Someone on the left and right said: "It was because Governor Lu was overly involved in His Majesty's "family affairs" that his sons and nephews were exiled, while General Ma Yuan offended too many people because he was too upright in the court!
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Ma Yuan cared about national affairs and never concealed or avoided anything he needed to say, offending many dignitaries in the court.
When he was in Longxi, he found that the currency system was chaotic and inconvenient to use, so he wrote to the court and proposed that five baht coins should be minted as in the past.
The imperial court submitted his proposal to the three government offices for review. The three government offices informed Liu Xiu that Ma Yuan's proposal was not feasible, so the matter was shelved. This obviously affected the interests of some people in the court.
Later, when Ma Yuan returned to the court, he immediately retrieved his memorial. Seeing that there were more than a dozen criticisms in the memorial, he refuted and explained it based on reason and rewritten it into a memorial. Liu Xiu saw that what he said was reasonable,
After adopting his opinion, the world benefited a lot from then on, but many powerful people in the court suffered less benefits.
Nie Wang looked at the somewhat dilapidated temple of General Fubo and said, "Even if Ma Yuan took the risk of shooting his calf and calf when he was the governor of Longxi, even so, when it was time to move him, Liu Xiu
He will also show no mercy at all like His Majesty when dealing with Governor Lu, remembering the past friendship."
Since the end of the New Dynasty, the Qiang people outside the Great Wall have been invading the border, and many Qiang people have taken advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to settle in the Great Wall. Most of the counties in Jincheng are occupied by the Qiang people. Lai She wrote a letter on this matter, saying that there were repeated intrusions and disasters in Longxi, except for Ma
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In the 11th year of Jianwu (35th year), Liu Xiu appointed Ma Yuan as the governor of Longxi.
Ma Yuan sent three thousand infantry and cavalry to defeat the Xianling Qiang in Lintao, beheading hundreds of people and capturing more than 10,000 horses, cattle and sheep.
There were more than 8,000 Qiang people guarding the fortress, and they surrendered. At that time, there were still tens of thousands of Qiang tribesmen occupying the key pass in Haoqian to resist. Ma Yuan and General Yangwu Ma Cheng led their troops to attack, and the Qiang people gathered their families, food, grass and supplies.
Get up and stop the Han army in Yunwu Valley.
Ma Yuan led his troops to secretly attack the Qiang camp by taking a small road. The Qiang people were frightened when they saw the sudden approach of the Han army, and fled far away into the Tangyi Valley. Ma Yuan sent his troops to pursue them, while the Qiang people gathered their elite troops in Beishan to hold on.
Ma Yuan set up a feint attack on the mountain to attract the enemy, and sent hundreds of cavalry around behind the Qiang people, setting fire to them at night and beating drums and shouting.
The Qiang people were attacked by unknown numbers of Han troops, and they fled one after another. Ma Yuan won a great victory and beheaded more than a thousand people.
However, due to the small number of troops, they did not pursue the enemy and only took the Qiang people's grain, livestock and other property for the Han army.
In this battle, Ma Yuan took the lead and shot an arrow through his calf. After Liu Xiu learned about it, he sent people to express condolences and gave him thousands of cattle and sheep. Ma Yuan distributed these to his subordinates as usual.
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At that time, Jincheng was located to the west of Poqiang, far away from the Han Dynasty, and troubles often occurred, making it difficult to govern.
The court ministers discussed that the area should be abandoned, but Ma Yuan held different opinions. He gave three reasons: first, the castles west of Poqiang were still intact and strong, suitable for holding; second, the land in that area was fertile and irrigation was convenient;
Third, if we ignore it and allow the Qiang people to occupy Huangzhong, there will be endless disasters in the future.
Liu Xiu followed his advice and ordered the prefect of Wuwei to return all the more than 3,000 residents who had moved from Jincheng to their original places. Ma Yuan also reported to the Ming court to arrange officials for them, repair the city, build fortifications, provide water conservancy, and encourage people.
Develop agricultural and animal husbandry production, and the people in the county can live and work in peace and contentment.
Ma Yuan also sent Yang Feng, a Qiang tycoon, to persuade the Qiang people outside the Great Wall and let them form a good relationship with the Qiang people inside the Great Wall and jointly develop the frontier.
In addition, Ma Yuan treated the Di people who rebelled against Gongsun Shu in Wudu and came to join him with courtesy, reported to the Ming Dynasty, restored their status as princes and rulers, granted them a reprieve, and withdrew Ma Cheng's army.
In the 13th year of Wu's reign, he put down a border rebellion and completely stabilized Longyou. However, this seemed to be of no use after Ma Yuan's death. Liu Xiu still believed the slander and punished him.
In the third year of Yongping (60 years), Ma Yuan's daughter was made queen.
Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty painted the famous ministers and generals of the Jianwu period in Yuntai. In order to avoid the suspicion of Jiao Fang, he did not paint the horse support.
When Liu Cang, King of Dongping, looked at the image, he asked Emperor Ming: "Why not paint a portrait of General Fubo?" Emperor Ming smiled but did not answer.
It was not until the 17th year of Yongping (74 years) that Mrs. Ma Yuan passed away, and the court gathered soil for Ma Yuan's tomb, planted trees as a marker, and built an ancestral hall.
In the second year of Jianchu (78), Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty sent General Chijie of Wugan Zhonglang to add the title of Cejie, and posthumously named Ma Yuan "Zhongcheng".
Nie You said with emotion: "It's a pity that the justice that General Ma Yuan waited for came too late, and our Governor Lu didn't wait either."
When the sky gradually darkened, Nie You had already led people to clean up the weeds growing in the open space in front of the somewhat dilapidated Fubo Temple, as well as the dust and cobwebs in front of the table in the temple, and then went out.
Fubo Temple went to the county government office,
On the way back, a soldier from the Wu Army came to ask Nie You and others to go back and have dinner. He said that the dinner had been prepared by the county government.
Nie You smiled and said to the people around him: "It's just right. I was afraid that dinner wouldn't be ready when we go back. It's really better to go back early than to go back in time!"
On the banks of the Yizhou (Taiwan) River (Zhuoshui River), which is quite far away from here, walls are being built with rammed earth, and the sound of logging has just stopped.
The soldiers of the Wu army and the Shanyi people who had been recruited from nearby tribes were sitting on the ground with broken leaves and eating their dinners. Apparently, they were a little hungry after a day of physical work.
Seen from a distance, the city has already taken some shape, and the rammed earth walls have been built to be about as tall as a person.
Gu Yu, Zhang Ying and others had also returned to the camp on the bank of the river with about a hundred people. Zhang Ying also saw the huge rammed earth wall foundation from a distance, and turned to look at Gu Yu with gleaming eyes.
, smiled and said: "This is much larger than our tribe, and much larger than the tribes in other places on the island. I guess this should be considered a big city in your Central Plains, right?"
Gu Yu said patiently: "This can only be regarded as a smaller county in our place. If it is a big city, it depends on Jianye and Wuchang. It can accommodate more than ten or two hundred thousand people.
Jianye City has a circumference of twenty miles and nineteen paces. How can it be compared to such a small city? Once this city is fully built, it will only be able to accommodate ten or twenty thousand people."
Zhang Ying said expectantly: "I really want to see how this city is built soon, but I would also like to see the Jianye you mentioned, what a big city like Wuchang looks like. I have never seen it before.
It’s such a big city.”
Gu Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry, next year, or at the latest the year after, when Yizhou (Taiwan) is all taken, I will definitely take you back to Jianye to show you the prosperous Huai River (Qinhuai River) in the city.
) on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as well as the Jianchu Temple that was built just two years ago. In short, I will take you to see the beautiful scenery of Jianye one by one."