Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

A few days later, the news that Ma San, a servant of the Ma family, and Zhao Shuang'er, a maid of Princess Yuehua, were getting married while pregnant was deliberately spread to the capital of Daliang.

The princes and nobles in the capital would just chat about it during banquets, and the enthusiasm would die down after a couple of days.

After all, the two of them were of too low a status to be the topic of conversation among these nobles.

In the palace, Princess Yuehua's biological mother, Concubine Chixia, sent someone to deliver a gift.

Empress Lü Zhi issued an imperial decree to reprimand Princess Yuehua for allowing her servants to commit immoral acts, which was a disgrace to the royal family.

The congratulatory team and the imperial decree team left the palace one after another. A few days later, the Ma family entertained the eunuchs who came to deliver additional gifts, but the eunuch who was supposed to deliver the empress's imperial decree was nowhere to be seen.

A month later, at the junction of Beihe Road and Dongshan Road, Lantai County Magistrate Martin took the blame for genocide against his clan, and a palace eunuch was killed by bandits in Lantai County, which he governed.

Martin will bring his family of 18, including his wife, children and elders, and walk to Beijing to be buried.

Emperor Liang was grateful for Martin's diligence in his tenure and the orderly management of Lantai County. The only murder case by bandits in the past ten years involved an eunuch in the palace.

There are many doubts about this matter, so Ma Yuan was temporarily demoted to the position of Lantai County Lieutenant and awaits further punishment.

At this point, the controversy surrounding the Ma family's retainer getting married while pregnant has come to an end.

——Daliang was founded a hundred years ago. The royal family of Liang was originally a big family in the Central Plains. On the eve of the fall of the Dakang Dynasty, the Zhao family accumulated strength and split off from Beihe Road and a large area in the northern part of Nanhe Road.

Before the Zhao family founded the country, each generation of the family head was both a man of both military and literary talents, and had accumulated a high reputation in the Central Plains.

The Zhao family established a country after the fall of the Dakang Dynasty and named it Daliang.

Emperor Taizu of Liang had a long-term vision and did not rush to expand after establishing the country. Instead, he took advantage of the vast farmland and large population of the Central Plains to recuperate and develop the country.

After accumulating for more than ten years, Emperor Wu of Liang ascended the throne and, with the help of the wealth accumulated by his ancestors, began to conquer foreign countries.

Emperor Wu of Liang had a keen vision. His first battle was in Dongshan Road, which was densely populated and had abundant fertile fields.

After easily occupying Daming Prefecture, Sanzibo Prefecture, Mudan County and other prefectures and counties that were originally part of the Dakang Dynasty, the Liang army continued to advance eastward and reached the territory of the Yi people.

The Liang army fought for five years and turned the Dongyi people into Liang people. The first generation of Qingshui Marquis was granted the title of Marquis of Qingshui during this battle.

The strongest fighting force in the Daliang army, the Huben Army, was also formed during this battle.

After occupying the entire Dongshan Road, Liang State took advantage of the strength of its military and turned south, capturing cities and seizing territories along the way.

When the battle reached outside the city of Gusu, the Tang emperor led the army in person, and the Tang soldiers began a frantic counterattack.

Led by the emperor, the Tang army defeated the Tiger Guards, killing most of them. After this battle, the Liang army retreated nearly a thousand miles, ultimately defending Tuzhou and confronting the Tang army.

The Tang emperor's move almost brought Liang back to its pre-liberation level.

Emperor Wu of Liang changed his strategy, temporarily stopped fighting and recuperated.

When Emperor Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, Liang State once again embarked on the path of external expansion.

Zhao Zhen looked towards Guanzhong and Longyou. The people there were tough and the Guanlong aristocratic group was powerful but had no one to claim as their master.

Zhao Zhen sat in the palace, planning and strategizing. Within a year, he occupied the entire Xishan Road.

He deployed his troops outside the city of Chang'an, forced Guanlong to surrender and acknowledge his master, and subdued a group of Guanlong nobles with his iron-blooded tactics.

Zhao Zhen's troops once again headed towards the northern grasslands. In one battle, they almost wiped out the Black Iron Royal Court and occupied a large area of grassland in the Black Iron Plains.

This battle not only drove away the Wolf King Court on the Black Iron Grassland, but also severely intimidated the demons and barbarians on the northern grassland.

The State of Liang used practical actions to tell the northern tribes who were ready to make a move that although the Dakang Dynasty was gone, the human race was still the strongest race in the world.

—Dongshan Road, Qingshui City, one of the richest places in Daliang. Facing the sea, Qingshui City controls almost half of Liang State's salt production.

This is the benefit of fish and salt. People can go a month without eating fish. If they don’t eat salt for a month, they basically don’t have to go to the fields.

Qingshui City alone occupies 70% of Wei Weijun’s excellent seaport.

Cargo ships from the other four human nations, the Liaodong Tiger Tribe, and the Sea Tribe plied the seas. Countless ships sailing north and south restocked their supplies at Qingshui City daily, bringing countless business opportunities to the people of Qingshui.

As the saying goes, when the granaries are full, people will know etiquette. The people of Qingshui are prosperous and kind.

With the First Wuhou Mansion of Daliang State in charge, criminals who enter Qingshui City have to consider their own weight.

A place that is both prosperous and safe will naturally have a large population.

——In Qingshui City, by the Xiaofu River, a ten-year-old boy was lying on a rock basking in the sun.

The boy's name is Ma Zhan. He was born on New Year's Eve of the Year of the Tiger. People in Qingshui City call him Ma Huzi.

Ma Huzi has a ten-year-old body, but has a soul of a man in his thirties, or to be exact, in his forties.

Ten years ago, Ma Zhan was still working as the first mate on an ocean-going cargo ship. Who would have thought that a merchant ship equipped with the most advanced navigation equipment in the 21st century could not escape the fate of being sunk at sea.

Ma Zhan lost consciousness in the freezing sea water. When he woke up again, he felt covered by a red cloth, and then he realized that he had turned into a baby.

Over the past ten years, Ma Zhan has been using various clues to determine which dynasty he is in, which country he is in, where he is, who the emperor is, and what timeline he is in.

After ten years of hard work, I finally learned this little bit of information about Liang State. 'In this boring era, there's not even a map.'

Based on all the information I have, I don’t know which city I am in on the Shandong Peninsula.

But this city is too big and has too many people. It is comparable to the international metropolises in the previous life. This is very unreasonable.

After my own calculations, I found that this world is very similar to Earth, but much larger than Earth. At least the Eurasian continent is more than five times larger than Earth.

Since Ma Zhan traveled through time, he learned that this is a world of cultivating immortals.

There are many cultivators, and their combat power is also ridiculously strong. However, those with cultivation talent are always a minority, and the vast number of ordinary people keep this world from collapsing.

There are demons in this world, which makes it difficult for Ma Zhan to accept.

I used to be an atheist, but now, seeing all kinds of demon fellows in the harbor every day has really refreshed Ma Zhan's cognition.

What Ma Zhan could not accept the most was that after traveling through time, he turned out to be the son of a housekeeper.

His adoptive father, Ma San, was a retainer of the Ma family in the Qingshui Marquisate and worked part-time as the family's steward. In fact, he just sat at the door and watched over the door.

Under Princess Yuehua's management, the Ma Mansion is in perfect order. Is it really his father's turn to intervene?

Others who traveled through time were either princes or dandies. They had no shortage of mansions and beauties, and their lives were at their peak from the start.

Either I have the golden finger in my hand and the world is mine. Or I can fight back, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and reach the pinnacle of my life.

With my mediocre status, I don’t even have a golden finger.

The only difference is that I am much stronger than others. Much stronger, but what's the point? Do I need so much strength to move bricks?

It's noon, and another morning of skipping school.

'My cheap uncle Seventh Uncle punished me by making me practice calligraphy, but what a joke! I always use a keyboard.

As the boss of Ma's private school, naturally someone helped me take the punishment and go home for dinner.

Ma Zhan returned to Qingshuihou Mansion and entered his own house.

"Mom, what are we having for lunch?"