Today, let's talk about Ma Yuan, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if you like it, you will pay attention to and praise Ma Yuan is a descendant of Zhao Hao, a famous general of the Warring States Period and Ma Fujun.
Ma Yuan's great-grandfather, Ma Tong, was a minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Ma Tong had a friendly relationship with his brother Ma Horo and his favorite retainer Jiang Chong, and participated in the Witch Rebellion. Later, Emperor Wu reflected on the scourge of witchcraft and began to punish those who participated in the creation of witchcraft rebellion. Ma Holo was terrified, so he took a risk and conspired with Ma Tong and Ma Ancheng in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Wu. However, his plot was discovered and stopped by Kim Il-pan, and the Mahoro brothers' clan was killed. Although Ma Tong died, Ma Shi, the son of Ma Tong, was not executed. Ma Shi was in the Han Dynasty when Emperor Xuan "held the festival with Lang and called the king"; Ma Shisheng Ma Zhong, official to Xuanwu Sima; Ma Zhong gave birth to four sons, and the fourth son was Ma Yuan.
When Ma Yuan was twelve years old, his father Ma Zhong died. Ma Yuan was young and ambitious, and several brothers felt strange and taught him to learn "Qi Poems", but Ma Yuan did not want to stick to the chapters and sentences, so he said goodbye to his brother Ma Guo and wanted to go to the border county to cultivate and graze. Unexpectedly, before Ma Yuan got up, Ma Guo died. Ma Yuan had to stay at home and keep filial piety for his brother for a year. During this period, he never left the cemetery of the horse, and he was very respectful of his widowed sister-in-law, and he never set foot in the house.
Later, Ma Yuan became the county governor. Once, he was ordered to escort prisoners to the Siming Mansion. The prisoner had committed a felony, and Ma Yuan took pity on him, released him privately, and fled to Northland County. The day after tomorrow, there was an amnesty, and Ma Yuan raised cattle and sheep in the local area. As time went by, people continued to come from all over the world to attach themselves to him, so he had hundreds of families under his command for him to command the envoys, and he took these people to nomadize among the Longhan and Han people, but the ambition in his heart did not diminish a little. He used to say to his guests, "The great husband's will should be stronger in times of poverty and stronger in old age." ”
Horse-aided farming and grazing can be adapted to local conditions, and there are many good methods, so the harvest is very rich. At that time, there were thousands of horses, cattle, and sheep, and tens of thousands of grains. Ma Yuan sighed at the income from this field and pasture, and said: "All the property obtained from agriculture and animal husbandry business must be able to give relief to others, otherwise it will be just a miser!" So, he divided all his possessions among his brothers and friends, and he lived a simple life wearing only sheep's fur pants.
In the last years of the new dynasty, the situation was turbulent. Wang Mang's cousin, Wang Lin, was the general of Wei, recruited heroes from all over the world, selected Ma Yuan as Peng, and recommended him to Wang Mang. Wang Mang then appointed Ma Yuan as the new city Yin.
In the first two years (24 years), the new dynasty fell, and Ma Yuan and his brother Zengshan Lian led the horses to leave their respective offices and fled to Liangzhou for refuge.
In the first year of Jianwu (25 years), after Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Yuan went to Luoyang to defect to Liu Xiu. Ma Yuan was detained in Xizhou, and was valued by the clamoring forces of the Longyou separatist forces, and was appointed as the general of Suide to participate in the decision-making of the hustle and bustle.
In the first year of Jianwu (25 years), Gongsun Shu proclaimed himself emperor in Shu, and Kui Huan sent horse aid to inquire about the truth. Ma Yuan and Gongsun Shu were fellow countrymen, and they had a good relationship, Ma Yuan thought that this meeting would be a good handshake, but he didn't expect Gongsun Shu to put up the emperor's shelf. Gongsun Shu first displayed the guards, and then invited Ma Yuan to see, and when he had just seen the ceremony, he immediately let Ma Yuan go out of the palace and live in the hotel; Then he ordered someone to make cloth and a single coat for Ma Yuan, and handed over the crown. Then he gathered hundreds of officials in the temple and held a banquet to entertain him. During the banquet, Gongsun Shu said that he would make Ma Yuan a marquis and grant him the official title of general.
Ma Yuan's entourage guests thought they had been courteous and were willing to stay. Ma Yuan thought that Gongsun Shu was just pretending and couldn't stay in the world for a long time, so he resolutely returned to Longyou and said to Kui: "Gongsun Shu is a frog at the bottom of the well, arrogant, you might as well concentrate on running the East (Liu Xiu)." ”
In the fourth year of Jianwu (28 years), Ma Yuan carried Kui Huan's letter to Luoyang and met Liu Xiu in the Xuande Palace. Liu Xiudao: "You are torn between the two emperors, and now I am ashamed to see you." Ma Yuan said: "In today's world, not only the monarch chooses the courtier, but the courtier also chooses the monarch. Now that the minister is far away, how does Your Majesty know that I am not an assassin traitor? Liu Xiu smiled: "You are not an assassin, but a lobbyist." Ma Yuan said: "The world is repeated, there are many people who steal names, and now when I see Your Majesty, magnanimous, and the same as Gaozu, I know that the emperor is naturally true." Liu Xiu admired his courage and thought that he was different from the Japanese advisers. Soon, Ma Yuan followed Liu Xiu on his southern tour, first to Liqiu, and then to the East China Sea. After returning from the southern tour, Liu Xiu took Ma Yuan as an edict again, and when Ma Yuan wanted to return to Xizhou, Liu Xiu sent Dr. Taizhong to send him off.
After Ma Yuan returned, Kui Huan asked about the rumors in the East and the gains and losses in Beijing. Ma Yuan said: "The last time I went to the imperial court, His Majesty met me many times, and every time I talked with him during the banquet, from night to early morning, His Majesty's talent and courage are not matched by others, and he is frank and sincere, and has nothing to hide. Broad-minded and generous, he is probably the same as Emperor Gao (Liu Bang), and his profound knowledge of scriptures, handling political affairs and articles and arguments are unmatched in his previous life. Kui Huan asked again: "How is Your Majesty better than Emperor Gao?" Ma Yuan replied: "Not so much." Emperor Gao went to heaven and earth, and could do anything; Nowadays, His Majesty loves political affairs, can handle government affairs properly, and does not like to drink. Kui Huan was unhappy in his heart and said, "If you say this, Your Majesty is better than Emperor Gao." "That being said, Kui Huan still believes in Ma Yuan in the end. He agreed to return to Han and sent his eldest son, Kui, to Luoyang as a hostage.
Ma Yuan and his family followed Kui to Luoyang, where they were not appointed for several months. Finding that the land in the Sanfu area is fertile, the wilderness is wide, and there are many guests he brought, so he wrote to Liu Xiu and asked to lead the guests to Shanglin Yuan to Tuntian. Emperor Guangwu granted his request.
At this time, Kui Huan listened to the provocation of the general Wang Yuan, and wanted to occupy Longxi and claim the king as the hegemon, so he had two hearts about the Han Dynasty and was suspicious of things. Seeing this, Ma Yuan wrote many letters and persuaded him with good intentions. Kui Huan resented Ma Yuan, thinking that he had betrayed him, and became more and more annoyed when he saw the letter, and later raised troops to resist the imperial court. Ma Yuan wrote to Liu Xiu, stating the strategy to eliminate the hustle and bustle. Liu Xiu adopted the strategy of horse aid, and ordered him to lead a cavalry of 5,000 to lobby the generals Gao Jun, Ren Yu and others, as well as Qiang Hao, to state the benefits and disadvantages, and to divide and disintegrate the Kui Huan group.
Ma Yuan also wrote a letter to Yang Guang, the general of the Kui Huan Department, saying that he was at stake, hoping that he could join the Han Dynasty and advise Kui Huan to restrain himself from the precipice. Yang Guang did not reply.
In the eighth year of Jianwu (32 years), Liu Xiu personally conquered Kui. When the army marched to Qi County, many generals thought that the future was unclear, the outcome was uncertain, and it was not appropriate to go deep into the danger. Liu Xiu met with him overnight and told Ma Yuan the opinions of the generals to ask for his opinion. As a result, Ma Yuan expressed his opinion, he believed that the noisy generals had fallen apart, and if they took the opportunity to attack, they would definitely win a complete victory. As he spoke, he ordered someone to take some rice, and at that moment in front of Emperor Guangwu, he used rice to pile up valleys and ravines and other terrain features, and then pointed out the situation of the mountains and rivers, marking the roads for the advance and retreat of the troops from all walks of life. Liu Xiu was overjoyed and said: "The enemy is already in my eyes. So he decided to march. The next day, Emperor Guangwu marched straight forward and arrived at the first city of Gaoping. At that time, Liangzhou Mu Dou Rong led the five counties of Hexi (referring to Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Wuwei, Jincheng) Taishou and Qiang, Xiaoyue's and other tens of thousands of foot riders and 5,000 baggage vehicles to meet Liu Xiu, and attacked Long by road. Thirteen generals and more than 100,000 people surrendered without a fight, and Kui Huan fled to Xicheng, where Li Yu and Tian Yi fled to Shangqi to aid the Longshu army. The Han army occupied 16 subordinate counties in Tianshui, and Liu Xiu sent Wu Han and Cen Peng to surround Xicheng and Geng Yi to surround Shangqi. At this point, the main force of the Kui Huan Army was basically wiped out by the Han army.
In this battle, Ma Yuan's "piling up rice for mountains" was an important reason for winning this battle, which was also a pioneering achievement in the history of war and had important significance.
In fact, China almost gave up Qinghai, but it was Ma Chao's ancestors who won back the aid of Ma Chao in the north.
In the ninth year of Jianwu (33 years), Ma Yuan was appointed as a doctor in Taizhong, as Lai She's deputy, leading the army to garrison Chang'an. Since the end of the New Dynasty, the Qiang people outside the Saiwai have continued to invade the border, and many Qiang people have taken advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to settle in the Sainai. Most of the counties in the area of Jincheng are occupied by the Qiang people. Lai Xi wrote on this matter, saying that Longxi has repeatedly harassed and harmed, and no one can calm it except for horse aid.
In the eleventh year of Jianwu (35 years), Liu Xiu appointed Ma Yuan as the Taishou of Longxi. Ma Yuan sent 3,000 foot cavalry to defeat Xian Lingqiang in Lintao, beheaded hundreds of people, and obtained more than 10,000 horses, cattle and sheep. There are more than 8,000 people guarding Saiqiang, and they are looking forward to the wind and surrendering. At that time, there were still tens of thousands of people in various tribes of the Qiang nationality to resist in Haokan, Ma Yuan and Yangwu general Ma Cheng led the troops to attack, and the Qiang people gathered their small families and grain and grass to block the Han army in the Yunwu Valley. Ma Yuan led his troops to secretly raid the Qiang camp, and the Qiang people were shocked when they saw the Han army coming suddenly, and fled far into the Tang Yi Valley. Ma Yuan waved the division in pursuit, and the Qiang people led the elite soldiers to gather in Beishan to hold on. The horse reinforcements set up a feint attack on the mountain to attract the enemy, and sent hundreds of cavalry around the back of the Qiang people, setting fire to the night and beating drums and shouting. The Qiang people did not know how many Han troops attacked, and they fled one after another. Ma Yuan won a complete victory and beheaded more than 1,000 people. However, because of the small number of soldiers, they did not pursue the enemy, and only collected the Qiang people's grain, livestock and other property into the Han army. In this battle, Ma Yuan took the lead, and the arrows shot through his legs and stomachs. When Liu Xiu learned about it, he sent people to offer condolences and gave thousands of cattle and sheep. As usual, Ma Yuan distributed all these to his subordinates.
At that time, west of Jincheng Poqiang, far away from the Han Dynasty, and often chaotic, it was difficult to govern. The ministers of the court agreed to abandon the area. Ma Yuan disagreed, and he put forward three reasons: first, the castles west of the Broken Qiang were still intact and suitable for entrenchment; second, that the land was fertile and easy to irrigate; Third, if you abandon it and let the Qiang people occupy Huangzhong, then there will be endless disasters in the future. Liu Xiu listened to his advice and ordered Wuwei Taishou to release all the more than 3,000 guests who had moved from Jincheng back to their hometowns. Ma Yuan also played the Ming court, arranged officials for them, repaired the city, built fortifications, and opened up water conservancy; People were encouraged to develop agricultural and animal husbandry production, and the people in the county lived and worked in peace and contentment. Ma Yuan also sent Yang Feng, a powerful Qiang of the Qiang nationality, to persuade the Qiang people outside the Saiwai to form a good alliance with the Qiang people in the Saiwai and jointly develop the frontier. In addition, Ma Yuan treated the Di people who betrayed Gongsun Shu in Wudu and returned to them, played the Ming court, restored their position as princes and princes, gave them seals, and withdrew Ma Cheng's army.
After the Qiang people returned to Shun, Ma Yuan moved the Qiang people to Tianshui, Longxi, and Fufeng counties for resettlement.
In the thirteenth year of Jianwu (37 years), Wudu Shenlangqiang united with various departments outside the Saiwai, killed officials, and launched a rebellion. Ma Yuan led 4,000 men to conquer and suppress, and when he reached the border of Didao County, he found that the Qiang people occupied the mountain. Ma Yuan ordered the troops to choose a suitable place to be stationed, cut off the water source of the Qiang people, control the grassland, and wait for work. The Qiang people were short of water and grass and were in a predicament, and the leaders led hundreds of thousands of families to flee to the outside of the Saiwai, and the remaining more than 10,000 people also surrendered. Since then, Longyou has been stable.
Ma Yuan served in Longxi for six years, and the combination of grace and power made the soldiers in Longxi gradually thin, and the people gradually lived a peaceful and stable life. Once, near the county seat, the villagers ganged up and fought for revenge. People mistakenly believed that the Qiang people were going to rebel, panicked, and rushed to the city. When the magistrate of Didao County heard of the change, he rushed to the gate of Ma Yuanfu and asked for instructions to close the city gate and put the troops on guard. Ma Yuan was drinking with the guests at the time, and when he got the news, he laughed and said, "How dare Burning Qiang come to attack me again." Tell Di Daochang to go back to guard the house, and if you are timid and afraid of death, you can hide under the bed. Soon, when the city settled down, it was a false alarm, and everyone admired Ma Yuan more and more.
In the seventeenth year of Jianwu (41 years), Ma Yuan was conscripted into the dynasty and served as the general of Huben Zhonglang.
Ma Yuan cares about national affairs. When you encounter what you need to say, you never hide it. When he was in Longxi, he found that the currency system was chaotic and inconvenient to use, so he wrote to the imperial court, proposing that five baht coins should be minted as in the past. The imperial court submitted his proposal to the three governments for consideration. Sanfu played Liu Xiu and thought that Ma Yuan's suggestion was not feasible, so the matter was shelved.
Later, Ma Yuan returned to the DPRK and immediately went to find his own recital. Seeing that there were more than a dozen criticisms on the chapter, he refuted and explained them according to reason, and rewrote them as a form and chapter. Liu Xiu saw that he was reasonable, and adopted his opinion, and the world has benefited a lot from this.
In the seventeenth year of Jianwu (41 years), Li Guang, who had bewitched the people and was later killed, gathered the disciples, captured Anhui City, killed Liu Min, the Marquis of Anhui, and called himself "Master Nanyue". The imperial court sent Zhang Zong to lead thousands of troops to crusade, but was defeated by Li Guang, so he sent horse reinforcements. Ma Yuan organized more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from various counties to kill Li Guang and others.
Soon, the Jiaolu women rebelled and occupied Jiaolu County, and Jiuzhen, Rinan, Hepu and other places responded. Zhengfang took the opportunity to establish himself as the king in Luling and openly broke with the Eastern Han court. Liu Xiu appointed Ma Yuan as the general of Fubo, Liu Long, the Marquis of Fule, as the deputy general, and led the general Duan Zhi of Lou Chuan and others to attack Jiaozhi in the south. When the troops arrived in Hepu, Duan Zhi died, and Liu Xiu ordered Ma to aid and lead his army. As a result, the horse aid army marched along the coast, opened the road with the mountains, and drove straight into more than 1,000 miles.
In the eighteenth year of Jianwu (42 years), Ma Yuan led the army to Langbo, broke the rebel army, beheaded thousands of people, and surrendered more than 10,000 people. Ma Yuan took advantage of the victory to attack, and defeated several flanks in the area of Forbidden Creek, and the enemy scattered and fled.
In the first month of the nineteenth year of Jianwu (43 years), Ma Yuan killed the side of the expedition, the second expedition, and passed the head to Luoyang. The imperial court sealed Ma Yuan as the new marquis, and there were 3,000 households. Ma Yuan rewarded the three armies, sighed with emotion, and the officers and soldiers of the three armies shouted long live.
Then, Ma Yuan led more than 2,000 large and small ships, more than 20,000 soldiers, attacked the remnants of the party, Duyang, etc., from ineffective to strong winds, beheaded more than 5,000 prisoners, and pacified Lingnan. Ma Yuan saw that Xiyu County had a vast jurisdiction, with more than 32,000 households, and that the remote places were more than 1,000 miles away from the administrative office, and that the management was inconvenient, so he wrote to Liu Xiu and requested that Xiyu be divided into two counties, Fengxi and Wanghai. Everywhere Ma Yuan went, he organized manpower to repair the cities for the counties, and opened canals to divert water and irrigate the fields for the convenience of the people. Ma Yuan also referred to the laws of the Han Dynasty to sort out the Yue law, corrected the contradictions between the Yue law and the Han law, and affirmed it to the locals so that it could be restrained. Since then, the local people have always followed the law of Ma Yuan, the so-called "pursuit of the story of General Ma." ”
In the twentieth year of Jianwu (44 years), Ma Yuan led his troops back to Beijing in triumph. Liu Xiu gave horses to the reinforcement car, and he was ranked Jiuqing when he met him.
Ma Yuan returned to the capital for more than a month, just when the Xiongnu and Wuhuan invaded Fufeng, Ma Yuan saw that the Sanfu area was plundered and the royal cemetery could not be preserved, so he voluntarily asked to lead the troops to the battle, and Liu Xiu agreed.
In the twenty-first year of Jianwu (45 years), Ma Yuan led 3,000 cavalry out of Gaoliu and successively patrolled Yanmen, Daijun, Shanggu and other places. When the Wuhuan sentinels found out that the Han army was coming, the troops dispersed one after another, and the horses returned to the division without any gain.
Ma Yuan was sick, and Liang Song went to visit and saluted Ma Yuan by the bedside, but Ma Yuan did not return the salute. After Liang Song left, Ma Yuan's son said: "Liang Song is the son-in-law of His Majesty, and he is a noble court, and the ministers are not afraid, why don't you respond to him?" Ma Yuan said: "I am a friend of Liang Song's father, even if he is noble, how can he lose his seniority?" Liang Song hated Ma Yuan because of this.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jianwu (48 years), Wuxi Man, Wuling County in the south, rioted, and Liu Shang, the general of Wuwei, went to conquer and suppress, and ventured into depth, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army. Ma Yuan was sixty-two years old at the time, and asked for orders to march south. Liu Xiu considered that he was old, and he was away on the expedition, risking arrows and stones, and military affairs were troublesome, which was not easy, so he did not agree to his request. Ma Yuan asked Liu Xiu to fight in person, saying, "The minister can still put on armor and get on the horse." Liu Xiu asked him to try, the horse aid was dressed in armor and held the soldiers, flew on the horse, held the saddle in his hand, looked forward to it in all directions, and his hair fluttered for a while, and his spirit was flying, which can really be described as a martyr's twilight years, and he should be strong when he is old. Liu Xiu was very moved when he saw that Ma Yuan was arrogant and ambitious, and said with a smile: "This old man is so healthy!" So he sent Ma Yuan to lead Zhonglang generals Ma Wu, Geng Shu, Liu Kuang, Sun Yong and others to lead 40,000 people to Wuling.
Before the expedition, relatives and friends came to see off the horse aid. Ma Yuan said to his old friend Du Su: "I have been favored by the country, and my age is short, and I am often afraid that I cannot die in state affairs, and now I have the opportunity to go on the expedition, and I am willing to turn a blind eye when I die. ”
In the twenty-fifth year of Jianwu (49 years), Ma Yuan led his troops to Linxiang, the barbarians came to attack, Ma Yuan met the attack, defeated the barbarians, captured more than 2,000 people, and the barbarians fled into the bamboo forest. Previously, when the troops arrived at Xiajun, there were two roads to go, one was through Hutou Mountain, and the other was through Chong County. Through Hutou Mountain, the road is near, but the mountain is high and the water is dangerous, the road is far away, the grain transportation is inconvenient, but the road is flat. Where to start, Liu Xiu couldn't make up his mind at first. Geng Shu is one of the children of the powerful that Ma Yuan said when he set off, he wants to start from Chong County, and Ma Yuan thinks that it is better to go straight to the pot and choke his throat, and the barbarians in Chong County will definitely be self-defeating. The two disagreed, so they explained the situation and asked the emperor to adjudicate, and the emperor agreed with Ma Yuan's opinion.
In March, Ma Yuan led the army into Hutou. The barbarians relied on high danger and guarded the pass. The water was so strong that it was difficult for the Han ships to advance. In addition, the weather was extremely hot, and many soldiers died of infectious diseases such as summer epidemics. Ma Yuan was also seriously ill, and the troops were in trouble. Ma Yuan ordered a cave to be carved into a cave on the side of the mountain on the bank of the river to avoid the hot heat. Although there are many difficulties, Ma Yuan is free and strong. Whenever the enemy climbed the mountain and made a loud demonstration, Ma Yuan dragged his seriously ill body out to observe and observe the enemy's situation. His officers and men were deeply moved by his spirit, and many of them burst into tears.
However, Geng Shu wrote a letter to his brother Geng Yi, the marquis of Haoqi, at this time, and sued Ma Yuan: "The last time I wrote a letter suggesting that we should attack Chongxian first, although the grain was difficult to transport, the soldiers and horses could be used in a hurry, and the number of soldiers was ten thousand people vying to be the first. Now trapped in the pot head can not enter, the public is depressed and will die, which is really regrettable. The last time I went to Linxiang, the thief came by himself for no reason, and if he attacked at night, he could be eliminated. Fubo used his troops like Jiahu in the Western Regions, and after arriving at one place, he stopped and lost. And now we are plagued, just as I prophesied. Geng Yi received this letter and immediately informed Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu sent Liang Song, the general of Huben Zhonglang, to question Ma Yuan, and ordered him to supervise Ma Yuan's troops on his behalf. When Liang Song arrived, Ma Yuan was dead. This is the origin of the so-called horse leather shroud. Liang Song's old hatred was hard to get rid of, and he took the opportunity to frame Ma Yuan. Liu Xiu was furious and chased after Ma Yuan Xinxi Hou Yinshou.
Liang Song has always had a grudge against Ma Yuan, and the reasons are more complicated. First, Ma Yuan wrote a letter to warn the younger generation that Liang Song had been implicated.
Ma Yuan was on the front line when he heard that his nephews Ma Yan and Ma Dun were talking about and ridiculed others, and that they had associated with some frivolous and unruly figures, so he immediately wrote a letter to admonish them. The letter cites Du Jiliang as an example. Du Jiliang was serving as the Yue cavalry Sima at that time, and his enemies used Ma Yuan's letter as a basis to accuse him, saying that he "behaved lightly, chaotic and confusing the people, General Fu Bo wrote back from thousands of miles away to admonish his brother, and Liang Song and Dou Gu associated with him, which will incite frivolity and hypocrisy, and ruin our China." Liu Xiu read this recital, summoned Dou Gu and Liang Song to reprimand them severely, and showed them the recital and Ma Yuan's letter. They prostrated and shed their blood, so that their sins were forgiven. As a result, Du Jiliang was dismissed, and Long Bogao was promoted to Lingling Taishou.
When he first went to the south, Ma Yuan often ate the fruit of a plant called coix. This coix can ** rheumatism of muscles and bones, and avoid evil wind and miasma. Due to the huge fruit of the local coix, when the Ma Yuan class returned to Beijing, he pulled a cart full of them, ready to be used to make seeds. At that time, people saw Ma Yuan pulling a cart of things, thinking that it must be a precious and rare thing produced in the south. So the magnates all wanted to get a little, and if they couldn't get it, they talked about it and said bad things about Ma Yuan. But Ma Yuan was favored by Liu Xiu at that time, so no one dared to tell the emperor. After Ma Yuan's death, someone wrote that Ma Yuan had looted a cart of pearls and rhinos and transported them back. Ma Wu, Hou Yu and others also put on the stamp, saying that Ma Yuan had indeed transported back a cart of rare things. Liu Xiu was even more angry.
Ma Yuan's family didn't know why the emperor was so angry, and they didn't know what crime Ma Yuan had committed, and they were terrified. Ma Yuan's body was transported back, and he did not dare to bury it in the original cemetery, so he only bought a few acres of land in the west of the city and buried it hastily. Ma Yuan's guests and friends were old, and they didn't dare to go to Ma's house to mourn, and the situation was very bleak. After Ma Yuan's funeral, Ma Yuan's nephew Ma Yan and Ma Yuan's wife and children went to the court to plead guilty. Liu Xiu took out Liang Song's recital to show them, and after Mrs. Ma Yuan knew what was going on, she wrote to the emperor six times, complaining about grievances, and her words were poignant. Only then did Liu Xiu order the burial of Ma Yuan. The predecessor Yunyang ordered Zhu Bo to also write a letter to express grievances for Ma Yuan.
In the third year of Yongping (60 years), Ma Yuan's daughter was made queen. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was a famous minister and general in the Yuntai Picture Jianwu period, in order to avoid the suspicion of the pepper room, he did not draw horse aid. When Liu Cang**, the king of Dongping**, asked Emperor Ming: "Why don't you paint the portrait of General Fubo?" Emperor Ming smiled but did not answer.
It was not until the seventeenth year of Yongping (74 years) that Mrs. Ma Yuan died, and the imperial court gathered soil for Ma Yuan as a grave, planted trees as a mark, and built an ancestral hall.
In the second year of the founding of the first year (78 years), Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty sent Wuguan Zhonglang to hold the festival and add the seal, and posthumously sent Ma Yuan as "Zhongcheng".