Jingzhou civil and military, from Liu Biao down, they all have a kind of Confucianism.

This does not mean that they are elegant, but that they are weak.

Jingxiang area, in the past 100 years, have prevailed in Confucianism, although there are many celebrities, but there are few people who can really be called real fierce generals.

Of course, if you want to talk about the style of literati and the strategy of strategists, Jingxiang's celebrities are naturally second to none. But it also creates a cowardly character for them.

Especially during the Three Kingdoms period, I have heard that the people of Xiliang are fierce, and I have heard of the people of Danyang, but I have really not heard of the people of Jingzhou. In troubled times, if you are not tough enough, you can only be bullied by others.

Therefore, under the rule of Liu Biao, Jingzhou has never been tough and active in dealing with foreign affairs.

At the beginning, the heroes of the world raised troops to fight Dong Zhuo, but Liu Biao pushed back and was unwilling to send troops. Seeing that Dongting Lake Xinzhou was developing in the governance of the New Han Dynasty, he still didn't dare to really send troops to fight Liu Yi. wanted to seize Liu Xuan's Jianye, but he never left Jiangxia, did not reach Jiujiang, and wanted to compete with Yuan Shu, but he could only test the leak, and asked Liu Yi to give him some cities, but he never dared to send troops to seize it. and in the matter of fighting for Yuzhou, he still did not use troops.

Anyway, he was threatened by Liu Yi several times, and Liu Biao could only give in and dare not be tough once.

This time, the alliance with Cao Cao only made a profit, and it seemed that he wanted to rise up for a while, planning to forcibly attack Wancheng. However, none of them dared to really lead the army to fight against the New Han Army, so they could only hope for other people's generals and put their hopes on others. The results can be imagined. It's really just a bustle, and I haven't even touched the edge of the city wall of Wancheng.

Now, it is Cai Mao's turn to act as an agent for Jingzhou affairs. He was also drinking loudly, like Liu Biao, saying that he wanted to keep Jingzhou peaceful, but he still didn't dare to fight. Of course, Cai Mao had already taken refuge in Cao Cao, but now the time is not yet ripe, and he has not officially surrendered to Cao Cao. At this juncture. He didn't want to get into trouble, and he didn't want to provoke Guan Yu and Zhang Fei who were angry.

In this way, Cai Mao can only be soft. Before Guan Yu and Zhang Fei really went berserk, they responded to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's requests as much as possible, satisfied Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as much as possible, and sent these two evil stars away as much as possible.

As a matter of fact. Something. It's still a matter of thought, if Cai Mao and the others in Jingzhou force themselves, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei will not be able to get them for a while. Of course, if the two of them turn around and leave, and look for an opportunity to clean them up slowly in the future, they will not be able to escape.

However, they didn't expect that at this moment, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei would return to those soldiers and leave. and in the future there shall be a time when they will eat good fruit.

Anyway, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei left with the only remaining Liu Bei soldiers.

The entire Jingzhou civil and military forces were greatly relieved at this moment.

Follow. Huang Zu did not forget to ask Cai Mao to prove that Liu Biao was not harmed by him.

This is actually not too difficult. Because, now the brothers of the Kuai family have been accused by them. The entire Kuai family seems to be a lamb to be slaughtered at the moment, if it weren't for the fact that the Kuai family has a wide range of connections and has a great relationship in the army, Cai Mao really wants to kill the Kuai family first. However, Cai Mao has always lost a lot of courage and did not dare to really poison the Kuai family.

Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, they were taken to the main hall. They knew that it was difficult to conceal it, so they told them how Liu Bei had coerced them and how he told them that Liu Biao had been poisoned by him.

In addition, there are also those doctors Langzhong beside Liu Biao, as well as the maids around Liu Biao. They also told some secrets that were not difficult to know.

If you don't want people to know, Xu Fei can't do it.

Su Xi and Lu Ling hooked up with Liu Biao's concubine to commit adultery, and someone still knows about it. After all, the place where Liu Biao is located is so big, and they will always be noticed if they do something bad. It's just that even if they know about this kind of thing, they don't dare to talk nonsense. This kind of thing is not very glorious, if Liu Biao knows that they also know about Liu Biao's humiliation, Liu Biao will not let them go. Now, under interrogation, they told how Susie and Lu Ling hooked up with Liu Biao's concubine.

Such reasoning, coupled with Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue's narration. It turned out that Liu Bei's people knew these secrets of Su Xi and Lu Ling, so as to threaten them, and forced them to poison Liu Biao, and finally poisoned Liu Biao, and finally they themselves were killed by Liu Bei's people.

Huang Zu had nothing to say, so he could only approve the matter of letting Cai Mao temporarily act as the agent to preside over Jingzhou's affairs.

Subsequently, Jingzhou's civil and military forces discussed how to confront the New Han Army and keep Jingzhou's major affairs.

This is related to the future of all Jingzhou's civil and military affairs, so no one dares to take it lightly, and everyone has expressed their opinions.

To sum up, what Jingzhou Wenwu argued, or rather, their opinions are as follows.

One is that although the New Han Army has submitted an ultimatum, the New Han Army garrison in Wancheng has not yet officially launched an attack on Jingzhou. This makes some people think that it is possible to take advantage of the fact that the New Han Army has not officially sent troops to attack. Send someone to negotiate with Lewy? If Liu Yi is willing to negotiate, he can also give some benefits to the New Han Dynasty as Liu Biao did when he was alive, send money and grain, and even pay tribute to the New Han Dynasty every year. As long as they can ensure the current state of Jingzhou, they are willing to pay some price and maintain their existing power interests.

However, there are not too many Jingzhou ministers who can negotiate with Liu Yi. After all, the current Tianxia shape shì is completely different from the original Tianxia shape shì. In the past, the New Han Dynasty had not yet reached its current strength, and in the past, the world's heroes were fighting, and it was not yet possible to see whose power was superior. But now, in the entire Han world, it is Liu Yi's New Han Dynasty and Cao Cao's court that are the most powerful. At least, now many people of insight can see that if anyone can unify the Han world in the future, it is very likely to be Liu Yi or Cao Cao. When Liu Yi clearly put forward the slogan of unifying the Han Dynasty, when he had already sent troops to seize Youzhou and was attacking Yuan Shao's Jizhou, could Liu Yi still negotiate with them, and still allow them to maintain the independence of Jingzhou? This, obviously, is unlikely.

Therefore, although some Jingzhou ministers put forward this opinion, they did not get a unanimous understanding, and the vast majority of Jingzhou's civil and military personnel thought that sending people to negotiate with Liu Yi was just a useless effort. Of course, if you want to use negotiations to delay the advance of the New Han Army, you can give this a try.

The second opinion is to surrender, conditional surrender to the New Han Dynasty.

Most of these civil and military people in Jingzhou are actually people from famous families in Jingzhou. If you don't have a person with a good background, it will be difficult to become a minister of Liu Biao in Jingzhou. You must know that Liu Biao's governance of Jingzhou relied on the prestige of the scholars in the Jingxiang area, and it was also through these people that he could establish a firm foothold in Jingzhou.

In the hearts of many famous people of the Shi clan, what they care about is only their own interests, and they don't care too much about who Jingzhou belongs to in name. However, they also know a lot about the policies of the New Han Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that the policies of the New Han Dynasty touched their interests very strictly, causing huge losses to their interests, and they would support Liu Biao's refusal to surrender to the New Han Dynasty. They can surrender. However, they wanted Lewis to guarantee their interests.

For example, the New Han Dynasty had a policy that clearly stipulated that the vast majority of the fields of the famous families should be nationalized, and then distributed to the common people for cultivation according to local conditions, and those people were directly allowed to obtain ownership of their fields. This is something that those local wealthy families can't agree to. Therefore, they want to keep their fields, and if Lewi can agree, they will surrender, and there will be no big loss for them.

The conditional surrender to the New Han Dynasty is actually similar to the meaning of paying tribute to the New Han Dynasty. Now, no one dares to say that Lewi will agree to their terms. After all, don't look at Liu Yi's military horses in Wancheng now, there are not too many horses, and their Jingzhou army has an army of hundreds of thousands. But in his bones, everyone thinks that it is Liu Yi who is really strong. Why do people want to negotiate conditions with you? Therefore, after the second opinion was put forward, a group of Jingzhou civil and military personnel felt that it was unlikely.

Of course, even if it was feasible, Cai Mao would not agree, because he had already betrayed Jingzhou and sold it to Cao Cao.

The third opinion, of course, is to ask for help.

No one doubted Liu Yi's determination to capture Jingzhou, so if they still wanted to keep the current Yiqiē, then they must have enough strength, courage, and courage to deal with the New Han army. Counting on themselves alone, counting on their Jingzhou army to deal with the New Han army, none of them had an optimistic attitude.

Therefore, when he couldn't count on it, just like Liu Biao's previous mentality, he could only hope for something else, and talked about asking for reinforcements again.

Asking for reinforcements, there will not be too many options for Jingzhou, one is to ask Cao Cao for help, and the other is to ask for help from Liu Zhang of Yizhou or Zhang Lu of Hanzhong in the west.

Therefore, Jingzhou civil and military, after discussing and discussing, still returned to this topic. This is also what Cai Mao wants to see. Because only all the Jingzhou civil and military forces have reached a consensus, believing that it is difficult for them to rely on the Jingzhou army alone to confront the New Han army, then the only way to ask for help is to ask for help.

However, how to bring in reinforcements is another issue.

In fact, there are other opinions, such as directly surrendering to the New Han Dynasty and surrendering unconditionally, but this voice is very weak, and no one is willing to consider this issue at all. (To be continued......)