The situation in Chang'an changed abruptly, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty was eyeing each other, and when Tiger Stripes was in internal and external difficulties, he suddenly heard that Guazhou and Liangzhou in the northwest had rebelled and became independent. Zhang Jun, the thief of Guazhou www.biquge.info threw himself directly into the arms of the Turks, completely turning his face with the central conquest of Chang'an, and he also wanted to win over Ma Furong of Liangzhou to become independent together. Ma Furong is actually closer to the inevitable Tuyuhun, so naturally he will not surrender to the arms of the Turks, but he himself has the ambition of the Son of Heaven, and he admired the set of people who were ugly slaves back then.

Ma Furong is a native of Zhangye, Liangzhou, a common man, who made a living by herding horses when he was a teenager, and was hired as a bodyguard by a caravan because of his strong body. But this man was insidious and cunning, and during one of his bodyguard trips, he found that the merchant was carrying not porcelain, calligraphy, paintings, and silk, but a large amount of gold, pearls, and jade. Immediately he became greedy, and entangled several dart masters to kill the merchant and the other bodyguards, and later this man killed several of them because of the uneven distribution of the spoils with several other accomplices, and he swallowed all his belongings and fled back to Zhangye to live in seclusion.

With this large sum of money, he first donated a petty official in Zhangye to the city defense pipe belt, which is equivalent to the position of the director of the Zhangye City Security Patrol. There are also dozens of subordinates under him. Ma Furong is not satisfied, he now has a lot of money, in order to protect the money and his own life, he built high-rise buildings in Zhangye City, repaired bunkers, stunned his house into a castle in the city, and recruited a large number of drifters and swordsmen as bodyguards.

At that time, Zhangye Taishou was a civil official sent by Yuwentai, how could the civil officials in the marginal areas govern those Diao people, Ma Furong had already become the county lieutenant at this time, equivalent to the commander of security in Zhangye City, and there were already 2,000 men and horses under his command, and his power expanded rapidly, he felt that this Taishou disciple had a false name, and often got in the way to beat his small report, so he simply sent someone to assassinate Taishou on the way home, and disguised it as an accident to kill him for money.

Ma Furong coerced the patriarchs of several big families with more status and power in the city to admit that his acting Taishou status, and on the other hand, he opened the granary to help the poor people, the so-called from the people for the people. Public opinion, which was originally very unfavorable to him, suddenly changed direction, and there was a voice of praise and admiration. Ma Furong successfully climbed to the position of Zhangye's boss. Although his position was not recognized by Yuwentai's court.

Although his status is not recognized, he still taxes the court of Chang'an every month, and respectfully sends political contributions to Yuwentai, because Zhangye is already on the edge, Yuwentai feels that there is really no need to levy the future of the army for the whole projectile land, the key is that Ma Furong knows how to please and sell well, so he also made a favor and officially appointed him as Zhangye Taishou.

Originally, everyone thought it was a win-win situation, but unexpectedly, Ma Furong had long coveted the wealth on the Silk Road, and every day there were a large number of businessmen from the East and the West who came and went to Zhangye, these people not only brought taxes and other entertainment income for themselves, but also carried a large number of previous goods and goods, some of which can be called priceless, Ma Furong often sent people to investigate at the post house and the city gate, once the target fat sheep was found, the next day there was news on the market: a certain caravan was bloodied by bandits last night, and the property was lost, and he was too upright to check the murderer.

After such a thing happened a few times, Zhang Ye's reputation stinked. Many caravans just passed through Zhangye and did not stay overnight, and some even made a detour to Linsong County south of Zhangye to rest, Ma Furong did not expect that the entire city that his greed had harmed would lose its financial resources. He began to stop the idea of caravans, but focused on the neighboring counties, if his influence could be extended to the neighboring counties, then his wealth would be multiplied.

Needless to say, Linsong County, there is no oil and water, but Jiuquan in the west, since Zhangye has become a black city (an upgraded version of the black shop), where there is an endless stream of merchants coming in and out every day, Shao Long is a Han person, although he is also a warlord, but unlike Ma Furong, he still has a little conscience and will not loot caravans, but Jiuquan's tax can be said to be the highest in several nearby states and counties.

There are two famous places in Jiuquan, one is the crescent moon spring, and the other is taxes, which are taxed for eating, living in a restaurant, selling things, farming, and even going to a public toilet. There is no place where Shao Long does not stretch out his hand, but why are there still so many caravans willing to come to Jiuquan instead of Zhangye? The reason is very simple, the security of Jiuquan is very good, and it can well ensure the safety of all the caravans' property, and the Persians who come from afar to do business are not easy to go back and forth once, and they earn a hard money, as long as they can ensure safety, they can accept a higher tax.

Ma Furong saw that Shao Long's life was getting better and better, and he was more than he meant, and he was jealous in his heart, so he came up with a vicious method: deliberately let people pretend to be a caravan, carry a large amount of property into Jiuquan City, and then pretend to be looted, even the weapons used by the thieves have been engraved with Shao Long's mark, who do you think will rob the weapon with his own mark? As soon as this centaur entered the city, he was targeted by Shao Long, and before they could start the show, Shao Long took the lead and arrested them all directly in front of the post house, searched out fake gold, silver, jewelry and goods from their goods, and found the murder weapon that was intended to be planted.

Shao Long didn't stop doing anything, but simply put on a charge of smuggling fakes and secretly possessing arms at the door of the post house in front of everyone, and beheaded them all. When the news came back to Zhangye, Ma Furong was so angry that he wanted to gather people to fight Shao Long, but the lord Bo persuaded him that there were no three hundred taels of silver here? It seems that Shao Long can only outwit.

The two of them are fierce, Tuyuhun has long coveted the wealth on the Silk Road in the Central Plains, so he sent someone to contact Shao Long, planning to support him to do the history of Liangzhou Thorn, Shao Long I said before is a Han man, but also a man with more backbone and national heart, he will definitely not do it when he is a traitor, so he categorically rejected Tuyuhun's wooing.

At that time, the Khan of Tuyuhun was a person named Quarlu, he was wise and martial, liked the literature of the Central Plains, his own country also advocated Confucianism, most of the scholars in the palace held dangerous official positions, under his governance Tuyuhun asked for the characteristics of the nomadic people, became a feudal monarchy like the Western Wei Dynasty, and was bound to be in Fuqi City, at that time Tuyuhun probably had hundreds of thousands of people scattered in the Hexi area, of which there were more than 100,000 residents in Fuyu City.

Tuyuhun gradually became stronger under the governance of Kwaralu, and he set his sights on the Hexi Corridor in the Central Plains, which was a necessary place for the Silk Road, and controlling the Hexi Corridor was equivalent to controlling the money bag. He was originally full of confidence in wooing Shao Long, but unexpectedly, Shao Long didn't buy it at all, and he didn't give himself face at all, which made him a little unbearable on his face.

So he wanted to change the candidate to win over Ma Furong, although he was very disdainful of Ma Furong's personality and style of doing things, but sometimes politically he did not choose teammates because of morality, only because of interests. Ma Furong's power is a little stronger than Shao Long, coupled with his fierce style, many people in Hexi are afraid of him, and after Quarlu takes the Hexi Corridor in the future, let Ma Furong be the manager, he can rest assured.

Ma Furong is greedy for money, and has an almost pathological desire for money, which is somewhat related to the suffering he suffered in his youth, but in Cuarlu's view, a person who likes money is easy to control, on the contrary, a person who is not afraid of the temptation of power and money is not easy to do, and such a person can only be completely eliminated. (To be continued.) )