"Let's start with the bad news." Liu Biao restored the majesty of the lord of a state.

Deng Xi and Liu Xian glanced at each other, and finally Deng Xi spoke first: "My lord, Zhang Xian is reversed!" ”

Liu Biao's face did not change much when he heard the news, and he was stunned for a moment before he said slowly: "It's still the other way around, Zhang Xian is still the other way around after all." ”

Deng Xi and Liu Xian didn't talk much. Mrs. Cai on the side frowned and asked, "Isn't Changsha County the opposite?" ”

Deng Xi bowed to Mrs. Cai and said, "Madame's eyes are clear, it is indeed Changsha Zhang Xian's rebellion." However, it was not only Changsha County that rebelled, but also Lingling and Guiyang counties responded to Zhang Xian! ”

When Mrs. Cai heard the news, she immediately lost her face. It's not that her woman's family is less courageous, but it's that this news has had too much impact on her!

Of the seven counties in Jingzhou, Cao Cao robbed Nanyang County, and six counties belonged to Liu Biao. But now that he has not officially started a war with Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce, there are already three counties against the water, how can this not make Mrs. Cai frightened?

Zhang Xian, a native of Nanyang, Jingbei, was born in his early years. When Liu Xian rode into Jingzhou, Zhang Xian had already served as the Taishou of Lingling and Guiyang counties. After Liu Biao took control of Jingzhou, in order to weaken the influence of Zhang Xian, the local taishou, he transferred Zhang Xian, who had deep roots in the two counties of Lingling and Guiyang, to Changsha Taishou, and at the same time appointed his own descendants as the taishou of Lingling and Guiyang counties.

However, several years have passed, and Liu Biao regrets his initial decision more and more. Not to mention that the two Taishou he sent to serve as Lingling and Guiyang couldn't open up the situation in the local area, after Zhang Xian served as the Taishou of Changsha, he became more and more popular among the people of Changsha. And because of the improvement of his own influence and strength, Zhang Xian was no longer limited to resisting the decrees issued by Xiangyang openly and secretly, and even took the initiative to send people to contact the imperial court to raise objections to Liu Biao's rule in Jingzhou.

This involves the struggle between the two major factions in Jingzhou.

As we all know, Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou alone!

When he was young, Liu Biao became famous for participating in the Eastern Han Tai Student Movement, and he was known as one of the "Eight Jun" at that time. Liu Biao, who grew up, later participated in the famous party disaster!

In the seventh year of Guanghe, because of the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was controlled by the eunuchs' relatives, could not deal with it, so it lifted the party ban in the same year and appointed a large number of talented and capable party figures to deal with the uprising.

I have to admit that these party members are very capable, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was strangled and extinguished only nine months after it broke out. Liu Biao was also conquered by the general He Jin at this time, and he went out again and served as a candidate in the Northern Army.

Four or five years later, there was a vacancy in the position of Jingzhou Thorn Shi. At this time, Liu Biao, who was in the prime of life, had all the fame and talents, and was a relative of the Han family, was appointed as the assassin of Jingzhou.

At that time, Jingzhou was fragmented and loose. Yuan Shutun's first county in Jingzhou is also the richest county in the world, Nanyang, and the other counties are rampant with thieves, and the large and small clans in Jingzhou are armed to control all places.

In this case, Liu Biao could not go to Xiangyang to take office normally. Not to mention whether Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, who coveted Jingzhou, would have a black hand behind their backs, let's just say that the local vested interests, the powerful clan forces, are absolutely unwilling to let outsiders share the cake.

In desperation, Liu Biao put down his wife and children, and rode to Jingzhou anonymously alone and entered Yicheng.

I believe many people have never heard of this place in Yicheng. We just need to know that Yicheng is a subordinate county of Nanjun County, which is very close to Xiangyang. In addition, Liu Bei was also sealed as the Pavilion Marquis of Yicheng, and he was talking about this Yicheng.

At this time, Liu Biao's reputation for the connections accumulated in his early years finally played a role. In Yicheng, Liu Biao will discuss with the two brothers Kuailiang and Kuaiyue, as well as Cai Mao, who was born in a famous family in Xiangyang.

After some discussion, Liu Biao adopted Kuai Yue's strategy of "power first, benevolence and righteousness later". Kuai Yue Cai Mao came forward to invite the famous leaders of the thieves and thieves from all over Jingzhou to the banquet. How did the powerful leaders of those clans know that Liu Biao has arrived in Jingzhou, let alone know that the Jingxiang family represented by Cai Mao and Kuai Liang Kuai Yue has fallen to Liu Biao's side.

As a result, these people rushed to the banquet in high spirits, and as a result, the heads of those who belonged to the thorns were all cut off by the knife and axe hands arranged by Kuai Yue and Cai Mao. Then Liu Biao used the heads of these people to recruit these people's subordinates, and on the other hand, he used his name as the assassin of Jingzhou to recruit other wealthy families of the Jingxiang family.

But there are still smart people among the powerful leaders of those who oppose Liu Biao and oppose the imperial court. For example, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, the leaders of the big thieves. These two people were not moved by Kuai Yue and Cai Mao's rhetoric, but they couldn't come out to enjoy themselves in Xiangyang.

When Liu Biao used thunderous means to roughly wipe out the clan thief forces who opposed him as the assassin of Jingzhou, all the counties and counties in Jingzhou were shaken. Seeing that those small and medium-sized thieves took the initiative to give up the seals of various counties and counties, the smart man Zhang Hu Chen Sheng hurriedly got off the donkey down the slope, and took advantage of Liu Biao to send people to say surrender, and offered the control of Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou.

At this point, Liu Biaoshi held the authority of Jingzhou, vigorously promoted the capable scholars, integrated the powerful forces of the clan, and managed the troops in Xiangyang. With this kind of grace and power, all the counties and counties of Jingzhou quickly surrendered.

However, compared with Jingbei, the powerful clan forces of the four counties of Jingnan have not suffered much damage. The reason is very simple, Liu Biao's Hongmen banquet is near Xiangyang, that is, in the north of the Jingbei region. So will the leader of the thieves south of the Yangtze River have time to rush to the banquet? Especially in the two counties of Lingling and Guiyang, which are adjacent to Lingnan in Jiaozhou in the south, it is not certain whether they accept it or not.

However, Jingzhou has always been strong in the north and weak in the south. Even if the Jingbei region lacks Nanyang County, the first county in the world, the combined population and wealth of the two counties of Nanjun and Jiangxia still far exceed the sum of the four counties of Jingnan.

Therefore, after Liu Biao swept away the thieves of the Jingbei clan, disarmed and incorporated the powerful forces of Jingbei, and subdued the powerful clan forces of Changsha and Wuling, the two large counties of Jingnan that are only across the river from Jingbei, the remaining powerful forces of the Jingnan clan naturally no longer dare to openly oppose Liu Biao as the assassin of Jingzhou.

Here it is necessary to explain a little about the difference between the powerful forces of the clan and the family of scholars.

The so-called clan is a native surname and clan born in the township. We know that in ancient times, most of the names in villages were named after surnames. Such as what Xuzhuang, Meng's hometown, Luojia Village, Zhangjiabao, Zhaowangzhuang and so on. The meaning of these names was directly told to the others, and the township or village was dominated by the surname Zhao.

Because of the characteristics of the small-scale peasant economy, we know that the development of a village and a township in ancient times can often be regarded as the reproduction and development of a surname. In this village, which is related to each other by blood, there is generally a family, that is, the heirloom family who is in charge of the ranking of the ancestral ancestral hall. And often this clan has the absolute right to speak in this surname, in the village or in the township. Moreover, the average family owns the most fertile land and the most property.

This is the clan. A group that is linked by blood ties.

And what is a thief? To put it simply, it is the armed forces established by the clan itself in order to protect the interests of the clan. In the 21st century, when civilization is developed, it is not uncommon for us to see large-scale fights between two villages over irrigation water. These conflicts of interest were more bloody and direct in considerable periods of antiquity. Therefore, the clan itself is in the protection of its own clan, and often organizes its own arms.

In the beginning, the clan was only organized to protect the interests of their own clan and to maintain and consolidate the position of the clan itself. But as the clans matured, great clans were born. The influence of these clans is no longer limited to a village and a half township, but involves the level of the county. The armed forces formed were no longer only composed of local men, but also a considerable number of local men with small surnames joined in, and the weapons evolved from hoes and sickles to simple knives and arrows.

At this time, the conflict of interests between the big clans is not just on the land. Some martial and aggressive clans have become an extreme. That is, the thieves, these people are basically detached from production, relying on the sword and arrow of the fist to compete for labor and divide the land!

The big thieves are often in the thousands. They rely on this blood relationship to unite as one and hegemon the outside world. In many cases, it is difficult to enforce the ordinances of the prefectures without their support. During the Three Kingdoms period, the clan power was actually still in a stage of development, and in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it developed to the extent that Wubao became a country with no hundreds of miles of its own.

After talking about the clan thief, he said that he was a powerful landlord who started at the bottom of the countryside with the clan. In fact, the powerful landlords are very easy to explain, and they are also another form of clan development. There are divisions within the clan, and many people are not from the clan, but they have brains and are willing to work hard, and they can use their brains and hands to earn a great family's business.

This kind of people, relying on the hard work of one generation or even several generations, or the despicable means of forcible seizure, have left the stage of the bottom peasants, and have a large amount of land, which can be farmed by others, and they can drink tea and collect rent. So this became a landlord. Some are satisfied, but some continue to climb. From a small landlord to a big landlord, he has reached the ultimate in being a landlord.

We know that in ancient China, due to various reasons, whether natural disasters or man-made disasters, population movement was a normal state. A village is often mixed in with people with foreign surnames, who have no land and live on landlords who rent surplus land. And the landlords also rely on these cheap labor to get by. When the landlord reached the extreme and began to worry about the safety of his huge fields and accumulated money and grain, at this time, he transformed into a strong man!

This is a qualitative change, the beginning of another quantitative change. When the landlords were armed to a certain extent, they became powerful people with a decisive position in the local area. Haoqiang is getting stronger and stronger, and sometimes it can even have tens of thousands of people, becoming a huge force. At this time, if there is a qualitative change, it will undoubtedly threaten the rule of the regime. As a result, under normal circumstances, the transformation and evolution of landlords stopped there.

In progress, you will be installed as a giant thief! For example, Zheng Bao, the giant thief of Chaohu who was killed by Liu Ye, Chen Ce, the great Kou of Lujiang who surrendered to Zhang Xiu, and Zu Xun, the marshal of Jing County, are all upgraded versions of Haoqiang.

This is the explanation of clans, clan thieves, landlords, powerful and the so-called giant thieves.

Of course, anything can happen in the world. The clan also has a lot of contention, constantly growing the clan's own money, grain and land, and taking the same road of prosperity and strength as the landlord, this part, we call it the wealthy family!

But whether it is a clan or a strong family, or a two-in-one wealthy family. These all have a common characteristic, that is, they were born and raised in the countryside!

There are those who start from the bottom up, and naturally there are those who follow from the top down. For example, a famous family!