Listening to Sai Yide's words, Ma Jinzhong's face became even more ugly, but he had to admit that this old imam had a bit of truth and thought more long-term. （）

At that moment, Ma Jinzhong stood up, bowed to Saiyide, and said, "Imam old man! What should I do? ”

"Adults should have planned ahead! It is better to send the people of the Ma family in Hezhou first, with a group of people and the Mu people in Hezhou and Stable City, and rush to Hexi first, and the adults themselves can personally lead the elite army to sit in Hezhou!

"I heard that Quxian, Chijin, Handong, Hami and other places west of Suzhou are big and sparsely populated, and the tribes are weak and unbearable.

"Besides, the most important ones, Quxian, Chijin, Handong, Hami and other places are also called Huibu! Although the land and its people are all colored eyes, they share the religion of the saints with my generation, and they are the same people as me. At this time, it is time to join hands with the enemy to overcome the catastrophe of the destruction of religion in the imperial court! ”

After saying this, Sai Yide looked at Ma Jinzhong, who had a gloomy face, and continued: "If my lord does this, my Hezhou Mumin can attack and retreat from now on!"

"Enter, you can rest assured that you can join forces with the pirates in the west to support the thieves in the east. Retreat is not only to save the Ma family, but also to save the Mu people, and the adults will go to Hexi in the future, and they will also have a foothold! ”

After Sai Yide said this, Ma Jinzhong knew that he was right, but he just thought that his forces would be dispersed, and he was afraid that he would not do anything in the future.

Ma Jinzhong was hesitating, only to see Ma Xin and Ma Shun suddenly stand up, step forward together, kneel on the ground, and you and I said sentence by sentence:

"My lord! How ruthless Yuan Manzi's heart is and how black his hands are, how can adults not know!? In Guyuan City, there are no chickens and dogs, and none of them are spared!

"We killed his handsome Yang Qi at the beginning, and how many Hanmin did we kill!? It's okay if others don't leave a backhand, but we can't leave a way back!

"Besides, the court really wants to appease, but it can't be trusted! The brothers all heard that before Yuan Manzi slaughtered the city, he appeased the stupid Po Ximu!

"And when the adults and their brothers were still in the official army, they had also heard that the current governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou, had killed tens of thousands of Han thieves in Shanxi back then!

"The governors sent by the imperial court to the northwest are all such ruthless people, even if the imperial court really recruits peace in the future, the adults will have to pay more attention to the brothers and leave a way back!"

Ma Jinzhong, deep in his heart, is reluctant to let the ancestral business of the Ma family in Hezhou on this land, after all, from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, it has been hereditary for hundreds of years, but in today's chaotic situation, Ma Xin, Saiyide, Ma Shun and others have the opinions of him after all, but he still can't help but listen.

First, these characters are the pillars of Ma Jinzhong's ability to control tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the area of Hezhou City now.

If they disagreed, then Ma Jinzhong supported one side to negate the other and still maintain his own authority.

But if he rejected the proposal that they had all agreed upon, then perhaps he, the self-appointed commander of the Hezhou Guard, would be separated in the blink of an eye.

This is also the secret mind that many usurped lords in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, are the most worried in their hearts and the most unable to speak clearly to people.

In the final analysis, since the Taozhou Mutiny, Ma Jinzhong's biggest worry was that his subordinates suddenly rebelled, killed themselves, and then took their own heads as credit, asking for Zhao'an and surrendering to the imperial court.

Therefore, after he returned to Hezhou City, although he had a strong desire to recruit peace, he could not help but indulge the generals and soldiers under his command, and wantonly looted and slaughtered the Han people outside the city.

His purpose was to tie these people firmly to himself, so that they would not dare to give themselves up easily and surrender to the court as a vote.

But the consequences of this are now happening.

These executioners, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Han people, were all worried about the imperial court's settlement after the autumn, and they inquired about the previous actions of Hong Chengchou and Yuan Chonghuan one by one in advance.

So much so that now, on the one hand, these people want to win the recruitment of the imperial court, but on the other hand, they are unwilling to surrender to the governor of the northwest, such as Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi.

As a result, at the moment, Ma Jinzhong himself is in a dilemma.

Secondly, in addition to the consideration that these people in front of them are extremely important to their control of the situation in Hezhou, what these people said is not unreasonable.

As the current head of the Hezhou Ma family, Ma Jinzhong certainly doesn't want the Hezhou Ma family, which has been breeding in the northwest for hundreds of years, to be served in the future.

Although he wanted to bet on the court's recruitment, but looking at the current situation, the court did not mean to recruit security, and it was indeed too risky to bet the lives of the entire Ma family in Hezhou on this.

Hezhou Majia Town has guarded Hezhou and other places for hundreds of years, from the former Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, whether it is wealth, family business, or people, it is the leading family in the Taomin area of Gannan.

Such a big family, if it is because of its own carelessness, it will be a great sin.

Moreover, now the Mu people in Ningxia, Guyuan, Gannan and other places have embarked on the road of moving westward, even the county town of Anding under the control of his younger brother Ma Jinde is now basically empty, except for the army composed of 5,000 Musu barbarians sent by himself to garrison, there is no one else.

At this time, if he can't take the lead in the layout of Hexi and even the west of Hexi in front of the commanders in various parts of Gannan, then the hundreds of thousands or even millions of Mu people in the northwest who have moved westward will probably be cheaper to Milayin in Ganzhou and Ha Tianxi and others in Suzhou in the future.

If this is the case, then when he really goes west in Hezhou in the future, I am afraid that he will only be able to be his subordinates to these two colleagues back then.

After thinking about this, Ma Jinzhong quickly made a final decision.

In the middle of May, Ma Jinzhong ordered Ma Shun to lead an army of 10,000 people, with more than 30,000 men, women, and children who gathered in the city after the chaos and did not produce, but only consumed grain and grass, and went out of the city to the north, bypassing the city of Lanzhou, where the official army was still guarding, and marching westward.

Accompanying Ma Shun's subordinates, there were also a large number of clansmen from the Ma family in Hezhou, including the wives and concubines of Ma Wanshou, the former commander of Hezhou Wei.

Of course, there are also the old man Sai Yide, the imam in the worship of Hezhou City, and the Sai clan who has lived in Hezhou for generations and has been in the business of passing on the scriptures for generations.

At the same time, there are also the parents, wives and families of those Musu barbarian soldiers who were ordered to stay in Hezhou City to guard their homes.

By the end of May, batches of Mu Suman left the city one after another with all his belongings.

Soon only Ma Jinzhong, Ma Xin and others were left in the city of Hezhou, with 15,000 Musu barbarian horse soldiers, staying to garrison the city.

Ma Jinzhong's younger brother Ma Jinde was also ordered to stay behind with his subordinates to stay in stability, and reluctantly continued to guard the eastern gate of Hezhou City.

This big movement in Hezhou City, of course, can't hide the Anding County not far from Hezhou, Ma Jinde's rebellious soldiers composed of young and strong people among the Musu barbarian people, seeing their families follow the army in Hezhou City to the west, where can they still be stable in their hearts, and they keep fleeing and losing.

The original 5,000 people are constantly decreasing with the loss of time.

Ma Jinzhong's big move in Hezhou City naturally couldn't hide the Lintao commander Ma Guangyu, who was also very close to Hezhou City, and Zhao Xihe, the great imam who now controls Taozhou, and other leaders of the Musu Barbarian Army.

Therefore, within a few days after tens of thousands of people in Hezhou City suddenly left the city and went north, bypassing Lanzhou and smoothly advancing westward, Ma Guangyu, the commander of Lintao, also sent his henchmen to escort the families of the family members and the upper-class people in the city, as well as the large amount of wealth they had obtained by slaughtering and plundering the Han people, from between Hezhou and Anding, quickly north to the Hexi Corridor, and followed the footsteps of the Ma family in Hezhou, heading west.

Different from the practices of Ma Jinzhong, the commander of Hezhou, and Ma Guangyu, the commander of Lintao, the mastermind of the Taozhou mutiny, the Zhao family of Taozhou, and the imam of Zhao Xihe, the current actual head of the family, chose to quickly transfer the wealth of the Zhao family and a large number of clansmen in Taozhou to Deng Yue Duoji, the Baili Tusi who dominated the Ganzi region in northwest Sichuan.

Suddenly, these Musu barbarian families in the western border of the Ming Dynasty began the process of transferring wealth and population to the west.