Liu Xin believes that Liu Biao's series of behaviors in the early Three Kingdoms period in a sense mean that Liu Biao is likely to have an inexplicable and unclear connection with Dong Zhuo, the reason is actually very simple, Liu Biao was divided from Luoyang to Jingzhou after Dong Zhuo mastered the power above the court, and it can be regarded as an exceptional promotion, so that Liu Biao was directly upgraded to Jingzhou Thorn History, originally Liu Xin wanted to use "Liu Biao in Luoyang City to give Dong Zhuo great pressure to take power, after all, Liu Biao is the best in the Han family, Even if he was cruel and domineering, Dong Zhuo didn't dare to kill Liu Biao at will, so he sent Liu Biao out of Jingzhou" to convince himself, but whether it was from the motive or the next development of things, Liu Xin felt that his idea was wrong, and Liu Biao was also a thief who forgot his ancestors!

Because although Liu Biao's ability is good, and his prestige in the Han Dynasty is okay, it is still easy for Dong Zhuo to match Liu Biao, and there is no need to give Liu Biao a position in the history of Jingzhou, not to mention that from the various biographies and romances in "Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in the process of Dong Zhuo's control of the power in Luoyang City, many important ministers of the Han Dynasty and later Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others have appeared, but basically there is no mention of Liu Biao, who was still in Luoyang City at that time, and took the lead in opposing Dong Zhuo. Even some important plans, such as Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo, have not seen Liu Biao's figure, which is a bit incredible, because Liu Biao is still the middle marquis of the Northern Army in Luoyang City at this time, and it can be said that he has a heavy army, but Wang Yun and others' plans did not involve Liu Biao, which shows that Liu Biao in this period is completely a transparent person, and basically there is no Liu Biao's role, which is a little unreasonable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

What's more, Dong Zhuo wants to send Liu Biao out of Jingzhou, which is also a very simple thing, after all, even if Dong Zhuo can't just find a reason to kill Liu Biao, who is a relative of the Han family, but Dong Zhuo can completely transfer Liu Biao to a position of being too guarded, but the specific official location can be Jiaozhou, Yizhou, or even Dong Zhuo's hometown Liangzhou, Liu Biao must have nothing to say about this kind of behavior, after all, Dong Zhuo is acting according to the rules.

And now Dong Zhuo has directly promoted Liu Biao to the assassin of Jingzhou, which has a feeling of triple jump, and it is obvious that although Jingzhou at this time seems to be in danger on the surface, whether it is the external enemy Yuan Shu or the internal Jingzhou sect thief forces and the southern counties of Jingzhou, they are all very difficult opponents, giving people the feeling that Liu Biao is very likely to die in Jingzhou if he goes to Jingzhou, so does Dong Zhuo want to send Liu Biao to Jingzhou to die?

Of course not, because as long as you analyze it a little, it is not difficult to see that the form of Jingzhou that seems to be turbulent is actually very clear, as long as the clan thief forces in Jingzhou are solved, Yuan Shu, who is entrenched in Nanyang, must be far weaker than the Jingzhou army in terms of troops, and the generals under Yuan Shu are just Erer, basically there is nothing to worry about, and Dong Zhuo's subordinates have Li Ru and Jia Xu's two major strategists, how can they not see this?

So now there is an obvious answer, Liu Biao definitely made a deal with Dong Zhuo, so as to obtain the position of Jingzhou Assassin, and the price Liu Biao needs to pay is naturally to support Dong Zhuo secretly, so after Liu Biao became the Assassin of Jingzhou, he obviously had heavy troops, and it was also a very easy thing to send troops from Jingzhou to Luoyang, but Liu Biao did not move like Liu Yan who lived in Yizhou, and he didn't even have a name in the list of the Eighteenth Route Princes, and at such an important time as the Eighteenth Route Princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo, wrote a letter to Luoyang, and asked Yuan Shu to be the Taishou of Nanyang, Liu Xin estimated that Liu Biao still had the possibility of taking this opportunity to ventilate the news.

In addition, just after Dong Zhuo died in Luoyang, only Liu Biao ran to continue to pay tribute to Emperor Han Xian, which is also a very abnormal situation, because of well-known reasons, after Dong Zhuo's death, as Dong Zhuo single-handedly stood up Emperor Han Xian's situation is very embarrassing, after all, Emperor Han Xian's body is also branded with Dong Zhuo, the reason why Emperor Han Xian was able to become the emperor is a little unjustifiable, like Liu Yu, the princes in Hebei want to stand up to replace Emperor Han Xian and become the new Han Emperor, Therefore, if Liu Biao wants to establish himself as the king, although it is unlikely to be able to respond to all calls, there will definitely be a lot of princes to support Liu Biao, but Liu Biao insists on paying tribute to the Han Emperor, which makes people a little difficult to figure out, so Liu Xin visually measured that Liu Biao had some handle in the hands of Dong Zhuo's heir - Guo and Li, so Liu Biao had to continue to be nominally loyal to Emperor Han Xian, in fact, he was indeed expressing goodwill to Guo and Li, and Guo and Li also reciprocated Li and raised Liu Biao's official position to a higher level, which is a tortuous road, is not enough for outsiders also.

After Liu Biao pacified the southern region of Jingzhou, Liu Biao gradually developed a feud with Zhang Jin, the village chief of Jiaozhou at the time, so in the fourth to eighth years of Jian'an (that is, between 199 and 203 AD), Zhang Jin used troops against Liu Biao for many years.

However, because of well-known reasons, a poor and remote place like Jiaozhou is naturally a small number of soldiers (I have to complain here, whether it is in various Three Kingdoms games, there are no other generals available in Jiaozhou except for the Shi family, and the ability of the Shi family's family is just like that), and it is impossible to organize a powerful army at all, but I have to say that this Zhang Jin has perseverance or a simple reckless man, and it is still a futile end to fight with Liu Biao for several years. Zhang Jin is still happy to attack Jingzhou, and he really doesn't know how to evaluate this Zhang Jin.

So, this situation continued until the eighth year of Jian'an, Zhang Jin was killed by his own subordinates, Liu Biao thought that he had been tossed by Zhang Jin for so many years, how should he get back a little interest, so Liu Biao in order to get involved in Jiaozhou, he immediately sent his subordinate Lai Gong directly as the assassin of Jiaozhou, hoping to preemptively occupy Jiaozhou before the officials appointed by the imperial court came to Jiaozhou, after all, it was already in a state of turmoil at that time, and the appointment of the imperial court can only be said to be a dead letter at some times. Especially in remote areas of the Han Dynasty like Jiaozhou, it is even more far away from the emperor, as long as Liu Biao actually occupies Jiaozhou, then the imperial court has no way to take Liu Biao.

At the same time, Liu Biao appointed his subordinate Wu Ju as the Taishou of Cangwu to replace Shi Huang, the former Taishou who had just passed away, and continued to lay out Jiaozhou.

On the other hand, the imperial court headed by Cao Cao did not know if it had insight into Liu Biao's thoughts, and directly appointed Shixie, who was then Jiaozhi Taishou, as "Suinan Zhonglang General, supervising the seven counties of Jiaozhou, and leading Jiao Taishou as before", it is not surprising that such an appointment is aimed at countering Liu Biao's power in Jiaozhou.

By 200 AD, Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu joined forces to attack Cao Cao, and the two sides won and lost each other. Later, when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were holding each other in Guandu, Zhang Xiu, who was guarding Nanyang, accepted the advice of his adviser Jia Xu, and even asked Cao Cao to surrender, Liu Biao lost his influence on Nanyang County, and then Yuan Shao sent people to Liu Biao for help, hoping that Liu Biao could take this opportunity to send troops to attack Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao attacked Cao Cao back and forth, and Liu Biao promised Yuan Shao that he would definitely send troops to help Yuan Shao, but on the other hand, he did not officially send troops to help Cao Cao, nor did he want to help Cao Cao, Because Liu Xian only hopes to protect himself between the Yangtze River and the Han River, in order to observe the changes in the world.

So seeing this situation, Liu Biao's subordinates engaged in Zhonglang Han Song and Don't drive Liu Xian all suggested to Liu Biao, "The heroes are fighting, the two heroes are holding each other, and the importance of the world lies only in the general (after all, Liu Biao was sitting in Jingzhou at that time, and there were many talents under him, so it can be said that he was able to rank in the top three in the power list of the princes at that time, so if Liu Biao can make a move in the battle of Guandu, he can definitely affect the outcome of the battle of Guandu, and even directly take advantage of the fisherman and sweep away the forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao), if the general hopes to make a difference in the troubled times, should take advantage of the chaos in the world to start an incident; If not, then choose someone who can lead the world and follow him. The general now has a hundred thousand people, and he just sits and waits. The so-called seeing the virtuous but not being able to help (here refers to Cao Cao), asking for peace but not getting (here refers to Yuan Shao), so the two families will inevitably blame the general, and the general will not be able to continue to stand on his own feet. With Cao Gong's wisdom, the world's virtuous and virtuous people are all returning to him, and he is bound to be able to destroy Yuan Shao, and then he must lead his troops south to attack Jiang Han, and I am afraid that the general will not be able to resist his army. So I calculated for the general, it is better to attach the state to Cao Gong, and Cao Gong will inevitably treat the general again; In this way, you can enjoy the blessings for a long time, and your descendants will be able to enjoy it, which is the real perfect strategy. ”

In addition, Kuai Yue also persuaded Liu Biao with this matter, but Liu Biaohu was undecided, so he sent Han Song to see Cao Cao to see the truth and reality.

After Han Song came back from Xudu, he pointed out that Cao Cao was the real master of the Ming Dynasty, so he persuaded Liu Biao to send his son into the hostage to take refuge in Cao Cao, but Liu Biao suspected that Han Song had taken refuge in Cao Cao, but did something for Cao Cao, so he was very angry and wanted to kill Han Song, but when Liu Biao asked about Han Song's entourage, he learned that Han Song only said what he said from the bottom of his heart, and had no other intentions, so he did not kill Han Song, but Liu Biao still imprisoned Han Song.

From this incident, it can be reflected that although Liu Biao has an elegant appearance, he is also quite suspicious in his heart, and in order to protect his face, he will not choose to bow his head easily.

In the sixth year of Jian'an, in order to regain Nanyang County, Liu Biao first sent a total of 10,000 foot cavalry to attack Xi'e, and at that time, Xi'e County ordered Du Xi to gather all the officials and people who were responsible for defending the city, a total of more than 50 people, and held the city.

In the same year, Liu Bei came to Jingzhou from Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao received Liu Bei for the sake of being a relative of the Han family, but he still did not reuse Liu Bei (after all, Liu Bei has defected to so many princes, and his reputation should not be good at the level of princes), but he arranged for Liu Bei to lead troops to garrison Xinye and become his own northern domain, which is the first barrier in the face of Cao Cao's attack.

In 207 AD, when Cao Cao went on an expedition to Liucheng, Liu Bei had persuaded Liu Biao to attack Xu Du after raising troops, but Liu Biao did not accept his words, and when Cao Cao's class returned to the Central Plains, Liu Biao said to Liu Bei that he had missed the opportunity, because of the reason under the fence, Liu Bei had to comfort Liu Biao so much, if there is chaos today, the war continues, there will definitely be a chance in the future, as long as Liu Biao grasps the opportunity next time.

However, all along, in the wars of princes that took place everywhere in the Great Han. Liu Biao always maintained a neutral attitude, and at the same time, Liu Biao no longer paid taxes to the central government, so Liu Biao's self-defense attitude also allowed Jingzhou to avoid many wars and provide conditions for the development of the local economy and culture.

In the twelfth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao began to develop to the south after stabilizing the situation in the Central Plains, and Jingzhou became Cao Cao's first target of attack, after all, the battle into Shu was limited by the road, and if the Eastern Wu sent troops, he would have to fight across the river as soon as he came, and the northern part of Jingzhou became the best target.

At this time, Liu Biao had entered his old age, but he failed to properly handle the relevant matters of the heir, so Liu Biao's two sons, Liu Qi and Liu Cong, were involved in the issue of the heir dispute.

At first, Liu Biao loved him very much because his eldest son Liu Qi looked similar to him, but because Liu Cong later married the niece of Mrs. Cai, Liu Biao's stepfamily, so Cai's family loved the house and Wu (in fact, it was still for the benefit of the family), so he loved Liu Cong and hated Liu Qi, so Cai's often resisted Liu Qi in front of Liu Biao, and Liu Biao gradually believed it because he favored Cai's family.

In addition, Cai's brother Cai Mao and his nephew Zhang Yun also got Liu Biao's trust, held the military power of Jingzhou in their hands, and were friendly with Liu Cong, so Liu Qi became more and more uneasy, so Liu Qi later followed Zhuge Liang's advice and asked Liu Biao to replace Huang Zu, who died in battle, to serve as Jiangxia Taishou in order to seek self-safety.

Later, Liu Biao was seriously ill, so Liu Qi could only return to Xiangyang to visit Liu Biao, because Liu Qi has always been kind and filial, Zhang Yun and others were afraid that their father and son would see each other and feel family affection, which would make Liu Biao establish Liu Qi as the heir at the last moment, so Liu Qi was not allowed to visit, and forced Liu Qi to leave on the grounds that Liu Qi needed to guard Jiangxia and how could he leave at will, so Liu Qi was finally turned away and could not see Liu Biao, Liu Qi had to go with tears.

According to the records of "Heroes" and "Book of Wei", Liu Biao once wanted to give Jingzhou to Liu Bei when he was critically ill, Liu Bei couldn't bear to take advantage of the danger of people and repeatedly pushed back, of course, in fact, because Jingzhou's soldiers and horses were basically in the hands of the Cai family, and the Cai family was a staunch pro-Cao faction, so Liu Bei had no chance to control Jingzhou, and would even be caught by the Cai family as a gift to Cao Cao...

Finally, at the beginning of the autumn of 208 AD, Cao Cao once again led his troops to set off to conquer Jingzhou, and in August of the same year, Liu Biao died of a backlash at the age of sixty-seven, and after Liu Biao's death, Jingzhou also took refuge under Cao Cao.