In the summer of the twenty-seventh year of Jian'an, the king of Chu made Taoism the state religion of Chu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zun Taoist leader Yan Pu is the national teacher of Chu State.

In the summer of that year, Ma Hong, the king of Chu, dreamed that a green dragon rushed out of the white water of Nanyang and flew into the sky, flew to the Chu Palace in Xiangyang, circled nine times in the Chu Palace, and finally flew eastward. The king of Chu designated the totem of Chu as the green dragon.

In the summer of that year, Ma Hong sent 100 ironclad warships, divided into five teams of 20 ships each, to explore the sea, and the accompanying generals were equipped with maps drawn by Ma Hong.

Of course, Ma Hong's last life was a science student, the geography was very poor, and he couldn't even tell the latitude and longitude, he just roughly marked the location of Taiwan Island and the Philippines in a certain direction on the corresponding map of China, as for Japan, it was too far away, Ma Hong could not confirm whether the current ironclad warship had such a far combat capability, so he just asked the troops to search for the island of Taiwan and the Philippines, and ordered to go to the generals with the troops, once the island was found, after landing on the island to investigate, if it could be taken, it would be taken.

In the same year, Ma Hong ordered a large construction project, and began to build roads throughout the country, and appropriately built canals to facilitate the rapid support and transportation of grain and grass in wartime.

The construction of a large number of manpower, material and financial resources, Ma Hong is only according to the population of Chu to appropriately draw men to build, in addition to the extraction of men, will be given sufficient remuneration, for the previous dynasties are to extract manpower to build things for free, people as slaves to use, Ma Hong's order is quite humane, of course, this order also caused a great challenge to the country's financial resources. Due to the rapid speed of construction, Youcheng made an estimate of it, believing that according to the current consumption, civil engineering construction can only last for three years, and the treasury will be empty, and there will be no money to pay the salaries of the courtiers.

But Ma Hong didn't stop, sometimes he didn't stop when he saw that the things he built were getting bigger and bigger, although he understood that Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty in history, also did these things, and was later done, and was wantonly smeared by Li Tang, but Ma Hong was very confident, he believed that he would not go down this road, and before the treasury was empty, he was sure that there would be money.

Ma Hong's means of making money mainly include:

1. In addition, Ma Hong began to strengthen the connection with the Western Regions, and those vassal states of the Chu State in the Western Regions had to offer a large amount of goods to the Chu State every six months.

Second, Ma Hong sold weapons and various war instruments to Cao Zhang, firstly, so that Cao Chang could continue to drag Cao Pi and let his brother suffer internal friction, and secondly, to get property.

3. The mining of coal mines has promoted the economic development of the Chu State.

Fourth, with the laying of highways, the number of merchants in the four southern states of Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Yizhou, and Jingzhou has continued to increase, and their tariffs account for a large part of the department.

5. In addition to salt, iron, coal and other more important things that can only be sold officially, Ma Hong set up the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce of the Four Great Empires, namely:

1. Jingyang water merchants. Its merchant department has a large number of merchant ships, most of which are converted from retired warships of Soochow and are mainly responsible

2. Jingyi Road Merchant. Its Ministry of Commerce is mainly responsible for the transportation of silk silk from Yizhou, fish and rice from Jingzhou, and other daily necessities.

3. Ministry of Commerce of the Western Regions. Used for sales in small countries in the Western Regions, the Western Regions Ministry of Commerce exchanged silk, tea, sugar, silk, porcelain, paper, copper, alum, gold and silver, silk products, lacquerware and other items for wool products, horses and other goods.

4. Merge with the Ministry of Commerce. This ministry is currently the most profitable of the seven major ministries, and its main responsibility is the coal business.

In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Jian'an, Princess Chu married Deng Ai.

In the autumn of the same year, Ma Hong's eldest son, Ma Shuang, married the daughter of Sikong Yuan Shang. In the dark night, Ma Shuang walked into the new house, blew out the lights, brought a basin of water, took off his shoes and put his feet in the cold water, and the night pearl on the phoenix crown brought by the bride in the dark night emitted white light through the red hijab.

Ma Shuang watched quietly, frowning, Jing Chu and these famous generals have daughters, but Ma Hong chose Yuan Shang's daughter for him, Ma Fengxi can choose, but he can't. Because Ma Hong guarded against him, Ma Hong was afraid that if Ma Shuang chose his father-in-law, who was in a high position and power in the court, if he chose people like Liu Ye, Yang Yi, and Pang Tong as his father-in-law, once he got their support, then ......, of course, with Ma Hong's group of brothers and sisters' understanding of Ma Hong, naturally he would not fall into this, Ma Hong chose Yuan Shang's daughter, one is to warn Ma Shuang, and the other is to warn Yuan Shang.

For Ma Shuang, Ma Hong's warning is: Son! Dad knows you're capable, but the throne belongs to your brother, so don't make trouble.

For Yuan Shang, Ma Hong's warning was: Xiao Yuan! You'd better not mess with your old ministers, do you know why I chose you to be a relative of the emperor? It's that when the time comes, once you do something wrong, such as joining the heir fight, I will cut you.

Ma Hong has more generals here, but there are not many people like Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang did not sleep for several nights after learning that Ma Hong chose his daughter for Ma Shuang, because he was closest to Ma Hong, the more dangerous he was, now he has no other thoughts, he just wants to see the fall of Cao Wei one day, he doesn't want to fall into the battle for the heir, and he doesn't want to lose his life in vain.

Ma Shuang is a temptation for Ma Hong for him, if once Ma Shuang and him become in-laws, he will be very close to Ma Shuang, and even introduce the former batch of generals from Hebei to Ma Shuang, then his death will not be far away. Although his sister Yuan Xian is now a queen of the king, his neck is under Ma Hong's sword, as long as Ma Hong is not happy with him, then he can find ten thousand reasons to kill him.

"Zhiyuan, don't come to my house in the future." Yuan Shang glanced at Shangguan Qian, stroked his beard and said, "Don't come to my house until I die." ”

"Lord, you ......"

"Do not call me my lord and disperse all the retainers, and at the same time help me to send a message to them and tell them not to correspond with me again, nor to try to visit me again, and they cannot come to me until I die."

"Lord, are you going to be isolated from the world?"

"If I am not isolated from the world, we will be separated from yin and yang."

Shangguan Qian nodded and said, "Lord, I understand. ”

"Also, don't call me lord in the future, and don't come to see me at any time, wherever I am, or whatever happens." Shangguan Qian smiled bleakly, slowly walked to the wardrobe, and took out a set of Taoist priest's clothes from the wardrobe and put it on his knees.

"Look, Zhiyuan, I heard that this Taoist uniform is also made according to the king's drawing, it looks very good!"

"Lord, are you going to cultivate?"

"This should be my best bet."

In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Jian'an, Yuan Shang became a Taoist monk and cultivated in Wudang Mountain, a branch of Taoism in Nanyang County.

(To be continued.) )