Chapter 114 Ma Mengqi arranges the Yellow Turbans
Liao Hua was relieved when he heard Ma Chao say this, "But I don't know what arrangements are there for me?"
"After all, I have said it first, so I will not let you become enemies with the Yellow Turbans, and you don't need to be in the army. I am going to let you go..."
Then Ma Chao told Liao Hua about his own plans. In fact, he thought it was very simple. Since Liao Hua would not participate in the battle with the Yellow Turbans, then there was no meaning in his army. It just so happened that more than 2,000 people didn't want to be enemies with the Yellow Turbans, so those people were led by Liao Hua to Guanhai, Qingzhou.
When Liao Hua heard this, he never expected that Ma Chao would have such an arrangement. He actually had contact with the bandits in Qingzhou. And it seemed that the relationship was not too shallow. Could it be that it was a collusion between officials and bandits? Liao Hua thought a lot.
"Everything depends on the arrangements of the lord!"
Liao Hua naturally had no objection to Ma Chao's arrangements. After all, he and his brothers who did not want to participate in the war had nothing to do in the army. It was indeed better to go to Qingzhou to have a look.
"Okay, I'll write a letter now. At that time, as long as you hand over the letter to Guan Hai from Qingzhou, he will make arrangements after reading it!"
So Ma Chao picked up his pen and wrote two letters. The first letter was naturally to Guan Hai. He first introduced Liao Hua and the more than 2,000 people and asked Guan Hai to arrange them. As for Guan Hai's "family business", there are still places to arrange more than 2,000 people. However, Ma Chao thought of the issue of money and grain, and considered it. He was afraid that Guan Hai's copycat was too heavy, so he had this second letter. The second letter was written to Mi Taigong. Ma Chao and Mi Taigong shared Chengdu in the Mi family, so naturally he had to let Mi Taigong take out some money and grain to send it to Qingzhou.
Of course, Ma Chao was not just to arrange the more than 2,000 Yellow Turbans, but the most important thing was for himself. Nowadays, Ma Chao's subordinates have many, such as Guan Hai, Wu Anguo, Zang Ba in Qingzhou, Cui An, Chen Dao, and Wei Ping around him, but there were not many soldiers. He only had a hundred soldiers who followed him from Dunhuang, and then he disappeared.
There are also other soldiers. There are more than 2,000 people brought from Luoyang, and there are more than 6,000 prisoners of the Yellow Turbans collected, which is more than 8,000. But these are not his own soldiers. They are all eating the food of the court and taking the salaries of the court. They are all from the Han.
So if we say that Ma Chao has rebelled now, we believe that there may be many people following him in the Yellow Turban Stroke. After all, these people will basically follow whoever gives them food. But Ma Chao believes that there are still more than 2,000 people left from Luoyang, who can follow him.
So now he has to start recruiting soldiers. In a chaotic world, you must have your own soldiers. This time, you are planning to let Liao Hua bring more than 2,000 people to Qingzhou are the division assigned to him by Ma Chao. Ma Chao is going to make other arrangements to let these people leave the Han army and become his division. As for the issue of loyalty, of course he didn't expect to let them work hard for him for one day, but isn't this going to take it slowly?
In Ma Chao's opinion, this is just a matter of time. First, they were sent to Qingzhou. At this time, they were no longer the Yellow Turban Army, but they also left the Han army. At this time, what you ate was neither the food from the court nor the salary from the court. The food and drink were all Ma Chao's, so you naturally had to serve Ma Chao.
After Ma Chao wrote the letter, he handed it to Liao Hua, and the letter to Mi Taigong was naturally sent by a special person.
"Okay, call Wei Ping here, I have something to look for him!"
Ma Chao asked Liao Hua to call Wei Ping here, and he also made arrangements for Wei Ping.
"No!" Liao Hua took the order to call Wei Ping.
After a while, Wei Ping came.
"Master, you're looking for me."
"Sit down, you have something to do!"
"Thank you! Your lord has a destiny, but you can drive you to the death!"
So Ma Chao talked to Wei Ping about asking Liao Hua to take more than 2,000 Yellow Turban soldiers to Qingzhou.
"The lord's intention is to let his subordinates go together?" Wei Ping asked.
Ma Chao nodded, "No, but you are not going alone, but you are going together with a hundred of your subordinates!" Next, Ma Chao told Wei Ping about his own plans.
Why did Ma Chao ask Wei Ping and the others to go to Qingzhou together? This is not to say that he doesn't believe in Liao Hua, but the distance from Wancheng to Qingzhou and Xuzhou is not close. There are many places to pass through this journey, and they are all places of war. Maybe something will happen if it is not done well.
With Ma Chao's understanding, he naturally knew that with his Liao Hua's ability, if he really encountered something big, he wouldn't be able to do it. Whether it was the Han army, the Yellow Turban or the folk, there were more people who were better than you, Liao Hua, so he asked Wei Ping to join him. After all, one person was short-sighted, and two people could have more solutions. Three cobblers were even better than Zhuge Liang.
This is one, and the second is that Ma Chao feels that these two thousand people will be his own division in the future, and Guan Hai will certainly not mix the people in the parody with his own division. So Ma Chao also said in his letter to Guan Hai that he would hand over these people to Zang Ba, and then the more than two thousand people will be under the command of Zang Ba, while Liao Hua and Wei Ping assisted Zang Ba. Guan Hai and Wu Anguo naturally still took charge of the people in the parody.
In the future, Zang Ba will have to worry about the training and management of more than 2,000 people. As a foundation, a good foundation, I believe Zang Ba knows how to do it.
These are Ma Chao's plans. As for whether someone would run away during the Yellow Turban Stroke, Ma Chao was not worried at all. Anyway, it would be better if he ran away. Such unstable people would leave early. But Ma Chao also knew that no one should leave. According to his plans, more than 2,000 soldiers would give each of them a day of dry food and give all the money to Liao Hua and Wei Ping. Does Ma Chao think that someone might run away?
"Wei Ping follows me, let's go to the schoolyard to have a look!"
"promise!"
Wei Ping followed Ma Chao out of the mansion to the schoolyard, and Ma Chao took Liao Hua with him. When Ma Chao left the mansion, he happened to see Chen Dao, and he asked Chen Dao to secretly gather the more than 2,000 Yellow Turban surrenders together, and he had something to say.
Chen Dao reported to Ma Chao that he had just integrated and incorporated the Yellow Turban surrendered soldiers, and now those Yellow Turban surrendered soldiers are no more than 2,000. After his integration and acquisition of the Yellow Turban surrendered soldiers, the more than 6,000 people were removed from the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and the more than 2,000 people were left in the Han army before, so Ma Chao had 8,000 soldiers. And the more than 2,000 people in the other part, after removing the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, there were still 2,000.
After hearing this, Ma Chao nodded. He forgot to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled, but he had already given everything to Chen Dao a long time ago, so he did a good job. "Okay, uncle, you did a good job. As for the old, weak, sick and disabled, you give them one month of dry food and one month of money, let them all go!"
"No!" Chen Dao took the order and left, and by the way he had to summon the two thousand people.
After arriving at the gathering place, Ma Chao looked at the two thousand people summoned by Chen Dao and slowly said, "Brothers, you are all good things. I, Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi, admire you!"
After a pause, Ma Chao continued: "I will never break my promise as I said before. You will not be enemies with Taiping Road, but I have other arrangements for you. My arrangement is to let everyone go to Qingzhou, and you will naturally have good arrangements when you go to the local area!"
When the two thousand Yellow Turban soldiers heard this, they said, "What are you going to Qingzhou?" This rod is too far away. From here to Qingzhou, it seems that more than a thousand miles are more than a thousand miles. Why did Lord Ma ask us to go so far? Of course, these people think in their hearts, but no one dares to say anything. They don't want to live and speak more.
When Ma Chao saw everyone's expressions, he understood that he winked at Liao Hua, saying that he should have done it again.
Liao Hua also understood what Ma Chao meant. Who made him get on the pirate ship? There was no way. He looked at everyone and said, "Brothers, although the journey to Qingzhou is long, it is better than being in the military camp!"
He didn't continue to say that Liao Hua wanted everyone to think more about what he said. In fact, he didn't think about it either. Although they were all soldiers of the Yellow Turban, just as he said it was a simple sentence, what else could people think about it?
Liao Hua continued: "Like me, everyone doesn't want to be enemies with Taiping Road, so it's useless for us to stay in the military camp. Instead of staying here to watch the battle, it's better for everyone to go to Qingzhou together, maybe there will be a better way out there!"
Liao Hua said this, in fact, many people are already tempted, but most of them still don’t want to go to Qingzhou. In fact, this is understandable. After all, almost all these people are from Nanyang. Although the world is in chaos now, no one is willing to leave their hometowns until they have to, especially for people like them.
When Ma Chao saw that this was still not effective. Thinking about it, he was basically farmers who make a living by farming, but there were really few who were willing to leave their hometown, which was not uncomprehensible.
It seems that I really have to use my trump card, "Brothers, please listen to my words. In fact, going to Qingzhou will bring more benefits to you! Why do you say that? Let's say that, although Wancheng has been recovered, Jingzhou is still not peaceful. Some places are still war-torn. Maybe one day Wancheng will rekindle the war. If you go to Qingzhou, at least in the place where I asked everyone to go, it will be relatively peaceful, and the war will not burn that!"
Ma Chao is right. Although there are Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou and have been fighting, Guanhai Shanzhai is still a peaceful place. The Yellow Turban Army is almost all poor people who are unable to eat and forced to go to the fore. The people in Guanhai Shanzhai are also desperate people, so there is no conflict, let alone conflict. On the contrary, Guanhai Shanzhai has a very good reputation among the people in Qingxu area over the years. Some people who have not joined Taiping Road have joined Guanhai Shanzhai.
Ma Chao continued, "I know that some of my brothers are reluctant to part with their relatives. In fact, everyone can go to Qingzhou with their families. I, Ma Chao, swore here that as long as I have a bite of food, I will definitely not starve everyone and their families to death. If you violate this vow, the world will not tolerate it!"
Ma Chao has made up his mind. As long as he can get these two thousand people to Qingzhou, it will be worth it even if he spends more money and food.
When everyone heard this, the family made a great vow, and there was no reason not to believe it. Indeed, some people had no relatives anymore, only his brother, and each one was full, so the whole family was not hungry. But some were still with their families, so what Ma Chao said was exactly what they were worried about. But now when they heard that Ma Chao had swore, almost everyone believed it. If their family could have a meal, it would be worth it to work for Ma Chao.
The ancients really valued oaths very much. The so-called gods raised their heads, especially ordinary people, were basically convinced of this. Ma Chao's words were indeed very effective, and I have to say that he really caught these people's psychology.
If you swear to promise to give them food to their relatives, you can say that you will convince them at once. For a group of people who can’t eat, if you tell them something about justice or messy, it will be useless. The most important thing is to make them full and their families full, that’s right.
Chapter completed!