The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 519: I was robbed while eating hotpot!
In Ji County, Liangzhou, Ma Teng and Han Sui, who were once again in their honeymoon period, were drinking wine when they suddenly received news that Li Jue and others were leading 50,000 cavalry to Liangzhou.

The two frightened people hurriedly sent people to inquire about the news, and then they found out what had happened in Chang'an recently.

The two who knew what had happened cursed Li Jue for being unfilial. If he wanted to go to the Western Regions through their territory, he should just tell him directly. Why did he use the excuse of conquering the Qiang people?

In the eyes of Ma Teng and Han Sui, the Qiang people's unrest was nothing at all. As long as they appeased them a little, they could stabilize the Qiang people in Liangzhou, and there was no need to send troops to conquer them.

In a rage, Ma Teng and Han Sui led an army to fight against the Western Liang Cavalry. At the same time, they sent the news that the Western Liang Cavalry had returned to Liang Province to the Qiang tribes, especially the dozens of Qiang tribes that had given claim to the Western Liang Cavalry. They did not want to be the only ones to be weakened.

Ma Teng and Han Sui knew very well that with the strength of their two families alone, they could not compete with the 50,000 Xiliang Cavalry. Having dealt with the Xiliang Cavalry for so long, they knew too well the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Cavalry, so they had to bring the Qiang tribe into the picture.

Ma Teng and Han Sui, who had a relatively good relationship with the Qiang tribe, had a relatively clear understanding of the Qiang's strength. Although they had gone through several campaigns of suppression, especially by Duan Xing, who almost broke the backbone of the Qiang people, and then Dong Zhuo's continuous suppression, the Qiang's strength declined significantly.

However, since the departure of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, the only ones left in Liang Province were Ma Teng and Han Sui, two princes who were relatively friendly to the Qiang people. Therefore, the strength of the Qiang people has recovered a lot in recent years.

This is also the main reason why some Qiang tribes would cause trouble. After all, the crying child gets the milk. After so many years, the Qiang people have already learned this skill.

Well, although sometimes because they cried too hard, the Han Dynasty would deal a heavy blow to the Qiang people, throwing Duan Xing over and directly reducing the Qiang people, who were half of the empire's military force, into dogs.

After the news of Ma Teng and Han Sui reached the Qiang tribe, the Qiang council camp was in chaos. Some people wanted to surrender directly. After all, the Qiang people were very familiar with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Some Qiang leaders were eager to try, wanting to see if they could break the dark curtain cast by the Western Liang Iron Cavalry over the Qiang people, and then unify all the Qiang tribes in one fell swoop to become the Qiang King. Finally, they wanted to send troops to ask the Han Dynasty for the title of Qiang King and rob the Han Dynasty at the same time.

In the end, young people who wanted to challenge the Xiliang Iron Cavalry accounted for the majority, while those older leaders who had experienced the Xiliang Iron Cavalry era did not want to challenge the status of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry at all. Some old people who had experienced the Duan Xing era even directly left the Qiang tribal alliance at that time.

What was their purpose in invading the Han territory? To gain benefits, not to confront the Han regular army.

Upon hearing that the Qiang people also wanted to challenge the Western Liang Cavalry, Ma Teng and Han Sui immediately sent people to contact the Qiang people, hoping to unite with them to fight against the Western Liang Cavalry.

Although the young tribal leaders among the Qiang people had the idea of ​​challenging the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, the Western Liang Iron Cavalry had only left Liangzhou for a few years, so their impression of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry had not been completely erased.

Even the scenes of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry wantonly invading the Qiang people were still very clearly imprinted in their minds. But it was precisely because of these very clear scenes in their minds that the young tribal leaders became angry with the Western Liang Iron Cavalry.

Therefore, when Ma Teng and Han Sui, who had a relatively good relationship with the Qiang people, came to them, the tribal leaders immediately agreed to the proposal of joint operations and each sent troops to form a coalition to fight against the Western Liang Cavalry.

However, before the two sides could form a coalition force, the Xiliang cavalry raided a Qiang tribe and started a war with the Qiang.

"Urgent news from Liangzhou--" In Luoyang city, Liu Bei, Li You and Jia Xu heard the anxious voice of the signalman and felt uneasy.

[Could there be any new situation in Liangzhou? ]

"Li Jue and his four men led 50,000 cavalrymen to defeat the Qiang coalition army, killing more than 20,000 people. Later, they led more than 10,000 cavalrymen to the Western Regions to take up their posts."

"General Hua is currently heading towards Luoyang with 15,000 men, most of whom are wounded."

"After Li Jue and his four men fled to the Western Regions, Ma Teng and Han Sui sent troops to unite the Qiang people in Liangzhou and were preparing to march towards the Three Auxiliary Regions."

"Shuzhi, lead the troops to support Zijian, and bring the military doctor and various medical supplies." Liu Bei turned and ordered Chen Dao.

"Yes." Chen Dao accepted the order and led his headquarters and the medical team directly through Hangu Pass and into the Guanzhong Plain.

After Chen Dao took the order and left, Liu Bei asked the messenger to withdraw, and then asked Li You: "Wenru, with the fighting power of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, how could such a heavy loss occur?"

"Lord Xuande, Li Jue and his men launched a war against dozens of Qiang tribes in the Yongliang area, severely damaging more than a dozen large tribes. It should be said that the casualties of only 20,000 people are relatively small." Li You handed the battle report to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei frowned, somewhat uncomfortable with Li You's current emotional expression, but he still didn't say anything, just took the detailed battle report handed over by him.

"How come in just forty years, the Qiang people in Yongliang have recovered to this level?" Liu Bei looked at Li You. After reading the battle report, he realized that Li You was right. The loss of 20,000 people was really relatively small.

"This..." Li You was speechless. He didn't know what was going on with the Qiang people in the Yongliang area. Just like Liu Bei said, in just forty years, how could the Qiang people recover to a population of three million?
"So Wenru doesn't know the answer either?" Liu Bei was a little disappointed. He thought Li You was as omniscient as Chen Xi.

Liu Bei handed the battle report to Jia Xu, who was watching, and said, "Zi Yu once told me an interesting conjecture related to this. Would you two like to listen to it?"

"Zi Yu?" Li You frowned. He was a native of Liangzhou and didn't even know about it. How did Yang Ji know the inside story?
"Lord Xuande, what guess did Zi Yu give?" Jia Xu put away the battle report and asked curiously. The guesses given by Yang Ji were generally correct.

Thinking of the conjecture given by Yang Ji, Liu Bei felt extremely heavy in his heart and once again reaffirmed the solution that Yang Ji had given to deal with the barbarians in all directions.

Liu Bei said slowly: "Among the four barbarian tribes, why is it that only the Dongyi have never rebelled? And why is it that every time the Central Plains declines, the Beidi and Xirong will rise?"

Li You was just about to say that the Dongyi had also rebelled, but after hearing the second half of Liu Bei's words, Li You was stunned. As the author of the immortal book, he had some understanding of the theory of destiny.

Jia Xu connected everything almost as soon as Liu Bei finished speaking, "The barbarians in all directions are all losers in the fight for the Central Plains. They and we all have a common ancestor."

"So, they are also competing for the title of orthodoxy?" Li You's eyes flashed with coldness. Is this the conjecture that Yang Ji came to after observing the timeline for a long time?

"I'm afraid so. When the Central Plains was in decline, those people were, after all, descendants of our ancestors. It is natural for them to receive some of the blessings of the Nine Provinces." A fierce light flashed in Jia Xu's eyes.

"As for why the Dongyi people have never rebelled, it's probably the work of Taigong Wang and Duke Zhou." Li You sighed, "Should we say they are worthy of being people from the mythological era?" Jia Xu recalled the operations of the two in the Dongyi area and curled his lips, "If we replace them with people like us, we can get a similar solution."

Li You glanced at Jia Xu, but did not refute. After all, their current abilities were not bad. Let alone matching those pre-Qin sages or something like that, that would be too arrogant.

"Zichuan probably formulated such a policy towards the barbarians because he took these things into consideration." Liu Bei sighed. At first he did not understand why Chen Xi formulated a policy of sinicization towards the Hu people, but now he understands it.

"Sinicization?" Li You frowned. According to his idea, all of them should be cleaned up, but since Chen Xi and Liu Bei both tend to favor Sinicization, then let it be.

"That's right. Zichuan formulated the relevant sinicization policy a long time ago. But if we assimilate those losers who share the same origin and ancestors, can we really solve the problem of the decline of the Central Plains and the rapid rise of foreign races?" Liu Bei asked Li You. Li You should be the one who knows the most about this aspect.

"That depends on how you, Lord Xuande, define foreigners." Li You shook his head and said, no matter how powerful a dynasty is, there will be a day when it collapses.

"Hmm..." Liu Bei's definition of foreign races came from his impression of the Huns. As for how to define foreign races after completely defeating the Huns, Liu Bei had no idea at all.

"To be honest, I don't know how to define it. How about you, Wenru, teach me?" Jia Xu asked. He was quite curious about what kind of creatures Li You would define as aliens after assimilating the four barbarians.

"You ask me, I don't know how to redefine it." Li You said expressionlessly. Apart from the Northern Di, Western Rong and Southern Barbarians, he had no idea what the other races looked like.

"How about we ask Zichuan and Ziyu? They are both knowledgeable and should be able to define what the alien race that is very different from us looks like." Liu Bei planned to find his two external plug-ins.

"Lord Xuande, I think you should not go to look for those two at this time." Li You advised tactfully.

"Hmm?" Liu Bei was a little confused when he heard this, "Are they busy with something recently?"

"No, their recent work has not changed." Jia Xu continued, "It's just that our intuition tells us that regarding the definition of alien races, the two of them will give answers that subvert our cognition."

"Therefore, it is better not to know the future enemies in advance before completing the set goals." Li You sighed. The Han Dynasty has not even been re-unified, and they have set their goals on the world stage.

If this were to include a chapter on alien races, he wouldn't know how to play this game.

"Wenru is right. Our goal is already high enough. If it is higher, we will probably get lost." Jia Xu also sighed. Their current stage is within the world.

"It seems that Zichuan or Ziyu has given you two some information in advance." Liu Bei felt a little emotional. His two cheats still haven't revealed their full potential until now.

"They are just some trivial things, but we two dare not continue listening, otherwise our abilities will not be able to keep up with our cognition." Li You shook his head. The stage outside the world, what an attractive word.

Unfortunately, knowing too much will also make you fall into the fog.

"Forget it, let's not talk about these things. Do you have a plan on how to solve the problem of the Qiang people in Yongliang?" Liu Bei changed the subject.

"Because the issue of the Yongliang Qiang people involves the Fufeng Ma family, Xiaozhi decided to let him solve it." Jia Xu took out a letter and handed it to Liu Bei.

"Xiaozhi?" Liu Bei looked at the letter in his hand with some surprise. He didn't expect that Fa Zheng had gone to Xiangyang, but was still paying attention to the affairs in Guanlong area.

After reading the letter, Liu Bei frowned and said to Jia Xu: "With Xiaozhi's current status and position, he shouldn't be bothered by such things, right? Even if he wants to solve this matter, he doesn't have to go to Guanzhong in person, right?"

Jia Xu smiled bitterly, "Lord Xuande, you also know Xiaozhi's character. Although he has restrained himself recently, Xiaozhi is only in his early twenties and is in his prime."

Li You looked at the bitter smile on Jia Xu's face expressionlessly. He was pretending so well that even he almost thought that Jia Xu could not suppress Fa Zheng.

In a flash, Li You figured out Jia Xu's purpose in asking Fa Zheng to personally deal with the Ma family of Fufeng.

[Fa Xiaozhi still doesn't have an accurate understanding of his own status and position.] Li You shook his head in his heart.

[But that's true, a twenty-year-old marquis, if it were me, I would probably be confused for a while.] Li You thought later.

"Uh..." Liu Bei was stunned, then realized what Jia Xu was saying.

After defeating Yuan Shao, most of Liu Bei's civil and military officials who participated in the war were given higher official titles.

Although Fa Zheng's official position did not change much this time, he was promoted to a Marquis of Ting.

However, the people around him were basically either Tinghou or Xianghou, so Fa Zheng had no feelings for Tinghou, mainly because he had no one to show off to.

Of course, he could show off to Jiang Ying. As for Fa Yan, after hearing that Fa Zheng was conferred the title of Tinghou, Fa Yan made a special trip home to have a meal with Fa Zheng, then burned incense to his ancestors, and finally returned to Taishan Academy. The whole process took less than three days.

Fa Zheng was confused for a few days before he remembered that he was not the only one who was awarded the title of Marquis Ting in this battle. Then Fa Zheng wanted to go out and find someone to share his joy with.

As a result, no one paid any attention to him, and it made no difference whether Fa Zheng was awarded the title or not. In the end, Fa Zheng ran to Xiangyang to continue his efforts.

Liu Bei laughed, "Xiaozhi is like a man in brocade clothes walking at night when he is rich and powerful but does not return to his hometown."

"Could this be the reason why he ran to Xiangyang?" Liu Bei smiled strangely. After all, in the Fenggao Government Affairs Office, the people that Fa Zheng was familiar with were basically all of high rank.

(End of this chapter)