma Chao had no intention of talking to him. .
But Ma Chao wanted to hide, but the man suddenly turned over and dismounted, immediately fell to his knees, clasped his fists and praised: "Uncle Chen is here to ask for the thief captain Chen Dao, and I pay my respects to the thousand-year-old King Yong."
Chen Dao's behavior immediately caused a sensation in front of the city gate.
Especially the city gate commander who had not looked at Ma Chao before, his face turned pale with fear.
As Chen came to the soldiers behind him, he fell to his knees and kept saying the words of King Yong to spare his life.
As soon as the soldiers knelt down, the common people who didn't know what was going on also knelt down one after another.
Ma Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw this: "Chen is here, Chen Shu is here."
From Chen to Chen Shuzhi, he became Liu Bei's subordinate when Liu Bei was in Yuzhou.
He followed Liu Bei to fight in all directions.
His reputation was second to that of Zhao Yun, and he was known for his loyalty and bravery.
During the period of the Empress of Shu, Chen was promoted to the general of Zhengxi, and was granted the title of Tinghou.
He succeeded Li Yan in guarding Yong'an, but died of illness in office.
Later generations praised Chen Dao for "conquering the West and being loyal to the enemy, selecting soldiers during the unification period, and being a fierce general."
Ma Chao did not expect that at his first stop in Runan, he would meet such a brave and resourceful person.
It's a pity that Chen Dao has joined Liu Bei, which makes Ma Chao feel a little disappointed.
However, he still exempted everyone from the ceremony and personally helped Chen to stand up.
Ma Chao was not at all relieved that Chen Dao could recognize his identity.
After all, the red rabbit behind Diao Chan is too eye-catching.
And in the whole world, the only person who can own Red Rabbit and is not yet Lu Bu's uncle's age is himself.
But when he thought about why he would have to explain why he passed through the city without entering, Ma Chao could only smile bitterly.
"I was ordered to come to the city gate to welcome Master Zirou into the palace, but I didn't expect to meet His Highness King Yong.
It was really an unexpected surprise."
Seeing that Ma Chao had no pretense at all and helped him stand up, Chen Dao couldn't help but wonder about the purpose of coming to the city gate. tell.
Only then did Ma Chao realize that the soldiers behind Chen were all guards of honor.
Then his eyes flashed and the corner of his mouth curled up: "Since Lord Kuai Bo is coming, I will wait with General Chen."
After saying this, Ma Chao glanced at Diao Chan intentionally.
Diao Chan naturally knew what Ma Chao meant.
Although it was undeniable that Ma Chao came to Runan because he wanted to see the heroine of his previous love affair, but at the same time Diao Chan also knew that the general trend of the world in the future would be in Jingzhou.
Even if Ma Chao comes to Runan in person, it cannot but be said that he does not have this consideration in mind.
However, understanding is understanding, but since I followed this time, I naturally had a plan in mind, so I rolled my eyes at Ma Chao and ignored his little cleverness.
And just when Ma Chao was about to rush to the city with a bitter look on his face, a burst of smoke suddenly appeared outside the city gate.
Then a cry of surprise came.
Looking closely, Ma Chao saw a single-column carriage rushing towards him, with dozens of cavalry chasing after him.
The war horse was frightened and saw that Chen Dao had already put into battle formation.
The driver was frightened and could not help shaking the reins in an attempt to stop the horse.
Unexpectedly, he committed another taboo in driving a carriage.
Just listen to the neighing of the carriage horse, the wheels slide across the bluestone ground, the whole carriage rumbles and rolls to the ground.
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Ma Chao grabbed Diao Chan's waist and flew past him.
He barely managed to avoid it, but the hem of his shirt was pinned down by the overturned carriage.
The driver was also thrown out of the car and hit the wall beside him, motionless.
As soon as the incident stopped, Ma Chao couldn't help but look back at Chen Dao: "How come Jingzhou Kuai Liang likes such a provocative way of appearing?
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