Speaking of Ma Yuan, some people don't know, but when it comes to Ma Chao, I think everyone must know. He once led an army to repel Cao Cao's army, forcing Cao Cao to cut off his beard and abandon his robe, and luckily picked up half his life, and was also one of the five tiger generals of the Shu Kingdom, and he was Ma Yuan's descendant.
Ma Chao
Ma Yuan is now a native of Fufeng County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, and Fufeng County still produced many celebrities during the Han and Tang Dynasties, such as the three sisters and brothers of the Ban family, Ban Gu, Ban Chao, Ban Zhao and so on.
FuFeng General Ma Yuan
When Ma Yuan was young, he was originally a small official of the imperial court, who was responsible for escorting prisoners to the county court. One summer, on the way to escort a prisoner. He listened to the prisoner complain to himself that he had committed a crime only because the taxes were too heavy. He also said that this should be the fault of the imperial court, and he should not carry this pot. Later, Ma Yuan released the prisoners privately.
Later, Ma Yuan was dismissed from his official position by the imperial court and sent to the desolate north of Saibei.
In Sebok, he began to work in animal husbandry. At first, starting a business was difficult, and he could only write letters to borrow money from his former friends. Later, with his diligence and honesty, he finally made a difference in the north of Saibei and became a well-known rich businessman. At that time, he owned hundreds of acres of fertile land and a farm of his own, which was home to herds of cattle and sheep. His friends came to his aid, and he received them one by one, and placed them on his own farm, giving them a certain amount of property.
He stayed in Sebokma for several years until he was thirty-nine years old.
In that year, the world was in chaos, Wang Mang usurped the government, established a new dynasty, and later the Han Guangwu Emperor raised an army, and he felt that the opportunity to make meritorious achievements had come.
On that day, he gathered his relatives and friends and told them that he was going back to the Central Plains, that he was going to join Liu Xiu, restore the Han family, and bow down to the country. He also gave all his wealth to his relatives and friends. Relatives and friends did not dare to accept his gifts, and they did not know what to do in the same place. He then told them that he did not want to be just a scrooge, and that the boy should have other pursuits.
Ma Yuan left Saibei on an old horse and followed Liu Xiu. Every time the Eastern Han Dynasty needed him, he could stand up. Later, when he was nearly a year old, he was knighted for his meritorious efforts in quelling the Vietnamese rebellion, and received a thousand good fields.
At that time, many courtiers and nobles came to congratulate him, including a scholar who had a good personal relationship with him on weekdays. He crowded into the crowd, kept waving at Ma Yuan, showing envy on his face, and kept saying compliments to him, which made Ma Yuan very dissatisfied. He rode on his horse and said to his friend, "Everybody is like this, isn't that what happens to you?" I thought you understood me, but I didn't think you didn't! A good boy should repay the motherland, die on the battlefield, and wrap the body of Ma Ge! And this is where the idiom Ma Ge Shroud comes from.
Liu Xiu
In 49 AD, at the age of sixty-three, Ma Yuan was ordered to conquer barbarians, die on the battlefield, and fulfill his vow of "Wrapping the Body of Ma Ge", but what happened to him after his death was a bit heart-wrenching.
How to say it? Anyone who is on the table will have a villain who is always worried about it, wanting to harm or denigrate. Shortly after Ma Yuan's death, a villain told the emperor that when he was rehabilitated in Vietnam, he had embezzled a lot of gold and silver jewelry given to him by the locals and pulled him back in several carriages. So the royal family stripped him of his fiefdoms, titles, and so on, until a few years later, when the new emperor ascended the throne and found out that the carriages were only filled with Vietnamese soil, he was rehabilitated for him and his family, which led to the later rise of the Ma Shi family.
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