Three Kingdoms: The rebellious son of the Cao family married the queen at the beginning

After Cao Shuo ordered the affairs of Yongzhou, he led the army back to Luoyang.

The news that Wei State exempted immigrants from taxation quickly spread in Liangzhou, Hanzhong and other places.

After Ma Teng heard the news, he quickly held an all-staff meeting.

This is a major plan related to his life and death in Liangzhou, so it must be taken seriously.

Their Liangzhou was originally sparsely populated. If Cao Shuo tricked some of them away, Liangzhou would be destroyed by itself.

Ma Teng said with a gloomy face: "Cao Shuo, a bastard, has a lot of food, a big land, and no human resources. He even exempted immigrants from paying rent for ten years. Do you have a way to deal with it?"

Fa Yan suggested: "My lord, we can follow the example of Cao Shuo and exempt the tax burden, so as to stabilize the morale of the army."

Now they can only follow Cao Shuo, and they can only avoid more than him, otherwise, within a year, the number of people in Liangzhou will decrease by [-] to [-]%.

Ma Teng thought for a while and said, "In that case, where does our military ration come from?"

His army and horses all needed food and grass to feed them. If taxes were exempted, his money would be much less, and it would be difficult to collect food.

Fa Yan replied: "We have a lot of iron ore, we can exchange some necessities of life with the Longteng Chamber of Commerce, and then trade with the common people in exchange for the food in their hands."

If they buy it directly with money, they won't be able to buy much, so it's better to exchange it with something real.

What's more, since Dong Zhuo implemented small money in Yongliang and Liangzhou, the people are not so keen on copper coins, and more often exchange items with each other.

Ma Teng fell into deep thought with worry on his face. If he traded with Cao Shuo, he would definitely be manipulated by the other party.

However, apart from a little more minerals and a little more horses, cattle and sheep in Liangzhou, everything else is in short supply, especially food.

"Alas, food in Xiliang is a very big problem!"

Fa Yan said: "I heard that Cao Shuo used to graze horses, cattle and sheep in Youzhou. We can also vigorously promote breeding so that the people no longer worry about food."

Ma Teng nodded, that's all he had to do now.

Fazheng said: "My lord, Liu Bei only owns a county, so he became the king of Hanzhong. Why don't you become the king, so as to stabilize the morale of Liangzhou's army?"

Ma Chao said excitedly: "My son agrees with my second brother's suggestion. My father is considering proclaiming himself king and emperor. Why don't father proclaim himself emperor directly?"

Ma Teng's subordinates persuaded Ma Teng to become emperor one after another. Among the princes of the world, Ma Teng was the only one who had not yet become emperor.

Ma Teng thought about it carefully, and said, "Then we'll call Xiliang."

"Long live, long live, Your Majesty."

Ma Teng said with a smile: "The capital of the country will be set at Wuwei Guzang, and Wuwei County will be changed to Wuwei Yin."

"Feng Fayan Taiwei, Pang Yi Sikong, Yangfu Situ."

"Make Ma Chao the former general, Fazheng the right general, Jiang Jiong the left general, and Ma Wan the rear general!"

Ma Teng reserved the position of general, just to let Ma Chao know that his current ability is not enough to lead the whole army.

Ma Chao was obviously a little unhappy. Among so many generals, who is as brave as him?
He didn't understand why Ma Teng wanted to leave the position of the general vacant, but he didn't say anything on the spot.
Fa Yan suggested: "Your Majesty, we can just take this opportunity to inform the counties in Xiliang to stabilize the morale of the army and the people."

"Let's trouble Master Taiwei to handle this matter."

After Ma Teng retreated from the crowd, Ma Chao asked with a puzzled face, "Father, why is the position of the general vacant?"

Ma Teng said with a serious face: "My son, don't you understand my intentions? What you have to do now is to learn some strategies from Fazheng. As a general, how can you not understand strategies and only know how to fight blindly?"

Ma Chao's face turned red and then pale, and Ma Teng continued: "Look at Cao Shuo's general Zhao Yun, oh, forget it, let's not talk about it, Cao Shuo left the general Huang Zhong in Yongzhou, you need to pay special attention to this man. "

Ma Chao said with a look of disdain: "It's not Zhao Yun, what is there to worry about? Isn't it just that Yan Xing was captured on the battlefield, the boy can also capture Yan Xing alive now."

Ma Teng shook his head. Ma Chao didn't know when he could get rid of his temper.

"Our spies have investigated Huang Zhong, who once singled out Guan Yu!"

Ma Chao said eagerly: "You don't need to guess, he is not Guan Yu's opponent at all."

Ma Chao fought Guan Yu more than once, and Guan Yu was slightly better than him, but he believed that he would definitely be able to defeat Guan Yu in the future.

Guan Yu is at the beginning of his peak, and he is not yet 20 years old. He has several years to surpass Guan Yu.

"Guan Yu is defeated!"

"what?"

Ma Chao was extremely astonished, how could Guan Yu lose to Huang Zhong?
Ma Teng looked at his son's expression of disbelief, and decided to hit him again, to let him know that there are countless capable people in this world.

"Guan Yu's strength is not ranked among the top five in Cao Shuo's army."

Ma Chao's forehead is twisted into a twist, can't he be ranked in the top five?

Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong are under Cao Shuo's command, so is there anyone else?
Lu Bu, a guy who has no bottom line, probably intends to work his life for Cao Shuo.

Ma Teng continued: "Cao Shuo's bravery is the best in the world. I won't talk about that. Zhao Yun defeated Lv Bu. He is the number one general in Wei, followed by Lv Bu and Huang Zhong."

Ma Chao said depressedly: "Then at least it can still rank fifth."

Ma Teng shook his head and said, "I heard that when Guan Yu and Wei Yan switched defenses, they fought Cao Shuo's bodyguard Dian Wei, and Guan Yu lost."

"????"

Ma Chao's face was ashen, and he thought to himself, this Guan Yu is too disappointing, he can't even beat a guard, maybe he deliberately lost to the opponent in order to curry favor with Cao Shuo.

Seeing that Ma Chao was silent, Ma Teng continued, "Before Hulao Pass, he was the one who captured Hua Xiong alive. You know Hua Xiong's strength, even you can't defeat him within fifty moves."

"However, Dian Wei captured Hua Xiong alive without using ten tricks."

Ma Chao said with a mournful face, "My son is off to practice martial arts!"

Ma Chao's confidence was battered, Guan Yu's strength was not even ranked among the top five in Wei, and he still couldn't beat Wei Yan within a hundred rounds.

Wei Yan was captured alive by Zhao Yun, so he is still far from a top general.

Ma Teng looked at the back of his son leaving, and was very flustered in his heart. Cao Shuo had too many generals.

The reason why he didn't call himself king or emperor was because he felt that it was unnecessary to do so.

Cao Shuo's strength is already much stronger than him. If it wasn't for Dong Zhuo's tyrannical strength, which caused him to lose some troops, Cao Shuo would probably take advantage of the victory to attack Xiliang.

Ma Teng called Ma Dai and told him, "Ma Dai, I will give you [-] troops. You can take back the Protectorate of the Western Regions. Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu will assist you."

Ma Dai is still young, he needs to be trained, and maybe he can become his right-hand man in the future.