Hearing Liu Hu's answer, Fu Tong frowned, he looked at Liu Hu, pondered for a moment, and finally said: "Liu Duwei, I can hear the meaning of your words." Although you and I are not subordinate to each other, the order for you to seal the river and collect as many ships as possible in the surrounding areas of Nanjun during this period was personally proposed by me to the governor and approved by his old man.

Obviously, to this day, you have only prepared in advance for my 20,000 soldiers and horses to prepare the ships needed to cross the river, but you have not followed the instructions of Lord Zhou Mu to completely block the Yangtze River near Gangneung City. Why is that? ”

Fu Tong naturally wouldn't think that the river was not completely closed, and it was Liu Hu who deliberately disobeyed Liu Biao's order, obviously, there must be someone in the way, and he guessed that this person must be Liu Xian, the Taishou of Nanjun.

Liu Xian, the word Shizong, is a native of Lingling County. His people are well-read and strong, especially Huang Laoyan, and he knows the allusions of the Han family.

At the beginning, Liu Xian served as the assistant driver of the state pastor Liu Biao, and once persuaded Liu Biao to attach himself to Cao Cao. In this regard, Liu Biao has always been hesitant, but he has not blamed or suspected him.

Later, Liu Xian was ordered by Liu Biao to send an envoy to Xu Du to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Unlike Deng Xi, who also persuaded Liu Biao to attach himself to Cao Cao, in front of the public, Liu Xian actually dared to directly refute Cao Cao's criticism of Liu Biao, and he was good at words, which made Cao Cao speechless on the spot.

Liu Xian also has another incident related to him that will be familiar to future generations, his nephew is named Zhou Budo, a prodigy who makes Cao Cao very jealous.

In another time and space, after Jingzhou was pacified, Zhou Budo went to Xudu with his family and Liu Xian, where he met another prodigy, Cao Cao's youngest son, Cao Chong. Later, Cao Chong unfortunately died, and Cao Cao was worried that his descendants would not be able to control Zhou Budo, so he arranged for assassins to assassinate him.

Fu Tong's guess was not wrong at all.

There are two reasons why one of the orders Liu Xian issued to Liu Biao - the task of sealing the river is yang and yin.

First, according to Fu Tong's suggestion, the river surface of the ten miles around Jiangling City was blocked.

It is not only the fishermen around Gangneung Fortress who will suffer, but also the interests of wealthy families in and around Gangneung Castle.

There is a war in Jiangnan, if no one stops it, after Sun Cejun takes the entire three counties of Jingnan, the next target must be Jiangling City, but so what? For these local families or wealthy families, the ship-related business and the resulting benefits are the most important, even if the entire Jingzhou is captured by Sun Ce, for them, it is nothing more than a new master.

This was the biggest drawback and difficulty encountered by the various princes in the local area at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

And Liu Bei has not been able to get the sincere and strong support of other families and wealthy merchants in Xuzhou except for the Mi family in the East China Sea, which is the reason.

The betrayal of Guangling County by the Chen family in Xiapi made Liu Bei recognize this helpless reality, so when Liu Bei saw the plan of 'let Xuzhou' formulated by Jin Jue for him, this time, he made up his mind to ignore the hesitant families in Xuzhou and move all the people to the four counties of Jianghuai.

Even if Yuan Shao, who is now the strongest, has a very small number of honest and self-defying ministers under him, such as Tian Feng and Cui Yan, other famous strategists and some generals are all children of the family, and they have become rich because of following Yuan Shao, but when Yuan Shao, who has already controlled the land of Sizhou, led the army to attack Cao Cao, he was actually attacked by a grain depot in Juchao, and the whole army was defeated.

Is Yuan Shaojun, who controls the land of the four counties, really short of food?

This reason or statement is also true and incorrect.

On the one hand, there is indeed a shortage of grain and grass in the treasury of the government.

On the other hand, a family like Jia Pei, who is very loyal to Yuan Shao, has very feudal family assets, and if the grain and grass in the treasury of these people's families are taken out and supplied to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao may not have the opportunity to defeat Cao Cao by relying on this.

The reason why Cao Cao did not encounter such a situation is because there are not a few families or wealthy families in the Central Plains who died in the war or moved south, and people died or left, and the fields they left behind became borderless land.

Moreover, Cao Cao's own family power is very strong, and he is not afraid that other other families will join forces against him.

Of course, there is another important reason for Liu Xian's actions, he is from Lingling County, and Lingling County is very likely to have fallen now, so why should he offend the families and wealthy families inside and outside Jiangling City for the sake of Wuling County, which has nothing to do with him?

When Liu Hu heard this, his face changed, and he was silent for a long time, and seeing that Fu Tong had been staring at him with burning eyes, he had to explain hard: "Fu Taishou, the situation in Nanjun is different from that of Nanyang County, it is not that Liu Taishou wants to deliberately disobey the orders of the state pastor, but that there are many problems involved, which cannot be easily solved by Liu Taishou and me. ”

"I don't care about that, in that case, I won't go into the city. Please send someone to deliver enough food and grass to the ship as soon as possible, and I will leave today. After the fact, you would like to tell Liu Taishou. My Fu Tong is not taboo in meat and vegetarian, what he is not good to do, when I cross the Yangtze River, I will cook for him on the south bank of the Yangtze River. When the time comes, if you and Mrs. Liu are relatives by mistake, don't blame me for not explaining it in advance. Fu Tong's face darkened, and after he finished speaking, he turned his head and stopped looking at Liu Hu.

Fu Tong was not angry with Liu Hu, but he was unwilling to let Liu Hu be caught in the middle.

Turning his head, Fu Tong said to Kuai Jun: "Brother Kuai, now, you can't go to Xiaoling County first. I will take a leave of absence now, you rush back to Xiangyang City as soon as possible, ask the governor for your life, and arrange for Ma Chenzhen and Liu Yong, well, my friend Brother Xi, these three virtuous brothers serve as the county magistrates of the three counties of Shishan County, Yidao County and Zhijiang County respectively.

The three virtuous brothers, the closure of the river is not only related to whether the news will leak out in advance, but also whether we can move as many people as possible to Nanjun before Sun Ce attacks the three counties. The fishing boats of the common people simply could not carry the task of migrating so many people, and if they wanted to cross the river more safely, they had to temporarily borrow their boats from the family.

I don't think Liu Taishou will necessarily obey the orders of the state pastor. Therefore, the three of you have arrived in the three counties, and the main tasks are these three. ”