Chapter Fifty-Six: The Persian Horse Sihaike
Robert was thinking to himself about how to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
After a while, a young general dressed in peculiar armor walked into the royal court, followed by two warriors wearing the same armor, with a high nose and blue eyes, obviously not like a Han Chinese, and a little different from the Xianbei people.
The general had a Han face, extremely heroic, and if Robert could see that he actually brought a warrior in, he was a little unpleasant, and said in a deep voice:
"I asked the general to discuss the matter, why did the general bring armor?"
The young general motioned for the samurai beside him to go out, but the two samurai hesitated a little before retreating.
"The soldiers under his command don't understand Oriental etiquette, please forgive the king for any offense!" The young general apologized to Ruo Luo Bert Neng and made a Han etiquette.
"That's it, these are all trivial things, General Ma is too worried, this king doesn't have such a small belly!" If Robert could wave his hand, he wouldn't care.
That young general was none other than Ma Kang, who lived in the bald Xianbei tribe.
"The king is wise, I don't know what the king called me for?" Ma Kang raised his head and asked Ruo Luo Banoneng, who was neither humble nor arrogant, and his face was expressionless.
"General Ma promised this king to help this king attack Liangzhou, and now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Robert's eyes were shining, full of heat.
"Oh? But did the Western Army of Wei enter Shu? Ma Kang asked, as if he had already guessed what was going on.
"How do you know?"
If Robert can be a little confused, he has just received the information, and the Ma Kang troops are just guest troops living in the Xianbei tribe, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to get the information earlier than himself.
"My Ma family has lived in Xiliang for generations since General Fubo, although the resistance is now returned to the Persian State of the West Sea, but this Xiliang is also my hometown, how can there be no friends and relatives of the Ma family?" Ma Kang looked at Ruo Luoba's surprised eyes, and he was very proud.
"Xiliang Ma's house? I don't know who the former Shenwei Heavenly General Ma Chao is? "As soon as I heard that it was someone from the Xiliang Ma family, if Luo Banong could have guessed seven or eight points.
"It's the ancestor!" Ma Kang replied with a straight face.
"Hiss~, it turned out that after General Tian, this king was rude!" If Robert can gasp, the Ma family used to be very prestigious in Xiliang, and Ma Chao, the general of Shenweitian, is even more of a myth in Xiliang, although now that Ma Chao is deceased, the Ma family can no longer speak the same day as before, but the influence is still not to be underestimated.
If Robert can enter Liangzhou, if he has the support of the Ma family, it will be much simpler.
Ma Kang knew what Robert could think in his heart, smiled slightly, and said:
"The king wants to take Liangzhou, so I can naturally help you."
Since ancient times, if Robert could not believe that Ma Kang would help him for no reason, he asked:
"What benefits does General Ma want after the fact, the Xianbei warriors don't have so many roundabouts, you just say it."
Ma Kang shook his head and said slowly: "After the matter is completed, all the counties in Liangzhou will belong to the king, and I don't want any of them." ”
Robert could not help but be a little shocked when he heard this.
"Then why are you helping me?" There is no such thing as pie in the sky, and if Robert can not believe him, he will not want anything.
"I have only one request! I hope the king will agree. Ma Kang saw if Robert could believe in himself, so he said.
"Say it! What do you want? "Ma Kang doesn't want any of the eight counties in Liangzhou, if Robert can really not think of what Ma Kang wants, he is suddenly a little curious.
"I want the king to form an alliance with the ministers of the Western Shu Han Kingdom!" Ma Kang said word by word.
Robert stood up in surprise, and asked again, not believing his ears:
"Although Ma Chao, the ancestor of the Ru family, is the general of the Han Kingdom of Xishu, but the general, you have not moved to the West Sea, and now you are the concubine of the Persian State of the West Sea, could it be that the general still cherishes the homeland of Xishu?"
Ma Kang shrugged his shoulders when he heard Robert can ask like this, and said, "If the king thinks so, it is okay. ”
If Robert can easily believe that Ma Kang is already the concubine of the Persian State in the West Sea, with a supreme position, he heard in the early years that the Persian State has unified the West Sea, and the momentum is huge, Ma Kang is thriving in the Persian State, how can he still miss the homeland of Xishu, feelings and anything are never valuable.
"General Ma, let's open the skylight and say something, let me form an alliance with the Xishu Han Kingdom and become a vassal, what good will it do you?" If Robert could think about it, he still asked directly.
"The important thing is not that there is any benefit to me, but what is good to the king, the king enters Liangzhou, the Wei State will inevitably send an army to crusade, if you don't form an alliance with the Western Shu Han State, with the king's own strength, can you stop the Wei State's crusade army?" Ma Kang didn't save face for Ruo Luo Ba at all, and directly said the difference in strength between Xianbei and Wei.
"It's naturally okay to form an alliance, but why should I be a vassal to the Western Shu Han Kingdom, why can't I be the son of heaven of the Great Liang Kingdom, and sit on an equal footing with Cao Liu and Sun in the world, isn't it beautiful!" If Robert can talk more and more, the more excited he becomes, although it is a little unrealistic, but it does not affect his own imagination.
Ma Kang couldn't help but scoff a little, the husband was barbaric, and he also wanted to be the emperor and Cao Liu Sun to divide the world, and the Yan Kingdom of Gongsun Yuan in Liaodong was a lesson from the past.
"It is good for the king to have such ambitions, but he can't be in a hurry, Liangzhou borders with Xishu and Wei, and at the moment the king is not the opponent of any country, only an alliance is the king."
"If the king takes the Liangzhou of the Wei State, he will be on the same page with the Wei State, and he will naturally not be able to form an alliance with it, the Han State of Xishu is weak, and the alliance with the Xishu State is naturally unwanted, but the Xishu has inherited the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, how can he be willing to sit on an equal footing with the king, only to be a minister, Liangzhou is still the Liangzhou of the king, and Xishu is also passable on face."
Ma Kang's heart looked down on Ruo Luo Boneng, after all, he thought in his heart, and he still couldn't say it on the surface, but he still had to explain the power to Ruo Luo Neng in order to prompt him to form an alliance with Xishu.
Sure enough, if Robert could hear Ma Kang's analysis, he nodded approvingly, and mixed up with the position of King Xianbei, he would not be a fool, he would not know that the sky was so thick that he really planned to divide the world, thought for a while, and said:
"In this way, then it is just a vassal to the Western Shu Han State, but although most of the Western Army of the Wei State has entered Shu, it is still not good for me to eat the entire Liangzhou with my Xianbei 8,000 warriors, and I hope General Ma will help me!"
Ma Kang rebelled, walked to the table in front of the throne by himself, took out a sheepskin map from his bosom and spread it out, if Robert could immediately follow, Ma Kang pointed to the map and said:
"The eight counties of Liangzhou are all in the map, if you take Liangzhou, it is not possible to rely on the king's own strength, Longxi, Beidi, Shangjun, Anding, these four counties are all in the hands of the Western Shu Han Kingdom, and the general cannot touch it."