Chapter XVII: Murder
That night, You Chu came to Ma Tan's tent according to the agreement, and Ma Tan had prepared a table of wine and food waiting for him.
"Ma joins the army, thank you for being willing to entertain me as a little person." You Chu saw that Ma Jian was extremely richly prepared, and said with great joy.
"It's okay, I will never treat everyone at the banquet badly, let alone You Taishou." Ma Jian nodded and said with a smile.
"If you have wine and meat, and you are well on the road when you are full of food and drink, you should be fed for you."
"You don't need to be so outside to join the army, if you can directly call a certain Zhongyun." You Chu bowed again and again, striving to make sure that the ceremony was not wrong.
Judging from the perspective of this era, You Chu is indeed good. He treats every official very meticulously, and no official can find fault with his style.
"You Taishou, what you have done in Longxi over the years is obvious to everyone, I salute you." Ma Yan nodded, picked up the wine glass and said to You Chu.
"Don't dare to be, You's ability is far from joining the army. Joining the army was able to defeat Zhang He, the famous general of Cao Wei in Jieting, and planned to annihilate the Wei army. You Chu hurriedly raised his wine glass and complimented Ma Yan.
"I'm just lucky, it's not even better than a place like You Taishou." Ma Yan shook his head and continued to raise his glass.
Ma Tan raised a glass to him, and You Chu also had to raise a glass to accompany the wine. The two of them didn't eat two bites of food, and they had already drunk most of the wine.
After pouring a few glasses of wine, Ma Yan's face was as usual, but You Chu was already a little drunk.
"Joining the army, You is not strong enough to drink, and he has ......"
"That's where we got there, and we started drinking." Ma Jian directly interrupted You Chu's words, shook his head and smiled.
"Originally, it was a happy event for our Han to recover Longyou, and we wanted to keep the food for Youtai, so we naturally didn't want to get drunk!"
The leader spoke, and You Chu could only continue to drink with Ma Jian with difficulty.
The two of them drank until late at night, and when Ma Tan felt that he couldn't hold it anymore, You Chu's tongue was already drunk.
"Join the army, let's be here first tonight, you still need to hurry tomorrow morning." Even if You Chu was drunk, he still didn't forget to salute.
"That's right, the time has come, is this meal full of wine and food?" Ma Yan nodded lightly after hearing this, and asked in a flat tone.
"Satiety!" You Chu hurriedly replied. "The hospitality of joining the army is abundant, and You is very lucky."
"Okay, you're well fed and drunk, and it's time to hit the road." Ma Jian repeatedly confirmed that when You Chu was too drunk to do anything, he nodded lightly, reached out and felt a sharp blade from behind him.
"Go all the way, you are too guarded."
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As soon as it was dawn the next day, Zhuge Liang was woken up by the people below, and then he heard a news that made him stunned.
"Ma Tan killed You Chu?" Zhuge Liang's always calm face showed shock.
You Chu is a surrenderer who has just taken the initiative to surrender, and he has been regarded as a famous minister of the Han Dynasty since Zhuge Liang accepted his surrender. As a result, less than a day after he accepted You Chu's surrender, you Ma Jian killed him?
What grudge makes you so crazy?
"That's right, joining the army is now carrying You Chu's head and receiving the guilt outside the tent." Zhuge Liang's personal soldiers smiled bitterly and gave up their reports.
"This kid...... It's going to give me trouble! Zhuge Liang's face darkened slightly, and he brushed his sleeves.
"I'll go out and have a look."
Zhuge Liang came to the outside of the military tent and saw Ma Jian standing outside the military tent at a glance. There was a bloody head at his feet, it was You Chu who he had just sent away yesterday.
"Ma Yan, what have you done! Killed the subordinates without authorization, who gave you this power! Zhuge Liang's face was dark, and he said angrily in a cold voice.
"It's a certain unauthorized proposition, please punish the prime minister." Ma Tan lowered his head expressionlessly and replied without waves.
"You know you're the one who makes the decisions! It's a lot of guts!! Zhuge Liang's face was full of anger, and he pointed at Ma Jian with a feather fan and scolded angrily.
"In the street pavilion, you went up the mountain without authorization, and almost harmed the Northern Expedition, and now you have killed the subordinates! Let me ask you, do you still have me as a prime minister in your eyes! ”
Zhuge Liang spent more than ten years to govern Shu Han into a regime governed by law, and the upper and lower clans did not dare to cross the line. But Ma Tan dared to kill someone without permission at this juncture, and it was an official who had already surrendered.
"This matter is all the fault of the people, and a certain person is willing to accept the guilt." Ma Jian still lowered his head and replied in a deep voice.
"Guilty? Do you know what the crime of killing an official of the imperial court is without permission? Zhuge Liang was very angry, staring at Ma Jian and said coldly.
"But a dead ear, confess your guilt." Ma Tan replied.
"Okay, okay, take the guilt!" Zhuge Liang laughed angrily and pointed at Ma Yandao.
"Come on, take it down and detain it, and then come to deal with you after I pacify the people of Longyou!"
"Yui!"
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Ma Jian was easily escorted to the dungeon in West County.
Although he was guilty, he was a celebrity after all, and the soldiers were very polite to him. He was escorted to the dungeon before leaving honestly.
"I knew I could come in if I killed a bastard, what did I do so much work, just find a few scumbags to click." Ma Jian sat in this place called death row, feeling extremely relieved and comfortable.
It felt like coming home.
"Boy, how did you get in?"
At this time, Ma Jian heard a decadent voice in a corner.
Ma Tan turned to look and saw a middle-aged man sitting decadently in the corner. Seeing Ma Tan looking over, he continued to ask.
"Can be locked up here by the Shu people, should you be an official of Longyou? Why was he caught? ”
"Are you...... Zhang He? Ma Jian repeatedly identified the middle-aged man, and said uncertainly for a long time.
Although it was dark in the street pavilion at that time, it was a little difficult to see, but Ma Jian still recognized that the person in front of him was Zhang He.
But it shouldn't be, shouldn't a general like Zhang He be put under house arrest to persuade him to surrender, how can he be put on death row?
"It seems that you recognize me, it should be an official with more than 2,000 stones, why am I not impressed." Zhang He raised his eyebrows, a little surprised that the young man opposite could recognize him at a glance.
But think about it, I am a general who has led troops to fight in Longyou in the northwest all the year round, and it is not surprising that local officials know him.
"Ahem...... Of course I recognize you. Ma Yan grinned, found another corner to sit down, and said with a big grin.
"If I had known you were so wasteful, I wouldn't have bothered to go to the street pavilion."
Ma Yan's voice fell, and the entire prison instantly fell into a terrifying silence. I saw Zhang He's expression distorted in an instant, stunned, angry, hideous, and confused.
Ma Tan seemed to see a fan-shaped statistical chart in his eyes......
"You're Ma Tan!" Finally, Zhang He stood up all of a sudden, and his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.