After this meeting, the wealthy families in Jingzhou began to be busy with each other. They wanted to find a way out for their family's future. Although Liu Biao was the ruler of Jingzhou, they could not accompany him to lose all their family's fortunes.

The first ones to get together were naturally the brothers Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue. Although they were not biological brothers, they belonged to the same clan and represented the interests of the Kuai family. The first thing they got together was to discuss the feasibility of the so-called coalition forces of Liu Biao. As a result, both of them agreed that there was almost no possibility of this matter. The reason why Liu Bei promoted the establishment of the alliance was to harbor evil intentions. The "benevolent government" that Liu Bei promoted in Jiaozhou before not only attracted many talents in Jiaozhou, but also some people in Jingzhou went to serve. If such a hero had no benefits, would he organize the alliance so hard?

Putting aside Liu Bei's ill-intention, things are not that simple. Even if all parties agree to form a coalition, who will be the leader of the alliance? If Sun Ce did it, everyone would probably find it difficult to agree, because among the four parties, only Sun Ce was born, not a relative of the Han Dynasty, and let him obey others, this is almost impossible. Liu Bei has little experience and the weakest strength, so it is naturally impossible to make an alliance. Liu Zhang is a waste, and he doesn't even have the ability to lead well, let alone the leader group.

It seems that only one Liu Biao can be the leader of the alliance, but neither Liu Zhang nor Sun Ce will agree. Although Liu Zhang and Liu Biao are of the same clan, the two sides have been fighting openly and secretly for a year or two. No matter how stupid Liu Zhang is, he will never let Liu Biao be the leader of the alliance. That is even more impossible for Sun Ce. Liu Biao has a grudge against him to kill his father. Even if he does not have grudge against his father, Jingzhou can threaten the security of Jiangdong at any time in the upper reaches of Jiangdong, and Sun Ce will never be willing to be led by Liu Biao.

So after all, the final outcome is likely to be fighting each other. In this way, Sun Ce has a barrier. Liu Bei has Liu Zhang, Liu Biao and Sun Ce as the barrier, which is actually the safest. Liu Zhang also has Zhang Lu as the barrier, so Jingzhou is still the first to be affected. With the current strength of Jingzhou, even if Pei Qing only transfers 30,000 to 50,000 troops, they may not be able to defeat it.

So after all the two of them, Jingzhou had no hope.

In fact, it was not just Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue who realized this? Known people in Jingzhou, such as Han Song, Fu Xun, Deng Xi, Liu Xian, etc., also knew that the result of Liu Biao's doing this would only bring disaster to Jingzhou, and he could not see any hope at all.

So most of these people did not say a word in the future, and Deng Xi even resigned directly to express his dissatisfaction with Liu Biao.

Even Cai Mao is constantly meeting his generals now, and he often goes to and from Liu Biao's residence to conspire with Liu Biao's wife, Cai Mao's sister, Mrs. Cai, and all this is done without Liu Biao's concealment.

In addition, Liu Biao's youngest son Liu Cong often contacted Cai Mao at this time, sneakily not knowing what he was doing.

The only ones in Jingzhou who are truly devoted to preparing to prevent Pei Qing are Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi and general Wen Pin. The others are all slandering and making plans for themselves.

However, Liu Biao didn't know this and was immersed in the dream of establishing an alliance to resist Pei Qing.

However, Liu Biao waited for more than a month and did not wait for further news from Liu Bei. At this time, there were rumors that Sun Ce proposed to agree to the alliance that he had to be the leader, but this was directly rejected by Liu Zhang. At the same time, Liu Zhang also proposed that Liu Biao should not be the leader, otherwise he would not agree to the alliance.

Liu Zhang refused Sun Ce and did not allow Liu Biao to be the leader of the alliance, and it was even more impossible for Liu Bei, the weakest, to be the leader of the alliance, so his intention was already very obvious, that was, to be the leader of the alliance.

After hearing the news, Liu Biao couldn't speak for a long time, but if he was asked to give up the position of leader to Sun Ce, he would definitely not be able to do it.

Fortunately, Liu Bei later found a way to reconcile the relationship, and everyone reached a ceasefire agreement with each other, not to invade each other. At the same time, each of them used their own troops to defend Pei Qing with all their strength. Once Pei Qing launched an attack, all parties must do their best to provide assistance.

As a result, Liu Bei's approach of being mixed with others was actually approved by all parties, but in this way, they had originally actively attacked Pei Qing's coalition, but now they have become passive defense alliances. Their "justice" and effect are naturally greatly reduced. In fact, it is simply a mess, even the previous Kanto coalition was not as good as the one before, because their promises were just verbal promises. Once Pei Qing's army arrived, I really don't know who would be willing to send troops to provide assistance?

But fortunately, the ceasefire between the four sides is a good thing for Liu Biao. At least he can concentrate his troops to defend Pei Qing.

However, Liu Biao had no idea that the civil and military generals and officials in Jingzhou were not optimistic about this at all. They continued their secret actions. Some secretly wrote letters to Pei Qing to express their loyalty, while others secretly recruited their confidant generals to wait and see, and some even planned to raise up after Pei Qing's army arrived in order to cooperate.

Cai Mao usually gets close to Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong and hates his eldest son Liu Qi. Now Liu Qi is actively preparing to defend, which has aroused Cai Mao's disgust. Cai Mao was originally afraid that Pei Qing's army would harm him after the arrival of him, so he wrote a letter to Pei Qing early to express his loyalty, but was afraid that Pei Qing would not trust him, so Cai Mao tried his best to please Pei Qing to prove his loyalty. So he gave advice for Mrs. Cai, joined Liu Cong to target Liu Qi, and said bad things about Liu Qi everywhere.

Liu Qi's cowardly personality is now slandered and is afraid. At this moment, Liu Biao's counselor Yi Ji had an idea for him to take the initiative to apply for transfer to the prefect of Changsha in order to avoid disaster.

Although Liu Qi was unwilling, he had no choice but to apply to Liu Biao to be transferred to the prefect of Changsha.

Liu Biao was still a little reluctant at first, but Mrs. Cai, Cai Mao and others persuaded him one after another, and he finally agreed. However, what was helpless was that Liu Qi was still on his way to take office. As a result, the former prefect of Changsha Zhang Xian actually led his army to rebel, claiming to respond to the Prince Pei and surrender to the court. At the same time, the three counties of Guiyang, Wuling and Lingling rebelled at the same time and formed an alliance with the prefect of Changsha Zhang Xian. In an instant, there were four counties in the seven counties of Liu Biao's Jingzhou rebelling. Now only three counties are still under control, which is equivalent to reducing their strength by half.

In desperation, Liu Qi had to temporarily station in Jiangling and then ordered his entourage to report the news to Liu Biao.
Chapter completed!