In 44 AD, the general Ma Yuan pacified Lingnan and led his army back to Beijing. Because of his great merits, he was rewarded with military vehicles by the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, and his status also rose, second only to Jiuqing. But the past of the Gong Gao Zhen Lord abounded, and didn't Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Taizu Emperor kill Han Xin, Yingbu, and Peng Yue?
He is very clever, and this is the basis for his ability to survive in this world. He was 59 years old. Just when the Xiongnu and Wuhuan invaded Fufeng, he asked for orders to lead the army. A sentence "If a boy dies in the wilderness, and buries his ears with a corpse wrapped in Horseg, how can he lie on the bed and be evil at the hands of a child and a woman?" What was shouted out was the majesty of the Han Dynasty, the arrogance of the general!
However, as in the later "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is said that "if the king doubts the subject, the subject will die." He was able to drive his horse and wrap his body in a horse, but he could not hide from the king's interrogation, doubt, and rebuke, and perhaps the only thing to be thankful for was that he really died on the battlefield, and before he died, he also escaped the humiliation of those sent by Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor, to rebuke him.
In 14 BC, Ma Yuan was born. The advantage of being in a family of officials and eunuchs is that you can be able to "know etiquette, honor and disgrace" to pursue your life ideals without pressure from small clothes and food.
His father, Ma Zhong, died when he was twelve, and his brothers taught him Qi Shi, hoping that he would be able to enter his career like them, but he did not stick to the chapters and sentences. There is also an ideal: to go to the border county land to cultivate and graze. For this seemingly funny ideal, the brother did not have too much blame, and even the older brother Ma Guan still used "Ru Dacai, that night to become" to sharpen this somewhat special brother.
When Ma Yuan was still immersed in ideals, his brother Ma Yuan died. The etiquette of the eldest brother like a father and the heartfelt respect for his brother made him have to stay at home and keep filial piety for his brother for a year, during which he had "great respect" for his sister-in-law.
And such a warm and humble character cultivation also made him do something at the beginning of his career that made people "laugh".
When he first became the inspector of the post, he received an errand to escort the prisoners to the Si Ming Mansion. We don't know in what way the prisoner who committed a felony touched Ma Yuan, but in any case, he was very touched and sympathetic to the prisoner's plight, so he released the prisoner, and naturally he could not go back to his life. I had to flee to Northland County, where I really let go of cattle and sheep, and gathered hundreds of families.
Born in a chaotic world, in the last year of Wang Mang's new dynasty, his younger brother Wang Lin Recruited heroes from all over the world. Ma Yuan thus became the Great Yin (i.e. equivalent to the secretary) of xincheng. And the years of chaos and chaos in the army are actually huge and complex. Sheng Ji will decline, Kunyang will fight, even "Tian" will help Liu Xiu, and under Wang Mang's great defeat, the regime will quickly collapse.
At that time, Kui Huan, Gongsun Shu, and Liu Xiu were all strong and powerful. The land of Hebei was almost in the hands of Liu Xiu, while Gongsun Shu occupied the sichuan region, and Kui Huan divided Xizhou and Longyou.
Ma Yuan, who had taken refuge in Liangzhou, chose Kui Huan nearby, and was even more highly valued, while his other brother, Ma Yuan, returned to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In 25 years, Gongsun Shu proclaimed himself emperor in Shudi. And Liu Xiu was also attacking the city in the Central Plains, and Kui Huan decided that it was time to choose! So Ma Yuan, as an emissary, first arrived in Shudi. And the fellow villager Gongsun Shu, commanding the emperor, the emperor's prestige was fully displayed, and he also wanted to seal Ma Yuan as a great general. And Ma Yuan went back to his life to "Gongsun Shu the frog at the bottom of the well, arrogant and arrogant, you might as well concentrate on running the East (Liu Xiu)." And after meeting Liu Xiu, although Liu Xiu was arrogant and said, "You are circling between the two emperors", he said that "in today's world, it is not only the monarch who chooses the subject, but also the courtier who chooses the king", Liu Xiu admired his directness and invited him to tour with him. Back in Xizhou, Ma Yuan praised him with Han Gaozu. In response, Kui Huan chose to submit to the Han Dynasty and sent his eldest son Kui Gong to Luoyang as a hostage.
However, just after Ma Yuan and his family went to Luoyang together, Liu Xiu did not seal it because he had lost his value. Ma Yuan did not pay attention to his heart, but instead wrote a letter to lead the guests tun tian. However, Kui Huan was naturally displeased, and Wang Yuan provoked him, so he rebelled.
Liu Xiu was naturally furious, so he personally conquered Kui Huan. But when Liu Xiuzhen arrived in Xizhou, facing the landform of the Loess Plateau lined with ravines, the emperor was dumbfounded. Then he issued another edict summoning Ma Yuan to come, but after Ma Yuan arrived, he ordered people to "pile rice as a mountain", so that the ravines and mountains were in full view, and then the kui was broken. As a result, Ma Yuan was promoted to Taizhong Doctor.
The years that followed were a series of achievements. In 33 AD, Liangzhou was pacified; in 35, Longxi was pacified; in 37, Longyou was pacified. He was so meritorious that he was appointed as the General of the Tiger Army. And he is generous, even if it is not within the scope of his own duties, he also offers advice.
In 41 years, Li Guang, the god stick, entangled the believers to claim that Master Nanyue rebelled. It was even more a big defeat to defeat the people and horses sent by Liu Xiu. In the end, Ma Yuan went out on a campaign and broke Li Guang. Subsequently, Liu Xiu appointed Ma Yuan as the general of Fubo. In 42 years, the Ma Reinforcement army arrived, and everywhere it went, it was invincible and invincible. In the first month of 43 years, zhengyi was beheaded, and Liu Xiu made him the Marquis of Xinxi. The prestige is high, and it is even more "long live the officials".
This was repaid, and there was the beginning of the previous article, although the meritorious service, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu only rewarded the military chariot, and then Ma Yuan's conquest of Wuhuan. And it is also in "when a boy dies in the wilderness, and buries his ears with a corpse wrapped in horse leather, how can he lie on the bed and be evil at the hands of a child and a woman!" In the midst of the sonorous words, Wu Huan was discouraged and fled, but they did not return.
Back in Luoyang, he fell ill in bed. Liu Xiu sent his son-in-law Liang Song to visit, but Ma Yuan did not answer the salute, and everyone asked why? "Liang Song and I are friends, how can we lose the dignity and inferiority of the elder and the young?" And Liang Song, who has a small belly and chicken intestines and is quite powerful, also holds a grudge.
In 48 AD, the Wuxi Rebellion in Wuling County in the south, Liu Shang went to conquest, and the result was that the entire army was destroyed. At the age of 62, he was just as incorruptible as he was then, still able to eat and fly on the horse. Liu Xiu did not "refuse to move" but ordered the army and horses to go out on the expedition!
However, he did not expect that this expedition would really realize his dream - the shroud of Ma Ge. He disagreed with the deputy general Geng Shu, who, although old, wanted to take risks, while Geng Shu insisted on taking the flat road, and after writing to the book, Liu Xiu finally agreed to Ma Yuan's plan - the soldiers were dangerous and took the dangerous road.
And the fierceness of this battle, the pass is narrow, the water is turbulent, the soldiers are hot and difficult, the summer service is rampant, the barbarians are defended, and the casualties are heavy. Ma Yuan was forced to dig the mountain into a hole, although every time he attacked, he could not move forward, but a generation of veterans, there will always be a time when the oil runs out.
Because of his defeats, Geng Shu wrote a letter to his brother Geng Yi, and complaining, Liu Xiu first stripped him of his title, and then sent Liang Song to see him.
Fortunately, unfortunately, the old general Ma Yuan has passed away, and he has suffered less such insults. Seeing that Ma Yuan was dead, the detractors flocked to him, just like Du Jiliang. Even when the Southern Expedition crossed his toes, a cart of coix kernels pulled in order to treat rheumatism was framed as a "precious thing" by Ma Wu, Hou Yu and others.
However, when a generation of famous generals, when Ma Ge's body was returned to Beijing, he did not even dare to be buried, and could only be buried elsewhere. Even her relatives did not dare to go to mourn, and After Ma Yuan's wife learned of the above small structure, she spoke to Liu Xiu six times, and Liu Xiu ordered Ma Yuan's burial.
References: Book of Han, etc