Chapter 2 Horses Resist the World
In the first year of the year, late November.
The weather in Liangzhou this year is very strange, it seems that there will be no snow all winter, and the white hair wind that rolls up in the north blows the chapped skin on people's faces.
"Uncle, if you want me to say let's go back, let's go to Longxian to suffer this crime." Liangzhou wild horses grow long hair in winter, and the people of Liangzhou are the same, wrapped in thick armor and look like an old man lying on the back of a horse. Dong Huang led the horse around the ice edge on the ground and complained: "Our state herd will really give birth to cubs, who knows if we can survive this winter." ”
It's strange to say, who in Liangzhou would dare to have a child at this time? The newborn child will not survive if he has white hair. But their state pastor dared, no, in the cold winter months, a frontier guard like Dong Zhuo had to rush to Longguan to congratulate his child.
"What are you talking about, bastard?" Dong Yan immediately scolded, and raised his hand to beat Dong Huang. "Even if he is not an envoy, he is still your uncle, no big or small!"
"Uncle He's not as old as me!" Dong Huang is not afraid of him, who can make him afraid in the entire Liangzhou, only Dong Zhuo! Whenever he saw his uncle's vicious slumped nose and big mouth, he felt palpitations for no reason, but fortunately, Dong Zhuo was the closest to him in the whole clan, and it was better than his own son. Who can he be afraid of? "Tell me to call a child an uncle? Uncle, you might as well kill your nephew. ”
"Okay, don't talk too much." Dong Zhuo poked his head out of the car and said in a gentle tone that was extremely difficult to hear: "Huang'er, you are right, he is younger than you, but he is a state pastor. When you see him, you will understand, he is not as old as you, but Wen Taowu is far more than you. Therefore honor him and call him uncle. ”
With that, Dong Zhuo sat back in the car, and the car squeaked desperately because of his movements. He was wearing the cotton clothes sent by Ma Yue from Longxian, and he was extremely warm. Dong Zhuo stroked his stomach, this old bone has been idle for a year, and with the fat on his body is increasing day by day, as well as his worries and anger about the future.
Niu Fu is his son-in-law, and he entrusts Niu Fu with a heavy responsibility like a son, but this heavy responsibility hurts him.
After waiting too long, he was going to see Ma Yue, the hatred in his heart had been suppressed for too long, and he had to get out.
His son-in-law had his arm cut off like an animal by a wolf cub, but he couldn't do anything?
Just as he was marching on the difficult road, the nine thousand soldiers and horses of Wudu County had already made the final preparations, and he didn't care whether Ma Yue wanted to do it this time, whether he agreed or not. He waited for a whole year, but the man surnamed Ma did not have the slightest sense of progress, and even took his advice as a fart. Buried in the canals in various counties all day to buy grain, or hid in Zhangjiachuan to study his little things.
Ma Yue had no respect for himself, and the young state pastor ignored his deep hatred.
If the governor cannot preside over the overall situation, the hatred must be resolved by himself. In the minds of the old cool people, there is only one way to resolve hatred, blood. Blood debt and blood repayment!
The man named Zhang Liao cut off one of Niu Fu's arms, and Dong Zhuo was going to crush him and scatter his ashes!
This is the code of conduct of the old cool people.
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The fifth day of the lunar month.
The ditch west of Longxian County was frozen, and the lonely overturned car stood beside it, allowing the cold wind to blow across the earth over and over again. The horse teams on the ice seem to have never stopped, and the people of the nearby counties of Hanyang, the Hao clan of Anding County, the military households of Beidi County, the Yingjie of Wudu County, the rangers of Jiuquan, the Lijing people of Zhangye, and the Qianghu of Daxue Mountain, all kinds of horses carried all kinds of men to gather in Longxian.
Today is the day of the full moon of the little master in Liangzhou.
The Longxian Prefecture Pastoral Mansion has already been lit up, and a strong bow is hanging on the side door. In this era, boys had to hang a bow on the left door, and girls had to hang a scarf on the right door to show the child's gender.
It's a boy, and the horse has a back.
After Ma Chao, Ma Xiu Ma Tie successively joined the Covered Army, and they joined the army with the elite men recruited from all over the country, and now the Covered Army has reached 3,000, and the armoured horses are all available, counting the troops under Ma Yue who can compete with the Flying Bear Army. Of course, whether it is one-on-one or two armies against each other, the armored army that has been in the army for two years will not be the opponent of the Flying Bear Army.
Ma Chao, who led the team, stood at the door, hooking up with his second brother Ma Xiu and pulling his shoulders, while the fifty armored sergeants who were really in charge of defense were stationed in the entire prefecture and the governor's office, holding swords and spears and staring at every guest who congratulated them.
"I hugged Ma Qing on the day he was born, it was crumpled and ugly." Ma Chao looked around lightly, tilted his head and smiled at Ma Xiu: "The eldest nephew also farted, which stinks." ”
"Really?" Matthew had a disgusted expression on his face, as if he didn't believe Ma Chao's words.
"It's still fake, my uncle told me that you were like that when you were born, haha." Saying that, Ma Chao scratched his head, "Uncle also has a queen, so we should hurry up and get married." ”
Several brothers are not young, Ma Chao is twenty-three this year, Ma Dai is twenty-two, Ma Xiu is twenty-one, and even the youngest Ma Tie is fifteen. A bunch of juniors of the Ma family have all reached the age when they should get married.
"Whose girl does my brother want to marry? I think Uncle Cheng's sister Yu'er is very good. Matthew squeezed his eyes and smiled: "Do you want to ask an adult to talk about a matchmaker?" ”
Yu'er is Cheng Yin's daughter, the old pillars of the Ma clan were the first to have children Cheng Yin and Cheng Yi, Gan Ning and others also married wives one after another in this year, and Yang Feng even got a daughter Yang Xiang before Ma Yue.
"Nope." Ma Chao said with a serious face: "First of all, I want to ask the adults to propose relatives as matchmakers, and I also want to invite my uncle to go." Secondly, you say hello to Xiao Tie, none of you can marry a Qiang girl, you want to find a daughter of the Han family, you know? ”
As he spoke, Ma Chao suddenly felt ...... If you marry a Qiang girl, it seems to be good.
Ma Chao has grown up, although he still wants to fight Ma Teng to the end, but marrying a Qiang girl as a wife also has his own ideas. He is a Qiang person, and if he marries a Qiang girl again, the child will basically have no Han family characteristics. He didn't know if his uncle's ambition was to defend the Han family as he was doing now or to take advantage of the chaos, if his son was a Qiang...... You can only be a general.
The uncle treats himself like a biological father, and he can control himself, but he may not be able to control the child...... His child is likely to be twenty years older than the little master of Liangzhou in the future, and Ma Chao can't let his family have any problems.
In the governor's mansion, the generals under Ma Teng and Ma Yue, as well as Han Sui, Zhi Wudai and other small warlords from all over the country gathered together and chatted around the stove. Nominally, it is the full moon of the eldest son, inviting everyone to come over, but in fact, this is a gathering of military and political leaders from all over Liangzhou, calming everyone's minds and pulling feelings and reminiscing about the old elements.
"Envoy, this cotton is still so wonderful, a cotton jacket is warmer than three or five robes." Zhang Shiping touched left and right, Ma Yue planted cotton seeds on his own land, and when the cotton was ripe, he asked Liu Bad to harvest it, make clothes and distribute it to the people in Liangzhou, almost everyone who could name it, and the rest was made into sleeveless cotton clothes and given to the armored army. Those people are his heart.
If someone else said this, they would definitely have said it, but Zhang Shiping was a businessman, and these fighting men looked down on him and were silent one by one. Ma Yue, who was still holding a wooden stick sticky animal glue by the fire, raised his head and said with a smile: "Everyone likes it, wait for next year to plant cotton more clearly, and in less than three years, we can wear cotton jackets in all Liangzhou." ”
"Envoy, this is also a way for us to make money." Zhang Shiping said with stars in his eyes: "Our cotton clothes and jackets can be worth 10,000 yuan, and in a secluded and cold place, there are also dignitaries and nobles in Sizhou!" ”
"How dare you ask for it?" Ma Yue's hand that glued the bow arm shook and asked, "I remember that a leather jacket is only 5,000 yuan, if it is worth 10,000 yuan, where can the people of Liangzhou afford to wear it?" ”
"The people? The envoy is really broad-minded, this thing is like a robe, do you want everyone in Liangzhou to wear a Qiu brocade? Zhang Shiping smiled: "That's impossible." Besides, if you have the people in mind, you can also do this, cotton clothes are given to the governors of the states and counties first, a total of more than 100 pieces, the so-called upward and downward effect, this thing will be in short supply, subordinates can find merchants from all over the country to trade, and the bulk sale can allow us to get a lot of money. After a year and a half, if you sell the cotton clothes at a low price in the state and county, won't you be able to get money and win the hearts of the people? ”
"Well, you're right. First of all, tell the order of cotton planting to the local Taishou. Send some seeds over next spring. "Ma Yue lowered his head and pasted the bow piece, which was a bow made by a father for his son, and the materials were all good materials." I'll leave it to you. ”
At this moment, outside the door, Ma Xiu pushed the door in and said, "Uncle, Wudu Dong Taishou is here." ”
"Oh, Brother Dong is here, please come in." Dong Zhuo also came, and all the governors of Liangzhou were gathered at this time, Ma Yue had been waiting for Dong Zhuo for a long time, and he wanted to raise troops.
Not only Dong Zhuo, but Ma Yue also wants to raise troops for revenge.
"Brother Zhong is here, haha." Ma Yue put down his bow arm and got up, and saw Dong Zhuo come in with a few familiar henchmen and generals with big bellies, so he smiled and said: "It seems that Brother Dong is quite comfortable in Wudu, and he has worked hard all the way, so sit down and drink some warm soup." ”
Dong Zhuo scanned everyone left and right with heavy steps, a vicious face was as cold as frost before it regained a little warmth when it was finally fixed on Ma Yue's face, and almost suddenly burst into a burst of laughter, "Haha, what's so hard about this, let someone hug the eldest nephew, tell you, Dong Lao Er doesn't have a son yet, let the old man see where Xiao Qing'er is!" ”
Dong Zhuo knew that Ma Yue had high hopes for this son.
Qing, upward lifting, with a great responsibility.
Ma Yue waved his hand and said, "My son is not in a hurry to see it, it doesn't matter if I give my brother another one." My son is your son, brother sits first, I have a major matter to say about the whole of Liangzhou. ”
"Oh, it's a coincidence, San Lang, Dong also has a big thing to say." Dong Zhuo didn't make any more noise, sat on the ground with his head held high and said, "San Lang, I want to send troops and annex the state." ”
"Send troops and annex states?" Ma Yue scratched his face and said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, they are all the same dogs, brother, I want the entire Liangzhou to declare war on Yuan Shao." I've been waiting for a long time, no less than you can endure. Yuan Shao's wolf ambition dared to change the name of the year to the first year of the beginning, and this time he wanted to return my King Qin...... Brothers, my Ma Yue is not afraid of being pointed out by thousands of people, but this is a war in one state against the world, it may be protracted, it may not be one in ten, and it may be over in Liangzhou after the battle. But I'm going to fight...... The Emperor had been waiting for a year and could not continue to keep him waiting. ”
Dong Zhuo took the lead in clapping his hands and laughed loudly: "It's a good state to resist the world, resist!" Nine thousand soldiers and horses are ready to go in Wudu, Yuan Shao is yours, Ding Yuan is so-and-so, Lao Tzu wants to crush him to ashes! ”
"This war will begin in the second year of this year until my head is different, or the year name is changed!"