Since Dong Zhuo's army retreated to Xiliang City, Xiliang's position as a defender of Ma Ben has naturally disappeared, and Dong Zhuo's headquarters army will naturally not obey him, even if the command of the three thousand city defense troops has been seized by Dong Zhuo, but the civil power is still firmly grasped by Ma Ben. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info First of all, this is the duty of Taishou, of course, in the troubled times, there is power in the barrel of the gun, and it is not impossible for Dong Zhuo to take the right to run the horse. Even if Ma Ben brings the lawsuit to the imperial court, it is estimated that the imperial court will not have time to take care of this matter now.

However, Dong Zhuo didn't persecute too much, the Ma clan was originally from the Xiliangwang clan, not to mention, although the Ma clan had nominally expelled Ma Teng from the Ma clan genealogy, don't put your eggs in one basket. It's just a trick that the family often plays, and Dong Zhuo naturally knows it. Dong Zhuo naturally didn't want to tear his face with Ma's, and even the Xiliang heroes who were miserable by Ma Heng also returned to Ma Ben's account again, in the past, it was Ma Ben and Xiliang who ruled this Xiliang City together, after Dong Zhuo came, there was nothing to do with the Xiliang heroes, Dong Zhuo's actions were extremely domineering and greedy, and in order to survive, the Xiliang heroes could naturally only firmly huddle under the command of Ma Ben, who was the only one who could still compete with Dong Zhuo. Of course, no matter how you look at it, it's just a last-minute move.

Ma Ben's life is still a good life, he runs an office during the day, and goes back to the house at night to tease his little daughter, this Taishou Mansion is still Ma Ben's residence, and Dong Zhuo occupies the first powerful mansion in Xiliang in a grand manner, which is called confiscation during the war.

Ma Ben is psychologically confident, but he is not Ma Teng as everyone thinks, but his son. The rebel army won, and the Ma family, the seat of the lord of Xiliang, can also fight, and if he loses, his son can still change his face to take his position, and he who has made meritorious contributions to counterinsurgency may even be able to use this to be promoted to Gyeonggi and become a Beijing official. Of course, Ma Heng didn't know that his son was no longer in Juyongguan and ran to Bingzhou.

The only pity for Ma Ben is that when the Qiang rebel army occupied Juyong Pass, Ma Ben used the excuse of rebellion, Xiliang lacked a major general, and wanted to incorporate Xiliang Academy into the city defense army, and Xiliang Academy was merged into the city defense army, Chen Changqing and Lu Bu naturally could only let Ma Ben knead, at least before Dong Zhuo came, then Ma Ben could naturally find too many reasons to kill the two of them and then quickly, but unfortunately they were run away by the two who saw the bad opportunity and disappeared.

It has been half a year since Dong Zhuo's army retreated to Xiliang City, and the rebel army still tried its best to attack at the beginning of this half year, but unfortunately Dong Zhuo's army, which was no longer paddling, naturally let the rebel army return in vain, and lost tens of thousands of soldiers under Xiliang City.

In the study of the Taishou Mansion, Ma Ben stared at a secret report and a secret letter in front of him and was silent, while a black-clothed guard in front of him was waiting quietly.

The content of the secret report is very simple, several Haoqiang in Xiliang City are connected in series, and they are ready to secretly open the city gate to let the rebels enter the city three days later, plus the elite soldiers who secretly sneaked in from the secret passages in the courtyard of several Haoqiang, they were caught off guard, and the certainty of capturing Xiliang City was not uncommon. It seems that in the past two months, the rebel army has not made any preparations, but has paralyzed Dong Zhuo, Ma Ben and others.

In the past, in order to avoid suspicion, Ma Ben had already completely ignored military affairs, but Ma Heng also ordered the black-clothed guards of the surrounding two counties to obey Ma Ben's orders early on, of course, many of the black-clothed guards in these two counties were inextricably linked with the Ma family, and even many of them were the children of the Ma's domestic servants and peasant generals before. Even if Ma Heng doesn't give the order, Ma Ben may not be blinded. Become blind.

And the secret letter is also very simple, it is Ma Teng who persuaded Ma Ben to order the soldiers to secretly open the city gate three days later, and let the rebel army enter the city, three days later, it is the day when the three thousand city defense troops change their defenses, although the city defense army and Xiliang Haoqiang are inextricably linked, but Xiliang Haoqiang is not sure that thousands of people will obey orders, if Ma Ben orders, at least double the number of people. In these years, Xiliang has been too guarded, and Ma Ben is not in vain, and 2,000 people and hundreds of people to seize the city gate are completely two concepts.

After receiving this secret letter, Ma Ben immediately fell into hesitation, whether to help the rebel army, or even whether to report the situation directly to Dong Zhuo.

Help the rebel army, if the rebel army succeeds in occupying the entire Xiliang City, it can almost mark that the rebel army can occupy the entire territory of Xiliang, and then there will be no heavy city fortress for Dong Zhuo's army to guard, and in the decisive battle on the plain, the rebel army's 300,000 army is not afraid of Dong Zhuo's 100,000 army, of course, Dong Zhuo really wants to fight for his family, and it may not be impossible to destroy at least more than half of this rebel army that is not awakened warriors, but it is difficult to say whether Dong Zhuo can make this decision.

The rebel army occupies the entire Liangzhou, and it will be difficult for the imperial court to exterminate it, Wuwei County, the state and county where Xiliang City is located, is 70% of the grain production area of Xiliang, and Jincheng County is the production area of fine stone mines, so don't look at the previous Xiliang army occupied five counties, as long as it can firmly hold the second county of Wuwei Jincheng, the rebel army will end up like water without a source and end in failure.

Originally, according to Ma Ben's own ideas, when Dong Zhuo counterattacked, let Ma Heng and Ma Teng set things right, and when there were soldiers and food famous, most of Xiliang would have the surname Ma. But if the rebel army occupies the entire territory of Xiliang, not to mention the prestige of the Bian Zhang, Ma Tengke may not have other thoughts, you must know that in the Xiliang rebel army, whether it is status or strength, Ma Tengke is still higher than Ma Heng, as for personal strength, it is more than a step higher, and his eldest brother, who can suppress his younger brother, will have already evacuated Xiliang by then. And at that time, the Xiliang Ma clan could only re-establish the patriarch, the roots of the Xiliang Ma clan were still in Xiliang, if Xiliang was still in the hands of the imperial court, it would naturally be easy to say, even if Ma Ben went to Gyeonggi, as long as the status was not lost, he could firmly grasp the status of the patriarch of the Xiliang Ma clan, and fight for the patriarch, Ma Heng could not compete with Ma Teng in terms of seniority and strength.

As for reporting the information to Dong Zhuo, it is also beneficial, Dong Zhuo, who is on guard, can even take advantage of the situation to break the rebel army, and Ma Ben is not unable to become Dong Zhuo's important minister with this great achievement. You must know that Dong Zhuoke was the actual controller of Xiliang at that time.

In the end, Ma Ben sighed for a long time, waved his hand to let the black-clothed guard leave, burned the secret letter, and chose to turn a blind eye. This also exposes the golden mean that Ma Ben, a bureaucrat at the end of the Han Dynasty, believed in. But it was the inaction that Ma Heng sneered at in his eyes.

Ma Ben lacks the spirit of adventure, or lack of ambition, peaceful and prosperous, such a steady and well-kept lord is naturally good, but in the troubled times, at least Ma Heng and even Ma Teng will definitely not choose not to act, of course, there is no way to judge whether it is right or wrong, if according to the history of the previous life, few of the Ma clan have a good end, either they were executed, or they died depressed in middle age like Ma Chao. Hundreds of people from the top and bottom of Ma's direct line, leaving Ma Dai alone, has died a good death.