Liu Biao was tossed very miserably, and he got up early the next morning, and his spirit was very poor.

Liu Biao didn't have much energy, he didn't sleep well all night, and he was nervous all day yesterday.

His staff members were similar, just slightly better.

Now Liu Biao is upset.

Zhang Yu tossed like this, it was not without purpose, and their purpose was already underway.

More and more troops were attracted to Xiangyang, and the eyes of the entire Jingzhou were also attracted to Xiangyang, and Liu Biao had no intention of dealing with other things.

Taking advantage of this time, Cai Mao made a move, and there were many movements.

Although there are many actions, they do not attract much attention from others.

Now, everyone's eyes are attracted by Zhang Yu, and few people will see Cai Mao's small movements.

Even if you see them, you won't pay much attention to them.

And Cai Mao's small movements are very numerous, or very frequent.

First of all, he has been in frequent contact with the family with whom he has befriended recently.

Many families suddenly came and went with him frequently, and Liu Biao knew about these small actions, because Liu Biao was very afraid that Cai Mao and Zhang Yu would join forces to overthrow him.

So Liu Biao has been paying attention to his movements.

However, Liu Biao suddenly had close contacts with these families, and he didn't care too much, but he was afraid that these families would rebel with him, so he also paid attention to these families.

For a few days, nothing happened, and they didn't do anything.

In this way, Liu Biao did not interfere, after all, it was obviously not the right choice to force Cai Mao at this time.

Cai Mao also had another move, that is, he quietly replaced many low-level officials in various counties, and the highest was at the county order level, and he changed two.

It's just two county orders, and it's really not worth mentioning for the hundreds of counties in Jingzhou.

Others are more junior officials.

Liu Biao didn't pay attention to these at all, because these reports couldn't reach him at all.

Liu Biao paid a little attention to the officials at the county order level and did not make other moves.

Liu Biao didn't know, and Cai Mao was doing it wantonly.

In particular, the Taishou of some counties were transferred to Xiangyang by Liu Biao.

There are three Taishou who went to Xiangyang with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to help the fist, because Liu Biao did not trust Cai Mao, and there were many Cai Mao's cronies and soldiers in Xiangyang.

These Taishou left, so Cai Mao was given a chance.

Cai Mao united with the family that was friendly with him, and used their influence to remove a large number of low-level officials.

And in Jiangxia County, all the officials from the bottom of the Taishou have been replaced by Cai Mao, and all his people have been arranged.

Cai Mao used the strategy provided by Zhang Yu to encroach on the grassroots organizations, and slowly control the entire Jingzhou from the bottom up.

Just imagine, in the future, all the counties will be controlled by Cai Mao, so are you still afraid of being too guarded?

When the Taishou below can no longer control the counties, can Liu Biao still control the counties?

Obviously, at that time, the power of the entire Jingzhou was completely hollowed out by Cai Mao.

Liu Biao didn't care about Cai Mao's small movements, because they were all attracted by Zhang Yu.

Recently, Cai Mao has also been busy, much busier than Liu Biaozhang Yu, and he has to worry about the entire Jingzhou.

"Xincheng County is very important, if we take Xincheng County, then Xiangyang is in the middle of us, Xincheng is in the west, and Jiangxia is in the east."

Jiangxia County, Taishou Mansion, Cai Mao has been holding meetings here for several days in a row to meet with all kinds of people.

At this time, he was arranging the affairs of Xincheng County.

After Cai Mao finished speaking, Huang Zu said: "General, the governor of Xincheng County is more close, and he also knows that Xincheng County is very important, so only one-third of the county orders here are our people. ”

"The Taishou of Xincheng County is not our people, it is inconvenient for us to do things, but it doesn't matter, one-third of the county orders are our people, these counties have been controlled, and the rest will use our plan to give me all the county orders, and then find an opportunity to replace the Taishou as well." Cai Mao said.

After arranging the affairs of Xincheng County, Cai Mao said: "How many people do we have available in our hands now? ”

A staff member in charge of this matter came out and said: "In the past few days, we have recruited thousands of talents, and now they have all been assigned, but their identities have not been investigated very carefully. ”

Cai Mao shook his head and said: "I can't take care of so much now, anyway, they are all low-level officials, it's better than nothing, the identity problem, immediately start a careful investigation by special people one by one, we don't lack time, it doesn't matter if you investigate for a few months." ”

Low-level officials, if it is arranged, even if it is someone with ulterior motives, it will not have a big impact, so this matter is not very important, even if it is investigated for a year, it doesn't matter.

But Cai Mao is more cautious, although the time is not required, but the investigation must be careful.

Cai Mao rubbed her brows tiredly and said: "Recently, we will definitely not allow people from the army to enter, otherwise it will be easy to arouse Liu Biao's vigilance, and if we find out our actions in advance, we will inevitably be in trouble at that time." ”

"However, we must not ignore the affairs of the army, and attack the officials who manage logistics, and win over those who can be wooed, and replace those who cannot be wooed. For some particularly critical positions, we do not hesitate to resort. ”

Cai Mao has many methods, one is to smear or investigate their black history and force them to leave their current positions.

The second is to use all kinds of pressure to exert all kinds of pressure on their family or themselves to make him leave on his own initiative.

If these two tricks don't work, you need to use a third trick, which is to do it directly against him, and if necessary, assassination.

In this way, in the entire Jingzhou, many official positions are not high, but their positions are very important, have been quietly replaced by Cai Mao.

Due to the low level, few people will pay attention.

Even if you pay attention, you only pay attention to a few, and no one will connect all the events.

Of course, Cai Mao will not do it all himself, many of them are doing it secretly, and he will replace these official positions through other people and other families.

So, who knows.

In addition, many of Liu Biao's cronies Cai Mao did not move anything, and they would give them good treatment, but many of them left from their original positions.

was transferred out of the position that had been in business for a long time, and he didn't know about the situation below, which made it convenient for Cai Mao and them to act.

Many normal transfers hide abnormal motives.

"Master, you haven't had a good rest for a few days, why don't you go back and rest first." The steward saw Cai Mao's tired face and reminded.

Cai Mao waved his hand and refused, and then said, "Go and make me some tea, bring me a basin of hot water, and let me wash it." ”

Cai Mao knew that now was a very critical time, and it was the time to compete with Liu Biao.

When Zhang Yu finished tossing, Liu Biaohui suddenly found that his control over the entire Jingzhou had dropped a lot, and even if he wanted to change it, it would be too late to stop it.

(End of chapter)