Chapter 937 Sinner

Lv Bu's safe return made Xingping finally safe at the end of the year. Although it seems that these two things have nothing to do with each other, in fact, it is true that Cao Cao sent Lv Bu back, which made the Ma family live a lot. As a result, there was no earth-shaking news at the end of the second year of Han Xingping.

At the end of October, the Ma family sent an envoy to visit Cao for the first time. The two families did not exchange any national events this time, and it seemed that they just visited casually. But even so, such a small move of the Ma family has brought people from all walks of life.

What the famous family interprets from it is that the Ma family and the Cao family may be repaired and better. They should think more about Cao's soft power.

What merchants saw was that the Ma family took the initiative to have political contacts with the Cao family in Yanzhou, which shows that they will no longer worry about the influence of the Ma family, so that they can sell the Ma family's goods to Yanzhou in exchange for countless money.

For those people at the bottom, that is, there will be no war between the Ma family and Cao Cao in the short term, and they can live this Spring Festival comfortably and peacefully.

However, it is obvious that the Ma family will not let all walks of life in the world fully interpret its intentions. After visiting Cao, the members of the Ma family's ceremony department did not return directly to Chang'an, but went all the way east and continued to visit Liu Bei in Xuzhou. The Ma family did not tell the world too much about this matter, but Liu Bei of Xuzhou made a big fuss about it.

With this episode, it is easy to think that the Ma family will visit Jizhou again, but the Ma family is so unreasonable. After Xuzhou, the Ma family's ceremonial department killed a pistol and visited Zhang Lu in Hanzhong again. Instead, he chose to ignore General Yuan, who is in the limelight in the Han Dynasty.

The visit all the way seems that in the winter of Xingping, only the Ministry of Ceremonies was very busy. In addition, the whole Ma family was really silent until the end of the year.

Finally, the day before the first day of the first day, the government office began to seal, the princes began to seal the pen, and the national entertainment and leisure activities officially began.

However, this year's Chang'an is different from previous years. In the past, only Chang'an City on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month could not help it. This year has started since the first day. For a whole month, merchants have been almost crazy. Moreover, the announcement said that the Weiyang Palace will be officially opened on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and Ma Chao also brought 100 Chang'an elders to the Weiyang Palace to watch songs and dances. Of course, you must be 70 years old to achieve it.

Finally, in the sound of firecrackers, families in Chang'an City had banquets and laughter, and people gathered together to celebrate the New Year. It was not until midnight that they worshipped their ancestors and went back to sleep separately.

On the third day of the first lunar month, he rode the general's mansion.

The door of the house is decorated with colorful lights, and the snow in front of the door is covered with thick firecrackers, which is full of the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

Ma Chao wore a new worsted sweater and thick brocade robe, carried gifts, and took his family to Jia Xu's home to pay a New Year call.

As soon as he entered the door, Ma Chao found that Jia Xu was still pretending to be ill. When he saw Ma Chao coming forward, he said that he felt that he had lost both qi and blood this year, and I'm afraid he would not survive next year. Ma Chao just curled his mouth and replied, "Old fox, you said last year that your lungs were weak and your liver was too hot. Why did you change your temper this year?"

"Well, it's not because of Lao Chen Debo..."

"Oc, don't pretend. You've been at Ma's house for so long, and you don't plan to continue a string or anything, so that you don't have to suffer all the time. I have to comfort you every year..."

The atmosphere in the room is lighter because of this small conversation. After a greeting, Ma Chao and Jia Xu talked about business unnaturally. Ma Chao crossed his legs and said casually, "Old man, now the Ma family is getting stronger and stronger, and they need to be more and more careful. Do you think what I did at the end of the year is okay?

"It's just a passable, but Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others want this attitude of the Ma family. Although you have done a little too much, it makes sense on the surface. Jia Xu and Ma Chao were not polite at all. They have been teachers and friends for so many years and have long had a tacit understanding with each other, but the respect of the monarchs and ministers has become more and more thin.

"Well, it's a little too much. However, after the first month, I guess the world of the Han Dynasty will be a stormy era. I want to know how the Ma family should do well when Yuan Shao entered Yanzhou?

"Hanzhong, isn't it enough for you to be busy?"

Ma Chao and Jia Xu's eyes widened and understood each other's meaning. But neither side of them agree with their views.

"No way? Old man, did you let the Ma family stand by at the beginning of the magnificent era?

"Then why do you think I tried my best to turn the focus of the Ma family to Hanzhong?"

"Tell me, it's not true."

"I'm sorry, if the Ma family fights in the sky at this time, it is likely to fall to death..."

Ma Chao lowered his head degradedly. After a long time, he said leisurely, "After fighting Hanzhong, you don't want the Ma family to plot against Shuzhong, do you?"

"The gathering of talents in Shu, the kingdom of heaven. If the Ma family gets it, they can become the first prince of the Han Dynasty. By that time, the Kanto region will be full of fragmented and weak princes. Why not be happy if the Ma family can win the world in a war?

After listening to Jia Xu's rhetorical question, Ma Chao was silent again - in fact, he knew very well that Jia Xu's great strategy was indeed very reasonable and perfect for the Ma family. However, the wise old fox can't break through the limitations of history and see the impact of his plan on the whole Han people.

During the Three Kingdoms period in history, the world was in chaos and the population decreased sharply. At the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the national population was about 50 million. After the Yellow Turban Uprising and the melee of the Three Kingdoms, the national population after the Red Cliff War was only 1.4 million. The Yellow Turban Uprising was in 184, and the Red Cliff War was in 2008. In just over 20 years, the population was less than 3% of the original. The reputation of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms is really based on the bones. Cao Cao had a poem describing the scene at that time: "The head is hanging in front of the horse, carrying women behind the car", "white bones exposed in the wild, no chickens for thousands of miles, more than a hundred people, and the thought is broken."

There is no righteous war in the Three Kingdoms. The princes such as the Ma family, Cao and Yuan Shao are active in this chaotic world. In essence, they are all executioners of the Han people and quickly slaughter the population of the Han people with battles. It was not until the late Jin Dynasty that the five chaotic Chinas drove the whole Han people to the Yangtze River Basin that the first so-called "national integration" in history was completed.

Bullst national integration!

The history textbook uses such beautiful praise words to downplay the massacre of Han people, traitor Han women, and the burning of Han houses by other ethnic groups, but who can know how many flesh and bones of the Han people were used to spread the so-called gradual Sinicization of those ethnic groups?

In the first two years, Ma Chao's consciousness will never rise to this point. However, with the increasing power of the Ma family, Ma Chao also has a sense of responsibility for the whole history: Jia Xu's conspiracy of the old fox is actually the area where the Ma family has developed to the south and conquered Hanzhong, Shuzhong, Nanman and Jiaozhou, which the Central Plains will not pay much attention to. Let them fight each other in the land of Kanto and send all the population to the meat grinder on the battlefield to devour. When the Kanto region is already uninhabited, the Ma family will be invincible and invincible!

Such a summary is indeed the most perfect for the Ma family. But for the whole Han people, it is the most vicious and cruel. In this way, decades later, the Ma family had to fight with all the barbaric peoples with only a few million people in the country. Its results can be imagined, and even if it can win, the whole land of China is also a cold ghost...

So, on the first day of Xingping's third year, Ma Chao slowly stood up in Jia Xu's room and said, "I can't let me and my descendants become sinners of the Han nationality!"