The murder of Liu Xie, before Zhang Song was going to come to Xiangyang, suddenly became unimportant. This is not entirely because Ma Chao is so willful, but because of the initiation of a conspiracy, and most of the follow-up schemes have been promoted one after another, creating unchangeable results layer by layer.

But Liu Xie was seriously ill, and after Liu Xie lay down on the bed, there was not much movement. In addition, the news blockade is strict, and the imperial authority of the Han family is really no longer the focus of the world's attention, so Ma Chao has not even received some abuse from some unenlightened scholar groups.

Sometimes, Ma Chao even wonders, is this Liu Xie's own bitter plan, in addition to saving Da Qiao's heart and winning himself on another battlefield, do you still want to see if this world still cares about him?

However, the result may have disappointed him, but Ma Chao would not fall into the trap, in addition to arranging to increase the guardianship of Liu Xie, he ignored Liu Xie anymore, and focused more on the incident that Zhang Song was coming to Xiangyang.

Two days later, the shadow finally came with the news that Zhang Song was indeed coming to Xiangyang. However, the banner is not to represent Liu Zhang, the Han clan, to find Liu Bei, a family member of the Han family, but to marry the Ma family as an envoy from Yizhou. Because Ma Chaoren was in Xiangyang, he did not go to Chang'an, and turned to Xiangyang to pay homage. Interestingly, those people in Xichuan knew that the Son of Heaven was in Xiangyang, but they did not use the banner of meeting the Son of Heaven at all, and they were obviously worried about Ma Chao's prestige.

Of course, for such a boring banner, Ma Chao will not believe it. Although the Ma family and Xichuan have trade contacts, they are also general cooperative relations, and there is no intimacy or enmity. Moreover, it was not a matter of one or two days for the Ma family to establish six states, and when they were canonized King Yong, they didn't see Liu Zhang reveal their friendship, why did they rush to come again at this time?

Fortunately, the shadows of the Ma family are not vegetarians, and two days later, another group of shadows lurking in Jian'an County sent a shocking news, and this news completely made Ma Chao vaguely guess the intentions of Xichuan's gang:

The barbarian king Meng has rebelled!

At this time, Meng Shu was only a young man in his early twenties, but what was unexpected was that it was this young man in his early twenties who stirred up the situation in the southwest of the Han Dynasty.

When the Central Plains was turbulent, the Nanban side was not peaceful. The Nanban was originally a deep mountain and old forest, a wild place, and the tribes were lined up and could not communicate, and the Yi people were even more vulgar and ignorant.

Meng Huo was born in a strong family, has courage, and is even more fond of fighting bravely, and he made a name for himself in Nanban at a young age. At the age of seventeen, he went deeper into the Yi tribe, and the king of the cave lord Zhai to compete with each other, three years to martial arts or to serve the public, or to worship, and brought the cave master, the king of Mulu, the vulture bone, the golden ring three knots and other barbarian leaders have a very good relationship, after returning, Meng has been as prestigious as the sky, for the Yi and Han tribes of the subordinates to respect.

And Nanban has a Meng Huo here, in fact, it is not a big problem, even if Meng Huo is extremely ambitious, but in the face of 200,000 county soldiers in Yizhou, he can only bow his head and be a vassal. But the problem was that in the year of Yizhou, there was also a rebellion, which made Meng Huo, a careerist, see a golden opportunity.

At the beginning of Liu Yan, the father of Liu Zhang, the lord of Yizhou, when he entered Shu, because they were outsiders, he was afraid that he would not be able to pinch the local Yankees in Yizhou, so he recruited refugees from Nanyang and other places who flowed into Yizhou to form an army, known as the "Dongzhou soldiers". As the gun of his rule in Yizhou, Liu Yan can also be regarded as a talent, at least in Yizhou, with such a rabble of Dongzhou soldiers who have not undergone much formal training into the army, they have worked hard for a long time, and finally can gain a firm foothold in Yizhou.

However, after Liu Zhang's stepfather became the pastor of Yizhou, because of his cowardly personality and generous and unauthoritative, these Dongzhou soldiers who had no roots in Yizhou naturally bullied the local indigenous people, and Liu Zhang had no way to restrain these arrogant and favored soldiers, which made the contradiction between the wealthy families in Yizhou and Liu Zhang's ruling group more and more intense.

Zhao Wei was a big official in Yizhou, because the interests of the people and the family of Yizhou were damaged and resented Liu Zhang's system, so he rebelled, at that time, many Yizhou wealthy families stood on Zhao Wei's side, in Shu County, Guanghan, Qianwei and other places have responded, driving their domestic slaves and tenants to participate in Zhao Wei's rebellion, so that Zhao Wei in a short period of time to have tens of thousands of soldiers, and Liu Zhang as an enemy, the power is very strong.

At the beginning of this year, Zhao Wei even led the army to besiege Chengdu, and Liu Zhang's Dongzhou soldiers were afraid that they would be punished if they failed, so they fought bravely. Zhao Wei was defeated, had to retreat to Jiangzhou, was killed by the pursuers, and then, the Yizhou family did not know how many heads were lost, how much family wealth was copied, and the whole Yizhou has been in a white terror atmosphere, Yizhou is afraid that five pavilions have been folded among the ten pavilions.

After this war, there were no less than dozens of wealthy families in Shuzhong who were implicated, and Liu Zhang's series of revenge on the Shu sergeant clan and the people made him even more unpopular.

And Liu Zhang's self-chaos foundation actually has nothing to do with Meng Shu. But these people from the wealthy families in Shu didn't think so, after the seeds of hatred sprouted, they suddenly set their sights on this southern barbarian, and suddenly realized that the wild land where only insects and beasts lived had actually risen a powerful barbarian army. Those who had a heart began to gradually collude with Meng Shu and deliberately planned to overthrow Liu Zhang. And Meng Huo also wanted to break out of the world in this troubled era, and the two hit it off. After three months of conspiracy, a wildfire-like rebellion broke out!

This rebellion is not just a rebellion of the private soldiers of the Haoqiang clan like Zhao Wei before, but a life-and-death struggle between Han and barbarians. At first, those powerful warriors only wanted to take advantage of Meng Shu's bravery, but he never imagined that in just a few months, the four counties of Jianning, Yongchang, Qiqi, and Yuewang all fell into the hands of Meng Shu, and those barbarians wantonly burned and plundered the land of the Han people, putting the entire Yizhou in an unprecedented bloody storm!

At this time, there was no Zhuge Liang in Yizhou, and the scale of the rebellion was far greater than that in history. Liu Zhang urgently mobilized Wu Yi, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and other elite soldiers to display on the front line of Hanjia, Qianwei, and Zhu Ti to resist the attack of the barbarians. At this time, the strategists in Shuzhong also offered advice, saying that this rebellion was a move to kill Yizhou, and if they did not invite foreign aid to help, they would be afraid that Yizhou would be ruined!

As a result, Zhang Song gave orders in danger, and came to marry the Ma family with the ardent expectations of hundreds of thousands of Li Shu from Yizhou.

There are still some twists and turns in the ins and outs of the matter, but the more this is the case, the more suspicious Ma Chao becomes: "Since Yizhou is already in danger, Zhang Song is also here to ask for reinforcements." Why do you have to hide this trip, under the banner of marrying the Ma family? Isn't he afraid that once he makes a mistake, the entire Yizhou will fall into the hands of Meng Shu? ”

"In vain, you have been smart all your life, why are you so whimsical today?" The person who said these words was none other than Pang Tong.

Now that Ma Chao has no strategists around him, he suddenly encounters such a problem, so he naturally has to find someone to discuss. What's more, these days, Pang Tong and Liu Bei are also very close, and Ma Chao also needs to explore how far they have progressed during this period of time.

"Yizhou is different from the Central Plains, where the mountains and rivers are treacherous, and although there are city buildings, the land is vast and sparsely populated. Although the barbarians are heavy on death and life, fierce and brave, but they seem to be menacing, but the cities under them have very little military resources, and the barbarians take Meng Shu as the king, but they do not obey the command, they fight separately, and they are scattered. The four counties of the calamity have far exceeded their capabilities, and are limited by many factors such as their combat power, military resources, and vision, and it is difficult to penetrate deep into the inner belly of Shuzhong. Zhang Song came this time, it seems that he came to ask for reinforcements, but in fact, don't forget, he himself is also a strong man in Shuzhong......"

When these words fell, Ma Chaodeng's heart was like a mirror, he looked at Pang Tongyi's eyes, and couldn't help but feel emotional: no matter where it is, war always comes with conspiracy. The so-called battle of life and death in Yizhou is probably also a rumor deliberately made up by people with intentions in Yizhou, which was heard by the shadows, so it was transmitted here. And the real purpose of those Yizhou Haoqiang clan is to pour another barrel of fierce oil on the wildfire of Meng Shu, and completely burn Liu Zhang in Yizhou!

In other words, although Zhang Song's envoy this time has different reasons, different banners, and different objects from the historical one. But in essence, it's exactly the same. And if this is the case, then Ma Chao really can't suppress the smile on the corner of his mouth: Cao Cao, that guy thinks Zhang Song is ugly, so after he is used to seeing Pang Tong, doesn't he have some immunity?

Pang Tong just found some pride in Ma Chao, but at this time, looking at Ma Chao's faint and weird smile, he suddenly felt cold, as if he had lost something, so he quickly moved his seat and covered his face with his sleeve robe a little unnaturally......