Ma Yuan led his army into Qinghe as if he had entered a land of no one.

It is truly no one, but when the bones are exposed in the wild, there is no rooster crowing for a hundred miles. Qinghe County was plagued by the Red Eyebrows and bandits in the late years of Wang Mang. After the demise of the Xin Dynasty, it was completely reduced to the backyard of the Tongma and other troops. There was no peace for a moment. After two years, the former large-capital counties were in decline, and thieves and refugees occupied various counties. The only territory where "official governments" existed was a small circle next to the county town.

The army was not unfamiliar with Qinghe. In the past year, Ma Yuan was in Wei. He was in the land of Wei and shot wildly. He shot the bamboo in Qiyuan. He made more than one million arrows and expanded his army to 20,000. He recruited a large number of refugees who fled from Qinghe to Wei County, and obtained more than 4,000. Now he is the pioneer.

When Ma Yuan arrived in Qingyang County, Qinghe County, Qinghe Prefect Gu Gong went out to greet him with a broom, but saw the local elders following him, Haoyoudu was thin and quite depressed. Qinghe did not farm well for two consecutive years and was once besieged by the Tongma Army for several months. Now that the old grain has been eaten, the generals in the city were killed and all the dogs and horses were killed in the city, and now they have been able to drink porridge.

Ma Yuan smiled and said, "Prince Gu asked Wei County for help in the past, and today I will come to help each other according to the order of the King of Wei."

Gu Gong's mouth moved slightly, and at least he could not curse it. He asked Weijun for help. It was two years ago when Li Ren was still a prefect! But Li Ren only swept the snow in front of the door, regardless of the thick frost on his tiles.

But the belated rescue is better than ignoring it. Although Gu Gong once surrendered to the Northern Han Dynasty, he had no nostalgia for the Han Dynasty.

Gu Gong's grandfather was the famous Han envoy Gu Ji. He was killed by Zhizhi Shanyu, which triggered Chen Tang's expedition; his father was a famous scholar Gu Yong. As a member of the Wang family, Gu Yong kept the domineering five marquis of the Wang family without caring about it, but wrote more than 40 times to specifically criticize Emperor Cheng and the harem, such as blaming the natural disasters and strange things on the harem of Emperor Cheng of Han.

Later, when the new dynasty was established, Gu family was also treated preferentially. If a person like Gu Gong was strong, he would naturally not be able to get good results. However, the Northern Han Dynasty was weak and powerless, and had no choice but to the bandits in Qinghe, and could not even send someone to replace Gu Gong. He really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

At present, Gu Gong has regarded Ma Yuan as his savior. The prefect of Qinghe will take as much as he loves. Gu Gong only hopes to give away the hot potatoes as soon as possible. He would rather go back to Chang'an to be a rich man.

Ma Yuan also looked at the empty warehouse in the county town, and even the rats were caught and eaten up. He was immediately in trouble. He wanted to come to Qinghe to replenish supplies, and then went north to Xindu and directly attacked the copper horse's nest. However, the city of Qingyang was full of vegetables, and even had to rely on their dry food to help, so he could not count on it at all.

When asked about the situation in Gu Gongqinghe County again, he was even more amused and crying.

"So since half a year ago, the only areas that Gu Taishou could control were left in the county town?"

Gu Gong was not ashamed, it would be nice to be able to defend the county city: "There are 14 counties in Qinghe County. Except for Qingyang City, the other thirteen are all in the hands of the thieves and bandits from all over the country, including Youlai and Qingdu."

"Three years ago, there were 200,000 households and more than 800,000 households in Qinghe. Now the population gathers in the county is only one percent. Looking at the people who are still alive in the county, there are probably less than half of them."

"This is true for Xindu, Hejian, Youzhou and other counties such as Bohai, north of Qinghe!"

This incident made Ma Yuan very troubled. In this way, the marching in Hebei, which was once rich, was no different from being in the desert. He could not get any food and fodder supplies along the way, and it was even more dangerous, because once the troops were divided, they might be attacked by various armed forces at any time. For a bite of food, they could do anything.

The Tongma Army did not have any rear at all. Now it is just following Liu Ziyu blindly, and there is no food to flow. After swallowing King Zhending and King Zhao's territory, the next step may be to go south.

"There is no profit when attacking, so it is better to defend before and after the autumn harvest, and wait for work."

Although Ma Yuan was brave, he also used his wisdom. After finding that the situation was developing beyond his expectations, he immediately changed his strategy and left his troops to guard Qinghe, so as to observe the trends of the Tongma Army as soon as possible.

At the same time, Gu Gong sent people to the thirteen counties of Qinghe, and even the Xindu, Bohai and other counties next door, to invite all forces to send people here to meet and discuss major issues together.

Since Hebei is now in chaos, even if the powerful people in various places have a feeling of missing the Han Dynasty, they are far less strong than Si'an. Like Gu Gong, whoever can restore order in Hebei will raise whose banner!

Ma Yuan has also been a thief and is quite familiar with the thinking of the thief. What these people care about the most is their territory: "As long as you can respect the King of Wei, you can all be the captains."

Ma Yuan expected that the ownership of Hebei would eventually be settled by Tongma and the King of Wei, and the key to the outcome was who the various middle forces would tend to and who they would help! Ma Yuan would now fight for them.

Immediately, Ma Yuan immediately submitted a memorial to Chang'an and wrote a letter.

"I will come to the King of Wei to encircle land this time and make an edict."

"He had to breathe a sigh of relief and promised to release several county magistrates, dozens of county magistrates, and the captain's seals and ribbons, and hundreds of official positions!"

...

In June, in order to do a good job of internal construction, the Wei Kingdom, which had not been opened for a long time, finally began to accelerate the process of the King of Wei unifying the north after renting land for millions of stones in Weibei.

Ma Yuan ran rampant in Hebei, and went down to Guangping, took Qinghe, and began to think about preparing for a further confrontation.

Jingdan also seized most of Shangdang's body, leaving only Changzi County to resist stubbornly. The former general began to move to Taiyuan. Although it was difficult to travel from Hedong to the Rat Que Valley, it would be much easier to go from Shangdang to the north and cross the Shimi Valley of Yangtou Mountain. However, the fifth reunion not only sent troops but also attacked diplomatic relations.

A special envoy braved the miserable rain of Ji Xia, walked from Shangjun to the Xihe River, and secretly arrived at the Taiyuan County Governor's Office, and visited Guo Ji, the governor of Taiyuan County Governor of the Northern Han Dynasty.

"Mr. Guo is fine."

The familiar Maoling dialect was Du Lin, the young master of King Wei, who was also Guo Ji's fellow villager.

Guo Ji was over 60 years old and was quite happy when he saw Du Lin. He held his hand and sighed: "Since I became the governor of Bingzhou during the previous year of the Tianfeng period, I have not seen Boshan for many years."

Du Lin smiled and said, "Donald Xihou is more energetic than in the past."

"I'm old." Guo Ji said: "I still remember when I was together in Maoling last time, you taught me the ancient Chinese Book of Documents. Now that I'm old this year, I've forgotten it almost."

"It is not ashamed to ask questions from the Queen of the Year, and I will not look down on me because I am young." Du Lin said: "The Master said, I heard the truth in the morning and died in the evening. If Queen of the Queen of the Queen of the Queen of the Year in the future, Lin would definitely not hide his own private interests."

Guo Ji sighed: "When a chaotic world, is there still such a chance?"

He pointed to Du Lin and said, "You and I are their masters. I believe that Boshan is not here to talk about the scriptures and reminisce about the past, but to be a lobbyist for the King of Wei."

"Mr. Xihou Gong misunderstood. Lin is here just to send you a few letters."

Du Lin opened the bamboo tube he carried with him, and the letter made of paper was placed inside. It was quite light, so he presented the first letter first.

"This is a handwritten by the great hero Chen Menggong (Chen Zun)."

Although Chen Zun and Guo and Du were not fellow Maoling, he had always been a hero and was fond of righteousness. He once went to Maoling to visit the tomb of the hero Guo Jie in the Han Dynasty. Guo Ji was Guo Jie's great-grandson, so the two met because of this. They had been in love for decades. Guo Ji was the governor of Bingzhou during the Wang Mang Dynasty, and Chen Zun recommended it.

"I heard that Chen Menggong followed Wang Yi to Kunyang and thought he was unfortunately killed in battle. Unexpectedly, he returned to Guanzhong and became the Jingzhao Yin of the King of Wei."

Guo Ji looked at what Chen Zun said in his letter and was happy for his old friend, and said, "Mr. Chen Meng took both black and white, and the King of Wei used him to do Jingzhao Yin Zhi Opera, which is really the right person."

"My lord knows people and responsibilities, and will never bury any talented person. No matter whether he is in Han or not, he will be granted a title of marquis, as long as he has not abused the people, he will not blame him."

Du Lin praised the King of Wei and immediately presented the second letter: "This is the letter from Song Hong, the young mansion."

The first one is Guo Ji’s old friend, and the next one is his colleague and former, and Guo Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, took over Song Hong’s squad.

Compared to Chen Zun's Old Testament wine, Song Hong, who was always serious, was not polite at all and scolded Guo Ji in the letter.

He scolded him for not knowing the destiny of the hero, and surrendering the impostor Liu Ziyu, their ancestor and father, also served as a high-ranking official in the Chengdi Dynasty. Can this trick deceive fools and wives be hidden from them? He scolded Guo Ji for being confused!

How could Guo Ji not know about this? But half a year ago, the situation in the world was chaotic, and the Wei army stopped in Hedong, and King Liu Yang of Zhending arrived in Taiyuan first. Guo Ji was suspicious of the fifth reign of the king, who was a minister who rebelled against the king, and did not want Taiyuan to be affected by the disaster, so he obeyed the Northern Han Dynasty, but Taiyuan was still in his hands.

After reading, Guo Ji only wiped his sweat: "Song Zhongzi is still so solemn and hard to be completely impressed. Looking at his words, he couldn't help but feel overwhelmed."

Du Lin said: "But the King of Wei believed that Duke Xihou was forced to obtain the residences of Guo’s family, land, tribe members, and even the tomb of Guo Daxia, at that time, and there was no invasion in the troubled times."

"Thank you really for the King of Wei..." Guo Ji said again: "But I heard the rumors that the King of Wei killed the powerful people in Weibei and destroyed more than 30 families..."

"They all want to plan to accept Liu Bosheng indiscriminately, and they have no choice but to die." Although Du Lin also complained about Di Wulun's move, since he was a lobbyist, he had to stand his position and said: "The scholars of Wuling are highly valued. In March, the Langguan took the examination and selected more than 300 scholars, and half of the people of Wuling accounted for."

"And our Maoling people are also highly valued in the Chang'an court. Ma Wenyuan is the National Guard, Geng Bozhao is the General of the Cheqi and Cavalry, Wan Junyou is the General of the Guard, and I even add a young army. If Duke Xihou is also here, the Maoling Township Party can gather seven or eight people when the court meets in the future."

This is to move the friendship between the villagers and the confidence that Du Lin, a scholar, dared to run to Taiyuan. He knew that Guo Ji was a little older.

Du Lin is actually not a qualified lobbyist. It is okay to reminisce about the old love, but he can only say one or two words when talking about the situation: "Hebei is in chaos, Liu Ziyu is a fake emperor who leads a bronze horse to slaughter the city, Zhending King, King Zhao fights endlessly, and the people live in vain. The former general Jing Dan has already arrived in Taiyuan. Is Duke Xihou willing to let the creatures of a county be trampled on the ground?"

This was a remarkable surrender to the King of Wei. Guo Ji pondered and sighed: "Boshan knew me. Guo Ji had great ambitions when he was young. Emperor Xiaoai was summoned to the Grand Sikong Mansion during his reign. After three relocations, he served as the commander of Yuyang and also ruled the captives on the frontier."

"After the emperor of the previous dynasty established himself in behalf of the Han Dynasty, I failed to be loyal to the Han Dynasty, and I was unable to surpass the utilitarianism. I became the Grand Tutor of Shanggu and was later promoted to the governor of Bingzhou. I also made the Huns afraid of distant traces and dared not enter the border again."

"When the new house was destroyed, I never sacrificed my life and became a Han minister. Even if Emperor Sixing was mostly a fake Liu Ziyu, if I rebel against Han and surrender to Wei again, wouldn't Guo Ji become a recurring person and be scolded by later generations?"

Guo Ji also knew that the best way to surrender to Wei, but he still couldn't overcome the hurdle in his heart, thinking that in the end it was probably to hand over Taiyuan, and he retired...

Du Lin laughed: "The King of Wei really expected things like a god."

When Guo Ji was surprised, Du Lin took out his last letter.

"This is a handwritten letter from the King of Wei. I dare to ask Duke Xihou to personally announce it!"

Guo Ji took the thick letter and opened it to see that his eyes seemed to be sucked in a steady state.

"There are those who have lost their country in the world, and those who have lost their world..."

"The change of surnames and names is called the destruction of the country. Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, Han destroyed Qin, the new Han Dynasty, Wei destroyed Xin, and Wei destroyed all Han Han, all of which were destroyed, so Liu Bosheng called Yu a traitor."

The fifth reunion does not deny this. He really wants to wipe out the Han dynasties and create a new dynasty. For the Liu surname, he is a traitor who is as unbearable as Wang Mang!

"However, it is not easy to wear clothes and hairstyles or write to the destruction of a country, but it is still the world of Xia, but it is not the same as the destruction of a country!"

The fifth reunification gave an example of "destroying the world": "During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Southern Yi and Northern Di were in contact, and China was endless. Fortunately, Duke Huan of Qi survived Xing to save the Wei and resisted Rong Yi. Therefore, Confucius said that if he had a little bit of Guan Zhong, he would have been left-handedly lapelled!"

"And today's current situation is even more dangerous than Spring and Autumn! Benevolence and righteousness are full of people, and the world is divided into pieces. The Huns and Lu Fang took the opportunity to lead beasts to eat people."

The fifth reunification listed the Huns' use of Hu Han to invade Xin Qinzhong and Xihe County, exaggerating the threat of Huns, because he heard that Guo Jichang was on the frontier and hated the Huns quite a bit. Yanmen County north of Taiyuan was recently captured by the Zuoxian King of the Huns, and the threat of Hu people was imminent. For the Guard of Guozhou, the former jurisdiction was rampant by the Hu people, so I might feel sad, right?

"I will destroy all the Han dynasties, fight against the Huns and save the world!"

The fifth reunion thought that if the Huns and Hu Han succeeded, China might have to destroy the seeds and change the clothes, and all of them were left. He raised the banner of the debate between the Han Confucians and the Chinese, regarded himself as the Qi Huan of the times, expressed his responsibility to take on the important task of resisting the Hu enemy, and issued an invitation to Guo Ji.

The reason I hope Guo Ji surrendered was not for the sake of the mere Taiyuan County, but for Guo Ji to use his experience in the border to help the Wei Communists fight against the barbarians and win this battle to save the world!

After reading the letter carefully, Guo Ji only sighed after he released the book.

"My pattern is really a comparison between candlelight and sun and moon when compared to King Wei."

"I'm still worried about changing the name of Yi, and the King of Wei has already looked at the rise and fall of the world!"

King Zhending, King Zhao, and Liu Ziyu, have they thought about these things? Guo Ji was no longer shaken. He knew what he should do.

He bowed to Du Lin: "Guo Ji wishes to join the 21 counties of Taiyuan and 160,000 households to join the King of Wei to defeat the Huns invasion!"

"Duke Xihou saved thousands of people in Taiyuan, which is very good!"
Chapter completed!