The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 508 507 Jingzhou Storm (17)

Liu Qi set off a bloodbath in Xiangyang. In just three days, more than a thousand people were questioned and beheaded, and more than 2000 of them were exiled. At this time, in order to save their lives, they all fell into trouble one after another, and told all the deeds of Cai's party.

But soon, Cai's party turned into a dog-eat-dog fight, and it was precisely because of this that Liu Qi was able to wipe out the Cai's party so smoothly.

During the entire bloodbath of Cai's party, Kuai Yue, who was in charge of staying in Xiangyang, also drew a clear line with Cai Mao in order to protect the interests of his family, and acted according to the wind, becoming Liu Qi's right-hand man. Cai's party was completely destroyed. Kuai Yue also played a big role in the removal.

For a while, layers of dark clouds gathered over Xiangyang. Under Sima Yi's suggestion, Liu Qi took control of the entire Xiangyang, temporarily closed the city gates, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. In addition, in the name of Liu Biao, he issued A proclamation told the whole of Jingzhou that Cai Mao conspired to rebel and committed a heinous crime. The Cai family is a moth in Jingzhou. Whoever dares to cover up is guilty of the same crime as Cai's party, and set up a bonus. I hope that the people of Jingzhou will actively expose Cai's party.

As soon as the call to action was issued, the entire Jingzhou was shaken. Cai Yao, the prefect of Nanjun stationed in Jiangling City, was even more frightened. When he learned that the Cai family was uprooted by Liu Qi in Xiangyang City and lost Cai Mao's protection, Cai Yao was both scared and angry.But in the end, Cai Yao's fear overcame his anger, he packed up his belongings overnight, and prepared to move his family to Yizhou for refuge.

Cai Yao is Cai Mao's cousin, an important figure in Cai's party, and also Cai Mao's confidant, including his prefect position, all because of Cai Mao.During Cai Yao's tenure in Nanjun, although he did not rob people's daughters by force or oppress the people, Cai Yao did his best to oppress the soldiers stationed in Nanjun.

At first there were 3000 troops in Nanjun. After Cai Yao took office, he sent soldiers back home one after another. In the end, only a team of 3 people remained, but in terms of quota, there were still [-] people. In other words, Cai Yao sat on the empty pay of [-] soldiers.

In addition, Cai Yao often enslaves the soldiers in South County, treats them like cattle and horses, and makes them do hard work and heavy work, but he always makes excuses to deduct military pay, and even the weapons and armor that should be distributed. , arrows, and some military supplies were all pocketed by Cai Yao, so the military uniforms on the soldiers of Nanjun have always been worn out, and they looked no different from beggars. This is why all the soldiers of Nanjun One of the important reasons for the poor jingle.

Cai Yao was about to escape, a servant in the mansion was from the same town as Jiangling City Captain Huo Jun, so he immediately told Huo Jun the news.

When Huo Jun learned that Cai Yao was going to escape, he immediately mobilized his troops and stopped Cai Yao on the way. When the soldiers saw Cai Yao, they were very angry and hated to the bone. The entire family was massacred, and the gold, silver and jewels taken by Cai Yao amounted to dozens of boxes.

When the soldiers saw so much money, they were blinded by the money, and when they were about to take it for their own, Huo Jun suddenly stopped them and told the soldiers that it was the result of Cai Yao's years of oppression by the army, and that it was even more oppressive. Common people, this money is ill-gotten wealth and cannot be taken for your own.

Huo Jun is quite prestigious in the army, he can't say for sure, and none of the soldiers dared to move.However, Huo Jun saw that the soldiers were all squeezed by Cai Yao, and they had a share of these gold, silver and jewels.Therefore, Huo Jun selected a cart full of gold, silver and jewels and distributed them to [-] soldiers on average, without taking any of them himself.

Then, Huo Jun ordered someone to cut off Cai Yao's head, and transported all the dozens of carts of gold, silver and jewels back to Jiangling City, and sealed them in the warehouse. No one was allowed to touch them.

However, when Huo Jun and others returned to the city and opened the storeroom, they were completely shocked. The whole storehouse was empty, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of soil. The taxes paid by the county every year were all gone. .

"Cai Yao is a bastard, I know he is greedy, but I didn't expect him to be so greedy." Although Huo Jun was angry, Cai Yao was dead, and it would be useless to get angry again.He put the gold, silver and jewels into the treasury, then counted the quantity and value, and recorded it in his heart, and then ordered someone to seal the treasury. Without his order, no one was allowed to open the treasury.

Next, Huo Jun took control of the entire South County, and began to trace the whereabouts of the money and food in the treasury. He first arrested Cai Yao's confidants, and prepared to torture him to extract confessions.But Cai Yao's confidant confessed everything before torture.

It turned out that during the past few years when Cai Yao was the prefect of Nanjun, he used various names to put money and food from the treasury into his own pocket, and then used the ill-gotten gains to give gifts to Cai Mao.

The matter was completely clear, and Huo Jun did not intend to embarrass these confidantes of Cai Yao. The tree fell and the monkeys scattered. Huo Jun asked people to let these confidants of Cai Yao go, but Huo Jun did not let them go unconditionally, but asked them to spend money. Come to redeem their lives, and can no longer be an official in Jiangling, stay away from here.

These confidantes of Cai Yao are greedy for life and afraid of death, even if they sell everything, they will save their own lives.Therefore, Huo Jun set a ransom, asking them to redeem his life at a high price of two thousand gold.

Two thousand gold is a sky-high price for ordinary people, even if it takes a few lifetimes, it may not be able to earn it.But these people follow Cai Yao to do their best, they eat hot food, and embezzle a lot of money. They didn't bargain, so they agreed immediately.

The next day, a steady stream of gold was sent to the government office. Huo Jun asked people to check and accept it, and put it in the treasury before releasing him.

There were about 45 people arrested by Huo Jun. For a while, gold piled up in the treasury, and those who redeemed their lives packed up their bags as soon as they returned home, and then moved their families out of Jiangling City to other places .

After these people left, Jiangling City no longer had the smog it used to have. Everyone in the army unanimously recommended Huo Jun as the prefect of Nanjun, but Huo Jun refused. He held Cai Yao's head, and then Bringing the belongings that he had confiscated, he was going to Xiangyang City to report on his duties.

Before Huo Jun left, he specially ordered his subordinates to keep a close watch over the treasury. If there was any mistake, Huo Jun and them would both die. Huo Jun will find him everywhere.

After the arrangements were made, Huo Jun rode his war horse to Xiangyang alone.And his subordinates are really obedient, guarding the treasury tightly all day long, working three shifts, never daring to slack off in the slightest.

Huo Jun is Huo Du's younger brother. Huo Du was once a general in Jingzhou, but unfortunately died in a battle. Liu Biao let Huo Jun continue to lead Huo Du's subordinates, and appointed Huo Jun as the captain of Jiangling City.

Although Huo Jun is young, he is very capable. He not only wins the three armies bravely, but also has courage and strategy. He is a man of wisdom and courage.Moreover, Huo Jun has always handled affairs impartially, never playing favoritism, nor corrupting the law, neither likes forming cliques nor pretending to be false, everything is straightforward, so later Huo Jun offended Cai Mao, within a few years, although Work hard, but have not been promoted.

After Cai Yao became the prefect of Nanjun, he gradually dispersed the soldiers, but he only kept Huo Jun's [-] troops, because Huo Jun was personally appointed by Liu Biao, so he didn't dare to do anything to Huo Jun, but he was able to squeeze him.

For a few years, Cai Yao has been oppressing Huo Jun and others, just to force Huo Jun to rebel, and then he leads his troops to kill Huo Jun, which means he has made a great contribution.

However, Huo Jun was exceptionally strong, no matter how aggressive Cai Yao was, Huo Jun would not oppose him.But Cai Yao never dreamed that Huo Jun, who he had been oppressing all the time, would die in the hands of this person in the end.It can be regarded as a kind of retribution.

The distance between Jiangling and Xiangyang is not too far. Huo Jun is alone, riding a war horse, non-stop, non-stop, one day is up. When Huo Jun came to Xiangyang City, he happened to catch up with Liu Biao under the protection of Liu Bei's army. When he came back, the eldest son Liu Qi led Sima Yi, Kuai Yue, Wei Yan, Wen Pin, Li Tong and others to greet him outside the city.

After Liu Biao and Liu Qi met, they didn't know what they said, but Huo Jun could see that Liu Biao's face was gloomy and ugly, while Liu Qi's face was full of excitement.In addition, Huo Jun also saw a person, a person who was following Liu Biao. The person had a strange appearance, a medium build, and two protruding ears. His naturally hanging arms could reach his knees.

Huo Jun felt curious that there are such strange-looking people in the world, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances.After a while, the man casually glanced at Huo Jun with his hot eyes. Although it was only a short glimpse, Huo Jun immediately felt the kindness in the other's eyes, and he had an indescribable feeling. It feels like I have known this person for a long time, and I even want to rely on him.

This was the first time Huo Jun had this feeling. He pointed at that person curiously, and asked a commoner beside him: "Who is that person?"

The people replied: "You don't even know that person? He is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the governor of southern Jing!"

"Oh, it turned out to be him!" Huo Jun had naturally heard of Liu Bei's name, and it was Liu Bei who put down the rebellion of the Queen Mother of Changsha and made the four counties in Jingnan gradually stable.It's just that he has never met Liu Bei, so he doesn't know Liu Bei.

Soon, Liu Biao was welcomed into the city by Liu Qi, the army also entered the city, and the people scattered in two ways, warmly welcoming Liu Biao's return.

However, they did not know that Liu Biao did not return in triumph, but in defeat.

It's just that Liu Biao felt that all this was a shame, so he didn't make it public. The people in Xiangyang City thought it was Liu Biao's triumphant return.

Huo Jun waited until the army entered the city before he was caught in the crowd of common people and slowly drove into Xiangyang City.

(End of this chapter)