Tao Shang pointed out Kuai Yue's thoughts in one sentence, and his words did not hide his irony towards Kuai Yue.

Kuai Yue was also a treacherous person, so how could he not hear Tao Shang's sarcasm? He knelt on the ground and felt a little ashamed.

But he quickly calmed down and explained hurriedly: "The more the king misunderstood, the more he went to persuade Han Xuan to surrender. Who would have thought that Han Xuan was obsessed with it and refused to die. The more he was afraid that he would be betrayed the king. Therefore, without the king's permission, he pretended to have a false surrender plan to Han Xuan, and induced Liu Qi and Han Xuan to take the initiative to attack our camp, which just gave the king the chance to annihilate them in one fell swoop. The more he did this, it was all for the king."

This Kuai Yue is indeed the number one strategist in Jingxiang. He is not only very wise, but also has great skills in his mouth. When he talks, he actually says that what he does is for the Great Wei.

Moreover, his tone was so generous that not only did he not feel ashamed, but he also had a sense of righteousness, as if he regarded himself as a loyal minister.

But Kuai Yue didn't know that at this moment, all his tricks were just clown-like performances in the eyes of the pottery merchant.

"What a good person for my Great Wei." Tao Shang sneered and asked back, "Then aren't you afraid that I will believe Han Xuan's fraudulent surrender, do you believe it?"

"This..." Kuai Yue was stunned for a moment, and quickly bowed and praised: "The king is wise and magical, and there are also Wang Zuo's counselors like Zhang Zifang. Whatever, of course, I expected that the king would see through it."

Kuai Yue is really good at flattering. No wonder he has been named the number one confidant by Liu Biao over the years, and his status has surpassed Cai Mao's brother-in-law.

Unfortunately, he fooled the wrong person.

"Don't let your mother gossip, do you think I am as stupid as Liu Qi and Han Xuan, and you are so easy to fool me!" Tao Shang's face suddenly sank and he shouted loudly.

Kuai Yue was so scared that his body was shocked, and his face suddenly showed a look of fear. He never expected that the pottery would be so rude. It would be fine if he didn't believe him, but he even sweared at him. It was really against the king's demeanor.

"How dare you fool the king? Please listen to my explanation-"

Just when Kuai Yue was still trying to explain, Tao Shang pulled out the sword in his hand, and swept it through Kuai Yue's mouth, then cut his tongue and half of his lips with one sword.

As the blood splattered, Kuai Yue covered his blood-spraying tongue and fell to the ground, howling in pain like a pig.

The pottery looked down at the painful Kuai Yue and then sneered: "You probably don't know yet. I have seen through your nature. When I let you say that you surrender to Han Xuan was the plan of my king. You colluded with the two thieves Liu Qi and Han Xuan to offer them a plan of surrender. Everything was within my expectations. You probably never dreamed that you were just a piece that I used to get rid of the two thieves."

The potter finally stopped playing with him and revealed the truth.

"Tao...thie...you...you..." Kuai Yue, who was lying on the ground, stared at Tao Shang with pain and terror, and endless fear surged on his distorted face.

That look seemed to be not looking at a person, but a terrifying devil!

The Wei soldiers watching from both sides looked at Kuai Yue with contempt, as if they were watching a funny performance of a clown jumping.

Kuai Yue froze on the ground, and his painful face added an embarrassing and ashamed expression. The cold sweat on his forehead was blowing out.

"Kuai Yue, since you are so loyal to Liu Biao, I will help you. Go to hell to follow Liu Biao's old thief!"

The Tao merchant disdained to watch his clown performance again, and shouted loudly, and the blood-stained sword in his hand slashed down wildly.

"don't want--"

puff!

The squeaking scream stopped suddenly, and Kuai Yue's head with a big head had been beheaded to the ground.

At this point, Liu Biao and his son, Huang Zu, Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Han Xuan, all the powerful figures who originally controlled Jingzhou have been killed by Tao merchants. No one can pose another threat to Jingzhou from within.

The only regret is that the bow god Huang Zhong was sent by Liu Qi to various counties east of Changsha County to recruit soldiers and now he escaped.

Tao Shang guessed that after Huang Zhong learned that Liu Qi was killed, he would probably go to Wu by land to join Sun Ce. With his super strong force, he added a tiger general to Sun Ce.

But, so what?

If a mere Huang Zhong can cause any storm? The general trend is decided and no one can change it.

After killing Kuai Yue, the pottery merchant took his first step towards Linxiang. At this moment, Linxiang City had already hung the "Wei" king flag. The capture of the capital means that the entire Changsha County fell into the hands of the pottery merchant.

The pottery merchants who were trapped in the city received all the resources from Linxiangku Prefecture and rewarded the soldiers of the three armies. The entire army was excited and excited for a while.

Immediately afterwards, the Tao Shang led Liu Qi to the heads of the two counties, Lingling and Guiyang. The prefects of the two counties were afraid of the power of the Great Wei army and were both devastated. They dared not wait and see again, and they all submitted a letter to surrender.

At this point, including Nanyang County, Jiangxia, Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang, and the entire seven counties of Jingzhou have been included in the territory of the Great Wei by the pottery merchants.

Among the six countries, in addition to Jin, Chu was also exterminated. Looking at the world, only the enemies of the four countries remained.

In the eyes of Tao Shang, conquering Jingzhou and destroying Chu State not only eliminated an enemy that opposed him, but also seized a very strategic state.

Jingzhou is located in Yizhou and Yangzhou, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. If you go west and advance westward, you can capture Yizhou where Shu is located, and go east along the river, and you can capture Yangzhou where Wu is located.

When the Tao merchants captured Jingzhou, they were like nailing down a nail between the two countries of Wu and Shu, making them uneasy all night.

According to the best idea of ​​the pottery merchant, after the extermination of Chu, the Daxing navy was naturally the one who took a break and took advantage of the remnant power of the great victory and went east to attack and destroy the Wu Kingdom.

Once the Wu Kingdom is destroyed and the south is pacified, the Wei Kingdom will no longer be threatened by enemies from both sides, so that it can concentrate its troops and eliminate the three kingdoms of Yan, Qin and Shu in the corners.

However, news came from the north that Liu Bei had defeated Gongsun Du, and his strength had increased. There were signs of going south to Jizhou and invading the two rivers at any time.

The two rivers are the core of the Great Wei Dynasty. Now facing threats, the Tao merchant had no choice but to let go of the Wu Kingdom and lead the main force to return to the north to deal with Liu Bei.

Three days after conquering Linxiang, Tao Shang left Wei Yan to lead 5,000 troops to Changsha County, pacify the four counties in Jingnan, and lead the main force to return north.

When passing through the Yangtze River, the Tao Shang appointed Wu Zixu, the governor of Jingzhou, and the commander-in-chief of the navy, and fully controlled all the troops of the Wei Dynasty on the front line of the Yangtze River.

In the Jiangxia side, the Tao Shang appointed Gan Ning and the prefect of Jiangxia, leading 5,000 elite troops to guard Xiakou to prevent the threat from the Wu army in Chaisang.

In Jiangling, Tao Shang appointed Xu Sheng as the prefect of Nanjun and led 5,000 troops to guard Jiangling to prevent the threat of the Shu army in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

After arranging everything, the pottery merchant led the main army to Xiangyang soon.

There, the potter decided to stay for a few more days to complete another important thing.

This is to take Zhang Chunhua as his concubine.

After so long getting along, the pottery has confirmed that Zhang Chunhua really fell in love with him. Last time he won the bet, he happened to have an excuse to marry Zhang Chunhua.

This southern expedition lasted for half a year. Although he brought two beauties, Daji and Zhen Mi, due to the three strange phenomena, the pottery merchant could only enjoy their eyes and could not relieve their slander.

After enduring for so long, the pottery accumulated energy had reached an unbearable level, and I couldn't wait to vent.

Moreover, Zhang Chunhua has the talent of "many children", and the Tao merchant was eager to get this talent so that his Tao family could grow up as soon as possible and become more incenseful.

Therefore, on the late winter and early spring, a grand ceremony of concubines was held in the palace in Xiangyang.

On this day, the pottery changed into a long-lost groom outfit, accepted congratulations from his subordinates in his palace, and waited for his new concubine to pass by.

For the past six months, Xiangyang City has been shrouded in the dark clouds of war, and everyone is worried. Now this happy event is more or less a war trauma suffered by the people in the city.

In order to win the hearts of the people, the pottery merchant allocated a large amount of wine and rice from the seized materials and rewarded the soldiers of the three armies and the poor people in Xiangyang City.

The people were grateful for the kindness of the pottery merchants and spontaneously decorated the lanterns to congratulate this happy event. Xiangyang City was filled with a festive smell that day.

At noon, the float cart on which the bride was taken was taken outside the palace.

The pottery was dressed neatly and left the house in person to welcome his new concubine.

As soon as he left the gate of the palace, the Taoist merchant couldn't help but lit up.

Because the pottery saw that it was not just a float, but there were nearly a hundred mule carts behind it, full of various betrothal gifts.

"What's going on?" Tao Shang looked quite curious.

Although the Zhang family was a powerful aristocratic family, it was a temporary decision for the pottery merchant to marry Zhang Chunhua. It was impossible for the Zhang family to send so many dowry gifts from Hanoi in time.

Chen Deng bowed and smiled, "Reported to the king, the things on these more than a hundred mule carts are all grain, rice, wine, meat, and various gold, silver, pearls and jade. These are gifts from the gentry in the Huang family, Ma family and other Xiangyang city, who spontaneously presented to the king."

"King, it seems that the gentry who stayed there are still very sensible." Zhang Liang next to him said with a smile.

The Tao Shang immediately understood what he meant and couldn't help laughing.

Although the Tao Shang destroyed the Xiangyang clans such as the Kuai family, the Cai family, and many aristocratic clans who fled south with Liu Biao, this did not mean that he had to kill all the powerful clans.

For example, the Huang family where Huang Chengyan is located and the Ma family where Ma Liang is located, many powerful people with weaker power than the Kuai and Cai tribes. When Xiangyang City was destroyed, they chose to stay and surrender to the new master of the Tao Shang.

In order to set an example, the Tao merchant did not kill these aristocratic tyrants. On the contrary, he treated them very politely. For example, Ma Liang, the eldest son of the Ma family, was recruited by the Tao merchants to engage in Jingzhou and assisted Wu Zixu in governing Jingzhou.

These aristocratic tyrants who surrendered to the Great Wei were very aware of each other, so they took advantage of the opportunity of the Tao merchant to accept the concubine and presented heavy gifts to win the Tao merchant's favor.

The pottery merchant naturally refused everyone, accepted the gift and received their wishes.
Chapter completed!