funbook-pk Chapter 475 Fa Zheng Wants to Join Liu Bei? Zhang Song: There's a Killing Intent in His Sight!
Chapter 475 Fa Zheng Wants to Join Liu Bei? Zhang Song: There's a Killing Intent in His Sight!
The letter that Ma Dai brought was from Liu Bei.
Liu Bei promised to hand over the entire Hanzhong region to Ma Chao after he conquered Yizhou.
Ma Chao took this as a complete joke.
Yizhou is incomplete without Hanzhong.
After acquiring Hanzhong, they closed their doors and became a separate country.
So either Liu Bei was just making empty promises to him, or he was completely out of his mind!
The answer is obvious: Liu Bei was also a master of empty promises, hoping to gain Ma Chao's power for his own use.
For Liu Bei, Ma Chao's cavalry force was still quite appealing.
Although Shu Han did not have as few warhorses as Eastern Wu, it did not have as many as Cao Wei.
Moreover, even in the original history, only a handful of people in Shu Han had the ability to command cavalry in battle, such as Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Jiang Wei.
Although Ma Chao was marginalized, Ma Dai was still able to be employed during Zhuge Liang's time, which is partly due to this reason.
However, Ma Dai's thought process was too sharp, and he naively trusted a certain "honest person," which led to his elimination from the game a year after Zhuge Liang's death.
Now, Liu Bei is plotting to seize Yizhou and is extremely eager for the forces under Ma Chao's command.
Moreover, Ma Chao's fearsome reputation could serve as a deterrent to those cities in Yizhou that were unwilling to surrender.
At worst, they can just shelve the people after using them; it's just a basic tactic used by shrewd strategists.
"Brother, should we respond to Liu Bei?"
Ma Dai asked Ma Chao.
Ma Chao snorted coldly:
"Trying to get something for nothing? How big does Liu Bei think he is?"
"Just ignore it."
"I, the general, will take Hanzhong myself!"
"Yes!"
Ma Dai's eyes were filled with admiration for Ma Chao.
Although Ma Chao is much worse off now than he was in Liangzhou.
But there is a good saying.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In Ma Dai's eyes, Ma Chao will always be a unique existence!
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Jiameng Pass
Liu Bei held another grand banquet for his guests.
Not only did they invite the generals guarding the surrounding passes, but they also hosted a banquet for Fa Zheng, the special envoy sent by Liu Zhang.
After several rounds of drinks, the guards were all drunk. Apart from Liu Bei himself, only Fa Zheng, who claimed that he could not drink, remained sober.
Liu Bei gestured to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to take the guards away, then bowed to Fa Zheng and said:
"Ban and Xiaozhi hit it off immediately. It is a blessing for Bei to know Xiaozhi."
Fa Zheng responded with trepidation:
"General Liu, there's no need for such formalities."
“I am merely a county magistrate and do not deserve such a grand gesture.”
Fa Zheng was certainly not being modest when he said that.
His current official position is merely the magistrate of Mian County.
Within Yizhou, he was not considered a high-ranking official.
There are plenty of people above him.
Zhang Song, the Prefect of Yizhou, Wu Yi, the General of Yizhou, Pang Xi, the Prefect of Ba Commandery, Yan Yan, the Prefect of Jiangzhou, and Li Yan, the Prefect of Mianzhu, were the true big shots of Yizhou.
Especially Zhang Song and Wu Yi.
Zhang Song came from the Zhang family, the largest local family in Yizhou, whose ancestors had served as high-ranking officials for two generations.
Although it cannot compare to the top aristocratic families in the north.
But in this small territory of Yizhou, his family background was considered quite illustrious.
But no matter how capable Zhang Song is, he can't compare to Wu Yi in terms of background.
Wu Yi was from Yanzhou, and his father, Wu Kuang, was a trusted confidant of He Jin.
Hearing this out of the blue, you're bound to be a little confused.
Traditionally, Wu Yi is perceived as having little presence, even less so than his younger sister Wu Mi.
Moreover, wasn't he a member of the "Dongzhou faction"? How did he suddenly become a Yanzhou native?
Because Wu Yi's ancestors were three generations of high-ranking officials.
His father, Wu Kuang, almost became the third-ranking military officer, General of Chariots and Cavalry.
Unfortunately, the elder brother He Jin was gone, and Wu Kuang also died not long after.
The three brothers, Wu Yi, Wu Ban, and Wu Mi, led a large number of servants and seventy to eighty thousand refugees on their journey to Yizhou.
And those 70,000 to 80,000 refugees were almost all young and strong.
With a little armament, they become soldiers.
This was the initial prototype of the Dongzhou faction and the Dongzhou soldiers.
To put it another way, the Dongzhou faction can be said to have been founded by Wu Yi, who was the behind-the-scenes leader.
The Dongzhou faction's aim was to recruit talent from other regions and suppress the locals of Yizhou.
Liu Yan was overjoyed at the arrival of Wu Yi and his sister.
He was struggling because he didn't have enough power to control Yizhou.
Wu Yi and the Dongzhou faction became Liu Yan's most steadfast supporters.
Later, the Dongzhou School recruited many talented individuals, including Li Yan, Fa Zheng, Meng Da, Lei Tong, and Wu Lan.
In the officialdom of Yizhou, he was on par with local talents.
Therefore, this is why there are rumors among the people that Wu Yi's sister has the destiny of an empress.
These are not words to be spoken lightly.
It's like having Xu Zijiang give a monthly critique.
Players who spend real money, or those with powerful connections like Ju Shou from the Celestial Dragons, naturally receive much better reviews.
Those who didn't spend money on in-game purchases but still came from relatively well-off families, like Cao Cao, would only be rated as mediocre, neither good nor bad.
Wu Yi and the Dongzhou faction control more than half of the military force in Yizhou.
Whoever wants to occupy Yizhou and establish a separatist regime will need Wu Yi's support.
Otherwise, the only option left is a bloody battle.
It is worth mentioning that if He Jin and Wu Kuang had not died, Wu Yi and his sister would not have left their hometown to start a business in Yizhou.
Compared to the Wu family, powerful families like Chen Gong, Xu Si, and Wang Men of Yanzhou are nothing!
And this moment.
Fa Zheng's feigned trepidation at Liu Bei's overtures was partly a pretense and partly an expression of anticipation.
Under Liu Zhang's command, Fa Zheng saw little room for advancement.
Within the Dongzhou faction, even with the strict promotion system, Fazheng wouldn't be considered.
If Liu Bei has designs on Yizhou, then he should punish Fa Zheng...
Liu Bei got up again, took Fa Zheng's arm, and walked behind the screen.
"Xiaozhi, I do not wish to hide anything from you."
"This is a letter that Zhang Song sent to Bei."
"What!?"
Fa Zheng was greatly alarmed.
He eagerly took the letter, only to find that Zhang Song had openly expressed his rebellious wish to Liu Bei that "General Liu should take control of Yizhou."
"How could this be?"
Fa Zheng inwardly cried out that he had miscalculated.
Don't assume that Fa Zheng and Zhang Song are from the same party.
Zhang Song is the Prefectural Governor, from a top-tier local aristocratic family in Yizhou.
Fa Zheng's ancestors were wealthy, but now he is an outsider, a follower of Wu Yi of the Dongzhou faction, and his boss is Wu Yi.
The two were political rivals.
If you insist on saying that the two are in the same gang and that their relationship is so close that they're practically inseparable, it's like Ju Shou, the Celestial Dragon, holding Guo Tu's hand and saying, "You're my own brother!"
The reason why people have the illusion that Zhang Song and Fa Zheng have a "good relationship" is mainly because Luo Yonghao omitted the most crucial step in the "Zhang Song presents the map" incident!
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PS: Seeking opinions from the adoptive fathers, should the relevant storylines in Yizhou and Shu Han lean towards historical accuracy or purely fictional?
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