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After this meeting, the wealthy families in Jingzhou began to be busy with each other, they had to find a way out for their family's future, although Liu Biao was the ruler of Jingzhou, but they couldn't accompany him to lose all their family wealth.

The first thing to get together is naturally Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, a pair of brothers, although they are not biological brothers, but they belong to the same clan, and together they represent the interests of the Kuai clan, and the first thing to get together is to discuss the feasibility of Liu Biao's so-called coalition army, but the two of them all agree that the possibility of this matter is almost non-existent, and the reason why Liu Bei promoted the establishment of the alliance is to harbor evil intentions, and the "benevolent government" implemented by Liu Bei in Jiaozhou not only attracted many talents in Jiaozhou, but even Jingzhou has some people who run to serve, If there were no benefits for a tyrant like this, would he have worked so hard to organize alliances everywhere?

And putting aside Liu Bei's harboring evil intentions, things are not so simple, even if the four parties agree to form a coalition, then who will be the leader of the alliance? If Sun Ce does it, I'm afraid it will be difficult for everyone to agree, because among the Quartet, only Sun Ce's background is not a Han clan relative, and let him obey others, which is almost impossible, Liu Bei's qualifications are shallow, and his strength is also the weakest, so it is naturally impossible to be an alliance, Liu Zhang is a waste, and he is not even capable of leading well, let alone leading the leader, so it seems that only one Liu Biao can be the leader of the alliance, but neither Liu Zhang nor Sun Ce will agree, although Liu Zhang and Liu Biao belong to the same clan, However, the two sides have been fighting openly and secretly for not a year or two, no matter how stupid Liu Zhang is, it is impossible for Liu Biao to be the leader of the alliance, and Sun Ce is even more impossible, Liu Biao has a grudge against him to kill his father, even if there is no revenge for killing his father, Jingzhou is in the upper reaches of Jiangdong, and he can threaten Jiangdong's security at any time, and Sun Ce will definitely not be willing to be led by Liu Biao.

Therefore, the final outcome is likely to be to fight separately, and in this way, Sun Ce occupies a favorable position, Liu Bei has Liu Zhang, Liu Biao and Sun Ce as a barrier, which is actually the safest, and Liu Zhang has a Zhang Lu as a barrier, so the first to bear the brunt is still Jingzhou, and with Jingzhou's current strength, even if Pei Qing only transfers an army of 350,000, they may not be able to defeat.

So the two of them calculated, and Jingzhou didn't have any hope.

In fact, it is not only Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue who realize this? People of insight in Jingzhou, such as Han Song, Fu Xun, Deng Xi, Liu Xian and others, also knew that Liu Biao's results would only bring disaster to Jingzhou, and there was no hope at all.

So most of these people did not say a word in the days that followed, and Deng Xi directly resigned from his post to express his dissatisfaction with Liu Biao.

Even Cai Mao is constantly meeting with the generals under his command, and he often goes in and out of Liu Biao's mansion, plotting with Liu Biao's wife, that is, Cai Mao's sister Madame Cai, and all this is being done without Liu Biao.

In addition, Liu Biao's young son Liu Cong also often connected with Cai Mao at this time, and he sneakily didn't know what he was doing.

In the whole Jingzhou, only Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi and the general Wen Ping are really wholeheartedly preparing to prevent Pei Qing, and the others are all acting against the yang and making plans for themselves.

However, Liu Biao didn't know this, and was still immersed in the dream of building an alliance to resist Pei Qing.

But Liu Biao waited for more than a month, and did not wait for further news from Liu Bei, at this time there were rumors that Sun Ce proposed to agree to the alliance on the condition that he must be the leader of the alliance, but this point was directly rejected by Liu Zhang, and at the same time, Liu Zhang also proposed that Liu Biao could not be the leader of the alliance, otherwise he would not agree to the alliance.

Liu Zhang refused Sun Ce, and he didn't let Liu Biao be the leader of the alliance, let alone let Liu Bei, who was the weakest, be the leader of the alliance, so his intention was already obvious, that is, to be the leader of the alliance himself.

After hearing the news, Liu Biao was speechless for a long time, but if he was asked to give up the position of alliance leader to Sun Ce, he would definitely not be able to do it.

Fortunately, Liu Bei later found a way to reconcile the relationship, everyone reached an armistice agreement with each other, non-aggression against each other, and at the same time each used their own forces to defend Pei Qing, once Pei Qing launched an attack, all parties must go all out to help.

As a result, Liu Bei's approach to harmony was approved by all parties, but in this way, the coalition between them, which was originally active in attacking Pei Qing, has now become a passive defensive alliance, and its "justice" and effect are naturally greatly reduced, in fact, it is simply a plate of scattered sand, even the previous Kwantung coalition army is not as good, because the promise between each other is only a verbal promise, once Pei Qing's army arrives, I really don't know who is willing to send troops to help?

But fortunately, the Quartet ceased fighting, which was also a good thing for Liu Biao, at least he could concentrate his forces to defend Pei Qing.

However, Liu Biao didn't know that those civil and military generals in Jingzhou were not optimistic about this at all, and they continued their secret actions, some secretly wrote letters to Pei Qing to express their allegiance, some secretly recruited their cronies to prepare to wait and see, and some were even ready to start an incident after the arrival of Pei Qing's army in order to cooperate.

Cai Mao usually gets close to Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong, and hates his eldest son Liu Qi, and now Liu Qi is actively preparing for defense, which has aroused Cai Mao's disgust even more, Cai Mao was originally afraid that Pei Qing's army would affect him after the arrival of Liu Biao's brother-in-law, so he wrote to Pei Qing early to express his loyalty, but he was afraid that Pei Qing would not be able to believe him, so Cai Mao tried his best to please Pei Qing in order to prove his loyalty, so he made an idea for Mrs. Cai, and united Liu Cong to target Liu Qi and say bad things about Liu Qi everywhere.

Liu Qi's character is cowardly, and now he has received many slanders, and he is afraid in his heart, and at this time, Liu Biao's advisor Yi Yuan came up with an idea for him, asking him to take the initiative to apply for a transfer to Changsha Taishou in order to avoid trouble.

Although Liu Qi was unwilling, he had no choice but to apply to Liu Biao for transfer to Changsha Taishou.

Liu Biao was a little reluctant at first, but Mrs. Cai, Cai Mao and others persuaded him, and he finally agreed. However, what is helpless is that Liu Qi is still on the way to take office, but the original Changsha Taishou Zhang Xian actually led the army to rebel, claiming to respond to Pei Gong and return to the imperial court, at the same time, Guiyang, Wuling, Lingling three counties rebelled at the same time, and Changsha Taishou Zhang Xian formed an alliance, and suddenly Liu Biao's Jingzhou Seven Counties actually had four counties rebelled, and now only three counties are still under control, which is equivalent to half of the strength.

In desperation, Liu Qi had no choice but to temporarily stationed in Jiangling, and then ordered his entourage to report the news to Liu Biao.

Liu Biao was shocked when he heard the report, and immediately began to dispatch troops to suppress it, but Jingzhou, which is known to be full of talents, did not have a general to take orders, and seeing that the situation was becoming more and more chaotic, Liu Biao was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and fell ill in bed.

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