When Ma Xiu returned to Jincheng and told Ma Teng about the war situation in Dangar County, Ma Teng was like a bolt from the blue and almost fell down.

"Invite Mr. Zhang over quickly!" Ma Teng seemed to have grasped the last straw and asked someone to invite Zhang Que. At this time, he could only pray for peace talks, which must be based on Zhang Que's ideas.

"My lord, all this has been destined for a long time. If the eldest son had not sent troops to Dangar County, we would not have lost so many young men from Liangzhou.

We no longer have the possibility of winning a battle with Cao Cao. If we take the initiative to attack Dangar, it means that we have chosen to be hostile to Yizhou. The most important thing now is to reach an understanding with Yizhou, otherwise the Yizhou army will come and kill us.

There is no life in death." Zhang Que said.

"I gave Mr. Liangzhou and Yongzhou all the rights to go to Yizhou. I only ask Yizhou not to send troops to attack Liangzhou and to ask Cao Cao to stop attacking. Now Cao Cao has reached Tianshui County." Ma Teng said hurriedly.

"It's too late for me to go to Yizhou! Yizhou has the ability to easily take Liangzhou. There is no reason for them to give in. We don't have any chips in our hands! As long as Wudu County sends three thousand troops now to pretend to attack Jincheng

, our Jincheng County will completely collapse.

The news of the eldest son's defeat should have spread to Yizhou by now, Wudu County has already known it, and soon all the people in Jincheng County will also know it, and no big family dares to support us anymore," Zhang Que said.

"What can we do?" Ma Teng said with a bitter face.

"My lord, you and Liu Xin fought together against Dong Zhuo twenty years ago, and we still have some good relations. If you can now lead all your family members into Shu County and ask Liu Xin to send officials and troops to accept Liangzhou and Yongzhou, then

Maybe Liu Xin won't embarrass the Ma family!" Zhang Que said.

"But...my traitorous son is now leading the army to the east. If my whole family enters Shu County, and he fights against Yizhou again, the lives of the whole family will be ruined in the hands of the traitor." Ma Teng knew Ma Chao's nature, and Ma Chao did not want to live in the barrier of others.

Next, it is very unlikely that he will seek refuge with Liu Xin.

"In this way, the eldest son knows that the Ma clan can only surrender to Shu County. Otherwise, even if the lord escapes to Bingzhou or Youzhou, he will face Liu Xin sooner or later. Liu Xin's strength in Yizhou has surpassed that of my Han Dynasty in its heyday.

Xin will definitely continue to expand the territory of our Han Empire. You must know that he is only 42 years old and is rumored to have entered the end of the world." Zhang Que said.

Ma Teng did not answer. He calmed down alone in the Prefecture Mufu all afternoon, and at night he stayed up all night in the courtyard. Now Ma Teng actually did not have many choices. The only way to confront Yizhou was to die. Now it was time to make a decision.

It's time, and his son Ma Chao, who he had high hopes for, has fled eastward. What else will he have for the Ma family in the future? Rely on his second son Ma Xiu? Or his daughter Ma Yunlu? (Ma Yunlu was born in 1977 and is now 12 years old.)

The second son is loyal, his ability is incomparable with Ma Chao, and he is far inferior to the third son Ma Tie. But now that he doesn't consider Ma Chao, he can only count on Ma Xiu in the future, and let Ma Xiu compete with Liu Xin? That's not a joke!

Ma Teng issued an order to everyone in the family, including Ma Chao's wives, concubines, and children, and they followed him into Shu two days later.

Time waits for no one. Cao Cao can take Tianshui County in half a month at most. The next step is Nan'an County and Longxi County, and he will soon reach the gate of Jincheng County.

Ma Teng took a family of more than 200 people, thousands of maids and servants, and more than 3,000 bodyguards to Wudu County. In fact, Jincheng is only more than 200 miles away from Wudu County, and it can be reached in two days at most by carriage.

However, in the past, Ma Teng always stationed a large army at the border between the two counties to prevent people from both sides from communicating.

This time, after their group of more than 4,000 people entered Wudu County, they shocked Wudu County. Did Ma Teng lead his army to attack Wudu County?

Wudu County Governor Shi led three thousand cavalry to check. Ma Teng explained his purpose to the other party. The Wudu County Governor placed the Ma Teng tribe 40 miles north of Wudu County, and then sent the news to Liu Xin in a flying pigeon.

.

The reply arrived the next day. The state pastoral office requested that Ma Teng and his family take a train to Chengdu County. Except for more than 200 tribesmen and a hundred attendants, no one else was allowed to take them with them. Ma Teng obeyed!

Sitting on the train, Ma Teng was in a very uneasy mood. Everyone else in the Ma family was also silent. Only a few children who didn't know anything were still playing in the carriage, and the maid couldn't control them.

The two-day train trip ended quickly, but everyone in the Ma family really wished that time could pass more slowly. Although they are adjacent to Shu County, Liangzhou has always refused to communicate with Yizhou, which made them

Nothing.

This time they saw the prosperity outside Wudu County and the speed of trains. They knew how ridiculous their previous ideas were. At the stations they passed along the way, they saw at least 100,000 people, like Dong Zhuo's tens of thousands of troops.

The era when you could compete for the world if you had the opportunity is gone. The people of the Ma family here are very unfamiliar and restrained.

"My lord, we will arrive in Chengdu County in half an hour. Now the population of Chengdu County has exceeded 1.3 million, which is more than my entire Liangzhou. This area already belongs to the center of the prosperous area of ​​Shu County. Those are factories and workshops. So,

The annual income of one factory is several times or even dozens of times the tax revenue of our entire Liangzhou!" Zhang Que said to Ma Teng.

"You told me this before. It was hard for me to imagine what it was like. The more I went to Chengdu County, the more worried I became. Liu Xin didn't know what he would do to my Ma family.

I regret not listening to you. I regret not coming to Yizhou earlier to take a look. Jincheng County is not far from Shu County, but they are very different. It is very rare that you can stay in Jincheng and not leave!" Ma Teng

At this time, he was always speaking the truth. He knew that there were some things that he couldn’t say even after getting off the train!

"My lord, you are kind to me, so I will not leave easily. Since Liu Xin has agreed to the Ma family to take the train to Chengdu County, he will definitely not drive out the Ma family.

But when we arrived in Chengdu County, we no longer had any trump cards to negotiate with Liu Xin. Now it shouldn't be a big problem for the Ma family to save their lives, but they would also lose all their rights," Zhang Que said.

Ma Teng nodded. There was a counselor who was very useful. He once saved Zhang Que's family. As a result, Zhang Que has been following him until now. But now it's time for Zhang Que to leave Ma Teng. Whether they will meet again in the future depends on

It depends on Liu Xin’s attitude.

After getting off the train, there was no one to greet them, and there were no Yizhou soldiers as Ma Teng had imagined. There were only two Jin Yiwei standing there, dressed in black, and saw the Ma family getting off the train and walking towards them.

"My lord Liu Xin invites representatives of the Ma family to go to the Prefectural Mufu Mansion to speak!" Jin Yiwei looked at Ma Teng and said.

Ma Teng did not dare to delay, so he only took his counselor Zhang Que and his general Yang Qiu to the Prefecture Mufu, and asked his second son Ma Xiu to take the clan members to stay in the courtyard at an inn in the city first.

Ma Teng arrived at the Yizhou Prefectural Mufu Mansion. He could not hear all the excitement in his ears. When he arrived at the gate of the Prefectural Mufu Mansion, two Jinyi guards took the three of them to Liu Xin's study. At this time, Ma Teng saw a young man in the study.

While writing calligraphy, Ma Teng recognized Liu Xin at a glance. Liu Xin had not changed much compared to him twenty years ago, except that his eyes looked wiser and his character became calmer.

After the Jin Yiwei left, Ma Teng stood in the study and did not dare to speak. He just waited quietly, fearing that it would ruin Liu Xin's artistic conception of writing. After a stick of incense, Liu Xin put down the brush in his hand.

"Shou Cheng, I didn't expect that we would meet like this twenty years later!" Liu Xin turned around, looked at Ma Teng and said lightly, with nostalgia for their time on the battlefield together and some dissatisfaction in his words.

"Ma Teng has seen General Liu. The Liangzhou army took the initiative to attack the Yizhou cavalry in Dangar County. This is all the fault of me and my traitorous son Ma Chao. I also ask General Liu to forgive the people of Liangzhou. I will bear all the sins alone."

Ma Teng knelt in front of Liu Xin and said, Zhang Que and Yang Qiu also knelt down when they saw it.

"Ma Chao led the army to defeat the Yizhou cavalry and defeat Huang Zhong to save the situation in Liangzhou. We are enemies. There is nothing wrong with this. Do you know where your biggest mistake is?" Liu Xin looked at Ma Teng and asked.

Ma Teng knelt on the ground and did not answer. He did not expect Liu Xin to say that. Although he had joined Liu Xin in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, he knew very little about Liu Xin except that he had great military power and the strength of his men.

"The Ma clan fought against the Qiang and the Xiongnu in Liangzhou, which was a great contribution to my great Han Dynasty. For so many years, you Ma Shoucheng only took Yongzhou to protect the people of Liangzhou from being invaded by foreign soldiers. Even if you want to capture Liangzhou, I

I never thought about meeting you face to face, otherwise Liangzhou would have been in my hands ten years ago.

Yizhou's new grains, various iron tools, cloth, soap, etc. were spread to the world. People all over the world were living better day by day. Yizhou's various technologies and crafts were also spread to all states in the world. Liangzhou had not seen a trace of it for so many years.

Variety.

When you consider your own rights and the status of the Ma family in Liangzhou and Yongzhou, you have never considered the people of Liangzhou. As time goes by, the gap between Liangzhou and other states and counties is getting wider and wider. Even Sizhou, the overall strength has

Far more than Liangzhou, at this point you are a sinner of the Han Dynasty." Liu Xin said.

Ma Teng didn't say anything. Liu Xin didn't say anything about Ma Chao's attack on him, but he said that he had slowed down the development of Liangzhou. This left Ma Teng speechless. As the controller of Liangzhou, he puts Ma's interests first.

This was not wrong, but he, Ma Teng, had never considered the impact this would have on the people.

"Ma Teng acknowledges his mistake!" Ma Teng kowtows to Liu Xin. This is acknowledging his mistake to Liu Xin, to the Han Dynasty, and to the people of Liangzhou.

"Secondly, as a descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan, you took advantage of the chaos in the world and proclaimed yourself king. Your son Ma Chao was originally the God of War among the twenty-four star generals. He is the God of War on the grassland, the God of War on the grassland of my great Han Dynasty.

Your selfish actions made him also selfish, and finally led the Liangzhou army to attack our Dangar County." Liu Xin's words became harsh as he spoke, and Ma Teng proclaimed himself King Yong. This was a loss of reputation for his ancestors. Ma Chaoneng
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