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The Rise of Heroes Chapter 342: Natural Disaster Strikes

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    Taishi Ci hesitated for a while, then clasped his fists and said: "Thanks to the general's love, I am favored like a general, but a loyal minister has no regard for the two masters. Since Taishi Ci has devoted himself to serving under the command of Liu Governor, how can he do something that is unjust for the sake of profit?"  I'm sorry that I can't agree to this, but please forgive me, General!" Ma Chao felt more admiration when he heard this, and frowned: "Zi Yi's words are different! Liu Yao is the governor of Yangzhou appointed by Dong's court. He can't compete with Yuan Shao.  We should report to the imperial court to resolve the matter. However, instead of asking for help, Liu Yao separatized Guangling County in Xuzhou in an attempt to dominate. As a general of the imperial court, the general had the responsibility to maintain the dignity of the imperial court.  Liu Yao has few soldiers, Sun Jian is coveting him in the south, Yuan Shao is eyeing him in the west, and Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, has surrendered to the imperial court. Liu Yao is surrounded by enemies on three sides, and he is actually with the bones in the tomb!  No difference!" "Everything Ma Chao said is reasonable, Taishi Ci knew it well, but he did not do well under Liu Yao, he was only a captain of a hundred men.  But Liu Yao was from his hometown, and he received great help from Liu Yao when he fled to Liaodong. Although he had a bright future by following Ma Chao, it was really unjust to abandon Liu Yao at this critical moment.  Taishi Ci pondered for a while, clasped his fists and said: "Although what the general said is reasonable, Liu Yao has done me a great favor. Now that the favor has not been repaid, how can he join the Ming Dynasty? Please don't say it again, general!" Ma Chao doesn't want to say that either.  Reluctantly, Taishi Ci smiled and said: "General Taishi is really a loyal man! In this case, I will not force you. The door of the imperial court is always open for you. If you are not satisfied in the future, you can come and serve under me! As for Mr. Taishi, I will not force you.  I will send someone to take care of you, so don¡¯t worry, Ziyi!¡± Tai Shici was very grateful.  He hurriedly stood up and prostrated, and said with gratitude on his face: "Thank you for your care, General! If there is an opportunity in the future, Taishi Ci will definitely join the general's command, and I am willing to start from the vanguard!" Ma Chao laughed and said: "Zi Yi is too modest, if there is any  On this day, I will let you start as a captain and directly command a thousand troops! With Ziyi's ability, it is only a matter of time to be rewarded! How can the general's ambition be to stabilize the Han Dynasty sooner or later?  We need to send troops to Jiaozhi in the south, Liaodong in the northeast and the northern prairie. We need generals like Ziyi who can lead troops alone." Taishi Cilian said he did not dare.  But he was determined to defect to Ma Chao as soon as Liu Yao fell.  Ma Chao was also planning this in his mind. Liu Yao would be destroyed sooner or later, but he wanted to prevent Taishi Ci from doing it.  The best way is to kill someone with a borrowed knife.  Guangling County is close to Jiangdong.  He has long been coveted by the Sun family and his son.  The best way is to encourage Sun Jian to get rid of Liu Yao.  Sun Ce was born in 175 and is now in 193, which is nineteen years old.  He should have been hanging out with Zhou Yu and others.  If history repeats itself, it would be very bad to let Sun Ce take over Taishi Ci. Moreover, once Sun Jian and his sons have destroyed Liu Yao and taken Guangling, it will take a lot of effort to drive them out, which is really not worth the gain!  Looking at the territory of Xuzhou, in addition to Zang Ba, there are also Xiapi Prime Minister Zuo Rong and Guangling Prefect Zhao Yu who are attached to Liu Yao. It would be a good idea to recruit Zang Ba and let him send troops to attack Guangling.  A few days ago, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, and the whole Xuzhou was like a frightened bird. Zuo Rong led more than 50,000 men and women under his soldiers to go south to Guangling County.  Zhao Yu and Liu Yao, the prefects of Guangling County, treated Zuo Rong as a distinguished guest and held a grand banquet to entertain Zuo Rong, his soldiers and subordinates.  Zuo Rong saw that Guangling County was rich in resources and people, and the two of them still had tens of thousands of soldiers, so they stayed in Guangling County to dominate. Among the three, Liu Yao was the leader.  Although this Zuo Rong is not famous in history, he is a famous figure in the history of Buddhism.  When he was the Prime Minister of Xiapi County, he established Buddhist temples in Xiapi County and asked the people of Xiapi County to read Buddhist scriptures day and night.  This caused monks, nuns and Buddhists from nearby counties to move into Xiapi County, totaling more than 5,000 households.  Every year on the eighth day of April, the birthday of the Buddha, a "Buddha Bathing Party" is held. The cost of setting up a roadside banquet alone is calculated in hundreds of millions.  The Buddha Temple and Nine-Mirror Pagoda he built in Xiapi play a decisive role in the history of Buddhism.  Especially the Futu Temple, Ma Chao even visited it personally.  This temple was built in the south of Xiapi City. There is a pagoda in the temple with a gold plate on top and a heavy tower below. The pagoda is nine stories and octagonal. Each floor has cornices and each side is inlaid with copper. There is also a bronze mirror on the top of the pagoda facing the sky, which is called  It is the "Nine Mirror Tower".  The surrounding hall can accommodate more than 5,000 people reading Buddhist scriptures inside. The Buddha statues are painted with gold and covered with colorful cassocks.  Every time when the Buddha Bathing Ceremony is held, banquets are set up along the roadside for dozens of miles, and wine and food are provided for everyone to eat and drink. As many as ten thousand people come to visit and worship the Buddha.  The luxury of the layout, the grandeur of the scene, and the majesty of the momentum are rarely seen in the world.  In these troubled times when supplies are extremely scarce, it is a miracle to be able to organize manpower to build such a temple.  Ma Chao hates Buddhism, so naturally he will not leave any Buddhist fanatics like Zuo Rong behind. It is necessary to send troops to exterminate Liu Yao, Zuo Rong and Zhao Yu.  Not only that, he will demolish all the temples in Xiapi in the future, and send all the monks and nuns to the farming camps for forced labor. How can there be anything wrong in the world?Is it a good thing that you can have enough food and clothing just by living?  Buddhism must not be allowed to spread within the Han Dynasty.  After the banquet, Taishi Ci stayed in Xiaopei for another five days under Ma Chao's kind invitation before leaving.  During this period, Ma Chao held banquets every day, and before leaving, he gave Taishi Ci a fine war horse and a sword as gifts.  After sending Tai Shici away, Ma Chao left Xu Huang and Cao Xing to lead 50,000 troops to garrison Xiaopei, while Wenpin was responsible for internal affairs. In this way, he could deter Cao Cao in the west, guard against Yuan Shao in the south, and be close to Qingzhou and Jizhou in the north.  It¡¯s not a problem to get supplies during the fight.  Huang Zhong and Chen Dao returned to Xiapi to station themselves. In this way, they could form a rivalry with Tao Qian who was stationed in Pengcheng, enough to resist Yuan Shao's surprise attack.  Zhang He returned to Qingzhou to assist Xun You and Tian Kai in their work.  Ma Chao himself has to return to Luoyang to take charge of the overall situation. As for Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Liu Yao and others, they are not in a hurry and can just let them attack each other.  The most important thing at the moment is to stay calm and try to defeat Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, and then take the opportunity to send troops to Jianghuai and Jiangdong.  And he didn't know which route Yuan Shao sent his troops from. If the Battle of Guandu and the battle between the princes against Dong happened again, it would be of little use for him to stay in Xuzhou, and he might be caught off guard.  After all, Luoyang and Jizhou are his base camps and cannot be lost, and the loss of Xuzhou and Qingzhou will not affect the overall situation.  Having made up his mind, Ma Chao called Zhuge Liang and Ma Jun to his side, and sent Gan Qian, who had been with him for several days, to Mi's house in Xiapi. In the future, she could marry Mi Zhen as a maid into the Ma family, and she would also get a title.  .  Gan Qian was overjoyed when she heard the news, and took the initiative to stay with Ma Chao that night.  But Cao Cao suddenly learned that Liu Bei had led his army to surrender, and he was immediately overjoyed and went out of the city to greet him personally.  He had long coveted Liu Bei's two fierce generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Now that Liu Bei was here, how could Guan Yu and Zhang Fei not come?  But when he learned that Ma Chao led his army to attack Xiaopei and Zhang Fei was beheaded, Cao Cao panicked. Xiaopei is close to Yanzhou, and he can go up the Wen River to take Dong'a and Dongping, and this area is where he  Base camp.  Cao Cao was unsure of Ma Chao's next move, so he had to inform Yuan Shao of the matter in a handwritten letter, urging Yuan Shao to send troops to Xuzhou as soon as possible.  In this way, he and Liu Bei could send troops from Yanzhou to form a flanking attack.  Yuan Shao had already learned about Ma Chao's occupation of Xiaopei and driven away Liu Bei. In order to contain Ma Chao's troops, on the advice of his counselor Feng Ji, he sent generals Yan Liang and Zhu Ling to lead 50,000 troops north to Lingbi. He could send troops to Pengcheng and Xiaopei at any time.  Pei.  But Yuan Shao¡¯s troops are different from Ma Chao. He only has fifteen direct troops, and the rest are small princes who have taken refuge in him, such as Sun Jian, Liu Xun, Yan Baihu, Xue Li, etc. It is difficult to achieve unity of command and line.  Ma Chao didn't have this problem. As long as he gave a military order, he could command hundreds of thousands of troops like an arm and a finger, and mobilize grain, grass and supplies with just one sentence.  At the same time as Yuan Shao sent troops and Lingbi, he also sent people to urge the small princes who had taken refuge in him to rush to Shouchun to join forces as soon as possible.  And Yuan Shao's work was not in vain during this period. The powerful families in Yuzhou and Yangzhou supported Yuan Shao's crusade against Ma Chao. Not to mention the money and food they donated, there were millions of domestic slaves and private soldiers.  .  Yuan Shaofu mixed the elites, eliminated the old and weak, and left 600,000 people to be trained by Wen Chou, Qu Yi and others, who were called guardians.  As soon as the army is trained, he can send millions of troops north to attack Ma Chao.  When Cao Cao saw that Yuan Shao had taken action and Ma Chao returned to Luoyang alone, he felt relieved and set out to destroy Lu Bu with all his strength and recapture Yanzhou.  In August 193 AD, it coincided with the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains and Guanzhong areas. Since spring plowing, there had been little timely rain. The seedlings had withered one after another. There was another locust plague, and the harvest was reduced by at least 50%.  Ma Chao's sphere of influence had the greatest impact, with Guanzhong, Sili and Jizhou being the most affected. Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou were all affected. The people had eaten up the small surplus of grain and faced natural disasters, so they could only peel tree bark and dig.  They eat grass roots to satisfy their hunger, and are extremely miserable.  After Ma Chao rushed back to Luoyang, he started to promote education. In this disaster year, he could only put it aside temporarily. The people had no food to eat, so how could they bother to study and become literate?  After several years of development, he had hoarded a large amount of grain in Bingzhou and Jizhou. However, even though he had a lot of grain, he was unable to save the people all over the world.  The most hateful lack of harvest in Guanzhong completely disrupted his plan for Shuzhong.  But Pang De, Fazheng and others sent 100,000 troops to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Han Sui sent 50,000 troops to attack Mianzhu, and Xu Shu sent an envoy to the Southern Barbarians to cause them to rebel against Liu Yan.  This plan was half successful. The Zhurong tribe of the Southern Barbarians and the Wuxi Barbarians responded by sending troops.  Liu Yan was busy dealing with Nanman and Han Sui and had no time to pay attention to Pang De.  Pang De sent troops from Dasanguan via Wuzhangyuan. Within three months, he was so powerful that he marched to Wudu, Xiabian, Yinping, Jigu and other cities. He defeated Zhang Lu's private army at Dingjun Mountain and pushed his troops to Nanbi, the hinterland of Hanzhong.  (To be continued)
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