Thinking of this, Liu Biao ignored the gaffe, he hurriedly asked the two subordinates: "Deju, Ziying, what do you think should be done with this matter at this time?" ”

"Lord, should you call Xenogen and ask for his opinion?" Upon hearing this, Cai Mao replied first.

Among the most important ministers under Liu Biao, there are two criteria, which can be divided into four factions, one is the pro-Cao faction, the second is the anti-Cao faction, the third is the big prince faction, and the fourth is the small prince faction.

Liu Biao's eldest son is Liu Qi, and the second son is Liu Cong, however, Liu Biao has more than two sons, and it is recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms that he also has a son named Liu Jixu, and in Jingzhou, Liu Biao also has a nephew and two nephews, the nephew is Zhang Yun, one is Liu Pan, and the other is named Liu Hu.

The only time Liu Hu appeared was in the fourth year of Jian'an in the original time and space, Sun Quan led his troops to attack Jiangxia, and Liu Biao sent his general Han Xi's nephew to lead 5,000 spearmen to Jiangxia to support Huang Zu. As a result, Huang Zu appointed the two as the vanguard, and within one day, the entire army was wiped out and the two were killed.

The reinforcements sent by Liu Biao, among the generals who led the troops, there were his relatives, and the soldiers led by him were naturally the elite of the Jingzhou army, and Sun Quan had just taken over at that time, and the people's hearts were unstable.

Among the important ministers under Liu Biao, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue are both pro-Cao faction, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are both from the second son Liu Cong's faction, and Liu Qi later did not get the support of the Kuai family because of his close relationship with Liu Bei.

It is precisely for this reason that for Liu Biao's problem, Cai Mao actually played a slippery head and involved Kuai Yue. However, his words are not wrong, Liu Biao generally asks people, and most of them will listen to Kuai Yue's opinion.

However, Cai Mao forgot one thing, at this time, Liu Biao suddenly remembered one thing - at the beginning, Huan Jie risked his life to Liu Biao to ask for Sun Jian's body, and among Liu Biao's important ministers at that time, there were only two brothers of the Kuai family who strongly persuaded Liu Biao to agree to Huan Jie.

Now, Liu Biao thought about this matter carefully, Kuai Liang is a benevolent gentleman, and it is not surprising that he suggested this, but Kuai Yue's attitude at that time was a little confusing.

At that time, the person who resolutely opposed this matter was Huang Zu, who shot Sun Jian, by his subordinates.

If it weren't for Kuai Yue's words, Liu Biao really wouldn't have agreed to Huanjie's request at that time.

At this time, although Liu Biao didn't realize that Cai Mao was playing tricks, at that time, on this matter, he didn't want to ask Kuai Yue's opinion again for the time being.

Thinking of this, Liu Biao asked: "Xenodu is busy with other things, don't be in a hurry to tell him first, by the way, Deju, since this matter was raised by Fu Tong, does he have any suggestions in the letter?" ”

When Cai Mao heard this, he chuckled in his heart, and suddenly remembered what had happened, and realized that this time, he was afraid that he was going to slap the horse's leg, so he hurriedly took out the letter that Fu Tong gave him from his arms, leaned down and respectfully handed it to Liu Biao.

Liu Biao took the letter, and after a cursory glance, not only his brows were stretched, but also a smile appeared on his face, he immediately nodded again and again, and praised very happily: "Good, wonderful!" Fu Tong was able to come up with such a good plan at such a young age, which is really rare! Dejue, Ziying, do you have any good candidates? ”

In the letter, Fu Tong proposed three methods to prevent Zhang Xian from betraying Liu Biao after receiving the edict from the Son of Heaven.

First, it is natural to take precautions and send someone to assassinate Huanjie.

Thinking of the past, Liu Biao saw this again, and he made up his mind to immediately send someone to kill Huan Jie. Without this scourge of extremely good words to deceive others, Zhang Xian may not really raise troops against Liu Biao, at least before Cao Cao did not lead his troops to the south, Zhang Xian would not necessarily act rashly.

Second, immediately send people to take over Guiyang County and Lingling County, and officially appoint the county lieutenants of the four counties south of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou.

Liu Xiu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guangwu Emperor, did not know for what reason, he omitted the official position of the county lieutenant and set his functions in Taishou, which caused the Taishou to be in charge of the life and death of a county, and the situation that one family was dominant, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Sometimes, the Taishou of a county can be transformed into a small warlord.

For example, Zhang Xiu of Nanyang County before, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong County, and Chen Qi, who was in charge of Guangling County for a short time, are all like this.

Nowadays, the Jingzhou controlled by Liu Biao, the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River are located in remote and humid areas, the Han population is relatively small, and the economy is underdeveloped, so Liu Biao did not have enough control over the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River before. Moreover, among the princes of these four counties, except for the newly appointed Wuling County Taishou Huang Zu, the remaining three county taishou were not appointed by Liu Biao, but by the imperial court during the war.

Among them, Zhang Xian, the Taishou of Changsha County, served as the assassin of Jingzhou for longer than Liu Biao. Zhang Xian is a member of the Nanyang family, surnamed Zhang, and there are even rumors in later generations that Zhang Xian is actually Zhang Zhongjing, the author of the most famous book of traditional Chinese medicine, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases". If the rumors are true, the famous doctor should be too guarded, and his reputation in the four counties of Jiangnan is greater than that of Liu Biao, the pastoral capital of Jingzhou, which is reasonable.

At this time, if Liu Biao rashly replaced the remaining three county guards in the four counties of Jiangnan, it was very likely to cause a joint rebellion of the three county guards, and even provoke a rebellion in the three counties one step ahead.

However, if Liu Biao indirectly appointed four cronies as the governors of the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the three county guards would have no excuse to raise troops to betray Liu Biao at this time.

Not only can the governor of a county be in charge of the army, but also the governor and the governor of a county can no longer be in the same county. In the Han Dynasty, the place where the governor was located was called the governor, and if there were two governors in a county, there were the eastern and western governors or the northern and southern governors. The capital governor of Guanghan County is not the county of Zhiluo, but the Jinzhu County where Jinzhu Pass is located.

Once the commander sent is effective, even if Zhang Xian really has to raise troops, he will soon be quickly suppressed by the captain sent by Liu Biao.

Third, he sent the children of the ministers under Liu Biao to serve as county commanders in the counties under the four counties of Jiangnan.

The result of this is that the rights of Zhang Xian and the other three county taishou can be stripped away layer by layer, just like boiling a toad in warm water.

After these county orders and county magistrates arrived, after a period of preparation, they could not obey the orders of the Taishou at all, but directly obey the orders from Liu Biao, the current Jingzhou pastor.

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