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Kuai Liang is a person who likes quietness. He is in poor health and is very picky about the living environment. When he heard that the Jiangxia Academy he was about to go to was Huang's Villa, known as the No. 1 villa in Jiangxia, he happily brought his wife and a few servants who had followed them for many years to come to Jiangxia to take office.

Except for the shadow of Huang's brother being massacred in the villa, he was very satisfied with any other aspect of the academy. He lived in the quietest and most elegant courtyard, which was Huang Zu's main courtyard in the past. He had been cleaned up and settled in the past few days, and Kuai Liang began to enjoy the leisurely life here.

This morning, he wore a straw raincoat, a straw hat, a fishing rod and a fish basket, and followed a few local old farmers to catch ice fish by the lake. The so-called fishing ice fish is to dig a hole in the frozen lake and fish from the ice cave.

It was winter, and the price of fresh fish in the city was very expensive, so many farmers took advantage of the slack farming to fish at the lake and earn some money to prepare for the New Year. Kuai Liang came to the lake and fished with the farmers purely for interest and curiosity.

Although Kuai Liang was a senior official in Jingzhou, he had been away from office for many years, and was knowledgeable and generous, so he got along well with the old farmers who were fishing with him. Everyone knew that he had a noble status and specially helped him dig holes and put bait. In less than an hour, Kuai Liang caught more than a dozen crucian carp and carp about the longest, which made him feel very happy.

"Mr. Kuai has gained a good harvest?"

Kuai Liang suddenly heard Liu Jing's voice. When he turned around, Liu Jing appeared beside him at some point. He laughed, "I plan to cook a pot of tofu fish soup tonight. Is Jing Gong interested in sharing it?"

"Thank you for your kindness, but I'd better come back from Xiakou someday, and there are so many things."

Kuai Liang knew that Liu Jing must have something important to come to him. In fact, he was nominally the head of Jiangxia Academy, but in fact he was Liu Jing's aide to help Liu Jing participate in some major decisions.

Kuai Liang asked Liu Jing to sit down, and then smiled faintly, "Is it someone from Xiangyang?"

Liu Jing saw him and guessed what he wanted. He couldn't help but admire him and smiled and said, "That's it."

"Who is here?"

"Liu Biejia, are you familiar with Kuai Gong?"

"It turned out to be him. How come I'm not familiar with him? But this person is in your favor. His two sons, one is married to the Deng family in Nanyang, and the other is married to Pang Ji's daughter, and Pang Ji's wife is my sister."

"But he is very tough and never lets go when he is above Jiang Xiashou."

Kuai Liang smiled slightly, "I can only say that you don't understand the state governor. The state governor's best move is to avoid the real and attack the virtual. If he refuses to give up on his position of guarding, then what he really wants is not to guard, but to have other plans."

Liu Jing nodded. In fact, he also realized this. He must have the position of guarding him. There is no need for Liu Xian to argue with him for the position of guarding him. So what does Liu Biao really want.

"What does Kuai Gong believe are the plan of the provincial governor?"

Kuai Liang threw the fishing rod into the ice cave and pondered for a moment, saying: "For Jingzhou, the most important thing is the official appointment and removal power, taxes and the army. Among them, the appointment and removal of officials is just a form of going on for Jingzhou, and there is no meaning. They can't get a tax of one meter. The rest is the army. You can refer to the compromise reached by Huang Zu and the provincial governor, and you can probably understand the provincial governor's true intentions."

Liu Jing pondered for a while and said, "Kuang Kuai, there are two main points in the compromise reached by the provincial governor and Huang Zu. One is that the Jiangxia official must be appointed by Xiangyang, and the second is that the provincial governor has the right to mobilize the Jiangxia army, but I will not agree to these two points."

"When Huang Zu was at a disadvantage at the beginning, he had to agree to some harsh requirements of the provincial governor, but now you are different. You can give some concessions to the provincial governor in the face, such as the Jiangxia official appointed by Xiangyang, but you decide the list, etc.

Secondly, the Jiangxia army is still loyal to the provincial governor and will support the Xiangyang crisis, such as fighting against Cao's army to the south, and doing all these facial and moral matters, so no one in the Jingzhou officialdom can blame the public anymore."

Liu Jing secretly admired Jiang Wudu, who was very careful and thoughtful, without any leakage. He asked again: "What is the real intention of the provincial governor?"

At this time, the fishing rod moved, and Kuai Liang quickly pulled up the fishing rod. A foot-long carp flew out of the ice cave. The golden dorsal fins shone in the sun. Kuai Liang was so excited that he shouted like a child, "The golden carp is a golden carp, I caught the golden carp."

Several old farmers surrounded him and talked about it all over the place. Everyone looked envious and congratulated Kuai Liang one after another. Kuai Liang said to Liu Jing proudly: "This is the most famous golden carp in Jiangxia. It is rare. It can only be caught in the Yangtze River. I didn't expect that I caught it for the first time, which means I will have good luck next year."

Kuai Liang stroked his beard and laughed so much that he was so happy.

"Congratulations to Mr. Kuai"

Seeing that Liu Jing's thoughts were interrupted at the critical moment, he had no choice but to smile bitterly and congratulate Kuai Liang on his luck.

Kuai Liang patted Liu Jing on the shoulder again and handed the golden carp to him, saying meaningfully: "The golden carp comes because of you. This is a metaphor for you, a metaphor for God's love for you. I will give this fish to you."

A soldier next to him was about to come forward to pick him up, but Liu Jing shook his head, walked quickly to the lake, raised his hand, and accurately threw the golden carp back into the ice cave. He turned around and smiled at Kuai Liang, and Kuai Liang also laughed and gave him a thumbs up.

Kuai Liang put away the fish basket and walked side by side with Liu Jing towards the academy. While walking, he slowly said: "The real requirement of the provincial governor must be the army, but not the right to mobilize the army. If you agree to support the Xiangyang crisis, then this one will have no meaning to him. I think he will control the number of your army."

"Can he limit it?"

Liu Jing sneered and said, "I can train the militia and turn into an army at any time, or I secretly increase my troops, and he has no way of knowing what the meaning is."

Kuai Liang also laughed, "There is room for anything to be learned. This is called having instructions from the top and corresponding from the bottom. In fact, the top also understands that it is just asking the bottom to do superficial things. In fact, after all, what the provincial governor wants is just the same."

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At dusk, Liu Jing and Liu Xian reached a compromise. On the premise that Liu Jing became the governor of Jiang Xia, they reached a twenty-four agreements, the most important ones are the following.

1. Liu Jing unconditionally released 4,55 Jingzhou prisoners of war and returned home, and was not allowed to use any excuses or means to stop them.

2. The county officials in Jiangxia are appointed by the prefecture government, but the list of candidates is drafted by Jiangxia County, or after the prefecture government is drafted, the Jiangxia County must agree.

The Jiangxia army is not allowed to create its own flags or establish its own military names, and must be consistent with the Jingzhou army.

4. The total number of Jiangxia troops shall not exceed 12,000, and the warships shall not exceed five.

5. The Jingzhou navy on the Han River shall not block any merchant ships in Jiangxia.

6. Jiangxia naval warships can sail within Jingzhou, but the warships must not exceed ten, and the number of people must not exceed five.

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That night, Liu Xian returned to Xiangyang overnight by boat. The twenty-four agreements reached must be approved by Liu Biao before they can take effect.

On the dock, Liu Xian thanked Liu Jing, who came to see him off, "I thank you for your cooperation in the past two days, so I can complete the task first, and I am deeply grateful again."

Liu Jing also bowed his fists and bowed, "Mr. Liu has been traveling around for days. Thank you for your hard work. I hope you can get good news as soon as possible. I wish Mr. Liu a safe place."

Liu Xian nodded and asked with a smile: "Do you have any words from the public that I need to convey to the provincial governor?"

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "I hope he takes care of his health."

"I will definitely tell you in time."

Speaking of this, Liu Xian hesitated and said, "I have heard that my husband is thirsty for a long time. I have a nephew named Zhou, and he is also a young talent. Now Xiangyang is doing my business for me. I would like to recommend it to my husband. I don't know if the husband can accommodate him."

Liu Xian reminded him immediately. Liu Jing remembered that there was a prodigy in the country, Zhou Buyi, who had a close relationship with Cao Chong and was later killed by Cao Cao. He did not understand this person, but for Liu Xian's sake, he also had to reuse this person first to win over Liu Xian.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for recommending the talent. You might as well invite him to study at Jiangxia Academy. I warmly welcome you."

Liu Xian agreed happily and bowed and said with a smile: "Mr. I'll say goodbye, everyone."

"Liu Bing, take care of yourself"

Amid the farewell of everyone, Liu Xian boarded the boat, and the big boat left the dock, and headed northwest under the bright red sunset.

Xu Shu kept looking at the ship and then smiled at everyone, "When will we change Sima as Shou? I think we have been waiting for a long time. Can we change it now?"

Everyone laughed, and Su Fei shouted the loudest, "It should be done, it should have been changed long ago. The country must be without a king for a day, and the county must be without a guard for a day. From then on, Liu Sima will be changed to Liu Shou."

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled, "Wait a little longer, don't worry about this or two days, wait until the provincial governor approves it, so as not to be caught and excuse me."

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted in the distance: "Yuanzhi"

When Xu Shu turned around, he saw a boat not far away approaching the docking pier, and five or six men on the boat were waving to Xu Shu.

Everyone was a little surprised. Xu Shu laughed, "It seems that those who are impatient are coming first."

He quickly met him and said with a smile: "Brother Yuan is here in Jiangxia?"

A taxi about ten years old jumped off the boat, hurried forward and bowed and smiled: "We want to come to Jiangxia to find something to do. Can Yuanzhi introduce some door?"

Xu Shu smiled and said, "Aren't you recruiting Jiangxia Academy to study, why don't you give it a try?"

"How can we pass the exam? Thousands of people sign up and only recruit the rest of them. It's not our turn. Xiangyang is not valued anyway. You come to Jiangxia to try your luck."

Everyone surrounded Xu Shu and begged him to introduce the door. At this time, Liu Jing slowly walked up and asked Xu Shu, "These are all your friends."

At this time, the sky was not completely dark, and the sunset had gradually faded, but the light was bright and the vision was clear. The soldiers recognized Liu Jing at once, and immediately silently took two steps back. They had a good relationship with Xu Shu, but they were a little afraid of Liu Jing.

Xu Shu nodded and smiled, "They are all brothers of the northern gentry. Some of them brought their children to Xiangyang, while others followed their parents and lived in Xiangyang. They had been together for several years and had no future."

He pulled out the teenager and introduced: "This is Cao Yuan, Yingchuan, the grandson of Cao Fu, the great scholar of Yingchuan."

The scholar hurriedly bowed and said, "Small people in Yingchuan Caolin, see Gong Jing"

With Cao Lin taking the lead, other scholars took turns to come forward to pay tribute, "In the lower Chang'an Huang Yun, whose courtesy name is Minghan, see Gong Jing."

"In Chenliu Li Xun, whose courtesy name is Si, is willing to serve Gong Jing."
Chapter completed!