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Chapter 995 Dealing with Ma Hu

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    After receiving the order, Huang Mingyuan left Luoyang that night and rushed to Ningling County.

    Ma Hu¡¯s residence is in Ningling.

    Ma Hu¡¯s character Shumou is the ¡°Ma Beard¡± Ma Shumou known to all in later generations.  Ma Hu was a native of Jinyang, Taiyuan, a descendant of the Jie people during the Jin Dynasty. His ancestor was Ma Qiu, the governor of Liangzhou in Later Zhao Dynasty.  Ma Hu's nature is dangerous and poisonous, and his ferocious nature is no less than that of his ancestor Ma Qiu.

    The Jie people were a branch of the Xiongnu tribe at that time. They could be said to be the most brutal ethnic group among the Five Huns. They were ferocious and cruel and indulged in killing.  The most terrifying thing is that the Jie people like to eat human flesh and call Han women "two-legged sheep". They can be described as walking beasts and are not called human beings in vain.  Ran Min overthrew the Later Zhao Dynasty and called on the Han people in Hebei and other places to kill Hu people in revenge. More than 200,000 Hu people were killed in Yedu, most of whom were Jie people.  After that, the Jie people gradually disappeared in the long river of history.

    When we arrived at Ma Hu, there was no mention of Jie people, and we could only barely tell his distant origins from his appearance.

    Although this Ma Hu was cruel and harsh in the past, he did not eat people. Unexpectedly, after leaving the imperial capital, he turned into a bloodthirsty demon.

    After Huang Mingyuan arrived at Ningling, he immediately went to Ma Hu's station to detain him, and ordered his men to take over the army in Ma Hu's hands and control his core generals.

    In fact, Ma Hu¡¯s cannibalism was not a hidden matter. In the past, it was just that the court had no way to know about it, which allowed Ma Hu to dominate here.  When Huang Mingyuan arrived in Ningling and took control of Ma Hu, he asked his followers to look for witnesses and evidence separately, and soon the cannibalism of Ma Hu came to light.

    As more and more evidence was sent to Huang Mingyuan, Huang Mingyuan felt like a thorn in his back and his scalp was numb.

    It turns out that Ma Hu, as the deputy supervisor supervising the construction of the canal, suddenly fell ill after leading his troops to Ningling. He became bedridden and sought medical treatment everywhere.

    A doctor who diagnosed and treated Ma Hu said that it must be steamed with fat and tender mutton, added with medicine, and taken together.  Ma Hu asked someone to find some lambs and steam them with apricot cheese and schisandra chinensis, which was called "Hansu Wei".

    Although Ma Hu was only the deputy supervisor in supervising the construction of the canal, the chief supervisor was Shangshu Youcheng Huangfu Yi.  However, Huangfu thought that all the matters were complicated and he was unwilling to leave Luoyang Center, so all the affairs were entrusted to Ma Hu for his management.  Ma Hu had soldiers in his hands and was ordered by Huangfu Yi, so all the matters of opening the river were decided with one word.

    In order to curry favor with Ma Hu, the gentry from all over Xiuhe heard that he liked to eat tender mutton, so about thousands of people came to offer lambs.

    There was a wealthy local man named Tao Lang'er in Xiama Village, Ningling County, who was wealthy but violent. His family's ancestral grave was close to the canal. He was afraid that it would be discovered when digging the river, so he thought of bribing Ma Hu.  Because Ma Hu liked to eat tender mutton, Tao Lang'er stole a three or four-year-old boy from another family. After killing him, he cut off his head and feet, steamed it and put it in a food box as an offering to Ma Hu.

    ¡°Perhaps Ma Hu had an inexplicable love for human flesh in his bones, and the habit of eating human flesh passed down from his ancestors was reborn. Therefore, when eating this meat, it was extremely fragrant and tasted different from lamb meat, and he was very satisfied.

    Ma Hu was very satisfied with Tao Langer's filial piety, so he had people change the construction plan and move it more than ten miles south to avoid the Tao family's cemetery.

    In order to continue to curry favor with Ma Hu, Tao Lang'er brothers continued to steal children, steam them and offer them to Ma Hu.  The Tao Langer brothers gained Ma Hu's trust and became prominent in Ningling.  Other local gangsters knew about this, so they followed their example and stole country children in exchange for Ma Hu's employment.

    It turned out that Ma Hu was addicted to eating human flesh, and he didn¡¯t want to eat anything else but steamed baby meat.  However, many children in the Ningling area were eaten by him, and the paper could not contain the fire. Ma Hu soon became notorious in the local area.  In order to avoid Ma Hu, the man-eating demon, the local people were so frightened that they hid their children. Some even lost their children. How could all the men get the meat of the children for him to eat.

    Because of this, Ma Hu had to stop eating.

    At this time, someone gave him an idea. Since he couldn't find children in Ningling County, he could go to Gobi Luyi County to steal children to eat.  Ma Hu was so happy that he sent people to Luyi to steal the children and steam them to eat.

    Hundreds of children have been lost in villages across Ningling and Luyi, and the cries of mothers who have lost their children can be heard everywhere.  Legend has it that every local family with children would have a large wooden cabinet specially made with iron sheets covering the seams. The children would be hidden in the cabinet at night and locked with a big lock, and the whole family would light candles to keep watch.  When the cupboard is opened at dawn, if the child is still there, the whole family, young and old, will celebrate one by one.  Even so, local incidents of missing children continue to occur.

    The common people reported to the officials that they did not dare to intervene, and the common people were miserable.

    Although there is no secret that can be hidden in the world, the story of Ma Hu cannibalizing people spread from the local area, and spread more and more widely, making it known to everyone, and Huang MingYuan also heard about this.

    Huang Mingyuan also found uneaten human flesh from Ma Hu¡¯s house.  Its beastly appearance makes people angry.

    Huang Mingyuan laid out what Ma Hu had done one by one. Ma Hu had been frightened by this incident for a long time.  His eyes were blood red, and he kept kneeling down to beg for mercy.

    Huang Mingyuan ordered people to take Ma Hu under direct custody, and wrote to Yang Guang overnight for instructions.

    Although Yang Guang ordered Huang Mingyuan to execute Ma Hu on the spot, he was a general of the first government after all, and a high-ranking official of the third rank should not be executed without authorization.

    After Huang Mingyuan's letter was delivered to Luoyang, Yang Guang took the memorial and trembled all over. Finally, he issued a secret order to have Huang Mingyuan beheaded Ma Hu on the charge that "Ma Hu is a member of Yang Liang's party and is conspiring to cause rebellion."  Brother Tao Lang'er and other people who offered children to Ma Hu also performed the Fa at the same time.

    After Huang Mingyuan executed Ma Hu, his body was handed over to the people of Ningling and Luyi for disposal.  The local people hated Ma Hu with a thousand hatreds. No one wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but there were too many people to divide them among themselves.  Someone thought of a way to chop the mahu into pieces and stew it into soup, so that everyone could have a share.  In this way, everyone chopped up Ma Shumou's body and threw it into the big pot. However, there were too many people and the soup became diluted if more water was added. People thought of a way to grind the soaked soybeans and millet into foam, and then put the juice into it.  This big pot, so people all drank the Ma Beard Soup, which relieved some of their hatred.

    And Yang Guang, who was far away in Luoyang, seemed to be shaken in his heart because of Ma Hu's incident.  Soon after, Yang Guang ordered that all construction sites must be managed in accordance with the management regulations written by Huang Mingyuan.  He also strictly ordered the supervisors in various places not to beat or scold the laborers at will, not to cruelly harm the people, and several officials with obvious reputations for cruelty were executed one by one.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????Finally, the heat of the construction sites everywhere has cooled down a little, and the laborers everywhere have managed to have some living space.

    Although Huang Mingyuan made the remonstrance secretly, it was spread widely.  Everyone in the court had different opinions on him. Some said Huang Mingyuan was pedantic, while others said Huang Mingyuan was benevolent and righteous. However, in Lianghuai, Henan and other places, countless people survived because of it, and they regarded it as a life-saving straw.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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