The dispute between Liu Bei and Sun Quan between Jiangling will definitely not end so easily. He transferred Ma Su from Wuling to plan for special purpose, and of course he would not let him wait for Jiangdong people to come to argue.

He was looking forward to Ma Su's miracle again and taking over the two counties and towns controlled by Jiangdong with justification.

Although it was only a few small places, and there were only hundreds of troops left behind in Jiangdong, it was impossible to send troops to attack. It was still impossible to destroy the Sun-Liu alliance and tear up the alliance! Therefore, Ma Su faced a lot of difficulties.

When Liu Bei saw Ma Su being thrilling and trying to go to several counties occupied by the Jiangdong Army to collect information. He knew that he had understood his intentions. For his convenience, Liu Bei simply handed over the inspection of several other counties to him.

After Ma Su accepted the task, he originally wanted to sneak into the counties under Jiangdong, secretly collect information, and then make plans.

But Liu Bei gave him the inspection mission again, so he changed his itinerary and inspected the counties and towns that had been occupied by Zhuge Liang. Starting from the Public Security Bureau (Changling), he passed through the five counties including Zhongxiang, Tianmen, Qianjiang, Songzi in turn.

The two important passes in Jingmen, Dangyang counties, Jingshan and Leihe River are also controlled by the Jiangdong Army.

Because Jiangling's ownership is still in dispute, and the relationship between Jiangdong and Liu Bei is relatively delicate, Ma Su cannot blatantly enter the Jiangdong station for the time being to avoid causing disputes.

According to Liu Bei's intention, Ma Su's purpose of inspecting the counties this time was to check the distribution and changes of land, because the Jiangdong Army occupied these places for several months and would definitely make a fuss about land.

Although Liu Bei only occupied these counties and towns for several months, in order to control them as soon as possible, he began to measure the land in these counties, confiscating all the land properties of the Kuai family, the Cai family and others who defected to Cao Cao.

Generally speaking, once a place is captured, the meritorious person will be rewarded, and the main reward is land.

In a feudal society where farming is the main focus, people were very eager for land, and many large families had a wide range of land.

The legal land of local families cannot be deprived of by customers, which will cause local riots!

Only those official fields and those confiscated land of hostile forces can be given out and rewarded to those generals who have made meritorious service, and the soldiers will receive some reward of money.

In order to win the hearts of the people, Liu Bei adopted his old experience in Xinye, which happened to be the opposite of the practices of other forces. In addition to being promoted, the generals rewarded them with money.

The land was not rewarded to these generals, but to ordinary soldiers.

Liu Bei was so generous to others that he still used Xinye's old standards. As long as there were people in his family who joined the army, he could get twenty acres of fertile land without rent, and the government also provided free grain.

As a result, Liu Bei quickly recruited tens of thousands of new recruits in several counties, and each county was responsible for training new recruits. In the past, Ma Su was responsible for training new recruits in Wuling.

After careful investigation, Ma Su finally discovered some tricks in the land, including some landlords' land. Although the procedures were complete, some of them were not right.

After investigation, it was found that it was the result of collective corruption by those officials who measured the land. Not only did the officials appointed by Liu Bei buy and sell official fields to buy and sell some landlords to obtain money, but also the generals in Jiangdong also did the same.

Punishing corruption in officials is not within the scope of Ma Su's responsibility, so he naturally would not meddle in other people's business. He did not want to offend people everywhere, so he turned a blind eye to this matter and passed it.

But he didn't want to let go of the official land that the Jiangdong generals bought and sold privately, so he conducted in-depth investigations. He was afraid that those Jiangdong generals would use these land to leave detailed works in Jiangling.

However, the investigation resulted in the fact that the landlords did pay the price, and they were all real locals. Obviously, the generals of the Jiangdong Army did not have such a long-term view. They also sold their official land privately due to corruption.

Ma Su's original intention was to clear Jiangdong's detailed works. Who knew that all he found was corruption. He didn't dare to lift the lid and stopped immediately.

Ma Su personally led his people to Jingmen and Dangyang counties to collect information and checked Zhou Yu's location of troops. Ma Su felt confident!

Although these places are steep and difficult to attack from Xiangyang, it will not be difficult to conquer if they attack from Jiangling.

Ma Su thought hard for several days and only got one solution, which was to use the Cao army to attack Jiangdong, and then Ma Su could take the opportunity to defend himself as an allies.

After Cao Ren retreated to Xiangyang, he was more cautious and did not provoke war. How to anger Cao Ren and let him attack the Jiangdong Army was a difficult problem.

Ma Su was in a dilemma. After receiving a notice from Liu Bei that the matter of Jiangling had been resolved and made him prepare to accept these two counties, he was relieved.

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Lu Su said goodbye to Liu Bei, got off the boat and went straight to Chaisang County to see Zhou Yu first, which was something Sun Quan repeatedly told him! Because this trip was equivalent to wiping Zhou Yu's butt, Sun Quan naturally wanted to let him know.

When Zhou Yu returned to Chaisang to recuperate, he saw Cheng Pu leading his troops to Hefei to assist in the war, so he chatted with Pang Tong about the war in Hefei.

Pang Tong was not optimistic about Sun Quan and believed that siege and siege were not the strength of the Jiangdong Army. The soldiers were exhausted and their morale was sluggish, so they were likely to return in vain.

Zhou Yu was in a very complicated mood. He wanted Sun Quan to successfully conquer Hefei and then lead his troops to Xuzhou, but he also wanted Sun Quan to not be able to conquer Hefei, so he asked himself to take action.

When Zhou Yu was worried about gains and losses, the envoy from the court arrived and read the imperial edict to Zhou Yu, and actually appointed Zhou Yu as the prefect of Jiangling.

When Zhou Yu heard that he had just lost Jiangling, Cao Cao sent an imperial edict to appoint him as the prefect. He was extremely ashamed and angry, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the ground. His already stable condition worsened again.

Zhou Yu was easily excited because of the poisonous arrows. After he woke up, he understood in his heart that this was Cao Cao's plan to alienate, and he wanted Jiangdong and Liu Bei to fight for Jiangling.

Zhou Yu tried his best to restrain his emotions, but he just couldn't let go of Jiangling in his heart. He wanted to snatch it from Liu Bei and become the veritable prefect of Jiangling.

This cannot be blamed for Zhou Yu. Although Cao Cao was autocratic, he was still in the Han Dynasty after all, and his official position was based on the emperor's imperial decree.

Although Zhou Yu's status in the Jiangdong Army was prominent, he was Sun Quan's internal identity and was really unavailable to the outside world.

Although Sun Quan dominated Jiangdong, he himself only understood the prefect of Kuaiji as a miscellaneous general and did not have the right to appoint officials. Zhou Yu's identity outside was at best a small official with a salary of 400 stones.
Chapter completed!