If we talk about the famous generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty, we may have the impression that Ban Chao, who threw pens from Rong, Dou Xian of Yanran Legong, and the "Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai", who helped Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, rebuild the Han Chamber, and so on. And the famous general we want to talk about today, his military achievements are not weaker than the previous generals who have made great achievements in battle, and his many conquests of the Jiaotong region have also made him still a nightmare for the Vietnamese, today let us understand the story of this general, he is the famous general in the early Eastern Han Dynasty - Fu bo general Ma Yuan.
First, after the famous door, the ambition is high
If the Ma Yuanjia family is traced back, in fact, it can be traced back to the famous general of the Zhao State in the Warring States period, Ma Fujun Zhao Hao, as a descendant of Zhao Hao, their original surname was Ma Fu, and as a result, it was gradually simplified to the Ma surname. Ma Yuan's great-grandfather served as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but because his brother was involved in the Wu Clan Rebellion, his clan was reckoned with, and fortunately Ma Yuan's grandfather escaped the disaster, and later during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han, Ma Yuan's grandfather was appointed again.
Although Ma Yuan's father was promoted to Sima Xuanwu, he died when Ma Yuan was twelve years old. As the youngest son in the family, Ma Yuan was the youngest, but his ambitions were very high, so he was not interested in things like poems and articles, but wanted to go to the border to farm and graze. The farming and grazing that Ma Yuan wanted did not seem like a lofty ambition to us, but Ma Yuan later proved his idea with his actions.
When Ma Yuan was serving as a postmaster, he let go of the prisoners because he was escorting them but had sympathy for the prisoners, and fled to Northland County. After the amnesty of the world, Ma Yuan regained his freedom, and he finally completed his idea of farming and grazing at the border, Ma Yuan himself was very experienced in farming and grazing, able to adapt to local conditions, and had his own unique methods, and the harvest was very rich. At that time, Ma Yuan's wealth had reached several thousand heads of cattle, sheep and horses, and grain had tens of thousands of cattle. However, Ma Yuan did not value this wealth, but used it to help others, and he himself lived a very poor life.
However, this also led many people to come to him, and over time he had hundreds of families under his command, all of whom obeyed his command and were sent by him, while Ma Yuan took them to graze and cultivate. In addition to farming and grazing, he never forgot his ambition, always reminding himself and telling his guests, saying that "the husband's ambition, poor and strong, old and strong." (This phrase also became the source of these two words)
Second, first throw Kui Huan, followed by Guangwu.
Ma Yuan's legend of really beginning his life as a horseman was in the last year of the new dynasty after Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne, when the situation was very turbulent, and Wang Mang's cousin Wang Lin was widely recruited from the world at that time, and it was at this time that Ma Yuan was recommended to Wang Mang. Wang Mang gave him the title of New City Grand Yin. Unexpectedly, Wang Mang's regime soon collapsed, and Ma Yuan had to flee to Liangzhou for refuge.
Shortly after the fall of the new dynasty, The Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu also established the Eastern Han Dynasty in Hebei, and his brother Ma Yuan went directly to Luoyang to defect to Emperor Guangwu of Han, while Ma Yuan remained in Liangzhou. At this time, Kui Huan established a new separatist regime in the Longyou region, and Ma Yuan was very much valued by Kui Huan, and was not only appointed as the general of Suide, but also able to participate in the decision-making of the Kui Huan regime.
Later, Kui Huan heard that Gongsun Shu had been proclaimed emperor in Shuzhong, and Ma Yuan was sent by him to inquire into the truth. Because Ma Yuan and Gongsun Shu were both fellow villagers and old friends, Ma Yuan was very much looking forward to this meeting, but Gongsun Shu put up the emperor's shelf, not only engaged in a series of lengthy ceremonies before meeting Ma Yuan, but also said that he would make Ma Yuan a marquis and award the title of grand general.
This made Ma Yuan feel very funny, Gongsun Shucai only occupied Shuzhong, he began to be arrogant, and his lengthy ceremony when meeting the Sage was just a show, which was difficult to keep the heart of the Sage, so Ma Yuan did not accept Gongsun Shu's invitation, but directly returned to Long Right and advised Kui Huan not to be involved with Gongsun Shu, but to focus on Liu Xiu.
Later, Ma Yuan helped Kui Huan go to the east to inquire about Liu Xiu's side, and as a result, Ma Yuan and Liu Xiu had a very pleasant conversation, and Liu Xiu also admired Ma Yuan and even let Ma Yuan tour the south with him, and when Ma Yuan returned to Longyou after the inspection, Liu Xiu also specially sent someone to send a festival to send him. This experience in the East led Ma Yuan to believe that Liu Xiu was a person with imperial materials, so he went back and persuaded Kui Huan to submit to the Han Dynasty, and Kui Huan also agreed to Ma Yuan's suggestion.
But later, Kui Huan was unable to resist his desire to stand on his own in Long Right, and betrayed the Han Dynasty despite Ma Yuan's many advices. Ma Yuan, seeing that Kui Huan had broken with the Han Dynasty, wrote to Liu Xiu and proposed a plan to eliminate Kui Hu. Liu Xiu agreed to Ma Yuan's plan, and after Ma Yuan's lobbying, the generals around Kui Huan, after knowing the stakes, were gradually divided by Ma Yuan, and finally Liu Xiu personally recruited Kui Huan, while Ma Yuan used the rice pile to deduce the sand table to explain to Liu Xiu the strategy of breaking the enemy, and finally forced Kui Huan's army to surrender without a fight, and Kui Huan had to flee to Xicheng.
3. Beiping Qiang Chaos, Southern Expedition to Lingnan.
After helping Liu Xiu eliminate Kui Huan's separatist regime, Ma Yuan was appointed by Liu Xiu as the Grand Master of Taizhong and commanded the various armies to guard Chang'an. Due to the great chaos in the world during the New Dynasty, the Qiang people outside sai also intensified their invasion frequency, so Ma Yuan's immediate superior Lai She recommended that Ma Yuan come to quell the Qiang rebellion in the border areas, so in the eleventh year of Jianwu (35), Ma Yuan was appointed by Liu Xiu as the Taishou of Longxi, responsible for solving this thorny problem.
After Ma Yuan took office, he first defeated the Qiang banner at Lintao, not only beheading hundreds of people, but also obtaining more than 10,000 cattle, sheep and horses, which made more than 8,000 Qiang people look down. After that, in order to solve the problem of tens of thousands of Qiang people who still occupied the pass and tried to resist, Ma Yuan used raids, feints, encirclement, suspicious troops and other means to win many great victories, not only beheading thousands of people, but also obtaining a large number of Qiang materials.
However, Ma Yuan knew that this was only a symptom and not a cure, so he decided to govern this place, not only to build water conservancy fortifications for the local area, but also to encourage people to develop agricultural and animal husbandry industries, and to let the Qiang people outside the Sai and the Qiang in the Sai make good friends and jointly develop local resources, these measures have made the local pacifist and the war reduced. And for those diehards who are unwilling to settle down, Ma Yuan is not soft. With this grace and power, Longxi gradually appeared to be thriving under the rule of Ma Yuan.
After six years of ruling Longyou, Ma Yuan was again transferred to the DPRK. Soon after, a rebellion broke out in Lingnan, and the rebels captured the city of Anhui and killed the Marquis of Anhui. After the generals sent by the imperial court were defeated by the rebels, they had no choice but to send the veteran general Ma Yuan to fight, and Ma Yuan organized more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from several counties to quickly put down the rebellion. Who knew that the rebellion on this side had just been quelled, and the two women of Jiaotong's conquest and zhengyi also rebelled, not only occupying Jiaozhi County, but also making Jiuzhen, Nichinan and other places respond to their rebellions.
Zhengbian even established himself as king, indicating a break with the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu then appointed Ma Yuan as the general of Fubo and asked him to lead an army south to Lingnan. Ma Yuan's engagement with erzheng's army can be described as devastating, defeating the rebels many times in just one year, and in the first month of the nineteenth year of Jianwu (43), he beheaded the two rebel leaders of Zhengbian and Zhengyi.
Later, after Ma Yuan swept away the remnants of the Erzheng Party with the momentum of the wind and clouds, he also gave full play to his advanced experience in governing the Long Right, and also revised the local laws with the laws of the Han Dynasty, and Ma Yuan also erected a copper pillar engraved on the toe of the cross, and the toe was destroyed." "The copper pillar came as the boundary pillar at the southern end of the Han Dynasty, and this pillar became a long-term nightmare for the Vietnamese, who did not dare to break the pillar, so they threw stones at it, and as a result, the location of the copper pillar became a small mound over time.
Later, Ma Yuan still fought for the Han court to conquer the west and defeated the attack of the minority Xiongnu and Wuhuan in the north, and when there was another rebellion in Lingnan, Ma Yuan even dragged the elderly age of more than sixty years to go to Lingnan again, but due to the hot weather and the rebels' danger, there was an epidemic in the army, and Ma Yuan was also seriously ill and eventually died on the way to the southern expedition. After Ma Yuan's death, he was framed by rumors and rumors, and Emperor Guangwu of Han recovered his marquis seal, and it was not until the time of Emperor Zhangdi of Han that Ma Yuan was able to restore his honor and was posthumously honored as "Marquis of Zhongcheng".