A few hours ago, when Liu Bei had just heard that Liu Biao had closed the river and banned the flow of business travel, he still had some regret and regret in his heart.

Of course, he knew that Liu Biao's voice was to keep a distance from him and prevent being sucked by talents.

However, after recalling Zhuge Liang and listening to Zhuge Liang's simple explanation, Liu Bei immediately made up his mind.

Although he has not yet asked about the specific analysis in detail, Liu Bei has firmly believed that as long as it is the judgment made by the Zhuge brothers, it is right to directly believe in its conclusion!

Of course, after accepting the letter, it's not bad to listen to the detailed analysis, anyway, if you're not in a hurry, it's considered to exercise your brain.

After Liu Bei made up his mind, he humbly asked for advice: "Why does Mr. think that Liu Biao's move is not only invalid, but will hurt his reputation as a good man?" ”

For this question, Zhuge Liang didn't even have to think about it, and directly listed one, two, three:

"Liu Biao sealed the river indiscriminately, and too many people were injured. The exiled Beishi who wanted to come to Wuchang to seek a future were only a very small part of them. How should those wealthy businessmen who rely on goods to benefit the three states deal with it?

If the merchant fleet of the Kuai family and the Cai family can pass privately, but the other families cannot, then the other families and forces will inevitably complain, which is a way to cut off people's money.

Although Liu Biao found the excuse of 'blocking Cao Cao's persuasion to surrender and the envoy to cross the border to avoid the recurrence of Zhang Xiu's incident', a discerning person can still easily see that Liu Biao is weak-hearted.

Most people may not have noticed that we were eager to seek talents and run schools in Jiangxia, but they were tossed by Liu Biao, but they accelerated their attention. Therefore, I said that Liu Biao's move was extremely mediocre.

Maybe he thought that the ban would be lifted in a few months, and everything was still under control, so he made up his mind. But since we bumped into him, even if he is only blocked for two months, we must make full use of this opportunity to maximize the blow to Liu Biao's reputation and appeal, as long as this is the case, the plan will be calculated ......"

Zhuge Liang whispered one or two trivial tricks, Liu Bei listened, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his eyes.

But after calming down and thinking about it, I felt that there was nothing unbearable: everything was Liu Biao's first beware of us, and Liu Biao asked for it. Let's just let Liu Biao seek benevolence.

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For more than ten days after that, on the Wuchang side, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang continued to divide farming, recruit talents, and set up teaching. Sima Hui, Xu Shu, Shi Tao, and Yin Mo also adapted to their new identities and gradually got on the right track.

The battle for Liu Biao's talents seems to have passed, and Liu Bei did not make any counterattack against Liu Biao's blockade on the surface, and seemed to be very generous.

On the Yangzhou side, after Zhuge Jin separated from Liu Bei and his second brother, he also planted the field for three months with peace of mind, climbed his own science and technology, used the winter farming slack to build some new necessary infrastructure, and also sent Tai Shici to use this winter to open up the Liaodong sea-crossing trade route, and bought back the first batch of Northeast war horses, everything went according to plan.

Half a month passed in a flash, and the time soon came to the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an (200).

The atmosphere of the New Year finally made the people of the Han Dynasty, who were full of fear of military disasters, relax a little. At least in the three southern states, far from the war, it seems to be the case for now.

As for the people in the territory of the Yuan and Cao families in the north, peace has nothing to do with them for the time being.

Both sides have already pulled the strings of pre-war mobilization to the fullest, and all kinds of attempts to even pull allies horizontally and vertically have been laid out to the extreme, and any spark may detonate.

Also because it was the New Year, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who had been prying Liu Biao to seal the river, after the first half a month of tension, saw that Liu Bei had no overreaction, and there was no one in Jingzhou who wanted to run, so Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's vigilance was relaxed.

On the one hand, the scale, composition, and frequency of the sailors sent out to patrol the river every day, and those who can cut corners will definitely cut corners layer by layer.

Cai Mao asked for ten points when he put his mouth cannon, and when he supervised it himself, he could only supervise it until eight points.

Zhang Yun will carry it out, and it would be good to have seven points. and then to those at the rank of captain, it may only be five or six points. to Qu Junhou and the first-line patrol warships...... Not even half of the execution power is left.

Since Liu Biao became the leader of the Jingzhou army and repelled Sun Jian, it has not fought a hard battle for eight and a half years and nearly nine years.

In the past nine years, most of the time, even if we had to deal with small-scale conflicts and bear the pressure from Jiangdong, it was Huang Zu who carried it.

After Huang Zu's death, most of his troops were forced to land by Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu, only Su Fei fled back with 2,000 righteous soldiers to join Liu Biao despite the hardships and dangers, and was also deprived of military power by Liu Biao to transfer the troops to Zhang Yun.

The degree to which a unit that has basically not fought a war for nine years is very exaggerated.

So in history, when Cao Jun went south, he was served so easily. And the Jingzhou army, which surrendered to Cao's army, soon became synonymous with pig teammates, pitted Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, and was bloodily abused by Zhou Yu (Zhou Yu actually did not annihilate many northern troops under Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, mainly to defeat the naval army in the Jingzhou army, and Cao Cao's losses were exaggerated in the romance. ）

To put it mildly, the troops controlled by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are not said to be "the third century AD", but they are not far behind.

The most direct consequence of the abolition of armaments and the implementation of discounts was the so-called closure of the river, which soon became a feast for personal gain.

Because of the severance of trade, the prices of some scarce materials that are not produced locally on the border of Jingzhou have risen. At this time, Cai Mao Zhang Yunjia's own caravan immediately smelled the benefits, and then filled this vacancy, taking advantage of the exclusive monopoly during the war preparation period to make a fortune.

After the caravan of the Kuaiyue family found out about the situation, they naturally wanted to get a piece of the pie, and Kuai Yue also hinted to Cai Mao: If you don't give up, then go to all kinds of hints in front of the envoy, so that the envoy can wake up to what you are doing!

Of course, Cai Mao didn't want to tear her face, and it wasn't a big deal. So as soon as he heard the hint, he immediately allowed it, pulled the Kuai family into the water, and everyone rubbed the round soup together.

As a result, other families without power became more and more complaining. Especially after Liu Biao sealed the river, the channels for those families in the four counties of Jingnan to go to Wuchang to do business were also cut off, and all of them were monopolized by Zhang Yun.

The trade monopoly of just a few months will not produce too huge benefits, and the backlash and resentment of the people should not accumulate too deeply.

Anyway, Liu Biao will definitely ensure the supply of Huai salt in Jingzhou, so that there will be no shortage of necessities that must be bought. If it is really not enough, the merchants of the four counties of Jingnan can also change the number of roads in Sichuan Salt and Chu, and replace Huai Salt with Sichuan Salt.

However, the situation of this month cannot be estimated in the usual state.

Because in the Liu Bei control area opposite, there are just a few products, which are in the outbreak period.

With the mining of Daye Iron Mine in Exian County and the popularization of new steel filling technology, a large number of cheap steel civil tools were consciously dumped by Zhuge Liang in the market to provoke the nerves of Jingzhou's major tycoons and businessmen.

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The Wuchang Printing Company's batch printing of "Erya" and some of "Mao's Poems" were also temporarily transferred to Jingzhou for sale at low prices—even when the Wuchang Xuegong itself did not have enough library reserves, it gave priority to meeting the dumping demand of the Jingzhou market.

There is no doubt that this is part of Zhuge Liang's strategy to attack Liu Biao's prestige.

Liu Biao's sealing of the river was not originally for Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, and the Kuai family to make profits, but to prevent the flow of talents.

But Zhuge Liang dumped the in-demand goods after Liu Biao ordered the closure of the river, deliberately let the enemy earn the monopoly price difference, and deliberately temporarily cheapened Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and as a result, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun also brought great hatred.

Cai Mao and Zhang Yun didn't react for a while, they only felt lucky: they had just made Jun Fengjiang and controlled trade by the way, but as a result, there were so many good goods on the other side that were sold in demand, all of which made Cai and Zhang Kuai become monopoly dealers, and they made a lot of money!

Originally, there was no industry of "book trade" in the Han Dynasty, because books in this era were originally copied by hand, and there would be no industry at all.

The real rich don't want to copy it in person, at most, they spend money to hire someone to copy, or they keep the doorman for a long time, so that the doorman can help copy the book when they are free, in short, there is no ready-made situation of spending money to buy books, which is really priceless.

The mass-selling "Erya" and "Mao's Poems" sold by Wuchang Printing Company immediately aroused the popularity of a group of people in Jingzhou who were motivated but had no way to find books, and who also had a little spare money. The main ones are some uneducated small landlords, and the little heroes who have just been whitewashed by bandits.

This is an opportunity to break through the Maison's monopoly on knowledge!

With the spread of the printed book, a large number of rumors that were unfavorable to Liu Biao Fengjiang's intentions began to spread wildly. People's resentment towards the "Cai Zhangkui" triangle is growing day by day.

It's just that all this happened around the Chinese New Year, and Liu Biao was also idle and ignored government affairs, so the news was not very well-informed and the response was slow.

In the end, it was fermented around the Shangyuan Festival, and the Yi nationality found out that these folk winds were not in the right direction, and immediately asked to see Liu Biao, told the situation, and asked Liu Biao to change his course.

Liu Biao woke up at this time, and asked Wang Wei, who was in charge of the guards, whether there was any fraud in the implementation of the order to seal the river.

Wang Wei also truthfully stated that Liu Biao was shaken and decided to find an opportunity to quietly end the Jiang Closure Order without losing face, but it was already a little late.

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At the same time that Liu Biao was blinded and sluggish, in the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an, a small change also occurred in Huangjiazhuang in Deng County.

On this day, it was already the 20th day that Xiang Lang had been living in Huangjiazhuang after rejecting Liu Biao's expedition, and Xiang Lang's family members were also spending the New Year in Huangjiazhuang, just to have the opportunity to run away as soon as possible.

It can be said that Xiang Lang's intention to go is already very firm, and Liu Biao's fooling by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun made Xiang Lang completely disappointed in him.

The general of the chariot cavalry has begun to give priority to selling books to the people of Jingzhou! Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are still taking the opportunity to make this monopoly wealth! The advantages and disadvantages are clear at a glance!

How can you have a future working with greedy people like Cai Mao and Zhang Yun?

However, Wuchang did not send a ship to meet him, so Xiang Lang had to beg the Huang family to help raise the ship himself. But Huang Chengyan repeatedly said that he should not provoke Liu Biao so quickly, and he could wait and see how things progressed.

Xiang Lang occasionally relied on his own family to raise small boats to explore the way, but he was also stopped by Su Fei's old army led by Zhang Yun, so he had to continue to endure it.

A few more days passed, and it was already two days after the end of the Shangyuan Festival, the seventeenth day of the first month.

On the wharf of Dengxian near Huangjiazhuang, two Jingzhou sailors suddenly came, and after the ship docked, two officers came down, just a few attendants and soldiers, all the way to Huangjiazhuang.

When Huang Chengyan heard the report, he thought he was looking for trouble, and couldn't help but be a little angry: "This Cai Mao Zhang Yun is getting worse and worse, the old man cooperates with them like this, and doesn't give Brother Jingsheng an ugly face, they still dare to come to the door?" ”

Still persuaded him to Lang: "Huang Gong doesn't have to be angry, maybe it's a misunderstanding, maybe it's for something else, let the juniors deal with it first, if it's really Cai Mao Zhang Yun Hu Wei, it's not too late to ask Huang Gong to come forward." ”

Huang Chengyan nodded at this time and asked Xiang Lang to deal with it on his behalf.

So Xiang Lang came to the gate of the manor with a saber and asked people to open the door with a wary face.

At the door were two tun chiefs, who looked neatly armoured and armed, but they did not look vicious, and they did not look like they were looking for trouble.

Xiang Lang asked tentatively: "This is Huanggong Manor, I don't know what the two of you want?" ”

One of the tun chiefs arched his hand stiffly, pointed to his companions, and introduced: "Under the surname Wei Mingyan, it was originally sent to Nanyang to assist Zhang Xiu's first team of troops, after Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao, my department was fortunate not to be coerced, and returned with great hardship, and was assigned to Zhang Yun's account and promoted to the head of the tun.

This Matun chief is known as Kang, a side branch of the Ma family in Yicheng, and was sent by the Ma family to join the army, and once followed Huang Zu, Su Fei, and then returned with Su Fei, and was also assigned to Zhang Yun. Mr. Xiang must have seen us too, right? You tried to sneak Han to Wuchang once, but we stopped you. ”

When Xiang Lang heard this, his face darkened slightly, but he didn't know what the other party wanted to do, so he didn't dare to attack.

If the other party wants to emphasize that he has blocked himself, there is no need to go to Huangjiazhuang to taunt him, right?

Xiang Lang forcibly suppressed his emotions and patiently asked, "Then you are here today to ......"

Then Wei Yan took out a volume of "Erya" from his chest, pointed it and said: "I don't read much, and I can't recognize all the words, so I only planned to be a martial artist for the rest of my life." Recently, it was learned that Mr. Shui Jing was in Wuchang to assist his disciple Zhuge Liang in printing scriptures with immortal arts, and sold them to Jingzhou at a low price, so that we Jingzhou people can also afford to read words, and his virtue is not shallow!

Zhang Yunpifu, not only closed the river to block the virtuous road, but also arbitrarily judged his interests, five hundred dollars into the "Erya", he dared to sell it for thousands of dollars! also suppressed other peers, only Cai Mao and Zhang Yun can do this!

This horse brother also told me that they originally followed Su Dudu, Su Dudu was loyal and resolute, was surrounded by Guan Yu and disarmed, and still thought of the old master, regardless of the hardships and dangers. But he was framed by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, Mingsheng secretly seized his military power, and let Brother Ma transfer them to Zhang Yun!

Now that we have thoroughly seen Zhang Yun's deception, I really don't want to die for him! If Mr. Huang Gong and Mr. Xiang want to return to Wuchang, we can take the opportunity of tomorrow's shift to patrol the river, take the two soldiers under our command, take these two ships, take advantage of the night to go down the river, break through the closed river, and stay away from the blockade line in one night!

I just hope that when Mr. Xiang arrives in Wuchang and sees Lingshi and your classmates, he can introduce us to a way and be able to defect to the general of the Cheqi! ”

Xiang Lang was dumbfounded when he heard it, he was closed to news, and he didn't understand what an unpopular thing Liu Biao had done by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun in just a few months, which would actually cause the Jingzhou soldiers who came back from Su Fei and Zhang Xiu to not want to do it for Liu Biao!

Even if this is only a rare case, it can be seen.

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