Wuxi Man lived in the mountains under difficult conditions, the people were fierce, and often fought against the imperial court by force because of the excessive burden of the government, in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, there were records:

"Guangwu is prosperous, and Wuling is particularly prosperous. Twenty-three years after the establishment of the military, Jingfu Xiang one-way according to its danger, Dakou County. ”

Ma Jian was a little strange in his heart, although Shamoke saved himself, but with his understanding of his brother Ma Liang, he must have repaid.

At that time, in the big family, the interests of the family came first! The education that the children of the family have received since childhood is to glorify their ancestors!

Therefore, just using snake medicine to save Ma Yan, Ma Liang will not change his itinerary for this reason and stay here for a long time.

Seeing Ma Tan's inquiring gaze, Ma Liang said in a deep voice:

"I stayed in Shajiazhai to help Shamoke, not entirely because he saved your life to repay the favor, nor because my friendship with Shamoke has become deeper and deeper in the past few days, but because in this Shajiazhai, there will be a big event, on the Ninety-ninth Double Ninth Day in a month, the Wuxi barbarians will elect their barbarian king here."

Ma Liang did not continue, but stopped and let Ma Jian digest the news.

Ma Liang still quite recognizes the intelligence of his younger brother, their brother is a prodigy in the Ma family, he should also be able to see the benefits, and he can also save himself a lot of tongues.

When Ma Tan heard that Shamoke was going to compete for the barbarian king, a vague impression suddenly appeared in his mind, as if he had already known in his dream that Shamoke was the barbarian king of the Wuxi barbarian generation!

When Ma Tan heard that Shamoke had not yet become a barbarian king, he couldn't help but light up, and the commonly used noun "potential stock" in dreams instantly popped up in his mind, this Shamoke is definitely a "potential stock", which is worth investing in!

Ma Tan knew that in the twenty-third year of Jianwu (47 AD), the barbarian king led tens of thousands of local barbarians to rise up, seized the county, punished corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and opened warehouses to help the poor.

The "barbarians" of Qianling, Yuanling, and Chenyang counties responded to the wind. Emperor Guangwu sent Liu Shang, a general of Wuwei, to lead more than 10,000 troops to go up the Yuan River by boat to suppress the rebels.

Xiang Yicheng learned that Liu Shang's army had little food and was not familiar with the terrain and roads, so he gathered to guard the danger, did not engage in battle, and intercepted along the way when his food was exhausted and retreated, and completely annihilated Liu Shangjun.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jianwu, Xiang single-way captured Linyuan, and Emperor Guangwu sent Li Song and Zhongshan Taishou Ma Cheng to meet the battle, and was ambushed by Xiangxiang's one-way army.

Emperor Guangwu was shocked and hurriedly sent General Fubo Ma Yuan to lead more than 40,000 troops to fight.

In February of the following year, the horse aid led the army to Linyuan, and took advantage of the opportunity of the horse aid march for a long time and the lack of people and horses to carry out a night attack, but instead fell into the siege of the horse aid army, losing more than 2,000 people.

Xiang was forced to retreat to Yangjiazhai, Jiangjun Mountain, Yangsi Creek, Dayan Creek, Xiaoyan Creek and other places on the north bank of Qinglang Beach on the Yuan River.

Ma reinforcements were stationed in the area of Hutou Mountain on the south bank of the Yuan River. Xiang one-way relied on the Qinglang natural risk for several months, and Ma Yuan looked at Jiang Xing and sighed, helpless.

It was the height of summer, the weather was very hot, the horse aid army did not adapt to the water and soil, most of the soldiers died of the epidemic, and the horse aid also died of illness in the army.

The supervising army Song Jun was afraid of the fluctuation of the army, and under the pretense of the emperor's edict, he appointed Sima Lü Chong as the chief of Yuanling, and held the "edict" to negotiate peace with the prime minister in a one-way manner.

Xiang Cheng led a group of barbarians to fight hard with the officials and soldiers, all industries were wasted, and the war was fought with money and food, and it was unbearable for the barbarians who had no surplus food.

Considering the livelihood of the people of Wuxi, the minister agreed to strike the war unilaterally. After the peace talks were successful, Xiang Dancheng was booby-trapped by Song Jun's design.

Since a generation of barbarian kings were killed in a single way, in order to prevent the Wuxi barbarians from rebelling on a large scale again, the imperial court has been co-opting and dividing the five major tribes, letting them go their own way, and even attack each other!

For more than 100 years, although the Wuxi barbarians were still five major tribes, there were many internal disputes, and there was no barbarian king.

The reason for this is mainly because there are not enough candidates for prestige, and secondly, because the government has adopted some divisive measures all year round.

Although there were some tribes that clashed with the government, because the other tribes did not respond, they did not become a climate, and they were quickly disintegrated from within.

Now that the world is in turmoil, people of insight understand that the general trend of the world will be divided for a long time.

The imperial court lost control and rose together, and for a long time to come, every family was faced with a choice and a side.

Some huge ancient families, because of the strength of the family, there are many branches of the clan, you can bet everywhere, as long as you bet on one power, the family can make a profit.

Although the Ma family is also a big family in Xiangyang, it is still not ranked in the entire Jingzhou, and it is still quite inferior to the Cai family, the Kuai family, the Huang family and other Jingzhou families!

When Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, with the full support of those big families, he quickly gained a firm foothold in Jingzhou.

At that time, Liu Biao also wanted to pull the Ma family into his camp, but because the Ma family did not have outstanding talents at that time, Liu Biao did not have a decent official position to grant to the Ma family.

Therefore, the Ma family was not included in the camp by Liu Biao because of its own lack of strength at that time.

"After this village, there will be no store", and later the rise of Ma's Wuchang, but Liu Biao no longer needs to envelop those small and medium-sized families.

Now the Ma family is not short of talents, but the situation in the entire imperial court is unclear, and the situation in Jingzhou is also very delicate, so the Ma family is not in a hurry to join Liu Biao's camp.

Therefore, the two brothers, Ma Liang and Ma Yan, although they both entered Lumen Academy and worshiped Pang Degong as their teacher, they are also well-known in Xiangyang.

They did not chant poems with those disciples of the family in Xiangyang to earn prestige, but went to Wuling Mountain, a poor mountain and remote place to study, in fact, they also wanted to cultivate obscurity and accumulate strength.

Now, if he can help Shamoke become a barbarian king, the benefits to Ma Liang and the entire Ma family will be huge, and he can't hide it anymore.

Ma Tan also guessed Ma Liang's intentions, but he didn't say it explicitly, just clasped his fists and implicitly complimented Ma Liang:

"The elder brother thinks about Zhou Xiang, and his intentions are far-reaching, and the younger brother admires it! In the next line, the younger brother is the elder brother. In the past few days, I have been training with my brother, but my brother has orders, and he obeys all orders! Ma Liang praised Ma Tan's statement very much and agreed with his head.

At this moment, Shamoke happened to walk in, and when he saw that Ma Tan was also there, he invited them to the battlefield to watch the warriors of the Xiongxi tribe perform martial arts.

The Sha family has lived in this Shajia village for many years, and I don't know if the Sha family name is the surname, or if this place is named after their Sha family's surname.

But Shajiazhai has the sand field on the edge of Xiongxi Dahewan, which can be regarded as a veritable Shajiazhai.

This sand field is mainly used to take sand to build roads, pave roofs, etc. This is because in this area of Wuling Mountain, there is a lot of rain in spring and summer, and the road is muddy and difficult to walk without paving stone slabs and sand.