Chapter 151

And the person who hired him to kill the previous Jingzhou Inspector was precisely Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu's strength was not weak.

Among the various warlords in Guandong, he could also be considered a top-notch leader.

Liu Biao knew deeply that if he were to temporarily recruit soldiers or train troops at this time, he would definitely not be Yuan Shu's opponent.

Therefore, he did nothing.

The only thing he did was to marry Cai Mao's sister, the Cai woman.

At that time, when the core civil and military officials of the Dong Zhuo army heard this news, they even mocked Liu Biao as an old man who was blinded by beauty!

The enemy was almost at the city gates, and yet you, this Jingzhou Inspector, were busy getting married?

Yes, Liu Biao's original wife had already passed away.

Liu Biao himself, when he became Jingzhou Inspector, was already nearly fifty years old.

Cai Mao's sister, the Cai woman, married him as a second wife.

That is to say, this move by Liu Biao was a typical case of an old cow eating tender grass.

But a very strange thing appeared.

This Jingzhou Inspector, who had done nothing and only married a second wife after taking office, actually defeated the army sent by Yuan Shu easily!

The group of people who didn't think highly of Liu Biao before could be said to have been slapped in the face.

In fact,

Liu Biao seemed to have done nothing,

but in fact, he had already finished everything by marrying his second wife.

Jingzhou is not so much Liu Biao's Jingzhou as it is the Jingzhou aristocratic group's Jingzhou.

The Cai family, the Kuai family, the Huang family, the Pang family, the Ma family.

These major aristocratic families, on this one-third of an acre of land in Jingzhou, could be said to be able to summon wind and rain, and could do anything.

Everyone was not a fool.

Sun Jian didn't occupy the land.

Why did he kill the Jingzhou Inspector without authorization?

Wasn't it because it was Yuan Shu's employment and instigation behind it!

This kind of rough behavior that ignored the rules made the Jingzhou aristocratic group very disgusted with Yuan Shu.

So much so that after Liu Biao, this new Inspector, took office,

no matter what Liu Biao's specific ability was, the Jingzhou aristocratic group would immediately choose to cooperate with him.

And what Liu Biao needed to do was to bind himself firmly to the Jingzhou aristocratic group.

What kind of method could be called the most stable alliance?

Of course, it was marriage!

Although Liu Biao was already an old man nearly fifty years old,

even his eldest son, Liu Qi, was not young.

(Liu Qi was older than Liu Bei, not the "young master" image in the novel.)

But Liu Biao's original wife had indeed been dead for many years.

His wife's position was vacant.

Marrying into the Cai family, which was the strongest among the major Jingzhou aristocratic families,

was what Liu Biao, this new Jingzhou Inspector, needed to do!

After Liu Biao finished this, he would receive the full support of the Jingzhou aristocratic families.

Defeating the invading Yuan Shu army naturally would not be a problem.

By the same token,

although Liu Biao had a certain right to speak in Jingzhou,

if the Jingzhou aristocratic families didn't want to do something, even if Liu Biao wanted to do it, it would be impossible to accomplish.

This was the price he had to pay to quickly control Jingzhou.

Compared with the high centralization of other warlord forces,

Liu Biao, as a lord, had much less power in his hands.

This was also why, historically, as soon as Liu Biao died, the Jingzhou aristocratic group couldn't wait to take Liu Biao's youngest son, Liu Cong, and surrender to Cao Cao.

Because Jingzhou was not Liu Biao's asset, but the Jingzhou aristocratic group's asset!

Liu Biao was only the nominal boss.

Just like a company in later generations.

Liu Biao was the nominal major shareholder, but he didn't hold much control.

The one who really counted and could play a decisive role was the Jingzhou aristocratic shareholder group behind Liu Biao.

Gu Yi believed that wanting to make Liu Biao send troops

was actually not difficult.

It only needed to make the Jingzhou aristocratic group behind Liu Biao interested, and the matter of sending troops could be facilitated.

Nanyang Commandery was originally Jingzhou's territory and was the largest commandery in the world.

The people of the Jingzhou aristocratic group undoubtedly must have owned quite a few industries in Nanyang Commandery.

But because they didn't know the specific situation of Nanyang Commandery now,

they didn't dare to rashly incite Liu Biao to send troops.

They only needed to let this group of guys know

that sending troops to attack Nanyang Commandery

would not only not pay too many losses,

but would instead gain more benefits.

Then this matter could definitely be facilitated!

Of course, the envoy sent by the Dong Zhuo army to Jingzhou definitely needed someone who was eloquent and good at brainwashing.

This candidate... could be none other than Jia Xu!

Yes, this envoy was Jia Xu again.

Although he had just returned from his mission to Hanzhong less than a week ago,

looking at the whole army,

besides the old fox Jia, could there be a more suitable candidate?

Thus, Gu Yi unceremoniously recommended Jia Xu to serve as the envoy again in front of Dong Zhuo and Li Ru.

Practice makes perfect.

It wasn't Jia Xu's first time on a mission.

Dong Zhuo and Li Ru both gave considerable affirmation to Jia Xu's professional ability.

Thus, this task of inciting Liu Biao and the Jingzhou aristocratic group to send troops to Nanyang Commandery fell into Jia Xu's hands.

(Jia Xu: Is there really no one to speak for me? Gu Yi, you did this on purpose, right? I really thank you!)

Of course, although the plan was decided,

the envoy Kan Ze sent by Sun Ce naturally still needed to be fooled a bit more.

Thus, Dong Zhuo posthumously honored Sun Jian as General Who Conquers the East and appointed Sun Ce as the new Yizhou Governor.

But when it came to sending troops to support Sun Ce,

Dong Zhuo only said to let Sun Ce wait honestly.

Soon there would be an army appearing to help Sun Ce resist Yuan Shu together.

Regarding this, Kan Ze was completely confused.

He was ordered to go to Chang'an, but this wasn't the ambiguous answer he wanted!

However, Kan Ze couldn't do anything about Dong Zhuo.

This was Chang'an, this was Guanxi, this was Old Dong's territory!

As an envoy sent by Sun Ce, how could you dare to be arrogant?

Thus,

Kan Ze had to return to Yizhou with the appointment edict for the Yizhou Governor.