Liu Biao, the word Jingsheng, a native of Gaoping, Shanyang, Qingzhou, after Liu Yu, the king of Hanlu Gong. He was famous when he was a teenager and was one of the "Eight Jun" celebrities in the late Han Dynasty. He was about eight feet tall, tall and majestic, and had a dignified appearance. After joining the office, he first served as a lieutenant in the Northern Army as a general attaché. After the death of Emperor Ling, he succeeded Wang Rong as the assassin of Jingzhou.

【Late Han Dynasty Celebrities】

According to the record of "Zhang Fan Han Ji", at that time, Liu Biao was with Zhang Yin, Xue Yu, Wang Wan, Xuanjing, Gongchu [Xu] Gong, Liu Yi, and Tian Lin as eight friends, or eight Gu.

In addition, in the "Records of Famous Scholars in the Late Han Dynasty", it is recorded that Liu Biao and Runan, Chen Xiang, Zhonglin, Fan Fan, Meng Bo, Lu Guo, Kong Yu, Shiyuan, Bohaiyuan, Kang, Zhongzhen, Shanyang, □, Wenyou, Zhang Jian, Zhang, Jian, Nanyang, Cen Hui, Gongxiao, etc., are called Bayou.

As one of the celebrities at that time, Liu Biao was also affected by the second disaster of the party, and was forced to flee with Zhang Jian and others in the same county.

【Turbulent Jingzhou】

After the original Jingzhou Mu Wang Ei was killed by Sun Jian, Jingzhou had no owner, coupled with Dong Zhuo's rebellion, so the environment in Jingzhou was extremely turbulent at that time, and Liu Biao came to Jingzhou under such a situation.

According to the "Sima Biao Strategy", in the first year of Chuping (190), Wang Rong, the assassin of Jingzhou, was killed by Sun Jian, and Dong Zhuo sent Liu Biao to succeed him. Due to the prosperity of the Jiangnan sect at that time, Yuan Shutun was in Luyang, and he had all the people of Nanyang. Wu people Su Dai for Changsha Taishou, Bei Yu for Huarong County magistrate, each according to the militia and hegemony in the local area. As a result, Liu Biao could not take office directly, so he went to Jingzhou anonymously and celibately before he could take office.

Liu Biao went to Jingzhou, entered Yicheng alone, and conspired with Kuailiang, Kuaiyue, and Cai Mao, who were from Yanzhong Lu County. Liu Biao asked: "The thieves here are very prosperous, and the masses are not attached, so Yuan Shu has made trouble, and the disaster has now come!" I want to recruit troops here, but I'm afraid they won't be able to gather, so what are you going to do? ”

Kuai Liang said: "The reason why the masses are not attached is because of the lack of benevolence, and the reason why the masses are dependent and cannot govern is because of the lack of righteousness; If the way of benevolence and righteousness can be done, then the people will return like the downward trend of the water, so why worry about the inroads of those who come and ask for the strategy of raising the army? ”

Liu Biao asked Kuai Yue again, and Kuai Yue said: "Those who govern peace take benevolence and righteousness first, and those who govern chaos take power and scheming first." There are not many soldiers, but they can win their people. Yuan Shu is brave and unbreakable, Su Dai and Bei Yu are all brave martial artists, so there is nothing to worry about. The leader of the thieves is greedy and violent, and his subordinates are worried. I have some people under my command who are usually cultivated, and if they are sent to show their benefit, the leader of the sect and thieves will definitely come with the crowd. The king will punish those who have no way, and then use them with others. The people of such a state are happy to stay in this state, and when they know that the envoy is virtuous, he will definitely help the old and bring the weak. Then the soldiers gathered and attached, according to Jiangling in the south, Xiangyang in the north, and the eight counties of Jingzhou (the eight counties here should refer to the original seven counties plus Zhangling) can be passed on. Although Yuan Shu and the others came over, there was nothing they could do. ”

Liu Biao sighed: "Zirou (Kuai Liang Zi) can be said to be the theory of Yongji (Note 1). The plan of the different degree (Kuai Yue character) can be said to be the strategy of the murderer. So he asked Kuai Yue to send people to lure fifty-five thieves (one said fifteen) to the banquet, kill them all, and attack their people together. Only the Jiangxia thieves Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng supported the crowd to defend Xiangyang, and Liu Biao sent Kuai Yue and Pang Ji to ride alone to surrender them. When the county magistrate of Jingzhou heard that Liu Biaowei was famous, most of them took off their seals and fled. At this point, Jingzhou was basically controlled by Liu Biao.

After that, Liu Biao moved the Jingzhou administrative office from Hanshou in Wuling County to Xiangyang in Nanjun County in the north.

[Seven counties or eight counties]

Jingzhou was the land of seven counties in the Eastern Han Dynasty, including Nanyang County in the northernmost part, Jiangxia County in the east, Nanjun in the middle, and Changsha County, Wuling County, Lingling County and Guiyang County in the south.

However, there are records of the eight counties of Jingzhou or Zhangling County in many historical materials, and the eight counties of Jingzhou are clearly recorded in the "Sima Biao Strategy" and "Book of the Later Han", and there is also a record of Huang Zu's son Huang Shot as the Taishou of Zhangling in the "Book of the Later Han". "Fu Zi" also has a record of Liu Biao's worship of Kuai Yue Zhangling Taishou and Feng Fan Tinghou.

There is also a record in "Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu Ji" that "Nanyang and Zhangling counties rebelled for embroidery".

"Han Guanyi" clearly recorded that "Jingzhou is in charge of Changsha, Lingling, Guiyang, Nanyang, Jiangxia, Wuling, Nanjun, Zhangling, etc." ”

Therefore, before Liu Biao took office, Jingzhou was very likely to be eight counties, and a new Zhangling County was established in the Nanyang area during a certain period of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

【Lian Shao Anti-Technique】

When Liu Biao became the assassin of Jingzhou, the heroes of the world rose up one after another because of Dong Zhuo's abolition of the king, and they rose up to crusade against Dong Zhuo. At that time, Liu Biao adopted a neutral attitude, on the one hand, he did not join the anti-Dong coalition army, on the other hand, he did not go north to return to Nanyang County, which belonged to Jingzhou, but recommended Yuan Shu, one of the heroes, to serve as Nanyang Taishou, temporarily courting him, and may even provide Yuan Shu with materials to crusade against Dong Zhuo.

Later, Yuan Shao, as the leader of the anti-Dong coalition army, seized Yuzhou under Sun Jian under Yuan Shu, causing Yuan Shu and Sun Jian to be forced to terminate the crusade against Dong Zhuo under the favorable situation, and the two brothers also broke up.

At that time, Yuan Shu's soldiers were in full swing, and they won three battles and three victories against Dong Zhuo, and Liu Biao and Yuan Shao were kind to each other, and they chose to help Yuan Shao between the two brothers, but at that time, Yuan Shu's grain road was controlled by Liu Biao, and Yuan Shu himself was also eyeing Jingzhou, so Yuan Shu naturally regarded Liu Biao as his primary goal.

In the second year of Chuping (191), Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian, who was familiar with the environment of Jingzhou, to attack Liu Biao, Sun Jian was a famous general at that time, and he had been an official in Jingzhou for many years, and when he left, he also forced to kill Wang Rui, the original assassin of Jingzhou, and directly killed Zhang Zhi, the former Nanyang Taishou, and then he showed his might to defeat Dong Zhuo and recapture the old capital Luoyang. Liu Biao was completely invincible under Sun Jian's offensive, and his general Huang Zu was easily defeated by Sun Jian, and Xiangyang, the old nest, was directly surrounded by him, but Sun Jian did not pay attention to his own safety, and as a result, he easily attacked during the pursuit, and died in the middle, Liu Biao won the war and repelled the invading Yuan Shu army.

After Yuan Shu failed to capture Jingzhou, Liu Biao cut off Yuan Shu's grain road, Yuan Shu turned to target Yanzhou, at that time Cao Cao's position was not right, Yanzhou was also very empty because of the Yellow Turban civil strife, so Yuan Shu and the imperial court appointed Yanzhou Assassin Shi Jin Shang crusaded against Cao Cao, but Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu's army with the support of Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu himself was directly driven to Yangzhou by Cao Cao.

Liu Biao was able to easily recover Nanyang County.

At that time, Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao were the main princes in Yuan Shao's alliance, and they united against the alliance of Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and Tao Qian. And in the early peace years, he won several big victories and gradually suppressed the opponent.

Historically, Liu Xian rode into Jingzhou, and in the troubled times, he pacified Jingzhou, swept away the internal thieves, and recaptured Nanyang County in the north, and began his rule in Jingzhou for nearly 20 years.

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