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Cai Mao was a little upset in Cai Mansion in Xiangyang these days. He did not expect that Liu Jing's counterattack was so sharp. Not only did he gain the upper hand on the moral level, but everyone in Jingzhou knew that Zhang Yun took the initiative, but Liu Jing had also launched an attack on the Jingzhou navy.

Cai Mao doesn't know what the situation is now. Whether Zhang Yun can support him is more important. His son Cai Yi is also there. Will something happen to him?

All kinds of unanswered questions and concerns made Cai Mao restless. He wanted to send troops to support Zhang Yun today, but was firmly opposed by Pin and Wang Wei, and opposed by many Jingzhou officials.

Now Liu Jing sent troops to the Yicheng Navy just for personal grudges. Once Xiangyang sent troops, a civil war in Jingzhou would inevitably break out.

Although Liu Biao is seriously ill now, Liu Cong is temporarily acting in Jingzhou's government affairs, and Cai Mao has the power of military and political affairs, he is not as powerful as a single hand, and Kuai Yue, Liu Xian and others also have a certain say.

Especially the direct commander of the army, Wang Wei, these two people are Cai Mao's confidant. He knew that these two people were just loyal to Liu Biao. Now that Liu Biao is seriously ill, they remained silent, but once Liu Biao dies, what is their situation?

From today, they firmly oppose the recruitment of troops in Yicheng, we can see a clue. They use the excuse of preventing the outbreak of civil war, but in fact they still secretly favor Liu Jing. What will they do if Liu Biao dies?

Cai Mao had already thought of the most terrible result. If it weren't for them who directly seized power by force, they would have taken the army away, going to Jiangxia or Nanjun, and Xiangyang would be as bad as it would have been.

Currently, Xiangyang has 90,000 troops, including the Wanshui Army under the command of Zhang Yun, and the remaining 60,000 people are in charge of the ranks. Wang Wei and Cai Mao are in charge of the ranks, and 20,000 troops are stationed on the north bank of the Han River to cooperate with Liu Bei to defend Cao's army.

Wang Wei led 20,000 troops to be stationed south of Xiangyang, mainly to defend the southern county. The remaining 20,000 troops were led by Cai He, and there were 10,000 troops scattered in the other counties and counties, which were also controlled by Cai Mao.

Originally, Zhang Yun's navy was responsible for defending Jiangxia and was always the most valued by Cai Mao, but today Wang Wei and Pin's joint efforts against sending troops to support Yicheng made Cai Mao feel another potential crisis.

In contrast, Zhang Yun's possible defeat has become less important, except for his safety.

At this moment, a family member outside the door reported, "Master, Mr. Lu has an urgent matter to ask for a meeting."

Cai Mao was slightly stunned. When he had something to do, Cai Mao nodded, "Please come in."

The so-called Lu Gong is Huang She. After the New Year, he has been hiding behind the scenes, trying to win over the officials of Jingzhou for Cao Cao and giving advice to Cai Mao. He is like a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, and will jump out to eat people at any time. After a moment, Huang She walked in quickly and said anxiously: "Uncle Shi, Zhang Yun's entire army is wiped out."

Cai Mao was shocked, "How did you know?"

"Zhang Yun has escaped. From my place, he also brought back a letter from Liu Jing." After that, Huang She took out a letter and handed it to Cai Mao.

Cai Mao felt bitter in his heart, and the navy was still finished. He couldn't help but feel a little confused again. Why did Zhang Yun run to Huang She and even bring a letter from Liu Jing? What's going on? Is he captured and released back by Liu Jing? This should be the case, otherwise how could he deliver a letter to Liu Jing?

Cai Mao sat down slowly, opened the letter and read it. It was indeed about his son. The son had fallen into Liu Jing's hands. Liu Jing asked him to remain silent in Zhang Yun's miserable defeat, otherwise his son's life would be worrying.

Cai Mao remained silent. The thing he was most worried about happened. At this moment, he suddenly hated Zhang Yun to the core. Why didn’t Zhang Yun take good care of his son? But after a change of thought, even Zhang Yun himself was arrested, how could he protect Yi'er?

Sighing helplessly, Cai Mao asked again: "What's the matter with Zhang Yun now? Why don't you come to see me?"

Huang She shook his head and said, "He was wiped out and captured by Liu Jing again. He was ashamed and had no face to see Uncle Shi."

"Hmph, he will be ashamed and unbelievable."

Cai Mao was hated in his heart. At this time, he didn't want to see this useless person again. He had superior troops, but was defeated by Liu Jing and wiped out the entire army. It would be best if this useless person died.

Huang She smiled and said with a slight smile: "Don't Uncle Shi think Zhang Yun is coming back just right?"

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't Uncle Shi always hate the two of the two of the two, Wang Wei, when Zhang Yun comes back, he can replace one of them, especially the ones. His stationed in Fancheng is the biggest threat to Cao's army going south. Uncle Shi thinks what?"

Cai Mao's eyes lit up. This was a good idea, but he pondered for a moment and said: "But it is OK, but Zhang Yun is a defeated general. I'm afraid people will be dissatisfied with him if he wants him to replace him or Wang Wei."

"Uncle Shi is a little confused. As long as it is the transfer order of the provincial governor, will Pin and Wang Wei dare not obey? If Uncle Shi is worried about forcing these two people in a hurry, he might as well take the excuse to strengthen his defense against Jiangxia and draw some of the troops from Pin and Wang Wei and hand them over to Zhang Yun. In this way, Pin and Wang Wei will not react fiercely, Uncle Shi thinks."

Cai Mao pondered for a moment. He could use Mrs. Cai to get Liu Biao's order to mobilize troops. This was indeed a way to alleviate the threat of recruitment and Wang Wei. If Cai He's 10,000 troops were added, he could completely control Xiangyang.

Cai Mao nodded, "Okay, that's the decision. Zhang Yun, go and talk to him. If he is confused, let him come to me directly."

"Uncle Shi, I have something else to do"

"You said, what else is there?"

"I just want to remind Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi should know that the Prime Minister has ordered the addition of troops to Nanyang. Cao's army may have actions recently. Uncle Shi..."

Before Huang She finished speaking, Cai Mao waved his hand and interrupted him, "No need to remind me, I know it."

Huang She laughed dryly, "It's enough for Uncle Shi to know what he knows, that nephew has said goodbye."

"Go"

At this moment, Cai Mao suddenly hated this yellow crow. If Cao Cao had something to do, he could just send someone to find him. Why do he have to pass this yellow crow in everything? Will he have to suppress his head in the future?

He didn't send yellow shots, and looked coldly at his back and walked away. He became a little upset again. A few days ago, he learned about the news that Cao's army had increased troops to Nanyang. He felt that this was a sign of Cao's attack on Xiangyang, but Cao's army did not contact him anything, which made him feel that Cao Cao did not trust him. If he didn't get Cao Cao's trust, his future would be worrying.

After pondering for a long time, Cai Mao sighed and said to his left and right: "Prepare the carriage, I want to go to the provincial governor's office."

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Huang She left Cai's mansion. He had his own house in the east of the city, but instead of returning to his residence, he turned over and went straight to the north gate.

He received two important tasks from Cao Ren in Nanyang last night. One was to make him think of weakening the defense of Fancheng. This was already negotiated with Cai Mao, and he used the method of dividing troops to Zhang Yun to weaken the recruited troops. The other order was a bit troublesome. Cao Ren asked him to find a way to build five warships.

If Zhang Yun was not defeated, it would be easy to get it. But now that Zhang Yun's entire army was wiped out, all the warships in Jingzhou fell into the hands of Liu Jing. Cai Mao had no choice but to ask him to build five warships wherever he could do.

Just when Huang She was upset, she got an important information from Jia Hong last night. Jiang Xia had someone, who might be able to help him complete this task.

Huang Shoo quickly rushed towards Xiangyang Wharf.

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Liu Biao suddenly fell ill not long after the New Year. He was unconscious after five days. His lower body was completely unconscious and he was in a coma almost half of the day. Even if he woke up, he was sometimes confused and sometimes awake, and he was prone to anger. His servants were dragged out and beaten hard when they were not careful. Even Mrs. Cai was often dragged out and beaten to death by him.

Not only was his consciousness unconscious, but more importantly, his body had completely collapsed. Only eight feet tall was the only one who was eight pounds tall, and he was as thin as a skeleton. Anyone who saw him could see that he was exhausted and could not support him for several months.

After Liu Biao fainted at the beginning of the year, he ordered Liu Cong to be the world and handed over the government power to Liu Cong. He also ordered Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Liu Xian, Pang Ji and others to assist Liu Cong, discuss all matters and implement them after approval by Liu Cong. But in fact, Liu Cong was just a puppet. He did not leave the mansion and all decisions must be approved by Mrs. Cai before he promulgated and implemented them.

Although Liu Biao handed over the power of government affairs to Liu Cong, Liu Biao never handed over the tiger talisman to mobilize the army, and was still in his hands. Perhaps this was due to the idea of ​​preventing brothers from fighting each other, but things went against their wishes. Liu Biao had no ability to grasp the military talisman, and the military talisman was actually under the control of Mrs. Cai.

As night fell, Liu Biao's concubine Luo slowly walked to Liu Biao's ward with a bowl of tweed fungus soup. At the door of the ward were eight Liu Biao's confidant guards.

Liu Biao was also quite alert. He knew that he was in a state of confusion for most of the time, so he only allowed the doctor Zhang Rong and his concubine Luo to enter his ward, and even his wife, Mrs. Cai, were not allowed to enter.

Luo is the dowry maid of Liu Biao's ex-wife Chen. She was about ten years old and gave birth to Liu Biao's son Liu Xiu. She is fourteen years old this year. She is weak and just a medicine jar. She eats more medicine than food and never leaves the house. Almost all doctors think that he will not live to be an adult.

That's right. Although Liu Biao had the first one, no one considered his inheritance right issue, as if this person did not exist.

Although Luo's family was old and declining, she never was favored by Liu Biao, but at the most critical moment, she became the person Liu Biao trusted the most because she had no family background and was just the daughter of a small family.

Luo slowly walked to the door with a tray. The guards immediately dodged. She pushed the door into the house and walked to the inner room. Liu Biao was in a drowsy sleep. His hair had fallen off, wearing a soft hat, his face was like a skeleton, and his face was like gold paper.

Luo put down the lacquer plate, hesitated for a moment, slowly took a jade box next to Liu Biao's pillow, and opened it carefully. There were eight jade-carved military talismans and a jade plaque inside. The military talismans were dragons, tigers, leopards, unicorns, eagles, etc., and only half of them were.

With this military talisman and the military dispatch certificate issued by military advisor Cai Mao, all the troops in Jingzhou, even the troops of Liu Jing and Liu Qi, can be asked to assist in defense.

The jade plaque is also very important. It records who uses which military talisman. This is a secret that only Liu Biao and the soldiers in the Zhang family know.

Luo's heart was so nervous that she pounded. She lifted her skirt, and there was a bag sewn inside. She took out eight other imitation military talismans and a fake jade talisman from the bag, replaced the military talismans in the jade box, and hid them in the skirt.

After putting the jade box back in place, she turned around and went out. The guards were used to her entry and exit. Without anyone questioning, Luo continued to go back to the inner house.

When he arrived at the inner hall, Mrs. Cai was sitting at the table waiting for her. Luo took out the military talisman and jade plaque on the table, lowered his head, "Madam, we are all here."

Mrs. Cai was very happy and checked one by one. It was indeed Liu Biao’s most important military talisman. She smiled at Luo and said, “Don’t worry, I will never break my promise. No matter what the general’s future, I will guarantee all your expenses.”

"Thank you, my maid, I'm going to serve the master."

"Go and I will order someone to send you gold in two days to make you feel at ease."

"Mrs. Xie"

Mrs. Luo slowly retreated, and Mrs. Cai was extremely proud. She put the military talisman and jade plaque into a jade box that had been prepared, held the box in her arms, and immediately ordered: "Comeone came."
Chapter completed!