Chapter 36 The Three Prefectures of the Pastoral Territory

In the future, Longdu is only afraid that it will be a noble place where the marquis walks everywhere, and the meritorious ones will compete for the title of marquis. Not to mention that the younger generation of meritorious service needs encouragement, and those who are not of high background also need rewards to capture loyalty, even the older generation of brothers who have guarded Ma Yue to this day, which one is less appropriate?

Ma Yue felt that his road to domination of the world was a bit like a villain, tearing down the courtyard walls of other people's houses and rebuilding his own high-walled compound on the ruins.

But sitting in this position, if you don't covet the world, you will become a stumbling block for others.

Only by defeating one enemy after another can you gain the space and soil for your own survival.

When he was a teenager, he always longed to deserve the love and respect of others, so he did not hesitate to gamble his life again and again to fight for a background.

At that time, he thought that he was looking for a stable life, but now he thinks about it like a joke.

With the steel knife as his companion and killing company, how can he be stable.

Ripping the earth as the king, ruling from the extreme west of the Wusun Kingdom all the way to the east of the land of seven thousand miles to the Great Wall of Youzhou, controlling the territory of twenty-seven countries, three states and one domain, he knew that the original people who did not have dreams are the most selfless.

However, people in this world often look down on people who have no dreams, and only they, the dreamers, will lead others to follow and create great things together.

"Your Majesty, please spread the word to the world in the name of King Liang, order the princes of the world to hang Sun Jian, and send elite soldiers and people with lofty ideals to serve as the shepherds of Yu, Xu, and Qingzhou, and the states do not need to be stationed too much, and five thousand elite soldiers of the Liang Kingdom are enough to control the states!"

On the second day after taking a concubine, Jia Xu stood in front of the gate of King Liang's courtyard and was full of excitement.

"Wenhe, what's wrong today, I think you haven't been fond of giving advice, it's good today, you don't need me to speak." Ma Yue smiled and yawned, put down the cloth that wiped his face, hung up and asked, "Temperance Sanzhou, what do you think are the chances of winning this matter?" ”

Ma Yue is a little unconfident about this, he has no foundation in Kanto, and he is already lucky to be able to win Jizhou. It is true that his military strength can dominate the world, but people's minds may not succumb to military strength. Now that the Jiangdong Sun clan has been conquering one after another, it is a bit against people's expectations, if he can let the people of the world see his Ma Yue's sincerity after a while, he thinks in his heart, and then it is the best time to pass the order to control the world at that time.

At this time, is it a little anxious?

"The king took Jizhou, all of which were poisoned by the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the early years of Jizhou, and then fell into the war for a long time, so the heroes of the friends have almost disappeared, so to take Jizhou, you only need to defeat General Gongsun." Jia Xu arched his hand, Ma Yue didn't dare to let the old man stand, and hurriedly invited him to sit under the poplar tree in the courtyard, and listened to Jia Xu continue: "If you want to take the three states, you will inevitably be hindered by the prestige of the king, and it will be difficult to move an inch, so the king must not enter the attack with strong troops, but need to use the imperial edict to connect the Haoqiang family to take charge of the state capital." ”

"Hehe, now is the best chance for you, but the candidate still needs to be considered."

Ma Yue nodded, looked into the distance, and connected the Haoqiang clan to take charge of the state capital?

In the eleventh year of Jian'an, Ma Yuebing went down to Yecheng and sent the head of the white horse general Gongsun Zan to Luojing.

The following year, Yuzhou recruited troops and horses, and the chariots that transported the armor and uniforms from the Liang State never stopped for a month, and the big moves continued. On the other hand, Luoyang invited Pei Hui to be the pastor of Xuzhou, Du Ji to be the pastor of Qingzhou, and Ma Dai to be the pastor of Yuzhou.

In the early summer of the 12th year of Jian'an, the military training exercises in Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Jizhou never stopped. Both Liu He in Youzhou and Si Li's court were terrified.

Although no one in the court said it explicitly, there was a wave of emotions brewing against Liangguo.

Because the battlefield in the south has ceased.

Because of the cooling in winter and the freezing of the river, the soldiers and horses of the Jiangdong Army attacked Yizhou for a long time and did not take down, but instead lost their troops and lost their generals, so they had to retreat to the four counties of Jingnan and the Yangtze River to defend without an inch.

Dong Zhuo received a letter from Ma Yue and ordered him to stay in Yizhou and rectify the soldiers and horses in Yizhou to guard against the counterattack of the Jiangdong Army at any time.

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Liangguo, Longdu.

Now sitting in Longdu is the general of Zhengxi Ma Play and Liang Guo Cheng Li, this year the Central Plains to Liangzhou moved in the most people, the entire Liang State from the state minister down to the officials in this once harsh and barren land busy feet.

The land in Liangzhou is as poor as ever, that is, it has been irrigated and reclaimed for more than ten years, and the grain output is still not outstanding compared to the fertile Jingzhou and other places.

What's more, terrible natural disasters are almost once in three or five years, and the hard work of the people is wasted in one time.

But this does not mean that Liangzhou is still poor. As the only channel between the Western Regions and the Central Plains, every brick of the city of Longdu is made of gold. Every year, more than 10,000 business trips travel from here to the Western Regions, or from the Western Regions to Longdu, and millions of goods are pushed to the Nine Cities and Eighteen Streets for people to trade. The business tax revenue of a single year supported the Liangguo in the two-front battle of Jizhou and Yizhou in the eleventh year of Jian'an.

The rewards of supporting business are endless, at least making Liangzhou, which had no money and no food back then, rich and rich.

For the people of the Central Plains, it doesn't matter if Liangzhou is rich or not, or whether it is as poor and destitute as before, what they need is stability!

What are those things outside the body compared to life?

Yizhou fought fiercely last year, except for the threat of the Jiangdong Army, all the internal counties were opposed, and the whole Yizhou was caught in a military disaster. Although there were strong reinforcements for the Liangguo army, it was only to repel the Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and they ignored the armies of the two countries in Yizhou except for Hanzhong, causing the people to be like fire and water.

The chaos in the world has been more than ten years since the death of the first emperor, and when it comes to the stability of the state and county, it should be Liangzhou. As Gyeonggi, the country of Liangguo, there is no place more stable than here.

Therefore, in the spring of the twelfth year of Jian'an alone, no less than 50,000 people have requested to move into Liangzhou, and this number continues to grow with time.

"What do we have to worry about in Liangzhou, you guys, just stay at ease, there is probably no war to fight this year!" Ma Qing, who was called the 'Little Liang King' by the people of Liangguo, got down from the wide martial arts arena shirtless, took the book handed by the attendant and sat in the pavilion, letting the two beauties wipe the sweat on their bodies. The book he was holding in his hand was Hanshu. Although he still kept getting into trouble occasionally, Ma Qing, who was only fifteen years old in winter, was used to reading all the time after playing the bow horse, and this was his life. Holding the book, he said without turning his head: "Next year or the year after, there will be a big battle between Liangguo and Jiangdong sooner or later, and then it will be time for our brothers to make meritorious deeds." ”

These boys are the real nobles of the Liang country, and they learn all day long to drill the arrangement of troops with archery and horses, and listen to the lectures on major national affairs, and there are only two real big things for them in the world, how to fight a war and how to govern the country. Other than that, all the things that ordinary people need to worry about have nothing to do with them.

There are three kinds of nobles, one is to fish and meat all day long, practice battle formations, in order to help the family regain its prestige in future wars. The other is to read poetry and books all day long, study the strategies of governing the country, in order to make the country more stable in the future.

The last is the heir of a huge country like Ma Qing, who learns leadership and decision-making. He is more tired than others, because he has to know more in order to lead and motivate others.

"No, brother, your father is done, but my father is not done yet!" Dong Yu has also grown up, and the face of the heir of the Marquis of Lintao is somewhat similar, with the same height and fitness, but his face is not as terrifying as Dong Lao'er. The young face has not been devastated by scars, but it has a bit of nobility. At this time, he was almost dressed like Ma Qing, showing his tendons and flesh bare-chested, holding the scroll and saying: "Sun Jian will never give me the opportunity for Liangguo to annex the world, so I think my father will have to fight again, just this year." ”

The young Jiang Wei sat cross-legged and silent, he was not like Dong Ma and the two of them moving and jumping on the Liangwang Mansion, his martial arts were all practiced with his own Zhuangzi outside the city. In this small group centered on the prince of Liangwang, Jiang Wei is now the most capable, in the early years, he made a bet with the merchants of the Western Regions to win a manor of his own, and now he recruits Zhuang Ke and even has his own caravan, which can be said to be not worrying about food and clothing.

"If you can't fight, Sun Jian won't be so stupid to pick this time to touch hard, not to mention that your father made Jiangdongjun suffer enough last year. Now Zhang Lu in Hanzhong has also attracted 10,000 ghost soldiers, I really can't understand why the very shrewd Zhang Tianshi gave his subordinates this name! Ma Qing tilted his head and said: "Bringing troops into your father's White Emperor camp can be described as a strong army, Sun Jian may create opportunities, but he will never use troops at this time." ”

Dong Yu asked in surprise, "What is Zhang Lu going to do?" I don't need him yet! ”

"What can you do, can you have any other thoughts besides killing Liu Zhang?" Jiang Wei, who had not spoken, smiled, he admired a wise man like Cheng Li, who played with the princes in applause without leaving the state capital, got up and said: "Cheng Gong intends to let Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang kill each other, Dong Gong is enough to hold Jiangdong in charge of the White Emperor, and a chaotic Yizhou is more beneficial to our Daliang!" ”

Jiang Wei is making a lot of nonsense, these children are used to making comments and predictions on the national policy of Liang Country and the general trend of the world.

At this moment, the armored rider from the gate of Liangguo Mansion came from stride, first saluted Ma Qing with his hand on his chest, and then said to Jiang Wei: "Jiang Lang, there is a child looking for you outside the mansion, with blood on his face and an urgent expression, do you want to let him in?" ”

"Come in, please!" Jiang Wei changed color when he heard this, so he said and ran out: "Forget it, I'll look for him." ”

Dong Yu saw that Jiang Wei was walking anxiously, so he also got up and was about to go out, but was stopped by Ma Qing, "Don't go, don't make trouble recently, the provincial Lao Tzu will not ask us to go to the battlefield if he gets angry again." ”

As he spoke, Ma Qing looked at Jiang Wei's figure running out of the mansion and said with a smile: "He is much more capable than the two of us, the commercial market or the official office can speak, nothing will happen." ”