"Your Majesty, I don't know the identity of this person. He may be one of Ma Mengqi's followers. Do you want me to ask him?" Sun Ce answered with clasped fists. He was also quite curious about the people around Ma Chao.
"Go ahead and ask Ma Mengqi where he came from."
Of course Ma Chao came here on horseback. Everyone could see this. What Liu Xiang wanted to know was who brought him here.
During the initial attack on Ji County, Ma Teng's family was captured. After the war, he was brought back to Chang'an. He was seriously injured and his body was broken. He was not held accountable or appointed as an official. The whole family stayed in the city and lived a low-key life.
As for Ma Chao, his ability is indeed not low, but his character is so poor that Liu Xiang does not want to use him.
This person's character is really not that good. According to the official history, Ma Teng's family entered Ye County as officials, and they were actually hostages. He didn't take this matter into consideration at all. He raised an army in Liangzhou and kowtowed in front of Han Sui.
If you want to recognize your adoptive father, then Han Sui is his mother-killing enemy. If you can recognize his father, do you need to talk about his character?
Lu Bu is stronger than him.
Not surprisingly, his biological father, two biological brothers, and the entire family were killed by him.
Later, he was defeated and went to Zhang Lu. Feeling that he was not being reused, he abandoned his wife and son and went to Yizhou to join Liu Bei.
Later, Cao Cao's troops entered Hanzhong. After Zhang Lu surrendered, he beheaded Ma Chao's son with his own hands and betrothed his wife to his subordinate officials.
How dare Liu Xiang use such a careless person?
With mixed emotions, Sun Ce rode up to Ma Chao. Looking at his former opponent in a state of despair, he felt a sense of regret for a hero in trouble, but before he could speak, he was yelled at: "Why are you doing this?
Come to see a joke? Then you will be disappointed!"
Ma Chao stood very straight, with his back straight and his neck stiffened, not wanting to lose the slightest chance. He could humble himself in front of anyone, but not Sun Boxu!
Sun Ce didn't reply, he could understand, and he would never give in.
"Your Majesty asked who you came with? What are the names of the people around you?"
Ma Chao raised his head and looked at Sun Ce, who was sitting on his horse. He was an old rival before and was known as the rising star of Xiliang. Times have changed and he is now a popular figure next to the emperor, but he has fallen into the dust.
He could not use his talent, so he endured the shame and anger in his heart and answered loudly:
"A certain uncle is Yilang Ma Yu. This time he came to hunt with his uncle. He is accompanied by Ma's attendant, whose surname is Pang Mingde, whose surname is Lingming, and who is from Goudao County."
Sun Ce cupped his fists and saluted: "Sun will report back to Your Majesty and take leave."
He didn't say anything nice about Ma Chao. Such sympathy would only make the other party feel humiliated.
On the way back, thinking about the different situations and the way his old rival showed off his strength, he suddenly understood a lot of things and felt as if he had grown up.
I have learned some things about the world and am no longer a aggressive and aggressive young man.
After reporting back, he specifically mentioned: "Ma Meng is skilled in bowing and horsemanship. He is a rare talent."
Liu Xiang glanced at him with a smile. Of course he would not say that he had seen Ma Chao's life in history books. Because his character was not good, he did not want to use it. He said perfunctorily: "I know that this person still needs to be polished."
He turned around and glanced at Pound in the distance. This man was indeed available. Wouldn't it be too rough to conquer him directly? After all, this was an era that valued loyalty.
Forget it, the person is already here anyway, so there's no need to worry, he can't escape from the palm of his hand.
It was getting late, and more and more people were arriving, first on horseback, and later on horse-drawn carriages. As for those driving ox carts and donkey carts, they probably wouldn't be able to arrive tonight.
The officials under his command are not short of large livestock. After ten years of development in the livestock industry in Youzhou and Bingzhou, pastures are everywhere, and there are hundreds of thousands of naturalized Hu people outside the Great Wall grazing cattle for the Han Dynasty.
The sale of livestock is a pillar industry in these two states.
A large number of caravans have already cooperated with various tribes for win-win cooperation, which is more than a hundred times larger than the size of the mutual market.
What's more, Liangzhou was originally the most developed place for animal husbandry in the Han Dynasty. Now that it has been pacified for two years, people's livelihood has recovered quickly, pastures have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and it is not far away that animal husbandry is the first in the world.
The price of horses was even lower than when he first crossed over, and the number was not comparable to that during Emperor Ling's reign. Give him a few more years, and he would definitely surpass the number of horses in the Han Dynasty's heyday.
The policy of absorbing Hu people into Han nationality is bringing more and more dividends from animal husbandry to the Han Dynasty.
It is not enough to be self-noble by closing the door. It is the right thing to constantly absorb new blood and constantly strengthen one's body.
Looking at the horses and vehicles scattered for several miles, Liu Xiang smiled and said: "Come into camp, Zian, you come and assign the camp, and order people to rush for the follow-up supplies."
Zhao Yun stayed in Chang'an to guard the city, and Cui Yi couldn't be lazy anymore.
People arrived one after another throughout the night. He and his Qian Yulin army were busy for half the night. Those who arrived in the middle of the night had no choice but to stay outside the camp.
When the sky brightened the next day, Liu Xiang looked at Xun Yu's dark circles and smiled extremely unscrupulously, making Xun Wenruo, who had always been calm and leisurely, so embarrassed, which greatly satisfied his bad taste.
"If Wen wants to rest in the tent of the widow? Don't worry, I won't blame you."
Xun Yu arrived at Zhongnan Mountain in the middle of the night and spent half the night on a carriage outside the camp, but did not sleep well at all.
"I don't dare. Your Majesty is too frivolous. How could Tian Lie be so arrogant? I'm afraid I'll be criticized if I abandon all the officials and go alone." He looked sleepy and his tone was a bit heavy. He really couldn't maintain his usual calmness and drove.
In eighty miles, I didn’t bring any family members with me, so I just came to give advice.
Besides, as a minister, how can I rest in the imperial tent?
In what manner?
Liu Xiang waved his hand and didn't care about his accusation at all. Tian Lie was there to train soldiers, but this time he didn't train his soldiers. Instead, he was tormenting the officials and their descendants. Of course, he was not popular with others.
However, if he is asked to take a guard of honor, officials, eat barbecue and play music, and go on an outing without any hardship at all, is that called hunting?
If you don't ride a horse and don't endure hunger, what's the point?
He didn't want to spend money and food to have an outdoor party for the nobles. That was not a good thing and would only create a bunch of useless snacks.
"Okay, I understand. For those outside the camp, let them go back. If Wen wants to go back to Chang'an now, or should he sleep in the tent for a while and then go back?"
"Ah?"
His mentality was a bit broken.
But before he could think of how to refute, the singing of the soldiers of the Yulin Army came over.
"Si Si and Kong Fu, six bridles are in hand. The prince loves his son, and he follows the prince in hunting.
Serve Shi Chen Mu, Chen Mu Kong Shuo. The public said to the left, if you pull it out, you will get it.
Wandering in Beiyuan, the four horses were idle. They were riding carriages and carriages to rest their arrogance."
This is a Qin Feng song called "Si Si", which tells the story of following the king in hunting paddocks.
"If Wen Ruo can do it, I'm going to leave!"
Xun Yu felt that the emperor’s smile was particularly annoying!