The first is Yuan Shao, who was only in his thirties at this time, although he was filial piety and served as the magistrate of Puyang County. However, due to the death of his mother, he resigned due to his father's funeral, a total of six years. After that, he refused to be summoned by the imperial court, and lived in seclusion in Luoyang to make friends with the party and chivalrous people, and was quite famous, such as Xu You, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others met at this time.

Although Yuan Shao was white at this time, he was born in the fourth world and the third duke, and he thought very highly of himself, and in order to get rid of the eunuchs, he defected to He Jin and became a staff member in the general's mansion, and won He Jin's trust and value, so no one dared to despise it.

With Yuan Shao, his half-brother Yuan Shu is naturally indispensable, Yuan Shu is obviously better than his brother at this time, and he is the general of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang, with a rank of two thousand stones. This official is neither big nor small, and is subordinate to Guangluxun, similar to the current head of the Central Garrison Regiment, responsible for defending the Han Imperial Palace. However, there was more than one Tiger Warrior general, and there were several other than him who held this position, so the number of Tiger Cavalry in his hands was very limited.

The third is Cao Ying, who was born in 155, only thirty-three years old at this time, more than seven feet long, dark complexion, ordinary appearance, and a pair of eyes that are extremely deep. Now the guests who enter the palace have no official position.

Brother Xiao Ma was relieved when he thought about Cao Ying's history carefully. Cao Ying was born in the family of the eunuchs, and at the age of twenty (174), he was promoted to filial piety and served as the lieutenant of the northern part of Luoyang, and his position was equivalent to that of the director of a public security sub-bureau in the capital of later generations, responsible for the security of Luoyang City. As soon as Cao Ying arrived at office, he affirmed the ban and strictly enforced the law and discipline, and made more than ten five-colored sticks, which were hung around the yamen, "Those who violate the ban will be killed with sticks." Even the uncle of the Son of Heaven's favored eunuch Jian Shuo was beaten to death by Cao Ying with a five-colored stick because of the ban on night walking.

Because of this, Cao Ying also offended some powerful people, and was successively transferred or even dismissed. It was not until 180 that he was recruited as a speaker again, and he was suppressed by the eunuchs because of the above table for the previous defeat of the eunuchs and the eunuch framed by the eunuchs, and the eunuchs were suppressed, and they have been depressed.

In 184, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and Cao Ying was appointed as a cavalry lieutenant, and was ordered to join forces with Huangfu Song and others to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan, and as a result, the Yellow Turban Army was broken and tens of thousands of people were beheaded. Then he moved to Jinan, and these years were when the politics of the Eastern Han Dynasty were extremely dark, and there was even a system of buying officials. The imperial court requisitioned him as the Taishou of Dongjun and worshiped him as a councilor, Cao Ying refused to cater to the eunuchs and magnates, so he did not take office due to illness, studied in spring and summer, hunted in autumn and winter, and became an idle cloud and wild crane. It was not until 188 that Emperor Ling set up the eighth lieutenant of the West Garden, and he appeared again with Yuan Shao.

These three people were He Jin's right-hand men in the early days, and it was not uncommon to see them in He Jin's mansion, but what Xiao Ma couldn't understand was why Liu Yan and Liu Biao, the two Han clan relatives, were also in the general's mansion?

Liu Biao is not enough, on the genealogy and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was quite talented when he was young, he was a loyal lackey of Confucianism, and he participated in the Tai Student Movement, known as one of the "Eight Jun". During the period of the party's rebellion, Zhang Jian and others from the same county were criticized and forced to flee. After the party ban was lifted, Liu Biao was recommended by the general He Jin to enter the court again and serve as a candidate in the Northern Army.

The lieutenant of the Northern Army is equivalent to the chief inspector of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the later army, in charge of the five battalions of the Northern Army, with a rank of 600 stones. The five battalions refer to the guards under the command of the five captains of the Tun cavalry, the Yue cavalry, the infantry, the Changshui, and the shooting sound, and the rank of the five lieutenants is more than 2,000 stones, and this kind of low-level officers supervising high-ranking officials is not unusual, even in the 21st century.

According to later historical records, Liu Biao served as a lieutenant in the Northern Army under He Jin until Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing after He Jin's death in 190. Later, because Wang Rui was killed by Sun Jian, Dong Zhuo, who held great power, recommended Liu Biao as the assassin of Jingzhou. Liu Biao rode to the post, and with his own fame, he won the support of several major families in Jingzhou, and gained a firm foothold in Jingzhou in less than a year, and when Dong Zhuo died, Liu Biao had already become a powerful prince.

It can be seen that Liu Biao had obviously taken refuge in Dong Zhuo at that time, otherwise how could Dong Zhuo promote him to a small candidate in the Northern Army? When the princes of Shandong asked for Dong, Liu Biao did not send troops, and later when Dong Zhuo's subordinate Li Dao was in power, he also named him the general of Zhennan and the pastor of Jingzhou, and was named the Marquis of Wu, and the festival was fake.

And this Liu Yan is the imperial uncle of the serious eight books, in terms of genealogy, he is a descendant of Liu Yu, the king of Lugong in the Western Han Dynasty, and the imperial uncle of Emperor Ling. Liu Yan was a member of the Han Dynasty clan, worshiped as Zhonglang, and successively served as the Luoyang Order, the Jizhou Assassin History, the Nanyang Taishou, the Zongzheng and other positions, and the current Taichang. once recognized Liu Bei as a nephew in the suppression of the Yellow Turban, and first had his eldest son Liu Fan, who served as Zuo Zhonglang; The second son, Liu Dan, was appointed to write the imperial history; The third son, Liu Mao, and the fourth son, Liu Zhang, both regard their actions as filial piety, and it is only a matter of time before they become officials.

Brother Xiao Ma didn't expect that during his trip to He Fu, he would meet five famous princes in the history of later generations, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, no matter whether he was an enemy or a friend in the future, at least he couldn't be offended now, and it was true to be a good person, so he saw one by one and saw it with a very respectful attitude.

In addition, there were also Bo Chenlin, the lord of the general's mansion, Wang Kuang of the mansion, Zheng Tai, the Shangshu servant, Lu Zhi, the Guanglu doctor, Ma Yueyan, the left general Huangfu Song, the general He Miao, the commander of the guard, Yang Biao, the general of the Zhonglang and other officials were present. I don't know if these people came to see how to save face, or if they wanted to see if this young wizard who had recently become famous was worthy of his name.

After greeting each other, everyone began to sit at the table, and the formal banquets of the Han Dynasty were all low tables for one person, and then divided into two or four rows of kneeling tables. Brother Xiao Ma and Ding Yuan are the protagonists of today's story, so they naturally have to sit under the chief He Jin, and then the officials of the DPRK and China, the staff of He Fu and others.

He Jin smiled all over his face, picked up the bronze wine bottle and said: "Today, the old man is holding a banquet in the mansion, and its main purpose is to wash the dust for General Ma and Ding Tingshi, who have repeatedly performed miraculous feats recently. I have put this matter on the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven heard that General Ma's ancestor is my Eastern Han Dynasty founding general Ma Yuan after the great joy, the short is three days, at the latest only ten days, there must be a thick seal and heavy reward, in the future, you will be in the same hall as a minister, the old man also introduced General Ma to everyone in advance. "Drink it all.

Everyone hurriedly agreed, drank a glass of sake, Xiao Ma put down the wine bottle, hugged his fists and saluted: "Thank you for the promotion of the general, although he is young, he also knows the truth of serving the country, the ancestor Ma Yuan once said: Men should die in the border field, and bury their ears with horse leather wrappers!" Although the young general has a few military exploits, compared to the world's famous generals General Huangfu Song, General Lu Zhi, and General Zhu Jun are absolutely inferior, compared to the great general, the weight is lighter, and the exploits of commanding the armies from all walks of life to exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves are even more like fireflies than Haoyue! ”

Seeing Ma Chao's modest attitude and proper language, everyone couldn't help but feel good, but there were also a few inaudible cold snorts. Brother Xiao Ma swept his eyes and knew that it was Yuan Shu, the super second ancestor of the Yuan family, and his heart was slightly unhappy.

He Jin bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "The old man heard that General Ma was invited by the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Bugu to lead troops to quell the rebellion, and broke more than 100,000 Southern Xiongnu rebels with 50,000 Xiliang cavalry. ”

Xiao Ma said humbly: "Don't dare, let you make fun of it, although the Southern Xiongnu have surrendered to my Han Dynasty for more than 100 years, they send cavalry to plunder and plunder the state and Liangzhou at the time of the autumn harvest, and the people on the border of the two states are deeply affected." Ma Teng, the father of the family, deeply felt the suffering of the people, and when the king of the Mustu sent an envoy to invite him, he handed over eighty percent of his troops to the junior general to lead him to quell the rebellion."

Then Brother Xiao Ma told the story that had been made up in public, which roughly meant that the 50,000 army had quelled the rebellion in front of the army, and although he had won a big victory in several battles, the soldiers under his command had also lost more than seventy percent. He had told Ding Yuan this lie beforehand, and he and Xu Bugu Pound and others had carefully scrutinized it many times to make sure that everything was reasonable and there was no flaw before it was finally finalized.

The main purpose of his doing this was to be self-defeating and deliberately plastering his face, on the one hand, to avoid the fear of the sharp edge, and on the other hand, the more soldiers he lost, the more tragic the battle situation and the greater the credit. On the other hand, if you say that you can break through an army of 100,000 with 7,000 cavalry, it will be difficult for people to accept, and if you can't get it right, you have to pass the secret of the saddle pedal to the Central Plains in advance.

After hearing this, everyone nodded in unison and praised it. Only Yuan Shu disagreed, and opened his mouth and said: "After General Ma is worthy of being a famous general, he has such a ability when he is not a weak crown, but I heard that the Xiliang Army has burned and looted on the grassland in the process of counterinsurgency, and the old and young have not let go, and plundered a large number of Southern Xiongnu women to the land of Xiliang, the Han Dynasty governs the country with Confucianism, and General Ma is not insulting to my Han national body in doing this?" ”

Ma Chao was disdainful for a while, the Han Dynasty pays attention to governing the country with Confucianism externally, but has no scruples internally, and the fish and meat people who have no scruples at home belong to "A dragon at home, and a worm when you go out!" ”。 At that moment, Shi Li said: "What General Yuan said is good, how can the young generals of the Han Dynasty not know the policy of Confucianism and reform? But the probation is limited to the people of the Han Dynasty, not the northern Hulu! Besides, the Southern Xiongnu are different from our Han Dynasty, everyone is a soldier in the grassland, even the young and old can bend the bow and shoot our army, no one hurts the tiger, the tiger hurts people's hearts, how can the two armies have mercy when they fight? We don't know that kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself! ”

After a pause, he said: "In addition, most of these people are the families of the rebels, and the killing of the young generals is also at the request of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Bugu, and the women who plundered to Xiliang are the families of the Han slaves on the grassland, and letting them go to the land of Xiliang is also to influence them, so I think there is nothing wrong with it!" ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at Xu Bugu, Confucianism has a deep influence on them, judging from the rumors, what Xiao Ma did was indeed against Confucianism and Taoism, and it was an unkind move!

Xu Bugu immediately scolded Brother Ma a hundred times in his heart, his face was cloudy, and now he finally understood Ma Chao's intention to bring him to Luoyang, and he simply asked him to carry the black pot. But on this occasion, he didn't dare to demolish Xiao Ma's platform, otherwise he would make Ma Chao unhappy, and many of his previous efforts would come to naught, and he thought for a while: "That's right, the rebels should punish the three tribes, the Han Dynasty is like this, and the Southern Xiongnu is also like this, so Xiao Wang specially implored General Ma to lead the army to kill the Hu Department who participated in the rebellion, and those women are also women who Xiao Wang gave to Han slaves as wives, isn't it wrong for Xiao Wang?" ”

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