After these few years of development, Ma tribe did not only rely on trade to develop.
The current Ma tribe had close to a thousand mu of fertile land.
There were thousands of people working for the Ma family every year.
There were more than 400 servants.
Of course, slaves were not the same as slaves.
Ever since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it had been called a feudal dynasty. Only the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties were considered slavery.
In the past, slaves had no human rights at all. They were like livestock.
The so-called slaves now referred to commoners without household registration.
It was equivalent to a long-term worker. They had to take care of food and accommodation. Those who did not have a wife even had to find a wife. When they gave birth, they even had to find a midwife.
Most of Ma tribe's servants were Qiang people.
In order not to starve to death, he would rather be a servant in Ma Clan just to have a full meal.
The Ma Clan had an entire street in Di Dao.
The current business involved all aspects.
There was a blacksmith shop that mainly forged farming tools for the people. They could also forge some long and short sabers.
However, in Ma Feng's eyes, the quality was just average.
Cloth shop, coarse cloth, silk and satin.
However, in a poor place like Liangzhou, coarse cloth was still the best seller.
Apart from the grain produced by their own fields, the grain shops also bought it from the merchants in the east of the country at a low price.
Roughly half of Longxi's food was provided by the Ma Clan.
This was because the Ma Clan did not make money from grain.
This was also the reason why the Ma Clan always had conflicts with the other clans of Di Dao. It was because the Ma Clan had cut off their most profitable route.
In the past, in Longxi, a load of grain cost more than three hundred coins, but the Ma family's grain was only sold for more than two hundred coins.
Just the Ma Family's business in grain alone made the Ma Family famous in the entire Liangzhou Province. Of course, there were also many who hated the Ma Family.
As for the Ma Clan's Patriarch, Ma Teng, his personal reputation in Di Dao was like the sun at noon.
The Ma family still had a horse farm.
The horse farm was not in Di Dao, but in Longsang City.
Longsang City was a small city between Zhang County and Xianling Qiang, and it did not have many people.
This had been built before the Ma Family moved to Di Dao. Although it was a little far from Di Dao, it had been operating.
Ma Teng had built the horse farm not to make money, but to let his brothers have horses to ride. He did not expect the business of the horse farm to be getting better and better.
There were more than a thousand horses on the horse farm, and nearly two hundred servants were tending to them.
He also hired 1,000 guards from Lei Bo.
More than a thousand horses were a lot of assets. It would not do if there were too few people guarding them.
The Ma Family was able to reach their current stage not just because of Ma Teng.
Ma Feng's second uncle, Ma Yi, had contributed greatly.
For example, moving Di Dao and developing the business in many ways was proposed by Ma Yi. He had great foresight.
Even Ma Feng was surprised by his second uncle's business acumen.
However, Ma Yi was still quite low-key. He only gave Ma Teng a rough development route and did not care about anything else. He only studied at home and could be described as not leaving the house.
After having money, Ma Feng's second uncle did not have any other requests. He just asked Ma Teng to make bamboo slips for him. The more, the better.
Ma Yi had so many bamboo slips in his house that he needed to use a single room to store them. It was enough to show how much he liked reading.
Ma Feng slowly understood.
In history, it seemed that his second uncle had contributed a lot to why his father had been able to fight with Han Sui, who was known as the Nine Winding Yellow River, for so long.
The fact that Ma Teng had not suffered any losses before he entered the court as an official and could fight back and forth was enough to show how capable Second Uncle Ma Feng was.
Ma Chao was already four years old. He had a strong head and a strong brain. He was very cute and had a little elegance to him. The person he liked the most was Ma Feng.
On the other hand, Ma Teng did not like Ma Chao very much. He always said that Ma Chao looked too delicate, like a little girl.
This made Ma Feng very speechless about Ma Teng's aesthetic standards.
Let's talk about the first zero Qiang.
It was a medium-sized tribe with a population of 50 to 60 thousand.
In recent years, under Lei Bo's wise leadership, the population had reached nearly 100,000.
Nearly one-third of the Qiang people in Longxi were Xianling Qiang.
The Qiang tribes weren't peaceful. They fought with each other from time to time, and there were often extermination battles.
The big fish ate the small fish, and the small fish ate the shrimps. This was the norm for the Qiang people.
In the past few years, the Xianling Qiang had expanded wantonly, becoming the largest tribe in Longxi.
There were still four years left. There were only four years left. It was not enough. These forces were simply not enough.
Ma Feng still felt that Ma tribe's development was still too slow.
Especially when compared to the Han Family of Jin City, they were nothing.
According to historical records, Han Sui and Bian Zhang were forced to rebel.
But was it really that simple?
Did he really think that he could do whatever he wanted just because he was a noble?
Han Sui was able to get rid of his collaborators one by one and firmly control the army of tens of thousands of people. What kind of joke was this?
The Han Clan had 5,000 customers and 10,000 servants.
How could such a force be threatened to rebel?
Han Sui just wanted a nice name. Even if the rebellion failed, he could still have some buffer space.
Ma Feng had never heard of a person who was forced to rebel. If he could become the absolute boss, wouldn't his subordinates have already chopped Han Sui into meat paste?
However, it was not that easy to catch up to the Han family.
The Han family was in Jin City because of the hard work of several generations, and the Ma family was still too weak. It would take a long time for them to catch up.
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