Liu Biaozi Jingsheng, a native of Gaoping, Shanyang County, now Weishan, Shandong. After Liu Yu, King of Hanlu Gong, he was a famous scholar in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and one of the heroes in the late Han Dynasty.

He was more than eight feet long, with a gentle and majestic appearance, and was well-known in the world when he was young, and was called "Eight Jun" with the seven wise men. He Jin was the general and served as a lieutenant in the Northern Army.

The descendant Wang Rui is the history of Jingzhou Thorn, supplemented by the Kuai brothers, Cai Mao and others. Li Dao and others entered Chang'an, and Liu Biao sent envoys to pay tribute.

Li Dao appointed Liu Biao as the general of Zhennan and the pastor of Jingzhou, and was named the Marquis of Wu, and took the fake festival as his aid. During his stay in Jingzhou, Liu Biao Enwei wrote and lured in a good way, so that thousands of miles were cleared and the people were satisfied. He also opened a school, loved the people and raised scholars, and calmly protected himself.

Yuan Shao, close to Zhang Xiu, Na Liu Bei, thousands of miles of base, with more than 100,000 armor, called the Jingjiang River, first killed Sun Jian, and then often resisted Cao Cao.

However, Liu Biao is suspicious of human nature, better at sitting and talking, determined to be self-controlled, and has no ambition of the Quartet, and later spoiled his wife Cai, so that his wife Cai Mao and others gained power.

In 190 of the first year of the First Ping, 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 Rensu was the Taishou of Changsha, and Bei Yu was the HR county magistrate, and each of them dominated the local area according to the militia, which made Liu Biao unable to take office directly. He then went to Jingzhou anonymously and celibately before he was appointed.

After Liu Biao arrived in Jingzhou, he entered Yicheng on a single horse and conspired with Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, a native of Lu County, Yanzhong, and Cai Mao, a native of Xiangyang.

Liu Biao asked: "There are many thieves here, 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 am afraid that they will not be able to gather, what are the countermeasures of the people?"

Kuai Liang said: "The reason why the masses do not attach themselves is because of the lack of benevolence, and the reason why the masses are dependent and cannot prosper is because of the lack of righteousness; if the way of benevolence and righteousness can be practiced, then the people will return like the downward trend of the water, so why worry about the people who come and ask 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 could be passed on. Although Yuan Shu and the others came, there was nothing they could do. ”

Liu Biao sighed: "Zirou (Kuai Liangzi) can be said to be the theory of Yongji. The plan of the different degree (Kuai Yue character) can be said to be the strategy of the murderer. ”

So Liu Biao asked Kuai Yue to send people to lure 55 thieves (15 in the Book of the Later Han) to the banquet, kill them all, and attack their subordinates 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, Liu Biao controlled the seven counties of Jingzhou except Nanyang County, and managed the troops in Xiangyang to observe the changes of time.

At that time, the Kwantung Prefecture raised troops to fight against Dong, but Liu Biao did not join the coalition army against Dong. And Liu Biao also recommended Yuan Shu to be the Taishou of Nanyang and temporarily show favor to him.

In the second year of Chuping (191), Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao, and Liu Biao sent Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu to meet the battle in Fancheng and Deng County.

Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu and besieged Xiangyang. Liu Biao sent Huang Zu to secretly go out of the city by night to mobilize the troops of various counties, and when Huang Zu led the army to return to Xiangyang, Sun Jian met the attack, and Huang Zu was defeated and fled into Da Xian Mountain.

Sun Jian took advantage of the victory to chase after him overnight, and Huang Zu's troops lurked in the bamboo grove and shot Sun Jian to death with a hidden arrow.

From then on, Yuan Shu was no longer able to defeat Liu Biao. After Sun Jian's death, Liu Biao cut off Yuan Shu's grain route, making it impossible for him to entrench himself in Nanyang, forcing him to flee in the direction of Yanyu, which indirectly contributed to the later battle of Kuangting between Yuan Shu and Cao Cao.

This move not only completely eliminated Yuan Shu's ambition to covet Jingzhou, but also used the power of Cao Cao's army to weaken Yuan Shu's power, making it even more distant from Jingzhou, reducing the threat to Jingzhou, and consolidating his own dominance in Jingzhou.

In the same year, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan made more than 1,000 rides in the car. Liu Biao went to the imperial court, saying that Liu Yan seemed to have signs of Zixia discussing the theory of saints in Xihe.

In the third year of Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was killed, and the rest of Li Dao and Guo Yan entered Chang'an. In October, Liu Biao sent envoys to the court to pay tribute, and Li Dao sent Zhong Xuan, the squire of the Yellow Gate, to worship Liu Biao as the general of Zhennan and the pastor of Jingzhou, and to be named the Marquis of Wu, allowing the establishment of Changshi, Sima, and Zhonglang, who had the power to open the palace and summon Peng's subordinates, and the etiquette was like that of the three dukes;

Li Dao used this to tie Liu Biao as his foreign aid.

Liu Biao created a separatist force in the eight counties of Jingzhou that was relatively safe compared to the Central Plains. Many scholars fled the Central Plains at that time and chose to take refuge in Jingzhou, including Zhuge Liang.

In the first year of Xingping (194), Liu Yan died of illness, and his son Liu Zhang was immediately enthroned. Liu Biao took advantage of this opportunity to faction Liu Biao to oppose Liu Zhang's generals Shen Mi, Lou Fa, and Gan Ning, but they were all defeated and entered Jingzhou.

On the Yizhou side, Zhao Wei was also appointed as the general of Zhengdong Zhonglang, and garrisoned Qu Ren in Badong County to guard against Liu Biao.

After pacifying Jingnan, a feud gradually arose between Liu Biao and Jiaozhou Mu Zhang Jin. During the four to eight years of Jian'an (199-203), Zhang Jin used troops against Liu Biao for many years. However, the Jiaozhou soldiers were outnumbered, so it was still in vain to fight with Liu Biao for many years.

In the eighth year of Jian'an (203), Zhang Jin was killed by his subordinates.

In order to get involved in Jiaozhou, Liu Biao immediately sent his subordinate Lai Gong to serve as the assassin of Jiaozhou, hoping to take possession of Jiaozhou before the imperial court appointed officials.

At the same time, he appointed his subordinate Wu Ju as the Taishou of Cangwu to replace Shi Huang, who had just died of illness. On the other hand, the Han court, led by Cao Cao, worshiped Jiaozhi Taishou Shixie as "Suinan Zhonglang General, Dong Du (Jiaozhou) Seven Counties, and Jiao Lu Taishou as before", aiming to counter Liu Biao's power in Jiaozhou.

In the sixth year of Jian'an (201 years), Liu Biao sent 10,000 foot cavalry to attack Western Hubei, and Du Xi, the county magistrate of Xi'e, summoned all the officials and people who were responsible for defending the city, totaling more than 50 people, and held the city, and finally was outnumbered, and Liu Biao's army attacked the city of Western Hubei. In the same year, Liu Bei came from Yuan Shao to defect to Jingzhou, and Liu Biao treated him with kindness, but did not reuse Liu Bei, and only arranged for him to be stationed in Xinye and become his own Northern Domain.

In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), when Cao Cao went on an expedition to Liucheng, Liu Bei persuaded Liu Biao to attack Xudu after raising troops, but Liu Biao did not accept his words. When Cao Cao returned to the Central Plains, Liu Biao said to Liu Bei: "I didn't take your suggestion before, but now I have lost such a good opportunity." Liu Bei had no choice but to say: "Fang is splitting today, and when the war is over, the opportunity will definitely appear again, and how can there be an ultimate? If we can seize the opportunity in the future, this incident will not be enough to hate." ”

However, Liu Biao remained neutral in the wars between the princes, and at the same time Liu Biao no longer paid taxes to the central government. Liu Biao's self-defensive attitude also made the Jingzhou area avoid many wars, so that Liu Bei was able to stay with Liu Biao.