Under the full planning of Sima Yi, Liu Qi eliminated Cai Qing and Cai Zhu in one fell swoop.

The nominal 30,000 sailors actually only have 20,000, of which 10,000 are empty, just a means for Cai Qing, Cai Zhu and others to eat empty salaries.

In addition, Cai Qing, Cai Zhu and others even wantonly bought land in Yixian, Xiling, Shaxian, Qichun and other places, occupied farmland, and bullied men and women. However, due to the huge size of Cai's shili, ordinary people can't compete with it, so they can only swallow their anger.

Liu Qi's eradication of Cai Qing and Cai Zhu's party is undoubtedly a happy thing.

Regarding this incident, Sima Yi made an accurate report to Liu Qi, and praised the two generals, Wen Ping and Li Tong, hoping that Liu Qi would be promoted.

After listening to Sima Yi's report, Liu Qi personally met with Wen Ping, Li Tong and others, and after some praise, he did not hesitate to appoint Wen Ping as General Liyi, Li Tong as the captain of the school, and the rest of the meritorious people were promoted one by one, which is equivalent to a major change of blood among all the officers in the navy.

Wen Ping, Li Tong and others were very grateful, and immediately expressed to Liu Qi that they were willing to serve Liu Qi from now on.

Liu Qi used to be a person, since he got Sima Yi, in just a few days, he gathered a group of henchmen, naturally he was very happy, and at the same time felt that Sima Yi was an incomparably magnificent gem, he would treat Sima Yi well in the future, and borrow Sima Yi to help him complete the great cause in his heart.

But. Liu Qi only knows the text. But he is not familiar with military affairs. He didn't know how to govern the army or how to march and fight, so he asked Sima Yi: "Zhongda, do you know the art of war?" ”

"Understand!"

Liu Qi said: "I don't know how to govern the army, I want to hand over all this army to you to manage, I don't know what you want?" ”

Sima Yi said: "Eldest prince, do you really rest assured that you will hand over all these armies to me to manage?" ”

"If there is anything to worry about, there is no doubt about employing people. Suspects don't need to. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to get rid of Cai Qing and Cai Zhu now, and it is very likely that I will still be alone. Although you are young, but you are extremely capable, Ganluo is ten years old to worship the prime minister, I appoint you as the governor of the navy, and take charge of the navy on my behalf, why not. The day I return to Xiangyang, the entire army in Jingzhou will depend on you to manage it for me! Liu Qi said.

Sima Yi said: "The eldest prince trusts Zhongda so much, Zhongda must go to the soup." Do your best for the eldest prince to repay the eldest prince's kindness to Zhongda. ”

Liu Qi smiled. Subsequently, Sima Yi was appointed as the governor of the naval armies and took charge of these naval armies on his behalf. After that, Liu Qi gathered under the tent to discuss future countermeasures, Sima Yi suggested that Liu Qi write a note, and take the heads of Cai Qing and Cai Zhu, and tell Liu Biao all the crimes committed by Cai Qing and Cai Zhu, saying that Cai Qing and Cai Zhu did not respect the law and were executed first, and prayed to Liu Biao for the crime of transgressing the law.

However, Cai Mao controlled the entire Xiangyang, and if the outside Song Shu wanted to be sent to Liu Biao, Cai Mao must be the first to know, in order to prevent Cai Mao from knowing, Sima Yi suggested that Han Song should take Song Shu to Xiangyang in person to face Liu Biao.

Han Song also felt that what Sima Yi said was very reasonable, so he took the initiative to ask Liu Qi for his life and rushed to Xiangyang.

Liu Qi agreed to Sima Yi's suggestion, and asked Han Song to take the heads of Cai Qing and Cai Zhu, who had already written them by himself, to Xiangyang, and to tell Liu Biao about the matter before the news leaked, as for the rest of the things, he didn't have to think about it, after all, Liu Biao was his biological father, even if he overstepped his authority and executed Cai Qing and Cai Zhu, he would not blame him, and he would be exempted from a few months at most.

Han Song received the order, said to leave, only took a carriage, rushed to Xiangyang, and said to the outside world that he was going home to visit relatives.

Although Han Song has been a long history in Jiangxia, the whole family has already settled in Xiangyang, and Cai Mao also knows that Han Song is a famous person in Jingzhou, and he will definitely not set up an obstacle, and it is logical for Han Song to enter Xiangyang.

After Han Song left, Sima Yi suggested to Liu Qi that he, who was too guarded in Jiangxia, should start to rectify Jiangxia's rule. As a result, Sima Yi put forward a series of rectification plans, allowing Wen Ping, Li Tong and others to lead the army to each county respectively, and in the name of Taishou, they began to arrest Cai Mao's henchmen, and completely uprooted Cai's shili in Jiangxia County.

In addition, Sima Yi also suggested that Gongcao Deng Xi be the county governor of the post, inspect the counties, and reward him when he encountered the county order of Haode, and when he encountered the county order of doing evil and abusing power for personal gain, he secretly wrote it down and notified Wen Ping, Li Tong and others to go and arrest him.

Sima Yi was fully responsible for this matter, and the arrangements were orderly, and the 20,000 sailors were used to being bullied by the Cai family, although they beat Cai Qing, Cai Zhu and others to death, but they were still not relieved, and when they heard that they were going to go to various counties to arrest the Cai family, they were all excited, volunteered, and wanted to take action immediately.

Under Sima Yi's arrangement, 20,000 sailors divided into thirteen routes and secretly went to the thirteen counties under the rule of Jiangxia County except Xiling City, and then lurked outside the county seat, ready to be called at any time.

Each route army of 1,000 people, led by a military Sima, a total of 13,000 people, the remaining 7,000 people were divided into three routes, Wen Ping and Li Tong each led 3,000 people, respectively to Zhangshan and Lulin Mountain to garrison.

Zhangshan and Lulin Mountain are the only way for Xiangyang to Jiangxia, especially Lulin Mountain, which is located at the intersection of Jiangxia, Nanyang and Nanjun, and is the only way for Xiangyang to go to Jiangxia by land, and Zhangshan is the only way for Xiangyang to go to Jiangxia by waterway.

Holding these two places is equivalent to guarding the gateway of Jiangxia, once something happens, as long as you hold these two places, the army will not be able to cross.

Among them, Zhangshan is more dangerous, because Cai Mao is in charge of the water army, and the Jingzhou water army is even more famous in the world. However, just in case, Sima Yi still sent Li Tong to garrison the area of Lulin Mountain, and even sent people to Nanyang to contact Zhang Xiu, hoping to get Zhang Xiu's help.

The other 1,000 people were led by Sima Yi to Jingling, while Liu Qi, accompanied by Liu Xian, returned to Xiling City to take up the town.

After the arrangement, the action of cleaning up Jiangxia Cai's shili was officially launched, due to Sima Yi's proper arrangement, in just a few days, Sima Yi with lightning speed, completely cleaned up the county orders and county officials belonging to Cai's party, as long as they were found to have illegal acts, all of them were punished in accordance with the law, killed and killed, and dismissed, and a layer of haze trapped in the sky over Jiangxia gradually dissipated, in exchange for a clear sky.

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At the same time, Liu Bei, accompanied by Guan Yu and Yi, had already returned to Changsha. Liu Bei began to work on the matter of uniting Jiangdong Sun Ce, and sent an envoy to Jiangdong to contact him first.

At that time, Sun Ce was in Nanchang, the county town of Yuzhang County, after the envoy made his intentions clear, Sun Ce learned that Liu Biao wanted to form an alliance with himself to fight against Zhang Yan, who had unified the north, although he knew that this was a golden opportunity, but because Liu Biao had a grudge against his father, he refused to cooperate with Liu Biao, and severely reprimanded the messenger sent by Liu Bei.

After the envoy returned to Changsha, Liu Bei knew that Sun Ce had no intention of cooperating with Liu Biao, so he sent an envoy to Chaisang again and took the initiative to contact Zhou Yu to see what Zhou Yu's opinion was.

Zhou Yu was practicing the navy in Peng Lize, and suddenly received a secret letter from Liu Bei, and after opening it and reading it, he couldn't sit still anymore, and went to Nanchang in person to persuade Sun Ce.

Sun Ce was training in the school field, and suddenly heard that Zhou Yu was coming, so he hurried to see Zhou Yu, and when they saw each other, Sun Ce was very happy, and immediately said: "Gong Jin, you no longer Peng Lize practice the navy, how can you have spare time to come to me?" ”

Since the armistice between Sun Ce and Shanyue, Jiangdong has been subjected to Zhang Yan's so-called economic sanctions, a move that is tantamount to plunging Jiangdong into a state of panic. Fortunately, with the assistance of Zhou Yu, Sun Ce made great efforts, formed a caravan, and pretended to be a merchant to trade with Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, which made up for some losses. In addition, he sent merchant ships across the sea to Liaodong and started business with the Gongsun clan, making Jiangdong more and more stable.

After that, Sun Ce seriously felt that the troops were insufficient, and under Zhou Yu's strategy, he reached an agreement with Shanyue to recruit the people of Shanyue into the army, and implemented two means of governance, so that the people of Shanyue could govern themselves and the government would not interfere, but the people of Shanyue were not allowed to harass the Han people, and the two ethnic groups did not interfere with each other and lived in peace.

As a result, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu separated, Sun Ce trained the army in Nanchang, and Zhou Yu trained the navy in Peng Lize, although the development was relatively slow, but it finally stabilized.

Zhou Yu hugged his fists and said: "Lord, Liu Bei sent someone to send me a letter, telling me about Liu Biao's desire to form an alliance with the lord, I am here for this matter." ”

After Sun Ce heard this, he waved his hand directly and said: "There is no way to talk about this matter, Liu Biao is my father-killing enemy, my father died at the hands of Liu Biao, you let me form an alliance with my father-killing enemy, I will never be able to do it." ”

Zhou Yu said: "I know about this matter, but my lord, at this time, at that time, it is the so-called difficult to make a forest alone, and a slap can't make a sound." Zhang Yan defeated Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in a row, and obtained the land of several northern states, and his strength increased greatly. What's more, Zhang Yan formed Jinling County, with Chen Deng as the outpost, and in the past few years, he has been unwilling to give up Jiangdong, and when Zhang Yan frees his hand, he will inevitably lead the army south. If we can form an alliance with Liu Biao, advance and retreat together, and be each other's horns, Zhang Yan will definitely not dare to attack rashly......"

Without waiting for Zhou Yu to finish speaking, Sun Ce said loudly: "Don't say it, I still say the same thing, I will definitely not form an alliance with the enemy who killed my father!" ”

Zhou Yu suddenly asked, "What if this alliance is not with Liu Biao, but with Liu Bei?" ”

"Liu Bei?" Sun Ce asked suspiciously. (To be continued......)