Chapter 136 Who can be a general

In May of the third year of Zhongping (186 AD), Ma Yue returned to Shining County.

Ma Yue's clothes were not untied, and he walked into the conference hall with a horse whip in his hand. Jia Xu and Guo Tu followed in.

With a swing of his cloak, the horse leaped on the tiger-skin chair and sat down with a golden sword. He turned his eyes to Guo Tu and asked, "Please, what's going on in the court?"

Guo Tu bent down and replied respectfully: "Tingwei Zhang Mi was ordered to thoroughly investigate the case of destruction and filing. After several months of investigation, there was no progress. The emperor was furious and stopped Zhou Mi's official and then handed it to the inner court for a thorough investigation. Within a few days, Jian Shuo personally led the Jinwu Guard to search for several secret letters from the mansion of the Grand Tutor Yuan Feng. The saying of destruction and filing was indeed true..."

Ma Yue waved his hand and said calmly: "The process is not necessary, what is the result?"

Guo Tu responded respectfully and continued: "The result was that Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei were dismissed from office and demoted back to the hometown of Runan. Situ Huang Wan was demoted to three levels in a row and closed the door to think about his mistakes. Wang Yun, the minister, was promoted to Situ for his merits in picking up the imperial examination. The lord was also reprimanded by the emperor, and he was cut off from his fief of 500 households, but he was not investigated for killing Liu Yu."

"Well~" Ma Yue nodded and asked again, "What's going on around Ning County?"

Guo Tu said: "Two months ago, Dingyuan, the Bingzhou Tsangzhou, assembled 20,000 troops in Yanmen County, including 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry. Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, also gathered 30,000 troops in Hejian, training day and night, and a large amount of food and supplies were transported from Qinghe. The plain counties continued to transport to Hejian. Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, also recruited soldiers in Nanpi, and the situation was very critical."

Jia Xu said calmly: "The lord has killed the emperor's uncle Liu Yu, Ding Yuan, Han Fu, Yuan Shao and others, must have thought that the emperor was about to issue an order to attack the lord, so he mobilized a large army in advance to accumulate food and supplies. This is also expected. However, if the edict of my son has issued today, the lord's crime of killing Liu Yu will not be investigated, and will naturally retreat soon."

"As Wen and brother expected," Guo Tu said. "Just just received a detailed reward and gathered in Yanmen, the army in Hejian has scattered and returned to the counties."

Ma Yue asked again: "Where is the Xianbei in Mobei?"

Guo Tu said: "Since Kuitou was defeated in Yinfeng Canyon last year, the Xianbei in Mobei has split into four groups, Budugen, Qianman, Kebineng, and Tuoba Jiefen are all in charge and attack each other."

"Um!"

Ma Yue stood up and strode to the north wall. Looking at the military topographic map hanging on the wall, he fell into deep thought. Jia Xu and Guo Tu stepped forward a few steps, and the servant jumped left and right. Guo Tu took a breath and whispered: "Lord, now our army is full of soldiers and food, and the four sides are stable. This is a great time to take Hetao west."

Ma Yue turned his back to Guo Tu, but nodded slightly but said nothing.

Jia Xu's eyes flashed, and he was already guessing Ma Yue's mind, and smiled and said, "Now everything is ready. It's just an excuse."

Ma Yue did not look back, but just asked lightly: "Wenhe has any good ideas?"

Jia Xu said: "I heard that the Xiongnu General Zhang Huan had always been incompatible with the Xiongnu Shanyu and Qiangqu."

"Oh?" Ma Yue turned around suddenly and looked at Jia Xu burntly and said, "I hope to hear the details."

Jia Xu said: "Our dynasty revived in Guangwu, and coincided with the civil strife of the Huns. Huhanye Shanyu led more than 50,000 Xiongnus to surrender south and were placed in Xihe, Shuofang, Dingxiang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Yanmen counties. During the Jianwu (the reign of Emperor Guangwu), Emperor Guangwu adopted a strategy of contraction in order to accumulate national strength. It was originally part of Xihe, Shuofang, Dingxiang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Yunzhong counties in Bingzhou. All the counties were abandoned. The county was filled with the people of the border (in the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the people in the mainland moved to the border in order to enrich the border). Most of them migrated south and returned. However, the Huns' tribes remained, thinking that the northern barrier of the Han Dynasty would resist the invasion of the Xianbei and Wuhuan~~"

"For more than a hundred years since then, the world has changed, the Wuhuan surrendered, the Xianbei surrendered, and the Xiongnu's status as a barrier to the northern Han Dynasty was increasingly lost. Zhang Huan ordered the Xiongnu General to spread the Southern Xiongnu several times to spread the troops of the counties in Xihe, Dingxiang, Shuofang, and Yunzhong moved south to Yanmen and Taiyuan, and all refused by the Qiangqu. Zhang Huan was deeply dissatisfied and deliberately deducted the money, grain, cloth and silk from the Han Dynasty to the Great Han Dynasty to assist the Xiongnu. As a result, the resentment became increasingly deeper."

"Um~~" Ma Yue pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice, "This is an opportunity."

Jia Xu said: "Why don't your lord condemn your confidant general pretending to be a rebel general of Wuhuan. Lead a group of Wuhuan to rebel in Xihe and go to Qiangqu. If Qiangqu is taken in, it will be unwilling to Zhang Huan. If Qiangqu is not taken in, you can take advantage of the situation to kill him and then blame Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan and Qiangqu are already in the same situation, but if there is any movement, they will inevitably face each other. Qiangqu is desperate and will inevitably rebel against Han. If the Huns rebel, the emperor will send troops to challenge him. The lord can take advantage of the situation to report to the emperor, blame himself for his poor supervision of Wuhuan, and ask to lead the army to conquer the Xiongnu and redeem the sins, and then the general situation will be accomplished."

"This plan is very wonderful." Guo Tu praised the verse, and then turned his head and asked, "However, who can be the general?"

Guo Tu counted Pei Yuanshao, Liao Hua, Xu Chu, Gao Shun, Dian Wei, and Zhou Cang under Ma Yue, but found that no one was qualified. Facing Guo Tudi's questions, Jia Xu smiled and didn't answer, looking confident, and Ma Yue also looked thoughtful.

...

That night, the general's mansion.

In the melodious and pleasant sound of the piano, Zou Yuniang was playing the piano by the window, while Liu Yan was holding a big belly while waiting for Ma Yue for dinner.

"Husband, I heard that this time I went to the expedition of Goguli, I killed many unarmed people, as well as General Dian Wei. It is said that he would defeat Goguli's princess in front of the soldiers of the three armies~~"

Ma Yue suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Yan coldly. Liu Yan was suffocated and dared not continue to say it. He could only swallow the following words back into his stomach.

After a while, Ma Yueshi groaned and asked, "Who did you hear these?"

There was a vague sense of murderous intent from Ma Yue's tone. Liu Yan shook her head anxiously and said, "No one told me about this. I heard it accidentally when I went to the military camp to heal the soldiers."

Ma Yue said unhappily: "Women should keep aside their affairs!"

Liu Yan lowered her head and replied softly: "Yes."

"And~~" Ma Yue's eyes fell on Liu Yan's increasingly bloated waist and frowned, "I've been pregnant for six months, so don't go to the military camp again in the future."

"yes."

Liu Yan's head lowered, and two lines of clear tears slid down her pink cheeks.

Ma Yue's thick eyebrows frowned and said unhappily: "Why are you crying?"

Liu Yan cried and said, "I am just a pity to the innocent civilians of Gogurye. There is also Princess Goguryee ~~"

"Do you pity them?" Ma Yue was furious and said coldly, "Then why don't you pity me? Why don't you pity the Han people in Liaodong County? Why don't you pity the Han people in Youzhou?"

“This ~~”

Liu Yan was a little overwhelmed by Ma Yue’s question.

Ma Yue took a breath and said in a deep voice: "Do you think I like to massacre innocent people? No, you are wrong, I don't like it at all. This is a forced one! Gongsun Du slaughtered Wuhuan, the young and old in Liucheng, and all the Wuhuan soldiers were filled with hatred. They must take revenge and release their hatred with crazy killing. If I don't let them slaughter the Gogurye people, they will rush into Liaodong to massacre the Han people! If I don't let them kill, they will ~~kill me!"

"I don't want to die, let alone die! So I can only let them kill others, but I will never, nor can I let them kill Han people! In order to save a Han person, I would rather sacrifice one hundred or ten thousand Gogurye people! It's not my race. Don't expect me to sympathize with them, don't think about it!"

"There is also Princess Li Ji of Gogurye. Do you think I like to see her being killed by Dian Wei in public? No, you were wrong, I don't like it at all. But I have to do this! The Wuhuan soldiers killed all the way from Liucheng to Goguryeee. They were all red-eyed. They only had crazy killings, killings, and killings. If they didn't try to stop them, they would lose control and turn into a group of complete beasts. At that time, even if I could not stop them."

"But~~" Liu Yan asked weakly, "Does it have to be done that to stop the Wuhuan soldiers from continuing to kill?"

"Maybe there are other ways, better ways." Ma Yue said coldly, "But under the circumstances at that time, that was the most direct and impressive way I could think of! Those who obeyed my orders~~ lived, those who did not obeyed the orders~~ died! The Wuhuan soldiers were all rough people, and they could even be said to be barbarians. They were illiterate, did not understand the education of saints, did not know etiquette, righteousness, integrity, and morality. What else would they do except kill people and fuck women?"

"If you can't let the Wuhuan soldiers obey orders before returning to Shining County, the place where they suffer will be all the women around Ning County! At that time, do you sympathize with Princess Gogurye, a woman? Or are you sympathetic to all the women around Ning County? Hum?"

“This ~~”

Liu Yan was speechless.

"So~~~Put your cheap tears and your overwhelming sympathy. It's not your turn to teach me a lesson now!" Ma Yue said in a deep voice. "Although the entire Han Dynasty scholars and nobles called me a butcher and a cold-blooded executioner, I know what I'm doing~~"

"Bang!"

After putting this sentence on, Ma Yue paused the chopsticks on the table, got up and left.

It was not until Ma Yue left for a long time that Liu Yan sighed quietly and asked Zou Yuniang, "Sister Yu Niang, am I really wrong?"

Zou Yuniang sighed and answered speechlessly. Like Liu Yan, she did not understand the sorrow and helplessness of the troubled times.
Chapter completed!