Scenes like the Cai family happened in all corners of Jingzhou, those families, scholars, and celebrities got the invitations sent by Chen Shen's subordinates, and some people frowned from time to time, wondering if this was Kuai Liang's handwriting, Kuai Liang, an old bachelor in Jingzhou, was very famous in Jingzhou, and he wanted to marry a concubine?

There are also people who are smiling, and there are two kinds of smiles, the first is mockery, yes, the kind of ridicule, they got the invitation and went happily, because they wanted to see the joke of this stunned man, and the other one was really a blessing, this stunned man finally figured it out, and let the next person prepare a gift, after all, where is Kuailiang's status, and the natural gift can't be shabby.

"Zirou, he's going to marry a concubine?!" In the inner city of Kuaifu, Kuai Yue also received this invitation, and his first thought when he got the invitation was not to believe it, because Kuai Liang was his only younger brother, and he knew his second brother even more deeply than himself, and he could think of what his younger brother could think of.

Kuai Yue wants to be a good brother, but he has a family that can only be a good family head, it is precisely because Kuai Yue's first thought is the family, so Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang have a deep contradiction, Kuai Liang wants to help Liu Biao to conquer the world, so that their lord Liu Biao can really become the overlord of the world.

But Kuai Yue doesn't think so, Conglong is good, just like people like Zhang Liang and Xiao He have left an eternal swan song in the history books, but you have to know that Conglong is a minority after all, and most of the final ones are not a good ending, such as Fan Zeng, Zhong Liwu, and Yingbu around the overlord of Chu. Which one has a good end. If Liu Biao were an ambitious person, it would be fine. So he simply worked hard, but Liu Biao was an indecisive person.

Not only that, but how did their lord take Jingzhou? Kuai Yue naturally knew that Liu Biao was single-handedly when he entered Jingzhou, and he was able to take Jingzhou so quickly, it was because Liu Biao knew how to divide the Shi clan, and he entered Jingzhou and pulled a group of Shi clans, like their Kuai family, the Cai family, was one of the fleece scholars. also suppressed a group of people such as the Deng family and the Wang family, Liu Biao is using the Shi clan to deal with the Shi clan, this is of course good to pacify Jingzhou quickly, so that Jingzhou's heritage remains unchanged, but this is also a very big drawback, that is, there are still so many Shi clans, but some Shi clans have become families, and some families have been demoted to become Shi clans.

One of the biggest shortcomings of the Shi clan is that they are all centered on their own families, and they are all based on their own interests, and they will naturally deal with each other in order to obtain the limited resource market in Jingzhou. The Kuai family and the Cai family are a combination, and the Huang family is another faction. There is also the neutral Lumen Academy, the Pang family, etc., Jingzhou is nominally Liu Biao's Jingzhou, but in fact it is the Jingzhou of the family of scholars, Liu Biao's Liu family can occupy a third of the position in Jingzhou at most, how can such a Jingzhou go to conquer the world? Haven't you seen Yuan Shao's ending yet? Jingzhou is just a miniature version of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao IV and the third duke, with the land of four states, but he still lost, you can see the ending of Jingzhou's struggle for hegemony in the world.

And now among the few families who can win the world, such as Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Sun Ce, which of these people is not a man of his word in their respective territories, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and the power under his hands was not in the hands of the Dong family, but in the hands of Cao Cao's generals, Sun Ce, was relied on 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight Jiangdong, so the Jiangdong people are also very recognized by the little overlord, and Sun Ce also supports his relatives such as the Wu family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family as the bearers of Jiangdong's power. Lu Bu has no scruples, because Lu Bu now has a total of two territories, one is Lujiang, and the scholars in Lujiang have been completely killed by Liu Mang, the king of Shu, Lu Bu's good son-in-law.

When a dynasty will be destroyed, that is when the power of the noble clan is greater than the imperial power, and that is the end of a dynasty.

Once the war starts, it's okay to win, but once you lose and are liquidated, then the Kuai family will bear the brunt, because after all, it is you Kuai Liang who proposed to fight, and when the time comes, it will not be a Kuai Liang, but the entire Kuai family, so Kuai Yue can't afford to gamble, he doesn't gamble!

This is the biggest reason for the estrangement between the two brothers, one main battle faction, one main harmony, and even the Kuai family and the Cai family have begun to contact the next lord, so naturally there is nothing to say. Kuai Liang moved out of Kuai Mansion and lived in the outer city.

And Kuai Liang's wife died not long after Kuai Liang left, Kuai Liang, an old bachelor of the fifth level of the diamond king in Jingzhou, naturally many scholar families are making up their minds.

Don't look at Kuai Liang's age, but there are really many families who want to marry their daughters, or sisters to Kuai Liang, so that they can take the big boat of the Kuai family, if this is a chain of interests, you can see that Liu Biao of Jingzhou married Cai Mao's sister, the difference between the two is almost thirty years old, and Mrs. Cai and Liu Qi are about the same age.

And the other surnamed Liu is even more shameless, he directly married someone equivalent to his niece, Liu Bei's age is a little older than Sun Jian, but in the end, he took Sun Jian's youngest daughter, and these marriages are all for the benefit of the scholars.

But so many families were disappointed, Kuai Liang didn't want anyone, he just wanted to spend the rest of his life alone, Kuai Yue was not easy to persuade, after all, there was a gap between the two.

And now it seems that this younger brother of his has opened his mind, and he is going to marry a concubine, but he doesn't know that this is a girl from the He family, and there is no writing on this invitation, only the Kuai family marries a concubine, and the address and place are after the difficulty.

"Have you ever found out which lady is beautiful!" Kuai Yue asked his butler.

"The head of the house! Never! The person who sent the letter was just this ranger, and he didn't know what to ask! The butler replied.

"Hmm!" Kuai Yue frowned, if he knew which lady it was, so that Kuai Yue could change some strategies, which scholars could be brushed and the like, and they could also say hello and support each other in terms of their brother.

But now it's a little difficult to know which lady to do, "Forget it!" "Kuailiang's invitation is too perfunctory, and the matter is more urgent, which one of the general people is not the words of the matchmaker, and the parents' orders are said first, and then it will be done, let's look at it first, and I won't know it at night! Kuai Liang was able to marry a concubine, which was also a blessing for his Kuai family. After all, the Kuai family is not vigorous. If only I could add a half-and-a man.

"Where's the eldest young master!" Kuai Yue is ready to attend his brother's wedding in the evening. When he went to the wedding, he naturally wanted to take his only precious son with him. After all, they are all family, so why not go to his uncle's wedding! And Kuai Ran is still Kuai Liang grew up, and the relationship is still good, and now the bridge between Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang in the Kuai family is Kuai Ran.

"The eldest young master went to visit a friend, but he hasn't come back yet!" The butler replied to his master. How did the housekeeper not know that this Kuai Ran was going to the music hall, but the housekeeper was covering for Kuai Ran, if Kuai Yue knew that his son had gone to the Qinglou, it would be miserable for Kuai Ran to come back.

"Haven't come back yet?!" Kuai Yue immediately frowned. There is an urge to get angry, don't look at Kuai Yue is a good man in the officialdom, no one can offend, but he is really very strict with his son, because there is only one such heir, and in the future, this Kuai family will be Kuai Ran, Kuai Yue is naturally very strict, don't want him to be able to forge ahead, at least to ensure that the Kuai family does not decline.

"Send someone to call him back! Let him join me at his uncle's wedding dinner in the evening! Kuai Yue waved his hand and said to the butler.

"Yes, yes!" Don't say it. The housekeeper had already sent someone to the music hall to look for Kuai Ran, but this person was never found. Even the housekeeper found Steward Liu of the music hall, and Steward Liu said that this prince had already left with a prince of Lumen Academy last night, and there were still six girls when he left! If you just leave, the housekeeper won't be worried, but these six girls! He was really afraid that his eldest young master would play some group activities, and he finally got dizzy, usually it's fine, but not today.

When the housekeeper was about to leave, Kuai Yue suddenly stopped his housekeeper, "What's the movement of the King of Shu!" Kuai Yue didn't know why, looking at the familiar handwriting and invitation in his hand, he suddenly thought of someone.

"King Shu?!" The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, as soon as the son-in-law of the king of Shu, Liu Mang and Lu Bu, arrived in Jingzhou, the head of the family asked him to send someone to pay attention to the every move of the king of Shu. It's just that the Shu Palace's mansion has been too quiet for the past two days, so the housekeeper didn't report it immediately.

"On this mansion of the King of Shu, it is still the same as a few days ago, eating, practicing swords, fishing, and enjoying flowers!" The housekeeper explained the things in the mansion of the King of Shu in the past few days to Kuai Yue.

"So calm?!" Kuai Yue didn't believe it a little, you must know that this lord Liu Biao could hear what Pang Tong said, not only did he not sell grain and grass to Liu Bei, but also did not sell it to Liu Mang, and took all the grain and grass back into the treasury.

"Yes!" The housekeeper nodded, Kuai Yue confessed, the housekeeper will naturally not be sloppy, outside the Shu King's Mansion, the housekeeper sent nearly twenty people, and it can be said that the entire Shu King's Mansion has been monitored.

"Does the second brother's concubine have anything to do with this King of Shu?!" Kuai Yue thought of an answer that was closest to the answer, but it was vetoed by Kuai Yue himself, when this Shu king came, he brought a few guards and a Jia Xu, all of them were men, not a woman, so Kuai Liang must marry this Jingzhou woman, as long as it is a woman from Jingzhou, it has nothing to do with this Yangzhou. "Do you want to strike later? Or something else?! Kuai Yue couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't want to, this Yangzhou matter has nothing to do with his Kuai family, this is the struggle between Pang family Pang Tong and this Shu king Liu Mang, this is also the grudge between Liu Bei of Yuzhou and Lu Bu of Lujiang, and his Kuai family has nothing to do with it. It doesn't take long.

"The King of Shu continues to monitor there, that rebel comes back, you ask him to go to the bath and change clothes immediately and prepare to go with me at night!" Kuai Yue was a little tired, he was going to rest for a while, and he had to participate in the wine banquet in the evening, and the wine banquet naturally had to drink, so how could he go to the cup without the energy.

"Yes!" The butler nodded and stepped back.

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"Kuailiang Wedding Banquet?!" Pang Tong naturally received this invitation, and this invitation was specially written by Liu Mang to Kuai Liang to this Pang Tong, he just wanted Pang Tong to witness him Liu Mang pulling the velvet Kuai Yue and tying the Kuai family to Liu Mang's Yangzhou warship.

Seeing the word Kuailiang, Pang Tong was very uncomfortable. Because this person is a pro-Yangzhou faction. When Liu Mang hadn't come to Jingzhou yet. This Kuai Liang gave himself a lot of face, and even after he killed Liu Mang's envoy, he said that Liu Biao killed himself and used his body to go to Yangzhou to get Liu Mang's forgiveness. Kuai Liang can be regarded as half of Liu Bei's enemy.

"Strategist, aren't we going!?" One of his subordinates asked cautiously, the enemy's wedding banquet will only be boring for himself.

"Go! Why don't you go~" Pang Tong's dark face had a very flat expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking. "Since we have been invited, we naturally have to respond!" Naturally, the invitation has already been sent, if Pang Tong doesn't go, he obviously doesn't know how to be polite, and he can talk to some people when he goes to Kuaifu.

"By the way, there has been any movement in this puppet king Liu Mang's mansion recently?!" Pang Tong asked his subordinates, if Kuai Yue spied on Liu Mang just to hang up his neutrality because it was not his business. Then Pang Tong pays attention to Liu Mang, that is, he wants to know himself and the enemy, and he will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

"In the past few days, the puppet king Liu Mang's mansion has been very quiet, and the puppet king Liu Mang is eating, drinking, and having fun as usual!" The person in charge of monitoring Liu Mang's mansion replied.

"It's quiet?!" Pang Tong was stunned for a moment, but he risked his life to persuade Liu Biao, so that Liu Biao didn't want to help, his lord Liu Bei couldn't get grain and grass, and he didn't want to get it in Yangzhou, at this time Liu Mang should be an ant on a hot pot, he was so anxious to die and live, how could he be so indifferent. If things are abnormal, there must be demons.

"Kuai Liang marries a concubine?!" Pang Tong's eyes fell on the invitation in his hand again, the quietness of the puppet king Liu Mang's mansion. These two things must be connected! "I see!" Pang Tong seemed to have something in mind. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Strategist?!" The subordinates on the side looked at Pang Tong's expression very suspiciously, as if they wanted Pang Tong to explain.

"I understand, what this pseudo-king Liu Mang thinks!" Pang Tong smiled coldly: "He hasn't moved in the past few days." It's not that he's not in a hurry, but he's waiting for the opportunity, and today is one of those opportunities! "Kuai Liang, Pang Tong is not without investigation, this person is very stubborn, he has the title of Kuai stunned, he has been widowed for a long time and has not married a concubine, but today he suddenly married a concubine and sent a wide invitation.

There must be a problem in this, Pang Tong couldn't figure it out before, but now he has figured it out, this Kuai Liang doesn't marry a concubine sooner or later, he has to marry a concubine in the past few days, which is to create opportunities for this pseudo-king Liu Mang.

Liu Biao stopped selling the grain and grass to Yangzhou, Liu Mang must have to find someone in front of the relationship, and went to Liu Biao to say in detail, if Liu Mang goes to find it one by one, this will find the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue, and it is one thing if people can't see him.

But if Kuai Liang marries a concubine, it will be different, who is Kuai Liang! He is Kuai Yue's younger brother, and he is also a high-ranking official in Jingzhou, Kuai Liang will definitely send out invitations when he marries a concubine, and those scholar families will definitely be present to give the Kuai family face, Liu Mang only needs to participate in this banquet to get in touch with those people, once and for all, and he needs to visit them one by one!

This Kuailiang is really well-intentioned. At such an age, I have to help Liu Mang late in the morning.

"Then the military advisor will do it now!" Hearing what Pang Tong said, Liu Bei's subordinates on the side began to be anxious, didn't they spy on Liu Mang just to prevent Liu Mang from going to the relationship to find someone, but now Liu Mang can see so many people once and for all, isn't this surveillance in vain.

"Hehe, he Liu Mang wants to see him, but I just want him not to see it!" Pang Tong squinted his eyes and smiled coldly, if this Kuai Liang hadn't given him Pang Tong's invitation, he Pang Tong might still be confused by Liu Mang, but now that he has given this invitation, then he Liu Mang won't want to succeed.

"What do you mean?!"

"Kuailiang is a wine banquet held in the evening, and the location of this wine banquet is in the outer city of Xiangyang!" Pang Tong picked up the invitation in his hand and gave it to his subordinates to watch: "I need you to send people so that this pseudo-king Liu Mang can't pour this Kuailiang's wine banquet!" ”

"Is this the military advisor asking us to attack and kill the puppet king Liu Mang!" Several of Pang Tong's subordinates were puzzled, "Since the military advisor killed Liu Mang's envoy last time, the entire Jingzhou has been paying attention to us!" Swords are hard to use in the city! "Pang Tong Xueban Chao killed Liu Mang's envoy and wanted to force Liu Biao to comply, so that Liu Biao and Liu Mang went to war, but he miscalculated Liu Biao's courage, and also miscalculated this capable person in Jingzhou. But he was wary of Pang Tong. It's okay to use swords outside the city. In this Xiangyang City, once the sword soldiers are moved, let alone the puppet king Liu Mang, this Jingzhou Liu Biao will not be able to spare Pang Tong. At that time, it will definitely affect the prevention of Liu Mang, and it will be self-defeating to say that Liu Biao can still sell Yangzhou military rations in a fit of anger.

"Idiot! Is it necessary to use swords in this city to stop them? Pang Tong was blunt, and he reprimanded his subordinates.

Liu Mang lived in the inner city, and Pang Tong and they could not use swords. In the same way, Liu Mang and they can't take out swords and soldiers in public, both sides are bare-handed Pang Tong has the upper hand, because Liu Mang is an outsider after all, how many people can he have, and Pang Tong, he has lived in this Jingzhou since he was a child, it can be said that he is the head snake of Jingzhou, their Pang family is a behemoth in Jingzhou, it is very simple to find hundreds of people, and when the time comes, as long as Liu Mang and them are blocked in the inner city. If he can't get out, he will naturally not be able to fall on Kuailiang's mansion in the end. Liu Mang's calculation was invalid, and in the end, Kuailiang was not guaranteed in the evening, and Liu Mang also could not get the grain and grass in Jingzhou, killing two birds with one stone.

"The military advisor is highly talented, highly talented!" Pang Tong's subordinates all had bright eyes, yes, in this inner city of Jingzhou, they can't use swords, and neither can the puppet king Liu Mang, as long as they find hundreds of people, they can do it by blocking the road.

"Go ahead! I'm going to shower and change my clothes, too! Pang Tong smiled and waved his hand and said, he has to prepare well, this Liu Mang and Kuai Liang have worked so hard to calculate, and they want to let those heads of the scholar family gather in the Kuai family once and for all, isn't it just to have a chance to negotiate! In the same way, he Pang Tong went, which was also an opportunity for Pang Tong.

For example, this Jingzhou's Don't Drive Kuaiyue, this person is a neutral, the wall grass, Pang Tong has visited Kuai Yue several times under the pretext that he is not there, or he is simply perfunctory, how much can this Jingzhou have besides the frontline Jiangxia?

The front line used to be a lot of things, but now it is his best friend and his lifelong enemy Zhuge Liang who replaces Jingzhou in Jiangxia, Zhuge Kongming's ability, can Pang Tong not know! Even if Jiangdong can't be pacified, at least Jiangxia, the barrier of Jingzhou, will definitely not be lost. With Zhuge Kongming here, Jingzhou can be safe for 30 years.

Kuai Yue's excuse can be summed up in one sentence, that is, he doesn't want to see Pang Tong, but today, this Kuai Yue has to see himself, above the wine banquet, can he still have an excuse not to go! Although there are contradictions between this Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, they are also brothers after all, and Pang Tong believes that Kuai Yue will not not participate.

In addition to Kuaiyue, there must be other scholars from all walks of life on top of this banquet, and this is a good opportunity to make friends.

"Help me prepare a heavy gift!" Pang Tong went to Kuailiang's wedding banquet, naturally he would not leave empty-handed, he wanted to give a big red envelope, this red envelope must at least be able to move the Kuai family. When the time comes, Kuai Yue will be embarrassed to refuse himself.

"Heavy gifts?!" Pang Tong's subordinates didn't understand, if it was just a gift, there were a lot of preparations in their mansion, all of which Pang Tong prepared for visiting some scholars. But what is a gift? What does it look like?

"Yes, a great gift!" Pang Tong nodded.

"Strategist, do you think this is okay?!" Pang Tong's subordinates brought two East Pearls, these two East Pearls can be regarded as worth 100 gold, not only because it is good-looking, but also it is revealed from the former eastern capital Luoyang, Dong Zhuo ordered people to destroy Luoyang when they moved westward, Zhang Xiu and his uncle participated in this feast of robbery, Luoyang was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the gold, silver and jewelry inside were naturally snatched away, including the two East Pearls in front of him, which fell into Zhang Ji's hands.

Zhang Ji is Zhang Xiu's when he dies, and Zhang Xiu is dead, so naturally it is his lord Liu Bei's.

"Not enough, not enough!" Pang Tong shook his head, although there are a lot of gold, but in front of the behemoth of the Kuai family, it is not worth mentioning.

"And what about this pair of jade Ruyi!"

"Still won't work!" This pair of jade Ruyi is not as good as those two east pearls.

"This Analect is the only one?!" Another subordinate took out a yellowed book, don't underestimate him, he is an ancient book with the words of a sage.

"No!" The unique book of the Analects is also very precious, I am afraid that the whole world will not find the same second book, but this kind of ancient book is for those old masters and Confucian scholars, not the Kuai family.

"What do you mean?!" These men can't think of any more serious gifts.

"By the way, didn't the lord send a horse of gold and silver!" One of his subordinates suddenly thought of something and said.

"That can't be moved, that's because the lord asked me to wait to come to Jingzhou to buy grain and grass!" Another subordinate hurriedly stopped and said that these pieces of money were the money that Liu Bei got from Zhang Xiu, and some of them belonged to Yuzhou that Liu Bei had hollowed out. There were five thousand gold, which was used to buy grain and grass.

"Nope! Just use that batch of gold and silver! Pang Tong was also reminded that he didn't have a heavy salute, but that he had him but didn't find out.

"But with that batch of gold and silver, what should I do with this grain and grass!" Someone questioned.

"Even with this batch of gold and silver, we can't buy grain and grass!" Pang Tong has blocked his own road, which makes Liu Biao not sell grain and grass to Yangzhou, which can be regarded as a lose-lose situation, and this batch of money is already useless, or it is shipped back.

Moreover, there is such a thing as grain and grass, and Pang Tong has already mobilized the forces of the Pang family to help. He is consuming the foundation of the Pang family.

And now that he has taken out this batch of gold and silver, he can make friends with the Kuai family and those scholars, why not, this Jingzhou is not so much Liu Biao's Jingzhou as the Jingzhou of the scholars.

"That's it! Someone will load me with gold and silver! Leave a thousand gold, and the rest will be loaded! Pang Tong gritted his teeth, if this money can be befriended by the Kuai family, it will definitely be worth it, Pang Tong left a thousand gold to pull other small scholars! (To be continued......)