Ma Chao was in front of the Deyang Hall in Chang'an, after completing the ceremony of his being edicted by His Majesty on the high platform where Dong Zhuo held the Zen ceremony. When the fourteen states of the Han Dynasty heard the letter, they were very shaken. The situation in the world seems to have entered a period of stability and peace.

This approach is diametrically opposed to the strategy adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning of his development in history, such as building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king. Because Ma Chao swore by this, he said a very arrogant saying: pride makes people progress, and modesty makes people backward!

It is true that if it is still a time when the troubled times are collapsing and the chaos is unknown, it is still feasible for Ma Chao to adopt Zhu Yuanzhang's development strategy of making a fortune in a muffled voice. But on the issue, he is a traverser after all, keenly seizing every opportunity on the historical trajectory, and inflating the power of the Ma family to the extreme like a balloon.

At this time, it is a little late to clamp the tail and be a man......

Therefore, Ma Chao can only bluff and use fanatical spiritual belief to guide the Ma family into a style that is about to swallow the world like a tiger, so that the whole family can work together for eternity.

As a result, after announcing the Son of Heaven, Ma Chao immediately launched the next step: the great feudal ministers!

This division is not just a promotion to the ranks. On the Deyang Palace, when the Wenwu listened to the news of the canonization of the little yellow door, there was a faint sense of ecstasy mixed with a trace of fear in their hearts.

Bai Pound is a former general, leading the Jizhou pastor! moved to advise the doctor Tian Feng as a servant of the Chinese book and entered Jizhou to serve; Moved Hao Zhao to be the general of Zhenbei and the Taishou of Wei County......

Worship Zhang Liao as the rear general, and lead the state pastor! The relocation of the internal history of the Lang Lang is shooting for the servant of the Chinese book, and he entered the state to serve; moved Yang Xiu to Hedong Taishou; moved Chun to Qiong as the general of Dangkou, stationed in the party; moved Zhang Yan to be a general and stationed in Mayi......

Worship Zhao Yun as General Zuo and lead Yongzhou Mu! Xu Shu, the squire of the history of the relocation, shot as a servant of the Chinese book and served in Yongzhou; moved Li Chi to General Yingyang and stationed in Tianshui......

Worship Xu Huang as the right general and lead Liangzhou Mu! ……

The four generals on the left and right have always been the heavy generals of the Han Dynasty, and Ma Chao's canonization of these four people is also expected. But the only difference is that after the four of them were titled, they even took the position of state pastor! Even, those war generals and strategists who first started with the Ma family were scattered and transferred to various states and counties.

Although this kind of thing is probably reasonable, Ma Chao so simply and resolutely deployed his close ministers to various states and counties, and the town guard side was really a bit unexpected for a while - in everyone's opinion, this period, at least until the entire Ma family has straightened out the context, will enter such a situation of monarchs and ministers, right?

It's a pity that Ma Chao didn't prepare this person psychologically. According to his meaning, after the honeymoon, the young couple should recognize the reality. In the past, it was impossible to announce the world and review the army, in order to bring the enthusiasm of these close ministers who were still holding up a drum into the states and counties, and start a period of vigorous development of the Ma family.

Generally speaking, although the Han dynasty is still fragmented, the power of various princes has surfaced and entered a situation of division of one super and many powers: the Central Plains is firmly controlled by Cao Cao, and Yuan Tan of Qingzhou is still breathing, and the world thinks that he will be captured by Cao Cao in the future; The land of Jiangdong is headed by the little overlord Sun Ce, connecting Huaisi, and there is a period of time when the northward march will be; Jingxiang and Shuzhong are still in the hands of the old royal princes Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, and the two of them are in a safe corner, and the map is useless, but they have more than enough to protect themselves.

And the northern superpower is the newly rising Ma family. This time, the Cao family owed the Ma family a huge debt for a year, so that within three years, the Cao family did not have any strength to fight with the Ma family again; Jiangdong Sun Ce should be a powerful threat, but like the Ma family, after the conquest of Yuan Shu, the national strength was exhausted and the stamina was insufficient; And the two left, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, really don't have to bother with more brains.

On the surface, as long as the Ma family recovers first, they can dominate the country by bullying the weak and destroying it. But is that really the case?

Not necessarily.

Three years is not too long, but it is not too short, and there are too many changes. The Ma family is prosperous and rising, and the Cao family will not be without half an improvement, not to mention that Cao Cao, this guy, formed a son-in-law with Sun Ce half a year ago. Its intention, in addition to dealing with the Ma family, will there be other factors?

Liu Zhang's small kingdom has not changed much, he dares to move the Ma family, he is definitely impatient. But then again, even if the Ma family is strong and prosperous, can they easily destroy Liu Zhang?

It is also unlikely, it is difficult in Shuzhong, and it is difficult to go to the sky. The roads in the territory are rugged and bumpy, and there are eighteen passes in one border. Even if the shadow has painted the geography of the mountains and rivers in Shu into the map of Dayu Dingding, if you don't know the configuration of troops in each pass and all the information of Yizhou, the Ma family iron cavalry will rush into it, and you can only get a head broken and blood flowing back.

At present, it seems that the only unlucky thing is Liu Biao in Jingzhou - after the Ma family recovers, it will be done as soon as possible; Cao Cao wants to expand his living space, and he will do it; If Sun Ce wants to go north to the Central Plains, he will do it too!

The process of reunification has always been like this, and after the chaos to the stability of the pattern, there will always be a long period of tug-of-war, as evidenced by the fact that the period of the Three Kingdoms in history is much longer than the period of separation. Three years later, until the time when Jingxiang wolf smoke was everywhere, the major forces competed there and the dust settled, and it was still somewhat credible to talk about the general trend of the world. Whatever you say now is all speculation and whimsy.

And what is the most important thing in these three years? It is to work together from top to bottom, and first make the Ma family really the most powerful, the most prosperous, and the most extraordinary prince in this era. And the completion of this great cause needs to be promoted by the top-down system. The reason why Ma Chao transferred those ministers with outstanding ability and close relationships to important positions is to pave the way for this kind of upward and downward system.

The old fox said that relatives should not be too close, and if they are too close, they will not be respected; Don't be too close to people, too close will lead to disaster - Ma Chao is doing exactly what he is doing now.

Therefore, after the canonization of the little yellow goalkeeper, everyone in the Ma family found that all those important ministers had become the skeleton of the Ma family; Wei Yan sent to guard Hanzhong; Gao Shunkong descended to Yingchuan and led Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu, Yang Feng, and Fan Chou, becoming the most important barrier in the east of the Ma family; Huang Zhong also went to the front line in Luoyang and twisted the armies of Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan into a rope......

In the entire Chang'an, Ma Chao has almost no close ministers. The only thing worth mentioning is Sima Yi and Brother Ugly. And the reason why these two people are left is because Sima Yi has a clear and unambiguous secret strategy to deal with the Cao family, and this plan needs to be implemented by an ugly brother with a shadow identity, and at the same time, he also has another special task, which is to watch Sima Yi's not very peaceful guy closely.

Even Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Dai was transferred to Wen Cheng's account and brought in 30,000 Hun Xun cavalry as an accumulation of strength to deal with Liu Biao in the future...... Such a change suddenly made all the ministers of the Ma family see Ma Chao's determination and ambition. Because this kind of move is completely to adjust and deter before annexing the world!

Three days later, smoke and dust billowed in the entire Chang'an City, and countless proud soldiers and warriors left the city one after another. The people of Chang'an looked at these faces with great emotion and a dignified face of the general strategist, and vaguely felt that this troubled world was about to enter the last tranquility before the storm.

They had no ability to predict when the storm would come, and their only hope was that the day would come more slowly, slower, so that they could recover their hearts enough to accept the ordeal again......