The political meaning of Zhang Xi's split of Xiangyang County and Jiangling County is different.

Among the Jingzhou families, the most powerful group has always been the Xiangyang family headed by the Pang family and the Ma family, followed by the small and medium-sized families in Nanjun, Nanyang and other places.

By the way, the Huang family's base camp was originally in Jiangxia and Jingnan, but now that these two places have changed back and forth, the Huang family has long sensed that something is wrong, except for leaving some people to express a sense of existence in Jiangling, most of the Huang clan people followed Zhuge Liang's family to Chengdu, and regarded it as the center of gravity for development.

As for the Kuai clan, after Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue surrendered to Cao Cao, the Kuai clan has basically moved north to Luoyang, and even developed in Hebei, and the power of the division left in Xiangyang is far less than before.

And Cai's. I'm sorry, now within the Xiangyang family, there is no place for the Cai family at all.

Anyway, the Xiangyang family must be the largest interest group in Xiangyang, and their basic plate must be around Xiangyang.

But there's an awkward part here.

Xiangyang is the administrative center of Jingzhou, whether it is during the Liu Biao period or after Guan Yu recovered Xiangfan, it has always been such a position.

However, Xiangyang is also subordinate to Nanjun, and the county governance of Nanjun is Jiangling, and when Zhang Xi served as the Taishou of Nanjun, he has always stayed in Jiangling to work.

In addition, the important geographical location of Jiangling is an important city on the first line of defense of Eastern Wu, which leads to a great contradiction between Xiangyang and Jiangling over the proportion of resources within Jingzhou.

When Guan Yu was there, everything could be suppressed, but in the more than half a year from Guan Yu's death to Zhang Xi's appointment in Jingzhou, there have been many contradictions.

In short, the Xiangyang family wanted to protect their interests by controlling de facto control of the surrounding area of Xiangyang, but the officials of the Namgun family and Gangneung certainly did not want to do so.

Although these Nanjun families can't do anything in terms of power, the problem is that they occupy the legal basis.

Xiangyang, after all, is a city under the southern county, although the successive governors of Jingzhou have stayed in Xiangyang, but no one is clear that Xiangyang is the governor of Jingzhou.

This has led to the fact that Xiangyang's position is now very embarrassing, and it urgently needs a chance to correct its name.

And Zhang Xi is divided like this, which is equivalent to dividing Xiangyang separately and becoming a county, and since it is divided into a county, it is definitely impossible to have only such a city as Xiangyang, Fancheng in the north of the city, Yicheng in the south of the city, and even Dangyang, Linfu and other counties, can they also be assigned to Xiangyang? !

To the north, the Xiangyang family can grab the interests that originally belonged to Nanyang County, and to the south, the Xiangyang family can negotiate with the Jiangling family about the interests of the counties that they could not intervene in. What else can the Xiangyang family be unhappy about.

And as long as the Xiangyang family can stabilize, then this Jingzhou will not be chaotic.

In addition, Zhang Xi took the initiative to move his Jingzhou Mu's administrative office south to Jiangling, which is tantamount to saying that he will not interfere in the distribution of interests between the Xiangyang family, and it also shows that the main purpose of Zhang Xi's visit to Jingzhou this time is to guard against Eastern Wu.

Really, the Xiangyang family has been choking on Guan Yu's "Northern Expedition" for many years, but now they have a headache when they hear the word "Northern Expedition", but if they attack Dongwu, the Xiangyang family will not have such a big reaction.

First of all, Jingzhou and Soochow are feuding.

This feud is not only due to the hatred that Huang Zu killed Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan for violating Jingzhou several times, but the most important thing is that the Jiangdong turtles always want to reach out and encroach on the interests belonging to the Jingzhou family.

The former still has room to turn around, but the latter is the kind of great hatred, the kind that never dies.

Secondly, compared with the Cao Wei Group, which is difficult to beat, the Dongwu Group in the east can be said to be a soft persimmon in the eyes of the Jingzhou family.

Really, in recent years, the Han court has always compromised and retreated to the Eastern Wu side, in fact, the Jingzhou family is also very dissatisfied.

At the beginning, Liu Jingsheng could hold Jiangdong and beat him, but now that this soldier is strong and strong, can the people of Jingzhou still be afraid of that group of Jiangdong turtles? !

At last. The use of troops against Eastern Wu means that Jiangxia County and Jingnan County have the possibility of being recovered, and these places have always been places where the Xiangyang family wants to intervene, but has never had the opportunity to intervene.

In the past, Jiangxia County was the territory of the Huang family, and others could not interfere.

Finally, when the Huang clan went to Chengdu, Jiangxia County also asked for it back from Dongwu, and the Jingzhou family just put their hands in it and invested a lot of money and grain, but before they could get back the cost, Jiangxia was taken back by Dongwu and it was good to lose money.

The biggest loss in this is the families of Gangneung, who are still holding their stomachs.

As for the four counties of Jingnan, the Xiangyang family in the past would not be tempted by that kind of poor and remote place, but now it is different.

After Zhang Xi went to Jingnan to carry out a project to convert silt into fields, after more than ten years of development, the swampy silt land near Changsha, Guiyang and Lingling has been transformed into a large area of fertile land.

Of course, the people who contributed the most money and effort here must be the turtles in Jiangdong, if it weren't for their continuous investment in Changsha and Guiyang, it would be impossible for such a large-scale fertile plain to come out.

But the Jingzhou family doesn't care, these places are Jingzhou's territory, why do you Jiangdong people go to Jingzhou's territory to do anything?!

It's not that we covet that bit of land, the main thing is that this belongs to the four counties of Jingnan, which are the four counties of Jingnan in Jingzhou.

Not to mention anything else, the three counties of Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling must be taken down.

Therefore, for the Jingzhou family, Zhang Xi's departure from Jiangling is more good news than bad news to a greater extent.

In this way, after appeasing the Xiangyang family, Zhang Xi stayed in Xiangyang for almost a month, coordinating and dealing with all kinds of Jingzhou official affairs that had been piled up, and was busy until mid-June, before leaving for Jiangling.

accompanied by 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers who had finished their northern expedition and rested.

And as Zhang Xi took 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers south to Jiangling, the first person who couldn't hold it was Lu Kai, the public security guard.

At the end of last year, as the Jingzhou army returned one after another, the Eastern Wu side saw that the goal had been achieved, and chose to withdraw its troops without hesitation.

Zhou Yu withdrew to Jiangxia, while Zhu Ran withdrew to Lukou.

As for the captured public security county, it is impossible not to leave people to guard it, after all, the other side of the river is Jiangling, and such an important place, since it has been defeated, it must be defended.

Zhu Ran left Lu Kai and 5,000 soldiers to guard the public security.

In the past, in the face of Shi Bao and more than 20,000 defenders in Jiangling City, Lu Kai's pressure to defend the public security was really not too great.

After all, Shi Bao has to consider the defense of the entire area near Jiangling, not just for a public security county, so although Shi Bao has the advantage of troops, it is really unlikely that he will come out to attack the public security.

In addition, Jiangdong has enough naval superiority to block the river with the naval army before launching an attack on Jiangling, so the threat of Jiangling to public security is really not very big.

But not now, if you count the 30,000 soldiers brought by Zhang Xi, the entire Jiangling City has hoarded more than 50,000 Jingzhou soldiers, what is this for?!

It doesn't take that many troops to defend an area, right?!

After Lu Kai got the news, he did not hesitate to order to start preparing for battle, and at the same time quickly asked Zhu Ran in Lukou for help.

In addition to Lu Kai feeling nervous, Zhu Ran and Zhou Yu also began to deal with it themselves.

These two people are stronger than Lu Kai in terms of strategic experience and strategic sense, and it is impossible for them not to perceive the danger that Lu Kai can perceive.

Zhu Ran's response was very simple, sending a large number of naval troops to patrol the river to prevent Jiangling from smuggling across the Yangtze River and launching a surprise attack on the public security.

Then Zhu Ran hurriedly sent a performance to Emperor Sun Quan of Wu, asking him to prepare reinforcements in Yuzhang and other places, and at the same time wrote to Zhou Yu, hoping that Zhou Yu would make a protective defense of the flank of Lukou and defend the safety of the flank of Lukou.

After his own judgment, Zhu Ran believed that the Shu thieves were likely to use force against the public security.

As for Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu actually agrees with Zhu Ran's judgment very much, but the problem is that Zhou Yu can't veto it, Zhang Xi wants to take advantage of the situation from the two lines of water and land to attack the possibility of Jiangxia.

Therefore, Zhou Yu also made his own response - personally led the naval army into Xiakou to watch the passage from Hanshui to the Yangtze River, and at the same time asked Zhang Cheng to lead 5,000 soldiers to settle in Jingling to prevent Zhang Xi from invading Jiangxia County by land.

As for Zhu Ran's request. Zhou Yu's entry into Xiakou is equivalent to defending the flank of Lukou, killing two birds with one stone.

The response was done, but Zhou Yu was still a little hesitant.

It is not that he hesitates whether there is any problem with such a military arrangement, but he is full of doubts about the purpose of Zhang Xi's operation.

Is Shu Han really ready to turn his face with Da Wu?!

This problem, not to mention that Zhou Yu is not sure, Sun Quan, who is now in Jianye, is also a little uncertain.

Although both Lukou and Jiangxia came to report that Shu Han had an abnormal troop movement and it was possible to launch an attack on the territory of Eastern Wu. But this is not the case, Sun Quan still has some doubts.

Is it really just that the face? Where did Shu Han get the confidence?!

Didn't you just finish a battle, it's only been half a year, and you've relieved yourself?!

Or is it that Zhang Gong's judgment was wrong, in fact, Shu Han didn't want to maintain the status quo with Da Wu at all?!

As a last resort, Sun Quan sent someone to invite Zhang Zhao to come over to discuss this matter, right? !

At the same time, Zhou Yu received a letter.

The letter was sent by Zhang Xi, this is already very fresh, how many years have the two not exchanged letters?!

And the content of the letter made Zhou Yu even more vague, and the letter said that Zhang Xi set up a small banquet by the Wulin River and invited Zhou Yu to cross the river.

This bastard boy. What kind of fame?!

Do you want to have a single knife banquet for border demarcation?!

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