Chapter 300: Joyful
The situation has sloppily entered July, and the hot weather has brought great trouble to the riders who communicate with all over the world, but the heat of the sun only needs a bowl of honey syrup to cool their hearts, and the letters they support to send back and forth in the mission are enough to make the world feel hot!
The Yan's war in the southwest has not yet seen results, firstly, because the terrain of Yizhou is difficult to travel, and the soldiers and horses are extremely slow, and secondly, because it is difficult for the messenger cavalry to reach quickly, and in places like Yizhou, even the most experienced riders can only stagger along.
However, in Jingzhou, Zhang Liao achieved fruitful results, first the naval general Xue Zhou defeated Zhang Yunsuo's Jingzhou naval division in Yingshui, and then Gao Shun on land defeated Cai Mao in Huarong and won his head, and the Liao general Zhang Jaw personally broke through Xiangyang and intercepted Liu Biao's wife Cai and his son Liu Cong.
As for Kuai Yue and the others, it's just incidental.
As a result, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao broke his leg, causing an uproar in the upper echelons of Jingzhou, and after retreating to Yicheng, although he still had enough warriors to defend the city, he fell ill in anger...... As for whether the cause is anger or a leg injury, no one cares, because it doesn't matter at all.
The successive defeats made it difficult for the officials and people of Jingzhou to resist the enemy. As the saying goes, Jingzhou has been boosted by the Yan clan step by step, but every time the battle is fought in the north, the result is a fiasco, and now, where can people have more morale?
People turned their attention to another prince entrenched in Jingzhou, Cao Cao. At this time, no one thought that Jingzhou Mansion still had the power to stop the Yan clan, and if they wanted to survive, it was better to defect to Cao Cao and take advantage of the land in Jiangling to fight against the Yan army.
However, there are some things that Jingzhou people can't imagine. Liu Biao was seriously ill and suffered a leg injury, which put the matter of the Jingzhou government setting an heir on the agenda. Previously, when Liu Cong was in the state, because of his marriage with the Cai family, he was deeply loved by Mrs. Cai, so the people in the state said that Liu Jingzhou had the idea of abolishing the elder and establishing the young, and the officials in the state were mostly divided into two factions, and they were fighting each other for the sake of the young lord who was loyal. However, now Liu Cong was obtained by the Yan family, and the Cai family, who instigated the pillow wind, was also obtained by the enemy, but indirectly supported Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao, and cleared most of the obstacles for his inheritance of Jingzhou.
On the contrary, Jingzhou has been stabilized internally.
Liu Biao could not serve as a director, so the people of the state elected his son Liu Qi to temporarily act as the governor of the state to carry out military and political affairs.
The good times didn't last long, and this Jingzhou prince with a face similar to Liu Biao had only been a substitute for Jingzhou for a month, and then he received news like a thunderbolt from the sky. Zhao Wang Yanbei put Liu Cong back, not only let him back, but also led the official position of Jingzhou Mu to sit in Xiangyang!
In late May, Zhang Jaw sent Liu Cong and others to Handan, and in July, Liu Cong returned to Jingzhou alone to lead the Zhao State Jingzhou Muzhen Xiangyang, the general administration of Jingzhou. The first thing Liu Cong did after settling in Xiangyang was to send letters to all parts of Jingzhou, saying that he had negotiated peace with King Zhao, that Jingzhou was stable, and that he would invite the displaced people and scholars to return to their hometowns, and declare the Quartet for King Zhao to temporarily truce with Jingnan for two months, and after two months, he would send a large army to crusade against Cao Cao.
In addition, Liu Cong also asked someone to send a message to his brother Liu Qi, asking him to send his father to Xiangyang, and Zhao Wanggong has sent a famous doctor to Xiangyang to treat his seriously ill leg injury, hoping that he will not take care of the slightest blood kinship, and no longer lead troops to confront the imperial court, and be disloyal, unjust, unkind and unfilial.
Fake, except that Yan Bei really gave him the seal of the Jingzhou pastoral officer, it is all fake.
There are famous doctors, the imperial doctor ordered Zhang Ji to be sent to Jingzhou by Yanbei, but not to treat patients for Liu Biao, where does Yanbei have time to send any famous doctors to Jingzhou, he wishes that Liu Biao fell to his death. The real reason is that Liu Cong did not return to Jingzhou alone, although Yanbei did detain Kuai Yue and Mrs. Cai, but also arranged for Liu Cong to accompany him, this person was Guo Jia who stayed in the Central Plains before.
A few days ago, Guo Jia sent a message to Yanbei saying that he often felt tired, his physical strength was not as good as before, and he wanted to go to Handan to recuperate. However, Yanbei thought that the north would see that there would be another half a year and winter, and I was afraid that it would be unfavorable to the sick Guo Jiaduo, so he happened to have the opportunity of Jingzhou, so he asked Guo Jia to go to Xiangyang with Liu Cong, and stabilize Jingzhou by the way. The imperial physician Ling Zhang Ji, who went all the way south from Handan, was also sent by Yanbei to treat Guo Jia's illness and recuperate.
Whether it was to persuade the Jingzhou officials to return to the north of Jingzhou or to use Liu Biao's serious illness to deduct Liu Qi's, Guo Jia only provided Liu Cong with a little bit of ideas, and the rest was done by the new Jingzhou herdsman.
Needless to say, the letter to the officials of Jingzhou is needless to say, this is a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, now the situation between the two sides is very different, people are scrambling to think about how to avoid the disaster, at this time, as long as the Yan clan, which occupies half of Jingzhou, can open the checkpoint and release, countless officials will migrate back to the north from the south, not to mention those Jingbei people who took refuge with Liu Biao, even if they were originally Jingnan's officials, they will move to Jingbei in a hurry.
People have to relocate in time, and the people did relocate before Dong, and no one wanted to leave their hometowns, but what was the result? As a result, I don't know how many good people of the great family were swept away by the war and paid a terrible price for it. What's more, most of the people in Jingzhou were not from Jingzhou more than ten years ago, and they only took refuge here, but now that the Yan clan has a greater chance of winning, they are naturally more willing to flee to the Yan clan, which can make the place stable for a long time.
If there are no people and barren fields, what else can the Cao family fear in Changsha?
Liu Cong's letter to Liu Qi and announcing it to the world was even more unpredictable. Is it possible for Liu Qi to take Liu Biao back to Xiangyang? It's impossible, it's like now that Yanbei wrote to Cao Cao and Liu Bei to ask them to go to Handan, even if they say it is extravagant, do they dare to go?
If you're not careful, you're dead, who would dare to go?
Since he knew that Liu Qi would not dare to return to Xiangyang, Guo Jia said everything that should be said in advance...... Disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous people will further degrade the real Jingzhou family members in terms of morality!
As for saying that the means are not superb, of course you can't use superb means, now the head of the Yan family in Jingzhou is Liu Cong, and Liu Cong, who has some legitimacy in people's hearts, has to use inferior means to pollute his reputation, otherwise how can King Zhao rest assured?
Jingzhou's military affairs are Zhang Liao, Zhang Jaw, Gao Ran and others, and there is no need for Guo Jia to worry about it; In terms of governance, Liu Cong's extremely low talent made Guo Jia even more happy, and there was nothing more in line with Yanbei's expectations.
After some time, when Liu Cong will govern Jingzhou, the heavens and the people will be angry, and then the king of Zhao will demote him back to Handan as an insignificant idle official, and send a talented successor, Jingzhou will be completely included in the Yan family's pocket, wouldn't it be very happy?