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If the Han Dynasty does not die, who can rule the world?

Only the imperial court!

For the sake of today's plan alone, the imperial court is just trying to survive in the gap between two behemoths, and the imperial court is actually not too weak compared to other princes. A Henan Yin, Cao Cao's Yanzhou and Liu Bei's Jingzhou together, are also behemoths connecting the three states.

The ambiguous relationship between the north and the Liang State for 20 years has made the imperial court have no intention of quelling the rebellion to the north, while Sun Jian in the south has ambitions for all the states, and there are many differences within the imperial court...... Cao Cao's life was not easy.

Today, however, a lot has changed inadvertently.

Because the imperial court has not exerted its strength for many years, it has become a puppet in the eyes of others, and it has also brought peace to Sanzhou. At least for now, whether Ma Yue or Sun Jian is considered Sun Jian, he has no intention of directly becoming an enemy of the imperial court...... They are going to skip the court and go straight to war.

Ma Yue wanted to pull Sun Jian into the water in Xuzhou, and Sun Jian planned to take this opportunity to break through the blockade of Liangguo in Yizhou and Xuzhou.

This will be a great war between the north and the south, and Cao Cao intends to take advantage of the fire.

hit Sun Jian's head and send it to Luoyang, and hit Ma Yue to seal the nickname of King Liangwu!

When the time comes...... Cao Mengde has the final say in this world, isn't it happy that the sea is peaceful?

It's just that it's never easy to be small and big, and Cao Cao wants to rely on a little strength of the imperial court to achieve his wishes...... The odds are slim, but Cao Cao knows very well that he will succeed.

Ma Yue thought that the court was a plaything in the palm of his hand and didn't need to pay attention to it; Sun Jian thought that the imperial court was poor and weak, and it would be destroyed when he overwhelmed it.

But Cao Cao believes that even if he only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, as long as the righteousness of the imperial court is still there, the final peace will be achieved!

After leaving the palace, Cao Cao went straight to the prime minister's shogunate and gathered his cronies to discuss a future war in Xuzhou or Yizhou.

The imperial court must take action, in the past, the leniency of Liangguo was due to the great power of Jiangdong, and Ma Yue always respected the imperial court more than Sun Jian; But now Jiangdong has been completely suppressed by the Liang State, and Jiangdong is worse than the Liang State in terms of territory, people, and wealth...... In other words, peace in the world is no longer a joke or a dream, but it has become a real thing.

If the imperial court doesn't make a move, let Ma Yue fight the whole world with his bare hands, where will the people still have a sense of identity with the imperial court? When the time comes, the world will not be really surnamed Ma!

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Cao Cao's court plans were not mentioned for the time being, and the situation in Yuzhou took a new turn.

Ma Dai, who led 5,000 Liangguo cavalry stationed in Yuzhou, has always been Ma Yue's nephew Ma Dai, who experienced hardships when he was young, surpassed Ma Chao, the most famous Ma Chao in history, compared to growing up in the early days, and even now it can be said that he is the first person in Ma's junior, and Ma Chao, who is dedicated to escorting King Liang, has a head of merit.

Ma Dai's positioning for himself is to dominate a state like his uncle did when he was young.

Yuzhou is a special place, in fact, even if the imperial capital is Sizhou, Yuzhou has always occupied the richest region in the world, and has always enjoyed an unparalleled noble status among the states of the world.

There is Peiguo and Yingchuan, which used to be the cultural and political center of the world, guarding the development of the Han Empire and continuously sending talents to Luoyang.

It is undoubtedly very difficult for Ma to spread his influence in Yuzhou, because the pride of Yuzhou people is even better than that of Sizhou.

Ma Dai's life here can be imagined, it is difficult and not easy.

Assassination, poisoning, and even rebellion...... Never heard of it.

Ma Dai felt for the first time that those loyal and righteous people were so hateful and hateful after leading the Yuzhou pastor of Liangguo, and he hoped more than once that it was his brother who led the Yuzhou pastor, Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi.

Because as a member of the Ma family who grew up in Luoyang when he was young, he had seen the prosperity and culture of Luoyang, and he learned the way of etiquette, and his character was more heroic in Xiliang, which made him a little paranoid in the way he handled some things...... It's almost silly.

For those who dare to assassinate him for the sake of Yuan, anyone who is captured alive ...... He didn't even execute any of them, and even built a prison in Shenting, Runan County, to hold them up.

Ma Dai actually can't have hatred in his heart for these people, it's more of a ...... Admire.

More than ten years after the fall of the Yuan family, these almost old men still hate the children of the Ma family, and even go forward to succeed each other, brothers to brothers, and fathers to sons...... Isn't that something to be admired?

But among these old cool people who followed him, he couldn't find the answer about loyalty.

Most of the old Liangzhou people's understanding of loyalty and righteousness is based on the changes in life, rather than the insistence on etiquette and righteousness...... If the Ma clan were to fall today, all the people of Liangzhou would probably set off a crazy wave of revenge in the world, but this would never be because the Ma clan was ruling them, but because the Liang king Ma Yue brought them a good life. If Ma is gone, this life will disappear, and they will even return to poverty with a lack of soldiers and short armor.

So they will take revenge.

Like the loyalty practiced by the righteous people of the Central Plains, it is the kind of 'you are my lord's family, so you die, I will avenge you, and if I don't succeed, my son will continue to pick up the sword I left behind until my revenge succeeds.'" It's a kind of loyalty that borders on mere simplicity.

Liangzhou people are more practical, maybe the effect of this revenge is the same, but as a Liangzhou person, Ma Dai knows very well what the difference is.

Because he has not experienced the loyalty of the Central Plains people.

Just like when he was still young, his uncle guarded Liangzhou as the captain of Huqiang, and Han Sui's rebels were in full swing and came to Yugu several times, at that time Ma Teng always put a sentence on his lips.

He said, 'The rebels in Liangzhou won a hundred battles with the wind, but once they encountered a big setback, they broke their courage. ’

Because only the people of Liangzhou can defeat the people of Liangzhou on the land of Liangzhou, even if it is the Bingzhou Army or the White Horse Army, the climate of the plateau is not something they can adapt to, as for the elite soldiers of the Central Plains, what is it? Can you eat it?

If the Liangzhou people are defeated by the Liangzhou people, they will most likely be convinced, and then give up avenging their family or even join the enemy...... Because victory in their minds often means a better life. Thirty years ago, this land was still burning, killing and looting, and you can't force them to believe in anything other than the respect of the strong.

Because of this, Ma Dai, a pseudo-state pastor, spent most of his time in Shen Ting Prison except for connecting with the great clan's heroes, and he couldn't kill these loyal people like his uncle.

People are different, if it was Meng Qi's brother who led the Yuzhou pastoral, Ma Dai would have sufficient evidence to believe that his brother would let the blood of the traitors in Yuzhou stain the two rivers of Hongyingshui and Yushui...... But he can't.

Because he's a horse.

Shen Ting Prison is not a prison, if you must treat this place as a prison, this is undoubtedly the best prison in the world to treat prisoners.

Usually the prison is one meal a day, but here, Ma Zhou Mu personally ordered three meals a day, just like the most elite army food in Liangzhou...... There were no fierce prison tyrants or fearsome jailers, just more than 900 servants.

Even the prisoners here have daily necessities such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, drums, and pipa according to their own preferences.

If you exclude the three large battalions of 500 armored troops stationed outside, this is simply a paradise on earth.

Everyone felt that it was very dangerous for Ma Dai to do this, and even Ma Yue sent messages one after another at the beginning of the establishment of Shen Ting Prison hoping that Ma Dai would stop this dangerous idea...... Where would anyone build a prison for more than 900 warriors, without cells but like a palatial mansion with no servants for everyone?

In addition to imprisoning their freedom and preventing them from contact with the outside world, the prisoners' lives were even a little better than outside.

But at Ma Dai's insistence, Ma Yue didn't say anything fiercely...... Just ordered Bao to lead another 5,000 armored troops to garrison Yuzhou.

Because Ma Yue read the sadness behind Ma Dai, a Liangzhou person, a descendant of the Ma family, living alone in Yuzhou, thousands of miles away from his hometown, although he married a wife and had children, but what kind of danger is that? Ma Yue didn't know, but the secret letter sent back by the wood-splitting warrior told him...... Yuzhou Mu built a Shenting prison to house the Assassins who were arrested after his assassination.

There were more than 900 of them, not counting the enemies who had already died under the strong bows and crossbows of the Covered Army.

How does it feel?

"Ma knows that you are all loyal and righteous people in the Central Plains, and Ma has no grudges or hatreds with you, but you want to get rid of Ma as soon as possible." Ma Dai nodded, sat on the high platform erected in Shen Ting Prison and said to the prisoners in the audience, "But Ma will not kill you, even if I know that if you leave here one day, you will still kill me with a sword, I still will not kill you...... This is not only because of when the wrongs will be retribution, but also because Ma does not want to let his hands be stained with the blood of loyalty. ”

The prisoners in the audience used to have their own identities, even in this unique Shen Ting Prison, many of them still maintained their original divine fire, and even many of them practiced martial arts every day, and their bodies were still stronger.

However, Ma Dai raised them in such an alternative way, maybe they are still full of hatred for Ma, but for the Yuzhou pastor on the stage, they don't have so much killing intent as they once did.

"Many of you assassinated Ma because of the blood feud between the Ma clan and the Yuan clan, which is indeed a deep hatred. Yuan Benchu made people kill my younger brother, but my younger brother who was not as weak as the crown died under the strong crossbow, and the crossbow arrow passed through the chest. Later, the Yuan clan was wiped out due to his uncle's revenge...... Then you will come and assassinate me. This is the birthplace of the Yuan family, and many of you are protégés of the Yuan family, so I don't blame you. ”

"But I have heard people say that Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms is the trend of the times, and Qin II's annihilation of Gaozu is also because of his injustice!" Ma Dai said, "The monarchs have received the favor of the Yuan family, so they died for the Yuan family, and returned their loyalty." And Ma repays grievances with virtue, serves the monarchs with loyalty, and does not ask you to repay you with loyalty, but only ...... Don't repay virtue with resentment, otherwise, why is Ma innocent? ”