Watching Ma Chao leave, Fa Zheng smiled indifferently. He did not mind letting Ma Chao see his smile, because everything he had said was true. Likewise, he wasn't afraid of Ma Chao questioning Cao Cao—some things were simply inevitable!
The Qiang and Hu tribes' unrestrained behavior was bound to be suppressed, regardless of which feudal lord took control of Yongliang under the current circumstances.
For those tribes who thought the chaos in the Central Plains presented an opportunity, this situation was nothing short of a tragedy. The Central Plains had not been sapped of its vitality by the constant wars. Instead, as Yuan Shao once said, the clashes and battles between powerful forces had forged even stronger rulers.
