A small group of people came to an official road at the east gate of Yiling City. When they arrived at the city gate, they found that the four gates of Yiling were closed and the suspension bridge was hanging high.

Among the people, the man in the lead had already raised his throat and shouted to the top of the city: "Brothers guarding the city, please open the door and let us enter the city. Please tell the prefect Kuai that there was an old friend from Jiangling who asked to see him."

The people who came were the secret spies from Liang State, as well as the Cai family and their escort.

There is a wharf five miles outside Yiling City, where you can transfer boats to the Liang Kingdom from the Xiajiang River. Moreover, because Liu Bei has not yet controlled Yiling, there is no special investigation of the Cai family and his son, both on the dock and on the river.

So they could arrive in Liang State smoothly without coming to Yiling City. However, the Cai family insisted on coming to Yiling to meet Kuai Yue.

She also held the hope of regaining Linjiang Kingdom--if she could unite the remaining forces of aristocratic families like Kuai Yue and seek Feng Yu's help, she might be able to regain Linjiang Kingdom from Liu Bei and Liu Qi.

The leader of the Liang State's secret spy scout could not persuade her. In addition, Feng Yu had ordered something in his order, so he had to escort her to Yiling City.

The defenders at the top of Yiling City listened to their words, looked at their clothes and clothes, and did not dare to neglect them, so they hurried to report to Kuai Yue.

At this time, Kuai Yue was restless in the study of the government office. The news of Jiangling's shocking change reached him a few days ago. Then, Liu Bei's letter was delivered by a horse.

Of course, the letter was sent in the name of Liu Qi. The letter denounced the "crime" of Cai's tampering with the last orders of the previous kings and usurping the throne. Then the topic changed and asked Kuai Yue to surrender to the new king and eliminate the traitor.

Kuai Yue sneered in his heart when he read the letter. He didn't believe that Liu Qi could really make a big fuss with Liu Bei, a guest general, and several confidants who did not occupy important positions in the Jiangling royal court.

He believed that Liu Bei's plan to seize Jiangling was just a lucky move. In a few days, the children of noble families from various counties in Linjiang would send troops and attack them in groups, leaving Liu Bei and Liu Qi and others to die without a place to bury them.

Kuai Yue originally wanted to kill the messenger and cut off Liu Bei's thoughts. But his suspicious nature made him not do this. What if there is a "what"? In the end, he sent Liu Bei away in just a few words, and then sat down to see Liu Bei's joke.

Unexpectedly, the subsequent development of things was completely beyond his expectations. He thought that other wealthy families would come to connect with him. But no one came to Yiling to find him. Now, his previous thoughts were shaken. Perhaps Liu Qi could really hold the throne of Linjiang Kingdom, Jingzhou with the help of Liu Bei.

Just when Kuai Yue couldn't stop thinking, a confidant soldier broke in: "Report! Report to the prefect, someone outside the city gate claimed that he was an old friend in Jiangling City and asked to meet the prefect."

Kuai Yue was stunned when he heard this, murmured, "An old friend in Jiangling City? Could it be..." Then he stood up again and whispered: "Hurry and invite them into the city. No! This prefect will greet them in person!"

When Kuai Yue left the city, he found that as he expected, it was Cai and her son Liu Cong. He quickly respectfully welcomed the mother and son into Yiling City.

When Kuai Yue learned that the person escorting the mother and son was a secret spy scout from Liang State, his face changed slightly without notice. Then he whispered a few instructions to the soldiers and generals around him.

When these eight scouts of Liang State were about to follow Cai into the prefect's office, they were stopped by a large number of Yiling soldiers. The leader said, "Brother, I'm sorry, you can't enter the office. Please follow me and have arranged a residence for you."

Cai turned around and said to the leader of the scout in Liang State: "It doesn't matter, Prefect Kuai is his own person. Just follow their arrangements and take a rest first."

These Liang State scouts had to follow Yiling soldiers to a posthouse to settle down. After they settled, they found that there were many secret guards around the posthouse.

Kuai Yue set up a banquet in his mansion to entertain the Cai family and his son, and asked his wife to come out to accompany him. At the banquet, the Cai family naturally mentioned the idea of ​​asking Kuai Yue to unite the children of wealthy families in various aristocratic families to launch an army to fight against the rebellion.

Kuai Yue patted his chest and made a promise. He said that he would contact the children of various aristocratic families in Linjiang immediately to fight against traitors. Cai nodded with satisfaction and finally said earnestly:

"We, the great families of Jingzhou, have been married to each other for generations and have been together, and can be said to be prosperous and both prosperous and each loss. I hope that the prefect Kuai can turn the tide in this crisis, protect the country in Linjiang and the prosperity of our families."

Kuai Yue drank a wine lord and said, "This is natural. If the queen doesn't say it, Kuai Yue also understands this truth in his heart."

...

News of the shocking change in Jiangling spread throughout the world in just half a month. All forces responded quickly.

Cao Wei dispatched three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and five thousand elite infantrymen to enter Runan. In Runan, if you cross the Dabie Mountains from the three passes of Yiyang, you can enter the eastern part of the Jingxiang Plain without passing through Nanyang.

Runan was nominally the territory of Liang State, but after Feng Yu moved the population there, he had already given up his management. When Lu Bu defected to Feng Yu, Cao Cao asked Feng Yu for Runan to give it back to Lu Bu as his name. Feng Yu was given the favor to him.

Sun Ce's 20,000 naval infantrymen also went up the river and arrived at Chaisang. The Chaisang marched up a hundred miles to reach Jiangxia in Jingzhou. Even the Nanyue Gongshi Xie from Jiaozhou came to join in the fun. He sent 5,000 elite infantrymen and 500 battle elephants to reach Shaoguan, directly threatening Wuling County and Changsha County.

But Feng Yu's Liang State did not make any moves. It was just that Xiangyang and Wu County, which were close to the border, had increased their vigilance.

A mutiny in Jiangling, a small city, seems to bring major changes to the world's pattern soon. All forces are waiting quietly.

They waited for the development of the situation, waited for the signals from the court, and waited for the reactions of other princes to the signal. Then they took actions that were most beneficial to them.

However, Emperor Liu Xie began to react that he only ordered two thousand Yulinlangs to enter Xinye, and did not judge the Jiangling mutiny, nor did he issue any relevant edicts or edicts.

In addition to these princes waiting, Kuai Yue in Yiling City was also waiting. He was just perfunctory to the Cai family, and he agreed to it with full words, but in fact he did not take any action.

The eight Liang Jun scouts who lived in the Yiling City Inn found that they were under house arrest. They ate well and slept well, and had wine and meat every few days. However, they could not move around at will, and their movements were limited to the inn.

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In the suburbs of Xinye, flags are everywhere, swords and guns are everywhere, and drums are noisy, which is the emperor's patrol. According to convention, the emperor's patrol season should be in autumn, called autumn hunting. This is a rare emperor's patrol tour in late spring and early summer.
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