After listening to Zhuge Liang's suggestion, Liu Bei immediately sent someone to Jiangdong to inquire about the news. He did not find any signs of Cao Cao's attack on Jiangdong. Instead, he received news that Sun Quan attacked Huang Zu.

According to the spies' reports, the Eastern Wu had attacked and killed Huang Zu, but did not take the opportunity to occupy Jiangxia County, and now the troops stationed in Chaisang.

Obviously, Sun Quan also left room for nothing and did not want to fight against Liu Biao. Although he did not think Cao Cao would attack Jiangdong soon, he knew that he would go south sooner or later, and did not want to go to a full-scale war with Liu Biao.

Now that Sun Quan captured and killed Huang Zu, he avenged his father Sun Jian, he was famous for his master. No one thought that he was wrong.

Liu Bei and Kong Ming were discussing the next action plan, but suddenly Liu Biao's messenger came and asked him to go to Jingzhou to discuss matters. Liu Bei asked Kong Ming for advice.

Kong Ming replied: "This must be because Sun Quan of Jiangdong defeated Huang Zu. Although he did not occupy Jiangxia, Liu Biao could not ignore it, which weakened his reputation. Therefore, he asked the lord to discuss a plan for revenge. He should go with the lord and go to the camera, and he will have his own good plans."

Liu Bei agreed deeply, so he left Yunchang to guard Xinye and ordered Zhang Fei to lead five hundred men to follow Jingzhou.

Liu Bei and Kong Ming rode together in parallel and immediately asked Kong Ming:

"To meet Liu Biao today. If Jing Sheng asked me to lead troops to conquer Jiangdong, how should I answer?"

Kong Ming replied, "If he ordered the lord to lead the troops of Jingzhou to conquer Jiangdong, he would not agree, nor would he find any other excuses, but he would return to Xinye and rectify the army and horses."

Liu Bei pondered for a long time and still recognized Zhuge Liang's arrangement.

In fact, Liu Bei originally wanted to agree to Liu Biao, and he and Guan and Zhang led the troops in Jingzhou to fight with Jiangdong to teach Sun Quan a lesson.

In this way, not only can we establish our own prestige, but we can also establish good relations with the generals under Liu Biao, which is conducive to future battles, but the idea of ​​arguing with Jiangdong has taken root in his heart.

Liu Bei was not a stubborn person. He thought again that Cao Cao was about to go south soon, and now is not a good time to fight with Jiangdong. If he leads his troops out of Xinye, Jingzhou will be in danger then!

In fact, Zhuge Liang didn't care about Cao Cao's going south, because Liu Bei had less than 20,000 troops in Xinye, and it was impossible for him to compete with Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops.

Even if Liu Biao gave all the troops in Jingzhou to Liu Bei's restraint, it would be difficult to repel Cao Cao.

Therefore, Kong Ming still had to implement the strategy he proposed in Longzhong, which was to join forces with Sun Quan to fight against Cao.

Now, for the sake of a strife, I have an unhappy relationship with Jiangdong. No matter what the victory or defeat is, it will be a loss. If both sides suffer losses, they will sooner or later be defeated by Cao Cao.

The two came to Jingzhou and arranged for a stay in the office, leaving Zhang Fei to station outside the city. Liu Bei and Kong Ming entered the city to see Liu Biao.

As Kong Ming expected, Liu Biao wanted Liu Bei to conquer Jiangdong, but was shirked by Liu Bei's words.

Dealing with Jiangdong and avenging Huang Zu is certainly not Liu Biao's main purpose. For a useless Huang Zu, Liu Biao did not want to mobilize all his troops, but he still needed to explain to his subordinates, and he still had to do some superficial skills.

Liu Biao is already fifty-eight years old, and he feels his spirit is getting worse and worse. It is time to consider the successor. This time he called Liu Bei, mainly to test Liu Bei to see if he has any intention of touching Jingzhou.

Of course, he was not entirely a test. In fact, after careful consideration, Liu Biao also thought it through clearly that his two sons were not good enough to command Jingzhou. Instead of losing Jingzhou in their hands and putting the entire family in crisis, it would be better to take the initiative to let Liu Bei take charge of Jingzhou.

With Liu Bei's character, he could at least treat his nephew well. Therefore, when he saw that Liu Bei was unwilling to conquer Sun Quan, he did not force him, but said to Liu Bei:

"My brother, I am sick this year and cannot be in charge of the ministers. You can come to Jingzhou to help me. After I die, I will be the lord of Jingzhou."

Liu Bei has always treated people with integrity. Although he is famous all over the world, he dares to do his own purpose, so he naturally dares not agree. Instead, he asked: "Brother, why do you say this? How dare you take this important task?"

Kong Ming, who was beside him, saw that Liu Biao's expression was not as fake as he was false, and thought it was a good opportunity to get Jingzhou, so he signaled with his eyes and asked Liu Bei to agree.

But Liu Bei turned a blind eye to Kong Ming and was unmoved. Fortunately, he did not refuse completely, and he left some face to Kong Ming. He said to Liu Biao: "Let Xu Si have a good plan." Then he quit. Kong Ming was silent.

Liu Biao, who was standing aside, could see clearly that although he was suspicious, he was completely relieved of Liu Bei and was ready to ask him to assist Liu Qi in governing Jingzhou. He didn't know that Liu Bei did not really want Jingzhou, but wanted him to let him go many times.

When he returned to his residence, Kong Ming was about to ask why Liu Bei did not accept Jingzhou, but suddenly he reported that his son Liu Qi came to see him and Xuande was connected.

It turned out that when Liu Qi asked Liu Bei for help this time, he felt the malice of his stepmother Cai, and asked Liu Bei and Kong Ming for advice, but they did not want to participate in Liu Biao's family affairs and refused with words.

In the end, there was no way to be entangled by Liu Qi, so Kong Ming gave instructing him:

"Have you not heard about Shen Sheng and Chong'er? Shen Sheng died inside, Chong'er was at peace outside. Now that Huang Zuxin is dead, Jiangxia is in danger, so why don't you say anything? I ask for troops to guard Jiangxia, so you can avoid disaster."

Zhuge Liang's move was also for the sake of Liu Bei. Liu Bei came to Jingzhou for many years and has been guarding Xinye for Liu Biao, but except for Liu Biao's support, he had no contact with other counties and could not get any support from them.

This is because of Cai's suspicion. In order to avoid suspicion, Liu Bei had no close friends with Jingzhou officials. No county magistrate of Jingxiang County had a strong relationship with him.

Jiangxia County and Xinye are close to each other. When Liu Qi becomes the county magistrate, he will naturally help Liu Bei more. Liu Bei also sees this clearly and supports it very much.

When Liu Qi asked to guard Jiangxia, Liu Biao was a little hesitant and called Liu Bei to discuss and then agreed.

Although Liu did not accept Jingzhou, he agreed to assist Liu Qi as the lord of Jingzhou. For the sake of Liu Qi's safety, in addition to the original army of Jiangxia County, Liu Biao gave Liu Qi three thousand elite troops and ordered him to lead his troops to guard Jiangxia.

Time flies, and July is coming in a blink of an eye. The hot summer has passed and the cool autumn has entered.

Liu Biao originally thought that the passing of summer, the false fire in his body would be suppressed and his condition would be relieved.

But things went against my wishes. Liu Biao's condition not only did not relieve, but suddenly worsened. After being treated by a doctor whom he trusted, his condition seemed to be worsening day by day.

Liu Biao was upset and didn't know how long he could last. He quickly sent someone to ask Xuande to come and ask his orphan to entrust Jingzhou to Liu Bei...

This time, Liu Bei went to Jingzhou and left Kong Ming in Xinye to arrange defensive matters. He led his own pass. Zhang and the other two brought a thousand elite soldiers to Jingzhou to meet Liu Biao because Liu Bei thought Liu Biao wanted to take revenge on Jiangdong.
Chapter completed!