Chapter 110: The most urgent task

Seeing the two girls in a blink of an eye, they were as good as one person. While feeling the change of women, Ma Chao interrupted, "It's getting late. Should the two ladies go to wash and then go to bed?"

Zou Fei straightened her chest and proudly pulled Cai Yan and said, "Sister Yan'er, let's go."

It turned out that the two girls were talking to each other in their whispers just now, but Zou Fei found that she was one year older, so she naturally became an elder sister.

"Brother Meng Qi, see you tomorrow!" Cai Yan looked at Ma Chao apologetically and followed Zou Fei.

Ma Chao reached out and touched the bridge of his nose, and smiled bitterly: "If this continues, I will die of desire sooner or later. It seems that I have to send someone to Tianshui to bring Diao Chan and Qiang Yan. Alas, if Sister Rong is here, it would be even more perfect."

That night, Ma Chao dreamed all night long. When he dreamed that Yang Rong, who had been away for a long time, suddenly returned to him from Jiangdong, a thunderclap in his ear suddenly woke him up.

"General, if you remember well, you summoned the civil and military generals of Chang'an yesterday and held affairs in the conference hall this morning. Now it is the end of Mao, and there are two quarters of an hour left. The meeting is about to begin. Please get up and wash up." When Ma Chao opened his eyes, he saw that Zou Fei and Cai Yan were wearing personal military uniforms and staring at him with a serious face.

Ma Chao patted his head, glanced at the two girls, and said in annoyance: "Zou Fei, what do you want to do? Why did you bring Wen Ji here too?"

"Report to the Major General, my subordinates will be your personal soldiers from today. Please give me instructions if you have any future." Cai Yan's controlled tone, dressed in a man's accent, and said in a deep voice.

Ma Chao was tempted by these two girls all night and dreamed of it all night. He didn't want to continue to hang out with them like this. In addition, there was something serious today. He frowned and said coldly: "Nonsense, I'm going to discuss matters, not to play with you at night, and all of them are back!"

This was the first time Zou Fei saw Ma Chao get angry, and she was so scared that she didn't dare to speak again. She just muttered in her heart: "What a fierce thing!"

"Brother Meng Qi, I'm sorry." Cai Yan thought that this would be recognized by Ma Chao, but unexpectedly got this result. He felt sad in his heart. He lowered his head and tried his best to hold back the tears in his eyes and said softly.

"If you really want to stay in the personal army, you should learn some military rules, as well as basic wound bandaging, logistics and other knowledge. Don't think that soldiers can only play swords and have more things to learn. Learn carefully in the future. If one day I come to inspect and find that you can't answer, don't blame me and drive you out." Ma Chao smiled bitterly and finally said letting go.

"No!" The two women responded from anger to joy, and immediately went to bring Ma Chao food and toiletries.

After breakfast, Ma Chao walked to the conference hall with his head held high.

"I've seen the young master!" In the hall, civil and military generals saluted in unison.

Ma Chao looked around the generals and said, "You guys, sit down!"

"Derong (Zhang Ji), you can report it first." After the generals sat down, they asked.

"No!" Zhang Ji stood up and bowed, "Young master, as of yesterday afternoon, there were 1.477834 people registered in Yongzhou."

"The population moved from Sizhou this time is more than 580,000. After more than 20 days of settlement, 70% of the population has now been solved, and the land has been redistributed. I believe that in another half a month, they can start production."

"It's just that the grain and grass in the warehouse are less than twenty days needed. If it weren't for the shopkeeper of the city's business "Peakma Pavilion", who had donated 100,000 stones of grain a few days ago, we would have been out of food, but now spring plowing has just begun. When the first season is bumper, it will take at least three months to wait for the bumper grain harvest. Although we have been out for more than ten days, there is still no news. It is estimated that whether we can buy grain is still a problem."

The food presented by the Pegasus Pavilion was naturally arranged by Ma Chao to do it. Ma Yi had also reported it to him, and he knew it.

After listening to Zhang Ji's report, Ma Chao still appreciated his performance very much, so he nodded and said, "Derong, you have done these things well, thank you for your hard work during this period."

Zhang was recognized by Ma Chao and couldn't help but feel relieved. He knew that his busy days were not in vain.

Guo Jia pondered: "Ming Gong, we cannot buy food. It is probably because of the hostility of our princes. Only now, we can only reduce the food supplied by half from now on, and inform the entire Yongzhou that it is strictly forbidden to resell food and raise prices. If any illegal businessmen are found, they will be severely punished, and even beheaded."

"To be fair, the matter of reducing food will be implemented from us generals and officials. From now on, except for the necessary guards, the rest of the soldiers can be sent to the fields to help the people farm, eat and live together. We must let the people see that we are one with them, so that the military and civilians can work together to overcome difficulties together.

"In this way, forty days of food can be used forty days. In addition, please ask the lord to draw some of the food from Tianshui, even if it can last for half a month, it will be beneficial to us."

Jia Xu also echoed: "Young Master, the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Qiang last year were able to live a stable life under your protection. If the young master wrote a book and went to borrow some cattle and sheep and food, and Chengji returned them to their food, I believe that the chiefs of all ethnic groups in the Western Qiang should agree."

Ma Chao nodded and pondered for a while, and realized that the words of Guo Jia and Jia Xu were just right, so he said: "It is arranged according to the words of the two military advisors. However, one thing to remember is that when soldiers garrison the land, don't forget to rectify military discipline and strengthen education. You must never harass the people."

"Wenyuan (Zhang Liao), Gao Shun, you two are responsible for the military farming."

"Junyi (Zhang He), you immediately lead a thousand light cavalry to Tianshui, ask the Empress Dowager to move to Chang'an, and be responsible for urging food and grass."

"De'an (Zhang Rui), you will go to Wuguan to take action immediately and replace General Zilong and come back."

Ma Chao looked at the generals solemnly, and issued several general orders in one breath, distributing all military affairs.
Chapter completed!