The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 266 Heroes in the world, there should be a place for me, Ma Chao

After he was promoted to the king of Wei, the situation Cheng Yuanzhi faced suddenly became clear. Since he was the representative of the aristocratic family (the Yuan family is the largest aristocratic family in the Han Dynasty), and his strategy towards the aristocratic family has always been very gentle, therefore, For his move to become the king, the aristocratic family also upholds a happy attitude.

This is completely different from the situation Cao Cao faced in another time and space.

In the original time and space, in the process of pacifying the Central Plains and Hebei, Cao Cao often massacred cities, soldiers, and sages, engaged in "white terror", and ruled the world with the strategy of "those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish".

For example, Xuzhou was slaughtered three times, and [-] surrendered soldiers were killed after the Guandu battle.In addition, every time his political status was improved, Cao Cao would always kill some celebrities, and use the method of "killing chickens to scare monkeys" to deter aristocratic families.

Bian Rang, Kong Rong, Cui Yan, Xun Yu, Xun You, Yang Xiu and others all died because of this.The Kong family, Xun family, Cui family and Yang family represented by these celebrities are all the leading wealthy families in the Han Dynasty.

This move greatly touched the bottom line of the gentry.

Therefore, although the State of Wei under Cao Cao maintained a fragile calm on the surface, it was turbulent in the dark.

In this era when one's face is more important to one's background, the shortcomings of Cao Cao's birth (after the eunuch) and appearance (ugliness) are infinitely magnified.Although the aristocratic family opposed him, they could only stay dormant temporarily due to force.

Cao Cao, who was sensitive, was naturally aware of this, and quickly responded to it. In the 15th year of Jian'an (210), Cao Cao issued a "seeking talents order", advocating the promotion of talented people without sticking to one pattern.Attack the aristocratic family that is about to move.

At the same time, in order to change his origin and win over the support of his family, Cao Cao also revised his family tree, claiming that he was a descendant of Cao Shen, the founding prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty.

However, the move has had little effect.

Since Chen Lin's "Call for Thieves" sharply started the [-]th generation of Cao Cao's ancestors, everyone in the world knows that this (after Cao Shen) is Cao Cao putting gold on his face, and everyone knows that his real name is Xiahou, his grandfather in name Cao Teng is just an eunuch and has nothing to do with the famous prime minister Cao Shen.

The difference in philosophy is the biggest difference between the family and Cao Cao.

Cao Cao admired the legalists and military strategists, and advocated the rule of law and the use of force to quell chaos, which ran counter to the Confucian ideas advocated by the Han gentry.

Confucianism advocates convincing people with virtue, not force; it advocates "subduing others without fighting" instead of "tyrannical force".

Although the whole world is full of wars and princes stand side by side, in fact, everyone is Han Chinese, and they are all of the same clan.Cao Cao used violent means to treat the Han people, massacred them at every turn, and engaged in "white terror". How can this convince them?
This is why during the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao had the most capable men and strangers under his command, but all of them remained silent and watched his failure coldly.

This is also the reason why when Sima Yi usurped Wei, the nobles in the world were silent or stood on the opposite side.

Cheng Yuanzhi felt that in these respects, he was much better than Cao Cao.

He was able to sweep Hebei in the second year of Xingping (195) and unify the Central Plains (excluding Xuzhou and Yuzhou). Thanks to the previous ten years of planning, Gou developed silently in the dark, and he made all the achievements in one battle; The support of the great families.

Cheng Yuanzhi felt that he was much better than Cao Cao in terms of getting help from the aristocratic family.

Of course, if you are too amazing in the early stage, it will appear mediocre in the later stage.No one can always be undefeated, no one can always be amazing.

Therefore, after unifying the Central Plains, Cheng Yuanzhi's pace of expansion slowed down because all his trump cards were revealed.

This is not mentioned.

But it is said that Liu Bei has been in Sichuan for half a year and has been stationed in Jiange to help Liu Zhang guard against the northern army.

After the Northern Army retreated, Liu Bei, who was supposed to be idle, suddenly became busy, busy buying the hearts of the people, generals, and officials in Shu.

Naturally, these actions could not be concealed from Liu Zhang's eyes and ears. Liu Ba, Huang Quan and others repeatedly told Liu Zhang that Liu Bei had great ambitions, and staying in Shu would be like raising tigers, so it was better to send him back to Wuling as soon as possible.

Worried that the northern army would go back and return, Liu Zhang thought again and again, but did not adopt this proposal. He still kept Liu Bei in Sichuan, and continued to supply troops, horses, money and food.

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the other side.

After the Northern Army occupied Hanzhong, Xiliang was completely separated into an isolated island.

Seeing this, Ma Chao couldn't sit still. He always felt that the next target of the Northern Army must be Xiliang, so he and the generals from Xiliang came to Han Sui's garrison to discuss countermeasures.

Ma Chao said to Han Sui: "Now that Zhang Lu has been destroyed and Yuan She has become the king of Wei, his next target must be our Xiliang. How can we sit and wait for death? If not now, when will we wait!"

Ma Chao didn't just have a feverish brain. In order to rebel against him, he already realized that this was a good opportunity. Taking advantage of the fact that the Northern Army had just traveled a long distance to defeat Zhang Lu, and then retreated after a long journey, they would inevitably have no power to fight again. Uniting the generals will definitely be able to quickly occupy the Guanzhong and Hanzhong areas and achieve a great cause!

When Han Sui heard the words, he fell silent for a long time.

He is nearly 70 years old, and he has long passed the age of rebellion, and he does not want to rebel against the court with the bloody Ma Chao.

"Old and weak" is just one of the reasons.

Another reason is: Han Sui has been engaged in rebellion all his life, and he is deeply aware that the rebellion industry is no longer easy to do and has no future.

As an old fox who has been in the big man's black and white for decades, Han Sui will not be easily persuaded by Ma Chao's few words.What he considered more was that if he rebelled, his son who stayed in Yecheng as a hostage would definitely not survive.

Seeing Han Sui's hesitation, Ma Chao said again: "A few days ago, Zhong You, the governor of Yongzhou, wrote to me in hand, telling me to murder my uncle and raise Liangzhou to obey the king of Wei. Zhong Yao."

"Today, the people of Kanto are no longer trustworthy, and they cannot protect themselves unless they raise their troops. I am willing to abandon my father's clan and treat you as my uncle from now on. I hope my uncle will also abandon your son and treat Ma Chao as his father." son to see."

As soon as this remark came out, Han Sui was greatly moved.

Ma Teng was an official in Yecheng—that is, a hostage. He didn't go alone. There were dozens of members of the Ma family in Xudu, and only Ma Chao stayed in Xiliang.

Of course, Han Sui also had a son as a hostage in Yecheng.

Therefore, although Han Sui knew that Ma Chao's purpose of saying this was to solve his own worries, but seeing that Ma Chao would give up the lives of dozens of members of his family and his father Ma Teng for the sake of everyone's safety, he was greatly moved. It is not good to raise any objections.

After all, Ma Chao didn't come alone. Before that, his suggestion had already been approved by the Xiliang generals.

At this moment, besides Ma Chao, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu and others gathered in the room.

Consensus is hard to offend... Han Sui suddenly felt a little bit hard to get off.

Seeing this, Yan Xing, Han Sui's son-in-law, opened his mouth to relieve the siege and said, "Let the general think twice about such an important matter. Everyone, go back for now. The general will give you a satisfactory answer in a few days. How about it?"

Seeing that Han Sui nodded and agreed with what Yan Xing said, Ma Chao and others left.

Yan Xingsui persuaded Han Suidao: "Don't be fooled by Ma Chao. The king of Wei is powerful now, with millions of troops, and we cannot fight against him. I hope the general thinks twice about raising troops."

Yan Xing stated logically that he thought Han Sui would follow the advice and refused to join forces with Ma Chao.

But unexpectedly, Han Sui thought for a while, but said: "Now all the generals agree to rebel, it seems to be God's will, I will join forces."

There is another sentence that Han Sui didn't say, if he didn't choose to be kind, he would probably be killed by Ma Chao now.

This is the truth of life that he realized in his 70 years of life.

In Xiliang, everyone is looking out for each other's face. If Ma Chao doesn't show face today, Ma Chao will definitely turn his back.

Rebellion may be a dead end, but if there is no rebellion, Ma Chao will now join forces with the generals to kill Han Sui.

Since he will die sooner or later, he can only choose to die later.

Furthermore, if you choose to rebel, you may not necessarily die. What if you succeed?

Within two days, Han Sui sent someone to inform Ma Chao that he agreed to rebel!

In the autumn of the 15th year of Jian'an, August.

Ma Chao, together with Han Sui and the Western Qiang clans, mobilized [-] troops, lined up in the upper reaches of the Wei River, in the areas of Anding and Beidi, and captured the counties and counties in Longshang with lightning speed.

These 10 horses are composed of many warlords in Liangzhou. The soldiers are all brave and good at fighting, and they have enough food and grass.

In the case of disparity in military strength, Wei Kang, the prefect of Jicheng, was forced to surrender in Kaesong, and was later killed, and his subordinates also returned to Ma Chao.

After learning that Jicheng had fallen, Zhong Yao, the governor of Yongzhou, hurriedly sent three reinforcements to try to restore the situation.

But the three-way reinforcements were all defeated by Ma Chao.

Ma Chao immediately used Jicheng as his base camp, assembled his troops, and continued to separate Longshang. He proclaimed himself General of Conquering the West, led the governor of Yongzhou, and the governor of Yongzhou and Liangzhou.

Ma Chao confidently believes that the Guanzhong army will be vulnerable, and he will definitely be able to occupy Guanzhong and seize Hanzhong, so that the whole big man will know his Ma Chao's prestige!
(End of this chapter)