(Thanks to Dameng, Zhao Wuxiu 2014)

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Shi Yan held the water bag and poured water on a large mouth, allowing water stains to overflow from the corner of his mouth and dripping his clothes. () Finally, he poured the water on his head, wet his body, and slammed the water bag heavily, gasped in his mouth, and under the gentle gaze of Ma Han, he spread the whole story one by one.

Shortly after Ma Han left Changshan and returned to western Liaoning, a long team of chariots and horses in Zhongshan also set off for Liaodong. This is a team of marriage sending off. Zhen Qin, the third daughter of the Zhen family, married Gongsun Gongsun Du, the second son of Liaodong prefect Gongsun Du.

From Zhongshan to Liaodong, you can take land or sea routes. The sea route is short and the road is still peaceful. The Zhen family's merchants traveled in Liaodong often. However, this time they were unlucky and encountered the Youzhou War. In order to prevent Yuan Shao from fishing in the water, Tian Kai, the governor of Qingzhou, blocked the Bohai Sea and Qingzhou, and prohibited merchants from Jizhou from passing through. In desperation, the Zhen family's marriage team had to change to the west of Youzhou. From Feihukou to Dai County, from Gaoliu, left the pass, and then passed through Danhan Mountain to the northeast, crossed Pinggang, Liucheng, and Yangle, and entered the Liaodong vassal state.

This trip lasted for more than a month. Although the journey was difficult, I was lucky to have a safe journey. All tribal forces along the way gave the Liaodong prefect and Zhongshan Zhen family face and received it very enthusiastically. This good fortune continued until the Liaodong vassal states and then turned into bad luck.

Just yesterday, the marriage sending team encountered a Wuwan cavalry. The other party suddenly took action, and all the people and cars were robbed. Shi Yan and other accompanying guards were detained in the tent. At midnight, they cut the tent and ran away while the guards were unprepared. At that time, more than ten people escaped, and they were caught by the Wuwan people one after another. In the end, only Shi Yan successfully escaped... Of course, if it weren't for Ma Han, Shi Yan would have been arrested sooner or later.

After Shi Yan finished speaking, he knelt on both knees and bowed heavily: "I beg Ma Jun to save the third lady. Zhen is grateful to everyone."

Ma Han rubbed his chin, thought for a while, and asked, "When you were captured, did you say that this was the wedding party of the Liaodong Prefect's Prefect's Mansion?"

"I said it, but the Karasuma people ignored it."

This is strange. Is there a guy who is not afraid of Gongsun Du and openly slapped in the face in the Liaodong state? But it is not surprising to think about it. In terms of regionality, this Liaodong state naturally belongs to Liaodong County. But in fact, it is under Gongsun Zan's name. In Gongsun Zan's long list of titles, there is also a position of chief of the Liaodong state. This is also the first position of Gongsun Zan to squeeze into a high-ranking official in Qianshishi, and it has special significance in his more than ten years of career.

In the early years, Gongsun Zan and the rebel Zhang Chun, Zhang Ju and Qiu Li lived in the Shimen battle of the Liaodong vassal state, and the war almost reached Liaodong. Later, Gongsun Du managed Liaodong, and Gongsun Zan turned south and competed for power with Yuan Shao. The ownership of the Liaodong vassal state became blurred. Gongsun Du wanted to start, but he did not dare, for fear of provoking that evil star, and Gongsun Zan occupied an enclave and did not spit it out. I couldn't eat it, and he wanted to steal it. As a result, the Liaodong vassal state became a three-in-one area.

The officials of the vassal states and counties are better. After all, they are backed by Liaodong and rely on them, and their political tendencies tend to be more politically than Youzhou. However, the local Hu people do not sell Gongsun Du's accounts. The Hu people respect the strong and despise the weak. Although everyone's surname is Gongsun, the difference between Gongsun and Gongsun of Youzhou is too far from that of Gongsun in Liaozhou. The Hu people are afraid of the white horse general, but not afraid of Gongsun in Liaodong. Moreover, given the special nature of the vassal state of Liaodong, Gongsun Du dared to take rash actions. Who knows whether it will cause a rebound in Youzhou? Therefore, the Hu people in the vassal state of Liaodong, especially the strong Wuhuan people, have never caught a cold in Liaodong. This situation continued until Gongsun Zan was destroyed and Gongsun Du became king. However, that is a later story. At least for now, the Wuhuan people in the vassal state of Liaodong really don't take Gongsun Du seriously.

After roughly understanding the incident, Ma Han waved: "Bring those two Wuhuan people here."

Ma Han asked directly in Wuhuan language, that is, the Hun language with a Mobei accent and a little voice change: "Who is your lieutenant?"

When they heard this authentic Wuhuan language, the two Wuhuan people felt much more nervous and were overjoyed and said, "Are you also a Wuhuan person? Is it the subordinate of the lieutenant?" They regarded Ma Han as the Wuhuan tribe who defected to Bailang City.

Ma Han frowned and said, "It seems I asked first, right?"

The two Wuhuan people nodded repeatedly: "We are subordinates of the left commander of the King of Kui."

"King Qiao? Su Puyan!" Although it was a bit unexpected, it was reasonable, because this vassal state of Liaodong was the territorial land of King Qiao Su Puyan, but I didn't expect to encounter it right away.

Ma Wu nodded secretly. This is the case. No matter how much Su Puyan didn't sell the Liaodong account, he would not do such a stupid thing that would openly slap in the face. He could only do it without authorization. He asked immediately: "Zuo Daduwei? Who is it?"

"The eldest son of King Qiao replied to his head."

It turned out to be this guy, so destined! Why do you always steal a woman when you meet him? Ma Han looked up at Wu Zhui. Sure enough, when the boy heard the name "Da Tou", the blue veins on his forehead suddenly burst out, his fists clenched, and he clamped his fists hard at Ma Han: "City Shou, let's find this bastard to ask for someone."

"City...City Guard?" Although the two Wuhuan people could not speak, they could understand Chinese, and were stunned.

Ma Han Zhan Yan smiled: "I almost forgot to introduce myself. I am the guardian of Bailang City, Ma Han."

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Between Liucheng in western Liaoning and the migratory river of the Liaodong vassal state, there is a city. This is the Hu Su City in the Western Han Dynasty. Tang Jushui (now Xiaoling River), a tributary of the Bailang Water, winds through from a little south of the city, flows eastward, flowing for a hundred miles, and pouring into the sea.

However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the city was still there, but there was no Hu Su City. This city became a gathering place for Wu Su, a vassal state in Liaodong because of its place. In the end, because of its high autonomy, regardless of criminal and civil affairs, the ministry all visited the leaders of each department and ignored the government. The county government established by the court was in name only. In the end, Hu Su was the same as Wencheng in western Liaoning, Guangcheng, with a city but no name, a people but no book, and a land but no tax, and eventually disappeared from the territory of the Han Dynasty.

This former Hu Su City is now the base camp of Su Puyan, the King of Qiao. However, Su Puyan has never liked to live in that dilapidated city. Instead, he built a tent of kings more than ten miles south of the city to see things. He only moved back to the city to live when the cold winter came. Among the kings of Wuhuan, Su Puyan's tent fell by thousands and controlled eight thousand strings, and his strength was still above Khanlu King Wuyan, second only to Tadun and Shanggu Nanlou.

Although Su Puyan's strength ranks among the top three of the forces of Wuhuan, the trouble caused by his eldest son yesterday still made him both angry and worried. For this reason, he called his eldest son to the tent, scolded him for a long time, and finally did not forget to warn: "...Anyway, before this matter is handled properly, you can't touch that woman, do you hear it?"

Unwillingly, he responded softly, muttering: "I saw this woman washing by the river, she was extremely beautiful. She took people to rob her. At that time, I didn't know that she was the bride of the son of Gongsun Prefect!"

Su Puyan said angrily: "Then you found out later, you even caught all the wedding teams, including the wedding envoy from the Liaodong Prefect's Office? Do you know how much trouble this will cause us?"

"There are so many troubles in Gongsun Du's own county that he can't count. I don't know how many aristocratic families are opposing him. Now he is suppressing opposition forces everywhere and his troops are dispersed. How could a woman cause trouble for us..."

"Fuck!" Su Puyan spitted on his son, "Although this matter is not big, it is related to face. If there is no explanation, Gongsun Du will definitely attack."

"Everyone has already been snatched, but in short, he offended Liaodong. Even if he sends it back and apologizes, Gongsun Du may not be able to afford this face and will always cause trouble for us. It would be better to take it all together... Father, the dowry dowry is really generous! Are you willing to bear it?"

When my son mentioned the dowry ceremony of Zhen's dowry, even Su Puyan's eyes lit up. Indeed, it would be fine if he didn't know, but if he saw such a generous dowry ceremony with his own eyes, he would not be willing to let him spit it out anyway.

"But there must be an explanation for this matter, and you must also explain something to Liaodong..." Su Puyan stroked his bearded with thick hands and pondered without saying a word. He was not afraid of Liaodong, and he understood that Gongsun Du would not have been arbitrarily attacked because of a woman, but at least he had to give the other party a step.

"Father, brother... my daughter has a plan." A loud voice came from outside the tent. When the curtain was lifted, one person entered. Su Puyan didn't have to look up and knew that the person who was talking was his second Jurchen. This was a slightly fat girl with round face and thin eyebrows, wearing a thick cloth and hulu, which could not cover up the two bulging meat balls on her chest.

When he first wanted to marry Niannu, he said that he was to be a companion for his sister, but it turned out that he really had a girl.

Su Puyan frowned: "What are you doing?"

Zhenguo turned his eyes and said angrily: "Have you forgotten the old custom of 'robbing the bride'?"

"Snatch the kiss!" Su Puyan seemed to think of something, and his eyes lit up.

Zhenguo continued: "Let's say that this incident is caused by the usual 'robbing of brides' and there is no intention of offense. If the Gongsun family wants to get back people and property, they will follow the rules of robbing brides and let Gongsun Gong himself or his disciples come to compete for robbing brides. At that time, we can deliberately lose to him, so that we can not only give him face, but also leave half of the property in the same ruling, so that we can no longer blame."

"Good plan!" Su Puyan was overjoyed and patted his thighs hard. Yes! Why did he forget this custom? There was no better idea than this.

The father and son looked at each other and laughed. Before they could finish their laughter, four Wuwan people were covered in mud and kowtowed to apologize: "Sir, we are chasing the fugitive prisoners, but we did not catch them, and more than ten brothers were damaged."

"What?" Su Puyan and his son were furious, "Just make you look like this bird on your own! Could he be Ma Jinglong!"

One of the Karasukas stumbled and said, "We were attacked by the army of White Wolf City, so..."

White Wolf City! Ma Jinglong! It’s not that coincidental, right?

The father and son looked at each other and were about to ask again, but suddenly saw a horse running in the distance, and his voice was panicked: "Liaodong Cavalry Commander, the White Wolf City Guardian Ma Jinglong came to visit the Lord!"

Ma Jinglong! The eyes lit up.

Su Puyan was so shocked that he couldn't speak. After a while, he asked, "How many people did he... bring?"

"More than fifty cavalry, and dozens of men."

Su Puyan felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to discuss with his son, but when he turned his head, he found that his son looked wrong.

"He's here..." The head murmured to himself, his teeth clattered, his eyes were full of fierce light, he reached out to hold the flesh-cutting knife around his waist, and he was about to leave.

Su Puyan shouted sternly: "Don't you, what are you doing?"

"Father, this is a rare opportunity. He only brought dozens of horses to our territory..."

"Bastard!" Su Puyan was furious and slapped his son Guang's forehead, making him beat him up, "What chance? Kill him? Do I have a grudge against Ma Jinglong? Do you have a grudge against Ma Jinglong? Just because he once shot a horse to kill you? Who is Ma Jinglong? Liaodong cavalry commander, guarding Bailang City, with extremely powerful force, and his subordinates have thousands of troops. In front of him, Kebi was crippled, and behind him, Wuyan was crushed. How much do you think my Su Puyan tribe is stronger than them? Such a strong stubborn one, we are not as good as we can, you actually want to get along with him and use him as an enemy! How stupid!"

Datou also realized that he was blinded by the humiliation of the past and almost caused trouble, but he was dissatisfied: "But he came to visit his father and was obviously uneasy. He was probably coming for the money and property."
Chapter completed!