Chapter 38 4. Sad political games

Here, someone may have something to say, just based on those few rigid political reasoning, it can be deduced that Liu Xiu wants to kill Ma Yuan, isn't that Hu Zheng?Indeed, Liu Xiu is a military genius, and a good horse sometimes stumbles.In the early years, when he was hunted down by Wang Lang, didn't he also have times when he couldn't make up his mind.Therefore, it cannot be said that he approved Ma Yuan's offensive plan, which can prove that he deliberately set the trap and planned to use Ma Yuan to attack him. Such a rebuttal seems to be correct.Liu Xiu is not a god, how did he know that Ma Yuanxuan's line was not good?

Putting this aside, let's look at the next one, maybe you will know that Liu Xiu's hatred for Ma Yuan is almost to the point of steel. After Liu Xiu learned of Ma Yuan's defeat on the front line, instead of showing any sympathy, he came up with a rescue strategy.His first order was to send someone to question Ma Yuan.Who do you think he sent? It turned out to be Liang Song, his son-in-law who was riding a dragon. I believe Liu Xiu knows about the relationship between Liang Song and Ma Yuan.But Liu Xiu actually sent Ma Yuan's enemy Liang Song to investigate Ma Yuan on behalf of the government. Is the matter unclear?He just wanted to put Ma Yuan to death.

I believe that when Liu Xiu appointed Liang Song as an envoy to go to the front to investigate Ma Yuan, how happy the surname Liang was.It's like a fish into the sea, like a bird into the sky, like a tiger into the forest.Resentment is a kind of suffering, revenge is a kind of energy release.But Liang Song didn't expect that after he went to the front line, he would take revenge, but it was quite boring. Because Ma Yuan did not die at his hands.When he saw Ma Yuan, the old man had already ascended to heaven one step earlier and fell on the hospital bed. Death, for the dead, seems to be a relief.But Liang Song believes that this is not the case.Don't think it's all over once you die of illness.You are gone, but your reputation is still there.Wouldn't it be a joy to criticize and criticize badly, so that you will never be able to stand up again?

Therefore, Liang Song sent people everywhere to collect the crimes of Roman Aid, organize the materials, sort out the case, and report to Liu Xiu.Liu Xiu seemed to have become another Liu Xiu, expressing anger towards all the materials about Ma Yuan.Then, he made an almost absurd decision-to revoke the Marquis of Ma Yuan. Liu Xiu's sudden and large-scale revenge on a dead person who died of illness made the Ma family panic.They didn't know where Ma Yuan was wrong, and they didn't know that Liu Xiu would have such a big opinion on Ma Yuan.This is how to do?The Ma family thought about it, and there was only one way. The world is so big, it all belongs to the Liu family. If you want to run away, you can't run away, and if you want to rely on it, you can't get away with it. It is better to confess your guilt and seek a way out.

So, Ma Yuan's wife dragged Ma Yuan's nephew Ma Yan, and ran to the gate of Luoyang Palace to plead guilty.Liu Xiu was also unambiguous, and transferred the many pleadings collected by Liang Song to Ma Yuan's wife and others. He seemed to want to tell the other party that he did not wrong Ma Yuan, the evidence was all here. Only then did Ma Yuan's wife understand what had happened.It turned out that someone wanted to take revenge on Ma Yuan and planted the blame on him.Ma Yuan's wife wrote a letter to defend Ma Yuan.There were a total of six submissions, each time Liu Xiu saw it, but ignored it.

Anyone who is familiar with officialdom knows that when someone has an accident, there will be a bunch of people interceding for him.This kind of lobbying rule is called mutual protection between officials and officials.The so-called fire on the city wall will harm the fish in the pond.If you are in the same boat, if you do not save others, you are not saving yourself.Immediately you will find that after Ma Yuan's accident, no one interceded for him. Now, we finally see the tragedy of Ma Yuan—he doesn't form a party, and he gets along with the party members everywhere.Just like a martial arts master who offended the enemy sect.The enemy sect wants to destroy him, but he has no sect, so besides resisting alone, is there any other way?

In Ma Yuan's life, the most loyal comrade-in-arms seems to be only Liu Xiu.However, Liu Xiu had trouble with him. It is estimated that he did not know what logic he was based on when he went to the underground Jiuquan.Yes, Ma Yuan is lonely.This kind of loneliness was seen by a person from the rivers and lakes. He was just a pawn, and he was once an old acquaintance of Ma Yuan.His name was Zhu Bo, and his official title was very small, but he was the magistrate of Yunyang County. It is said that when Zhu Bo was twelve years old, he could memorize other books by heart, and he often visited Ma Yuan's elder brother Ma Kuang.At that time, Ma Yuan didn't pay much attention to reading, and always had no confidence in front of Zhu Bo.Ma Kuang comforted his younger brother and said, don't lose heart, Zhu Bo is a young man, and his wisdom has come to an end.Don't be intimidated by him.

Sure enough, Zhu Bo became the magistrate of a certain county when he was twenty years old, and he has never made any progress since then.When Ma Yuan was made a marquis, he was still a county magistrate.Even when Ma Yuan died of illness, he was still a county magistrate. Zhu Bo wrote a long book to Liu Xiu.In the memorial book, Ma Yuan's life of sacrificing himself for the country was reviewed, and then he redressed Ma Yuan's grievance with a change of style. Zhu Bo probably meant that Ma Yuan was innocent.But he is dead and cannot argue for himself, and no living person dares to argue for him. It is really sad.I secretly thought that the matter of Ma Yuan should be referred to senior officials for discussion, and consideration should be given to rehabilitating him and restoring his reputation.

Perhaps Zhu Bo didn't know that in Ma Yuan's eyes, he was only the life of a county magistrate and had no future.But he didn't expect that after his accident, none of the many guests he had kept in captivity would dare to say a word, not even fart.Only Zhu Bo, who he once despised and bullied, still spoke up for him. After Zhu Bo's report was typed, Liu Xiu read it, but nothing happened.Even so, the anger can be regarded as a lot less.Whether it's gone or not, the case is still under pressure, but Ma Yuan has been allowed to go to the ground first. In my opinion, among all the emperors in ancient China, Liu Xiu is an almost perfect emperor.One of the reasons why he passed by the perfect emperor was the case of Ma Yuan's injustice.This is a great pity.However, Liu Xiu made us understand a truth: In the field of power, there are no perfect political players, only perfect political games.A perfect fly will always be a fly; a flawed fighter will always be a fighter.Liu Xiu and Ma Yuan are both disabled fighters.

However, the cruel political game still cannot stop the voice of the tragic Ma Yuan traveling through time and space.Thousands of years have passed, and we still hear his passionate words—a man should die in the wilderness, wrap his body in horse leather and bury his ears, how can he lie on the bed and be evil in the hands of his son? He said it, and he did it.Some people didn't get it, but I got it.This is an eternal heroic complex, with endless life and endless struggle.It surpasses Confucianism, which advocates retiring after success, and Taoism, which advocates being free and unrestrained.

He doesn't belong to any sect, he only belongs to himself.