Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

Frozen three feet is not a day's cold. The robbers in the suburbs of Nanyang have been rioting for some time, but they occupied the commercial roads in and out of Nanyang before, and their activities were limited to the north, so they would not easily come to the city to disturb the people.However, after the news that Liu Biao's gangrene attack was about to die came from the palace in April this year, these gangsters seemed to have suddenly opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and acted in a high-profile manner.

According to common sense, the incompetent bandits and Liu Biao, who is the shepherd of a state, can't compete with each other, but they choose to show their presence during the sensitive period when the chief official is seriously ill, which always makes people suspect that there is something hidden inside.

Within Jingzhou, rumors about Liu Biao's two sons fighting for power have already spread.As the eldest son of Liu Biao, Liu Qi resembled his father, so he was originally quite favored.However, since Liu Cong married Cai's niece, Cai, together with his younger brother Cai Mao, nephew Zhang Yun and others, fully supported Liu Cong's supremacy, and often slandered Liu Qi, making him gradually fall out of favor with Liu Biao.

Five months ago, because he was worried about being framed by the Cai clan for no reason, Liu Qi took the opportunity of the death of Jiangxia prefect Huang Zu to volunteer to leave Zhenjiangxia in order to protect himself. ——If there were no two butterflies, Liu Xi and me, who flew here after 2000, in history, the person who presented him with this plan of running away from himself should be Zhuge Kongming who has already regarded Liu Bei as the master.But now that Liu Bei died at Bowangpo, and Kong Ming was still unable to come out of the mountain, but God still stretched out the right hand of God and brought the derailed history back to the original track.

Liu Xi once said: "History is the dialectical unity of inevitability and contingency. The law of inevitability is hidden in the practice of contingency, and inevitability must be manifested through a large number of contingencies. For example, the general trend of the world, the unity of the three kingdoms after a long time, is a historical inevitability, but who will do it?" It is an accidental event when the unification is completed in which year, month, and day. In real history, it was Sima Yan who ended the Three Kingdoms, but if there was no such person as Sima Yan in the world, then his role would be taken by another person. Acting." What Liu Xi has to do is to destroy the original chance and let the new chance fall on him, so as to stand at the highest point in the world.

He is currently recharging his energy in Xinye, and it is not known whether he can realize this lofty dream, but Kong Ming's suggestion has been replaced by an official named Yiji.

Uncle Ji, a native of Iraq, is from the same hometown as Liu Biao. Since he was 15 years old, he has worked as an aide under Liu Biao's command, but he has made little achievements.He is not a very famous figure in the Three Kingdoms. I knew nothing about his deeds before traveling, but in the past six months, I have heard many anecdotes about him.The most famous one is that in order to avoid disaster, Liu Qi tricked him into the study room on the second floor, made people move him to the stairs, and pleaded, "You can't go up to the sky, and you can't go down to the earth. If you come into Qi's ears, you can teach me." He asked Yiji to plan for him.After the rumors happened, although Cai Mao had no real evidence, he repeatedly suspected that Yiji had secretly joined Liu Qi, and tried every means to make things difficult, but he failed for the time being.

The chief official is critically ill, the official's wife and the second son are involved in a dispute over the heir, and the humble officials are busy choosing sides to protect themselves, and Jingzhou's officialdom is in chaos.The Nanyang government originally went up the mountain to suppress the bandits once a month, even if they always returned empty-handed, at least they put on a posture of being incompatible with the grass bandits, which was somewhat deterrent.But now the whole of Jingxiang is in turmoil, Nanyang officials are at a loss for the future, and have been inactive for three months. The robbers in the suburbs have seized the opportunity to grow rapidly, showing faint signs of dividing the land with the government.

The shopkeeper is a cautious person. In order to avoid the sharp edge of the robbers that day, he took a long way to take the official road with a high safety factor. He should have entered the city safely.Unexpectedly, he was so unlucky that the bandits who had never been active in that area were planning to open up a new market there, and the first business they did was to carry the shopkeeper and He Dacheng, two hapless guys, up the mountain.

The shopkeeper's wife almost fainted after hearing the news, but she traveled all over the world with her husband all these years, and after many trials and tribulations, she finally got up her spirits and went to the official yamen to beat the drums to express her grievances, crying and calling for the official to uphold justice.He Dacheng's mother is stronger. Although she has been bedridden all year round, she has clear ears, eyesight and clear thinking. When she found out that her son who went out to sell alcohol was two days late and hadn't returned home, she became suspicious and dragged her sick body to the government office to block the gate. Kneeling on the ground begging, "To live, to see people, to die, to see corpses."

The magistrate of Nanyang county had been passive and sabotaged for more than three months, and when he encountered a stubble, he was anxiously battered.The news of the old lady blocking the door was so explosive that it spread throughout the city within an hour, but the government did not take any action, and the gossip quickly spread like a spark.Some people said that the robbers were vicious, and the county magistrate was afraid of their force and did not dare to confront them head-on.Some people also said that the victims were only two ordinary people, and the officials and gentlemen would not take it seriously at all, and let them die.The most outrageous statement is that the county magistrate and the bandit leader are brothers from the same mother's womb, and they are born as a family.

Unfounded rumors have been raging for more than half a month, and there is still no sign of calming down.However, there are many wise men among the masses. As time goes by, after analysis and judgment by many insightful people, the facts gradually surface.The people in Nanyang were surprised to find that it was not that the county magistrate was unwilling to send troops to suppress the bandits, but that the huge Nanyang had no soldiers to send, and they were all dragged by Cai Mao to help Liu Cong take the position of heir!

Coincidentally, at this moment, Yi Ji, who was supposed to be a vassal in Xiangyang, came out from Yan County thousands of miles away for some reason. He didn't even approve of the vest, and directly pretended to report as Liu Biao's senior staff member and personal friend: Liu Biao had already gone to the Hexian as early as mid-March, but his step-wife, Cai Shi, was ambitious and overshadowed the sky with one hand, so she kept secret to help Liu Cong to the top.Cai Mao, the younger brother of the Cai family, used Liu Biao's seal to secretly dispatch troops from Zhangling, Nanyang, and Guangyi counties to Jiangxia with his power for personal gain.

Jingzhou was in an uproar.

When Liu Biao passed away, Liu Qi had already avoided Jiangxia's misfortune. Although he was weak and incompetent, he was loyal by nature and had a few trustworthy generals around him.As the prefect of a county, he naturally had soldiers in his hands, which attracted Cai Mao's fear.The most important thing is that Yiji's real name broke the news: Liu Biao recognized Cai's face before he died, forced his sick body to write a suicide note, and recommended the eldest son Liu Qi to the imperial court as the next Jingzhou shepherd, inheriting his father's career, and doing his best for the Han Dynasty .

This crucial letter was sent to Xudu overnight by Liu Biao's confidants, and when Cai found out that he wanted to intercept and recover it, he was powerless.The letter of appointment from the imperial court was exposed by Yiji, and the imperial decree stamped with the royal seal clearly stated, "Liu Qi, the son of Liu Biao, the herd of Jingzhou, is upright and generous. He works hard for the country. I am very pleased. post, follow father's ambition, and benefit the common people."

Cai was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth!Cai Mao pressed the edict to strictly prohibit insiders from spreading the news, and at the same time urgently ordered the army to attack Jiangxia at night.It's a pity that Liu Qi, who has never been smart at the age of 20, suddenly became enlightened after taking some medicine. He ordered people to set up strange soldiers at Xiamen Pass to catch turtles, and caught Cai Mao's army by surprise.

[-] soldiers died at Xiamen Pass, and as soon as the battle report spread, Cai Mao's plan was completely exposed.The imperial edict is no more trustworthy than Liu Biao's. From drafting to official publication, there are records to check, and Cai Mao is not afraid of denying it.Yi Ji was quite talented in eloquence, hiding in Yanxian County alone to create, and published many splendid articles, scolding the Cai family bloody.Cai Mao wished he could skin Yiji's cramps, and made a great wish at home: "I will kill Yiji in my lifetime, whip the corpse and spread ashes, so as to prevent his reincarnation!"

The dispute between Liu Qi and Liu Cong intensified.