The young Son of Heaven was not taken seriously by Han Sui. It's a pity that Han Sui didn't notice that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, was not an ordinary little hairy child.

Growing up in a palace full of intrigue and intrigue struggles, he was born with the tragic loss of his mother, and became a tool of others before he was ten years old, in front of a puppet, and his brother was killed by someone, this experience is enough to make a child of medium intelligence hone into a scheming little old man. What's more, Liu Xie, the son of heaven, is much smarter than ordinary children. Otherwise, Emperor Ling would not always want Liu Xie to succeed him.

In Sili, Han Sui was powerful, and the old ministers in the court stayed away from the court because they disdained to cooperate with traitors such as Han Sui. Whenever he went to court, Liu Xie, the son of heaven, looked around, and could hardly find an old minister or important minister who could be trusted. This is also one of the reasons why Han Sui is very relieved of the Son of Heaven.

However, such an unfavorable situation in the imperial court did not stump Liu Xie, the son of heaven. Since there are no old ministers available in the court, then win over the number two person under Han Sui, and then use the competition for authority between the two to profit from it. Liu Xie didn't need to be reminded at all, and he began to use it well.

The number two person in the Liangzhou Army under Han Sui is Ma Teng. And if you don't consider the impact on the rest of the powerful figures in the Liangzhou Army, just from the comparison of the combat power of the directly governed troops, the combat effectiveness of Ma Teng's troops is even enough to overwhelm Han Sui's directly governed army. Therefore, when Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Yang Qiu, Han Xian, Yang Feng and other backbones of the Liangzhou Army were still struggling at the level of Zhonglang General, as the "God of War" in the Liangzhou Army, Ma Teng had already obtained the official position of "General Wei".

General Wei, rank Wanshi, in the general sequence of the Han Dynasty, is second only to the general, the hussar general and the chariot general. The status is slightly lower than that of the Three Princes. And the key point is that General Wei's powers and responsibilities happen to be in charge of all the armies in the capital, and he is the commander of the defense forces of the Beijing Division, and he is also qualified to open the government, place officials and subordinates, and control the forbidden army. Foresight of government affairs.

As for Ma Teng himself, he is also a very legendary hero. According to Ma Teng's own words, he is a descendant of Han Fubo's general Ma Yuan, and he can be said to be born in heroic blood. This remains to be proven. Anyway, the authentic sect of the Fufeng Maoling Ma clan has never publicly admitted that Ma Yuan is his own clan. His father Ma Ping is said to have served as a captain of Tianshui Lan, and then lost his official position and stayed in Longxi, because of the poverty of his family, he had to marry a Qiang girl as his wife, thus giving birth to Ma Teng.

Ma Teng was poor in his youth. Because his family had no property, he often cut timber from Zhangshan and carried it to the city to sell it to support himself. Later, due to Ma Teng's strong martial arts, when the Qiang and Han rebels began to rebel, he relied on his martial arts and military exploits and quickly became famous in the army. Become a partial general of the Great Han. Later, Liangzhou assassin Shi Geng died in a mutiny. Ma Teng lost his backer in the officialdom, so he was questioned and almost became a scapegoat for the failure of the state division. Framed by this, Ma Teng was furious and simply joined the ranks of the Liangzhou rebels.

Although he became a rebel, Ma Teng was not interested in his background as "General Han Fubo's Ma Yuan". I've always been very proud. In front of Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, Ma Teng always boasted that he was the most loyal general in the Han Dynasty. I have to say that this point has a bit of a dry humor flavor.

hated Han Sui's evil behavior of controlling the government and wantonly abolishing the queen, and Liu Xie, the son of heaven, took advantage of Ma Teng's flaunting. secretly issued a "cloth edict" to Ma Teng. In the edict, Liu Xie asked Ma Teng to win over the rest of the heroes of the Liangzhou army and jointly eliminate Han Sui in order to save the Son of Heaven and the Han court from fire and water.

Of course, Ma Teng is not something that can be easily used by the powerless and powerless Son of Heaven with only a name. He has been in the officialdom of Liangzhou, although he is not an old fox, but he is not a reckless man without brains. However, after Ma Teng received the edict secretly sent by Liu Xie, the son of heaven, he was very surprised, but it was not fake.

The reason why Liu Xie dared to send the edict to Ma Teng was that there was an extremely sharp contradiction between Ma Teng and Han Sui. Otherwise, where would Liu Xie be so reckless as a gamble with his own life?

If you want to talk about the contradiction between Ma Teng and Han Sui, the reason is actually two words:

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After the generals of Liangzhou conquered half of the division, they naturally had to scrape this fertile land compared to the barrenness of Liangzhou. Among them, Ma Wan died in battle, and most of the subordinates took refuge in Han Sui. The rest of Ma Teng, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Yang Qiu, Yang Feng, Han Xian and others all wanted to enclose a good piece of land in the scope of the division to support their own subordinates.

Although Han Sui was the recognized commander of the Liangzhou Army, his real status was actually only equivalent to that of a warlord alliance leader, and he could not directly govern the rest of the generals. When dividing the good land of the division, of course, the rest of the generals would not be polite to Han Sui. After all, this is directly related to the future development and strength of the generals of Liangzhou.

Therefore, after the Liangzhou army repelled the combined forces of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, the generals of Liangzhou quarreled in Chang'an City for almost a month over the territory issue, and almost fought several times during this period. In the end, everyone finally reached a plan that was reluctantly accepted by the generals, and the dispute over the division of the site was finally ended.

said that it was reluctantly accepted by the generals, but in fact, it means that everyone is not satisfied, but they have to accept it. Among the people who are most dissatisfied with the final plan, the first place is Ma Teng.

Ma Teng relied on the combat power of his troops far exceeding the rest of the generals, and he had the greatest expectations for the territory, and even wanted to get the same territory as Han Sui. It's a pity that due to Ma Teng's poor popularity, the rest of the Liangzhou generals did not support Ma Teng's request. The last land Ma Teng got was only Zheng County in Jingzhaoyin, plus a Hongnong County. Compared with Han Suilai, who monopolized almost the entire Jing Zhaoyin, Ma Teng undoubtedly suffered a big loss.

Judging from the area of the divided area alone, Hongnong County plus Zheng County is actually larger than Jingzhaoyin. Judging from the number of households recorded by the government in the territory, the number of households in Ma Teng's territory is only slightly less than that of Han Sui. On the surface, Ma Teng's division does not seem to be a loss.

However, beware, these are troubled times!

Han Sui's territory was located in the interior of the territory controlled by the Liangzhou coalition army, and the rest of the generals were used as barriers on the periphery, which was obviously relatively stable. And Ma Teng's Hongnong County, not to mention that he can only control the western counties of the county, is still on the front line of confrontation with Sun Jian, Zhu Jun and other enemies.

After several years of confrontation between the two sides, due to the continuous hostile wars and conflicts, the population of Hongnong County has been decreasing year after year. In order to maintain the front line, Ma Teng consumed a lot of money and food, and had to step up the collection of the territory, which led to the further flight of the population of the county. So much so that Ma Teng always has a feeling of being unsupportable in both economic and military aspects.

Of course, Ma Teng would not be willing to accept such a situation in the territory. For this reason, he repeatedly asked Han Sui to give up two more county towns to himself in order to maintain the military consumption of his troops. However, Han Sui is not a good person who is willing to give. On the contrary, in terms of power struggle, Han Sui is one of the strongest opponents in the Liangzhou army. Ma Teng's desire to engage in a secret fight with Han Sui is tantamount to a wolf going to provoke a big tiger, and the result is definitely not good.

Fortunately, Han Sui is a smart person and has the overall situation in mind. He saw that he wanted to maintain the unity within the Liangzhou Army, so he deliberately suppressed Ma Teng slightly, and then stopped and did not suppress Ma Teng to death. If Han Sui had used all his means, the banner of Ma Teng's forces would have disappeared in the land of China long ago.

However, Han Sui secretly kept his hand, but Ma Teng didn't see it. On the contrary, Ma Teng, who suffered a dumb loss in the secret contest between the two sides, can be said to have a grudge against Han Sui. When they were in Liangzhou, the two were called brothers. But now, Han Sui is still very affectionate to Ma Teng, but Ma Teng has a smile on his face, and he can't wait to stab Han Sui to death with a knife!

Ma Teng's mood, Han Sui actually knows it. However, as the leader of the Liangzhou Army, he must be tolerant. Moreover, with Ma Teng's shallow scheming, Han Sui didn't believe that he would not be able to play him.

If there was no edict from Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, Ma Teng would probably continue to be patient. However, when Ma Teng found that he could declare war on Han Sui under the banner of the Son of Heaven, he was tempted.

Although the Son of Heaven has been repeatedly hijacked, his prestige has been discredited. However, the banner of the Han Dynasty is still deeply rooted in the hearts of most of the Han people. Ma Teng, who had always been interested in learning from his ancestor Ma Yuan and becoming a loyal minister in later generations, felt that if he had the open support of the Son of Heaven, he might not be able to defeat Han Sui and become the de facto leader of the Liangzhou Legion.

With such a mentality, Ma Teng quietly raised his troops. As a result, the next scene plunged the entire Sanfu region into a full-scale turmoil.

The so-called thief captures the king first. Taking advantage of his official position as General Wei, Ma Teng successfully led his subordinates into Chang'an City, wanting to kill Han Sui in one fell swoop.

However, what kind of old and spicy person Han Sui is, how could he relax his guard against Ma Teng?

As soon as Ma Teng turned his face, Han Sui sensed something abnormal. When Ma Teng's eldest son, Ma Chao, led the elite cavalry of the Ma family all the way into the General's Mansion, Han Sui had quietly escaped from Chang'an under the escort of his trusted general Cheng Gongying. Although Ma Teng's unexpected blow crushed Han Sui's main force, capturing more than 5,000 people, he also successfully seized control of Chang'an. But the most critical one, the result of Han Sui leaving safely, made the situation facing Ma Teng tricky.

is not quite the same as Ma Teng's estimate, the banner of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty is worthless in the Liangzhou Army from the rebel army. In the face of Ma Teng's sudden uprising, the generals of Liangzhou made their choice one after another. Compared with Ma Teng, a guy who used to be an official soldier, Han Sui, who has been in the rebels for a long time, is undoubtedly more worthy of the trust of the generals.

So, when Ma Teng announced that the edict of the Son of Heaven to crusade against Han Sui had just been sent out of Chang'an, the coalition forces of the rest of the Liangzhou generals openly expressed their support for Han Sui, and urgently assembled their troops and began a large-scale counterattack against Chang'an.

Although Ma Teng is brave and good at fighting, the generals of Liangzhou are not weak. The two sides fought for more than a month under the city of Chang'an around the control of the imperial court, and finally ended in a crushing defeat for Ma Teng.

Ma Tengjun lost most of it, and even his eldest son Ma Chao, who he had always valued, was killed by Yan Xing, Han Sui's cronies! (To be continued......)

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