When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Sima Fang, the commander of Luoyang, was named General of the General of the Shu and was appointed as the governor of Yizhou because of his contribution to suppressing the rebellion. His eldest son Sima Lang was also transferred to serve as the prefect of Shu County in Yizhou and went to take office with his father. At that time, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was mainly concentrated in the eastern prefectures of the Han Dynasty, and Sizhou and Yizhou were relatively peaceful. So Sima and his son brought a thousand soldiers recruited from Hanoi (actually the elite soldiers of the Hanoi county, and were secretly subdued by Sima Lang for the family use), set out from Hanoi, passed through Chang'an, and then looked through the Qinling Mountains, preparing to enter Shu through Hanzhong.

At that time, there was a governor in Yizhou, named Que (xi, four tones) Jian, from Yanshi, Henan. Although this person had the word "陈" in his name, it was actually completely opposite! Quejian was incompetent and incompetent. He used money to buy the position of governor of Yizhou. After taking office, he levyed taxes and plundered the people. His infamous and some unofficial actions were "famous". It was precisely because of Quejian's atrocities that the land of Yizhou was harmed by his "greed, cruel and indiscriminate, and was deceived by the wicked people" and became a situation of "boring Yuan Yuan, and arrogance."

The court sent Sima Fang, who was famous for his reputation, to replace Que Jian as the governor of Yizhou and the military supervisor, and specifically emphasized to the Sima family that it was necessary to "contain and implement laws to show all the people, and not let them be exposed, so that the carbuncles and ulcers will be eliminated and the country will be damaged." It can be seen that Que Jian was in Yizhou at that time, which was corrupt and abused the law, and abused the people, and the heavens were angry and people resentful.

Sima Fang, whose courtesy name was Jiangong, was from Wen County, Henei, Sizhou (now Wen County, Henan). His father Sima Jun was the prefect of Yingchuan, the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was born in the third year of Jianhe of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. He had eight sons in history, namely: Sima Lang, Sima Yi, Sima Fu, Sima Kui, Sima Xun, Sima Jin, Sima Tong, and Sima Min. They are all well-known. Because each person has a character "Da", he was called "Sima Bada". Among them, Sima Yi, Emperor Xuan of Jin, was Sima Fang's second son.

Sima Fang had a straightforward and fair personality. Even in casual occasions such as attending private banquets, he still maintained neat clothes and majesty. He loved reading the biographies of famous officials in the Book of Han and sarcastically chanting hundreds of thousands of words. When he was young, he served as an official in the prefectures and counties. Later, when he was appointed as the ruling of Luoyang, he organized troops to quell the Yellow Turban disaster and was rewarded for his contribution. He was transferred to the governor of Yizhou and conquered the general of Shu.

Sima Fang was very strict in discipline of his son. Even though his eldest son Sima Lang had become an adult and had a high position, he still asked him to "not dare to enter if he was not determined, not dare to sit if he was not determined, and not dare to speak if he was not determined." As for Sima Yi and Sima Fu, who are underage, the discipline will be even more severe.

It is said that when Sima and his son came to Hanzhong County, the then prefect of Hanzhong was named Su Gu (the previous term of Zhang Lu). He warmly received the Sima father and son, and said, "There is a rebel Ma Xiang in Shu. Zhao Zhi called himself the Yellow Turban in Mianzhu County. He gathered thousands of people in a few days. He first killed Li Sheng, the magistrate of Mianzhu County, gathered more than 10,000 refugees, and then defeated the prefecture to govern Luo County. The governor Quejian was killed by the rebels. Now the rebels are rampant in Guanghan, Shu County, Jianwei, and the three counties. Ma Xiang calls himself the emperor, and there are tens of thousands of people."

After hearing such a sudden change in Shu, Sima Fang was not in a hurry. Instead, he sent his confidants to dress up as refugees and sneaked into Shu. He contacted Ren Qi, the prefect of Jianwei and Jia Long, and others. After receiving the secret order of the new governor Sima Fang, Ren Qi and Jia Long led 500 soldiers to appease and recruit officials and civilians in the eastern part of Jianwei, and obtained more than 2,000 people, and then attacked Ma Xiang westward. Jia Long was good at using troops. Although the number of soldiers under him was less than that of the rebels, because of his good command and dispatch, he defeated the rebels within a few days. Ma Xiang led the remnants to escape from the western part of Yizhou and sneaked into the Qiang tribe of Boshen.

Then Ren Qi and Jia Long selected hundreds of capable officials and soldiers to go to Nanzheng, Hanzhong to welcome Sima and his son into Shu. After Sima Fang entered the Shuzhong area, he first moved the prefecture capital from Luo County to Chengdu, and then vigorously appeased the local people, rectified the officials of the prefecture and county, and implemented a completely different lenient policy from Kujian, so that the people in Shu could recuperate.

In order to strengthen its control over Yizhou, Sima Fang used the 1,000 soldiers brought from Henoi to Shuzhong as the foundation to vigorously recruit the children of Han people who fled into Shuzhong because of avoiding disasters and chaos, and formed a self-esteem, called the Dongzhou Army. At the same time, Sima Fang also properly handled the Qiang tribes in the southwestern Yizhou, allowing the Qiang children to join the army, and formed another army, called the Qingqiang Army. After three months of preparation and training, the number of soldiers in Dongzhou exceeded 10,000, and the number of soldiers in Qingqiang was 5,000.

As a famous family that has risen since the pre-Qin period, the Sima family is naturally well-known. Compared with the Yuan family, which had "four generations and three masters", it has a lot of wealth. In particular, the Sima family has all politicians and conspirators. Although they are not good at using force, they eventually cultivated a thief like Sima Yi. As the prefect of Shu County, Sima Lang began to search for famous scholars and heroes in Shu at the beginning of his tenure, and made friends and solicited people.

More than ten other powerful men in Shu, including Wang Xian and Li Quan, were interested in making friends with Sima's family, and provided food and goods to Sima Fang, and strongly supported Sima Fang to form the Dongzhou Army and the Qingqiang Army. Sima Fang also reciprocated his favor, recruiting these local tyrants and nephews from local tyrants to work in various counties and counties, and quickly became a part of Yizhou's local forces.

Chen Chao recommended two generals who were good at commanding troops to Sima Fang, namely Zhang Ren (who is Gongyi) from Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan) and Yan Yan (who is Heber) from Linjiang County (now Zhong County, Chongqing).

In the storytelling, Zhang Ren was the Grand Governor of Xichuan. He was Tong Yuan's eldest disciple, that is, Zhao Yun's senior brother. Historical records: "Zhang Ren was from Shu County and had a poor family. He was brave and courageous, and had integrity. He was engaged in the state." It can be seen that Zhang Ren was from a poor family. With his own loyalty, courage and fearlessness, he was able to become a superior bureaucrat. At the same time, his work in the state also proved that Zhang Ren was not a pure warrior, and Zhang Ren also had his own strengths in official affairs.

Yan Yan also left a strong color in history books. When Liu Bei entered Shu and came to Ba County, Yan patted his chest and sighed loudly, "This is what is called sitting alone in the poor mountain, letting the tiger defend himself!" It shows that he has a strong sense of overall situation and can see through Liu Da'er's plan at a glance. Zhang Fei under Liu Bei's command captured Ba County and captured Yan Yan, the prefect of Ba County alive. Zhang Fei scolded Yan Yan and said, "Why don't surrender to refuse the battle when the army arrives?" Yan replied, "You are in power and you are invading our state. There are only a decapitated generals in our state, but no surrendered generals." He also saw that this person's courage is commendable.

Sima Fang happily adopted Chen Chao's recommendation and immediately recruited Zhang Ren and Yan Yan. After some discussion, he found that the two of them had millions of soldiers and armor, and they were rare good generals. So he appointed Zhang Ren as the commander of Shu County and the commander of the Dongzhou Army; Yan Yan as the commander of Guanghan County and the commander of the Qingqiang Army.

Jia Long also recommended three people to Sima Fang, namely Fazhen (named Gaoqing), Fufeng County, Fei Shi (named Gongju), Jianwei from Nan'an, and Xu Jing (named Wenxiu).

Fazhen was a famous scholar at that time. Because he escaped from war and joined his family to Sichuan, his son Fayan (named Jimou) was also very talented and a capable official who could govern counties. Fayan had a nine-year-old son named Fazheng. He was smart and studious since childhood. He was a famous child prodigy.

Fei Shi was a local famous scholar in Shu. He was straightforward and honest, not good at conspiracy, but he was particularly honest and self-disciplined. When he was a minor official in counties, he did not invade the interests of the people and was deeply respected by the people in Shu.

Xu Jing was also a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty. He was the cousin of Xu Shao, a figure critic at that time. He served in Kong Yi and Chen Yi and others one after another. Before the Yellow Turbans began to travel to Shu, he settled in the local area and no longer returned to the north.

Sima Fang also received these three famous scholars enthusiastically, and gave them the positions of Fa Zhenzhizhong, the positions of Feishen and Gongcao, and the positions of Xu Jingbocao.

After Zhang Ren took office, he focused on military training and promoted a group of young generals, namely Gao Pei, Yang Huai and Deng Xian. In order to strengthen the control of the Qing Qiang army, Yan Yan even promoted a group of deputy generals such as Wu Lan, Lei Tong, Meng Da and Zhang Yi.

Sima Lang also surrendered Jiang Kou Gan Ning (named Xingba) and hundreds of "Jinfan thieves" under his command, and gave him the post of naval army captain.

Sima and his son entered Sichuan for only half a year, but by making friends with local tyrants, establishing their own armed forces, and recruiting talents on a large scale, quickly stabilized the situation in Yizhou. In the future, once the situation in the world changes, just guarding a few key throats into Sichuan, it will be almost impossible to break.

When Zhao Xing received the news from Shuzhong, he was restless for several days and often sighed. There was no way, who told me to be bold to play a game that changed the course of history? Originally, according to the script he was familiar with, it was probably Liu Yan who entered Yizhou and gave birth to half a bastard Liu Zhang, who was less likely to deal with than the Sima family. Now everything has become unrecognizable. As long as he thinks of the "eight masters" of the Sima family, especially Sima Yi, who grew up, Zhao Xing can't help but have tooth pain...
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