Chapter 290: Xiao Qiang's Disaster Reappears
"Don't worry, I will do my best to arrange this matter. In fact, this matter is not something I can decide. It depends entirely on whether my brother-in-law has a conscience in his heart. If it is really hopeless, I have no choice."
Liu He sighed and said with a wry smile: "It's just that before his affairs are resolved, you will still be wronged and continue to stay here."
"Haha, what's the matter? Actually, no matter where I am, it doesn't matter whether I am an official or not. The last time this little beast ignored my life and death and led my army to besiege Chang'an, I should have died. And you just used a death row prisoner with a similar face to me to die for me, which is enough to show your affection. Alas, now that you, half of your son, care more about my life and death than my own son. Specifically, you should want me to live more. I don't know if this beast has ever regretted it in his heart?"
At the end of Ma Teng's speech, there was a hint of resentment on his face.
Liu He was silent when he heard this. He understood Ma Teng's mood very well. He comforted Ma Teng for a few words, then returned to his mansion and sent someone to closely monitor the movements of Chen Cang and Jincheng and other places.
During this period, Liu He began to actively prepare for the reopening of the Silk Road. He first vigorously restored the three cities of Chang'an, ordered the reduction of taxes and activate business. As a result, merchants came and business soon flourished. In just two months, Chang'an once again became the most prosperous city in the world, and even Xu Du, who was known as the emperor, was quite inferior to Xu.
After this, Liu He began to prepare for reopening the Silk Road step by step. In fact, all the work is almost ready. The only thing left is the security issue of Wuwei and Anjian. Until this problem is completely solved, Liuhe will never reopen the Silk Road easily. The key to this is naturally the coalition of Ma 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 restore its former prosperity.
Although he was very anxious, Liu He knew that he should not be too anxious about Ma and Han Sui's affairs, otherwise it would cause a situation where 70,000 to 80,000 people joined forces to fight. Although Liu He did not take these 70,000 to 80,000 people seriously, once the war broke out, it would lead to the Guanzhong area being in war again, which would be very unfavorable for the development of Guanzhong's economy.
Not to mention anything else, the Youfufeng area has changed hands after these few changes and without large-scale wars, and the economic development here has become very declining. In order to live a stable life, many people have left their homes and left their hometowns to Chang'an, either Zuofeng, or stable, resulting in the population of Youfufeng being less than one in ten, and the economic development status is worrying.
In order to try its best to reduce the scale of the war, or, on the other hand, at least not let the war burn in his jurisdiction, Liu He had to wait patiently, and he believed that the fall of the Yongliang coalition was right in front of him.
In fact, Liu He's guess was very accurate. At the beginning, Han Sui and the other five warlords remained restrained. Although there were some disputes between them due to the distribution of territory and the supply of grain and grass, Han Sui, as the initiator of the war, still assumed most of the supply of grain and grass, and arranged for the five warlords to arrange their garrisons.
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 warlords, the food and grass that Jincheng and Hanyang counties could provide were limited, and Han Sui proposed to let the horse share some of the burden. However, Ma refused on the pretext that Chen Cang was the front line to resist Liu He and did not have much food reserves. Although Han Sui was dissatisfied, he had no choice but to snatch the food and grass provided to the five warlords. Of course, the five 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 it again. So they targeted the people in Hanyang County and began to indulge the soldiers and horses to plunder the people, which caused public resentment. The people who were sucked by bones had no choice but to rise up and lead the army to resist. Among them, the most fierce and powerful team was named Kuo Yan.
Kuo Yan is a person from Xiping, and is the same clan as Kuo Yi, and is also a major Xiping clan. He was originally dissatisfied with Han Sui's unauthorized war. Now seeing Han Sui bringing wolves into the government, causing five warlords to ravage the people, Han Sui turned a blind eye. His dissatisfaction was extremely strong, so he began to raise an army to resist. Although Kuo Yan was slightly different from Kuo Yi in terms of martial arts and generals, he was not a mediocre person. He led a large army to avoid the real attack on the virtual, and he was hiding at night, which really caused a lot of trouble to the five warlords. The five warlords united to encircle and suppress Kuo Yan. In the end, Kuo Yan was outnumbered. After defeating, he actually fled to Liu He by way of Anding.
Although Tuo Yan's resistance was pacified, the conflict between Han Sui and the five warlords was completely extinguished. After Tuo Yan escaped, Han Sui summoned Ma and the five warlords to discuss how to avoid regeneration of similar things. During this period, Han Sui proposed to let the five warlords restrain themselves and stop doing things to intensify the conflict. However, it aroused the dissatisfaction of the five warlords. Cheng Yin first said, "If it weren't for you to make up for it, we would provide enough food and grass, how could we have to invade the people?"
Cheng Yin's words were unanimously agreed by the other four warlords, but Han Sui was very angry, but he patiently explained the reason. It was not that he didn't want to provide food and grass, but that the food and grass were not enough. How could the five warlords believe it? They all suggested that if it weren't for Han Sui, how could they have lost their fundamental lands and how could they have fallen to where they are today? As a result, they have lost their fundamentals and wanted to ask for some food and grass, but Han Sui refused. This is really unfair.
Then in the evening, the five warlords secretly found the horse, saying that they wanted to surrender to him, and asked him to help send troops to deal with Han Sui, and promised that once they succeed, they would hand over Hanyang County and Jincheng County to the horse. They would just temporarily borrow the land of Jincheng. When they seized Wudu, they would hand over Jincheng to the horse and swear to be loyal to the horse forever.
Ma was greedy for Han Sui's territory, and at the same time he hoped to get allegiance from the five warlords. He immediately agreed to their request and quietly transferred a 10,000 army from Chen Cang, and joined forces with the five warlords to attack Han Sui at night.
In fact, Han Sui was guarding against the attack of the five warlords at the beginning, but he didn't expect that Ma would also participate. So an ambush turned into a battle between the two sides. As a result, because the five warlords had an absolute advantage, Han Sui was finally defeated and fled to Qiang. So Ma and the five warlords divided the two counties of Hanyang and Jincheng.
However, the civil strife between Yongliang was not over yet. Then Liu He received news that Ma was attacked by five warlords, defeated and fled. His whereabouts were unknown. It is said that he fled to Hanzhong by Chen Cang.
"Haha, God really helps me. Now Han Sui and his horses are all fleeing. Next, we can lead our army to attack the five warlords with justification. We will pass on our orders and prepare for the army of all the troops to come out early tomorrow morning to conquer the five warlords and completely pacify the Yongliang area." After hearing the news, Liu He couldn't help but be ready to hand in hand and immediately issued an order.
Chapter completed!