Three Kingdoms Star System

Chapter 290 The Misfortune of Xiao Qiang Returns
"Don't worry, I will try my best to arrange this matter. In fact, this matter is not up to me. It depends entirely on whether my uncle has a conscience in his heart. If it is really hopeless, I don't have any." Method."

Liu He sighed, and said with a wry smile, "It's just that you will be wronged to continue to stay here until his matter is resolved."

"Haha, what's the matter? In fact, no matter where I am now, it doesn't matter whether I am an official or not. The last time Chao'er, a little beast, ignored my life and led the army to besiege Chang'an, I deserved to die. And you just used a death row prisoner with a face similar to mine to die in my place, which is enough to show your affection. Alas, now that I think about it, you, my son-in-law, actually care more about my life and death than my own son. If I were to live, I don’t know if this beast has regrets in his heart?”

At the end of Ma Teng's speech, there was a trace of resentment on his face.

Liu He was silent when he heard the words. He understood Ma Teng's mood very well, comforted Ma Teng a few words, and then returned to his mansion, and sent people to closely monitor the movements in Chencang and Jincheng.

During this period, Liu He began to actively prepare for the re-opening of the Silk Road. He first vigorously restored the three cities of Chang'an, ordered to reduce taxes and activate commerce. In a month's time, Chang'an once again became the most prosperous city in the world, and even Xu, who is known as the foot of the emperor, is quite inferior.

After that, Liu He began to make preparations step by step to reopen the Silk Road. In fact, all the work was almost done now. The only thing left was the security issue of Wuwei and Anding. Before this issue was completely resolved, Liuhe will never reopen the Silk Road easily, and the key to this is naturally the coalition of Ma Chao and Han Sui. As long as this army is completely defeated, the security of the Silk Road will be completely guaranteed, and Chang'an will be able to reopen Restore its former prosperity.

Although he was very urgent, Liu He knew that he should not be too anxious about the matter of Ma Chao and Han Sui, otherwise it would lead to a situation where 8 or 8 people joined forces to fight, although Liu He didn't quite let the [-] or [-] people go. In the eyes, however, once the war breaks out, the Guanzhong area will fall into war again, which is very detrimental to the development of Guanzhong's economy.

Among other things, only the Youfufeng area has changed hands several times, and it has changed hands without the outbreak of large-scale wars. The economic development here has been very sluggish. , brought his family and left his hometown to come to Chang'an, either Zuo Fengyi or An Ding, resulting in the fact that the population of You Fufeng is not one in ten, and the economic development is worrying.

In order to try his best to reduce the scale of the war, or on the other hand, at least not to let the war burn within his jurisdiction, Liu He had no choice but to wait patiently. He believed that the disintegration of the Yongliang coalition was just around the corner.

In fact, Liu He's guess was very accurate. At the beginning, Ma Chao, Han Sui and the other Five Route Warlords still exercised restraint. As the initiator of the war, he still undertook most of the food and grass supply, and arranged for the Five Route Warlords to arrange a garrison.

However, after only two months, the conflict broke out.

It turned out that although Han Sui was able to provide food and grass for the Five Route Warlords, after all, the two counties of Jincheng and Hanyang also had limited food and grass. Han Sui proposed to let Ma Chao share some food and grass. Most of them declined with excuses. Although Han Sui was dissatisfied, he had no choice but to take away the grain and grass provided to the Five Route Warlords.Of course, the Five Route Warlords were dissatisfied with this, but after all, they still needed to rely on others to provide food and grass, so they had no way to ask for more, so they aimed at the people of Hanyang County, and began to connive at the soldiers and horses to plunder the people. , As a result, public resentment boiled over, and the ordinary people who had been beaten to the bone had no choice but to rise up and lead their troops to resist. Among them, the leader of the most violent and powerful team was named Qu Yan.

This Qu Yan is from Xiping, he is of the same family as Qu Yi, and also a big family in Xiping. He was originally dissatisfied with Han Sui's arbitrarily launched war, but now seeing that Han Sui lured wolves into his official position, causing the Five Route Warlords to wreak havoc on the people, Han Sui turned a blind eye Closing one eye, the dissatisfaction in his heart became extremely strong, so he began to raise troops to resist. Although this Qu Yan was far behind Qu Yi in terms of martial arts and general strategy, he was not a mediocre person, leading an army to avoid The fact that they were attacking the emptiness and going out at night did cause a lot of trouble for the Five Route Warlords. The Five Route Warlords united and launched a siege against Qu Yan. In the end, Qu Yan was outnumbered and fled to Liu He via Anding after the defeat.

Although Qu Yan's resistance was put down, the conflict between Han Sui and the Five Route Warlords broke out completely. After Qu Yan escaped, Han Sui called Ma Chao and the Five Route Warlords together to discuss how to avoid similar incidents from happening again. During this period, Han Sui proposed to let the Fifth Route Warlords restrain themselves and stop doing things that would intensify conflicts, but this aroused dissatisfaction among the Fifth Route Warlords. Cheng Yin was the first to say, "If you didn't make up for it, we will provide enough food and grass. , where is it necessary for us to violate the common people?"

Cheng Yin's words were unanimously approved by the other four-way warlords, but Han Sui was very angry, but he patiently explained the reason. It's not that he didn't want to provide food and grass, but the food and grass were beyond his means. Ken believe it?If it was not for Han Sui, how could they have lost their roots, how could they have fallen to where they are today?As a result, they have lost their foundation now, and Han Sui refused to ask for some food and grass, which is really unfair.

Then at night, the Five Route Warlords found Ma Chao quietly, saying that they wanted to take refuge in him, and asked him to help send troops to deal with Han Sui, and promised that once they succeeded, they would hand over Hanyang County and Jincheng County to Ma Chao. They only borrowed the land of Jincheng temporarily. , When he seized Wudu, he handed over Jincheng to Ma Chao, and swore to be loyal to Ma Chao for life.

Ma Chao was greedy for Han Sui's territory, and at the same time hoped to gain the loyalty of the Five Route Warlords. Dang even agreed to their request, quietly dispatched [-] troops from Chencang, and together with the Five Route Warlords, attacked Han Sui at night.

In fact, Han Sui had guarded against the attack of the Five Route Warlords from the very beginning, but he did not expect that Ma Chao would also participate, so an ambush turned into a fight between the two sides. As the Five Route Warlords had an absolute advantage, Han Sui In the end, he was defeated and left, leading only a few hundred people to flee to Qiangzhong, so Ma Chao and the Five Route Warlords divided up the two counties of Hanyang and Jincheng together.

However, the civil strife between Yong and Liang was not over yet, and then Liu He got news that Ma Chao was attacked by the Five Route Warlords, and fled in a big defeat. His whereabouts are unknown. It is said that he fled to Hanzhong via Chencang.

"Haha, God is helping me. Now that Han Sui and Ma Chao have all escaped, we can lead our army to crusade against the Five Route Warlords in a legitimate way. Pass my order, and the armies of all routes are ready to set off tomorrow morning to conquer the Five Route Warlords." , completely pacify the Yongliang area." After hearing the news, Liu He couldn't help but gear up and immediately issued an order.

(End of this chapter)