Lu Dynasty

Chapter 689
Not to mention that Cao was scared by me to move the capital, but Liu Bei is also stepping up his conquest of Jingzhou. Although Zhuge Liang is powerful, the Kuai family is not waiting for it.The Kuai family didn't care about Liu Bei's occupation of the four counties in Jingbei, because the four counties of Jingbei were not only small and sparsely populated, but also close to Shanyue. The Kuai family had no power or territory there.But Jingxiang is different. Almost all the lands of the four major families in Jingzhou are there, and they will never allow others to get involved, even if Zhuge Liang was once their relatives and apprentices.Even if the Huang family and the Pang family welcome Liu Bei, the Cai family and the Kuai family will absolutely not allow princes who favor the other two families to rule Jingzhou.Because in terms of power, Liu Bei will definitely favor the Pang family and the Huang family, which is very detrimental to the Kuai family and the Cai family.So in order to resist Liu Bei's strong entry, Kuai Yue suggested to Cai Mao that I should take over Jingzhou.

Cai Mao saw that he could not become the lord of Jingzhou, and the idea of ​​coercing the emperor to order the princes could not work because of Liu Qi's existence. In desperation, Cai Mao had no choice but to listen to Kuai Yue's suggestion and invite me. After all, I just finished dealing with Yuan Shao. It can be said to be the largest prince in the world.However, although the Cai family and the Kuai family love me, there are still many people in Jingzhou who oppose me, because I have suppressed the aristocratic family too hard.Looking at the noisy people in the meeting hall, Kuai Yue shook his head helplessly. Judging from the current situation, I will attack Jingzhou soon. Rather than being defeated by me, I might as well surrender as soon as possible. At least I can make a good impression on me. , not to die too ugly.But these people seem to only look at immediate interests, they don't know that it is a favor to actively cooperate with me, and it is a crime to be forcibly conquered by me!Kuai Yue would not harm his family for the sake of other people. After discussing the matter, he wrote me a letter, expressing his welcome to our army to occupy Jingzhou.

After receiving Kuai Yue's letter, I have already returned to Luoyang.To be honest, my image of Kuai Yue is pretty good.Although he did not leave a strong ink mark in history, as far as this man's wisdom is concerned, he is definitely a talent.You must know that many people who surrendered in history were not treated well by the lord, especially the children of the aristocratic family, let alone the princes.It's as if Cao is afraid, guarding against, and restricting the children of the family, for fear that they will seize power.Many capable and intelligent children of aristocratic families were killed by Cao with various excuses, and although Kuai Yue did not have too much ink, he was not caught by Cao.The most important ability of a counselor is self-protection. As the saying goes: If you are strong, you will benefit the world, but if you are poor, you will be alone.For the children of aristocratic families like Kuai Yue, it is not easy to be alone under Cao's command.Who would have thought that Xun Ling, who had followed Cao for decades, committed suicide in order to protect his family just because of Cao's slight suspicion!
I smiled and threw Kuai's letter of loyalty to Guo Jia, and asked him to send someone to contact Kuai Yue and Cai Mao. After all, our army can't attack Jingzhou yet, but I asked Gan Ning to take over the Jingzhou navy. Look at Cai Mao's sincerity.Moreover, if you want to deal with Soochow, you must have a strong navy. I also asked Zhao Yun to build ports at the mouth of Bohai Sea and Beihai. Let him be in charge of the navy!
Cai Mao and Kuai Yue have no objection to the construction of ports and large ships, but Cai Mao is a little unhappy that I want to deprive Cai Mao of his naval power.In addition, Gan Ning was originally a Jingzhou water thief, so Cai Mao didn't want to admit that he was worse than Gan Ning.But if he doesn't agree with my conditions, I won't send troops to Jingxiang, and he is likely to be swallowed by Liu Bei.Liu Qi and Cai Mao had a big feud, and Cai Mao knew what would happen to him if he fell into Liu Bei's hands without thinking about it.One wants to give up rights, the other wants to give up life, Cai Mao knows how to choose.

Gan Ning got my order and rushed to Jingzhou with his personal guards.In order to prevent Cai Mao from harming him, I asked him to sneak into the country, first find a foothold by the Yangtze River, and then contact Cai Mao, so that it will be safer.But Gan Ning, who fought against Cai Mao several times, didn't look down on Cai Mao at all. He thought that no one in Jingzhou could take him down, so he rushed directly to Jingzhou to contact Cai Mao.I was really speechless to Gan Ning, this stubborn bull. In order to prevent him from being in danger, I had to give Cai Mao a stern warning.If Cai Mao dares Gan Ning to be unfavorable, I will definitely ask him to be buried with the Cai family.Cai Hao has already been hated by Liu Bei because of Liu Biao, if he is hated by me again, he will really have no place to stand, he can't give up on the Cai family in Jingzhou, right?However, in order to appease Cai Mao, although I asked him to hand over the military power to Gan Ning, I did not deprive him of his rights. For this, Cai Mao is very grateful to me.It's a pity that he doesn't know that because of his personality, it's more troublesome in the army. The military discipline and laws of our army are almost designed for people like him.

I have to say that Jingzhou has a lot of troops, and Cai Mao actually has 27 sailors under his command.Gan Ning is not Cai Mao. According to the regulations of our army, he divided the Jingzhou navy into three levels, and only [-] elite were drawn from them. The other old, weak, sick and disabled are still in charge of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.Seeing that Gan Ning was so knowledgeable about current affairs, Cai Mao admired him very much. Unfortunately, he didn't know that Gan Ning really looked down on those miscellaneous soldiers under his command!Since Gan Ning picked the best soldiers, I immediately asked him to lead troops to harass Jingbei for training.Although Zhuge Liang is very wise, he does not have a general who can compete with Gan Ning on the water.With Gan Ning's support, Cai Mao felt more at ease.How can I say that Cai Mao also fought against Gan Ning for several years, and he knew Gan Ning's strength.

When Gan Ning arrived, Liu Bei would be out of luck.Don't look at Zhuge Liang's magic calculation, he was also tortured miserably by Zhang He.Now Gan Ning is much stronger than Zhang He.As long as he doesn't go ashore, Zhuge Liang has nothing to do with him.No matter how good Zhuge Liang is, he can't cut off the Yangtze River!Gan Ning took the sailors to plunge into the Yangtze River. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang could only look at the river and sigh!Of course, Gan Ning couldn't bring too many soldiers. If 8 people jumped into the Yangtze River, it would be Zhuge Liang's game!Although Zhuge Liang was a little annoyed by Gan Ning's harassment, he still didn't care much.After all, no matter how powerful Gan Ning was, he was only harassment. He could not really attack the city. As for Jingxiang's Cai Mao, Zhuge Liang had no intention of moving him at all.If Zhuge Liang really captured Jingxiang, Liu Qi would definitely take the Cai family to avenge his father's death.At that time, Liu Bei will be caught in a dilemma. Killing Cai Mao will chill the Jingxiang clan, and not killing Cai Mao will chill Liu Qi. In the end, Liu Bei will not be able to gain a firm foothold in Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang is not stupid enough to put himself into this kind of situation. Due to the situation, he most hoped to use tricks to get me to kill Cai Mao, or to kill Cai Mao on the battlefield.Unfortunately, this possibility is not great!
(End of this chapter)