When they crossed the river, they were also pressed by the lord to give them additional tasks, and Lai Gong and Wu Ju were naturally nervous along the way, and they didn't know whether the future was auspicious or evil.

The flotilla traveled down the river from Gangneung for most of the day, and in the afternoon, as the flotilla approached the mouth of the Yau River, this uneasiness was amplified again.

Sure enough, just as the fleet approached the mouth of the river on the south bank, a group of patrol ships suddenly came out, with a majestic appearance.

A tall and stout bearded general on the bow of the ship roared like thunder in the middle of the ship:

"Who is coming! I'm General Zhang Fei! Ordered by the general of the chariot and cavalry, you must not cross without permission when you are idle! ”

Lai Gong and Wu Ju were taken aback, and hurriedly asked Congren to reveal their identities, saying that they were the Taishou sent by Liu Biao.

Unexpectedly, the flying talisman was passed on, and he immediately changed his face, came over the ship very politely to greet them, and personally asked the fleet to guide them.

"It turned out to be Lai Fujun and Wu Fujun! Disrespectful, disrespectful! The big brother of the flying leader has been waiting here for a long time! This serious river defense is also afraid that the river will not be quiet after the war, and some thieves will disturb you, so I am here to escort! ”

Wu Ju is a martial artist, almost as rough as Zhang Fei. Lai Gong has read books, and when he heard Zhang Fei's words, he always felt a little awkward.

How does this sound like Liu Bang quibbling in front of the Hongmen banquet: I sent someone to guard Guguan, not against you, but to "prepare him for stealing and entering and exiting".

However, Zhang Fei's follow-up courtesy looked pure and natural, and Lai Gong did not see any signs of pretentiousness.

Zhang Fei asked people to send hot food and wine, meat and wine by boat, and personally accompanied Lai Gong and Wu Ju to eat, drink and recreation, and the fleet transferred to the mouth of the Youjiang River and continued to escort forward, all the way to Xiaoling County.

Lai Gong and Wu Ju were a little confused, and looked at each other: I have heard for a long time that this Zhang Fei is reckless and arrogant, how can he respect us so much? It seems that the rumors are not true......

When they arrived in Xiaoling County, it was already dark at night, and Zhang Fei personally called to open the city gate and arrange for them to rest.

The next day, the group continued to go south, but Zhang Fei did not send it in person, after all, he shouldered the river defense and could not go inland, but he also arranged cavalry to protect Lai Gong and Wu Ju. And let Xiaoling County order Li Yan to accompany him to Linyuan and assist Wu Ju in handing over the work in the county.

Needless to say, there are no details along the way.

After a few days, Wu Ju arrived in Linyuan and finally began to take over the errand of the Wuling County Guard, and everything went smoothly.

The adjutant in the county left by Liu Bei did not disobey Wu Ju. The daily work assigned by him will be implemented, and the information and information he wants to consult will also be provided.

After Wu Ju gradually became familiar with it, he remembered what Liu Biao sent to urge when he was about to cross the river, so he took an opportunity to ask Cao Peng of the county household Cao and Bing Cao:

"I don't know how the reverse property of the predecessor attached to the rebel county guard Jin Xuan was disposed of? Is there a list of raids? ”

Cao Peng was stunned for a moment, but also replied positively: "It is indeed sealed, but due to the complexity of all things, and there has been no government monarch to take over for several months, we did not dare to make a comprehensive inventory, lest there be leaks in and out." If the prince wants to check, he can go to open the seal in person, and his subordinates will arrange for someone to register and make a record. ”

Wu Ju was born as a military general, and he didn't really come to strictly check the accounts, but just to test whether the local subordinate officials cooperated in terms of money and food, and he didn't say anything at the moment, let people lead the way, and personally went to inspect it, and cleaned up the reverse property of Jin Xuan and other criminal officials.

In the end, Wu Ju frankly issued a tentative order: "After making the book, choose the ones that are soft and easy to handle, and load them on the ship and escort them to Jiangling as soon as possible, how long will it take to do it?" ”

Hu Cao Peng didn't dare to give him a clear answer, only said that there were thousands of things, and it was difficult to be sure for a while, but they would do it as soon as possible.

Wu Ju has no lineage, so he can only let people fool him and urge him every day.

And Lai Gong's side, after arriving in Lingling County, encountered a similar situation.

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As everyone knows, Wu Ju ordered people to do things and transfer Jinxuan to reverse production, and this order had only been pretended to be carried out for two days, and someone quickly reported to Baqiu County.

And Jiangxia was too guarded by Zhuge Liang, and he also asked Liu Bei in advance, saying that he would go to Baqiu for a while. Because he felt that after Wu Ju and Lai Gong took office, Liu Biao might have some small actions, and if they were dealt with nearby, they would react faster.

Liu Bei felt that what Zhuge Liang said was very reasonable, and he himself was tired of living in Wuchang for more than half a year, and he wanted to go out to visit the mountains and rivers, so he personally came to Baqiu to inspect in a low-key manner, and by the way, he watched the scenery of Dongting Xiaoxiang.

On this morning, when the secret report from Wuling County reporting Wu Ju's movements arrived, Liu Bei was playing with Zhuge Liang on Baqiu Mountain, overlooking the vast smoke and waves of Dongting Lake.

After reading the secret report, Liu Bei didn't bother to think about it, and asked Zhuge Liang directly: "What does Mr. think, what Wu Ju wants to do, how should we deal with it?" Continue to let him do it smoothly to show our sincerity? Probation Wu Ju? ”

Zhuge Liang put a feather fan on his eyebrows, shielding him from the scorching August sun, and his eyes were sad. I saw the curling autumn wind and the wavy leaves of the Dongting.

"Of course, we still have to let Wu Ju finally complete the errand, so as to reduce Liu Biao's hostility towards us, and let Wu Ju know our sincerity in letting him be the real power, and in time, the lord will be able to recover Wu and Lai.

However, 'getting things done in the end' does not mean that there can be no delays and twists and turns in the process. Before coming to Baqiu, I had heard that the Xiangyang side had made a detailed report, and the rumors that Jibo had recently accepted benefits from our army and colluded with our army had been strictly investigated in Xiangyang. Judging from other clues, Cai Mao should have also been alienated and reprimanded by Liu Biao.

This shows that our previous strategy has been successful. I guessed that Cai Mao must have told Liu Biao about framing Ji Bo out of hatred for our army, and it should be similar to what I tried to spread.

Now that Wu Ju has just taken office, he is eager to show his control over Wuling's financial power, and it should be that Liu Biao was provoked by the previous accident and couldn't hold his breath, so he wanted to throw stones and ask for directions as soon as possible, so he gave a death order.

We can ask Wu Ju to delay for a few more days, so that if he can't complete Liu Biao's mission on time, he will inevitably be afraid, or at least, 'should be afraid'.

And as long as he should be panicked, then whether he is really panicked or not, we can learn from it - Wu Ju didn't bring many people to office, and he didn't care about the real accounts when the money and grain were handed over to the Wuling Mansion, so he didn't have the ability to check the accounts.

In his opinion, it is already a great luck that our army did not transport all the money and grain in stock before the handover, and was willing to leave some to him, where do you dare to be too little? How many officials can he bring with him, and how many details can he clarify? In the end, isn't it the planner we control, helping him get a result that is enough to give Liu Biao?

In this, we can make two accounts of yin and yang, one yang, and less of the reverse production of Jinxuan, to Liu Biao, and the corresponding property on the yang account is also sent to Liu Biao.

Leave another yin account, in the name of Wu Ju, secretly sent to Cai Mao, the property on the yin account is more than the yang account, the difference between the yin and yang accounts is the real benefit to Cai Mao, please Cai Mao help mediate a few words in front of Liu Biao, help him solve the delay in handling the errand, and then ask Cai Mao to raise his noble hand......

As for the specific high-ranking hand, let Cai Mao think about it himself, we don't have to help him think too clearly. Anyway, this kind of thing will never be able to reconcile, even if Liu Biao finds out that Cai Mao is full of personal pockets one day, he will not confront Wu Ju. The same is true for Lai Gong's side. ”

After hearing this, Liu Bei also gasped slightly, feeling a little pity for Wu Ju and Cai Mao.

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This matter, no matter which link is exposed in the end, it will definitely tear a crack in Liu Biao's camp and bury a chain of suspicion.

Liu Biao's trust in the Cai family, as well as his trust in Wu and Lai, will drop a bit, but it may not affect the Yi nationality.

But in any case, in the future in Jingzhou's pastoral circle, the tear between the pro-Liu faction and the pro-Cao faction will become more and more serious.

Liu Biaodu is over sixty years old, and it is estimated that his energy in his later years will be involved in bridging this internal conflict, and he will no longer be able to go far.

Although Liu Biao didn't have much ambition in the first place, Zhuge Liang's hand added another insurance to Liu Biao's "harmlessness to humans and animals".

Liu Bei has now taken the four counties of Jingzhou, even if it is in the name of counterinsurgency, there are still many Jingzhou people who are suspicious, and the hearts of those people who were captured last year are also slightly loosened because of Liu Bei's strong occupation.

But Liu Biao's side is divided and torn, and if Liu Biao is really a bit long and short in the future, it is estimated that the pro-Liu faction forces in Jingzhou will have no choice but to vote for Liu Bei immediately.

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Although Liu Bei did something and did not do anything, since Cai Mao was hostile to him first, his countermeasures were naturally not tired of deceit.

Zhuge Liang's plan was finally approved by Liu Bei and quickly executed.

On the side of Wuling County, it was Liu Bei's people who cooperated with Wu Ju's work, and as soon as the order arrived, the work that was originally procrastinating was quickly completed within a few days, and he set off to escort it back to Jiangling.

Wu Ju brought too few attendants to escort him. The people of the county soldier Cao helped to raise manpower, and selected some people who were not very related to Wu Ju from the old department of the Wuling County soldiers, who were captured and forced to land by Zhang Fei.

Wu Ju arranged for three personal officers to lead the team, with hundreds of county soldiers and several warships, to transport the reverse property of Jin Xuan and other criminal ministers, and set sail back to Nanjun on the same day.

When the things arrived, Liu Biao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard about it, and he also took the opportunity to leave the hundreds of county soldiers from the old Jinxuan Department - Liu Biao didn't care about the money and the soldiers who escorted him, what he cared about was to test Liu Bei's reaction and see if "Liu Bei would stop him from transferring troops from Wuling County to Nanjun".

But in the end, Liu Bei didn't react to anything, and he was a pure elder.

Later, Lai Gong's Lingling County also operated in this way.

After learning all this, Liu Biao actually felt a trace of guilt in his heart, feeling that he was too wary of Liu Bei at the beginning.

Now it seems that although he has lost the military management rights of Wuling and Lingling two counties, he cannot directly garrison and control various key points. But Liu Bei at least did not restrict him from drawing all resources from Wuling and Lingling, including money, food, and manpower. What Liu Bei cares about should only be the complete control of the Yangtze River waterway.

Liu Bei is still a kind person.

After Liu Biao was relieved, he felt that this matter should have been revealed.

But unexpectedly, a few days later, some small changes occurred.

Since the last time Wang Wei delayed the rumors that Cai Mao asked him not to report, Liu Biao severely criticized Wang Wei once. But Liu Biao can't help it, he has too few henchmen to use. If Wang Wei is not used, other generals will not dare to disobey Cai Mao, so Wang Wei still has to use it, unless Liu Biao can find another spare tire.

But with the return, Liu Biao also took care of Wang Wei: let him be vigilant, even Cai Mao will have to keep an eye on it in the future, and everything that should be reported must be reported immediately! It's not easy for Cai Mao to stop it!

So this time, Wang Wei didn't dare to hide it at all, and after Wu Ju and Lai Gong's escort team left, he found an opportunity for Mrs. Cai's absence one day and reported a secret news to Liu Biao.

The content is nothing more than that a few days ago, when he was ordered to keep an eye on Wu Ju and Lai Gong's escort team, he found some problems. Wu Ju and Lai Gong seem to have two accounts, yin and yang, and only sent the things on the clear account to the treasury of Jiangling Gongzhong for delivery.

But another account, and some things, were sent to a manor in Yicheng, and that place was Cai Mao's other business.

Wang Wei didn't get any stolen goods, but in the process of staring at people, he found out that there were several treasures of the Jinxuan family, which should have fallen into Cai Mao's hands.

Yicheng is not far from Xiangyang, and Liu Biao didn't directly blindly believe it at that time, so he pressed this matter down and asked Wang Wei to keep quiet.

A few days later, Liu Biao found an opportunity to suddenly go out to relax, and then took the excuse to go to the Cai family's manor in Yicheng. Cai Mao was not there at the time, but with the Cai family traveling with Liu Biao, the Cai family naturally did everything to meet the requirements and tried their best to serve.

Liu Biao pretended to be interested and wanted to appreciate the treasures collected by the Cai family, but Cai didn't know it, so he ordered to do his best to satisfy it.

Then, Liu Biao saw a jade book that was suspected to be given to Jin Riyan by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he appointed Huo Guang, Jin Riyan and other ministers to assist Emperor Zhao when he was dying.

Jin Xuan has been in Jingzhou for many years, and Liu Biao doesn't know that Jin Xuan's family treasures this thing, although he knows that Jin Xuan has always claimed to be the descendant of Jin Riyan, a famous minister of the Han Dynasty.

But a few days ago, when Wang Wei heard about it, he said that Zhang Feijun obtained and sealed a lot of treasures, including this thing, when he broke the Wuling Tomb and killed Jin Xuan. I don't know how Wang Wei found out such a secret news, and the person on the other side is too imprudent.

But these are no longer important, the important thing is that such a precious thing appeared in Cai Mao's house.

And what I saw just now is just a more typical one, and there are one or two other treasures as circumstantial evidence.

Liu Biao couldn't help but secretly wonder: "Even Wu Ju and Lai Gong know that if they want to be Taishou in Wuling and Lingling for a long time, they have to curry favor with the Cai family...... Hmph, it must be because Cai Mao attacked Ji Bo a while ago, and they knew about it, and they were also worried that Cai Mao hated Wu and Wu.

It seems that in the hearts of Jingzhou Wenwu, as long as the Cai family does not like the people, they have the ability to slander me and finally take them out! In the end, I am Jingzhou Mu, or Cai Mao is Jingzhou Mu! ”

The anger in Liu Biao's heart had risen to the extreme, but he didn't choose to tell the story.

However, after this incident, it will be at least a few years before Cai Mao can speak in front of Liu Surface.

Most of Cai Mao's motives will be interpreted by Liu Biao as for his own selfish interests.

Whether this attitude can last until Liu Biao's death, it is difficult to say at present, after all, when people are old and confused in the end, they will miss the old and will be brainwashed by the wind in their ears for many years. But at least for a few years, it is necessary.

The hatred of Liu Bei faction within Jingzhou was hit hard.

At least for a few years, Liu Biao will no longer ask Liu Bei to change the covenant, and the division of spoils between the two sides has completely become a recognized established fact.

As for whether Liu Biao will gradually alienate Lai Gong and Wu Ju, and in the future, Lai and Wu will be stimulated with reverse suspicion, that is all a later story, and it is still too far away.

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